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In Henan, there is still a slight chill, especially on the banks of the Yellow River, the river wind is fierce, and the flowers are like snow.

The ferryboat and the servant waited in the distance, and Ma Han and the princess of Wannian led the horse side by side, as if they had returned to the situation of being at the waterside of the white wolf in Liaoxi, before each expedition, ten miles to send each other, and a hundred days to return.

Princess Wannian wore a hat, tied a collar of goose yellow sandwich collar, the scarf fluttered, the big man flew over, and she walked slowly by her husband's side.

After enduring it for a long time, Ma Han finally asked, "What about your white fox fur?" ”

"Dedicated to the Queen." Princess Wannian said an answer that made Ma Han's heart tremble, "I am used to being cold in Liaodong, and when I return to Luoyang, I don't have the slightest feeling of coldness, and I hardly wear that fox fur." However, the queen is not very hardy, so it is better to give it to her...... It's strange to say, I don't know if it's the work of the fox, since the first night banquet of the year, in the past few months, I have found that the queen has more and more smiles on her face, and even began to care about military affairs. For example, if you want to go to Hebei, she asked me several times......"

"Ahem, cough, cough ......" Ma Han seemed to be choked by the wind.

Princess Wannian was mistaken, thinking that Ma Han was prompting something, and hurriedly said: "I know the rules you have set, and you will never leak military operations to unrelated people...... But then again, I don't know anything about the details of your expedition. ”

Ma Han coughed dryly and diverted the topic: "Actually, there is nothing to leak, Yecheng must have known the news a long time ago." Yuan's protégés are all over the world, it's not just talking, what news do they want? ”

Princess Wannian was worried about Zhong Zhong: "If the Yuan clan goes out of the city and refuses to fight, I believe you can win easily." But the siege battle is the most time-consuming. Although I haven't been to Yecheng, Sister Zhen has passed through a few times. According to what they said, the city is high and deep, and there is a sub-city, several stacked walls, heavily guarded, millions of valleys in the city, and the city is protected by water, which can be called the first strong city in Hebei. If the city is besieged. I don't know how long it will take......"

Well, as the couple discussed, this time, Ma Han will personally lead the troops, capture Hebei, and sweep away Eryuan.

If you want to destroy the second Yuan, you must first destroy Yuan Shang; If you want to destroy Yuan Shang, you must first take Yecheng. This is the unanimous conclusion of Ma Han, his think tank, and the front-line generals. And sweep Hebei. When it comes to the cooperation of the various fronts of the Wind Volcano Forest, including the Dragon Wolf Army, except for Ma Han's personal command, no one can replace it. Therefore, this war horse will be personally recruited.

Yecheng is the nest of Yuan Shao's business for nearly ten years. The city was strong and well defended. Cao Cao in history, although he went to Yecheng many times, he was repeatedly unable to attack. Labor is in vain. Until the last time, the method of digging trenches and besieging the city was adopted, and it would take half a year to be ruthless. and all the soldiers and civilians of the city were trapped to death. As a result, it still relied on changes in the city, and the nephew of the guard, the judge, rebelled, opened the city gate, and let Cao's army enter the city, and the city fell.

That is to say, even Cao Cao, who was strong and famous after the Battle of Guandu in history, had a hard front, but he was helpless to Yecheng He.

The battle of this era is basically one word: consumption!

Ma Han looked at the north bank of the Yellow River, his eyes seemed to see the Hebei Jiancheng through the depths of the clouds, and he took a deep breath: "I can't afford it, so I can only do one thing - break!" ”

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On the third day of the fourth month, Ma Han crossed the Yellow River and arrived in Tangyin (i.e., Tangyin) County, Hanoi. Prior to this, Hanoi Taishou Xun Yu had already arrived in Langyin one step ahead of the war to make pre-war deployments.

Dangyin is only 200 miles away from Yecheng, and the cavalry can kill it in one day and night. However, this time the horse warriors did not use too many cavalry, and even the army directly involved in the siege was not much, but more than 10,000 people.

The deployment of the horse attack on Ye this time was: Zhao Yun's dragon wolf wind army sent 2,000 cavalry to oppress Zhongshan from the north, making it impossible to divide the troops to the south; Zhang Liao, the Taishou of Dongjun, led 3,000 steps to cross the river and stationed in the Liyang camp, holding back the enemies of Huang, Fanyang, and Yin'an in the southern defense line of Yecheng; Zhang Yan, the general of Pingbei, was ordered to go out of Jingcheng and put pressure on Changshan State, so that he did not dare to act rashly; And Tai Shi Ci in the east didn't have to do anything, as long as he sat down on the plain, it was enough to make Yuan Tan dare not move for half a minute.

In this way, in addition to Wei County, the only troops that Yuan Shang can use are Zhao Guo and Julu. Sadly, however, it is also difficult for the two counties to give them support. Zhao Guo was close to Taihang, and was often harassed by the Montenegrin army, especially at this sensitive moment, and did not dare to divide his troops lightly. And Julu lives in the Quartet, it seems that there is no threat, but slowly, Julu and Anping, Qinghe border a large area, when this soldier is in the city, Yuan Shang is not only afraid of being swallowed by Ma Han, but also afraid of being stabbed in the back by his brother Yuan Tan. Therefore, Julu's soldiers and horses must be used to prevent Yuan Tan, and not a single soldier can be transferred south.

At this point, Ma Han's siege of Yecheng has been completed, and Yuan Shang can no longer jump around as he did in history.

As long as Yecheng is captured, the Yuan Shang group is annihilated, and the counties of Hebei can be passed on. In history, although Yuan Shang was not Cao Cao's opponent and was beaten everywhere, there were too many places where he could jump, Yecheng fell, and he ran to Karasuma; Karasuma couldn't stay, so he ran to Liaodong; Tiannan Haibei tossed for several years, and in the end, Cao Cao relied on the spirit of Wang Ba to shock Gongsun Kang of Liaodong, cut off the heads of the Yuan brothers, and passed on the head for thousands of miles, and the matter was over.

Ma Han used the troops of the Quartet, no more and no less, just enough to contain the enemy, and the army he used to attack Yecheng head-on was only the 3,000 dragon and wolf army drawn from Luoyang, the 3,000 soldiers and horses of Hanoi from Xun You, and the 2,000 dragon and wolf mountain army of Ma Chao and Pang De, plus thousands of soldiers, but not 10,000 people.

10,000 soldiers and horses besieged a fortified city that was also garrisoned by tens of thousands of troops, was Ma Han overconfident?

As the deputy generals of the attack on Yecheng, Ma Chao and Pang De are very worried. Ma Chao didn't dare to ask the uncle, so he secretly found Xun You to ask.

Xun You told Ma Chao for a reason: "The reason why I didn't use too many troops was that I didn't want to force Yuan Shang to transfer all the soldiers and horses of the county back to Yecheng regardless of one qiē, and fight with our army to the death." The lord's plan is to destroy Yuan Shang in a war, then the rest of the troops will surrender without a fight, and Jizhou can be determined. If our army has too many soldiers and horses, Yuan Shang will increase his troops accordingly and send reinforcements from all sides, so that the resistance of our army will also increase greatly, and after the war, it will hurt the vitality of Jizhou, and the gains outweigh the losses. ”

Ma Chao felt that although this explanation was reasonable, it seemed to be a little worse...... Oh, how can you defeat 10,000 soldiers in a fortified city with 10,000 soldiers?

Regarding this question, Xun You just smiled incomprehensibly: "Before the lord went to battle, he had issued an assembly order to some generals who were close to Luoyang and Yanzhou, asking them to gather in Yecheng to form a 'military observation group' to observe the battle of attacking Yecheng and accumulate experience for the generals of other days to command operations. Presumably by then, Meng Qi will know the true meaning of the lord. ”

As soon as Xun You's voice fell, a soldier came to report: "Dongjun Taishou Zhang Zhijun has arrived." ”

Zhang Liao, the nearest one, was the first to report for duty. In the next few days, Dong Zhao and Liu Ye, who received the invitation, as well as military generals at all levels from the surrounding counties, Le Jin, Xu Huang, Zhang He, Gao Lan, Li Dian, and Ren Jun arrived one after another. Coupled with Yu Ban, who went to war with the army and served as the marching Sima, the five good generals actually came. Only Gao Shun, Cheng Lian, Lu Qian, Man Chong and other county generals did not dare to leave without permission because of the distance or because the territory bordered Cao Cao, so they could not come.

In addition to these generals under the command of the Dragon and Wolf Army, there are also two "special guests": Taishan Zang Ba and Sun Guan.

Last year, Ma Han officially appointed Zang Ba as Langya Xiang and Sun Guan as the cavalry captain, throwing an olive branch to this group of small warlords entrenched in the East China Sea and Mount Tai.

If it was someone else, Zang Ba, Sun Guan and others might still hesitate, but if Ma Han solicited them, they didn't hesitate too much, and they were very happy to join them. The reason is very simple, when Ma Han was in Xuzhou, he met the two, and the two knew Ma Han quite well and admired him very much. The so-called recognition of heroes is difficult to re-heroize, and the general trend is like this, how can it not conform to it?

When these military generals formed the strongest military observation group in the history of the Three Kingdoms and gathered together, Ma Han showed the generals three plans of Yecheng drawn from different angles such as front, side, and high-altitude overlook.

Yecheng is rectangular, five miles long from east to west, three miles wide from north to south, there are two city walls, Guocheng and Zicheng. Guocheng has four gates, and Zicheng has three gates. The city is divided into four parts by a cross-road connecting the east and west gates. The north area is the official office area, the middle is the sub-city, the east area is Yuan Shao's mansion and official office, the west area is the granary, arsenal and stables, and the northwest corner is the school field, which is used for reviewing military horse exercises outside the city (Tongque, Jinhu, and Bingjing have not yet been built, and I am afraid that they will never have the opportunity to be built).

The west gate of Yecheng is near Zhangshui, and there are many canals leading water into the city, which is not only for the military and civilians in the city to drink, but also used to fill the moat, in order to defend Guocheng and the sub-city.

Ma Han kept moving on the floor plan with his baton, explaining the defense of Yecheng, and finally said: "...... According to reports, Yuan Shang has built three sheep and horse walls in front of the west and south gates of Yecheng, and urgently built two gates. However, I only had to build Nanguan City, and Xiguan City was only half built, so I am afraid that there is no chance. ”

After a pause, the generals below whispered.

Ma Han looked around and said: "There are many people who know a lot about the defense of Yecheng, now our army is 10,000, the enemy is 10,000, and at any time we can mobilize 5,000 to 10,000 young people to defend the city to help the battle, how is this victory?" ”

As soon as these words came out, there was a commotion at the bottom, and the generals discussed and analyzed and deduced.

Zhang He looked at Dong Zhao hard, this was the Taishou of Wei County, who had been in charge of Yecheng for many years, he was the most familiar with it, and he was also the most vocal, but he smiled with Xun Yu next to him, and he didn't make suggestions, so he really didn't know what to do?

Zhang He couldn't help it, stood up on the ground, bowed to the horse and said, "The Art of War Cloud 'Five Rules Surround It'." Today, the generals are not more than 10,000, the generals are not more than ten, and the food is less than three months. ”

As soon as Zhang He's words came out, all the generals stopped talking, and their eyes looked at Ma Han.

Ma Han smiled and said: "Junyi's words seem to express the hearts of all the kings...... Very good, please follow me out of the account and take a look, perhaps, you will soon change your mind. (To be continued......)