After the Battle of Xiangfan that year, all the counties in the south of Nanyang County sent a table to Liu Bei to surrender.

In this case, Liu Bei established Yiyang County according to the needs of the current situation, and regarded the southern counties of Nanyang County recovered that year as the subordinate counties of Yiyang County.

Liu Bei's move had two purposes.

The first purpose was to make Yiyang County a buffer zone between Jingzhou and the Central Plains, and to expand the strategic depth of the Ji Han regime in the Jingbei region.

With the existence of Yiyang County, even if Sima Yi of Wancheng carries out a surprise attack in the future, Zhang Fei, who governs Xiangyang, will have enough time to react and dispatch troops.

Liu Bei's first purpose was to defend, and his second purpose was to attack.

Yiyang County can be seen both as a buffer zone and as a war base for the Han army in the Jingbei region.

If Jingzhou wants to go on a northern expedition in the future, then the Jingzhou garrison can first transport soldiers, grain, grass and military supplies to Xinye City.

In this way, when the Jingzhou defenders go on a northern expedition in the future, the time will be greatly reduced, and the fighters can be created as soon as possible.

That's exactly what Zhang Fei is doing at the moment.

As early as after the news of Miyang's victory in Liangzhou reached Xiangyang, Zhang Fei, who knew Liu Bei very well, knew that Liu Bei would definitely take this opportunity to launch the first Northern Expedition.

According to the idea of Longzhong back then, once Yizhou sent troops to the Northern Expedition, then Jingzhou would also echo on the flank, so that Cao Wei would be in a situation of attacking from east to west.

Zhang Fei just looks careless on the surface, but his grasp of the current situation is no worse than any famous general in the world.

It was precisely because of this deduced in advance that as early as two months ago, Zhang Fei successively transported troops and grain to Xinye.

To this day, there are 20,000 Han troops inside and outside Xinye City, and there are more than 100,000 stones of grain and grass.

And this is only the strategic reserve that Zhang Fei can mobilize in the early stage.

Zhang Fei has been obscure in the war for the past three years, because he has been immersed in farming for the past three years.

Thanks to the geographical advantages of Jingzhou, under Zhang Sanye's diligent cultivation in the past three years, the current Jingzhou can mobilize 60,000 troops and mobilize hundreds of thousands of stones of grain and grass.

Such a strategic reserve is enough for Zhang Sanye to fight a hearty battle.

Of course, due to his distrust of Sun Quan, Zhang Fei still left 10,000 Han troops around the public security, guarding every move in Jiangdong.

Even if he had received news before, Jiangdong had sent a large army to Huainan.

But when Jiangdong attacked Jingzhou that year, Guan Yu got the news that Sun Quan led his troops north to attack Hefei.

With the lessons of the past, coupled with the fact that he is a neighbor of the jackal, Zhang Fei will not relax his vigilance against Jiangdong.

But even if 10,000 troops were divided to garrison Jingnan, Zhang Fei still had 50,000 troops to use in this Northern Expedition.

At present, the remaining 30,000 Han troops are still on the way to gather and come to Xinye.

However, although the 30,000 Han troops had not yet arrived, the anxious Zhang Fei quickly convened a military meeting after arriving in Xinye City.

Participating in this military meeting are a number of high-ranking generals and colonels in Jingzhou.

Zhang Fei first looked at Li Yan, who was sitting under him, and he asked eagerly:

"Our army, can we fight now?"

Before Liu Bei left Jingzhou, he left Zhang Fei with two great talents.

The text is Deng Zhi, and Wu is naturally Li Yan.

When he transferred the soldiers and horses to Xinye before, Zhang Fei did not handle this matter personally, but entrusted this matter to Li Yan with carte blanche .

Now Zhang Fei is asking, how is the run-in of the 20,000 Han troops sent before.

After hearing Zhang Fei's inquiry, Li Yan did not dare to slack off.

Although he is proud, he can't be proud in front of Zhang Fei.

Don't talk about him, even when Mi Yang came to Zhang Fei, he had to respectfully call his uncle.

His own boss is still like this, let alone Li Yan.

Li Yan replied: "The 20,000 sergeants transferred by Deng Shangshu before, Yan has already been divided into battalions.

All the general had to do was send someone to take over. ”

"In addition, the grinding of the ordnance used by the 20,000 sergeants and the transportation of grain and grass have also been arranged.

As long as the general of the chariot cavalry gives an order, the 20,000 soldiers inside and outside Xinye Castle can follow the general of the chariot cavalry on the northern expedition at any time. ”

Li Yan's answer made Zhang Fei overjoyed.

Although Li Yan has some personality problems, he really has nothing to say about his ability to do things.

Yiyang County was placed in Li Yan's hands, and there has never been any major turmoil.

After the great joy, Zhang Fei immediately said to Li Yan:

"Tomorrow, I will lead the army to the north, and the safety of Yiyang County will be handed over to the Zhengfang."

After hearing that Zhang Fei was going to lead the army to the north so eagerly, Li Yan couldn't help but persuade:

"General Che Cai, why are you in such a hurry?

At present, our army still has 30,000 troops that have not yet been assembled, and it is not too late to wait for those 30,000 sergeants to assemble before launching the Northern Expedition.

Besides, the movements of the Wancheng thief army are unknown, so it is better for the general to find out the situation first. ”

The reason why Li Yan advised Zhang Fei was, on the one hand, as he said, that he hoped that Zhang Fei would wait for the army to be assembled before setting out.

This undoubtedly has a better chance of winning.

On the other hand, the reason he didn't explain was that he thought that Sima Yi, the general of Annan of Cao Wei, was not a good character.

In the previous three years, due to the proximity of the station to Wancheng, Li Yan had fought with Sima Yi many times in the open and in secret.

For example, at the beginning, Li Yan originally wanted to take advantage of the unstable heart of the Wancheng army to lead the army to attack Jianyang.

But that attack was repelled by Sima Yi as expected.

And not only this time, Li Yan has also fought with Sima Yi at other times, but on the whole, Li Yan has suffered more.

Although Li Yan is arrogant, he is not blindly arrogant, and it is not difficult to see from those situations that Sima Yi is quite strategic.

In this case, Li Yan really didn't want Zhang Fei to rush in.

But after Zhang Fei listened to Li Yan's words, he said with a smile:

"The positive side only knows one thing, but doesn't know the other.

The Prime Minister's "Longzhong Pair" can be said to be known to the whole world, and now His Majesty has sent troops from Yizhou, and it will not be long before Wei will definitely strengthen Nanyang's defenses.

As the so-called soldier is fast, it can be taken by surprise.

Before I left Xiangyang, I specially released the news that I was going to lead 50,000 troops to the Northern Expedition.

This is not a lie, but a reflection of my Jingzhou's real military strength.

I think the news has already reached the ears of the thief.

And my previous move of transferring troops to Xinye must not have been able to hide the spies of the Sima thief.

Therefore, Sima Xiaothief naturally knew that I still had tens of thousands of troops that had not yet been assembled.

It is difficult to distinguish between the true and the false since ancient times.

After learning that Jingzhou could raise 50,000 troops, and that the 50,000 army had not yet been assembled, Sima Xiaobao might think that I would wait for the army to be assembled before going on the expedition.

After all, the Northern Expedition is a major event, and it should be cautious.

It is difficult for Sima thief to predict that I will lead the army out in advance before the army is assembled.

In this way, our army can take the enemy by surprise, and perhaps receive miraculous results. ”

After listening to Zhang Fei's explanation, Li Yan suddenly realized.

It turned out that Zhang Fei just seemed to be anxious on the surface, but in fact, he wanted to lead the army in advance, but he had special considerations.

And from the perspective of the art of war alone, Zhang Fei's unexpected move does have the possibility of success.

I have long heard that the style of the cavalry general and the old general is very different, so the general has always sought stability in the army, while the general is good at using strange tricks.

Of course, since it is called a miracle trick, unless you can accurately predict the character of each opponent, there is no guarantee that it will succeed every time.

But it is undeniable that once the trick can succeed, the results can often be great.

For example, in the big victory in Brazil that year, didn't Zhang He climb the mountain and escape?

Since Zhang Fei has his own considerations, Li Yan does not intend to continue to dissuade him.

After Li Yan left to prepare for tomorrow's expedition, Zhang Fei looked at the other generals in the hall.

Guan Ping, Liao Hua, Zhang Bao, Guan Xing, Zhao Lei, Mi An, etc.

Compared with the complex composition of the Liangzhou general rate, the composition of the Jingzhou general rate is relatively pure.

It is mainly divided into two parts, one part is the old department left by Guan Yu, and the other part is the children of Yuan Cong who have gradually joined the army in recent years.

Just by reciting the names of these generals, among the people present, only Guan Ping can barely be called well-known.

But the lack of fame does not mean that the quality of these people is not high.

Maybe this battle is the battle for their fame.

Thinking of this, Zhang Fei's eyes froze, and he looked at Zhang Bao.

"Tomorrow, you will lead 3,000 elites to be the vanguard of our army and rush to Thornyang."

Although Zhang Bao is Zhang Fei's son, Zhang Fei is the same as Guan Yu and likes to hone his son.

The position of pioneer is important, but it is also dangerous.

After hearing Zhang Fei's order, Zhang Bao walked out of the ranks without thinking, bowed to Zhang Fei and said:

"The last general commands!"

Seeing Zhang Bao's appearance of a newborn calf who was not afraid of tigers, Zhang Fei felt relieved in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face.

After arranging the position of pioneer, Zhang Fei asked most of the generals to resign, except for Guan Ping.

After the other generals left the hall, Zhang Fei gave Guan Ping a secret mission.

"Tomorrow, you will hold my talisman and lead 5,000 soldiers for me as the rear army, and march towards Thorn Yang."

After hearing this secret mission, Guan Ping couldn't help but be stunned.

Judging from Zhang Fei's arrangement, ordinary people would think that Zhang Fei would focus on Thorn Yang in the future.

But if that's the case, why didn't Zhang Fei lead the rest of the army towards Thorn Yang by himself?

After seeing Guan Ping's puzzled look, Zhang Fei said to Guan Ping:

"Our army is taken by surprise, even if it can't take Thorn Sun, but it can still besiege Thorn Sun.

Thorn Yang is the main road for our army to advance north, once Sima thief learns the news that our army is coming to the city of Thorn Yang, he will definitely lead the army to support.

At that time, Wancheng's forces will be empty.

What you have to do is very simple, that is, to hold my talisman, use my flag, and disguise 5,000 soldiers as more than 10,000 troops, which is bound to confuse the enemy and make the enemy think that I am outside the city of Thorn Yang. ”

"My brother and Zisheng have praised you for your calm personality, so I entrust you with this important task, I hope you won't disappoint me!"

Zhang Fei didn't say exactly what he was going to do, but from Zhang Fei's cautious look, it could be seen that his task must be very important.

After knowing this, Guan Ping immediately bowed to Zhang Fei and said:

"Ping, swear not to disgrace your life!"

Seeing Guan Ping receiving the order, a smile appeared on the corner of Zhang Fei's mouth.

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