Shangdang, niexian and Huangfu Chaobo are currently living in the best mansion in the city. However, at this time, Huangfu Chaobo is gathering a group of generals for discussion. Although he got the pigeon letter sent back by Zhang Yan, he was not very clear about the specific situation of Zhang Yan’s army, so Huangfu Chaobo didn’t give Zhang Yan an order easily. Instead, he was waiting for Zhang Fang to arrive and make a decision after he had a detailed understanding of the war situation.

Now Zhang Fang has arrived in Nei County after several days of sleepless driving.

Huangfu Chaobo did not care about Zhang Fang’s hard work, so he immediately summoned the generals to discuss the matter and learn more about the war in Changshan.

After spending more than half an hour, Zhang Fang finally made a detailed report of the whole war to Huangfu Chaobo.

“King, the whole situation of the war situation has not been described for the king. Before departure, my father once said that he was willing to bear the loss and fault of Zhending. I hope the king can give him a chance to make amends and recapture Zhending for the king. ” Kneeling in the hall, Zhang Fang asked Huangfu Chaobo carefully;

Huangfu Chaobo coughed softly: “the loss of this battle is not the loss of General Zhang Yan alone, so you don’t have to worry about it. Moreover, now that the state of Wei has known that general Zhang Yan has taken refuge with the king, it’s not easy to recapture Zhending, so this matter has been exposed, and Zhang Xiaowei doesn’t have to bear it Heart. ”

“As for the arrangements for the follow-up war, I am also considering it. I can step down and have a rest first. After I decide, I will make some arrangements.” Huangfu Chaobo is about to wave Zhang Fang back to rest. Just at this moment, a voice suddenly rings.

“Wait a minute!”

Huangfu Chaobo looked up to the side, but saw Guo Jia standing up and coming to Zhang Fang: “king, I have some ideas about the arrangement of the follow-up war in my heart. I want to ask Zhang Xiaowei some questions, and I also want to ask the king to agree!”

“Sure!”

“Thank you, king.” Guo Jia saluted Huangfu Chaobo, then looked at Zhang Fang and said, “Zhang Xiaowei, what is the number of troops that Zhang Pingnan can gather around now?”

“Lord Hui Guo!” Although Zhang Fang had never met Guo Jia, he often listened to Zhang Yan’s explanation to a group of people around Huangfu Chaobo. Combined with Guo Jia’s appearance, he immediately guessed who Guo Jia was. He quickly saluted Guo Jia and replied respectfully.

“according to the previous arrangement of the king, there were 25000 people in five schools in Heishan camp. Among them, Jingxing city and tumenguan have one school each, and the other three schools are all under the leadership of their father in Zhending city. In addition, there are still 15000 soldiers in Zhending city. After the war that night, the army successfully withdrew to Tumen pass, with less than 10000 soldiers. ”

“What Zhang Xiaowei means is that there are still 20000 soldiers in Heishan battalion?” Guo Jia asked after him;

“not bad!”

“Apart from the soldiers, how many other soldiers can Pingnan general recruit?” Guo Jia asked again;

“this…” Zhang Fanglue pondered, just thinking about how to deal with it, but he looked up and saw Huangfu Chaobo looking at him with a smile. Suddenly, he remembered that before he started, his father had told him to tell him nothing and not to hide anything.

Thinking of this, Zhang Fang was shocked and knelt down to the ground and said to Huangfu Chaobo, “please forgive me. The Pingnan army was originally a bandit. Although it was ordered by the king to select elite soldiers from the middle to set up Heishan battalion, and then to set up prefectures and soldiers according to the court system, because it was originally a people of the mountains and wild and rebellious, it would be better to select them again, We can still organize about 20000 soldiers to fight. ”

After that, Zhang Fang looked up at Huangfu Chaobo again and found that he didn’t have much surprised expression. He knew that the court already knew this, but only asked through Guo Jia’s mouth.

In fact, Zhang Fang’s conjecture is correct. In the past few days, Huangfu Chaobo and Guo Jia have discussed for many times. For the Changshan incident, the only chance they finally thought of to turn bad things into good things is to gather a large army and attack Taiyuan from Leping while the Zhao state is not on guard, so that the black mountain army can play a hidden chess piece A little effect, although not fishing big fish, but if you can take the opportunity to pacify Bingzhou, but also did not let the Tang Dynasty in recent years layout waste.

That’s why Guo Jia asked Zhang Fang this question. Its function is to get rid of Zhang Yan’s different ideas. Although Huangfu Chaobo didn’t worry much about Zhang Yan’s betrayal, he was more relieved to be able to confirm it.

After hearing the speech, Guo Jia turned to Huangfu Chaobo and said, “king, in this case, I suggest that you ask the king to send Pingnan general to collect more than 20000 people, and replace the 20000 soldiers with the soldiers of the prefectures and states in each city, plus 15000 soldiers, and prepare to send troops from Leping to Taiyuan.”

“Of course, in addition to the more than 30000 troops, Weichen also suggested that General Zhao Yun lead the white horse Yicong Hutu cavalry to join the army. In this way, the army will consist of 50000 or 60000 horse infantry. If they fight from Leping to Taiyuan County, I believe that it will be enough for Lvbu’s Bingzhou wolf riding to help them.”

Guo Jia’s words brightened the eyes of all the people in the hall. Now the war in Nanguan has stopped temporarily. After more than half a month’s attack, the Tang army still failed to capture Nanguan. This shows the danger of Nanguan. Another point is that, according to the news from Taiyuan, Chen Gong and Wei Xu have started to rebuild a new pass at the north entrance of the Valley Road where Nanguan is located.If the northern pass is repaired, after the Tang army conquers the southern pass, it will have to attack another pass to get to the north through tens of miles of Valley Road. In this way, who knows when to enter Taiyuan county.

“Your Majesty, I think it’s wonderful.” Huang Fu Jianshou quickly stepped out of the line;

the other generals also nodded their heads to show their approval. When Huang Fu Chaobo was about to speak, he found that some of the young generals who were arranged to sit in were eager to try, and Hao Zhao was even more eager to talk and stop, so he asked, “what’s your opinion, Bodao?”

When Hao Zhao saw that Huangfu Chaobo had arrived at him, he hesitated a little and said, “what the military strategist said is true, but he didn’t think that if Lv Bu knew that our army had invaded the Taiyuan Basin, he would surely return from the clouds. We could first send out the messenger of Jinyang for help, and then arrange for the army to choose a dangerous place to ambush after the envoys all went north. Maybe we could It’s enough to capture and kill Lv Bu at one stroke. If so, the peace of Bingzhou will be around the corner. “