Li Zifan's opposition did not work, and Pan Xianji said that Gao Yanshi was moved. After all, the nominal commander of this army is not Li Zifan, but Gao Yanshi. Gao Yanshi immediately sent a messenger to present Pan Xian'er's strategy to Zhao Guo. When the messenger arrived, it was already the afternoon of the next day, and Zhao Guo was patrolling the camp.

Tong Shengyang's cavalry had only arrived for a few days, and the military situation was urgent, so there was no time to camp, so they were temporarily stationed in the Huayang Palace of the Taoist Temple at the foot of Huabuzhu Mountain, which was three or four miles away from the camp of Zhao Guo's army. At this time, he was also in Zhao Guo's camp. In addition to him, Yang Wanhu, Hu Zhong, Yang Xingjian and others accompanied him.

It is true that Yang Wanhu is one of the best brave generals in Haidong, and his reputation is also very great, but his power position in the army is actually far inferior to Zhao Guo, and even compared to Tong Shengyang, he is also insufficient. Therefore, when he was in Jinan City, he was the main general, and now he is in the same place as Zhao Guo, so he can only be under him, at most slightly higher than Hu Zhong. Deng She has always attached importance to the law of class in the army, so the group walked in the camp, Zhao Guo was in front, Tong Shengyang was half a step behind, and Yang Wanhu and Hu Zhong walked side by side. Finally, Yang Xingjian.

Listen to the messenger sent by Gao Yanshi to finish Pan Xianji's strategy. Zhao Guo was silent, asked the generals left and right, and said, "What do you think?" ”

Of course, Tong Shengyang had to speak first. He vaguely felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say what was wrong, frowned, and said, "Pan Xian'er's plan sounds good. When our army moves south, it can save Tai'an, thus threatening the Tartar grain route and indirectly rescuing Yidu. If Wang Baobao pursues from behind, he can adapt to the situation, set up an ambush, and annihilate the enemy in a maneuver. But....... ”

Yang Xingjian sneered and said, "But, what if Wang Baobao doesn't come to chase after us?" What if he went to join Chahan? ”

The messenger said, "Lord Pan said, if the Tartars do not come after us, then our army can attack Tai'an. Under Tai'an, the siege of Yidu will not be saved and relieved. Yang Xingjian said: "The words are good. However, once our army allows Wang Baobao to join forces with Chahan, the Tartars besieging Yidu will inevitably rise because of this. What if, before our army conquers Tai'an, the Tartars break through Yidu first? ”

The messenger said, "This? Master Pan didn't talk about it. ”

Yang Xingjian said: "Of course he won't talk about it!" He clearly used Yidu as bait and the lord as bait. The lord said that he was good at taking risks, and it seems that he is really good today. Arching his hand to Zhao Guo, Shi Li said, "Xia Guan has heard that Pan Cheng's defeat is due to the oxcart array that Pan Xianer presented to him. This human brain has anti-bones! This is evident from this. deceived Pan Cheng, and now he wants to deceive adults. If you really sin deserve death, your heart can be punished! Then he asked the messenger, "I wonder what the two generals in your army, Gao and Li, think of this?" ”

General Lee objected. General Gao agreed. ”

Yang Xingjian breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Gao Yanshi is unscrupulous, and he is young, so it is not surprising that he will be moved by Pan Xianer's rhetoric. It's a loss to have General Li here, otherwise, the foot of Mount Tai is in danger! Originally, he didn't think it, but now that he found out, he sincerely admired it, and said, "The lord really has the wisdom to know people!" But he admired Deng She's foresight and partnered Li Zifan with Gao Yanshi and Pan Xianer.

Yang Xingjian is an orthodox Confucian student, and his family has been cultivating and reading for generations, and the words loyalty and righteousness are kept in mind. He looked down on Pan Xianji, but it was reasonable. When Tong Shengyang heard what he said, he suddenly realized and said, "No wonder! No wonder! No wonder I also felt that Pan Xianer's plan was a bit mysterious. I see. ”

Hu Zhong said: "What Lord Yang said is very true. Pan Xian'er's plan is indeed very dangerous. He pondered for a moment and said to Zhao, "However, in the eyes of the last general, there are also adoptable parts in it. ”

"Oh?"

"Copy the grain of the Tartars!"

"How?"

"Our army is a young cavalry, and now General Tong's 2,000 Jurchen cavalry is here, which can be described as a relief in the snow. You might as well choose to transfer one, and after the snow, you will take a shortcut, bypass Tai'an, and run to the Tartar grain road! ”

Yang Xingjian shook his head and objected: "Although there are General Tong and our division, our army and horses are only about 10,000 people. And most of them are remnants, their morale has not yet recovered, there are many wounded, and their combat effectiveness is not high. Jinan is only a dozen miles away from me, and more than 20,000 people from Wang Baobao are close at hand! Only based on the current situation of our army, even if we try our best, can we stop him, and it is still between the two, how can we take the initiative to divide the troops and copy the grain of the Tartars!

"And, during yesterday's military discussion, didn't Lord Zuo Cheng also talk about it? The current enemy of our army is not only Wang Baobao, but Chahan is also a great threat. What if Chahan did not wait for Wang Baobao to join him, but suddenly moved his army westward and attacked our army with Wang Baobao first? Our army is attacked on both sides and is difficult to support. is it a lack of self-protection, how can you have more spare energy to plagiarize the Tartar grain road? ”

"So, in Lord Yang's opinion, what should our army do?"

"Leaning on the mountains as a camp, relying on the danger to consolidate itself. Fang Jin's plan is only one word: keep! Keep the clouds open and see the moon. Predictably, it will be hard and dangerous. But Gao Yanshi and Li Zifan can hold Mount Tai with 2,000 people, and our army of 10,000 people is not as good as them? As long as we can successfully hold on until our Haidong reinforcements arrive, we will be happy to come to the end. ”

Tong Shengyang and Yang Wanhu are both fierce generals, although they will not approve of Pan Xianer's risky plan out of various considerations, but they are also a little disappreciative of Yang Xingjian's conservatism.

Yang Wanhu said: "It's my fault for losing Jinan." But if it weren't for Liu Qi's house, it would be Wang Baobao? The city will never be lost! We've all seen the combat power of the Tartars. But that's it! It's not much better than us. Can't 10,000 people guard a mountain? Five thousand is enough!

"Now that Yidu City is in danger, our army has an army of 10,000 people, but we don't do anything at all, and we are simply passively beaten? Ladies and gentlemen, after the Chahan army retreats, what face do we have to go to see the lord? * Good view. Zuo Cheng, I also thought that we should send a cavalry to plunder the grain route of the Tartars. At the very least, it can reduce the pressure on Yidu. ”

Zhao Guo asked Tong Shengyang and said, "What does General Tong think?" ”

"I'm willing to lead thousands of people personally, I don't have to wait until after the snow, I set off on the same day, and go to copy the Tartar grain road!"

Yang Xingjian admonished bitterly: "The move of dividing the troops is in vain to weaken our army." Besides, what role can a thousand people do to steal the grain of the Tartars? Chahan is old in the field, how can he not know the importance of the grain road? It will be heavily guarded. In vain gave the Tartars the opportunity to break our army in each way! Lord Zuo Cheng, please think twice, this plan is absolutely not feasible. ”

Zhao Guo had already considered it, and divided the army to copy the grain route of the Chahan army. The reason why it has not been implemented is precisely because he has the same concerns as Yang Xingjian. And, in addition to what Yang Xingjian said, he has another concern.

He said: "Ben and Ben will come to the aid of the south, and in private, the lord and the lord have especially explained. Our army must defend not only against the Tartars, but also against another person. ”

"Who?"

"Tian Feng. Tian, Tian Fengtun Jun Dizhou, slow to move. The lord asked for help many times, but he ignored it. This person is at both ends of the rat, and Dizhou is only a hundred miles away from our army, so it is really necessary to guard against it. Dividing the army to copy the grain route of the Tartars is the best policy. But the focus of our army now is not to copy the grain route of the Tartars, but to hold on to Huashan and ensure that Wang Baobao cannot join forces with Chahan. Ladies and gentlemen, you need to score the priority! ”

Yang Wanhu said: "But you can't just watch the old thief Chahan besiege Yidu!" We are all honored by the Lord, what if the city is broken? Is it worthy of the lord? ”

Snowflakes fluttered and fell into the camp. Zhao Guo was draped in a big hat, stopped, stretched out his hand, and gently patted the flagpole erected high. He looked around, and it was white. The cold wind penetrated into the armor, freezing cold. It's hard to decide. Copying the grain road, Huashan may be lost. If you don't copy the grain road, Yidu may become more and more unhappy. What to do? Dilemma.

He turned his head to look east, reinforcements, reinforcements, when will the reinforcements arrive? He heard the news of the fall of the Southeast. He also heard the news that Jizu and Guo Conglong went out of the city to open the road. He believes in Guo Conglong, but it is still unknown when the road will be opened. What should he do? As Yang Wanhu said: Just watching Yidu become more and more frowning? He made a decision and said: "There are more than 1,000 people in our army at Muling Pass, and I will send an order to order them to select elites to go out of the customs and invade the Tartar grain road!" Don't ask for killing, don't ask for seizure, just ask for a 'disturbance'! ”

The generals took the order awe-inspiringly. Yang Wanhu said: "Then our army? ”

"Our army is not moving. On the one hand, Wang Baobao was blocked and intercepted, and on the other hand, he was widely sent to probe horses, stabbing and spying on the situation. If there are really signs of the city being detained, we, the 10,000 people, may still be able to play a role. "Everyone knows that if the benefits are not guaranteed, there are only two roles that they can play, one is to leave the dead to continue to intercept Wang Baobao, and the other is to go to the rescue with the elite, and fight with Chahan to break the net, and that's it.

Zhao Guo paused, glanced to the north again, and then said: "When, when Tian Feng was saved, the lord had no choice but to do it. If he is not rescued, he is in danger of being annihilated, and even surrenders to Chahan. This person is the head snake of Shandong, and he has a lot of military horses under his command, and if he is allowed to surrender to Chahan, it will be very unfavorable to our army. Therefore, the lord ordered General Tong to save him. Now, although we don't expect him to be grateful, we have to knock him! ”

He summoned the copywriter and ordered: "That is, write a letter to Tian Feng." Tell him that General Guo has arrived in the southeast, and the road to Haidong will soon be opened, and our reinforcements will come soon. Even if I can't move him to help me, at least I have to stabilize him for the time being. "The hero saw the same thing, Zhao Guo ordered someone to write a letter to Tian Feng at the same time, Chahan's surrender letter had already arrived in Dizhou.

The surrender book is concise and to the point:

"The city of Yidu is besieged, and the southeast is lost. Wherever the king goes, there is no disadvantage. For the sake of public planning, it is advisable to descend early. Descend early, without losing wealth. If you are obsessed, then yesterday's Liu Jue is tomorrow's Tian Gong. ”

Naked threats. This is also Chahan qualified to do this, although the soldiers have been under the capital for a long time, there is an invincible record in the past, and the domineering is still there. The surrender letter was sent to Dizhou and handed to Tian Feng's desk. Tian Feng immediately summoned the generals and staff to discuss the matter urgently. The people under his command, known as Li Bingyi in the text and Cui Shiying in the martial arts, stood at the head of the class. His son, Tian Shizhong, stood on the side.

Tian Feng's time in Dizhou was very difficult.

When he originally joined forces with Deng She and annexed Shicheng's old land, it could be described as a spring breeze. Basically, it didn't cost a single soldier, and he got a lot of territory out of thin air. Dizhou was originally Yu Bao's territory, but under the pressure of Deng She, Yu Bao attached to him. Even Wang Shixin, the southernmost Tengzhou in Shandong at that time, was not far away and took the initiative to send him an alliance to express his submission. Unexpectedly, in less than a few months, he actually lost his armor and lost his ground one after another, Jining Zhulu was lost, and now more than 10,000 remnants of the army have to eat Dizhou. The once good situation suddenly became grim.

The city of Dizhou is not very large, and the grain stock is limited. When he was defeated, he didn't have time to bring too much military rations. If it weren't for this heavy snowfall, maybe it would have been able to hold on for a while. Now that the snow has been falling for several days, it is difficult for his grain team to go out of the city, and more than half of the seven or eight large warehouses in the city have bottomed out. Even if you save a little, you can barely survive until the beginning of spring. However, in the spring season, there is a shortage of green and yellow, and more than 10,000 people will soon face the danger of running out of food.

If the Lord is the courage of an army, then military rations are the strength of an army. Once there is no military rations, the army will either be in chaos or disperse. He has worked hard to raise troops for so many years, and he has also turned his hands into clouds and covered his hands for rain, and has achieved a great reputation in the land of Shandong, and the nickname of the King of Flowers and Horses has also moved the capital, but in the end it has been exchanged for such an ending, how can he be willing!

His face is like a heavy jujube, his eyes are like stars, but he is also dignified. Now, his cheeks are thin, his face is haggard, and he only has a pair of eyes, which are still bright. He looked at the people and said, "Chahan wants us to surrender,......。 "I checked the letter of surrender," the wording was harsh. What do you think, ladies and gentlemen? ”

The little prince Tian Shizhong stood beside him, stood with his sword pressed, held his head high, and said: "Since the day of the rebellion against the Tartars, I have never thought of surrendering. Father, you often say that a manly man should act vigorously. How can he be like that Zhang Shicheng, but he surrendered, like a villain, and the laughing stock of the world! This is not the work of a big man. In the child's opinion, there is no need to discuss more, the messenger who beheaded the old thief of Chahan is! ”

Tian Feng sank his face and said, "Where is there a place for you to speak?" No gibberish! He turned to everyone, glanced at Li Bingyi, and asked, "Li Gong, in your opinion, how should our army deal with this matter?" ”

Li Bingyi, as usual, with a short sword and a short sword, gently twisted his fingers, and said: "The key to how our army should do this matter is not in our army, but in Chahan and Haidong. ”

"What do you mean by that?"

"The minister has a word and dares to ask the lord. Previously, King Yan had also written many letters asking for help, why did the lord ignore them? Is it to wait for Chahan and Haidong to divide the victory and defeat, and wait for the situation to be clear, and then make a decision? ”

Deng She wrote a letter asking for help and Tian Feng, and everyone under his command knew about it. However, Tian Feng had never discussed this matter with them, and made his own decision directly. Therefore, Li Bingyi has this question. Tian Feng nodded, agreed with his guess, and said: "Chahan and King Yan are powerful, and my army is lonely, so this king has to do this." ”

Li Bingyi understood Tian Feng's intentions and said, "Please use the past as a metaphor for the present." When he was in the Three Kingdoms, Liu Bei entered Jiangdong, and Zhou Yu persuaded Sun Quan to kill him, but Sun Quan never killed him. Why? Because there is Cao Cao in the north. Today's Shandong, that is, the Three Kingdoms. The lord can be described as Liu Bei. ”

"What does the gentleman want to say?"

"The minister is brave and vainly guesses the will of the lord." The lord wants to surrender, but he is afraid that Chahan will lose his trust. This is the Lord's doubt, and it is also the reason why the Lord has summoned his ministers to counsel. May I ask the lord, is the minister right? "There is a kind of lord who has a courtier. Tian Feng is a person, he is very decisive in his actions, and he rarely has any scruples. Li Bingyi's personality was similar to him, and in front of his ministers, he bluntly asked Tian Feng if he wanted to surrender. Tian Feng was silent.

"So, what else does the lord have to worry about? If Sun Quan does not kill Liu Bei, Chahan will not kill the lord. ”

As soon as the two of them sang and harmonized, they set the tone of surrender. Everyone in the hall whispered. Cui Shiying is Tian Feng's confidant and favorite general, and he has always been the only one who looks forward to Tian Feng, whether he descends or not, for him, as long as it is Tian Feng's decision, he will follow it, and there is no meaning to question. However, others are different. Yang Cheng and Yu Bao have questions.

Yang Cheng stepped out of the class and asked, "Lord Wang, since you hesitated before because Chahan and King Yan had not decided the winner. Why did he suddenly decide to surrender to the Tartars because of a letter of surrender from Chahan? ”

Li Bingyi replied instead of Tian Feng and said: "As Chahan said in the letter, if the southeast is lost, there is no hope for Haidong reinforcements. Jinan Chengke, then Zhao Guo's army was destroyed only in the morning and night, as long as Chahan a military horse went west and joined forces with Wang Baobao, then Zhao Guo would inevitably be wiped out. In this way, how long can Yidu Lonely City be held? Now the situation in Shandong is clear. King Yan loses, Chahan wins. ”

He bowed down and said to Tian Feng: "Chahan came to the book of surrender, in fact, it was also suggested by the minister and the lord. Those who know the times are Junjie. It is true that he is a big husband who is vigorous, but he is a true husband who can bend and stretch. The minister knows that the lord is not similar to Zhang Shicheng. Shi Cheng descended because he had no ambition. The lord descended, but he is aiming for the future ambition. The lord has good intentions. A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him. The heroes of the world may misunderstand the lord for a while, but after all, they will be able to turn misunderstanding into admiration. In the past, there was a trick to practice lying on the salary and taste the courage, and this is an example that the lord can follow. ”

Tian Feng muttered, got up, sighed, and said, "Those who know me are only Li Gong." "Surrender, as a last resort. That's it.

Over the next two days, Tian Feng summoned the messenger of Chahan, who informed him of Chahan's promises and demands. There were two promises, to ensure that he would not weaken the strength of his army, and at the same time, when Shandong was pacified, he could be guaranteed to be ten thousand households, just like the old practice of the Han marquis of Shandong in the early Yuan Dynasty, and allowed him to suppress the place. And there is only one requirement, so that he will go south on the same day, join hands with Wang Baobao, and join forces to annihilate Zhao Guo's department.

Tian Feng accepted the promise and agreed to the request. On the third day after receiving the surrender letter, the three armies were reorganized, and on the fourth day, the forward went out of the city. However, just as he was about to take the main force south, on the afternoon of the fifth day, a message came from the southeast.