Li Cunxiao came in front and back, glanced at Zhang Ren's departing back, and said to Lu Bu: "Big brother, why didn't you kill him?" ”

"Kill him, who will charge for me?"

"Me. Am I not better than this Shu general? ”

Lu Bu smiled and said, "Yes, you are better than him." But I'm reluctant to use it. Zhang Ren is a general in Shuzhong, and has a very high prestige among the soldiers and civilians of Sichuan and Shu, and he leads the army to attack the city, and the people and soldiers in the city will have a fluke mentality. They will want to surrender to Zhang Ren, and follow Zhang Ren to avoid being slaughtered. It's easier for us to take down Chuanshu. As for Zhang Ren, I took down Sichuan Shu, and then think about how to place him. ”

"Big Brother is Thoughtful"

Li Cunxiao took away the killing intent in his heart.

After a day of rest.

Zhang Ren led the army to continue to attack Jiameng Pass.

Lu Bu is still the same as before, supervising the battle in the back.

Unexpectedly

Zhuge Liang prepared a large amount of sand. When Zhang Ren's army attacked the city, he ordered people to scatter the city tower, and surprisingly it was just at that time that there was a strong wind, and the sand and soil blew in the wind, so that the soldiers besieging the city and the new army supervising the battle could not open their eyes.

Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Pang De personally led 200,000 troops out of the city and easily defeated Zhang Ren's 50,000 troops. Then follow Zhang Ren's defeated army and kill Lu Bu's new army.

The soldiers could not open their eyes and suffered defeat

Li Yuanba and Li Cunxiao stayed behind to break off. With his eyes closed, he defeated Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Pang De, and killed four or five thousand enemies. The frightened pursuers did not dare to move forward and retreated to the Jiameng Pass.

After this battle, the casualties of the various units were extremely high.

Lü Bu ordered to set up a defensive line along the official road and suspend the attack on Jiameng Pass. Han Xin's 1st Division and Zhang Ren's troops went to Qianwei County to loot and collect grain and grass for the army.

The war is at a stalemate

In Langzhong and Jiangzhou, the situation is much better than that of Jiamengguan.

Xiang Yu, Wu Yunzhao, and Pei Yuanqing's tens of thousands of troops fought successively, and defeated Liu Bei's 150,000 troops happily. It has successively recovered Langzhong, Jiaozhou, and some dangerous mountainous areas.

Liu Bei was defeated by Xiang Yu and defeated to Jiameng Pass.

Since then

The center of the war has been assembled at Jiameng Pass. The victory or defeat of the Battle of Jiameng Pass will also determine Liu Bei's survival.

Mid-winter.

The battle of Xuzhou came to its final moment.

Yuan Shao attacked Picheng for more than half a month, regardless of life and death, and paid a heavy price, and did not gnaw that hard bone. On the contrary, when he was exhausted, Yue Fei took out the remaining 10,000 rounds of artillery and dealt a heavy blow to Yuan Shao.

After that, he was struck by white waves.

Yuan Shao's four large battalions were blown up by 20,000 shells.

His army of 400,000 suffered more than half of the casualties, and he was no longer able to attack the city. After Xu Yu and Fu Zhu persuaded him, Yuan Shao agreed to retreat to Pengcheng to garrison. Prepare to borrow grain and road from Cao Cao, and return to Hebei along Guandu.

Xiapi.

The people of the city rejoiced.

He was very enthusiastic about the returned Xuzhou Army and Yangzhou Army.

Fan Lihua rode on a horse and waved to the people with a smile.

Yue Fei said: "The master's mother defeated Yuan Shao's 400,000 army in one fell swoop, and it will definitely go down in history. I am waiting for the Xuzhou generals, and I also have a light on my face. Follow the master mother with a bright future. ”

Fan Lihua took a fruit handed by the people, and said while eating: "It's ridiculous that Yuan Shao still wants to occupy my Xuzhou, look at our people, how enthusiastic." With their support, I am not afraid of Yuan Shao. ”

Speaking of which.

Yue Fei hugged his fists and said, "What the master mother said is very true. During my stay in Xiapi, the people of the city volunteered to sign up for the Assassin's Mansion to help carry boulders and wood. I was touched by the fact that they brought their own food and did not need any compensation. I have written down everyone's names and am ready to present them to the main mother. ”

"Okay."

Fan Lihua said: "I will give them a hundred times the reward!" ”

Return to the Assassin's House.

The scouts who probed Yuan Jun returned.

Yuan Shao's 150,000 troops had already left Xiapi and were stationed in Pengcheng in Pengcheng State.

Pengcheng is the gateway to the west of Xuzhou, and further on is Yanzhou.

Qi Jiguang was worried that Yuan Shao would escape, so he came out and said, "Please allow the master mother, I will lead the army to pursue Yuan Shao." ”

"A defeated general, a dog in the water, what is the way? General Qi is a little calm, wait for me to write a letter, send it to Cao Cao, intimidate him, and make him dare not help Yuan Shao. Yuan Shao's defeated army fell into a state of starvation! ”

Fan Lihua seems to have had an idea a long time ago and wrote a letter.

Qi Jiguang returned to his seat and said, "I'm afraid that Cao Cao won't listen to his master and help Yuan Shao return to Hebei." Then our previous efforts have been in vain, and the north of Xuzhou has added another strong enemy. ”

Bai Qi said: "General Qi doesn't know. According to the shadow report, General Jizhou and Jiang Yiqu led an army of 200,000 near the Yellow River and prepared to rush to the aid of Qingzhou. Although we defeated Yuan Shao, we should not rush into pursuit, and we should immediately return to Qingzhou to help Gan Ning, Wei Yan and Zhang Liao. Occupy the seven counties of Qingzhou in one fell swoop. After this battle, the land south of the Yellow River will be ours. Yuan Shao was completely beaten back to Hebei, and he was no longer able to compete with us. ”

"What Xiaobai said is"

Fan Lihua wrote the letter, handed it to Yue Fei, and instructed, "Send someone to Cao Cao." ”

"No."

Yue Fei opened it and looked at it, and there were only a few words on the letter: "If you dare to help Yuan Shao, I will kill Yanzhou!" "There is also a small figure drawn next to it, with a grinning mouth and hair standing upside down.

"Hahaha"

Yue Fei burst into laughter and said, "The letter from the master mother is really unusual. Presumably Cao Cao saw it, and immediately went crazy. ”

The letter was sent to Yanzhou.

Xu Du.

Inside the palace of King Wei.

Yuan Shao's envoy, Xu You, was talking to Cao Cao.

wanted to borrow grain from Cao Cao and return to Hebei along Guandu.

Cao Cao, in order to find a reliable ally, was of course willing to help. But he was also a guy who couldn't afford to make a profit, and wanted Yuan Shao to cede the two counties west of the Yellow River as a token of gratitude.

Xu Yu dared to be arbitrary, so he argued with Cao Cao.

Just when the debate was raging, Fan Lihua's letter arrived.

Cao Cao picked it up and looked at it, his face suddenly darkened, and he roared angrily: "The demon woman is so presumptuous! ”

"King Wei"

Everyone was shocked.

Xun Yu asked, "Dare to ask King Wei, what did Fan Lihua say?" ”

"See for yourself!"

Cao Cao handed the letter to Xun Yu.

After Xun Yu saw it, he couldn't help but be annoyed.

Cao Cao said: "Xu Yu. I'll promise you now. lent Yuan Shao 30,000 stone of grain, and asked Xu Huang to lead 150,000 troops to guard the border of Pengcheng and help Yuan Shao return to Hebei. As for the two counties west of the Yellow River, we will talk about it later. You have to tell Yuan Shao that all the princes in the world are about to be killed by Lu Bu, and he and I are left. I swear to be an enemy of Lu Bu, hoping that he will know how powerful he is and form an alliance with me. ”

"It's Nature"

Xu Yu replied.

He glanced at the letter sent by Fan Lihua in Xun Yu's hand, and was ecstatic: "Fortunately, Fan Lihua's letter, otherwise Cao Cao would be so easy to agree." ”

Fan Lihua didn't know the result of the letter.

After driving away Yuan Shao's army, he ordered Bai Qi and Yue Fei to lead an army of 50,000 to Qingzhou to help in the battle.

Yuan Tan, the assassin of Qingzhou, has no talent to command the army.

Most of his seven counties in Qingzhou were captured by Gan Ning. The tens of thousands of troops under Yuan Tan were almost consumed, and there were less than 10,000 people left, sticking to Dongpingling.

Gan Ning didn't want the soldiers to die, so he surrounded Dongpingling and ran out of food to threaten him.

(End of chapter)