After Ning Emei left the courtyard, Xu Fengnian, who was slightly drunk, was cleaning up the mess on the stone table, the two deputy marshals Zhou Kang and Chen Yunchui came together, their faces were heavy, Xu Fengnian already had a little premonition, and motioned to the two border army mountain bosses to sit down, sure enough, Chen Yunchui said a bad news, the main general of the Youzhou cavalry Tian Hengbing divided into two ways, and let the deputy general Yu Luan Dao lead 20,000 cavalry to continue the detour to Hulukou, the veteran personally led 10,000 cavalry to block the iron hooves from the two Liaodong lines in Beimang, and fought and retreated three times, and finally only 4,000 cavalry remained, all of whom died in the Jitoupo on the border of the two states of Youhe, Yan Wenluan had to urgently dispatch 16,000 elite infantry soldiers from YoubeiDuring this period, due to the two Huai festivals so that Cai Nan's troops did not move, he made up his mind to watch the fire from the other side, and the whole Hezhou was in vain, and Wang Sui cavalry was like entering a no-man's land, and went straight to the east gate of Youzhou.

Chen Yun sighed and said: "Although I have long known that the imperial court is unreliable, Cai Nan, who has more than 100,000 heavy soldiers, was once Gu Jiantang's right-hand man, and in the end he didn't even have the courage to fight a symbolic battle, and I don't know whether it was Cai Nan's own intentions, or whether the new economic strategy made Han Lin, a civil official, secretly get the permission of Tai'an City." ”

Jin Partridge Zhou Kang snorted coldly: " There is no difference, Cai Nan is a dog raised by Gu Jiantang outside, Gu Jiantang himself is so good, the same is the dog that the Zhao family threw into Liangliao, this time he avoided the fight, and gave a huge Hezhou hand to Wang Sui, it is estimated that Cai Nan and Han Lin have a tacit understanding, the court hopes that Beiliang will die, Gu Jiantang wants to preserve his strength, and he will bargain with the Zhao family in the future。 ”

Xu Fengnian shook his head and said: "Actually, Cai Nan and Han Lin are angry, both of them want to fight this battle, but Han Lin wants to fight immediately, and Cai Nan is waiting for Gu Jiantang's secret letter." ”

Chen Yunchui and Zhou Kang looked at each other, Zhou Kang was anxious, he couldn't hide his words, lowered his voice and asked curiously: "Lord Wang, is this a spy report obtained by the water room?"

Xu Fengnian said with a smile: "Previously, in the summer town at the foot of Wudang Mountain, I had dealt with Yin Maochun and Han Lin's son, and I made a shady deal. ”

Zhou Kang was surprised: "This is strange, could it be that the brains of the Zhao family and the surnamed Gu have been caught by the door panel?

Xu Fengnian said in one word, "Gu Jiantang wants to fight, it is forced by the form, not to mention the grievances between him and Wang Sui, the master of Dongyue, this time Wang Sui swaggered away from the Eastern Front, it is to clearly beat Gu Jiantang's old face, no matter how much Gu Jiantang can bear it, he has to consider the people of the government and the opposition, the reason why Cai Nan wants to make a later move, I guess it is to cooperate with the two Liao border armies to fight a big game, before this, it is natural to let Wang Sui fight with our Youzhou defenders for a while, and he and Cai Nan can sit and reap the benefits of the fisherman." For Gu Jiantang, this opportunity is really good, once it is successful, the border situation between the two Koreas on the two sides of the two Liaos can be transformed from a protracted confrontation of equal strength to an advantage of the two Liaos in an instant. As for the court...... Han Lin didn't say much, I can only figure out some implications, it seems that someone proposed a very offensive strategy at the small court meeting, using Jibei and Hezhou as bait to lure the enemy into depth, in order to complete the deployment, not only Cai Nan, but also Yuan Tingshan's only remaining private army of Li Jiayanbao, and the newly rising Jizhou deputy general Han Fang, will become involuntary chess pieces. ”

Zhou Kang sighed: "This is a rare big deal in Tai'an City, Lord Wang, those old guys who are vegetarian in the corpse position, such as Zhao Kui and Yang Shenxing, should not have the courage, right?"

Xu Fengnian hesitated for a moment, his face was dark and uncertain, "Chen Wang, the regular attendant of the left scattered cavalry of Menxia Province, Sun Yin, who has just gotten out of the Guozi Supervision Volume, and Lu Xu, a hermit who has changed from Zhao Xun, the king of Jing'an, to a new owner, must be the plan of one of these three people, but after this strategy is proposed, without the nods of Qi Yanglong and Huan Wen, and without the support of Zhao Youling and Yin Maochun, it is destined to be unable to go out of Beijing and convey it to the local Han Lin. ”

Zhou Kang said with a strange expression: "How does it sound like our Beiliang has inherited a great favor." ”

Xu Fengnian quipped: "You can't say that, Tai'an City is a stubborn and willful little rabbit cub, and suddenly one day he knows that he takes care of the overall situation a little, although in the final analysis, it is still to protect his own interests, but it will inevitably make the adults next to him feel unexpected." ”

After Chen Yunchui laughed, he said worriedly: "Wang Sui's army is pressing, will it affect the battle in Hulukou?"

Xu Fengnian nodded and said: " Of course, there is an impact, but Wang Sui still can't change the overall situation, and maybe Wang Sui doesn't have this idea from beginning to end, Yang Yuanzan, Liu Jue, and Huang Songpu, who have made a comeback, are all obstacles to Wang Sui's military power in Beimang, and can presciently rush to the aid of Youzhou, which has already made sense on the old woman and Taiping Ling's side, look at it, as long as the eastern front of Beimang is dragged into the quagmire by Gu Jiantang, coupled with the destruction of Yang Yuanzan's army, Wang Sui will be able to stand out all of a sudden, from the commander of just one front to a powerful man who does not lose to Dong Zhuo, and wait until that day, it is the beginning of Wang Sui's real skills。 ”

Chen Yunchui sighed with emotion: "It's not the right time for Hutou City to be lost, but it's also a helpless thing, Liu Jinu has done a good enough." The battle has reached this point, and it can only be seen who can survive better. ”

In the established strategy of Li Yishan Yan Wenluan, the older generation of Beiliang staff and military leaders, although it was envisaged early that Beimang would attack Beiliang in the south with the strength of the whole country, but which specific place was used as a breakthrough, except for the two battlefields of Lingzhou, Liuzhou and Youzhou in the rear, it was obviously more in line with common sense than Liangzhou, which was at the peak of soldiers and horses, but Dong Zhuo made two unexpected moves, first the three-line pressure, the maximum Cheng Dù compressed the combat power advantage of a single Beiliang Iron Cavalry on the battlefield of a certain state, and the tactical intention of the Beiliang Border Army to move around through its own well-developed post road。 Then he personally sat in the middle line of the army, spared no effort to attack Hutou City regardless of losses, and during the critical period when the main elite of the cavalry outside Liangzhou Pass quietly rushed to Hulukou, he "coincidentally" captured Hutou City, which was expected to hold on for another two to three months.

Xu Fengnian said calmly: "In the battle of Beiliang and Beimang, there were actually two turning points, one was the rash attack of the Poria cavalry general Wei Liang, and the two sides set up their own ambushes, and now looking back, it is indeed Dong Zhuo's appetite at that time was greater, but it is a pity that because of the horizontal intervention of the Poria Xiaodu Lieutenant begging for Longguan, the intentions of both sides were frustrated, and Beiliang inadvertently escaped. The second turning point was Dong Zhuo's attempt to regain Liuzhou as a breakthrough point, allowing tens of thousands of Dong family's pro-troops to hide away from the central line, but were stopped by Chu Lushan's 8,000 cavalry. I originally thought that Hulukou would become the third turning point for Bei Liang to take the initiative......"

Xu Fengnian laughed at himself, "It doesn't seem to make sense to say this now." ”

Chen Yunchui said with a straight face: "The heads of nearly 200,000 Northern Mangmang barbarians, especially Yang Yuanzan!

Xu Fengnian was silent for a moment, and said slowly: "Before, in the council hall, I only said some empty words to boost morale, since you Zhou Kang took the initiative to come to the door, then I will open the skylight and say something bright." ”

Zhou Kang said stupidly: "If you want to beat or scold, the prince is free, I can still walk into this courtyard today, and I am already very satisfied without eating the closed door." ”

Xu Fengnian waved his hand and said: "In terms of cavalry, at present, there are 30,000 left cavalry troops gathered by you Zhou Kang outside Liangzhou Pass, Tiefutu of Qi Dangguo and Bai Yuwei of Yuan Nanting, plus He Zhonghu's scattered 40,000 right cavalry army, a total of more than 80,000, it can be said that most of the combat strength of my cavalry army in Beiliangbian Pass is here, and on the side of the infantry army, aside from the troops that have entered the two towns of Huaiyang Pass and Liuya Poria, Gu Dazu still has 30,000 in his hands, and General Chen Lao here also brought some Youzhou foot soldiers. It's not wrong that you Zhou Kang is unwilling to shrink the heavy mound area, but Gu Dazu is worried that all the 30,000 left cavalry troops will be consumed in the exchange of troops, and there is nothing wrong with it, Gu Dazu has a sentence that can be said to be to the point, now anyone outside Liangzhou Pass can die with any soldiers and horses, as long as the new city can be built before the autumn of the third year of Xiangfu, it can be regarded as a worthy death. Next, the deployment and attack of Huaiyang Pass and Chongzuka as their respective offensive and defensive centers need to be carried out around this purpose. ”

Xu Fengnian poured a full glass of wine, dipped his fingers in the glass of wine, and quickly pointed on the stone table, "The first complete line of defense outside my Liangzhou Pass is to take Hutou City as the core, and the cavalry of the two towns of Liuya and Poria on the two wings in the rear are used as a pull, and then sit on the dangerous Huaiyang Pass, and the two towns of Chongzuka Qingyuan, which are inclined to defend, as the second small defense line under the general framework, forming horns with each other, even if Hutou City falls, it will not be lost in the whole game." Now there is no thorn in the flesh of Hutou City, the Beimang army has formed a trend of spreading across the whole line, at present, except for the heavy mound, not only Huaiyang Pass, Liuya Poria and Qingyuan three towns have already faced the siege of the Beimang infantry army, in my opinion, Poria Liuya can be lost, and even Huaiyang Pass can not be defended, but Qingyuan, the military town of Qingyuan, can not fall, and the Qingyuan that controls the west gate outside the Liangzhou Pass, not only He Zhonghu's 40,000 cavalry scattered everywhere has to shrink, but also let Dong Zhuo fight how he wants to fight Liuzhou, so Zhou Kang You need to gallop to Qingyuan, intercept the Dong Zhuo cavalry that has been diverted, not only to block its troops too smoothly to drive south, I also want to try to eat this cavalry army with more than 40,000 people in one go, so I will ask Yuan Nanting to transfer half of Bai Yuwei to cooperate with you, and form our superiority in local battlefields in the Qingyuan area. ”

Zhou Kang frowned and said, "In this way, the ...... surnamed Gu on the side of Shizuka"

Zhou Kang suddenly noticed the strange look that Xu Fengnian threw lightly, and hurriedly changed his words: "Won't the pressure on Gu Tongdao be too much? With only six thousand Iron Floating Slaughter and half of the White Feather Guard, the battle in Chongzuka Military Town will completely lose the initiative." ”

Xu Fengnian glanced at this golden partridge and said in a deep voice: "So this is the price that Gu Dazu is passively beating as a shrinking turtle in the heavy mound infantry army, so that you Zhou Kang can gallop on the battlefield in Qingyuan." ”

Zhou Kang was silent.

Xu Fengnian reminded: " I Beiliang cares about the gains and losses of Qingyuan, Dong Zhuo can probably see that Qingyuan will not become a trap for Beimang to besiege the city and send reinforcements, which requires your left cavalry to judge for yourself after arriving at the battlefield, when the time comes, I hope you can endure the military exploits of thousands or even tens of thousands of people, once you fall into the interception of the main force of the Beimang cavalry, you should know that no one has the ability to scatter beans into soldiers, and there is no way to conjure up 30,000 cavalry troops for you to put into the Qingyuan battlefield, and after the left cavalry army and half of the Bai Yuwei are surrounded by Beimang, not to mention Qingyuan, the heavy mound does not have to be guarded, I, Gu Dazu, and General Chen Lao, can only retreat to He Zhonghu's army in one breath, and there is only a city behind him that has not been breaking ground for a long time. ”

Zhou Kang suddenly asked in a low voice: "In the battle of Qingyuan, the intentions of both the enemy and us are still not hidden, I believe that in Dong Zhuo's eyes, it is very likely that the Beimang barbarians want to encircle the point and send reinforcements, at most, I didn't expect that not only would all the 30,000 left cavalry troops under my command be dispatched, but even Bai Yuwei would cooperate, in this case, Lord Wang, otherwise we would simply set the target directly as the Beimang ambush?" I have confidence in our crossbowmen, on my own territory, I will definitely be able to accurately find out the back hand of the Northern Mangmang, not to mention that even if we need to catch and kill each other when we meet on a narrow road, then Dong Zhuo's crow fence is not enough to see! Lord Wang, you can rest assured, I, Zhou Kang, promise that I will never come by temperament, just listen to Gu Dazu, all the battles of the left cavalry army are mainly to preserve troops. ”

Xu Fengnian shook his head without hesitation and said: "Playing this game in Qingyuan, I just try my best to make Beiliang not too passive, it's not that I don't want to take risks, it's not that I don't want to gamble with Dong Zhuo on the sand table in a big way, but I can't." Beimang can afford to gamble, he can afford to lose, and he can gamble and lose again if he is not at the worst, but we can't squander a chance. ”

Speaking of this, Xu Fengnian asked with a smile: "General Zhou, the toad is going to be full of snakes, do you feel very aggrieved?"

Zhou Kang said with a smile: "The nest is a bit of a nest, but he is a veteran who has followed the general in the blood and water of the Spring and Autumn Period for several years, and he knows the severity." But to be honest, after arriving in Beiliang, so many years have passed, if it weren't for the prince's arrival in Chongzuka this time, Gu Dazu might not be able to stop me. ”

Chen Yunchui, who had not spoken much, said thoughtfully: "I really need to introspect myself, Lord Wang, you have also seen and heard the things in today's council hall with your own eyes, except for Commander Gu, I'm afraid that I can't bear this breath." Yes, in the past 20 years, our Beiliang border army has competed with the Northern Mang, not to mention the war of hundreds of people, and we have not lost once on the battlefield of more than 10,000 people, so this time Hutou City was suddenly lost, and the results of the upcoming battle on the Hulukou side were greatly reduced, and we seemed to be a little stunned all of a sudden. If this tendon can't be screwed back, we may have to suffer a big loss this time. Lord Wang, if it weren't for my Chen Yunchui saying flattering words, you came in time for this trip. ”

When Xu Fengnian sent Zhou Kang and Chen Yunchui to the gate of the small courtyard, he said to Zhou Kang for no reason, "If Dong Zhuo has two or even more large-scale ambushes in Qingyuan, your left cavalry army may wish to consider the west in the choice of the direction of retreat. ”

Zhou Kang was stunned on the spot, "West, Lord Wang, it's not far west, but it's about to border the border with Liuzhou?"

Xu Fengnian did not speak.

Zhou Kang's eyes suddenly lit up, and he asked cautiously: "The prince is talking about the war in Liuzhou, can we take it?"

Xu Feng laughed youngly: "Kou Jianghuai and Shi Fu are both the kind of generals who can turn the tide. As for whether they can do it, whether they can make the Qingyuan cavalry battle become the third turning point of the Liang Mang War, let's wait and see. ”