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Duan Xuan came to Guo Yan's military tent with a kind face, and as soon as he entered the big tent, he arched his hand with a smile on his face and said, "General Guo, don't come to harm, right?" ”
Guo Yan grimaced and said coldly: "General Duan's blessing, at least until now, there is no missing arm or leg......
Duan Xuan knew that Guo Yan was still angry about his refusal to send troops last time, and hurriedly said: "General Guo, I can't help what happened last time, in fact, I am also very embarrassed, General Guo asked me to send troops to help, General Li also asked me to send troops to help, I am in a dilemma, it is not good to offend anyone, and there is only two who do not help, and I hope General Guo can understand." ”
Guo Yan waved his hand and said: "Let him pass the past, don't mention it again." General Duan, you didn't come here this time just to catch up with me, right? ”
Duan Xuan said: "General Guo is smart, I really didn't come here this time to reminisce about the past, but to have something important to tell. ”
Guo Yan said: "Something important? What can you do? Could it be that you have figured it out and want to help me deal with Li Dao together? Or, do you want to help Li Dao deal with me and come to write a war letter, or do you want to come to persuade peace? ”
Duan Xuan replied categorically: "Not at all!" ”
Guo Yan became suspicious and asked, "Then what are you doing here?" ”
"It's not a secret, I intercepted a holy decree in Huayin, this holy decree was given to Li Dao, but the content of this holy decree is ......" Duan Xuan said this, and then stopped abruptly, "Forget it, let's ask General Guo to see it himself!" ”
As he spoke, Duan Xuan took out a holy decree from his arms and handed it directly to Guo Yan.
Guo Yan opened it and looked at it, and his face suddenly changed greatly. At first, there was a little bit of thought in my heart about Li Dao and Haode. It also disappeared suddenly.
"Li Dao is so hateful! Anyway, he and I are brothers. I didn't expect him to treat me in such a way! It's infuriating! Guo Yan was furious, and tore the holy decree in his hand to pieces!
Seeing this, Duan Xuan had reached the expectations in his heart, so he took the opportunity to act, adding oil and vinegar to the side, making Guo Yan even more angry, and he wanted to immediately gather his troops and horses and go to Li Wei to settle accounts!
But. was persuaded by Duan Xuan, saying that he was going to Li Dao to find out, and then came back to inform Guo Yan.
Guo Yan did not have a strong general, so he approved Duan Xuan's request, and even more timely wooed Duan Xuan to let Duan Xuan come to his front. Duan Xuanyang disobeyed the yin, and on the surface promised Guo Yan to send troops to help, but in fact, he had other plans.
Duan Xuan left Guo Yan's military camp and came to Li Wei's military camp again, and told Li Wei about the situation in Guo Yan's military camp. He also suggested that Li Dao attack Guo Yan's military camp at night, and he led the army to help in the name of returning to Huayin. Left Li Dao's barracks again.
After that, Duan Xuan went to Guo Yan's camp again, and informed Guo Yan that Li Wei was going to attack the camp at night tonight, and asked Guo Yan to prepare, and he left Guo Yan's camp on the grounds that he would return to Huayin to bring troops to help.
Li Dao and Guo Yan were coaxed by Duan Xuan, and the two of them were tense, each preparing for tonight's battle.
Duan Xuan soon left Huaili and marched all the way east, and happened to meet Mi Fang and others who quietly led the army to come, and informed Mi Fang of his strategy.
After Mi Fang heard this, he asked, "General Duan's clever plan is really high. However, I was a little puzzled, since General Duan had already formulated a night attack with Li Wei, and Weishenme wanted to inform Guo Yan that it was so troublesome? ”
Duan Xuan said: "The general doesn't know, Li Dao is brave and good at fighting, and there are several generals under him, although the troops are not many, but they are all fierce, if he destroys Guo Yan and annexes Guo Yan's old department, it will be a little difficult for us to deal with it again." However, Guo Yan has no strong generals, although there are many troops, but not as elite as Li Dao, I do this, I want to let each have preparations, and then start a fight, in this way, the two are bound to fight inseparable, at that time, our army will take advantage of the chaos to kill, can defeat them all, a battle can be settled. ”
Mi Fang said with a smile: "I can't see that General Duan is still a talented general, and after taking the heads of Li Dao and Guo Yan, the two chaotic ministers and thieves, and pacifying Guanzhong, I will definitely say a few good words for General Duan in front of the general." ”
Duan Xuan said happily: "General Xie! ”
Mi Fang said: "Okay, you return to the team for the time being, take your army, follow behind my army, stay in Huaili, everything is under my command, this time you must wipe out Li Dao and Guo Yan!" ”
"Whoa!"
Duan Xuan left happily, Yuan Jian looked at Duan Xuan's cunning face, and said to Mi Fang: "General, Duan Xuan is a person who is suspicious by nature, today he can rebel against Li Dao and Guo Yan for the sake of glory and wealth, and he may also rebel against our army one day, although this person has some strategy, but after all, he is a jackal, after a long time, I am afraid that he will bite people." It is better to design to remove this person and cut off the danger of this person to Guanzhong in advance, otherwise, there will be endless troubles. ”
Kan Ze said: "That's what I mean, too!" ”
After Mi Fang heard this, he waved his hand and said: "Duan Xuan took refuge in the lord with sincerity, if I kill him, I am afraid that the lord will not be able to explain it." Let this matter be put aside for the time being, and it will be up to the lord to make a decision after I have written to ask the lord. ”
Yuan Jian and Kan Ze glanced at each other, didn't say anything more, and responded in unison: "Oh! ”
As the army continued to move forward, Mi Fang sent a scout battalion to the front to inquire about the news, and at the same time uprooted the enemy's outposts so as not to startle the snakes.
The guards are already the elite of the army, and the members of the scout battalion are the elite of the elite, specially responsible for reconnaissance of the enemy, and some even engage in some sabotage work behind enemy lines, and the way of communication between them is also very special, using a very difficult bird language, that is, through bird calls, to transmit information. Even if you are accidentally caught by the enemy, absolutely no information will be exposed, and usually, you will end your own life to defend the secret information.
After Zhang Yan carried out the military system reconstruction, there will be a scout battalion in each army, and this time Mi Fang's troops entered the pass, Zhang Yan sent all the elites of the first army over, which shows the importance of this entry into the pass.
Another thing that needs to be explained is that the scout battalion in the army does not belong to the same system as the scout under Xu Sheng's jurisdiction, although they are all called scouts, but the scout battalion is only subordinate to the army, and the scouts under Xu Sheng's jurisdiction are only subordinate to Zhang Yan's secret service agency, with only a few hundred people, all of whom are the partners that Xu Sheng rescued from Futu Temple. In order to distinguish between the two, Zhang Yan imitated the title of the Ming Dynasty and called it Jinyiwei.
Of course, this brocade guard is just a name to distinguish the scout battalions that belong to the army, not the kind of brocade guards in the Ming Dynasty.
However, in addition to having the same tasks as scouts, spying on the enemy's situation and destroying behind enemy lines, some of the Jinyi guards who stayed in Pengcheng were engaged in the task of monitoring hundreds of officials.
And Jinyiwei, as before, is directly responsible to Xu Sheng, the captain of the city gate and the general of Zhenwei, and Xu Sheng is directly responsible to Zhang Yan.
To get back to the point, the scout battalion sent by Mi Fang completed the task assigned by Mi Fang very well, and many secret posts were removed along the way, so that the army could secretly march towards Huaili. And all this, Li Dao and Guo Yan, who are in Huaili City, don't know about it.
That night, when the moon was dark and the wind was high, Li Dao ordered all the soldiers and horses, took his nephew Li Li, and several of his subordinates, and quietly left the camp and killed Guo Yan's camp in the west of Huaili City.
According to the defense of Guo Yan's troops explored by Duan Xuan, Li Wei led the army to quietly come to the outside of the barracks, and then with an order, the army was like a fierce tiger and rushed directly into Guo Yan's camp.
However, the strange thing is that Guo Yan's camp is empty.
Li Dao Deng felt deceived and immediately ordered to withdraw, but it was too late at this moment, and fires broke out on all sides outside the camp, and Guo Yan and his subordinates lit torches to drain the water around the entire camp.
"Haha...... Li Dao, you can't escape today! Kill me! Guo Yan was overjoyed and immediately ordered an attack.
The archers fired arrows, and many of the infantry threw torches into the camp, and as soon as the torches touched the tent, they immediately burst into flames, and the fire suddenly arose, spreading in all directions by the howling north wind.
In order to be able to kill Li Dao, Guo Yan also invested a lot of money this time, and filled the entire camp with flammable items, waiting for Li Dao to lead the army to kill, and then he could kill them all.
The fire was together, Li Wei panicked, he didn't want to be caught in Guo Yan's way, at this time he seemed to understand, and began to scold Duan Xuan, thinking that this was a set that Duan Xuan and Guo Yan gave him together, waiting for him to jump into the fire pit.
However, Li Dao was not reconciled, he immediately gathered five hundred relatives and cavalry, held a spear himself, led them, and killed them at the gate of the village.
However, Guo Yanjun's bows and crossbows were fired, arrows flew wildly, and the gate of the village was sealed with fire, and Li Dao and others could not break through and wander around in the camp, no matter where they went, they could not rush out if they encountered the arrows or the flames.
There were screams in the camp, the fire had swept the entire camp, and Li Dao's army was almost burned by the fire, leaving only Li Dao and others to jump around, but due to the strict defense of Guo Yanjun's army, they could not clash with each other.
Guo Yan rode a tall horse, stood on the high post, and watched the situation in the camp with full attention, and when he saw Li Dao's embarrassing scene, he was about to die in the fire, and he was very happy.
However, at this moment, a sharp arrow pierced the sky, flew out directly from the darkness, and with a "whoosh" sound, it directly hit Guo Yan with a happy face, and an arrow pierced his throat, Guo Yan screamed, and immediately fell off the horse's back, twitched a few times on the ground, and then died with a whimper.
The sudden appearance of this scene shocked everyone, Guo Yan died tragically in an instant, and many people heard the earth-shattering shouting of killing from behind before they heard the earth-shattering shouts of killing from behind, and one by one soldiers like tigers and leopards came out and surrounded Guo Yan's army. (To be continued......)