In the winter of the fifth year of Jian'an, the Cao army that invaded Henan was able to choose to retreat hastily at the critical juncture of the confrontation with the Guanxi soldiers and horses because of the fire in the backyard, but the Guanxi soldiers and horses pursued relentlessly, pursued at the tail end, and defeated the elite of the Cao army.

At the beginning of the battle, the soldiers and horses of Guanxi were unstoppable, breaking through many military formations of Cao's army, and seeing that they were about to defeat Cao's army on all fronts, but Cao Cao's foolish tactics set up before the war worked in time, not only helping his side stabilize its position, but also making the battle situation repeated.

It's just that the Guanxi soldiers and horses under the command of Yan Xing finally withstood the counterattack of the Cao army, so the trend of the Cao army's comprehensive defeat was irreversible, nearly 40,000 Cao troops suffered heavy losses, the Chinese army Han Hao, Xu Chu, Xiahou Yuan on the left flank, Deng Zhan and Zhu Ling on the right flank, Ren Jun of the rear army and many other Cao generals were killed in battle, plus Wen Ji and Bian Bing, who were captured before, Shi Jian and Le Jin who were seriously injured, and many other generals, the Cao army in the Central Plains this time can be said to have lost soldiers and lost their vitality.

As the news of Cao's army's defeat in the Wu clan spread rapidly, Hebei and the Central Plains were shaken, and under the panic of the people, various rumors also appeared overwhelmingly, some people said that Yan Xing was strong and prepared to go north to rescue and merge the state, and fight a decisive battle with the Hebei army led by Yuan Shao; It is rumored that the soldiers and horses of Guanxi have united with Jingxiang and are ready to take advantage of the victory to march into Xudu and recapture the emperor of the Han family.

But in fact, Yan Xing's main force remained in Henan, and he had no plans to go north or east in the short term.

In the first battle of the Gui clan, the soldiers and horses of Guanxi won a complete victory, killing nearly 10,000 heads and capturing more than 10,000 Cao soldiers, if you count the previous war of attrition and pursuit, it is equivalent to the Yan army in Henan has eliminated more than 30,000 soldiers and horses of the Cao army, including Cao Cao's elite cavalry, which can be described as a complete victory.

It's just that Yan Xing's side is not iron-clad after all, let alone a simulated character measured by a series of data, the soldiers under his command are all living flesh and blood, during the war, they will fight for Yan Xing's military orders, one after another, and after the war, they need to be rewarded and comforted, rest and recover, even if they are men in the army who are happy when they hear the war and lick the blood with their knives, after a big war, it is inevitable to produce various complex emotions of war weariness and homesickness.

The soldiers traveled from east to west, traveling thousands of miles; Confrontation with a strong enemy, no day without fighting; The real situation in the army is that it has reached the end of the strong crossbow, even Yan Xing, the commander of the three armies, did not dare to get carried away, and immediately took this tired division to the north rashly, rescued the besieged Shangdang and Taiyuan two counties, and launched a decisive battle with Yuan Shao's Hebei army.

Therefore, Yan Xing could only temporarily garrison Henan and solve the follow-up problems of Cao's prisoners.

Despite the tight supply of grain and grass and the fact that most of the Cao prisoners had families in Yan and Henan, Yan Xing, as the commander-in-chief, did not take the general's suggestion to kill the prisoners, and he selected some of the Cao prisoners to replenish his army, and prepared to deliver the remaining Cao prisoners to Pei Qian, who was in charge of the resumption of production in Henan.

The rations of the captives can be halved, and it takes a lot of manpower to resume production in Henan, and in the future, Yan Xing will use troops in the Central Plains, and these Cao army captives from Yan and Henan can also play a lot of roles.

After dealing with the matter of Cao's capture, Yan Xing sent two armies led by Gan Ling and Yang Feng, and rushed to Hedong and Hanoi with great fanfare, respectively making signs of threatening Yecheng and rescuing Jinyang, and then cooperating with the rumors spreading rumors in various parts of Hebei in an attempt to force Yuan Shao's army, which was fighting alone, to retreat.

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Under the city of Jinyang, the camp of the Yuan army.

In Yuan Shao's big tent, the monarchs and ministers were solemn and fell into silence.

Yes, Cao Cao's army lost all the advantages of waiting for work at ease, and the army was defeated, and to some extent, Yuan's army also had an unshirkable responsibility.

They didn't want to see Cao Cao win an easy victory and annex most of Yan Xing's troops and territory, so they concentrated their forces to besiege Taiyuan and Shangdang, and turned a blind eye to Cao Cao's successive urging to attack Hedong and Hanoi counties, and cut off the back roads of the Guanxi soldiers and horses under Yan Xing's command, and only let the general Gao Ran lead a partial division south to open up the Bird Mouse Valley.

As a result, in just one month, the battle situation in the north changed abruptly, and Cao Cao's backyard, which invaded Henan, caught fire, and he had to retreat in a hurry, and risked a decisive battle with the pursuing Guanxi soldiers and horses on the way, which eventually led to the embarrassing situation of Cao's army being defeated and Yuan's army being isolated.

At present, Yuan Jun is also facing a thorny problem of advancing and retreating.

Although Jinyang City is not far from the day when the city wall will collapse and the city will fall, I heard that Yan Xing has gathered a large army in Hedong and is ready to take advantage of the victory to go north to rescue Jinyang City.

Walking, it means that the people are tired and in vain; If you don't leave, you will be in danger of repeating the mistakes of Cao Cao's army.

Tian Feng, who hurried to meet Yuan Shao, put forward his opinion, that is, to withdraw his troops back to Baohebei and unite the defeated Cao Cao to fight against the unstoppable Guanxi soldiers and horses.

It's just that this conservative opinion can't satisfy Yuan Shao, and Guo Tu and others even refute the advice of Tian Feng, who has always been conservative, believing that it is because of the situation that the Guanxi soldiers and horses defeated the Cao army and the Yuan army was isolated, that the Hebei army led by Yuan Shao must resolutely not retreat and recapture the land, otherwise how to resist the condescending and threatening Guanxi soldiers and horses in Yecheng in the future.

After countless hesitations, Yuan Shao, who was scheming and making few decisions, finally insisted on continuing to use troops and recapture the military strategy of annexing the state, after all, once the enemy withdrew and the army was useless, then his hegemon of Hebei would really lose his majesty and face.

For this reason, Yuan Shao also specially urged Wen Chou and Gao Ran to attack Huguan and Bird Mouse Valley as soon as possible, and keep all the Guanxi soldiers and horses who tried to go north to rescue out of the annex, and ordered the judges and others who stayed in Yecheng to ensure that they must guard Yecheng and other places, appease the hearts of the people in Hebei, and not be negligent in letting the Guanxi soldiers and horses run successfully.

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Yecheng, the General's Mansion.

The judge, who was given the important task of staying behind and temporarily taking over the power, sat down and listened carefully to the report of his nephew Jurong.

When the news of the defeat of the Cao army came, the people of Yecheng were panicked, and all kinds of rumors were spreading, in addition to appeasing the people's hearts, the remaining trial match also sent a large number of people to hunt down Sanhe and Guanxi in the city, planning to calm down the hearts of the people in the entire Hebei through a series of iron-fisted measures.

Recently, the subordinates of the trial have caught the wind and shadows, and they have really caught Liu Zhi, an important school official lurking in Yecheng in Sanhe.

Liu Zhi pretended to be a businessman who traveled to and from Hu Han, traveled to and from many places in Yecheng, secretly carried out tasks, and even made friends with a group of Hebei officials because of his generous and good fortune, which even involved the strategist Xu You and others.

Yes, although the secret arrest of Liu Zhi only involved Xu You's second son Xu Fan and others, the trial is ready to make it an iron case of Xu You's secret collaboration with the enemy.

It is true that he is loyal to the Yuan family, and his military and political ability is not weak, and he also spares no effort in attacking political enemies.

Xu You often opposed him in Yuan Shao's shogunate, and even embarrassed him in public many times, and the trial had already wanted to squeeze him out and suppress him, but Xu You was brilliant in resourcefulness and was an old friend of the general Yuan Shao, and the trial had no chance, so he kept it back.

Now that he has seized this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, how can he let it go.

But after the arrest, Xingrong had palpitations in his heart, and he asked with affection:

"Father Zhong, Xu You is the general's old friend after all, and he served in front of the army, will it be too hasty for me to arrest his family like this without the general's order?"

Of course, he saw that his son and nephew had already remorse, snorted coldly, and replied after a while:

"Between the enemy, Liu Zhi traveled back and forth to many places in Yecheng, and his plans were very big, how could he help him with just one Xu Fan? There must be someone behind it! This time the Yuan Cao family combined forces to attack Sanhe, but was accidentally broken by the Yan thief, I suspect that it was caused by the Xu family's father and son leaking secrets in private, since I am deeply entrusted by the general, guarding Yecheng, naturally I have to take precautions and be prepared, and I have sent a fast horse to Taiyuan to report to the general, you are just acting on orders, and what are you afraid of! ”

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Xian Rong was speechless, and when he met the stern reproachful gaze of his middle father, he was even more afraid, so he could only salute in panic and leave.

Seeing that Xun Rong fled in order to avoid himself, the trial shook his head, although the Shen clan was in the Ye Di clan, but the younger generation was very lacking in handsomeness, which made him disappointed in his heart, but also worried about the future of the family.

He got up and left the table, and went to the hall to paced and pondered.

Now that Cao's army was defeated by the soldiers and horses of Guanxi in Henan, and Xu Du was facing the threat of Jingxiang's soldiers and horses, Cao Cao, who fled back to Yuzhou, could only gather the remnants of the defeated army and seek self-protection. When the Central Plains was too busy to take care of himself, where could he still care about the safety of the allied forces on the north bank of the Great River.

Jiang Yiqu, the Hebei general who retreated to Chaoge, reported several times a day, appealed to Yecheng urgently, asked for support, and claimed that the soldiers and horses of Guanxi had invaded the border one after another, and he was afraid that Yan Xing's army would attack in a big way in the short term.

This has suddenly intensified the pressure on the trial and matching, who is responsible for staying behind.

The situation was difficult, and he sighed worriedly. I thought that I must first settle down in the outside, and I still have to get rid of the internal troubles of Xu You's father and son first, so that there will be fewer traitorous ministers around the general, and the Kansai soldiers and horses who have won consecutive battles and morale can grasp more chances of victory.

It's just that he didn't know at this time that his move was about to bring greater consequences to the Hebei army that merged with the land.

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