When Zhang Fei heard Pang Tong's plan, it seemed that it was indeed beneficial to kill the mess quickly. He took out his patience and carefully asked the details. It was obvious that he had already planned to adopt it:

"I just don't know how many troops the South Road will need after the troops are divided into two groups?"

Pang Tong: "Not many, the key to the southern route is the timing and speed of leaving Jingxingkou. Because as long as the main force of the North Road takes over the county and goes up the valley, Yuan Xi feels that Yuyang and Guangyang are also threatened, and he will definitely transfer the troops from Changshan and Zhongshan to assist in defense.

After all, Changshan and Zhongshan are the garrisons of high-ranking officials, and Yuan Xi was only ordered to assist in defense, and the territory was not his own. Guangyang Yuyang and these are Yuan Xi's own confidants. He will not ignore his confidants to save others' loyalty.

If our army relies on attacking and attacking each county, although it can win, it will be delayed over time, and it will easily cause many changes and harm the people. If we can mobilize the defenders of Changshan and Zhongshan from the strong city.

On their way back from Changshan to Zhuo County and Guangyang, they pursued the field and defeated it, saving the trouble of fighting hard to annihilate these tens of thousands of people in the subsequent siege. In this way, the generals took all Youzhou and Changshan, and the speed of the two counties of Zhongshan would definitely be faster than the plan. This is the so-called hasteness, and if you want to do it well, you must first sharpen your tools."

Pang Tong tried his best to persuade some places that he thought could be optimized according to the times. Zhang Fei felt that it was indeed profitable, so he decided to implement it accordingly.

Zhang Fei should have led the main team of the North Road to advance along the Sanggan River.

However, according to the new plan, it seems that although the troops at the Jingxingkou of the Hutuo River on the southern line are small in number, they have higher requirements and are more elite. The orders are prohibited from being good at fighting sports warfare.

Zhang Fei's inner desire for challenge was still ignited, and he decided to personally lead the relatively small number of Southern Route Army to launch a surprise attack.

Fortunately, after even the Hutuo River can be used for logistics transportation, the number of troops that can be supported is larger and can provide more logistics for 10,000 people.

The final division of troops was that Xu Huang led the troops who marched along the north road Sanggan River and surrendered general Tuo Yi, responsible for the frontal attack.

The reason for bringing Que Yi was to consider that Que Yi was once quite famous within Yuan Shao’s camp, and his military achievements were even more than Yan Liang and Wen Chou. In the war to destroy Gongsun Zan, Que Yi’s military achievements were also one of the best. Now that he wanted to attack Youzhou again, with the reputation of Que Yi, he might be able to force the surrender and recruit some of the Yuan army in Youzhou who were consciously hopeless.

Zhang Fei took Wang Ping and Pang Tong, who was in charge of the military, to go from the Hutuo River to Jingxing Pass.

...

On March 25, Xu Huang and Que Yi took the lead in leading 50,000 people to launch a full-scale offensive from the border between Yanmen County and Dai County as planned.

After all, the troops assembly and logistics dispatch along the way were all prepared in advance, and they could do it anytime they wanted, unlike the South Road troops who had to temporarily adjust the dispatch.

Of course, in order to confuse the enemy, Xu Huang was attacking Zhang Fei's banner. Anyway, Zhang Fei didn't need to fight alone in this kind of battle. Zhang Fei himself could not figure out whether he was with the enemy or not. This is also one of the strategies suggested by Pang Tong.

Dai County was originally outside Yanshan. This place and Shanggu County further east belong to the valley between the inner Great Wall and the outer Great Wall. The inner Great Wall on the south side was built along the ridge of Yanshan, and the outer Great Wall on the north side was built along the part of Yinshan.

Therefore, the core and rich areas of these counties, namely the banks of the Sanggan River, the river water of the Sanggan River is mainly gathered into various tributaries by rainfall on the northern slope of Yanshan Mountain and the southern slope of Yinshan Mountain, and finally injected into the lowest trough between the two mountains.

The places farther away from the Sanggan River are hilly grasslands and mainly jungles. Places with a gentle slope are suitable for grazing, and there are many Wuhuan people living in the inner Wuhuan people, so these two counties are considered important production areas for animal husbandry such as horses, cattle and sheep.

Basically, the Wuhuan people lived on hills and hills, while the Han people farmed in river valleys.

Therefore, Xu Huang didn't need much fancy operations to attack these remote and poor places, so he pushed them along the Sanggan River. The Wuhuan people on both sides of the mountains didn't care much about who the Han people were fighting, and they didn't have to climb mountains to enclose the pastoral areas.

Anyway, Liu Yu was very prestige among the Wuhuan people when he was alive, but Liu Bei destroyed Zhang Chun and had a good reputation in the north. Liu Bei was still a native of Youzhou, and so was Zhang Fei. The troops under their banner returned home in glory, and more or less had a certain appeal bonus. The Wuhuan people just watched the show and did not help each other.

In this case, within just ten days, four or five county towns in Daijun Banshi County, Beipingyi, Dong'anyang, Sanggan County, along the Sanggan River were successively captured by Xu Huang's army.

Some of these county towns do not even have decent city walls, and there are only a thousand guards, so it is impossible to defend them.

Among them, Sanggan County was the best, with three or four thousand second-tier local garrison troops stationed and two feet high city walls. However, after Xu Huang ordered a fierce attack and Tuo Yi also sent his first camp to take action. After coercion and inducement, the defenders of Sanggan County collapsed and chose to surrender.

After all, Que Yi's reputation as a first-ranked leader spread widely among Yuan Shao's army. Although after many bloody battles, Que Yi's original direct descendant actually had less than 500 people, nearly two years after surrendering to Liu Bei, he actually expanded the troops like the first-ranked leader.

The reason for this is ridiculous, because Kuo Yi is proud and thinks that he is from Wuwei, Liangzhou, and his hometown has been killed in the border areas for a long time, and the people are strong. The people of Jizhou are obedient people in the farming areas in the mainland and are not martial enough.

When Que Yi was under Yuan Shao, he was disdainful to use the local military sources in Jizhou to supplement the first camp, and would rather organize the Jizhou military. He had to find a fellow villager in Xiliang, at least he was a veteran who had fought under Huangfu Song back then, so he was willing to be a direct line. This led to the number of military troops in the first camp over the years.

However, after surrendering to Liu Bei, because Liu Bei occupied Liangzhou, Que Yi's odor was slightly alleviated by his fellow villagers. He could ask to give up some of the military power of the surrendered army in Jizhou and replace some fellow villagers in Xiliang to join the army.

Considering that he was willing to voluntarily give up some of the military power of the troops he had led for many years, Liu Bei would not think much about Tuo Yi's behavior, and did not think that this was "recruiting private soldiers and raising troops to respect themselves."

It was just that he simply did not trust the combat power of foreigners. It was a quirk of military generals becoming obsessed with martial arts. He had no desire to be separatist, so he was accurate. Then he first entered the camp and expanded his enrollment, and his equipment was upgraded, all equipped with forged steel breastplate and divine arm crossbow.

With the joint efforts of Qu Yi and Xu Huang, Dai County was quickly drilled through the Sanggan River. Then the Han army was as powerful as a tiger and continued to flow eastward, unstoppable.

The county seat of Dai County, Gaoliu City, is rare not along the Sanggan River, but a dangerous pass to the north of the Great Wall, which is the later Yanggao County, near Baideng Mountain where Liu Bang was besieged by Maodun Shanyu in the early Western Han Dynasty.

However, Xu Huang was obviously not interested in attacking Baidengshan and taking down such an important pass in the Great Wall. That place was defending against the Hu people. What did the Han people do when fighting these frontiers in civil war?

After Xu Huang took down Sanggan County, the transportation hub on the Sanggan River, he completely cut Dai County into two parts, north and south. He had no intention of dealing with the remaining enemies in the dangerous places of the Great Wall Mountain outside, and was not afraid that those remaining enemies would cut off his retreat, so he continued to plunge into Shanggu County and seize Pan County and Zhuolu.

This attitude was like going to cross five hundred miles across, and going straight to Ji County, Guangyang County.

...

Fortunately, ten days were enough for Yuan Xi of Ji County to react. When the news of the fall of Sanggan County reached Ji County on the fifth day of April, Yuan Xi was already very anxious and urgently summoned his aides to discuss countermeasures:

"It has been seven or eight days since Zhang Fei entered the invasion. He heard that even Sang Gan had fallen, and he went east. Zhang Fei is extremely brave. He always advances rapidly when he uses his troops, regardless of the consequences. What can he do if he comes so aggressively?"

Yuan Xi actually deployed a wave of defense five days ago, allowing troops from remote areas to accelerate and retract back to defense, but at the beginning, they only needed troops from western Liaoning and Youbeiping to accelerate, and other troops on the Eastern Front had not yet been mobilized.

It was heard that Dai County was completely penetrated and the enemy entered the upper valley, so he had to raise the priority of mobilization.

Faced with the inquiry from the provincial governor, the military generals and strategists under Yuan Xi also came up with their ideas.

Han Fan, the former governor of Zhuo County who had just been recruited to support him, suggested to Yuan Xi:

"Empress, although Zhang Fei is brave in his military service, he is easy to break even if he is strong. He doesn't bother to clear the strongholds behind our army in Yinshan and Yanshan. He can't see any problems within half a month because he still brings food with him with his army.

But as long as our army is firm and cleared, and after a long time, we will eat all the food, our army will order Yanshan and Yinshan to almost harass and cut off Zhang Fei's food route. In this way, Zhang Fei will be in chaos without fighting. Our army will take advantage of the situation to fight back and win a complete victory."

The original defense area of ​​this Korean model was in Yijing, Zhuo County, and it was also the north bank of Yishui, bordering Zhuo County, Zhongshan County, and Hejian County. It was the key to the throat of the border between Youzhou and Jizhou.

Eight years ago, the Yijing Tower, which Gongsun Zan was guarding when he was dying, was located there.

When Youzhou and Jizhou were divided into different camps of princes, Yijing was of course the most important defense node for Youzhou princes.

But now Jizhou is owned by the third brother Yuan Shang, and the Youji family. When Yuan Xi appeared in other directions, his first reaction was to draw the troops at the junction with the third brother to defend.

Anyway, the third brother cannot turn against him at this critical moment.

Faced with Han Fan's suggestion, Yuan Xi didn't find anything amazing. It was just an ordinary cliché. Generals with a little bit of military knowledge would choose this way.

Relying on the danger, he strengthened his walls and cleared the fields, waiting for the enemy's food route that was alone to penetrate into the dangerous situation to be cut off. In history, Zheng Du said that when he persuaded Liu Zhang to deal with Liu Bei, he did not say so.

The key now is that Zhang Fei is so fierce, how can he hold back!

Yuan Xi asked in response: "It's easy to say that Zhang Fei is so fierce, and Xu Huang is the assistant, and the rebel general Tuo Yi is the minion. Why can our army stand firm and clear the country for so long?"

After Yuan Xi asked this question, he subconsciously did not look at Han Fan. Instead, he looked at Liu Ye, the chief minister of Youzhou who was sitting in the row of counselors next to him. Obviously, what he was most looking forward to was that Liu Ye, who was known for his wisdom, could help him improve his response strategies.

However, Liu Ye didn't see it. It seemed that Mingzhe was protecting himself from suspicion. He didn't rob it after a few seconds. Han Fan took the initiative to propose the second half of the plan:

"The envoy, to hold Zhang Fei up, it is obvious that he must set up defenses at the entrance of the valley where the Sanggan River crosses Yanshan. Zhang Fei is still maneuvering in the valley between Yanshan and Yinshan, so his offensive is fierce, but if he wants to threaten Ji, he must eventually cross Yanshan.

Twelve years ago, when Xuanzu (Liu Yu) and Liu Bei were in Ji Diping County and Zhang Chun's rebels, they relied on Yanshan fortification to prevent Zhang Chun from crossing the border. At that time, Liu Bei suggested that the Youzhou Captain Zou Jing build Juyong Pass in Badaling.

Now, the envoy can also gather heavy troops in the center to defend Badaling and Juyong Pass. Even if Zhang Fei rushes to build heavy siege equipment, it is possible to block Zhang Fei with the dangerous blockage of Yanshan that is dozens of miles deep!"

Yuan Xi thought about it, looked at Liu Ye and asked, "Mr. Ziyang, I want Wangmen who returned from western Liaoning to defend, to immediately bring his troops to strengthen Juyongguan's defense. Then, from Changshan and Zhongshan, I was transferred back to the troops sent to support my cousin before. What do you think?"

When Liu Ye was asked, he was not good at pretending to be stupid, but said indifferently: "What the envoys see is very much, but Changshan borders Bingzhou, and the defenses in Changshan and other places were also entrusted by the third son to the envoy. The requests between brothers should be made to fulfill the contract, and the envoys should also be severed by the envoys themselves."

Seeing that Liu Ye did not object to his strategy and was only concerned about his relationship with his third brother, Yuan Xi waved his hand with great concern: "I know, there are priorities and so on. Of course, I have to do my third brother's request, but now our Youzhou is in the life and death of life, so of course, self-protection is the priority."

After saying that, he immediately issued a transfer order, asking Jiao Chu, who had been sent to Changshan, Zhongshan and other places, to immediately lead troops back to defense, without having to return to Jixian to report, and directly marched and rushed to the south of Juyong Pass to block the Yanshan defense line.

At the same time, he ordered Zhang Nan, who was in charge of the prefecture defense in Ji County, to take half of the main forces of Ji County to go to Juyongguan to block the entrance, and to make sure that Zhang Fei cannot cross the Badaling Great Wall one step.

...

Yuan Xi's order was sent to Lunu County, Zhongshan County, just two days later, and another day later, Zhending County, Changshan.

Of course, Jiao Chu, Han Heng and other generals under Yuan Xi did not dare to disobey the Lord's order and would leave immediately.

However, the senior officials, Yin Kai, Lu Xiang and others who were responsible for the management of the two counties and border defense were obviously unwilling to let Jiao Tu go and Han Heng leave.

After all, the senior official was also Yuan Shao's nephew, and his status was higher than Jiao Chu. He came forward to stop him and said, "General Jiao was transferred to the General's direct subordinates, responsible for the defense of Changshan and the Taihang Passes. How can you leave lightly? Could you disobey the General's direct orders!"

As a veteran who has been in Youzhou for more than ten years, Jiao Chu obviously doesn't care about Yuan Shang at all. He only recognizes the lord of Youzhou. But it's no wonder that they were both Liu Yu's old subordinates back then, so of course they thought they were very old.

Twelve years ago, Zhang Chun, Liu Bei, Jiao Chu and Zhang Nan were attacked, and the commanders of Zhuo County, Guangyang County and Yuyang County were respectively the commanders of the three counties, together obeying Liu Yu and presided over the Yanshan defense line.

In Jiao Chu Zhang Nan's mind, we were the direct subordinates of the late emperor, and Liu Bei, who was on par with us, became a pseudo-dynasty emperor in the west! How could we, the "light of Youzhou" be afraid of the fate of Jizhou?

So Jiao Tu directly chose to hard-head and carried the high-ranking officials back to their lives, almost leaving both sides to draw their knives to threaten each other.

Of course, the senior officials had no choice but to do anything about this situation. The 30,000 new forces in the second county were Jiao Chu, and Han Heng brought them. The troops could only recognize Jiao Chu and not listen to him.

Jiao Chu and Han Heng had a round trip. Not long after they came to Changshan to garrison, they were in a hurry to go back to their hometown.
Chapter completed!