"You don't have to worry about this matter, the logistics will be left to me, if there is any difference, I will see you in Shan Zichun."

"That's too much." Xu Sheng waved his hand.

"After all, it's wartime, everything is based on war, don't worry about it, general, you can just give me a direct order."

"Since this is the case, then you are welcome, I estimate that the enemy will come to the city tomorrow evening at the latest, so the matter of transporting supplies, inspecting spies and even mobilizing the people, we must hurry up tonight."

Shan Zichun immediately became nervous, if it wasn't for Xu Sheng to say, he really didn't expect Cao Jun to come so quickly, but since Xu Sheng said so, he naturally had to solve these problems, and the sooner the better, only by actively dealing with it is the best cooperation with Xu Sheng, of course, he also has to give an explanation to the lord, so trust to hand over Pei County to himself.

If Pei County loses it in the end, it is because of himself, then I am too sorry for the trust of the lord. The assassin Shan Zichun had only one thought in his heart, that is, he must try his best to assist Xu Sheng and try his best to guard until the reinforcements arrived, of course, he also knew that it was still very difficult to hold Peixian, but as long as he tried his best, even if he couldn't hold it, he would have no regrets.

Xu Sheng saw that Shan Zichun wanted to speak and stopped, and asked, "What else does Shan Taishou have to say?" ”

"Nope."

Zang Ba nodded and said, "That's good, after Shan Taishou gathers the people, it's good to assign them to the six city gates, and I will arrange them at that time." ”

After all, Shan Zichun has just come to Pei County, although he has been understanding many situations in the past few days, but after all, there is a familiar process, and it is related to guarding the city, he does not dare to be careless, if he is out of the pool, the more he helps, the more he helps, it will be troublesome. After all, Pei County has been expanded several times in recent years, the previous Pei County was just the scale of a small and medium-sized county, and now both the size of the county seat and the population under its jurisdiction are like a large county, although there is still a certain distance from the metropolis like Yecheng in Luoyang, but the gap is really narrowing.

In particular, Pei County itself is built by Liu Lan in accordance with the commercial town, in order to facilitate merchants to enter and exit the city more conveniently, a new city gate to facilitate the entry and exit of the caravan has been built, of course, such a city gate is not only for the caravan to provide services, as long as you have money, whether it is a caravan or an individual can quickly enter the city by paying the entry tax.

Originally, because of the scale of Pei County, even if the town was expanded, but for the city gate, it was still built according to the standard city, with one door in each square, but because Pei County is now commercially developed and the congestion is serious, Jian Yong wanted to demolish the wall to expand the city gate, but because it was convenient for the caravan to build the city gate, Liu Lan put forward such a bold idea, Liu Lan did not say a penny, and got two strong and fast city gates.

Because of the special existence of these two city gates, it is easy to be overlooked, so Xu Sheng deliberately explained that he was assigned to the six city gates, for fear that he would have any misunderstanding of these two toll gates, after all, Cao Cao doesn't care who your city gate is convenient for, and the six city gates may become the target of his attack at that time.

"Understood." Shan Zichun said: "However, I think it is unlikely that Cao Cao will attack the six gates at the same time, the biggest possibility is to attack the west gate, and the other city gates are only feints at most, so it is best to have some tendencies when dispatching manpower, otherwise it will be assigned to the six gates, and the number of people will be the same, but the battle situation is different, and the role will not be too obvious at that time." ”

To tell the truth, Shan Zichun can come to Pei County to be this Taishou, there are still a few brushes, otherwise how could he be promoted so fast, at this age, in less than three years, he sat in the position of the county guard, looking at Xuzhou, no one stands out, and the analysis he just made, to be honest, is really targeted, if it is a troop, in order to prevent the enemy from attacking the west, at the beginning of the battle, it is necessary to disperse the troops to prevent the enemy from detouring through other city gates to attack the city, then these people do not need to be like this, After all, they don't need to be at the forefront of the way, as long as they are arranged at the city gate where the enemy is most likely to appear, even if the enemy is not the west gate of the lord, but the north gate and the south gate, it will be too late to transfer it when the time comes.

At the moment when Xu Sheng was about to agree, Shan Zichun took his hesitation into consideration, and in order to persuade him, he continued: "Whether the enemy is 100,000 or 200,000 as they let out, I have seen the Xuzhou army march, with the current marching speed of the Cao army, if they are a large army, it is completely impossible to come at such a fast speed, so even if the name Cao army arrives, it is only the vanguard, and the vanguard strength is only tens of thousands at most, and the strength of the vanguard is not abundant. Therefore, if you want to besiege Peixian or even the six gates, you don't have such ability, and you can only focus on attacking at most, so General Xu doesn't have to worry too much at all. ”

Xu Sheng was stunned for a moment, and then laughed, he praised this Shan Zichun from the bottom of his heart, there were some things he thought of, but he couldn't analyze it as thoroughly as Shan Zichun, but he didn't have the ability, it could be seen that this Shan Zichun was really smart, and his words completely dispelled his previous concerns.

What he was thinking about before was that Cao's 100,000 troops were attacking the city, but he ignored such a large-scale troop march, even if he walked from Fengguo, it was impossible to arrive in one day, and the enemy's forward troops arrived, but under the defense of such a strong city in Peixian, they had the confidence to absolutely repel the enemy's siege.

The time and place are favorable, they all occupy it, and the enemy army wants to break the city, unless there is an internal response, otherwise it is impossible for tens of thousands of pioneers to break the city.

"Okay, just do as you say."

It stands to reason that Xu Sheng and Shan Zichun are at the same level, and there is no distinction between superior and inferior, but now it is wartime, Shan Zichun must listen to Xu Sheng, if it is on weekdays, then Xu Sheng needs to obey Shan Zichun, and now Shan Zichun naturally has to go all out for Xu Sheng's orders, and dare not have any neglect.

However, what really made Shan Zichun happy was actually more because his suggestion was adopted, which made him more excited than anything, first of all, this was the first time he participated in the battle between the two armies, and secondly, the first time he made a suggestion for military affairs was adopted, two firsts in a row, and he was more excited than the first time he followed Guoyuan down to the countryside to give advice.

After all, although he was also a young man in and out of the official career at that time, many ideas for the benefit of the people during his study period were put forward and even used, and he was naturally excited and happy, which was not only a recognition of him, but also a recognition of the direction he had been working towards.

But some admonitions on military affairs are different, after all, this is different from what he has been exposed to before, and it has not even appeared in books, it is completely some of his own ideas, but these ideas have been appreciated by Xu Sheng, and even Xu Sheng feels that this Shan Zichun is fully capable of staying by his side as a staff officer or even as a staff officer in the lord's general's mansion, with his talent, it is possible to be a staff officer like Chen Gong or even a military general like Xu Shu in the future.

Before, he really didn't regard Shan Zichun as an object that could be discussed, whether he came or not, it didn't help much for the battle of Peixian, and all the problems had to be solved by him alone, but now it's different, based on his analysis just now, this person is worth looking forward to, and said: "Actually, one of the problems I've been worried about is to attract the Cao army to Peixian, so that as long as our reinforcements come in time, there is hope of defeating the Cao Yuan coalition army in a battle, but it's just ......." ”

"It's just that you're not sure." Shan Zichun realized what Xu Sheng wanted to do, so he directly took over his topic, looked at him and shook his head slightly, vetoing his idea.

Xu Shenggan glared at him blankly, it can be said that he has been thinking about this idea in his heart for a long time,

Although he summoned Liu Lan for help as soon as possible, he had already stated to Liu Lan that he would definitely drag Cao Jun back before the rescue arrived, but at this moment, he was a little hesitant because of Shan Zichun's reaction: "Do you think we can't hold it?" ”

"It's not that you can't hold it, it's going to be difficult."

Xu Sheng stared at Shan Zichun and didn't answer, wanting to hear how he analyzed, but Shan Zichun took a deep breath and said: "In this big battle, we have no problem blocking the enemy's forward, but if we want to carry the enemy ten times as much as my Cao Yuan coalition army, the chance is not great, in front of them, we are like a sheep, we can only rely on Xuzhou reinforcements, there is no hope for us alone, and I believe that the lord also believes that the lord will not agree with the general's idea of using Peixian as bait, he will not be indifferent." ”

Xu Sheng thought about it very seriously, and finally sighed, the disparity in strength was indeed too great.

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Xiahou Yuan's vanguard was the first to set off, and the Cao Yuan coalition army in Xiayi County was also ready, just waiting for Cao Cao's order, and then marched to Fengguo.

In the Cao army, to be able to march so quickly, except for Xiahou Yuan, there is no second army, even in Liu Lan's army, only the cavalry can go to the front line faster than Xiahou Yuan, and if you change to infantry, the speed of the march is far inferior.

At this time, Yang Hong, who arrived in Xiayi with Cao Cao, rode out of the county seat and headed for the Yuan army camp outside the city.

Before the war, he needed to go to the Shouchun army, first of all, this was Yuan Shu's order, but he never thought of monitoring Zhang Xun, just for the battle of Xuzhou, for the union of the two counties, and his existence is just a role of supervision, so that when any problems arise on both sides, they can be solved as soon as possible, after all, the current coalition army, what they are most afraid of is not the enemy in Xuzhou, but the differences and contradictions within themselves.

In Zhang Xun's big tent, the two made clear their responsibilities, if there is a problem here, Zhang Xun is responsible, and if there is a problem on Cao Cao's side, Yang Hong is responsible, if this matter is not done well, resulting in any accident in the end, then the other party will take full responsibility and take the initiative to resign from the lord.

The two of them clarified their responsibilities, and now they are waiting for Cao Cao's news or order, and when the news of the troops comes, they will immediately send troops to Pei County.

However, for the first battle of Peixian, Zhang Xun has his own concerns, that is, he was used as cannon fodder by Cao Cao, and he did not have any concealment, and directly said the uneasiness in his heart, for Yang Hong, although he had some concerns in his heart, but now that the two have met frankly, naturally there is nothing to hide about this kind of thing, say it, whether it is to find a way to solve it or let him guarantee that if this matter is solved, he will not have any worries.

But Yang Hong didn't give him any guarantees, and even in the face of Zhang Xun's questioning, his answer was a little ambiguous, which made him a little worried, but Yang Hong promised that he would deal with this matter, and he would deal with it, to be honest, he was also a little worried, but if he asked Cao Cao like this, it would inevitably cause misunderstanding, and even be regarded as distrust by Cao Cao, in fact, in this case, Cao Cao is unlikely to let us be cannon fodder, otherwise, it will not be his troops to be the vanguard, which we don't need to worry too much about now, Joining Cao Cao is going to let us be cannon fodder, but it's a big deal that we don't listen to him.

In fact, Zhang Xun waited for this sentence, after all, let him go to Cao Cao to solve it, it is unrealistic to ask Cao Cao's guarantee, and there is no such possibility, but to Yang Hong's guarantee, to put it bluntly, it is this guarantee, as long as there is his nod, there will really be such and such a situation at that time, for the sake of the overall situation, he can't blame him for turning his head and leaving.

Just as the two were discussing, a fast horse galloped out of Xiayi City and came to the Yuan army camp, and soon a Yuan army soldier took the order and galloped into the main tent, and reported, "General Qiqi, General Cao has an urgent military order to send it." ”

The two glanced at each other, and both saw the deep meaning in each other's eyes, Zhang Xun beckoned, and said, "Take the military order." ”

After a while, the soldier stepped forward quickly and presented the order document issued by Cao Cao: "The messenger said that this is an order conveyed by Cao Cao half an hour ago, and it will be sent to you as soon as possible." ”

Zhang Xun nodded, and then spread out the document on the low table, and the payment at the end of the document was covered with the seal of General Cao Cao's chariot cavalry, and the content was actually only a few words, and he would set off with the army tomorrow.

After Zhang Xun read it, he handed the document to Yang Hong, and the latter resulted in almost no reaction, after all, everything was expected by him, nothing strange, at this time, the military order conveyed by Cao Cao, in addition to the order to send troops, there would be no second possibility.

On the contrary, it is to send troops early tomorrow morning, a little unexpected, according to his character to Cao Cao, he is a person who is resolute and resolute, since he wants to send troops, it is likely that he will order now, and he will send troops in half an hour or an hour, but he did not expect to give them half a day to prepare.

I don't know if it is Cao Cao in order to take care of the situation of the Shouchun army, after all, although the current Shouchun army has just participated in the battle of Jiujiang, it cannot be called how elite it is, and it must not be compared with the Cao army when assembled, but half a day is too much time for the Shouchun army, in fact, there are two hours, and the demolition of the camp tent to the whole army can be done in one step.