Speaking of Xu Ji himself, he didn't know how many talents he didn't know under his command, he almost didn't know the situation under his command when he was in Chang'an, and thanks to Guo Jia and Xun Yu, but everything was still out of Xu Ji's expectations, and each of them was dispatched to find a lot of famous people in history for him, if it weren't for the urgency of the war, Xu Ji would be interested in summoning them one by one, but now I'm afraid there is not much time.

At present, Yuan Shu's affairs in Yanzhou are not over, and the battle in Xuzhou has started again, and Xu Ji also knows that he still has a lot of unfinished business, and it is not the time to sigh.

The Yanzhou army has been "besieging" Shanyang City for three days.

The army of Liang Gang sent by Yuan Shu quickly arrived here, but he did not attack rashly, after all, who in the world does not know that the Yanzhou army is not easy to deal with?

When the Yanzhou army saw that Liang Gang's army had arrived, they immediately retreated slowly and confronted Liang Gang's army in the east outside Shanyang City: after all, the art of war is cloudy, "there are reinforcements outside, and the city cannot be besieged".

Of course, Liang Gang would not be stupid enough to lead the army into the city immediately, in that case, he could only be trapped in Shanyang City with Chen Lan.

Liang Gang stationed his army outside the north gate of Shanyang City, and faced the Yanzhou army in the east "together" with Chen Lan in Shanyang City.

Of course, Liang Gang's doing this was expected by Gao Shun and Bo Cai, so he wouldn't worry about Chen Lanlu, who was now acting in Shanyang City.

At this time, it was Guan Hai and Zang Ba sent by Bocai who surrounded Shanyang City to "attack". Gao Shun's army had already withdrawn, and was about to cross the northwest foot of Jiuli Mountain, and quietly sneaked to a place not far from Juye City, ready to launch a sneak attack at any time. Of course, this has to cooperate with Xu Ji's actions.

And Liang Gang, who was in charge of the security of Juye City, was naturally ignorant. As soon as the army arrived, they sent people out to fight against the enemy. In his mind, Bocai was a bandit. Where will there be any masters in the army? In the first battle between the two armies, Zang Ba of the Yanzhou Army asked for orders to fight, and Guan Hai agreed.

Liang Gang sent people to fight, but he was beheaded by Zang Ba under the horse, Liang Gang was furious, and sent people to fight again and again, and Zang Ba lost two people in a row, and finally because of lack of strength. Defeated and returned. Guan Hai personally went into battle, and in just one round, he killed the enemy general who was proud of defeating Zang Ba.

Liang Gang was taken aback. He sent people forward again and again to invite the battle, but Guan Hai killed seven people in a row, killing Liang Gang's face like dirt, and then he knew the strength of the Yanzhou army, and hurriedly retreated back to the camp.

After this battle, Guan Hai terrified the whole army of Yuan Shujun and named Guan Hai "Seven Beheadings". Since then, Guan Hai has become famous in the Central Plains and has become a famous general in the world.

And in the face of the retreat of Liang Gang's army. Guan Hai did not chase and retreated back to the camp, as the saying goes, "do a full set of plays", if you pursue by yourself. Do you tell Chen Lan in Shanyang City to shoot with a bow and arrow? If you don't shoot, wouldn't it be immediately exposed?

Liang Gang, who returned from defeat but was not shaken fundamentally, hurriedly wrote to Yuan Shu after returning to the camp, saying that the Bocai army outside Shanyang City had 15,000 people, and the leader was not Bocai. Instead, Guan Hai, it seems that Bocai's main troops should be in the area of Xiao County. Ask Yuan Shu to immediately send Ji Ling's army to attack Xiao County.

Meanwhile. The Yuanshu defenders on the Xiyang side came with news that the Yanzhou army outside Xiyang City had increased significantly. And it seems that there is an intention to go north to attack Shangqiu.

However, Yuan Shu had already prepared in Shangqiu. As early as possible, people were dispatched from all over the country to defend in Shangqiu, echoing Xiyang. Therefore, the army of Bocai stayed here.

After Yuan Shu determined Bocai's movements, he finally ordered Ji Ling's army to march from Liuxian County and penetrate directly into Xiao County at the southern foot of Jiuli Mountain.

When Ji Ling's army advanced between Jiuli Mountain and Mangdang Mountain, the fine work sent by Xu Ji and Gao Shun returned to the army with this news......

In the Jiuli Mountains, in the dense forest at the western foothills.

Xu Ji looked leisurely at the outside of the dense forest, and the shadows around him were all lurking in the dense forest, and their bodies were naturally armed to the teeth.

The person beside Xu Ji is Sun Guan who came from the Bocai army!

"Lord, I heard General Gao say: This Ji Ling is a talent, it's a pity to kill him. I don't know what the Lord of the Dao is going to do with this Ji Ling this time? ”

Xu Ji turned his head to look at Sun Guan, and said in a deep voice: "The person who can make Zihe praise must be a talent, if it can be accepted, of course I can't ask for it, in the future we will occupy Yuzhou, if there are no one or two local figures in Yuzhou in the military, it will not be good in the end." ”

Sun Guan nodded, and said with longing: "When Yuzhou is taken, the lord will subdue Youzhou, as well as Nasizhou, Yongzhou, Hanzhong, Yizhou, and Xuzhou, and the lord's unification of the world is just around the corner." ”

Xu Ji looked at Sun Guan and thought in his heart: This Yellow Turban Army is different, and the overthrow of the Han Dynasty is as commonplace, if this is in the eyes of Kong Rong and other Confucians, it will be an earth-shattering event, and he can't help but laugh and say: "How can it be so easy?" ”

Sun Guan was stunned and said, "Lord, can't I unify the world with my current strength in Yanzhou?" ”

Xu Ji said with a smile: "It is not difficult to unify the world, but it is difficult to govern the world." ”

After a pause, he said: "What Yanzhou lacks now is not a general who can conquer the battle, but a capable official who can govern the place, of course we can attack many places, but how to govern these places after the attack?" Every place has its own characteristics. The restructuring carried out by Yanzhou is adapted to local conditions, but the policies applicable to Yanzhou may not be suitable for other places, and they must be adapted to local conditions. ”

Sun Guan didn't seem to understand, after all, Sun Guan was originally a yellow scarf, and he only sent a letter to Yanzhou once after Zang Ba surrendered to Bocai, and he saw Xu Ji two days ago, so he didn't know anything about local management Xu Ji just smiled and then patiently explained: "Our Yanzhou is now like a big mouth with few teeth, our army is a big mouth that can devour everything, and can eat any prince at will, but the ability to transform the place is really weak." Therefore, what our army needs after occupying Youzhou and Yuzhou is not expansion, but further internal reform. ”

After Sun Guan heard this, he couldn't help but scream in disappointment.

Xu Ji was thinking in his heart: It seems that he will also face the situation that Cao Cao in history will face, and sooner or later he will have to wage a large-scale war with the warlords in Jiangnan, which will also need to be protracted. In this situation, economic warfare is the focus.

And Xu Ji is still worried about another thing. With the defeat of Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao, coupled with the final end of the infighting in Chang'an. The time to hide his identity can be said to be running out, once he appears, Emperor Han Xian, who was secretly "invited" back to Yanzhou, will also surface, there are not a few people who know the Tao of this matter, and how to deal with Emperor Han Xian will be a big problem when he is not done.

Frankly speaking, Xu Ji really wanted to put Emperor Han Xian under house arrest and make him disappear in the eyes of the world. Downplay the influence of the Han Dynasty in people's hearts.

It's a pity that this has many disadvantages for Xu Ji.

One is that the "disappearance" of Emperor Han Xian has a direct relationship with himself anyway, if Emperor Han Xian does not appear after the most reluctant, he will be to blame in front of the world, after all, he robbed Emperor Han Xian from Chang'an. I'm afraid this matter is now known to the whole world. In case Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty had three long and two short, it would be unimaginable to give Xu Ji a blow to his prestige. It is unimaginable only in the two states that Xu Ji now governs.

Second, he still needs to use the emperor to command the world for a long time, which is not only limited to external conquest, but also has a lot to do with internal reform, and the emperor is in hand. Many decrees can be justifiably enacted, reducing a lot of resistance.

From this point of view, the days of his struggle with Emperor Han Xian are still very long.

While he was thinking, a figure as agile as a cheetah flashed in front of Xu Ji. knelt on one leg and said to Xu Ji: "Lord, as you expected." After Yuan Shu received the battle reports from Xiyang and Shanyang, he had already sent his general Ji Ling to our side. It seems that he is really going to attack Xiao County. ”

Xu Ji nodded. Sun Guan, who was on the side, couldn't help but ask, "How are Xiyang and Shanyang?" ”

The phantom said in a deep voice: "On the Shanyang side, General Bocai and the two generals Yin Li and Wu Dun took turns to fight. The beaten fine yang group will tie their hands and struggle. ”

After a pause, he said: "As for Shanyang, General Zang Ba beheaded one general and lost two generals in a row, while General Guan Hai was very powerful and beheaded seven people in a row, and now when the name of General Guan Hai was mentioned in Liang Gang's army, everyone was frightened, and gave General Guan Hai a nickname called 'Seven People Chop'. ”

Sun Guan was extremely excited when he heard this result, as if he had achieved it himself.

Xu Ji smiled at Sun Guan and said, "After this battle, who in the world would dare to say that my Bocai army in Yanzhou is a bandit army?" ”

Sun Guan stiffened his neck and said, "Of course, this is of course!" ”

Xu Ji turned his head and said in a deep voice to the soldier: "You go to General Gao Shun now, tell him to start the operation according to the plan, and bring down Liuxian, Qixiang, and Juye for me, so that you can cut off the back road of Ji Ling's retreat, and at the same time order Guan Hai and Chen Lan to give me the right peace and defeat Liang Gang's army!" ”

The soldier whispered and left. Mounted on the horse, he galloped away like a flint.

Xu Ji turned his head, beckoned, and his subordinates took the white horse, turned over on the horse lightly, and at the same time lifted the silver spear, and said to the twenty people in front of him: "You come with me." ”

The twenty men answered the order and went to lead the horses.

Sun Guan was shocked and said, "Lord, what are you doing here?" ”

Xu Ji looked at Sun Guan and remembered that he probably didn't know what happened to him back then, when he was young, he only depended on Chen Zhi when he was young, and even almost died several times, but it was precisely because of this that he followed Chen Zhi to start practicing martial arts, but unfortunately Xu Ji didn't have much interest in this way after all, and then gradually let go. At that moment, Xu Ji replied with a big smile: "General Sun, I'll let you see my skills today!" ”

Sun looked at Xu Ji's heroic appearance, and recalled that when Bo Cai told him that Xu Ji entered the city alone and said that Emperor Fu Song and Zhu Jun obeyed his strategy, he was also heroic in his heart, and said with a smile: "I forgot what Bo Shuai said, the lord was originally a lonely hero!" ”

Xu Jiyi waved the silver spear in his hand and smiled at Sun Guan: "It's a pity that I'm not good at learning, and I'm not a worldly general, and now the opportunity to go to the battlefield is getting less and less, it's a waste of my ability to think about it!" ”

After a pause, Xu Ji said again: "Ji Lingnai is the number one general under Yuan Shu, experienced in a hundred battles, although his martial arts are average, he is alert, and he is old in marching and fighting, and he is definitely not a stupid person like Chen Ji." I am even more afraid of my Yanzhou army, otherwise I would not have made Brother Gao Shun helpless in Dongjun. Now that he is marching into Jiuli Mountain, he will definitely be doubly cautious. For such a person, of course, I have to go and pretend to be the scout of your Bocai army stationed in Xiao County to lure Ji Ling into the ambush circle we have set up here. ”

Sun Guan nodded and said: "That's true, if Ji Ling enters Jiuli Mountain again, but doesn't find a scout sent by my Xiao County defenders, then it's not normal, I'm afraid that Ji Ling will immediately turn around and withdraw the army." ”

Xu Ji nodded, and a shadow behind Xu Ji heard Xu Ji's words, and shouted to the nineteen companions behind him: "The standard equipment of the light cavalry of the Yanzhou Bocai Guerrilla Army. ”

Sun Guan turned his head sideways to look at these phantoms, knowing that the password he had just given was a disguised order given by the little leader of the phantoms.

Order. I saw these phantoms take off their armor from their horses, and then take off the armor on their bodies, and put on the rattan armor uniformly equipped by the Bocai army, wear a horse chopping saber, and carry a divine arm bow on their backs, and replace the crossbows and field battle axes equipped on their bodies.

In the blink of an eye, they became out-and-out scouts in the Yanzhou Bocai army.

Xu Ji was no exception, watching the twenty people get on the horse one after another, Xu Ji smiled at Sun Guan and said, "You know the way, right?" My call to General Sun is not as simple as catching up on the old days. General Sun is in charge of the army here, and when I lure Ji Ling here, General Sun will ambush Ji Ling again. ”

Sun Guan agreed with a bang.

Xu Ji stepped down the war horse, and the war horse neighed. Rushed out of the woods and took the lead in the direction of Ji Ling's army.

Twenty subordinates behind him followed him like a shadow, shouting and chasing after Xu Ji - for them. It was their greatest honor to fight alongside Xu Ji, the most legendary figure in the Yanzhou army.

Sun watched Xu Ji's back gradually disappearing, and a strange feeling rose in his heart: the world. It's changed.

On the way to Ji Ling's army.

As Xu Ji expected, after Ji Ling entered the realm of the Nine Mile Mountains. Then began a careful march. Every step of the way, Ji Ling's soldiers were full of vigilance, on both sides of the army, the soldiers raised their shields one after another, in case of a sudden long-range attack, and the army was divided into three sections to echo the first advance, this was not enough, Ji Ling sent scouts on all sides at the same time, and every two miles would ride horses to return, just in case.

"Be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years", this is Ji Ling's creed.

The army marched to the middle section between Jiuli Mountain and Mangdang Mountain.

When the whole army was cautious, suddenly, the neighing of war horses sounded in the dense forest beside the road ahead.

Ji Ling's face changed: Could it be an ambush? No way! It is impossible for the brigade to hide from the scouts sent by Ji Ling!

Before Ji Ling's people could react, they saw that on the side of the road not far ahead, more than 20 white horses rushed out of the dense forest, and when they saw Ji Ling's army, they didn't even say hello, and rode their horses in the direction of Xiao County.

Ji Ling reacted the fastest, and shouted: "It turned out to be the scout of the Yanzhou Army!" They wore armor made of such branches, they must have been scouts sent by the defenders of the Bocai army in Xiao County! Don't let them go! ”

Ji Ling's army neighed and moved in unison, but was stopped by Ji Ling and said: "The cavalry team goes to pursue, and the whole army advances as usual, don't fall into the ambush of the other party." ”

Before the words could be spoken, the cavalry around Ji Ling came out one after another, and more than forty cavalrymen and generals who were skilled in Ji Ling's army rushed towards the Yanzhou scouts. The few people who rushed in front even controlled their horses with their legs, took off the strong bow from behind on the bumpy horseback, and shot at the Yanzhou scouts from behind.

While speaking, the seven or eight scouts sent by Ji Ling to investigate were returning from afar, and collided head-on with the twenty or so Yanzhou scouts, and before they understood what was going on, the more than twenty Yanzhou scouts raised their steel spears and picked the seven or eight scouts sent by Ji Ling's army under their horses.

At this moment, the more than forty cavalry sent by Ji Ling quickly narrowed the distance between them and the Yanzhou scouts.

This team of Yanzhou scouts is, of course, Xu Ji and his party.

Looking at the cavalry masters in Ji Ling's army who were gradually approaching behind him, Xu Ji couldn't help sneering in his heart, he had long known that Ji Ling was not so easy to be fooled.

But this was also expected by him.

Xu Ji waved his hand to a phantom behind him, and the phantom immediately understood what Xu Ji meant, and quickly turned around and rode his horse away. Naturally, he sent a message to Sun Guan's army, who was waiting in front, and asked him to prepare for his actions. At the same time, this is also a kind of confusion about Ji Ling, to make him fooled.

At the same time, Xu Ji and the remaining nineteen phantoms took the Divine Arm Bow from behind, took the bow and shot arrows, and began to shoot at the more than forty cavalrymen behind them.

Xu Ji also learned the six arts from Sima Hui, and this bow and arrow is what he is best at, how powerful is this shot? Every bow is an arrow. With each shot, one fell in response.

Although the archery skills of those nineteen phantoms were not as miraculous as Xu Ji's, they were basically eight or nine out of ten.

Therefore, after a round of bows and arrows was fired, more than half of the cavalry masters in the more than forty Ji Ling troops were shot off their horses.

They didn't expect that the Yanzhou scouts in front of them were not busy retreating, but turned around and fought back, although their own side was also shooting with bows and arrows, but because of the bumpy of the war horse, the accuracy and strength were much worse, even if there was an occasional bow and arrow on the body of the phantom, it was in vain because of the excellent defense of the vine armor.

It was another round of arrow rain, and there were not many of Ji Ling's forty-odd cavalry sitting on their horses.

Ji Ling looked at the phantom who was riding his horse to "escape" because he had received Xu Ji's order, and then looked at the remaining twenty Yanzhou "scouts" who were immediately bending their bows to "resist and contain" themselves, their eyes flashed, and they roared wildly: "The whole army is advancing at full speed and rushing to attack Xiao County!" ”

Hearing this, Ji Ling's army rushed up and killed Xu Ji and the others.

Xu Ji beckoned to his nineteen men and began to shoot and retreat.

At the same time, I was happy in my heart: Ji Ling, I was fooled! (To be continued......)