"A bunch of rubbish! Sixty thousand troops, that's sixty thousand! It's 60,000 steamed buns, so Ao Lie and Sun Ce have to gnaw on it for a while, and in one day, you will wipe out my 60,000 army? What's the use of keeping you! After Yuan Shu learned the news that Chen Ji and Han Xian had returned defeated, he immediately summoned them and scolded them.

As the chief strategist of Yuan Shu, Yan Xiang glanced at Chen Ji and Han Qu, who were dejected, and said with a sigh: "What an ambush on all sides. Xiaobawang really deserves its name. ”

Yan Xiang's words angered Yuan Shu, who drew his sword, pointed at Yan Xiang and shouted angrily, "What do you mean? Do you give Ao Lie prestige in front of me? Yan Xiang, don't think that I don't know your thoughts, when I wanted to succeed to the throne, you repeatedly blocked me, and then I heard that all the princes came to crusade against me, so you secretly sent all your wives and children away from Shouchun, are you going to betray me? ”

Yan Xiang listened to Yuan Shu's words, and the glimmer of hope in his heart for Yuan Shu was ruthlessly dispelled by Yuan Shu. didn't even have the heart to open his mouth to defend himself, Yan Xiang simply closed his eyes and didn't look at Yuan Shu. At such a time of life and death, Yuan Shu not only did not discuss with the ministers about the enemy's strategy, but also had the intention to act as a prestige in front of the ministers, isn't this self-destruction?

Yan Xiang's actions made Yuan Shu's anger even stronger, and Yuan Shu snorted coldly and said: "To tell you the truth, your wife and children have all been stopped by the people I have sent, and they will be beheaded in the square later, so as to correct military discipline!" If you ask me now, I may be able to spare them for the sake of your past achievements. ”

The closed eyes snapped open. Yan Xiang seemed to be shocked by Yuan Shu's words, but after a while, Yan Xiang calmed down and said with some trembling: "That's it, just as the so-called nest has no eggs, the country should be destroyed, and the old minister has nothing to say, just want to die quickly!" ”

Yuan Shu's face was gloomy, and he ordered the warriors in front of the palace to pull Yan Xiang, Chen Ji and Han Xian out of the palace and behead them together. The ministers saw this. They all used the fact that it was a big disadvantage to kill the generals in battle. Ask Yuan Shu to be gracious and spare these three people for the time being. Under the bitter comfort of everyone, Yuan Shufang temporarily calmed down his anger and ordered the three of them and their families to be imprisoned instead. Imprisoned.

Subsequently. Yuan Shu reappointed his nephew Yuan Yin as commander. General Yang Da General was a deputy general, leading 50,000 troops south to resist Ao Lie and Sun Ce.

As soon as Ao Lie arrived, he broke the deadlock in the battle. The news of easily killing Yuan Shu's army all the way, as if it had grown wings, quickly flew to the ears of the other princes. In this regard, the attitude of the princes of all walks of life is different. The most anxious were Yan Liangwen Chou and the three Yuan Shao's subordinates, who never expected that Ao Lie would come first, so that he would snatch the first merit of the battle. After the three of them discussed, in line with the idea of taking more credit and gaining more prestige, they stepped up the attack on Qiaomao, since it has become a fact that Ao Lie snatched the first merit, then they must grab the second major merit. Especially in the trial, his wisdom is at the first-class level, and he clearly sees that Yuan Shu is bound to perish, so he must seize the credit as soon as possible, so that Yuan Shao's reputation can be restored to the greatest extent and a fair image of Yuan Shu's righteous annihilation.

Different from the idea of trial, Cao Cao's reputation is not as bad as Yuan Shao's, so Cao Cao is not in a hurry to make contributions, and is still focused on preserving his strength, and continues to fight against Zhang Xun tepidly. Even Cao Cao was still thinking about whether to cheat a few battles and let Zhang Xun relax his vigilance, maybe in that case, Zhang Xun would mobilize some of his troops to Qiaomao's side to help Qiaomao stabilize the situation. In this way, it can not only reduce the pressure on his side, but also effectively consume part of Yuan Shao's strength. Thinking that he was about to do it, Cao Cao immediately ordered Xiahou Dun to defeat two battles, and then wrote a private letter to Zhang Xun, first greatly praising Zhang Xun for using soldiers like a god, Cao Cao thought that he was not Zhang Xun's opponent, and then told Zhang Xun that he didn't want to come to crusade against Yuan Shu, but Liu Xie's edict had been issued, and he couldn't help but do it, so he would bring troops to come, but he just wanted to go through the motions, and he didn't have the slightest idea of eliminating Yuan Shu. In the letter, Cao Cao also vaguely pointed out that in order to save the damaged reputation, Yuan Shao, who is the same brother as Yuan Shu, is the great enemy that Yuan Shu should guard against.

After receiving Cao Cao's private letter, Zhang Xun thought that Cao Cao was timid after two defeats, coupled with the words in Cao Cao's letter, every sentence was reasonable, therefore, Zhang Xun was confused by Cao Cao's letter, and sure enough, according to Cao Cao's expectations, the 50,000 troops under his subordinates were divided into 20,000 people, led by the deputy general, and went to support Qiao Mao. The trial did not expect that Yuan Shujun would suddenly have more than 20,000 reinforcements, and without noticing it for a while, he was caught off guard and was ambushed by Yuan Shujun, fortunately, Yan Liangwen and Chou were all famous generals at that time, and the two bravely protected the trial and escaped, but unfortunately, at least 10,000 of the 50,000 troops brought in failed to escape.

When Cao Cao learned that Zhang Xun had really divided his troops to rescue Qiao Mao, and ambushed the trial match, so that the trial had lost more than 10,000 soldiers, he couldn't help but laugh twice, and then immediately ordered to storm Zhang Xun's camp. Zhang Xun was caught off guard, and was attacked by Xiahoudun and Xiahouyuan brothers from the front and back, and Zhang Xun died in the hands of Xiahoudun. Half of Zhang Xun's 30,000 Yuan Shu troops were killed, and the other half surrendered to Cao Cao. In this way, Cao Cao won the second merit of the crusade against Yuan Shu without much effort.

On the other hand, after Liu Bei heard that Ao Lie had won the first credit, he felt a burst of indignation in his heart. This Ao Lie, in Liu Bei's heart, is specially here to block him. As long as Liu Bei wants to show his skills, Ao Lie will definitely intervene, and then coincidentally take the fruits of victory away from Liu Bei's hands. Although Liu Bei himself knows that many times, it is a coincidence, and Ao Lie doesn't bother to compete with a little person like himself at all, but Liu Bei just can't be relieved, and stubbornly thinks that Ao Lie is the nemesis of his life, as long as there is a place for Ao Lie, he will be restrained everywhere.

Originally, after Liu Bei learned of Ao Lie's arrival, he had already planned to accept it when he saw it, and some of the benefits were also in his hands, so it was time to retreat. Finding a territory that is easy to defend and difficult to attack and taking it into his own hands is Liu Bei's established strategy. However, unlike Liu Bei's attitude, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei strongly advocated taking the opportunity to unite people from all walks of life to pacify the puppet emperor Yuan Shu in one fell swoop, and even Mi Zhu, who had recently joined his command, also agreed with the two of them.

If it was just Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, Liu Bei was completely sure and persuaded the two to obey his orders. But there is one more Mi Zhu. Liu Bei could no longer use the tear offensive he was best at. Mi Zhu's help to Liu Bei was huge, and without the money and food funded by Mi Zhu, it would be impossible for Liu Bei to let Tao Qian's 5,000 elite soldiers willingly obey his orders. And Mi Zhu has just joined Liu Bei's command not long ago. The first time he offered his plan, he was refuted by Liu Bei. It will inevitably cause estrangement in Mi Zhu's heart. Liu Bei didn't want to lose Mi Zhu, the God of Wealth, because of this.

Therefore, Liu Bei had to change his original intention and temporarily give up the idea of fighting for territory. led the army to continue to fight guerrilla warfare with Lei Bo, while containing Lei Bo and creating fighters for several other princes; On the one hand, he seized armaments and materials and surrendered troops from Lei Bo as much as possible, and made preparations to expand his strength.

Just when the princes from all walks of life had their own plans, an explosive news once again stole everyone's attention. Ao Lie won the battle again, he actually hit the men and horses sent by Yuan Shu again overnight, and in just seven days, he defeated Yuan Shu's three-way army one after another, directly shaking the foundation of Yuan Shu!

Here's the thing, after Chen Ji and Han Qu were defeated and returned to Shouchun, Yuan Shu immediately let his nephew Yuan Yin be the main general, and Yang Da was the deputy general, leading an army of 50,000 to resist Ao Lie in the south. After learning that Yuan Shu had sent these two people, Ao Lie didn't care, pulled Sun Ce and Zhou Yu, and only took a dozen elites of the Blood Killing Army to see the terrain in advance. Afterwards, the three of them agreed that with Yuan Yin's slight use of troops, they would definitely set up the camp in a valley fifteen miles away from the Ao and Sun coalition armies.

The terrain of the Jianghuai region is mostly hills and plains, interspersed with large and small rivers and lakes. These places are conducive to the use of troops, but not to the holding. Yuan Yin is another son of the Yuan family after Yuan Shu, with his temperament, he will definitely not station the camp in a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, so as to reduce his pressure on the Ao and Sun coalition forces.

Within 20 miles of the Ao and Sun coalition armies, there is only a valley 15 miles away, surrounded by mountains on three sides and an exit on one side, which is the most in line with Yuan Yin's camping standards. As long as Yuan Yin is full of heavy troops at the exit, he will defend the valley mouth to the death, and then let the soldiers in the battalion climb the low mountains around him and deal with the Ao and Sun coalition forces with bows and crossbows, even if the coalition army has 100,000 people, he will not want to be able to capture Yuan Yin's camp in a short time.

In ancient times, war horses were one of the extremely expensive armaments, so the soldiers of the Han Dynasty were mainly infantry soldiers. There are very few princes like Ao Lie who have formed an elite cavalry. So far, the only cavalry that is famous in the world is the bloody army under Ao Lie, the Long Xiang army, the iron cavalry army entrenched in Xiliang, and the tiger and leopard cavalry under Cao Cao. Even Yuan Shao, the richest man among the princes, was reluctant to spend a lot of money to form elite cavalry, and the two elite armies of Xiandeng Battalion and Euphorbia under his command were all infantry. Of course, the once famous Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry, White Horse Yicong and Dong Zhuo's Flying Bear Army are also excellent cavalry elites, but these three cavalry have been merged into Ao Lie's Blood Killing Army and Long Xiang Army. Therefore, in the era when infantry troops were the mainstay, when marching and fighting, the distance of fifty miles was basically an absolutely safe distance, and those who wanted to maintain pressure on the enemy without being too aggressive would generally choose a distance of fifteen to thirty miles.

From this, Ao Lie and the others deduced that Yuan Yin would definitely set up camp in the valley fifteen miles away. So, Ao Lie prepared a meeting gift for him before Yuan Yin arrived. Before going south, Ao Lie explained the knowledge of oil field development to Wang Hun in detail, Wang Hun is a smart person of the Son of Heaven, and after being taught by Ao Lie, he immediately understood the wonderful use of crude oil. So, Wang Hun rushed to Buyeo with a hundred craftsmen who were close to him, and with the help of Wei Yan, the general who guarded Buyeo, he carried out the first development of the oil fields in Buyeo.

Because the preparation in the early stage was not sufficient, the amount of crude oil developed for the first time was not large, and after the refining method taught by Ao Lie, after purification, only a dozen cylinders of clear oil were finally obtained. After the clear oil was refined, Wei Yan immediately arranged for his cronies to cover the dozen or so jars of clear oil in a curtain, and then transported it to Yanjing by carriage for Ao Lie to see. At the beginning, Ao Lie had told Wei Yan about the role of the oil field, and Wei Yan knew that the use of crude oil in the road would have a far-reaching impact in the future, so Wei Yan did not dare to slack off at all, not only sent heavy troops to escort it, but also closely guarded the entire oil field.

After seeing these dozen cylinders of clear oil, although Ao Lie was still not satisfied with the purification of crude oil, thinking that there were too many impurities in the clear oil, which affected the value of the clear oil, but these dozen cylinders of clear oil came too timely, and it just happened to be used by Ao Lie as the most advantageous weapon to eliminate Yuan Shu.

Therefore, before Yuan Yin arrived, Ao Lie had already made preparations, he asked his soldiers to smear the clear oil on the grass and trees in the valley in advance, and also took out three jars of clear oil separately to soak the dry firewood, and then buried the soaked dry firewood in the underground in the valley, and covered it with floating soil on the surface. There was also some leftover clear oil, which Ao Lie ordered to be packed in wine jars, mixed with hundreds of jars of Zephyr spirits, ready to be used as a medium for igniting fires. (To be continued......)

PS: PS: Someone at home will go to Beijing to see a doctor tomorrow, Da Kun may be a driver again, if he breaks the shift, he will definitely make up for it when he comes back. Da Kun speaks and counts, owes a few chapters to make up for a few chapters.