The battle of Guandu gave the world a feeling of being a tiger and a snake, and it was menacing, but it was holding its head and running away, and it could not be defeated.

Even the battle of Guandu in history is almost the same.

Thinking about Yuan Shao, how magnificent the army of 800,000 is! However, he defeated the battle in a row, obviously occupying an absolute advantage, but he was restrained everywhere, and he could clearly divide his troops into multiple ways, so that Cao Cao was tired of coping, but Yuan Shao was afraid of Cao Cao's tricks, and he never considered the strategy of the light cavalry raiding Xu Du as mentioned by his advisers. As a result, Yuan Shao could only camp his army before the Guandu Pass, because of the destruction of a grain crossing and his own confusion, and because of his suspicious and indecisive character, he directly forced Zhang He and Gao Ran to defect in the two pillars of the army, which was equivalent to directly sucking out the cornerstone of a high-rise building, so that Yuan Shao's army collapsed.

Battle of Guandu! In addition to the 100,000 elite soldiers led by Yuan Shao and the army that sent his son to lead the army back to Liyang and Yecheng first, the 400,000 military horses who stayed in the Guandu camp were killed by Cao Cao's army and scattered.

In his army, a small number of sergeants escaped, and the rest were killed by Cao's army, 80,000 people, and countless people surrendered.

The corpses of 80,000 soldiers of the Yuan army were piled up like mountains, and the blood flowed into the Yellow River, making the surging waters of the Yellow River red for three days, and they did not disperse for a long time.

Wuchao was destroyed, and when he heard that there was a sneak attack by Cao's army in Liyang and Yecheng, more than half of the military horses were lost at once, and Yuan Shao vomited three liters of blood on the spot in Yanjin. He didn't dare to wait for Jianjin any longer, and directly ordered the army and horses to retreat.

But at this time, Cao Ren, Zhang Xiu, Zangba and other Cao generals each led 100,000 troops and horses to cross the north bank of the Yellow River and attacked Yanjin, Baima, Puyang, Jibei and other cities respectively. Among them, Zhang Xiu's department Cao Jun. It's approaching Puyang.

Yuan Shao abandoned Yanjin and fled, originally intending to capture Yanjin and take over Cao Ren, who was the official to cross Cao Cao's army. Knowing that Yuan Shao had abandoned Yanjin, he immediately waved his army to seize White Horse City, blocking the road and killing Yuan Shao's military horses.

From White Horse City to Yanjin, Cao Jun's shouting and killing was heard almost everywhere, which frightened Yuan Shao to the core. After the last day, Yuan Shao ordered to immediately cross the Qingshui River north with the tens of thousands and 200,000 military horses he had withdrawn. Return to your own turf. Under the protection of the personal guard cavalry, he quickly fled back to Liyang.

Liyang's guard Jiang Yiqu went out to welcome Yuan Shao, and saw Yuan Shao so embarrassed to return. I was surprised why. Yuan Shao sued him for the defeat of his official crossing and the abandonment of Yanjin. At this moment, Yuan Shao realized that there were no Cao Cao's soldiers and horses to attack Liyang at all. There is no matter of Cao Jun killing Yecheng.

That's it. Yuan Shao realized that he had fallen for Cao Cao's tricks again, and he had messed up and buried hundreds of thousands of his military horses in vain.

Yuan Shao was crumbling, Jiang Yiqu hurriedly escorted Yuan Shao into Liyang, and then sent military horses to arrange a defensive line along the Qing River to summon the scattered people of Yuan's army.

Although Yuan Shaojun was defeated. But there are still a lot of military horses that have escaped back, those Yuan Jun who have been killed by Cao Cao. Hearing that Yuan Shao was in Liyang, he hurriedly threw himself forward, and after a while, Yuan Shao gathered a lot of military horses.

Of course, at this time, Yuan Shao's army was no longer as powerful as before, and its strength was far weaker than Cao Cao's military horses.

Yuan Shao, who was a little more stable, knew that although the Guandu of the Dao Dao was defeated, his foundation could not be lost, and he urgently ordered the generals to base the north bank of the Qing River to resist the Cao army.

Fortunately, Yuan Shao had always used Qinghe as the line of defense before, and he had already made many arrangements, and now it is not too difficult to defend Qinghe.

Cao Cao counted his troops and horses, and when he saw that Yuan Shao had already arranged the defense, they had no choice but to stop the attack, and did not kill Qinghe in one go, completely eliminating Yuan Shao.

In fact, this is not that Cao Cao does not want to wave his army to cross the river and take Jizhou directly, but Cao Cao's battle of Guandu is also a lucky victory, if Yuan Shao holds the Guandu camp for three or more days, his military horses will immediately be in chaos and defeated without a fight. Although he defeated Yuan Shao's army this time, captured a large number of people, and captured countless pieces, he did not get too much grain and grass. After all, most of Yuan Shao's military rations were stored in Wuchao, which was burned by Cao Cao himself, and there was not much grain and grass in Yuan Shao's army, so what Cao Cao obtained was only countless prisoners and ordnance, but food was quite lacking.

Therefore, even if Cao Cao has won a big victory now, the problem of military rations for his own military horses has still not been solved. In this way, even if Cao Cao wanted to kill Qinghe in one go, he was powerless to seize Yuan Shao's Hebei.

At this moment, Cao Cao, what he needs is to quickly stop fighting, rest and recuperate, and solve his current lack of military food. In addition, the most important thing is to immediately mobilize a large army, garrison troops in the area of Xiangcheng and Chenliu, and beware of whether the New Han Dynasty has any actions. Cao Cao knew that if the news of his defeat of Yuan Shao in Guandu reached the ears of Liu Yi in Luoyang, then it would mean that his previous appointment with Liu Yi in Xiapi would end here. In the battle with Yuan Shao, before the victory was divided, Liu Yi promised that the New Han Army would not send troops to attack him or Yuan Shao, but now, the battle of Guandu is regarded as the victory and defeat between him and Yuan Shao, does this mean that Liu Yi should also take action?

At this moment, Cao Cao, what he is most worried about is that Liu Yi is going to send troops to attack him, if this is the case, he is afraid that it will be really difficult to fight Liu Yi again. Now, he can only transfer his army to the pass bordering the New Han Dynasty, so that Liu Yi can see that he is ready to guard against Liu Yi, and let Liu Yi not easily start a war with him, otherwise, he will not be able to please him.

Doing so, in fact, is just a bluff, if Liu Yidang really wants to kill, Cao Cao is afraid that he will really be anxious.

And Yuan Shao, seeing that Cao Cao did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, he also settled down and discussed with the generals to return to Jizhou.

Yuan Shao and his generals were physically and mentally exhausted at the moment, so naturally they had no objections, leaving a certain number of military horses to guard the banks of the Qing River, and Yuan Shao led most of the military horses back to Yecheng.

Yuan Shao's defeat this time, but the impact is very far-reaching, the actual situation, is really as frustrated as the original fear, all of a sudden lost so many young and strong children in Hebei, Hebei people heard the bad news, all heartbroken. At this moment, the entire Hebei is almost trapped in a gloomy fog.

Not only the people of Hebei, but also Yuan Shao's army, the sergeants who returned to Yecheng with Yuan Shao, everyone was mourned, and everyone was grieving.

Halfway through, Yuan Shao's military horses camped in the barren mountains. It may be that the wilderness makes people feel more sad. Or seeing that they can return home, the soldiers in Yuan Shao's military camp seem to be a little emotionally out of control. From time to time, sergeants wailed and wept.

Yuan Shao was disturbed by the cries in the camp. Distraught, he walked out of his military tent to see who was crying late at night, affecting his dreams.

Hearing the sound of crying in the camp in more than one place, he casually found a military tent a little closer to listen to it and looked at the soldiers. Why is it so gaffe?

When Yuan Shao heard this, it was some soldiers who gathered and talked about the defeat. Speaking of their brothers, they either died in Guandu, or died in Cao Cao's pursuit, or did not know life and death, this kind of suffering of losing relatives and abandoning their companions. Let these sergeants die in pain. When he was sad, he beat his chest and cried, and his tears did not stop.

When Yuan Shao heard this, he also had relatives in his heart.

In particular, Yuan Shao heard some sergeants say that if Yuan Shao could listen to the words of Keqing Tian Feng before, he should not fight lightly, and if he wanted to fight, he would directly attack Xu Du. How could that be such a failure?

Well, this is a direct strategy to attack Xu Du. It was Tian Feng who proposed it first, and when Yuan Shao decided to send troops, it was Tian Feng who said that he would be disadvantaged. Now, as expected, Tian Feng said it. Yuan Shao was mentioned by these soldiers at this moment Tian Feng's original words, and he couldn't help but regret it in his heart.

Yuan Shao's heart also had a little shameless feeling, thinking that he would return to Yecheng, but he didn't know how to face Tian Feng.

The next day, Yuan Shao met the trial who came to greet him halfway. couldn't help but ask the interrogator what Tian Feng's current situation was.

I didn't want to, but the judge said to Yuan Shao in surprise: "Lord, haven't you received an urgent report for you?" That Tian Feng is now disappearing as if out of thin air, missing, and after his subordinates learned about it, they immediately sent it to the lord...... Belch. ”

The judge spoke, but suddenly closed his mouth and said no more. Because, he returned to Yecheng from the Guandu camp, and soon after he returned, he heard that Tian Feng had disappeared, and he sent someone to tell Yuan Shao about it. However, Yuan Shao was defeated a few days ago and fled all the way back, and eighty percent of the letters he sent were not delivered to Yuan Shao.

"Oh...... What the? What did you say? Tian Feng actually disappeared? Yuan Shao listened to the words of the trial, and he didn't react at first, but after hearing him clearly, he couldn't help but be taken aback, and there was an indescribable sense of panic in his heart.

Tian Feng is Yuan Shao looking at the person in custody, how could he be missing? Yuan Shao felt that this must not be as simple as disappearing, and it was estimated that it was Liu Yi of the New Han Dynasty who sent someone to rescue Tian Feng.

For this point, Yuan Shao really didn't guess wrong.

For Tian Feng's safety, Liu Yi had arrangements early in the morning.

In the Battle of Guandu, after Yuan Shao's defeat, it was when Tian Feng was forced by Yuan Shao to commit suicide.

How could Liu Yi let Tian Feng die in vain again? Seriously, Liu Yi had already wanted to rescue Tian Feng back to Luoyang. For this advisor who was the first to serve himself, if Liu Yi can't change the fate of history for him, then don't say anything about changing the world and revitalizing the Han Dynasty.

In order to ensure Tian Feng's safety, Liu Yi not only asked Yang Feng to pay close attention to Tian Feng's situation, but also let Huang Zheng and Wu Yang, with the ability of their intelligence department, have long been lurking in Yecheng. Of course, that's the case, Liu Yi is not very relieved, and sent a letter to Youzhou, so that when Zhao Yun returns to Luoyang, he does not need to return from Bingzhou, but first goes to Yecheng, Jizhou, to help rescue Tian Feng safely.

Zhao Yun had a very close relationship with Tian Feng, and when he received the news that Liu Yi asked him to return to Luoyang, he wanted to go to Jizhou to go back with Tian Feng.

Therefore, there were Zhao Yun, Yang Feng, Huang Zheng, Wu Yang and others, and when they saw that the situation was wrong, they rescued Tian Feng from Yecheng.

At this moment, Zhao Yun, Yang Feng, Huang Zheng, Wu Yang, Tian Feng and others have already gathered with Wen Chou in Bishui Pass and are drinking happily together. There are still frustrations here.

It turned out that Yuan Shao's army was defeated that day, and although he also returned to Yanjin with Yuan Shao, he was wearing shackles and had difficulty moving, and after being attacked by the Cao army, he was forgotten by Yuan Shao's military horse in the army and was directly captured by the Cao army.

However, Zhao Yun and others rescued Tian Feng, crossed the Yellow River all the way through Hanoi, and prepared to go to Bishui Pass to meet Wen Chou. However, he encountered some Yuan Shao's defeated troops who fled from Guandu to Bishui Pass and were ready to take refuge in the New Han Dynasty.

Tian Feng occasionally heard them mention the name of Fu Zhu, and when he stepped forward to ask, he knew that his friend Fu Zhu had already offended Yuan Shao before the Battle of Guandu and was imprisoned by Yuan Shao. Tian Feng couldn't rest assured, and asked Zhao Yun to go to the rescue.

Originally. Yuan Shao's army was hundreds of thousands, and the battlefield was hundreds of miles, and Yuan Shao's defeated soldiers and Cao Cao's pursuers were everywhere. It is really difficult to rescue the nowhere of the frustrated in the chaos of the soldiers.

Fortunately, it was Zhao Zilong, who was full of guts.

Zhao Yun is no stranger to frustration, and he knows that this person is indeed a very loyal and honest person, and he is also an official who thinks about the people of Hebei. Therefore, Zhao Yun promised Tian Feng to go to the battlefield for him. Let's see if we can find it.

If it is said that Fu Zhu was not captured by Cao Bing, it is really impossible for Zhao Yun to find Fu Zhu on the battlefield, but. After Cao Bing captured Fu Zhu, he knew that Fu Zhu was an important strategist by Yuan Shao's side, so he sent heavy troops to escort him. Send it to Cao Cao for processing.

Outcome. Zhao Yun, who was turned into a soldier of Cao Cao, saw it, and directly rushed to kill, killed Cao Bing, rescued Fu Zhu, and brought him back to Bishui Pass.

When a group of friends meet, it is natural to say goodbye.

A few days later, they returned to Luoyang together and met Liu Yi.

Let's talk about Liu Bei today. A few days after the Battle of Guandu, he also received the news of Yuan Shao's defeat.

He listened. He felt heavy, because the last thing he wanted was for Cao Cao to defeat Yuan Shao. Instead, he hoped that Cao Cao would be defeated by Yuan Shao, so that his plan would be more convenient to carry out.

Then, he got the information again, Cao and Yuan, the two families, actually stopped fighting, after a big war, the pattern seems to have returned to the starting point at that time, Cao and Yuan are still fighting across the river, and there is no situation of losing both. At least, for Cao Cao, the loss of his military horses was negligible, and even after receiving a large number of Yuan Shao's troops, his strength increased instead of decreasing.

Look at Yuan Shao again, although Yuan Shao was defeated at this moment, he still had the strength to keep his foundation, and he still had enough troops to resist Cao Cao's attack according to the Qinghe River, and he could still hold Cao Cao.

Such a situation is the most unfavorable for Liu Bei.

His purpose of trying to fish in troubled waters seems to be unlikely.

Whether it is Yuan Shao's territory or Cao Cao's territory, it is not something he can easily rely on.

However, what reality gave Liu Bei was that Liu Bei had no choice at all.

If Liu Bei still wants to struggle to survive in this troubled world, and still wants to stand on his own, then he must take the plunge and seize Runan and seize a place for him to settle down temporarily.

He is really not happy in the ancient city, because the ancient city is the territory of the thieves Liu Pi and Gong Du, and he can only be regarded as sending people under the fence for the time being.

Well, in history, the three brothers Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei reunited after being separated, and at that time, Liu Pi and Gong all voted for Liu Bei. So that Liu Bei can get the ancient city.

But now, Liu Pi and Gong Du are already Liu Yi of the New Han Dynasty in secret, no matter how much Liu Bei says it, these two generals still don't have the slightest desire to serve Liu Bei and follow Liu Bei's heart.

Moreover, Liu Bi and Gong Du, the two generals, seem to have a lot of vigilance against Liu Bei, and in some places, they won't even let Liu Bei go.

If in history, Liu Bei Guan Yu and Zhang Fei helped each other, Liu Pi and Gong Du, two old Yellow Turban generals, even if they were not convinced by the loyalty and courage of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, they would be persuaded by Liu Bei, or with the help of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, they could remove these two thieves and directly take the ancient city for themselves.

But now, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei seem to have no intention of helping Liu Bei win the ancient city.

Therefore, Liu Bei now has no choice but to seize Runan.

Now, although Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shao, his army followed and stationed troops in the area of Chenliu, and also sent a military horse into Yingchuan, afraid that he would reach Xiangcheng in the near future. As for the internal Runan region of Yuzhou, the army is still weak.

This is also Liu Bei's only chance.

Fortunately, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei also attached more importance to the matter of seizing Runan for Liu Bei, and between the battles of Cao Yuan's army, the two generals had infiltrated Runan respectively and had a clear understanding of the situation in Runan City.

There was no way, Liu Bei decided that he couldn't wait any longer, and he had to go hard.

However, if Liu Bei wants to seize Runan, he also has to find a reason. He didn't want to be accused of being a thief by Cao Cao after he seized Runan. Because, Cao Cao controls the imperial court, and his words are equivalent to the emperor's holy decree, not to mention, Cao Cao wants to issue a holy decree, which Cao Cao said is a thief.

For this, Liu Bei is also helpless, because who called Cao Cao to control the court? If Liu Bei doesn't have a name and captures Runan, then it's really a bit unreasonable. Because, although Runan is really Cao Cao's. However, nominally, this still belonged to the Han court. Liu Beiping relied on it in vain, which was equivalent to betraying the imperial court.

In history, there were thieves such as Liu Pi and Gong Du, whether Liu Bei accepted the surrender of Liu Pi and Gong Du, or Liu Bei sent troops to seize them, no one would say anything. But now, Runan City is Cao Cao's. It's the imperial court.

To solve this problem.

Liu Bei decided to let Guan Yu lead an army to capture Runan, and then he and Zhang Fei led an army. Straight to Xudu. Liu Bei didn't ask for a real attack on Xu Du, he did this, just put on a posture and made a crusade against Cao Cao's Han thief. The banner of the king of the army.

Liu Bei wants to let the world know the truth. He did not rebel and seize the territory of the imperial court, but to crusade against Cao Cao in order to sacrifice the emperor. He wanted to focus the world's attention on his attack on Xudu and ignore his capture of Runan.

To seize Runan, Guan Yu went quite smoothly. After all, Cai Yang had already been beheaded by Guan Yu, and although Cao Cao learned about it, Cao Cao was busy with the Guandu battle with Yuan Shao, so he simply didn't have time to send another general to Runan City. So. Runan City does not yet have a general who can really preside over the overall situation. In addition, Guan Yu is in the Runan area. has made a name for himself, and now the people of Runan know Guan Yu's martial arts.

Therefore, Guan Yu directly mixed into Runan City with more than 1,000 elites, and then suddenly killed the main tower of Rucheng City and led thousands of his military horses into the city. Soon, Cao's soldiers who were guarding Runan City all surrendered, so that Liu Bei added some more soldiers and horses.

I don't know whether the people of Runan were influenced by Liu Bei's name of "benevolence and righteousness", or admired Guan Yu's martial bravery, after Guan Yu captured Runan City, many people at that time were willing to let their children join the army and join Liu Bei's army.

Within a few days, Guan Yu's thousands of troops and horses entered Runan City, and the number of troops increased to about 30,000.

Of course, there is a source of troops, but it has not yet been able to form combat effectiveness, and it still needs a period of training.

However, the lack of combat power can give Liu Bei a momentum, Guan Yu thought about it, and left a general to guard Runan, and he led an army to help Liu Bei.

Cao Cao, who is still in Guandu, is painstakingly considering whether Liu Yi of the New Han Dynasty will make some moves next. But he suddenly received an urgent report from Xu Du, saying that Liu Bei suddenly raised troops to seize Runan and was leading his army to kill Xu Du.

When Cao Cao heard this, he was furious and at the same time, he also felt a headache.

If it weren't for the sudden arrival of a letter, he would have really forgotten about Liu Bei. This guy who is like psoriasis, he really can't beat him to death.

Every time at a critical moment, this guy will always jump out and disgust people.

At the beginning, in the name of avenging his father, he intended to Xuzhou, but Liu Bei jumped out at a critical moment and made a game. To be honest, if Liu Bei hadn't come out to make trouble at that time, even if Lu Bu captured Yanzhou, he could have killed Tao Qian first, and then dealt with Lu Bu after capturing Xuzhou.

And under the situation that his own situation is very good, he was taken Xuzhou by Liu Bei, and he also led to a blood edict of the emperor, which caught Cao Cao off guard, and Yuan Shao issued a crusade against him Cao Cao's message, which was also the reason for Liu Bei's inducement.

Now, although Cao Cao has just defeated Yuan Shao, the situation has not stabilized. You must know that this blow is indeed relatively large for Yuan Shao, but Yuan Shao is also a hundred-legged insect, dead but not stiff. The current Yuan Shao is not without the power to fight back against him Cao Cao. As long as Yuan Shao came back to his senses and gathered the army and horses, he should be able to gather hundreds of thousands of troops, and if he really wanted to have another battle of Guandu immediately, Cao Cao felt that he really didn't have much chance of winning. Everything is still a matter of military rations.

In any case, although Yuan Shao is now defeated, it is not yet time to run out of ammunition and food. If Yuan Shao was not reconciled to this defeat and immediately launched a second battle, Cao Cao felt that he was really in danger.

What's more, at this moment, there is a new Han Dynasty Liu Yi that he is most worried about to consider?

Cao Cao hated it so much, he hated that he couldn't delay Liu Beiling to death immediately.

This battle made Cao Cao worry. Now that Liu Bei is attacking from the southwest again, he can't ignore it. You must know that although Emperor Xian refused to admit it in front of him, Cao Cao knew in his heart that Emperor Xian was indeed in the same nostril as Liu Bei. If Liu Bei is really killed under the city of Xu Capital, then Xu Du is really afraid that there will be changes. If Emperor Xian and Liu Bei left, then his situation with Cao Cao would really not be good. (To be continued......)