Chapter 1562: The Battle of Xuzhou (159)

After leaving the secret room with Xu Shu, Liu Lan habitually walked to the Guanhu Pavilion, in the past, he liked to stay here alone when he was in Xuzhou, maybe it was a habit to become natural, many things came here, and they would slowly sort out their heads, and now although the situation seems to be clearer, what will happen to the subsequent changes is actually a mess.

Although it seems that it is difficult for Yuan Shao to danger them, he knows that this is only a temporary situation, once Qingzhou is straightened out, then Xuzhou will face the threat of the Jizhou army, and Liu Lan sees this situation very clearly, so to completely get rid of the threat of the Jizhou army to them, there is still a little bit of fire, that is to say, it is necessary to make the situation in Qingzhou more chaotic, so that Yuan Shao is completely dragged in Qingzhou, and has no time to take care of it.

But to do this, it is obviously extremely difficult, the actions he did in Qingzhou are not enough at all, and there is still a little bit of difference, but how can Qingzhou be chaotic? This is also the reason why Liu Lan is here, how can Yuan Shao have no time to take care of other things?

In fact, if there is good news from Liaodong, it will also play a great role, but Liaodong is too far away from Qingzhou, and it is difficult to imagine that Yuan Shao's deployment of troops for defense will first consider the Jizhou army in Qingzhou, which is unrealistic, and the biggest possibility is to merge the state or even use the Donghu departments, so if you want to add a fire to the current chaos in Qingzhou, you have to use your brains in Qingzhou.

In fact, it was a complete mistake in judgment to transfer Yan Zhi to the south at the beginning, and he believed that Hou Qian would have a big battle with Guan Tong in Muping, but after knowing Hou Qian's intention to lead the water to the east, now Yan Zhi will become embarrassed if he goes south again, at least it is not wise.

This will only allow Wen Chou to transfer more troops to Donglai, and may even attract Wen Chou, and once such a situation occurs, he believes that the situation in Qingzhou will not only not drag on, but will be solved in a very short time, and the battle he designed in Donglai, to put it bluntly, hopes to have a lose-lose situation, or even if the Jizhou army has the upper hand, it will not have too obvious advantages.

And such a situation is the best opportunity for them, even a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, in Donglai continues to consume the main force of Jizhou, and Liu Lan can slow down, of course, the most important thing is to make Cao Cao and Yuan Shu unable to continue to consume in Feng County, after all, the situation on Cao Cao and Yuan Shu's side is not good now, as long as the two of them can't hold on, then Yuan Shao's threat will not matter.

Thinking of this, Liu Lan had a bold idea in his heart, should he simply let Zhang Fei pretend to be the back money and do a big job in Donglai, after all, the things that the back money can do are too limited, but if you change to Zhang Fei, the situation will be very different.

At this moment, Xu Chu's voice sounded outside the pavilion: "General." ”

"What's wrong with Zhongkang?"

"The mother of Zhao Yu came over and asked you what you want to eat for the night, and he asked the kitchen to prepare."

"Whatever." Liu Lan didn't have too much thought about what to eat for dinner, let Zhao Yu look at the preparations, and then after Xu Chu left, he once again took out the letter sent by Zhang Fei, for the content of the letter, although it was not much different from his plan, but one thing was extremely important, that is, he said three possible situations in Dongwu, he would first block the enemy's way north, and once the enemy chose to go south into Xuzhou, Zhang Fei would be eliminated, and all his previous thoughts were actually because of this sentence, Is it possible to directly wipe it out, and then pretend that the Qian bandit army will turn back and enter Donglai?

Liu Lan's eyes became brighter and brighter, and he was thinking in his heart about how many chances he had of winning by doing so, of course, the most important thing was whether there would be any accidents.

In fact, all the surprises now, just like their previous judgment of Houqian, are only analyzed and judged under limited information, but they don't know their fighting intentions, and it is not surprising that all the final results are biased, and the current situation is the same, just analyzed within the scope of existing intelligence, and he can't accurately deduce what will happen.

Everything is unknown or even unexpected, and what he does is to analyze all kinds of possibilities, and then resign himself to fate, and finally when the analysis occurs, then continue according to the plan, and if an accident occurs, it can only be remedied.

This situation is like Yuan Shao's plan to attack Xuzhou's strategy, he would never have thought that in the end, it was Hou Qian who disrupted his entire deployment, it can be said that when he formulated the deployment, he may not even know who Hou Qian is, and even he is not in his consideration at all, but can it be said that the information he collected is not accurate?

No, so if Liu Lan changes the Donglai bandits now, disguised by them, once he enters Donglai again, he believes that the management will never get any benefits, in this way, Yuan Shao will increase the suppression of bandits in Donglai, and if Yan Zhi and the Qingzhou army appear again at this time to sabotage, then it will definitely be a deterrent to Yuan Shao.

But the most important thing is not here, but in fact, these two inconspicuous troops are actually completely under the command of Zhang Fei, but externally, Donglai is actually two forces.

Liu Lan pondered the feasibility of this plan repeatedly, although there were still many imperfections, especially because the appearance of the Qingzhou and Liaodong armies would make Wen Chou afraid and even fearful that it was not impossible to send additional troops to support and suppress the bandits.

It seems that this matter still needs to be carefully studied with Xu Shu and a few others.

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When the offensive and defensive battles in Peixian County were staged in turn, far away on the Liaodong Plain, in the snow, a team of cavalry was galloping westward, the destination of their trip was the mound, so they did not stop all the way, one person with two horses, day and night without stopping the horse, towards the right Beiping.

Eating and drinking on horseback, this is the most basic quality of the Liaodong cavalry, without this ability, only horseback, that can only go to the infantry, the selection of the Liaodong cavalry is quite strict, it can be said that they themselves are the most elite cavalry in the world, and the dragoon army and the guards are composed of the best among them, undoubtedly more perverted.

The leader of this line will be Tian Yu, he has long heard of the Liaodong cavalry, after seeing their ability on horseback, he is even more amazed, this ability, even compared to the Hu people, and the cavalry he commanded in Youbeiping before can not be compared, and even the technology of this horse, even he himself is ashamed of inferior.

I thought that someone would be dragging his feet in this line, but he didn't happen until this moment, the person who was dragging his feet was himself, in his eyes, although he would be a little uncomfortable, but more still admired and admired.

In the past, when he was in Liaodong, when he commanded them, because he didn't have the opportunity to make a long journey, he rode on one wheel, and it seemed that they were all about the same, and there was no big difference, but now it seems that he must be praised, and it would take at least one or two months to reach the destination all the way, but because of the existence of such a force, in less than a month, it has already entered the territory of Youbeiping.

This speed is terrifying, he used to wonder why Xu Huang was always able to support Youbeiping at critical moments, from the time they asked for help to Xu Huang's arrival, this speed was too fast, as if they got the news in advance, but now he knew the reason.

No wonder Xu Huang proposed a plan to attack instead of a plan to attack the city at that time, such a speed really wouldn't make the Jizhou army have any notice. He took a long breath, it was very cold, cold to the bone, he was glad that such a force was their Liaodong Army, not the enemy, otherwise, even in Xiangping, it would not be really safe.

It can be said that even in the summer, he is not afraid that the news of their march will leak out, and the speed of the people will never be faster than them, and this is impossible in the past, often the troops march, especially the infantry, the enemy will receive the news in the morning, if the distance is close and the cavalry, the city is absolutely not guaranteed, under their charge, there is no time to close the city gates.

But now that they are rushing from Liaodong, he believes that as long as the gate of the city is opened, then he will be completely sure that the city will be broken, and even he will not encounter any resistance at all, which is where his confidence lies.

However, for the battle of Youbeiping, he was repeatedly told by Xu Huang before he came, and even the letter written by Liu Lan himself to him was shown to himself, and he was extremely clear about the lord's plan, what he wanted to do at this time was not just to lay a mound, but to make Youzhou chaotic.

Let Yuan Shao have to send troops to support Youzhou, and this is the true intention of the lord, it is of little significance to take down Youbeiping, but if Yuan Shao divides some troops to Youbeiping, then the purpose of his trip will be completed.

Although he also saw that Liu Lan wanted to hope that because of their troops, Liu Lan could withdraw his troops from Qingzhou, but this idea was obviously a bit whimsical, no matter from which point of view, the possibility of them forcing Yuan Shao to withdraw his troops from Qingzhou was almost zero, unless they were all the way to Jizhou, otherwise, Yuan Shao was unlikely to withdraw his troops from Qingzhou.

But if they capture the mound, then Yuan Shao will not be indifferent, he will definitely transfer troops, whether it is to choose defense or attack in winter, most likely to transfer troops from Bingzhou, or use the Donghu of the Shanggu generation to participate in the war, so this battle should be effortless from now on, but it will be a little difficult to resist the enemy army and the Hu people and even maybe join forces to kill.

First of all, it is impossible for them to defend the city, but if they give up the mounds and want to defeat them, it will not be so easy.

Therefore, once this battle is taken to the mound, and the Jizhou army does not matter whether the Hu people come or not, what he has to do is to attack head-on, not to avoid its edge, and not to let them get close to the mound, at that time the battle situation will be very unfavorable to them, but if he takes the initiative to attack, although it will be a vicious battle, but as long as he can win, his goal will be achieved, otherwise when the people enter the mound, then he will have no choice.

No wonder Xu Huang proposed a plan to attack instead of a plan to attack the city at that time, such a speed really wouldn't make the Jizhou army have any notice. He took a long breath, it was very cold, cold to the bone, he was glad that such a force was their Liaodong Army, not the enemy, otherwise, even in Xiangping, it would not be really safe.

It can be said that even in the summer, he is not afraid that the news of their march will leak out, and the speed of the people will never be faster than them, and this is impossible in the past, often the troops march, especially the infantry, the enemy will receive the news in the morning, if the distance is close and the cavalry, the city is absolutely not guaranteed, under their charge, there is no time to close the city gates.

But now that they are rushing from Liaodong, he believes that as long as the gate of the city is opened, then he will be completely sure that the city will be broken, and even he will not encounter any resistance at all, which is where his confidence lies.

However, for the battle of Youbeiping, he was repeatedly told by Xu Huang before he came, and even the letter written by Liu Lan himself to him was shown to himself, and he was extremely clear about the lord's plan, what he wanted to do at this time was not just to lay a mound, but to make Youzhou chaotic.

Let Yuan Shao have to send troops to support Youzhou, and this is the true intention of the lord, it is of little significance to take down Youbeiping, but if Yuan Shao divides some troops to Youbeiping, then the purpose of his trip will be completed.

Although he also saw that Liu Lan wanted to hope that because of their troops, Liu Lan could withdraw his troops from Qingzhou, but this idea was obviously a bit whimsical, no matter from which point of view, the possibility of them forcing Yuan Shao to withdraw his troops from Qingzhou was almost zero, unless they were all the way to Jizhou, otherwise, Yuan Shao was unlikely to withdraw his troops from Qingzhou.

But if they capture the mound, then Yuan Shao will not be indifferent, he will definitely transfer troops, whether it is to choose defense or attack in winter, most likely to transfer troops from Bingzhou, or use the Donghu of the Shanggu generation to participate in the war, so this battle should be effortless from now on, but it will be a little difficult to resist the enemy army and the Hu people and even maybe join forces to kill.

First of all, it is impossible for them to defend the city, but if they give up the mounds and want to defeat them, it will not be so easy.

Therefore, once this battle is taken to the mound, and the Jizhou army does not matter whether the Hu people come or not, what he has to do is to attack head-on, not to avoid its edge, and not to let them get close to the mound, at that time the battle situation will be very unfavorable to them, but if he takes the initiative to attack, although it will be a vicious battle, but as long as he can win, his goal will be achieved, otherwise when the people enter the mound, then he will have no choice.