Chapter 335 Volume is exactly what I wanted!

Avoid their sharp edge! Cut off their retreat!
Hiding the troops in Shangdang! Killing them with one sword!
Yuan Shao, Zhang He, Guo Tu and others all stretched their necks to look at the map carefully.

Go to the party!

Given the current situation, Shangdang seems to have no military role.

But if the Han army marches straight in and leads the army to Hebei, Shangdang will become a natural springboard!

As long as we send out troops from Shangdang, we can block the two passages of Jingxing and Chenguan, completely block the Han army in Hebei, and then surround and annihilate them!
Now, Yuan Shao and Zhang He became excited.

The way to break the impasse!

This is the way to break the impasse!

According to Ju Su’s strategy, we can inflict heavy damage on the Bingzhou army! Then we can go to support Henan without any worries!

“good!”

“Great!”

“If we use this strategy, we won’t have to worry about the enemy in Bingzhou anymore!”

Yuan Shao slapped his thigh.

“Now transport all the food and grass from Henei, Weijun, Changshan, and Zhongshan to Yecheng to lure the enemy to attack!”

“Once they enter Hebei, they will have to go deeper into the heart of Hebei because they cannot obtain supplies and food!”

“When the time comes, we can use Shangdang’s heavy troops to seize Jingxing in the north and Chenguan in the south, thus cutting off the retreat routes of the two Han armies!”

After Yuan Shao formulated the battle plan, he ordered the generals in various places to begin to shrink the battle lines and collect as much food and grass as possible from various places and bring them to Yecheng. He wanted to let the Han army in Taiyuan and Hedong enter Hebei, and then cut off their retreat, complete two huge encirclements and annihilate them!

……

Yangquan, the Han army camp.

“…”

“how to say?”

Three old friends, Zhang Liao, Zhang Xiu and Xu Huang, sat together and found it difficult to comment on Yuan Shao’s actions.

“Is this really what the emperor wants?”

“It seems that Sima Zhongda first proposed it.”

“It doesn’t matter anyway. Yuan Shao is destined to work in vain…”

Yuan Shao’s decision to shrink the front line, set up a Qing army, and lure the Han army into Hebei had already been considered a possibility by the emperor and Sima Yi two years ago.

It was also from this that everyone in the court realized that if they wanted to avoid being led by Yuan Shao, they had to fight another “Battle of Changping” and break the tortoise shell of Shangdang, so that they could achieve victory.

But the emperor did not want to fill this hole with the lives of countless soldiers and countless money and food.

It was not until the end that the now seemingly lengthy and tortuous strategy of “managing Luoyang and attacking Henan” was finally decided.

Zhang Xiu said in fear: “At first I thought Yuan Shao was weak and there was no need for the emperor to go to such great lengths.”

“Afterwards, Gongming angrily executed Yuan Shao’s nephew, which made me think that the emperor was making a big deal out of nothing.”

“But now it seems that there are still capable people in Yuanying after all.”

“If the emperor doesn’t find a way to fight like this, it will be really difficult to deal with it!”

If the imperial court had not chosen to attack from Luoyang, there would only be two possible outcomes.

First, they fell into Yuan Shao’s trap, had their retreat cut off, and were surrounded in Hebei.

Second, they failed to win a quick victory by luring the enemy deep into their territory, so they could only transfer their troops to Shangdang to fight a “Battle of Changping”.

But now, the Bingzhou army can completely ignore Yuan’s army, sit back and wait for the emperor to recover Henan, and then join forces with the Bingzhou army to sweep Hebei.

Therefore, Yuan Shao’s behavior seemed a little funny in the eyes of several people.

All the strategies that the opponent thought were brilliant had actually been cracked a few years ago.

In fact, for this strategy, I had already prepared for it, but the other party hadn’t figured it out until now…

No longer pay attention to Yuan Shao.

“Gongming, Wenyuan, do you think the emperor can defeat Cao Cao?”

Zhang Xiu had suffered at the hands of Cao Cao, so he did not dare to underestimate Cao Cao.

“If we are really held back by Cao Cao, I’m afraid…”

“rest assured!”

Zhang Liao laughed heartily with a heroic attitude.

“Isn’t it easy for General Lu to defeat Cao Cao? Not to mention that there are Gao Shun and Pang De, and two palace guards Sima Yi and Yang Xiu following him. How can he not win?”

“And in Jingzhou, there is also the army of Emperor Liu.”

Zhang Liao could not help but praise Zhang Xiu: “Uncle Liu’s Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Zhao Yun are all powerful generals who can defeat thousands of enemies! Especially when Yun Chang killed Yan Liang and Wen Chou in Anyi, it was really satisfying. It’s a pity that I didn’t see it with my own eyes!”

“Zhuge Liang was the top scorer in the second imperial examination. I heard from Sima Zhongda that Zhuge Kongming is as capable as him. We can rest assured!”

“In addition, the emperor also sent Ma Chao to lead the cavalry to provide support…”

“If Cao Cao faced General Lu or Emperor Liu alone, he might have a chance of winning. But now they are attacked from both sides, and the emperor is in Luoyang… Let alone Cao Cao, even if Han Bai was reborn or Overlord came back to life, how could he resist attacks from both sides?”

Zhang Xiu also thought this made sense, and he stopped worrying about the war in Henan. Instead, he sighed sadly, “The war in Henan will be fierce. We can only sit here and do nothing!”

It is impossible to attack.

Knowing that Hebei is a trap, why do you still rush into it?
Therefore, Zhang Xiu and others had only one task, which was to wait patiently.

Zhang Xiu’s words resonated with Zhang Liao.

Zhang Liao thought that after two years of rest, he could have a good rest. However, he did not expect that the key to the war was not in Hebei but in Henan. This really made Zhang Liao feel uncomfortable.

“Otherwise…” Zhang Liao and Zhang Xiu looked at each other and saw the sparks in each other’s eyes.

……

“What do you two want to do?”

It was Xu Huang who saw that something was wrong with the two.

“You two should just stay here and don’t cause any trouble. Take my advice as a warning…”

Zhang Liao and Zhang Xiu both knew that Xu Huang was reliable, but sometimes he was a little too boring.

“Gongming, since we are staying here anyway, why not use light cavalry to harass the Yuan army’s convoy heading to Yecheng? This will at least earn us some military merit!”

The army cannot go to Hebei now, otherwise it will fall into Yuan Shao’s trap.

But it is still possible to do so by sending in small groups of troops to harass.

The cavalry came and went without a trace, and Yuan Shao had no way to deal with them.

Constantly harassing his caravans and burning his baggage and food would in any case weaken Yuan Shao’s power, so there was no reason not to give it a try.

“This……”

Xu Huang was a little worried: “What if you accidentally kill the commander of Yuan’s army and cause Yuan’s army to riot, causing the situation to get out of control?”

“…”

Zhang Liao and Zhang Xiu were speechless.

If they didn’t know Xu Huang well, they would think he was showing off to them…

How could it be so easy to kill the commander of Yuan’s army?
It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Xu Huang to kill a senior official!

How could such an opportunity ever come again?

“Don’t worry, we will only use a small force to harass the Yuan army. We will never engage in a direct battle with Yuan’s army. How can we easily achieve the same feat as Gongming?”

Zhang Liao and Zhang Xiu have made up their minds.

“Don’t worry, Gongming, it won’t ruin the situation! As long as the army doesn’t enter Hebei, Yuan Shao won’t be able to find any trace of us.”

When Xu Huang thought about the current situation, he realized that nothing major would happen, so he agreed with the two’s decision.

The two men each led dozens of cavalrymen out of Jingxing and gradually approached Hebei.

Shang’an.

This place is just a village.

A layer of white rammed earth and fences are built around the outside, which is the most basic protection.

The three elders in the village were now standing in front of the village, begging Officer Yuan, who had come to the village to collect grain.

“General! Now that you have taken away all the food, how are we going to survive?”

Vertical clear wall field.

That is, not leaving any food for the Han army.

The Yuan army was a little annoyed after being pulled: “The enemy is coming soon! If we leave the food to them, are you waiting for us to be defeated by the enemy?”

“And when the enemy retreats, we will naturally return the food! Are you still afraid that we will default on our debt?”

The three elders of Shang’an begged desperately: “General! Since ancient times, there has only been food collected, where is the food distributed?”

“Shang’an is a poor and remote place. The food grown in a year is just enough to feed and clothe people. Now the general has taken away the food. It means he doesn’t care about our lives at all!”

Military Officer Yuan was annoyed by the questions and pushed him directly: “Are you going to make trouble again? If you make trouble again, I will punish you according to military law. You will never make trouble again!”

Shang’an Sanlao didn’t understand. He was clearly here to beg for a living, but why was he considered a troublemaker by others?
Is there still law in this world?

Seeing that Yuan’s soldiers had taken away all the food in the village, the villagers looked at him with an almost numb and desperate look. One of the old men finally couldn’t bear it anymore and directly laid his body in front of Yuan’s grain-carrying carriage!

“court death!”

When Officer Yuan saw someone trying to stop him, he didn’t care about the other person’s identity and urged his horse to trample over the other person.

At this moment, a sound of breaking air suddenly came from behind.

The next moment, an arrow had already pierced Officer Yuan’s chest.

“Is it possible to meet Yuan Jun so soon?”

The person who came was Zhang Liao.

When the Yuan army soldiers who came to collect grain saw the Han cavalry coming, they no longer cared about collecting food and fled in all directions.

Zhang Liao came to the three elders of Shang’an and asked them what had happened, but he also shook his head helplessly.

It seems that Yuan Shao really intends to completely wipe out the Han army, and he doesn’t even want to leave the food in ordinary villages and towns to the Han army…

Yuan Shao executed his plan so resolutely and thoroughly that if the Han army really broke into Hebei, they would probably lack supplies and be lured deep into Hebei.

But now, ha!
After Zhang Liao saluted to the three elders of Shang’an, he asked them to take their food back.

“Make sure to hide everything well this time! If Yuan’s army comes to collect food again, tell them that we have burned the food!”

Faced with Zhang Liao’s settlement, Shang’an Sanlao was so excited that he couldn’t help but catch up with Zhang Liao’s horse and ask Zhang Liao’s name.

Zhang Liao did not tell them, but just gestured for them to look at his flag.

The three elders of Shang’an looked up, but did not see any general flag with his surname written on it.

The banner Zhang Liao brought this time had only one word on it:

【Han】!
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