Chapter 292: Counterattack on All Fronts (6)
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Sun Qian also said: "It should be like this, General Guan is also making wedding dresses for others in Jizhou, which is not beneficial, so it is better to return to the defense plain." ”
Liu Bei nodded, and said: "Then inform Jiang Sheng, and say that bandits are everywhere in the plains, and they are unable to support the war in Jizhou, so they must withdraw their troops." ”
Jian Yong said: "Lord, why not mention Cao Cao's plan to besiege Wei and save Zhao for Yuan Shao." This can provoke Jiang Cao's relationship, which will be of great benefit to our future development. ”
Liu Bei said: "No, Cao Cao's intention is to let us withdraw our troops, and there is no intention of encroaching on the plain." Jiang Sheng is kind to me, how can I be so calculating? Jiang Sheng has always been scheming, and he euphemistically said that the withdrawal of the army would not make him linger. ”
Sun Qian said: "The lord is benevolent, it is a blessing for us, and my subordinates are willing to go to Yecheng to talk about this matter." ”
The news of Cao Cao's dispatch of troops soon spread to Yecheng, and Jiang Sheng said: "It seems that Cao Cao is going to stand up for Yuan Shao, and he will regret it." ”
Cao Cao had a total of 50,000 people, and 20,000 people were sent to the plains, and the troops of Dongjun were weak, Liu Dai was so angry that he overturned the case, and Xiahoulan and Zhang Nan also felt incredible.
The reaction was even more fierce was Guan Hai, who learned that Dongjun had less than 20,000 soldiers and horses, so he waved his army to attack, Xiahoulan was annoyed that Cao Cao helped Yuan Shao, so he did not move and let Guan Hai attack Dongjun.
Jibei Prime Minister Bao Xin bore the brunt, and the Guan Hai army launched a fierce battle, Cao Cao ordered Cao Ren, Xiahou Yuan to lead the army to rush to help, halfway to Guan Hai's ambush, heavy casualties, Xiahou Xuan, Cao Chun, Le Jin each led troops and horses to respond, Cao Ren and Xiahou Yuan's soldiers and horses rescued, the original well-defended northeast defense line, because Li Dian led the army to the north and was useless, directly caused Bao Xin's flank to be enemy.
At this time, even if Li Dian and the others were not there, if Xia Houlan and Zhang Nan under Jiang Sheng sent troops, they would still be able to save them, but now Xia Houlan was obviously indifferent.
Bao Xin fought hard for two days, isolated, divided and surrounded by the Guanhai army, each broken, Bao Xin was killed by random arrows on the way to break through, and the remnants of his defeated soldiers scattered and fled, and soon collapsed.
The morale of the victorious Guanhai army was high, and they rushed to attack Renchengguo, and Liu Dai mobilized troops and horses to fight with all his might.
Guan Hai's army is claimed to be 300,000, in fact, excluding the old, weak, sick and disabled, women and children, only half of the people who can really fight, Liu Dai's 80,000 troops, Cao Cao has 50,000, Bao Xin has 20,000, Xiahou Lan and Zhang Nan have 20,000 soldiers, the total strength is comparable to Guan Hai, but now Bao Xin has collapsed, Xiahou Lan does not move, Cao Cao has less than 30,000 people, Liu Dai's 80,000 army is fortified on the whole line, and the mobile combat force is only 30,000.
Under the siege of the superior forces of the Guanhai army, Cao's army suffered more than 10,000 casualties, and Liu Dai's army lost nearly half. Cao Cao urgently ordered Li Dian to withdraw his troops back to Dongjun in order to deal with the unforeseen situation, and the siege of the plain was immediately lifted, and Liu Bei finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Liu Dai's army was surrounded by 50,000 soldiers and horses under the command of Guan Hai in Fan County, and could not break through several times, suffering heavy losses, Liu Dai had to hold on to ask for help, and sent people everywhere to ask for help.
Xiahoulan saw Liu Dai's face and agreed to continue to march into the army, so he went straight to Taishan County.
After the Guanhai army captured Taishan County, they took Taishan County as their base camp and attacked everywhere, Xiahou Lan had already seen this key point, so he attacked in the starry night, and those who stayed in the base camp of Taishan County were all women, children, old and weak, and they were unable to defend at all.
Fortunately, Xiahou Lan and Zhang Nan were not murderous people, and when they saw that the Yellow Turban Army did not fight back, they did not start killing, but sent people to monitor them and negotiate with Qu Shuai, who stayed behind in the Yellow Turban Army.
Because Zhang Ning has publicly returned to Jiang Sheng, these Yellow Turban Army also have a sense of belonging to Xiahoulan, in fact, the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans have also seen the prosperity of Le'an and Jizhou, the prosperity of the people, and the lives of those displaced people have improved greatly after they migrated to Le'an.
Seeing that the Xiahou Lan army was strictly disciplined, they did not commit any crimes against these old and weak women and children, and they had no resistance in their hearts, and took the initiative to accept the soldiers of the Xiahou Lan army to rest at home.
Xiahoulan was worried that these Yellow Turban troops had a plan, so she strictly ordered the soldiers to abide by military discipline and camp on their own to rest, and even sent a patrol of 1,000 people at night to prevent accidents.
When the news reached Guan Hai's ears, it was like a bolt from the blue, the base camp of Taishan County was captured by Xiahou Lan, how should the more than 100,000 Yellow Turban soldiers under Guan Hai survive?
Now that Liu Dai has been surrounded for many days, it is really unwilling to withdraw like this, so Guan Hai beat the drum and marched, wanting to fight quickly.
Liu Dai's army is now demoralized, and the military rations are about to run out, at this time, Guan Hai's 100,000 army launched a decisive battle, which is simply a catastrophe for Liu Dai.
Liu Dai's army, which was tired of fighting, was quickly defeated, and Liu Dai was beheaded by the generals under Guan Hai in the process of breaking through.
Cao Cao heard that Liu Dai was beheaded, so he was shocked that he didn't think about tea and dinner, so the whole army set out, divided into four ways to besiege and kill the Guanhai army, Xuzhou Mu Taoqian learned that Liu Dai was killed by the Yellow Turban, filled with righteous indignation, so that his command Sun Guan, Zang Ba two generals from the border between Qingzhou and Xuzhou Langya sent troops to attack the Guanhai Yellow Turban Army, Yanzhou, Qingzhou counties and counties also sent troops one after another.
Although Guan Hai said that he beheaded Liu Dai and achieved a lot of results, but at the same time he also fell into the situation of being attacked by a group, he remembered the safety of the base camp of Mount Tai, so he led his troops to withdraw day and night.
When going to Bian County at the junction of Lu State and Taishan County, Guan Hai's army was attacked by Cao Cao's army and Zang Ba's army, Guan Hai led the army to fight hard for a day, more than 20,000 people were killed and wounded, and the grain and grass materials were destroyed.
Guan Hai climbed high to investigate the situation ahead, but saw the banner of "Xiahou" fluttering in the wind, he couldn't figure out whether this was Cao Cao's subordinate Xiahou Xuan, Xiahou Yuan or Jiang Sheng's subordinate Xiahou Lan, so he temporarily stopped the march.
But he heard the sound of killing behind him, it turned out that Cao Jun was chasing and killing, Guan Hai didn't think much about it, waved his army to attack, and when he got to the vicinity, he saw that Xiahoulan's team was on the opposite side, and the troops were slightly weaker, so he waved his army and killed him.
Although Xiahou Lan has few troops, they are all well-equipped light cavalry, and they are really a strong enemy for the infantry-based Guan Hai army, and when it comes to life and death, Guan Hai can only bite the bullet.
As soon as the two armies fought, the superior judgment was made. Xiahou Lan's morale was like a rainbow and his fighting spirit was high, and Guan Hai's Yellow Turban Army was cut off from food and grass, and he was defeated one after another, and he was already like a frightened bird, and he didn't dare to fight, Xiahou Lan went straight to Guan Hai, Guan Hai saw that the general trend had gone, and only led hundreds of soldiers to flee to the north.
Xiahoulan secretly called the luck of victory, if Guan Hai insisted on commanding the battle and fought against Xiahoulan with a combat power of eight to one, it would be quite easy to win, but the situation on the battlefield was like this, when the battle was fierce, it was possible to test the will, it was obvious that Guan Hai was defeated in will, which led to the defeat of the superior force of more than 10,000 Xiahou Lan.