Last time, it was mentioned that after receiving a letter from Tai Shici asking for help, Lu Bu opened a secret chess move that he had buried in Jizhou, preparing to use the Black Mountain Army to surprise attack the hinterland of Jizhou, and drag Yuan Shao's hundreds of thousands of troops back to Jizhou to obstruct Yuan Shao's attack.

But at this moment, Jia Xu, who had not shown the demeanor of a 'poisoner' since he joined Lu Bu's command, suddenly said in shock: "I have a plan to wipe out Yuan Shao's hundreds of thousands of troops, and let Jizhou fall into the hands of the lord!" ”

"What!!"

"How is that possible?"

Lu Bu waved his hand to stop the noise of the people next to him, and asked with a happy face: "Wenhe, what you just said is true?" Do you really have a plan to wipe out Yuan Shao's hundreds of thousands of troops? ”

Jia Xu smiled and nodded, "It's true! ”

"Will the plan be released?" Lu Bu was ecstatic.

Jia Xu stroked his short beard and said: "The Black Mountain Army was originally a strange soldier prepared by the lord when he attacked Yuan Shao, so over the years, many siege equipment have been sent to their stationing place. Now that Yuan Shao's hundreds of thousands of troops are storming Huguan, even if the Montenegrin Army is allowed to sneak attack the hinterland of Jizhou, after Yuan Shao reflexively reflexively removes the siege of Jizhou, the Montenegrin Army will inevitably be encircled and suppressed by Yuan Shao. An important soldier buried in Jizhou for more than ten years has since disappeared.

And if our army's campaign with Cao Ying is not over before the destruction of the Montenegrin army, Huguan will definitely be attacked by Yuan Shao again. Therefore, attacking Jizhou with the Montenegrin army is just a temporary measure to treat the symptoms but not the root cause. ”

Everyone nodded yes, and Jia Xu continued: "Although we have been migrating displaced people to Bingzhou in the past few years, the situation of Bingzhou is vast and sparsely populated cannot be changed in a year or two. After Huguan is Wuyuan County, Wuyuan County is the place where the lord started, Jiuyuan City has been built many times by Mr. Fu Zhu, and it has been comparable to the solidity of Jinyang City in Taiyuan, which is the seat of the state administration.

My plan is to let General Taishi Ziyi beware of Yuan Shao on the one hand, and on the other hand, take advantage of Yuan Shao's summoning of Jizhou soldiers to prepare for the next siege, and move many people from Huguan and other places such as Guangmu and Mengxian to Jiuyuan, that is, to implement the Jianye Wall Qing from Huguan to Jiuyuan in Wuyuan County! That's the first step.

The second step is to let General Taishi Ziyi burn the grain, grass and ordnance that Huguan Pass can't take away at about the same time, and then lead the army back to Jiuyuan City. The distance from Huguan to Jiuyuan City takes about four days if the infantry army is a journey, and the cavalry only needs one day and one night to arrive. And state Thomas, General Taishi Ziyi will definitely be able to return to Jiuyuan before Yuan Shao's army.

Jiu was originally guarded by tens of thousands of county soldiers, and the lord had great prestige in Jiuyuan, so it was absolutely easy to temporarily summon tens of thousands of young men to help in the war. Coupled with the tens of thousands of warriors of Taishi Ziyi, with the strong city and the morale of the soldiers and civilians of Jiuyuan City, it will not be a problem to hold on for a month.

The third step is the key to the whole plan! That is to cut off Yuan Shao's grain and grass!! Yuan Shao's army marched eastward, and he would never forget that Huang Hansheng's more than 10,000 wolf horsemen were still cruising on his rear grain road, and he would definitely leave the kind of red-armored crossbowmen recorded on the cotton silk to be responsible for transporting the grain route. And isn't the biggest nemesis of this red-armored crossbowman under the lord's account at this time? Saying this, Jia Xu deliberately looked at Gao Shun on the side.

Gao Shun said confidently: "If you fall into the camp and make a move, those red-armored crossbowmen will die in a battle!" ”

Jia Xu said with a smile: "We have already occupied the Guandu camp, although Yuan Shao has set up a lot of scouts on the opposite bank, but it is really easy to find a landing site in the upper reaches of the Yellow River at night. If a large number of troops cross the river, it will inevitably be discovered by Yuan Shao's scouts, but it is only the thousands of trapped camps of Bo-level generals crossing the river, even if they are later discovered by Yuan Shao's scouts, it is not so easy to find thousands of troops in the wide territory of Hebei.

The Bo-level general can bring horses for each sergeant trapped in the camp, and rush to the Taihang Mountain Range in the starry night to join the Black Mountain Army and General Huang Hansheng. If Yuan Shao broke through Huguan and invaded Bingzhou, his grain route would be transported by that group of red-armored crossbowmen and a small number of sergeants. As long as the Bo-level general eradicates those red-armored crossbowmen, I believe that with General Huang Hansheng's more than 10,000 wolf cavalry, it will not be a problem to cut off Yuan Shao's grain route. This is the third very important step in the whole plan!

In the last step, Yuan Shao's army was cut off from grain and grass, and there should be two choices. One is to continue to storm Jiuyuan City, trying to capture Jiuyuan and take Jiuyuan grain and grass for food. The two are to immediately lead the army on the way home, wanting to open up the grain road first and then slow down the annexation of the state. Jia Xu paused suddenly when he said this, picked up the tea on the desk and took a sip.

At this time, the people around had already been attracted by Jia Xu's bold plan, and when they saw Jia Xu stop to drink water, they all held their breath as if they were afraid that they would interrupt Jia Xu's train of thought if they breathed a little too much.

Jia Xu put down the teacup and chuckled: "No matter which path Yuan Shao chooses, Jia can assert that he will die." If he chooses the first one to storm Jiuyuan, the soil outside Jiuyuan City is rocky, and it is not suitable for digging tunnels to attack the city. There is no big river, which is enough for Yuan Shao to carry out the flood plan. If you want to capture Jiuyuan Yuan Shao, you can only fill it with human lives. And under the single-mindedness of the military and civilians of Jiuyuan City, Yuan Shao's desire to capture it in a short period of time is simply wishful thinking. And once the time drags on for a little longer, the grain and grass consumed by his hundreds of thousands of troops is not a small number for every person to eat and chew, and with the grain and grass he brought to Bingzhou, how many days can he last? Once the food is exhausted, hundreds of thousands of troops, along with him, the head of the Yuan family of the fourth world and the third duke, will become prisoners of our army!

If he had been smarter, he would have chosen the second option, but it would only have caused us a little trouble. The Montenegrin army has more than 100,000 people, although they have not been trained by the regular army, but they have complete siege equipment in their hands. With the trap camp on the side to help recapture the dilapidated pot pass on the western wall, I don't think it will take a lot of effort, right? Even if it takes a little longer, it will take at least a few days for Yuan Shao's army to return to Huguan from Jiuyuan City, which is definitely more than enough to capture Huguan.

Yuan Shao's army hurriedly returned to Huguan from Jiuyuan City, and Jia didn't believe that they could still carry those cumbersome ladders and siege equipment. At that time, there were more than 100,000 Montenegrin troops and thousands of elite soldiers in the trap camp to defend the complete eastern wall of Huguan. What is the ending, I think everyone shouldn't have to bother Jia anymore, right? ”

"Smack!! Wonderful!!! Hahahaha, what a brilliant idea!! Lu Bu shot the case and looked up to the sky and laughed!

Jia Xu has always been called a 'poisoner' in the original history, but after Lu Bu took him under his account, he never found any 'poison' in Jia Xu's strategy. Even in the previous time he was still at a disadvantage in the previous fight with Guo Jia.

But this time, Jia Xu is powerful! And as soon as he made a threat, he offered a poisonous plan that could wipe out Yuan Shao's hundreds of thousands of troops!! Please enter the urn, no one thought of this strategy before, or thought of it as carefully and comprehensively as Jia Xu thought.

Unless Yuan Shao did not move after beating the pot pass, he quietly waited for Lu Bu and Cao Ying to decide the victory, and then slowly attacked and merged the state steadily. Otherwise, as long as Yuan Shao entered the state and hit Jiuyuan, (Jiuyuan is Lu Bu's starting office, and it is the richest place in Wuyuan County.) Then he will end up with only a dead end! This kind of poisonous plan is probably only Jia Xu can think of among the people present.

Chen Gong and Lu Su stood behind Jia Xu with great admiration, and watched without a trace of jealousy as Jia Xu was praised by Lu Bu and Zhang Liao and others. One is that they are not jealous people, and the other is that they understand that with the intelligence that Jia Xu has just shown, they should be praised by everyone

Dividing line

"What do you say? The pot is empty? Are you sure? Yuan Shao stood up from below his seat.

The Yuan army scout was taken aback, and said tremblingly: "Back to the lord, the villain had the courage to go to the pot inside the pass to take a look, but the sky-high fire before was burned on the side of the granary, and there was no one in the pass at all. This is what the villain saw with his own eyes, and there is nothing false about it! ”

Yuan Shao looked up to the sky and laughed: "Hahahahaha, finally retreated!" I thought that these Bingzhou troops were killing endlessly, but it turns out that they also have times when they are afraid of being killed! Hahaha"

The strategist beside Yuan Shao frowned, and asked suspiciously: "Yesterday, when our army attacked the city, I also saw that there were still tens of thousands of sergeants on the pass, although the body of the Huguan Pass was broken, but it was still okay to defend the pass for a few days, why did you suddenly leave the Huguan and escape?" ”

Yuan Shao excitedly walked to the judge's side, patted the judge's back and laughed: "Judge Zhengnan, judge Zhengnan, you are too cautious in everything!" No matter what they think, but once this pot is lost and the state is merged, there is no pass like this to resist our army, is there a fraud in this? Even if there is fraud, with my hundreds of thousands of troops guarding the left and right, and if there are any dangerous forests and bad water in the state, can he still burn and flood my army? Hehehe, herald! Enter Huguan!! ”

Yuan Shao gave an order, hundreds of thousands of Hebei troops began to slowly enter Huguan, and quickly occupied various important places, after carefully searching one side and finally determining that there was no Jizhou army hiding in Guanzhong, Yuan Shao took his personal guards and his strategist group, slowly rode into Huguan.

Looking at the burning grain and grass storehouse, Yuan Shao sighed with some pity: "These Bingzhou troops are really hateful, they will leave when they leave, and they will also lose all the grain and grass warehouse, otherwise our army can march into the hinterland of Bingzhou after a little rest." But his fire made our army have to wait for the next batch of military rations to be delivered to Huguan before we could boldly march into the state. ”

After listening to Yuan Shao's words, the trial seemed to have a flash of inspiration, and suddenly shouted: "I understand!" These merger states are trying to lure us out of the state, and then use their remaining cavalry troops to attack our grain routes, and then once the army runs out of food and grass, won't they be forced to return to Jizhou? This is the plot of the state army! I'm sure that at this time, those villages and counties east of Huguan must have been moved to Jiuyuan City, the fortified city of Wuyuan County, by the military of Bingzhou! If we continue to march into the state, we will face the crisis of cutting off the grain route! ”

Yuan Shao's face sank, and after thinking carefully for a while, he called outside: "Come on, send scout troops to the east of Huguan to check." Take a look at the situation in those villages and counties, and find out and report quickly!! ”

"No!"

Yuan Shao's adviser Guo Tu also spoke: "Most of our army is an infantry army, and we spend most of our money on the formation of General Liyi's Xiandeng army, but there is no large-scale cavalry force to compete with the Bingzhou army. However, there are still tens of thousands of elite cavalry hidden in the Jizhou territory, and they often plundered the grain road, but the major event was hindered by the Xiandeng army several times, but now it has been temporarily stopped for a while.

However, if our army enters the territory of the state, the first army will be taken to the state, but this grain route can only be transported by those county soldiers. These county soldiers are not well trained, and they don't have any sophisticated equipment, so when they encounter tens of thousands of people, don't they have no return? ”

Yuan Shao sighed, strode into the garrison mansion in Guanzhong, and after sitting there and thinking for a long time, he said helplessly: "Otherwise, I will leave this Xiandeng army here in Huguan?" One can help those county soldiers guard Huguan and protect my way home. The two can also go from Jizhou to Bingzhou during the grain and grass transportation period, all the way to respond, forgive those Bingzhou cavalry after suffering several losses, and definitely do not dare to plunder the grain and grass transportation team guarded by the first army. What do you think of this? ”

Xin Ping stood up and said: "If the lord must enter the state, in addition to the grain road to send the first army to escort it, this pot pass must also be repaired and heavily guarded, otherwise once the pot pass falls, the consequences will be unimaginable!" ”

Yuan Shao waved his hand and said nonchalantly: "We will lead the army to attack Bingzhou, and there are only more than 10,000 cavalry cruising in Jizhou, is it possible that their cavalry can also attack my Huguan?" ”

Xin Ping said worriedly: "My subordinates are worried that Lu Bu, who is south of the Yellow River, may abandon Cao Ying and cross the Yellow River from the direction of Yecheng to attack Huguan to cut off my way back after receiving the news that our army has invaded the state." ”

"Hahaha, Zhongzhi is really unfounded! Now that Lu Bu's main army is fighting with Cao Aman, he can't tell the winner for a while, even if he wants to withdraw, could Cao Ying just let him go?

In addition, I also have tens of thousands of garrisons in the north of the Yellow River to monitor Lü Bu at night, and Yecheng is also guarded by nearly 100,000 county soldiers. Even if Lu Bu really crossed the Yellow River, how could he reach Huguan so easily? Isn't it true that there is no one in Jizhou? Yuan Shao looked up to the sky and laughed.

Xin Ping was still not at ease, and bowed down and asked: "This is related to the life and death of our army, and I hope that the lord can increase the garrison camp north of the Yellow River, and send a good general to guard it, so as to achieve a perfect strategy!" ”

Yuan Shao saw Xin Ping asking him to pay attention to Lu Bu several times, and he already had a trace of dislike in his heart, but said coldly: "In this way, please ask Xin Zhongzhi and your younger brother Xin Bi to go to Hebei Daying together to guard against Lu Bu for me." After speaking, he flicked his sleeves and walked towards the inner courtyard of the Huguan Garrison Mansion without looking back.

The judge glanced at Xin Ping with some regret, in fact, Xin Ping just said that the judge also agreed with it, but he knew that Yuan Shao was so happy, and he had been persuading him to guard against Lu Bu in the south of the Yellow River when he had just captured Huguan today, and Yuan Shao would naturally be unhappy. But Xin Ping and Guo Tu are Yuan Shao's eldest son Yuan Tan's people, but he is a supporter of the younger son Yuan Shang. Seeing Yuan Shao striding away, the judge hurriedly followed.

Guo Tu and Xin Ping are both supporters of Yuan Tan, so naturally they can't just leave. Guo Tu sighed and said, "Xin Zhongzhi, you have been assisting the lord with me for more than ten years, don't you know what the lord's temper is?" Today is the son of breaking through the kettle, the lord is full of pride, but you just add water to the fire, provoking the lord to dislike, why bother. ”

Xin Ping shook his head: "If you can be for the great cause of the lord, it doesn't matter if you are scolded or wronged a little." It's a pity that the look of the lord just now didn't take what I said to heart. Hey, I hope my guess is wrong, otherwise" At the end, Xin Ping just sighed deeply but couldn't say anything again.

Guo Tu patted Xin Ping's shoulder and said softly: "Don't worry, Zhongzhi, when the lord's anger is gone, I will help you persuade the lord again." During this time, you will go to Beidaying for a period of time, and I believe that the lord will call you back after two days. ”

Xin Ping smiled bitterly, just arched his hand towards Guo Tu, and left without looking back. He knew that with Guo Tu's character, even if he was a supporter of the eldest prince Yuan Tan with him, he would never risk being reprimanded by Yuan Shao to say good things for himself. So I can only wait for Yuan Shao to lose his anger, thinking that Beidaying still has himself stationed there, and probably have a chance to come back.

(To be continued)