It is said that Yuan Tan raised 30,000 troops and went straight to the camp.

Zhao Chen summoned everyone to hurriedly discuss countermeasures, and Bu Qi and Cheng Yu advised Zhao Chen not to risk a cavalry raid.

After all, the cavalry is good at raiding, not good at attacking cities, even if a hundred miles of raids can be killed under the city gate, they can't break the city, so it is better to advance steadily with the army.

But Zhao Chen knew in his heart that in history, Cao Cao broke Yuanshu, but it was only two months, starting in September and ending in November, although the history has changed because of him, the strength of the two sides has not changed until Cao Cao beat Yuanshu, and the time and place have not changed, and the time required will not change much.

In addition, at the beginning of the second year of Jian'an, Liu Zhengli will be defeated by Sun Ce and lose Qu A, and now although Sun Ce has been silent for several months, no matter what, Liu Zhengli is not Sun Ce's opponent, and at most he will not support until the end of the year.

Zhao Chen must take most of Qingzhou before the above two things, otherwise he will face the double pressure of Cao Cao in the west and Sun Ce in the south and have no intention of taking Qingzhou.

He looked at the map, thought about it for a long time, and had other plans in mind.

It's night.

The stars shine brightly.

Outside Gumu City, a group of people and horses walked towards the border area of Qingzhou.

The Yuan Tan scouts who were originally arranged near this place retreated one after another when they saw this, and those who didn't have time to retreat were all beheaded.

After cleaning up the scene, the team sent messengers back to Gumu City quietly.

After a while, another group of men and horses quietly left the city by night.

There were a total of 5,000 people in this team, and the leader was Zhao Chen, as well as Zhang Liao, Xu Sheng and Lu Xun, who followed closely all the way.

The people and horses did not take Anqiu and went to Yingling, but chose to follow the north of Keiwu Mountain and touch it in the direction of Laiwu, Taishan County.

The biggest force in Taishan County is Sun Guan of the Taishan Group, Zhao Chen repaired a book in advance, and asked the messenger to send it to Mu County quickly, asking Sun Guan to help clean up Yuan Tan's scouts near Laiwu, so that Zhao Chen could conceal the movements of the army.

On the other side, in the city of Gumu.

Zhang Fei led the army back slowly, and Cheng Yu was calculating the specific location of Yuan Tan's army and tomorrow's attack plan.

Bu Qi asked Cheng Yu softly: "Zhongde, is this trip too risky?" ”

Cheng Yu glanced at the map, and finally dropped his finger on Linzi of Qi State, and then said: "The Qingzhou power is not very important to Yuan Shao, and now his focus is on the north, so there are not many garrisons in Qingzhou. According to the spies, there were only 50,000 people. Yuan Tan led an army of 30,000 on this trip, in other words, only 20,000 were left in Linzi, which is not much for a military division. ”

"20,000 against 5,000, it is already four times, and the military division has traveled a long distance, and Yuan Tan's army is waiting for work, I am afraid it will be difficult to win."

Cheng Yu said with a smile: "Zishan doesn't have to worry, the real purpose of the military division's trip is not to break the city, but to let Yuan Tan ignore it and mess with himself, which is conducive to our army taking the opportunity to take Beihai, so five thousand people are enough." ”

At this point, Buqi was a little at ease.

Zhuge Jin on the side heard a cold sweat, he had never seen Zhao Chen use soldiers, and he made such a big dangerous move for the first time today.

Before leaving, Zhao Chen specially explained that he must take care of the little master and wait for him to come back.

In the camp, the foot trainer is preparing various herbs for the soldiers to stop the bleeding in time.

In the past few days of the march, the infantry trainer summed up some rules, the most important thing in the march to treat the soldiers is not to use medicine to nourish the body, but to have the most effective and fastest hemostatic painkiller, which can make the injured soldiers stop bleeding in the first time, so as not to lose too much blood and cannot be treated.

Bu Qi looked at the foot trainer with a slightly bulging belly, and asked softly, "Did the military master ever know about this?" ”

The step trainer shook his head: "Houde is concentrating on going to Beihai at this time, how can he be distracted by this matter." Uncle also can't let Houde know, wait for Houde to capture Beihai, and then make plans. ”

Bu Qiu was helpless, so he had to agree: "It's very dangerous to go to Beihai here, so the little master should rest assured in Gumu." This place is not far from Chang'an and Anqiu, and it is convenient for soldiers to go back and forth. ”

The trainer nodded in agreement.

In the early morning of the next day, Zhang Fei led the people and led the remaining 5,000 soldiers to slowly advance towards Anqiu and Chang'an.

The army was actually under the banner of Zhao Chen.

Zhang Fei and Chen Zhi made a bet that whoever could win the city first would win a pot of good wine.

Zhang Fei drew Anqiu, and Chang'an naturally took Chen's turn.

As soon as they entered the Qingzhou territory, the two of them each led 2,000 troops and attacked them separately.

The Anqiu guards didn't have time to go to the camp to report, so they were stabbed off the horse by Zhang Fei; The Chang'an City guard was no exception, and after less than a round of fighting with Chen Zhi, he was stabbed down.

The two easily pressed the two small counties of Beihai Kingdom, but these two counties were very important for Zhao Chen's army to march into Beihai.

Only when the two counties are in the hands of Zhao Chen's army can they ensure that the grain route from Langya to Beihai will not be cut off.

Eighty miles away from Yingling, Yuan Tanzheng led the army slowly, already knowing that it was impossible for Zhao Chen's army to reach Yingling before him.

Not far away, a scout hurriedly ran over, and immediately knelt down and reported: "General, Zhao Chen divided his troops into two ways, all the way Zhang Fei broke through Anqiu, all the way to Chen Zhi's army broke Chang'an, and now Zhao Chen's army is heading towards Yingling." ”

Yuan Tan was slightly startled and said, "It's quite fast, pass the order, move forward quickly, and advance to Yingling City tonight." ”

The next day, Zhang Fei continued to cross Wenshui under the banner of Zhao Chen, and set up camp twenty miles away from Yingling.

This place is backed by Wenshui, the east is Fuzhen Mountain, and the west is the camp tomb.

Zhang Fei and Cheng Yu will be in charge of the village, and the gate of the village is closed.

This place is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and this place is deeply rooted in the true legend of the soldiers.

Yuan Tan entered Yingling City last night, and heard that Zhao Chen's army had arrived in the east of Yingling City early this morning, so he led the soldiers to visit the camp.

Sure enough, there was a big "Zhao" banner on the camp, and all parties in the camp were interlocking, reasonable before and after, and it was indeed a good camp.

Yuan Tan couldn't help but sigh: "Zhao Chen is really handsome!" ”

How could Yuan Tan know that there was no Zhao Chen in the camp in front of him, and it was all arranged by Zhang Fei according to Zhao Chen's requirements.

And the real Zhao Chen, at this time, had already led an army of 5,000 people from Laiwu up the Zishui River to the edge of the Fu Mountain, only thirty miles away from Linzi.

Zhao Chen called Zhang Liao, Xu Sheng, and Lu Xun to his side and ordered: "At this time, Yide should have led the army to confront Yuan Tan at Yingling, and it was when our army sent troops to attack Linzi. ”

As soon as the words fell, Zhang Liao and Xu Sheng's eyes burned, and this moment had finally arrived.

In the past two days, they have been cautious all the way, just for fear that their whereabouts will be exposed in advance and they will not be able to successfully attack the Qi State.

Until this moment, the army remained silent.

It's early afternoon.

Zhao Chen said to Zhang Liao: "Wenyuan, Linzi City is high, according to the spy report, there are about 20,000 people guarding the town, and there are only 3,000 people in Dong'anping, the ferry port on the east side, and you will lead 1,000 cavalry, set off immediately, and quickly take Dong'anping." Then wait for the Linzi army to go out of the city to rescue, wait for the Linzi army to approach, you fight and retreat, lure the Linzi army to the Wenshui side, and lead the army to rush to kill. ”

"Our cavalry moves quickly, coming and going without a trace, and we must take advantage of this advantage."

Zhang Liao said: "The military advisor can rest assured that he will not dishonor the military order." ”

Zhao Chen said to Xu Sheng again: "Wen Xiang listened to the order and ordered you to lead three thousand soldiers to take advantage of today's night to approach Linzi from the west. Seeing that the fire was on fire in the east, he led the army to attack Linzi quickly. The focus of this trip is to take Linzi quickly, if you wait for dawn and do not take it, evacuate quickly, and return to Yanshan. ”

Xu Sheng replied excitedly: "Xu Sheng takes the order." ”

This is the first time he has led a military battle, from a small centurion, to a partial general, a partial general who can lead the battle, and a sense of accomplishment arises spontaneously.