At this time, Yuan Shao's advisor Xu Yu was resentful because he proposed a sneak attack on Chen Liu to Yuan Shao and was not adopted, so he came to seek refuge with his old classmate Cao Cao.

When Cao Cao heard that Xu Yu had come to join him, he happily went barefoot to greet him.

Xu You told him that most of Yuan Shaojun's military rations were in Wuchao, and the guard general Chun Yuqiong had no ability but was the most greedy, and suggested that Cao Cao send troops to attack Wuchao.

Cao Cao did not hesitate, regardless of the obstructions left and right, listened to Xu You's suggestion, personally led five thousand elites, pretended to be Yuan's army, and rushed from the path to attack the black nest overnight.

The defense of the Yuan army was really lax, the Cao army set fire around the camp, the Yuan army was in chaos, and Chun Yuqiong could only defend the camp and send people to Yuan Shao for help.

Yuan Shao already knew that Xu Yu had fled at this time, and he thought that Cao Cao, who had been unable to defend for a long time, took the initiative to come out, but it was a chance for him to defeat the Cao army, and there were 10,000 defenders in Wuchao, why didn't he have to hold on for a few days?

He was stubborn and self-serving, did not listen to the opinions of the judge, and only sent 3,000 reinforcements to rescue Wuchao, but instead sent Wen Chou and Gao Ran to lead an army of 50,000 to attack the base camp of the Cao army.

It's a pity that Cao Cao had already expected Yuan Shao's move, there were heavy troops left behind in the camp, and Wen Chou and Gao Ran couldn't conquer it in a short time.

On the contrary, Cao Cao inspired his subordinates to fight to the death, broke through the strong camp of Wuchao, killed Chun Yuqiong, and burned the grain and grass of Wuchao.

When the news came, Wen Chou fled, Gao Ran surrendered to Cao Cao, Yuan's army was demoralized, the army was defeated, and Yuan Shao fled back to the north of the Yellow River.

Cao's army took advantage of the situation to attack, crossed the Yellow River, recovered Dongjun, Jibei, Dongping, and even invaded Jizhou. The land of Yanzhou

At the critical moment, it was the Qingzhou Army that sold a large number of crossbows and armor and other equipment to Yuan Shao in accordance with the principle of balance.

And Yuan Shao's eldest son, Yuan Tan, is still quite talented, and he guarded it strictly, and finally held the line of Wei County and Qinghe.

Although Cao's army won, its own consumption was also very large, so after recovering the land and land of Yanzhou, he suspended the pursuit of Yuan Shao.

However, even so, the Battle of Jiyang also caused Yuan's army to suffer heavy losses, and its vitality was greatly damaged, and it was no longer able to attack Cao Cao in the south.

In several battles before and after, the Yuan army suffered nearly 100,000 casualties and 40,000 captures, and the elite of the Yuan army was almost completely lost.

After returning to Yecheng, he listened to the villain's slander and killed the military advisor Tian Feng.

When Cao Cao heard the news of Tian Feng's death, he couldn't help but lament that Yuan Shao was cutting off his arm and killing himself.

After Cao Cao recovered Dongjun and other places, the momentum was greatly boosted, and at this time Cao Cao was finally free to clean up Liu Bei, who occupied Runan.

After Liu Bei fled Jizhou, he went south to Runan, and on the way he rediscovered Zhang Fei, who was king of the mountain.

When he arrived in Runan, he united with Gong Du, the remnants of the Yellow Turbans, and did his best, and his troops grew to 10,000 again.

Cao Cao first sent Cai Yang to lead an army to attack Liu Bei, but he was defeated by Liu Bei, and Cai Yang was beheaded by Guan Yu.

So after defeating Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, who had his hands free, personally set out to fight Liu Bei, Liu Bei was alone, how could he be Cao Cao's opponent?

I had to listen to Chen Gong's suggestion and go south to Liu Biao, when Lu Bu saw this battle report, he bluntly said that Liu Bei was Liu Ranran, and he was running around all day long.

Liu Biao admired Liu Bei's reputation and talent for a long time, and thought that Liu Bei was a member of the Han clan with him, and he was desperate to defect to him.

Although he is the lord of Jingzhou, he is not from a local wealthy family, and he urgently needs foreign manpower to help him.

Liu Biao personally went out of the city to greet Liu Bei, treated the guests as a gift, and assigned Xinye to Liu Bei as a garrison.

Liu Bei was grateful to Liu Biao for his generosity, but Chen Gong broke through and gave Xinye to Liu Bei, in fact, the most important thing was to let Liu Bei make him the first barrier against Cao Cao in the north.

Liu Bei can see that it is not easy for him to have a place to stay, and he can't take care of so much.

Although Liu Bei is down, the name of Ren Xia is still famous in the world, and everyone knows it, and the local heroes and famous teachers in Jingzhou have gone to visit Liu Bei, and some people even took the initiative to join him.

This scene is very different from the deserted scene when Liu Biao rode into Jingzhou, all of which naturally aroused Liu Biao's suspicions, and Liu Biao was secretly wary of Liu Bei.

Although Lu Bu did not fight, he never put swords and guns into the warehouse, and put the horses in Nanshan.

He held a large-scale military exercise in the Guanzhong area with the aim of making more troops fully aware of the power of firearms and adapting them to the new tactics of the firearms age.

He demanded that his subordinates keep pace with the times and carefully study and learn the new tactics of the firearms era.

The artillery unit conducted a demonstration of actual combat, and many officers and men of the unit who did not participate in the battle of Xianbei in the west were also deeply shocked by the power of the mortar salvo that they had seen for the first time.

Lu Bu announced that due to the limited output, mortars will only be equipped with all divisions of the Central Army to carry out border garrison tasks for the time being, whether it is a cavalry division or an infantry division, each equipped with an artillery battalion and 30 mortars.

Production is a reason, and the training of qualified artillery also takes time.

In addition, at this military exercise, another new type of firearm for individual use was also demonstrated, the hand grenade, which has a long wooden handle and needs to be pulled strings.

The development and improvement of hand grenades is not complicated and profound, in fact, since the detonator was widely used, hand grenades can be developed completely.

The reason why it appeared a few years late is actually very simple, that is, someone Lu forgot about it.

It wasn't until I saw the demonstration of the mortar that I remembered that it was possible to make a grenade.

Because the technologies of time-delay fuze, bump fuze, fuse, and simple cartridge casing are all mature, it is effortless for Ma Jun to integrate them.

The grenade has too many advantages, small size, small mass, and is very easy to carry alone.

The structure is simple, the production cost is low, and it can be manufactured and equipped on a large scale.

It is easy to operate, easy to use, and very easy to get started.

Of course, there are many differences between the grenades of this era and the modern grenades of later generations, such as the fact that armor is commonly worn by various princes and foreign armies.

Therefore, the mass and volume of fragments of the grenade are larger in order to pierce the armor, and the number of fragments is also smaller, and the shape of the fragments is also biased towards polygons.

That is, the lethality of grenades to infantry is significantly less than that of cavalry, and the impact on hoplites is even less.

Therefore, these grenades are also mainly installed in the border divisions, and a small number of inland troops are tried to equip.

Since it has begun to enter the age of firearms, in fact, Ma Jun's Central Ordnance Research Institute of the Ministry of Military Industry has more and more advanced firearms in trial production, and Lu Bu has high hopes for them.

It's just that the technology is not yet mature, and there is no strong external pressure to force them to be launched in advance.

Many of the units participating in the exercise were newly formed units, and of course some units were broken up and organized into divisions.

For example, the engineer brigade was abolished, and an engineer battalion was set up in each division, and the Central Army Headquarters directly belonged to an engineer regiment.

The special operations brigade was upgraded to a special operations division, and the division commander was still Wang Quan.

(End of chapter)