Zhang He left a thousand troops to guard Nanpi City, and he and Gao Lan led 24,000 troops to Xiangxin Capital to kill the generals. Qinghe was steep and easy to defend but difficult to attack. Zhang He's army was ready to take down the Xin first and then consider attacking Qinghe. Besides, Xin was the food and grass reserve for Yuan Shao's army. The food and grass here were used by the army in Qinghe, Julu and other places. Zhang He's army moved forward slowly, and he also had to cooperate with Zhang Liao's army to move forward simultaneously, otherwise his retreat would be possible to be cut off by the soldiers in Yuan Shao's Qinghe City.

Zhang Liao led 5,000 Explosive Bear Army, 5,000 iron armored horses, and 15,000 Explosive Bear Army to sweep across the Hejian and Zhongshan areas. There was basically no stubborn resistance along the way. Many small towns surrendered in a glance, and they took the initiative to open the city gates and surrender to the Lu Ning army. More than 20 days later, Zhang Liao's army also met with Zhang He's army and became the capital of Yu Xin.

Heizi also led an army of 8,000 out of Dai County and advanced towards Zhongshan and Changshan. These places were all weak links that Yuan Shao defended. Heizi's army also successfully captured Changshan and approached Julu.

According to Lu Ning's prior combat plan, when Zhang He and Zhang Liao's army attacked Xindu City, they only surrounded and did not attack, which made Gongsun Du in Liaodong think that the Lu Ning army was in an intertwined state with Yuan Shao's army, and pulled the army in Youbeiping into Jizhou, creating an illusion. Mobilizing Gongsun Du's army from Xiangping, then the Lu Ning army could solve the problem. Now Lu Ning has only about 5,000 troops in Youbeiping, which is also a trap set to attract Gongsun Du.

In mid-April, the wheat in the fields was basically mature. According to Zhang He and Zhang Liao's preparations before the battle, the Lu Ning army was preparing to harvest the wheat in Yuan Shao's fields. On the one hand, it was food, which was a pity to let it rot in the fields. On the other hand, if Yuan Shao's army dared to go out of the city to attack Lu Ning's army and seize the wheat, the Lu Ning army could eliminate his vital power in the field.

Zhang Liao and Zhang He's two-way army dispatched 20,000 soldiers to harvest wheat in Yuan Shao's field. Nearly 30,000 troops were ambushed and prepared to annihilate the army from Xindu City. The ones stationed at Xindu City were Yuan Shao's eldest son Yuan Tan, Han Meng and his counselor Shen Pei. Yuan Tan saw Lu Ning's army unscrupulously snatching the wheat from their fields in the city. He was furious and immediately wanted to lead the army out of the city to attack the army that harvested wheat.

Shen Peize said: "Young Master, do you think the 50,000 troops in our city have a chance of winning in the field fighting in the field? Our army can only guard the city. If the young master leads the army out of the city, then the strategy of the Big Bear Army is that Bohai City, more than ten days ago, did not send 50,000 troops to deal with Zhang He's 20,000 troops. It was indeed killed by Zhang He and even lost the city. Your brother Yuan Xi was captured and later beheaded. Now you want to lead the army out of the city to fight, I wonder how much chance of winning you have?"

After hearing this, Yuan Tan said angrily: "Mr. Zhengnan, then you said that our army was hiding in the city like this, but the Big Bear Army did not come to attack the city. They were just snatching our wheat. What should we do? If the Big Bear Army stayed in the suburbs of the city like this, we would not dare to go out of the city to fight. They received a large amount of food and grass, and our army did not have much food and grass in the city. There was food and grass for half a year in the city. What should we do in half a year?"

Shen Pei sighed and said, "There is no good idea here, it can only be a step. The lord insisted on attacking Lu Ning last year and lost 200,000 elite soldiers. Now the soldiers are undertrained and poorly equipped. How can we fight against the Big Bear Army? If the lord listens to our advice and develop for another two years, our army's strength will be greatly improved and our food reserves will be more. However, the lord is interested in Bingzhou, which was originally a very backward area, but after the management of Big Bear for many years, it is now the richest place in the Han Dynasty. The lord has suffered from red-eye disease and has not correctly evaluated the strength of our army. Not only has Bingzhou not been recovered, but he also lost 200,000 troops and became accused of Lu Ning."

After seven or eight days, all the wheat near the outskirts of Xindu were snatched by Zhang He and Zhang Liao's army. Seeing that Yuan Tan in the city was very patient and did not lead his troops out of the city to fight, Zhang He, Zhang Liao and Gao Lan studied and immediately decided to lead the army around Xindu to go to the hinterland of Jizhou to harvest wheat. Can you still stay here?

Standing on the city wall, Yuan Tan, Shen Pei, Han Meng and others were in the eyes of fire. They could not have imagined that Zhang He and Zhang Liao were so bold that they were not afraid that their retreat would be cut off. They led the army to rush to harvest wheat in the hinterland of Jizhou. Shen Pei thought for a moment, smiled slightly on the corner of his mouth, and said to Yuan Tan: "Young Master, our army's opportunity has come. Now you will send someone to report the situation here to the lord, and ask the lord to inform the city guards of Qinghe and Julu to jointly send troops to encircle and annihilate Zhang He and Zhang Liao's army. If the lord's Yecheng can still send some troops, then the big bear's Zhang He and Zhang Liao's second-way army will be finished."

Yuan Tan felt very happy after hearing this, so he immediately sent three waves of commanders away. At this time, Lu Ning, Guo Jia, Lu Su, Zhao Yun, Xu Huang, Gao Shun, Dian Wei, and Ergou were also busy arranging the army to harvest the wheat around Yecheng. In another two days, all the wheat around Yecheng would be harvested by Lu Ning's army.

In the official residence of Yuan Shao in Yecheng, Yuan Shao was so angry that he was frightened by the 60,000 troops outside Lu Ning City. He did not dare to go out of the city to fight Lu Ning's army, so he could only act as a turtle in the city. Seeing that Lu Ning's army had no intention of attacking the city, Yuan Shao directly sent a large army to seize the wheat after seeing that the wheat in the fields was ripe, and he did not take the 200,000 troops in the city seriously. It would be strange if you say that Yuan Shao was not angry. He worked hard to arrange people to plant wheat. When it matured, he did not dare to go out of the city to harvest it. Instead, he watched others come to harvest it. He had no choice but to be furious.

Yuan Shao had just come down from the city wall and saw the soldiers of Lu Ning's army harvesting wheat in an orderly manner, with anger and righteous indignation. After returning to the official residence, Yuan Shao shouted loudly: "You all saw that Lu Ning's boy bullying people too much and openly snatched my wheat in front of my twenty-square army. Isn't this humiliating me? Are we just letting this boy be arrogant like this? We have no way to teach him a lesson. We have 200,000 troops in the city. Lu Ning's boy is only about 60,000 troops. Our army really has no victory?"

Ju Su thought to himself, what kind of troops are there in the 200,000 troops? Can they compare with Big Bear's elite troops? If they fight in the field, it will probably be difficult to support it for an hour. "Lord, this is Lu Ning's plan. He just doesn't want to attack the city. He knows that the soldiers who attack the city are suffering a lot of casualties. Moreover, the walls of Yecheng are more than six meters high, which is not much different from the walls of Chang'an. If such a city attacks, the casualties of the attacking party will be very

Big Bear has so many soldiers to fight attrition. Now he wants to make the lord angry and angry. After irritating the lord, he leads the army out of the city to attack him. Then Big Bear has achieved the goal of destroying our army in the wild. Besides, can my 200,000 army defeat 150,000 Huns? Big Bear eliminates 150,000 Huns Iron Cavalry only sends 50,000 troops to the Flying Bear Army. My 200,000 army will only be killed if I get annihilated when I go outside the city.”

Yuan Shao glanced at his adviser and said angrily: "We can't just watch Lu Ning's army rush to harvest our wheat on the city wall. This is also a humiliation to all of you! You are not usually awesome, but you can't tell that Lu Ning's boy doesn't know a big word. Is it easy to deal with such a rash Rufu? Why don't you fart now?"
Chapter completed!