"General ......" The curtain suddenly opened, and Yuwen Chengdu rushed in quickly, "General, General Xu Da urgently reported, Duan Xuan and Niu Fu suddenly led the army to attack Shangdang. ”

Everyone was amazed.

The candle flame flickered, the figure swayed, and the intense murderous aura that fell from the sky suddenly enveloped the entire tent, making people suffocating.

Li Yi's expression was grim, a pair of eyes stared at Yuwen Chengdu fiercely, the muscles on his face twitched violently a few times involuntarily, and a cold chill rushed out from the depths of his soul and spread throughout his body in an instant.

Zhang Wen and the others immediately got up and said goodbye.

Yuwen Chengdu's hurried and nervous voice echoed in the military tent.

Xu Da, the general of Fenwei who acted as an agent of Jinyang, reported that early yesterday morning, the armies of Duan Xuan, Niu Fu and Fan Chou, who were stationed in Hedong, launched a fierce attack on Shangdang County.

Xu Da estimated that the number of Dong Zhuo's troops attacking the party was about 30,000, that is, each city that was attacked was now suffering a heavy blow from the opponent's army of 10,000. The Northern Xinjiang Army has thousands of troops stationed in each city, and it can barely hold it for the time being, but once Dong Zhuo increases his troops, the three cities will not be able to hold it. Therefore, Xu Da ordered the urgent requisition of 10,000 Tuntian soldiers to support the three battlefields. However, considering that the Shangdang had already begun the autumn harvest, Xu Da consulted Li Yi on whether to recruit more Tuntian soldiers to ensure the safety of the Shangdang.

"It is not advisable for the Shangdang Tuntian soldiers to be recruited again, so as not to affect the autumn harvest." After Li Yi listened to Xu Da's urgent report, he immediately said to Guo Jia, "Fengxiao, write back to General Xu and tell him that Shangdang's food is limited, and there is a large army in Northern Xinjiang to garrison it." In addition, there is a strong city, and if Dong Zhuo wants to occupy it by force, he will inevitably pay a heavy price, so going to the party is not Dong Zhuo's goal, Nanyang and Yingchuan are Dong Zhuo's real goals. ”

"General Xu knows this in his heart." Yue Fei said with a solemn expression. "Dong Zhuo's army attacked Shangdang from three directions, and the situation should be very critical, but General Xu only requisitioned 10,000 Tuntian soldiers, which shows that he has already seen that this is Dong Zhuo's feint strategy. After Dong Zhuo attacked Yuan Shu, the balance was immediately destroyed, and he knew that we would definitely fight him in anger, cut off his retreat, and force him to retreat to Chang'an. So he simply preempted the first step and attacked us first in order to take the initiative. ”

Yue Fei looked at Li Yi. Then he said: "I think General Xu meant to ask the lord if he should immediately send troops to occupy Hedong, forcibly cross the Yellow River, capture Hangu Pass, and cut off the retreat of Dong Zhuo's army. ”

"I know, so I told him not to recruit any more tuntian soldiers." Li Yi said, "Capture Hedong." Then cross the river to capture Hangu Pass, we need enough troops, ordnance and food, but this will take at least more than a month to prepare. More than a month later. Dong Zhuo has already grabbed food from Nanyang and Yingchuan, and if we fight again, it will be a bloody battle between the two sides. After a long time, we were short of food and grass. It can only be fruitless. ”

Li Yi then spread out the map on the desk, pointed to the desert outside the Saiwai, and said in a deep voice: "If we draw troops from outside the Saiwai to help." It costs more. Even if we abandon northern Xinjiang, the two sides will mobilize more than 100,000 troops to fight in the Gyeonggi area, and we will be the ones who will suffer the defeat in the end. ”

Li Yi shook his head and sighed: "Dong Zhuo must occupy Nanyang and Yingchuan this time, otherwise he will not take the initiative to break the balance and even more so than to fight us." ”

"Dong Fatzi chose a good time for this attack, and he hit our key point at once." Guan Yu thought about it for a long time and didn't find a way to deal with it, and couldn't help but be so angry that he smashed it on the case, "We were all fooled, thinking that he didn't dare to start a war in two directions at the same time, who knew that he had already appeased Han Sui and Ma Teng, and had already secretly arranged troops." We were all deceived by Dong Zhuo. This month, our attention was focused on the eldest princess and a few old ministers from Chang'an, completely ignoring the movement of the northern army on the Gyeonggi side. We should think of Dong Zhuo to fight back. ”

"Dong Zhuo asked Zhang Wen and several old ministers to come to northern Xinjiang, probably to divert our attention, so that he could quietly adjust the deployment of troops in the Gyeonggi area." Tian Feng said, "Dong Zhuoxuan's attack at the end of September is indeed very good. We are busy with the autumn harvest here, Yuan Shu is busy fighting for Jingzhou with Liu Biao, Yuan Shao, Han Fu and Liu Dai are busy fighting the Yellow Turban Army, and the three sides have not deployed heavy troops around Gyeonggi, and no one can stop his attack. ”

"Now that the autumn harvest in Yin, Henan Province has just begun, Dong Zhuo has robbed him of all the food to make military rations, and the common people have driven him away and become a homeless person. In this way, even if his military rations are exhausted, he can still capture the homeless people to be vegetable people, and he can maintain a month's rations for the army no matter how he fights. A month later, he occupied Nanyang and Yingchuan, and when the money and food were sufficient, he was even more fearless. ”

"Originally, our counterbalancing strategy was to suppress and weaken Dong Zhuo's strength, but now that we have given him such a beating, the checks and balances that we have worked hard for several months to establish have not only been completely destroyed, but the situation has suddenly reversed, and Northern Xinjiang has become the target of Dong Zhuo's suppression and attack." Tian Feng pointed to the map and said, "Now the situation in Gyeonggi has returned to the state of confrontation at the beginning of the year, but the strength of all parties has changed a lot. ”

"Northern Xinjiang was deeply affected by the Gyeonggi crisis and the westward migration of the imperial court, and the military resources of the border army and the relief of the border counties were all cut off. We now have millions of people who have migrated from Qingzhou, Yanzhou and Xuzhou, and the population has exceeded 20 million, which is not only our greatest resource, but also a huge burden. Although the lord has been cultivating fields on a large scale in various parts of northern Xinjiang, he still has no extra strength in the case of such a large-scale migration of disaster victims. ”

"What about Yuan Shao? He was the worst, he lost the first battle against Dong, and then the strength of the Yuan Lord's split was greatly reduced, and then he fell into a melee with the Yellow Turban Army. In the past few months, he has not only not advanced an inch, but has become farther and farther away from Luoyang. ”

"What about Yuan Shu? Like Yuan Shao, he has suffered a serious loss in strength. But fortunately, Nanyang did not suffer from the scourge of the Yellow Turban Army, but Yuan Shu had nothing to do, so he had to fight with Liu Biao for Jingzhou, and gave Dong Zhuo a golden opportunity. This time, not only will he not be able to save Nanyang, but he may not even be able to save his life. ”

"Now it seems that Dong Zhuo is indeed very clever. He has the Son of Heaven in his hands and an army of more than 100,000 people, but he keeps his head down, endures and endures, retreats and retreats, even if there is nothing to eat or drink, he endures it until today. Finally gave him such a chance. If there was no Yellow Turban Army in Montenegro and Qingzhou, without Yuan Shu's willfulness and recklessness, and without the division of Yuan Valve, how could Dong Zhuo have a chance to swing his sword and fight Gyeonggi again? ”

"Now that the trend of checks and balances has collapsed, Lian Yuanshu is beyond the reach of the whip, and it is useless. After Northern Xinjiang lost the tripartite balance with Dong Zhuo and Yuan Shu, the alliance with Yuan Shao immediately lost its meaning. Now that we are broken with Dong Zhuo and surrounded by Dong Zhuo and the army led by Yuan Shao to fight against Dong in the north, where is our way out? Will you sit back and wait or will you be trapped? ”

Li Yi looked at Tian Feng, who had a serious expression, laughed, and said, "What is a trapped beast fighting?" We still have a chance. As for Yuan Shao, he is in danger now, and he will not take the initiative to start a war with us. It's just that he sees that our advantages are gone, and he is likely to take the opportunity to blackmail us. ”

"What can he blackmail us? It's nothing more than us beating Dong Zhuo and attacking Luoyang, and he gave us grain and grass. Kou Zhun said disdainfully, "Then there is the matter of the emperor." Just now, the lord has already said to the eldest princess's mansion that the Son of Heaven and Sheji can only choose one. But now that we are given such a dozen to Dong Zhuo, it is not a matter of choosing only one, but only one choice, because we only have one Jizhou to rely on. ”

"The affairs of Jizhou can now be handed over to the eldest princess." Kou Zhun said, "Yuan Shao said that the Son of Heaven was not from the first emperor, but he never said that the princess was not from the first emperor. At the beginning of the year, in order to unite us to fight Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shao tried every means to invite the princess to northern Xinjiang, so it was not okay for him not to admit this eldest princess. With the eldest princess, plus Zhang Wen and Cui Lie, we have to decide the money and food in Jizhou. If Han Fu doesn't give it, we will take advantage of the truce between the Yellow Turban Army and them in winter, and simply occupy Jizhou. ”

Yue Fei, Guan Yu, and Tian Feng looked at him in slight surprise.

Tian Feng shook his head and said, "Ping Zhong, are you in a hurry to overthrow the Great Han Society?" ”

Kou Zhun knew that he was speechless, and said with an embarrassed smile: "Our months of hard work have been in vain, and now we still have to join forces with Yuan Shao, I knew that it would be so ......."

He shook his hand self-deprecatingly and said, "Forget it, don't say it, don't say it." Dong Zhuo is Dong Zhuo, not comparable to ordinary people, we despise him too much. What's next? Shall we fight Luoyang or Chang'an? ”

"If we can borrow money and grain from Jizhou and embezzle some of the funds used in Tuntian, we can probably launch an attack on Dong Zhuo in November." Yue Fei said slowly, "But the forces we can use are limited, we can only hit Dong Zhuo's vital point, and the result of fighting this vital point must be beneficial to Northern Xinjiang." ”

"Luoyang." Li Yi said, "Fight Luoyang, drive Dong Zhuo back to Chang'an, and then open up the connection between Northern Xinjiang and Jing and Henan." As long as we can occupy Hongnong County and Henan Yin, and control Luoyang, we will basically solve the financial crisis in northern Xinjiang. ”

"But......" Tian Feng said worriedly, "If Dong Zhuo is ferocious, he will burn Luoyang to the ground before the troops retreat to Chang'an......"

Li Yi and the three of them looked at each other, and they all had a feeling of shock. Especially Li Yi, who has the memory of his previous life, knows that Luoyang was indeed burned by Dong Zhuo.

At the beginning of the year, the reason why Li Yi was reluctant to fight Dong Zhuo and Yuan Shao was that he was afraid that Luoyang would be destroyed after the Gyeonggi melee. In today's situation, if Luoyang is destroyed, the consequences are self-evident. (To be continued.) )

PS: Thank you for the reward from the autumn breeze and snow.