Chapter 222: Zhang He won two counties in one battle, Ju Yi offered a plan to save Yuan Shao
Liu Bei set off for Yongzhou, and after arriving at Tongguan, Liu Bei ordered the generals Naduo, Wang Wei, and Yan Xing to go to Wuguan and Nanyang County to serve as Zhang Liao, Xu Huang, and Zhang Ren's lieutenants respectively!
Then Liu Bei rushed back to Chang'an for more than half a month, and it has been almost eight or nine months since Liu Bei left Chang'an.
Returning to Chang'an again, the disaster situation in the entire Yongzhou has been alleviated, and there are basically no more displaced people, just like a happy scene.
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Yuan Shao captured the three counties of Bingzhou and repaired them for two months, and then ordered Zhang Jaw to lead 50,000 to attack the two counties of Yanmen County and Dingxiang County!
Yuan Shao himself personally led an army of 50,000 to continue westward, preparing to attack Shangjun to the west of Xihe County.
Yanmen County is much more depressed than Shangjun, Yanmen County is an area where the Xianbei State in the north often goes south to plunder, while Shangjun is in the interior, and the number of people is much more.
The entire Yanmen County is only more than 300,000 people, and there is no county guard, basically all counties are autonomous, and in order to resist the Xianbei captivity, each county has also organized a lot of county soldiers.
But where are these county soldiers the opponents of Zhangjaw's army, and wherever Zhangjaw's army goes, all the county orders of Yanmen County are looking at the wind. Just one month later, Zhang Jaw occupied all of Yanmen County.
Then, Zhang Jaw did not rush to attack Dingxiang County, but reorganized all the county soldiers in the entire Yanmen County, with a total of 20,000 troops, and then ordered Dian Wei to leave training soldiers and garrison them at the junction of Yanmen County and Xianbei to guard against Xianbei.
After arranging all military affairs, and after Yuan Shao appointed the Taishou of Yanmen County, Zhang Jaw led the army to the west and prepared to attack Dingxiang County.
Dingxiang County and Yanmen County are very different, the area of Dingxiang County is not large, there are only five counties: Shanwu, Zhongling, Wucheng, Luoxian and Tongguo.
Although Dingxiang County did not have a county guard, after several years of disputes, the five counties of Dingxiang County also formed a unified Dingxiang County under the mutual conquest of each other.
However, there are not many soldiers and horses in the county, only 20,000 cavalry, and Wu Kuan, the county chief of Dingxiang County, has long known that Zhang Jaw has entered Yanmen.
So as early as half a month ago, he led 20,000 cavalry to the junction of Dingxiang County and Yanmen County, preparing to attack Zhangjaw secretly.
On this day, Zhang Jaw led an army of 50,000, including 20,000 cavalry and 30,000 foot soldiers, to Dingxiang County.
After obtaining the three counties of the annexed state, there was no shortage of war horses, but because the time was still short and there were not many soldiers in the annexed state, the number of cavalry was not very large.
Zhang Jaw's army slowly advanced towards Dingxiang County, and Wu Kuan, the Taishou of Dingxiang County, had already received the news of Zhang Jaw's dispatch and set up an ambush early.
As soon as Zhang Jaw entered the encirclement, Wu Kuan led 20,000 cavalry to charge Zhang Jaw, and because he was not prepared at all, the army led by Zhang Jaw also fell into chaos.
But the famous generals are different from ordinary generals, and after falling into a short period of chaos, Zhang Jaw quickly stabilized the soldiers in the chaos.
Then Zhang Jaw asked the adjutant general to command the soldiers to organize the defense, and he himself personally led less than 20,000 cavalry to charge Wu Kuan's army.
When the soldiers led by Zhang Jaw saw Zhang Jaw leading the cavalry to kill, they were immediately overjoyed, and then they got out of the way. In this way, the jaw was opened and killed for a while, so that Wu Kuan's army could fight together.
Although Wu Kuan's martial arts are average, he has a ruthless spirit, and when he saw Zhang Jaw killing, he also personally led Zhang Jaw to meet Zhang Jaw and fought with Zhang Jaw, but the martial arts were indeed too much worse than Zhang Jaw, so he was beheaded by Zhang Jaw in just three moves.
Wu Kuan was beheaded, and the army led by Wu Kuan began to be in chaos, and then Zhang Jaw undoubtedly won the main battle.
In this battle, Zhang Jaw lost less than 10,000 soldiers, but captured more than 10,000 cavalry, and then the entire Dingxiang County was no longer in any way, and five days later, Zhang Jaw captured Dingxiang again.
After capturing Dingxiang, Zhang Jaw was stationed in Dingxiang, reorganizing his troops and horses while waiting for further orders from Yuan Shao.
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However, the process of Yuan Shao's attack on Shangjun was much slower, the entire Shangjun was located inland, and several wars did not affect Shangjun, so the population of the entire Shangjun was quite rich, with 500,000, so the county soldiers also had 50,000 or 60,000.
And Shangjun Taishou Xian Yu Huang is also a very capable person, but this person does not have much ambition, so over the years, Xian Yu Huang has not expanded outward.
This time, Xian Yuhuang learned that Yuan Shao led 50,000 troops to attack Shangjun, so he said to his subordinates: "Yuan Shao's unrighteous army attacked Bingzhou this time, and he was called by the Son of Heaven at all. If the Son of Heaven calls, I should turn against him. ‘’
"However, now, I am guarding one side for the Son of Heaven, so I have to fight with Yuan Shao to guard this side of the world for the Son of Heaven."
After finishing speaking, Xian Yuhuang ordered his troops and horses, raised 50,000 cavalry, and then killed Xihe County. At this time, Yuan Shao had just come out of Xihe County.
Later, Yuan Shao and Xian Yu Huang encountered in Jia County, Xihe County, because Yuan Shao only had 30,000 cavalry, 20,000 foot soldiers, and was defeated by Xian Yu Huang's 50,000 cavalry, so Yuan Shao had no choice but to retreat to Jia County.
After entering Jia County, Yuan Shao recruited young people in the city, and won a total of 10,000 young people, and then he originally defended Jia County with 20,000 foot soldiers.
Then the generals Ju Yi and Gao Ran each led 15,000 cavalry out of the city to attack and harass the army and grain and grass of Xian Yu Huanghou.
And Xian Yuhuang knew that his subordinates were all cavalry, so he only besieged the county seat of Jiaxian County but did not attack, but mobilized 30,000 cavalry to prepare to encircle and kill Ju Yi and Gao Lan outside the city.
However, the two sides had equal forces, so there was a stalemate.
Although they were holding each other, the situation became more and more unfavorable for Yuan Shao, mainly because Yuan Shao led 30,000 foot soldiers and 50,000 people to be besieged in Jia County, and there was less and less grain and grass. If there is more than a month, the whole army will be defeated due to the shortage of food and grass!
Although Ju Yi and Gao Ran were able to collect grain and grass by themselves outside the city, they were restrained by Xian Yuhuang and could not supply Jia County! However, the supply of food and grass for the army of Xian Yuhuang is basically not much of an obstacle!
On this day, Ju Yi and Gao Ran got together, and Ju Yi said: "Gao Ran, now the grain and grass in Zhugongjia County can no longer support January, so we should find a way to defeat Xian Yuhuang, otherwise we will lose this battle!" ”
"I also thought the same way, but after thinking about it for a few days, I didn't find a way!" Gao Ran said!
"I have a plan, and I am fifty percent sure of success, but I need you to cooperate with me in this plan!" Ju Yi said!
"Oh, tell me about it!" Gao Ran asked anxiously!
"Now Xian Yuhuang has sent 15,000 cavalry to contain the two of us, so that the two of us cannot advance, retreat and retreat.
Therefore, the urgent task at the moment is how to get rid of Xian Yuhuang's containment, and then defeat a cavalry, so as to take the initiative!
As for how to defeat one of the cavalry, it is the key. And to defeat one of the cavalry, the most important thing is to form a superiority in troops.
So I want to borrow 10,000 troops from you, and you will pretend to be 15,000 cavalry with 5,000 troops, and not engage the enemy, but only contain one of the 15,000 troops!
After I lead an army of 25,000 to victory, I will attack another cavalry with you, and then relieve the siege of Jiaxian! ”
"This plan is good, but there are quite a lot of scouts sent by Xian Yu Huang, how can we deploy troops without knowing it?" Gao Ran nodded, and said with some confusion!
"This matter is not difficult, we can gather troops together to feint and attack the Xian Yuhuang army besieging Jia County, and then disperse again, so that we have the opportunity to complete the task of transferring troops!" Ju Yi opened his mouth and said!!
"Yes, indeed! Moreover, we can attack Xian Yu Huang in the evening, and then take advantage of the night to attack the soldiers! Gao Ran also suggested!
After the two discussed it again, they separated again and acted according to the plan!