Chapter 63: Soldiers Arrive Outside the City
In Wen Chou's letter this time, he did not mention the current situation of Yuan Shao in Hebei as usual, but repeatedly told Yan Liang to be careful of the situation in the annexation of the state and always be vigilant against Lu Bu's movements.
Although he didn't say it, Yan Liang was not really stupid after all, he sensed that there was a serious change in Hebei, and even Lu Bu was likely to be alarmed, in fact, Yanmen County was next to Youzhou, but the land of Dai County was also owned by Yuan Shao, and he naturally wouldn't know if he had the intention to block the news.
And now it seems that even this good brother Wen Chou is hiding it from himself, which makes Yan Liang feel a little unhappy, after all, he regards Wen Chou as a brother, although he knows that this must be because he is afraid that the letter will be robbed and leaked, but it makes it seem that Wen Chou is deliberately hiding it from him and does not want him to know the truth of the matter.
Although on the other hand, he kept reminding himself that Wen Chou was just kind and didn't want to worry and think too much, but this pimple in his heart was over.
Who said straight people don't hold grudges? Many times people who seem to be very bold and direct, but on the contrary, they will have a tendon and a small belly on some issues, Yan Liang is like this at this time, but this kind of trivial matter was quickly revealed, he suddenly got into his mind, so he summoned his henchmen and instructed him: "You send a few people to help me go back to Jizhou overnight, and see what happened over there, I always feel that something is wrong......
"Whoa!"
Looking at his henchman to lead the order, Yan Liang sighed, but just before he could completely relax himself again, he heard the announcement again. This time, it was the voice of the herald of the gate guards.
Yan Liang's spirit was shocked, and his heart suddenly became worried, he had just received a letter from Wen Chou, in which he asked himself to be careful, and now this herald who has not had many opportunities to report since he came to Yanmen County and settled in Mayi suddenly appeared, which has to be reminiscent of whether there is any connection, is it that Wen Chou told him to be careful happened? With mixed feelings, Yan Liang let the herald in, and the herald seemed to be in a hurry, after all, Yan Liang's residence was not close to the city gate, and he seemed to be running all the way over. I'm so tired that I'm a little out of breath. Of course, he can still say something, as soon as he came in, he knelt down and saluted Yan Liang, and before Yan Liang let him get up and ask, he immediately said, "General." Suddenly many people came from outside the city. It doesn't look like one of our people......"
Yan Liang jumped up with a "sigh". The thick eyebrows trembled violently, and he asked in a deep voice, "Can you see the other party's flag clearly?" β
Although he already has a bad guess, it must be confirmed by many parties to be sure. It's just that I've decided in my heart to take a look at it later.
The herald thought for a moment and said, "It's a little far away, and I can't see it clearly, but it looks like a Lu character." β
"Lu?" Yan Liang frowned, maybe coming from the west, the army, the Lu Zi banner, and the mention in Wen Chou's letter, all pointed to a goal, he didn't hesitate, and shouted loudly: "Come, come, hurry up and clean up, I want to go to the city wall to see for myself, see if that person is coming?" β
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The structure of the city of Mayi is much more decent than that of the city, and the city wall alone is nearly three zhang high, which can be compared with the city wall of many large and medium-sized cities in the Central Plains.
At this time, standing on top of such a high city tower, Yan Liang fanned his right hand over his eyes, and a pair of eyes as sharp as an eagle falcon narrowed into two gaps, looking at the direction in front of him and below, as if muttering to himself: "Judging from this policy, there are at least 10,000 people, so many people, are they from heaven?" β
It is not unreasonable for him to have such a question, which can be seen from the map, the east of Yanmen County is Youzhou, and it is known that the other party is Lu Bu's army, so naturally it will not come from there; And the north is the sphere of influence of the western Xianbei, although since the death of Tanshi Huai, the once strong Xianbei clan began to fall, the internal fragmentation, that is, the western Xianbei internal is also full of contradictions, with the Japanese law deduction, the faction headed by Luoluo and the faction headed by Yan Liyou, the two factions of the Western Xianbei are fighting for the biggest internal forces, for these big forces, many times the internal struggle is the most depletion of their strength, just like the current Western Xianbei is gradually declining, But no matter what, it shouldn't have fallen to the point where Lu Bu's army could pass through his side safely, not to mention that the north of Yanmen County happened to be the sphere of influence of the two of them, and there was nothing to do with Yan Liyou, especially in the core area, so it was also excluded here.
Then look at the south, this is Taiyuan County, is a person who knows that now this place that was originally a public territory belongs to the Tiger Prison God of War Lu Bu, it stands to reason that it is the most likely to come from this side, after all, it is the other party's sphere of influence, but it must be taken into account that Yan Liang has long been prepared for this, he has arranged a large number of scouts in the area of Loufu, Yuanping and Guangwu near the border of the two counties, and their storage zΓ i is equivalent to pulling up a broad and strict cordon between Yanmen and Taiyuan, As long as Lu Bu has the idea to cross the border from here, Yan Liang will get the news as soon as possible, and the current situation is that Lu Bujun's appearance is without warning, which seems to mean that they are not coming from this side either.
Then the only possibility left is Dingxiang County in the west.
In fact, in the western part of the border with Yanmen County, in addition to Dingxiang County, there is also the northeast of Yunzhong County, and the eastern part of Xihe County, but after Yuan Shao occupied the three counties, he established an almost unimpeded and fast message transmission channel between the three counties, from this level Xihe County is still more likely, but this is the focus of scout investigation, if Lu Bujun wants to enter from here, it is unlikely to escape the investigation of Yuan Jun's scouts; And Yunzhong County has about 3,000 defenders, even if the other party has tens of thousands, it is difficult to completely eliminate 3,000 people for a while, as long as there are some fish that slip through the net, Yan Liang can also get the news in advance; On the contrary, there are only 1,000 people in Dingxiang County, and it is more likely that it will be quickly broken through and the whole army will be annihilated, but Yan Liang doesn't know how it would feel if he knew that the army of Dingxiang County had not really broken through Dingxiang County.
But now Yan Liang's feeling is undoubtedly very bad, he will not be afraid of the enemy, although now this Mayi City and even the entire Yanmen County, because Han Meng "wasted" 10,000 people before, so there are only more than 10,000 defenders left, and the allocation to Mayi City is not more than 10,000, mainly because Hebei is eager to use troops, coupled with the confidence in the defense of Yanmen, Yuan Shao did not have heavy troops here, so as for the current situation.
However, the special geographical environment of Yanmen is enough to give Yan Liang the confidence to block the other party, and even rely on the familiarity of his own soldiers with this place, and cooperate with the defenders of the surrounding counties to annihilate the other party.
It's just that he seems to have forgotten a little, and if he really wants to talk about Cheng DΓΉ, who is familiar with Bingzhou and Yanmen County, they can't catch up with each other. (To be continued......)