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For several days, the cold wind wrapped the snow and swept the mountains, rivers and fields, whitewashing the sky and earth.

Heavy snow was flying, covering the sky.

Inside and outside Hangu, there are only the vastness.

The river suddenly surging.

On a sunny day, you should see the red makeup and it is very charming.

Eight days passed quietly, and on the ninth day, the sky cleared.

The snow covered the mountains and rivers, imprisoning the nine-curved Yellow River, but could not hide the stagnant breath of the war that was coming over Hangu Pass.

Hangu Pass, the headquarters of the general.

In the main hall, civil officials gathered and military generals gathered, gathering all the civil officials and military generals who followed General Li Li to fight this time.

On the left side of the hall, the left military advisor Jia Xu ranked first, and the right military advisor Guo Jia followed closely, followed by the chief clerk of the General's Office, Fa Zheng, and Guan Ning, who was formerly the left prefect of Feng Ling, transferred to the prefect of Hongnong. The remaining were more than 100 affiliated officials from the Sanfu County of Jingzhao Yin.

On the right side of the lobby, Teng Xiao was the leader, followed by Bo Cai, Li Xian, Huan Fei, Ma Chao, Gao Shun, Zhang Liao, Pang De, Hu Cheer, Dong Yue, Guo Meng, Li Zheng, Hu Zhen, Yang Ding, Cheng Gongying, Tie Xiao, Cao Xing, and Jingu; Xu Chu, Chen Dao, Xu Huang, He Yi, He Man and Guan Gu, as well as Ma Wan, Yang Qiu, Huan Shuang, Huan Quan and Ma Dai, a total of more than 200 generals and schoolmen.

The generals who did not come to participate in the pre-war convention this time were General Xu Rong, General Pingnan, Huang Zhong, Cheng Yi, Liang Xing and Huan Zhong, deputy commanders of Wuwei Battalion, and more than ten generals, including generals above the tenth general. At present, these generals who hold important positions are not within Hangu Pass. In addition, there are several generals who led their troops to go to war with the army, but have never appeared in the convention hall. This is Yan Xing, Wang Yue, Shi A and others in "Hawk's Eye".

At this moment, all the civil and military officials of the Western Liang army arrived. Li Zhi, the commander of the personal guards, stood at the rear of the upper rank, and only the position of the general was vacant.

"Bang, bang!"

As the sound of low and steady footsteps came into the lobby, Li Li's tall and upright figure appeared in everyone's sight, and the hall suddenly became quiet, and the civil and military officials held their breath and sat upright.

"We'll pay homage to the lord!"

"Everyone is free to give me a gift. Please sit down."

He waved his hand to signal everyone to get up and sit down. Li Li looked at the people in the hall with a smile: "In recent years, it has been rare for us to gather together. Now, in front of the army of princes of the Central Plains, there is a chance for us and the ministers to gather together. The war is imminent, so it is not advisable to hold a banquet to entertain you, but it is not easy for everyone to get together. After the meeting is completed, the general's mansion will hold a banquet and we can have a drink. In addition, I have ordered that the baggage camp slaughter nearly a thousand cattle and sheep be distributed to each camp, and today the soldiers of the army will have a meal!"

"Hahaha!" As soon as Li Li finished speaking, everyone in the hall laughed happily.

Among them, Huan Fei's laughter like a bell was the loudest: "The lord's good intentions this time. The general and others have been looking forward to it for a long time! In recent days, the army has banned alcohol. The general and the general have no taste of food, cannot sleep at night, and it is so painful! Hahaha????????"

Li Li shook his head slightly when he heard this and laughed: "You guy doesn't blush when you lie! Don't think I don't know. These days you often drink secretly, and you don't drink every day. Fortunately, you guys still know how to control yourself. You never drink too much wine a day, otherwise I would have severely punished you!"

"Uh!" Huan Fei was stunned when he heard this, and subconsciously muttered: "Mo Jiang has always been drinking secretly on his back. How can the lord know???Uh, no, Mo Jiang has never drunk it!"

"Hahaha??????"

Seeing that Huan Fei was not telling himself, everyone laughed in a hurry. Ma Chao and Xu Chu laughed the most, and even Li Li couldn't help but shake his head and smiled.

Amid the laughter, Li Li gradually lowered his smile and showed a solemn look on his face: "It is winter snow now, the cold is unbearable, and it is especially difficult to bear at night, so our soldiers all have the habit of drinking to keep the cold. However, the war is imminent, and there have been countless examples of drinking and misleading things since ancient times. The lessons are profound and vivid in my mind.

There are more than one Feihu in the hall drinking secretly. This general also knows that Meng Qi, Zhongkang, Ling Ming, Ma Wan, Yang Qiu and Hu Cheer and others, and you often hide in the tent alone to drink. Drinking is prohibited during the war. This is the military discipline that the great man has been using for hundreds of years. Although this general has not explicitly ordered that drinking be prohibited, you still have to make your own.

From today on, the entire army will be limited to alcohol; the generals shall not drink more than three bowls of wine every day, and the soldiers guarding the pass and the soldiers guarding each battalion, regardless of general or soldiers, will not drink wine. This order is passed on to the entire army and will be implemented on the same day. The commander of each battalion, the relatives and the Jinqiu Guards shall inspect the battalions together; once it is discovered, soldiers will be punished thirty rods, generals will be punished fifty rods, and those who dare to violate the violation will be punished 80 rods, and no matter whoever dares to violate the violation, they will be punished severely without any debts!"

"No!" With Li Li's order, the alcohol restriction order came into effect immediately. Everyone in the hall agreed in unison without any objection.

"Yes." Li Li nodded slightly, waved his hand to signal the generals to stand up and sit down: "All the soldiers are out of the battle and are in danger of their lives at any time. It is our honor to die on the battlefield. If they die due to drinking, they will be extremely cowardly. Without rules, they will be implemented in this way. After that, the march and war will be carried out."

After saying that, without waiting for everyone to respond, Li Li raised his hand and signaled that there was no need to say much, and then turned his eyes to the left side of the hall: "Let's talk less, let's discuss the matter formally. Xiaozhi first informs the military information. Please listen carefully."

Fa Zheng stood up when he heard this, holding the bamboo slips in his hand but did not unfold them, as if he had already remembered the military situation in his heart.

"Lord, generals, as of yesterday evening, all the 360,000 princes had crossed the Yellow River and first settled in the Loudiyuan camp forty-two miles away. The Allied camps were about twenty miles long from north to south, about ten miles in east to west, and reached the southern foot of the Qinling Mountains in the south, and blocked the Yellow River in the north, and were backed by Feiyundu, completely blocking the main roads between our army and the counties in Guandong, and facing the Hangu Pass.

It has been more than two months since the princes met, that is, sixty-five days. At present, all the two counties in Hedong and Henoi fell into the hands of the Allied forces. To be precise, they should have fallen into Yuan Shao's hands. The rebel general Zhang Yang led the two counties, leading 40,000 temporary recruitment of young soldiers and 30,000 Yuan troops to be responsible for the food, grass and supplies of the Allied forces.

To this day, the war was held. At the beginning of the alliance between the princes, there were 470,000 troops, and in two months, more than 60,000 new recruits were recruited, totaling 530,000. After two battles in Dongyuan City and Anyi City, the Allied forces lost more than 50,000 people, of which the Baibo army was almost wiped out; in the battle of Feiyundu, Cao Cao's 60,000 troops were completely damaged, and only 4,000 people left to flee back to the enemy camp after the war.

In this battle, our army killed more than 18,000 Cao's army, captured more than 30,000 surrendered soldiers, and thousands of Cao's army fled and hid. They were missing. During the battle, General Teng Xiao led 8,000 infantry soldiers to guard the Gukou to the north, and fought fiercely with the enemy general Yu Jin and 20,000 troops of Le Jin's troops for two hours. Although he was finally broken through to Gukou by Cao's army, General Teng Xiao lived up to his lord's entrustedness. Not only did he complete the important task of guarding Gukou to the death for an hour, but he also captured the enemy general Yu Jin alive. After the war, he also captured the enemy general Yu Jin alive.

.Only more than 1,000 infantry in our army remained. The two generals Guo Meng and Tie Xiao were seriously injured, and General Teng Xiao was also hit by two arrows and fought fiercely. Nearly 10,000 Cao's army died in battle, and more than 4,000 wounded soldiers were captured by our army. The enemy general Le Jin led his troops to escape. Afterwards, our army chased for several days, and in the end only more than 1,000 people escaped. At the same time, in the battle of Gukou in the south, more than 5,000 casualties and soldiers were almost completely killed or injured. A total of tens of thousands of infantry and cavalry were lost.

Therefore, after two months of fighting, the Allied forces lost more than 100,000 troops, and another 70,000 people stayed in Hedong and Henei counties, so the Allied forces crossed the river totaled 360,000 troops. Our army lost more than 40,000 troops in the Hedong battlefield, and nearly 20,000 people were lost in Feiyundu battle, totaling 60,000 people, and the losses were quite large. If there were no Feiyundu battle, our army would suffer even greater losses. At the beginning of the war, our army originally had 120,000 county government soldiers, 130,000 main infantry and cavalry and more than 30,000 Hedong county soldiers, totaling 280,000 troops; now, the county government soldiers have lost more than 40,000 people, nearly 20,000 cavalry and cavalry, and more than 10,000 wounded soldiers have been sent to Chang'an to recuperate, so our army has 200,000 infantry and cavalry.

Here, one thing that must be mentioned is that our army currently has more cavalry and few infantry, with less than 80,000 infantry, and there are 20,000 baggage troops, which is not conducive to the detention of the gates and deaths."

Fa Zheng’s last sentence undoubtedly put forward his own point of view, that is, you cannot just defend the battle in the future, and taking the initiative is an inevitable choice.

Li Li waved his hand without comment and signaled that Fa Zheng would sit down, then looked at Jia Xu: "What are the good strategies for Wenhe in this battle?"

Jia Xu bowed and bowed, his eyes passed by the generals, and a calm and composed look appeared on his face: "Report to the lord, Xiaozhi said that he did not mention the distribution of our army's troops. I will make some extra money here. At present, our army has a total of 210,000 troops, of which General Xu Rong led 40,000 troops to guard Xingyang, General Huang Zhong led 15,000 Wuweiying infantry to reinforce Wuguan, and together with Chengyi, guard Wuguan.

Therefore, in fact, the Shiman who stayed at Hangu Pass had a total of 160,000, and there were only more than 40,000 infantrymen, namely the 10,000 heavy armored camp of General Gao Shun, 5,000 crossbowmen under General Cao Xing, 5,000 siege soldiers under General Yang Qiu, and 20,000 county government soldiers under the headquarters of General Hu Zhen and Yang Ding. The remaining are thousands of remaining soldiers under General Teng Xiao's tent, with limited combat power."

Obviously, Jia Xu is different from Fa Zheng. He doesn't have to worry too much, nor does he need to show mercy everywhere, and speak out directly. Because he has a lot of prestige in the army, most generals respect him very much, so the generals he mentioned will not feel dissatisfied and can accept it calmly.

Just as the generals were thinking, Jia Xu's next few words cheered everyone up and their fighting spirit was high.

"Since the fierce battle, our army has lost cities and lands, and almost half of the Sili was handed over to the lords' allied troops, it was not easy for the princes to completely swallow these territory. The Xingyang camp, which General Xu Rong alone could hold on for two months, blocking the retreat routes of the Allied troops and supply of food and grass, forcing them to only transfer food and grass supplies from Hedong County. Moreover, it is snowing now that the road is blocked, and the food and grass reserves and winter clothes reserves of more than 300,000 Allied troops, as well as heating issues, are probably far from the sufficient preparations of our army. In this way, our army has occupied the right time, place, and people, so how can it be invincible?

Therefore, Jia’s strategy to fight against the enemy in this battle is eight words: accumulate strength and make a move, and then take action!"

Jia Xu's strategy of defending the enemy was supported by Guo Jia, and then he received Li Li's approval, making the discussions smoother. After Li Li ordered his troops to send troops to issue an order, the discussions were over, and then the ceremony was held. The chief ministers gathered together to enjoy the last banquet before the war.

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Chapter completed!