In the big tent of the Chinese army, Zhang Yi, who was made big by Pingling City, gathered all the generals together and asked them to discuss how to take Pingling City. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

At first, Zhang Yi thought that as long as he took the city walls of Pingling City, and Zhang Bao couldn't pull up the four city walls at once, then he would win, and Pingling City would be in his bag, but it turned out that Zhang Yi underestimated Pingling City too much.

The northern city wall was indeed conquered by the Dingping army, and the north city gate was also opened, and Zhang Bao fainted from excessive squeezing of his own mana, and he failed to pull up the fourth city wall in advance to block the attack of the Dingping army, but after the Dingping army attacked the interior of Pingling City, they were completely dumbfounded, because the interior of Pingling City was completely different from the city they had seen before.

Normally, the interior of the city is nothing more than streets and houses, at most in some city defense buildings and the like, but the interior of Pingling City is very different, although there are also houses for soldiers to live in, but there are no decent streets, the interior of the city is completely occupied by ravines and walls of about two meters, and there are a lot of horse rejection piles, such a city structure, Zhang Yi's most proud cavalry can be said to be completely wasted, and there is no use at all.

If it's just ravines, walls, horse rejection piles, etc., although Zhang Yi's cavalry has no room to play, but the infantry can still have the strength to fight, but after launching an attack, Zhang Yi realized that he was too naïve, the Yellow Turban Army dug a lot of traps in the entire Pingling City, and those traps are very special, just like Zhang Yi's previous breakthrough of the Rolling Stone Road in the Lonely Mountain, the soldiers of the Dingping Army stepped on it and were either killed or injured, but the Yellow Turban Army could move freely in the city with special charms.

It is precisely because of the existence of those traps that the Dingping army attacked for seven days, lost nearly 20,000 people, and captured half of the northern city, and the remaining southern half of the city.

Of the 20,000 people killed in the Dingping Army's attack on Pingling City, one-third of them died directly because of the trap, and one-third of the deaths were also related to the trap.

Sitting behind the handsome case, glancing at the people in the big tent, Zhang Yi frowned and asked, "What?" Don't have anything to say? If you don't have anything to say, don't look at each other here, let's disperse, come to me when you have a way, and retreat! ”

Hearing that Zhang Yi gave the order to evict the guests, everyone looked at me, and after I looked at you, they all got up and saluted, but just when everyone got up, Guan Yu spoke.

"Big brother," he got up and hugged his fists at Zhang Yi, Guan Yu opened his mouth and asked, "Don't we have a dark line in Pingling City?" Why didn't Big Brother use that dark line? ”

Cheng Yuanzhi is his own dark line, this point is known to almost everyone among the generals, except for a very few people, it can be said that it is a tacit secret of everyone, but no one is saying it, now that Guan Yu has brought it up, the generals have turned their heads to look at Zhang Yi.

"Don't look at me one by one with such eyes," Zhang Yi, who was slightly irritable, waved his hand and said to everyone: "That's right, Cheng Yuanzhi is our man, but the current situation is that we can't contact him at all, and the previous contact method mostly relies on bee stings to deliver news, but this Pingling City is different from other cities, it was originally a ferry, and later became a city, so there were originally no people living in it, and we couldn't install our strongholds and intelligence stations in it, although there were still some of our dark lines mixed in the Yellow Turban Army in the city." , but in general, the number should not be very large, and those dark lines should be the lowest dark lines, for the sake of absolute confidentiality and absolute security, they are usually single-line contact, and there is no way to directly contact me and Cheng Yuanzhi. ”

Although Zhang Yi spoke in the vernacular, some of the words he said were words from later generations, such as strongholds, intelligence stations and one-line contacts, Guan Yu and they couldn't understand them, Zhang Yi explained to them for this, and they completely understood.

For example, in Luoyang, Zhang Yi set up four small strongholds for bee stings according to the southeast, northwest, and northwest, and at the same time set up a large stronghold near the city, while the stinger was in Luoyang, Zhang Yi set up twelve small strongholds according to the twelve moments of the clock, and connected them in a corresponding way with twelve points, and set up a large stronghold near the approximate location of the point where the six lines were connected.

In addition to the stronghold and the intelligence station, the intelligence station is responsible for contacting the grassroots intelligence officers and undercover agents, generally an intelligence station is responsible for several or a dozen grassroots intelligence officers, but the undercover is a one-to-one one-line contact, because the identity of the grassroots intelligence officer and the undercover agent is different, the grassroots intelligence officer may be a small businessman hawker gangster, they will not be too conspicuous, generally will not have an accident, but the undercover agent is a person who breaks into the enemy's interior, and the probability of an accident is relatively large, in order to prevent the enemy from digging out a string of melons along the vine, Therefore, the one-to-one connection is used, which is also learned by Zhang Yi and later generations.

After listening to Zhang Yi's explanation, most of the generals present understood the meaning, but Dian Wei and Zhang Fei were still confused, but the two of them were also very self-aware, and they knew that it was useless for them to understand this, so they simply didn't ask again.

Dian Wei and Zhang Fei, because they don't understand, don't use their brains, so they can think about nothing and just wait for Zhang Yi's order, but the others are different, they understand and naturally want to solve problems for Zhang Yi, so they all frowned, either thinking hard about the best way to break the enemy, or helping Zhang Yi think of a way to contact Cheng Yuanzhi.

After about ten minutes, Guan Yu, who had been frowning his brows, suddenly raised his head and said to Zhang Yi, "Big brother, why don't we try to break through the other three high walls?" As long as the other three high walls are broken through and a siege is formed on all sides, it should be much easier to take Pingling City. ”

Listening to Guan Yu's words, Zhang Yi's eyes suddenly lit up, as if he had thought of some ghost idea again, but no one paid attention to him at this time, because people were looking at Guan Yu.

"It's going to be much easier," after nodding approvingly, Gao Shun said again: "But did General Guan ever think that the price paid to take the other three high walls would definitely be quite heavy, and those three walls didn't even have city gates, so if you want to capture them, you can only make a fuss from the city walls." ”

Before the start of the war, Zhang Yi would generally hold one or more pre-war meetings, and the mode of the meeting was to imitate the model of the pre-war meeting of the US military in later generations, so that everyone could discuss openly and express their opinions, and during the pre-war meeting, there was no distinction between official positions and status, after anyone put forward an opinion, anyone could put forward different views, but a fierce quarrel was never allowed, and the final decision was still in Zhang Yi's hands, so after Guan Yu said his own opinion, Gao Shun, who was lower in rank than him, dared to put forward a different point of view.

Zhang Yi's mode of pre-war meetings, everyone was not used to it at first, because in the Han Dynasty, it was basically a command under orders, or a military advisor and the like made private ideas, just like Huang Gai gave Zhou Yu a plan, and he had to say it in private, so that after the final plan or action was successful, the credit was the boss's, and if the people below had an opinion on the order of the first leader, it would be regarded as battlefield disobedience and would be killed, so Zhang Yi also wasted some effort to implement it, but now it is much better.

Speaking of Gao Shun, what Gao Shun said is very right, Zhang Bao's three high walls are not pulled up for the sake of good looks, the high wall pulled up by Zhang Bao is about 30 meters away from the city wall in front of him, and it is more than 10 meters higher than the front city wall, almost more than 50 meters, and there is no city wall, which is a very difficult challenge for the attacker.

Why is it so challenging? First of all, when the Dingping army attacked, it was necessary to pass through the first city wall before attacking the second city wall, although now the Yellow Turban Army abandoned the first city wall, and the Dingping Army also broke through the city gate, but the front city wall caused great trouble to the Dingping army, because the front city gate was short, and the cloud tower could not reach more than 50 meters, and at the same time, the Dingping army had to pass through the first city wall, and it could only go through the city gate, because once the Dingping army was on the first city wall, it would be completely exposed to the Yellow Turban Army archers. Even if there is a shield to cover it, it is also extremely dangerous, and it will go down if you go up, so you can only give up the road of climbing the city wall, there is no cloud tower, and the offensive route is single, which is also one of the important reasons why Zhang Yi has not chosen to storm the other three high walls.

Whether to fight or not to fight the three high walls, there is a certain difference between the generals, mainly Guan Yu, a few people support the high wall, they think that if their side takes the ground attack, the casualties will not be too small, and they can also attack the high wall to increase the experience of their own soldiers in tackling tough battles, and more importantly, the battle of Pingling City must be solved as soon as possible, and the army has no time to confront the Yellow Turban Army here all the time.

Guan Yu's point of view has a certain amount of truth, the confrontation has been going on, people eat a lot of horses and chew a lot, and according to the standards of wartime, compared with non-wartime food, more than three percent of the food, meat should also be eaten a day, through the commander's interface, Zhang Yi saw that his army, including Huang Zhongbu who confronted Changshe, consumed as much as 60,000 gold a day, and in the case of this kind of consumption, he did not have any breakthrough results on both sides, which really made Zhang Yi depressed.

It was precisely because of excessive consumption that when Guan Yu proposed to storm the high wall, Zhang Yi was already biased towards Guan Yu's point of view in his heart, but he was not in a hurry to express his position, but was waiting for Gao Shun's view.

"General Guan is right, but you forgot a key question," after a pause, Gao Shun said with a smile: "Even if we take three city walls, we still have to go to the ground to start a street battle with the Yellow Turban Army, in this way, we also have to face the trap laid by Zhang Bao on the ground with demon methods, if this is the case, why is there any need to lose the men and horses when attacking the city wall?" ”

Gao Shun's words are also very reasonable, that's right, if you want to completely occupy Pingling City, you must start street battles with the enemy, and you have to face those traps, since you have to face traps, why do you need to lose men and horses to attack the city wall?

After Gao Shun finished speaking, everyone turned their eyes to Guan Yu in an instant, but Guan Yu stroked his beard and did not say a word, but at this time, Qin Qiu, who was sitting next to Guan Yu, spoke: "What General Gao said is indeed a problem, but everyone has forgotten that when the Yellow Turban thieves were attacking us, they had been suppressing us through the high wall, I counted it, when we attacked Pingling City from the north, the enemy only let us lose nearly a thousand people by shooting arrows down from the high wall, and this is still when we rely on the shield to cover and stay away from the city wall." , so I still agree with General Guan's point of view, take down the high wall first, at least take one side on the east and west sides. ”

After listening to Qin Qiu's point of view, including Guan Yu and Gao Shun, they all nodded.

Both sides said a certain amount of truth, so after expounding their views, they both turned their eyes to Zhang Yi, and just when Zhang Yi was about to speak, Zhang Fei, who had been silent, suddenly jumped up.

"You guys, it's just long-winded," after glaring at everyone, Zhang Fei shouted at the top of his voice: "What are we afraid of in the Dingping Army?" Why is it difficult for a small Pingling City to make it difficult for you to become like this? To follow what I Lao Zhang said, first of all, what the eldest brother said should not be a senseless sacrifice, that must be right. ”

Saying that, Zhang Fei was still flattering, grinning at Zhang Yi, revealing a mouthful of big white teeth, after Zhang Yi saw it, he nodded with a smile, and motioned for him to continue, he wanted to hear what Zhang Fei could say.

"Ahem~"

Seeing that Zhang Yi didn't interrupt himself, Zhang Fei cleared his throat decently, and then said: "Although it is said that you can't sacrifice senselessly, but in war, where are the immortals, just like the eldest brother said, soldiers should be proud of the horse leather shroud who died on the battlefield, and I think that since you have chosen to join the glorious team of the Dingping Army, you must always be ready to sacrifice for ......the eldest brother."

"Wait a minute!"

Suddenly interrupted Zhang Fei, who was talking about Xing Zhengnong, Zhang Yi waved his hand and said: "You are not fighting for me, you are fighting for the people, for the poor people in the world, speaking of each of you's background, even including me, is not very good, our brothers in the Dingping Army are mostly from poor backgrounds, we just want to fight for the poor people of the world, in this way, I will teach you another word, this word is 'people'!" ”

Zhang Yi deliberately bit the word "people" very hard, because he has always wanted to teach this word to the generals, but has not been able to find the opportunity, today by taking this opportunity, Zhang Yi to popularize faith to the generals, because he believes that only one person has faith, with the power of faith he will be indomitable, will not be afraid of life and death, this is the same as the Qingping Religion he established before, but the Qingping Religion is to establish faith for the people, and its ultimate purpose is to control the people's thoughts, of course, Zhang Yi is only to control the people and not to fool the people, But this is all later, now Zhang Yi's Qingping Sect is still very weak, at most it can only persuade people to be good.

"The people?"

"The people? Are the people the common people? ”

"What are the people?"

“……”

For the word "people" proposed by Zhang Yi, all the generals muttered several times in their mouths, some people understood the meaning, but most people didn't understand, Zhang Fei didn't understand it for a long time, so he asked Zhang Yi directly.

"What are the people?" Smiling, Zhang Yi got up and said: "All the descendants of Yan and Huang in the world are considered people, but the descendants of Yan and Huang are also good and bad, those who have not turned their backs on their ancestors are our people, we Dingping Army is to serve the people and fight for the people, you must remember this, and let the soldiers under your command remember this......

After pausing for a moment and looking around at the generals, Zhang Yi said word by word: "Because this is very important, I hope this can become your faith, as well as the faith of the soldiers." ”

The reason why Zhang Yi repeatedly emphasized the word faith is also to let everyone understand the importance of faith.

For Zhang Yi's words, all the generals pondered for a long time, some of them showed a confused look on their faces, and some of them had a sudden expression.

Seeing that everyone had already lost their minds, Zhang Yi turned around and returned to his seat and said, "Okay, the word people, and who our Dingping Army is fighting for, you are slowly thinking about it in the future, I am slowly explaining to you, now let Yide continue." ”

"Huh?"

Hearing Zhang Yi say let him continue, Zhang Fei, who was still thinking about Zhang Yi's words, was stunned for a moment, then scratched his head and said embarrassedly: "I, I forgot what I wanted to say." ”

"Haha......"

After seeing Zhang Fei's embarrassed expression, the generals laughed in unison, and the generals laughed Zhang Fei was even more embarrassed, according to his usual temper, maybe he would be annoyed and angry, and shouted at everyone a few times, but in front of Zhang Yi and Guan Yu, he was not good at attacking, and Zhang Yi and Guan Yu laughed very happily, and in the end he could only laugh awkwardly twice.

Seeing that Zhang Fei's face was red when he was laughed, Zhang Yi waved his hand in time to signal everyone to be quiet: "Okay, okay, since Yide has nothing to say, then I'll say a few words." ”

As soon as Zhang Yi said that he had something to say, everyone present sat up straight, and at the same time turned their eyes to Zhang Yi.

Although it has been so long, when he is watched by the generals, Zhang Yi still feels a sense of pride, after all, these people present are all famous generals.

"Uh-huh~"

Following Zhang Fei's example, he cleared his throat, and Zhang Yi said loudly: "I think what everyone said is very right and reasonable, but I personally think that it is still necessary to attack the inner city wall, but everyone should pay attention to the purpose of our attack on the city wall is not to take the city wall, but to ......."

"Report! Lord, plum blossom urgent! ”

Just when Zhang Yi was about to say the ultimate goal, Han Tao's voice suddenly came from outside the tent, and after hearing Han Tao say the words 'plum blossom urgency', Zhang Yi's brows immediately furrowed, he hurriedly asked Han Tao to take the urgent mail, and after Zhang Yi opened the urgent mail and read it, his face changed suddenly.

"Damn it! Zhang Liang actually rushed to rob our army's rations! Zhang Yi, who had a hideous face, turned his head and shouted to Guan Yu: "Jingde, quickly lead the trapped camp to Pingliang, if the team transporting military rations is calculated according to time, you should meet there." ”

"No!"

After receiving the order, Gao Shun did not dare to delay, and after saluting Zhang Yi, he immediately hurried out.

"Ma, I can't wait," Zhang Yi, who was stimulated by the urgency, suddenly slapped the table and shouted loudly: "Pass the order, attack the city immediately, and before sunset today, be sure to take down three high walls for me!" ”

I don't know why, Zhang Yi suddenly became so anxious, and he actually wanted to take down the three high walls of Pingling City in half a day, which was a bit wrong.