Chapter 688: The Battle of Guandu (49)

Although Yuan Shao lost several generals and some strategists, his army was still there, and his battalion was still there. If Cao Cao didn't defeat Yuan Shao immediately, he would now be facing a time when he would run out of food, and the sergeants would soon run out of food. If Cao Cao hadn't concealed the news that his army had already run out of food too closely, and even the generals close to him didn't know how much food he had spent in his army, the soldiers who had been hungry for a few days would have been in chaos long ago.

Fortunately, after the official crossing, it was Cao Cao's rear, Cao Cao's soldiers, none of them thought that there would be a shortage of food at their doorstep, most of them thought, reduce the amount of food, maybe there was a problem with transporting food or something, Cao Cao can't be blamed, so the sergeants will not think too much, so that Cao Cao's army is temporarily stable, and the soldiers' fighting spirit is also relatively high.

Especially now, after several victories in a row, Cao Cao's soldiers have a great morale, and they don't think how strong Yuan Shao's army is.

Now, Yuan Shaojun's morale can be said to have almost fallen to a low point, and the Wuchao granary was burned down, so that even if Yuan Shaojun still has food, it seems that there is no shortage of it, but it has affected Yuan Shao's military morale to some extent.

The departure of Zhang He and Gao Ran, the two generals, directly led to Yuan Shaojun being on the verge of collapse, at this time, Yuan Shaojun was like a camel with a heavy load, as long as a straw was pressed, the camel would definitely climb down.

Cao Cao barely hesitated.

The next day, Zhang He and Gao Ran were two generals, and they voted for Cao Cao and were made marquis, and they deeply felt Cao Cao's grace. Since Yuan Shao has been betrayed, then the only way to carry out the betrayal is to the end, and they also have a bit of a broken can. They asked Cao Cao to be the vanguard. Asked Cao Cao to lead his army to attack Yuan Shao's other granaries where grain was stored.

If it is said that the burning of the black nest has affected Yuan Shao's military morale, if Yuan Shao's granary is destroyed again, then Yuan Shao's army will really have no way to live.

Cao Cao was overjoyed and immediately ordered Zhang He and Gao Ran. Ordered these two generals to lead the headquarters of the army and horses to attack Yuan Shao's granary, and so. also fully showed Zhang He and Gao Ran the two generals Cao Cao's courage to use people without suspicion and suspicion.

After the two generals led the army away, Cao Cao adopted Xun You's strategy again, first making people threaten everywhere. He's been divided. Capture Sour Zao City all the way, attack Liyang all the way, and cut off Yuan Shao's retreat.

Among them, the most important is Liyang, which is another place for Yuan Shao to garrison troops and grain, and the vanguard of Cao Cao's expedition. If Yuan Shao wants to escape, he must first go through Liyang before he can return to Yecheng.

In addition, send fast horses again. Inform Cao Ren, Zhang Xiu, Zang Ba and the other three that they don't have to worry about Cao Cao's battle with Yuan Shao in Guandu. They just waved their troops to attack Yuan Shao's powerful territory.

Then, Cao Cao will abandon all the 200,000 or 300,000 troops in Guandu, and form a formation before the Guandu Pass, Xiahou Brothers, Xu Huang, Zhang Liao, Cao Hong, Yu Ban, Le Jin, Li Dian, etc., all the generals, all went into battle, and put on a posture of decisive battle with Yuan Shao.

In fact, as long as Cao Cao was willing to fight Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao would have been unable to ask for it. Yuan Shao led the army all the way to capture Yanjin, then crossed the river, and went straight to the front of the Guandu Pass, and then turned his back to the village, which was to put on a posture of fighting against the water and fighting a decisive battle with Cao Cao.

It can be said that if Cao Cao really wanted to fight Yuan Shao with Yuan Shao before the Guandu Pass earlier, Cao Cao would definitely not be able to fight. After all, the difference in strength was more than doubled, and everyone set up a position to fight a decisive battle, and Cao Cao really didn't have the slightest confidence that he would be able to defeat Yuan Shao.

However, feng shui took turns, and it didn't take long for Cao Cao to put the army out and pose as if he was going to fight Yuan Shao. It depends on Yuan Shao's determination to fight.

Well, it doesn't matter if Yuan Shao fights or not, if Yuan Shao doesn't fight, Cao Cao will wave his army to attack the camp, forcing Yuan Shao to fight.

Indeed, Yuan Shao has to fight at this moment.

Originally, Yuan Shao's current military horses should be about 600,000, and in terms of troops, they should still be half of Cao Cao's. When the real army is set up to fight, it is really unknown who will win and who will lose.

If Yuan Shaoyi's army is exhausted, and the two sides fight in Guandu, this must be a great battle.

But the problem is that Yuan Shao is now impossible to mobilize troops and horses to form a decisive battle with Cao Cao.

Cao Cao's rumors spread by others, and the two generals Zhang He and Gao Lan led their troops to attack Yuan Shao's other two granaries, which directly crushed Yuan Shao and Yuan Shao's army.

Yuan Shao, who had been bent on seeking a decisive battle with Cao Cao earlier, was no longer able to open his position to fight Cao Cao.

Just when Cao Cao's army was exhausted, Yuan Shao's army was already in chaos, and they were not thinking about fighting, but thinking about retreating.

Yuan Shao was also a bit of a bachelor, he saw that his sergeants were all cowardly, and it was difficult to do the order and prohibition, so he immediately ordered, whether it was true or not, he sent the general to lead the army to rescue Liyang, and sent the army to rush back to Yecheng to guard against being attacked by Cao Cao's military horses. Then, his military horse, immediately retreated to Yanjin.

Yuan Shao retreated first and escaped from the camp as soon as possible.

If Yuan Shu is a straw bale, then Yuan Shao is a straw ball.

Now, Cao Cao's army is out, even if he doesn't plan to fight Cao Cao, he has to send a certain number of military horses to fight Cao Cao's army first, especially, at this time, as a monarch, he must go to the front line, sit in a large array, and resist the attack of Cao Cao's army and horses.

You must know that Yuan Shao now has a large camp, and he has defensive capabilities, and it is not too easy for Cao Cao to directly attack Yuan Shao's camp.

Unfortunately, although Yuan Shao ordered a military horse to rely on the battalion to resist the attack of the Cao army, and then let the military horses cross the Yellow River in batches and return to the Yanjin battalion. However, he Yuan Shao left first, so it directly made all Yuan Shao's military horses lose the heart to resist.

Yuan Shao's entire army was almost all in chaos, and the sergeants scrambled to retreat to the Yellow River and seize the ferry to cross the river, as can be imagined.

The military horses of Yuan Shao's camp were about 600,000 horses, and the military horses that were sent to rescue Liyang and Yecheng were about 100,000 people, and these 100,000 horses were lightly armed, and they fled back to Yanjin with Yuan Shao himself, taking away 100,000 pro-troops. As a result, Yuan Shao left about 400,000 military horses in the camp on the south bank of the Yellow River.

400,000 horses, at least half of the military horses, crowded together on the south bank of the Yellow River, where are there so many ferries for them to cross the river at once?

Therefore, Cao Cao's army took the opportunity to attack and directly entered Yuan Shao's camp, causing Yuan's army to be defeated and fleeing in all directions. (To be continued......)