Like the high-ranking officials analyzed, Deputy Director Tao was of course greedy for quick decisiveness in the north, because sending troops outside was not a joke, not counting the two side divisions of Zang Ba and Hou Cheng, but just the twelve leaders led by Deputy Director Tao.

Ten thousand main forces consume at least 8,000 hu of military ration every day! In this way, other expenses such as food rations for civilians, road losses and war horse essences are not included!

The consumption is so huge. Although Xuzhou is rich and the land controlled by Deputy Director Tao is already considerable, it is still very important for the Xuzhou army to suffer from the production technology, productivity, road traffic and transportation methods of this era.

With the heavy burden, Deputy Director Tao Gongji Tao felt even more distressed, wishing to destroy Yuan Tan in one day, Jizhou in two days, Xiongnu in three days, and unify the three northern states in four days!

Ideals are full, reality is very skinny. Just because of the expected cold winter, the main force of Xuzhou wasted nearly two months on the battlefield in Yecheng. In addition, the time spent attacking Handan and facing Youzhou, Xuzhou's army actually

It took more than two months to achieve half of the established tactical purpose. The Zhang River blocked all the breakthrough roads of Yuan Tan's army. As for when the final goal of the established tactics could be achieved, the title of Yuan Tan's son was taken down.

The head of man lays a solid foundation for quickly pacifying the three northern states, which is the answer that no one knows.

Deputy Director Tao didn't know when he could take down Mr. Yuan Tan's head of Xiang Shang, because Deputy Director Tao didn't know how much food there was in Yecheng and how much time could Yuan Tan's army support, but the generals surrendered from Yuan's army.

According to the explanation, this is an absolutely unoptimistic question, because the grain reserves in Yecheng are relatively abundant, which is at least enough for the two-month use of 30,000 Yuan Tanjun. Although there were losses in the process of breaking through,

However, the number of defenders in the city also decreased greatly. The necessary food and grass expenses also decreased sharply. In addition, the private grain reserves in Yecheng City, Deputy Director Tao initially estimated that the army wanted to survive until Yuan Tan's military rations were stopped.

It will take at least three months to destroy it!

Although the Xuzhou army could afford such a long time, Deputy Director Tao still felt that this time was too long and wasted military expenditures, so it once again severely damaged Yuan Tanjun's breakthrough team and basically confirmed Yuan Tanjun.

After no longer having the power to launch a similar breakthrough operation, Deputy Director Tao began to consider two strategies to save time. One was to forcefully take over the heads of Yecheng and Yuan Tan by force, end the war in Yecheng as soon as possible, and the other was to keep half of it.

The main force trapped Yecheng and divided half of the main force to the hinterland of Jizhou northward. The counties and counties in the hinterland of Jizhou were captured.

Just as he was about to think about this idea, a few days later, Zang Ba's partial army suddenly sent someone to send news that although his own army successfully captured the important town of Anping County, the northern counties of Anping County were collected by Yuan Shangjun.

At the same time, Yuan Shangjun has also taken over the two counties of Bohai and Hejian, and removed Yuan Tan's party members who refused to surrender there. He gathered troops in Raoyang and Anguo areas, and seemed to have attempts to go north to Youzhou or east to Zhongshan. And even more, Tao also made him feel that he would not be able to go north to Youzhou.

What the deputy director could not bear was that Yuan Shang actually wrote to Zang Ba, asking to negotiate with Zang Ba about the ownership of Anping County, and put on the stance of letting Zang Ba hand over the southern part of Anping.

Considering that the father-in-law still has some loyal ministers in the three northern states, in order not to prevent his third brother from being unable to restrain him, Deputy Director Tao immediately sent a commander to the defender of Handan and ordered the guard Cao Xing to release Jiang Qi, Qian Jia and others to go north and return.

Youzhou. Go to restrain and persuade Han Heng and Qianzhao who were staying in Youzhou, so as not to make them fall to Yuan Shang quickly. Then they divided 10,000 troops to cross the Zhang River, strengthen the defense on the north bank of the Zhang River, and beware of Jiang Qi, Qian Jia and others

Hu Lai, then Deputy Director Tao immediately summoned Jia Lao Poison and Liu Ye and other accomplices to discuss various matters of dividing troops to attack the hinterland of Jizhou.

What surprised Deputy Director Tao was that Lao Jia, Liu Ye, Xun Chen and other strategists all opposed the separation of the main army to head north at this time. Xun Chen, who is extremely familiar with the internal situation of Jizhou, analyzed: "In Chen's opinion, our army is now

It is indeed not difficult to divide the troops north to attack the hinterland of Jizhou, but it is indeed not difficult to seize a large area of ​​land and cities, but food and grass supply is a big problem. At present, there are three major problems in the replenishment of food and grass supply to our army north. First, the Yuan brothers are in the hinterland of Jizhou in order to raise military rations.

With the extortion of levies, there is not much private grain reserve in the hinterland of Jizhou. Secondly, it is the time when the green and yellow areas are not available. The grain reserve in the hinterland of Jizhou has been exhausted, but the new grain has not yet matured. Our army cannot get food locally and can only rely on the rear to replenish supplies."

"The third reason is the most critical." Xun Chen added: "Jizhou has developed water transportation. Our army's food and grass can be transported to every important town in Jizhou by water. However, the two major rivers in Jizhou, Zhangshui and Qinghe are moving north and south.

The other rivers travel east and west, and flow into the Zhangshui and Qinghe River from west to east. This means that if our army wants to ensure smooth shipping, it must take control of the Zhangshui and Qinghe River, but the lord takes a look at the actual situation.

You can tell the map that the middle and lower sections of Zhangshui and Qinghe are all within the control of Yuan Shangjun. The intersection of several key rivers in the central part of Jizhou is also directly threatened by Yuan Shangjun. Under the current circumstances, how to call our army

Dare to transport grain to the north with confidence?”

Looking carefully at the Jizhou map for a long time, Deputy Director Tao quickly lost his energy like a deflated ball, and regretted: "I was really confused when I asked Yuan Shang to go to the Bohai Sea and Hejian in the northeast of Jizhou. I should have let Yuan Shang go to the northwest of Jizhou.

That's right."

"Lord, don't be angry." Xun Chen comforted: "Although Yuan Shang has entrenched in the northeast of Jizhou, although it has restricted our army's shipping and prevented our army from quickly taking over the entire territory of Jizhou, in the long run, there is another great advantage.

When our army attacked Yuan Shang, our army simply had to go north along the Zhang River and Qinghe River. It could not only directly attack Yuan Shang's nest, but also allow grain transportation to go downstream directly, saving time and labor and road consumption.

”

Deputy Director Tao nodded weakly. Liu Ye next to him saw that Deputy Director Tao was in a bad mood, so he also said: "Lord, if you really think that the 100,000 main force of our army is too wasteful to use to siege Yecheng, then Yezhi

Seeing that the lord is better than Huguan to increase troops and reinforce Chen Dao's team. As long as our army takes Huguan, Shangdang County, the largest grain-producing land in Bingzhou, will have no danger to defend. At that time, Chen Dao will advance eastward and Hou Cheng will go north, and attack in the two directions.

It was easy to take down Shangdang. After taking down Shangdang, Taiyuan County, Bingzhou, which could not be self-sufficient in food, was basically within reach."

Although the Jizhou battlefield is the strategic focus of the Xuzhou army, it is a waste to keep 100,000 main forces on the Yecheng battlefield without moving. Therefore, Deputy Director Tao only made a little calculation and quickly decided to increase 20,000 troops to the Huguan battlefield.

, led by Tuo Mian and Tianxiang to assist Chen Dao in the attack of Huguan, and sent Peng An, who had surrendered, to come over. He asked the old man from Jizhou to persuade Xia Zhao and Deng Sheng, who were fighting stubbornly in Huguan, to surrender and hand over this switch.

Bingzhou natural danger.

It was heard that Tuo Myanmar and other generals had arranged tasks and arranged reinforcements. Deputy Director Tao was planning to continue discussing with Jia Lao Poison and others how to quickly break Yecheng, but a messenger rushed in outside the tent, looking at Tao.

The deputy director reported: "Your lord, a man came out of Yecheng. He posed a white flag in his hand and came to the siege of our army. He claimed to be Yuan Tan's subordinate. His surname was Lin and his courtesy name was Kong Zhang. He came to send a letter to beg for surrender at Yuan Tan's order.

, beg the lord to receive it."

"What?!" Deputy Director Tao, who was drinking tea, spit out his mouth with a mouthful of tea, opened his eyes wide and shouted in surprise: "Yuan Tan is willing to surrender, is Yuan Tan willing to surrender? Is it true or false?!"

"It's hard to say now." Jia Lao Poison said: "Although Yuan Tan is now at the end of his journey. There is no way to go to heaven and no way to the ground, and surrender is his only choice for life, but Yuan Tan is always a burden and is not a person who is willing to live under others.

, even if it is reasonable, the lord needs to be careful."

Deputy Director Tao nodded and did not dare to believe that Yuan Tan would surrender easily. Then Deputy Director Tao smiled and said, "No matter whether Yuan Tan really surrendered or fake surrender, I met the famous Chen Kongzhang first, let's talk about it. Chen Kongzhang was actually still

He saved my life indirectly, and he came to ask me to surrender if he didn't see me, that would be too ungrateful." After that, Deputy Director Tao immediately ordered the transmission to see him. Jia Lao Poison, Liu Ye and others looked at each other routinely, thinking of breaking the situation

I can't remember when Chen Lin saved Deputy Director Tao? What's wrong with this?

In a moment, Chen Lin, who had never met Deputy Director Tao, was led into the tent by the guards. Seeing that Chen Lin was elegant in appearance, polite in conversation, and respectful to her attitude from the bottom of her heart, Deputy Director Tao was very happy.

He hurriedly ordered someone to set up a seat for Chen Lin. Chen Lin thanked him first, and immediately took out Mr. Yuan Tan's surrender letter and said respectfully: "Report to the Taiwei, this is my lord Yuan Tan's handwritten surrender letter. Please check it out."

The guard forwarded the surrender letter to Deputy Director Tao. After taking it, Deputy Director Tao did not rush to watch it, but asked Chen Lin with a smile: "Mr. Kong Zhang, your lord Su is from a very high level of vision. This time, he suddenly

Is there any fraud to surrender?”

"Is there any fraud?" Chen Lin, who is more loyal, was stunned at first, and then bowed and said, "Please rest assured. When the lord plans to surrender, Lin, who has already stepped down from the position of lord Bo, was not present, but Lin secretly thought that lord, lord, was not present.

This request for surrender must be from the sincerity. Ming Gong led the Zhang River to siege the city. The lord was defeated after several breakthroughs. The water in the city was deep, and the soldiers and civilians were suffering. The soldiers had no intention of fighting and the people had no intention of being willing to do so. The lord went to the world.

The land is no longer available to defend, and it is normal to give up the will of surrender in order to survive. Wan Wang Gong hopes that the people of the world will make peace, understand the tens of thousands of people in Yecheng, forgive the previous mistakes of our Lord, and accept our army's surrender."

Hearing that Chen Lin's tone was sincere and not like a fake, Deputy Director Tao nodded and stopped talking, but opened Yuan Tan's handwritten book to surrender. However, what surprised Deputy Director Tao was that Yuan Tan seemed to be sincerely planning to surrender this time.

In the book of begging for surrender, in addition to scolding himself for killing his stepmother and beast, he not only did not propose any additional conditions, but also stated that as long as Deputy Director Tao agreed and agreed to the agreed time, he would open the gate of Yecheng City and lead the civil and military officials to tie himself up.

After surrendering, he handed over the Yinxin military talisman to Deputy Director Tao and Yecheng Defense.

Seeing that there were no additional conditions on Yuan Tan's surrender book, he accepted the conditions for surrender proposed by Deputy Director Tao before and went to Xuchang court to work. He ate and drank and waited to die to become a rich man. Deputy Director Tao was overjoyed and hurriedly handed the surrender book to Jia.

The old poisonous substance and others read it, and then said to Chen Lin: "Mr. Kong Zhang can go and repay Yuan Tan, just say that he really surrendered, don't play tricks, I will spare his life and then give him the title of General Zhennan.

Become a marquis and keep him rich and prosperous for life.”

"Thank you, Mr. Ming." Chen Lin quickly knelt down and thanked her, and said carefully: "Ming Ming, my lord has a small request for surrender. Wan Wang Ming Gong is right."

"Tell me." Deputy Director Tao smiled and said, "But Mr. Kong Zhang, don't blame me for not giving you face. If you want our army to temporarily fill the besieged moat, or if you want our army to temporarily retreat a few miles,

You don't have to open this."

"My Duke Ming, please rest assured, my lord dare not have such unreasonable thoughts." Chen Lin hurriedly shook his head and waved his hand, and said respectfully: "My lord said that when the officialdom was in the previous period, Ming Duke allowed my lord to consider surrendering for one day.

But he suddenly sent troops that night..."

Deputy Director Tao blushed slightly and laughed: "That time is not countable. That time I just promised to give him time to consider it, but I didn't agree to advance during the period when he was considering it. Suddenly sending troops was not considered a repentance, but this time I

We can understand the promise that as long as you surrender sincerely, as long as you do not take the initiative to attack, our army will never attack Yecheng before the agreed time limit."

"Thank you, Mr. Ming." Chen Lin thanked again, and then bowed and said, "Ming Gong. In view of the previous incident, my lord took the liberty and wanted to ask Mr. Ming to come to the city of Yecheng to surrender, and to publicly pardon my lord's crimes in front of me to show his sincerity in accepting surrender.

.”

"I want me to come to the city to surrender?" Deputy Director Tao was a little suspicious. He thought to himself that he wanted to trick me into the city and shoot me to death with a bunch of arrows?

As if seeing through Deputy Director Tao's thoughts, Chen Lin took the initiative to say: "Please rest assured that our army will withdraw all the troops on the city by then, and open the doors and windows of the city towers and build a high place outside the city.

The city walls of the city wall, please take the soldiers of Ming Gong to monitor the city."

"Really?" Deputy Director Tao asked hurriedly: "When will you open the city to surrender?"

"When will our army open the city and surrender? Please decide on Gong Ming." Chen Lin replied sincerely.

"Okay, it seems that Yuan Tan doesn't want to play tricks this time." Deputy Director Tao was overjoyed and thought for a moment. He decided to go to the south gate of Yecheng at noon the next day to accept Yuan Tan's surrender, and then block it on the spot.

Chen Lin was planning to offer wine to the Hou Jun in Ting. Chen Lin, who was really surrendering, was also very happy and hurriedly kowtowed to Deputy Director Tao and thanked him. Deputy Director Tao personally helped Chen Lin up and ordered the guards to serve wine to entertain Chen Lin.

Finally, Chen Lin was sent away. After personally sending Chen Lin out of the camp, he just returned to the central army tent. Deputy Director Tao asked Lao Jia and others the first thing he did: "How? Is it true

Fake?"

"As long as there is nothing wrong tonight, it's true." Jia Lao Poison said cautiously: "Lord, please send double troops to guard the three gates of Yecheng tonight, beware of Yuan Tan's breakthrough overnight or sending troops to rob the camp. If nothing goes wrong tonight, Yuan

Tan should have really surrendered.”

"I think so too." Xun Chen also said: "Although Yuan Tan asked his lord to come to the city to surrender, since he said that he would evacuate all the soldiers on the city in advance, open the doors and windows of the city tower, and set up a watchtower platform for our soldiers to let us do the soldiers.

Monitoring the movements in the city is enough to prove that Yuan Tan is not cheating when he asks to surrender this time. He just doubts your lord’s credit. Then he begged the lord to go to the city to personally surrender and pardon his sins in public. Such arrangements are not like fraud."

"So, as long as there is no problem tonight, we will have hope of ending the Yecheng war tomorrow?" Deputy Director Tao said happily: "If Yuan Tan is really not cheating and really open the city to surrender, then I'll spare him.

What's wrong with your life? I'll send an order immediately and send double forces to guard the siege tonight. If nothing goes wrong tonight, I will personally go to the south gate of Yecheng to receive surrender tomorrow!"

"No." Several strategists sang together, and then Liu Ye reminded carefully: "Lord, please be sure to bring more troops when you go to surrender."

"Of course." Deputy Director Tao smiled and said, "My brother-in-law hates me, it's not ordinary hatred. I won't take it lightly before he really put down his weapons..."

"Master! Madam!"

The sudden scream interrupted Deputy Director Tao's words. Then, our heartthrob Yang Changshi rolled into the tent and shouted before he could salute, "Lord, I heard you
To be continued...