In Luoyang, Dong Zhuo has already begun to make arrangements and is preparing to cut off a group of scholars who are dissatisfied with him before leaving. In order to disperse Dong Zhuo's troops, the princes of Kanto spent nearly half a month to redeploy.

Ye Zhao set up a camp outside Xuanyuan Pass, and set up ten towers about 120 distances in front of the city. Each tower assumes a catapult, and orders a battalion of soldiers to guard it. He also sets up roads around Xuanyuan Pass. During the war, no one is allowed to enter and exit the soldiers of non-Alliance Army.

He looked like he was ready to attack at any time, but for three consecutive days, Ye Zhao did not really attack for a strong attack except for ordering people outside the pass every day.

"Why did Xiuming refuse to attack?" On this day, Kong Rong finally couldn't help but come to Ye Zhao to ask the reason.

"Mr. Wen Ju, I won't fight, but the Xuanyuan Pass guard refused to fight. If it was a strong attack, the loss would be huge." Ye Zhao looked at Kong Rong helplessly. Sometimes, he would rather have intrigue with those people full of bad water than communicate with a pure nerd like Kong Rong.

Although Cai Yong and Kong Rong were both great scholars, great scholars did not mean they were all nerds. Like Cai Yong, who had been floating and ups and downs in the officialdom all his life, had a lot of knowledge. Although he respected the sages' learning and self-cultivation, he would not be stingy with others and understand the worldly ways.

As a sage, with the rise of Confucianism, the Kong family had a unique position in the scholars. It is no exaggeration to say that as long as the world is still respected by Confucianism, even if the dynasty is changed, such a family will not be destroyed.

In the peaceful era, even if no one from the Kong family became an official for three generations, it would not affect their status. Even local officials had to be polite. It was because of this environment that Kong Rong had a good knowledge of his knowledge, Ye Zhao probably was not inferior to Cai Yong, but in terms of emotional intelligence in dealing with people, the ten Kong Rong combined was not as good as Cai Yong.

He remained neutral in the coalition and was even more kind to Ye Zhao, but Kong Rong would not give in on these principled issues. Yuan Shao sent Kong Rong. In addition to letting Kong Rong look at Ye Zhao, he probably also had reasons for not wanting to face this old scholar. This was more uncomfortable than sending him to monitor him.

The people sent by Yuan Shao were unhappy that Ye Zhao could cut him directly, but Kong Rong was not good. His current unrecognized family does not mean that he was completely on the opposite side of the scholars. Ye Zhao, who had been in this circle for a while, knew very well that these scholars were more realistic than anyone else. As long as he showed enough background and means to consider the interests of the family, the aristocratic family had to surrender to him, but if he killed Kong Rong... then wait to be attacked by scholars. Unless he was already dominant, with a stable foundation and able to make arbitrary decision, people like Kong Rong could not stand it and could only hold it back.

"Do you know how many defenders there are in Xuanyuan Pass?" Ye Zhao frowned when he saw Kong Rong still frowning and asked helplessly.

"Not only five thousand!" Kong Rong looked at Ye Zhao in confusion. There were channels for collecting information from Luoyang in the coalition. These days, Dong Zhuo's deployment of troops has basically been sent out. However, this kind of intelligence is half the intelligent information. Since Li Ru has already taken precautions, how could the people in Luoyang find out that their real deployment?

"Mr. Wen Ju is devoted to studying and does not understand this military strategy." Ye Zhao took Kong Rong to Xuanyuan Pass and pointed at Xuanyuan Pass and said, "General information may have been given to us by the enemy on purpose, and the purpose is to induce us to act according to his intentions. How to judge in detail can actually be seen from the other party's arrangement of troops."

Ye Zhao pointed to the city wall and said, "Although Xuanyuan Pass is not as good as Hulao and Yique is majestic, it is also one of the three passes in Luoyang. The terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack. There is only a 100-step horizontal distance in front of the pass, and only a 300-500-step vertical distance can be used. The force that our army puts into the battlefield at one time is unnecessary!"

"Besides, the intelligence cannot be fully trusted. Generally, defenders who understand some military tactics will garrison their troops separately when they have sufficient troops, or divide them into two or even three batches, and take turns to garrison them. At this moment, the force at the gate is fifty feet wide and about five feet thick. Now there are three people guarding each zhang, and there are barracks behind them. In wartime, according to the scale of Xuanyuan Pass, there are usually a team of people who rest or patrol every ten feet, and transport supplies. On this wall alone, there are four hundred people garrisons, and there are troops patrolling in the city. At least one school of people can fight at any time. In addition, the internal city wall also needs people to guard it. Although there are not so many people like here, there are nearly three thousand people alone!"

Ye Zhao looked at Kong Rong helplessly and said, "Even if the guard generals were divided into two groups, there were still 6,000 people. If there were three groups, there would be nearly 10,000 people."

"My army and horses are garrisoned by Xingyang, and 7,000 are responsible for transporting food and grass to the soldiers. There are only 10,000 people here. Wen Jugong's tent is under the army. Judging from my opinion, there are only 5,000 troops. How can I attack?" Ye Zhao looked at Kong Rong and said.

The terrain in front of Xuanyuan Pass is a waste of investment, but if two thousand men want to attack the city wall, it is impossible to break through the enemy's army. Ye Zhao will never do it if he adds fuel to the battle. It can be said that if he only defends but does not attack, Xuanyuan Pass is disgusting than Hulao Pass. At least the Hulao Pass is large enough that the coalition forces can launch it.

"I heard that Xiuming used troops like a god. When he fought against the Yellow Turbans in the past, he defeated hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turbans with thousands of people. Why now..." Kong Rong looked at Ye Zhao in confusion.

There is no way, Ye Zhao is known as a famous general of the Han Dynasty, with outstanding achievements, thousands or more than 100,000. Even the former military saints did not have such brilliant results.

"The Yellow Turban Army's orders are unknown, and the orders are different. The soldiers do not know the generals, and the generals do not know the soldiers. Many generals do not even understand the flags, drum beats, or orders, and they do not even know how many people they have. The Yellow Turban Army itself is just a group of civilians. As long as they have to break through their weaknesses, the large number of people is not an advantage, but also a possibility of being distracted. Now the Yellow Turban Army is not the Yellow Turban Army, but the well-trained and well-trained Xiliang soldiers who have been fighting on the battlefield for many years. How can they speak the same way?" Ye Zhao smiled bitterly. In fact, if it weren't for the intrigue between various forces, how could such a contribution be taken over to him?

"Then I will do nothing like this?" Kong Rong frowned.

"Of course not. Actually, we appear here. Whether we attack the city or not, Dong Zhuo must distribute a lot of troops to guard you and me, and the same is true for Yique Pass. In this way, the pressure on the direction of Hulao Pass will be greatly reduced. Of course, it is better if the city guard is willing to go out of the city to fight!" Ye Zhao smiled. If the Xuanyuan Pass was not aware of his life or death, he would not mind to clean up. Although the merits are no longer of great use to him now, at least they can gain reputation.

"With Xiuming here, I'm afraid the thief army will not dare to leave the city." Kong Rong smiled bitterly and said, "I regret not not obeying Xiuming's plan."

It turned out that as early as when he came, Ye Zhao suggested to Kong Rong that Kong Rong come to establish a village first, and then Ye Zhao came by by detour. If he could lure out the enemy troops in Guanzhong, he could annihilate a group of people outside the pass.

Unfortunately, Kong Rong had already received Yuan Shao's instructions before coming, so he could not let Ye Zhao leave his sight. Therefore, he missed an opportunity in vain. Even if Ye Zhao made a move to leave, he might not dare to come out. After all, Ye Zhao gave people the biggest impression that he was not able to fight tough battles, but cunning and using strategies to defeat the enemy.

I complained that Yuan Shao was too concerned. If it weren't for this, I might have already taken down Xuanyuan Pass at this moment.

"So, we will make a good contribution to attracting more Xiliang troops here!" Ye Zhao said to Kong Rong with a smile.

"See Xiuming's words!" Kong Rong sighed helplessly, nodded and said goodbye to Ye Zhao, and went straight back to his camp.

Finally sent it away!

Seeing Kong Rong leave, Ye Zhao breathed a sigh of relief. Xuanyuan Pass is not easy to fight, but if he really makes up his mind to fight, it is not impossible to break through. It is only because he will definitely lose a lot of troops. Ye Zhao never thought of losing his troops here and making wedding dresses for others. He had decided before that if the Xiliang Army came out of the pass, he would fight. If he didn't leave the pass, he would never take the initiative to attack the city.
Chapter completed!