(PS: It's the end of the month, and I'm asking for a monthly pass.) ）

The snowflakes of Yanshan are as big as a seat, but they don't know that the snowflakes of Taihang Mountain are also collapsing, a moment ago it was still fine beads and broken powder, in a blink of an eye, it was ten thousand flowers flying wildly, Qiongyu was colorful, flying in the wind in a group, muddy, the sky was blue, the sky was mang, looking at it, the mountains were hazy, the trees were faint, the road was confused, the river was vast, and the world was in chaos.

In the snowflakes, a huge convoy composed of more than 1,000 carriages came from the northwest, against the snowflakes and the cold wind that cut the face like a knife, it was difficult to march in the direction of Yecheng, the people with yellow muscles and thin muscles were like snowmen, the cattle and horses pulling the carts were dressed in silver makeup, and the wheels crushed the ice and snow, but they could not crush the hunger and cold of the people who transported the grain, and the big carts they pushed and pulled were full of grain, but they ate not as good as cattle and horses, because the cattle and horses in Jizhou were difficult to find in the war, and the people who were so hungry that they only had one breath left were everywhere, so they could only eat bran and rice bran, Do heavier work than cattle and horses.

The soldiers of Yuan Tanjun, who were carrying the grain, carried banners and spears, tried to wrap themselves tighter in winter clothes, warmed their hands from time to time, and from time to time scolded and beat the slow people, and some grassroots generals simply sat on the grain bags and let the people push them forward. In this regard, Zhang Sheng, the general of Yuan Tanjun, the grain officer of this grain transportation team, ignored it at all, just wrapped the fox fur coat tighter, lazily and slowly rode his horse from the rear team to the front team, thinking in his heart that he would hurry up to finish this passing scene, so he quickly picked up the car and went up, and hugged the two maids who had been newly exchanged for wheat cakes to rest for a while.

Zhang Sheng did not worry about the safety of the grain transport team, which is still more than 200 miles away from Yecheng. The team of the enemy's Xuzhou army has never set foot in this territory, and the Xuzhou army has never had the idea of fighting the grain route of Yuan Tan's army, Zhang Sheng has already transported grain from Maocheng to Yecheng three times, and has never encountered the interception of the Xuzhou army, so Zhang Sheng's only worry now is whether he can transport the escorted 50,000 grains to Yecheng as scheduled within the seven-day period? But fortunately, the grain team has walked out of the most difficult Taihang Mountains and came to the North China Plain on the Yima Pingchuan, and the road is much better. The trip can be greatly accelerated. It is no longer a big problem for the grain to arrive in Yecheng as scheduled.

Zhang Sheng, like the Xuzhou army, hated this strange cold winter that was rare once in decades, and the Xuzhou army hated this cold winter because it happened that when the main force of Xuzhou arrived at the Yecheng battlefield, the weather suddenly turned cold. It was so cold that even the water of the Yellow River was covered with ice. Heavy snow continues in the Yecheng area. The Xuzhou army, which had the majority of the southern soldiers, was miserable and could not fight with all its strength at all, and confronted the main force of Yuan Tan's army on the Yecheng battlefield for more than 40 days. Leng was unable to advance an inch further north, and the soldiers were frozen to death and frostbitten countless times, the morale of the army was greatly affected, and the transportation of grain and grass was also very difficult. Zhang Sheng hated this cold winter because the water of the Zhanghe River was frozen more tightly by the severe cold, so Zhang Sheng could not comfortably take the boat to carry the grain, so he could only transport the grain by land against the cold storm and snow, and the hardship was ten times more difficult than the water transportation.

Patrolled all the way to the front team, the scene was finally over, seeing that everything was as usual, the relieved General Zhang Sheng just wanted to go back to the carriage to rest, but the southeast direction suddenly strange sound, Zhang Sheng listened carefully, but was surprised to find that this strange sound turned out to be singing and dense horses' hooves, and then listen carefully to the lyrics, Zhang Sheng is even more confused, because this lyrics is the first poem "Guan Ju" at the beginning of the Book of Poetry, and I don't know how many people are neatly singing Guan Guan Ju Dove, in the river island, fair lady, gentleman is good, the lyrics are simple, the tune is high, which is quite beautiful, also contrasts sharply with the dense sound of horses' hooves, which seems very strange and disproportionate.

"Gentlemen!" A veteran from Jizhou suddenly shouted like a pig, "General, it's the gentleman's army in Xuzhou, the gentleman's army that is known as undefeated in a hundred battles and invincible in the world!" I've heard people say that when the gentleman's army goes into battle, it sings about the gentleman's goodness! ”

"Gentlemen's Army?!" Zhang Sheng, who had also heard of the famous name of the Junzi Army, was shocked, and quickly ordered the alarm gong to be sounded, so that the three thousand grain guards army lined up to prepare for the battle, and at the same time, Zhang Sheng was not only nervous, but also a little excited and curious, because although Zhang Sheng from Bingzhou had heard of the notoriety of the Junzi Army, he had never met and fought with the Junzi Army, and he didn't know how the Xuzhou Junzi Army, which had never exceeded two thousand in number, was undefeated in a hundred battles and invincible all over the world?

The gentleman's army came quickly, it was like a disease of the wind, the formation of Zhang Sheng's team had not yet been arranged, and the gentleman's army in white robes had already rushed to the front, still a formation of about 1,500 people, still five loose horizontal formations that made the enemy puzzled by the first encounter, and it was still the gentleman's banner and the deputy flag of benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, faith, gentleness, courtesy, and frugality fluttering in the wind, the only difference was that the pottery character on the flag was replaced with the word "year" - Tao Ji must now stay in Xuchang, and the North China battlefield is the ideal battlefield for the gentleman's army to gallop, Deputy Director Tao replaced the commander of the Junzi Army with Tao Ji's deputy Nian Bin, and brought him to Jizhou together.

"What kind of queue is this? How can such a queue launch a cavalry charge? ”

When General Zhang Sheng was still wondering about the strange formation of the Junzi Army, the Junzi Army had already rushed out of a general, holding the Qinglong Yanyue Knife and roaring loudly, "Guan Yu Guan Yun is always here, who dares to fight me to the death?" ”

"Guan Yu Guan Yunchang?" General Zhang Sheng was a little dumbfounded, and he slapped his horse out of battle in surprise, shouting and asking, "Didn't I hear that Guan Yu died in Yingchuan?" Are you ......? ”

"Zi said: For politics and morality, such as Beichen, live in its place, and all the stars are together!"

Before General Zhang Sheng's words were finished, the long-lost sound of Ziyue Shiyun had already sounded in the ranks of the Junzi Army, and at the same time, three hundred light horsemen of the Junzi Army couldn't wait to rush out of the battle, pulling their bows and arrows together in the high-speed charge, and shooting countless arrows at Zhang Sheng, poor General Zhang Sheng didn't even have time to scream, he had already been shot into honeycomb coal by people and horses, and fell into a pool of blood with a scream.

Immediately afterwards, the light cavalry of the fourth and fifth teams of the gentleman's army stepped forward in turn, and accurately shot the bows and arrows in their hands at the panicked Yuan Tan army's food protection team, and the devastating bows and arrows hit the Yuan Tan army soldiers one after another, and more Yuan Tan soldiers screamed and fell in a pool of blood, and the formation that had not yet been set was also in chaos, and the soldiers and generals rushed to avoid the arrows. Only a handful of soldiers thought of firing back with their arrows, and the arrows they shot were also weak and their heads were ridiculously off.

Seeing that the enemy's counterattack was pitiful, the Junzi Army simply didn't even bother to use the magic weapon of guarding the house, screamed and just continued to release arrows, and forced the Yuan Tan Army grain protection team into a state of rout with feather arrows, and then the light cavalry retreated and the whole team was launched, and the heavy cavalry launched a surprise charge, and the Yuan Tan Army's food protection team was completely destroyed without much effort, and the soldiers and generals threw down the grain cart. Flee for your life. Then the Gentlemen's Army entered the convoy and began to set fire to the grain.

At this time, most of the gentlemen and soldiers from poor families finally did a good deed that was in line with the name of the army, that is, Nian Bin and Gao Zhong and other generals were yellow and thin because they saw the grain people. Almost all of them were hungry. In pity, he asked the people to take as much food as possible from the cart. Take as much as you can, and then set fire to the grain, and the people are grateful. They all volunteered to serve the Junzi Army, Nian Bin and others could not take these people on the road because they had to fight in a mobile manner, so they explained that these people went south of Yecheng to join the Xuzhou army, and carried grain and grass for the main force of the army, and then left the scene with the captured cattle and horses.

This is the Xuzhou army's first shot on the Yuan Tan army's grain road, before Deputy Director Tao deliberately continued Yuan Tan's army grain road, not for anything else, for fear that after the grain road was cut off, Yuan Tan Gongzi ran away with the main force because he had no food to defend, so he deliberately indulged Yuan Tan's army to transport grain to Yecheng to listen to it, and roughly estimated that Yuan Tanjun at least 300,000 Hu grain was transported into Yecheng, Deputy Director Tao immediately ordered the Junzi Army to take the initiative to attack, and began to harass and attack Yuan Tanjun's grain team, poor General Zhang Sheng was born as a thief from Bingzhou, and was only incorporated by Gao Gan a year ago, I have never heard of the proud stunts of the Gentleman's Army, so I became the first victim of the Gentleman's Army after the attack.

Deputy Director Tao began to attack Yuan Tanjun's grain road for several reasons, the first is of course not to let Yuan Tan in Yecheng to have too much grain, the second is that after more than 40 days of confrontation with Yuan Tanjun, the time has entered the first month of the eighth year of Jian'an, and the spring is about to warm up, and the Xuzhou army trapped by the wind and snow is about to usher in a fighter, and Deputy Director Tao naturally does not want Yuan Tan to have too much grain and grass.

The third point is the most critical, Xuzhou Xizuo sent an urgent report from Youzhou, Youzhou general Jiang Qi has sent troops to rescue Yuan Tan, personally led the army of 30,000 south to Yecheng, calculated that the distance has entered Hejian County, at the same time, the Jizhou veteran general Zhao is also in the case of the Xiongnu invasion, gritted his teeth and sent four thousand Karasuma to the south, led by his son Xianjia, through Zhongshan to Yecheng to rescue, Yuan Tan's army of Jiyou and Sanzhou main elite is about to gather in the Yejun battlefield, Deputy Director Tao has to get up and prepare for the battle.

The Junzi Army's grain cut action only achieved this one result, because Yuan Tan Gongzi learned the news of the attack on the Maocheng grain road, in addition to being furious, he listened to Guo Tu's suggestion and decisively suspended the operation of transporting grain from Maocheng and Handan to Yecheng, preparing to wait for the Youzhou reinforcements to arrive, and then the reinforcements to the south, so the Junzi Army, which could not attack the fortifications, did not have a chance to rob the grain after that, and could only return to the Anyang camp to meet with the main force. But fortunately, six days later, on the tenth day of the first month of the eighth year of Jian'an, the wind and snow in the Yecheng area finally stopped, and the long-lost sun appeared over Yecheng, the sky was clear, and the temperature finally began to rise slowly.

Although the snow finally stopped, the Xuzhou army's booking strategy and tactics were also completely disrupted by this cold winter, and the established tactics of imitating Cao Boss to lead Zhangshui to besiege Yecheng could not be implemented, and it was difficult to achieve the strategy of killing Yuan Tan quickly proposed by Yi, and it was also severely damaged by the severe cold that demoralized, and gave Yuan Tan the opportunity and time to mobilize reinforcements to the south. Yuan Tan's army has Yecheng Jiancheng and Zhangshui natural danger, which can be attacked and defended, while the Xuzhou army is backed by Huanshuitun in the field, with a dilemma of attack and defense, and the attack cannot be fully forced, and the defense must be heavily armed, so it is naturally passive.

In view of these circumstances, in addition to lamenting that the sky has no eyes and does not give him luck, Deputy Director Tao also held a military meeting in the big tent of the Chinese army, discussed the next strategy and tactics with the civil and military generals, and brainstormed and discussed strategies to defeat the enemy. And Xuzhou civil and military are also very competitive, scrambling to put forward their own ideas to break the enemy, of course, there are some absurd proposals, but there are also some people's proposals are quite reliable, and the idea of Deputy Director Tao coincides.

The most reliable proposal was put forward by the three generals Chen Zhi, Wei Yan and Xu Huang, suggesting that Deputy Director Tao boldly divide the troops, first divide a partial division to attack Maocheng and Huguan, cut off the direct connection between Yecheng and Bingzhou, and then divide the main force into two. Along the way, he continued to confront the main force of Yuan Tan's army in Yecheng, and went north to attack Handan, and took Handan to meet Yuan Tan's Youzhou reinforcements at ease.

In addition, Nian Bin, who succeeded Tao Ji in charge of the Junzi Army, also made a suggestion, volunteering to lead the Junzi Army to run hundreds of miles to the north of Handan to meet the Karasuma Raiders sent by the Zhao, giving full play to the advantage of the Gentleman's Army's cavalry and shooting, and killing the Karasuma Raiders to take the lead. But this seemingly reliable suggestion was abandoned because of Xun Chen's opposition, because Xun Chen pointed out that there are many river cities in the northeast of Handan. It is not suitable for the battle of the gentleman's army that cannot be attacked. At the same time, it will also give the Karasuma Raider, who has a strong charging ability, a chance to inflict heavy damage on the Junzi Army, so Deputy Director Tao immediately dispelled this tempting idea, and decided to leave the Junzi Army on the Youzhou battlefield for reuse, and let the Junzi Army deal with the foreign cavalry.

The cries of division and attack were shouted. The current strength of the Xuzhou Army is also enough to divide the troops with confidence. Therefore, Deputy Director Tao soon decided to boldly divide the troops. Chen Zhi was sent to lead an army of 15,000 to attack Maocheng and Huguan to cut off the connection between Yecheng and Bingzhou, and then decided that Gao Shun and Xu Huang would lead an army of 50,000 to stay in Yecheng to monitor Yuan Tan. He led 50,000 main forces north to attack Handan, and met the Youzhou reinforcements led by Jiang Qi and Lian Jia with Yi Waiting, determined to break the enemy's main force first, and then consider how to kill Yuan Tan quickly - if Yuan Tan broke through and ran away during this period, Deputy Director Tao could only be helpless, although the current strength of the Xuzhou army was strong, it could not be able to block Yuan Tan's retreat under the condition of facing the main force of Youzhou.

It wasn't until Deputy Director Tao finalized the decision to boldly divide the troops that Jia Lao, who had been thinking about it, finally spoke, and said slowly: "Lord, I don't oppose the division of troops, but I think that our army can now immediately divide troops to take Maocheng Huguan, but before the main force of our army divides the troops, we must do one more thing, first defeat Yuan Tan's army outside the city, weaken the strength of Yuan Tan's army in Yecheng, and force Yuan Tan to retreat into Yecheng on all fronts." ”

"It may not be difficult to defeat Yuan Tan's army outside the city, but what if Yuan Tan abandons Yecheng and flees to Handan because of this?" Deputy Director Tao asked rhetorically.

"Rest assured, my lord, judging from the current situation, even if our army defeats Yuan Tan's camp outside the city, it is impossible for Yuan Tan to give up Yecheng." Jia Lao Poison replied: "Taking advantage of the opportunity of our army being plagued by the wind, snow and severe cold, Yuan Tan transported a large amount of grain and grass from Bingzhou, Zhao State, Julu and other places to hoard in the city, and took the opportunity to strengthen the city defense to a very perfect point, so that our army can hardly succeed in a frontal attack, in this case, even if our army defeats Yuan Tan's camp outside the city, Yuan Tan will definitely be reluctant to give up Yecheng and leave, he will only hold on to the city and wait for the reinforcements from Youzhou to arrive south. ”

"On the contrary, if our army does not defeat Yuan Tan's large camp outside the city, Yuan Tan's army may break through in advance." Jia Lao Poison added: "Because after our army defeated Yuan Tan's Youzhou reinforcements, Yuan Tan's Yecheng army became a complete lone army, in order to keep the hope of a comeback, Yuan Tan must lead the army to break through before the main force of our army returns to the division!" At that time, our army will only have half of the main force in Anyang, and it will not only be difficult to kill Yuan Tan in the battle, but it will even be difficult to severely damage Yuan Tan's breakthrough army. ”

After listening to Jia Lao's reasonable analysis of the poison, Deputy Director Tao quickly made up his mind and said, "Okay, just do it, Uncle will go to you to prepare for the division of troops, and set off tomorrow to take Maocheng." The rest of the generals, go back and inform the officers and men of all battalions of our army, the weather is clear, the weather is starting to get warmer, it's time to let out this evil breath! Tomorrow, send troops north to attack Yuan Tan Pifu's camp outside the city! ”

The generals of Xuzhou, who had long been tormented by the ghost weather, suddenly agreed, and immediately dispersed their tents to inform the soldiers to prepare for war, but that night, there was another thing that made the Xuzhou soldiers angry - Yuan Tanjun actually sent thousands of troops to attack the Xuzhou army camp at night, trying to rob the camp and break the enemy, although the Xuzhou army was heavily guarded with random arrows, but it also made the Xuzhou army feel a little more depressed in the chest, and the top and bottom were angry to the extreme - disturbing the sleep in the cold night is not a good behavior.

The next day, on the eleventh day of the first lunar month, Chen Zhi led the division west into Maocheng, and then Deputy Director Tao personally led 50,000 troops out of the camp, and slaughtered the Yuan Tan army camp outside Yecheng with great momentum.

More than halfway through the hour, the Xuzhou army arrived at the battlefield, the angry deputy director Tao was not in a hurry to line up, shilling Xu Chu led three hundred iron cavalry to attack the enemy formation, Xu Chu did not hesitate to take the order, led three hundred voluntary Xuzhou iron cavalry to launch a assault, directly rushed into the Yuan Tan army's formation in the middle of the road, slashed and killed the Yuan soldiers who fought in the array, rushed and galloped in the thousands of troops and horses, and rushed through the Chinese military formation of the Yuan Tan army's crane wing array, and then turned around and rushed back again, as a result, although less than half of the soldiers of the three hundred iron cavalry were killed back to the formation, But it also greatly shook the hearts of the enemy's army, Yuan Tan Gongzi was even more violent, scolding his subordinates for being incompetent, and the 20,000 troops couldn't kill the enemy's 300 cavalry!

The first to send the dead soldiers to the battle to boost the morale of the army, Deputy Director Tao then let the army also lay down a crane wing array, Yuan Tan sent the new generals Jing Xian and Jing Sheng brothers to fight by Deputy Director Tao, but after the Jing brothers who were personally promoted by Yuan Tan Gongzi came out of the battle, before they could open their mouths to fight, Zhao Yun had already rushed out of the formation, and stabbed Jing Sheng to death with only one shot, and then flashed the big knife that Jing Xian slashed, abandoned the gun and strangled Jing Xian's neck, strangled Jing Xian to the point of foaming at the mouth, and then dragged it up and walked back, Leng is to capture Mr. Jing back to the flag formation of the army. Yuan Jun was frightened when he saw it, and Yuan Tan Gongzi once again scolded the Jing brothers for their incompetence.

After Zhao Yun captured Jing Xian back to the Xuzhou military formation, Deputy Director Tao ordered the soldiers to escort Jing Xian in front of him, pulled out the Yitian Sword, and cut off Jing Xian's head with a sword with his own hand, and then raised the bloody sword, pointed at the enemy battle formation in front of him, and roared wildly: "Beat the drums, general attack!" The three armies marched together, rushed to the enemy formation, captured Yuan Tan, sealed the marquis, and rewarded a thousand gold! ”

Roaring, Deputy Director Tao, who was holding back his anger, grabbed a war horse, and was the first to rush towards Yuan Tanjun's big array in the sound of war drums! Seeing that Deputy Director Tao, who has always been greedy for life and afraid of death, actually made an unprecedented personal pig rush into battle, the Xuzhou army of course roared like thunder, morale was like a rainbow, and the left, middle and right armies launched a charge together, scrambling to kill the enemy, the offensive was like a flood, and the momentum was like a volcano erupting!

Seeing this scene, Yuan Tan Gongzi, who was hiding behind the shield in the array, opened his mouth and muttered after a while: "Could it be that the son of the pottery thief is dead?" Wife stealing? Is the anger so big? ”

It is a service, the captain of the Han Dynasty Tao Ying personally risked the arrows and stones, charged to cover the kill, the soldiers of the imperial court scrambled up and down, the offensive was like a tide, the soldiers used their lives, everyone was brave and unstoppable, the rebel Yuan Tan Congwu was timid and heartbroken, they retreated, the formation was loose, the Tao soldiers fought hard to chase and kill, and the corpses of the Yuan rebel thieves were all over the field, the blood flowed all over the canal, and the ice and snow in the southern suburbs of Yecheng were poured into the blood of the thieves and soldiers. Yuan's rebel thief army was defeated all the way back to the city, and the Tao army entered the camp outside the city of the thief army and destroyed its camp!

In the meantime, Tao Gong stabbed three enemies, and the silver helmet was hit by an arrow, almost penetrating the top! (To be continued......)