In the sixth year of Guanghe, November 12, Chaoge, Junfu.

The many generals of the Turquoise were gathered around the brazier, wrapped in winter coats and chatting.

This time, the Taishan army attacked Hanoi and did not plan to leave.

Therefore, Zhang Chong had to arrange the work after entering the city.

The main work was to establish a base around the Riyi near Chaoge. The political, industrial and military officials of the Taishan Army are very familiar with this set of procedures, and now they have begun to compare the household registration books in Chaoge City to check the nearby population.

After making simple arrangements for household registration, Zhang Chong emphasized to the military officials present the special situation of Chaoge, that is, banditry.

Chaoge was originally free of banditry. However, with the stationing of General Zhendong in the festival, Hanoi was full of people who were conscripted and sent to transport military supplies to the Qishui front.

But how many teams can survive the cold? More and more fled to the countryside with the villagers and became bandits.

This is still a part, and after Zhang Chong attacked Chaoge at night with a sudden cavalry, the Han army stationed outside the city dispersed in a hurry.

Except for the northern part of Hanoi, such as the county commanders of Linxi, Dangyin and other counties, who surrendered to the Taishan army in the city, the others scattered and returned to their hometowns.

But again, they had no military quarters and no winter clothes, and they could only be bandits nearby. In addition, Hanoi is densely forested with mountains, which is the hiding place of these soldiers and bandits.

In view of these bandits, Zhang Chong did not plan to go to the level of suppression as soon as possible, and the time was not yet ripe, so he could only mark them first, and then concentrate his forces to suppress them.

In addition to household registration and security work, another important issue is the land issue.

After entering the city, because he wanted to stabilize the situation, Zhang Chong did not directly deprive the court officials of their land. But now, with the pacification of the city, Zhang Chong decided to confiscate all the land of the court officials' homes first.

For some of them, Zhang Chong instructed his local leaders or slaves to stand up and fight those people. Let them have revenge for injustice, revenge for revenge. Their Taishan army stood behind these people and supported them.

But don't replace the struggle between Qianshou and Yongnu, let them come by themselves, and let them walk firmly with the Taishan army.

As for the rest of the officials, who were neither the officials of the court song nor the evil townsmen, Zhang Chong only ordered them to reduce their rents, but did not directly recover their land.

This is because the Taishan Army is still on the front line in the Chaoge area, and there is not enough military strength to carry out in-depth transformation of all areas. It can only be done in this gradual way, one step at a time.

The same logic is the case, because the number of military officers is insufficient, and the work is currently carried out in several important areas.

For example, we will focus on the Makino area southeast of Asaka.

Zhang Chong's idea was to make an all-out breakthrough in the Muye area first, concentrate the military officials to expropriate and distribute land here, establish and cultivate a group of active leaders who could go with the Taishan army, and then use these people as an expansion, and then launch work in the surrounding areas.

If these active leaders perform well in their work, they can be absorbed into the field team of the Taishan Army and continuously cultivated.

Absorbing the active leaders of this place everywhere is what the Taishan army is used to, and there is nothing to say.

After Zhang Chong finished talking about these tasks, he began to talk about the most important thing this time, that is, the movement of the main force of the Han army on the south bank of Qishui.

He asked everyone to speak enthusiastically first, and he wanted to see the level of planning and warfare of these soldiers under his command now.

The first to speak was Xu Zhong, the cavalry general, who had a beard on his face and did not smile, but often had amazing words.

At this time, he took the lead in talking about his own strategy.

"Qu Shuai, I see that the Han army in Henan has changed or there has been a change in it, or there has been a change in Kyoto."

Zhang Chong, who was at the top, nodded his head and motioned for him to continue.

So Xu Zhong began to preach:

"Qu Shuai, do you remember when we left the Xingyang area, who were the pursuers behind us? In addition to the Henan Han army of Zhang Wen, there is also a large part of the troops of the powerful people from all over Yuzhou."

Hearing Xu Zhong say it, the rest of the cavalry generals remembered this.

yes, there wasn't a soldier in the first place

What? Why is it missing now.

Xu Zhong is a native of Yuzhou, and as a local hero, he has no shortage of opportunities to get along with the local family heroes, so he also knows the situation of the Henan heroes better than the rest of the army.

So he boldly speculated:

"Qu Shuai, this is what I said about the enemy may change."

He continued:

"I know these heroes in Yuzhou, and their conceit on weekdays is the best in the world, and they can still unite to protect the territory and the people, and if they come to Hebei to unite as one, I am afraid that it will not be possible."

Zhang Chong understood what Xu Zhong meant, he just said that the powerful people in Henan didn't want to get involved in the war in Hebei, so they left early.

Zhang Chong nodded, and then wondered:

"Ah Zhong, I understand what you said. But what does this have to do with the Han army's return to the south?"

Xu Zhong explained:

"Qu Shuai, it stands to reason that we attacked Chaoge and beheaded Zhang Wen, the commander of the Han army, so the army on the south bank of Qishui should not say that they will attack us back, at least they must not move. But what about now? Directly to retreat to the south. This shows that there is clearly a new leader on the other side. And most of these leaders are connected with the heroes of Henan Bendao. Otherwise, how can those Henan heroes tolerate this group of foreign soldiers?"

What Xu Zhong said has some truth, but in Zhang Chong's opinion, it is still too far-fetched. He did not speak, but looked at the silent horseman beside him, and asked:

"Li Fu, tell me what you think."

Li Fu is also a cavalry general, known as brave, at this time the general called him by name, he hurriedly got up and replied:

"Shuai Qu, there is still too little information about this matter, instead of speculating about the reason for their retreat, it is better to discuss how we should deal with it."

This was insightful, and Zhang Chong motioned for Li Fu to continue.

But Li Fu didn't dare to say anything more at this moment, he only saluted Zhang Chong and said:

"Fu is a martial artist, I don't know what the temple is? I don't dare to speculate at will. Fu only knows that if Qu Shuai wants me to fight, Fu will fight as much as he wants."

Of course, Li Fu didn't know, but this person was too cautious and didn't dare to live as a commander.

Zhang Chong was dumbfounded, knowing that his subordinates had such concerns.

In fact, as the power of the Taishan army became more and more powerful, Zhang Chong's prestige became more and more powerful, and his subordinates became more and more restrained in getting along with him.

Zhang Chong is still the same, but he also knows that some things are different in the end.

Therefore, Li Fu's restraint, Zhang Chong did not scold him much, but was thoughtful.

But just as he was about to say something, there was a news from outside the palace that a Han envoy had entered the city and had been received outside the palace, asking Qu Shuai if he wanted to meet him.

Zhang Chong wondered why this Han envoy came, so he called him into the hall.

Xun You, under the leadership of a soldier, kept his head down and kept shuttling through the corridor of the military palace.

Xun You peeked at several important places in the military palace, and saw that they were all guards with halberds, so he didn't dare to look more, so he just hurried with the leading soldiers.

In just a moment, Xun You was taken to a spacious mansion.

Then the armor soldier turned to Xun You and said:

"Don't move around here, bump into something you shouldn't bump into, and slash it with a knife. I'll report to Qu Shuai, you wait here."

Xun You knew that this armor soldier had good intentions, and was busy bending down to him.

This is Xun You's personality, without the arrogance and arrogance of the children of the family, and some are pragmatic and intellectual.

Soon, Xun You was brought into the hall, and under the gaze of a group of wolf-like Taishan generals, he finally met the sky-high general, Zhang Chong.

At this time, this Zhang Chong was sitting on a small pony, simply draped in a big hat, and his hair was also tied with wooden wattles.

Xun You looked at Zhang Chong's young face and was a little distracted. He didn't expect that the characters who could roll up such a big trend would look at more than twenty.

He was a little skeptical that this person was the so-called shadow servant, but looking at this Chong Ming's eyes, Xun You understood that this person was indeed the general who rushed to the sky.

To be honest, Xun You's heart for this person named Zhang Chong is very complicated. His uncle died at the hands of this man, and the world of the Han family was also affected by him

Stirred.

However, after Xun You had a deeper understanding of Taishan's ideas and actions, he had some respect for them and their cause in his heart.

Why is this world chaotic?

As a child of a family in Yuzhou, he has too much right to speak.

The eunuchs are greedy and excessive, and the heroes of the family gather and merge, and they do not belong to the Han on this day, which makes the yin and yang in the world out of balance.

Xun You's heart is eager for a hero to come out, to reopen the world, and then to set the regular order. But it's a pity that he really met such a hero, but Xun You sadly found that he and others were the sacrifice of heroes.

Xun You restrained his mind, bowed to Zhang Chong, and introduced himself:

"Foreign envoy Xun You, I have seen the general of the sky."

When Zhang Chong heard this, he blinked, looked at the jade tree scholar below, and said secretly:

"This is Xun You. Sure enough, it's a talent."

Although Xun You is a famous minister and strategist, when he reaches Zhang Chong's position, he has long been immune to these.

Therefore, Zhang Chong said very calmly:

"Foreign envoy, you and I are at odds with each other, why did you come to me today?"

Xun You didn't use any vertical and horizontal techniques to coax Zhang Chong, but directly said the demands of himself and others:

"General Shenwu, I have waited for the battle several times, and if I say something unpleasant, I am still afraid. The lieutenant general asked me to send an envoy, which is to implore the general to spare our Henan Han army, and I am willing to return to Henan and never set foot in Hebei again."

Xun You's words are no longer modest, they are completely humble.

But the more this is the case, the more vigilant Zhang Chong becomes, after all, there must be cats to be tired of being polite to others.

So, Zhang Chong thought about it and asked rhetorically:

"What if I don't let it go?"

Even when he heard Zhang Chong's obvious malice, Xun You's face did not change, and he continued:

"It's also right for the general not to let go. After all, what a feat it is to be able to annihilate the two main forces of the Han family, one in the south and one in the north, in Hebei. But I have to remind the general that you don't make a wedding dress for others."

"Although our Han army is weak, it still has more than 10,000 armored soldiers and 4,000 cavalry. The trapped beast is still fighting, although it is not the enemy of you, the general, but the general's Taishan army does not die in the same number, I am afraid that it will not be able to annihilate us. And at that time, the strength of the Taishan army will be greatly damaged, how can it gain a foothold in Hebei?"

"Why don't you let me wait to go south, and when the time comes, the general will do it himself to the north of this big river."

At this moment, Zhang Chong stopped talking.

The generals in the hall also watched their noses and noses, and their noses looked at their hearts, and they remained silent throughout the whole process. So the atmosphere in the hall was directly solemn.

After a while, Zhang Chong shouted:

"The Venerable Wind and Snow came here, and it was also cold. I'll go to the next room and have a cup of hot wine."

After speaking, Zhang Chong asked Xun Yu to take him down.

As soon as Xun You left, Li Fu and the others began to talk about it.

Obviously, there is also a big disagreement among the generals on whether to let the Han army return south.

As Li Fu meant, now the Han army is so groveling, it just shows that its mountains and rivers are exhausted, as long as they block the Han army's southward passage here, how long can the opposite side hold out in this severe cold?

When the time comes, the Henan Han army will be dispersed, and then go north to annihilate the Hebei Han army, then the world will really change color.

Xu Zhong's opinion is the same, he knows the strength of the heroes in Henan, and he knows that if he doesn't chase after the victory when the other side is in distress, he will definitely regret it later.

Only now when the main force of the Henan Han army is disabled, will it be smooth when it goes south.

This Xu Zhong's view is very forward-looking, and he knows the so-called difficult things first and then easy things.

However, the other cavalry generals present had different views, and they generally believed that it was better to be cautious, first eat the Hebei Han army in the bowl, occupy Hebei, and then make plans for the future.

The views of these two factions are very correct, and to be honest, Zhang Chong can't make up his mind.

Li Fu and Xu Zhong's ideas are right? Zhang Chong thinks it still makes sense.

The reason for the fight against Jinzhou in the Liaoshen Battle in later generations is the same

In a bit similar. It is to try to annihilate the main force of the enemy army in one place, and from time to time they will flee to other places, putting pressure on other battlefields.

But Zhang Chong thought about it carefully, and still felt that there was still no comparison with the Liaoshen Campaign. At present, the power of the Taishan army is still in a corner, and it is completely incomparable with the powerful situation of Liao Shen that our side occupies most of the north.

Now, he Zhang Chong smashed the pot and sold the fall to annihilate the Henan Han army, and he may not be able to defeat the Hebei Han army in the future. And in reality? The main forces of the Han armies of Henan and Hebei have different interests to the Taishan army at the current stage.

The former has made it clear that he will no longer set foot in Hebei and will return to Henan for repairs. And from the fact that they dared to associate with him Zhang Chong in private, they knew that this Han army was detached from the Han family.

The Hebei Han Army is different, most of them are children of the five schools, and they are the hardcore of the Han family. It is also the party that Zhang Chong must eliminate if he wants to achieve the goal of the group and the situation.

But Zhang Chong was not sure that his decision was really right.

To put it bluntly, he is also an ordinary person, and the prophetic preconceptions brought up from the downstream of history in the past have long been useless at this time, and history has long been changed beyond recognition by him.

Therefore, now Zhang Chong is also standing at a crossroads of history, facing a difficult choice.

Is it to put or to stay?

This was the third day that Lu Zhi's army was stationed in Jize on the third day.

On the ninth day, he led *** Dao to come here, and then built fortifications here, preparing to deal with the Qingzhou Yellow Turban and Taishan Army coalition forces that rushed in.

The original plan was that he was going to lead his army south and attack the Taishan army with Zhang Wenbu in Henan. But when he learned that the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army in the direction of the Lieren was pouring out, and there was also a Taishan Army accompanying the army, which was coming from the east of Handan, Lu Zhi had to change his original plan.

At this time, a sentry in a silk coat was beating his horse in a hurry and galloping towards Lu Zhi's camp.

As soon as he arrived, a soldier at the checkpoint stopped him with a bow, and asked:

"Who dares to run a horse before the camp and live enough?"

The sentry did not explain at all, and continued to ride his horse and shout:

"Avoid, avoid, emergency military situation."

At this moment, the Han military officials at the nearby sentry post immediately beckoned the gate below, and directly let the sentry ride go all the way to the Han army camp.

The sentry rode with a small flag on his back, and could only open the gate of the big camp and run directly into the big camp.

Generally speaking, horses are not allowed to run in the camp, and once there are runners, they will be killed. But there is one situation that can, and that is the 100,000 urgent military situation.

Therefore, when the camp remembered the sound of running horses, the military officials in the nearby tents opened the big tents one after another and looked over, and they knew that there must be a major military situation.

The sound of horses' hooves in the camp also alarmed the coach Lu Zhi.

Lu Zhi was presiding over the routine military meeting, and when he heard the sound of horses' hooves, he directly put aside the generals and opened the big tent.

At this time, the sentry also happened to be running.

Not far from Lu Zhi, the sentry horse dismounted, and he didn't have time to breathe, and sent the emergency military report to Lu Zhi.

Lu Zhi only glanced at the military newspaper, and his face turned white. After that, he didn't say a word and went straight to the account.

Soon, a low, shocking drum beat was heard in the camp.

That's a drum.

Subsequently, the officials in the camp saw that their main general was carrying a bag, and they hurried to the direction of the Chinese army's big tent.

Everyone knows that the big war is coming.

When Gongsun Zhan explained the military affairs and hurried to the big tent, he saw that the big tent was already full of military officials with more than 600 stones.

Gongsun Chan peeked at Lu Zhi, who was above him, and when he saw that his teacher's face was terrible, he felt a sigh in his heart, and hurriedly sat on Cui Jun's side.

Cui Junzheng pursed his lips and didn't speak, and he was so daze that he didn't even notice Gongsun Chan sitting on the side.

Gongsun Chan hurriedly poked Cui Jun before waking him up.

Seeing his friend's depressed appearance, Gongsun Chan knew that this time the matter was serious.

He lowered his voice and asked:

"What's going on, I look at Lu Shuai's whole person

It's all gone, it's too rare."

It is indeed too rare, as a famous Han Confucian master, Lu Zhi's calm kung fu is undoubtedly first-class, and he can be shocked to the point that he loses his mind, you can imagine how serious it is.

Thinking about it like this, Gongsun Chan was even more worried, and he was about to grab Cui Jun and ask, but he listened to his words:

"Guess who I saw?"

"Who?"

"One of your brother's companions. To be precise, he sent this military report."

As soon as he heard this, Gongsun Chan couldn't help but say:

"Xuande's companion? Didn't they go to the south? How can there be a military newspaper? Could it be?"

Cui Jun nodded and didn't speak again.

Yes, if Liu Bei Pegasus, who went to the south, could send 100,000 urgent military reports, then the Han army in the south must have had an accident.

As for what happened, Gongsun Chan didn't dare to think about it.

Soon, all the officers in the army had already sat down, and they all looked at Lu Zhi who was in a daze.

Lu Zhi did not hide his lost soul and loneliness at all. Obviously, he is in a mess, and he can't care about performing any handsome style.

Everyone looked at Lu Zhi, and no one took the initiative to speak until Lu Zhi came back to his senses.

Lu Zhi turned his head to look at the full number of military officials in the tent, and suddenly shouted:

"Order!"

After the words fell, the military judge stepped forward and began to start the roll call according to the list of officials.

Every time one shouted, one of the officers stood up and answered.

For a while, the military officials sat up one after another, and the big tent was slowly filled with a murderous aura, which rushed back to the original panic.

In a moment, in the big tent, the military officials were all standing up.

The military judge on the side closed the book of military officials and said to Lu Zhi:

"Marshal, there are two hundred and eighty officers above the army squadron, all of whom are in this account."

Lu Zhi bowed his head, and then he raised the military report in his hand and said to the generals:

"This is an urgent military report sent by Liu Xuande from the south, and it only says one thing, that is, Chaoge has fallen."

As soon as this statement came out, it was tantamount to a shock.

The generals couldn't help but talk to each other.

The fall of the song?

Isn't Chaoge the place where the Zhendong general Zhang Wen is stationed? How did it fall?

Now that it's fallen, what happened to Zhang Wen? What happened to the Han army in Henan?

These questions, which were asked from the crowd, all pointed to Lu Zhi.

Faced with one inquiry after another, Lu Zhi's face became gloomy.

At this time, Gongsun Zhan immediately slapped his halberd at the crowd and scolded:

"Presumptuous, you are so daring, and you dare to make noise in front of the handsome. Where is the military judge, and not yet cleansed?"

As soon as these words came out, the halberdiers outside the tent rushed into the big tent, and just waited for Lu Zhi's order to drag away the noisy military officials.

Lu Zhi waved his hand and didn't let the halberders arrest anyone.

He stood up, walked up to all the military officials, and said in a deep voice:

"The military report sent by Xuande was too brief, and it only explained the fall of Chaoge City. Obviously, this military report was sent by Xuande when the city was broken. As for General Zhendong, the military newspaper did not say. But with Zhang Shuai's fierce spirit, most of them were martyred."

After saying this, Lu Zhi glanced at the generals and continued:

"As for the situation of the Han army in Henan, which you are most concerned about. Xuande made it clear. A Tarzan army assaulting Chaoge rode out. They traveled hundreds of miles in the snow, bypassed the Han army's defense line in Qishui, and went straight to Chaoge. And when the Han army in the city was unprepared, he broke the song of the court."

Lu Zhi's words comforted the Han army officials present.

To be honest, what they are most concerned about is whether the Henan Han Army still exists, as for Zhang Wen? They don't know each other and don't care too much.

Don't blame them either.

Because the military officials present were at least 50 people long, and they already had some battle concepts. They knew that the current form in Hebei was that their Han armies on the north and south were intertwined with the Hebei Yellow Turbans, Qingzhou Yellow Turbans, and Taishan Army.

And this is the most dangerous in the outer geographies

It's their Hebei Road Han Army. First of all, they have been surrounded by the Hebei Yellow Turban, Qingzhou Yellow Turban, and Taishan Army from the north, east, and south.

To the west of them is the Taihang Mountain, which is not able to carry a large army at all. When the time comes, if you really want to run away, except for a small number of high-ranking military officials in the army who can run away, everyone else will be buried here in Handan.

At this time, as an ally to the south, the importance of the Henan Han Army can be imagined. It can be said that as long as they and the Henan Han army first attacked the Taishan army in the north and south, the rest will be swept away by the autumn wind, and there is nothing to be afraid of.

Therefore, when they knew that the Henan Han army was only the commander who was beheaded, and its military strength still existed, everyone put their hearts down.

Lu Zhi knew better than them, if it was just Zhang Wen's death, he wouldn't have lost his soul like this. But now in this situation, he didn't dare to say what he was speculating about, and could only pray that he was thinking too much.

In the end, Lu Zhimian sank down and ordered to the generals:

"Although the Henan Han army still exists, they are also surrounded on both sides, and the death of the commander can be imagined as a blow to their morale. Therefore, I intend to change my original strategy of sitting on the battlefield and take the initiative to find the main force of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban to fight against it."

Lu Zhi said loudly:

"As long as we annihilate the Qingzhou Yellow Turban and then lead our division south, this victory will still be ours!"

"Whoa!"