In the tent of the commander of Luoyang, Liu Wei knelt and sat on the main seat, the Wang brothers and sisters stood straight behind him, and Guan Qing knelt on his left side and bowed down.

Sitting on a straw mat opposite Liu Wei was Pang Tong, the military advisor who went out this time.

"Today, Yuan Xi came to the army and complained to the king about Gongsun Du!" Staring at Pang Tong's very irregular face, Liu Wei asked him straight with his torso: "That Gongsun Du came here, but he didn't mention the festival with the Yuan family in half a sentence, but just asked this king to settle in Yuyang as soon as possible, saying that Yuyang is close to the land of Yidi, and it can't be left without an owner for a long time." From the point of view of the military division, what is the explanation of this matter? ”

"Our army arrived at the city, but did not enter the city, with the experience of Gongsun Du, he must know what His Highness means!" Looking at Liu Bian, Pang Tong had a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, and said to Liu Bian: "Gongsun Du knows that His Royal Highness does not enter the city, so he wants to wait and see the situation of the two armies of Liaodong and Jizhou, in case the Liaodong Army occupies Youzhou. ”

"Your Highness hasn't entered the city, then Gongsun Du will definitely cause some trouble!" Quietly listening to Pang Tong's words, Liu Wei did not interject, and Pang Tong continued: "He just wants to get some benefits from His Royal Highness, and he definitely does not dare to stir up the situation, so that it is difficult to stop." Your Highness doesn't have to mind, I can't imagine that tonight, the two armies of Liaodong and Jizhou will definitely have some trouble! ”

"The Yuan brothers have long been dissatisfied with Gongsun Du, if he stirs up trouble, I'm afraid this king will have to mediate?" Pang Tong said that there would be an incident between the two armies of Liaodong and Jizhou, Liu Wei smiled slightly, with a look of uneasy thinking on his face, and said to Pang Tong: "I didn't expect that this king would cause these troubles if he didn't enter the city immediately!" ”

"Your Highness, don't go!" Before Liu Wei's words fell, Pang Tong hurriedly stopped: "If His Highness goes, Gongsun Du will grasp His Highness's weakness, and the price will be high at that time, what should His Highness do?" ”

"What do you mean?" Originally, if Gongsun Du really caused trouble as Pang Tong said, he would personally go to mediate Liu Wei, who heard Pang Tong say this, and hurriedly asked Pang Tong: "If this king doesn't go, the two armies really go to war, what can I do?" ”

Before Pang Tong could answer Liu Wei, there was a rush of footsteps outside Shuai's tent. When the footsteps stopped outside the tent, a soldier's voice floated in from outside: "Your Royal Highness, Yuan Shang led Yan Liang and Wen Chou, and led more than 10,000 Jizhou troops to approach the Liaodong Army camp, and when he saw it, he was about to enter the Liaodong Army camp. Gongsun Du ordered someone to come and implore His Highness to mediate! ”

"Go inside and talk!" Hearing what the soldier said, Liu Wei first glanced at each other with Pang Tong, and couldn't help but secretly admire Pang Tong's ability to handle things, and then shouted outside the tent.

After receiving Liu Bian's order, the dragoon guard who brought back the news opened the tent curtain, strode into the tent, first clasped his fists and saluted everyone in the tent, and then bowed down to Liu Bian and said: "A patrol soldier of the Liaodong Army captured three rabbit hunting soldiers of the Jizhou Army at the junction of the two armies. The third general of the Yuan family was furious when he heard this, and he had already led his army to beg for the captured soldiers! ”

The news brought back by the dragoon guard made Liu Wei feel a little crying and laughing.

Gongsun Du caused trouble, and he would find such a lame way. In the field between the two army garrisons, three Jizhou soldiers who caught rabbits were captured, but anyone with a discerning eye could see that Gongsun Du was deliberately finding fault.

If Liu Wei wanted to solve the matter roughly, he only needed to order someone to go to the Gongsun Du military camp and search for people to appease the Yuan brothers. However, in this way, I am afraid that Gongsun Du will have another consideration in his heart.

It is precisely because of this that Liu Wei did not make a decision immediately, but waved his hand at the dragoon guard, and waited until the dragoon guard withdrew from the tent before asking Pang Tong: "What does the military advisor think?" ”

"If His Royal Highness does not mediate, whether it is the Yuan brothers or the father and son of Gongsun Du, it is inevitable that they will despise His Highness in their hearts!" After bowing his head and muttering slightly, Pang Tong said to Liu Wei: "Your Highness can invite Zilong to come!" ”

"Someone!" Pang Tong mentioned Zhao Yun, and Liu Wei immediately shouted outside the tent.

When the soldier guarding outside the tent entered the tent, and without waiting for the soldier to salute him, Liu Wei said to the soldier: "You go and invite General Zhao Yun to come immediately!" ”

"No!" The soldier answered, turned and left the tent.

Liu Wei and Pang Tong were waiting for Zhao Yun in the tent, and outside the camp of the Liaodong Army, tens of thousands of Jizhou troops, under the leadership of Yuan Shang, lined up in a neat column to confront the Liaodong Army in the barracks.

Standing at the forefront of the Jizhou army array was a heavy infantry holding a large shield. All the heavy infantry, with their big shields in front of them, carried short spears in their hands, and the tips of the short spears were obliquely tilted upwards, pointing at the camp of the Liaodong Army.

Behind the heavy infantry were archers with longbows. Every archer of the Jizhou Army holds the bow handle in his left hand and a feather arrow in his right hand, ready to shoot at the Liaodong Army at any time.

Although there were as many as 50,000 soldiers in the barracks of the Liaodong Army, there were only a few thousand people who could come to intercept the Jizhou army and confront the Jizhou army.

Moreover, the Liaodong Army that came to the edge of the barracks did not have heavy infantry and cavalry, and all of them were archers.

In such a formation, as long as the Jizhou army launched a charge, with the distance between the two sides close to almost snorting, in an instant, the Liaodong Army lined up in the barracks would be killed by the Jizhou army.

Standing beside Yuan Shang, looking at the military camp of the Liaodong Army, Yan Liang frowned slightly, moved closer to Yuan Shang, and whispered to Yuan Shang: "Son, in the eyes of the last general, it seems that something is wrong!" ”

"What's wrong?" Without waiting for Yuan Shang to speak, Wen Chou, who was standing on the other side of him, opened his eyes, glared at Yan Liang, and said to Yan Liang angrily: "Could it be that you are also like the second son, just waiting for the king of Luoyang to come and administer justice for us?" ”

"Birds!" Before Wen Chou's words came out, Yan Liang glared back at him, and said to him angrily: "You and I have led the army for many years, but have you ever seen two armies confront, only with archers as the front?" If Gongsun Du is not stupid, there is a conspiracy in the meantime, and the son is smart, and he will definitely be able to see the clues. You ugly bastard, what do you care about here? ”

was scolded by Yan Liang, and Wen Chou glared at him again. But after thinking about it, what Yan Liang said was not unreasonable, so he didn't speak again.

Yuan Shang, who was standing between the two, held the reins in one hand and pressed the hilt of the sword with the other, looking at the military camp of the Liaodong Army, his brows were always tightly wrung up.

The array posed by the Liaodong Army really subverted his perception of the combat formation. Especially the female general in front of the Liaodong Army array, dressed in military uniform and riding a red horse, made Yuan Xi feel depressed in his heart.

Putting out such an array, it can only be said that the Liaodong Army is revealing two messages to Yuan Shang, one is that the Liaodong Army does not want to fight, and the other is that the Liaodong Army does not take Yuan Shang and others in their eyes at all.

If the Liaodong Army just didn't want to fight, then that's it, if they didn't want to fight, but didn't put Yuan Shang in their eyes at all, whether it was out of face or to save the three soldiers, Yuan Shang had to lead the army into the Liaodong Army barracks.

"Dare to ask the little general, why are you here!" Gongsun Lan, who was frowning and looking at the front of the Liaodong Army array, Gongsun Lan, who was dressed in military uniform, opened his mouth and shouted to Yuan Xi: "Why did you lead the army outside my tooth gate?" ”

"You are waiting to capture the soldiers of our army for no reason, and this general has come to ask for it!" Holding the reins in one hand, Yuan Xi's brows were tightly twisted, and he shouted to Gongsun Lan, who was leading thousands of archers and lined up in the barracks: "I hope that the general will hand over the people immediately, don't cause the two armies to turn against each other because of this matter, and it will not look good at that time!" ”

"Ugh!" Standing in front of the archer array on horseback, Gongsun Lan's eyelids narrowed slightly, and he muttered for a moment before he said to Yuan Shang: "The last general doesn't know about this matter, the little general please go back first, and when the last general finds out the reason, he will give the little general a satisfactory answer!" The general led the soldiers and horses to line up outside our barracks, if there is a collision between the soldiers on both sides, it must not look good! ”

As soon as Gongsun Lan said this, Yuan Shang immediately knew that the reason why the Liaodong Army sent archers to intercept it was because he didn't want to fight with the Jizhou Army.

Originally, Yuan Shang was still a little apprehensive in his heart, worried that the Liaodong Army would really turn his face and make the situation bigger.

And at this time, it is not good for Yuan Shang. After all, 10,000 soldiers and horses, fighting with the Liaodong Army, will definitely suffer a big loss in the military camp of the Liaodong Army.

If the two armies start a war and the Jizhou army launches an attack on all fronts, although there is no suspense about victory, the king of Luoyang is nearby, and when he is in charge, he also provokes such an incident, no matter what, he Yuan Shang can't afford to do it.

Seeing that the Liaodong Army was unwilling to make a big move, Yuan Shang's hanging heart was somewhat relieved.

In order to show off his responsibility in front of Yuan Xi, to suppress the prestige of Yuan Xi and Yuan Tan in the army, and to take the opportunity to curry favor with Yan Liang and Wen Chou, and to plan for the future, Yuan Shangzi would not listen to Gongsun Lan's words and withdraw his troops back to the camp.

When Gongsun Lan finished speaking, he pursed his lips, smiled coldly, and said to Gongsun Lan: "The general said that he was laughing, the person has been caught by you in the barracks, and the general has already found it, what else does the general want to investigate?" Just hand over the people, and the general will withdraw his troops and horses! ”

"The last general really doesn't know about this!" I know a little about the Yuan family, Gongsun Lan knows that Yuan Shang will never retreat easily in order to establish his authority, her purpose is to delay time, and when Liu Wei is here, she will release the people, so as to calm the people, so after Yuan Shang's voice fell, she arched at Yuan Shang with her fists and said: "The little general should not be so aggressive, our army has tens of thousands, who did this matter, it will not be clear for a while." The little general left some time for the last general, and what should he do? ”

"If the general insists on this, he can't say it, and the last general will have to search your Liaodong military camp!" Looking at Gongsun Lan, Yuan Shang's eyes narrowed slightly, beckoned behind him, and shouted: "Enter the camp and search!" ”

After receiving Yuan Shang's order, a group of Jizhou troops immediately stepped out of the ranks and ran towards the military camp of the Liaodong Army.

As soon as the Jizhou army ran to the front of the Yamen, the Liaodong Army archers in the barracks immediately stretched their bowstrings, and an officer of the Liaodong Army shouted loudly without waiting for Gongsun Lan's order: "Those who trespass into our army's barracks will be killed!" ”

The archers of the Liaodong Army stretched their bowstrings, and the archers of the Jizhou Army who confronted them also immediately put their arrows on the bowstrings, stretched the bowstrings full, and aimed at the Liaodong Army in the barracks.

Originally, the two sides were just confronting each other, but no one expected that Yuan Shang and Gongsun Lan disagreed with each other, which would lead to tension.

Just when the archers on both sides were full of bowstrings, and the heavy infantry of the Jizhou Army was also ready to charge, and when they saw that they were about to fight, a loud shout came from afar: "Changshan Zhaoyun is here, who dares to be unformed?" ”