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When Lu Zhi was running for Liu Yi at home, Liu Yi was looking at the railing.

"Kong Ming, it's time to go."

Liu Yi said with emotion, with some excitement on his face, Yecheng, Yuan Shao's hometown, is it finally coming?

Zhuge Liang also nodded and said, "Let's go, but before leaving, you have to take Zhang Cheng with you, just in case." ”

Liu Yi and Zhuge Liang looked at each other and smiled, fighting on each other's territory, it was really comfortable now, Guangping was their rear, with hostages in hand, so they didn't have to worry about anything going wrong, then they could attack Yecheng wholeheartedly.

At this moment, a soldier came to report,

"In the Battle of Jieqiao, Gongsun Zhan's entire army was annihilated, and he was captured and committed suicide."

Liu Yi and Zhuge Liang fell into silence, and the sudden change caught them off guard.

Boundary Bridge? It's just broken?

"Do you know the specifics?"

The soldier shook his head and said, "I only know that it was Yan Liangwen Chou who was the vanguard and broke through Gongsun Zhan's defense. ”

Liu Yi frowned, impossible, the boundary bridge level is easy to defend and difficult to attack, how can the role of Yan Liangwen and Chou be so big.

As long as Gongsun Chan can't come out, they can't help him.

Liu Yi tried hard to recall that the records of the two in the official history are few and unknown, such as their origins, appearance, official positions, parents, spouses, siblings and children, etc., all of which are unknown, which makes people puzzled, even the historical materials of the two are not recorded, Yan Liangwen and Chou appear the most, or in the romance, for the force of the two of them, Liu Yi knows that it cannot be underestimated.

We know that Yuan Shao pays great attention to his background, and a group of civil and military personnel around him, all of whom have a clear background, Yan Liangwen is not an ordinary big-headed soldier, but a military general that Yuan Shao relies on very much. Yuan Shao has been operating in Hebei for so many years, dividing one side, claiming to be the king and hegemon, doesn't he even have a knife and pen under his hands? The establishment of a minimum file is one of the basic elements of administrative management, this truth, Liu Bei understands, Cao Cao understands, Yuan Shao doesn't understand? However, there is also a theory that Yan Liangwen's ugly file was destroyed in the Guandu War, which is also full of loopholes. If the fire burned down the "Fire Temple" and his family didn't know his own family, how could other people's files be preserved? Could it be that the beard is burned, and the eyebrows and hair can't be burned?

Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if they were burned, with Yan Liangwen's prestige at that time, the staff and intelligence personnel of other camps, especially Cao Cao's camp, should carry out a comprehensive assessment of them, and it should be reasonable, "know oneself and know one's opponent, and be invincible in a hundred battles", this is the common sense of soldiers. The so-called "knowing the other" naturally includes their detailed personal information. Otherwise, Xun Yu's words of "Yan Liang, Wen Chou, and the courage of a husband, but they can be captured in a battle" are baseless nonsense.

That is to say, if Yan Liangwen Chou is a real person in history, Cao Cao's camp must have fully grasped their information, and with Cao Cao's rigorous style of paying attention to Yanwen and repairing history, it is impossible not to make a note for them, famous generals who were defeated and died.

Liu Yi doesn't know, after all, no one knows how much history has been transformed, but Liu Yi thinks that there are too many man-made traces on Yan Liangwen's ugly body. For example, the name, one beautiful and one ugly, may be made up by someone; For example, in relevant records, the two are like a pair of difficult brothers, when it comes to Yan Liang, they must say that they are ugly, which is exactly the same as Meng Liang Jiaozan in "Yang Jiajiang", obviously there is the possibility of acting. History is a coincidence, but whether such a dramatic coincidence will occur, Liu Yi does not dare to determine.

Yuan Shao's staff officers said that benign and narrow-minded, although brave and brave, cannot be alone. However, how Yan Liang "promoted narrowness" did not give any explanation, is this Chen Shou ruining people by the mouth of frustration? The Romance of the Three Kingdoms justified Yan Liang from the side: Yan Liang was killed by Guan Yu in seconds, and after Wen Chou knew about it, he immediately asked Ying to avenge him, indicating that Yan Liang was not bad; Being able to mix under the eccentric Yuan Shao for a long time, and the mix is not bad, shows that Yan Liang's character is not "narrow", and his work performance is also good. Chen Shou also did not approve, on the eve of the Battle of Guandu, Chen Shou warned Cao Cao through the mouth of the sour Confucian Kong Rong: Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Yong Champion Three Armies. This kind of intention is purely a spoof, because Cao Cao has long known that Yan Liangwen is very ugly, and Chen Shou's move is undoubtedly saying that Yan Liangwen's ugly reputation can only scare and scare readers.

Liu Yi shook his head, this kind of untraceable history, no one knows what is true, but Liu Yi knows that Yan Liang is ugly, he is indeed unstoppable, how powerful is Yan Liang? The normal confrontation of 20 defeated Xu Huang, compared to Xu Chu's 50 battles against Xu Huang without winning or losing, Yan Liang's force is obviously above Xu Chu and other Cao Ying generals, and "all the generals are Li Ran" is enough to show that Cao Ying's generals are cowardly to Yan Liang's force. In other words, if they fight normally, it is difficult to say who is stronger Yan Liang or Guan Yu.

In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Chen Shou portrayed Wen Chou as an easily fooled guy, Boss Cao could seduce him with his baggage, Wen Chou was also fooled, the soldiers and horses were in chaos, and he was broken by Boss Cao and died. It is completely inconsistent with the tactical level of Wen Chou. Lao Luo wrote Wen Chou as a coward, and when he saw Guan Yu rushing over, Wen Chou was actually timid and began to run away, but Guan Yu lost his life with a knife in his hand. This kind of writing is obviously inconsistent, why are people ugly? is here to find Guan Yu for revenge, the so-called "enemies are very red when they see each other", how can they run away with a weak heart? Such a spoof simply doesn't treat people as human beings! Yan Liangwen Chou must charge forward in every battle, take the lead, and forget to die, although out of the conceit of his own force, but this spirit of daring to take responsibility is something that most people dare not do or can't do, which is also one of the reasons why they are appreciated by Yuan Shao. In addition, Yan Liang dared to speak out about the wrongs of others, and was not afraid of offending powerful people such as Frustration, while Wen Chou was arrogant and straightforward, and shouted "Who can defeat me?" These are also things that most people don't dare to say or don't want to say.

It's a pity that they can't become human idols like Liu Guanzhang after all. In the pen of the historians and literati, they are like cartoon toys, which are arbitrarily rubbed and designed, losing their basic natural physical form, and not even enjoying the minimum human dignity.

As the saying goes: the artist is bold. In battle, one relies on martial arts, and the other relies on courage. Especially in the case of individual soldier docking and the same martial arts, good psychological quality is the decisive factor for the final victory. On the contrary, if the skills are not as good as others and blindly bold, it will often backfire. If you don't do it, you will be in danger of losing your life. Therefore, it can be said with certainty that combat technology and psychological quality complement each other, and only by perfectly combining them can we maximize combat efficiency.

Although Yan Liangwen is ugly, he is a little worse than Guan Yu and Lu Bu, and there are many people who are superior in martial arts, and Guan Yu and Guan Yunchang are one of them. Guan Yu's characteristics are that not only his martial arts are superb, but also his psychological quality is also very good, ordinary people and even people who are equivalent to his martial arts are not in his eyes at all. Of course, dealing with opponents like Lu Bu and Huang Zhong is often a different matter. Guan Yu's courage has already emerged as early as the extermination of the Yellow Turban Army. When the two armies encountered, first Zhang Fei stabbed Cheng Yuanzhi's deputy general Deng Mao under the horse, and then Guan Yu "jumped on the horse and danced the knife straight out", which made Cheng Yuanzhi "heartbroken and caught off guard", and was cut into two sections by Guan Yu with a knife. Obviously, Cheng Yuanzhi's martial arts and psychological quality are average, as soon as he saw Guan Yu, he was scared first, he was in a hurry, and he became someone else's knife in a daze. This battle was actually only a very small battle against the Yellow Turban Army, and it did not make Guan Yu famous all over the world and prominent among the princes. And what really made him famous and proud of it from then on was naturally the battle that followed Liu Bei to crusade against Dong Zhuo. In that year, Dong Zhuo was in turmoil, Cao Cao issued an edict, and the princes of the Eighteenth Route jointly crusaded against Dong Zhuo. Unexpectedly, the division was unfavorable, and he encountered a strong enemy at the beginning, and several generals under the princes of all walks of life were beheaded by Hua Xiong one after another. At the critical juncture, Guan Yu volunteered and staged a devastating drama in time. Hua Xiong can be described as a brave general, but in the face of Guan Yu, who is highly skilled, he is powerless, and he is defeated in the blink of an eye. All of a sudden, Guan Yu's brave image jumped on the paper.

is still Hua Xiong's skills are not as good as others, and it is reasonable to be beheaded by Guan Yu under the horse. Liu Yi doesn't know if Guan Yu can do that this time, but in order to control the general trend, Liu Yi has already told Guan Yu that Liu Yi is ready to support at any time, and in history, Guan Yu has successively killed Hebei famous generals Yan Liang and Wen Chou, which is really a bit unexpected. Back then, in order to repay Cao Cao's great kindness, Guan Yu rushed to the horse and lifted the Qinglong knife when Cao Cao was defeated one after another...... Running away is really exciting. Seeing Guan Yu coming, Yan Liang didn't react at all, and was beheaded by Guan Yu. When I first started reading this section, I always couldn't figure it out. I think that Yan Liang was originally a strong martial artist, how could he be beheaded without a round. In fact, there is a detail in this, that is, Yan Liang saw Guan Yu coming and wanted to talk, that is, to ask,

Now the question comes out, the two armies are facing each other, Yan Liang accidentally coped with it, what else to ask? It turned out that when Yan Liang said goodbye to Yuan Shao, Liu Bei, who took refuge in Yuan Shao, once told Yan Liang: "I have a younger brother, Guan Yun Changye, who is nine feet five inches long, must be one foot eight inches long, his face is like a heavy jujube, Danfeng eyes, lying silkworm eyebrows, he likes to wear green brocade robes, ride yellow horses, and make the green dragon big knife must be in Cao Cao's place." If you see him, you can teach him to come in a hurry. "There is this instruction, so when Yan Liang saw Guan Yu coming, he thought he was coming to defect. didn't plan to meet the enemy, but Guan Yu easily took his life. Yan Liang died unjustly, and the initiator was Liu Bei.

Later, Yanjin Zhuwen Chou was even more dramatic. Originally, Yan Liang was beheaded, and Wen Chou had an opinion on Liu Bei. As a result, when Wen Chou went to meet the enemy, Liu Bei ignored Wen Chou's strong opposition and had to follow him. In the end, Wen Chou had no choice but to divide his troops with Liu Bei. After Wen Chou came into contact with Cao Cao's vanguard, Zhang Liao and Xu Huang fought first. Wen Chou saw that the two generals were coming to besiege, and first shot off Zhang Liao's helmet with an arrow. Zhang Liao hurried again, and was shot by Wen Chou on the horse under the seat. Seeing that Zhang Liao was in danger, Xu Huang hurriedly came to the rescue, and fought with Wen Chou for a few rounds, because he saw that the military horses behind Wen Chou had arrived, Xu Huang hurriedly retreated. Just as Wen Chou led his troops in pursuit, Guan Yu suddenly appeared and stopped Wen Chou. Seeing Guan Yu suddenly kill, Wen Chou hurriedly responded to the battle, but the result was less than two, and Wen Chou didn't know what the reason was since he fled. It doesn't matter if you go, because Guan Yu is riding a red rabbit horse, he runs faster than Wen Chou, and stabs Wen Chou under the horse with a knife in the back of the head.

If you want to say that Wen Chou, at the beginning, the two generals Zhang Liao and Xu Huang, who were enemies of one person, were still calm and fearless, but now they refused to kill one person. The fact is that Zhang Liao and Xu Huang's martial arts are not inferior to Guan Yu at all. What's more, during the Panhe War, Zhao Yun and Wen Chou only had a draw. And today, in the face of martial arts and Zhao Yun, Guan Yu is powerless. That's the crux of the matter. In fact, Wen Chou's death was affected by Yan Liang's beheading. Because Guan Yu's fame has grown, and his martial arts have also been infinitely exaggerated, this shadow naturally has a huge psychological pressure on Wen Chou; The second is that Wen Chou should not run away. When the two armies meet, the brave wins, and as soon as they flee, they lose the initiative. And Guan Yu rode the red rabbit horse that Cao Cao had just rewarded, and after a few steps to catch up, Wen Chou became a ghost under the knife, Liu Yi believes that there is another point that may be entrusted by Liu Bei, although Liu Bei is here to defect to Yuan Shao, and his status is not outstanding, but he is also very familiar with Yuan Shao, and Yuan Shao admires Guan Yu very much, which is very entangled.

It can be seen from this that Yan Liang and Wen Chou did die a little bit of a wretch, and some of them are not clear. And Guan Yu, of course, can't escape the major suspicion of opportunism. But facts are facts after all, Yan Liang and Wen Chou were beheaded by Guan Yu. Perhaps it is this ending that makes Guan Yu's brave image more prominent, as if he has become an invincible figure in the world.

The first strike is strong, and the second strike suffers. Yan Liang and Wen Chou didn't understand until they died, and their good martial arts made things so bad because of different opportunities and circumstances. I knew that Guan Yu's martial arts were not stronger than myself, so I calmed down and let it go, and it was not certain who would kill the deer. was negligent for a while, and at this time, Yan Liangwen and Chou under Jiuquan were afraid that their intestines would be repentant.

Yan Liang and Wen Chou were often called military generals during the Three Kingdoms period, and they also had a place in the list of twenty-four generals of the Three Kingdoms, tied for the twentieth place with Zhang Xiu: "The spear god Zhang Xiu and Wen Yan are too sad to die despite their bravery." ”

In the Three Kingdoms Commentary, Zhang Xiu was worshiped as the god of guns, and was a disciple of the martial artist Tong Yuan with Zhao Yun, and was later stabbed to death by Zhao Yun after 300 rounds of battle with Zhao Yun at Changbanpo; In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Yan Liang and Wen Chou were first described as braver generals than Zhang Liao and Xu Huang, but later they were killed by Guan Yu in several rounds, which is a pity.

Therefore, the twenty-four generals put these three people together, and lamented their bad luck, but it can also be seen from this that the ranking of this list is based on the content of storytelling and romance, which is somewhat different from history. Among them, Zhang Xiu did not have the name of the god of guns, and died in the twelfth year of Jian'an on the way to follow Cao Cao to conquer Wuhuan; After the death of Yan Liangwen and Chou, Yuan Shaojun was very shocked, which shows that they are indeed among the few generals in Yuan Shaojun.

In fact, at that time, Yuan Shao and Cao Cao's sphere of influence was mainly bounded by the Yellow River, with Yuan Shao in the north and Cao Cao in the south. Yuan Shao divided the army into three teams, respectively with Fu Zhu, Guo Tu, and Chun Yuqiong as the governors, and then led the army south to Liyangjin on the north bank of the Yellow River, and then sent the general Yan Liang to cross the Yellow River with Guo Tu and Chun Yuqiong's two armies to besiege Liu Yan, the Taishou of Dongjun appointed by Cao Cao, in Baimajin on the south bank of the Yellow River, which is the "Siege of White Horses". In April, when Cao Cao received an urgent letter from Liu Yan, the Taishou of Dongjun, he planned to immediately march north to relieve the siege of Baima, at this time Xun You suggested to Cao Cao: "Now there are few soldiers and no enemy, and it is possible to divide the situation." When the public arrives in Yanjin, if the crossing troops are to the latter, Shao Bixi responds, and then the light troops attack the white horse to cover its unpreparedness, and Yan Liang can also be a bird. Xun You's suggestion is a way to attack the west. He advised Cao Cao not to attack Yan Liang directly, but to lead his army across the Yellow River to Yanjin to make a move to attack Yuan Shao's rear. "Jin" as the place name is generally the meaning of the ferry, like Hefei's Xiaoyaojin, etc., Yanjin is a ferry on the north bank of the Yellow River, because the Yellow River is between Yuan Shao and Cao Cao is in a southwest-northeast direction, so Yanjin is located in the southwest direction of Liyangjin where Yuan Shao is located. Cao Cao adopted Xun You's suggestion, and when Yuan Shao heard that Cao Cao crossed the river to Yanjin, he immediately allocated a part of his troops and horses to attack Cao Cao, so Cao Cao marched to the white horse overnight, but before he reached more than ten miles, Yan Liang was shocked and came to fight against him. Cao Cao took Zhang Liao and Guan Yu as the vanguard, Guan Yu looked at Yan Liang's cover, here is to say, first of all, Yan Liang sat under the command of the commander of the Yuan army as the commander of the Yuan army, and did not participate in the battle, and Guan Yu, as the vanguard of the Cao army, was in the midst of the army and the enemy directly fighting. Then when Guan Yu saw Yan Liang's cover, he rode directly to Yan Liang because of his meritorious service, successfully stabbed Yan Liang to death and returned with his head, and the surrounding Yuan generals did not dare to stop him.

There is also the verb used to describe Guan Yu's killing of Yan Liang is the word "stab", in our impression, Guan Yu's weapon is the Qinglong Yanyue knife, and the corresponding action should be "cut", "chop" and other words, and the word "thorn" should be used for guns, spears, halberds and other weapons. In fact, the Qinglong Glaive Knife is not a knife, but the name of a class of knives, the earliest existing Qinglong Glaive Knife came from the Song Dynasty, and because the blade is exquisite, it is mainly used for training soldiers and horses in peacetime, not for actual combat. However, there is no mention of the weapons used by Guan Yu, but the word "thorn" indicates that Guan Yu in history may have used weapons such as guns and spears like other generals. For example, Lu Bu's weapon in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is Fang Tian's halberd, but there is a lot of controversy about this. There is also an account of Lu Bu's halberd shooting, and there is also a set of Lu Bu's weapon as a halberd, in fact, this halberd is not Lu Bu's weapon, but because there is a crescent-like structure at one end of the halberd, and there is a gap in the middle, Lu Bu asked someone to take a halberd and stand at the gate of the branch, and the arrow just passed through the gap in the branch. Moreover, in the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Han Dynasty, military generals also used ordinary weapons, or better and harder weapons than ordinary soldiers. But if there are too many battles, the weapon will also break, or become dull or rusty, and then the military general will change to another weapon, so a military general will not use one weapon in his life, so Guan Yu may not have any specific weapons in the official history. The types of weapons used by generals sometimes change. The so-called eighteen kinds of martial arts are proficient, that is, a military general must understand the use of eighteen kinds of weapons such as swords, guns, swords, halberds, etc., so they can use both knives and guns, which shows that Guan Yu's weapons may not be fixed. Cao Cao used Xun Yousheng's strategy to induce Yuan Shao to divide his troops and march southwest to Yanjin, where Wen Chou was among them. After Cao Cao relieved the siege of Baima, he moved the local residents, and then marched west along the Yellow River. Cao Cao threw all the baggage of the army captured from the white horse to the road, at this time Yuan Shao sent Wen Chou and Liu Bei, who lived in the house, to lead five or six thousand cavalry, but the Yuan army only cared about snatching the baggage placed on the road, Cao Cao only used less than six hundred cavalry to defeat the Yuan army, and the Cao army general Xu Huang Guan Yu attacked, and Wen Chou was also killed. Once Kong Rong said to Xun Yu, "Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Yong Champion Three Armies", Xun Yu replied, "Yan Liang, Wen Chou, a husband's brave ears, but a battle and birds". As Xun Yu expected, Yuan Shao fell for Cao Cao's plan to attack the west, causing Yan Liang to respond to the battle in a hurry, but was killed by Guan Yu; And Wen Chou has no way to govern the army, and before the war starts, he connived at his subordinates to rob the ordnance, and his people must be arrogant, and the army will be defeated and killed. On the one hand, it is likely that Yuan Shao's scheduling mistakes are made, and on the other hand, it also shows that the two are indeed brave and unscrupulous.

But in any case, Yan Liang and Wen Chou were indeed the bears and tigers in Yuan Shao's army, and they both died before the Battle of Guandu began, which is really sad.

But this time it's different, Cao Cao was beaten away, Yuan Shao killed Gongsun Zan again, Liu Yi felt that it was time to transfer Guan Yu over, otherwise his situation would be really dangerous.

"Kong Ming, send someone to Yanzhou to ask for help."

Liu Yi didn't have any shame on his face, of course he couldn't fight and ask for help, otherwise he would be sent to death.

Zhuge Liang nodded and immediately left.

Liu Yi stood by the city wall, his face was complicated, and he suddenly remembered the battle in Puyang, and felt that things were a little weird.

Why didn't Xun Yu make a move? Xun Yu made a move, Cheng Yu made a move, but he never saw Xun Yu make a move, which made Liu Yi frown and was puzzled.

Liu Yi never doubted Xun Yu's talent.

In fact, the first to propose to behead Yan Liang was Cao Cao's subordinate strategist Xun Yu, who had put forward Yan Liang's view when Cao Cao had just confronted Yuan Shao. In the record, Kong Rong said: "...... Yan Liang, Wen Chou, bravely champion the three armies, and command their soldiers: it is difficult to overcome! Yu said: "...... Yan Liang, Wen Chou, a husband's brave ears, but a fowl can fight. "Yong" can be understood as brave, can also be understood as brave, now do not discuss what "brave" represents, first discuss the differences between Xun Yu and Kong Rong. Kong Rong proposed that Yan Liangyong crowned the three armies, that is, Yan Liangzhi's "brave" was the strongest in Yuan Shao's army; And Xun Yu thinks that Yan Liangzhi's "bravery" is just the courage of a husband, and there is no need to be afraid. In fact, there is no contradiction between Kong Rong and Xun Yu's statement: Xun Yu admitted Yan Liang's bravery, but his courage can only act on himself, cannot affect the whole army, and enhance the combat effectiveness of the army, so it is called "the courage of one man". Back to Xun Yu's point of view. "The courage of a husband" is a reasonable analysis of Yan Liang's ability, and the bird can only be said to be Xun Yu's extreme self-confidence in a battle. The "fowl" is not aimed at Yan Liang's troops, but at Yan Liang himself, Xun Yu believes that Yan Liang will not only be defeated, but also defeated so that he will not even have the opportunity to fight again, and it is likely that he will be awarded the head in battle. The idea of beheading Yan Liang was first put forward by Xun Yu here. And why does Xun Yu think that Yan Liang "can fight and fight"? may only be attributed to the fact that Xun Yu used to be Yuan Shao's strategist, and he had a full understanding of the abilities of his subordinate Yan Liang and other generals, and knew him better than Kong Rong and others, so it was predicted that Yan Liang would fight in a battle. Although Xun Yu openly put forward such a view, and later proved that his prediction was correct, it can be known that he himself was completely sure of this prediction. In any case, Xun Yu provided Cao Cao with very valuable information and battle direction, Yan Liang can be a "bird", and he can fight a bird. However, what Xun Yu said could only be said to be a strategy, and it did not have much substantive help, nor did he say how to capture it. To turn Xun Yu's strategy into reality, a strategy that combines tactical reality is also needed, and the proposer of this strategy is Xun Yu's subordinate Xun Yu.

At the beginning, Yuan Shao's army was stationed in Liyang, and at the same time Yan Liang was sent to attack the white horse where Liu Yan was located. According to various sources, Yan Liang was the main general who attacked Baima, and Guo Tu and Chun Yuqiong were subordinate rather than commanders of multi-way armies of equal status. Let's talk about the situation in Juancheng[4]. At that time, Juancheng was guarded by Cheng Yu, and the garrison was only 700, but Cheng Yu expected that Juancheng had few soldiers, and Yuan Shao was likely not to attack it, and the result was exactly as Cheng Yu expected. Juancheng was therefore not in a hurry. Now let's analyze the situation on Cao Cao's side. Cao Cao defeated Liu Bei in the first month, and after two months of rectification, he prepared to go north to Baima to rescue Liu Yan, the Taishou of Dongjun. But Cao Cao is now outnumbered, and he can't attack, he can only outwit. At this time, Xun You proposed a practical and in line with Xun Yu's strategy of fighting a war and attacking the west. Xun You said: "Today's soldiers are few and invincible, and it is possible to divide their momentum." When the public arrives in Yanjin, if the crossing troops are to the latter, Shao Bixi responds, and then the light troops attack the white horse to cover its unpreparedness, and Yan Liang can also be a bird. "Xun You's strategy is to attack Yanjin and attack the white horse. During the Three Kingdoms period, the strategy of attacking the east and the west was used in many battles, including Zhuge Liang's first Northern Expedition. And Xun You's strategy of attacking the east and west this time was different from Zhuge Liang's first Northern Expedition, Xun You did not ask Cao Cao's troops to divide into two routes, but Cao Cao led the whole army to Yanjin and pretended to cross the river, and then led his troops to raid Baima. There are two possible reasons for not separating the main force from the suspicious soldiers: first, the siege of Baima can only be sure if Cao Cao personally solves it, and to attract Yuan's army to Yanjin and ignore Baima, Cao Cao also needs to go to Yanjin in person to achieve it; Second, Cao Cao's troops were very poor, to the point that it was not appropriate to divide the troops, or to say that after the troops were divided into two ways, although the Yuan army was deceived, the forces of the Cao army were also dispersed, which was not beneficial to Cao Cao, who was already at a disadvantage. This is also a reflection of Cao Cao's style of using troops, Cao Cao did not adopt fancy suspicious soldiers, and controlled Yuan's army in his own hands just by changing the army's marching route and marching speed. One more mention of the place of Yeonjin. In fact, it is not clearly stated where the army led by Yu Bansu was when Cao Cao attacked Baima, but it can be speculated from military common sense. On the surface, Yu Ban's 2,000-step cavalry was holding Yanjin, but in fact, Yanjin was in a precarious situation, and the 2,000-step cavalry guarding it was only a temporary measure. If Cao Cao had implemented Xun You's strategy of attacking the east and attacking the west to rescue Baima at this time, and Yanjin was lost at this time, Yuan Jun could cross the river from Yanjin and cut off Cao Cao's retreat after the siege of Baima was lifted, and such a result was unacceptable to Cao Cao. If you still pray that Yu Ban's 2,000 foot cavalry can hold for a long time, then don't forget that Cao Cao's strategy of attacking the east and west is based on the premise that Yuan Shao must respond to it in the west, and even if the army in the west to Yanjin is in the middle of the plan, it is likely to temporarily participate in the battle into Yanjin, and Yuan's army has a greater advantage in strength in Yanjin, and only the 2,000 foot cavalry in the ban cannot hold Yanjin. Therefore, before Cao Cao implemented the plan of attacking the east and the west, Cao Cao had already increased his troops to the ban. After Le Jin followed Cao Cao to attack Liu Bei, there was no record of staying in Guandu or following Cao Cao to relieve the siege of White Horse, and directly supported the forbidden attack on Huojia, if Le Jin was neither in Cao Cao's army nor in Guandu when Cao Cao marched into Baima, then the best explanation is that Le Jin was already fighting in Houjia at this time. Yu Ban can control Ji and Huojia, then it can be said that Yanjin is already under Cao Cao's control. At this time, once the Cao army crossed the river from Yanjin, it could attack Yuan Shao's rear, and the Yuan army was defeated in Yanjin and the battlefield west of it. Returning to Xun You's strategy, Xun You's words reflect the two purposes of this strategy, one is that "there are few soldiers and no enemy, and it is possible to divide its momentum", and the other is "light troops attack white horses to cover up their unpreparedness". In actual combat, the effect of "covering up the unpreparedness" is far more obvious than "dividing the situation." There is no doubt that once Yuan Shaozhong planned and divided his troops to Yanjin, Liyang's forces were indeed weakened. However, Yuan Shao had an army of 100,000, although Cao Cao's strength in the Battle of White Horse was not clearly recorded, but after Cao Cao beheaded Yan Liang and Wen Chou, Cao Cao led less than 10,000 soldiers, Xun Yu also admitted that the number of Cao's army was only one-tenth of Yuan's army, and there were only five or six hundred cavalry to break Wen Chou, it can be seen that the total number of Yuan Shao and Cao Cao's army is not at all in the same order of magnitude, even if Yuan Shao divides half of his troops to Yanjin, as long as Yuan Shao divides his troops from Liyang in time to save Baima, Yuan's army still has an absolute advantage in Baima. Let the army that marched into Yanjin return in vain and consume its sharpness, that is a later story. Therefore, the real significance of the sound of attacking the east and the west was not that Liyang was unable to rescue Baima due to insufficient troops, but that Liyang's army could not rush to Baima in time to rescue Yan Liang, so that Yuan's army's attention was focused on the big battle in Yanjin, and Yan Liang did not have sufficient combat preparations and necessary pre-war deployment for the sudden attack. In other words, "dividing its strength" refers to separating the connection between Yuan Shao and Yan Liang, not just dispersing Yuan Shao's forces in Liyang. Once Xun You's strategy of attacking the east and the west is successful, the siege of the white horse can be basically solved. However, Xun You's strategy is not so simple, and the last sentence of Xun You's strategy is not "The siege of the white horse can be solved" or something like that, but "Yan Liang can be a bird", which puts a big question mark on this plan. Xun Yu's policy and Xun Yu's policy have the same thoughts, and there are also the same doubts. The same idea lies in the fact that from Xun You's words, it can at least be seen that Xun You also thinks that Yan Liang is a bird. And the doubt is that if the facts are really as Xun You expected, Yan Liang can indeed be defeated, and the siege of the White Horse can indeed be solved, but "Yan Liang can be a bird" can not find the slightest clue in Xun You's previous words. What should Yan Liang do? Why can you be a bird? This is still a question. If you think that Xun You is just a casual guess, this can't be explained. Xun You was evaluated by Chen Shou as "a last resort", he would not make unreasonable guesses, Chen Shou and Xun You said in unison, "After saving Liu Yan from the white horse, you will plan to kill Yan Liang". It can be seen that it is by no means accidental or slip of the tongue, but it is likely that Xun's strategy has not yet ended, and there is another hidden story. What else does Xunyu's strategy contain? It is difficult to find the answer from Xun You's words, but guessing from the results of the Battle of the White Horse, some possible situations can still be found. In the Battle of White Horse, there is no doubt that the first credit for beheading Yan Liang should go to Guan Yu. If Xun You's strategy is completely successful, it is most likely that Xun You suggested that Cao Cao send Guan Yu to use his personal bravery to behead Yan Liang. Guan Yu's strength had been recognized by all the strategists of Wei before he beheaded Yan Liang, and Guan Yu's bravery was not recognized by Guo Jia alone, but by Cao Cao's advisers, which probably included Xun You, that is to say, Xun Yu knew very well during the Battle of the White Horse that Guan Yu had extraordinary bravery. If Guan Yu's bravery is just words, it may not be true, however, it doesn't matter how high Guan Yu's actual strength is, the important thing is that in Xun You's eyes, Guan Yu's strength is quite high. In addition, Zhang Liao, another general who was the first to be the striker, was also very powerful, which was already known before the Battle of Hefei. It is not necessarily a coincidence that two generals with superior force were sent as strikers. In addition to the close relationship between the two, it is not only Zhang Liao who has a close relationship with Guan Yu in the army, but also Xu Huang. It is also very likely that the two of them will use their personal bravery to behead Yan Liang personally. The use of personal bravery to kill enemy generals has been practiced since ancient times. Taking advantage of the bravery of some people, rushing into the enemy formation, killing the enemy general, and ending the battle in the quickest way is the way of fighting recognized and advocated by the famous military strategist Wu Qi. It is appropriate to apply this style of combat to surprise enemy forces with a small number of troops. Raiding an enemy can make the enemy unable to concentrate on the battle for a while, but it will always be outnumbered and unpredictable. If you want to fundamentally solve the problem during this period, killing the enemy's commander will be a good choice, which is in line with military laws. Once the Cao army can't solve the problem in a short time, waiting for Yan Liang to return to the siege army to concentrate on the battle, and even Yuan Shao sent troops from Liyang to reinforce it, which is extremely unfavorable to the Cao army. Therefore, Xun You had the possibility of proposing to Cao Cao to send Guan Yu to rush into the enemy formation to kill Yan Liang, which was quite a possibility.

Liu Yi thought about it, but he couldn't understand the reason, Xun Yu and Xun Yu, this uncle and nephew are definitely a perfect match, one formulates strategy, and the other is a master of tactics, but why did that happen when he was in Puyang.

There are too many questions, Liu Yi doesn't know, so he can only wait for the next time he sees them.

Guan Yu killed Yan Liangwen Chou, Yan Liangwen Chou has now broken through the boundary bridge and killed Gongsun Zhan, Liu Yi's plan has failed, after all, without Gongsun Zhan's assistance, he could not defeat Yuan Shao by himself, just with these 5,000 soldiers.

So the most important thing now is to let Guan Yu come to support, and he and the others will still attack Yecheng, if they can break it, then everything will be fine, because they can borrow the city to defend it, and they can hold out until Guan Yu arrives.

But if it can't be broken, Liu Yi doesn't know what to do, I'm afraid he can only flee in Yizhou, and it is still unknown whether he can leave Yizhou at that time.

As for whether Guan Yu will come to support, Liu Yi has never doubted that although the military order is like a mountain, Guan Yu's task is to guard Yanzhou, but Liu Yi and Guan Yu have an extraordinary relationship, if there is a danger to life, Liu Yi believes that Guan Yu will definitely come back to support.

Guan Yu came to support, it is very likely that the decisive battle will be fought in Yecheng at that time, is Yan Liangwen and ugly under Yuan Shao unstoppable? Then let Guan Erye kill them again, Liu Yi believes that Guan Yu can do it.