Step by step, one city after another, and advance little by little, this is the combat deduction in the hearts of ordinary people, but it does not belong to those "geniuses".

Zhang Bu is an ordinary warlord. He really couldn't imagine how brave and fearless Geng Yan would have to do the task of throwing down his baggage and marching 300 miles straight towards the enemy's capital!

Not only was the enemy surprised, even Fu Long, the doctor who was under Geng Yan's command, could not believe that Geng Yan had directly crossed all obstacles and used this place as the target of the attack!

It turned out that with Fulong and others who had been to Linzi, Geng Yan gathered Shanggu Tuqi and Jizhou cavalry to follow him. Five thousand cavalry and two horses were each carrying five days of food. It took only four days to rush to Linzi from Lixia.

But if you want to attack the world's largest city with a population of 300,000 to 400,000, it would be like a snake swallowing an elephant, and no matter how big the mouth is, it would be impossible.

Fu Long could only endure the pain of his butt being worn by the saddle, and found Geng Yan, who was in the procession and put forward his own opinions.

"General Cheqi and Cavalry, our troops are small, so we may not be able to defeat Linzi; and Zhang Bu's main force is Xi'an County forty miles northwest of Linzi, which can be reached in one day. I still think that even if we have to raid for a long distance, we should go to Xi'an to join General Gai, and not to take risks in Linzi."

"When will Doctor Fu understand military affairs?"

Geng Yan couldn't listen to the shallow knowledge of a civil servant. He had his own plans: "Xi'an City is small and strong, and Zhang Bu's elite soldiers are there. If you attack Xi'an first, Zhang Bu's back to defend the city, once you cannot seize it quickly, I and Gai Yan and I will go deep into the enemy's territory, and then there will be no transfer. We will be able to fight for the city in ten days. Even if we can win a small victory, there will be many casualties, and Zhang Bu can still calmly lead the army to Linzi and fight stubbornly. If the Linzi people are really incited by him, it will be a tough battle. The words of the doctor may not be appropriate."

Then, Geng Yan approved Fu Long to participate in the military discussion of the partial generals. He expressed his plan to everyone: "I attacked Linzi, but I still surrounded the points and attacked the aid in order to force Zhang Bu back to save his capital!"

Since the fifth reunification named this tactic, Cen Peng loved to use it the most, Geng Yan followed, pointing to the Linzi Road where the city gate was closed: "Although Linzi is famous, it is actually easy to attack. It is 50 miles in circumference, and there are thirteen city gates. According to the prisoners, there are only more than 10,000 soldiers left by Linzi, and how many people can stand on the city walls in each mile? Therefore, it is not enough to stay. The wealth and goods of the Qi army, the ministers and their families are in Linzi. Zhang Busheng is afraid of repeating the cover of the history and will inevitably return to help when he is asked for help!"

"As long as you defeat Zhang Bu's main force, whether it is Linzi or Xi'an, they are all things in my palm. This is what is called hitting one and getting two."

After hearing this, Fu Long became even more worried: "Linzi has a large population. If each household has a resident, it can raise 100,000 people. If Zhang Bu cooperates with his internal and external forces and attacks our army, what if he does?"

Geng Yan said confidently: "The soldiers of Linzi will not come out."

"Zhang Bu was from Langya, Xuzhou. After the guest army entered Qingzhou, the troops they conquered were forced to be forced to be robbed, and most of the food they collected were forced to be robbed. He had many conflicts with local scholars and did not believe each other. This was even more true after the Red Eyebrow was destroyed. During the battles in the lowest level, the Qingzhou soldiers and the Langya soldiers did not help each other, and I took advantage of it. I thought the same was true for Linzi."

"Linzi has a large population, but they are all merchants and peddlers. If Zhang Bu was so confused that he drove the city people to fight, he would be the 700,000 Yin slaves who ruled the Zhou army in Muye. For the city people, there was little difference between the King of Qi and Emperor Wei."

After all, it would be a gamble. Fu Long shut up and was only nervous, but Geng Yan had already started to choose a battlefield position.

He looked up at Linzi City. The eight-meter-high city wall was like a mountain, blocking Geng Yan's sight. On the eaves of the city tower, there were auspicious beasts made of ceramics, some like turtles, and some like tigers. Among them, the palace was in the small town in the southwest, and the city walls and markets were in the big town in the northwest.

The Wei army had little food and had already begun to kill horses that could no longer fight. If Zhang Bu ignored them and chose to drag them down, it would be a troublesome thing. After all, the main infantry force was still slowly advancing two hundred miles away in the west, and it would not arrive in less than ten days and half a month.

So, Geng Yan chose the position that best threatens the Linzi central center:

"It's decided to be at the southern gate of Linzi."

"Jixia!"

...

Zhang Bu was indeed hesitating. The battle of Lixia just happened in Jinan County, which was the defensive army rashly left the city to rescue his city, which led to its destruction. Moreover, if he brought the main force back, how should Gaiyan and Yuyang Cavs in Xi'an County deal with it?

In a dilemma, Zhang Bu chose to wait and see for another day. Linzi has so many people, is it okay to stay for ten days and half a month?

After tossing and turning overnight, the next day, a person who fled from Linzi and asked for help arrived in Xi'an County. Zhang Bu then learned about Geng Yan's military arrangements.

"The Wei army was stationed outside Jimen and attacked the royal palace?"

"I also sent an edict to the Linzi City, threatening that the fifth ancestor of the Emperor Wei, the Qi people of the Tian family, are now here to rescue the elders of Qi from the fire and water?"

After hearing this, Zhang Bu could no longer calm down and was so anxious that he jumped straight into his foot.

Why? Because human nature is all about greed and selfishness, Zhang Bu's rule in Linzi was only maintained for only three years. He was born in a humble background and was a foreign country, so the people did not accept it.

Zhang Bu's governance was definitely better than the green forest and the red eyebrows. It was not like a greedy government, but it was not considered a benevolent government. He raised 80,000 people in a state, and his subordinates quickly became corrupt and lived a luxurious life. The people's taxes and rents were heavy, and the people complained a lot.

When Geng Yan's army arrived, if he first attacked the wealthy Linzi city, the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people in the city would be threatened, and he was worried that the enemies outside the city would plunder, which might help the defenders resist.

But Geng Yan only aimed at Zhang Bu's palace to attack, and threatened not to hurt the people. The Linzi people were skeptical and were so happy to stand by.

"The people who stayed in Linzi are all local soldiers, and their combat power is low. I am afraid they cannot fight to the best of their ability. It seems that I can't ignore Linzi!"

So Zhang Bu left 10,000 troops in Xi'an County, and still asked them to camp more than ten in a row to try to stop Yuyang's cavalry.

Zhang Bu personally rushed to Linzi with 20,000 troops. Before setting off, in order to boost morale, he encouraged his direct generals and said, "Thinking about the time when the bandits in Hebei, and more than 100,000 troops invaded Qi, they were all defeated by Gu. Now Xiao Geng's troops are fewer than him, and they are all tired, so why are you afraid!"

From Xi'an County to Linzi, it is only 40 miles away. People who usually have fast walking distances can arrive in one day, and merchants can run back and forth with carriages loaded with goods in half a day.

However, Zhang Bu was quite careful when he returned to the aid. The scout was released for thirty miles and had to observe the Wei army. Although the soldiers had to go to the column, they tried to squeeze together on the avenue and quickly formed a horizontal formation after encountering enemy forces.

But along the way, the Qi army was still harassed countless times. Near Linzi was a typical large plain. The Wei army rode like a fish entering the sea, elusive. Although it was just a scout, it had extremely strong combat power.

The Wei army's cavalry system was five cavalry one long, ten cavalry one official, one hundred cavalry one lead, two hundred cavalry one general, and at least five scouts with two hundred cavalry as a unit. They played wheel battles and appeared in the fields of the fields on both sides of the road, but never rushed directly with brute force, but instead shot from a long shot, forcing the Qi army to gather together to guard the garrison, and then left.

But as Qi Jun was lifted from his guard, another scout team had already arrived!

The Qi army had 20,000 people, and even the densely concentrated it, it pulled out a ten-mile queue, just like a snake in Changshan. This snake was quite heavy and could not do anything. "If you hit the head, you will reach the tail, you will reach the head, and if you hit the head, you will reach the head and the tail." Instead, it was disturbed by the left and right support.

In just forty miles, Zhang Bu's troops stopped and stopped, wasting two whole days. The soldiers were disturbed and could not rest. The marching array was interrupted several times. The dizzy tribe was left alone and was attacked by the scouts. It was common for them to be deserters.

When they finally saw the Linzi city wall, the Qi army was exhausted, and even Zhang Bu stood in the car and was about to fall asleep. Finally, he waved his blade and scratched the back of his hand before he woke up.

Although the Qi army was large, it was impossible to fight in this way. Zhang Bu planned to go to Yongmen west of Linzi to set up camp and wait for rest and recuperation before driving away the Wei cavalry.

But Geng Yan did not give Zhang Bu the chance. The Wei army, who was eating at the southern gate of Linzi, had moved to the west of the city and blocked between the Qi army and Linzi! He was behind the city and formed a formation!

Such an arrogant array, even Zhang Bu, who was afraid of fighting, was angry again and scolded:

"Geng Bozhao is arrogant! He regards Linzi's giant city as if nothing is there, and he thinks that Zhang Bu is dead?"

He then issued an order: "For several days of continuous combat, the Wei cavalry will definitely be weak and unable to rush. The three armies will rest on the spot for half an hour, then advance forward and drive the Wei soldiers down the moat! Then send someone to contact the guards in Linzi City. After I advance, I will also go out to support me. Geng Bozhao will be killed under the Linzi City Wall!"

...

The cavalry brought to Linzi by Geng Yan were all cavalry, with the above valleys as the main ones and the Jizhou knights as the auxiliary ones. People's strength is easy to recover, but horses cannot. As Zhang Bu expected, most of the horses in the army were weak and weak.

However, Geng Yan exchanged the cavalry, and three thousand Jizhou knights contributed their horses, and now they have become "dismounted infantry", holding horse spears and knights, displaying them in the center of the military formation, Xu Rulin.

The two thousand upper valley thunder cavalry still have war horses, roaming on the left and right wings of the military formation, flexibly and maneuvering.

Fulong was already an expert on missions, but it was his first time to visit the battlefield: ahead was a vast 20,000 Qi army, which had already encircled the Wei army in a semicircle. What's even more, a few miles behind it was Linzi, the world's largest city. Zhang Bu's troops looked at it, and countless gazes were like sharp arrows, making Fulong look like a ray of light on his back.

He resisted the pain and itch and did not reach out to scratch, but he could not control his frequent look back. Fu Long always felt that in Linzi City, there would be tens of thousands of people coming out in the tsunami and thundering the Wei army...

Fu Long glanced at the commander Geng Yan. The general who was younger than him was quite calm and was still holding the "Thousand Mile Mile Mile" and observing the Qi army's array in a hurry.

Fu Long remembers that during the military controversy before the war, Geng Yan said this:

"Zhang Bu's 20,000 people were all elite troops of Langya. They came from Xi'an County to Linzi. The morale was high. If the soldiers wanted to fight, they would first slam their edge! So I ordered the cavalry to follow their wings and not attack, or they would rush forward or come forward. It was as fast as the wind, its violent as thunder, and the day was as dusk as the day. They changed flags and changed their clothes, disturbed the Qi army, and made them tired."

"Now that the enemy has arrived, morale has declined, and the journey has not been settled, and the front and back are not affiliated. The soldiers do not want to fight, but only want to set up camp. And I still have two thousand elite cavalry to use, and I can reduce the front and back, hunt the left and right, and attack it with wings. The enemy will be afraid; then attack it with three thousand horse and infantry, and attack it with thin the cranes, and the enemy will be defeated."

It's that simple?

It's that simple!

Fu Long didn't dare to ask more questions, but Geng Yan started talking first.

"Doctor Fu, a few days ago, you told me the story of Jimen in the south of the city and Jixia Academy. So what is the allusion of this Yongmen?"

In one sentence, Fulong's thoughts were pulled back from the war he did not understand to the familiar classics. Fulong tried his best to make his voice calm and steady.

"In the 18th year of Duke Xiang's reign, Jin and the princes attacked Qi, attacked the di of Yongmen. Jihai, burned Yongmen. This Yongmen was once burned by Jin and the princes."

Geng Yan said again: "Where did Le Yi attack Qi during the Warring States Period?"

Fulong said: "It is not recorded, but it should be Yongmen."

"good."

Geng Yan smiled and said, "It seems that it is the right choice for Yongmen. Most of my subordinates are from Yan Zhao. I just hope that this time I can build Le Yi's achievements again!"

After that, Geng Yan stopped talking.

It was midsummer and May. As the sun slowly climbed, the weather became hotter. The rest of the time was so hard. Fulong's cloth crown was soaked in sweat and his chest was also stuffy. He saw Qi Jun resting and drinking water in the car. The army was quite chaotic, but Geng Yan was indifferent and let Qi Jun drag it down and re-architect it little by little.

Such a stalemate was obviously not good for the Wei army. Fu Long couldn't help it and said carefully: "Didn't the general say it before the war? The enemy arrived at the beginning and the front and back were not settled. If you trap the cavalry and attack the left and right, the enemy would have to leave. This is the common sense of cavalry, but why do you allow the Qi army to rest and not attack now?"

General, what are you waiting for? Are you waiting for the Qi army to collapse? Are you waiting for Linzi to surrender?

Literature is literati. Geng Yan usually disdains to deal with such stupid questions. Today, probably because his plan is about to succeed. He is in a good mood. He actually answered Fu Long with a smile.

"I'm waiting for someone."

"who?"

"General Huya, Gaiyan Gai Juqing!"

Geng Yan's eyes were still in front of the Qianli Miles. This thing was really useful on the battlefield. He revealed the answer to Fu Long:

"Zhang Bu's main force has been transferred back. How can the Xi'an County defender stop Yuyang Tuqi? I have sent someone to make an appointment with Gai Yan. In today's battle, Yuyang Tuqi is better than Shanggu Tuqi. Even if Gai Yan can't defeat the city, it will be easy to get around."

Of course, it is unknown whether the Yuyang Tuqi will be punctual as promised. This group of soldiers brought by Wu Han are known for their rebelliousness and difficulty. Gai Yan has also been a thorn. It is said that he only obeyed Ma Yuan. When he was in Heji, he did not listen to communication and cheated friendly troops. What will happen today?

But Geng Yan felt that when he left Bingzhou, he kept the elite main force of the Bingzhou military cavalry, and also told his old subordinates to give Wu Han face and put the overall situation first. Be convenient to others and to be convenient to himself. Isn’t this just to let Wu Han’s old subordinate Gai Yan give himself face?

The weather became hotter and hotter. As the sun got closer and closer to the sky, Geng Yan's thousand-mile mirror finally saw waves of yellow fog behind the huge array of Qi army. It was the dust of tens of thousands of horse hooves trampling on the land while the cavalry was advancing.

As the wolf smoke as a means of communication is lit, the gorgeous kite rises with the wind, Geng Yan confirmed the identity of the visitor.

Under the kite, there must be a nine-foot-tall spear-holding general!

His waiting was not in vain, and Gai Yan arrived as scheduled!

"Although, I'm half an hour late."

Geng Yan muttered like this and handed the Qianli Jing to Fu Long to play, while he asked someone to wave the handsome flag and issue a combat order.

"Get on the horse!"

“Noon is here!”
Chapter completed!