Yuan Shao couldn't help Gongsun Zhan. Of the 100,000 troops led by Gongsun Chan to the south this time, about 30,000 were the elites cultivated by Gongsun Chan. The remaining 70,000 troops are Liu Yu's subordinates and some miscellaneous beards who surrender to Gongsun Zhan, and their combat power is not strong, so they can fight a smooth battle.

And Yuan Shao came to meet Gongsun Zan and brought an army of 200,000. In addition to the 100,000 or so private soldiers of the family, the remaining 100,000 troops are all elites with good combat power.

Although these elites cannot be compared with Gongsun Zhan's elites, they are at least stronger than those Zahu and Liu Yu's troops.

is really compared to the comprehensive combat power, Yuan Shao is not worthy of Sun Zan at all. If the head is tough, Yuan Shao's winning rate is even greater.

But what's the use of winning? As long as the White Horse Yicong can't be eliminated, it won't hurt Gongsun Chan at all.

In the bitter cold land of Youzhou, the folk customs are very strong. There are not many others, and the men who can fight can grab a lot of them, and they can go to the battlefield with a little training.

Gongsun Chan loses, it's a big deal, wouldn't it be good to pull up another army? Anyway, there is a white horse righteous servant, and the entire northern grassland is Gongsun Zhan's slaughterhouse.

Therefore, Yuan Shao's goal at the beginning was the elite under Gongsun Zhan, the white horse righteous servant.

But Bai Ma Yi is really not so easy to eliminate. The light cavalry, who is good at shooting, has no restraint at all, except for the terrain.

It's easy to run them away, but it's not hard to get rid of them.

Genghis Khan was invincible across the Eurasian continent, relying on such a rogue army as archers.

Fast mobility, or archers, what can you do with him? In addition to the archers, who can barely defend themselves, the infantry is a living target in front of them, and the cavalry is also a moving target.

The Han Dynasty is so powerful, but the alien races in the north have been harassing the frontier and are difficult to eliminate, because these nomadic people who are naturally good at shooting are too difficult to eliminate.

Wanting to eliminate the existence of an extremely perverted existence even among the archers, Hakuba is righteous. You can only make a fuss by taking advantage of the terrain and the mistakes of the other side. So Yuan Shao chose the battlefield at the boundary bridge.

After all, Bai Ma Yi can't fly no matter how powerful he is, and with the narrowness of the boundary bridge, it takes too much time to get over, which is enough to destroy the other party.

Yuan Shao took advantage of this and deliberately pretended to be defeated, causing Gongsun Zan to place the camp to the south of the Jieqiao, with his back to the Pan River.

Once Yuan Shao is victorious, he can form an encirclement and annihilate Gongsun Zhan's army under the boundary bridge. When the time comes, the defeat will be like a mountain, and even the white horse will not think about crossing the river.

But even with the geographical advantage, Yuan Shao is still one chance away, the opportunity to eliminate the white horse Yicong.

If you don't wipe out most of the living forces of the White Horse Righteous from the beginning, I am afraid that with the strength of the White Horse Righteous Servant, even under the rout, you can still stand out from the side of the encirclement. The cavalry under Yuan Shao's command could not catch up with this group of cattle all riding white horses luxuriously.

Therefore, the trial offered a plan to show the enemy weakness.

Deliberately defeated several times, with the heart of arrogance Sun Zhan. Let him think that the victory is decided, in order to pursue killing more enemies, let Hakuba Yoshicong go deep into the battlefield.

The strategy went very smoothly, and after a few days of great victory, Gongsun Zhan was even more impulsive than the judge imagined, and directly lined up Bai Ma Yicong as the vanguard in front of the formation, and attacked Yuan Shao's army as an arrow.

Of course, the price paid was not small, tens of thousands of troops were destroyed, and Gongsun Zhan's losses were only thousands. The battle loss of nearly ten to one made Yuan Shao feel extremely angry.

You must know that Gongsun Zhan's fight against foreign races is also this battle loss ratio. Yuan Benchu, who was the fourth and third dukes of his dignified world, was reduced to such a state.

In order to pursue the effect, the trial is very well disguised. Among the soldiers sent to the battlefield to fight in the front, only seventy percent were miscellaneous soldiers of the family, and the rest were the elite of Yuan Shao's army. It's not strong but it's not too weak, so that it can fool the ears and eyes of Gongsun Zhan, who has been on the battlefield for a long time.

Yuan Shao would not frown even if the private soldiers of the family died, but his elite soldiers were so meaninglessly followed to the funeral, which made Yuan Shao feel extremely distressed.

Under the momentum of the rout, even ten percent of the elite soldiers can't exert three percent of their strength. If the more than 20,000 elite troops who had lost in vain rushed forward in a single row, the enemy troops taken away would be at least nearly 10,000, how could it be so miserable as it is now?

However, if Gongsun Zhan's White Horse Yi can be wiped out, no matter how big the loss is, Yuan Shao is willing to pay.

"Ruthless!"

Afterwards, all those who learned about Yuan Shao's behavior gave such an evaluation.

A truly ruthless person is not only ruthless to others, but also ruthless enough to himself.

Just for an opportunity to eliminate the three thousand white horse righteous followers, tens of thousands of elites were thrown out for nothing, and Yuan Shao, who was ruthless and had a deep background, could do it.

After such a play, even if Yuan Shao wins this battle in the end, I am afraid that he will be greatly injured, and I am afraid that he will not be able to recover in three or five years.

After all, this 100,000 elites is not a small amount, and Yuan Shao's family background is so much, if most of them die, it will not be easy to make so many elites.

The gap between recruits and elites isn't just as small as it seems. Ordinary elites can fight against recruits, and if they are paired with cloud energy, legion talents, and military formations, the gap between the two sides will increase exponentially.

Now there are a lot of elites in the hands of the princes of the world, and that is because the Yellow Turban Rebellion has just ended a few years. But although there are many of these elites, they are also limited, and if they are gone, they will be gone.

Although it is also a great chaos in the world now, the pattern in various places is still quite stable, not at all like the Yellow Turban Rebellion back then, where there are wars and deaths every day. Those who survived crawled out of the mountain of corpses and the sea of blood.

In particular, Jizhou, where Yuan Shao is located, was relatively stable at the end of the Han Dynasty. This kind of stability has advantages and disadvantages for Yuan Shao, on the one hand, it makes Yuan Shao's grain and grass extremely rich, and he can easily pull up an army of hundreds of thousands.

But on the other hand, it also made Yuan Shao's soldiers far inferior to the elite soldiers under the war-torn Cao Cao.

Therefore, don't look at the elites in the hands of the princes in the world now, but once there are too many losses, it is difficult to replenish.

"Zhengnan, I basically gambled my net worth in this battle, you must not let me down!" After everyone left, Yuan Shao muttered.

"Highway, you're good. But I'm far better than you! ”

The reason why Yuan Shao made dangerous moves was because of the sense of oppression brought by Yuan Shu.

His side has just gained a foothold, and Yuan Shu has begun to dominate the south, how can the arrogant Yuan Shao endure it?

Yuan Shao didn't use the method of winning steadily, in order to solve the big trouble of Gongsun Zan in a short time, so that he would not be able to go south for several years.

In this way, he could free up his hands to take over Qingzhou and Merge Prefecture, and take advantage of the danger of the Yellow River to become the overlord of the north.

After leaving the big tent, the trial directly recruited the Hebei Siting Pillar under Yuan Shao, Yan Liangwen and Zhang He.

Facing the solemn trial, even Yan Liang and the others felt a terrifying sense of oppression.

"Yan Liangwen is ugly!"

"In!"

"Tomorrow, you two will each lead 10,000 iron horsemen to rush straight into the enemy's position from the left and right, and you must block the road for Bai Ma Yi to escape from both sides."

"No!"

"Zhang He!"

"In!"

"Tomorrow you will lead three thousand halberders in front of the battle. Remember, be sure to block the charge of the White Horse! Even if it is a dead light, we must hold off the other party and buy time for us. ”

"Yes!" A hint of madness flashed in Zhang He's eyes.

The trial was also ruthless, and he would rather abandon the elite army of the Euphorbia than pull the white horse from the horse.

"Gao Yan!"

"In!"

"Whether our army can win this battle depends on you, don't let us down!"

"No!" Gao Ran said solemnly.

"Whether the great cause of the Lord can be accomplished or not depends on tomorrow! I hope that the four of you will do your best, and I will live and die with you! The judge said calmly.

He has done his best, and the success of the next battle depends on the will of God.