Zhang Niujiao invited several leaders to the big tent today.

Li Hong's army has been there for two days. He set up a large camp on the Shuangjingtun Plain, thirty miles away from the city of Gall, and sent more than a dozen cavalry every day to harass the camp of the Yellow Turban Army that attacked the city of Gall Tao day and night, but he did not take a step forward.

The Hu people in the leopard army are fierce and brave, and their archery skills are accurate, they haunt the Yellow Turban Army camp like wandering spirits all day long, and rush up to kill a few when they seize the opportunity, and then immediately flee, so angry that the Yellow Turban Army can only stare dryly.

Bai Huan took a sip of water and said slowly: "Dashuai, the leopard broke the army into small groups of rangers, harassing us day and night, the soldiers are very nervous, and they don't rest well. After a long time, not only will the combat effectiveness of the troops decrease, but it is also estimated that it will affect the siege. ”

Sun Qin immediately picked up and said: "Dashuai, they are too hateful, just like a hungry wild wolf in Taihang Mountain, staring at their prey. At the slightest negligence, they will immediately come and raid. Now there are losses in various barracks. ”

"Is the loss big?" Zhang Niujiao asked.

"More than 2,000 people were killed in several large military camps combined, many of them soldiers who were on duty at night."

"We should take the initiative to attack them. I don't believe that our 200,000 people can't beat him more than 10,000? The king said loudly and angrily, "Bite him down like this, and make everyone mad." ”

Zhang Niujiao smiled coldly, "The fish has taken the bait." ”

He paused for a moment and continued: "This trick used by the leopard is a wild wolf pack attack tactic on the grassland. When the wolves on the grassland hunt bison, they first adopt harassment tactics, constantly harassing the bison herd, paralyzing the bison in the bison herd, and patiently looking for opportunities to raid. As soon as a cow loses its vigilance or is provoked to rush out of the herd, they will rush up and hit it with one blow. I think Kuroko is the enraged bison. ”

Wang Dang smiled embarrassedly. Wulu glanced at the horns of the bull and thought, you bison can't be better than that, a self-righteous bison.

Yang Feng said with a solemn expression: "The leopard is very cunning, he has stationed the camp thirty miles away, as long as we have any trouble, he will find out immediately." If we had taken the initiative to surround him, he would have fled without a trace. But if we keep making trouble for him like this, our losses will grow bigger and bigger, and our morale will quickly drop. After all, he killed more than 100,000 of us, and the soldiers were still very afraid of him. ”

Zhang Niujiao's face suddenly became very ugly. Chu Feiyan glanced at him, her eyes were very complicated, and she was a little confused and a little disappointed. Sun Qin's face immediately turned red, he lowered his head, and he didn't dare to meet Yang Feng's gaze. Wulu was secretly happy, but he was afraid that others would see the smile on his face, so he immediately lowered his head and covered it up by drinking water.

"Yang Shuai, do you have any suggestions?" Bai Huan saw that the atmosphere in the tent was very embarrassed, and hurriedly asked.

Of course, Yang Feng saw everyone's expressions in his eyes, he smiled slightly, and continued: "In my opinion, we still have to concentrate the main force and seize the gall pottery city as soon as possible. Capturing Gauntao can not only solve the problem of food shortage for the troops, but also relieve the supply pressure in the rear. First of all, you must be invincible before you can strike at the enemy. What does Bai Shuai think? ”

Bai Huan grabbed his short beard, groaned for a while, and said slowly: "The Wind and Cloud Iron Rider is not a group of wolves, but a group of leopards. In terms of troops alone, our 200,000 men can indeed fight a bloody battle with his 15,000 iron cavalry, but we have lost at least half of our troops. In the fight against Guo Dian's troops, we lost 70,000 men, basically two soldiers for one enemy's life. Now to fight leopards, if we can exchange six or seven soldiers for one life of the enemy, we will have to pay the price of 100,000 people. In this way, coupled with the losses of the siege, the strength of our Yellow Turban Army is basically finished, and the rest are some old and weak soldiers. If Jizhou gathers tens of thousands of people to fight us again this year, what will we do? So I agreed with Yang Shuai's idea and immediately attacked the gall Tao with all my might. As for the leopard, we always have a way to clean him up. Da Shuai and Chu Shuai, what do you think? ”

Zhang Niujiao and Chu Feiyan did not answer.

"Why did the two of them lose their courage as soon as the Leopard Army came." Wang Dang said angrily, "There are only five or six thousand people in the city of Gauntlet, and we are forty times as many as the enemy, so we can take it quickly." However, without the gall pottery city as bait, the cavalry army of the leopards would have fled immediately. Having lost this opportunity, it will be difficult to annihilate them again. In the future, on the battlefield, with their mobility and flexibility, it will definitely be us who will suffer. The failure of the Northern Expedition is a very clear example. If Yang Shuai and Bai Shuai's troops give the Leopard Army a surprise attack, are you sure that you will retreat with all your bodies? ”

Yang Feng and Bai Huan's faces tightened, and they didn't answer.

"But the leopards are now using this tactic of fighting and harassing, repeatedly attacking our soldiers, demoralizing us, delaying our offensive, even if they don't fight us head-on, we just want to encircle and annihilate them, and we can't find a chance. Kuroko Xiaoshuai, what can you do? Wulu pretended to be helpless and said.

Wang Dang's black face immediately laughed bitterly, "Master, you can't do anything, and I can't do it." However, the opportunity to deliberately destroy the leopard this time is very rare, and it is a pity to give up. Next time, maybe it's the leopards that surround us. ”

There was silence in the tent.

"After taking Gaoyi City, I explained this plan to all of you. It is true that we can not do it this year, but we are short of food this winter. If we lay the groundwork, we can solve the problem of food shortages for the troops and refugees everywhere. Zhang Niujiao said: "But we can't have smooth sailing when we fight gall, because there is a leopard next to us." That's why we have this plan to kill two birds with one stone, and this is also the best time to annihilate the leopard. ”

"After we immediately take down the gall pottery, as Kuroko said, the leopard has run away, and we will be in great trouble in the future. Bai Shuai's worries are not unreasonable, but the swallows have made a lot of preparations to eliminate the cavalry, which should reduce our casualties. Moreover, after the leopards are eliminated, there will be no large troops in Jizhou, so that we can breathe for a while and recruit a large number of people to replenish the troops. So the question now is not whether to fight the leopard, but how to fight the leopard. I hope you don't get the topic wrong. Zhang Niujiao's tone was cold when he said it.

Bai Huan immediately picked up and said, "Please make it clear." ”

Zhang Niujiao glanced at everyone solemnly, and said coldly: "Everyone is going all out to attack the city, keep the rhythm of attack, not too fierce, not too soft, and consume a large number of enemy soldiers effectively." For the group attack and harassment tactics of leopards, everyone ignores them, isn't it just a little bit of a soldier? Everyone pretended to be paralyzed, let it attack, and prepared day and night to be attacked by a large force of the Leopard Army. As long as the Leopard Army attacks, any of them will hold him down and wait for the large army to arrive to encircle and annihilate him. Once encircled, the main attack is carried out by the swallow's troops, and the other troops are flanked, and all must be annihilated. ”

Yang Feng suddenly asked, "What if it snows?" ”

Zhang Niujiao said loudly: "If it snows, the first to retreat is the cavalry of the leopard." It's icy and snowy, and the flexibility of the cavalry will be greatly reduced, and if he stays here, he will bring about his own destruction, so the leopard will immediately retreat. He ran away, and our plan was canceled naturally. We immediately attacked the city. The city of Gall has been beaten and bruised by us, and it will not be long before 200,000 people attack such a city at the same time. Therefore, as soon as it snows, everyone immediately attack the city, without any hesitation and without waiting for my orders. ”

"Got it?" Zhang Niujiao looked around coldly, and no one objected anymore.

"Dashuai, if we don't have enough food and grass, even if it doesn't snow, we must give up the plan to encircle and annihilate the leopards and start attacking the city." Wulu looked at Zhang Niujiao's grim face and asked without fear, "Can the marshal tell us, if it doesn't snow all the time, will we attack the city one day?" ”

Zhang Niujiao sneered, "Eight days later." ”

At this time, Wang Dang suddenly laughed, and he said loudly: "There are still eight days, now let's see who has the worst luck, and the prey that is favored by the leopard must be worried." ”

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Because Gao Ran could not ride a horse, he had been lying on a cart carrying horses and grass to follow the troops. Because Li Hong was not very familiar with the situation in Jizhou, after the troops were stationed, he asked Gao Ran to stay in the big tent of the Chinese army to help him screen and analyze all kinds of information sent by the scouts and study the military situation.

Li Hong dropped the cinnabar pen in his hand, took a piece of hot dry cake handed over by Zhao Yun, and said with a smile while gnawing hard: "These military lords are doing a good job, and they are working in shifts day and night, Zhang Niujiao is probably going crazy." ”

Gao Ran was half-lying, with a worried face, and said worriedly: "It's been six days, I don't know how the gall pottery city is?" ”

Zhao Yun handed Gao Ran a bowl of hot water, and said with a smile: "Zhang Niujiao is afraid that we will run away now, and if he wants to attack but he doesn't dare to attack, he will definitely be uncomfortable." Brother Zhengqing, there should be nothing to do in the gall Tao City for the time being, it is estimated that Lord Feng is standing on the city tower, looking forward to the snow. ”

Li Hong tapped the dry cake in his hand the table, making a crisp "dong dong" sound, and shouted loudly: "It's snowing, it's snowing, it's going to snow." ”

Suddenly, a beautiful face popped up in his mind, and the blonde and blue-eyed wind and snow seemed to smile sweetly at him right in front of his eyes. Li Hong's heart suddenly ached, and he couldn't shout anymore, so he sat on the cowhide. That kind of soul-destroying thought, at that moment, was so clear and painful.

"My lord......" Zhao Yun suddenly noticed that Li Hong's expression was abnormal, and hurriedly shouted: "My lord, what's wrong with you......"

Gao Ran also found out, and immediately asked nervously, "Is there something wrong?" My lord, do you notice anything wrong with the enemy? ”

Li Hong shook his hand at them, signaling that he was fine, and then lay down on the mattress, his mind full of smiles and tears.

Li Hong suddenly knew that he was so sad to miss someone, not only was he weak and weak, but he was also soaked all over his body like cold water, and the cold air penetrated into the bone marrow.

Li Hong thought like that, his eyes were red, his heart was sour, and he fell asleep for a short time.

Zheng Xin lifted the curtain and strode in. Zhao Yun hurriedly signaled to him that Li Hong was asleep.

Zheng Xin immediately walked lightly to the brazier and sat down, and whispered, "Zhengqing, good news." ”

Gao Ran hurriedly asked, "Say it quickly, Shouyan, you say it quickly." ”

"The Tiger Head attacked the Yellow Turban Army's grain and grass camp and found that their food reserves were very low."

Gao Ran was taken aback and immediately asked, "Brother Zishan, can you burn them?" ”

Zheng Xin shook his head, and Gao Ran let out a long breath.

Zheng Xin said with a smile: "Zhengqing, don't look at the murderous and ruthless appearance of the tiger head, he is actually a very good person and can fight." The people admired him very much, believing that he was level-headed, decisive, meticulous in carrying out orders, and had a thorough understanding of tactics. Now it seems that it is true, in the face of the mountains of grain, he can know whether to burn or not, which shows that his understanding of this battle is really very thorough. ”

Zheng Xin immediately asked Zhao Yundao: "Zilong, tell me, why doesn't the tiger head burn grain?" ”

Zilong's face flushed, a little embarrassed. Gao Ran smiled and encouraged: "Tell me." You read a lot, you have a good literary style, you can also play music, and you must also dabble in the art of war. I see that you have been the leader of the analysis of the battle situation in the past few days, and you must have your own opinion. Let's talk about it. ”

Zilong hurriedly handed Zheng Xin a bowl of water and whispered: "After burning the grain, Zhang Niujiao will immediately give up the plan to encircle and annihilate us, and instead attack the gall Tao with all his might." He was on high alert at this time and it was difficult for us to find an opportunity to attack. If we don't get our help, the gall will naturally be lost. ”

"If we don't burn his grain and continue to maintain the original state, Zhang Niujiao will definitely still want to eat us, and he will continue to keep the gall pottery city to lure us. We still have a chance. Adults have said many times that as long as it snows, the opportunity comes. ”

"Once it snows, the snow is falling and freezing, and the cavalry is not as flexible as the infantry, so we have to withdraw. When the Yellow Turbans saw us withdrawing, they had to give up their plan to trap us, and at this time, they naturally had to attack the city with all their strength without worries, and they wanted to take the gall pottery before it froze. ”

"The opportunity is in these few hours when it snows. Shortly after the heavy snowfall, we hurried back and took advantage of the surprise attack. The Yellow Turban Army was taken by surprise and must be deployed to block us, so that the siege force will be weakened. Lord Feng in the city has received our help, as long as he holds on to the death, and when the city walls are all frozen at night, the Yellow Turban Army will not be able to attack the city. At that time, the Yellow Turbans would not only have to face the entangled attack of our cavalry, but also worry about the danger posed by the imminent depletion of food and grass for their own troops, and their only solution was to retreat. ”

"But there are too many uncertainties in this plan of adults, and it is very risky. Will it snow? When does it snow? If we suddenly turn back and attack, will the enemy be prepared? Can Lord Feng hold on? If the city of Gall is lost, will we be able to leave the battlefield in time? If Zhang Niujiao sees that the siege is hopeless, and turns to besiege us with all his might, will we be able to break through? ”

"It is really admirable that the adults are so bold and dangerous in order to save the gall Tao, for the sake of this very slim glimmer of life."

Gao Ran and Zheng Xin nodded at the same time, their faces showing approval.

Zhao Yun blushed and asked in a low voice, "Do the two military lords think what I said is right?" ”

Zheng Xin and Gao Ran nodded repeatedly. Gao Ran stretched out his hand and patted him on the shoulder, and whispered: "Thoroughly, thoroughly." ”

Zheng Xin even gave a thumbs up and said: "What you said is basically what the captain said, and I really underestimate you." But he's a madman, and he's a lucky maniac, so he wins every time, and this time is no exception. It's snowing, and I'm looking forward to it now. In four days, as long as it snows, we will win. ”

Seeing Zheng Xin's confident appearance, Zhao Yun and Gao Ran looked at each other, and they both felt very uneasy in their hearts.

"Xiaoxue ......, Xiaoxue ......" Li Hong, who was asleep, suddenly screamed, then turned over and fell asleep again.

"You see, adults think about it day and night, and they are all thinking about snow in their dreams." Zhao Yun pointed at Li Hong and said with a smile.

Zheng Xin's face darkened, and he didn't make a sound for a long time.

"That's a girl's name." Zheng Xin suddenly said to Zhao Yun and Gao Lan, "The name of a Xianbei girl. ”

Zhao Yun and Gao Ran were taken aback, and looked at Li Hong for a long time without making a sound.

"Is she pretty?" Zhao Yun asked.

"The most beautiful girl in Xianbei, she has long blond hair and blue eyes."

Zhao Yun and Gao Ran's eyes widened, and they looked incredulous.

"You know?" Gao Ran asked, "Did you see it with your own eyes?" ”

"I don't know." Zheng Xin whispered, "Yan Wuxing and Beard both know each other. ”

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