Although there has been no war in Bingzhou for the past two years, the generals sent by Hu Li to garrison the city did not let the soldiers slack off, and the high military salary and the better and better life of relatives made the soldiers train very hard. Although these soldiers have not seen blood yet, and they are not yet elite, they are still more than prepared against the 50,000 troops of high-ranking cadres who have long lost their fighting spirit and have been besieged in Changzi City for more than two years.

The arrival of the 50,000 army led by Zhao Zhao dispelled the thoughts of Gao Gan to take the opportunity to break through. Gao Gan also knew that his 50,000-strong army had already lost its fighting spirit in more than two years of siege, if it weren't for the fact that the Montenegrin army had not attacked the city, and Gao Gan still had some kindness to them, these soldiers would have opened the city gate and surrendered. It's okay to count on this army to defend the city, and it's estimated that it's enough to break through.

These 50,000 soldiers had the same idea as Gao Gan before, thinking that Yuan Benchu, the head of the Yuan family, the largest prince in the world who dominated the north, would soon come to save them. As everyone knows, because of Hu Li's successive defeats, Yuan Shao, who lost his troops and lost his generals, was unwilling to easily confront Hu Li.

Cao Cao, who finally eliminated Gongsun Zhang, an old opponent and coerced the Son of Heaven to make the princes, grew rapidly again, and Hu Li deployed heavy troops in the cities adjacent to Yuan Shao's territory.

For Yuan Shao, Hu Li, who bloodily slaughtered the powerful warriors, was far less threatening than Cao Cao, who held the Son of Heaven hostage to make the princes, and Hu Li was at most another Dong Zhuo. In this era when the scholars control knowledge and talents, completely offending the scholars means that talents are scarce and difficult.

Compared with the Changshan State occupied by Hu Li and the desolate Merge Prefecture, Cao Cao's territory was undoubtedly much richer and vast, and Hu Li had not expanded to Jizhou through the Changshan State in recent years, but attacked the desolate Merge State. This also gave Yuan Shao an illusion, thinking that Hu Li's ambition was only to be the emperor of the soil, while Cao Cao was much more active, and Cao Cao, who occupied the rich land of the Central Plains, had the righteousness of the Son of Heaven and had many martial arts under his command, so he was Yuan Shao's biggest opponent.

Moreover, Hu Li's strange methods have emerged in an endless stream, and he has not been defeated so far, and he has armed several cities like thick turtle shells, so that Yuan Shao, the tiger, has nowhere to go at all. Compared with Hu Li's difficult start, Cao Cao, who has had many defeats, is undoubtedly much easier to bully.

When the fire broke out in Wuchao, the army led by Xiahoulan, Gao Shun, and Gao Lan had already surrounded Yuan Shao's hometown of Yecheng. And Zhang Jaw, who started from Shangdang County in Bingzhou and divided his troops into two routes, occupied Hedong County and Nei County in the Sili area, which has always been a buffer area for all parties, and there is no army in each city, so it is reasonable that Zhang Jaw can make such great progress.

The fiasco in the Battle of Guandu, coupled with the distress letter from his hometown Yecheng, directly made Yuan Shao, who was on the way to escape, angry and vomited blood, and died more than a year earlier than in history. Yuan Shao's eldest son, Yuan Tan, returned to Yecheng with the defeated army and Yuan Shao's corpse, because Zhang Jaw and Gao Ran had already been taken under Hu Li's command, so Yuan Jun did not lead his troops to Cao Cao's command.

And Cao Cao because of Hu Li's sudden dispatch of troops to capture Hedong County and Nei County in the Sili region, Cao Cao, who was afraid that the back road would be cut off by Hu Li, did not dare to continue to pursue the Yuan army, these two reasons made the Yuan army retain a lot more strength than in history, which was unexpected by Hu Li, who took advantage of the fire to rob.

However, Yuan Shao, who was grieved and ill because of the defeat of Guandu, was made worse by the news that Hu Li sent troops to besiege Yecheng, and he vomited blood and died. did not survive for more than a year as in history, Yuan Shao died suddenly, and he didn't even have time to make a will, which will make the struggle for power and profit of the Yuan's brothers more intense, and the internal strife and division of the Yuan group will not be far off, which is also a very good news for Hu Li.

Yuan Tan's return with his troops greatly boosted the morale of the defenders of Yecheng, while the armies of Xiahoulan, Gao Shun, and Gao Lan were in urgent need of rest due to the siege and rapid march along the way. After Xinying sent a letter to Hu Li, who had rushed to Handan City in Zhao State, Xiahou Lan, Gao Shun, and Gao Ran gave up the siege of Yecheng and slowly retreated the army to Liangqi City in the north of Yecheng.

Yuan Shao's group began to turn defensive because of Yuan Shao's death and the disastrous defeat in the Battle of Guandu, and the two armies of Changshan State and Shangdang County under Hu Li were in urgent need of rest because of the siege of the city along the way, and Cao Cao also gave up the pursuit of victory because of Hu Li's sudden intervention, and began to arrange the defense line around Yuzhou and Yanzhou.

The three sides stopped the war for their own reasons, and the soldiers were able to rest in this cold winter, and the battle of Guandu came to an end. In this war, Yuan Shao's group was a big loser, not only losing the city and land, but also losing troops and generals, and even the head of the group, Yuan Shao, gave his life.

Although Cao Cao won the battle against Yuan Shao, he did not get a single city, which can be said to be a waste of troops and a large amount of grain and grass. Only Hu Li is the biggest winner, not only obtained the entire Zhao State and the small half of Wei County in Jizhou, but also captured Hedong County and Nei County in the Sili region, although Zhao Yun, who is attacking Youzhou, has not yet heard news, but it should be no problem to occupy a county.

What made Hu Li even happier was that Cao Cao, because Zhang Jaw's army could directly threaten Yanzhou, Cao Cao, who was in urgent need of recuperation, pinched his nose and replied to Hu Li's request to the Son of Heaven to be crowned an official.

Cao Cao in the edict of the Son of Heaven named Hu Li as the general of the chariot cavalry, Jizhou pastor, and the Marquis of Ye, and Zhang Jaw was named the general of the dart cavalry, and the state pastor and the commander of the school, the Jizhou Mu who gave Hu Li a reward was deprived of Yuan Shao, and the Marquis of Ye was also deprived of Yuan Shao, and Yuan Shao's general position was deprived of Cao Cao and left it to himself, and he was not willing to give it to Hu Li, but only a chariot general.

Hu Li only occupied less than two and a half counties of Jizhou, and was actually named Jizhou Mu, and also deprived Yuan Shao's Yehou to Hu Li, which clearly made Hu Li and the Yuan Group die. As Hu Li's general, Zhang Jaw's position as a general is higher than Hu Li's, and he was also named the highest governor of the state and Sili regions, Cao Cao's heart to sow discord is obvious.

It may be that Cao Cao felt that Zhang Jaw, who was originally Yuan Shao's general, would not be completely loyal to Hu Li, and Cao Cao, who felt that there was an opportunity, rewarded Zhang Jaw so heavily. Cao Cao named Zhang Jaw, who only occupied the two counties in the Sili region, as the captain of the Sili school, and he must have saved the intention of using another territory in the Sili region to win over Zhang Jaw.

It's a pity that Cao Cao miscalculated, and when he heard that the edict of the Son of Heaven was so rewarded, Zhang Jaw didn't accept the edict at all, and directly asked the messenger sent by Cao Cao to read the edict to go back with the edict, and told Hu Li all this as it was through the letter eagle, obviously expressing his sincerity.