Although Yuan's army sent troops north with great fanfare, it was actually much more difficult than Yan's dispatch of troops in the north. Logically speaking, when mobilizing troops and horses, it is necessary to divide several garrison cities on the way, provide rest and recuperation for passing soldiers and horses, and try to advance as far as possible to gather the main combat force before a large-scale attack. Especially when attacking a city to a place like Qingzhou or Jizhou, which is thousands of miles away, it is necessary to plan carefully.

But the most difficult thing for Yuan's soldiers and horses is to gather troops, Qingzhou's soldiers and horses are easy to dispatch, but Xuzhou is not so easy. If the unified dispatch is assembled in the south of Pingyuan County, it will be two or three months after the Xuzhou soldiers come, and then send troops to the north at that time, the large-scale dispatch of troops in the state will already make the Leling defenders have some precautions, so Yuan Shao sent the Qingzhou soldiers to the north first, which is a desperate move.

It just happened that the blind cat ran into a dead mouse, and Lu Yi complied with Yanbei's request, so that Han Meng had the opportunity to seize Leling and become a frontier camp across the Yellow River. It's just that when the Hun cavalry occupied more than ten ferries in Hebei, Huaxiong and Zhangjaw blocked Leling, which made Leling a big city like a huge coffin, and sealed tens of thousands of troops in the city. The soldiers of Qingzhou, Henan Province have not received news from Hebei for more than ten days, and Yuan Shao, who is sitting in Qingzhou, knows about it...... The North is broken!

In the south of the great river, mourning is everywhere.

In the Yuan army's tent, a column of troops rode on horseback and sent letters with Yuan Shao's speculation to the front line. The third son of Yuan Shao, Yuan Shang, who supervised the army in Henan, was favored by Yuan Shao for his similarity to his father in appearance and conduct, but his young and handsome face became extremely embarrassed after seeing the letter.

It was his suggestion that Han Meng lead his troops to rush into Leling, since the night fire in the water village along the Hebei coast, their ships can no longer cross the Yellow River, and the Hun cavalry often appears on the opposite bank and sweeps past the galloping figure, at this time he saw Yuan Shao's scolding letter, which made his legs weak, and said in a lamented voice: "Sir, how should this be!" ”

The generals stationed in Henan are unreliable in Yuan Shang's view, and most of the generals who are accustomed to using troops have only two views in the face of such a situation, one is to stand still as it is now, although it is safe, but in the eyes of Yuan Shao in the rear, it is inaction; Either it is proposed to lead the army to attack the north, such a suggestion is even more of a joke in Yuan Shang's opinion!

He is not a fool who does not know the soldiers, in the south he has also supervised the army to see the Xuzhou soldiers and Yangzhou soldiers fighting across the river, confrontation March 1 sent troops, most of them who crossed the river first and who was defeated, the soldiers on the beach with flesh and blood to charge the strong bow and crossbow laid out the line, the enemy only needs a ditch and a wooden barrier to block the impact of several times the sergeant.

Yuan Shang knew very well that he was facing the most difficult situation - his father in the rear thought that he had done nothing, and the generals in the front had a high desire to fight, and the first troops were quickly defeated!

The most difficult thing is how to calm down the generals and their fathers.

Fortunately, in the former army, there was Feng Ji, the strategist that my father relied on the most.

"The current situation should not be worried." Compared with Yuan Shang's worries, Feng Ji was surprisingly calm, looking incompatible with the entire camp, and slowly shoveled out some ice chips on the account and poured them into the bottle to push the iced sweet syrup to Yuan Shang, then raised his eyes and said: "Son, wipe off the sweat and lower the anger in your heart." ”

Seeing Feng Ji's expression, Yuan Shang's uneasiness slowly lowered, and he knelt down and asked, "Please teach me, sir!" ”

"The Yan army dug a trench on the north bank, densely covered with walls along the line, stationed tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and thousands of Hun cavalry for it to drive. Even if it is attacked on the shore, it will be destroyed and disadvantaged in a long battle, this son knows. Feng Ji dipped his finger in ice to draw the situation on both sides of the river, and then said to Yuan Shang: "Yuan Gong's urgency lies in Han Meng." ”

Yuan Shang let out a long breath and slowly bowed his head. He didn't know that Yuan Shao was angry because Han Meng was trapped in Jizhou's army with more than 10,000 soldiers, as the vanguard of the Qingzhou soldiers, it was the strongest veteran, and Han Meng was also a general he relied on. But now in such a situation, there are often Hun brigade cavalry on the north bank of the Yellow River, and they can't even put scouts into Jizhou, so what can they do except send troops on a large scale?

"The first thing Gongzi needs to do is to stabilize Yuan Gong and stabilize the morale of the army. General Han will not be defeated, even if he is besieged in Leling, he will not be defeated by the Yan army in a short time. There are tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in Leling, all kinds of camps and trenches, and more than 300,000 stones, grains and grass. Feng Ji's face was calm, and he was the first to propose to divide the grain and grass into two parts to send Leling first, and he was the one who cherished Leling's military resources in his heart, and raised his hand to the heavens: "It's only July now, even if there is no army to support, unless the thief can dispatch 100,000 soldiers and horses to attack Leling, General Han can at least last until the heavy snow in October!" ”

Hearing Feng Ji say this, Yuan Shang felt a little relieved, and then asked: "But this is not good, sir, even so I will only wait for March, after March, General Han will still be defeated, and it will snow in Jizhou at that time, and I will wait for the southern soldiers to be not good at fighting in the north, so I have to return with a feather!" ”

This is the biggest problem in this battle, if Yuan Shaojun wants to win, he must end the battle before winter, the Qingzhou soldiers are still acceptable, the Xuzhou soldiers are about to be unable to withstand the wind and snow in the north, once the war in Jizhou drags on to the winter, if there is a city to live in, if you camp in the field, the cold will make the morale of the soldiers drop so much that there are a large number of escapees, and you will be defeated without fighting.

"Now it seems that General Han is under siege by the enemy, Childe, please see, we don't know how many soldiers and horses there are around Leling, but on the north bank of the Yellow River, there are the army of the Luyi Division, thousands of Hun cavalry, and Leling extends in all directions, the Bohai Sea, Hejian, Anping and other places, the Yan soldiers and horses have to pass through the Leling official road and the countryside, it is a situation of trapped death, if Keleling is alive, what should it do?" The case seemed to have become a piece of paper for Feng Ji, and in a blink of an eye, the topographic map of eastern Jizhou was drawn, and he pointed to the position of Leling and said: "If General Han's troops and horses come alive, they can block the enemy in the rear and intercept the rear road of the Lu Department when they retreat." Even if you die nine times and live a life, Leling's way of life is still in my own hands! ”

"How can you not be at the enemy?" Yuan Shang was attracted by Feng Ji's words, leaned forward and asked, "Jizhou is full of Yan's soldiers and horses, and General Han alone is doing it?" ”

"Lu Yi, Lu Yi, he is good at seizing the opportunity in the battle formation, and if he is not careful, he will let him take a bite, and often only one blow can defeat the enemy on the whole line, and he is a famous general in the world." Feng Ji's words all revealed his jealousy of Lu Yi, and he said in a deep voice: "At the moment, the enemy and I are evenly matched, and Lu Yi will not cross the river." If you want to lure him across the river, you can't lure him with conspiracy, then use yang to conspire. No matter how real the falsification is, there is no real flaw to convince it. Please let the incompetent person be the general, and divide his 5,000 new soldiers to garrison the riverbank, and within a month, Lu Yi will definitely cross the river! ”