......With the sound of a rapid gong, 10,000 torches suddenly lit up on the wall of the church, which was originally empty in the dark night. The sudden flash of light made Yuan Bing dizzy for a while. Along with the dazzling light came an overwhelming array of life-urging arrows.

The 30,000 Yuan soldiers were caught off guard, and the distance to the wall was relatively close, and nearly 10,000 people died in the rain of arrows in an instant, with heavy casualties.

Only then did Yuan Shao understand that the matter of digging the tunnel had been exposed, and he did not dare to continue to attack the village to increase casualties, so he immediately ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops.

Just after a round of Jin Ming, the east and west camps of the church official camp were opened, Zhang Fei was killed on the left, Huang Zhong was killed on the right, and the two fierce generals each led 10,000 soldiers and horses to take advantage of the situation to cover and kill.

Yuan's army was defeated and fled in panic.

Just as Yuan Shao was about to order the army on the middle road to go to support, he heard that the rear camp was in chaos, and the flames in the back village rose to the sky, and he fell into a sea of fire in an instant.

"What?" Yuan Shao prepared sufficient military rations for this expedition, and now they are all stored in a safe place in the rear. A mere hundreds of thousands of stones are just a dozen days of food for the army, and it's just a drop in the bucket. Therefore, the burning of hundreds of thousands of stones, grains and grass was not enough to surprise Yuan Shao, what surprised him was that Luan Yi rushed back to support in such a short time. Tens of thousands of church soldiers and horses were joined by them!

One Lu Zhi is difficult enough to deal with, plus one Luan Yi......

Yuan Shao didn't dare to hesitate, and hurriedly ordered to open the gate of the village to welcome the defeated pioneers from Guandu back to Dazhai. At the same time, a large army was mobilized to support Houzhai.

However, when the 50,000 troops sent by Yuan Shao arrived in Houzhai, Luan Yi's army that came to attack at night had already evacuated for a long time. Only Yuan Jun was left with a pile of charred ruins.

Hundreds of thousands of stones were burned along with the army's grain and grass, although the amount was not large, but it was not available for a time due to the lack of transportation. In desperation, Yuan Shao had no choice but to temporarily withdraw from Guandu and retreat in the direction of Baima in the south, and set up Dazhai in the northwest of Baima, which was far away from Luan Yi and Lu Zhi in Guandu.

By the time Luan Yi arrived, the total number of soldiers and horses on the church side had reached more than 84,000. After several attritions, Yuan Shaofang's number of soldiers and horses was only about 135,000 left, and although the gap in the number of troops was reduced, there was still a gap of more than 50,000 people.

More than 50,000 people are enough to affect the battle situation, Luan Yi does not dare to fight hard, so he can only find wit and outwit.

Luan Yi clearly remembered the battle between Cao Cao and Yuan Shao Guandu in the official history, and Cao Cao turned the tide of the battle and won the final great victory because he burned Yuan Shao's military rations stored in Wuchao. So, Luan Yi specially sent a scout horse day and night, disguised himself to go deep into the inland of Hebei, and went to the vicinity of Wuchao to find out whether the current Wuchao is still Yuan Shao's grain storage base.

Facts have proved that Wuchao became an important grain storage place for Yuan Shaohou's army just a temporary idea. Now that time is turning, under the effect of a thought, Yuan Shao did not store the grain in the Wuchao, not only did the Wuchao have no food, but there was no sign of grain in the various walled cities near the Wuchao. The burning of grain and grass could not be stopped.

This made Luan Yi very depressed for a while, he didn't know where Yuan Shao's army food was, and there was really no other way to break Yuan Shao's huge army for a while.

Before thinking of the strange plan, Luan Yi had no choice but to join forces with Lu Zhi to form an army, and expanded the church Guandu Dazhai in a circle, forming a more grand eight-gate golden lock, which was really like a hard golden lock, tightly locking the north gate of the invasion of Yanzhou.

The fighting then entered a stalemate, with no large-scale fighting breaking out between the two sides out of caution, and only a few small frictions.

Luan Yi was originally thinking that Yuan Shao's soldiers would run out of food, or Yuan Shao would lose patience, and Yuan Shao's soldiers would retreat. At that time, the major dioceses in Henan will be able to return to their former tranquility.

But he never thought that Guan Yu, who was in Xuzhou, sent an urgent letter at this time, saying that reliable information had come from Jiangdong Xizuo, and that Yuan Shao's strategist Xi Zhi had only appeared in Jiangdong a few days ago, and visited Sun Ce, Zhou Yu, Zhang Zhao and other Jiangdong civil and military officers in Moling (Moling was renamed Jianye after Moling, which is now Nanjing, Jiangsu). Subsequently, there was a large-scale movement of troops and horses in Jiangdong, and there were signs that Sun Ce was very likely to gather 50,000 or 60,000 troops to unite with Yuan Shao in the north and south, and attack behind our army when Yuan Shao was going south, and attack Shouchun in Yuzhou. Guan Yu still has 20,000 church guards in Xuzhou, who can go to support Shouchun, but compared to the size of Sun Ce's army of 50,000 or 60,000 people, Guan Yu is afraid that his strength will not be enough, so he asks Luan Yi for help.

Hearing the news, Luan Yi's mouth was bubbling with urgency, and he secretly complained: "Old play, old play, my old friend, you used the long-distance and close attack of the Zongheng family on me, this is to want my little life!" ”

Fang Jinguandu's war with Yuan Shao is in deep anxiety. Yuan Shao had more than 50,000 soldiers and horses than Luan Yi, and it was not easy to fight against Yuan Shao with a small number of troops. What makes people even more anxious is that Qingzhou, where Lu Bu and Guo Jia are located, is also uneasy, and Yuan Shao's nephew Gao Gan is gathering troops and horses on the bank of the Yellow River in the north of Qingzhou, with a posture of imminent movement. For this reason, Guo Jia sent three urgent documents within two days, asking Luan Yi to send troops to support.

Qingzhou and Yuzhou need to employ people everywhere, where can Luan Yi draw so many soldiers and horses. I had to send a message to Guo Jia and Guan Yu, between the current tense situation, the two of them could temporarily recruit soldiers to fill in, and how much they could levy. The necessary military salaries could be borrowed from the local churches and returned at the end of the war.

In order to help the two brothers recruit soldiers, Luan Yi also specially published the "Holy Religion Conscription Order" in the new issue of "Holy Light Daily", calling on all the people of the diocese to join hands and join the Holy Sect army to fight against the strong enemy.

For a time, the responders gathered, Guo Jia and Guan Yu each raised 10,000 troops within three days, and the situation in Qingzhou was effectively alleviated. However, the north bank of the Yangtze River is still facing a huge challenge from Sun Ce, and too many recruits will damage the combat strength, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to defeat him.

To be on the safe side, Luan Yi squeezed out 7,000 men from between his teeth, and Bai Tai Shici set off to support Yuzhou on the same day. In this way, Guan Yu's total strength could reach 37,000, and if there was no difference, Sun Ce's 50,000 army could be blocked south of the Yangtze River.

With the issuance of the conscription order, the sky of the four states of the diocese was suddenly shrouded in the fog of war, and within a few days, the people of Ansheng became panicked again, for fear that one day Yuan Shao's iron hooves would trample on their hometown.

At this time, the priests of the church played their role in promoting the strength of the Holy Church army to the people on Sundays and regular church activities, so as to reassure the people and warn the people that only by working together could they resist the enemy's aggression, and called on the people to contribute their own strength to the final victory of the Holy Church in the war.

Therefore, in the following days, the rich squires of the diocese generously donated a large amount of silver and military rations to the church, ensuring that the hundreds of thousands of church soldiers and horses in Qingzhou, Yanzhou, and Yuzhou had sufficient food reserves and sufficient salaries. To a large extent, Luan Yi was relieved of his worries, and he did not have to be troubled by the shortage of grain and grass like Cao Cao in the Battle of Guandu in history.

However, due to Sun Ce's sudden entry into the battle, Luan Yi suddenly became an enemy on three sides, and the pressure was not small.

In response to this situation, Luan Yi once wanted to temporarily withdraw from Guandu, let Lu Zhi lead the troops to Xuchang, and asked himself to teach the Central Army to support Shouchun first, and then return to Xuchang to support after defeating Sun Ce.

As soon as this idea was proposed, it was immediately strongly opposed by Xun Yu. Xun Yu said: "Although Sun Ce is here with great momentum, the essence of it is just to respond to Yuan Shao's southern expedition and form a situation with him. So the focus of this battle was not on Sun Ce, but on Yuan Shao, who only had to defeat Yuan Shao, and Sun Ce retreated without a fight. He also said: "Yu steals that Yuan Shao led the army to assemble Guandu, and his pawn is with our army, and Sun Ce responds to the desire to fight with the sect leader." At this time, the leader must not show cowardice, if he shows cowardice, he will take advantage of it. Yuguan Yuan Shao, wide on the outside and jealous on the inside, let people doubt his heart, not enough for the city's major events. Although his soldiers are numerous and cannot be used, with the wisdom of the sect leader, why not? Just wait for the right time, and you can fight it with odds. As for Shouchun's side, it is better to let it go to Guan Tingshi and Jia Wenhe, and with their talents, they can block the Jiangdong army south of the Yangtze River. ”

Luan Yi agreed with what Xun Yu said, so he continued to garrison Guandu from his words and entrusted all Shouchun to Guan Yu. At the same time, racking his brains to think of a plan to destroy the enemy.

At this critical moment when the situation was extremely tense, Luan Yi finally ushered in the only good news in the past month - the Tanmalai newspaper stationed by the river, the villagers by the river found that a group of more than 20 people crossed the river at night, and they suspected that they were sent by the enemy, so they organized the militia to arrest them.

After being arrested in the village church, one of the leaders claimed to be Xu You, saying that he had something important to report to the sect leader.

The local servant didn't believe it at first, but when he swore an oath, he reported the matter to the Guandu camp and asked the master to make a decision.

When Luan Yi heard that Xu Younan was coming, he was immediately overjoyed. Immediately asked Huang Zhong to gather 5,000 soldiers and horses and go with him to the river to greet him.

After a while, the sound of hurried horses' hooves sounded on the official road, and Luan Yi galloped all the way to Wangshan Village, which was on the verge of the big river. When he arrived in front of the village, he saw a circle of people standing at the entrance of the village, some of whom he knew such as Xu Yu and his fellow villagers who had not seen him for more than ten years, the Xin Ping brothers, and Xun Kan, who had a relationship at the Xunfu family banquet that year.

Originally, Luan Yi thought that Xu You crossed the river alone, but he didn't expect that there were so many virtuous people who came with him. He immediately guessed the purpose of Xin Ping, Xin Bi, and Xun Kan crossing the river this time, obviously...... They are here to serve themselves. Thinking of this, Luan Yi couldn't help but smile excitedly. Far away from the village, he flew off his horse, lifted up his clothes, and strode towards the entrance of the village, shouting as he ran: "Ziqing hasn't seen you for many years, is it okay?" ”