Xi Zhicai's expression was very serious and resolute, Wei Xuan could only look at Jia Xu with a smile when he saw this, and Jia Xu twisted his head to the side with a smile on the corner of his mouth, obviously not interested in Wei Xuan's sudden temptation.

After Xi Zhicai finished speaking, Guo Jia, Zhang Liao, Zhao Yun and others also tactfully persuaded Wei Xuan to adhere to the established line. Wei Xuan thought about it carefully, and actually understood that if the established line was abandoned, the defense of the entire four counties would have to be replanned, and many of the policies that were being implemented now would have to be adjusted accordingly, so the best way at the moment was to convince Yuan Shao but not go crazy and fight with himself.

In Yecheng, Wei County, Yan Liang led five thousand elite wind and dust servants to rush outside the city, they had been from Gaoyi for more than ten days, and he could finally have a good rest here. When he was passing through Zhao State, he received news from the rear that Yuan Shao was preparing to march in person. Yan Liang thought that his own assistance was also to gain prestige, so he slowed down his march.

In Yan Liang's opinion, the lord of Yizhou, Hanoi, who was stationed with 10,000 people, felt that it was a bit too much, not to mention that Chun Yuqiong's 30,000 infantry pressed into Hanoi, once his 5,000 elites crossed the border, Hanoi would definitely be panicked, and he would attack first??????????????? Occupy a few cities, and then wait until Chun Yuqiong arrives, if Wei Xuan has no reinforcements from other places to come, the Hao clan in Hanoi will definitely join Yuan Shao.

Yecheng Ling had already gotten the news, and as soon as Yan Liang's team arrived, he led people to come with wine to reward the three armies, and Yan Liang naturally did not refuse to come.

However, as a famous general in Hebei, Yan Liang, the vanguard of the whole army, did not forget to send scouts to the border between Wei County and Hanoi to reconnoitre.

When Yan Liang woke up in the arms of the two fourteen or fifteen-year-old girls sent by the county order the next day, the scout also returned to Yecheng, and the result of the reconnaissance was uneventful.

The shape of Wei County resembles an inverted embossed character, Yecheng is in the middle of this character, the prominent part of the embossed character is Neihuang, the west side of the embossed character is Hanoi, and the east side is the Yellow River and Yanzhou East County. The two counties bordering Hanoi in the west are Wu'an and Sheguo from north to south, and in order to avoid Shangdang, Yan Liang's choice is to prepare to enter Hanoi from Sheguo. The scout reported that everything was business as usual on the Hanoi border at present, which made Yan Liang look down on Wei Xuan a little bit. It was only a three-day journey from Yecheng to Hanoi, didn't the Hanoi generals think that their lord Yuan Shaozhi was far away in Gaoyi and would not attack Hanoi?

After breakfast, Yan Liang reluctantly left from the arms of the two girls, and while ordering the troops to march towards the country, he also notified most of Chun Yuqiong in the rear.

In the evening of the next day, Yan Liang's forward had already arrived in Sheguo, and the minister of Shiguo was naturally indispensable to entertain him. Waiting for the next day, the scout brought more detailed news, it turned out that the scout sneaked into Hanoi overnight, and when he returned early this morning, he met a caravan from Hanoi that wanted to go to Wuji, which was the caravan of Wuji Zhen's family.

The scout also proudly described the situation of his encounter with the Zhen family's caravan for them, lamenting that the Zhen family was rich, and only did he know that the three of them were Jizhou scouts, but also prepared five stones of refined salt and more than 30 jars of liquor brewed by the Wei family for Yan Liang's forwards.

The scout naturally didn't dare to swallow it all privately and handed it over to Yan Liang, Yan Liang knew that it was all good things, but since it was the caravan of the Wuji Zhen family, it was normal. However, Yan Liang smiled and asked the guards to put away the golden cakes, refined salt, liquor, etc., and his face was blank: "I would have asked you to go to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, but you waited with the caravan and delayed the military aircraft, can you afford it?" ”

The scout who came to report hurriedly knelt on the ground: "General Mingjian, I waited for the three of us to enter the country and worked hard to reconnoitre, but I didn't find anything abnormal, and when I met the Jizhou caravan, I just wanted to talk about some information from the caravan's mouth, and these are the small ones that the Zhen family caravan insisted on giving to the small ones after civilizing the situation." ”

Yan Liang sighed, waiting for the scout to ask, "Are you really sure that it is the Zhen family's caravan?" ”

The scout nodded: "It's true, and the Zhen family caravan doesn't seem to know that we are about to start a war with Hanoi, so it was very surprising to hear that the small gate is a scout in the army, and from their words, the small gate can be sure that the Hanoi generals and ordinary people don't seem to know that our army is about to enter." ”

Yan Liang nodded, the Zhen family is a wealthy family in Jizhou, and I want to come here to buy goods in Luoyang, it is said that Luoyang is all good things made by the Hedong Wei family. For the convenience of the future, a little loose gift in advance to dot the army in Jizhou shows that the Zhen family is really rich, and it also shows that Hanoi's defense is lax.

As for the ??????????????? sent by the Zhen family The gifts of refined salt and liquor must be given to Chun Yuqiong, and most of them must be given to Yuan Shao, the lord who is about to arrive in Yecheng, so Yan Liang only opened one of the jars and tasted it with his lieutenants and military marquis.

Tasting Wan Chunxiang's liquor, Yan Liang decided to follow the previous plan and take the lead in entering the country to seize the first or second county seats. He traveled with most of Chun Yuqiong's people in one day, and he could do a lot of things on this day, which was also a great opportunity for him to make meritorious contributions.

That night, Yan Liang camped on the border of the two counties, and early the next morning, he entered Hanoi with 5,000 Jizhou elites and went straight to Xiuwu County, the first target.

Xiuwu County is 60 miles west of the country, the country is large, Xiuwu is small, and Xiuwu is only more than 20 miles away from the border of Bene.

Yan Liang's plan was to prepare to spend the night in Xiuwu, so he urged his subordinates to march in a hurry early in the morning. After only traveling more than ten miles, the humiliation of the scouts who had been constantly reporting back and forth along the way suddenly had no news, Yan Liang became vigilant, immediately stopped the team, and sent more than a dozen scouts around him to check the situation.

Waiting for the scout to report was at home, Yan Liang remembered what the scout told him about the Zhen family's caravan before, it stands to reason that the caravan of Zhen should not go north until it enters the territory of Wei County, even if it is to avoid his own army, the scouts who are scattered will definitely be encountered, Yan Liang also wants to thank people through the mouth of the scout.

Yan Liang waited in place for half an hour and didn't see the scouts sent out, he knew that something was wrong, and now it seems that the enemy in Hanoi was discovered by the enemy because the previous wave of scouts was too casual. If this is the case, then it is necessary to hurry as soon as possible, in case Xiuwu has a defense, it is better to capture the county seat before sunset.

So Yan Liang gathered more than 30 people from all the captains and marquis of the whole army to open the way in front, and he followed closely with 5,000 people.

After walking for three miles, he suddenly saw three or four of the soldiers who were temporarily used as scouts, and fled back covered in blood.

Yan Liang frowned, urged his hips to stop a few people and asked, "What happened?" ”

One of the soldiers who was slightly slightly injured said: "General, there are many enemy scouts, lying in ambush in the forests on both sides of the front, and we are unprepared to be wounded by cold arrows. The other brothers were left behind. ”

Yan Liang glared and scolded: "How much is a lot?" Do you want Ben to go and count them yourself? ”

The scout rolled to the ground and kowtowed: "There are at least fifty or sixty people, their horses are very fast, they are also very agile on horseback, they are all wearing bows and arrows, we are not opponents." ”

The scout didn't really see how many enemies there were, anyway, he was ambushed and bowed down, and almost everyone turned around and ran back, but he knew that Xiang Duoli was right.

Yan Liang frowned, now it seems that the enemy is prepared, but his own personal soldiers are also incompetent, so many people in front of them actually didn't see clearly how many enemy scouts there were?

After thinking about it, Yan Liang gritted his teeth and didn't continue to investigate, just marched all the way and arrived directly under Xiuwu City.

The whole team continued to move forward, and soon they encountered the small forest that the scout said, but when Yan Liang saw the forest clearly, the national model suddenly blew his beard and glared angrily, where is this wood, seventy or eighty steps wide in the middle, no more than three or four hundred steps long, and there are probably Linlin on both sides??????????????? Hundreds of arm-thick trees have been planted, and if you are a little smart, the enemy will definitely not be able to hide. But his scouts and personal soldiers were actually ambushed. Yan Liang looked at the soldiers who were shot dead by the enemy on the road, and did not stop for a moment, waving his hand and continuing to move forward.

Everything is normal, there is no ambush in the grove, and the ambush is at most a thousand people hidden in this grove. When the time comes, they will have to run out of the woods, and who will not know who is in ambush. In the art of war, it is often said that the forest does not enter the forest, and the kind of forest with no road in the middle, and this small forest is obviously the number of trees planted later on both sides of the pipe, which is not suitable for large-scale ambush hiding. Even if the enemy is hiding inside, your 5,000 infantry can calmly position themselves in the open space in the middle.

It's just that when Yan Liang was about to cross the grove with a large army, there was a sudden rumbling sound of horses' hooves behind him. To be precise, when most of their more than 5,000 elites entered the middle clearing between the groves, a large number of cavalry were killed from both sides behind them at the same time. This is obviously a charge that was really seen from a distance, and only then was launched from a distance!

This is accurately calculated, there is still an ambush, Yan Liang is a little unwilling, but Yan Liang's conscience is not chaotic, the scout battle in front has reminded him, with sufficient preparation, his marching team will also be led forward according to the captains and marquis of each school, the big deal is that the rear team will become the front team in situ.

Yan Liang was about to order a formation to defend in place, but a military marquis who was left behind rode through the infantry formation and came to Yan Liang and said anxiously: "General, the enemy has dispatched a lot of cavalry, at least three or four thousand people. ”

Yan Liang's heart trembled, although he was very brave, he knew that cavalry and infantry were different, he usually relied on his personal bravery on the scum field, and twenty relied on the height of the war horse. Now that the enemy has dispatched three or four thousand cavalry, the infantry will not be able to complete the formation defense in a hurry, and they will definitely be killed by the enemy's cavalry.

Yan Liang ordered to form a formation on the spot, and at the same time ran over the road he had traveled under the leadership of the marquis, he wanted to see how powerful the enemy's cavalry was. If the enemy is only more cavalry, he will lead his own troops to charge for a while, and then retreat into the infantry phalanx.