After the end of the battle of Wuxian, the 2,700 elite soldiers in the forbidden area were killed or wounded by 40%; The auxiliaries in their early 2,000s were also killed and wounded as high as half a percent. Even the cavalry of Zhao Yun's subordinates, who assisted in the battle, lost no less than thirty percent of their soldiers after the first battle. There are also "sixteen eagles", which have also shrunk again, and one more person has been killed.

Paying such a heavy price, even if Yu Ban won the final victory, it could only be regarded as a pyrrhic victory. Of course, as the losing side, the casualties are even greater.

According to Yu Ban's military report and the news obtained by Wei Xiao's faction after the war, the Xiandeng battalion of Lu Yi's subordinates in this battle was almost completely killed and wounded. Even the "Nine Sons of the Koji Clan", whom he relied on as his help, also killed two of them. Even the elite soldiers of the "Euphorbia" led by Zhang He, the deputy general of Lu Yi, are said to have suffered more than 50% casualties after the battle.

It can be said that after this battle, the "Xiandeng Camp", the tribe on which Lu Yi relied to become famous all over the world, has been completely destroyed, and it is difficult to recover without more than ten years. Even with it, even the famous Jizhou general Zhang He's department is also seriously injured, and it will take at least three or four years to slow down.

Such a result does not mean that Yu Ban's training ability is above Lu Yi.

Lu Yi's department, but not long ago, there was a big battle with Gongsun Zan in Youzhou, and the losses were huge. Even with his mutilated military appearance, against the Yu Ban Department, which is known as the "strongest in the state", Lu Yi can still make Yu Ban pay such a huge price, and its combat effectiveness is really breathtaking.

If the arrogant army hadn't picked up this bargain, maybe they really wouldn't have been able to help Lu Yi!

In view of the tragic losses of the forbidden department, Zhang Qiang had to send his subordinate general Bao out and bring 2,000 people to reinforce the forbidden place. As for the main army of Zhang Mad , after a short rest, Zhang Mad ordered to send Guan Yu as the vanguard to the south first. The rest of the army continued to rest in the city of Xiaquyang for three days, and then moved south.

As for the goal of the southward army, it was to go to receive the rest of the territory of Julu County, and threaten the assembly point of Yuan Shao's army from the north, that is, to rebuke Qiu, so as to contain Yuan Shao's army's counterattack on Yecheng.

Julu County was the time of the Yellow Turban Uprising. The base camp of the three Zhang Jiao brothers. Even if Huangfu Song washed the entire Julu County with blood after defeating Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao, it would be impossible to completely wipe out the foundation of Taiping Dao in Julu. In addition, Dong Zhao, the current Taishou, has already made arrangements for the city defense of the counties of Julu County.

In this way, the arrogant army did not need to fight, and it was easy to take over most of the county seats of Julu County. Even if the defenders of a few county towns dared to hold on and not surrender, they would only be easily crushed into powder in the face of tens of thousands of arrogant troops who had an absolute advantage in numbers.

What surprised Zhang Qi even more was that the "Earth Master" Zhang Bao was actually from some corner areas of Julu County. For the state army, many treasures left over from the Yellow Turban Army were excavated. Although the total amount is not too much, this amount of money can barely meet the military expenses of the state army. The financial crisis that had existed since the insolence of the annexed states was also alleviated considerably by the income from the newly occupied rich areas.

However, Jizhou is not just good news. Not to mention the Zang Bajun who succeeded in the sneak attack on Yecheng, they are struggling to defend Yecheng. Follow the insolent order. Zhou Cang's department, which was in charge of attacking Zhao Guo, also accidentally hit a wall.

Under the city of Zhongqiu in the Zhao Kingdom. Zhou Cang, who had superior troops, attacked fiercely for ten days, not only did not capture Zhongqiu City, but was beaten back more than ten miles by a sudden counterattack by the county soldiers in the city. After such setbacks, Zhou Cang's offensive was paused. until the arrogant army came to the city of the people. When threatening Yuan Shao's main force, Zhao still had most of the region still respecting Yuan Shao as the master.

Zhang Qi was very annoyed by Zhou Cang's defeat at first, and wanted to remove this guy directly and change someone to attack it. But. After hearing the name of the enemy general who commanded the defense of Zhongqiu City, Zhang Qiang no longer felt that the current battle situation was any surprise.

Because, the name of the guard is called:

-- Matching.

The trial is from the Yin'an clan of Wei County, Jizhou, although he is not very old, his reputation for being strong and capable is well-known in Jizhou. Since Yuan Shao got Jizhou, he has recruited and judged the governor of the shogunate, thinking that he is a confidant.

When Zhang Qiang raided Jizhou, he was visiting the local Haoqiang in Zhao to raise military rations for Yuan Shao to defend against Gongsun Zhan's army. After learning that the state army had arrived, the trial disregarded his personal safety and stepped forward in a panic. He gave up the opportunity to flee east to Yuan Shao's camp, but took the initiative to gather thousands of soldiers from local counties and counties, and stationed in Xiangguo City to stabilize the situation of Zhao State.

After learning that Zhou Cang led a large army south to attack Zhao State, the trial matched him with 500 elite soldiers, and ran more than 300 miles in two days, entering Zhongqiu City one step ahead of Zhou Cang, and began to organize the defense of the city in time.

The state army is no stranger to trial matching. A few years ago, Zang Ba had seen the ability to judge in a surprise military operation against Lu Yi. According to the memories of later generations, Zhang Qiang also knew that this judge and judge Zhengnan was loyal to Yuan Shao and swore not to surrender.

As for the stubborn enemy's ability to defend the city, Zhang Qiang vaguely remembers that according to historical records, under the desperate situation of cutting off foreign aid and having no food and grass inside, he still held on to the army of Cao Cao, the "first man of the Three Kingdoms", for half a year. Even Cao Cao finally relied on the betrayal of the spies in the city to take the city guarded by the trial. With Zhou Cang's military strength, it is normal to not be able to attack the city defense laid by the judge himself.

Appreciation is appreciation, if it can be done, Zhang Qiang will not hesitate to kill the trial. However, the situation at this time made it impossible for Zhang Qi to draw more troops to attack and match. Yuan Shao's main force was still there, creating huge pressure on Yecheng in the south. Compared with the importance of Yecheng, Zhao State, which is mountainous and produces little grain, must be put aside first.

Besides, in the Zhao State, where the terrain is conducive to defense, how many reinforcements do you have to send to successfully defeat this guy?

reassigned the task to Zhou Cang, so that he did not seek to break the enemy, but to contain the county soldiers of Zhao State and not affect the battle situation in other regions. This is the way to deal with insolence.

According to the informant, Yuan Shao, who was in Qiuqiu, had already assembled Chun Yuqiong's army on the eastern front and pulled up an army with a total of more than 30,000 to prepare for a counterattack on Yecheng. If Zhang Yan did not lead the main force of the state army to arrive in time, with the 5,000 people in Zang Ba's hands, most of them would not be able to hold Yuan Shao's deep Yecheng.

Zhang Qiang's soldiers were ranked, but he didn't want to fight Yuan Shao to the death. After all, Yuan Shao's foundation in Hebei is extremely strong, and many local powerful people have recognized Yuan Shao's rule. In the absence of the superiority of troops, Zhang Qi did not have the certainty of defeating Yuan Shao's army in one fell swoop. In this case, arrogance will not rush into battle.

As long as they find a way to drag on for half a month, the reinforcements from the "Wudang Battalion" of the Hanoi Xie Xun Regiment will go north to Yecheng to strengthen the defense of Yecheng. At that time, the Zang Ba army, which was not good at defending the city, would be able to liberate and become a mobile force that could threaten the vital points in the hinterland of Yuan Shao's rear. In this way, whether it is fighting, defending, or retreating, Zhang will be more comfortable.

Zhang Crazy tried to delay the decision of the war, Yuan Shao naturally would not fail to see it. Whether it is Tian Feng, Guo Tu and Xun Chen, they all pointed out this point for Yuan Shao. It's just that the difficult situation Yuan Shao is currently in is still beyond his expectations. This, in the final analysis, is a bad thing that Dong Zhao did.

Julu is located in the center of Jizhou, which can be called the heart of Jizhou. Yuan Shao's transportation of military rations to the battlefields in the north and east was mostly deployed through the territory of Julu. Therefore, Dong Zhao's rebellion directly caused Yuan Shao to lose more than half of his military rations. Now outside the city of Qiuqiu, the number of troops is not small, but Yuan Shao began to have a headache about the supply of military rations.

Without an attack, Yuan Shaojun's military rations could barely support until summer. If he wanted to counterattack Yecheng, Yuan Shao's military rations would be able to support two months at most. For this reason, Yuan Shao was even considering whether to borrow some grain and grass from Cao Cao in Yanzhou.

Of course, Yuan Shao just thought about this thought. Cao Cao had just recruited hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turban thieves in Yanzhou, and his own food was not enough, and he had borrowed grain from Yuan Shao. Not to mention that Xuzhou Mu Taoqian sent the general Cao Bao to look at Yanzhou. Cao Cao didn't ask Yuan Shao for help at this time, which is good.

After thinking about it, Yuan Shao found that the only reinforcements and military rations he could use were Yuan Tan's troops who were sent by him to Qingzhou to fight for territory. However, it is not easy to recall Yuan Tan.

Since Bohai County was occupied by Gongsun Fan, when Yuan Tan entered Qingzhou a few months ago, he took the route through Yanzhou. Now Yanzhou is facing the threat of Cao Bao's army, and this passage can be regarded as being cut off. If Yuan Tan is to be recalled, Yuan Shao must first help Cao Cao to repel the invasion of the Xuzhou army, or drive away Gongsun Fan, who had stolen Nanpi City......

In this way, on the Jizhou battlefield, where the total number of troops on both sides exceeded 100,000, the two warring sides stopped large-scale fighting after March of the first year of stability [193] due to their own reasons, and became the first battlefield in the world to calm down.

Yuan Shao stopped fighting because of a lack of food. The arrogant truce, on the other hand, was to stabilize the territory occupied.

Before Zhao's trial was expelled or annihilated, the Bingzhou army, which had been pinned down by Zhao and had paid considerable attention, could not use all its strength to launch a decisive battle against Yuan Shao. At the same time, in the respective ruling areas of both sides, if they don't want to waste this year's spring ploughing and cause a large famine in their territories, Zhang Qi and Yuan Shao still have to divide their attention a little bit to the governance of the place.

From the latter point of view, Yuan Shao and Zhang Qi are both relatively wise rulers. However, not every wise ruler can wisely grasp the major event of spring ploughing. For example, Han Sui in Chang'an and Cao Cao in Yanzhou, although they also wanted to resume the production activities of their territories, but their opponents did not give them this opportunity. (To be continued......)

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