Outside Puyang City, in Yuan Shaojun's camp, a map was spread out in front of Yuan Shao, and he was paying close attention to Zhang Yanjun's movements.

At this time, a personal soldier walked in from outside, clasped his fists and said, "My lord, the scout has captured a messenger and said that he was sent by the Son of Heaven, and he also carried a holy decree. ”

"Oh? Bring it in! ”

Not long after, the envoy was brought into Yuan Shao's camp, and when Yuan Shao saw it, he did not pay homage, but asked arrogantly: "Bring me the holy decree!" ”

The envoy is the inner servant of the Son of Heaven, and when he entered Yuan Shao's military camp, he was already trembling, and this time he saw Yuan Shao himself so arrogant, and he didn't dare to say anything, for fear of offending Yuan Shao, if he was killed, he would die.

So, the messenger obediently handed over the holy decree, and the soldiers handed the holy decree to Yuan Shao.

Yuan Shao took the holy decree, and after opening it, he hurriedly looked at it, and immediately frowned.

The holy decree is pure to reproach Yuan Shao, but also said that Yuan Shao issued an edict, this kind of behavior, and the chaotic ministers and thieves are undoubted, the angry Yuan Shao tore up the holy decree in public, and in a fit of anger, he immediately ordered: "Pull the messenger out and cut it down!" ”

When the envoy heard this order, he was immediately frightened, and hurriedly knelt on the ground, begging Yuan Shao for mercy, and between his legs, a torrent also gushed out, and he was so frightened that he peed his pants.

The pro-soldier held the messenger and walked out, and at this time he happened to meet Tian Feng who walked in from the outside, Tian Feng glanced at the holy decree that was torn in half on the ground, and Yuan Shao, who was full of anger, immediately understood something, and said to the pro-soldier: "Wait! ”

"Strategist, this person will not be killed. It's hard to vent the hatred in my heart! Yuan Shao said on the side.

Tian Feng said: "This person is an angel after all. And many people saw the angel enter the barracks with the holy decree. If the lord kills him, I am afraid that it will arouse the suspicion of the soldiers. Besides, the two armies are fighting, and they still don't kill them, and this is still an angel? ”

Listening to the advice of people to eat a full meal, Yuan Shao heard Tian Feng say this, and he didn't say anything more, just waved his hand at the soldiers. He released the messenger, and then said to his soldiers: "Send the messenger out of the camp!" ”

"Whoa!"

After the soldiers left, Tian Feng picked up the holy decree on the ground, put the two halves together and looked at it, all the holy decrees were words to reproach Yuan Shao, and the scolding did not contain dirty words, looking at this vigorous and powerful font, and the meaning expressed between the lines, Tian Feng had to admire the person who wrote this holy decree.

"Such a talented person is under Zhang Yan. What a pity! After Tian Feng read this holy decree, he sighed with regret.

This decree was written by Ruan Yu, Zhang Yan's marching secretary. Ruan Yu is talented and in history, he is one of the seven sons of Jian'an.

When Ruan Yu was young, he once worshipped Cai Yong as a teacher and learned a lot of knowledge from Cai Yong, and he was also called a "genius" by Cai Yong because of his outstanding talent.

In the official history, Ruan Yu lived in Cao Wei, and was hired by Cao Cao as a meritorious Cao Peng, and most of the military books at that time were written by Ruan Yu and Chen Lin.

Tian Feng had a unique vision, and he could see at a glance that the person who wrote this holy decree was not a simple person, but it was also rare.

Yuan Shao was not interested in any of this, he saw that Tian Feng's speech was a little off-topic, so he cleared his throat and asked, "Strategist, why are you here?" ”

Tian Feng said matter-of-factly: "I saw the angel coming, so I followed." Since this holy decree is to reproach the lord, that is to say, Ming Zhangyan did not have the slightest fear of the lord. And Zhang Yan has already arrived at Lihu with a large army, and it is only a few dozen miles away from Puyang, and Zhang Yan's soldiers are few, and even Bixia has been brought out, if you want to introduce Zhang Yan and others into Puyang City, it will definitely be unrealistic. If the lord concentrates his superior forces and goes to fight Zhang Yan to the death, as long as Zhang Yan dies and the army is leaderless, our army can wipe out Zhang Yan's subordinates scattered in various places one by one. ”

After Yuan Shao heard this, he felt that what Tian Feng said was very reasonable, so he began to discuss with Tian Feng how to attack Lihu.

After some discussion and consideration, Yuan Shao decided to leave 70,000 soldiers and horses to surround Puyang City, and let the trial be responsible for commanding the whole army.

And Yuan Shao took Tian Feng, Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Zhang He, Gao Lan and other four strong generals, with an army of 80,000, and rushed towards Lihu City.

The soldiers of the Yuan army, who had been recuperating under Puyang City, were extremely excited after getting the order to go out, and as soon as the order was issued, the soldiers over there were ready to go, and under the leadership of Yuan Shao, they went south.

On the tower of Puyang City, Yu Ban, the right general, saw that almost half of the Yuan army outside had left, and he didn't know where to go.

Yu Ban, who has always been smart, immediately guessed that it was reinforcements coming, and Yuan Shao left with the army, most likely to deal with reinforcements.

Although the outside of Puyang City was surrounded by layers, and the number of enemy troops was far more than that in the city, fortunately, there was a strong city wall to cover it, blocking the pace of the enemy army entering the city. But the reinforcements are different, they walk on a flat road, there is nothing to cover, and the Yuan army is overwhelming, it is difficult to say whether the reinforcements can escape this catastrophe.

Although Yu Ban guessed that Yuan Shao was going to deal with reinforcements, he couldn't help it, because outside Puyang City, there were still 70,000 troops, and if he led the troops out now, it would be tantamount to playing into the hands of the enemy.

Therefore, Yu Ban could only hold on without fighting, and he could only pray silently in his heart for the incoming reinforcements, praying that they would be safe.

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In the county government of Lihu City, Jin Yiwei quickly walked in from outside and told Zhang Yan: "Yuan Shao led an army of 80,000 and is marching towards Lihu, and it is expected that the vanguard of the front of Shenshi will arrive here." The front vanguard of Yuan's army totaled 5,000 people, and all of them were cavalry, led by Yan Liang, the general under Yuan Shao's account. ”

After hearing this, Zhang Yan sat there expressionlessly, waved his hand at Jinyiwei, and motioned for him to leave.

Yuan Shao led the army to fight, which was completely in his prediction, and the vanguard general, he also guessed eight or nine, either Yan Liang or Wen Chou. These two brave champions of the three armies are Yuan Shao's henchmen, and they are the mainstays of Yuan Shao's army. Especially Yan Liang, this person is murderous, and he likes to slaughter the city very much, and there are no chickens and dogs left wherever he passes.

Zhang Yan once had a few encounters with Yan Liang in Qingzhou, and he had seen Yan Liang charging on the battlefield with his own eyes, and he had a deep impression of him.

However, in Zhang Yan's eyes, Yan Liang is just a brave and unscrupulous horseman, as long as he uses a little trick, he can capture and kill Yan Liang in one battle!

And Zhang Yan has already arranged everything, just waiting for Yan Liang to arrive.

"Lord Qi, General Huben has prepared everything, and sent a subordinate to invite the lord to investigate!" A scout came into the hall and bowed to Zhang Yan.

Zhang Yan nodded, went straight out of the hall, stepped on his own dark cloud snow horse, and together with the scouts, came to the horse slope five miles north of Fox City, he reined in the horses, and looked up, the four fields were all white, the north wind was howling, the cold was biting, in the woods on both sides of the road, the branches without leaves towered into the clouds, densely intertwined, people could see from the gaps whether there was an ambush here, and the line of sight was open at a glance.

It was such a place, but there were 8,000 elite infantry under Xu Chu's department in ambush.

However, when you look with the naked eye, you will find that there is nothing to be seen here except the white snow, not even birds and beasts.

After Zhang Yan finished reading it, he nodded with satisfaction, a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and said, "It's well hidden." As the so-called raising troops for a thousand days and using troops for a while, you are the elite division of my Han Dynasty, this time in the face of Yuan Shao's rebellion, do you have the confidence to win more with less and completely defeat Yuan Shao's army? ”

"Confidence!" In the wilderness, there was an earth-shattering shout, a deafening sound that soared into the sky.

At this time, a knight galloped over from a distance, the man on horseback was a tiger's back, with a sturdy physique like a cow, wearing a silver helmet on his head, a silver armor on his body, and a silver glittering knife in his hand, it was the tiger general Xu Chu.

In Zhang Yan's army, almost all of the five tiger generals were silver helmets and silver armor, and even the weapons in their hands were plated with a layer of silver, so they looked silvery.

However, among the five tiger generals, Tai Shici, Zhang Liao, Xu Huang, and Zhao Yun wore silver helmets and silver armor, and they all looked particularly dazzling and handsome, but only Xu Chu looked nondescript after wearing this outfit. Not because he is ugly, but because his figure is too strong.

In fact, the equipment of the Five Tiger Generals is not all silver, but is plated with a layer of silver, and the inside is still made of 100 steel.

Among the four metals of gold, silver, copper, and iron, iron has the highest hardness, so iron is used in general weapons and battle armor.

However, in Zhang Yan's army, all iron weapons and armor have been eliminated, and after several years of accumulation, the whole army has already been replaced with a more harder hundred steel.

Xu Chu gradually approached Zhang Yan, then reined in the horse, did not get off the horse, and arched his hand at Zhang Yan on the horse's back and said: "Lord, all the soldiers have been ambushed here in accordance with the instructions of the lord, and no one can see where they are hiding, and the soldiers of the whole army are ready to ambush, as long as the lord gives an order, they will start to attack one after another!" ”

Zhang Yan smiled: "Very good, you did a good job this time." However, the vanguard general who came this time is Yan Liang, he is a fierce general in Yuan Shao's army, and he has the courage of ten thousand people, do you have the confidence to kill him? ”

Xu Chu was expressionless, and said coldly: "It doesn't matter who he is, I haven't seen blood for several years with this big knife, and when the time comes, I will sacrifice Yan Liang's head in front of the lord." ”

"Hehe, good! I'm relieved to have your words. However, Yan Liang is not an idle person, you must not underestimate the enemy. ”

"Whoa!" (To be continued......)