?Two days later, in Zhang Fei's mansion in Yang County, the generals gathered together again to discuss military information.

Zhang Fei asked: "How many days have we lost contact with Yong'an?"

Fu Hu replied, "It's been five days."

Zhang Fei asked again: "What's going on with the Barbarian Army in the north these two days?"

Wei Yan replied: "The barbarians who went north, the salt workers and the people who were trapped by them all moved into Pingyang County. They have not moved yet, as if they want to live forever."

Zhang Fei thought for a moment and said, "It seems that these barbarian troops are indeed bait sent by Jin State. Their purpose is to lure us out of the city, and then the Crouching Tiger Army coming from the upper reaches of the Fen River will launch an attack on us. But I don't understand how many troops the Crouching Tiger Army has deployed this time? If there are too many troops, there will be problems with the Shangdang's defense; if there are too few troops, how can he swallow my 30,000 troops in one bite!"

Wei Yan suggested: "Since we don't know the exact strength of the Crouching Tiger Army, then we will send our troops to investigate!"

Yang Yi asked meaningfully: "Who will be sent?"

Wei Yan replied without hesitation: "Give me three thousand cavalry, and I guarantee to understand the details of Jin** team clearly!"

Zhang Fei sighed in his heart, feeling that Wei Yan among his generals was indeed a rare talent. He knew that there might be many dangers ahead, but he stood up without hesitation in this crisis.

"Wen Chang, I will assign you three thousand cavalrymen and order you to be the vanguard general to go to Yong'an to investigate the enemy situation. Remember, once things cannot be done, you will retreat quickly and fight in a close relationship!" Zhang Fei finally agreed to Wei Yan's request.

At noon that day, Wei Yan led 3,000 cavalry out of the north gate of Yang County and galloped towards Yong'an.

Yong'an County is more than 60 miles away from Yang County, and even the cavalry marching quickly would take half a day to reach. Therefore, when Wei Yan led his army to the city of Yong'an, it was already the night of that day.

Wei Yan, who was smart, did not rashly approach the city wall of Yong'an, but sent a small group of soldiers to dismount and take off their military uniforms, dressed up as people fleeing from Anyi, and went to the city to call the gate. As soon as several soldiers pretending to be ordinary people approached the city gate of Yong'an, they were stopped by the defenders on the top of the city.

The defenders on the city wall shouted: "A few thief-headed guys under the city, don't go forward any longer, otherwise don't blame us for being ruthless!"

The people under the city replied: "The official guarding the city came from Anyi to catch people everywhere. We are the people who escaped from Pingyang. Please do well and let us go into the city to hide!"

The defenders at the city wall said again: "Pingyang is located in the hinterland of Hedong. Nearby is General Zhang Yide's 30,000 troops. Where did the barbarian cavalry come from? You must have been soldiers from Jin who dressed up as people to come to cheat the city. If you don't leave quickly, do you have to eat our arrow rain?"

Seeing that the soldiers under the city could not open the city gate, they had to leave Yong'an cursed and then returned to the hiding place of the three thousand cavalrymen and reported the situation to Wei Yan.

After thinking for a while, Wei Yan analyzed the result that Yong'an City had been occupied by the Wohu Army, so he led his army to turn around and head south along the Fen River. How did Wei Yan infer that Yong'an City was occupied? He inferred from the fact that the defenders at the city were not panicked.

A few days ago, Yang County specially sent people to inform the magistrate of the Anyi County and the garrison. Barbarian cavalry were out of Anyi. At that time, the officials and hundreds of soldiers there were scared and asked Zhang Fei to send troops to garrison. If Yong'an did not fail, then after they heard that Pingyang was occupied by barbarian cavalry, they should have been very panicked and helpless, and should not be so calm and comfortable.

Wei Yan considered the plan that Zhang Fei was preparing to implement next, so he followed the Fen River from Yong'an to explore downstream, intending to find out whether there were a large number of main forces of the Crouching Tiger Army that had moved closer to Pingyang County. But to his disappointment, when he led the team to run through the west of Yang County, he still did not see the Crouching Tiger Army. At this moment, the scattered whistle suddenly came from an emergency report, saying that he had observed that the fire at the head of Yang County was soaring into the sky that night, and asked him to return to Yang County quickly and not be ambushed.

As soon as Wei Yan received this news, he thought that the main force of the Wohu Army had arrived in Yang County, so he quickly led his army to march overnight and finally approached the city of Yang County in the early morning. After repeated searches by the sentry detectives, after confirming that there was no trace of the Wohu Army around the county town, Wei Yan carefully entered the city gate.

After entering Yangxian City, Wei Yan found that many houses on both sides of the road were burned by fires, many soldiers were busy evacuating and evacuating the people, and some soldiers were still extinguishing the remaining fires. Wei Yan hurried to see Zhang Fei, and gave a detailed report on his reconnaissance situation in two days, and then mentioned the fact that he saw the fire on the Yangxian City one night before.

When Zhang Fei heard Wei Yan ask about this, he replied with a puzzled look: "Last night, tens of thousands of arrows dragging flames suddenly flew from the east gate, and all shot into the city, but there was no trace of the enemy. Since it was night, I was afraid that the enemy would set up an ambush outside the city, so I did not order the troops to go out of the city to fight."

After hearing this, Wei Yan frowned and said, "Why do I feel that an invisible net is covering our heads? No main force of the Jin army was found everywhere, and the barbarian cavalry stayed in Pingyang County. Could it be that they still have to confront us based on the city?"

Zhang Fei said with a cold face: "I have the same feelings as Wen Chang. Although I don't know what conspiracy the State of Jin has designed against us, I am afraid that their plan will definitely be very small this time. So I decided to lead my army south to Xiangling tomorrow, and the original plan to seize Pingyang will be invalid!"

Wei Yan nodded without objecting, but said unwillingly: "Why would I lead 3,000 infantry soldiers to stay in Yang County and see what the Jin State is doing this time?"

While the two were discussing, they suddenly came to report again, saying that they found that the barbarian army in Pingyang County had taken action again. They carried over more than 100,000 people to continue to flow upstream along the Fen River. Now they are less than forty miles away from Yang County.

When Zhang Fei and Wei Yan heard the news, they immediately stood up.

"Since the barbarians do not take us seriously, they will fight them this time. I want to see how they can carry the 100,000 people from Hedong to Xihe under the blockade of 30,000 soldiers of the Northern Army!" Zhang Fei looked angry and finally decided to face Yan Xi head-on instead of taking the third way of departure that he had just considered, that is, to lead the army to Xiangling.

If Zhang Fei knew that the rocket rain that was flying all over the sky last night was just a momentum created by a thousand soldiers of the Divine Fire Camp, and the real main force of the Crouching Tiger Army had been lurking under his and Wei Yan's noses, he would definitely implement the third plan without hesitation, rather than bumping into the pocket array carefully arranged by Pang Tong and Li Jinwu for him. ~ See the starter without ads, please go to "

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