Chen Mu left the White Que Valley and returned to Linlu City surrounded by the mighty army outside the valley.

In addition to some of the defenders, there were also several young people in the city.

Yang Xiu, Chen Qun, Sima Lang.

Among these three people, Yang Xiu and Chen Qun were related and came out with Chen Mu to practice, while Sima Lang, who was currently serving as Henan Yin, Sima Fang, came to ask for him to be the military chief.

In fact, there were many people with such connections. Many officials and dignitaries in Luoyang came to visit him, hoping that Chen Mu could take their children to study with the army.

Chen Mu selected some of the best, and Yang Xiu, Chen Qun, and Sima Lang were just the three best among them.

After returning to Linlu City, he summoned Xu Huang, Guan Hai and some of the juniors who were sent out for training to hold a meeting. Xu Huang and Guan Hai sat in the first place under him, and the others were arranged on the left and right.

And sit.

After everyone was seated, Chen Mu said: "Today's meeting went smoothly. I expect someone will come to us tonight, and Gong Mingke will meet us outside the city gate."

Xu Huang was confused and said: "Young Master, did the meeting go smoothly today? Didn't all the Montenegrin troops refuse to submit to the imperial court? Is this considered a success?"

Chen Mu said with a smile: "Of course it went well. Didn't you see that they were already quarreling?"

"Uncle."

Yang Xiu relied on the relationship between his father and Chen Mu to be brothers and asked: "I know that my uncle is going to persuade the Black Mountain Army to surrender this time. According to my uncle and General Xu, is it possible that some people want to surrender and some don't?"

submission?"

"no."

Chen Mu shook his head: "None of them want to surrender."

"Then why?"

Yang Xiu couldn't understand it either.

Chen Mu looked at his smart nephew and chuckled: "Dezu, sometimes you need to speculate on things like people's hearts, but sometimes, if you understand clearly, you should also pretend to be confused. People must learn to follow the trend.

And when doing things, you can't be too obvious and expose your purpose, do you know?"

Yang Xiu was even more confused. His uncle's incomprehensible words made him confused about what he was talking about. He could only bite the bullet and said: "My nephew understands."

"You don't understand it now, but you will understand it later."

Chen Mu smiled and said nothing.

While this sentence is talking about the Black Mountain Army, it is also instructing Yang Xiu. It depends on how much he can understand in the future.

Chen Qun said: "Master, I would like to know what is going on in this meeting?"

Chen Mu told the story about this meeting.

Several young people in the audience were thoughtful. The Black Mountain Army's occupation of Baixing, Fukouxing and other strategic places at the southern foot of Taihang Mountain became the key to Hanoi's surprise attack on Yecheng.

Although Jizhou also controls the Fukouxing section of Taihangshan North Road, even if they cannot control all of these arterial roads, they still have to control half of them. They cannot let these roads become a bridgehead for Jizhou to attack Luoyang.

So how to deal with these Montenegrin troops and find ways to turn the key road hubs occupied by these Montenegrin troops into their own positions has become Chen Mu's top priority when he came to Lin Liu this time.

How did he do it?

Temptation!

There is disunity within the Montenegrin Army. Although most of them do not want to submit to the imperial court, everyone wants to live a better life for themselves.

Especially in the Taihang Mountains, there is a shortage of food and clothing, and more importantly, doctors and medicinal materials.

Even though medicines can be collected in the mountains, the Black Mountain Army comes from a lower class, and those who can read are considered talents, let alone doctors who can treat diseases. The few who know a little bit about medicinal materials are already considered treasures.

Countless people die of illness, starvation, and freezing every year. As the Little Ice Age intensifies, the Taihang Mountains become colder in winter, and heavy snow often falls.

So even if you don't want to surrender to the imperial court, it is always a good thing to lend you the road in exchange for some supplies.

Just as Chen Mu said, everyone is occupying various important roads. Even if he wants to attack Guo through fake roads, except for one place, the other places will still be entrenched and it will still be difficult to attack.

What's more, the imperial court is still at war with Jizhou. The Sili population is small and the military strength is insufficient. It is definitely not a wise choice to divide the troops to deal with the Black Mountain Army in the Taihang Mountains and push the Montenegro Army towards the enemy.

Therefore, some people feel that Chen Mu's proposal is completely fine.

But not everyone is willing to lend a hand, and they naturally have their own concerns. Once they cannot reach a unified opinion, it is easy to fall out, and then internal differences will appear, and eventually they will split.

In fact, the Montenegrin Army is not a harmonious group, and it is common for them to annex and fight with each other. Including Zhang Yan, it was also after annexing many forces of the Montenegrin Army at the northern foot of the Taihang Mountains that it became the largest leader of the Montenegrin Army in Handan.

There are hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and the most elite troops under his command can reach 100,000 troops.

The living environment in the mountains is very harsh, even more difficult than imagined. Everyone wants to live a better life, but once someone blocks the way, killing may be inevitable in the end.

Several young juniors thought for a while, and Sima Lang suddenly said: "The young master wants to divide them and make them fight among themselves?"

Chen Mu glanced at him in surprise and tapped his chin: "Not bad."

"What do you want to do, Master?"

Chen Qun asked.

"The bait has been put down, now we are waiting for the fish to take the bait."

Chen Mu looked down at the people below and suddenly laughed: "Well, this incident is a test for you. Someone will come tonight. You go to receive them. What you do is your business."

"this......"

Several people looked at each other nervously. They were all young people in their 20s. Although they were extremely intelligent, they lacked experience and were afraid of messing up. They looked at each other for a while.

Chen Mu thought for a while and then said: "The minister will transport a large amount of supplies and medicinal materials from Huai County. I am looking forward to your performance."

After that, he didn’t give them a chance to refuse, got up and left with a smile.

He had already done the bulk of the work, and the next steps were all small things. If he couldn't handle even this little thing, he really doubted whether it was right to speak highly of people like Yang Xiu, Chen Qun, and Sima Lang in the history books.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Although these people are still young and may not have enough experience. But when Yang Xiu followed Cao Cao in his early years, he was also the same age.

Appreciate.

Therefore, leaving it to them to persuade the Montenegrin Army should be no big deal, and it can be regarded as adding a glorious deed to their list of achievements.

As the night gradually darkened, Chen Mu was reading in the backyard of the Linlu County government residence. Xu Huang hurried in and said: "Young Master, there is an urgent military situation."

"oh?"

Chen Mu asked: "What's going on?"

Could it be that Yuan Shao started a large-scale attack on Dang Yin again?

Or is there something wrong with the food channel?

With the strong walls of Dangyin, unless there is a traitor, it should be no problem to withstand it for a year and a half.

Now is not the rainy season, but it is still a year of severe drought, and the water level is not high. It is almost unrealistic to want to imitate Cao Cao and flood Xiapi or Yecheng.

What's more, there are a large number of incendiary bottles and tons of defensive equipment in the city. The only way Yuan Shao can defeat Dangyin is to cut off the food road.

Xu Huang couldn't restrain his joy and said: "General Guan stormed Youli City, pushed back Yuan's army, and recaptured the city."

"What?"

Chen Mu was surprised and asked hurriedly: "Is the news true?"

"Absolutely true."

Xu Huang nodded firmly. The soldier delivering the news was outside the mansion.

"Let him in."

Chen Mu sat back down and thought carefully.

This thing is very magical. Now Guan Yu can only rely on Dangyin City to defend it. There are tens of thousands of troops outside the city, and there are also a large number of troops in Youli City.

Yuan Shao deployed no less than 80,000 troops on the western battlefield, while Luoyang's total troops were only more than 60,000, and these 60,000 were scattered widely, including Henan Yin, Yingchuan County, Hongnong County plus Luoyang.

The troops are dispersed and stationed.

This resulted in the actual strength of the front line being only about 40,000 to 50,000. Guan Yu had 30,000, Xu Huang had thousands, and Zhu Jun brought 10,000 from Luoyang. These were all elite troops.

However, the more than 10,000 people under Zhao Yun's command are not included in the 60,000 people, because these soldiers are second-line field soldiers. They are usually used to supervise the field workers and rarely go to the battlefield. Although they have experience now, they are only with the east side.

Yuan's army fought on the Liyang side, but it was no more elite than the first-line troops.

And even if Zhao Yun's ten thousand people are included, the front line is less than 60,000. Behind Hanoi, there are defenders at Huai County, Wen County, Xiaopingjin, Mengjin and Hulao Pass and other important passes. To the west, although Duan Xuan ostensibly surrendered to the imperial court,

However, he was guarding Huayin and the court did not trust him, so he could not serve as a soldier of the court.

On the other hand, Yuan Shao sent more than 80,000 troops to Anyang and Youli City. There were 40,000 troops besieging Dangyin. There were more than 10,000 troops in Youli City. There were also thousands of cavalry on the outside.

There are still tens of thousands of people in Anyang, and the total force crushes Guan Yu.

In the battle of Dangyin, Guan Yu's direct frontal troops were only 30,000 people. When fighting against more than 50,000 or 60,000 people, even if the Anyang front army is not included, it means that the enemy's strength is twice that of Guan Yu.

Under such circumstances, it would be difficult for Guan Yu to get out of the city, let alone take back Youli City? It was almost impossible, and it was no less difficult than Cao Cao winning the battle of Guandu again.

Unless there are two situations, one is that Yuan Shao was planning to lure the enemy deeper, but he failed and was beaten all the way by Guan Yu.

Second, there were problems within Yuan's army, which led to chaos on the front line, and Guan Yu seized the opportunity.

In fact, the second scenario is what Chen Mu is doing now. If he can pass through the Zhangshui Ancient Road controlled by the Black Mountain Army, and divine soldiers descend from the sky to attack behind Anyang, cutting off Yuan's army's food route like the Battle of Wuchao, then Yuan's army will also

There will be a situation like the second situation mentioned above, where the front line is in chaos due to internal problems.
To be continued...