Three Kingdoms Strong Army System

In the commander's tent, Liu Zhang called the advisors Fa Zheng and Liu Ye.

"Xiao Zhi, Zi Yang, Yuan Shao has managed Ye City for many years, and the city is strong and can be called the number one in Hebei. How do you think we can capture Ye City?"

Liu Ye thought for a while, and replied: "The law of war says: know yourself and your enemy, and you will never be imperiled in a hundred battles. Our army is far away, and we don't know the reality of Yecheng. Why don't we send people to investigate first, such as how wide the moat of Yecheng is, how high is the city wall, and how strong the defenders are?" How much, make another plan!"

Liu Zhang also knew that what Liu Ye said was very reasonable, but he also understood all these things. He had already sent detectives to Yecheng to investigate these things.

Before Liu Zhang looked over, Fazheng said: "Yecheng is strong, and it may not be easy to forcefully attack the city, but now Yecheng is empty, Yuan Shaoyuan is in Taiyuan County, and he will not be able to return within a month. We should send a message Zhang Liao, let them hold Yuan Shao back and prevent them from leaving easily."

Liu Zhang nodded.

Fazheng continued: "Yecheng is a big city. With our [-] troops, it is very difficult to completely encircle Yecheng. If there are not many defenders in Yecheng, we can encircle Yecheng. If there are more than [-] defenders in Yecheng, we will Pretend to besiege Yecheng, and then surround the city to fight for aid!"

"Waiting for help?" Liu Zhang showed a puzzled expression.

Fazheng immediately explained: "As far as I know, Yuan Shao has three sons, the eldest son Yuan Tan is attacking Qingzhou, his son Yuan Xi is guarding Youzhou, and only Yuan Shang is in Jizhou, so he is the oldest in Yecheng now, and he was killed by Ma just a few days ago. Teng's defeat is just a time of panic, and he must be afraid if we make a siege."

Liu Zhang was overjoyed, and said, "He is afraid that Yecheng will be lost in his hands. In this way, even if he escapes by chance, he will lose the right of inheritance. So no matter what, he can't let Yecheng be lost. He will definitely order the entire Jizhou to be destroyed." Send troops to support Yecheng. As long as we ambush in advance on the main roads around Yecheng, we can ambush reinforcements."

"My lord is wise, you can get it right!" Fazheng complimented.

"Haha, Xiaozhi, you have learned how to flatter!" Liu Zhang was in a good mood.

"Yuan Shang has already lost his last chance. If he came to destroy the camp when General Ma Teng set up his camp, it might be delayed for a few days, but now we have [-] soldiers gathered, and we are waiting for the siege equipment. "Fa Zhengdao.

"This attack on Yecheng, the key to success or failure lies in the siege equipment. While waiting for the siege equipment, we cut down trees on the spot, collected stones, and built more siege equipment."

Just as Liu Zhang finished speaking, a voice came from outside the tent.

"Report, General Zhang Kui, please see me!"

"Order him to come in!" Liu Zhang replied loudly, then turned his head to look at Fazheng and Liu Ye and said with a smile: "I asked General Zhang Kui to send people to investigate the situation in Yecheng and its surroundings. He must be here now. Report to me."

Sure enough, as soon as Zhang Kui came in, he quickly walked up to Liu Zhang, bowed his hands and said, "Master, the detectives have already investigated the situation around Yecheng clearly."

"Oh, tell me!" Liu Zhang straightened his sitting posture.

"Outside the city of Ye, the moat is three feet wide, and the moat connects Zhangshui River. The city wall is four feet high. The city is about six thousand steps long from north to south, and five thousand steps wide from east to west. . . . Yuan Shang has about 5 remnant troops The soldiers who escaped and fled back to Yecheng one after another are countless, and the initial estimate of the defenders in Yecheng is about [-] to [-]."

Liu Zhang, Fazheng, and Liu Ye listened carefully for about a cup of tea before listening to what Zhang Kui said.

"This city of Ye is indeed the largest in Hebei, and it is very majestic." Liu Zhang sighed, "Although such a big city is not as good as Chang'an and Luoyang, it is not enough for [-] soldiers to besiege."

"Zhang Kui, immediately order people to beat the drums and gather the generals. I want to arrange tasks!"

"No!" Zhang Kui immediately left Liu Zhang's tent and ordered someone to beat the drum.

In just one stick of incense, all the senior generals gathered in Liu Zhang's tent.

"It will take three days for our army's siege equipment to arrive, but soldiers are precious and fast. We can't give Yecheng too much time to prepare defense equipment. Early tomorrow morning, Zhang Jie will lead 1 infantry and set up a camp ten miles outside the south gate of Yecheng. For a large camp of [-] people, Gan Ning led [-] infantry to guard it, and Ma Teng led [-] cavalry to lie in ambush in the distance. If any soldiers and horses in the city came out of the city to interfere with the camp, Ma Teng would immediately rush out."

Zhang Jie, Gan Ning, and Ma Teng came out and responded, "The last general takes orders!"

"I intend to set up a camp outside the south, east, and west gates of Yecheng, each with [-] soldiers." Liu Zhang told everyone his thoughts.

After the meeting was over, Zhang Jie immediately went to prepare tents and wood for camping. On the second day, he led 5000 people and went to Yecheng with supplies.

The large-scale movement of enemy troops outside the city, of course the Yecheng scouts saw it, and he immediately returned to Yuan's mansion to report to Yuan Shang.

Surrounded by all the generals, Yuan Shang came to the city wall.

The city wall of Yecheng was four feet high, and standing on it, one could see very far. They watched ten miles away, and the enemy stopped and started construction.

Wen Chou looked at it for a while, and then yelled, "No! They're going to set up camp!"

"If the enemy army is allowed to set up camp ten miles outside the city, they can send troops to attack Yecheng at any time, and we must stop them!" Simpi continued.

"What if this is an enemy trap, just to lure our troops out of the city?" Yuan Shang didn't want to send troops. He was scared by Ma Teng and the others, so he found an excuse.

"Please look, my lord!" Xin Ping raised his hand and pointed to the outside of the city. "There are two groups of people outside the city. One group is setting up camp, and the other group is guarding ahead. From this, it can be seen that they are worried that we will send troops to stop us. We will do what the enemy does not want to do, and we will do it become."

"Mr. Xin's words are correct. After observing for a long time, I feel that everything is reasonable and reasonable. It doesn't seem like he deliberately lured us out of the city." Wen Chou looked at Liu Jun in the distance and said in a deep voice.

Yuan Shang saw that Wen Chou and Xin Ping had said so, so he could only agree to send troops to destroy the enemy's camp.

After deliberation, it was decided that Wen Chou would lead [-] cavalry and [-] infantry out of the city to prevent the enemy from camping. Of course it would be better to kill some enemies.

The south gate of Yecheng opened slowly, and the suspension bridge over the moat slowly fell. Wen Chou led ten thousand soldiers quickly across the suspension bridge, gathered outside the city, and then began to run ten miles away.

Gan Ning could see the city wall of Yecheng from ten miles away, but he couldn't see clearly that the south gate was opened and the enemy army had already left the city. He only saw the enemy when they were only five miles away from him. Inform Ma Teng to ambush them, and they can only fight, and then let Ma Teng fight out, outflanking them from behind.

Gan Ning immediately ordered his subordinates to form a defensive formation, and they had to stand firmly outside the camp that was being built, as if they were strictly on guard.

On the city wall of Ye City, Yuan Shang and others were still watching here. Wen Chou saw the enemy troops in a defensive formation, and was even more sure that they were just camping normally.