Three Kingdoms: From Hulaoguan to Global Hegemony

Chapter 397 Insight into Cao Yuan's Trick

Although Zhang Yang is a small warlord, he is extremely good at making camps.

Knowing that Liu Yu had plans to occupy Hanoi, he secretly made friends with Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, and together resisted Cheng Mou's Guan Yu.

Just a few months ago, Liu Yu focused his energy on Luoyang City again, so Guan Yu was not allowed to attack Hanoi on a large scale.

Now that Luoyang has been set, the attack on Hanoi County has been put on the agenda again. Before Liu Yu came, he had notified Guan Yu to prepare for the battle. With Zhang Yan setting up a bureau, it is estimated that Guan Yu and others can take Hanoi County more easily.

"I will send someone to notify Guan Yu and Gao Shun of Hulao Pass in advance. When you bring people to the border of Hanoi, contact them first. As for how to attack Zhang Yang, I will leave it to the three of you to discuss."

Guan Yu and Gao Shun are both famous generals, and Zhang Yan is also a rare all-round talent who can lead a million people. It will definitely not be surprising for the three of them to team up to deal with a small warlord.

Because there was no problem with Zhang Yan's loyalty, Liu Yu was not worried that Zhang Yan would turn his back on his word and expose their whereabouts, so he told him to return to the Montenegro base camp tomorrow.

Just when Liu Yu was about to let Zhang Yan go down to rest, Zhao Pan, the shopkeeper of Kelaiju, sent urgent information.

"My lord, the spies who stayed in An Township came to report that Yuan Xi's subordinate Jiao Chu led five thousand troops to burn down the thief's den there first, and then led the troops to Zhending County."

"Wei County also sent accurate news, saying that a group of Jizhou elites disguised as ordinary people searched for many days on the border of Wei County. The target seemed to be the lord. These people turned their heads north and went straight to Wuji County. .”

Yuan Xi's dispatch of Liu Yu had already expected that he killed Zhang Nan and abducted [-] of his soldiers. Sooner or later, Yuan Xi would find out here.

But Liu Yu was a little surprised by the presence of disguised Jizhou soldiers on the border of Wei County, and they were still searching for him?
Did you expose yourself?
Liu Yu made some calculations. Except for his own people who have taken refuge in him recently, it seems that only Gongsun Zan knows that he has come to Jizhou.

Could it be Gongsun Zan?

Regardless of whether it was the wind released by Gongsun Zan or not, judging from Yuan Shao's reaction, he had no good intentions.

Let the Jizhou soldiers disguise themselves as ordinary people to search secretly, is Yuan Shao planning to get rid of me quietly!
"How many people came from Wei County?"

"About 5000 people!"

When Liu Yu heard that Yuan Shao only secretly arranged 5000 people to assassinate him, he really underestimated himself.

But after careful questioning, it turned out that Yuan Shao was not unwilling to send more troops. Apart from the fact that he did not want to be charged with assassinating the prince of the Han Dynasty, it was also because all the soldiers and horses from Jieqiao were sent to Bohai County to attack Gongsun Zan. The large troops are gathering to the west in full swing.

Further west of Yecheng is Zhang Yan's headquarters in the Taihang Mountains.

"Yuan Shao started a war on two fronts, and even wanted to attack your base camp. This is not in line with his temper!"

In history, Yuan Shao only seldom conquered the Black Bandits a few times, because he didn't want to spend all his troops on the barren mountains.

"My lord, don't worry, Yuan Shao can't fight mountain battles. If they get close to Taihang Mountain, I will take my men and the people to hide on the other side of the mountain."

Zhang Yan said confidently that when he was besieged by Yuan Shao several times before, he used this method to avoid the main force of Jizhou.

But Liu Yu fell into deep thought after hearing this.

At this time, Yuan Shao didn't take back Bohai County, and he didn't drive away the Yan Gang tribe who invaded Zhongshan County, so why did he suddenly prepare to encircle and suppress the Black Mountain bandits on a large scale?

According to the severity of the situation and the gains after victory, it is more beneficial to attack Bohai County or Zhongshan County first than to send troops to Taihang Mountain.

What's more, Zhang Yan also said that they are not afraid of Yuan Shao sending troops, because they can hide on the other side of Taihang Mountain. Such mobilization of troops will not bring any benefits, and it does not seem like something Yuan Shao would do.

If something goes wrong, there must be a demon.

Thinking of this, Liu Yu suddenly realized that the other side of Taihang Mountain is Taiyuan County, Cao Cao's territory.

"Could it be that Cao Cao had a secret deal with Yuan Shao, and asked Jizhou to send troops to drive them away, and Bingzhou's soldiers and horses designed an ambush?"

The more Liu Yu thought about it, the more it looked like Cao Cao's trick. He had mentioned the Taihang bandits to Cao Cao in Datong Mountain before, saying that the Black Mountain bandit army was an important resource that could be used. It seemed that Cao Cao really listened to it.

But at this moment Liu Yu regretted it, and he also wanted to get the millions of people in Montenegro.

"No, you must not hide on the other side of the mountain!"

"Besides this path, do you have other strategies to deal with the enemy?"

Zhang Yan thought for a while and replied: "If you don't go to Bingzhou to escape, then you can only go south to Hanoi County along the mountain road. It happened that the Lord ordered me to direct the people to move south, but it may be slower to go to Hanoi by taking the mountain road."

There is no problem with being slow, as long as you don't fall into the encirclement of Yuan Shao and Cao Cao.

"According to this plan, tell the people in the mountains that as long as they arrive in Hanoi County, they will have a house and a private field, and only need to pay [-]% of the harvest in the field, and the rest can be kept by themselves. This policy is three years constant!"

After speaking, Liu Yu took out his pen and ink, and signed his name in black and white.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, the land was controlled by a small number of big clans and officials. The common people were the long-term laborers of the landlords who were responsible for farming, and they had to pay most of the grain they got.

"My lord has taken great care of the people of Montenegro. With this letter, I believe the people of Montenegro will move south more actively!"

Without further ado, Liu Yu asked Zhang Yan to return to the Montenegro base camp overnight.

In addition, before parting, Liu Yu also asked him about Hengshan.

According to the cognition of later generations, the main peak of Hengshan Mountain is located in Hunyuan County, Shanxi Province, which is the current Bingzhou area, but Hengshan Mountain in the late Han Dynasty refers to the ancient Hengshan Mountain, which belongs to the Taihang Mountains in Muping County of Jizhou.

Taihang Mountain is Zhang Yan's territory, and there are also people and guards from Montenegro on Mount Heng, so Zhang Yan left his brother Zhang Shun to lead the way for Liu Yu.

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After breaking the tricks of Cao Cao and Yuan Shao for Zhang Yan, Liu Yu had to find a way to deal with the soldiers from Jizhou from the north and the south.

In fact, no matter for the sake of his own safety or to keep his men and horses, Liu Yu had to think of a perfect plan.

Because Jizhou soldiers and horses are different from fighting black bandits, it is located in Changshan County, which is the territory of Jizhou, so Jizhou soldiers will be famous whether they are besieging or attacking the city.

So it is definitely not a good idea to stick to the city, not to mention that Yuan Shaozhi is getting rid of Liu Yu, and sticking to Zhending City will only expose his whereabouts and attract more enemies.

If they were broken up into parts and hidden, Liu Yu and the others could easily escape Yuan Jun's hunt with ease.

How should the soldiers who have just been subdued hide? More than 7000 people are not a small number, and Liu Yu still wants to form them into an army behind the enemy, so they can't be disbanded immediately after they have a prototype.

It seems that the best way to do it now is to evacuate Zhending City first.

(End of this chapter)