At the same time that Shi Xun was tirelessly distorting the classics and improving the anti-cut, in October, Cao Ren Cao Zixiao, the military commander of the three counties of Henan Yin, Dudu Hedong, Hanoi, and Henan, finally began to do it.

Hanoi County is close to the Taihang Mountains, the famous "Taihang Eight Mountains", three in the county boundary: the westernmost is Yiguan, from Hanoi Yi County to Hedong Jiangyi County, to Keiguan control the danger, is considered the inner line; In the middle, there is Taihang Cheng, south out of Yewang North, north to Gaodu County, Shangdang County, with Tianjing Pass to control the danger - the day before yesterday, Guo Yuan tried in vain to get out of this and invaded Hanoi; In the north, there is Baicheng, from the communist county to the east of the Shangdang county.

When Cao Ren first entered Hanoi, he was cautious first, and built 12 villages at the exit of Taihang and Baicheng, and defended before attacking them. Because he thought very clearly, the road is difficult, thousands of troops are going, and one man can be stopped, before Guo Yuan transfers the main force, he will not want to break through easily - of course, if he does not transfer the main force of Hanoi first, with Guo Yuan's own strength, he will not dare to go south from Taihang, but first wait for Gao Gan's reinforcements.

Now Cao Ren has returned to Zhihuai County, Hanoi County from Guandu, but Xun has returned to Anyi, Gao Gan has returned to Jinyang, Guo Yuan has retired to his eldest son, and everything has returned to the original point. Even if Cao Ren let the Hedong Army go north to contain the Bingzhou army, the odds of victory may not be fifty percent.

Therefore, his gaze moved forward to the Fukou of Taihang Mountain, which is the fifth in the north.

Fukou is not on the boundary of Hanoi, but to the north, east of Handan, Zhao State, west of Shangdanglu County, if you can control this area, you can cut off the traffic between Hebei and the south of the two states. Yuan Shao and Gao Gan sent troops to pass the order. You have to go to the well four hundred miles to the north—but here's the thing. Jing Cheng is not in the hands of the Yuan family now, and Gongsun Zan and Zhang Yan are still firmly holding that path.

It can be said that if you control Fukou, you can divide the territory of the Yuan family into two.

Of course, Yuan Shao definitely did not dare to ignore this, Yecheng is south of Handan, and there is no danger between it and the northern border of Hanoi, he will either go west to intercept Cao Ren. Either go south to cut off Cao Ren's retreat. And Gao Gan and Guo Yuan will not look stupidly. In other words, if you go north to Fukou, you will inevitably encounter centripetal resistance from the east and west - this is the main reason why Cao Ren did not dare to do this in the past.

But Cao Ren dared to do so now, because he did not send troops in isolation, but a pawn in Cao Cao's series of overall layouts along the Yellow River and Taihang. Cao Cao first sent Zang Ba and Xu Huang north to attack Qingzhou and contain Yuan Tan, while he himself led his army to Suojube, expelled Fu Zhu, and threatened Liyang in Hebei, plus Cao Ren. Three ways out together. Of course, Hedong County can't be idle, and Cao Ren bypasses Shixun. directly ordered Xia Houlan to subordinate to Hu Chuquan, Cao Xing, Guo Yi and other departments, and attacked the boundary before the original road, so as to fetter Gao Gan.

Among these four routes, the Hedong soldiers had the worst degree of cooperation and echo with other fronts because of the barrier of Shangdang County, so they were only suspicious soldiers. Cao Ren is suspicious, on the one hand, it depends on Yuan Shao's response, and on the other hand, it depends on whether Gongsun Zan and Zhang Yan dare to highlight Jing Cheng, or scratch Yuan Shao's back, or go south to join the teacher. Cao Cao's middle road, that is definitely not going to let go of frustration, Zang Ba and Xu Huang's east road, also based on actual attack.

Yuan Tan is in Qingzhou, the civil affairs are quite bad, the history books say that he "has a small credit group, is easy to talk about, wanton and extravagant, and does not know the difficulties of the crops", and even "there are 10,000 households in the city, the book is not hundreds, the collection and taxation are not one", plus the previous southern attack on Xuzhou, the money and grain were exhausted, and the minds of the people in the state changed, and there were already many big clans with Cao Cao secretly communicating with him. Therefore, if you want to take Qingzhou, it is not difficult.

Cao Cao's strategic goal of this four-way army is to recover the lost territory south of the Yellow River, secondly, to gain a firm foothold in Qingzhou, and thirdly, to cut off the Fukou Junction by Cao Ren. In fact, as long as he can successfully complete the first goal, he can retire from the army - after all, the business in the south is not over - second, third, that is the head. The most important thing is that he can't give Yuan Shao a chance to lick his wounds and recover his strength in Yecheng.

The relevant strategic planning was also notified to Xun - one is that Xun is Cao Cao's henchman and in-law after all, and the relationship is extraordinary, and the other is that this time the four-way army is completely Yangmou, and there is nothing to keep secret. Shi Xun summoned several subordinates of the soldiers, including Sima Yi, Zhang Ji, Guo Huai and others to discuss, and Sima Yi pointed out sharply: "The war will be prosperous, only in Hanoi!" ”

Although Cao Cao sent troops from all directions, because of the limitations of strength and the number of troops, and also because of the influence of mountains and rivers and terrain, it is impossible for all of them to be mighty and smooth all the way. In the same way, when Yuan Shao was defeated at the beginning, it was difficult for both the strength and morale to support the four-way resistance, or to open up a new front, and the Yuan army would also have real and false, some steadily retreated, some stuck in place, and even a certain way could be hard to attack.

According to Sima Yi's analysis, no matter how wise he is, Henan will not be able to hold it after all, and he will definitely withdraw to the north bank of the Yellow River, and then use the great river to block the main force of Cao's army. As for the East Road, Yuan Tan is a scumbag, even if he has the ability to carry Zang Ba and Xu Huang alone, Dongzhong Lang will Cheng Yu may still stand out, and Cao Cao can turn to the east after being blocked on the bank of the Yellow River. Therefore, the best way for Yuan's army to deal with it on the eastern front was to retreat steadily and give up half of Qingzhou, so as to gradually consume the impact of Cao's army, and finally stabilize the front on the Jishui line.

The Yuan family will lose most of Qingzhou, which is also something that can be helped.

Then since the eastern front lost ground, the western front must be replaced. Besides, if Cao Ren really blocked Fukou, the damage to the Yuan family would be too great, and Cao Cao was in the sour date, and Cao Ren's western aid to Cao Ren was also closer than the eastern aid to Zang Ba. Therefore, Yuan Shao will definitely mobilize the main force and have a big battle with Cao Ren in the north of Hanoi, and the position is likely to be-

Sima Yi stretched out his hand and pointed to the northeasternmost part of Hanoi County, between the two counties of Lin and Dangyin.

There is Taihang Mountain in the west of Lin Xi County, and there is Black Mountain in the east - that is, the starting place of the Black Mountain thieves - the distance between east and west is less than 100 miles, which is really an indisputable important place. If the Cao family opens up this road, let alone going north to block Fukou, and turning a little to the northeast, it will not take a day to force it to the city of Yecheng and take Yuan Shao's nest. If Cao Ren is blocked back by Yuan Shao, then needless to say, the western front will remain the same, the central line will regain lost ground, and the eastern front will gain slightly, and the Cao family will still have the upper hand on the whole, and it will also make the defeated troops of the Yuan family unable to rest. I'm afraid......

"If Cao Gong forcibly takes this way, it is difficult to know the victory or defeat."

If Cao Cao, after recovering the cities of Suojube and other cities, did not go east to reinforce Zang Ba and came west to reinforce Cao Ren (according to the distance of the road, it is very likely), then Yuan Shao would inevitably gather a large army here, and even risk abandoning the annexation of the state, and pull the Taiyuan army and the Shangdang army over, thus forming a new decisive battle situation.

It was Xun who held the map in his hand and looked at it carefully for a long time, hey, is the battle of Guandu going to become the battle of Lin Wei?

In the original history, the reason why the Battle of Guandu was so famous was because Cao Cao defeated the strong with the weak, and because he basically defeated the main force of the Yuan army, completely reversing the momentum of the small and the big. However, in this timeline, Cao Cao did not defeat the strong with the weak, and Yuan Shao's original troops in Guandu were not as large as they should have been, so the losses were not so serious, so the importance of the battle was very low. On the contrary, if the situation after that proceeded according to Sima Yi's judgment, the battle near Lin Xi would be the real decisive battle of Yuan Cao.

"I can't be a soldier if I hate me!" Yeshun couldn't help but regret it.

The two armies of Yuan and Cao confronted each other at Linxi, and Cao's army had no chance of winning - because his own transportation and supply line was very long, but Yuan Shao was close to fighting on the inner line - but once Yuan Shao let go of Shangdang and Taiyuan, the Hedong army could take the opportunity to receive it, and even take the entire annexed state into its hands. If Cao Cao had suffered defeat before receiving and annexing the state, there would have been nothing to say; If he had taken over the state first, Cao Cao would have retreated from Lin Xi, but from then on, the Yuan family's green and both wings were all pinched by the Cao family, could Yuan Shao still be able to jump? It's only a matter of time before it's gone.

Sure enough, it was a big war that shook the world, but it's a pity...... It's nothing wrong with Hoon. Shi Xun couldn't help but think that it was impossible for Cao Ren to directly control the Hedong Army to fight, so would it be impossible for such a great achievement to collect and merge states in the end in the hands of Xiahou Lan? In the future "The Biography of Xiahou Cao", will there still be a place for Xiahou Lan?

No, the idea is too far, and I have to pull it back quickly. Shi Xun looked around at everyone: "In this case, what should we do?" "Zhang Ji said that the soldiers and horses have not moved, the grain and grass go first, we have to prepare for the Hedong Army to go out on a large scale to conquer and merge the state, escort the grain and grass to the north in advance, and hand it over to Jia Qu, and then Jia Qu will continue to transport it north. Guo Huai said that the surname of the state should be contacted in advance to clear the way for the future seizure of the state.

Shi Xun had previously made Qin Yi take custody of the Southern Xiongnu Army and let them plunder the landlord's village, but it was a pity that Xihe County was so poor that there was no big family name at all, and the Huns only killed dozens of rural landlords. Shi Xun once said to Hu Chuquan: "Since they are attached to the thieves, they can kill them all, and there is no way to falsely accuse the emperor and others to the court." "But in fact, even if you let go of a few fish that slipped through the net, you don't have enough qualifications and channels to sue the court. It's a shame to think about it now.

However, as the two counties of Taiyuan and Shangdang, which have the most dense population and the highest degree of development in the state, there are many Gaomen surnames. First of all, the Yangqu Guo family, now Guo Yi, Guo Huai and his son are all pinched in the palm of Shi Xun's hand, Guo Yuan is just a side branch, and it can't have much countereffect; There is also the Wang family in Qi County, because Wang Ling was kidnapped, so Wang Rou also had a letter in private, leaving a way out in advance; The third is the Linghu clan, and the head of the family, Linghu Shao, is in Yecheng, which is a little more difficult...... In addition, there is also the Tonglu Li clan in Shangdang County, and someone needs to be sent to contact him.

"Boji, there is Lao Qing in this matter." (To be continued......)