At the beginning of the fourth year of Zhongping, the disputes in various parts of the world still showed no signs of easing, but intensified. The princes of various places are still attacking each other for various reasons, and Youzhou, which has been rare in the northeast of the empire, has also been shrouded in the clouds of war since the beginning of the year.

Youzhou's most capable staff and people of insight in the prefecture and county agreed that last year, the soldiers of Gongsun Zhanxing, the prince of Jizhou, inflicted heavy losses on Yuan Shao's main force in the river with an unstoppable momentum, in order to sweep away the threat behind him, in order to be able to deal with Youzhou Muyanbei, who has a blood feud with him, this year.

The tension before the advent of the war was transmitted from the state capital of the high-ranking lord to the ears of the people at the lower levels. Often, when the lower classes of the people know about a war, it probably means that a war has begun.

It is true that the Youzhou Department has set up envoys in the northern counties and counties, and Yanbei also believes that there are also eyeliners belonging to Gongsun Zan or Yuan Shao in Youzhou. In order to confuse the public, large-scale troop and horse movements have become commonplace in the eyes of the people of the Youxi Prefectures, and sometimes even the generals who gave the orders themselves could not understand the intentions of their subordinates to run around the county one by one, let alone the envoys of the Gongsun clan who pretended to be difficult for the people to receive accurate information.

In terms of the deployment of soldiers and horses, Yan Bei did not hesitate to put Youzhou's biggest weakness in front of Gongsun Zhan's eyes, and let him see it. In order to prepare for the 50,000 soldiers that Gongsun Chan might have in the plan, the Zhenbei General Department mobilized troops and horses again and again. Jiang Jin, the Wuhuan Protector, led Wuhuan to move to Guangyang County on behalf of Yu Dun, and joined the soldiers and horses sent by the Wuhuan chieftains in the eastern part of Youzhou, and Jiang Jin and Yan Rou led the troops in Ji Ji respectively.

On the surface, it seems that Zhuo County, which has Gao Lan's Captain's Department, Taishici's Captain's Department, He Hunlu's Captain's Department, and Zhang's Jaw Department, and more than 10,000 recruits, with a total strength of more than 20,000 troops, is like a powerful force in Youzhou.

But they are just bait, more than half of the new soldiers and the racial blood feud of Goguryeo from the attacking army is difficult to win the victory in the bloody battle in Yanbei, this part of the troops and horses, in the arrangement is indeed to meet the main force of the enemy, drag the main force of the enemy, their mission is just to lose a little better.

The three soldiers and horses were stationed in the three counties, and they looked like a scorpion with a deadly poison swinging its terrible pincers. The pincers can hurt people, but the real killer move is always the scorpion needle behind its tail!

Wu Ruan closed, Gao Ran stood at the head of the city facing the cold wind of early spring, looking at the black lines stretching on the horizon in the distance, and only frowned. The weather was still cold in the middle of winter, the black snow under the gate still did not dissipate, and the hot air outlet turned into white mist between the gasping of the fully armed soldiers, but Gao Guan's heart seemed to be pressed and scorched by a fire.

"Gongsun Zhan, came much earlier than we expected!" Watching Guan Xia ride from far and near, quickly crashing into the pieces of horse-rejecting deer, the rider rolled off the horse and dragged the ride away, Gao Ran raised his palm and said: "Open the city gate!" ”

Although they could already see the enemy slowly approaching in the distance at Ngo Nguyen Pass, the real battle was still a long way before them.

Not long after, Sun Qingfei went to the city, although the current black mountain thief has long been a captain, but there is no way to stay out of this kind of big war, the moment he stepped on the Wuruan Pass on the big green brick, he held his knees and gasped violently, and he felt quite overwhelmed by running up to the city pass by running more than ten miles with his mount, and only after a while did he reach out to the seed and said: "Ten, thirteen miles, Gongsun Zhan...... Gongsun Chan is here! ”

Gao Ran and the other generals did not answer, Sun Qing gasped for breath again, and finally calmed down his boiling chest, pointed to the undulating mountains on both sides of the pass and said: "On the left side of the mountain, there are three military formations, all of which are equipped with infantry and cavalry; On the right side of the mountain, two military formations; The Chinese army was behind, and the whole army was plain, and it was impossible to see what was written on it with white flags. There are still in the back, but I can't see clearly, people, there are people everywhere, there must be more than 50,000! ”

"What!"

Gao Lan's eyes widened suddenly, what surprised him was not that Sun Qing said that the enemy army had more than 50,000 troops, Gongsun Zan was determined to take revenge, Jizhou's huge population, even if he pulled out 100,000 and 200,000 people, that land had such ability.

"Gongsun Chan didn't divide his troops?"

Gongsun Zhan is good at battle formation, leaping into the dark and Qingxu, half of the world is his battlefield, Gao Ran does not believe that such a prestigious general would actually spread 50,000 soldiers and horses outside Wuruan Pass. "It can't be! Wuruan Pass is surrounded by mountains on both sides...... Captain Sun, how many narrow roads are there in the mountains around the pass, and how many people and horses can be accommodated? ”

"There are only more than ten people in the mountains who pass through Zhuo County, all of them are narrow and steep, allowing hundreds of soldiers to pass secretly, and they can't pass through mounts and baggage. If you want to go to Zhuo County, there is only Wuruan Pass! Sun Qing was wandering outside all winter, and even frostbitten his toes for this, at this time he talked about the terrain and terrain like a treasure, "Now all the troops have been sent to guard, and their soldiers are sad." ”

Having said that, Sun Qing was also very surprised that Gongsun Zan led so many people to Wuruan Pass to do something, both sides of the pass are steep mountain walls, whether it is from inside the pass or outside the pass, they can only enter the more than three miles between the mountain walls to forcibly tackle the problems.

Sun Qing told the generals about the situation of the surrounding mountain trails, raised his hand and rubbed his nose, tilted his head to look at the black line that was getting closer and closer outside the pass, and could already see the color of the enemy's flag...... He always thought that this method of fighting a war would only be used by the Yellow Turban Army.

Even the troops who fled to Montenegro after experiencing the Jizhou battlefield have learned to use their brains to think about tactics.

Why is Gongsun Chan still alive and going back?

"Perhaps, to deter the defenders?" Tai Shi Ci said uncertainly: "Gongsun Chan should know that many of our troops are new soldiers, and they can see such a formation of the enemy army from the gate......

Tai Shi Ci didn't finish his words, but turned his head to look at the defenders in the city. Before the advent of the war, most of the most elite soldiers, except for a small part of the sheep intestines guarding the mountains, rested in the camp three miles east of the pass, recuperating and preparing to enter the most fierce battlefield of the next war. Most of the soldiers guarding the head of the city were Xinding who had never joined the battlefield in Zhuojun, and everyone looked at Tai Shici's gaze, obviously as the black cloud-like enemy army in the distance got closer and closer until they blocked the entire view between the mountain walls of Wuruan Pass, the breathing of the guards of the city became heavier and heavier.

The chicks were frightened.

"Captain Gao, now that the enemy situation has also been discovered, it is inconvenient for Sun to stay for a long time, so he went to Fangcheng to report to the general." Sun Qing said that he would raise his legs and leave, and when he approached the city, he turned around and said to Gao Ran and the others: "The general's order is to let you hold the Wuruan Pass for ten days, and ten days later, Sun will fight with the monarchs in Fangcheng!" ”

Sun Qing left, and the vanguard army of Gongsun Zhan's army outside the city rushed into the mountain road in front of the pass and did not move. And in the place where the left and right mountain walls blocked the sight of the defenders, thousands of soldiers and horses went all the way to the west, straight to the direction of Daijun on the border of Youji, which was a sentry horse; In the east, tens of thousands of elite soldiers went straight to the south of Zhuojun and rushed towards Beiping.

The direction they are facing is the easy water of the wind and the wind...... As a geographical advantage in the south of Youzhou, in this cold season, it has not yet been released.