Then Feng Ji shook his head with a sigh and continued: "This tiger is unstoppable in the desert, but he can't do it when he reaches the Central Plains. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Now on the frontal battlefield, we have more than 100,000 troops, and if Brother Yidu and Brother Meng Yu can arrive, we will have nearly 200,000 troops on the front line of Junyi, Kaifeng, and Yongqiu. Where can Li Yi stop it? ”

"We don't need to beat him now, just keep him out of Henan and drag him in Yanzhou." Yuan Shao said, "In view of the lessons of the Jizhou War the year before last, it is better for us to be conservative, so as not to lose our troops." ”

He pointed his finger at the frustration and said to everyone: "Just now Gonghe said the disadvantages of the Northern Xinjiang Army, what we have to do now is to make the disadvantages of the Northern Xinjiang Army bigger and bigger. Surrendering without a fight is the best policy. ”

"Doesn't the general want to take advantage of the favorable situation in front of him to encircle and annihilate the main force of the Northern Xinjiang Army?" Wang Lang asked strangely, "After the Jingzhou Army and the Runan Army arrived at the battlefield, we had an advantage in troops. Now on the frontal battlefield, the main force of the Northern Xinjiang Army is attacking Junyi and Kaifeng. If we use a force to contain and block the Northern Xinjiang Army under Junyi City, and surround Chenliu from the two directions of Kaifeng and Yongqiu with the main force, we should be able to inflict heavy losses on Li Yi and recapture Chenliu. ”

"Chen Liu's stay doesn't have much effect on us anymore." Yuan Shao said with a smile, "Before the second line of defense is established, we hope to use Chen Liucheng's strong and sluggish attack speed of the Northern Xinjiang Army to buy time for us to deploy troops in Henan, but due to the rapid formation of the two flank battlefields in the north and south, the second line of defense has been solidified, and Chen Liucheng's role is no longer obvious." As for the attack, as I said just now, the best strategy is to surrender without a fight, and the time for our counterattack has not yet come. Now it's dragging, dragging Li Yi to death, dragging the Northern Xinjiang Army to death. ”

"If we want to counterattack, we must be deadly, and we must defeat the Northern Xinjiang Army to a slump, so that we can conquer Hebei and pacify the world in the shortest possible time." Fu Zhu sighed, "If we continue to fight like this, even if the world is calm, Sheji will be in ruins, so no matter what, we will completely solve Li Yi." ”

On the battlefield in the middle, because the strength of the coalition army was nearly twice that of the northern Xinjiang army, the strength of the two sides was similar, but the terrain was unfavorable to the northern cavalry, and neither side could break the deadlock in the short term, and a situation of confrontation had been formed.

The coalition forces wanted to drag on the war all the time, but the Northern Xinjiang Army would not agree, and they were eager to break the situation in the territory and force the coalition forces to fight a decisive battle as soon as possible. In order to form a decisive battle situation as soon as possible, the Northern Xinjiang Army could not open up the situation in the center, and the focus of the attack would immediately shift to the two flank battlefields. In order to move closer to the main army in the middle and to cooperate with the main army to open the stalemate situation, the Northern Xinjiang Army on these two battlefields was bound to launch a fierce attack.

Judging from the current battlefield situation and the deployment of troops on both sides, the focus of the Northern Xinjiang Army's attack will definitely be on the flank battlefield in the north.

If Zhang Fei's army breaks through Yancheng and kills in the area of Yanjin and Sujuo, it will directly threaten Henan.

In order to block Zhang Fei's attack, Yuan Shao had to transfer troops from the second line of defense to garrison the third line of defense, so that the stalemate on the battlefield would be broken, and the coalition forces might retreat on all fronts and defend the line of Xingyang and Zhongmu.

At present, there are 80,000 horses of Cao Cao and Liu Bei on the battlefield on the north side, 20,000 soldiers of Yan Lianggao, and a total of 100,000 troops, so it should not be a problem to block Zhang Fei's army.

But what they were most worried about was not the fierce Zhang Fei, but Cao Cao, who had just withdrawn from Dingtao.

Cao Cao and Liu Bei both lost their troops on the battlefield of Yanzhou, but Liu Bei still had Xuzhou and could make a comeback, while Cao Cao had nothing but the tens of thousands of horses in his hands. In the face of Zhang Fei's attack, Cao Cao's attitude towards the battle can be imagined. No one is willing to completely wipe out their old books at this time.

Cao Cao is the prime minister, after he arrived in Yancheng, his officials were the largest, the army was the most, Liu Bei Yan Liang and high-ranking cadres had to listen to his command, he said to retreat, retreat, others had no way at all.

"Do we still have the strength to go north to support Yancheng?" Yuan Shao asked worriedly.

"Nope." Feng Ji said, "There are more than 20,000 people in Hanoi, and they have to protect Gyeonggi and can't move. Luoyang also has 10,000 Zhao Rui and Lu Hong, who have just returned from Hanoi. The capital is so little army, and it can't be moved. There are still nearly 20,000 people in Chunyu in Kansai, and there are more than 40,000 people in Xiansi in Guanzhong, all of whom can't move. The troops we can mobilize are now all in the Central Plains battlefield, with 100,000 troops, 20,000 Yancheng, and 80,000 in Zhongmu, Junyi, and Kaifeng. ”

Feng Ji looked at Yuan Shao and said with a wry smile: "Now Lou Zibo is recruiting troops in Luoyang, and Chen Kongzhang is recruiting troops in Yuzhou. These recruits won't be fully recruited until at least the end of the month, so ......"

He shook his head and continued, "We can only warn Cao Aman and tell him not to go too far. ”

Yuan Shao sneered: "At this time, if he still dares to fight against me, I will kill him." ”

Fu Zhu hurriedly dissuaded: "This time, the Northern Xinjiang Army pressed the border, due to the lack of strength of the princes, they could only form an alliance to join forces to fight Hebei, this is the best time to rebuild the prestige of the Son of Heaven and the imperial court." As the great general of the imperial court, the lord of the alliance should learn the lessons of the failure of the imperial court, use the supreme authority of the Son of Heaven and the imperial court, properly handle the relationship between the imperial court and the princes, gather everyone's strength together, defeat the Hebei rebellion, and then pacify the world and revitalize the society. ”

"The lord obeys the orders of the Son of Heaven to order the world, and it needs the worship and obedience of the ministers, and to do this, it is necessary for everyone to not only not lose vested interests in the process of defeating Hebei and pacifying the world, but also get greater power interests." Frustrated and said, "In the matter of Prime Minister Cao, the lord should think twice, and don't lose the opportunity to defeat Hebei in vain because of a small loss." ”

Yuan Shao looked at the frustrated and thoughtful.

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Yanzhou East County, Yancheng.

After Zhang Fei finished reading Xingyuan's urgent book, he casually put him on the desk, and let out a heavy cold snort in his nose.

"Map, take the map down for me......," Zhang Fei pointed to the big map hanging on the side of the big tent, and shouted at the two guards standing at the door of the big tent, "Spread it on the ground, hurry up." ”

"What's wrong?" Yu Ban, who was writing a battle report, looked up at him and asked with a smile, "What did Xingyuan say?" Urging us to attack as soon as possible? ”

"Urge, urge, all day long." Zhang Fei pushed the case aside and stood up, and said very dissatisfied, "A few days ago, in order to urge us to cross the river to attack, Xingyuan sent Xu Miao here. This time, in order to urge us to attack Yancheng, our Wenhe military advisor actually came in person. ”

"Mr. Wenhe is here?" Yu Ban put down his pen and said in surprise, "Why did he come?" What did you bring us with? Is it a recruit or an ordnance? ”

Zhang Fei bent down and picked up the bamboo slips on the desk and threw them to Yu Ban, and then strode to the middle of the big tent.

The two guards spread the map on the ground and bowed down.

At this time, Guo Jia Wang Ling walked in with a smile, and saw Zhang Fei with a frosty face standing in front of the map, Guo Jia quipped: "The tiger is hungry and wants to go down the mountain to eat Cao Cao?" ”

Zhang Fei glared at him and ordered: "Order the generals of all departments to go to the big tent to discuss." ”

Guo Jia was stunned for a moment and asked, "You're going to fight soon?" ”

"If you don't fight again, Xingyuan will cut me with a knife." Zhang Fei said coldly, "They eat and drink spicy food in Handan, how do they know our difficulties?" ”

Guo Jia hurriedly walked out of the big tent to give orders.

Wang Ling walked up to Zhang Fei and said in a low voice, "Xingyuan is urging again?" ”

"Mr. Wenhe is coming." Zhang Fei looked at him and shook his head, "After the middle army advanced to the area of Junyi and Kaifeng, it was stubbornly resisted, and the army could not advance an inch, and it was urgent for us to open the stalemate on the flank battlefield, but after Cao Cao and Liu Bei fled to Yancheng, the strength of the rebels increased greatly, and if we forcibly attacked, we would suffer very large losses." ”

"If you don't fight, you have to fight." After reading Xingyuan's letter, Yu Ban raised his head and said to Zhang Fei, "Xingyuan's worries are reasonable. At present, the battlefield in the Central Plains has not yet formed a decisive battle situation, and the rebels' backup troops are constantly moving north, if we cannot advance to Henan and occupy the entire territory of Yanzhou before the rebels launch a counteroffensive, we are very likely to form a stalemate with the rebels on the front line of Yancheng, Fengqiu, Junyi, Kaifeng, Yongqiu, and Xiangyi. Once the stalemate is achieved, the development of the war situation will be very unfavorable to us. ”

"General Zhao Yun is coming soon." Wang Ling said, "As soon as the cavalry arrived, the rebels' food routes were under our threat, and at this time, we launched a fierce attack, and the rebels were panicked, and it was very likely that they would take the initiative to retreat." ”

"What we need is time, it's ......time," Zhang Fei tore off his armor and said irritably, "Now that the rebels have troops, the cities are strong, and the food, grass and ordnance are sufficient, it is impossible to expect the cavalry to cut off their food routes and force them to retreat quickly." ”

Zhang Fei pointed to the map and said: "When the rebels stabilize their positions in the area of Junyi and Kaifeng and block the attack of the main force of our army, their reinforcements can then go north to support, and the two sides immediately form a stalemate, and the battlefield is controlled by the rebels." At this point, if the rebels concentrate their forces on either side of the battlefield on the left and right flanks to defeat us, the stalemate will immediately turn into a counteroffensive, and we may be defeated. ”

Zhang Fei then chopped on the map with one foot and said: "If the left and right flank armies can advance to the first line of the chasm water and Langtang Canal before the rebels complete the assembly and use the advantage of troops to stabilize the battle line, we will form a joint force with the main army in the middle road, and we can support and protect each other, so that the decisive battle situation can be achieved, and the battle situation in the Central Plains will be under our control." ”

Zhang Fei waved his hands in the air and shouted at Wang Ling: "What we need is time, time ......" (to be continued.) )