The reason for the late update ......, power outage, please forgive friends. ）

The flames burned fiercely in Liyang City, and the swords, guns, swords, and halberds waved countless bright flashing arcs in the firelight, which were complemented by bright red blood flowers, and the blood splashed on the human body reflected bright red light in the air, beautiful and poignant. The sound of shouting and killing tore through the sky, and in every street, alley and every house in Liyang City, there were screams of being killed, the roars of murderers, and the cries of women, children and the elderly, which made people's hearts break to hear.

After the west gate of Liyang City was blown up by Dong Zhuojun's team, the front team of Yuan Shaojun, who had withdrawn his troops, turned back and killed, and the poor Cao Cao army still had no chance to rest after two consecutive battles in two days, and was forced to take up arms and start a street battle with Yuan Shaojun who entered the city.

Yuan Shaojun's front army of 150,000 people, is the most elite of Yuan Shao's army, Cao Cao's army of 90,000 people, more than 30,000 people were brought to Liyang after Cao Cao's raid on Yecheng failed, Xu Yang and Cao Hong brought 20,000 soldiers and horses, Xiahou Dun's team had nearly 10,000 horses, Zhang He and Gao Ran brought 30,000 troops, although it was a patchwork, but Cao Cao's army was stronger than Yuan Shao's army, more than 200,000 horses, in the small city of Liyang, they were evenly killed, all of them suffered heavy casualties.

When the sky was light, Cao Cao's army, which had retreated to the eastern corner of Liyang, was a little unbearable, Qingzhou was sparsely populated, and these valuable soldiers were wasted fighting with Yuan Shao, a fool, for a small Liyang City, no matter whether they won or lost, Cao Cao's gains outweighed the losses, not to mention, there was a malicious Dong Zhuo army beside him. After an urgent discussion with Guo Jia, Cao Cao ordered: "Withdraw, abandon Liyang City, let the soldiers each bring three days' worth of food, and burn all the other grain." "Long before Yuan Shaojun arrived in Liyang, Cao Cao ordered the soldiers to loot the civilian grain, and concentrate the grain of the whole Liyang City into the army, the people of Liyang, who have a small population, naturally do not have much food, only enough for Cao Cao's 90,000 army for half a month, but now it is obviously too late to take it all away, Cao Cao had to order the soldiers to carry three days' food with them without affecting the speed of action, break through the siege, and burn all the remaining food, leaving a Liyang City without a grain to Yuan Shaojun, Yuan Shaojun in order to live, will obediently go north to fight with Dong Zhuojun to get food from Yecheng.

Cao Cao gave an order, Cao Ren immediately set fire to the grain, the bronze bell in the army rang loudly, Cao Cao's army generals led the army to fight and go, and withdrew from Liyang in turn, Xu Yang took the lead to kill out of the east gate, and beheaded the seven generals of Yuan Shao's army who surrounded the east gate, Yuan Shaojun was frightened, and was killed by Xu Yang out of a bloody road, Cao Cao's army escaped safely, and escaped from Liyang for more than ten miles, Cao Cao ordered all departments to count the men and horses, and each army had a lot of losses, Cao Cao's original 60,000 horses and horses have been folded over 10,000, fortunately, the most valuable strategists and generals of Cao Cao's army did not fold one, All escaped safely, and Zhang He and Gao Lan, who volunteered to take on the task of the palace, did not arrive, and were surrounded in Liyang City.

"The army turned back to Liyang and went to meet Zhang He and Gao Ran's troops." Cao Cao ordered, Cao Cao's army looked at each other and did not agree, Li Dian said boldly: "King, Zhang He and Gao Ran are new people, not credible, our army is in danger, they will return to Yuan Shao, and our army will go to meet them again, only afraid of sheep entering the tiger's mouth." ”

Cao Cao and Yuan Shao grew up together from childhood, and they know Yuan Shao's character better than anyone else, in the eyes of others, if Zhang He and Gao Ran return to Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao will definitely be overjoyed and calmly take them in, but Cao Cao knows that with Yuan Shao's temper, Zhang He and Gao Lan will surrender, and the narrow-minded Yuan Shao will definitely not let them go, so Cao Cao must go to fight for the desperate Zhang He and Gao Ran's troops to come back, so as to replenish the strength of Cao Cao's army. Of course, Cao Cao can't say such words in public, Cao Cao changed his serious expression, and said loudly: "No, Zhang He and Gao Ran, the two generals, defected to Yu Gu in times of crisis, and Gu did not repay them with a gold and a knight, and Yu Xin was already uneasy, how could he leave them now?" Regardless of whether the two generals returned to Yuan Shao or not, Lone had to go to meet them. ”

Cao Cao's words were high-sounding, affectionate and righteous, Cao Cao's generals were moved in their hearts, and there was no objection, and Cao Cao led the army back to Liyang, traveled five or six miles, and faced Zhang He and Gao Ran led the army to flee, and Yuan Shaojun chased after him, Cao Cao ordered the flag to point, Cao Cao's army surged up, Zhang He and Gao Ran also turned their heads and killed back, Yuan Shaojun was defeated and fled. Zhang He and Gao Ran heard that Cao Cao's soldiers told Cao Cao's words just now, and they were grateful together, and they were loyal to Cao Cao since then, Cao Cao comforted them, and led the army to fight in Puyang, hoping to occupy Puyang, sit and watch the bloody battle between Dong Zhuo's army and Cao Cao's army, and then take advantage of it.

Not to mention that Cao Cao's army moved to Puyang, only said that the army had run out of food Yuan Shaojun captured Liyang City, but found that not only there was no grain in the city, but also increased tens of thousands of people who had no food and clothing to Yuan Shaojun to bear the rations, it was nearly noon, the hungry Yuan Shaojun army rushed to Liyang, but found that there was nothing to eat in Liyang City, the front army had also run out of food, the army complained more than once, Yuan Shao was furious, scolded Cao Cao and Dong Zhuo's eighteenth generation ancestors, half a day to calm down, recruited strategists to discuss countermeasures.

"Our army now has only two paths." Fu Zhu first said: "First, immediately attack Yecheng and recapture Yecheng and Wei County granary, the biggest advantage of this road is that the distance is relatively close, the disadvantage is that our army does not know how many Dong thief troops are in Yecheng, and even whether Dong thief personally arrived in Yecheng Our army is not clear, and there are still three days to go to Yecheng, our army has no food, morale is low, and there is no certainty of victory; The second is to ask the lord to give up the old and weak soldiers, lead the elite soldiers to bypass Yecheng and Wei County, and turn to Guangping and Julu to get food, the lord still has 50,000 troops in Guangping and Julu, plus the 130,000 troops who stayed in Youzhou, and then knotted Karasuma and Gongsun Du, our army still has the hope of making a comeback, the biggest shortcoming of this road is that the distance is too far, and it is difficult to solve the grain and grass on the road of our army. ”

"Food is difficult to solve, but it is not without a solution." Feng Ji said insidiously: "Cao thief is in Yanzhou, Kong Rong is in Qingzhou, there is a shortage of food in the army, how they solve it, our army can imitate it." ”

Of course, Yuan Shao knew what the solution was that Feng Ji said, as early as the fifth year of Chuping, Yuan Shao ordered the trial to secretly mix those things in the military rations to solve the problem of insufficient military rations, and it was also a good idea to transfer to Guangping and Julu to get food, so that Yuan Shao did not have to risk the destruction of the whole army to attack Yecheng this year. The problem is that Yuan Shao is reluctant to give up the base camp of Yecheng, not to mention that Yecheng has Yuan Shao's mansion that is more expensive than the emperor's mansion, and there are many antique jewelry like stars, the key is that Yuan Shao's most beloved stepwife and five young and beautiful little wives are still in Yecheng, that is Yuan Shao's real heart and soul baby, Dong Boss is known all over the world for being notorious in women, and Yuan Shao is worried about his wife......

"Lord, it's not good, it's not good!" When Yuan Shao was still hesitating, his general Jiang Yiqu hurried over, and as soon as he entered the door, he yelled that something was wrong, Yuan Shao was already upset, and said angrily when he heard the words: "What's the matter?" Is the sky falling? ”

"Returning to my lord, no." Jiang Yiqu replied honestly: "The sky has not fallen, but a rumor suddenly appeared in Liyang City, saying that the lord's army has no food and grass, and the lord has to prepare to kill the old people, children and women in Liyang City to serve as food, and the old and weak soldiers in our army will also be killed as food, and now the city is in a panic, and the people in the whole city have begun to flee for their lives, and soldiers have begun to flee in our army." ”

"This must be a thief and a treacherous scheme, the purpose is to shake the hearts of our army." Fu Zhu immediately said: "Lord, please make a decision quickly, if it is any later, the heart of our army will be even more shaken." ”

"The whole army is ready to attack Yecheng!" Yuan Shao gritted his teeth and shouted: "Also, pass the order to drive the people of Liyang to Liyang as well, they are still useful, those who flee will be executed, and the old and weak soldiers who have not escaped will be tied up with ropes, and none of them are allowed to run away!" "In the troubled times, people are the most critical capital to compete for hegemony, not only related to the replenishment of soldiers, but also can be used as cannon fodder, consuming the enemy's strength, for the food-starved Yuan Shaojun, the population has a more significant role......

On the afternoon of the first day of February in the sixth year of the Han Dynasty, Yuan Shaojun abandoned Liyang City, which was broken in the early morning, and more than 40,000 Liyang people who survived the war accompanied the army, and crossed Weishui to advance to Yecheng in the north. On the way, Yuan Shao originally ordered to loot grain along the way, detain the people to accompany the army, and Dong Zhuojun's military adviser Jia Xu had already expected Yuan Shao to do this, first sent troops to Yuan Shaojun's various villages along the way, and notified the people to destroy grain and evacuate, most of the poor people were tempted by Dong Zhuojun's grain to carry a little grain to Yecheng first, and there were also some stubborn people who were unwilling to leave their homes, for these people, Dong Zhuojun, whose military discipline has never been very good, was not polite, and burned down their houses, tied up the prisoner car and sent them to Yecheng, Most of the wells along the way were filled in, blocking the springs, and the only few wells left were also put into croton, rhubarb, Morinda and other drugs to moisten the intestines and stool, to help Yuan Shaojun, who had no food to eat, solve the problem of indigestion, so that Yuan Shaojun could arrive in Yecheng more energetically.

Poor Yuan Shaojun was extremely miserable by Jia Xu's fortified wall and clear field tactics, not only could not find even half a grain along the way, but also many soldiers and generals had diarrhea, often causing death, soldiers fell behind and fled extremely seriously, morale was extremely low, Yuan Shao had no choice but to let the army openly take Kong Rong's trick in Qingzhou to the people of Liyang, in order to fill the stomachs of the soldiers, the people of Liyang cried and shook the wilderness, and countless people died under the knife of their own army, and the people died of cold and starvation endlessly. And many of the surviving Yuan Shaojun soldiers would rather have an empty stomach than eat such food, the army's heart is scattered, almost unable to gather, so the journey is greatly slowed down, three days of travel, Yuan Shaojun walked for five days and six nights.

When he finally arrived ten miles outside Yecheng, it was already the early morning of the seventh day of the second lunar month, and Yuan Shao's army had also dropped sharply from 420,000 soldiers and civilians when he set out from Liyang to less than 330,000, and the number of people who fled and died on the way was close to 100,000.

The army has fallen to this point, even if Yuan Shao is the reincarnation of Sun Wu and the rebirth of Wu Qi, it is impossible to win the battle again, but Yuan Shao turned a blind eye to the fatigue of the soldiers, and forcibly ordered the soldiers to attack the city immediately.

"Quick, quick, take advantage of the fact that the enemy is not ready to defend the city, and capture Yecheng in one fell swoop! After laying down Yecheng, how much wine and food you want! Yuan Shao personally went into battle to cheer up the soldiers, in a vain attempt to boost morale, but unfortunately no matter how Yuan Shao encouraged, the sick and hungry Yuan Shaojun soldiers just couldn't lift their spirits, not so much sprinting towards Yecheng, but rubbing against Yecheng.

"Hurry up, get your spirits up! A bunch of waste, didn't eat? Yuan Shao scolded before remembering that the soldiers had indeed not eaten, and when he was anxious, a cannon suddenly rang out in the city in front of him, and Yuan Shaojun shouted and killed on all sides, and the west first rushed out of the first army, and one person sat down on the red rabbit horse first, and painted a halberd in his hand; The gate of Yecheng was opened, and a general was the first to kill, it was Dong Zhuojun's veteran Li Dao, and the general Dong Zhuojun who came out of the east was Li Dao's old partner and old enemy Guo Yan, and even Yuan Shaojun's rear had a Dong Zhuojun army killed, and all of them were Dong Zhuojun's treasure of Zhenshan - Xiliang Iron Cavalry, the general who led the army, the white horse and silver spear, was Yuan Shaojun's former general Changshan Zhao Zilong.

"Kill!" Lu Bu's speed is the fastest, when the first to enter the Yuan Shaojun formation, like a tiger into the flock, the second to enter the Yuan Shaojun formation is Zhao Yun, a reverse scale gun makes it like Layue Ruixue, one after another, the demoralized Yuan Shaojun fell like wheat, and because he did not participate in the smuggling of Yinping, the military merit title was lost to the old enemy Guo Yan was even more courageous, shouting "capture Yuan Shao alive" to take Yuan Shao's army, Guo Yan was so desperate, Li Wei of course did not want to give him the opportunity to ride on his head, but also bravely entered the Yuan Shao army, the spearhead was directed at Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao's army was attacked on all sides, and its morale was low, and the enemy could resist there, and the peripheral troops scattered and fled, and Yuan Shao's army was completely surrounded.

In a hurry, Yuan Shao shouted, "If we don't fight to the death, I will die and have no place to be buried!" He personally led his three sons to fight to kill, and Fu Zhu also offered advice to Yuan Shaojun in danger, "Lord, Lu Bu in the west is Lu Bu, and Zhao Yun in the south, none of us are their opponents, only Li Dao in the north and Guo Yan in the east are the weakest, our army will rush to the northeast, and we will be able to break out of a way out." Yuan Shao was in a hurry and could not hesitate, commanded the army to break through to the northeast, sure enough, the pressure was far less than that of the southwest, a hard battle, Yuan Shao's three sons were wounded by arrows, and the generals Jiang Yiqu and Wang Zhao and others also died in the chaos, and finally killed the bloody road, but Yuan Shao brought more than 300,000 troops to Yecheng, and Yuan Shao could break out of the encirclement with Yuan Shao, there were less than 10,000 people.

Yuan Shao's army broke through to the northeast, and Jia Xu, the commander of Dong Zhuojun's army who attacked Jizhou, was overjoyed, and was busy waving the order flag at the head of the city, commanding Zhao Yunjun to chase Yuan Shao reluctantly, while Lu Bu, Li Dao and Guo Yan's troops continued to surround the remnants of Yuan Shao's army, and in the fierce battle, Dong Zhuo's army shouted together, "Surrender and don't kill, surrender and don't kill!" The people of Jizhou also pushed out a large amount of food in the city of Yecheng, shouting in the Jizhou dialect, "Fellow villagers, surrender, put down your weapons and have food!" "Yuan Shaojun had no owner in the army, and he was tired and hungry, he laid down his arms and surrendered, and fell to Dong Zhuojun in formation, and even many of the soldiers who fled in all directions ran back to surrender, just in exchange for Dong Zhuojun's food, and in the afternoon, the remnants of Yuan Shaojun's army all surrendered, and Dong Zhuojun disarmed more than 100,000 Yuan Shaojun without much effort. Poor Yuan Shao never dreamed that his imposing army of more than 300,000 would be defeated by Dong Zhuojun in less than a day, and he was defeated so badly.

Not to mention that Dong Zhuojun contained an overwhelming number of prisoners on the periphery of Yecheng, but only that Yuan Shao led the remnants of the army to flee to the northeast in a hurry, Zhao Yun pursued Yuan Shao unhurriedly according to Jia Xu's instructions, neither forcing Yuan Shao to be forced to fight to the death, but also not letting Yuan Shao escape completely, and staying until the evening, he gradually forced Yuan Shao to the foot of Phoenix Mountain, which was more than 100 miles northeast of Yecheng.

"Capture Yuan Shao alive!" Yuan Shaojun was fleeing in a hurry, and the shouting and killing in front of him was loud, and a team of Dong Zhuojun came out head-on, and the first general slapped his horse out of the battle, shouting: "I am Zang Ba, the general under the throne of Kang, Yuan Shao quickly dismount and surrender!" Yuan Shao naturally refused to surrender, but the soldiers were already sleepy and tired, and they were really unable to fight again, so he hurriedly admonished: "Lord, our army is tired and can't fight again, this Phoenix Mountain is a high road and dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, you can go up the mountain to take refuge." Yuan Shao had no choice but to lead the army to flee to Phoenix Mountain, and Zang Ba and Zhao Yun's troops who came later did not go up the mountain to chase and kill, but surrounded Phoenix Mountain and set up camp for a long-term plan.

It was night, Yuan Shaojun killed horses and hunted beasts on the mountain and ate, took a short rest, late at night, Yuan Shaojun's soldiers all cried, or cried and lost their brothers, or cried and abandoned their dead relatives, Yuan Shao and his three sons who were sleeping in the wilderness heard the cry, Yuan Shao couldn't help but feel sad from his heart, and also hugged his three sons and cried. ”

Yuan Shao wiped his tears and said: "I regret not listening to Tian Feng's good words, leading the wolf into the room, and falling to such a point, this father is now six gods and no master, how to get out, I hope that Mr. will give advice." ”

"It's hard to rush out." Fu Zhi groaned: "Fortunately, the mountain road in this Phoenix Mountain is steep and can be held, and the only way to do it now is to make people ask for help from Guangping and Youzhou, and let the trial and others send troops to rescue." ”

"The trial is far away in Youzhou, but I am afraid that it will not be able to be saved." Yuan Shao cried and said: "In order to seize Jizhou, the Dong thief will definitely attack our army more than once, but I am afraid that we will not be able to save it." ”

"What the lord said is very true." Frustrated and knelt down, kowtowed to Yuan Shao and said: "Please also ask the lord to send someone to Cao Cao for help, Xu and Jizhou half of the land and hand over the murderers of Cao Cao's father, Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang, our army and Cao Cao are cold, Cao Cao will definitely send troops to rescue." ”

If you want to know what will happen next, and whether Yuan Shao can escape, please see the next chapter.