Cheng Yu's arrangement of the future battle situation can be described as decent. This plan is not excellent, but its biggest advantage is that it is robust enough. In a word, it is "to be invincible with oneself, and to be defeated by the enemy".

Zhang Yan nodded, if there was no better way, he planned to implement it according to Cheng Yu's plan. Expanding all the way to the present, the territory under the control of Zhang Qiang is large enough, and the troops are also large enough, and it has a huge advantage in this princely struggle for hegemony in the late Han Dynasty. Therefore, some overly risky plans for the use of troops will no longer be in the scope of arrogant consideration.

"Now, it depends on whether Chun Yuqiong knows each other."

After saying this, the arrogant gaze looked leisurely ahead, as if he could penetrate the barrier of the big tent and directly see Chun Yuqiong's camp......

Compared with Zhang Qi's leisurely tour at the moment, Chun Yuqiong is obviously not so calm.

"It's real?!"

After listening to the unfavorable news from the rear, Chun Yuqiong closed her eyes and frowned.

"What are the general's plans?"

A middle-aged scribe sitting next to him asked. This scribe has a soft face, but his expression is inviolable, and he has a silver seal and blue ribbon around his waist, indicating that he is a high-ranking official who is more than 2,000 stones.

"What's the plan?"

Chun Yuqiong smiled bitterly:

"The situation is so corrupt, what other faces do I have, to see the original?"

When the scribe heard this, he was astonished:

"The general must not be delusional!"

"Don't worry, I'm not an ignorant kid who can't stand setbacks. Even when I was struck by lightning, I survived. These little things can just make me upset for a while. ”

While speaking, Chun Yuqiong picked up the wine gourd beside him. Gulp gulp.

Since Chun Yuqiong was hit by the thunder and lightning demon technique of the anti-thief Zhang Jiao on the battlefield of Guangzong that year, although Chun Yuqiong used the power of thunder and lightning in his body to cultivate a unique thunder knife technique, his body was also greatly damaged by lightning. In order to combat the pain caused by the dark wound in her body, Chun Yuqiong developed the habit of drinking a lot of alcohol to relieve the pain.

This habit has been in the past for some time. didn't let Chun Yuqiong make a mistake, but he couldn't change it. Fortunately, Chun Yuqiong has a good partner by his side, who can make up for Chun Yuqiong's delay in time. And this Chun Yuqiong's good partner is the two-thousand-stone scribe beside him.

"Well, the general's plan is ......"

"What else? Go to Cao Mengde. ”

For his next move, Chun Yuqiong has no intention of concealing it.

"Cao Yanzhou...... is a viable choice. Although Cao Yanzhou is not right-minded and has a cold nature, he is a bit of a martial artist. against such cunning rebels as arrogant. It's a good opponent. ”

Although it can be heard from the words that the middle-aged scribe has a lot of resentment towards Cao Cao, this person's evaluation of Cao Cao is also fair.

"Ziyuan, can you go with you?"

Facing Chun Yuqiong's expectant gaze, the middle-aged scribe's answer was categorical:

"The general should know that I have an incompatible relationship with Zhang Menggao [Zhang Chao]. Cao Cao successively killed Qiao Yuanwei [Qiao Mao], Bian Wenli [Bian Rang], Zhang Meng, and other senior scholars, how can I grovel to this generation in order to survive? ”

After listening to the middle-aged scribe's answer, Chun Yuqiong had long expected this result in her heart. Still couldn't help but sigh heavily.

This middle-aged scribe is also a well-known chivalrous figure of a generation. His surname is Zang Minghong. Ziyuan, a native of Sheyang, Guangling, Xuzhou, is the son of Zang Min, a famous minister of the Han Dynasty, and was famous in Taixue when he was young. Back then, when Yuan Shao was in the sour jujube meeting with the princes, and the princes pushed each other to take the responsibility of the oath, he was in front of many state and county officials. This is the one who impassionedly recited the oath.

Because of Zang Hong's talent and reputation, Yuan Shao attached great importance to Zang Hong, and especially assigned him to serve as the minister of the city on the territory of his younger brother Cao Cao, as Cao Cao's important assistant in Yanzhou. But. Later, Cao Cao killed the Yanzhou celebrity Bian Rang, and exposed the fact that he had assassinated the former Dongjun Taishou Qiaomao, Zang Hong was angry and raised troops, but the army was defeated and fled east to Qingzhou, returning to the Yuan forces.

It's just that at that time, Qingzhou was in power by Tian Feng, and out of consideration for maintaining the alliance with Cao Cao, Zang Hong was also excluded. As a result, he couldn't stand by Yuan Tan's side, and was transferred to Chun Yuqiong's side as a supervisor, thus breaking away from Linzi's decision-making circle.

As for Zhang Chao mentioned in the words of the two, he is the brother of Chen Liutaishou Zhang Miao, who was the Taishou of Guangling. Back then, the Sour Jujube Alliance also had his share. Later, in the "anti-Cao turmoil" in Yanzhou a few years ago, Zhang Chao was attacked by Cao Cao and trapped in the lonely city for three months, and finally failed to break through and was killed.

To say that the relationship between Zang Hong and Zhang Chao is naturally extraordinary. Zhang Chao once asked Zang Hong to serve as Gongcao, and entrusted all the affairs of Guangling County to make Zang Hong a real and unknown Guangling Taishou. With such a kind of knowledge, Zang Hong, who has always been known for his generosity, will naturally not forget. As soon as Cao Cao killed Zhang Chao, it meant that Zang Hong's hatred of Cao Cao had reached the point of life and death.

"Then, Ziyuan, where will you go to?"

After sighing, Chun Yuqiong asked with concern.

"Yuan Qingzhou was captured, and the Yuan family's hegemony is gone, how can there be no one or two loyal ministers to pay tribute? Zang Hong is not talented, and he is willing to do his best for the Yuan family. ”

A fluttering sentence came out of Zang Hong's mouth, but Chun Yuqiong was taken aback.

"This ...... Cannot! Ziyuan, don't do this! ”

"The general doesn't need to say much, Hong's mind has been decided. Zhang rebelled all over the world, did not taste defeat, and will be usurped by the Han in the future. Hong can't do it himself, but he does his best. ”

"But ......"

Chun Yuqiong wanted to persuade again, but Zang Hong spoke again.

"Now that Zhang Yi's army is on the side, the general wants to retreat with his whole body, but he is afraid that it will not be easy. Hong stuck to the city, attracting the attention of Zhang Yi, and also for the general. If the general doesn't want to be pursued by the cavalry of the Northern Frontier with all his might, why not evacuate as soon as possible? ”

Seeing that Zang Hong even thought about what happened after cutting himself off, Chun Yuqiong knew that this colleague was determined to die, and it was probably irreparable. The situation has developed to such an extent that Chun Yuqiong has no other way but to sigh deeply again.

On April 19, the sixth year of Anding [198], Chun Yuqiong quietly led 4,000 elite soldiers, broke away from Pingyuan City, crossed the Yellow River in the south, and defected to the old man Cao Cao in Yanzhou. The remaining 20,000 troops in Qingzhou were under the command of Zang Hong, who served as the minister of Qinghe, and after holding on to Pingyuan City for several days, they decisively withdrew to Qinghe.

Of course, arrogance will not make the enemy retreat so comfortably. On the way to retreat, Zang Hong's army was pursued by the cavalry of the Northern Army, and almost the entire army collapsed. Fortunately, Zang Hong also knew the art of war, and calmly gave up part of the army that was bitten with the broken tail of the war, and finally was able to take the remnants of 12,000 people to enter Ganling City, where the capital of Qinghe was located.

Ganling City has been an outpost of Qingzhou against insolence for many years, and the city defense has been built extremely strongly, and there is also a lot of grain, grass and ordnance hoarded. The reason why Zhang Qiang launched a southward attack from the direction of Leling was to avoid the fortified Ganling City.

At this time, most of the counties in Qingzhou were conquered, and only Donglai's trial had not surrendered, but it had nothing to do with the overall situation. Therefore, in order to completely eliminate Yuan Tan's forces, lest he have too many dreams at night and make other troubles, he had to set his sights on Ganling City, which was still holding on.

Ganling City, it is better to capture it as soon as possible. Otherwise, this fortified city will add a lot of trouble to the territory in his hands. Only by pulling out the nail of Ganling City can the territory of Qingzhou and Jizhou be easily connected. If Ganling City is allowed to continue to stay, then Cao Cao can lead his army north from the defense direction of Ganling City, threatening the flank of the arrogant Jizhou territory.

According to custom, before the official siege of the city, Zhang Qiang sent an envoy to Ganling City to persuade him to surrender. Even he knew in his heart that this kind of behavior would definitely be useless.

The person who served as the envoy of Zhang Qi's army to persuade him to surrender should not be too high, so as not to be taken hostage or killed by the defenders of the city, causing serious losses; But the status can't be too low, and it seems arrogant and insincere to say it. Therefore, the person who went to Ganling City this time was Guo Yuan, a famous man from Yingchuan.

Guo Yuanben was a leading general under Yuan Shao. In the "Battle of Julu" that year, Guo Yuan led the elite soldiers of the Yuan army to break into the Julu City from the collapsed city wall, but was ignited by Zhang Qiang with a hidden "stone grease water", cutting off the backup and retreat, and had to be forced to surrender.

Originally, Guo Yuan's surrender was not sincere. But who knew that Yuan Shao would suddenly be infected with the epidemic later, which would lead to the defeat of the army?

When Yuan Shao withdrew from Jizhou, Guo Yuan, who was stunned by the change of the current situation, finally understood that Yuan Shao was no longer good, and he had no possibility of returning to Yuan's hands again.

Faced with such an ending, Guo Yuan finally chose to give in.

For Guo Yuan's ability to be not outstanding, and his loyalty is also quite suspicious, Zhang Qi originally did not plan to accept it. Fortunately, Guo Yuan has a good background and is valued by Guo Jia, who is arrogant, is actually Guo Yuan's same clan. Although the relationship between the two is very ordinary, after all, they are both from the Yingchuan Guo family, and Guo Jia has no choice but to pull Guo Yuan in front of insolence. And Guo Yuan is not a rice bucket in the end, he actually passed the exam in the next year's imperial examination.

Since this is the case, Zhang Qiang hired Guo Yuan regardless of his previous suspicions and gave him a position of 200 stones. In the past few years, Guo Yuan, who has suffered serious setbacks, has actually grown a lot, and has been evaluated by the middle and upper levels in previous assessments. This time, Zhang Mad went south to Qingzhou, and took Guo Yuan in the army and served as a 400-stone engagement. It just so happened that someone was needed to persuade Zang Hong to surrender this time, so he thought of Guo Yuan.

It's just that Guo Yuan's persuasion activity this time is completely incomparable with Lu Liang. Because, when Guo Yuan arrived in Ganling City this time, he didn't even have a chance to enter the city gate.

"Go back and tell Zhang Yi that he was recruited as the remnant of the Yellow Turban, and he didn't know how to serve the Son of Heaven, but he raised a sword in vain and annexed Wang Chen, which can be described as a great rebellion! Zang Hong is the minister of the Son of Heaven and guards the land for the Son of Heaven, how can he allow such remnants of the Yellow Turban to act recklessly? Today's events are just death, just to let Zhang Yi know what righteousness is and cannot be bent! ”

This is the answer given by Zang Hong at the head of the city. If it weren't for Guo Yuan, who was also a celebrity, maybe Zang Hong wouldn't even be able to say these words, and would have shot arrows directly. (To be continued......)