Zhang Niujiao invited several leaders to the big tent today.

Li Hong's army had arrived for two days. He set up the camp on the Shuangjingtun Plain, 30 miles away from Yingtao City, and sent more than a dozen cavalry every day to harass the Yellow Turban Army camp that attacked Yingtao City day and night, but he did not move forward any further.

The Hu people in the Leopard Army were brave and brave, and their archery skills were accurate. They appeared around the Yellow Turban Army camp like wandering souls all day long. When they got the opportunity, they rushed up to kill a few, and then fled immediately. The Yellow Turban Army was so angry that they could only stare at them.

Bai Luo took a sip of water and said slowly: "Master, the leopard broke the army into a small group of rangers and harassed us day and night. The soldiers were very nervous and had no good rest. Over time, not only will the combat effectiveness of the troops decrease, but it will probably affect the siege."

Sun immediately continued, saying, "Master, they are so hateful, just like hungry wild wolves in the Taihang Mountains, they will not let go of their prey. As long as we are negligent, they will immediately attack. Now all the military camps are losing money."

"Is the loss big?" Zhang Niujiao asked.

"A total of several major military camps, more than 2,000 people were killed, many of them were soldiers who were on duty at night."

"We should take the initiative to attack them. I don't believe that our 200,000 people can't beat more than 10,000 of them?" Wang Dang said angrily, "If you bite him like this, you will be crazy."

Zhang Niujiao smiled coldly, "The fish is taken to the bait."

He paused and continued, "The trick used by the leopard is the attack tactic of the wild wolf pack on the grassland. When the wolves on the grassland hunt bison, they first adopt harassment tactics, constantly harass the buffalo, paralyze the buffalo in the buffalo, and patiently look for opportunities for raids. As long as a cow loses his vigilance or is angry and rushed out of the cattle, they will rush forward and hit it with one blow. I think the blacksword is the angry buffalo."

Wang Dang smiled embarrassedly. Wulu glanced at Zhang Niujiao and thought to herself, you, you, can't be better than that, a self-righteous buffalo.

Yang Feng said with a serious expression: "The leopard is very cunning. He stationed the camp thirty miles away. As long as we have any movement, he will immediately discover it. If we take the initiative to surround him, he will immediately escape without a trace. But if we keep making trouble like this, our losses will increase and our morale will drop rapidly. After all, he killed more than 100,000 of us, and the soldiers are still very afraid of him."

Zhang Niujiao's face suddenly became very ugly. Chu Feiyan looked at him with complicated eyes, with doubts and a little disappointed. Sun Qin's face immediately turned red, and he lowered his head, not daring to look at Yang Feng's eyes. Wulu was secretly happy, but was afraid that others would see the smile on his face, so she immediately lowered her head and used drinking water to cover it up.

"Yang Shuai, do you have any suggestions?" Bai Luo saw the awkward atmosphere in the tent, so he hurriedly asked.

Of course, Yang Feng saw everyone's expressions. He smiled slightly and continued, "I think it's best to concentrate the main force and seize the Yintao City as soon as possible. Capturing Yintao can not only solve the problem of food shortage in the army, but also alleviate the supply pressure in the rear. First of all, you must be invincible before you can attack the enemy. What does Bai Shuai think?"

Bai Luo grabbed his short beard, pondered for a moment, and said slowly: "The Fengyun Iron Cavalry is not a group of wolves, but a group of leopards. In terms of military strength alone, our 200,000 people can indeed fight with his 15,000 iron cavalry, but our troops are at least half of them. We lost 70,000 people to attack Guo Dian's troops, basically two soldiers exchanged for the life of the enemy. Now, if six or seven soldiers can exchange for the life of the enemy, it will cost 100,000 people. In this way, with the losses of the siege, our Yellow Turban Army's troops will basically be completed, and the remaining ones are some old, weak and disabled soldiers. If Jizhou gathers tens of thousands of people to attack us again this year, what should we do? So I agree with Yang Shuai's idea and immediately attack Yan Tao with all his strength. As for the leopard, we always have a way to deal with him. Dashuai and Shuai Chu, what do you think?"

Neiujiao and Chu Feiyan did not answer.

"Why did the two of them lose their courage when the Leopard Army arrives?" Wang Dang said angrily, "There are only five or six thousand people in Yingtao City, and we are forty times the enemy, so we can take it down quickly. However, without Yingtao City as bait, the Leopard's cavalry army will escape immediately. If this opportunity is lost, it will be difficult to annihilate them. In the future, with their maneuverability and flexibility, we will definitely suffer. The failure of the Northern Expedition is a very obvious example. If Yang Shuai and Bai Shuai's troops raided the Leopard Army, are you sure to escape unscathed?"

Yang Feng and Bai Ruo's faces tightened and did not speak.

"But the leopard now adopts this kind of harassment tactic, repeatedly attacking our soldiers, hitting our morale, and slugging our attack, and not fighting head-on with us. We even want to surround and annihilate them, and we can't find a chance. Heizi Xiaoshu, what can you do?" Wulu said helplessly.

Wang Dangying immediately smiled dryly, "Master, you can't do anything, I can't do it. However, the opportunity for the Grandmaster to deliberately eliminate the leopard this time is very rare. It's a pity to give up. Next time, maybe the leopard will encircle us."

There was silence in the big tent.

"After taking Gaoyi City, I have explained this plan to everyone here. This year we can indeed not use gall pottery, but we lack food this winter. If we use gall pottery, we can solve the problem of food shortage among the troops and refugees everywhere." Zhang Niujiao said: "But we cannot be smooth sailing when we use gall pottery, because there is a leopard staring next to us. That's why we have this plan to kill two birds with one stone. This is also the best time to annihilate the leopard."

"After we took down the goit pot, as Heizi said, the leopard ran away, and we will be in trouble in the future. Bai Shuai's concerns are not unreasonable, but Yan Zi made a lot of preparations to eliminate the cavalry, which should be able to reduce our casualties. Moreover, if the leopard is eliminated, there will be no large troops in Jizhou, so we can breathe for a while and recruit a large number of troops to replenish the troops. So the problem now is not the question of whether to fight the leopard, but the question of how to fight the leopard. I hope everyone will not talk about the wrong topic." Zhang Niujiao spoke coldly afterwards.

Bai Luo immediately continued, saying, "Please make clear the matter with the commander."

Zhang Niujiao looked at everyone seriously and said coldly: "Everyone attacks the city with all their might, keep the attack rhythm, don't be too fierce, or too soft, and should consume a large number of enemy soldiers effectively. Don't pay attention to the leopard's group attack and harassment tactics. Aren't it just a little soldiers dead? Everyone pretends to be paralyzed and lets them attack, and prepare for being attacked day and night by the large Leopard Army. As long as the Leopard Army attacks, any unit will hold him tightly and wait for the large army to arrive to encircle and annihilate. Once the encirclement is combined, the main attack will be with the Yanzi's troops and other troops will be attacked by the clamping force, and it is necessary to require annihilation."

Yang Feng suddenly asked, "What if it snows?"

Zhang Niujiao shouted: "If it snows, the first person to retreat will be the leopard's cavalry. It is ice and snowy, and the flexibility of the cavalry will be greatly reduced. He stays here to destroy himself, so the leopard will retreat immediately. When he runs away, our plan will naturally be cancelled. We will attack the city immediately. Yingtao City has been beaten to pieces by us and is dying. Two hundred thousand people will attack such a city at the same time, and it will not take long to take it. Therefore, as long as it snows, everyone will attack the city immediately, do not hesitate, and do not wait for my orders again."

"Do you understand?" Zhang Niujiao looked around coldly, and no one spoke out against him.

"Master, if we don't have enough food and grass, even if it doesn't snow, we will give up the plan to encircle and annihilate the leopards and start siege." Wulu looked at Zhang Niujiao's cold face and asked without fear, "Master, can we tell us that if it doesn't snow, which day will we attack the city?"

Zhang Niujiao sneered, "Eight days later."

At this time, Wang Dang suddenly laughed, and he said loudly: "There are eight days left. Now let's see who has the worst luck. You must worry about the prey you are attracted to by the leopard."

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Because Gao Lan could not ride a horse, he kept lying on a cart carrying horses and grass to march with the troops. Because Li Hong was not very familiar with the situation in Jizhou, after the troops were stationed, Gao Lan asked him to stay in the central army tent to help himself identify and analyze various news sent by the scouts and discuss military information.

Li Hong dropped the cinnabar pen in his hand, took a hot dry cake handed over by Zhao Yun, and while gnawing hard, he said with a smile: "These military officers are doing well. Zhang Niujiao is probably going crazy when he takes shifts day and night."

Gao Lan was half lying, with a worried look on his face and said worriedly: "It has been six days, I don't know how the Yintao City is?"

Zhao Yun handed Gao Lan a bowl of hot water and said with a smile: "Zhang Niujiao is afraid that we will run away now. If you want to attack but don't dare to attack hard, you will definitely feel uncomfortable. Brother Zhengqing, there should be nothing wrong with Yingtao City for the time being. I guess Lord Feng is standing on the city tower, hoping for snow."

Li Hong knocked the dry cake in his hand hard on the table, making a crisp "dong dong" sound, and shouted loudly: "It's snowing, it's snowing, it's going to snow."

Suddenly a beautiful face popped up in his mind, and the blonde and blue-eyed Fengxue seemed to smile sweetly at him in front of him. Li Hong felt ache in his heart, and he could not shout it out again, and sat on the slightest and bone-eroded thoughts, at that moment, were so clear and so painful.

"Sir..." Zhao Yun suddenly found that Li Hong looked abnormal and hurriedly shouted: "Sir, what's wrong with you..."

Gao Lan also discovered it and immediately asked nervously: "Is there anything wrong with it? Sir, have you found something wrong with the enemy?"

Li Hong shook his hand at them, signaling that he was fine, and then lay on the mattress, his mind full of wind and snow smiles and tears.

Li Hong suddenly realized that missing someone was so sad. Not only was he weak and weak, but his thick melancholy also soaked his whole body like cold water, and the cold air that invaded people's hearts and penetrated into his bone marrow.

Li Hong thought that way, his eyes were red and his heart was sore. He fell asleep in a while.

Zheng Xin lifted the curtain and walked in. Zhao Yun hurriedly signaled to him that Li Hong was asleep.

Zheng Xin immediately walked to the brazier and sat down, whispering: "Zhengqing, good news."

Gao Lan asked hurriedly: "Speak quickly, stop talking, speak quickly."

"Thutou and his team attacked the Yellow Turban Army's food camp and found that their food reserves were already very small."

Gao Lan was shocked and immediately asked, "Brother Zishan, did you burn them?"

Zheng Xin shook his head and Gao Lan let out a long sigh.

Zheng Xin smiled and said, "Zhengqing, don't look like a tiger head who is murderous and cruel. He is actually a good person and can fight. The people admire him very much, believing that he is calm, decisive in handling things, meticulous in execution of orders, and has a thorough understanding of tactics. It seems that it is true now. Facing the pile of food, he can know not to burn it, which shows that his understanding of this battle is really very thorough."

Zheng Xin immediately asked Zhao Yun: "Zilong, tell me, why doesn't Tiger's head burn food?"

Zilong's face turned red and he felt a little embarrassed. Gao Lan smiled and encouraged, "Tell me. You read a lot, have a good literary talent, and have music. You must have a good understanding of military tactics. I think you have been analyzing the battle situation over the past few days and must have your own opinions. Talk me."

Zilong hurriedly handed Zheng Xin a bowl of water and whispered: "After burning the grain, Zhang Niujiao immediately gave up the plan to encircle and annihilate us, and instead attacked the algae pottery with all his might. At this time, he was highly alert to us, so it was difficult for us to find an opportunity to attack. If the algae pottery was not helped by us, it would naturally be lost."

"If you don't burn his food and continue to maintain the same state, Zhang Niujiao must still think of eating us. He will continue to keep the Xiangtao City to lure us. If the Xiangtao is not lost, we still have a chance. The adults have said many times that as long as it snows, the opportunity will come."

"Once it snows, it's snowing heavily, and the ice is three feet long, and the cavalry is not as flexible as the infantry, so we have to withdraw. When the Yellow Turban Army saw us withdraw, they had to give up the plan to lure us. At this time, without any worries, they naturally had to attack the city with all their strength and take down the goitel pottery before the ice was frozen."

"The opportunity is just in these few hours when it snows. We rushed back shortly after the heavy snow fell, and took a large-scale raid while it was unprepared. The Yellow Turban Army was caught off guard and must mobilize troops to block us, so that the power of the siege would be weakened. Lord Feng in the city got our help, as long as he defended his desperation, and when all the city walls freeze at night, the Yellow Turban Army would be unable to attack the city. At that time, the Yellow Turban Army would not only face the entangled attack of our cavalry, but also had to worry about the danger brought by the soon-to-be-spent food and grass of their troops. At this time, their only solution was to retreat."

"But there are too many uncertainties in this plan, which is very adventurous. Will it snow? When will it snow? When will it snow? Will the enemy be prepared when we suddenly turn back and attack? Can Lord Feng defend it? If Yingtao City is lost, can we escape from the battlefield in time? If Zhang Niujiao sees the hopelessness of siege and sieges us with all his might, can we break through?"

"It is really admirable for the sake of this very slim glimmer of life for the sake of this very bold and dangerous situation."

Gao Lan and Zheng Xin nodded at the same time, showing a look of praise on their faces.

Zhao Yun's face was red and asked in a low voice: "Do you two military guards think I'm right?"

Zheng Xin and Gao Lan nodded repeatedly. Gao Lan reached out and patted his shoulder, and praised in a low voice: "Thorough, thoroughly speaking."

Zheng Xin even gave a thumbs up and said, "Your words are basically what the Captain said, and I really underestimate you. But he is a lunatic, and a lucky lunatic, so he can win every time, and this time is no exception. It snows, and now I am looking forward to it. In another four days, as long as it snows, we will definitely win."

Seeing Zheng Xin's confidence, Zhao Yun and Gao Lan looked at each other and felt very uneasy.

"Xiaoxue..., Xiaoxue..." Li Hong suddenly screamed in his sleep, then turned over and fell asleep again.

"Look, sir, you think about something every day and dream about something at night. You are talking about it in the dream." Zhao Yun pointed at Li Hong and said with a smile.

Zheng Xin's face darkened and he didn't say anything for a long time.

"That's the name of a girl." Zheng Xin suddenly said to Zhao Yun and Gao Lan, "the name of a Xianbei girl."

Zhao Yun and Gao Lan were surprised and looked at Li Hong without saying anything for a long time.

"Is she beautiful?" Zhao Yun asked.

"The most beautiful girl in Xianbei has long golden hair and blue eyes."

Zhao Yun and Gao Lan widened their eyes, looking disbelief.

"Do you know?" Gao Lan asked, "I saw it with my own eyes?"

"I don't know." Zheng Xin whispered, "Yan Wuwei and Hu Zi know each other."
Chapter completed!