In the tenth year of Jian'an, Yuan Shang quelled the rebellion in Guanzhong, conquered the Qiang tribe, intimidated the Western Regions, and resettled the Xianbei and Xiongnu migrant plan in Hebei. He believed that the time had come, so he finally decided to launch troops in the Central Plains, wipe out the Cao family, and completely unify the north.

In this battle, Yuan Shang's troops were divided into two groups. The main route was his brother Yuan Xi as the main general, Tian Feng and Ju Su as the military supervisor and joining the army. They crossed the river head-on, and ordered the main force of Hebei to fight against the main force of the Cao army in Zhongzhou on both sides of the Yellow River. He himself led 70,000 elite troops as a side division, heading to Qingzhou and go to Xuzhou to seize the land, intending to cut off the right wing of Cao's army and seize the important town of Xuzhou.

In the Battle of Xuzhou, Yuan Shang took office as the central army and sent generals Ma Chao, Gao Lan and Zhang Yan as vanguard officials, each leading an army, and first fought fiercely in Xuzhou.

At this moment, the Biao army led by Guo Jia had arrived in Xuzhou and took over the entire military and political affairs of Xuzhou. Faced with the pressure of Qingzhou, Hebei, the Cao army in Xuzhou was indeed panicked. They couldn't even eat or sleep every day. Seeing Guo Jia coming, all the generals and officers stationed in Xuzhou cheered and excited. In their opinion, with Guo Jia here, let alone the army in Hebei, even all the warlords in the world came, they were not afraid. After all, within the Cao group, Guo Jia's wisdom and means may be second only to the dead Cao Cao.

Yuan Shang did not rush to enter Xuzhou during this battle. He ordered the three vanguard generals to be the first to advance, and he stationed troops in Linzi City to formulate a deployment to attack Xuzhou.

Inside the Linzi mansion, Yuan Shang walked back and forth in the hall with his hands on his back. After a while, he walked to the sand table to gesture, but immediately denied it. After a while, he had any thoughts. He gestured in front of the sand table for a while, and then overturned it completely.

This time Yuan Shang went to the war, there was a man who was with him. This man was no one else, but his wife, Lu Lingqi.

Looking at Yuan Shangsi for a while, he had no decision. Lu Lingqi shook his head helplessly and smiled, saying, "Isn't it just Guo Jia? Why are you so nervous? When you led 30,000 troops straight into Guanxi, Yan Xing and Song Jian were ten times your rebels. Now our Hebei is strong, are you still afraid that he will be a sick person?"

"Haha..." Yuan Shang smiled bitterly and shook his head and said, "How could Guo Jia be Yan Xing? A person like Song Jian compare? This person is so smart and ruthless, looking at the world. No one can match. When he was fighting Cao Cao in Guanzhong, if he hadn't been sick and had never been with Cao Cao, I was afraid that I might not be able to defeat Cao Cao. The only shortcoming is that this person has no experience in commanding troops, but there is also Zhang Liao who assists him. You know Zhang Liao, who is good at placing troops and deploying troops. He is also a first-class and rare versatile talent. These two people work together to get a bargain under their hands. I don't know how much trouble it takes."

When Lu Lingqi heard Zhang Liao's name, he couldn't help but snorted heavily.

Lu Lingqi didn't like Zhang Liao, and Yuan Shang was not surprised, and he thought to himself: "Fortunately, we have many soldiers and a wide range of generals. In terms of actual strength, it would be much stronger than them. Otherwise, this battle would be really hard to fight..." said this. Yuan Shang looked up at the counselor Pang Ji, who was beside him, and asked: "Ma Chao, Zhang Yan, and Gao Lan three vanguards attacking Xuzhou. What are the movements there? "

When Pang Ji heard this, he said, "The spy responded. Guo Jia heard that the lord personally led his troops south to Xuzhou, but did not defend the city. Instead, he dispatched his troops north to Mount Tai, west to North Sea, north to resist Changping, and in the northern border between Xuzhou and Qingzhou, our army was resisting defending."

"Smart." Yuan Shang nodded after hearing this and said, "Although the city of Xuzhou is covered by a city wall, how can it be so difficult to defend it? It is better to fight our army in Mount Tai. Did Guo Jia take action personally?"

When Pang Ji heard this, he shook his head and said, "It is rumored that Guo Jia is currently in Pengcheng and has never personally gone north to supervise the war. The troops he sent were Zhang Liao."

Yuan Shang raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and after thinking about it carefully, he couldn't help but smile.

"He is afraid that Sun Quan will attack him from behind. Guo Jia won't come, so it would be a good opportunity."

Pang Ji nodded quickly and said, "I think so too, and the top priority is urgent. The lord should issue an urgent order. Zhuo Zhangyan's army stopped Zhang Liao, and Zhuo Ma Chao and Gaolan two vanguard troops quickly captured Langya and Yangdu in the northern border of Xuzhou. They used it for our army to attack quickly and pacify Xubei. Then the army set out from Linzi and eroded its land. Xuzhou was flat. As long as it entered the country, Guo Jia had a clever plan and could not hold on."

Yuan Shang looked at Zheng Ji with appreciation, nodded and said, "Yuantu, you have made great progress recently! There are many bad military books?"

Zheng Ji raised his chest proudly and laughed: "That's right, that's right! If you learn without thinking, you will be confused; if you think without learning, you will be in danger! Every day, you can make up for your shortcomings, and your tired hair will be half lost."

Yuan Shang looked up and down at Zheng Ji, nodded and sighed: "Well, after you said this, I realized that you are really a bit Mediterranean... I asked someone to buy you two kilograms of ginger slices to replenish, otherwise a monk would suddenly pop up from my think tank, which would be a bit too unreasonable."

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Mount Tai, Zhang Liao front camp.

"Everyone!"

Zhang Liao stood on the head coach's seat, quietly looked at the generals below, and slowly spoke: "This time we sent troops to Mount Tai, but Guo Jijiu did not come with the army in person. Do you know the reason for this?"

Below Zhang Liao, general Sun Guan hesitated and said, "Before leaving, wasn't Guo Jijiu afraid that the Eastern Wu would attack Xuzhou by taking the opportunity to attack him? He needed to stay in Pengcheng to prevent the Eastern Wu?"

Zhang Liao shook his head and said, "That's just a superficial article. With Guo Jijiu's guess and Sun Quan's personality, he would never send troops to Xuzhou easily without the opportunity of our battle with Yuan Shang. Guo Jijiu's move was just to paralyze Yuan Shang and slow down his central army's attack. We would take the opportunity to fight Ma Chao, Zhang Yan, and Gao Lan's three vanguard troops head-on, defeat him for a while, to increase morale, so that we can successfully carry out our future strategy."

When everyone heard this, they suddenly realized it, but saw Zang Ba thinking for a while and said, "Although Yuan Shang had never arrived in person, Zhang Yan is known as Feiyan and has great ability to command troops. Ma Chao is the bravest of the three armies, and his courage is no less than that of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. Gao Lan is the pillar of Hebei named as Zhang He. It is probably difficult to defeat these three people."

Zhang Liao laughed and said, "Xuan Gao's words are reasonable, but now it is not as usual. Xuzhou is now rainy and the weather is on me. Guo Jijiu once asserted that although the eastern border is stable now, within a few days, there will be pouring rain in the east border, and the wind will enter the country. That is a good opportunity for us to defeat the three vanguard troops!"

Zang Ba suddenly realized when he heard this, but thought for a while and said, "But Guo Jijiu could have expected it, but Yuan Shang couldn't have expected it?"

Zhang Liao smiled and said, "Guo Jijiu said that in the north, the only one who often knows the heavenly time is Ju Su and himself. Ju Su is not in Xuzhou. Although Yuan Shang is deceitful and good at Qimen, he does not understand this path. This battle is a good opportunity for us to take advantage of loopholes. You will definitely win according to my instructions!"

After hearing this, the generals of the Cao bowed and said together: "I wish to listen to General Zhang's orders!"

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The two armies had their own plans. Before Yuan Shang and Guo Jia moved, the generals below began the first round of battle.

According to Yuan Shang's order, Zhang Yan led his army to block Zhang Liao's troops, while Ma Chao and Gao Lan each led a vanguard army to attack Langya and Yangdu.

Both in leading troops and martial arts, Ma Chao mainly advances quickly. After receiving Yuan Shang's general order, he went straight to Langya day and night.

Langya is located on the southeast coast, among the Xuzhou areas. It is a very crappy and remote place, but it has the connection between the sea routes on the east side and the mainland of Xuzhou. The geographical location cannot be ignored. When Ma Chao led his troops here, Langya was in a period of high alert. The four gates were blocked and the curfew was tight. The city walls, which were already small, seemed quiet and dull.

After Ma Chao's troops arrived in Langya, he only rested for a night and prepared to attack the city the next day. Ma Chao summoned four side generals and eight lieutenants who came with him to the tent and said, "At noon today, I will bring some troops to attack Langya and then pretend to be defeated. The rest of the troops are ready outside the city. After I lure them out, you will go up together and destroy all the people and seize this place. Do you understand?"

"I understand!" The four generals and eight captains nodded together, and their voices were like a loud bell.

"Who wants to seduce the enemy with me?"

Everyone looked at each other, but no one spoke.

To be honest, it’s not that they are unwilling to go. Ma Chao’s plan to lure the enemy is a bit shallow and direct. You are here to attack the city, but in the end you are deceiving defeat and want to lead the people out of the city. You are a foul head when you are the guard of Cao’s army. I’m afraid that you will be easily caught if you don’t lure the other party in the end. You will be more likely to hide from this kind of tiger matter as far as possible.

Seeing that everyone was silent, Ma Chao frowned and was a little unhappy. He glanced at everyone from the corner of his eyes and asked in suspicion: "What? No one dared to go with me?"

When he asked, everyone lowered their heads. After a while, a captain named Yu Cheng said carefully: "General Ma, we are here to attack the city. You have to use a trick of deception to lure them out. Isn't it too stupid to do this?"

"You fart!" Ma Chao's expression suddenly rose in anger when he heard this: "I have been with my lord for so long, and have learned a lot of conspiracy and open conspiracy. How can you understand the profound schemes?"

Everyone was so scared that they stopped talking when Ma Chao drank it.

"You guys, who are so arrogant and powerful when they are on the rise, are you all cowardly? Now that you are really capable, you are all corrupt? For the last chance, is anyone who dares to go with me? Those who don't go will be demoted to the front pawns and go to the back camp to wash my horse's butt!"

When he was inspired by his words, everyone was blushing and ashamed of shame. As soon as he finished speaking, five lieutenants immediately stepped forward and said, "General Ma, we are willing to go with you!"
Chapter completed!