The intention of Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang's combined forces to attack Guantao was not to capture the city, but to force Yuan Mai to face the battle.

The two brothers knew that the city of Yecheng was thick and high, and in case Yuan bought the city to fight a protracted war, with the tired army of the two brothers, it would be tantamount to a fool's dream to recapture Yecheng.

In the early morning of this day, the Yuan brothers each sent 8,000 men and horses to feint to attack Guantao, and for a time it rained arrows and rained down in the city, and the sound of killing shook the sky. Taishou Han Fan personally ascended to the top of the city, commanded the army and civilians to fight, and once again sent scouts out of the city to ask for help from Yecheng.

"Lord Taishou, look, the West has come to the rescue!"

As soon as the scouts left the city, the sharp-eyed sentinels on the city wall found that the smoke and dust were billowing from the west, and a team of more than 10,000 people had been killed, waving the banner of the word "Zhao", neatly arrayed, with distinct armor, and lined up in a rectangular shape.

Han Fan was overjoyed, stroked his beard and said with a smile: "It must be Zhao Zilong, the general under the command of Yuan Bingzhou, the reinforcements have arrived, and the siege of Guantao can be solved in a few days!" ”

Hearing that the reinforcements from Bingzhou came to Guantao, Yuan Tan sent Wang Zhao to lead 10,000 people, and Yuan Shang sent Zhu Bao to lead 10,000 people to jointly meet the battle.

Wang Zhao and Zhu Bao received the military order, led the army to the west to meet the battle, and when they were separated from the Bingzhou army by 100 zhang, they shot at the position and confronted each other from afar.

Wang Zhao held a big axe in his hand and led the way out to call out: "I am Wang Zhao, the general under Yuan Qingzhou, who dares to come out and fight with me?" If you don't dare, put down your weapons and surrender as soon as possible, Rao Er will not die. Only kill the child Yuan buy one person! ”

Zhao Yun didn't say anything, and slapped his horse and danced his gun to face the battle.

There were five or six rounds of battle, and Zhao Yun sold a flaw. A shot stabbed Wang Zhao under the horse and killed him instantly.

Zhu Bao didn't think Zhao Yun was powerful, but thought that Wang Zhao was too rubbish. Wielding the machete in his hand, he came out of the battle: "The enemy general is going to be rampant, know Linzi Zhu Baohu?" ”

"I don't care who you are, come and kill one by one, come and kill a pair, and you can kill with your neck!"

Zhao Yun smiled contemptuously, urged the horse forward, and waved the silver spear in his hand to fight with Zhu Bao.

Although this Zhu Bao's tone is big, his ability is even more sparse than Wang Zhao. There is no triad. was captured by Zhao Yun lightly. Turning the horse back to the battle, he threw Zhu Bao under the horse, and ordered the entourage to be tied, "Tie it up for me and hand it over to the lord to dispose of!" ”

The two masters will be killed and captured. Eryuan's coalition forces were suddenly in chaos. Zhao Yun made a move with a spear. 10,000 state troops covered up the past all over the mountains. Only the Jizhou soldiers and Qingzhou soldiers lost their armor and abandoned their armor, and there were countless casualties. The 20,000-strong contingent lost nearly a third.

Hearing that Wang Zhao was the head and Zhu Bao was captured, the two Yuan brothers were shocked. Only then did he know that Yuan Mai's subordinate Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon should not be underestimated. Hurriedly ordered the elite soldiers to meet the defeated soldiers. The two sides fought a scuffle, and each of them withdrew their troops.

Seeing that the morale of the Bingzhou army was strong, Zhao Yun's forward troops alone were difficult to stop, and Xiao Ji and Guo Tu suggested together that they should choose open terrain for twenty miles and then compete with Yuan Mai. Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang followed, and ordered the camp to retreat, and the siege of Guantao was relieved.

The next day, Yuan Mai led 40,000 troops to the city, and Taishou Han Fan and Zhao Yun came to pay homage together.

"Zilong slashed the enemy generals and shocked the two Yuan coalition forces; Han Tai defends the city and defends the territory, which is a great achievement, and there is a reward! ”

Yuan Mai sat firmly in the tent of the commander of the army, and ordered Zhao Yun and Han Fan to be rewarded left and right. He also ordered the knife and axe man to cut off Zhu Bao and borrow his head to sacrifice the flag. Also known as Sima Yixiu, he sent someone to the Eryuan camp twenty miles away, and asked them to fight at noon tomorrow.

The generals under the second Yuan are all some unpopular characters, Yuan Mai was afraid that Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang would not dare to fight, so they hid in the deep ditch and high fortress in the city, and forcibly attacked the city with huge casualties. If you really pull into the wilderness for a decisive battle, you can definitely gain a crushing advantage with the ability of your own soldiers.

Two hours later, the messenger came to report: "Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang have received the battle letter, and they will meet tomorrow in Wupo to fight the winner!" ”

Yuan Mai stretched out his hand and stroked his sparse beard, and said to the generals: "Since Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang have received the battle letter, the generals have a good life tonight, and they have cultivated enough spirit to kill the two Yuan coalition troops tomorrow without leaving a piece of armor, raise the prestige of our army, and establish the hegemonic advantage of our Hezhou army in Hebei." ”

Led by Zhao Yun and Zhang He, the martial arts will hug their wrists together and lead the order: "Obey the orders of the lord, recuperate tonight, and kill Ji and the Youth Alliance Army tomorrow!" ”

After the generals retreated, Sima Yi asked to see him, and after entering the tent, he went straight to the point: "Soldiers are impermanent, and water is impermanent." Eryuan happily received the battle letter, but he was afraid that there was fraud in this, and he should beware of the coalition army robbing the camp tonight. ”

How much ability Sima Yi has, Yuan Mai knows better than anyone else, this is one of the best in the entire Three Kingdoms era, and in terms of military ability, there are very few who can surpass Sima Yi. It is rare for Sima Yi to take the initiative to offer advice, and Yuan Mai must certainly pay attention to it.

"Well, what Zhong Da said is reasonable, although Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang are both unplanned, but Xiao Ji and Guo Tu still have some strategies, our army has traveled two hundred miles from Yecheng, and the coalition army will inevitably bully me into being tired. Akari promised a decisive battle, and it is very likely that he will come to rob the camp tonight! Yuan Mai stroked his beard and praised, and said: "It's rare that Zhongda is so attentive, if you say it tonight, you will definitely be promoted to join the army tomorrow." ”

Sima Yi thanked him: "Thank you for your love, and I am willing to serve the dogs and horses." Yi is willing to make a military order, the coalition army will come to rob the camp tonight, if the three armies are in vain, they are willing to be dealt with by military law! ”

"Oh...... Are you really that sure? ”

knew that Sima Yi had the ability, but Yuan Mai didn't expect this guy to be so confident. What is the difference between you patting your chest and packing tickets like this? Can you guarantee that the coalition forces will actually come to rob the camp?

"Interesting!" Yuan Mai high-fived and applauded, "It's rare that Zhongda is so confident, since you dare to make a military order, I dare to promise you that if the coalition forces attack tonight, I will promote you to the main body." ”|

Joining the army is equivalent to a staff officer in the army in later generations, and a general has more staff officers around him. Just like the miscellaneous strategists such as Pu Yangxing, Chen Zhen, and Ling Hu Shao, who followed Yuan Mai this time, all have positions in the army, and they have no real power except for providing reference advice. And the main book is different, similar to the later secretary general of the government, the position is a lot higher than that of joining the army, not to mention, he also has real power in his hands.

Sima Yi pretended to be sick for two years, in order to be able to find a powerful monarch and seek a chance to soar, he didn't want to be juxtaposed with these mediocre people, so he decided to gamble once. If you win, you will be a blockbuster, and if you lose, you just run away......

The reason why Sima Yi dared to gamble on the boat was that he had already calculated the way back. If the coalition army doesn't come to rob the camp tonight, he will quietly run away, anyway, Yuan Mai doesn't reuse himself, rather than doing nothing to join the army, it is better to gamble on everything.

As for after he ran away, will Yuan Mai take his family for blame? Sima Yi wasn't worried at all.

First, his brother Sima Lang and brother Sima Fu have performed well in the past two years, one served as Pingyang Juncheng and the other as a county magistrate. Even if he committed a crime, Yuan Mai might not be able to raise the teacher and move the public to ask the entire Sima family for the crime.

Second, Yuan Mai is now competing with Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang for Yuan Shao's inheritance, and he needs to buy the hearts of the people, so he must put on the appearance of a benevolent and righteous monarch. Under this premise, even if he ran away, he might not be guilty of Sima Jiaxingshi, because the gains outweighed the losses.

It is precisely because of the above considerations that Sima Yi has the audacity to propose a military order, and to join the army with a fart in exchange for a chance to get ahead, no matter how you think about it, it is cost-effective!

"Yi is willing to make a military order, if the coalition forces do not come to rob the camp, they are willing to be dealt with by military law." Sima Yi bowed his hand, asked Yuan Mai to give his pen and ink, and made a military order on the spot.

In fact, Yuan Mai also has his own calculations, and he still values Sima Yi very much in his heart. deliberately snubbed him before, firstly, to annoy him for pretending to be sick for two years, and secondly, to kill his sharp spirit, so that he knew that the young and state pastor was definitely not easy to mess with.

But in Yuan Mai's heart, he was afraid that Sima Yi would sneak away because of his neglect, just like Han Xin was not reused under the overlord of Chu hundreds of years ago and switched to Liu Bang. Xiang Yu is a martial artist, and it is understandable that he doesn't know talents, as a traverser, if he makes such a mistake, it will definitely be unforgivable!

The heroes who can really use people should understand the principle of combining rigidity and softness, and should be able to slap a sweet date to eat. I had already slapped Sima Yi before, and now it was time to take out a sweet date to coax Sima Yi.

Therefore, in the past few days, Yuan Mai has been pondering looking for an opportunity to promote Sima Yi's official position, since Sima Yi is going to make a military order on a whim today, Yuan Mai decided to fulfill him.

"Come on, go and recruit Xu Yuanzhi, Ling Hu Shao, Chen Zhen, Pu Yangxing and others, I want them to witness the matter of Sima Zhongda's military order."

Yuan Mai ordered the heralds to summon all the civilian officials, so that they could see with their own eyes Sima Yi's feat of making a military order, so that when he promoted Sima Yi in the future, these people would have nothing to say. After all, if you talk about seniority and mention the young Sima Yi to these old qualifications, everyone will have emotions. After the military order is made, these people have nothing to say, if you have the courage you can do the same, if you don't have the courage to honestly shut up.

Hearing that the newcomer Sima Yi was going to make a military order, he bet that the coalition army would come to rob the camp tonight, and all the civil officials came with laughter. One by one, I said in my heart that you are joining the army and want to put forward the advice of the staff officer, although it is just said, it is not a big deal whether it is right or wrong, after all, joining the army is to make suggestions, and no one can guarantee that it will be accurate, but you want to make a military order, which is asking for trouble.

In fact, in Xu Shu's eyes, he didn't pay much attention to Sima Yi, thinking that he was just a scholar who was arrogant and arrogant, but he didn't expect him to dare to play like this, so he couldn't help but be impressed, and admonished: "Zhongda, it's possible for the coalition army to come to rob the camp tonight, but who dares to guarantee that they will come?" It is necessary to be careful, I don't need to make a military order, there is no joke in the army! ”

Sima Yi thanked him: "Thank you Lord Yuanzhi for your kindness, but Yi dares to guarantee that the coalition army will come to rob the camp tonight, if it is not allowed, I am willing to lead the army to deal with it!" ”

After Sima Yi finished speaking, he lifted his pen and ink, and Long Fei and Feng Wu made a military order. Yuan Mai immediately summoned the generals and made arrangements to beware of the second Yuan robbing the camp late at night.

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