Yuan Shao's letter was sent to Montenegro, and Zhang Yan gathered all the commanders to discuss countermeasures after reading it.

"Yuan Shao is a person, wide on the outside and jealous on the inside, untrustworthy, indecisive, by no means a person who has achieved great things, don't look at him now, in my opinion, it is just a strong outside, in the future, the two northern powers will compete for hegemony, Yuan Shao may not be able to win Cao Cao. Therefore, Yuan Shao is definitely not a master worth attaching! ”

Zhang Yan glanced at the more than fifty Qu Shuai sitting below, slowly tore the letter in his hand into pieces, and threw it on the ground.

The leaders of the Montenegrin thieves did not hold a meeting like the official officials, the lord sat in the middle, and the civil and military staff stood on both sides, but all sat on both sides with a stool and listened to Zhang Yan's speech.

It's more comfortable to sit like this, most of them are poor and lowly people, and they don't understand the etiquette of dignitaries and nobles, and they can't understand why they sit on their knees when they eat and party? It made the back ache, the etiquette of the Han Dynasty was really pedantic, no wonder the "great sage and good teacher" shouted the slogan "The sky is dead, the yellow sky should stand"!

Zhang Baiqi stood up and asked: "Zhang Pingnan, we haven't fought with the Yuan army for two years, this time we raided the Liyi army and robbed him of eighty or ninety thousand stones of grain and grass, will Yuan Shao be furious and send a large army to conquer us?" ”

Zhang Yan waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, I don't think Yuan Shao has the courage for the time being." Before General Gongsun is destroyed, he will not be able to make up his mind to conquer us with all his might! There is a saying called "cold lips and cold teeth", if we want not to be exterminated by Yuan Shao, we must do our best to ensure that Gongsun Zhan's forces are not eliminated. ”

Zhang Baiqi asked again: "In this case, what should our army do next?" ”

Zhang Yan thought for a moment and said: "Yuan Shao sent Liyi to the north, just to harass Daijun, sabotage Daijun's spring ploughing, attract General Gongsun Zhan's center of gravity to the western front, and then attack Yijing from the east or the middle......"

Qu Shuai's "Colonel Zuo" is a scheming person in the Montenegrin army, and nodded in agreement: "What General Pingnan said is extremely true. Dai County is a large grain-producing county in Youzhou, even if he knows that Yuan Shao's move is a plan to attack the east and the west, I am afraid that General Gongsun Chan will not be able to sit idly by and let Koyi destroy the spring ploughing. What's more, Lu Yi only has 10,000 soldiers and horses, which will make General Gongsun Chan unable to hold back his determination to take revenge, and he will be more impulsive and have the idea of destroying this team, so as to send troops to Daijun, but he fell into Yuan Shao's trap. ”

Zhang Yan agreed with Colonel Zuo's analysis: "You are right, this is where Yuan Shao is insidious and vicious. If he sent an army of 40,000 or 50,000, Tian Yu, the commander of the county, would inevitably defend it, and if necessary, he would even abandon the city to save his troops and go to Yijing to meet Gongsun Zhan. However, Yuan Shao only sent 10,000 people, which would make Tian Yu see the hope of victory, and he would definitely not watch Koyi destroy the spring ploughing, and it was possible to go out of the city to fight a decisive battle with Koyi......

Koji Yi has been on the battlefield for a long time, and is a first-class general in the world, although Tian Yu has many soldiers and horses, the victory or defeat is unpredictable; Once the two sides fell into a stalemate, General Gongsun would never sit idly by and watch Tian Yu's troops lose his generals, and it was very likely that he would passively send troops from Yijing to aid Daijun. This is exactly what Yuan Shao's plan is to 'divert the tiger from the mountain', find an opportunity to attack Yijing on a large scale, and put Gongsun Chan in a place of no return! ”

"So should we take advantage of the steep terrain of Taihang Mountain to sabotage the northward movement of the Koji Rebellion?" Zuo Colonel followed Zhang Yan's train of thought and came to a conclusion.

Zhang Yan stroked his beard and said: "That's right! The terrain of Taihang is precipitous, and one husband is the pass, and ten thousand people are not open. If you want to cross Taihang, you must take eight paths, we block the mountain passes, and the rolling wood in the troubled times is smashed, ensuring that it is difficult for Liyi to fly over the Taihang Mountain, even if it passes, it will also make him suffer heavy casualties, lose his combat effectiveness, and make Yuan Shao's plan stillborn! ”

"If Koji Yi is just too good, go north along Jizhou, and go to Fanyang to attack Dai County, how should I deal with it?" Zhang Baiqi raised his own doubts again.

"Haha...... If this is the case, Koji Yi is throwing himself into the net! Zhang Yan stroked her beard and laughed.

Continue to analyze to Qu Shuai present: "Daijun, Fanyang, and Yijing are the only three cities in General Gongsun's hands now, which are connected in a line. The city of Fanyang is steep, the land is barren, and there is no cultivation at all, so there is no need to worry about being destroyed like Dai Jun. There are only two steps to go from Liyi to Fanyang City, one is to attack the city, and the other is to bypass Fanyang. There are 15,000 defenders in Fanyang City, and Liyi attacks more with less, if you want to break the city, it is a fool's dream! And if Liyi chooses to bypass Fanyang and enter the territory of Daijun, he will commit the taboo of going deep alone, and when the time comes, Daijun and Fanyang will go out and attack before and after, and the whole army of Baojiao Liyi will be annihilated! ”

After listening to Zhang Yan's analysis, all the commanders praised together: "General Pingnan's eyes are like torches, we really admire them, and we are willing to obey the general's dispatch and seek common cause!" ”

"Good!" Zhang Yan waved his hand heartily, "Everyone only needs to follow my instructions, guard the pass over the mountain, and don't let the men and horses of Koyi go over, Yuan Shao's plan to attack the east and west will be useless." As long as Gongsun Chan is not destroyed for a day, he Yuan Benchu will not dare to free up his hands to attack us with all his might, and I will be as safe as Mount Tai when I wait on Taihang Mountain! ”

"Come, everybody, drink!" After Zhang Yan finished the analysis, she ordered the cook to buy wine and food.

"Okay, drink, it's hard to have wine to drink and meat to eat with Zhang Ping!" The cottage hall burst into laughter.

It didn't take much effort, and all the commanders raised their glasses to celebrate the success of the grain robbery. No one mentioned the collapse of the Great Hung Ministry, because the loss of a group of people who distributed grain meant that the ministries would distribute more grain and grass. The disappearance of any tribe among the Black Mountain Thieves, like a dry drop of water, is so natural that it will not arouse anyone's emotion and nostalgia.

Under the castle of Yinguan, the reorganized Northern Expeditionary Army was waiting for orders.

Although he was dissatisfied with Yuan Mai's unauthorized mobilization of cavalry to fight, Yuan Mai borrowed 80,000 stone grain and grass from Xu Wushan to fill this hole, and Lu Yi had nothing to say. What's more, his troops lost more than 1,000 people, and he managed to get together enough 7,000 people by picking people from the Black Mountain thieves captured by Hao Zhao, which made Lu Yi even less confident to complain.

Hao Zhao's 2,000 pioneer battalion selected more than 200 strong from the captives, and still maintained an establishment of 2,000 people. Wang Shuang's cavalry lost 100 horses, and spent money to buy the same number of horses from the horse dealers of Changshan State, and selected more than 100 horsemen from Xu Wushan's team, still maintaining the establishment of 400 heavy armored cavalry and 800 light cavalry. Coupled with the two thousand strong men brought by Tian Chou, the number of people and horses directly belonging to Yuan Mai has reached the scale of five thousand.

The remaining seven or eight hundred black mountain thief captives were all assigned to the people, responsible for doing rough work, building roads and bridges, setting up camps, escorting grain carts, and raising horses, all of which were their business, and if anyone wanted to escape, the soldiers guarding them would definitely cut off their heads with a knife without mercy!

Seeing that Yuan Mai's troops were increasing and increasing, Ko Yi vaguely felt that it might not be long before the real commander of this army would become Yuan Mai. Although Koji Yi was unwilling, he was helpless. And because of the shooting of Yuan Xi, he and Yuan Mai are now grasshoppers on the same rope, which makes him hope that Yuan Mai can take over Yuan Shao's power in the future, so maybe he will have a chance to get ahead!

The north wind hunts, and the flag is displayed.

The team of 12,500 people has all been assembled, and is waiting for the lord to give the order, whether to pull the camp to the north, or to cross the Taihang west?

In the big tent of the Chinese army, Koji Yi summoned the generals above the rank of lieutenant to participate in the military meeting to discuss the next move. It is time to continue to cross the Taihang Mountains westward according to the original plan, and go out of Yanmen to attack Daijun; Or do you cross the Zhongshan Kingdom to the north, enter the territory of Fanyang, and then attack Daijun to the west?

After some deliberation, the number of people who supported going north to Fanyang and entering Dai County had the upper hand.

Hao Zhao is a staunch faction that supports going north, and he is arguing with reason at the moment: "Although after our army crosses Fanyang City, it is likely to be attacked from both sides by Daijun and Fanyang, but this will definitely be much smaller than the loss through Taihang Mountain." The Taihang Mountains are majestic, there are a large number of black mountain thieves, they hold the mountain pass, shoot down arrows, and fall down with rolling stones, if our army wants to pass through, I don't know how many soldiers' lives will be lost? Our army goes to Fanyang, the road is smooth, even if Tian Yu sends troops to intercept, the defenders of Fanyang City are surrounded in the back, even if we suffer from two sides, we can also break through Tian Yu's interception in one go, go to Yanmen for a short rest, and then make a comeback to attack Daijun from the west, so that the casualties of the soldiers can be minimized! ”

Tian Chou objected and retorted: "You are making assumptions based on being able to break through Tianyu's defense line, in case our army can't break through Tianyu's defense line, is trapped in the middle, and is attacked from front to back, won't it be the result of the annihilation of the entire army?" ”

"Xianyong, what are you looking at from there? Why don't you say anything? ”

Lu Yi found that Yuan Mai did not participate in the discussion, but instead walked to the front of the camp with his hands behind his back, looked west at the towering Taihang Mountain, and couldn't help but ask curiously.

Yuan Mai smiled slightly, and said confidently: "I'm thinking of a two-pronged strategy, a two-pronged strategy that can survive Taihang without suffering major losses." Although I am stupid, I have thought of a way, you can try according to my method, maybe our army can pass through the Taihang Mountain unharmed! ”

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