Chapter 686: The Battle of Guandu (47)

If it was usual, he would be able to talk to Yuan Shao, but Yuan Shao was too disappointed, if it weren't for hundreds of thousands of Hebei disciples, he wouldn't want to talk to Yuan Shao anymore, and he would be able to give advice to Yuan Shao again, which would be a bit against the heart of Yuan Shao.

It's a pity that he doesn't want to give advice to Yuan Shao anymore, but Yuan Shao doesn't want to listen to him anymore.

At this moment, Yuan Shao naturally couldn't listen to the words of frustration anymore.

Before he finished speaking, Yuan Shao interrupted a little rudely: "You are an offended person, how dare you still talk about Yuan's military in front of someone?" Come, escort the person who speaks this big word out of the city, and summon him again! ”

Frustrated Professor was stunned by Yuan Shao's attitude all of a sudden, a nameless fire surged from his heart, and when he was held left and right by Yuan Shao's own soldiers, Frustrated Professor couldn't help but struggle a few times, but he couldn't break free, so he had to say loudly: "Yuan Benchu, if you don't listen to Frustration today, you will definitely be counted by Cao Cao in the future, and you will be defeated!" ”

"Presumptuous! Now that I, Yuan, have hundreds of thousands of troops here, why are I afraid of Cao Cao? Wuchao is not far behind Yuan's army, and there are heavy troops, how can it be counted by Cao Cao? Don't you think that Cao Cao can fly to the sky and the earth, and can fly from the eyes of our army to the back of our army? Blocked by the Yellow River, how could Cao's army cross the river? Yuan Shao reprimanded angrily: "If it weren't for the old days, if you didn't think about your merits in helping Yuan to pacify Jizhou, Yuan would have beheaded you at this moment!" Hugh will deceive the people with any more gossip! ”

Frustrated that he wanted to say more, he had been escorted away from Yuan Shao's big tent, he couldn't help but burst into tears, and sighed silently: "That's it, the defeat of Yuan's army is imminent, the lives of hundreds of thousands of my Hebei children are on the verge of death, and I don't know where the corpses of Frustrated Grant will be, just go." It is useless to talk more about this shaft. ”

Follow down, before Yuan Shao's camp. Beating drums and shouting to kill, all day long, the shouting and killing were endless, with the prosperity of Yuan Shaojun, he couldn't suppress the Cao army who came to fight, which made him really anxious. Although he knew in his heart that Yuan Shao might be plotted by Cao Cao, there was no way to avoid having a premonition.

That night, Yuan Shao was at a loss. When you are restless. Cao Cao had already led his army all the way to the black nest.

Along the way, whenever he encountered Yuan Shao's checkpoint and Yuan Shao's patrolling military horses, Cao Cao only had to tell people that Jiang Qi was ordered to go to Wuchao to protect grain. Those Yuan Jun actually stopped interrogating. Let Cao Cao lead the army unimpeded.

Well, first, it was Cao Cao's elite team that all wore Yuan Jun's clothes and armor, under the banner of Yuan Jun, and Yuan Shaojun was difficult to distinguish the authenticity for a while.

Second, Xu Yu offered a plan and directly pointed out that there was a reason for Cao Cao to fraudulently use Jiang Qi's name. Because Xu Yu knew the way, Jiang Qi won Yuan Shao's trust. Yuan Shaojun, a lieutenant general, has generally heard of Jiang Qi's name. Let alone. Jiang Qi is the general in charge of Yuan Shao's grain and grass salary, who dares to stumble Jiang Qi? If you offend Jiang Qi, people will give you hands and feet on the military salary, grain and grass, I am afraid that those who offend Jiang Qi will not have a good time. Not to mention the deductions, when allocating military rations, we gave them some expired and spoiled grain, so that they could feel better.

Therefore, Xu You proudly pointed out that Cao Cao took the name of Jiang Qi, which is indeed profound, if it were not for this, Cao Cao was afraid that it would be really difficult to lead the army to the black nest.

When he arrived at Wuchao, as Xu Yu expected, Chun Yuqiong, who was stationed in Wuchao, heard that Jiang had come to Wuchao and wanted to transfer a batch of grain and grass to the Guandu camp, but Chun Yuqiong didn't come to ask at all. Hehe, if Chun Yuqiong came to take a look, he would know that the person who came from Lu Dao was not Jiang Qi but someone else. Of course, he doesn't need Chun Yuqiong to look at it, he just thinks about it, and he may notice that something is wrong, because Jiang Qi was transferred back to Yecheng by Yuan Shao, he also knows about it, and he didn't think much about it at the moment, and he didn't think that Jiang Qi, who should have been in Yecheng, would return to Wuchao to transport grain. The most important point is that with Jiang Qi's identity, how can he personally escort the grain and grass?

Anyway, there are many doubts, but Chun Yuqiong didn't expect that he was already drunk and asleep at the moment, and he didn't pay attention to Cao Cao and his people who came to Wuchao.

The fourth watch has been exhausted, and Cao Cao, who has arranged the Lu, knew that the success of the road was at this moment, and immediately ordered 5,000 soldiers to act separately and began to set fire to the Wuchao granary.

When Cao Cao arrived at the Black Nest, he was amazed by the Black Nest, to be honest, let him set fire to so much grain and grass, he himself felt heartache, if these grain and grass were his, how good it would be. It's a pity that now, he can only burn it.

The black nest, as the name suggests, is a bit like a bird's nest in the overall terrain. It is a small town with a small population, in a concave ring terrain surrounded by mountains.

On all sides, tens of thousands of Yuan Shao's military horses were stationed, guarding every dangerous mountain pass road into Wuchao. In the town, the people have been driven away, making it a veritable granary for Yuan Shao, and the houses inside are piled up with mountains, which makes people blush.

However, under Cao Cao's arrangement, 5,000 soldiers divided up some hay, poured grease, lit it, and threw it into piles of grain.

In the interior of Wuchao, there are not too many military horses, most of them are just Yuan Shao's soldiers patrolling, and a personal army of Chun Yuqiong. These military horses, added up to only 10,000 people, and most of Yuan Shao's army were guarding the black nest on the periphery.

Among the 10,000 men and horses inside the black nest, about 5,000 people and horses did not move, only obeying the orders of Chun Yuqiong, and the other 5,000 people and horses were sent to patrol the grain and grass in the black nest. And in the face of the five thousand elites who were carefully selected by Cao Cao, the five thousand Yuan Shaobing who guarded the granary had already been quietly touched by Cao Cao's people, although not all of them, but as long as they were patrolling outside, none of them were spared.

Therefore, when the fire burned, Chun Yuqiong had not yet woken up, and it was not until after the fire soared into the sky that Yuan Shao's soldiers in the black nest knew that the black nest was on fire.

The unlucky Chun Yuqiong, he woke up from his drunkenness in a daze when he heard someone shouting outside, but as soon as he saw the fire outside, he was caught by Cao Bing, who had already touched him.

Yuan Shaojun, who was on the periphery of Wuchao, was naturally also alarmed by the fire of Wuchao, and their military horses rushed into Wuchao, but at this moment, Wuchao was already full of smoke, and the fire of the fire was difficult to extinguish.

Cao Cao led the army, taking advantage of the chaos. Escaped from the Black Nest.

Cao Cao's military horses are still dressed as Yuan Shaojun's soldiers, so. Yuan Shaojun, who rushed into the black nest, did not know whether Lu Dao was friend or foe, and did not attack Cao Cao's army.

At this time, the entire Wuchao was overwhelmed by the fire, and Yuan Shao, who was in charge of guarding the Wuchao, was also in chaos. Under unknown circumstances, a group of Yuan Shaojun. They all thought it was just a fire in the black nest, but they didn't realize that it was artificially set fire to the black nest. Of course, there are some generals who already have a faint feeling. Suddenly such a fire broke out, I am afraid that it was set on fire by spies, but the people they met. It's all people who dress up on their own. In the midst of chaos, how could they know who was the arsonist? Who are the enemies?

Cao Cao's military horses were very smooth, and after leaving the Black Nest, they had not yet had a head-on battle with Yuan Shao's army.

However, at this time, the two generals Wei Yuanjin and Zhao Rui, who were responsible for the transportation of grain and grass on another route, happened to come nearby. They were all taken aback when they saw the sky-high flames of the black nest. Hurry up and lead the army to inspect it. I just happened to run into Cao Cao's army horse that escaped from the black nest.

Cao Cao knew that he could no longer be blinded, so he immediately led his army to meet the battle.

Wei Yuanjin and Zhao Rui were defeated by Cao Cao and were killed by Cao Cao. Looking back at the black nest, it was no longer possible to extinguish the fire, so Cao Cao led his army to flee away.

When he was far away from the black nest, Cao Cao escorted Chun Yuqiong who was caught, and ordered the soldiers to cut off Chun Yuqiong's ears, nose, and fingers, tie them to horses, and put them back in Yuan Shao's camp to insult Yuan Shao.

For Chun Yuqiong, although he is also Cao Cao's old acquaintance, Cao Cao has no mercy on his subordinates. Because, when he was in Luoyang, Cao Cao had seen the behavior of this well-dressed beast in Chun Yuqiong, this guy, who likes young girls, has tried to play with the experience of life and death of young girls. It's a pity that Chun Yuqiong at the beginning was more powerful and powerful than Cao Cao, and there was the support of the Yuan family behind him, and Cao Cao couldn't help him. Therefore, I didn't get what Chun Yuqiong did, and now, Chun Yuqiong fell into Cao Cao's hands, Cao Cao naturally couldn't let him go, and cut off Chun Yuqiong's ears, nose and fingers, Chun Yuqiong was equivalent to a waste person, and he didn't think he would live long.

Back then, when Cao Cao and Yuan Shao were on good terms, he also privately asked Yuan Shao to get rid of Chun Yuqiong, but Yuan Shao did not allow it, and said that Chun Yuqiong was his dog, so Cao Cao Mo asked him about the personnel of the Yuan family.

Cao Cao is insidious and ruthless, killing people without blinking, but he only lives alone, and he can't bear to see some women tortured to death. When he saw Chun Yu Qiong to the young girl Yu Fate, Cao Cao was disgusted with Chun Yu Qiong, and he always had to find an opportunity to get rid of this fang.

Not to mention Chun Yuqiong, now, Cao Cao knows that his great event will be accomplished, and the black nest is burned by him, which is equivalent to his victory by more than half, now, just wait for Yuan Shao to mess up, wait for his army to defeat Yuan Shao's army, and then take advantage of the victory to pursue, cross the north bank of the Yellow River, and come to meet him.

At this time, Yuan Shao's military horses were everywhere, and Cao Cao didn't dare to march at will anymore, so he had to hide in hiding.

Yuan Shao was in the Guandu camp, and he was surprised when he heard the report that he was heading north to the sky, because that direction was Wuchao.

There is too much grain and grass piled up in Wuchao, and the grain and grass are flammable, once ignited, the fire spreads rapidly, and soon the entire Wuchao town will be harmed. Therefore, even if Yuan Shao had tens of thousands of military horses in the black nest, he had no choice but to sigh lightly.

Guandu and Wuchao, in fact, there are dozens of miles away, in Guandu can not directly see the Wuchao, but in the dark night, the sky-high fire of the Wuchao is too dazzling, even if you can't intuitively see the fire of the Wuchao, you can also see the light and shadow of the sky.

In a short period of time, even if there is a change in the black nest, it is impossible to immediately know the situation of the black nest.

In Yuan Shao's heart, although he also secretly felt that Wuchao might have been attacked by Cao Cao as Fu Zhi said, he couldn't guess how to do it out of thin air at this moment, and hurriedly summoned a group of ministers and generals to discuss countermeasures.

Wuchao is the foundation of Yuan Shao, if Wuchao is lost, he is equivalent to losing more than half of the military rations, so that his army food and grass will not be sustainable.

Whether it was Yuan Shao or a group of generals, they all knew the importance of the grain and grass of the Wuchao in the Dao Dao to their army. Therefore, there is only one thing that everyone discusses, and immediately send troops to the rescue of Wuchao. In the people who did not get the true situation of Wuchao, they all thought that Wuchao already had a lot of military horses, even if it was attacked by Cao Cao at this moment, I am afraid that Wuchao's military horses can resist for a while, if they rush to the rescue at this moment, maybe they can still keep Wuchao and prevent Cao Cao from succeeding.

Zhang He and Gao Ran expressed their willingness to lead the army to aid Wuchao immediately.

Well. Cao Cao's army fought against Yuan Shao, although Yuan Shao's army relied on more soldiers, but. Still still suffered a loss, by Cao Cao's generals, under the attack of the troops in many ways, although his army was numerous, but several times almost Cao Cao's military horses were killed into his military camp. Therefore, Yuan Shao had no choice but to quickly transfer the generals back to the Guandu camp. Zhang He and Gao Yan. In fact, it was not long before I returned to the Guandu barracks.

However, at this moment, the generals and strategists under Yuan Shao's account. There were disputes and differences again, and each insisted on the word, which gave Yuan Shao a headache and was difficult to decide.

Seriously. The granary of the Black Nest. It is indeed most of Yuan Shao's grain and grass, but it is not all of Yuan Shao's, and there are still a lot of grain and grass in Yecheng.

A group of strategists who knew this very well, they strongly demanded that Yuan Shao must be calm at this moment and stabilize the army's heart.

In the middle. Guo Tu said to Yuan Shaojin: "Lord, how is the black nest now. We don't know yet, but according to the results of the interrogation of Cao soldiers who came to attack the camp during the day today, it was found that Cao Cao was not in Guandu now. It is estimated that there is a fire in the direction of Wuchao, and it must be Cao Cao who personally led the army to attack our granary. In this way, Cao Cao is not in Guandu, so we just take advantage of Cao Cao's absence to attack Guandu, as long as Guandu is in a hurry, Cao Cao will inevitably retreat, this is Sun Bin's strategy to save Zhao from Wei Wei. ”

Zhang He, who knew that food was the heart of the soldiers, disagreed, and said: "No, Cao Cao is resourceful, earlier our army was exhausted, and a series of fierce battles were fought in a row, but they failed to capture Guandu, and now even if our army is exhausted, how can we take Guandu lightly?" Cao Cao is far away, there will be some arrangements, our army is attacking at the moment, there are many disadvantages, or the Wuchao grain and grass is important, please give the lord an order, and we will lead the army to help, so as not to lose the Wuchao grain and grass. ”

"Wuchao has tens of thousands of heavy soldiers, even if Cao Cao goes to rob grain, it must not be light, and Cao Cao must have learned from Xu You's mouth that our army's military food is in Wuchao, and naturally also learned from Xu You's mouth that our army's troop deployment in Wuchao, Cao Cao wants to rob grain, naturally he has to lead a large army to go, at this moment Guandu must be empty of troops, and our army is capturing Guandu at this moment, which is the best time. Take 10,000 steps back, even if our Wuchao army food falls into the hands of Cao Cao? As long as we take Guandu, the army will go straight to Xudu, which will also achieve our strategic goal, as long as we get Cao Cao's territory, we will not be able to take back the grain and grass we have lost? Guo Tu also insisted on his opinion.

A group of generals and strategists were divided into two parts, saying that they wanted to rescue the black nest on the one hand, and that they would send troops to attack on the other.

Under Guo Tu's repeated requests, Yuan Shao felt that Guo Tu was right, and if he took 10,000 steps back, what if the grain of the black nest fell into the hands of Cao Cao? As long as Guandu is captured, then why be afraid of Cao Cao?

At that moment, Yuan Shao ordered Zhang He, Gao Lan, Han Meng and other generals to lead the army to attack Guandu overnight, and then ordered another general, Jiang Qi, to lead an army to rush to the rescue of Guandu.

With such an arrangement, Yuan Shao felt that it was the most secure, not only to rescue the black nest, but also to fight to see if he could take Guandu.

Jiang Qi's army, tens of thousands of people, marched towards the black nest.

At present, Chun Yuqiong, who has been cut off his ears and nose, has not yet returned to Yuan Shao's camp, and Yuan Shao's military horses, who are guarding Guandu, see that Wuchao has been burned by fire, and the grain and grass have been lost. They gathered together to discuss, and no one dared to report directly to Yuan Shao. In the end, they unanimously said that they would lead the army to pursue the Cao army who had attacked Wuchao, and each led the army away, but it is unknown where they went.

Anyway, without exception, none of Yuan Shao's generals dared to go in the direction of Yanjin and Guandu.

As a result, Jiang Qi led an army to rush all the way to Wuchao, but he didn't meet a general or soldier of Yuan Shao who knew the situation of Wuchao. At this time, everyone understands that whoever reports the situation of the black nest to Yuan Shao will not be able to save his life, and Yuan Shao, who is angry, will definitely kill the person who reported the news.

Originally, Cao Cao, who was in hiding, saw Jiang Qi's military horse, and he had an idea, and ordered the soldiers to pretend to be defeated soldiers who fled back from the black nest, and then went to see Jiang Qi and said that there was something to report.

Although Jiang Qi was deeply trusted by Yuan Shao, he didn't have any ability, and he didn't doubt it.

Cao Cao came to Jiang Qi, shouted, and slashed Jiang Qi under the horse. Then let his elite sergeants come out together and attack Jiang Qi's military horses.

In the night, Jiang Qi's military horses did not know the truth of Cao Cao, and tens of thousands of military horses were actually killed.

Cao Cao obtained Jiang Qi's letter seal, and in the name of Jiang Qi, wrote a letter to Yuan Shao, saying that the Jiangqi reinforcements had killed the Cao soldiers who attacked Wuchao.

Yuan Shao got the report, believed it to be true, and then calmed down, and led the army out to attack Guandu.

However, when Zhang He and Gao Ran and other armies waved their troops to attack Guandu, the Xiahou brothers, Cao Hong, Xu Huang, Zhang Liao and other generals, who had been waiting for Hou for a long time, each led their troops to attack Zhang He and Gao Lan's military horses from all directions, and were defeated and returned.

At this time, Mo said that he was going to attack Guandu Pass, and Yuan Shao was a little overwhelmed to deal with the several Cao troops who took the initiative to seek battle.

At this time, the gap between the military horses of the two sides was reflected. Even if Yuan Shao's military horses seem to be much more than Cao's army, Cao Cao's soldiers are obviously much more elite than Yuan Shao's soldiers. Cao Bing dared to fight one against ten, while Yuan Shao's soldiers were still frightened by ten enemies and one enemy.

In fact, under the leadership of a group of generals, Yuan Shao's army was invincible, and the sergeants were terrified when they saw this.

The sky was getting brighter, and Yuan Shao had no choice but to withdraw his troops. (To be continued......)