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Zhan County is the county seat of Leping State in Bingzhou, with a third-level town with a population of 130,000. There are not many players here because there are no particularly distinctive copies and properties. If you like to fight monsters and adventures, you will go to Yangquan in the north. If you like to plant and pick, you will go to the Taiyuan Plain in the west.

Strategically, this place has no strategic value in the hilly area west of Taihang. Moreover, there is Jinyang to the west, Yangquan to the north, Wuxiang and Liaoyang to the south, and Taihang Mountain to the east, which is considered a hinterland. Therefore, Zhang Liao did not station heavy troops here.

However, natural dangers like Taihang Mountain may not necessarily bring safety. Sometimes, it is precisely this kind of place called natural danger that often becomes an opportunity for the enemy to take advantage of.

Can I cross the Taihang? This is certain, so why is it difficult for the large army to cross the Taihang? There is only one reason, that is, the water source. If there is no person familiar with the terrain to guide the way and cannot find enough water for the large army to drink in time, the army will be tragic. As for the difficult roads, harassment of bandits, it is only a matter of time.

This is not the real world, but the game world. The secret paths on the mountains are not difficult to find, especially under the search of many players, the road to crossing Taihang from Shimen is not a great secret. It can be bought with just a cost. The more troublesome one is, it is easy to reveal the hidden things when you encounter players on the road.

However, this problem is not a problem now, because Jizhou is in a big battle. Everyone went to the vicinity of Julu to participate in the war, and Gongsun Zan burned the war to Shimen and Zhongqiu of Zhao Kingdom, which further attracted players in Taihang. In this way, the 20,000 elite infantry led by Gongsun Zan quietly crossed the Taihang Mountains silently.

After leaving Taihang Mountain, Gongsun Zan traveled at night and stayed in the mountains and rushed towards Zhan County. Finally, he successfully raided Zhan County on the night of September 6. Unfortunately, the defenders of Zhan County were not slackened. They discovered the enemy's raid in time. Gongsun Zan had not many people, and for a while, under the united Zhan County Town, he could not make progress.

It was not until this time that all the people understood what Gongsun Zan's entire plan was. It turned out that they wanted to seize Leping and threaten Taiyuan County from the side. Thus, Zhang Liao gave up the northern part of Shangdang. Then they formed a favorable strategic situation for Zhang Liao to attack from three directions. As for besieging Zhang Jiao, most of them were an excuse, an excuse to paralyze Zhang Liao.

Gongsun Zan's perfect plan failed in the end, it has to be said that he was not lucky. However, Zhan County did not have a strong general to station, and there was a danger of collapse at any time. If Zhang Liao could not provide immediate support, Gongsun Zan still had the possibility of successfully realizing his strategic intentions.

Seeing that Gongsun Zan could not conquer Zhan County for a while, Guan Jing saw that the surrounding mountains were prosperous, and in autumn, the mountains were full of dead grass and branches. He thought of another plan.

Gongsun Zan, who was frowning in the big tent, saw Guan Jing coming in hurriedly and immediately asked anxiously:

"But there is news of enemy reinforcements?"

"No!"

Gongsun Zan breathed a sigh of relief, clenched his fist and hammered it on his thigh: "Although it has not happened, I don't think it's too far. Now that Zhanxian has not been cut, it's really worrying! Seeing a great opportunity, was it just missing it?"

Guan Jing smiled and said proudly with his beard:

"Don't worry, lord, my subordinates saw that the surrounding mountains were full of grass and trees, and there were many fire-induced objects. Zhan County was also in the valley, and the wind direction was fixed. If we piled up fire-induced objects on the upper side and shot into the city, using fireworks, or forced out the defenders and people in the city, in this way, Zhan County was at your fingertips."

Gongsun Zan was overjoyed and immediately ordered the soldiers to go up the mountain to collect the ignition objects and piled them up in the northwest of Zhan County. After enough ignition objects were accumulated, they ignite them and put them in green grass branches to create smoke. The terrain of Zhan County is indeed very beneficial to fire attacks. The high temperature mixed with thick smoke immediately enveloped Zhan County.

Gongsun Zan took the opportunity to shoot fire-induced objects and oil tanks into the city, making the originally chaotic city even more chaotic. Gongsun Zan even took the opportunity to attack the city from both sides, luring the defenders to the city. The city lacked the suppression of the defenders, and the chaos was even more out of control.

The fire burned all day long, and the entire Zhan County town was covered with thick smoke. The sun was gone all day long. Under the smoke and fire, many soldiers and people couldn't stand it. Finally, they opened the south gate at night and wanted to escape to the mountainous areas. Who knew that Gongsun Zan was lying in ambush and waiting here?

Under the ambush of the elite Gongsun Zan army, most of the defenders surrendered, and Zhanxian changed hands that night.

After Gongsun Zan got Zhanxian, he had a strict blockade news on the one hand, and on the other hand, he was afraid of being shot by Zhang Liao as he did. He took advantage of Zhang Liao's failure to come and cut down all the plants and trees on the surrounding mountains.

On the other hand, after receiving the news that Zhan County was raided by Gongsun Zan, Zhang Liao immediately ordered the strengthening of the defenses of Yangyi and Wuxiang, leaving Hao Zhao to defend Xiangyuan, and he led his army to Liaoyang, and then set off from Liaoyang to Zhan County north.

The information Zhang Liao obtained showed that Gongsun Zan did not attack Zhanxian, which was reasonable. After all, it was definitely not an easy task to cross the Taihang Mountains on a large scale, and Gongsun Zan could not bring too many troops to climb over the mountains. Therefore, Zhang Liao only brought 20,000 cavalry to advance lightly, hoping to arrive in Zhanxian before Zhanxian fell, and cooperated inside and outside to completely annihilate Gongsun Zan's troops.

However, the road is all mountainous. Although there are roads, it is not easy to walk, especially after passing Liaoyang, the mountain road has become even more rugged. Although Zhang Liao was anxious, he was also a little lucky.

"General, this road is so difficult, it may be dangerous to rush through the night."

"There is no way, time doesn't wait for anyone. We will have one more chance of winning when we arrive in Zhan County as soon as possible. If we only take the opportunity to win because the road is difficult, we will regret it!"

"This subordinate asked him so many torches to light a fire on the side of the road."

"Yes, but be careful not to ignite the grass and trees on the mountain. Now it is autumn, and the grass and trees are flammable."

"promise!"

"Fortunately the enemy did not set up an ambush on our road in advance, otherwise it would be really dangerous!"

"General, how could the other party guess which route we will take to help?"

"Haha, too!"

Before Zhang Liao finished speaking, a gong suddenly sounded on the mountains on both sides, and then a dense buzzing sound was heard, and someone shouted: "The enemy has been trapped, kill it!"

With the shouts, dense crossbow arrows flew down from a high point, and immediately shot Zhang Liaola's long troops into overturning!

"Hurry, Zhang Dun, dismount and dodge to both sides!"

"Shit"

The rain of arrows continued to fly down from the darkness with a terrifying sound, and the fire on the roadside became a severely affected area. While piping arrows, Zhang Liao shouted loudly: "Extinguish the fire, put out the torches!"

"Fire arrow! The enemy's fire arrow!"

In a scream, the flames fell like the fire falling from the sky, falling all over the roads below the valley, and the withered weeds were immediately ignited.

Zhang Liao was shocked: "Strike forward! Hurry!"

"General, the front is blocked, so let's retreat!"

Zhang Liao gritted his teeth fiercely: "Retreat, retreat!"

Unfortunately, although the road behind was relatively open and could not be blocked, it was caught by the other party at some point. Then, under the attack of dense arrows and paper talismans, Zhang Liao's troops suffered heavy casualties. Fortunately, it was dark, and Zhang Liao finally escaped with dozens of his personal guards and retreated to Liaoyang in panic.

Gongsun Yue, standing on the hillside, breathed a big sigh of joy, and a trace of uncontrollable joy appeared on his face, finally eliminating the stigma of being defeated by the general! What's more, the opponent is Zhang Liao, who is of high reputation. Can Gongsun Yue be unhappy?

The hardships in the mountains for the past ten days were worth it. At this moment, the redemption that Gongsun Yue received finally disappeared, and he seemed relaxed.

"Transfer the order, leave the rear team to the first battalion of Qu'er to clean the battlefield, and the rest immediately set up the team and march towards Liaoyang, and jointly attack Liaoyang with General Yan Gang!"

"promise!"

Zhang Liao was defeated and returned to Liaoyang, and Yan Gang's troops arrived. Gongsun Zan's entire plan was very strict. As for ambushing Zhang Liao, it was actually an unexpected surprise. Gongsun Zan originally wanted to use Gongsun Yue's troops to set up an ambush between Wuxiang and Zhanxian, or ambush reinforcements, or wait for the reinforcements to raid Wuxiang.

However, he did not expect that he could not take Zhanxian. Zhang Liao did not choose to give up Xiangyuan, but went directly to the north to help. Gongsun Zan happened to ask Gongsun Yue to set up Zhang Liao's pure cavalry troops, but he did not expect that the battle would be so good.

So Yan Gang, who was originally going to attack Wuxiang, re-targeted his target in Liaoyang and wanted to take the opportunity to kill Zhang Liao.

Liaoyang is a small town with no danger to defend, not to mention that Zhang Liao has no soldiers to defend now. Zhang Liao was very decisive and directly took the soldiers who could be taken away and left the city, turned over the ridge and headed straight for Wuxiang, and at the same time ordered Hao Zhao to give up Xiangyuan and retreat to Nei County and Wuxiang.

Yan Gang rushed into the unguarded Liaoyang. Dong Zhao, who was advancing together, immediately judged Zhang Liao's intention and suggested that Yan Gang leave a small army to guard Liaoyang and wait for Gongsun Yue. Yan Gang's troops immediately moved between Xiangyuan and Wuxiang to fight for the retreating Hao Zhao again.

Unfortunately, Hao Zhao had expected that he did not take the road to Wuxiang, but took the western front and retreated directly to Nie County. In fact, Hao Zhao believed that Nie County and Wuxiang should not be defended, because after Gongsun Zan got Zhan County, he could threaten the Taiyuan Plain from the flanks. If Taiyuan was lost, what's the point of staying here? Therefore, Hao Zhao's goal was to preserve the vitality, which made him lucky to avoid Yan Gang's ambush.

Sure enough, Zhang Liao then issued an order to give up Nie County and retreat to Qi County. Zhang Liao himself also gave up Wuxiang to retreat to Yangyi, blocking Gongsun Zan's way westward. At this point, Zhang Liao withdrew from Shangdang County, and Shangdang County was all in the hands of Gongsun Zan. With most of Leping County, Gongsun Zan's strategic intentions had basically been achieved, and Zhang Liao's situation became extremely bad.
Chapter completed!