Tian's Dock Fort. Inside a guest room.

A middle-aged scribe sat on the table. This person has a wide forehead and long beard, and his eyes are intimidating, and he has a feeling of not being angry and arrogant. Opposite the scribe, Yan Liang and Wen Chou, who had removed their armor, sat here. This scribe who can still take the initiative in front of Yan Liang and Wen Chou is naturally frustrated by the evaluation of "the crown of Jizhou talents" among scholars.

fought a small victory, and beheaded two members of the Zhang Madman Army, but his frustrated expression was still not happy. After listening to Yan Liang's brief report, he frowned, and solemnly said to Yan Liang and Wen Chou:

"Although this battle was won, the situation of our army did not improve. The two generals, in today's plan, the best strategy should be to discard the baggage, retreat east at full speed, look forward to meeting with General Koji, and then try to counterattack! ”

Frustrated, Wen Chou was a little dissatisfied, and he asked in a low voice:

"Sir, since our army has won a victory, why should we be in a hurry to retreat? Besides, if our army retreats, what will Tian Beijia and his family do? With the strength of two brothers in a certain family, arrogance is to come in person, and a certain is not afraid, why should he retreat in such a hurry? ”

Wen Chou was no different from other armies because of the easy victory just now, and he felt that the state army was no different from other armies except for escaping faster. However, when Yan Liang raided Yu Ban, he really felt the strong combat power of Yu Ban, and his thoughts naturally would not be the same as Wen Chou. Without waiting for Frustration to speak, he persuaded Wen Chou:

"Virtuous brother, although he is a yellow turban remnant, he is quite capable of training. Back then, with a lone army, he was able to sweep through Beihu and arrive at Dingzhou. How can it be a wasted name? Today, according to Mr.'s plan, he raided the vanguard of the Zhang Madman Army, but he really felt it. In terms of battle alone, the strength of the arrogant vanguard army is not under the command of General Koji! ”

As soon as these words came out, the listeners were all surprised. Lu Yi is recognized as the most capable general in Jizhou to train and use troops, and Yan Liang and Wen Chou are not as good as themselves. If Yu Ban's subordinates can be compared with the elite soldiers of Lu Yi's subordinates, it will be enough to defeat Yan Liang and Wen Chou's subordinates head-on.

Wen Chou is just arrogant, not a fool. He had great respect for Yan Liang and listened to Yan Liang's words. Immediately cried out:

"So tough? Wouldn't our army have a few chances of winning? ”

listened to Yan Liang's evaluation of the enemy. The expression of frustration became more and more gloomy. After thinking for a moment, he shook his head lightly and said to Yan Liang and Wen Chou:

"If the arrogant thief army is really strong, then our army will not be able to withdraw!"

Listened to the judgment of frustration. Yan Liang and Wen Chou were both stunned.

"Sir. It was you who said you were going to withdraw quickly. Now it's you who can't be undone, and you're changing too quickly, right? ”

Wen Chou's mouth was fast, and he didn't hesitate to count the frustrations. Frustrated with a bitter smile in his heart. There was no reaction on his face. He cleared his throat and explained to Yan Liangwen and Chou:

"There are many cavalry in the state, and it has always been called Liangzhou and Youzhou. If the arrogant thief army can train the infantry to the level of the general, then its cavalry will definitely not be bad. With the number of cavalry in Bingzhou, coupled with the amazing combat power, our army is mainly foot soldiers, how can we get rid of the pursuit of the thief cavalry? ”

"If it is bitten by the cavalry of the thief army, unless our army gives up the main force and only escapes with light horses, it will be a situation of total annihilation."

When Yan Liang heard this, he asked:

"Can General Koji come to the rescue?"

He replied:

"Difficult. The general of the koji north, Gongsun Zhan, also experienced a hard battle and suffered huge losses. Today's Raoyang must have limited troops. Besides, most of the soldiers under the command of General Lu are foot soldiers, and if they want to rush to the aid of our army, the arrogant thief army only needs a partial cavalry to lag. Therefore, the situation of our army at this time is actually extremely dangerous......"

Hearing Fu Zhu's answer, Yan Liang and Wen Chou were also silent for a while.

"It would be nice if I had listened to Mr. and informed the lord of Dong Zhao's thief's tricks."

Wen Chou regretted it like an afterthought.

Regarding Dong Zhao's plan to cut off food, in fact, as soon as he arrived in Xiaquyang, he noticed some clues.

With a big war imminent, how can we temporarily stop supplying the front-line troops because of some minor problems?

At that time, Fu Zhu wanted to pull Yan Liang and Wen Chou to report to Yuan Shao together, so that Yuan Shao reprimanded Dong Zhao for his ineffective actions. It's just that Yan Liang and Wen Chou thought that Dong Zhao had always been diligent in his work, and there must have been some small problems in his hands, and Dong Zhao should be given a chance to make up for his mistakes. Out of trust in Dong Zhao, the two also wrote to Dong Zhao in time to explain themselves, claiming that he would soon make up for the shortage of military rations. Therefore, Yan Liang and Wen Chou did not agree to go to the book with Fu Zhu.

Of course, if this matter is broken up, there are a lot of twists and turns, involving the competition for the ruling authority among the officials under Yuan Shao. This kind of intrigue between civilian officials, such as military generals such as Yan Liang and Wen Chou, don't want to get involved.

To put it simply, because Yuan Shao treated people generously, he had a very large number of scholars and complex backgrounds. According to the origin, place of origin, seniority, etc., these scholars are automatically divided into several major factions. There are intricate entanglements and antagonisms between the Jizhou and Yingchuan systems, between the Gaomen and the Hanmen, between the party members and non-party members, and between the Yuancong system and the neomodern system.

This kind of internal competition was implemented on Dong Zhao, which made Dong Zhao's situation under Yuan Shao not optimistic. Dong Zhao belongs to outsiders, and he is not a person in the big faction of Yingchuan, and he is from a poor family, not even a member of the party, so he can be called the foreign family of Yuan Shao's subordinates.

Of course, Dong Zhao is not the only unlucky person in the party struggle under Yuan Shao. In fact, because Dong Zhao's identity is far away from the center of Jizhou, although he is not compatible with Tian Feng and Fu Zhi, who are local high-ranking scholars in Jizhou, as well as Guo Tu, Xun Chen, Feng Ji and other Yingchuan scholars, he was not deliberately excluded by the Jizhou and Yingchuan systems.

is even more unlucky than Dong Zhao, there is a side descendant of the Yingchuan Guo family, surnamed Guo Mingjia. This guy Dong Zhao has seen it, and he is definitely an extremely shrewd person. However, he was such a human spirit, but he was accused of "greedy for money and food", and was openly driven out of Jizhou officialdom by the Jizhou department.

Even so, if it weren't for Yuan Shao's appreciation of Dong Zhao's ability, Dong Zhao would have been given a group of Jizhou by Tian Feng and Frustrated, or to Guo Tu, Xun Chen, Feng Ji and other Yingchuan scholars, and was inadvertently thrown into an unknown corner. You must know that Dong Zhao's giant deer is too guarded, but it is very eye-catching......

From this point of view, the reason why Dong Zhao decisively took refuge in the state and was arrogant may not be the result of feeling hopeless about his career under Yuan Shao.

Gossip is not mentioned. The foresight of frustration, even if proven afterwards, is of no help to the present situation. For Yan Liangwen Chou and others, the most important thing now is how to face the tens of thousands of troops commanded by the arrogant.

"The only way to do this now is to survive in death."

Frustrated and silent for a long time, he said slowly to Yan Liang and Wen Chou. Although both of them are bold and not afraid of death, they can't help but be shocked after listening to the strategy of the frustrated teaching.

However, after thinking about it for a while, Yan Liang gritted his teeth and snorted:

"It's done! If you don't enter the tiger's den, you will get the tiger! I can't escape anyway! ”

Wen Chou's force is above Yan Liang, but he acts more obediently to Yan Liang's words. Since Yan Liang agreed to this extremely dangerous and life-threatening strategy, Wen Chou had no objection. Therefore, Yan Liang immediately selected and sent 500 of his most trusted people, immediately collected hundreds of carts, left Tian's Dock Fort, and went to the bank of the river east of Xiaquyang City......

Yan Liang and Wen Chou, under the planning of the strategist, are in full swing preparing for the next big battle with the arrogant main force. And Zhang Mad also learned of the existence of the prison army through the torture of several captured single Yanliang soldiers.

"Heavenly Master, it's a dereliction of duty on his subordinates, and he didn't even know that the old man was here."

After receiving reliable news that he was frustrated in the Xia Quyang army, Dong Zhao was very frightened, and immediately bowed to Zhang and fell to the ground, expressing his guilt.

Zhang Qi hurriedly helped Dong Zhao up, and comforted him warmly:

"It's no wonder that Master Ren is doing such things. It was the frustrated old man who was cunning and cunning, and he was suspicious. After all, Master Ren has limited energy, how can he take care of these many rats? ”

After appeasing Dong Zhao, Zhang Yan sat in the military tent and looked around at the generals under the tent.

"Frustrated that the old man is very wise, he is not easy to match, and he is relied on by Yuan Shao as a helper. Now that our army is approaching Xiaquyang, do you have a good plan for how to fall into the city? ”

Among the generals in the tent, Yu Ban has the highest status. He looked around, and saw that no one spoke, so he coughed, and said in response to insolence:

"I don't know much about the frustration, but from today's battle alone, I know that this is not an idle man. Its plan is interlocking, although it is not sharp, but it is extremely safe, even if it fails, there is no major loss. The defeat of our army in this battle is by no means accidental. ”

"Therefore, if you want to attack each other with stratagem, and use frustration to teach the old and spicy, you will not succeed easily. It is better to take advantage of the superiority of our army's combat strength, step by step, and force Yan Liang and others to fight a decisive battle with our army, so as to respond to all changes with no change, which can be described as a perfect strategy. ”

Yu Ban is best at array combat, and ambush and pursuit are not his forte. Therefore, his speech is just like his style of commanding troops. Although Yan Liang and Wen Chou were brave, Yu Ban was as confident as he was to defeat the two in a head-to-head battle.

After Yu Ban finished speaking, he nodded insolently, and without saying anything, he turned his gaze to Zhao Yun who was sitting under him.

Zhao Yun has been fighting on the grasslands of the Northland all these years, and those grassland tribes who are hostile to the "Insolence-Yanliyou Alliance" are terrifying. However, this person's temperament is still as silent as when he was a child, even if the arrogant and encouraging eyes are on him, Zhao Yun still ended his speech with one sentence:

"Yun is willing to be a pioneer!"

- Still not enlightened......

Zhang Mad sighed secretly in his heart, and turned his gaze to the next Guan Yu. Zhao Yun is an arrogant brother-in-law, and there is no problem in loyalty. It's a pity that he is brave and brave, and he doesn't have much talent in military strategy. This made Zhang Qiang, who wanted to vigorously cultivate Zhao Yun's ability to command troops, very helpless. (To be continued......)