Compared with Yuan Shao's first deceased soldiers, Cao Cao's tiger and leopard cavalry is a fierce iron cavalry, although it is also an absolute elite from three or four hundred thousand troops, each tiger and leopard rider is not inferior to the first deceased soldier, but there are only 4,000 tiger and leopard riders.

The fiercest battle began.

The battlefield is fighting head-on, and the strategy is not used for a while, and it still depends on the battle formation, the quality of the soldiers, and the number of people to win.

Cao Cao and Yuan Shao's soldiers are all experienced in a hundred battles, the quality of the soldiers is not much different, in terms of battle array, Yuan Shao to collect Hebei talents is not lost to Cao Cao, who recruited the world's talents in the name of the imperial court, that is the number of soldiers determines the victory.

The number of the first dead was nearly twice that of the tiger and leopard cavalry, and after half an hour of fighting, the first dead man had the upper hand.

Cao Cao frowned tightly, while opposite him, Yuan Shao smiled lightly as if he had a chance to win.

At this time, a scout came to Yuan Shao.

Yuan Shao asked, "Have you seen the soldiers in Guanzhong?" ”

The scout replied: "Back to the lord, there is not a single soldier in Guanzhong, only Cao Cao's soldiers. ”

Yuan Shao nodded, Yan Liang and Wen Chou were killed one after another by a red-faced long-bearded man suspected of Guan Yu, although there was a report that the soldiers in Guanzhong did not show signs of leaving Tongguan in the east, but Yuan Shao was not at ease, after arriving at Guandu, he also sent a large number of scouts to investigate, and at this moment it was confirmed that there were indeed no soldiers and horses in Guanzhong to help Cao Cao, Yuan Shao was completely relieved.

"Iron cavalry attacking the flank of Cao's army!" Yuan Shao ordered.

Tens of thousands of Hebei iron cavalry rushed out and pounced on Cao Cao's flank.

The Han Dynasty has always had a horse administration, especially in the Hebei Plain, which raised the most horses, and 130,000 of Yuan Shao's 400,000 troops were cavalry.

Cao Cao's soldiers are fewer than Yuan Shao, and now that the tiger and leopard are falling again, he didn't want to fight Yuan Shao to the end like this, and when he saw that the situation was unsuccessful, he ordered: "Order, Mingjin collects the troops, and sticks to the camp!" ”

Cao's army was defeated and retreated to the camp to hold on, Yuan Shaojun pursued and killed all the way, killing nearly 10,000 Cao's troops before and after, and finally won a small victory. However, Yuan Shaojun's strong attack on Cao's camp lasted for a day, and he also lost nearly 10,000 soldiers before and after.

Yuan Shao had no choice but to make the army approach the Cao army camp and set up camp, the two army camps were less than forty meters apart, almost sticking together. However, although Yuan Shao's army was strong, forcing the Cao army not to dare to go out of the camp, but it was never able to break through the Cao army's camp to win, and the strong attack on the camp was too large for casualties to be undesirable, and the two armies then entered the stage of stalemate, and the opponent's troops were consumed by small battles or various tactics every day.

Yuan Shao discussed with Xu You, Judge, Fu Zhu and others on how to consume Cao's soldiers.

The judge said: "The lord can order people to build a 'dirt mountain' high, condescendingly release arrows at the Cao army camp, and can shoot Cao Jun in large quantities." ”

"That's a brilliant plan!" Yuan Shao adopted the strategy of the trial, so he ordered to get as close as possible to the Cao army camp to build a 'soil mountain', and the archers condescended on the earth mountain, constantly shooting arrows at the Cao army soldiers in the Cao army camp.

Every day, more than 10,000 arrows were fired into the Cao army camp, which not only shot and killed a large number of Cao soldiers, but also forced the Cao soldiers to hide everywhere and did not dare to patrol normally.

When Cao Cao heard this, he was furious: "If you don't patrol the camp normally, you will be raided by Yuan Shao at the right time, and the security of the camp will be in danger." ”

Cao Cao strictly ordered his soldiers to brave the rain of arrows from Yuan Shaojun's army to patrol the camp normally to prevent Yuan Shaojun's army from attacking the camp. However, in this way, he originally only killed and wounded a few hundred soldiers a day, but now he has more than 1,000 soldiers killed and wounded every day, and he has suffered heavy casualties.

Cao Cao also summoned Cheng Yu, Xun Yu and others to discuss countermeasures.

Xun You strategically said: "Prime Minister, you can make a large number of catapults to break Yuan Shao's condescending crossbowmen!" ”

Cao Cao was overjoyed: "This plan is very good!" ”

According to Xun You's strategy, the soldiers were ordered to cut down wood overnight to make catapults, and two days later, hundreds of catapults were made.

On this day, when Yuan Shaojun once again shot arrows condescendingly on the dirt mountain, hundreds of catapults in the Cao army camp also threw stones in unison.

Countless stones were like rain, not only killing and wounding the crossbowmen of Yuan Shaojun on the earth mountain, but also smashing them into the camp of Yuan Shao's army, killing and injuring a large number of Yuan Shaojun soldiers.

The trial strategy was cracked by Xun You, he was not convinced, and said to Yuan Shao: "Lord, you can secretly dig tunnels, break into the Cao army camp, and take it by surprise, attack inside and outside, or break through the Cao army camp in one fell swoop." ”

"That's a good plan!" Yuan Shao nodded, and then used the trial plan to order the excavation of the tunnel.

Excavating tunnels is not a small project, and it cannot be excavated in a day or two, and Cao Jun's soldiers watched and saw that Yuan Shao's soldiers were constantly transporting soil from several tents, and he immediately reported the matter to Cao Cao.

Cao Cao asked Cheng Yu, Xun You and others.

Cheng Yu judged: "Prime Minister, Yuan Shaoding wants to dig a tunnel and break into our military camp, and by surprise, he should cooperate with the outside to break our military camp." ”

Cao Cao was taken aback, and immediately asked, "Is there a defensive strategy?" ”

Xun You next to him thought about it and said with a smile: "There is a strategy, you can dig a trench in front of the camp, when Yuan Shao's soldiers dig the tunnel to the ravine, it can be seen at a glance, and the tunnel is useless." ”

Cao Cao smiled and nodded, and then ordered the soldiers to dig the ravine overnight.

Two days later, Yuan Shaojun's soldiers dug the tunnel to the ravine, and sure enough, the Cao soldiers found the tunnel at a glance.

Cao Jun soldier Chang Ge directly stabbed Yuan Shaojun's soldier who had dug the tunnel here.

"Poof!" Blood splattered at the entrance of the tunnel, which frightened the soldiers of Yuan Shao's army behind the tunnel, and hurriedly retreated to Yuan Shao's military camp, and informed Yuan Shao of the failure of the sneak attack in the tunnel.

"Damn the thief!" Yuan Shao was annoyed.

Annoyed, Yuan Shao ordered a strong attack on Cao's army camp, but unfortunately it could not be broken for three days, but nearly 10,000 troops were broken.

Helpless, Yuan Shao could only continue to confront Cao Cao, focusing on small-scale sneak attacks every day, slowly consuming Cao's soldiers.

For the next two whole months, Cao Jun and Yuan Shaojun were holding each other, although Yuan Shaojun was stronger, almost all the attacks were provoked by Yuan Shaojun, Yuan Shaojun firmly gained the upper hand, but unfortunately Cao Jun could only be forced to stay in the camp and not come out, and could not really break through the Cao army camp to defeat Cao Cao.

At the same time, more than two months have passed, and the grain and grass carried by Cao Jun and Yuan Shaojun have basically been exhausted, and they are all transporting grain from the rear to maintain it.

Guandu is located on the south bank of the Yellow River, only 200 miles away from Xudu, and it is not difficult for Cao Jun to transport grain. On the other hand, Yuan Shaojun's side, because it was more difficult to transport grain and grass across the Yellow River, and there were several ferries, it was easy for Cao Jun to monitor and find out when there was grain to cross the river.

No, Yuan Shao had a batch of thousands of truckloads of grain and grass, and when he crossed the Yellow River, he was discovered by Cao Jun's scouts.

Cao Cao ordered Xiahou Yuan to lead 10,000 troops and set up an ambush to rob Yuan Shao's grain and grass.

The general of Yuan Shaojun's escort of this batch of grain and grass was named Han Meng, and when thousands of carts of grain and grass came to a valley, Xiahou Yuan suddenly killed.

"Kill!" The Cao soldiers led by Xiahou Yuan not only had more people, but also killed Han Meng by surprise, and immediately killed thousands of Yuan Shaojun soldiers led by Han Meng.

"Han Meng is here!" Han Meng was furious, and Pegasus rushed towards Xiahou Yuan.

"Wu Xiahou Yuan!" Xiahou Yuan snorted coldly and faced the battle.

The two fought, Han Meng was Xiahou Yuan's opponent, and after only a dozen rounds, Han Meng turned his horse and left, and thousands of carts of grain and grass were all thrown to Xiahou Yuan.

Xiahou Yuan originally wanted to transport thousands of carts of grain and grass back to Cao's military camp, but this place was not far from Yuan Shao's military camp, and soon Zhang He led his troops to kill, Xiahou Yuan had no choice but to burn thousands of carts of grain and grass.

Although the grain and grass could not be snatched back to the camp, after it was burned, it was enough to make Yuan Shaojun's army short of food for a while and hit the morale of Yuan Shaojun's soldiers.

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