Although unwilling and uneasy, Yuan Shao finally followed Xu You's advice and handed over the command to Fang Zhiwen. In Fang Zhiwen's words, Yuan Shao finally became smart for a while, knowing that retreating was advancing, and while losing the initiative, he forced Fang Zhiwen to stop grinding foreign workers.

Since Yuan Shao has the determination and consciousness and is willing to pay some price, Fang Zhiwen is naturally willing to give some sweetness Yuan Shao, in fact, Fang Zhiwen may not want to end the battle of the Central Plains quickly, end the work early and build early, for Youzhou, the interests needed are the population of Jizhou and the Central Plains, rather than letting Yuan Shao and Cao Cao consume each other, after taking Jizhou, Fang Zhiwen's strategic situation is very good, and he doesn't care so much about the situation of the Central Plains princes.

Therefore, Xu Yu's strategic measure can be regarded as a rather precise and intelligent approach.

The troops were in place, the strategy was in place, and the war immediately shifted from stalemate to attack, and as Xu You expected, the war did not start from the relatively weak eastern front, but from the middle of the northern front, and it was the army of Yuan Shao and Wen Chou, in cooperation with Lu Bu, that opened the battle of Yongyang.

And Cao Jun is mainly frustrated on the Yongyang side, with Liang Xing, Li Dian, and Zhang Xun as generals, the number of troops is 200,000, and Yuan Shao and Lu Bujun can be said to be evenly matched, but the problem is that the existence of Lu Bu is really a bit unfair.

Yuan Shao's infantry and cavalry pressed forward with a dignified road, followed by a large number of Inhuman troops, while Lu Bu led the army to roam around the periphery and rushed to the south of Yongyang, in an attempt to cut off Yongyang's logistics in one fell swoop.

Began to be frustrated and a little unbelieving, so Liang Xing's troops to contain Lu Bu, Liang Xing is also quite high-spirited, who knows that under the face, Liang Xing was defeated by Lu Bu, if it weren't for Liang Xing's slippery, maybe he was beheaded, Liang Xing's Xiliang cavalry suddenly exerted the skills of being good at escaping, even so, most of them were annihilated, and the cavalry that ran back to Yongyang was less than 10,000.

This fiasco suddenly made Frustration Teach honest, and as a result, as soon as Yuan Shao's army arrived, he set up camp on all sides, and it turned out to be a posture of death and siege, because there were a large number of Inhumans to help in the battle, and before Frustration could react, Yuan Shao and the Inhumans had already dug countless ditches outside the city, and directly surrounded Yongyang completely.

In addition, Lu Bu was wandering outside, and he knew that he should not be able to wait for reinforcements, in this case, the lack of reinforcements was to send food to Lu Bu, but Cao Cao, who had enough reinforcements, couldn't make it up!

Because at this time, the offensive on the northern front has been fully launched, and Yan Liang and Gao Gan on the eastern front have pressed to the periphery of Pei County, relatively speaking, Cao Cao has a slight advantage on this way, but the problem is that Cao Cao must also worry about Zang Ba who has Chang on the side, and Fang Zhiwen of Pengcheng in the southeast.

On the western front, Xun You, Cao Hong, and Xiahou Yuan played against Zhang Jaw, Pan Feng, and the trial match, evenly matched, and the two sides were fighting in Fule and Yangxia, but Yuan Shaojun's side had the advantage of different people, so Xun You's situation was not very good, fortunately, Ji Ling was faintly watching Chen Liu from Yingchuan, so that the trial did not dare to let go of the attack.

The battle situation was temporarily stalemate in early April, but Cao Cao knew that Fang Zhiwen and Yuan Shao still had spare strength, and he had already done his best, if he could not achieve a decisive victory on the battlefield of the Northern Front, he would be very troublesome, absolutely very troublesome!

Outside Yongyang City, in Yuan Shao's camp, in the main camp in all directions, there are bulletin boards and clerks for task distribution and settlement, and a large number of players are in and out in a hurry, these tasks are released in accordance with the habits of Youzhou, not only meticulous but also well-paid, everyone wants to seize this opportunity to earn more merit points.

"Old Niu, Old Niu, how much merit has your team done?"

"Hehe, it's more than two hundred, we have twenty people!"

"That's not bad! Your team is a rookie team, only in their twenties? p> "Yes, but we're all about hard work, digging ditches and building fortifications.1

"Hehe, then what else do you have to do, you can't even set up a trebuchet, and even if you can set it up, the hit and speed are miserable."

"Where's your elite team?"

"It's more than two thousand six hundred, it's so cool! is still Fang Zhiwen generous, no wonder everyone likes to follow Fang Zhiwen to do task 1

"Hehe, that's because Fang Zhiwen has a lot of resources in his hands, not to mention anything else, he has a lot of high-level paper talismans, war horses, elite trebuchets, simple giant crossbows, famous general cards, and summoning cards, so he is so generous1

"We're here for the war horse this time, didn't the boss say it, this time the merit value will be changed to the war horse, and the meeting will be compensated with skill books and equipment."

"Cut, the rookie on my side will be happy to give some equipment casually, so that it is easy to dismiss, who of those elites is willing to exchange those high-level skills on Fang Zhiwen's exchange list?"

"There's no way, you have to make a trade-off! If you can't pay for it yourself, what else can you do? ”

"Okay, without further ado, I'll take someone to do another round before dinner, and I'll go 1

In Yongyang City, many players gathered in the square near the city gate to look at the task on the bulletin board, everyone did not have the excitement of players outside the city, everyone's face seemed to be quite heavy, everyone knew that the current situation was not very good, the possibility of winning seemed to be quite slim, everyone could only pray, hoping that Cao Cao could work hard and be majestic, like the battle of Guandu in history, to turn over a salted fish.

It's just that this expectation is actually quite unreliable, this is the game world, there are all kinds of deaf and clear-eyed players, it's really too difficult to play conspiracy, and Cao Cao's opponent is not Yuan Shao, now everyone knows that the command of the war is in the hands of Fang Zhiwen, that guy is known as the god of war, and there are a lot of smart people in the house, and if he wants to play a conspiracy in front of these people, it is purely looking for abuse.

Therefore, these players can only do what they can do to see if they can earn some real benefits, and when it is a big deal, they will not go online, and then when they commit suicide, they will not have to explode equipment.

On the third day of Yuan Shao's arrival in Yongyang, he began to strike at the long-range troops, and the trebuchet positions hidden behind the earthen ramparts bombarded each other with the trebuchets in the city, and soon the gap between the trebuchet troops on both sides came out, and the trebuchet troops were mostly aliens, and the level of the aliens on both sides must be Yuan Shao's side, and at the end of the day, I don't know how the exchange ratio is, but the counterattack strength in the city is obviously reduced, which is very revealing.

Yuan Shao was very patient, and used a trebuchet to bombard for twelve hours in a row before he began to launch an infantry siege, according to the plan of the Miyun Command, although Yongyang's attack did not need to be fast, but the strength could not be low, so that Yongyang would form a situation that would be broken at any time. You must know that below Yongyang is Qian County, and as soon as Yongyang loses Cao Cao's old nest, Qian County will face the threat of war.

If the Cao army resists not to reinforce, the command hopes to force Cao Cao to abandon Pei County and withdraw to Qian County, and then the command will mobilize mobile troops to try to defeat Cao Cao in the field and knock down the morale of the Cao army.

After a day's siege of the city, the losses of the troops were not small, and the main losses actually came from the sniper squads organized in Yuan Shao's troops, these squads composed of elite archers and aliens were twenty or thirty people, hiding in the infantry wing, and pumping cold towards the densely defended places was a round of skill coverage, and there were also those who specifically stared at the grassroots generals to attack, in short, these active squads made the frustration suffer enough.

In the city lord's mansion, as the command headquarters, he frowned when he looked at the battle report in front of him, the situation in Yongyang is very bad, or the situation of the entire Cao army is very bad, of course, Yongyang can be said to be the worst place, not only Yuan Shao's team is attacking here, but also the old lord Lu Bu, and now the situation in Yongyang is passive, and he can only defend it.

However, judging from the situation of the two days of fighting, it seems that it is not easy to succeed in defense, and he originally felt that he had 200,000 soldiers in his hands, sufficient food and grass materials, and there should be no problem in defending for three or five months, but now the facts tell him that it is quite a rare achievement to be able to defend for a month.

After thinking for a long time, he wrote down the detailed battle reports of the past two days and his own judgment, and prepared to send them to Cao Cao, he did not expect Cao Cao to come to the rescue, but to let Cao Cao know that even if he was defeated, it was not enough, not that he made a mistake in command or did not try his best.

When he received the battle report, Cao Cao was watching the boulder flying overhead on the wall of Peixian County, and Yuan Shaojun outside the city only set up camp in the north of Peixian County, and then built an earthen fortress in the north of the city, and arranged a trebuchet position behind it, bombarding the city day and night.

Cao Cao tried to rush through with cavalry, but there were a large number of traps and heavy crossbowmen stationed on both sides of the trebuchet position, and even in order to guard against Cao Ren's heavy cavalry, a lot of giant crossbows were also deployed, so that Cao Ren suffered a small loss, Cao Cao couldn't, so he could only bombard Yan Liang's long-range troops like this.

Although Cao Cao had the intention of using cavalry to go around farther away and attack Yan Liang's logistics base Zou County, he was worried that he would be attacked by the elusive Youzhou cavalry, and finally reluctantly accepted the rather dull confrontation in front of him.

The predicament of frustration made Cao Cao worried, Yongyang's position was too important, perhaps it was because of this that Fang Zhiwen would use Yuan Shao to attack the main attack, and put Lu Bu here early, originally Fang Zhiwen must have hoped to go to Yongyang by himself, and then he would take Peixian in one fell swoop, and then join forces to attack Yongyang.

Therefore, Cao Cao deliberately chose to defend Pei County by himself, trying to solve the enemy of Pei County first, and then return to Yongyang, but now this idea is also quite wishful thinking, you will change, and others will change.

Cao Cao frowned and handed the battle report to Xi Zhicai beside him and said, "Yongyang is very bad1."

Xi Zhicai took the battle report and looked at it, to his surprise, in fact, this battle is difficult no matter how you look at it, and it has already been decided strategically that this is a war that is destined to be difficult to win, Xi Zhicai hesitated and said:

"Lord, my subordinates have some feelings that they want to express their feelings to the lord alone."

Cao Cao was stunned for a moment, and looked at Xi Zhicai with a calm face, Xi Zhicai looked at Cao Cao without flinching, Cao Cao thought for a while and nodded: "Everyone retreat for the time being."

Yan Xiang and the others had to retreat far away, and even Cao Xiu was driven away, everyone could only watch Cao Cao and Xi Zhicai from a distance What was talking, judging from the actions of the two, it seemed that Cao Cao was very unhappy, #