In the spring of the ninth year of the Han Galaxy (197 AD), on February 23, in the early morning, at the east gate of Dongyang, 70,000 elite Han troops gathered here. Liu Xie rode a horse in Chen Gong on the left side of the center and Guo Jia on the right.

Wang Yun saw off with hundreds of officials, and Liu Xie said: "It may take a long time for me to go here, and Situ must do a good job in the defense of Luoyang." ”

"The old minister obeys the holy wisdom and does not dare to slack off!"

The army set out and marched towards Guandu. The sky was not yet dawn, it was slightly cold, Liu Xie said: "Fengxiao, I see that you are not very old, but your body is very thin, wear more, don't freeze." ”

Guo Jia was 28 years old at the time, eleven years older than Liu Xie, and he was a relatively young general in the Han army. ”

In the original history, Guo Jia died of illness at the age of 38 when he accompanied Cao Cao's Northern Expedition to Karasuma.

In contact with Guo Jia, Liu Xie could also feel that this person was too weak, so he was also very worried about him.

Liu Xie asked: "Fengxiao, what is the difference between serving Cao Cao and serving me?" ”

Guo Jia said: "The old was engaged under Cao Cao's account, and Weichen was a pearl of the secret investment, and now he is following His Majesty is abandoning the dark and surrendering to the light, and Weichen will do his best to serve His Majesty and reimburse the court!" The liver and brain are smeared on the ground, and then they are dead. ”

"Then take care of your body!" Liu Xie said, "I go to the hospital twice a year for a physical examination. If your body is not well-maintained, how can you work for me? ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, Wechen will remember the teachings."

Liu Xie said again: "You literati, didn't I send you five bird plays, and you must insist on exercising every day." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, the ministers and others have practiced."

"What's more, Zhang Zhongjing, the divine doctor who I patrolled from Jiangnan this time, is just like Zhang Zhongjing, although he is in the Han army, he is a famous internal medicine doctor, I have to ensure that you are all healthy."

's words made Guo Jia, Chen Gong and other advisers grateful.

When the day was large, a scout came to report that Yuan Shao's general Yan Liang led the vanguard army to plunder in the area of Baima.

Liu Xiexin said: This Yuan Shao came fast enough, this is looking for death! But there is still a day's journey from the White Horse, and it will be there tomorrow, so there is no hurry, so I can only let Yuan Shao be at ease for a day.

During the march, Liu Xie summoned all the generals to accompany him, and discussed the strategy of retreating from the enemy while marching. From time to time, Guan Yu was on his side, silent.

Liu Xie called him over and said, "Yun Chang, I heard that you are a loyal and righteous person, Taoyuan is three righteous and famous, and you are loyal to your brother." Recently, your brother Uncle Liu Huang has returned to the imperial court, and I have named him the king of Hanzhong, but I have not given him real power, I heard that you have a lot of criticism about this? ”

Guan Yu said: "Wechen don't dare, Wechen is brotherly love to his brother, and Wechen is the righteousness of the Han family, and he doesn't dare to slack off." ”

Liu Xie said: "I know your loyalty, but I don't know the world's leisurely mouth." ”

Guan Yu said: "Since Lu Bu was destroyed, Weichen returned to the imperial court, there is no half an inch of merit, to hunt Hebei tomorrow, Weichen will be killed to make meritorious service, in order to show loyalty!" ”

Liu Xie said: "This is very good. ”

Liu Xie's army quickened the pace and rushed to Guandu, and in the evening, they had already arrived and set up camp.

The scouts reported that Yuan Shao had already crossed the Yellow River to attack. Liu Xie ordered the Han army to strengthen its vigilance to prevent the robbery of the camp, and at the same time ordered people to summon follow-up to speed up the process and quickly come to converge.

Since Yuan's army had already crossed the Yellow River, there was no more moat to rely on. Liu Xie ordered the well fence to be quickly assembled, and the sunset crossbow and wooden kite were set up to deal with a possible night attack by Yuan's army at any time.

Due to the material problem of the hot air balloon, it has not been able to be put into actual combat, so this battle of Guandu will not be usable.

After setting up the camp, Liu Xie ordered the scouts to continue to investigate, and gathered everyone to discuss countermeasures in the imperial camp.

Guo Jia said: "Now Yuan Shao still has a lot of troops who have not crossed the Yellow River, we will not let go and wait again, Yuan has many soldiers, but our Han army has a good weapon, and others come more, we can also save the province to chase and suppress everywhere." ”

Liu Xie nodded in agreement, and said: "I guess that he will come to rob the camp tonight, pass the order, prepare more rockets, and once he finds a night attack, he will shoot them with rockets." The Han army has a lot of arrows, so you don't need to save it. ”

Arrow rain attack is a tactic created by Liu Xie, that is, once the enemy army attacks, all of them are shot with arrows, as if it rained arrows. Anyway, the Han army has a lot of arrows, and each soldier is equipped with no less than 100 arrows as standard, and the baggage troops are backed by a large number of arrows.

Seventy thousand troops, no one has a hundred arrows, and this random shot is seven million arrows.

Moreover, the Han army was basically dominated by cavalry. The 70,000 vanguard troops were all cavalry, half of which were archers and half of crossbow cavalry. It is known that each cavalry archer has a single fiery arrow, which is equivalent to more than 30,000 cannonballs.

Once the Yuan army comes to attack at night, ten thousand arrows are fired at once, which is also quite a shocking scene, so the Han army is not afraid.

The Han camp strengthened its vigilance, it was night, as Liu Xie expected, at midnight, the Yuan army came to attack at night, Liu Xie hurriedly got up and left the camp, the Han army had already begun to attack with a rain of arrows, and he heard the shouts around him to kill the sky.

Not long after Liu Xie came out of the camp tent, Yuan Jun was right, and asked the generals around him about the situation.

A general said: "I can't see clearly in the night, it looks like Yan Liangjun, but I have already retreated, do you want to chase it?" ”

Liu Xie said: "The night is unknown, hold the camp, don't chase." ”

After that, he ordered to go down and continue to be on guard, and he went back to the camp to rest.

Just fell asleep for less than half an hour, Yan Liang attacked at night, Liu Xie just got up, and the other party was quickly repulsed again.

In this way, in one night, Yan Liang launched seven or eight attacks on the Han army camp, all of which ended in failure.

In the morning, in addition to the camp, Liu Xie's soldiers came to report that there were corpses all over the front, most of them were civilians.

Liu Xie said angrily: "Yan Liang is hateful, he actually drove the people to attack the camp!" Spread my will, and those who see Yan Liang should not be persuaded to surrender, not captured alive, and killed without mercy! ”

Just as he was about to have breakfast, a soldier reported that Yan Liang waved his army here to attack the camp and drove a large number of people to come. Liu Xie asked, "How long will it take to arrive?" ”

The scout said: "At most, one stick of incense." ”

Liu Xie ordered: "All the cavalry, all get on the horse, meet Yan Liang, don't hurt the people by mistake!" ”

After passing the order, Liu Xie himself got on his horse and took the lead in the attack, the generals followed closely, and the forty or fifty thousand cavalry followed the attack, charging with bows and crossbows, and after a while, they rushed into the people, and the people were in chaos.

Liu Xie shouted: "Kill the Yuan army with all your might, and the people can quickly go to the rear of the Han army to hide!" ”

In the chaos, he saw a general on the other side rushing violently, slashing the Han army with a big knife, Liu Xie was shocked, could this be the famous general Yan Liang in Hebei? Sure enough, the name is well deserved, and just as he was about to remind the generals to be careful, he saw a green-robed general rushing over.

It was the beautiful bearded Gongguan Yu, the red rabbit horse he rode was fast, and he rushed to Yan Liang in the blink of an eye, shouted, raised the Qinglong Yanyue Knife, and cut down Yan Liang's head.