Chapter 295: All or Nothing

It is said that the war in northern Hebei is prosperous, and the warlords of the Quartet have turned their eyes sideways, and the famous generals and heavy troops have gathered their own troops, and the situation is in turmoil for a while. The year 198 is destined to break the regional balance, and the long-term pain is better than the short-term pain, and breaking the deadlock is also a precursor to reunification.

At the beginning of March, Gongsun Zhan received the approval and help of Tian Feng and Ko Yi, and led the main army of 150,000 Youzhou male soldiers to bypass Cangzhou and directly attack Julu, an important town in Jizhou.

Julu County has a long history, 5,000 years ago Tang Yao Chan Yu Shun was here, it was one of the 36 counties canonized by Qin Shi Huang that year, and it was a place where soldiers of all dynasties must fight. Now Julu is the gateway of Handan, the megacity of Jizhou, if lost, it will be like the gateway of Handan and Yecheng. Guarding the giant deer was Yuan Shao's general Jiang Yiqu, deputy generals Zhao Rong and Han Xun, leading 20,000 troops. Because Yan Liang took part of Julu's troops to capture Beihai, Jiang Yiqu's troops were insufficient. I thought that Julu was safe and sound, but I didn't expect Cangzhou Koyi to close the door without fighting, and the war suddenly burned to Julu, which is located in the center of Jizhou.

Jiang Yiqu, Yiliang general, appeared after the battle of Guandu in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", described: "Yuan Shao (after the defeat) was dressed in a scarf, led more than 800 horsemen, and ran to the north bank of Liyang, and the general Jiang Yiqu went out of the village to greet him. Shao's previous case was sued and Yiqu. The righteous canal is to summon the scattered people, and all the ants are gathered. The army was reinvigorated, and Jizhou was returned. ”

Jiang Yiqu was not chaotic in the face of danger, although he went into battle in a hurry, but he was heavily guarded, and 20,000 people took turns to defend the city. Starry Night sent people to Handan to ask for help, Handan was Yuan Shao's second son Yuan Xi, who was shocked when he heard the battle report, and asked where the enemy soldiers came from. I heard that Gongsun Chan personally led the army of 150,000, bypassing Cangzhou and going deep into Jizhou, Yuan Xi almost didn't fall off the Taishi chair, and the general Yan Liang led the troops to fight in Qingzhou, how to resist Gongsun Zhan's male soldiers? Hurriedly ordered someone to recruit the military advisor to drive Han Heng and the generals Jiao Touch and Zhang Nan to discuss the strategy of resisting the enemy, and quickly sent capable people to the south, went straight to the Yecheng base camp, and informed his father Yuan Shao.

Yuan Xi, the word Xianyi, the second son of Yuan Shao, the younger brother of Yuan Tan, and the brother of Yuan Shang. In the official history, after Yuan Shao defeated Gongsun Zhan, Yuan Xi was made the assassin of Youzhou. After the defeat at the Battle of Guandu at Cao Cao, Yuan Shao died of depression due to the defeat. After Yuan Shao's death, Yuan Xi did not participate in the struggle for power between the two brothers Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang. When Cao Cao pacified Jizhou, he accepted his third brother Yuan Shang, who came to defect after being defeated by Cao Cao, and fled to Wuhuan due to the betrayal of his subordinates, and then he and his younger brother Yuan Shang fled to the account of Gongsun Kang, the Taishou of Liaodong, but were killed by Gongsun Kang, and the heads of the two were dedicated to Cao Cao.

Yuan Xi and the generals discussed, and his father's order could not be conveyed for a while, fearing that the giant deer would be lost, so he ordered Jiao Touch and Zhang Naner to bring 20,000 horses each to gallop to the aid of the giant deer. Yuan Xi is very concerned about his subordinates on weekdays, so the three armies have high morale, and before Gongsun Zhan's army surrounded Julu, he entered Julu City on the tenth day.

Julu City got 40,000 fresh troops, the situation quickly stabilized, Tian Yu and Gongsun Zan saw that Julu was impatient, so they left Yan Gang to lead 50,000 people to continue to attack Julu City, and the remaining 100,000 people turned their heads and went north, killing Zhending, which was not far from here.

Zhending was originally the strategic goal of Gongsun Fan, Tian Kai, Shan Jing, Li Shao and other 50,000 second-way military horses, but just after the troops came to the city, they learned that Liu Yu led the troops to attack Wucheng, so they quickly retreated from Zhending and returned to Wucheng to defend Zou Dan. Zhending guard general Chun Yuqiong and deputy generals Han Meng, military advisers Xin Ping and Xin Bi, seeing Gongsun Fan retreating, just breathed a sigh of relief, but unexpectedly there was a shouting and killing sound that resounded through the world again, but this time it was the main army of 100,000 led by Gongsun Chan and Tian Yu himself.

Zhending is the gateway to Youzhou, with 50,000 guards, the strength is not weak, and the defenders are also experienced Chun Yuqiong, which can be described as a key defense. Helplessly, because the giant deer was surrounded, Cangzhou stood by and watched, and it was already a lonely city. The lonely city was difficult to defend, Chun Yuqiong arranged to defend it, but fortunately, there was a lack of 50,000 troops of Gongsun Fan outside the northern city, and Chun Yuqiong was able to resist the encirclement of Gongsun Chan with all his might.

Gongsun Zhan, Gongsun Xu, Tian Yu, and Yan Gang each attacked one side, and the water in the siege of Zhending Mansion was impassable, and they attacked day and night. After three months of siege, Chun Yuqiong defended for three months, and at this moment Yuan Shao's 50,000 reinforcements, under the leadership of the general Wen Chou, with Hu Zhao, Feng Ji, and Hua Yan as military divisions, and Zang Hong, Zhou Ang, Han Xun, and Xia Zhao as deputy generals, had just been injected into the suburbs of Julu. Yan Gang did not panic, and ordered to stop attacking Julu City and set up defenses in the north of Julu, mainly to isolate Yuan Shao's troops from the rescue of Zhending Mansion.

Wen Chou entered Julu City and joined forces with Jiao Touch and Zhang Nan to discuss the rescue of the troops.

Three days later, Wen Chou's army was divided into four routes, Zhou Ang led the troops to attack Yan Gang's defense line to attract Yan Gang's main force, and the remaining three roads and two roads were ambushed on both sides of Julu City.

Wen Chou's plan to divide the troops in four ways is a strategy to confuse the enemy by the army and division. Feng Ji, one of the four major military divisions under Yuan Shao, Ziyuantu, a native of Nanyang, resourceful and quite talented in military affairs. But for the sake of power in his hands, he is unscrupulous and has also been criticized.

In the official history, when Yuan Shao escaped from Dong Zhuo's sphere of influence, he went to Jizhou with Feng Ji and Xu You, and Yuan Shao appreciated Feng Ji's wisdom and reused it. When Yuan Shao first arrived in Jizhou, he relied on Han Fu to provide food, but Feng Ji began to plan for the lord to occupy the magpie's nest.

In the second year of Chuping (191 AD), Feng Ji proposed to use Gongsun Zan to attack Han Fu, but in fact proposed that Han Fu and Yuan Shao jointly defend Jizhou.

In the battle of Guandu, Yuan Shao ordered Feng Ji to unify the military, and in the fifth year of Jian'an (200 AD), Yuan Shao was defeated in the battle of Guandu, regretting that he did not listen to Tian Feng's plan, and Feng Ji immediately entered the slander, saying that Tian Feng knew that Yuan Shao was defeated and made fun of Yuan Shao for not listening to him, and Tian Feng was immediately killed by Yuan Shao.

There are personal grudges between the trial and Feng Jiben, after the battle of Guandu, the two sons were captured, some people slandered the unfavorable to the trial, Feng Ji affirmed the solar terms of the trial in person, Yuan Shao praised Feng Ji for the distinction between public and private, and since then Feng Ji and the trial have become friends.

In the seventh year of Jian'an, Yuan Shao died of depression, and Feng Ji and trial privately changed Yuan Shao's last life, and Yuan Shang succeeded him. Yuan Tan could not succeed to the throne and called himself the general of the chariot cavalry, Tun Liyang. Yuan Shang did not give Yuan Tan more soldiers, so that Feng Ji followed. Yuan Tan asked for the allocation of troops for the trial and refused, and killed Feng Ji in a fit of rage.

Feng Ji's life, first from where to enter, and then with Yuan Shao, offering plans to take Ji, slandering and killing Tian, reconciled and matched, privately changed his will, and assisted Yuan Shang Until he was killed by Yuan Tan, just because Feng Ji, trial matching, Yuan Shang's faction and Xin Ping, Guo Tu, and Yuan Tan's faction were not in harmony, Feng Ji and others were afraid that Yuan Tan would harm him after he ascended the throne, so he privately changed Yuan Shao's last life, and set up Yuan Shang to succeed to the throne, and also planted the foreshadowing of his own death.

Wen Chou used the strategy of discipline to lead the troops to Guangchuan, Zhou Ang to lure the enemy all the way, and Jiao Touch and Zhang Nan to ambush. Unexpectedly, Yan Gang made up his mind to defend the flank of Gongsun Zhan's army, and was unmoved, but just ran away from Zhou Ang and did not chase after him. Jiao Touch and Zhang Nan waited for a few days, and knowing that the plan had failed, they immediately organized their troops and chased Wen Chou's troops to Guangchuan.

Wen Chou arrived in Guangchuan, not far from Cangzhou, and the military advisor Hua Yan said: "Before we sent troops, the lord always wondered why Tian Feng had no news in Cangzhou, could it be that Gongsun Zhan was demoted?"

Feng Ji shook his head slightly, he knew Tian Feng better, and said: "Although Tian Yuanhao is stubborn, he is not a surrenderer, there must be a reason for this." Cangzhou has few soldiers and few generals, and there are also troops who dare not send troops to resist Gongsun Zhan's army. But I have a plan here, if I can use it well, I will be able to repel Gongsun Zhan. ”

Wen Chou and Yan Liang are famous as brave generals of Yuan Shao's army, similar to Zhang Liao, Xu Huang and other famous generals in martial arts, and died in the battle of Guandu, and said that he was killed by Guan Yu in the romance. Wen Chou listened to Feng Ji's strategy and asked, "What is Yuantu's plan, although it comes to it." ”

Feng Ji said: "You can send Jiao Touch and Zhang Nan to take a brigade of divisions, in the name of asking for help, to test the Cangzhou Koji Righteous Army." If Tian Feng sends troops to rescue, he can occupy Cangzhou and go straight to Yuyang, Youzhou, and this plan to encircle Wei and save Zhao is also. If Tian Feng does not send troops, it means that he has the heart of self-reliance and rebellion, and simply takes advantage of the lack of soldiers in Cangzhou, orders Jiao Touch and Zhang Nan to take Cangzhou City, and closes the passage for Gongsun Zan to return to Yuyang. At the same time, the general took advantage of the lack of troops in Youzhou and could continue to march north, if he could take Yuyang and Jixian, it would be better to go all out to save a Zhending Chun Yu Qiongduo. ”

Wen Chou's heart immediately moved, if he could conquer Yuyang in one fell swoop, he would immediately become the first general in Jizhou. At this time, it happened that Zhou Ang's troops also arrived, saying that Yan Gang would not pursue, and Wen Chou immediately ordered Jiao Touch and Zhang Nan to divide 50,000 troops and go straight to Cangzhou.

Wen Chou didn't save Chun Yuqiong, Chun Yuqiong supported it for three months, and the oil has run out. In the end, the food and grass in the city were exhausted, and the news was not clear, Chun Yuqiong thought that the reinforcements had been wiped out by Gongsun Zhan's design, and he had completely given up hope at the moment. Chun Yuqiong had no choice but to make a desperate bet, gathered the remaining 30,000 troops, opened the south gate at night, rushed out, and rushed into Gongsun Zhan's heavy military camp, intending to kill through the encirclement.

Gongsun Zhan expected that the city was not far from the dog jumping over the wall, and he had already taken precautions, and the two sides took advantage of the night to start a big battle, Chun Yu Qiong's army was defeated, and there were countless descendants, and Chun Yu Qiong fought out of the encirclement alone and fled in the direction of Handan. Zhending Mansion immediately fell into the hands of Gongsun Zhan, and Gongsun Zhan's army was angry that the people helped Yuan Shao's army defend the city, and launched a violent massacre of the city, killing and wounding countless people. Fortunately, Tian Yu ordered that no indiscriminate killings should be made, and advised Gongsun Zan not to harm innocent people, so that the disaster of the people would be avoided.

Gongsun Chan really set the whole army, five days later, the army rose again, this time went straight to Julu and Yan Gang to join forces, Julu Wenchou has already killed Cangzhou, Gongsun Chan then conquered Julu again. The whole Jizhou was shaken, and Handan Yuan Xi was shocked and directly withdrew to Yecheng, leaving only the troops to guard Handan. And at this moment, the news of Liu Yu's 100,000-strong army attacking Wucheng in Youzhou finally reached Jizhou and reached the ears of Gongsun Zhan. The battle situation was chaotic, all roads in Jizhou were full of soldiers with various targets, and the people were caught in endless wars.

Find out what happens next, and listen to the next breakdown.