In early December of the fifth year of Jian'an, Yuan Shang led his troops to the Ji River and took a boat to cross it. More than 7,000 soldiers and horses passed the Ji River like a night of white space, and entered the Qingzhou territory. At this point, Yuan Shang and his group finally broke away from Cao Cao's territory and completely returned to the Hebei territory.

After returning, Yuan Shang and his group rested on the north bank of the Ji River for half a day, then rose up and headed towards Linzi City. According to Yuan Shang's requirements, the entire army was divided into three routes, with Yuan Shang and Lu Lingqi in the middle as the empty, and Zhang He Gaolan each led an army behind, distributed on the left and right sides as the real, and advanced carefully and slowly.

Although I didn't understand what Yuan Shang was trying to be so careful, Zhang He and Gao Lan did as he ordered, and more than 7,000 people were slowly advancing. They walked more than ten miles a day, and the march seemed to be as fast as a turtle, which made everyone confused and hesitated in their hearts. But Yuan Shang didn't tell the reason yet. Every time he asked him, he would humble and talk about him, pretending to be crazy and stupid and find a question to deal with you.

Yuan Shang did this, but he had no choice but to do so. Although he knew that Yuan Shao's two sons had slaughtered each other in history and attacked each other, others did not know that. Moreover, at this time, Yuan Tan was still in front of his Qingzhou governor, without any malicious intentions. If he talked casually, he would leave others with a narrow mind, which would not be worth the loss.

After a careful march for a day, when the sun sets, Yuan Shang and his party came to the edge of a valley. The mountain was named Yiqi Mountain, and the deep valley was unknown.

Gao Lan personally inspected the terrain nearby. Finally, he suggested that Yuan Shang camp in the valley. One was lush with trees in the valley, which allowed soldiers and horses to rest well for a night, and the other was that the entrance of the valley stood between the foot of the mountain. The terrain was uneven, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the water source was very close, so it was suitable for camping.

After Gao Lan selected the camp, he immediately invited Yuan Shang to inspect and explained to Yuan Shang while inspecting.

"San Gongzi, look, the terrain of this valley is easy to guard. As long as you set up some wooden railings, you can easily block the entrance of the valley and make full use of the terrain to defend it. You only need to send a small number of soldiers to patrol the night, and you will definitely have nothing to do, and you can also let the soldiers of the three armies have a good sleep tonight..."

Yuan Shang knew about these specific military affairs, so he was naturally not as good as Gao Lan's expert. Gao Lan was good at martial arts, so he was relieved to leave the camp to establish him.

Therefore, every time Gao Lan introduced a sentence, Yuan Shang nodded and then said perfunctorily: "General Gao is good at abilities." or "General Gao is good at scrutiny."

After about a while, Gao Lan had already introduced all the terrain in the valley to Yuan Shang, and then rubbed his dry palms and said with a smile: "Three Young Master, I feel like I am stuck here, surrounded by mountains and rivers, occupying the most dangerous place, and there is still a source of water near me, and there is generally no omission... I don't know what the third Master thought, and what is wrong with me, please correct me."

Yuan Shang stood beside Gao Lan, looking at the dangerous valley around the left and right, and nodded with satisfaction: "The place chosen by General Gao is very good, and I can't say anything wrong, but I just want to ask General Gao for one thing."

Seeing that Yuan Shang could not tell anything, Gao Lan felt quite proud, and a sense of a pride as a warrior arose.

"If you have any doubts, please make it clear."

Yuan Shang scratched his head gently, raised his hand and pointed to the valley, and said, "General Gao, here is surrounded by mountains on both sides, and one faces water. It is a good place to rest. However, if someone comes to attack, how should we deal with it? If something goes wrong, where should we escape."

Gao Lan couldn't help but roll his eyes when he heard this and sighed secretly, "Here, it's coming again!"

"The third young master, I have been holding back for a long time, but today I have to say that we are no longer in the Central Plains. Qingzhou is under the jurisdiction of the lord. Even if the Cao army is warlike, it will definitely not dare to come at will. The young master has not been like this in the heart of the Central Plains. Why do you become more timid when you go to your own territory? The young master keeps talking about sneak attacks, but he doesn't know where the sneak attack soldiers come from?"

Yuan Shang seemed not to hear Gao Lan's words, touched his chin and said to himself: "General Gao, take a closer look. If you don't realize that the place where we camped in camp looks like a cage with three sides blocked and only one side exit... a cage?"

"Young Master, you..."

Gao Lan's tone was suffocated, and finally sighed helplessly, shook his head and said, "With the young master's opinion, what should we do tonight?"

Yuan Shang blinked and said, "There is only one exit. We have to keep it. There is nothing wrong with it, but if we can't keep it, let the sneak attackers rush in..."

Speaking of this, Yuan Shang sighed regretfully: "We will hold ourselves in this valley and let others close the door and beat dogs."

Gao Lan couldn't help but sneer when he heard this, and said, "The word "Young Master is fresh, but it is not very appropriate to use it. Who can describe his own soldiers as dogs? I'm afraid there is something wrong with it."

"Oh!" Yuan Shang nodded quickly and agreed: "Sorry, my metaphor is a bit inappropriate... What does General Gao think of himself as catching a turtle in the jar?"

Gao Lan's eyelids twitched and said, "I haven't heard of this word at the end, but if I think about it carefully... it seems that it's not as good as the one I just now..."

"Anyway!" Yuan Shang interrupted Gao Lan's words: "We don't want to be dogs or turtles, nor can we do it. But since this big cage can trap us, why can't we use him to trap those thieves who want to attack us? General Gao, I have a plan, and now I will tell you, hurry up and go with General Zhang, act according to my method, and do not make any mistakes!"

Gao Lan's eyelids twitched, and finally he had to sigh helplessly and bowed:

"promise....."

After getting Yuan Shang's general, Gao Lan immediately went to Zhang He to make arrangements. It happened that Deng Chang, Lu Lingqi, Xiahou Juan and others were all there, and then he ordered Yuan Shang's strategy together.

After hearing Gao Lan's words, Lu Lingqi couldn't help but frown and said wonderingly: "You three young men have never been like this in the Central Plains. Why do you become more and more careful the more you reach the hinterland of Hebei?"

Gao Lan shook his head and said, "Who said it was not? Think about the arrangement of the young master. It was like setting up camps. It was clearly a formation to defend the enemy. The soldiers worked hard and finally returned to their own territory, but they couldn't sleep peacefully. Now there are rumors everywhere in the army, and they are quite dissatisfied, but the third young master didn't give an explanation. It was really a frightening thing."

Xiahou Juan pouted his little mouth and nodded dissatisfiedly. He first pointed Gao Lan, stretched out three fingers, gently patted his plump little buttocks, and then made a blocking position with both hands, shaking it left and right twice, and finally straightened his forearms, pretending to pull the bow and shoot arrows, and thrust it twice, and muttering.

"Aba, Aba, Aba, Aba Aba."

Gao Lan stared at her for a long time, turned around and asked everyone, "Who can understand what she is talking about?"

Deng Chang cleared his throat heavily and said inexplicably: "She said, "You three young master Yuan is not a big deal, you are idle and you are out of the left and right, and the whole bird is so fucking that he is going to be poor and damn poor."

When Xiahou Juan heard this, he immediately showed a bright smile.

Lu Lingqi opened her mouth wide and looked at Deng Chang in surprise: "I can't tell that you, an old man, live a confused life on weekdays, but you have some eyesight. Can you explain such a profound and mute speech from Sister Xiahou?"

Deng Chang thrust his chest proudly and said, "That's right, I have lived for decades and have walked more bridges than you have. As the saying goes, Old Horse knows the way, you can learn slowly in the future!"

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No matter how much they say, no matter how dissatisfied they are, everyone will act according to Yuan Shang's arrangement.

The night is gradually getting deeper. For some reason, the dark clouds tonight seem to be particularly concentrated. Under its cover, the already light moonlight looks particularly quiet and quiet. The so-called dark moon and wind are the night of killing people, maybe it is just like this.

At this moment, three miles north of Yuan Shang and others stationed troops, among the rolling mountains, a group of Biao troops slowly poked their heads out, like hungry jackals, staring at the bright bonfire in the valley not far away, and the eyes full of greed seemed to be shining with green light.

The Biao army was slowly moving towards this place. The horse was walking very carefully. The horse's hooves and mouth were wrapped tightly in cloth strips, for fear that too much noise would disturb the enemy troops in the distance.

The leader of the bandits looked up at the sky and asked the people behind him in a gloomy way: "When is the day going?"

"If you go back to the leader, it's already past midnight..."

Before he finished speaking, the thief leader turned around and interrupted him fiercely, and seemed angry: "Stop it! What leader! You want to call me Shuai Shuai, Shuai Ku! Now we are not bandits, but regular military horses under Shuai Yan! Do you understand!"

"No!" answered neatly.

The Black Mountain bandit commander looked back and stared at the fire in the distance fiercely, continuing, "This time, we are ordered by the command of Yan Shuai and pretend to be a bandit to stop Yuan Shang's son from returning to Jizhou. After the matter is completed, Yan Shuai will have a heavy reward. We brothers will definitely be able to use it in the future. We will be quick when we take action! Kill as long as we should, and kill as we should, and we must not hesitate at all... When we are still talking, we must not reveal flaws like we did just now. Can you tell me if you want to!"

"promise!"

The leader of the black bandit nodded with satisfaction, looked up at the dark sky, then licked his lips, and said, "When the sky is darker, when the time comes, you will follow me into the valley. When you see Yuan Shao's son, don't ask about the length of time... Kill!"
Chapter completed!