Since receiving the news that Zhang Yuan was about to attack Yanjin, he led the main army to the north bank of Yanjin, and waited here for a day, waiting to gather and annihilate Zhang Yuan's main force in Yanjin. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

What annoyed Yuan Shao was that he had been blowing the river breeze here all day, but he didn't even wait for half of Zhang Jun's figure.

"I haven't seen the shadow of the enemy army for a long time, I'm afraid this is a plan by Zhang Thief to attack the west, lord, I'm a little worried about the white horse." Tian Feng, who followed left and right, frowned.

Yuan Shao's figure shook slightly, and a little jealousy flashed in his eyes.

Not long ago, he had received information from the Fu Zhu who stayed in Liyang, claiming that he had found Zhang Yuan's banner in the Baima area, and suspected that Zhang Yuan's attack on Yanjin was a plan to divert the tiger from the mountain, and asked Yuan Shao to return to the division quickly.

Yuan Shao didn't, and still decided to wait on the front line of Yanjin.

His own army of hundreds of thousands was exhausted by Zhang Yuan's mobilization like a monkey, which Yuan Shao couldn't accept.

"Yuan Hao, you have to be calm, don't be in a hurry." Yuan Shao reverted to Tian Feng in a confident tone.

The speaker exited, and a scout galloped in.

"Report, Baima urgently, Zhang Yuanqin led an army of 20,000 to attack Baima, General Yan was defeated and lost 7,000 soldiers."

Thundered.

A thunderbolt fell on his head, and Yuan Shao's mind was blank in an instant, and the blood in his chest surged, and he actually had the urge to vomit blood.

Sure enough, Tian Feng expected that he really fell for Zhang Yuan's plan to divert the tiger from the mountain.

"Zhang thief, how dare you play with me like this."

Yuan Shao was so angry that he gritted his teeth and roared almost like crazy, which made everyone on the left and right frightened.

With the strength of his super princes, he led 150,000 foot cavalry to the south, originally thought that he could beat Zhang Yuan, who would have thought that he fell into Zhang Yuan's trick in the first battle, was led by the nose and transferred, and lost 7,000 soldiers and horses in one battle.

With only 7,000 soldiers and horses, it is not a heavy loss for Yuan Shao's hundreds of thousands of troops, but the defeat in this first battle has affected the morale of the army.

Moreover, the person who failed was still Yan Liang, a famous general in Hebei, which was another heavy blow to the morale of the army.

At this time, Yuan Shao actually had the illusion of being slapped in front of Zhang Yuan.

Deep humiliation, shame without shame.

"Lord, Feng said earlier, that thief is scheming, we shouldn't have come to Yanjin in the first place, if my army was still in Liyang, we could support Yan Liang in time, and there would not be this defeat." Tian Feng sighed helplessly, and in his words, there was a faint sense of resentment that Yuan Shao did not listen to the advice.

Yuan Shao's face sank, and he suddenly showed a little embarrassment, and couldn't help glaring at Zhang You.

You must know that at the beginning, Zhang You supported him to go west to Yanjin, but now that he has fallen into Zhang You's scheme, how can he not blame Zhang You.

Zhang You's eyes rolled, but he hurriedly said: "Yuan Hao's words sound like a little complaining about the lord, you are not right, even if the thief played the trick of attacking the west, but Yan Liang has more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, including 5,000 iron cavalry, such a powerful force, but he was defeated by the thief, in the final analysis, it is still a problem that he himself is not good at fighting, how can he blame the lord." ”

Zhang You's words took advantage of the situation to push his responsibility clean, and built a ladder for Yuan Shao by the way.

Yuan Shao's face suddenly softened, and before Tian Feng could speak again, he shook his head and sighed in disappointment, "This Yan Zizheng, known as my famous general in Hebei, I also gave him so many cavalry, I didn't expect him to be defeated so badly, it's really disappointing to me." ”

Tian Feng didn't know how to defend himself, so he had to look at Feng Ji

Feng Ji Huiyi, busy is sneering and said: "Don't worry, with the lord's 150,000 male soldiers, what's the big deal about a small defeat, it can't change the general trend of Zhang Thief's defeat at all."

"What Yuan Tu said is very true, for today's plan, Tian thinks that the main prince should lead the whole division to return to Liyang, no longer need to compete with that thief, directly lead the army to cross the river, if that thief dares to continue to stay in White Horse City, we will just gather him on the front line of White Horse."

The two Hebei strategists spoke one after another, which calmed Yuan Shao's anger and made him angry for a while.

At this time, Zhang Yu hurriedly glanced at Yuan Tan, suggesting that he asked Yuan Shao to fight in order to gain military power

Feng Ji was astute, and without waiting for Yuan Tan to speak, he hurriedly said: "Yan Liang's new defeat is not suitable for him to be a striker anymore. ”

Yan Liangwen is ugly, known as Hebei Shuangxiong, and his strength is comparable.

On the occasion of Ji Jinyan, he took advantage of the situation and glanced at Wen Chou, who hurriedly stepped forward and said angrily: "The last general is willing to act as a striker and go to the soup for the lord, and he will not hesitate to do anything." ”

Wen Chou, like Yan Liang, has won Yuan Shao's trust, and now Wen Chou took the initiative to ask for war, and he has discipline to protect him, of course Yuan Shao has no reason not to be full.

Yuan Shao then readily agreed, sent Wenchou to lead 20,000 elite soldiers to vanguard, he led hundreds of thousands of main forces to follow, first back to Liyang, and then forcibly crossed the river to take the white horse.

It's a pity that Tian Feng's plan was miscalculated.

Zhang Yuanke was not so stupid, with only tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, nesting in the small city of Baima, waiting for Yuan Shao's army to attack.

When Yuan Shao's army crossed the Chenghe River menacingly, and when it was killed under the White Horse City, there was only one person left to go to the empty city.

The Chenghe River is not as good as the Yangtze River, and Yuan Shao has too many soldiers and horses, if he wants to cross it forcefully, Zhang Yuan can't stop it at all.

Baima is a small city again, the surrounding terrain is wide, which is conducive to the battle of large corps, Zhang Yuanruo is stupid enough to defend here, which is equivalent to giving up the advantage of terrain to Yuan Shao.

Just before Yuan Shao crossed the river, Zhang Yuan had already led the main army and retreated all the way to Guandu.

Guandu is located in the upper reaches of the chasm, which is the starting point of Bianshui, and the chasm canal connects Gongluo in the west and Huaisi in the east, and Guandu is the hub on this canal.

The Central Plains area is a horse and a river, but when the terrain reaches the Guandu area, it begins to narrow, becoming easy to defend and difficult to attack, which can just offset the advantage of Yuan Shao's many soldiers

Moreover, Guandu is close to Chang'an, which is convenient for the supply of military rations for the Zhang army, but it can extend the supply line of the Yuan army and make the supply of military supplies inconvenient.

Such an excellent place is exactly what Zhang Yuan chose, and it is also the only place to choose the decisive battle.

Guandu, Zhang Jun's camp.

The main force of nearly 40,000 Zhang troops under Zhang Yuan's pro-command has retreated to the last barrier of Chang'an, showing a posture of holding on.

Half a year ago, Zhang Yuan ordered the construction of a fortress here, and now it is full of antlers, ditches, and arrow towers, as if it has been built into an iron barrel-like fortress.

Yuan Shao wanted to take Chang'an and unify the Central Plains, but he had no other way to go but to break the Guandu fortress first.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, Zhang Yuan sat down, and Zhuzhu arrived with the latest war report.

Yuan Jun personally served as the forward Daqian Wenchou, and had led an army of 20,000 cavalry to break through Yangwu City yesterday.

Yangwu City, only more than 30 miles away from Guandu, Yuan Shao took this city, the army can drive south, straight to the main camp of Guandu.

"This Wen Chou, the army is also fast, I just left with my front foot, and he attacked with his back foot."

Zhang Yuan smiled, showed the information to everyone, and asked: "Yuan Shao's main army is now in Zhongji."