"Lord, what are you doing?" In recent days, the army is relatively relaxed. In addition to training troops, most of the time, Ye Zhao's army is hanging at the end of Huangfu Song's army. Sun Jian is the vanguard, Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, and Yuan Shu are distributed on both sides. Ye Zhao was left by Huangfu Song in the end. In addition to guarding the rear, his more responsibilities are to coordinate the work of food, grass and supplies. Qiu Chi and others already knew Ye Zhao's plans, so they were not in a hurry.

"Look at the situation in Nanyang, Nanyang is very lively during this period. He Yi, Liu Pi, Gong Du, and Wu Ba, these people have attracted many people to strengthen their momentum in order to gain attention after they arrive in Nanyang. In addition, after Peng Tuo was defeated, they also went to Nanyang. In addition, Han Zhong, Sun Zhong, and Zhao Hong, who were already under Zhang Mancheng in Nanyang, were very popular. I am afraid that the Yellow Turbans in Jizhou may not be as good as that in the case of this, this is a big battle." Ye Zhao looked at the map, saw Qiu Chi asking, and explained with a smile.

"Isn't the lord no longer planning to take action?" Qiu Chi helped Ye Zhao deliver tea and asked with a smile: "Why care about these again?"

"I don't want merit, but I can ask for favors." Ye Zhao smiled and said, "Now there are Yuan Shao and Cao Cao in this dynasty. The merits cannot be considered only by Huangfu Song."

"By the way, how did Liu Bei and the other two recently?" Ye Zhao thought of Liu Bei's three brothers and asked with a smile.

"Some are ungrateful." When talking about these three people, Qiu Chi's expression was obviously a bit unfair.

"Oh?" Ye Zhao was a little confused.

"Then Liu Bei sighed all day long, and often complained to Ding Li and Fang Yue, two generals, who were willing to serve the country, but could not fight for the country." A hint of anger flashed across Qiu Chi's face: "I often talked to the generals of the army about the current situation in Nanyang, but mostly talked about it. The lord was kind to take him in, but Chi Guan was quite dissatisfied with the lord's intake. He didn't think about it. If the lord hadn't spoken for him that day, with his three brothers and one by one, who would care about them?"

"Then tell him that logistics is also very important. If the logistics food and grass are cut off, our tens of thousands of troops will not be able to survive." Ye Zhao shook his head. Sure enough, anyone needs a growth process. In the tent that day, Ye Zhao felt that Liu Bei was quite cunning. After throwing out the olive branch, he did not immediately make a statement. Instead, he waited for Huangfu Song's order. Strictly speaking, this approach is not wrong, but Liu Bei took himself too seriously.

At this time, Liu Bei was not the imperial uncle who was later renamed by the royal family. If he did this, he would not only not get the favor of Huangfu Song, but would instead lose Ye Zhao's face. Moreover, he would also make friends with and win over several good generals under Ye Zhao's subordinates all day long. Ye Zhao was also a little tired of Ye Zhao.

"The army is about to arrive in the Qingshui River tomorrow. Zhang Mancheng has been strengthening the walls and clearing the fields, shrinking the defense line, and lengthening the supply line of our army. The safety of the food route cannot be ignored. The three brothers Liu Bei are quite brave. Let them go to supervise the transportation of food routes, protect the safety of the food routes, and find some things to do, so they will not do nothing all day long." Ye Zhao handed an arrow to Qiu Chidao.

Although the other party was Yue and Ding Li rested, it still made Ye Zhao feel a little unhappy when Liu Bei was so generous with his own command. Ye Zhao originally wanted to make a good relationship with one of the heroes of the Three Kingdoms in the future, and to observe Liu Bei's ability by the way. However, now it seems that Liu Bei obviously does not have the vision and skills that a hero should have, and it is not worth worrying at present.

"Here!" Qiu Chi took the order arrow respectfully and said to Ye Zhao: "Justice Huben sent someone to pass on the message and invited the lord to go to the Central Army to discuss matters later."

"Yeah, I understand." Ye Zhao closed the map, and after Qiu Chi left, he took Guan Hai straight to Huangfu Song's central army camp.

As the rear army, Ye Zhao was a little far away from Huangfu Song's central army. After he arrived, Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Sun Jian and others had already arrived.

"Captain Ye is indeed punctual!" Huangfu Song was a little unhappy when he saw Ye Zhao and snorted coldly.

Ye Zhao ignored him. The relationship between the two parties had reached a freezing point at this time. After a courteous gift, he ignored it and sat directly at Yuan Shao's attack.

"Irregular!" Yuan Shu frowned in dissatisfaction.

"I wonder General Huangfu brought us here, but he was discussing the matter of destroying the thief?" Ye Zhao pretended not to hear it and bowed to Huangfu Song.

"No," Zhu Jun saw Huangfu Song stop talking, and took Ye Zhao's words and smiled: "The leader of the bandit Zhang Mancheng is quite versatile. He has already deployed heavy troops on the other side of the Qingshui River and occupied important places to block our army from crossing the river. If we want to take a detour, the army must bypass Zhixian County, and they may have to walk for another three or five days. Moreover, this move is undoubtedly to show weakness to the bandit army and be unfavorable to morale. Therefore, General Huangfu and I will recruit you to come and discuss strategies for crossing the river."

"Why don't you know what the two generals have?" Ye Zhao said with a smile. There is no need for him to show off such things. The Qingshui River is not the Yangtze River and the Yellow River. The widest part is only about 200 meters. The only difficulty is that the enemy deployed heavy troops along the Qingshui River, which added difficulties to crossing the river. More importantly, this is the first battle since entering Nanyang, and the win or loss is related to the morale of both sides.

Cao Cao laughed and said, "We are still discussing before, so Xiuming will see."

As he said that, Cao Cao walked to a huge map of Nanyang and pointed to the map and said, "Now our army is stationed in Bowang. The front army has reached the shore of the Qingshui River. Most of the Yellow Turban thieves are not only in the Xixihui area. The water flows in these two places are smooth and easy to cross the river. Although the Qingshui River is long, most of the water flows are turbulent, which is suitable for our army to land. There are only this section of Xixihui. However, a large number of Yellow Turban troops stationed in Xixihui. If our army forcibly cross the river, the losses will be heavy. Therefore, we are now exploring how to cross the river. Although the forced crossing is powerful, the losses will be heavy."

Ye Zhao nodded and saw that everyone was looking at him, he couldn't help but say with a blank look: "What do you think I'm doing?"

Yuan Shao smiled and said, "Why should Xiuming ask clearly? You swept Runan with your weak forces, and you ran around with more than 100,000 Yellow Turbans, and you were beaten to death. We were about to hear Xiuming's opinions."

Yuan Shao also had a way to cross the river. Liu Pi and Gong were all nails buried by the Yuan family in the Yellow Turban Army. Once it was launched, it would be difficult for him to cross the river to defeat him. There was no reason to show his trump card so quickly. This was just the first battle. Although the contribution was not small, how could it be compared to the later defeat of Zhang Mancheng, so Yuan Shao didn't say a word before.

"It's a coincidence." Ye Zhao shook his head and smiled, "Then the Yellow Turbans of Runan are a bunch of sand. Although there are many people, they are not in a good mind. As the general of Qu, He Yi has no power as the general of Qu. He is also full of ignorant men. His power is not enough to convince the public, so that his subordinates can take advantage of the opportunity. Zhang Mancheng is not comparable to He Yi. Not to mention that he has a high reputation in Nanyang, there are many capable people under his command, and there are also official troops who have followed him in the past to defeat him. It is not easy to defeat him."

I'm here to cause trouble, not to help you defeat the enemy.

"I have a plan to make our army land as soon as possible." Huangfu Song, who had been silent, said in a deep voice.

"Please tell me!" After hearing this, the generals bowed quickly.

Huangfu Song looked at Ye Zhao, came to the map, pointed to Xi'e and said, "It's simple to say that Zhang Mancheng may be powerful, but it is not himself who guarded this place. According to our detailed reports, the general Zhao Hong, who stationed in Xi'e, was Zhang Mancheng's general. Our army could send a group of troops to attack from here to attract Zhao Hong to attack. The main force of our army went upstream, and took advantage of the enemy's troops being attracted to cross the river from the upper reaches, and then used a light cavalry to detour Zhixian County to attack the enemy's back, and you can win in one battle!"

It is very simple to make a fuss, but the strategy depends only on whether it is used in a clever way, not whether it is simple. In many cases, simple strategies are the most effective.

Ye Zhao looked at the map and found that this area of ​​water flow was about ten to fifteen miles long. According to Huangfu Song's plan, the chance of successfully crossing the river was very high, but it would be a big problem for the person who was pretending to attack.

Cao Cao, who was standing beside him, bowed and said, "General can set up beacon towers along the coast to observe the movements of the enemy."

Huangfu Song nodded and said, "Good!"

Zhu Jun frowned and said, "It's just this powerful attacker, who should I choose? Although it's just a feint, if it can't put pressure on the Yellow Turban Army, it may not attract Zhao Hong's attention."

When Huangfu Song heard this, he looked at Ye Zhao with a smile.

Ye Zhao frowned and said without waiting for Huangfu Song to speak, "I heard for a long time that General Sun Wentai is known as a tiger. Since following the two generals, he must first fight every battle. Due to the military's attack, he will be defeated. Such a major event is a powerful general like General Wentai."

Sun Jian looked at Ye Zhao with some confusion, not understanding why Ye Zhao suddenly helped him steal credit, but this was true. Sun Jian was about to get up to agree, but Zhu Jun stopped him with his eyes.

Huangfu Song shook his head and said, "General Sun's courageous strategy, we naturally know that it was just a battle between the former. General Sun has used his life many times and has consumed a lot of energy. It has not recovered yet. If he forced his battle, there may be unexpected surprises. Xiuming won the most with less in the battle, and now he is a famous general known to all over the world. Therefore, this general hopes that Xiuming can take on this task."

Finally, Huangfu Song also showed an amiable smile to Ye Zhao.

Usually if the enemy suddenly smiles kindly at you, then nothing good will happen!

Ye Zhao looked around and saw that neither Yuan Shao, Cao Cao nor Yuan Shu were known for his bravery, and he had basically no experience in leading troops alone. Huangfu Song left Sun Jian aside, and it was obvious that he wanted Ye Zhao to take on this rough job.

"It's just that the last general has only two thousand troops in the headquarters. Even if he bluffs, he will be unable to hide from the Yellow Turban Thief." Ye Zhao was a little helpless. He really couldn't kick the ball at Yuan Shao and Cao Cao. As for Yuan Shu... I looked at Yuan Shu's face, but don't look for me. Ye Zhao knew that there was no chance, and Huangfu Song would not agree, so he could only speak for the benefit.

"This is not difficult. Xiu Ming had been in charge of the Yueqi Camp before, so he can be temporarily transferred to Xiu Ming's command to listen to it!" Huangfu Song said with a smile.

"The last general will receive the order!" Ye Zhao bowed and took the order helplessly and said, "I don't know when the troops will be moved?"

"Soldiers are very important. Highways. You can quickly supervise the soldiers to build beacon towers. Xiuming will go to mobilize troops and start tomorrow morning!" Huangfu Song said with a smile.
Chapter completed!