Yuan Peng, the word Gongxi, is a member of the Yuan clan of Chen County.

At first, when he heard that this person's surname was Yuan, Zhang Huang unconsciously felt a little disgusted, after all, he had a grudge with Yuan Shu when he was in Luoyang, and the latter was plotting to arrest him and put him in prison.

However, after Dong Zhuo's introduction, Zhang Huang was surprised to find that although Yuan Peng had the same surname as Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, they were not related.

It may be that the Chenjun Yuan clan and the Runan Yuan clan belonged to the same branch hundreds of thousands of years ago, but they have multiplied to the present day, and there is not much relationship between the two Yuan families.

Don't think that Chenjun Yuan is not as good as Runan Yuan, after all, the latter is known as the "Four Doors and Three Princes" in the Eastern Han Dynasty, since Yuan An served as Situ, his son Yuan Chang served as Situ, grandson Yuan Tang served as Taiwei, great-grandson Yuan Feng served as Sikong, Yuan Kui as Taifu, and there were five "Three Princes" between the four generations of great-grandchildren, and the name was the same, and only Huayin Yang could be compared with it in the world. (Huayin Yang is Yang Ci, Yang Biao, Yang Xiu's branch, since the Western Han Dynasty Prime Minister Yang Changqi, his son Yang Bing, Sun Yang Ci, and great-grandson Yang Biao are all official captains, so they are also named "Four Doors and Three Princes" with the Yuan family of Runan.) It's a pity that Yang Xiu was cut down by Cao Cao. ）

In all fairness, the Runan Yuan family was indeed famous in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and its protégés were all over the world. But compared with the Chen Jun Yuan clan, the Runan Yuan clan, which has entered the extinction of Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu's generation, is not enough.

The prosperity of the Chenjun Yuan clan began as early as the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, and the legend of the Chenjun Yuan clan was started by Yuan Peng, who is now the ruling Jinwu in front of Zhang Huang.

Unlike the ambitious Runan Yuan, Chenjun Yuan's has always been "vegan and has few desires, and never speaks of people's shortcomings." The prosperity of the favor of power, or the same and different cause trouble, and the neutrality of the emperor is unified, so the love and hate are not as good as the "famous", Yuan Peng and his descendants advocate pure emptiness, and rarely conflict with other major clans in terms of political interests. Nor does it accumulate wealth economically. Therefore, from the beginning of Yuan Pang's appointment as Situ until the Tang Dynasty, thirteen generations of descendants have held important positions and have been active in the political arena for nearly 600 years.

Exactly 600 years!!

How many years has the Han Dynasty been inherited?!

Compared with such a profound Chen Jun Yuan clan, the Runan Yuan clan is just an upstart, and the interval between five generations is only more than a hundred years before it dies out, look at the Chen Jun Yuan clan, six hundred years!

I have to say that the reason why the Yuan clan of Chenjun has been able to prosper and reproduce for 600 years. It is inseparable from their family motto of always maintaining a pure heart and few desires and strict requirements for heirs.

And now, Zhang Huang is facing such a legendary big man, but unfortunately he doesn't know the details of Yuan Peng, otherwise I am afraid that most of them will be stunned.

Although he is a legendary big man, today's Yuan Peng is only forty years, not to mention creating a family business that has lasted for six hundred years, and he has not yet reached the peak of his career.

"There are Lao Shangguan and all the gentlemen who are far away, and they dare not be ashamed."

I remember that when Zhang Wen led Dong Zhuo, Sun Jian and others to greet Yuan Peng at Yuanmen, Yuan Peng, who came in the dust, saw this scene from afar. did not drive a horse to Yuanmen, but dismounted a hundred steps away, and then led the horse slowly to Zhang Wen and others, and apologized.

There's no denying it. Yuan Peng, who had just been promoted to Jinwu, was currently inferior to Zhang Wen in terms of reputation and status in the court, and his official position was not as high as Zhang Wen's Sili Lieutenant. But the key is that this time Yuan Peng came to bear the sustenance of the imperial court. The imperial court hoped that he, as an invisible "prison army", would assist and urge Zhang Wen to use troops against Han Sui to win the rebellion as soon as possible.

Zhang Wen has been in the court for so many years. How could it not be clear about this? Therefore, although Yuan Peng was inferior to him in terms of official rank, he still led Dong Zhuo, Sun Jian and others to Yuanmen to wait and greet him. After all, in this era, the power of the prison army will definitely not be less than that of the coach in a sense.

However, to Zhang Wen's surprise, Yuan Peng, who has never been very gregarious, behaved very humbly and politely, which made him feel good.

"Where, where. …… This time, Zhang felt ashamed to be troubled by the Qing Party like Lord Yuan. ”

Zhang Wen said good things about Yuan Peng vigorously.

But speaking of which, although Yuan Peng is pure-hearted and honest, he seems to be a model of "Qingliu" party members, but in fact, Yuan Peng has never expressed his attitude towards this.

Although Yuan Peng is a civil official, he is not close to the civil official circle, let alone following the trend of this era and going into the "Qing Party" with one mind, just to mix up the reputation of "Qing Liu". In addition, he did not have anything to do with eunuchs, relatives and the military, except for going to the court and handling official business, he almost only studied at home behind closed doors. He and Zhang Wen, who are scheming and want to be left and right, are definitely not the same kind of people.

It is precisely because of this that Zhang Wen hopes to have a relationship with Yuan Peng, because if it weren't for this time, he would not have had a chance to have a relationship with Yuan Fanla.

Of course, it is precisely because Yuan Peng has no ambition, keeps to himself, dedicates himself to public service, and does not conflict with any interest group in Beijing, so Liu Hong, the son of heaven, will trust him. And Yang Ci, the old lady who is currently in charge of the civil official circle in the imperial court, will be promoted and reused because of his appreciation.

After a few words of greeting, Zhang Wen invited Yuan Peng into the tent. He had already ordered a sumptuous meal to be prepared.

This reception banquet refers to when Zhang Wen received the wind for Dong Zhuo a few days ago, there were only two fewer people sitting next to him, that is, Huangfu Song and Zhou Shen.

Huangfu Song is still in the Wangzun Cemetery to protect himself, and it seems that he plans to come forward again; As for Zhou Shen, although he used the excuse that his injury had recurred, no one could guess that he couldn't hide because of embarrassment and shame. After all, Yuan Peng came this time, and it replaced him as the deputy marshal.

This means that, as Huangfu Song and Dong Zhuo expected, Zhou Shen, the general of Dangkou, is bound to take full responsibility for the defeat in the battle in recent days. Who told him not to listen to Huangfu Song's advice and attack rashly?

It is not surprising that Zhou Shen, the general of Dangkou, was dismissed from the post of deputy marshal. What is surprising is that the Son of Heaven and the imperial court did not punish him in a follow-up. You must know that Zhou Shen's greed for merit directly led to the death of more than 30,000 Han soldiers, if there is no accident, this is definitely a felony of killing the head.

Zhang Wen also felt a little puzzled about this, and couldn't help but ask Yuan Peng sideways, after all, he didn't think that Zhou Shen had the ability to influence the imperial court.

"The general pleaded with His Majesty, and His Majesty remembered General Zhou's hard work over the years, and he atonemented for his sins!" Yuan explained nonchalantly.

When everyone in the tent heard this, they suddenly realized that it was the general He Jin who personally pleaded with Liu Hong, the son of heaven. No wonder Zhou Shen was just dismissed from the position of deputy marshal, and there was no other.

For this privilege, Dong Zhuo and Sun Jian both pursed their lips after hearing this, a little disdainful, after all, in their opinion, Zhou Shen would not escape the blame even if he died.

After eating, Yuan Peng begged Zhang Wen to discuss with him alone in the Shuai tent, although he didn't know what they said, but when they convened the generals again, Zhang Wen publicly announced that he had vetoed the grand strategy of "taking the initiative" proposed by Zhou Shen, the former general of Dangkou.

Because he was summoning important generals in the camp, Zhou Shen had to bring "injuries" even if he was reluctant. Zhang Huang noted. When Zhou Shen heard Zhang Wen veto the previous grand strategy, the face of the general turned red.

After that, Yuan Peng suggested to Zhang Wen to invite Huangfu Song, who was in the Wangzun Cemetery, after all, Huangfu Song's ability Yuan Peng was also clear, to defeat Han Sui and drive away the Qiang soldiers, it was indispensable to need the support of this famous general in the court.

Huangfu Song gave Yuan Peng, a courtier who was not in the "Qing Party" but was better than the "Qing Party", and led his nephew Huang Fu Li to hurry over as soon as he summoned him.

I think that after solving Zhou Shen's trouble, Huangfu Song is also very concerned about the current war situation. After all, the Huangfu family has been loyal to Yan Liu Han for generations, and his loyalty to Liu Hong can definitely be guaranteed.

Huangfu Song arrived at noon, and after he arrived, Zhang Wen immediately convened a military meeting.

This meeting was not so much a discussion session. It was more like Huangfu Song explaining to everyone the tactics he had drawn up earlier.

The first is the grand strategic principle of "defense and counterattack." With Zhou Shen's previous defeat as a lesson from the past, even if Zhang Wen desperately wanted to end the rebellion as soon as possible, at this moment, he had already realized that the current strength of the official army was indeed not enough to resist Han Sui's army.

What's more, Zhang Wen, who previously blindly believed that the official army would win. On the other hand, he began to feel that the strength of the official army was not as good as Han Sui, and even if it was a defensive counterattack, I am afraid it would be difficult to be effective.

However, Huangfu Song didn't worry too much about this. To put it mildly, he recounted his opinion: "At present, the enemy is strong, and our army cannot take it, so we should carry out a 'proud war'!" ”

Dong Zhuo and Sun Jian are both brave generals who are good at leading troops, where would they not understand the truth; And Zhang Huang, out of knowledge, can also understand Huangfu Song's intentions. The three of them secretly bowed their heads when they heard this.

However, Zhang Wen had doubts on his face and asked, "Could it be that there are clouds in the military book and a plan to be arrogant?" ”

"Yes!" Huangfu Song nodded, and then said: "In this period, the Qiang soldiers are strong and our army is weak, and it is not advisable to attack and defend strongly. It is reasonable to show the enemy weakness and pride in his ambition, and wait for him to take advantage of the provocation and break it in one fell swoop. ”

"Contemptible people have heard of Han Sui and Bian Zhang, but they don't look like people who know how to scheming." Yuan Peng said on the side. His tone was very calm, but his attitude was very firm, it was obvious that the new deputy marshal must have done his homework before taking office, and thoroughly investigated the background of Han Sui and Bian Zhang.

Huangfu Song looked at Yuan Peng a few times quietly, and suddenly smiled faintly: "Although he has a clear heart, what can he do with his Qiang soldiers?" ”

As soon as these words came out, even Dong Zhuo, Sun Jian, Zhang Huang and others, who were also puzzled by Huangfu Song's words before, suddenly realized.

Not really!

Even if Han Sui can see through the arrogant soldiers' plans? As long as he can get the rough and impulsive Qiang and Hu soldiers under his command, what can Han Sui do?

"That makes sense!" Yuan Peng nodded convincingly, and then frowned and said: "But in this way, Han Sui and Bian Zhang will definitely be able to see through that our army still has a plan and act more carefully, so what can I do?" ”

"Then you might as well count it." Huangfu Song smiled when he heard this: "Today, the enemy's strength is more than our army, if you simply show weakness to be arrogant, or you will make Qianghu treat my beauty as nothing." Therefore, our army might as well set up more flags, multiply the stoves, and pretend that the imperial court has another 100,000 reinforcements. …… If this matter spreads, Han Sui and Bian Zhang will definitely be cautious and dare not move. ”

"A plan to increase the stove?" Yuan Peng was slightly stunned, and a little shock flashed in his eyes after thinking about it carefully.

Dong Zhuo and Sun Jian also looked at Huangfu Song with a complex gaze of admiration, while Zhang Huang was even more dumbfounded.

Good...... What a powerful Huangfu Song!!

Huangfu Song's imagination was shocked.

Pretending that the imperial court has reinforcements coming, it is undeniable that those Qiang and Hu soldiers on the other side will definitely take precautions after hearing about this incident, but the key point is that what if Meiyang County continues to defend itself?

Obviously, those Qiang and Hu soldiers will feel that even if you Han people increase by 100,000 people, they are so timid and unable to avoid war, and the pride and disdain in their hearts can be imagined at that time.

And for Han Sui and Bian Zhang. The two of them were originally thoughtful and cautious people, so they would definitely be more cautious after getting this fake news and would not dare to attack Meiyang easily.

In this way, the attitude of Han Sui, Bian Zhang and their Qiang Hu soldiers towards the Meiyang Han army will become clear, the former will become more suspicious and dare not act rashly, while the latter will regard Meiyang as nothing.

In this way, it eliminated the possibility that Han Sui and Bian Zhang would use the Qiang soldiers with greatly increased morale to conquer Meiyang after they realized the arrogant plan.

"Good plan! Sure enough, it's a good plan! Yuan Peng nodded with emotion and said: "This clever plan alone can make Han Sui wrap up for half a month!" He said. He turned his head to look at Huangfu Song, and guessed thoughtfully: "What does General Huangfu mean that half a month can turn the tide of the battle?" ”

"It's estimated that it's a month." Huangfu Song smiled and corrected a sentence, and then slowly explained: "The soldiers think about war, but the generals don't allow it, and the soldiers will be tired in the long run." If you are tired, your morale will not exist, if your morale is not there, you will be uneasy, if you are uneasy, you will be homesick, and if you are homesick, you will want to return...... At that time, our army attacked. Wouldn't it be a complete victory. ”

Listening to Huang Fu Song's coherent analysis, Dong Zhuo and Sun Jian sighed secretly, thinking that most of them thought that it was difficult to surpass Huang Fu Song in terms of knowing and using soldiers.

After the tiger general, it is worthy of being the tiger general!

And Zhang Huang also had a kind of helplessness in his eyes when he looked at Huangfu Song. He realized once again that the defeat of the Yellow Turban Army at the hands of this man was really not wronged.

Everyone deliberated and decided to act according to Huangfu Song's plan: from now on. The county seat and the imperial tomb were tightly closed, and the soldiers were ordered to defend it and refuse to fight.

The "passive" response of the Meiyang Han Army. At first, it didn't attract Han Sui's attention, because in his opinion, this was normal, who called the previous Dangkou general Zhou Shen a big defeat, which made the Meiyang Han army lose morale?

So, Han Sui ordered the whole army to advance, and ordered the soldiers of the Qiang and Hu tribes under his command to capture Youfufeng, and to his surprise, but it was reasonable that the Han army in Meiyang could not hold out.

To be fair, this is not good news for Han Sui. Unless he sees that it is good, he will accept it, cancel his plan to attack Luoyang, and stay on the right to consolidate his power. Otherwise, when he ignores the existence of Meiyang County and continues to attack and fight Luoyang in the east, Meiyang County will become a nail pierced in his heart.

And what is not so good is that this time Han Sui raised troops under the banner of righteousness of "Qing Jun's side", if he saw it at this time, he would accept it, regardless of His Majesty the Emperor who was still instigated by traitors and evil eunuchs, wouldn't it be infamous for recruiting rebellious ministers and thieves?

"Meiyang must be conquered!" Han Sui secretly made up his mind.

But the problem is that today's Meiyang County is like a turtle shell, although Han Sui has enough soldiers and horses, it is really not easy to attack the city.

Therefore, Han Sui had a plan to lure out the defenders in the city by trickery: he called a hundred or so Qiang barbarians, told them to get half drunk, and scolded and fought outside Meiyang City.

During this period, Han Sui taught various humiliating methods that were disgraceful to the warriors and soldiers, such as stripping and insulting, urinating in the direction of the city wall, and so on.

The purpose was to arouse the anger of the soldiers in the city and instigate the generals to lead the troops out of the city to fight angrily. For this reason, he had already laid an ambush for a bearded sword cavalry three or five miles away, and only waited for the opportunity to enter the city when the city was in a scuffle.

However, to Han Sui's astonishment, there were no generals in Meiyang City who fought angrily and privately from beginning to end, and even though the city wall was full of Han soldiers, no one made a sound, as if the people of their city were afraid of the hundreds of Qiang soldiers outside the city.

"Han people! Rat! ”

The hundreds of Qiang soldiers who were drunk and sprinkled outside the city poured a soak of urine in the direction of the city wall, and when they saw that the city still did not react at all, they simply lay on the ground and fell asleep. But even so, there was not the slightest movement in the city.

"The state of cowardice!"

Those Huang Zhongyi, who were watching this scene from a distance beside Han Sui, shook their heads and commented with disdain. However, their boss, the man named Han Sui, was shocked and broke out in a cold sweat on his back.

"I wonder who is in charge here?" Han Sui looked in the direction of Meiyang City in disbelief and muttered to himself.

Indeed, he was taken aback, not because of that arrogant strategy, after all, even if this strategy is clever, it can't hide from a Confucian general like Han Sui who has read a lot of military books.

What he was horrified of was that none of the many Han generals and Han soldiers in Meiyang City responded to the humiliation of the hundreds of Qiang soldiers.

Han Sui could imagine that those Han generals and Han soldiers were turned red by the humiliation of the hundreds of Qiang soldiers under the city. Clenched teeth, spitting fire in his eyes, his hands unconsciously clenched his weapons, and even trembling all over.

However, not a single one responded!

"Misstep! Give a 'boost' for free! ”

Han Sui sighed in annoyance, only feeling bored in his heart.

His original intention was to provoke the defenders in the city to fight, however, the chief in the city was even more clever, and the ban not only fueled the arrogance of the Qiang soldiers outside the city, but also greatly boosted the morale of the Han army in the city.

If the two armies really fight at this time, in the case of similar troops. I'm afraid that the Qiang soldiers may not be able to defeat the Han army in the city. To exaggerate, those soldiers in Meiyang City who have been suffocating their stomachs can almost bite those Qiang soldiers to death.

After thinking about it, Han Sui decided to retreat temporarily, after all, relying on the morale of the Han army in Meiyang City at present, if he forcibly attacked the city, the Qiang soldiers under his command would definitely suffer heavy losses, there is no doubt about it.

"It's a bad move!"

With a sigh, Han Sui returned to his station.

After waiting like this for five or six days, Han Sui felt that the morale of the Han army in Meiyang City should almost return to the previous low level. So he came with a large army of men and horses to attack the city.

While the army was resting, he had already begun to build siege engines. Moreover, this time, Han Sui didn't plan to use the trick of luring the enemy with the yin damage last time.

He could see that the defenders of Meiyang County would not attack if they were alive or dead. No matter what they scold; On the other hand, if a bad one scolds too harshly, it may also arouse the anger of the Han army in Meiyang County, which is not worth it.

And just when Han Sui was about to arrive at Meiyang County. He suddenly received a report that a group of soldiers and horses were coming from the southeast side under the banner of the word "Han."

"Reinforcements?" A thought flashed through Han Sui's heart. Immediately ordered the whole army to stand by: "Probe again!" ”

The scouts received orders to go to the survey, and it didn't take long for someone to come back and report that a force of tens of thousands of soldiers and horses had entered Meiyang County.

Han Sui chuckled in his heart, to be honest, he didn't care too much about the current Meiyang County, after all, the latter was far inferior to the Qiang and Hu armies under his command in terms of strength and morale, but if the imperial court sent an additional reinforcement of tens of thousands of people at this time, the situation would be different.

First of all, the strength of the two armies will be leveled, and secondly, the low morale of the Han army in Meiyang will also increase with the arrival of reinforcements, which is quite unfavorable for Han Sui, who is preparing to attack the city.

“…… Withdraw the troops first. ”

The cautious Han Sui finally chose to withdraw his troops.

In the next three days, what he was worried about happened one after another: on the third and fifth days of the connection, troops came from the southeast side one after another and entered Meiyang County. Thousands of men, tens of thousands, cavalry, foot soldiers, archers.

"Where did Han Ting transfer reinforcements from?"

The more Han Sui thought about it, the more he wondered, because he had heard that the Han court had consumed immeasurable manpower and material resources when dealing with the "Yellow Peril", and even several well-known local garrison armies were directly exaggerated to the point that even the establishment was abolished. Therefore, it is difficult to imagine that the Han court could still draw so many reinforcements.

After thinking about it, he couldn't figure it out, so Han Sui simply stopped guessing. Anyway, in his opinion, although the Han Dynasty sent additional reinforcements to Meiyang County, although it would be disadvantageous to him, it was not without the slightest advantage.

To put it bluntly, you have added so many reinforcements in Meiyang County, you are always embarrassed to shrink into the city as a turtle, right? But as long as you go out of the city, I, Han Sui, will have a way to cure you!"

Han Sui, who held the sharp weapon of Hu Dao Rong and rode it, would definitely not be afraid to fight a field war with the Han army. As long as the Meiyang Han army dares to go out of the city, whether it is a defender or a reinforcement, Han Sui is fully sure that he will completely annihilate the other party like he did against the previous Dangkou general Zhou Shen.

However, what made Han Sui so depressed that he almost vomited blood was that he waited for five days, but Meiyang County did not move at all, let alone take the initiative to seize the key terrain with him, Han Sui suspected that the latter had never opened the city gate at all except to welcome reinforcements.

"Tens of thousands of reinforcements or turtles?"

Han Sui was stunned and couldn't add more. He wanted to test it, but he was afraid that it was a trick of the Han army, after all, when Meiyang County added tens of thousands of new reinforcements, the strength and morale could almost be equal to the Qiang soldiers, and it was not wise to forcibly attack the city under this situation.

The development of the situation was just as Huang Fu Song had predicted, and the soldiers of the Qiang and Hu tribes on Han Sui's side, led by Huang Zhongyicong, did not dare to go to war after learning that Meiyang County had received reinforcements, and they became more and more arrogant, and they gradually could not understand the refusal of the commander Han Sui to forcibly attack Meiyang County.

For more than 20 days, the Qiang generals and Qiang soldiers who were full of self-confidence at first blocked Han Sui almost every day, prompting him to order the whole army to attack Meiyang, but Han Sui did not agree because he was suspicious. As the so-called one blow, then decline, and three exhaustions, after several consecutive invitations were rejected, those Qiang generals and Qiang soldiers don't matter.

Burnout, a "I don't know what to do" wind swept through the entire Qiang camp. Immediately afterwards, this atmosphere of daily idleness had a direct impact on the morale of the whole army. After that, countless Qiang soldiers began to think crankily when they were idle: "Since you don't attack Meiyang, it's better to go home." ”

The wind of homesickness affected the entire Qiang camp in just a few days, and the vast majority of Qiang soldiers began to miss their families in Wuwei, Jincheng and even the outer regions when they had nothing to do.

In the end, even Huang Zhongyi suggested to Han Sui: Anyway, this expedition army captured Wuwei, Jincheng, Hanyang, Longxi, Youfufeng and many other territories, which is enough, so it is better to return triumphantly.

Han Sui, who had not yet realized the seriousness of the problem, was shocked when he heard this, and he hurriedly called someone to inspect the whole camp.

Only then did he learn that the homesickness of the soldiers in the Qiang camp had become difficult to contain.

At this time, several scouts also reported to Han Sui a news that made him stunned: the Han army in Meiyang City had never added a single soldier, they had only slipped out of the city in the middle of the night, and then returned to the city during the day. The so-called reinforcements are nothing!

"Fuck it!!"

Han Sui only felt that there was darkness in front of him. (To be continued......)