In March, the sun is warm, but the wind is still cool, and what is cooler than the wind is the atmosphere at the moment.

Qin Feng's martial arts are not too high, but he is also a veteran of a hundred battles killed in the pile of dead, under the anger, the murderous aura is almost as good as the substance, not to mention ordinary civilians, even if they are recruits with a certain amount of training, they will inevitably be scared and tremble.

However, the old Hebei farmer he was facing did not tremble, he raised his cloudy eyes and opened behind Qin Feng, who was gathering together with his brother's mount, emitting a bright white light in the sunlight. He tugged at his lips, and a sad smile appeared on his furrowed face, and his voice was dry, as if it would break at any moment.

"General White Horse is famous, how dare the old man slander his old man? What's more, he came late, and there is nothing left to contribute to the place, since the little general asked, for the sake of the ten catties of rice, the old man must answer clearly. ”

Even the murderous aura of a veteran of a hundred battles can't be frightened, either it means that this old man's courage is outstanding, or his heart is dead, and there is nothing to fear. Wang Yu didn't believe that a farmer Li Shiyi found casually was a master hidden among the people, and the answer was self-evident.

Qin Feng's face was red and white for a while, and it took a while before he let go of the handle of the knife, sighed, turned around and walked away.

Wang Yu wanted to comfort, but he couldn't say anything, so he could only wave his hand and signal to Li Shiyi: "Eleven, send the old man back." ”

“…… Promise. Li Shiyi hesitated for a moment, then lifted the rice bag and helped the old man who was grateful for his kindness.

Tai Shici watched from the sidelines for a long time, saw a little way, and came up and asked, "Lord, aren't you leaving today?" ”

"Well, camp first." Wang Yu nodded, frowned and said: "I seemed to think a little too simple before, I knew that I should have gone to the plains first, and asked the French brother in person, but now, it is a little tricky." ”

"Trouble?" Tai Shi Ci's eyes widened, he saw that Wang Yu was interested in pausing the army, but he didn't see the existence of a threat.

Wang Yu looked left and right, and said in a low voice: "Brother Bo Jue fell for Yuan Shao's plan to lure the snake out of the hole, and now he is not only short of food, but also unstable in his foothold. ”

“…… How so? Tai Shici was greatly surprised, and couldn't help but snort in his mouth.

"Brother Bo Jue and Youzhou Mu Liu Yu have always looked at each other unpleasantly, and he only has a county under his jurisdiction, and it is only a garrison. Yuan Shao saw through this section and gave Bohai County to Brother Bo Jue, as a bait, Brother Bo Jue was not afraid of deception, and led the army to the south, but the two counties of Bohai and Leling were like this, this is not the bottom of the kettle? ”

Seeing Zhu Zhechi, who has been mixed with Jia Xu for so long, Wang Yu has made great progress in distinguishing conspiracies. It may be a little reluctant to let him set up a conspiracy, but it is easy to analyze and identify through intelligence.

"If a certain guess is right, the last time the French brother hurriedly said goodbye, it should not only be because of the changes in Yuzhou, it is likely that there is also a problem in Youbeiping, and Brother Bo Jue is now in a dilemma." Wang Yu explained to Tai Shici while thinking.

Rao is Tai Shi Ci is bold, and his face at the moment is quite unsightly: "Yuan Shao is so confident? Forcing General Gongsun to march into Jizhou? ”

"Not necessarily." The corners of Wang Yu's mouth moved slightly, and a sneer appeared: "Although it is unlikely, however, Brother Bo Jue can also choose to come to Qingzhou, then Yuan Shao can sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight." Or surrender is also a good plan, even if the tiger devouring the wolf and the surrender are not successful, so that it is difficult for Brother Bo Jue to take care of both the beginning and the end, this battle is also easier to fight. ”

If you haven't heard Tian Feng and Jia Xu's analysis, it is difficult for ordinary people to understand what the war between Gongsun Chan and Yuan Shao is all about.

Gongsun Chan has two opponents, these two opponents are not all the way, but they maintain a tacit understanding. Yuan Shao couldn't let Liu Yu face Gongsun Chan alone, lest Gongsun Chan solve Liu Yu and deal with him with all his might; reciprocated by throwing a peach in return, Liu Yu would also pull back from time to time, making it difficult for Gongsun Zan to concentrate his forces against Yuan Shao.

What these two people are most afraid of is not that Gongsun Chan will attack in a big way, they are afraid that Gongsun Chan will have a strong army and will not come out in Youzhou. If this is the case, Yuan Shao will never be able to settle down the back road and expand to the heart of the Han Dynasty in Henan. Liu Yu didn't dare to cut off Gongsun Zhan's food and salary easily, lest Gongsun Zhan take risks.

As a result, there was the matter of Yuan Shao letting Bohai go, and Gongsun Zhan went south with all his might, as Yuan Shao expected. Liu Yu took advantage of the situation to pull his hind legs, and it was logical.

"If you have any scruples about cutting off food and salary, it's okay to pull your back legs?" Tai Shi Ci wondered. The relationship between Liu Yu and Gongsun Chan is not ordinarily complicated, and these truths are also specious.

Tai Shici is a pure military general, and it doesn't mean much if he doesn't understand these strategic things. However, the assessment of the situation will affect the strategy that has been settled, and Wang Yu has not thought of a countermeasure for a while, so he simply explained and clarified his thoughts.

"Food and salary are the lifeblood of the army, Brother Bo Jue's temper, as long as Liu Yu dares to cut off his food, he will dare to draw a knife and fight hard!" Wang Yu smiled and said: "If it is other small means, such as sending a Taishou or something to Youbeiping to take up his post, or delaying the delivery of food and salary for an excuse, then Liu Yu has been in the officialdom for so many years, and he should be very familiar with this kind of business." ”

The knowledge in the Chinese officialdom can be described as broad and profound, not to mention far away, just the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the pre-Qin and Han dynasties, which have been immersed in the past thousand years, and the lessons and lessons accumulated are unknown. In the case that he can't kill you with one blow, in line with the principle of not killing you and disgusting you, he adopts the strategy of harassing the enemy and dealing with a military general like Gongsun Zhan, which is simply a hand-holding.

"Last time General Tian reinforced Qingzhou, why didn't you tell him frankly?" Tai Shici's questions were one after another, and he was worried that Wang Yu would retreat. Although there is nothing wrong with that, knowing that it cannot be done, in the eyes of the generals, it can be regarded as a proof of courage; But the same thing, if it is placed on one side of the princes, it is inevitable that there will be suspicions of not knowing how to advance and retreat, and not taking the lives of the brothers seriously.

"He's probably not able to save face." Wang Yu smashed his mouth, and there was a lot of trouble in dealing with this kind of person who was straightforward but proud in his heart.

When he was in trouble and asked for help, Gongsun Chan agreed very happily; But on the other hand, unless it really comes to a very critical moment, it is difficult to imagine that the arrogant soldiers in Youzhou will take the initiative to ask for help.

The last time Tian Kai came, maybe he was also planning to ask for some grain and grass to save the emergency, but he found that he had almost completely collected hundreds of thousands of yellow scarves to come to Tuntian, and it was impossible to have any surplus. So, he casually said hello and left.

Now the Youzhou Army lacks everything, and the last thing it lacks is reinforcements, at least on the surface.

If you send 100,000 grains to Youzhou, you can probably gain a lot of gratitude; And bring a thousand cavalry to help, hehe, Gongsun Chan won't say anything, but the attitude of the generals in Youzhou is likely to be ......

"Therefore, the plan to go to Youzhou to meet Brother Bo Jue needs to be changed, the supply of the Youzhou army is already tight, and there are more than a thousand of our mouths, in short, it is not very good."

"Let's go thousands of miles to help, and we still have to look at people's faces? Who dares! "Tai Shi Ci is a hot temper at a point, when he hears this, where is he not angry?

"It's just speculation, and it didn't really happen, why are you shouting so loudly?" Wang Yu glared at Tai Shici in disgust, and ordered in a low voice: "Sit down!" ”

"But ......" Tai Shici was very unconvinced, and others were okay, no one could talk about what didn't happen, but his own soldiers and horses had obviously only walked through the plains, so why didn't Tian Kai know it.

"We came suddenly, and we used a suspicious tactic, maybe the French brother was also deceived, and he didn't react for a while, right?" Seeing that Qin Feng turned around, Wang Yu gave Tai Shici a look again and again, but the latter was like a piece of wood, he just didn't open his mind, Wang Yu couldn't wait to kick over and wake up this guy with low emotional intelligence.

"General Tian may not have reacted, he may just not know how to face the prince." Qin Feng's emotions had calmed down, he clasped his fists at Wang Yu and saluted, and nodded at Tai Shi Ci again.

"The prince came to help in person, and I feel the same virtue from top to bottom in Youzhou."

Qin Feng said earnestly: "However, the prince's strength is small, and our army is not short of military strength, if possible, General Tian may be more willing to refuse in person, but how can he say this kind of thing?" The general of my family knows the prince and the marquis as his siblings, and General Tian is also very close to you, but the rest of the army ......"

His difficult wording, the speed of his speech became slower and slower: "General Yan is a veteran general in the army, as early as when my general was a county commander in Zhuo County, he was the county lieutenant of Zhuo County, and he has been in the army for many years, and his vision is extremely high...... General Shan was the chief bookkeeper at that time, and he was a very shrewd person who rarely suffered losses......"

Qin Feng is not a person who is good at words, and his words are extremely difficult, and he is sweating profusely. Fortunately, he was relieved when he saw Wang Yu bowing slightly, a look of understanding in his eyes, and obviously understood his hint.

Gongsun Chan is the backbone of the Youzhou Army, but it doesn't mean that the people under him don't have small calculations. In fact, it is the same within Qingzhou, Wang Yu gave an order, Jia Xu may not say anything out of cautious habits, but Tian Feng is a careless person, as long as it is within his jurisdiction, and he can't persuade him, don't want to implement this decree.

The two that Qin Feng emphasized were both Gongsun Zhan's old subordinates, and they had been his right-hand men since he was still a county commander. The county lieutenant is in charge of the military, and a veteran general like Yan Gang is somewhat unpopular; The main book is in charge of government affairs, and the master bookkeeper is a little careful, so he rarely suffers.

For Wang Yu's aid operation, these two eighty percent will not give a good face, so Tian Kai is in a dilemma, and in the end he can only pretend to be deaf and dumb. His attitude affected the officials of Leling State appointed by Gongsun Zhan, and finally made Wang Yu's troops seem to have entered the enemy-occupied area, with neither intelligence nor guidance.

"What then?" Tai Shici's handsome face turned red, he wanted to lose his temper, and he was afraid of Qin Feng; However, when he encountered this kind of, he didn't shout a few words loudly, and he was uncomfortable.

Qin Feng was embarrassed, but he didn't mean to back down, others didn't know, but he knew exactly how much preparation Wang Yu had done for this reinforcement operation.

Wang Yu smiled heartily, waved his hand and said, "Since you are here, you can't give up halfway, the plan to go to Youzhou is canceled, let's go directly to the battlefield." ”

"Battlefield?" Tai Shi Ci and Qin Feng shouted out in unison, looked at each other, and Tai Shi Ci took a step back.

Qin Feng didn't have time to give in, and asked anxiously, "Junhou, where did you predict the battlefield?" ”

No wonder he was surprised, Youzhou and Jizhou are all fighting hard, and they are still in the stage of scolding each other and building momentum.

On the one hand, Gongsun Zhan pressed the border with a large army, and on the other hand, he spread the word to the counties and states of Jizhou, counted Yuan Shao's ten major crimes, and ordered the officials of the counties to surrender to him.

Yuan Shao was not to be outdone. On the one hand, under the impetus of the old henchmen of the Yuan family and a number of celebrities under his command, he fought a public opinion war with Gongsun Zhan, and quarreled fiercely; While dispatching troops, he put on a posture of fighting to the death.

However, unlike Gongsun Zhan's posture of raising troops to suppress the border, Yuan Shao's main force did not move after it went to Taocheng, the Yangping County Governance Office.

Yangping County and Wei County are the two southwesternmost counties in Jizhou, and Gongsun Zhan's army is in the Bohai Sea in the northeast corner of Jizhou, and the distance between the two sides is not ordinarily far.

On the one hand, the army is pressing, and on the other hand, the power is huge, and the officials of several counties in the north of Jizhou are considered to have made difficulties, and some people take care of the current situation and surrender the city; There are also some who have put on a posture of resisting to the end; Most people are waiting for the price to be sold.

Was Yuan Shao the first to lead the troops north, conquer the lost territory, and conquer the rebellion?

Or did Gongsun Chan can't bear his temper and drives straight in, or attacks from all sides?

At present, the situation in Jizhou is very chaotic, and no one can predict when and where the decisive battle will break out.

Therefore, Wang Yu suddenly said that he would rush directly to the battlefield, which surprised the two generals.

"It's not difficult to speculate...... Wang Yu smiled confidently, and then commanded in a loud voice: "Bring the map." ”

A guard answered, quickly took the map from the back of a pack horse, and brought it to him with both hands, laying it flat on a tree stump. On the delicate sheepskin map, the topography of the mountains and rivers of Jizhou is drawn very clearly.

"At present, there are many rebels in Hejian, Zhongshan, and Changshan, and if Yuan Shao is in a hurry to fight against the rebellion, it is easy to encounter a surprise attack by the Youzhou army on the march. Yuan Shaotun Bingguan Tao is nothing more than a preemptive strike to prevent surprise attacks, you come and see, the Pavilion Tao is ...... here."

Yangping County is bordered by Qinghe and Anping to the north and plains to the east, and Yuan Shao's strategy is to win with stability. Gongsun Chan didn't move, he fought with the other party; If Gongsun Chan tries to make a surprise attack, when he arrives at Guantao, it will also be the end of the crossbow; If Gongsun Zhan attacked step by step, Yuan Shao would meet him with ease.

Respond to change with the same.

"Brother Bo Jue has no intention of moving to the plains at the moment, and he has no time to enter the northern counties to clear the north, plus there is no chance of a surprise attack. Therefore, he thought that he should lead the army to the southwest, along the Qing River, and drive directly to Anping County from the Bohai Sea...... The decisive battle should break out at the junction of the two counties! ”

After speaking, Wang Yu let out a long breath.

He knew about the Battle of the Boundary Bridge, and he knew that it was on the Pan River, but he searched for a long time, but he couldn't find the river on the map. The reason for this is that the river is too small, so it is not drawn on the map.

The above discussion was inferred by him based on the current intelligence, and he was not very confident, but it was enough to fool the second general Tai Shi Ci.