『Is Tancheng trapped?』

After learning about this for more than ten days, Tian Zhang could not come back to his senses.

In fact, the soldiers who came to convey this bad news had already told them clearly that Tancheng was conquered by the Song general Dai Busheng, but the question is, when will Dai Busheng lead the army to Tancheng? You should know that from the evening of May 18th to the early morning of the 19th, that is, when Tian Zhang used a trick to attack Fengyang for the first time, Dai Busheng was still pushing Yangcheng!

Tian Zhang would never remember it correctly. After all, he was defeated by Dai Yingzhi, who was sneaked into the 20-li camp in the rear, so he gave up the plan to continue attacking Biyang and immediately withdrew his troops to the aid camp. At that time, Dai Busheng took the opportunity to lead his army out of Biyang City and drove him away for a while. However, Tian Zhang reserved Tian Chu, and Tian Da and the others led the rear, which made Dai Busheng unable to find an opportunity.

Today is only the second day of the sixth month, and only twelve days apart. Then Dai Busheng won Tancheng inexplicably?

When will he lead his army to Tancheng?

Thinking of this, Tian Zhang frowned and asked the Tancheng envoy who came to report the news, "When will Dai Busheng attack Tancheng?"

The messenger thought for a while and replied, "If I remember correctly, it should be noon on the 25th of May."

“May 25th?”

Tian Zhang took a breath slightly.

You should know that Tancheng is more than 200 miles away from Biyang City. Unless Dai Busheng ordered an urgent marching, he was responsible for leaving from Biyang City to Tancheng, it would take at least four days, that is, at least he had already set out to Tancheng before May 21st.

But the problem is that in those days, the Qi army under Tian Zhang's command did not find any signs of mobilizing the army in Biyang City - otherwise, if he learned that Dai Busheng divided his troops to attack Tancheng, he would have taken the opportunity to try to attack Biyang.

"Around May 21st, how could the Song army in Fengyang secretly transfer the army under our eyes?... Wait!"

His expression changed slightly, and Tian Zhang couldn't help but take a breath of cold air again.

Because he suddenly thought that the Song army of Fengyang did have a chance to transfer the army under the eyes of his Qi army, that is, from the evening of May 18th to the early morning of the 19th, when he failed to seek Fengyang City and withdrew his troops back to the Twenty-li Camp.

During that period, the Qi army under his command was busy returning to the rescue and neglected to monitor Biyang City. To be precise, he had never thought that after the Fengyang Song army repelled him, Tian Zhang, would immediately decisively divide an army, asking Dai Busheng to lead the Zhe army to sneak attack Tancheng two hundred miles away, so that even Tian Zhang was kept in the dark.

"Too decisive! It's really too decisive!"

Tian Zhang rubbed his hands and paced back and forth in the handsome tent.

He couldn't help but think of Piliji, Ying Ji, during the "Pu Shui Battle".

At that time, the Song army suddenly withdrew and sold his Qi army, but Tian Zhang also quickly took precautions, but he still couldn't stop Ying Ji. Ying Ji was too decisive at that time. As soon as the Song army retreated, he immediately led his army into the political enemies of the Song army, joined forces with the Qin army on the front of the Qi army, and launched two attacks on the Qi army.

It is no exaggeration to say that as long as Ying Ji slows down for a moment, Tian Zhang can definitely change the formation immediately and will not give the other party an opportunity to take advantage of.

Now, the "Ying Ji" who was forcing Yang is the same. While just repelling Tian Zhang, he immediately took countermeasures and sent Dai Busheng to quietly lead troops to attack Tancheng two hundred miles away - Tian Zhang can certainly understand the other party's intentions!

Simply put, if the Song army of Yang chooses to defend the city to the death, then the area of ​​Fengyang City will become the main battlefield for the battle between Qi and Song. Qi can gradually enter Song with its superior strength, but Song cannot threaten Qi in turn. After all, with Tian Zhang in charge of Xueyi and Fengyang, he would never allow Fengyang's Song army to drive straight into Qi's hinterland.

In this case, the State of Song had to find another way, choose a road that did not pass Xueyi, bypass the main force under Tian Zhang, and threaten the State of Qi from another road.

So, the "Ying Ji" who breezes Yang picks Tancheng.

It has to be said that whether it is Tian Zhang or Meng Zhong this time, the two coincided: Meng Zhong knew very well that he could not break through his righteous brother Tian Zhang and counterattacked to the hinterland of Qi, so he chose to bypass Tian Zhang, asking Dai Busheng to take down Tancheng first, and then go north from Tancheng to invade the hinterland of Qi. As for Tian Zhang, although he did not know that the opponent who was competing with him was actually his "little junior brother" Meng Zhong, he also realized the difficulty of this opponent, so he decisively opened up the Dushan battlefield, trying to abandon "Ying Ji" and go directly to the left-behind army of Song.

It has to be said that in this round, the two righteous brothers coincided.

Since each other does not play according to common sense, a simple question arises.

Let’s talk about Meng Zhong first. He never expected that Tian Zhang would bypass him and open up the Dushan battlefield. So when Dai Busheng took away more than 8,000 troops, there were only less than 20,000 troops left in Weiyang, which happened to be the same as Tian Chu who was dispatched to restrain Weiyang. Tian Da and the other two men. This led to Meng Zhong even though he guessed Tian Zhang’s intention a few days later, he did not dare to act rashly, and was completely tied to Weiyang by Tian Zhang.

Perhaps some people may think that in this case, Meng Zhong can give up forcing Yang and return to Pengcheng.

But the problem is, it is impossible to give up easily by forcing Yang.

For example, Pengcheng is the main house, and Fengyang is the gate of the yard. Although Tian Zhang has led 40,000 Qi troops to occupy Dushan, in fact, he just climbed in from the fence wall of the yard and ran into the yard. The gate of the yard is still locked at this moment. The owner of "Song Kingdom" can run outside the yard at any time, block Tian Zhang in the yard, and then beat Tian Zhang who invaded his yard.

Once Meng Zhong gave up on forcing Yang, it would be like letting Tian Zhang occupy the gate of the courtyard. Jie Shi, he would go in and out as soon as he wanted, and even could call on the 80,000 young men in Teng County to flock into the courtyard of Song State. Jie Shi, the master of Song State had no choice but to huddle in Pengcheng, the main house, and watched Qi Jun go back and forth in the courtyard, and there was almost no way to counter Tian Zhang or Qi State.

This is why Meng Zhong cannot give up on Feng Yang: he is stuck in Feng Yang, so he can make Tian Zhang throw himself into a quarrel and dare not go too far into the hinterland of Song State, so as not to be cut off by Feng Yang.

Because Meng Zhong was unable to give up on Feng Yang, he was tied up by Tian Zhang, and could only watch the Qi army under Tian Zhang fight with Song general Li Jun in the Dushan area, but it was beyond the reach.

Let’s talk about Tian Zhang, I have to say that after Tian Zhang opened up the second battlefield and completely excluded Meng Zhong, the "forcing Yang Yingji", from the main battlefield, his advantage was already great.

Next, he just waited for Tian Jing, the Qi general who besieged Teng County, to lead his 80,000 Qi troops to go south after defeating Song general Jingcheng.

When Jieshi, Bi Yang did not dare to act rashly. Tian Jing led an 80,000 troops to march straight in, joining forces with Tian Zhang to attack Pengcheng directly. In this case, what role can it play, whether it is the strong Bi Yang or Meng Zhong who is not at all inferior to Tian Zhang?

This is exactly why Tian Zhang was secretly proud of himself and thought he had surpassed the "Ying Ji" of Biyang.

And the bad thing is that Dai Busheng actually captured Tancheng at this time. What does this mean?

This means that the State of Song has the ability to threaten Qi!

The worst result is that while Tian Zhang attacked Pengcheng, the "Ying Ji" who forced Yang to invade the hinterland of Qi. The armies of the two countries attacked each other's hinterlands, burned, killed and looted in the hinterlands of the other countries, resulting in a situation of losing both sides.

Of course, this is the worst result.

In fact, to be fair, Qi State has not been without troops that can resist Dai Busheng. It is no exaggeration to say that as long as the King of Qi gives orders, Qi State will be more than enough to form an army of 100,000 people in a short period of time, but the problem is that Song Wangyan can do the same - even if there is no 100,000 troops, it is still fine to raise an army of 60,000 to 70,000 troops in Song State.

This will lead to a result. The Qi army cannot capture Pengcheng in a short period of time, at most it will cause trouble in the country of Song. Therefore, the Song army, which decided to retaliate against Qi, is even less likely to threaten Linzi. At best, it can only cause trouble in the hinterland of Qi. Therefore, this situation will occur: that the armies of the two countries cannot capture the other's capital in a short period of time, but their own yards were plowed by the other's army, which was turned upside down. No one could expect a good harvest this year.

This is very embarrassing.

After thinking for a while, he sent someone to call his general Zou Xi and tell him the latter to suspend the plan to attack Pengcheng.

Zou Xi was very puzzled when he heard this. After all, they had just defeated the Song general Li Jun. It was a great time to force the army to take Pengcheng directly. Why did they suspend the offensive?

So Tian Zhang told Zou Xi the truth: "I thought I could beat Ying Ji, who was bribed in this round, but I didn't expect that this person's vision was beyond my imagination. He had planned to counterattack our country in a secretly manner and force our country to stop this war... In the current situation, although our army can attack Pengcheng, Dai Busheng, who occupied Tancheng, can also attack our country's hinterland. Maybe he has led his army north at this moment... If this Song army is allowed to attack our country's hinterland..."

Tian Zhang frowned and exhaled slightly, looking full of sorrow.

Upon hearing this, Zou Xi suddenly realized. After thinking for a while, he whispered: "Since you are forcing Yang to divide the troops, why not turn around and attack Wei Yang?"

"Do you mean the 40,000 Qi army here?" Tian Zhang said with a wry smile.

He did not agree with Zou Xi's suggestion.

The reason is very simple. If he leads the 40,000 Qi troops in Dushan here to turn around to fight Biyang, it will be equivalent to giving up restrictions on the Dushan area. This means that the reinforcements from Pengcheng, Song State, can also quickly support Biyang, which will lead to the main battlefield returning to the Biyang area again.

This means that Tian Zhang will fight with the Song general who was the chief of the Song army in Biyang again - Oh my God, Tian Zhang had previously felt that the other party was difficult to deal with, so he gave up attacking Biyang and opened up the Dushan battlefield directly. Now that he turned around and returned, wouldn’t he overturn everything he had planned before?

After pondering for a while, Tian Zhang said to Zou Xi: "At present, Tian Jing cannot be allowed to slowly plot against Teng County. You can send someone to Teng District immediately and order Tian Jing to step up the attack on Teng County immediately. Now, I and the 'Ying Ji' in Biyang are in an embarrassing situation where you cannot advance or retreat. In this case, Tian Jing's 80,000 people are the key to this battle. I hope he will capture Teng County as soon as possible and lead the army to aid!"

"Abide by the order!" Zou Xi clasped his fists, and then asked carefully: "What should I do if that...Daibusheng?"

Tian Zhang frowned when he heard this.

To be fair, Dai Busheng's only 8,000 troops under his command are actually not a big threat to Qi. After some days, Linzi learned about the situation, he was fully capable of gathering an army of tens of thousands of people to expel Dai Busheng. But the problem is that it takes time. If Qi took two months to draw troops from other counties, then Dai Busheng could basically plow the "Ju Land (County)" area in these two months - after all, even if he could not attack the city and destroy the farmland and villages outside the city, there would be no problem.

"Tell Tian Da to lead his army to capture Tancheng!" Tian Zhang said in a deep voice: "As long as you take down Tancheng, you will cut off Dai Busheng's retreat! Dai Busheng dared not lead his army into the hinterland of our country!"

"Abide by the order!" Zou Xi retreated with his fists.

In this way, due to an accident in Tancheng, Tian Zhang had no choice but to temporarily suspend his advance against Pengcheng.

This aroused Pengcheng's suspicion.

You know, since Tian Zhang defeated the Song general Li Jun in late May, Song Wangyan has prepared to defend Tian Zhang's army in Pengcheng.

But for some reason, Tian Zhang was reluctant to advance to Pengcheng, which made Song Wangyan feel very strange.

Could it be that Li Jun knew the shame and then brave, and defeated Tian Zhang first and then won?

Of course this is impossible!

Song Wangyan never thought that Li Jun could block Tian Zhang, and this was also the reason why Song Wangyan sent someone to rebuke Li Jun angrily after Li Jun lost the battle, but did not impose a major punishment on Li Jun.

After all, that was Tian Zhang, the only famous general among the six Central Plains who had broken through the Hangu Pass that was powerful Qin!

"What do you think will be the reason?"

Wang Yan of Song summoned the important minister Hui'an and asked the latter about his opinion.

After thinking for a while, Hui Ang hesitated and said, "Can you... be there His Highness the Crown Prince?"

Song Wangyan was stunned for a moment, and then smiled with a thoughtful look: "Are you talking about Meng Zhong?"

Yes, it is better to say that it is Meng Zhong who is guarding Weiyang instead of being guarding Weiyang at the moment. Wang Yan of Song knew this very well. After all, with his understanding of the prince Dai Wu, Dai Wu, Dai Yingzhi and Dai Yingzhi, the three of them may still lack some points in order to resist Tian Zhang.

Otherwise, these three people would not have been defeated by Tian Zhang continuously when they were in Xue Yi, so that they lost the entire Xue Yi in just half a month.

As for Meng Zhong, it has to be said that even Song Wangyan did not expect Meng Zhong to be able to do this. After all, when Meng Zhong wanted to go to the front line to help Prince Dai Wu, although Song Wangyan knew that this kid was a little capable, he really didn't expect Meng Zhong to be able to block Tian Zhang.

I still remember a while ago, when I learned that Tian Zhang had garrisoned in Dushan without knowing it, Hui Ang felt very frightened and wanted to excuse Prince Dai Wu and his brother Meng Zhong in front of Song Wangyan. After all, it was forced Yang to let Tian Zhang slip over.

However, when it comes to this matter, Song Wangyan did not have the slightest anger, and even joked with Hui Ang: "Are you such a foolish person?"

Yes, even though Feng Yang let Tian Zhang slip in, Song Wangyan was not angry.

Because he knew very well that if Tian Zhang had the ability to conquer Biyang, how could he have made a move to Biyang City without attacking and sneaked into Dushan? It was obvious that he couldn't take Biyang down, so he took the risk to go deeper!

Therefore, not only did Wang Yan of Song Dynasty not have the intention to blame the princes Dai Wu and Meng Zhong, but on the contrary, he was surprised that Meng Zhong, who was young, could actually block Tian Zhang.

As for letting Tian Zhang slip into the hinterland, in Song Wangyan's opinion, there was nothing he could do about it. After all, there was only less than 30,000 troops in total, while the Qi army claimed to have 300,000. Although after many inquiries, it was confirmed that the Qi army actually had only 150,000, but even so, it was far superior to the prince Dai Wu.

Even after excluding the 80,000 troops that Qi general Tian Jing attacked Teng County, Tian Zhang still had 70,000 troops under his command. Unless he relied on the solid city wall of Yangcheng, who would be sure to defeat the 70,000 Qi army led by Tian Zhang himself?

In short, Meng Zhong has done a great job.

As for the rest, since Tian Zhang intends to drive the army to attack Pengcheng, then Song Wangyan is definitely not a timid person. He has already prepared early to fight Tian Zhang in Pengcheng.

But unexpectedly, Tian Zhang stopped moving.

What is the reason for this?

Just when Song Wangyan, Hui'an and others were confused about this, Pengcheng received two urgent letters.
To be continued...