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"None of the gentlemen are from Jizhou, but the jaw has a deep understanding of this constant water. As he said, Tao Sheng, a thief in Montenegro, has some knowledge of the art of war, but he is not a good general. Zhang Jaw talked to Xian Yuyin in the tent, raised his two fingers and pointed to the sky and said: "Pinghan guards the water along the Lunu according to Lunu, which is to know the geographical advantage, but he doesn't know the time, and the Lunu City in August and September is not as easy to guard as he imagined!" ”

Last summer, Yanbei was in Jizhou, and knew that every summer was the season of heavy rainfall, and the river water rose rapidly. And the city wall of Lunu is four feet high, there is no siege ordnance, just his men, Tao Sheng, a Pinghan thief who has thousands of garrisons, if there is enough food, it is enough to drag the war until winter!

Therefore, Yanbei planned to lure Tao Sheng to cross the river and fight, as long as he held on to the river bank for a while, Tao Sheng would definitely retreat, and the key to victory was the timing of Tao Sheng's retreat and return to Lunu...... He is going to build a dam upstream, and the water will flood Montenegro!

"My general knows the celestial phenomena, watching the summer clouds fall low, and it is expected that there will be heavy rain in the rest of the month! The general Zekeri led the army to Wangdu, set up camp on the opposite bank of Lunu City, and then he could build a dam in the upper reaches of the Hengshui River, lead the enemy army to cross the river and fight, find the opportunity, release the water and flood the river, and the Zhongshan rebels can be decided in a battle! ”

After saying these words with some boasting, he immediately returned to the case and said no more. He didn't speak, this general knew that the celestial phenomena were indeed seen by Yanbei, Yanbei didn't have such a great ability in the past, but now he has.

Frustrated.

Last year, when Yanbei besieged Jizhou and frustrated it, it was a memorable siege battle for Yanbei, and in the face of the frustration of defending Handan, the war was extremely difficult. All summer, Yanbei spent the moat piled with corpses outside the stinking city of Handan.

At that time, Yanbei's greatest desire was to rain heavily from the sky to wash away the rancid stench that lingered in his nose, so he always looked at the sky...... Within a month, there were three rainstorms.

The celestial phenomena are the same as at this time.

In fact, dam construction is nothing more than using manpower to control the flow of water, and in essence, it still depends on the time of day. If it doesn't rain heavily, even if a dam is built to release the water, it will only cause a small problem to the enemy army. If heavy rains fall, the flow of the river may not be blocked by the dams.

Moreover, building a dam may not be impossible for the enemy to discover, and even if the opportunity for the enemy to discover it is blocked, the situation of the battle is changing rapidly, and the control of timing is also a major problem in implementing this decision.

The key lies in the confrontation of troops and tactics, and damming and flooding the army is only one of the means that can be used.

"If it is as Your Excellency said, this is a great help to the southward march." Xian Yuyin looked at the topographic map behind Yan Bei and still frowned: "But it is still not easy to go south, unless General Yan wants to cross the Hengshui, otherwise Tao Sheng will not come out of the fortified city, what can the general do?" ”

It is not a wise choice to cross the river and attack, or to fight with the Black Mountain Army on the south bank of Hengshui, once you cross Hengshui and then not far to the west is Changshan, the place where the county is connected is all hills and woodlands, and the hidden arrows ambush the troops are invincible.

"He'll come out." Yan Bei's tone was firm, his palm covered the northeast of Zhongshan Country on the topographic map, and he said conclusively: "Tao Sheng's leading the army south is the best strategy for him in all the strategies, but in the same way, he does not dare to risk fighting me in Wangdu, and wants to use the power of the Ganges River to prevent me from going south, so he has already given up a large area of fertile land in the north...... But precisely the land in the north was something he could not give up, and the Montenegrin army lacked food and grass. ”

In two battles in succession, the night battle in the east of Puyin City, Lu Yi burned at least 800 stones of grain and grass in Taoshengtun in the camp, and more than 1,000 stones of grain and grass in Zuozhai were all obtained by Yanbei. The next day, the attack was routed, and the Montenegrin army dropped more than 300 stones, grains and grass.

Before and after, Yanbei obtained 1,500 stone of grain from Tao Sheng.

1,500 stones, only enough for Yan Beibei to eat for five days; Although the Montenegrin army can cut down on food and clothing, but under the crowd, the consumption of grain and grass in ten years will be more than 3,000 stones. Tao Sheng led the army to meet Yanbei, and he would not only take five days of grain and grass out of the city.

And Yanbei only seized this bit of grain, which can only explain one fact.

The Montenegrin army ran out of food, at least, in a few cities in Puyin, Tao Sheng did not have much food.

"Lack of food?" Xian Yuyin's face showed doubts, "What does this have to do with Tao Sheng's departure from the city?" ”

Yan Bei smiled easily: "In two months, the grain in the field will be harvested, if Tao Sheng does not come out of Lunu, I will send my subordinates to besiege the city, recruit people to cross the river and take all the fields in in Lunu City...... Brother Xian Yu thinks that Tao Sheng can not be blushing? ”

Even if he didn't cross the river, as long as Yanbei sent the county magistrates to lead the people to start harvesting the fields on the north bank of Hengshui, he didn't believe that Tao Sheng would sit firmly at the head of the city and watch him collect grain.

At this juncture, what else can Tao Sheng do?

It is for the sake of a large area of land in the north of Zhongshan Kingdom, Tao Sheng will also fight to the death with Yanbei at the time of the big harvest.

"Yan still needs to garrison in Puyin for three days, and when he is in the township to raise enough 1,500 people, he will lead the troops south." Yan Bei said this, and immediately said to Xian Yuyin: "Puyin, Tang County, and Changshan Pass will be handed over to Brother Xian Yu to guard." ”

Xian Yuyin saw that Yanbei had already made a war strategy, so naturally he would not say much, and immediately responded, "This is nature." ”

"In addition, it is also necessary to recruit some villagers for Yan in various counties in addition to his brother's food, so that they can assemble in Wangdu City by themselves, and Yan will reorganize them there." As he spoke, Yan Bei took out a letter from the desk and said, "There is also a private letter here, and I hope that Brother Xian Yu will send someone to send the battle report to Liu Gong...... There are many family members of Yan's subordinates in Jizhou, and they have recently sent horsemen to explore in various places, and they will move to Liaodong, and then ask Liu Gong to let them go. ”

Xian Yuyin smiled, he never thought that Yanbei would be such a cautious person, why should he write a letter to report this matter? You are a dignified captain of Wuhuan, a letter in the past, which unsightly pavilion chief dared to stop you?

However, it is better for a general like Yanbei to be cautious, so he just smiled and did not say much, but asked: "How many troops does the captain want to recruit in Zhongshan counties?" ”

Yan Bei looked at the gap in his employment, and said while looking at the topographic map with his fingers: "Puyin will recruit another 500 good families, Tangxian, Guangchang, and Beiping, and each will recruit 700 people, a total of 2,600 people. There is no need to worry about the grain and grass consumed by this Xiangyong, and the state capital can come from Liaodong...... By the way, Yan is still asking about something, can General Bogui hand over the grain and grass to Liaodong? ”

This question is too important, if Gongsun Chan has not given the food, then where will he go to feed the people.

Xian Yuyin said with a smile: "The captain is still worried about these things when he goes out of Youzhou to quell the chaos, don't worry, when he came out of Youzhou, I heard that Fu Tai Shouzheng and Liaoxi exchanged markets, and exchanged horses for food. However, if the lieutenant wants to recruit troops again, it is best to explain to Liu Gong in the letter, it is not necessary to say it, but this, it is not good not to say it. ”

"Don't worry, Yan knows this."

At the moment, Liu Yu has a good impression of himself, but no matter how good his opinion is, he can't stand the fact that few people in the entire Jixian County praise him. A group of people each felt that they were wolf-hearted, and if he misunderstood in his heart because of this little thing, it would be impossible to explain it in any way.

Rumors and rumors can also make three people into tigers, let alone such a big person!

After that, Yanbei recruited soldiers in Puyin City for several days, until the evil boys in the townships all came with the hatred of killing people and breaking their families, and then they took the old troops south to Wangdu, and the newly recruited soldiers were escorted behind them to carry grain and grass and baggage, and walked slowly.

The road from Puyin to Wangdu is still easy to walk, all of them are wide official roads, and it is only three days to go back and forth by foot, so this road is a good choice for the transportation of baggage.

Xian Yuyin took the Youzhou army to enter Puyin, communicated with Tang County, Guangchang, Beiping and sent troops to Changshan Pass, mainly recruiting troops. In fact, Xian Yuyin knew in his heart that most of Yanbei wanted to use these newly recruited soldiers from all over Jizhou as civilian husbands and forced labor, and the possibility of directly letting them go into battle to fight was very small.

Even Yan Bei, who has deep pockets, does not have any armor left in his hands after recruiting more than 1,000 new pawns in Puyin, only those iron spearheads and halberd heads can be used, but from the understanding he has briefly spent with Yan Bei in a few days, it seems that if Yan Bei's soldiers and horses have not been defeated by more than half of them, it is unlikely that he will send the new pawns to the battlefield.

Yanbei cherishes the lives of his soldiers very much, and would rather arm the best soldiers with the best armor than blindly recruit a large army to crush the enemy.

This kind of thinking is not surprising today, since the rise of Guangwu Zhongxing, the state has adopted a policy of elite soldiers that is completely different from that of the Han Dynasty, and it is precisely by relying on these elite soldiers that the rebellion after rebellion in the country has been quelled. Yanbei has participated in two rebellions, and he should know the terrible ...... of elite soldiers Only in this way will he be able to fully support his subordinates, such a soldier armor can be comparable to the elite of the Luoyang Northern Army!

With the advance of Yanbei into Wangdu, the situation in Zhongshan became tense again, and the counterinsurgency army of the imperial court and the army of Taosheng of Montenegro were bounded by Hengshui, eyeing each other.

First, Yanbei put two soldiers and horses to patrol the north bank of Hengshui, and then Tao Sheng sent archers to guard the stone bridge in Zhongda Pavilion, so that the people still thought that the war would not happen for the time being. Immediately afterwards, on the fifth day of General Yan's stationing in Wangdu, he sent Shi Tai Shici, the head of the Wuhuan Captain's Department, to lead a group of elite soldiers to cross the river at night and attack and kill the wanderers of the Black Mountain Army on the opposite bank and returned.

Nearly 100 heads were proudly inserted into the north bank of Hengshui by the Liaodong Army with spears.

Subsequently, the brigade went out of Wangdu, camped on the north bank of the Hengshui River, and built a wooden barrier in the north of the river bank for a whole hundred miles, and collected reeds as the number, but when they saw the Black Mountain crossing the river, they ignited the wolf smoke...... It looks like he wants to guard the river.

The Montenegrin army was unmoved at first, but immediately after, the new soldiers from Puyin City sent grain and grass, and there were hundreds of sickles on the carts, and more than a thousand new soldiers sharpened their knives, and looked at the wheat fields with green sprouts outside the city.

In Yanbei's words, even if the wheat is not ripe, it is fed to the livestock and cut without leaving a grain in Montenegro!