A few days later, Yuan Shao's army approached Daijun, and Huang Zhong went to meet the enemy.

"Woo, brother-in-law, you're leaving again."

Ye Chen was leaving, Xiao Qiao hugged Ye Chen and cried, and Da Qiao also hugged Ye Chen, and his mood was not high.

"Good, when my brother-in-law comes back, my brother-in-law will marry you when he comes back." Ye Chen patted them on the back and said softly.

When Xiao Qiao heard this, he immediately stopped crying, raised his head and said, "Brother-in-law, don't let me wait too long with my sister." ”

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Ye Chen said goodbye to his wives one by one, and then set foot on the front line.

At this time, the defense of the entire Youzhou has undergone great changes.

Jixian no longer has a main battle army, only a city defense army.

However, the city defense army has also been trained for a long time, and its combat strength is not bad, so it is enough for them to defend.

Zhao Yun and 10,000 cavalry quietly lay in ambush near Qingzhou, where he waited for the situation to change, and if necessary, he could threaten Yuan Shao's rear and support Cao Cao.

However, when Yuan Shao did not attack Yanzhou, Zhao Yun would not move lightly, even if Yuan Shao attacked Yanzhou, as long as Cao Cao could support it, he would not attack Yuan Shao.

At the same time, Ye Chen led the other armies to set off towards Daijun.

Dai County currently has tens of thousands of troops, Huang Zhong, Xu Huang, Tai Shi Ci are all there, plus Ye Chen's headquarters soldiers and horses, at this time the main force in Dai County is nearly 50,000 soldiers and horses, and there are tens of thousands of city defense troops.

In this way, Yuan Shao's soldiers and horses have 100,000, but compared with Youzhou, the advantage is not very obvious.

However, Yuan Shao led an attacking army, and Youzhou's soldiers and horses had to defend many places, so Yuan Shao's soldiers and horses were at least twice as many as Youzhou's.

There were 50,000 more soldiers and horses.

However, Ye Chen was not afraid, and led the soldiers and horses to the top.

"Meet my lord."

When Ye Chen arrived in Dai County, several civil and military officers came to pay a visit.

Tai Shi Ci also shouted to the lord, such a formal occasion should be dominated by Ye Chen.

Ye Chen nodded, and let people start to report the situation.

Tai Shici reported on the movements of Yuan's army, while Xu Huang reported on the defense of the city.

The defense of this generation county is now amazing, not only has a tall city wall, but also a moat, the key is that the inner city is still a large construction site, there are a lot of stones here, these stones are directly moved under the city wall, ready to be used for defense, if Yuan Jun dares to attack, then Ye Chen will use these stones to hit them fear.

Daijun did a very good job, and Ye Chen was relieved.

Now what makes Ye Chen uneasy is that on the side of Bingzhou, only Guan Yu has more than 10,000 men and horses in several counties in Bingzhou, if the passage between Bingzhou and Youzhou is cut off by Yuan Shao, then Guan Yu will become a lone army.

Hanging alone is easy to go wrong.

So Ye Chen gave Guan Yu an order, if he couldn't do it, he could lead his troops to the north, detour through the grassland, and preserve his strength.

Of course, it's a pity to lose the territory, but if something happens to Guan Yu, it will be even more pity.

A few days later, Yuan's army approached and began to engage the front army.

Huang Zhong began to engage the Yuan army, and the front of the reinforcements was 10,000.

But Huang Zhong was not bad, he first ordered the infantry to retreat slowly, and he began to attack the other side with 10,000 soldiers and horses.

Huang Zhong did it very skillfully, he led light cavalry, and the power of the archers was to ride and shoot unparalleled, retreating while fighting, and constantly harassing.

Each attack may kill a dozen or twenty enemies, but once the number of times is too much, Yuan Jun can't stand it.

At the same time, sometimes sudden attacks are launched, and they enter the enemy's formation, disrupting their formation at once.

Huang Zhong was constantly retreating, but he did not retreat all at once, but retreated in an orderly and slow manner, constantly killing and wounding the enemy in the process of retreating.

10,000 strikers were dragged by Huang Zhong for a few days, directly losing more than 5,000 people, and half of the men and horses were lost in battle, and the strikers had no attack power.

Yuan Jun had to replace the striker.

It is said that the Yuan army, who commanded 100,000 soldiers and horses this time, was the famous general Ju Yi of Hebei.

100,000 soldiers and horses, there must be a prestige and capable general to lead, and Ju Yi has this ability.

The news continued to spread to Dai County, and Ye Chen received news from all sides.

"Sure enough, this Yuan Shao wants to cut off our connection with Bingzhou, I'm afraid they still want to take the opportunity to eat Bingzhou." Ye Chen said after looking at Yuan Jun's arrangement.

Tai Shici also said: "We are not strong enough, and we can't take care of the two, if we want to keep the annex state, I'm afraid we will have to have a hard battle." ”

Ye Chen also knew that his weakness was the lack of troops, but Ye Chen also had a strength, that is, they were in a defensive state, and there were a large number of cities to defend.

A plan slowly took shape in Ye Chen's mind, but Yuan Jun had more troops than himself, this was a fact.

"Let Hansheng enter the city and hold on, the county town will hold on for three days, and the rest of the ordinary towns will hold on for one day, mainly to preserve strength and kill and injure the enemy." Ye Chen gave an order.

At this time, the enemy's troops were in full swing, and the opponent had more troops, Ye Chen planned to consume them for a while.

When Ju Yi ordered Yuan's army to attack, he also sent 30,000 horses to guard the junction of Bingzhou and Youzhou.

These 30,000 horses just watched from the sidelines, and put on a posture of attacking at any time, but they never attacked.

Ye Chen judged that these 30,000 horses were just here to scare people, in order to let Ye Chen further divide his troops, so that he could not care about each other, or to threaten Ye Chen and make him jealous.

Generally speaking, Youzhou and Merge State may be cut off at any time, in this case, the concentration is not firm enough, and it will definitely be chaotic.

Ju Yi put 30,000 soldiers and horses at the junction of Youzhou and Bingzhou, in fact, he was already invincible, even if he didn't fight, Ye Chen's troops would be held back by him.

If Ju Yi's 100,000 people were just here to drag Ye Chen and prevent him from supporting Cao Cao, then his goal could indeed be achieved.

But Ju Yi dispatched 100,000 horses this time, and his mission was not just to drag Ye Chen down.

Juyi's men and horses continued to advance and entered Daijun.

Huang Zhong had already entered the county with 5,000 cavalry and thousands of infantry to actively defend it.

The vanguard of Yuan's army was blocked, and when it encountered a fortified county town, the 10,000 vanguard army was of little use, and could only wait for the arrival of the army behind.

Two days later, Ju Yi arrived with a large army, and in addition to the 5,000 or so killed in battle, he had 65,000 soldiers and horses in his hands.

At this time, Huang Zhong had already set up defenses and was ready to fight.

Ye Chen asked Huang Zhong to hold on for three days, but Huang Zhong didn't feel the pressure, because these cities were originally defended by the defenders, and they had been strengthened and prepared, and the defense materials were very complete.

After Ju Yi arrived with his people, he began to attack early the next morning.

The attack on the first day was not very intense, but it was not very easy either.

The first head-to-head battle between the two sides, Ju Yi mainly attacked with a tentative attack.

On the first day of the battle, Ju Yifang killed more than 3,000 people, and Huang Zhong's main force did not join the battle, mainly the defenders of the city were fighting, and more than 1,000 people were killed at the same time.

Ju Yi has already roughly measured the situation of the city, and the next battle may not be so easy.