When Fu led the army to besiege Qi County, the Battle of Longcuo began, and it was also coming to an end.

Yuan Shao adopted Tian Feng's strategy of showing the enemy weakness first, and then cutting off his supplies, forcing Gongsun Zan of Qingzhou to change his plan and fight a decisive battle with Yuan Shao under Longcuo City.

Because of the lack of supplies, Gongsun Zhanfang was short of food and unstable; On the other hand, Yuan Shaofang's soldiers were well fed and their morale was high.

The two sides are fighting with similar forces, so the victory or defeat of this battle is the front battlefield, and whoever can defeat him head-on will win the battle.

Although Yuan Shao didn't like Ju Yi, at this critical moment, the only candidates who could resist the "White Horse Yicong" led by Gongsun Zhan himself were the general Ju Yi and his three thousand armored "first dead soldiers".

Half an hour later, Ju Yi really lived up to Yuan Shao's expectations, and once again defeated the cavalry with infantry, and it was also the elite army of the cavalry - "White Horse Yicong".

Defeated on the frontal battlefield, Gongsun Chan could only lead the army to the north and flee in defeat.

When he arrived at the border between Yuyang County in Youzhou and Bohai County in Jizhou, Gongsun Zhan looked at the only remaining 20,000 troops behind him, many of whom were disabled, and he had long lost the vigor he had when he sent out the troops.

The battle was defeated, and the defeat was complete, more than 30,000 people were killed or captured by Yuan Shaojun, and all the baggage was lost, and even the 'White Horse Yicong' that Gongsun Zhan was proud of was all gone.

After this battle, it was indicated that Gongsun Chan would no longer have troops to go south.

A generation of heroes looked at Jizhou in the south and shed a few "heroic tears".

The so-called 'blessing and misfortune'. Just when Gongsun Zhan was worried, news came from Wei County, Jizhou: Yuan Shao's base camp Yecheng was broken by the "Black Mountain Army" led by Zhang Yan.

When Gongsun Chan heard the news, his heart was full of sorrow.

Immediately sent someone to tell Zhang Yan to kill all the families of Yuan Shao and other generals to avenge his defeat in this battle.

said viciously in his heart: "Yuan Benchu, I let you win me, but you lost the life of the whole family."

However, Zhang Yan, who commanded the million-strong 'Black Mountain Army', was not a fool, and did not listen to Gongsun Zhan's words, but escorted all the families of Yuan Shao and other generals to Quqiu County, waiting for Yuan Shao to send someone to negotiate.

There are two reasons for this: one is that Gongsun Zhan's ability can no longer go south to Jizhou, for Zhang Yan, the cooperative relationship with Gongsun Chan is already dispensable, and there is no need to listen to Gongsun Zhan.

the second is that although he succeeded in the sneak attack on Yecheng, he did not kill the families of Yuan Shao and other generals, and after doing so, there is still a place for relaxation with Yuan Shao and others;

If he really killed the families of Yuan Shao and other generals, the entire Jizhou and himself would inevitably be in a situation where they would never die.

Zhang Yan was confused for a while, he thought so, but Yuan Shao didn't think so.

In terms of family, Yuan Shao was born in a famous family of 'Four Worlds and Three Dukes', while Zhang Yan was just a robber at the beginning.

Yuan Shao's family was captured by Zhang Yan, in other words, the 'family' was defeated by robbers, which Yuan Shao could never accept.

At this time, Zhang Yan sent people to vigorously publicize the capture of Yuan Shao's family, Zhang Yan just wanted to increase the bargaining chips in the negotiations and order more things;

But in Yuan Shao's ears, it doesn't mean this, this is an insult to Yuan Shao and a blasphemy against the family.

The family is proud, how can it be possible to allow the family to be captured by a robber? Therefore, Yuan Shao's hatred for Zhang Yan reached the extreme.

From the state of mind at this time, Yuan Shao had just defeated the overlord of the north, Gongsun Zhan, and looking at the world, he suddenly gave birth to a kind of domineering who competed with the heroes.

However, under this domineering, he was told that his base camp was occupied by robbers.

Yuan Shao thought: "The world is almost mine, you robber come out to make a lot of fun, you will kill him." ”

After all, in Yuan Shao's eyes, the 'Black Mountain Army' is only a big bandit, not an opponent.

And what Zhang Yan thought was: "How much money can Yuan Shao give me?" ”

Finally, in terms of mentality, Yuan Shao has always looked down on Zhang Yan in his heart, and suddenly news came: his base camp was occupied by Zhang Yan.

It's like someone who usually has a lot of grades far behind you, and suddenly he takes the first place in the exam, what is your mentality? Frustration, chagrin and complaining......

In these complex environments, how could Yuan Shao talk to Zhang Yan calmly?

But Zhang Yan was ready to talk to Yuan Shao. It's 'hot face touching cold ass'.

So, Yuan Shao led the men and horses from Qingzhou to rush back to Yecheng, Jizhou, preparing to forcibly solve this matter.

Zhang Yan saw that Yuan Shao not only avoided talking about it, but was menacing, and knew that Yuan Shao wanted to use the army to forcibly solve the problem.

Therefore, after leading the "Black Mountain Army" to plunder in Wei County, he returned to Taihang Mountain.

During this period, Zhang Yan wanted to kill the captives' family members, but who knew that his subordinate Tao Sheng did not lead people to plunder, but led his subordinates to guard Qiu County alone, preventing others from coming in to protect the families of Yuan Shao and others.

Zhang Yan led the army to attack for several hours, but did not capture Quqiu County. At this time, Zhang Yan got the news that Yuan Shao's army was about to come back.

Zhang Yan thought about it in his heart and knew that for the sake of the families of Yuan Shao and other generals, there was no need to storm Qiuqiu County and cause too many casualties.

So, he led the army back to Taihang Mountain and continued his life.

However, Tao Sheng was awarded the title of Jianyi Zhonglang General by Yuan Shao because of his meritorious service in protecting the families of Yuan Shao and other generals.

Yuan Shaoke is a person who holds grudges, how could Zhang Yan break through his base camp and make him so faceless, how could it be so easy?

As a result, Yuan Shao led the army to walk north along the Taihang Mountain, first defeating the eight divisions of Zuo Zhangzhang, and then defeating Liu Shibu, Qingniujiao, Huanglong, Zuoxiao, Guo Daxian, Li Damu, Yu Yigen and others.

Everywhere he went, he slaughtered his men and horses, beheading more than 60,000 people in total.

The local forces of the "Montenegrin Army" lost one-third because of Tao Sheng's rebellion and Yuan Shao's attack, and Zhang Yan had to lead the remaining "Montenegrin Army" to live on the side of Shangdang County.

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Han Cheng received news from the intelligence battalion and knew the outcome of the battle between Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zhan and Zhang Yan.

shouted in his heart: "Yuan Shao, you still stand up as always." ”

On the one hand, he wrote a letter to Zhang Liao and asked him to strengthen the defense of Changshan County; On the one hand, additional troops and horses were sent to Changshan County.

Within a few days, Zhang Liao replied to Han Cheng, and the letter reassured the lord Han Cheng that as long as Zhang Liao was there, Changshan County would be there. Second, Zhang Liao mentioned some methods for training cavalry.

After Han Cheng opened the letter, he read it carefully, and instantly understood Zhang Liao's thoughts.

It turned out that Zhang Liao meant to first train the soldiers in horsemanship on the steppes in the northern part of Bingzhou, and three months later, he was sent to Changshan County to let Zhang Liao train his combat formations.

In this way, the training speed of the Qinglong Battalion has been greatly accelerated.

Han Cheng felt that this was feasible, so he first sent two thousand horses to Wei Yan, who was stationed in the grassland, and asked Wei Yan to train the two thousand men and horses in riding.