Yuan Fang looked at Tang Jian: "General Tang, your task is very heavy, 30,000 men and horses will besiege Kaiyuan County, and when other deployments are in place, you will attack the city with all your might, regardless of casualties." ”

Tang Jian nodded: "Don't worry, I promise to complete the task." ”

Yuan Fang looked at Liang Tie and Balu: "The two of you each bring 10,000 horses and garrison them between Guangyuan County and Kaiyuan and Yuhong County respectively to block the reinforcements that may appear in Guangyuan County. The two of them gave their orders sharply, their faces full of excitement, and finally, they were finally going to do a real thing.

Next, as Yuan Fang's orders were issued one after another, one by one the generals stepped forward to receive the orders, and finally, Yuan Fang looked at Li Yue and Qin Yan: "General Qin Yan, your task is to lurk in the Youlan Valley forty miles east of Luo County, once the enemy army is defeated, your task is to cooperate with General Li Yue to form an encirclement, besiege the enemy army in the area of Youlan Valley, and hold on until other troops come to support, and then annihilate it in one fell swoop." General Li Yue, your task is to disperse and lurk in the west and north of Youlan Valley to block the enemy forces behind me, which is also one of the key points, whether the whole plan can be carried out smoothly depends on whether your lone wolf army can withstand the impact of the enemy army. ”

Li Yuelizheng: "Guarantee the completion of the task." ”

Yuan Fang let out a sigh of relief, and then said: "When you arrive in your respective area, I will lead the Taiji Legion to start from here, go south to Kaiyuan County, and then go straight to the county seat like the northeast, and then go northwest to the area of Youlan Valley, that's about it." Generals, you have a wealth of combat experience, and if you encounter unexpected situations, I will give you the right to take the initiative, but you must remember that the lurking troops should not be exposed too early. Well, if there are no doubts, let's go. The generals led the way in unison.

Seeing off Tang Jian and his party, Yuan Fang looked back at the depressed Shi Ping, and said with a smile: "General Shi Ping, I'll leave it to you here." ”

Shi Ping smiled bitterly and said, "Doctor Yuan, everyone else is fighting, but I have to guard the empty camp, can't you also arrange some other tasks for me?" ”

Yuan Fang patted Shi Ping's shoulder and comforted him: "It's not impossible, if you want to say that you are stable and good at defense, the entire empire belongs to you, of course, this task has to be handed over to you, the most suitable person, besides, we have been fighting side by side since Dingbian City, this is the most important logistics transfer station, I can rest assured that it will be handed over to others." ”

Seeing that Shi Ping still looked depressed, Yuan Fang smiled and said, "If the plan is successful, I will give you the task of attacking Yuhong County." ”

Shi Ping asked in surprise: "Really?" ”

Yuan Fang nodded and said, "Of course." ”

Shi Ping smiled and said: "Okay, let's settle it, don't worry, I promise to guard the camp." ”

That night, Li Rui led 5,000 cavalry to take the lead in setting off to clear the scouts and horses along the way, and the other generals then left, either by detour or with great fanfare, to their respective destinations.

In this operation, none of the troops carried much food, and those troops on the bright side had about ten days' rations, while those hidden troops were slightly more, but they only took five more days' rations, but they were all distributed to none of the soldiers at one time, so the troops were not dragged down by the burden, and the marching speed was very fast.

Early the next morning, Yuan Fang led the Taiji Army to set off with great fanfare and swaggered through the city, and rushed all the way south to Kaiyuan County under the watchful eye of the defenders of Yuhong County.

Yuhong County is not far from Kaiyuan County, and it is enough to travel at full speed for one day, but Yuan Fang is not in a hurry, and he has walked for two whole days in a short distance.

On the third day of the plan, Yuan Fang took the Taiji army to camp outside Kaiyuan County, and then it didn't take long for Tang Jian to bring people over, and the defenders on the city wall saw from a distance that Yuan Fang, the main general, and their old rival Tang Jian seemed to have something unpleasant, and even quarreled, and finally Tang Jian left angrily. That night, Tang Jian's men and horses slowly advanced, and surrounded the city of Kaiyuan County overnight.

The defenders in the city are not panicked, and they are not afraid of besieging the city, their commander Prince Dugufeng has long been prepared for a rainy day, and all kinds of materials in the city are hoarded, enough for everyone to spend the whole winter, there is no shortage of food, the defenders in the city are sufficient, they have nothing to be afraid of, not to mention that once the other party attacks the city, other counties and counties will not sit idly by, the four county towns of Guangyuan County and the five cities of Guangyuan County support each other and cooperate with each other to form an unbreakable solid defense line, as far as these people and horses of the Eastern Saint Empire are concerned, unless the jade is burned, Otherwise, if you want to capture Guangyuan County, it would be a fool's dream, and would the Eastern Saint Empire really be willing to lose both? The answer, of course, is no, this point, whether it is the officers and politicians of the Eastern Saint Empire or the Ningyuan Empire, they are very clear and sure.

Early in the morning, Yuan Fang summoned Tang Jian and ordered the siege of the city, Tang Jian was reluctant, but he did not dare to disobey the military order, and finally only symbolically sent a thousand archers to shoot a few arrows casually and Mingjin collected the troops to deal with the matter, so angry that Yuan Fang, the main general, was furious and jumped to his feet and scolded.

The soldiers defending the city could see all of them clearly with the help of telescopes, and there was a burst of schadenfreude spread everywhere, saying that the enemy had started infighting before the war, and the guards of Kaiyuan County learned the news, and suddenly had an idea after confirming it repeatedly.

On the second day of the first siege, Yuan Fang ordered Tang Jian to attack again, Tang Jian, still yin and yang, according to the previous routine after several bows and arrows salvo after the troops, Yuan Fang was angry, ran to Tang Jian's camp and made a big fuss, that afternoon, Yuan Fang left with the Taiji Legion in a puff, according to the direction of travel, the defenders guessed that Yuan Fang, the little doctor who relied on the relationship to ascend to the high position, was planning to go to Guangyuan County.

In this regard, the guards snorted, Guangyuan County is high and deep, and there are heavy guards, especially the 20,000 heavy infantry and 10,000 heavy cavalry of Prince Dugufeng's personal guard legion, which are the elite of the empire, just with Yuan Fang's 10,000 people, it is like a fool's dream to break through the county town.

Of course, the defenders of Kaiyuan City didn't know that Yuan Fang had divided their troops everywhere, but even if they knew, they wouldn't have any worries, in their hearts, Guangyuan County was unbreakable. Leaving Kaiyuan County, Yuan Fang's Taiji Legion approached Guangyuan County unhurriedly, along the way, sent a large number of cavalry squads to clean up the local scouts, probe horses, plus the troops hidden in various places in the morning to cooperate with the clearance, in just two days will Kaiyuan County into a large vacuum area, at the same time, the other departments have been in place, with mutual cooperation, the four county towns and the county town are all cut off, so far, the layout is completed, the rest depends on Yuan Fang's performance.

In Guangyuan County, Prince Dugufeng looked at the various information collected these days, and after a long time, he put down the file about Yuan Fang in his hand and frowned.