Water has no constant shape, and soldiers have no constant momentum. As a leader, you must grasp the battlefield situation and quickly make the most favorable adjustments and changes according to changes in the battlefield situation.

Since Zhang Zhongjian sent an urgent report, telling him that Lu Shishen and Guo Xiaoke did not evacuate after raiding Luokoucang, the original combat plan was meaningless. In the original plan, Zhang Zhongjian and Wang Xuanying's Jianghuai army feinted Li Mi in Luokou and dragged Li Mi's army. Then the Hebei army divided into two groups, one by Lu, and the second general Guo crossed the Mang Mountain and took the path to raid Luokoucang. After taking the Luokoucang, they burned Li Mi's logistics food and grass in Luokoucang City. Then, Lu and the second general Guo stayed behind the few troops as planned to block the enemy from Baihua Valley and Yanshi's directions according to the plan. On the other side, Chen Kefu personally led the 15,000 Hebei troops raided Hulao. After capturing Hulao, they also left a few troops to block the Wei army from Xingyang direction for up to three days.

Then, Chen Kefu, Lu and Guo, two troops returned to Luokou from the east and west, and together with Zhang Zhongjian and Wang Xuanying, who were in the north of Luokou, attacked Li Mi together, and fought against Li Mi in Luokou, and severely injured Li Mi.

This plan is very bold. The key is to seize the Luokou Cang City and Hulao Pass, cut off the logistics food and supplies of Li Mi's army, and in a short time, lock Li Mi in Luokou, cut off the Wei army in Henan's counties to Luokou to reinforce Li Mi.

Because of the urgent time and the unfavorable force of the coalition forces, Chen Kefu's plan was to quickly return to Hebei after severely damaging Li Mi. He did not intend to annihilate Li Mi's army and kill Li Mi in Luokou.

However, when General Guo took down Luokou Cang City, the second general Guo took down Luokou Cang City, the military order was changed. After defending Luokou Cang City, this plan was meaningless. Without Lu, General Guo's 30,000 main Hebei Army, Chen Kefu led his troops back to Luokou alone, and was not sure to defeat Li Mi. What's more, Chen Kefu did not want to take the risk back to Luokou. More than 10,000 people returned to Luokou, while Li Mi and Wang Xuanying from Luokou each had a 100,000 army, and he did not want to take this risk.

The Hebei army and the Hulao defenders entered the Hulao Pass together. The Hebei army replaced the pass defense, while Huang Junhan took the initiative to issue military orders to the surrendered Wei army, ordering all the Wei army to return to the military camp and leave the camp without ordering.

In the general's mansion, the generals of the Hebei army gathered together with the surrendered generals of the Wei army.

"Everyone. Today, our two armies gathered in the Huzhu. We should have a banquet to kill pigs and cows and celebrate together." Chen Kefu stood on the top and his face was solemn, "However, the military situation is urgent and time is urgent. I have to regretfully notify everyone that this celebration banquet can only be held later."

"Military affairs are important, military affairs are important." Huang Junhan sat in the lower right corner of Chen Kefu, and stood up quickly and said, "Your Highness, will the last general report to His Highness the situation of the soldiers and various materials in Hulao Pass?"

Chen Kefu nodded. "Okay!"

Huang Junhan was prepared for a long time. Seeing Chen Kefu nodding in agreement, he hurriedly took out a note and presented it, "Hulao Pass is the strongest pass in the east of Luoyang, the eastern capital. It is the Jindi Fortress on the east side, the Yellow River on the north side, and the Qinling River on the back, and the Minshan branch veins. It can be said that one man is at the pass, and tens of thousands of men cannot open. To the west, there is Luoshui, and along the Luoshui, there is Luokoucang City and the last pass in the east of Luoyang, Yanshi."

"Hulao is an dangerous pass. Li Mi transferred a lot of financial, material and manpower to strengthen and build Hulao Pass after nearly a year. After nearly a year, the Hulao city wall is now seven zhang high, and the gate towers of the east and west gates are as high as ten zhang. And the city wall is three zhang thick, and every ten zhang, there is an arrow tower five zhang higher than the city wall. In addition, in front of the two east and west gates, there is a moat and a moat, which are extremely wide."

"In addition, there were originally 50,000 elite soldiers guarding Hulao Pass, but a few days ago, Li Mi transferred the troops and horses of Hulao and Jindi Passes, and then transferred 40,000 troops from Hulao Pass. Now there are 10,000 soldiers in Hulao Pass, including 3,000 cavalry and 7,000 infantry. Among the infantry, there are 2,000 archers. There are also various craftsmen who have not left in the city who have been expeditioned to build Hulao. There are about 100,000 civilians."

Chen Kefu listened with a serious expression and suddenly said, "How much inventory is there in the pass? How many weapons and food are there?"

"There are various warehouses built in the Guanzhong area, including dozens of equipment processing workshops. Among them are three million stones of grain and a large amount of fodder. In addition, there are two million feather arrows, three thousand bows, two thousand crossbows, more than two hundred catapults, one hundred bed crossbows, three hundred Fuyuan crossbows, five thousand sets of bright light armor, ten thousand shields of various types, and 50,000 spears, 30,000 spears, 30,000 long spears, eight hundred supplies, and a large number of materials such as pig iron and brass."

Hearing this report, Chen Kefu changed color slightly, and Qin Qiong and others took a breath of air conditioning. Feng Huan on the side even widened his pupils. Hearing these huge numbers, everyone understood something.

Li Mi not only regarded this as a defensive fortress in the east, but also regarded it as a huge forward base. These small amounts of food, equipment and other materials all show all this.

"Okay, okay, okay." Chen Kefu shouted three good words in a row.

Luokou Cang City and Hulao Pass are at the center of Li Mi's control. Maybe he would not believe that these two cities, which are the most solid fortresses, will be captured by Chen Kefu without bloodshed. Luokou Cang City is his food and grass storage center, Hulao is his forward base where he intends to attack Hebei and his weapons production base. Now, all of these two places belong to him Chen Kefu.

It can be imagined that Li Mi had to spend a lot of manpower and material resources to collect more than 23 million stones of food and grass and to create this massive amount of armor and equipment.

When Chen Kefu thought of Li Mi's possible vomiting of blood when he received the loss of Luokou Cang City and Hulao Pass and fell into his hands, Chen Kefu wanted to laugh.

With a wave of his hand, Chen Kefu gave Chen Lei a few instructions. Chen Lei went out immediately and soon brought back a team of staff officers. He quickly assembled the sand tables from Henan in the hall.

Chen Kefu walked to the sand table, held a baton in his hand, and pointed at the sand table, "Everyone, just during the day yesterday, Marshal Zhang of the Navy and Zheng Xuanying of the Jianghuai Army joined forces to fight Li Mi in Luokou. The two sides dispatched more than 100,000 troops. From the night before yesterday to yesterday morning, in the end, our coalition soldiers severely damaged Li Mi and wiped out nearly 30,000 troops under Li Mi. Li Mi's army was defeated, and finally Li Mi's other 50,000 troops arrived at the battlefield in time to save the defeat on the battlefield. Now Li Mi has nearly 100,000 troops left, and retreated to the foot of Mangshan to form a formation to defend."

This was the first time Niu Jinda and others from Hulao Pass heard this news. Although they were surprised at this time, they no longer cared much.

Chen Kefu moved the wooden stick and pointed to Luokou Cangcheng on the south side of Luokou. "And just in the first half of last night, our Hebei army, Lu Shishen, and Guo Xiaoke, two generals, had led 30,000 elite troops from Hebei to raid Cangcheng, easily captured Luokou Cangcheng and seized all the food in Cangcheng. Now, the south side of Li Mi has been cut off, and all his logistics food and grass have been cut off."

Then he pointed his baton at Hulao Pass on the sand table, "And we have now occupied Hulao Pass east of Li Mi and cut off reinforcements from Xingyang to the east. Li Mi is now in a turtle."

Huang Junhan couldn't help but sigh in his heart that Li Mikong claimed that he had the most soldiers in the sky, but now he was dizzy by Chen Kefu's tens of thousands of troops and was surrounded. He sighed in his heart and asked, "Your Highness, are we going back to attack Li Mi with Zhang Shuai?"

"No," Chen Kefu shook his head, "I have just sent a letter to Marshal Li Jing about the latest situation of Luokou Cang City and Luokou battlefield. I have ordered him to immediately lead his troops south and go straight to Jindi Pass. I know that General Huang has many old subordinates at Jindi Pass, so I will ask General Huang to write a few letters to the old subordinates in Jindi Pass later."

Huang Junhan quickly stood up and said, "Your Highness, please rest assured. The last general has already agreed with his subordinates of Jindi Pass that once our Hebei soldiers attack Jindi Pass, they will immediately respond within the pass, cooperate with the inside and outside, and help our Hebei soldiers take down Jindi Pass."

"Okay." Chen Kefu applauded, "In this way, the king will no longer worry, and the generals will obey the order!"

"The last one is here!" Shulala, dozens of generals and schoolmen all stood up quickly, stood straight, and replied loudly.

"General Order! Qin Qiong led the 500th Lightning Camp light cavalry of our headquarters, 4,000 infantry and 500 engineers to stay in Hulao Pass. Remember, your task is to stick to Hulao Pass. As long as you stick to Hulao Pass, you can keep in Hulao Pass. Without the order of this king, remember not to leave the city and fight with the enemy."

Qin Qiong took a step forward, took the token from Chen Kefu, and shouted, "The last general will take the order!"

Chen Kefu nodded to him with satisfaction. Qin Qiong was the most experienced and steadfast among the young lieutenant generals. He was experienced in the battlefield, and was also very loyal to himself. Chen Kefu took him seriously. This time he planned to change his original combat plan. After taking down Hulao, he did not return to Luokou. Instead, he continued to advance east with his troops. In order to prevent Li Mi from sending troops to snatch Hulao, Chen Kefu planned to take away the 10,000 Wei troops who surrendered to Hulao Pass.

There were indeed some soldiers left when Qin Qiong was allowed to defend the Huzhu for 5,000 people. However, Chen Kefu took the initiative to attack the east, so the only enemy of Huzhu was Li Mi in the west. In a short period of time, Chen Kefu wanted to believe that Qin Qiong could still hold on to Huzhu, especially now Huzhu is no longer the Huzhu of the past. Today, Huzhu is a super fortress, which requires food and weapons. Moreover, the city is high and the walls are hard and the moats are densely packed.

"If you send an order, we will slaughter cattle and sheep and make rice. After noon, I will lead 10,000 Hebei troops and 10,000 new Henan troops. A total of 20,000 troops will leave the east Guancheng and take the Xingyang County thirty miles southeast. Before dark today, we will not only take down Xingyang County, but also take down the Xingyang County Governor City. We will also go north as quickly as possible, encircle Xingze City to the south of Jindi Pass, and meet with General Li Jing at the Jindi Pass!"

"No!" The generals responded in unison, and the voices shook the night of the night. To be continued...


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