Chapter 897

In the afternoon of two days ago, in geyang, Wang Ran was stunned by the news brought by the sudden cavalry, and his master's 120000 troops were likely to fall into the trap of Yuan Shu's army. To be exact, now the army is less than 120000, which is about 100000. If it really falls into the trap of Yuan Shujun, it is very likely that the retreat of the army has been cut off. "

at the thought of this, Wang Ran felt creepy and hurried to read the military order of Huangfu Chaobo. He was relieved that his master and two military advisers had already made arrangements. So he called out to the soldiers outside the door and said, "come on, it's said that the soldiers and horses of each school will come to the county government to see me in a quarter of an hour."

Wang Ran led a school of soldiers and three schools of garrison troops, a total of 20000 troops stationed in geyang. Considering that the cavalry played a little role in the siege, and there were also five thousand sudden cavalry near the garrison, and there was a need for a fast mobile cavalry between the cities of geyang, so Huangfu Chaobo ordered to leave one school of cavalry of Huang Zhongbu to Wang Ran.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the four remaining captains had already arrived at the county government. Seeing that all the people had arrived, Wang Ran ordered: "Yuan Shujun has set a trap in Anfeng. The Lord's army is likely to have been watched by Ji Ling's army. The Lord has ordered that from now on, the four cities and one battalion of Huainan will be on the offensive. The generals will listen to the order

"Not in the future!" "From now on, the gate of the city will be closed, no one will be allowed to go in or out, the army will not be demobilized, and the three school soldiers will be on duty in turn."

"Not to be ordered!" Three garrison captains took orders.

Wang Ran nodded, then looked at the cavalry captain and said, "Captain Lin, your army is divided into three routes. Three thousand cavalry soldiers carefully investigate the situation within 100 Li East of geyang. Once they find out the situation of Yuan Shu's army, they immediately return to warn. In addition, 1000 cavalry and the newly returned Tujia go to the camp of the general's army as far as they can, and check whether the road is smooth. If you can find out the situation of Yuan Shu's army, it's best. You will lead the army all the way. "

After a little pause, Wang Ran said, "there are still a thousand soldiers on the way to Huainan camp and Xiyang city. They will inform the commander-in-chief Zuo, General Han, general Kong and general Zhou of the commander-in-chief's military orders. Please come to geyang as soon as possible."

After hearing Wang Ran's order, Lin Xiaowei immediately got up and took orders. Then the four left the county government and began to obey their orders.

After the four generals left, Wang ran immediately handed over Huangfu Chaobo's military order to the shadow guards of geyang, and ordered them to send them to Kong Yu in Yingchuan and other generals of Yuzhou barracks.

After all this was arranged, Wang Ran sat down and thought about the countermeasures carefully. Unfortunately, after thinking for a long time, he was unable to come up with a good way. One of the reasons for this is that the enemy situation is not clear. The real purpose of Yuan Shu's army is still Huainan Zhucheng. Even his master and two military advisers are not sure.

The second is that if Yuan Shu's army really aims to go south, but his own forces are really limited. Even with the two school soldiers of Xuanwu battalion in Lujiang, only four school soldiers can be used. In addition, there are less than four school guards, with a total of 40000 people. Only in this way, there will be no soldiers to defend the four cities and one battalion in Huainan, but if there are too few troops, It's impossible to save the army.

Until it was getting dark, Wang Ran didn't think of a better way to deal with it. Fortunately, at this time, the 5000 cavalry sent out had already sent back information. First, they searched for 3000 cavalry in the east of geyang. So far, they had carefully searched for nearly 50 miles away, and they didn't find the whereabouts of Yuan Shujun. Because it was late, they decided to go first They sent people back to geyang to report, but the army did not return directly. Instead, they were stationed in a small town fifty miles east of geyang and would search for information further east tomorrow.

The cavalry captain, who was responsible for exploring the retreat of the army, also sent people back to report that the floating bridge on Shuishui had been destroyed, not only the floating bridge that the army crossed the river at the beginning, but also the floating bridge upstream that the cavalry bypassed when they returned. That is to say, now it is basically certain that Yuan Shujun was going for the main force of the army.

The cavalry captain also sent a message saying that he was ready to wade through the irrigation tonight to explore the specific information of Yuan Shujun.

Just at this time, a report came from the soldiers outside the county government: "general Qi, report from the city gate. The left prefect and the generals have arrived. They are coming towards the county government."

Wang ran a listen, rubbed of stood up, way: "too good, with this will go out to greet."

Just then, a hasty footstep sounded outside: "General Wang, is there any latest information coming from the Lord's army?"

Along with the voice came several people, the leader turned out to be Kong Xin. According to the truth, he was only a partial general from the fifth grade, far lower than the Hengjiang general Zhou Tai and the Lujiang prefect Zuo Chengzu from the fourth grade. However, he was commensurate with his lord Huangfu Chaobo as a brother. In addition, it was urgent, so everyone didn't care about such red tape.

After all the people came in in a hurry, before they sat down, kongxin asked about the situation of the army again.

"There's already some news on the left, several generals and Wang. Come on, let's sit down first." Wang Ran led the crowd to the pianting hall in the county yamen, where Wang Ran placed the map and collected the generals for discussion in peacetime.After everyone sat down, Wang Ran waved back his own guards and other miscellaneous people, and then carefully explained the news that the cavalry had been sent back to the public in detail, and then showed everyone the military order of Huangfu Chaobo.

After listening carefully to Wang Ran's introduction and passing on the military order of Huangfu Chaobo, Kong Xin said again, "General Wang, when are you going to send troops to support the Lord's army?"

Wang Ran was stunned, and said: "Wang thought again and again, but he didn't really come down. If yuan Shujun sent troops to the west, it would lead to the failure of Huainan cities. If he didn't send troops, he didn't know what the situation was. So he invited you to come and work out a feasible plan."

Kong Xin said quickly, "what can we discuss? It must be sending troops."

Wang Ran said, "what about the county? After a calculation, if the number of troops dispatched is less than 40000 or so, it will not help much, but as a result, the number of troops in each county has been basically transferred out. However, if only ten or twenty thousand Houma were deployed, it would not be of much help to the war situation. Besides, Lord Gong Ming ordered us to guard the city tightly. If we sent troops easily, we might disrupt the layout of Lord Gong. "