Liu Ye sat down in his position and asked Wang Chong with a smile: "The lord wants to take Anhui City?" ”

Wang Chong nodded and did not deny it: "What can Ziyang teach me?" ”

Wang Chong knew very well that with the current situation in Lujiang, it was not ordinarily difficult for him to take Wancheng.

First of all, the city of Anhui is thick with high walls, and it is not wise to attack it when there are still 20,000 soldiers stationed in the city, the best way is to use a strategy to lure Liu Xun out of Anhui City and annihilate it outside the city.

Of course, this is not the most critical, in fact, Wang Chong really didn't put Liu Xun in his eyes, from beginning to end, there was only one person who really made him jealous, and that was ...... Jiangdong Sun Ce!

This time, Sun Ce pretended to unite with Liu Xun and sent troops to contain Jinfan's soldiers and horses in Weixukou and Liyang for Liu Xun, the purpose was to let Liu Xun send troops to fight Jinfan without scruples, while they themselves hid on the side and sat on the mountain to watch the tiger fight.

It is difficult to attack the mouth of the water and the Hengjiangjin, and Sun Ce's purpose, I am afraid that he is the same as Jinfan, has been coveting the city of Anhui, maybe he has just transferred Liu Xun from the front foot, and the Jiangdong army will send troops to capture the city of Anhui on the back foot.

Wang Chong didn't want to make wedding clothes for others, so how to lead Liu Xun out and capture Anhui City before the Jiangdong Army became the biggest problem that troubled Wang Chong, if this problem was not solved, it would be better to keep Liu Xun first, at least Liu Xun occupied Anhui City, and the threat to Jinfan was far less than being occupied by Sun Ce.

Liu Ye suggested: "The lord can temporarily besiege Xiang'an City without attacking it, and wait for Anhui City to come to help." ”

"Siege point reinforcements?" Wang Chong frowned and said, "But Liu Xun may not be able to send reinforcements, right?" ”

"Don't disturb, my lord." Liu Ye paused and said meaningfully, "Don't forget that I Jinfan also has a 'good ally'." ”

"Allies?" Wang Chong was stunned for a moment, as if he had faintly caught something, and said strangely, "The good ally that Ziyang said should be Sun Ce, right?" ”

Liu Ye nodded and said with a smile: "I'm afraid Sun Ce is more anxious to occupy Anhui City than our Jinfan, so even if we don't do anything, Jiangdong will do everything possible to force Liu Xun to send troops." ”

"Having said that, even if Liu Xun really sent troops, how could I, Jinfan, capture Wancheng before the Jiangdong Army?"

Liu Ye got up and said, "Lord, Ye, please go to the hidden mountain!" ”

"Hidden Mountain?" Hearing this, Wang Chong immediately understood Liu Ye's thoughts.

In fact, after Yuan Shu's death, in addition to the two forces of Liu Xun and Zheng Bao in the Jianghuai area, there is also a force that should not be underestimated, that is, Lei Bo, Chen Lan and others who fell into the grass in the hidden mountains.

Lei Bo and Chen Lan were originally Yuan Shu's generals, and later they were dissatisfied with Yuan Shu's poverty and luxury, so they rebelled and hid in the hidden mountains, and then plundered Yuan Shu's baggage, and got a large number of gold and silver treasures and grain and grass, and because the two were originally local people in Lujiang, there were countless followers, more than 20,000 soldiers and horses under their command, and there were as many as 70,000 or 80,000 people who followed.

At present, on the hidden mountain, there are four people in charge, namely Lei Bo, Lei Xu, Chen Lan, and Mei Gan.

Lei Xu is Lei Bo's younger brother, in history with the soldiers and their families defected to Liu Bei, the official to the general, and was later beheaded by Xiahou Yuan, and Mei Qian is a famous ranger in the Lujiang region, martial arts are good, quite loved by the people, in Jian'an 14 years, that is, ten years later, Mei Gan's son Mei Cheng will rebel with Chen Lan, and was finally destroyed by Zhang Liao.

Qianshan, that is, the current Tianzhu Mountain, is not far northwest of Anhui City, if Liu Xun led the troops to go out, the 20,000 soldiers and horses on the Qianshan suddenly came out from the rear, I believe that Sun Ce will be able to seize Anhui City one step ahead of Sun Ce, it must be known that Sun Ce has to conquer Wankou Port before the army is in Anhui City.

I have to say that when Liu Ye mentioned Qianshan, Wang Chong suddenly felt a sense of enlightenment, but Wang Chong was still quite worried about this: "Ziyang, Qianshan Chen Lan and others are not good people, do you really want to go alone?" ”

Liu Ye said: "Rest assured, Ye and the people of Qianshan have had several fates, and they know each other, so it is expected that there will be no obstacles." ”

Wang Chong nodded thoughtfully: "Are you sure?" ”

The stakes were very high, and Wang Chong had to be cautious, after all, once the plan was implemented, if Liu Ye could not convince the people of Qianshan, it would be very likely that Wancheng would fall into the hands of Sun Ce.

Liu Ye said with confidence: "The reason why Lei Bo and Chen Lan are against Yuan is nothing more than that they can't get used to Yuan Shu's absurdity, and Liu Xun is greedy and vain, and he is not liked by them, so he refused Liu Xun's recruitment three times and twice, but now the lord is working hard and has benevolence and righteousness, and the people of Huainan have a lot of praise, how can they refuse?" ”

Wang Chong pondered for a moment and said: "In this way, I should send ten guards to escort Zi Yang, after Zi Yang convinces the other party, you can stay in Qianshan first to see the opportunity to act, and be sure to take Wancheng before Sun Ce!" ”

Liu Ye said solemnly: "No! ”

"Report!" At this time, I saw a soldier outside the tent to play, "My lord, there is a man outside the camp who asks to see him, claiming to be a close confidant of Huang Yi of the Lujiang Supervision Army!" ”

"Huang Yi's cronies?" Wang Chong and Liu Ye glanced at each other suspiciously, the latter seemed to think of something, and asked the soldier, "How is this person dressed?" ”

The soldier recalled: "Very down-and-out, dressed like a homeless person, but with fair skin, a good complexion, and no dirt on his body, so it always looks like a sense of nondescriptry." ”

Wang Chong smiled: "It seems that this Huang Yi doesn't seem to want people to know about the fact that he sent someone to visit my Jinfan." ”

Liu Ye said: "Lord, if Ye expected, this time I will definitely have a big harvest." ”

"I guess that's the same." Wang Chong smiled, and then said to the soldier, "Announce him in!" ”

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The fourth year of Jian'an, July 18.

Anhui City, Lujiang Taishou Mansion.

In the past few days, Liu Xun's mood was very irritable, because Lu Mian was defeated, and he was completely defeated the day after arriving in Xiang'an.

When the news came, Liu Xun's first reaction was not to believe it, after all, Lu Mian had an army of 30,000 in his hands, and Jinfan was only 15,000 people, logically speaking, even if Lu Mian lost the first battle, it would not be so exaggerated that the whole army would be annihilated, right?

But after repeated verification, Liu Xun had to accept this fact even if he didn't want to believe it.

"Damn Lu Mian, I really can't believe it."

Liu Xun's anger made all the civil and military forces under his command silent, and in a few days, more than a dozen house slaves and maidservants were successively affected by the pond fish and were killed by Liu Xun.

In just a few days, Huang Yi, who was still staying in Xiang'an, had sent more than a dozen urgent letters, saying that Jinfan's army had launched a fierce attack on Xiang'an for several days, hoping that Liu Xun could quickly send troops to support.

An hour ago, Liu Xun received the latest information from Huang Yi, that is, after a few days of bloody battles, Xiang'an's men and horses were less than 2,000, and they were about to be unable to support it, and Jinfan also suffered heavy losses in the battle, and now there are more than 5,000 soldiers and horses left.

Huang Yi stated in the letter that if Liu Xun sent troops to attack Jinfan at this time, he would lead his troops out of Xiang'an City at that time, and under the front and rear attacks, Jinfan would inevitably be defeated.

Liu Xun was very moved, but at the same time he was also very hesitant, in the end, he still couldn't rest assured that he couldn't go to Wancheng.

And just when Liu Xun was in a dilemma and struggling, he heard a report from the soldiers that an envoy from Jiangdong had visited.