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Gao Shun ordered Zhu Jun to command 30,000 iron cavalry to sweep the major Yuan army barracks in Le'an County, and asked Zhu Jun to force the Taishou of Gaowan County in Le'an County to take the initiative to surrender as much as possible. Le'an County is the Linzi barrier, with nearly 100,000 Yuan troops stationed, if the Tianci army can subdue it with 30,000 iron cavalry, then the blow to the Yuan army in Linzi City is absolutely terrifying.

Zhu Jun is a veteran of the Han Dynasty, and in the past he was the leader of the Yellow Turban Army, it can be said that Zhu Jun's position in the Han Dynasty was only under Lu Zhi, and even surpassed Huangfu Song.

Gao Shun is not ready to storm Linzi, at least for now, Gao Shun does not have this idea!

Linzi City is an extremely majestic city in the east of the Han Dynasty, if the Tianci army forcibly attacks the city, the loss of soldiers and horses can not be estimated at all. The Tianci Army was recruited by Gao Shun and trained it, and Gao Shun was reluctant to suffer such a big loss! So Gao Shun decided, divide the troops!

In the same month, Gao Shun ordered Zhang Xiu, the commander of the new army, to lead 30,000 iron cavalry to bypass Linzi and attack Dongguan County south of Linzi, cutting off the connection between Linzi and Mount Tai. At the same time, Gao Shun ordered the veteran general Hua Xiong to command 30,000 iron cavalry to bypass Linzi and attack the Beihai region in Yuan Shao's hands.

After Hua Xiong got Zhang Fei's permission, he has left Zhang Fei's status as a deputy general, after all, Hua Xiong is a great general, and when he commanded the alliance captive army, he fully demonstrated his own value. Originally, Hua Xiong was reluctant to leave Zhang Fei, but when Liu Tai's edict was delivered, and Zhang Fei personally came forward to relieve his heart, Hua Xiong could only agree.

Of course, Gao Shun has more than that.

As early as after the army crossed the river, Gao Shun had ordered Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin to leave Haikou, go to Qingzhou Donglai Port, land from the port, and join Kong Rong of Beihai to attack Nanfeng, Yidu and other important towns in Qingzhou east of Linzi, completely surround Linzi, and directly trap Yuan Shao's hundreds of thousands of troops alive!

A real big siege! Don't leave a little way for Yuan Shao!

Although Gao Shun's move took a long time, it was very likely that he would face a counterattack from Linzi. But in fact, Gao Shun's approach is very suitable. If Yuan Shao's army of 500,000 was the real elite, then Gao Shun would not dare to make such a move if he killed Gao Shun.

But you must know that at least two-thirds of the 500,000 troops in Linzi City are miscellaneous goods, and their combat power is very limited. If it is a tough one, with the combat power of the heaven-sent army, it can definitely defeat ten with one, but the problem is that one is also a loss!

Desperately killing Yuan Shao's 500,000 army, the Tianci army will shrink by at least one-third.

It's not worth it! Don't talk about Gao Shun, even Liu Tai will not agree to the soldiers under his command and Yuan Shao in Linzi City, let alone one for ten, even if it is for a hundred, Liu Tai will not agree!

In this way, the means of encirclement have become the most correct choice at present. As long as the morale of the army in Linzi City is completely exhausted, the first threat that Yuan Shao faces at that time will no longer be the heaven-sent army, but how to appease the panicked recruits in the city.

In fact, how could Yuan Shao not know the bad situation? But Yuan Shao is also helpless, if he sends an army to intercept the Tianci army, with the current combat strength of the Qingzhou Legion, it will be a meat bun and a dog, and there will be no return. Don't stop it, seeing the territory being encroached upon by the Heavenly Army, Yuan Shao was even more angry and vomited blood.

Gao Shun's strategy can actually be summed up very simply, just five words, "Cook frogs over a warm fire!" ”

In 193 Huaxia, when the Qingzhou Campaign entered the middle section in early April, the Yuzhou Campaign also underwent major changes. The situation in Yuzhou is a bit annoying, especially Liu Tai's attitude towards the Battle of Yuzhou and the importance it attaches to it.

It stands to reason that with the strength of the two Huai Cao Ying, Liu Tai should be more valued, and the soldiers and horses who fought in Yuzhou should not be two or three hundred thousand, at least one hundred thousand, right? But what about the actual situation? Now there are less than 50,000 Tianci troops in Yuzhou!

And the situation of these 50,000 heaven-sent troops is also very bad!

Earlier, Yan Liang and Xiahoudun fought a hard battle in Changshe, and the loss of soldiers and horses was about 3,000, and Guan Yu was ambushed by Cao Ying, because it was a cavalry with strong mobility ability, and the loss of soldiers and horses was only about 2,000.

But the sum of the front and back, the original less than 50,000 Yuzhou Tianci Army only has about 45,000 left! What's worse is that the supply of the Tianci army in Yuzhou is very limited! If you use Yanzhou as the line to transport grain and grass to the camp of the Tianci army, you have to pass through countless mountain roads, and you have to guard against all kinds of looting and robbers, and Yanzhou, which has been ruined for more than ten years, is very bad!

And to Luoyang as the line to transport grain and grass to the front line, the road is even more dangerous, you know, even if Cao Ying has given up the northern area of Yuzhou at the moment, but in fact these areas are still under Cao Ying's control, with 50,000 soldiers and horses facing Cao Ying's hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses to protect themselves, but also to protect the delivery of grain, how is it possible?

Therefore, Liu Tai's attitude towards the Battle of Yuzhou is worth intriguing.

Although it is said that the important forces of the Tianci Army are currently invested in the western and eastern lines, in fact, there are still four or five legions of soldiers and horses defending Luoyang, not including the Jinyi Army. In other words, Liu Tai is fully capable of mobilizing 120,000 to 150,000 troops to fight in Yuzhou!

But now? A few months have passed, and there has been no movement in Luoyang, and the two troops of Yan Liang and Guan Yu are still fighting alone in Yuzhou, and even the documents for further battle plans have not reached the hands of Yan Liang and Guan Yu.

The situation of the Tianci Army in Yuzhou is very bad!

Although Guan Yu and Yan Liang teamed up to break Cao Ying's encirclement plan, and Cao Ying made a passive defense on the surface and defended Xuchang, in fact, only Guan Yu and Yan Liang knew it. When the 50,000 reinforcements of Shouchun arrived in Xuchang, then the Tianci army was completely defeated in the battle of Yuzhou!

Defeat! It's not a shame!

But you must know that Yan Liang and Guan Yu are both arrogant people.

How could it be possible to accept that the first defeat of the Heaven-Sent Army appeared in their own hands?

can't bear it, it is impossible for Guan Yu and Yan Liang to bear this shame.

Especially Guan Yu, Guan Yu was a character who dared to contradict Liu Tai back then, although he was restrained later, but in front of others, his arrogance was still undiminished, such a character, even if he knew that he would lose, it was impossible to compromise. Just like when he attacked Xuchang and found that he was ambushed by Cao Ying, Guan Yu still took the lead, rushing to the Shouchun camp, and almost turned defeat into victory!

And Yan Liang and Guan Yu actually have similar surnames, Yan Liang is a person who is better at hiding, he is very scheming, even if he has any dissatisfaction, he will put it in his heart, and his arrogance is also well buried between his chest and abdomen. Of course, Yan Liang's loyalty to Liu Tai is not to say, after all, Yan Liang is Liu Tai's old general, and he followed Liu Tai's footsteps step by step to his current position.

Such an arrogant duo is about to face a defeat full of conspiracy, how can they be willing to listen to the arrangement? Therefore, in the large camp where the Yuzhou Tianci Army was stationed, countless intelligence troops were staggered back and forth, and Guan Yu and Yan Liang also stayed up all night discussing the plan to deal with Cao Ying in the main tent.

Guan Yu and Yan Liang, the main tent of the Tianci Army's camp, were of the same rank, so both sides sat in the first place, and below Guan Yu and Yan Liang sat officers at all levels, many of these officers were still injured and looked a little embarrassed.

Guan Yu glanced at the generals present with a gloomy face, and said in a deep voice: "Generals, the current situation is unstable, the Cao army may surround our army at any time, and Your Majesty has not heard from you, so the battle of Yuzhou can only be solved by us, I don't know what the generals think?" ”

Guan Yu has been very annoyed recently, every time the army goes out, especially at the scale of Guan Yu and Yan Liang, at least a few military assistants have to be arranged, right? But in reality? The two troops, Yan Liang and Guan Yu, did not arrange military divisions at all, while the main force of Gaoshun, which fought in Qingzhou, had three military presences.

Isn't that discriminatory treatment?

So Guan Yu is very dissatisfied!

Of course, Guan Yu's arrogance made Guan Yu disdain to take the initiative. Although it is said that the military division is extremely important to the army, Guan Yu thinks that his strategy is no worse than that of any ordinary military division! Well, Guan Yu is self-aware, and it is impossible to compare with Guo Jia and other chief military advisors.

"General, now there are more than 100,000 Cao soldiers in Yuzhou, if you add Shouchun's 50,000 reinforcements, there will be 150,000 together, and our army is only 50,000, hey, under the absolute strength, the last general and others really can't think of a good way." The speaker was a relatively civil-looking general, who came from the Northern Xinjiang Military Academy and has now been promoted to the position of deputy commander because of his excellent grades.

Of course, although there are two deputy commanders in the first army, there are actually many honorary deputy commanders, such as General Wenxiu. The honorary deputy commander does not have actual command power, but when the situation is urgent, he can mobilize one-third of the troops of the entire corps, and this is directly bypassing the corps commander, so it can be said that the power is still very large.

"Humph!!" couldn't help but snort coldly, Guan Yu originally wanted to belittle Cao Jun, but when he thought that he had suffered from Cao Jun's injury, wasn't this a slap in the mouth? Glancing at Yan Liang who was sitting next to him, Guan Yu said loudly: "Wen Heng, what can you do?" ”

"Huh?" Hearing this, Yan Liang frowned, turned his head to look at Guan Yu, shook his head and said: "At present, the Cao army is powerful, and ordinary strategies have no effect, and now our army only has two choices, but these two choices are very different, and Liang can't make a decision for the time being!" ”

"Oh??" Danfeng's eyes were shining, Guan Yu really couldn't imagine that Yan Liang, who was a dead face all day long, could still think of a way, and then the corners of his mouth twitched, and asked, "Wen Heng has an idea, why don't you make it public?" As long as it is practical, General Ben will not object! ”

Hearing this, Yan Liang pondered for a while, and then nodded. Yan Liang knew that since Guan Yu asked, it was naturally impossible to hide it anymore, although Yan Liang and Guan Yu used to be competitors of the Bingzhou military system, but now that the Bingzhou military system has been disrupted, what competition is there to speak of?

"The first choice, our army will abandon the northern Henan region, withdraw the army to Yanzhou immediately, and wait for Cao Ying to passively withdraw his troops, and then march into the army!"

"But in this way, the responsibility for withdrawing from the army without authorization will inevitably fall on you and me, especially before Your Majesty has expressed his position, which is very detrimental to you and me."

"But there are still advantages, that is, it can avoid being surrounded and annihilated by the Cao army, not to deliberately raise the combat power of the Cao army, among the princes, the combat power of the Cao army is indeed the strongest, after all, the two Huai have been in the hands of Cao Ying for seven or eight years, and it is not difficult to cultivate a strong army on the basis of the two Huai."

"Of course, the 150,000 Cao army can't all be elites, and it is okay to cultivate 70,000 or 80,000 elites with Cao Ying's ability. And the elite combat power of the Cao army has rarely been seen by our army in the previous battles, although it is not as good as our army, but it is not easy to gnaw! Yan Liang frowned, his tone was heavy. Even if these words were said by Yan Liang, Yan Liang still didn't believe that there could be an army in the world that could compete with the heaven-given army, but the actual situation was true, and the combat power of the two Huai armies should not be underestimated.

"It is absolutely impossible to return to Yanzhou!" After Yan Liang's words fell, Guan Yu said as soon as possible. If the troops were to be withdrawn, there was no need for this military conference, and the reason why so many officers were here was to find a solution to the current predicament.

"Although Cao Jun should not be underestimated, it is definitely not to the extent that our army avoids its edge!" Guan Yu looked at the generals present, and finally looked at Yan Liang, and said loudly: "General Yan, please tell me the second plan, my Tianci army has absolutely no deserters, and I Guan Yu even disdains to be a deserter, in this battle, even if all my Tianci army is killed, it will be fought until the last moment!" ”

Guan Yu's attitude was very cold, and the resolute attitude in his eyes made everyone present awe-inspired, although Guan Yu was very arrogant, but Guan Yu was indeed a real man, and he would rather die standing than live on his knees. Although Guan Yu's move was likely to cause the elite of the 50,000 Tianci Army to accompany the burial, none of the officers present refuted it.

Not only Guan Yu and Yan Liang disdained to be deserters, but how could the many officers present want to break the myth that the heaven-sent army is undefeated? If the Tianci army was defeated, wouldn't the faith that Liu Tai had worked so hard to build up over the years collapse with a bang? No one wants to be a sinner of the God-given army, and none of the officers present want to be a sinner spurned by their children and grandchildren!

"Second option"

Yan Liang squinted at Guan Yu, and there was no problem with dodging at all. Although Yan Liang's martial arts are not as good as Guan Yu in history, and it is rumored that he was killed by Guan Yu. But the current Yan Liang martial arts will definitely not be under Guan Yu, although the two sides have not officially fought each other, there is no difference in momentum, horses, and equipment.

And if you talk about a protracted war, Yan Liangdu may still be above Guan Yu!

"Do you remember the guerrilla tactics that His Majesty once gave the Huns?"

"At the beginning, in order to train the remnants of the Huns 5,000 troops across the grassland, His Majesty taught the Huns a set of military tactics as the commander of the Huns at that time, which can reflect strong combat power when they are weak, especially in the case of disparity in troops, and now our army, if this art of war attacks the Cao army's various departments"

(To be continued)