Shi Xun couldn't think of any way to seize Jinyang City, and Guo Huai couldn't think of it either. Not to mention that he is still young, and he is not Zhuge Liang in his prime, even if he seeks to compare Zhuge with Zhuge after all, the situation is stronger than people after all, if he can really make Jinyang City change hands in an instant in this situation, it is not "wise and close to the demon", it is directly a demon.

Guo's hometown is in Yangqu, located in the north of Taiyuan County, nearly 200 miles away from Jinyang. If it is a native of Jinyang and a big family with a prominent surname, maybe there is any way to drive away the guests with the lord and drive Gao Gan out of Lu, but now Guo Huai can be trusted and used, only the troops left by his father are less than 100 people, and the thousands of soldiers and horses brought from Yanmen are not necessarily very loyal to the Guo family, even if they can incite them to start an incident, in the face of tens of thousands of people under Gao Gan, they can be trampled on in the blink of an eye.

So after receiving the letter, he was silent for a long time and did not speak. It was Guo Yi's tribe who sent the letter, and he urgently urged at the moment: "Young master, now only you can save the life of the lord!" ”

Guo Huai closed his eyes fiercely and sighed: "Go down and rest, you can't talk to anyone about this matter." A certain has its own plan. ”

When the subordinates left, Guo Huai burned the letter on the candle, and then hesitated for a while, and finally made up his mind, left his residence, and went to the state office to ask to see Gao Gan. As soon as he saw Gao Gan's face, Guo Huai fell to the ground and cried bitterly, tears and snot flowing, and said directly: "My father was killed, and I was harmed, what face is still based on heaven and earth!" ”

Gao Gan had already heard about the battle situation from the mouths of the defeated soldiers—of course, he didn't believe in any "demon law"—knowing that the Dao plan had failed, and Guo Yi's life and death were unknown. was about to call Guo Huai to blame him, and then inquire about the countermeasures. Guo Huai came to the door by himself. And it's still such a pitiful look. At that moment, he hurriedly supported his hands: "Why is Boji like this?" ”

Guo Huai replied with tears in his eyes: "There is a suitable part to escape back." The Yun family's father has ...... I've been killed by the thief! ”

Gao Gan was taken aback when he heard this. Guo Yi was originally a county official in Yanmen, two years ago he led the army to occupy and merge the state, and dismissed the Yanmen Taishou, because he saw that Guo Yi acted quite methodically, and he was simply promoted as the county guard, and he was also one of his own cronies. Now that the war has just begun, he has broken the general, and he can't help but be resentful. It's chagrin again, and it's also sad with three points.

At the moment, he comforted Guo Huai with good words, Guo Huai said that it was all my plan that failed, not only ruined the great affairs of the king, but also killed his father, crying and crying, so he pulled out his knife and wanted to kill himself. Gao Gan hurriedly stopped him and said: "It is Xun who is a confidant of Cao Thief, known as a wise man, and this is not Qing's crime." It's the fault of a certain underestimating enemy. Since his father has died, he cannot be resurrected after death. Qing should think of avenging his father, and An has the reason to die of self-pity? ”

Guo Huai slowly restrained his sorrow, and then gritted his teeth and said: "I will kill Shixun and avenge my father!" Please make the king of the Yanmen army and Huai, and Huai will go to Yong'an and take the head of the thief! ”

Gao Gan said that the Yanmen army was brought out by your father and son, of course I can hand it over to you to command, but you must not act rashly - "Your father led more than a thousand elite horsemen, and they were all defeated by thieves, and now the Yanmen army is broken, riding no hundreds, and only 3,000 steps, how can he be his opponent?" Let's wait for me to mobilize a large army and help Qing go to revenge. ”

finally persuaded Guo Huai to leave, and Gao Gan urgently summoned the generals to discuss. Everyone said that there was no way, so they had to temporarily dispel the plan to enter Hanoi and concentrate the main force to meet Shixun. The strategist Zhu Ao said: "If it is not a great trouble to invade Hexi, you can order the cities to hold on, and garrison Pingtao to block its eastward way." The lord's father-in-law led the soldiers of Jinyang, and then Guo Fujun (Guo Yuan) led the pawns of the party, and the north and south were attacked, and it was not difficult to break the honor. Is Xun Ruo broken, going to humility and waiting for An to exist alone? ”

But here is not ready, and there is news from the front that Shi Xun has already occupied the five counties, and it is likely that he has entered the county seat of Qi in person. Gao Gan was furious when he heard the report: "It's Hongfu who deceived me too much!" "It was too late to wait for the party army to cooperate with the action, so he immediately gathered troops and horses, including the Wuhuan, Xiongnu, Qian and other foreign tribes in the jurisdiction, about 20,000 people, and slaughtered out of Jinyang City and rushed straight to Qi County.

Of course, Guo Huai was also forced to lead the Yanmen army to the expedition.

It's just that Gao Gan didn't hold it up, leaving the Taiyuan County Shou Committee and the strategist Zhu Ao to defend the city, with more than 3,000 troops. Guo Huai was going to find an opportunity to get out of the team and turn around to attack Jinyang, but when he saw that there was no gap, he had no choice but to temporarily rest his delusions, and followed Gao Gan to Qi County in despair.

After Shixun entered Qi County, even though Sima Yi was in charge of internal affairs, Zhang both levied and sent servants, repaired the city defenses, and Xiahou Lan and Cao Xing guarded the four gates. There was a lot of grain in the five counties, because it was given up too hastily, most of it was not transferred, and after Sima Yi calculated, he reported to Xun: "Our army is 5,000, and it can be eaten for half a year." ”

It was Xunxin who said that it was enough, and in half a year, a new crop of autumn grain should also come down. However, I don't know if Lu Dao can really firmly contain the Bingzhou army in the past six months, and whether Cao Ren can use this opportunity to expand the results of the battle, so as to reduce Cao Cao's pressure on the frontal battlefield, and even turn defense into offense? Alas, I really don't have any expertise in strategy, just don't think about it so much, let's hold Qi County first.

Visiting the Malay newspaper, Gao Ganqin led an army of 20,000 to kill. Xiahoulan thought that the enemy army was only four times that of me, and as long as the defense was properly guarded, there was no danger of breaking the city. Cao Xing, because the cavalry under his command was accustomed to attacking and was not good at defense, suggested that his 2,000 men should not be pulled up to the city, but should remain under the city as a mobile force, or prevent the Bingzhou army from copying the back road - Shi Xun agreed to his request for the time being.

Gao Gan set up a village in the north of the city, and the advance department entered the city with Shang Yao, persuaded Xun to give up the five counties and retreat to Hedong, promising not to chase after him, and would not send troops into Hedong within the year. Shi Xun didn't say a word, and handed the article he wrote to Shang Yao: "Qing can take this and restore the high envoy." ”

Seeing that soon after Shang Yao left the city and returned to the camp, the Bingzhou army began to act, cutting down trees everywhere and building siege equipment. Xia Houlan said: "I intend that within three days, Gao Gan will attack the city. Shi Xun sneered: "When he comes to attack, he will be extremely killed under the city!" ”

But he had just stepped down from the city and returned to the government office, when suddenly a fast horse entered the city through the south gate and sent an official letter. Shi Xun opened it and took a look, his eyes couldn't help but widen, and he patted the bookcase: "It's annoying!" ”

The official document was issued by Cao Cao and transferred by Cao Ren. It turned out that Fu Zhu, Tian Feng and others had advised Yuan Shao to "gradually camp Henan", so naturally they would not stay in Liyang in Hebei all the time, and heard that the progress of the east and west flanks was not smooth, so they concentrated their forces and crossed the river in a big way. Yuan's army first crossed the Great River to the east (the old road of the Yellow River), invaded Dongjun, and connected with Dunqiu, Weiguo and other counties, making a posture of crossing the river and going straight to Puyang. Zhao Rong and Xiahou Yuan went to the rescue from the White Horse, who expected that Yuan Junsheng would attack the west in the east, and the general Wen Chou would cross from Yanjin in the west and take Yan County directly, wanting to break the White Horse. Zhao Rong and Xiahou Yuan were forced to turn back, and the initial battle was unfavorable and retreated to Yan County.

When Cao Cao heard the news, he hurriedly led an army of 20,000 to leave Xudu and went north to settle in sour dates. On the one hand, Yuan Shao ordered Han Xun to lead a partial division to besiege Dongjun, and on the other hand, he personally led the main force to attack Yan County. Cao Cao received the withdrawal of the two generals, that is, in the sour jujube city under the battle with Yuan Shao, on the occasion of the fierce battle, Zhang He, Gao Ran each led the cavalry to outflank left and right, Cao's army was defeated, forced to withdraw to the southwest, in the north of Zhongmu, the chasm water south to stop and rest, this place, named - Guandu.

As a result, will the two armies finally have to fight a decisive battle at Guandu? When Shixun read this, he couldn't help but feel a little bit of a headache, and couldn't help but rub his eyebrows with his thumb and index finger - is it because the geographical location of Guandu is too important, so the confrontation between the north and the south will inevitably have to be confronted here, or ...... What has to be blamed on the so-called inertia of history?

After Cao Cao lost the battle, he urgently summoned Cao Ren to lead an army from Hanoi to help. As a result, Hanoi's defenses were empty, and he hoped that Shixun would continue to harass the state in order to contain the Gao cadres from invading Hanoi and attacking the flank of Cao's main force. In other words, it was Xun who hoped that Cao Ren could help him pull the party Guo Yuan, but because the situation on the battlefield in Henan had changed, Cao Ren not only couldn't help, but needed Xun Xiang's help......

Annoying! Shi Xun believed that the report that he personally led the army to break through Hedong and seize the five counties of Taiyuan may have just been handed over to Cao Ren, and Cao Ren had already handed over this official document before this - he thought that he was still staying in Yong'an and remotely controlling the front-line war. When he handed over the report, perhaps Cao Ren had already led the soldiers and horses of Hanoi and Henan counties to the east to reinforce Guandu - since it was Cao Cao's order, even if he received his letter, he would not dare to turn around and come back. And when his report is handed over to Cao Cao, what decision does Cao Cao make, then ...... At that time, the daylily is going to be cold!

From the five counties of Taiyuan to Guandu, the distance between the main and auxiliary battlefields is more than 1,000 miles, even if it is a fast horse, it will take four or five days to arrive, not only is it difficult to link with each other, but even if one is not careful, it will be like now, each doing its own thing, revealing a big flaw. Yes, since he has penetrated deep into Taiyuan County, he can indeed firmly contain the Bingzhou army and prevent it from attacking Hanoi, in a sense, Cao Cao's order and Cao Ren's hope can be achieved by himself. However, since Cao Ren left Hanoi, Shangdang Guo Yuan no longer had any worries, he could quickly go north and attack himself from the north and south with Gao Gan - if Guo Yuan's 10,000 or 20,000 people outflanked him from behind, would he still be able to defend Qi County? Even if you can barely hold it, you will become a dead son who can't move, and when the time comes, Gao Ganda can leave sixty percent of the soldiers and horses to surround him, and the remaining forty percent of the soldiers and horses will go south to recover Jingling and other counties, and then ...... Finish the whole Hedong!

The level of communication in these years is really making people want to cry without tears~~

If he wanted to make a forced landing in Huainan that day, Shi Xun once proposed to ask Yuan Highway for carrier pigeons and talents who can raise and train pigeons, and Cao Cao naturally adopted this proposal. However, this year, the carrier pigeon technique has just been produced, and there are few people, Cao Cao has spent a lot of effort to train only three or four pigeons, which must be used to quickly spread the news of Xu Du to the front line - if there are carrier pigeons between Hedong and Guandu, there will be no big leak like this!

Is there only one way for me to retreat? (To be continued......)

PS: I'm going to pick up the cubs in a while, and today this chapter was sent out in advance.