Jizhou may be the next focus of Zhang Yu's contention, and at this time, he intends to focus on Xuzhou after dealing with Xuzhou.

Xuzhou, at this time has stabilized, Zhang Yu initially focused on stability, and did not plan to build on a large scale, mainly to build a large wharf and a few auxiliary small wharves.

In Jizhou, at this time, Cao Cao's hundreds of thousands of troops invaded, and the Yuan family resisted hard.

Yuan Shao was already terminally ill, and it was difficult to even speak, and Jizhou was also in chaos, and Yuan Shang and Yuan Xi seized power separately.

However, when Cao Cao attacked, Yuan Shang and Yuan Xi temporarily abandoned the contradiction and tried their best to deal with it, and at the same time, Yuan Tan was also supporting Jizhou in Bingzhou.

The three brothers finally cooperated and temporarily blocked Cao Cao's troops.

However, Cao Cao could not concentrate on attacking Jizhou, because Zhang Yu had been eyeing them behind them, and they had to arrange a lot of troops to prevent Zhang Yu from sneaking up on him.

The front received Zhang Yu's order and began to attack Cao's army from behind.

The Bohai coast of Jizhou has been captured by Zhang Yu, but Zhang Yu's goal is to control the entire Bohai Sea.

Today's Bohai Sea is occupied by Cao Ang in the south, while the north is still in the hands of the Yuan family.

Zhang Yu originally controlled the narrow strip of land along the Bohai Sea for dozens of miles, which was just enough to communicate Qingzhou and Jizhou, but of course Zhang Yu was not satisfied.

Xuzhou has been occupied, Cao Cao has no way to interfere, and it is too expensive to attack Xuzhou, so Zhang Yu's goal is to capture Bohai County.

"This king is the king of Bohai, and this Bohai county is the fief of this king, how can others occupy it."

At the beginning, Cao Cao asked Liu Xie to crown himself as the king of Bohai, the purpose of which was to let him compete with Yuan Shao.

But things changed too quickly, and it soon turned into a rivalry between Zhang Yu and Cao Cao.

Zhang Yu directly launched a war against Yuan Cao from both the north and south at the same time, attacking Bohai County.

In the south, Tai Shici attacked directly with an army of 100,000, and in the north, Huang Zhong also attacked with an army of 100,000.

To the north, as soon as Huang Zhong attacked, Yuan's army began to rout.

Originally, Yuan Jun focused his defense on Cao Jun, after all, Zhang Yu had no intention of invading at that time.

Although Yuan Jun also knew that it was very dangerous, but there was no way, they were not strong enough, and many important places were attacked by Cao Jun, where could they take care of these places.

Although Bohai is the place where Yuan Shao started, it is not the most important place, and the essence of Jizhou is not in Bohai.

After Zhang Yu dealt with the affairs of Xuzhou, he personally rushed to Qingzhou and prepared to participate in the attack on Bohai.

A few days later, Zhang Yu arrived in Qingzhou.

It was the end of May and the weather was starting to get hotter.

After Zhang Yu arrived in Qingzhou, he did not immediately participate in the attack, but first collected information in the rear.

"Yes, the general will guard the town, and let the young general go out."

Cultivating young generals has always been Zhang Yu's focus, and let the young generals in the army lead a group of soldiers and horses to complete the task.

Tai Shici also implemented Zhang Yu's policy and reused the young generals trained in the army.

In Bohai County, Tai Shici's purpose was to hold back as many Cao troops as possible, and then wait for Huang Zhong in the north to drive away Yuan's army before attacking from the north and south.

Zhang Yu rushed to Tai Shici's camp, and at this time the Chinese army was 50,000, with 30,000 people on both sides and 20,000 people on both sides, and they had already fought two battles with Cao's army.

The two games played were mainly tentative attacks and did not make big fights.

Zhang Yu was in Tai Shi Ci's camp, sitting opposite Tai Shi Ci.

"My lord, the Cao army has deployed 70,000 people here, and it is on the defensive to block them here." Tai Shi Ci said.

Zhang Yu smiled noncommittally and said: "It doesn't matter, we can contain 70,000 of them here, and when they reach the border of Youzhou, we can contain more soldiers and horses." ”

"In addition, when Hansheng fights, the Cao army will inevitably have more troops to defend us."

Zhang Yu restrained Cao Cao from having more soldiers and horses, and the more resources he would invest, the more pressure he would put on them at that time.

"Ziyi, starting tomorrow, we will each lead our troops out to attack and harass, and continue to attack in many places with small-scale troops, and we will not fight hard with them, you and I will control the overall situation and let the young generals go out for activities." Zhang Yu said.

Although they are mainly in a confrontation at the moment, they do not want to be idle just like that.

Zhang Yu's camp was only ten miles away from Cao Ang's camp.

Cao's army arranged only one large battalion.

The next day, Zhang Yu and Tai Shici led the army to set off.

Cao Ang received the news and led the general to prepare to meet Zhang Yu at the gate of the camp.

This time, Zhang Yu brought out almost all the troops, leaving only 5,000 people in the barracks for defense.

Behind is Qingzhou, Zhang Yu is not worried about the problem of the camp at all, if the Cao army dares to attack the camp, it will just surround them.

Zhang Yu led an army of 60,000 to the front of Cao Ang's camp, and Cao Ang and their total of 70,000 soldiers and horses.

And what about the other 30,000 or so soldiers?

Zhang Yu scattered all the remaining soldiers and horses, and a young general took a piece of soldiers and horses, and then went to the rear.

When Zhang Yu arrived, he was divided into two armies on both sides of Cao Ying, with 30,000 men on one side.

After arriving, Zhang Yu didn't want to attack, so he leisurely paced back and forth.

Of course, his army was ready.

Zhang Yu poured out of the nest, and then did not attack.

Cao Ang asked Xun Yu and Jia Xu, "What is Zhang Yu doing here?" ”

Without waiting for Jia Xu and Xun You to answer, the scouts arrived, reporting that more than 30,000 soldiers and horses had broken through to their rear.

Cao Ang's heart sank like water, under normal circumstances, when he broke into the rear, he was most afraid of being cut off from the back road, but Zhang Yu didn't have this worry at all.

Zhang Yu's army dragged Cao Ang and them, how many troops and horses could Cao Ang send to deal with them?

If there is less and not enough food, there will be danger in the big camp.

Cao Ang shook his hand and said loudly: "It's shameless. ”

At this time, there was not much army protection in the rear of Cao's army, and there were also troops transporting grain and grass.

More than 30,000 soldiers and horses immediately swept through Cao Ang's rear, and several teams transporting grain and grass were eaten in an instant.

Cao Ang: They lost thousands.

Several teams ransacked several roads, some returned empty-handed, and some ran into Cao's transport team.

This time I didn't burn it, but I grabbed it directly.

When Cao Ang received the news, he was only angry there and did not send troops to support.

He knew that support would be in vain, and he would let the supporting soldiers and horses trap him.

A day later, Zhang Yu's soldiers and horses assembled in front of Cao Ying, and also brought back a large number of captures to show off in front of Cao Ying.

"Master Cao, smile." Zhang Yu shouted there when he was about to leave.

Cao Ang was quite calm at this time, and there was no fluctuation.

"Prince, we can't continue to stay in this big camp, and we will withdraw to the city tomorrow." Xun You said.

Cao Ang nodded.

When they retreated to the city, they had to retreat dozens of miles to have a strong enough city, which was equivalent to letting Zhang Yu and them advance dozens of miles.

After advancing for dozens of miles, they had to send more soldiers and horses to defend, otherwise Zhang Yu and their soldiers and horses could attack from both sides.

(End of chapter)