Chapter 326: Yanjin Victory

When Yuan Shao's main force was attracted to Baima, Cao Cao quietly led 30,000 elite soldiers, who were also his last family members, and poured out of the nest and crossed the Yellow River from Yanjin!

Baima to Xudu is only more than 500 miles away, and the coach Xiahoudun has been injured again......

Everyone thought that Cao Cao would definitely go to support, so after Cao Cao released the news, no one questioned it.

However...... Cao Cao did not go to Baima, but forced his way across Yanjin, and the defenders of Yanjin quickly lost ground with little defense.

Then Xiahou Yuan led three thousand leopard horsemen, and went to three hundred miles in two nights and one day, from Yanjin Benjun County, that is, the north bank of Baimajin, the corresponding county seat!

The march was faster than a normal scout delivering a message......

Without warning, not only did the defenders of Jun County panic, but also directly captured Junjin, and then pretended to be a rout, falsely claiming that Liyang was lost, deceived Baimajin on the south bank, and returned to Junjin on the north bank of the river after burning the ferry.

Then he released news to Liyang, saying that Yuan Shao's main force had been defeated in Baima and Yuan Shao was dead, and on the other hand, he released news to Baima, saying that Liyang had been lost, and the army's back road and grain and grass had been cut off!

At the same time, Cao Cao personally led more than 20,000 foot cavalry and quickly marched to Liyang......

Xiahoudun and Xun You had already agreed with Cao Cao on a good day, and Yuan Jun originally tried his best to suppress the spread of rumors, but on the night of the fire in Baimajin, Xiahoudun, Yu Ban, Xu Huang, Cai Yang and others, who were sitting in various camps in Baima, each sent troops and shouted the "good news" of Liyang, Hebei on the battlefield!

For a time, in Yuan's army, the camps on the front line were fine, and many camps in the rear had learned that Baimajin had been lost, so it was easy to believe the news and directly bombed the camp......

In the history without the White Rabbit effect, the Battle of Guandu was probably the same.

Historically, Cao Cao attacked the east and the west, pretending to attack Yanjin, and then defeated Yan Liang's vanguard in the front of Baima, and then retreated all the way to the south, and fought with Yuan's army in Guandu, which had no way to retreat - Guandu had no way to retreat, and it was only two hundred miles away from Xudu.

At this time, Xu You was not pardoned because of his family's violation of the law, but separated from Yuan Shao, took refuge in Cao Cao, and informed the "Apu" where the granary of Yuan's army was, so Cao Cao's light cavalry attacked Wuchao successfully, and after burning the granary of Yuan's army, Yuan's morale collapsed, making the battle of Guandu a classic case of winning more with less.

However, although Cao Cao's attack on Wuchao was successful at that time, in fact, Yuan's army was not starving, after all, the army also had half a month's worth of grain and grass, and it was not necessary to rely on the big granary to deliver food every day.

Even at that time, Cao's army did not have much military rations, and if he really continued to fight, Cao Cao would still lose more and win less......

Yuan Jun was not so much defeated by the lack of grain, but by the "news of the attack on the granary"!

Now Liyang is actually very safe, but after being bypassed, he sneaked up on Yanjin and Junjin, which were already unprepared, and burned Baimajin by the way.

It's just this fire that made the soldiers of Yuan Jun feel that the news was credible.

Compared with the camp that was attacked by Cao's army head-on, the rear camp that was not attacked at the beginning was more bombed on the spot, and this panic continued to spread......

The bombing battalion in the era of cold weapons is simply uncontrollable, and the more troops, the greater the damage!

Yuan Shao and the generals under his command hurriedly stabilized the morale of the army, so that there was no defeat, but only half of the 300,000 army remained, and the rest ...... Most of them were not killed in battle, but "lost", and they needed to gradually gather the rout.

In this way, not only in the Baima area, but also many of the defeated soldiers fled directly back to Hebei, and even some returned to Liyang in formation!

While bringing the unstable news to Liyang, it also gave Cao Cao a chance......

In just three days, the fake "Liyang is lost" has become a real "grain road has been cut off", and Yuan's army is on the verge of collapse.

Xu You suggested that Yuan Shao make a desperate gamble and continue to go south to take Xu Du, but Yuan Shao not only refused, but was also scolded by the bored Yuan Shao, who scolded him for being uneasy and kind......

Originally, Xu You was a sincere idea, but it was expected that Xu Du did not have many soldiers and horses at this time, as long as he defeated the main force of the Cao army in front of him, and the troops suppressed Xu Du - that Xu Du was originally just an ordinary county town, and now although the city wall has been reinforced, it is still the nominal national capital, but ...... How many people in the court and Cao Cao are at odds with each other?

Even Dong Cheng sent a letter to Yuan Shao privately, hoping that he would come to save the Son of Heaven!

As long as tens of thousands of soldiers and horses are placed under the city of Xudu, the external troubles are forced and the internal troubles appear spontaneously, what can Cao Apu do?

And Yuan Shao's old nest Yecheng, there are still tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, Xu You wants to come to the Fengji who stayed behind, even if he is two Guo Tu short of himself, but at least he is a calm and upright person, what can Cao Apu do if he sneaks across the river?

However, this sounds too risky, and Yuan Shao is not good at listening to advice that does not match his subjective consciousness, and Xu Yu has strongly persuaded Yuan Shao to attack Xu Du before, which makes Yuan Shao, who is irritable, take the opportunity to attack, accusing him of being involved with Xu Du's ministers and being a loyal minister of the Han family......

was so angry that Xu Yu stomped his feet, pointed at Yuan Shao's nose and said: You are a loyal minister, and the fourth and third princes of your family are all loyal ministers!

As a result, the quarrel broke up, and Xu You was even dismissed and imprisoned by Yuan Shao.

As soon as Guo Tu saw that Xu You was going to attack, the result was that Yuan Shao was so angry, and he immediately advised Yuan Shao to withdraw to Hebei - this is exactly Guo Tu's wisdom, what Yuan Shao was angry about, he suggested the opposite......

Subtly, Yuan Shao always adopts his opinions, so he will naturally rely more and more on him!

If it is a party struggle in the prosperous era, maybe Guo Tu will still have a chance to be a favored minister, but now......

As a result, as Xu You said, the hasty withdrawal of troops has made the morale of the army more turbulent - the larger the number of troops, the more difficult it is to restrain the "military spirit", and it is often passive to advance without retreating.

This retreat, not waiting to cross the river, there were deserters in each battalion, and just after they crossed the river, they were pursued by Xiahou Yuan along the way, and were harassed by Xiahou Yuan's leopard cavalry plundering both wings, not to mention, when they came to Liyang, the city tower had changed the banner of the king!

It turned out that just a day ago, the elite led by Cao Cao arrived at the Liyang realm.

Cao Chun, who usually trains and leads the tiger and leopard cavalry, led the 2,000 tiger cavalry in the tiger and leopard cavalry, pretending to be a rout army returning from the south bank, and defrauded the city gate of Liyang - it is true that many of the rout troops were rushing back to Hebei at this time, and Liyang was the first stop for them to regather.

At the same time as the city gate was bloody, Cao Cao led the infantry who were ambushed outside the city to pour in and break through Liyang City!

Originally, there were a lot of garrisons in Liyang, but the bad thing was that they had accepted a large number of defeated troops before, and the city gate was directly opened......

There are those frightened birds, and they have lost the advantage of the city wall, so they can only fight in the streets, how can these second-line armies be the elite opponents of the Cao army?

If the battle of the city wall is conducive to the restoration of the morale of the defenders, then the street battle is the opposite, the most test of the morale of the defenders, not all armies can still have the fighting spirit after the enemy enters the city......

After Cao Cao beheaded Jiang Qi, who was guarding Liyang, he left and heard the news that the main force of Yuan's army had crossed the river.

Originally, because of the huge gap in the number of the two armies - even if Yuan Shao withdrew, there were more than 100,000 people in one battalion, even if he couldn't withdraw together, he couldn't stand it when he gradually enveloped Liyang!

Therefore, Cao Chun suggested that Cao Cao go first, and after the tiger horse was broken, he set fire to the granary in Liyang at the same time.

However, Guo Jia, the military advisor who accompanied the army, offered a risky plan, and it was accepted by Cao Cao......

The reason is very simple, Guo Jia said the pros and cons very clearly, this time he even bluffed Yuan Jun in the dark, which certainly made him hurt his muscles and bones, but for the behemoth of Hebei, it was only "a hundred days" to break his muscles and bones.

Although it is not really so exaggerated, as long as it takes two or three years, Yuan Jun will be enough to recover...... And what about Cao Cao?

At that time, not only Yuan Shao will be more cautious, but with Xu Du's current situation, Cao Cao will be defeated if he is not victorious.

Only by thundering and defeating Yuan Shao can we deter those ghosts and ghosts in the court, otherwise once Cao Cao's righteousness of "serving the Son of Heaven to please not be a minister" is lacking, Yuan Shao, who has made a comeback, will only be more fierce than now!

Cao Cao's judgment of Guo Jia is also deeply true, which is a rational aspect.

On the other hand, Guo Jia's face was pale at this time, and it was difficult not to be moved even when he was wheezing and coughing his lungs at every turn......

Cao Cao finally followed Guo Jia's advice, and immediately asked people to clean up the scene, and all the soldiers on the city walls were replaced with soldiers who were not very seriously injured and full of energy, so that they could wait for Yuan's army for a long time.

When Yuan Shao was in Baima, the middle battalion of the main formation led by Yuan Shao was at the rear of the whole army, and when he retreated, he was naturally at the front, and even one of the first battalions to arrive at Liyang.

After Yuan Shao found out that Liyang was lost, he personally went to the city to see Cao Cao......

And Cao Cao, who had already freshened up and changed his clothes and stepped on the invisible hatred of the sky, laughed and said to Yuan Jun that the land of Hebei had been completely returned to the imperial court, and even Yuan Shao's nephew Gao Gan had surrendered, and persuaded Yuan Shao to be captured.

Yuan Shao knew that it was fake, and he was so angry that he almost vomited blood, and he just wanted to order to surround Liyang and trap Cao Cao in the city, but he couldn't stand up to many generals who had already been frightened......

Cao Cao even really opened the city gate and let the still capable foot soldiers charge Yuan Shao's main formation!

A few days ago, he was still in Baima, covering his eyes with cooking smoke, and he could crush all the postures of the Yuan army, but at this time, he was about to collapse, and seeing that the two formations of the strategy had been defeated, Yuan Shao had to lead the battalion of the formation to retreat eastward, hoping to bypass Liyang - what Hebei has completely fallen, Yuan Shao did not believe his nonsense.

However, after ten miles, when passing through a forest, the tiger rider who was ambushed in the forest snatched it out, first shouting that Yuan Shao was dead, and then shouting that Yuan Shao was dead, and then stripped Yuan Jun of the skin, so he had to continue to detour......

This round, he was caught up by Xiahou Yuan and the leopard rider behind, and continued to beat the water dogs!

Even when he was chased to the valley, the engine of Yuan Shao's battle armor was overheated and burned - just a gilded battle armor, a BMW engine that was too strong was easy to do so, and it would be even worse if it was a wood and stone battle armor, which was why Lu Bu always watched Bai Tu train.

At this time, Yuan Shang, who was with the army, unloaded his engine and handed it to Yuan Shao, which made his father escape with his life, but Yuan Shang himself died in the valley.

Poor Yuan Shao still has nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses, running behind him, he can only be chased like a lost dog, and the 100,000 people behind him were stopped by Cao Cao in Liyang, and Cao Cao told them a ghost story - the name is easy to guess, it is called "Yuan Shao is Dead"......