On the ninth day of August, after Lü Kuang and Lü Xiang encountered Zhang Liao's resistance north of Handan and retreated, they originally wanted to reorganize their army and fight again, but because the supplies did not keep up, they retreated all the way to Nanhe County.

At this time, Yuan Shao's marching avenue had just been built from Xiatao County to Nanhe County, and nearly half of the distance needed to be repaired and arranged.

In this way, the army can be transported to Handan, which is at the forefront of the frontline, and Guo Peng can fight face-to-face.

The supply lines were greatly stretched, which was not at all like a home battle.

And Guo Peng didn't seem to have the idea of marching at all, so he lay comfortably in Handan and waited for Yuan Shao to do his best to pave the marching avenue in front of him, and then send the army to him.

Yuan Shao was very annoyed by this, so he constantly sent a small group of cavalry troops to Handan with several days of rations on his back, spying on military intelligence and giving Guo Peng a little color.

Guo Peng's heart did not fluctuate.

In the face of Yuan Shao's small cavalry troops, he also sent a small group of cavalry troops to attack and harass, and also made a very targeted detour to attack the marching road that Yuan Shao was building.

Guo Peng, with experienced generals, such as Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Cao Chun, Zhang Liao, Cheng Lian, Hao Meng and others, each led a small force of cavalry, carrying several days' rations to the north to attack Yuan Shao.

Small forces infiltrated from all directions, attacking day and night, sabotaging the construction of Yuan Shao's marching avenue and greatly slowing down Yuan Shao's march.

Small groups of cavalry came and went like the wind, and it was simply difficult to strike.

And Yuan Shao's superior army must stay in a place where food is abundant, and cannot advance rashly before the completion of the marching avenue and supply lines, otherwise the sky will fall apart once the food is cut off.

It is the so-called three armies that go first before moving grain and grass.

Yuan Shao was quite troubled by this, and his advisers could not come up with a more effective method.

People want to eat, and it is beyond the reach of man.

With 60,000 soldiers, as well as the auxiliary soldiers of the people after breaking away from the home advantage, Yuan Shao's grain consumption has surpassed Guo Peng, and he began to feel the pressure of grain and grass transportation.

After Guo Peng occupied Wei County and harvested the summer grain in the surrounding areas, the grain and grass became more abundant than ever, the grain route was also safe, and the pressure on grain was much less than that of Yuan Shao.

Yuan Shao was in a hurry to attack, anxious to show his followers his ability, and he had to take the initiative to attack.

He can't drag it, drag and drag and grind all the grain and grass of other people, so what can he do?

People take out the real money in their pockets to fund you to fight, and they spend their hard-earned money to support you every day, and as a result, you are grinding foreign workers?

Yuan Shao can clearly feel some impetuous atmosphere in the army recently.

There is also discontent from the followers.

So Yuan Shao can only take the initiative.

In order to speed up the marching process, Yuan Shao ordered the army to accompany the escort, and the army advanced wherever the marching avenue was repaired, so as to save time and protect the marching avenue.

So Guo Peng did not send a small group of cavalry to attack and disturb again, but increased the degree of damage to the roads that could be mastered in front of him, and added more traps to give Yuan Shao more trouble.

Yuan Shao was in a hurry, personally supervised the work, and urged the army to continue to speed up, and finally arrived in Yiyang County on August 23, the fourth year of Chuping.

At this time, Yuan Jun's morale can no longer be compared with when he first set off, and when he first set off, he was afraid of the momentum of being self-respecting, and now they all seem to have become Buddhas.

However, Yuan Shao felt relieved.

Because after arriving here, it means that the war is just around the corner, and the reason why Guo Peng is delaying time like this is not because he is afraid of himself?

Under the crushing of absolute strength, Ren Guo is a person with excellent wisdom and good at commanding troops, and he is not Yuan Benchu's opponent!

After arriving in Yiyang County, Yuan Shao couldn't wait to send troops to attack Handan County, wanting to give Guo Peng a little color, but he was taught to be a man by Guo Peng's trap.

Emotional Guo Peng laid a large number of traps here, forcing Yuan Shao to eliminate the traps while advancing, and at the same time carefully guarding against an ambush from Guo Peng that may appear at any time.

They may suddenly burst out of the jungle on the side of the road with a wave of blows and disappear quickly, unable to catch up.

A wave of attacks only took the lives of a dozen or dozens of people, which seemed small and could not be sustained many times.

The Yuan army advanced all the way, and faced countless various attacks by the Zhendong Army along the way, in short, the front-line generals and troops of the Yuan army were very tired and tired.

But the road cannot be repaired, the grain road cannot be unprotected, and the detour or anything does not exist.

"Carving insect skills, side door! Guo Zifeng is a despicable villain! If you want to fight, why don't you fight with dignity!? Just know how to use traps! Vile! Vile! ”

Yuan Shao was furious and scolded Guo Peng in the barracks for being a villain.

He scolded Guo Peng for not having the courage at all, taking advantage of his Northern Expedition to sneak attack his hometown, all kinds of operations made him exhausted, and the oppressive strength of 60,000 troops was difficult to play.

He didn't want to think about how he played intrigue and trickery to trap Guo Peng and Sun Jian back then.

And even if Yuan Shao scolded Guo Peng like this in front of him, Guo would laugh and say nothing.

I don't have to use all kinds of means to weaken you, how can I beat you into the abyss in the last wave of explosion?

I don't underestimate the heroes of the world, I don't think my army is a professional army, so I must be strong, I will still use all kinds of means, use all my advantages, and kill you at the lowest cost.

The elite soldiers I have trained, each of them contains my hard work, how can I be willing to take it and face you against the waves?

Good steel, to be used on the blade.

Guo can't learn from Yuan Shao, let alone Cao Cao, who defeated Yuan Shao.

The headwind is like a god, and the downwind advantage wave overturns.

Yuan Shao finally eliminated all the difficulties and dangers, approached Handan, set up camp more than ten miles north of Handan, sent a war letter to the city, and then began to order the army to prepare to attack Handan.

Guo Peng received Yuan Shao's war letter, just smiled, and gave Yuan Shao a war letter back, asking Yuan Shao to attack Handan, and he personally led the army to defend Handan to see who could win.

"Guo Zifeng is in Handan! I'm going to kill him! ”

After receiving Guo Peng's reply, Yuan Shao was furious, gritted his teeth viciously and looked in the direction of Handan, as if he could see Guo Peng's hateful face.

He wants to tear apart Handan's defenses, catch Guo Peng, and then go down to the oil pan and fry it until it is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, and then feed the dogs!

However, the current Handan is not the same as the Handan before Yuan Shao left.

It took more than a month of hard work for Guo Peng to widen and heighten the Handan city wall, repair the surrounding military defense facilities, widen the moat, and add a large number of horse rejection and trap pits.

The walls were equipped with a variety of defensive weapons, trebuchets were pushed onto the walls, and the army was fully loaded and armoured.

Yuan Shao looked at Handan City, which was very majestic after the transformation, his brows furrowed, but he still waved his hand without hesitation and ordered the army to start attacking the city.

Every minute and every second of hesitation means the loss of military rations and the loss of fighters.

Yuan Shao can't be delayed, he must defeat Guo Peng as quickly as possible, defeat Guo Peng, and prove that in addition to the family legend "Meng Shi Yi", he has enough force to protect everyone's interests.

The world is not very safe, and if the sovereign is not strong enough, it is quite worrying.

The Yuan army swarmed in, and the Zhendong army on the city wall was waiting for it, and when the Yuan army was walking with difficulty against the big shield, the Zhendong soldiers on the city wall began to fire trebuchets.

The huge stone projectile cut a beautiful arc in the sky, and then fell steadily into the large array of Yuan's army.

Even if he was holding a shield, he couldn't stop dozens of pounds of stone bullets, and Yuan Jun's military formation was immediately smashed into pieces and screamed, many people were killed and injured, and the military formation collapsed instantly.

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