Yuan Shao's advance base is Xindu, the front line is Tangyang, and the goal is Xiatao, of course, the tactics are the same as Lu Zhi's, besiege, or besiege but not trap.

Does Yuan Shao have the ability to wipe out the Yellow Turban Army in one fell swoop? Yes and no! It's a matter of cost!

Does Yuan Shao want to firmly implement the edict of the imperial court and attack the Yellow Turban Army at any cost? No!

So why did Yuan Shao attack Liao Tao so actively?

In fact, this is very simple, it is the strategy of Xu Yu and Xiao Ji, this strategy is to take the initiative to attack and suppress the Yellow Turban Army to actively shrink its military strength, so as to stabilize the four eastern counties of Jizhou in one fell swoop, and by the way, even Anping has been stabilized, so that these counties can return to normal production and life order in time, which is not only related to the harvest of this autumn, but also related to the internal stability of Yuan Shao's camp, and related to the next plan to suppress the Yellow Turban forces in the border areas of Yanzhou and Qingzhou.

In fact, Yuan Shao's desire to attack was not great, just to create military pressure on the Yellow Turban Army, and the cost of maintaining the Liao Tao camp was actually much smaller than the cost of extinguishing those Yellow Turban thieves who infiltrated Anping and even the Bohai Sea some time ago, which once again fully proved Xu You's ability.

Jiang Yiqu was once broken through the defense line by the Yellow Turban Army under the city of Xindu, which was considered a mistake, but then he took Xindu, which was considered a merit and demerit, Yuan Shao did not hold him accountable excessively, but let him keep Xindu, which seemed to be more favorable, but in fact, it was also a kind of distrust of Jiang Yiqu's ability.

The front line of Liao Tao is naturally the most capable Yan Liang, while Wen Chou is in Tangyang, and the one in charge of logistics between the two places is Gao Ran, a newly recruited young general.

The distance from Tangyang to the big camp is only one hundred and sixty miles, but the logistics are relatively slow, it takes two days to arrive, Gao Ran is in charge of the safety of this road, and there are 20,000 cavalry and 20,000 infantry under his command. Even if the Yellow Turban players have their eyes on this logistics line, the chances of destroying Gao Ran's 40,000 strong soldiers are very low.

Moreover, there will also be players from the imperial court camp who will take over the escort task along the way, so the monthly transportation team actually has nearly 100,000 escort troops. Yuan Shao is really wealthy!

When he went down to the village at night, Gao Ran put the infantry in the middle. Passages were set aside on all sides for cavalry to enter and exit, and then surrounded by the camp of the Inhumans, the barracks of the officers and soldiers were surrounded in the middle.

At night, as expected, the aliens from the Yellow Turban camp began to appear in the outer camps again to harass them, but those aliens from the imperial court camp were already idle. Just in the battle with the aliens of the Yellow Turban camp, there were shouts of killing and horses' hooves all around at night, and from time to time some camp tents were ignited by rockets, and a fire was burned, and many people were making noise to fight the fire.

Gao Ran has no way to rest at all at night, it's too noisy, but Gao Ran is not very worried that tomorrow the soldiers will have any accidents because of poor rest, because tomorrow before dark will be able to arrive at the Liao Tao camp, presumably General Yan Liang will also send cavalry to meet his logistics baggage team.

So Gao Ran simply stopped sleeping and climbed up to the watchtower erected at the edge of the camp. Looking into the surrounding wilderness covered by the night, he saw the stars everywhere, the light of torches everywhere, and he could vaguely see the battlefield fighting in the distance, and the sound of people shouting and neighing horses was sent to his ears with the night wind, and by the way, it also brought a heavy bloody atmosphere.

Gao Ran was a little puzzled as to why the Inhumans were so keen on fighting, and Gao Ran even felt that the Inhumans had a fanatical desire for battle. And there was no fear or disgust, which made Gao Ran a little ashamed, as if these aliens were more suitable for this warlike world than himself.

Just when Gao Ran was a little distracted, there was a faint muffled sound from the south. As if there was a thunder from the sky, a trace of panic appeared in Gao Ran's heart, and he had a bad premonition, tonight, I am afraid that something will happen.

"Wake up all the soldiers, the infantry guard the camp, the cavalry is ready to fight at any time.1 Gao Ran suddenly turned around and shouted loudly at the herald under the watchtower.

The herald was stunned for a moment, and replied loudly: "No1."

Sure enough, the sound from the south seemed to suddenly become lively, and then more and more camps were lit, and it was clearly seen from the high view on the watchtower that the Inhuman camps on the southern periphery had been completely broken through, and the Inhuman troops there had fallen into chaos, and the Inhuman troops of the Yellow Turban camp had taken advantage of the situation to attack through this gap.

However, Gao Ran's feeling was a little strange, he always felt that the danger came from the north, although it was still very calm over there, but Gao Ran's subconscious, he always felt that there seemed to be a terrible monster lurking in the calm of the north.

Gao Ran suppressed his idea of wanting to go to the south to support, but asked the herald to let the cavalry mount, but they gathered at the gate of the village in the north, and the players on the periphery, without Gao Ran's command, spontaneously gathered to the north, however, the situation was not very good, after the originally balanced battle situation was broken through, the Inhuman troops on the side of the official army fell into passivity.

Reinforcement to the south required the troops to withdraw from their positions, re-change their formations, and then switch from offensive and defensive to marching, which increased the difficulty of command, and also caused heavy losses to the Inhuman troops with insufficient command ability and troop training.

The situation is becoming more and more critical, especially in the south, the cavalry units of the Yellow Turban camp have appeared on the periphery of Gao Lan's camp, and it seems that they are cleaning up the positions of the ranged troops, and want to use the long-range troops to project rockets and fire oil into Gao Lan's camp, but the more critical the south, the stronger Gao Lan's fear of the north becomes.

Just when Gao Yan was in a dilemma, the somewhat quiet north finally changed!

The sound of horses' hooves like thunder came slowly from the sky in the dark night, getting louder and stronger, constantly impacting Gao Ran's eardrums, Gao Ran guessed from the vibration of the ground, there were at least one or two thousand cavalry in the north, at this time, Gao Ran couldn't help but secretly rejoice, fortunately he didn't go out of the camp, otherwise the enemy army launched a surprise attack from the north, and he would definitely be able to give himself a ruthless back.

"The cavalry went out of the north gate to meet the attacking enemy, and the infantry divided into 10,000 and attacked south, clearing the enemy's long-range troops and returning to the camp."

With Gao Ran's order given. The north gate of the camp was wide open, and Gao Lan's cavalry was like a torrent, rumbling towards the north, standing on the watchtower, Gao Lan clearly saw that the enemy cavalry in the north was rushing towards his camp, although he could not see clearly in the night, but with the help of the camp tents that were set on fire around him. Gao Ran could still see that those Inhuman troops were in front of this cavalry. Almost as fragile as paper, this is a strong soldier, a real trump card for the enemy.

The situation in the south Gao Yan only glanced at it casually, although his troops were blocked, they were still able to push forward firmly, driving Inhuman's troops out of range, but Inhumans were tenacious. As soon as Gao Ran's troops retreated, they immediately approached again, and the officers and soldiers could only fight a tug-of-war with the alien troops there.

After the Inhuman troops were blocked in the south, they began to develop to the left and right, and the Inhuman troops on the periphery attacked on both sides, which made the losses of the Inhuman troops on the imperial court camp suddenly increase significantly, and these troops had to unconsciously retreat towards Gao Lan's camp, but in this way, due to the high concentration of troops, the offensive of the Yellow Turban camp slowed down.

Gao Ran no longer pays attention to this side. As long as the Yellow Turban cavalry in the north can be defeated, and the cavalry in his hands is free, he can reverse the current unfavorable situation, and in the same way, until the cavalry decides the victory, the infantry battle will be inconclusive for a while, so Gao Ran focused all his attention on the north.

It's just that the speed of the cavalry is very fast, and in the blink of an eye, it ran out of Gao Ran's sight. Hidden in the darkness, Gao Ran pricked up his ears and listened attentively to the movement in the distance, expecting the victory of his cavalry. Other than that, he could only wait silently.

The cavalry of the official army began with the same as Gao Ran. are all looking forward to their victory, for the enemy, they do have a psychological advantage, especially in terms of cavalry, the cavalry level of the Yellow Turban Army is really not very good.

However, the fact shocked all the cavalry, when the cavalry rushed out of the camp, the cavalry of the Yellow Turban Army had completely cleared the offensive channel to the north, but the cavalry of the Yellow Turban Army did not attack, and the cavalry of the Yellow Turban Army could be heard from the sound of hooves, and the cavalry of the Yellow Turban Army was regrouping and seemed to be moving to the side.

Just when the morale of the official cavalry was high and they wanted to pursue, they were baptized by a round of intensive arrows, and the official cavalry, who had been quite confident in themselves, immediately understood after seeing the strong lethality of the arrows of the Yellow Turban Army that they might have crashed headlong into the iron plate.

The cavalry of the official army is a medium-sized cavalry, and there is no weapon for long-range combat, and now the choice of the cavalry of the official army is either to move forward and rush up to fight the opponent in close combat, or to retreat and run back to find the support of the infantry, but now their infantry brothers seem to have fallen into trouble, and they are waiting for the cavalry brothers to rescue them, how can they take care of helping the cavalry brothers.

The cavalry commander ignored the bitterness in his heart, gritted his teeth and issued the order to charge into battle, but the sad thing is that the cavalry of the other side seemed to be always less than a hundred paces away from him, but he could not catch up, and those cavalrymen with yellow scarves on their heads and black armor turned around from time to time and fired arrows, shooting the cavalry of the official army under the horses in batches.

After chasing for a while, the cavalry of the official army sadly found that they seemed to be surrounded by the other party, there were enemy troops in the front, and there were enemy troops on the left and right flanks. The number is unknown, but the lethality and speed are clearly stronger than their own, so the morale of the officers and soldiers is declining as fast as their numbers.

In the dark night, no one will be stupid to surrender, and no one will capture prisoners, so Gao Ran's 20,000 cavalry, after leaving the camp, except for the occasional individual cavalry who were injured and did not die, Gao Ran never saw his 20,000 cavalry again, as for the opponent, Gao Ran didn't know, only knew that it was a team of unknown number of archers, and this team of archers could eat their own 20,000 cavalry, either crossbowmen set up an ambush to cooperate, or the number of cavalry several times his own, of course, this is just Gao Ran's guess afterwards.

And now, after Gao Ran gradually found out that the wrong way was wrong, he immediately ordered the baggage to be lit, and the infantry gathered to break through to the west, his determination was very resolute and timely, so in the end, Gao Ran was able to break out with more than 10,000 infantry and tens of thousands of players, and join Yan Liang who came to the rescue. To be continued! ~！