A fire by Yuan Shao burned Han Sui out of Hebei, and also gave many people a deep understanding of Yuan Shao's ruthlessness, and tens of thousands of innocent people were burned to death in that fire.

Han Sui only held out in Pingyang for three days, then began to retreat in an orderly manner, and finally retreated across the Yellow River and gathered at Dong'e, so that the war in Hebei was completely over, and Han Sui was defeated.

While Han Sui was busy going to rescue Dunqiu, Puyang was also in a bitter battle.

Although Liang Xing is very tenacious, the city wall of Puyang is also very high and strong, the people in Puyang City are as many as two or three hundred thousand, the requisitionable militia is nearly 100,000 or so, and there are also a large amount of food and materials stored in the warehouses in the city.

But is that really the case? Han Sui once again seriously misestimated the strength of the Inhumans, including the Iron Army, and the scattered Inhumans who stood on the side of the Iron Army's camp.

The difficulties in the city are only known to Liang Xing himself, and the tasks he issued are not taken over at all, so Liang Xing can only rely on his own troops and militias with insufficient training and low morale to defend the city.

Outside the city, however, more and more Inhumans gathered, and they kept shooting at the city with long-range weapons, as if they didn't care about the durability of those weapons, nor did they care what the results would be, their purpose was to keep throwing broken stones into the walls and the city.

All soldiers and militiamen operating near the city walls had to hold their shields with one hand free, but despite this, from time to time some people were beaten to the point that their heads were bleeding and their brains were bursting. The soldiers seemed to be numb, and they just quickly dragged these dead comrades off the city or pushed them aside, waiting for the people to take them away.

When it started. The Iron Army also often attacked the city wall, but after finding that the defenders were resisting very stubbornly, the Iron Army began to change its strategy and actually moved the trench battle on the Yingzhou battlefield. In fact, it is still very easy to deal with the moat and break the city, one is to pour water into the moat, but unfortunately Liang Xing has now lost all control outside the city, so this can't be done; Then there is the use of trebuchets to shoot by hanging. The hesitant trebuchet has a large ballistic curvature, so it can directly bombard the inside of the trench, alas. Liang Xing's trebuchet would be bombarded by the opponent as soon as he moved, so this trick was also scrapped; The rest is to use paper talismans, but unfortunately, there are basically no strangers on Liang Xing's side to help fight. Therefore, no one throws paper symbols. Not to mention, with Han Sui's financial resources, how many paper talisman reserves can he have?

The trench of the iron army was finally dug within a hundred steps, and Liang Xing could still use a heavy crossbow to interfere with the opponent at the beginning, but soon, the Inhumans brought out the power of the paper talisman with their shields, so Liang Xing's troops couldn't stay in the city, and they didn't know when. A paper talisman will be thrown up, and maybe it won't hurt much. But even if you only kill and injure one person, you can't resist the opponent's large number of paper symbols!

Liang Xing is also very helpless now, if he continues to fight like this, he hasn't seen the enemy for a day, and his side has lost 1,800 in battle, how many 1,800 soldiers can he have in his hands? What's even more terrifying is that the enemy's attacks are day and night, continuous fighting, and complete passive beating, these factors lead to the continuous reduction of morale on their side, perhaps before the soldiers die, the morale will first return to zero, and then these soldiers will take the initiative to open the city gate and surrender, and when the time comes, their own will also be tied up by them as a vote.

Liang Xing couldn't bear it anymore, and came out of the city gate in the east, leading the cavalry to attack and disturb it, at least to make some achievements and boost morale.

Who knew that the Iron Army had already dug traps everywhere around, and the originally flat road surface could not find a foot of flat land, and this war horse could not run at all, and as soon as it ran, it might break its hooves, and then, the enemy who came out of nowhere was a burst of heavy crossbow fire.

The disgraced Liang Xing had no choice but to retreat in embarrassment, this battle couldn't be fought!

Cheng Gongying's finger pressed on the map, looked at Han Sui with a solemn expression, and said: "Lord, we must give up Puyang, now Puyang has no strategic significance for me, on the contrary, it has become a burden, if we throw Puyang to the Iron Army, the Iron Army will have to face the Cao Army from Lihu, and our army can successfully get rid of the threat from the west 1."

Han Sui seemed to be a little distracted, staring at the map with a depressed expression for a long time without making a sound.

"Lord, Lord"

"Father-in-law" Yan Xing reached out and tugged at Han Sui's sleeve, waking up Han Sui in a trance.

"Uh-what?"

"Father-in-law, what do you think of Zhixian?"

"Oh what, evacuate Puyang? Then withdraw it, hey 1

"The Lord"

"Yan Ming, Zhixian, do you think there is still any point in us continuing to support it? Now that the general trend has been achieved, we are like wheat sandwiched between two millstones, powerless to return to heaven.1

Cheng Gongying frowned and said, "Why did the lord say this, before the last moment, who knows what the outcome will be?" If everyone thinks like this, then there is no need to do anything, people are born to die, people struggle hard in order to live, live better, be able to do something different, so that others can identify with themselves and remember themselves! If the lord does nothing, how is it different from someone who was born and gave up struggling? ”

Han Sui was stunned for a moment, then his brows furrowed, and after thinking for a while, he suddenly smiled: "Zhixian is right, people are nothing more than death, death is not afraid, why be afraid of life?" ”

Seeing that Han Sui had recovered his spirits, Cheng Gongying and Yan Xing both breathed a sigh of relief.

"Zhixian just said that after giving up Puyang, the west side of our army will be worry-free, how can you talk about this?"

"Lord, the strength of the Iron Army is not as strong as we imagined, according to intelligence, the main battle force of the Iron Army is only about 40,000, the first army is led by Dian Wei, the first army is led by Song Hufeng, not to mention those who defend the city, now the Iron Army has three cities and a port, if it is Puyang again. They will have four cities, defense is one thing, and the most important is the most important. After they took Puyang, Puyang became their salient point, very close to the fox, and had to face the pressure of Cao Cao, so they were basically unable to continue to attack Yingcheng. ”

Han Sui nodded and continued: "In this way, the western front is safe, and we can concentrate on solving the eastern front 1 first."

"Yes, judging by the current situation on the Eastern Front. The battle line of our army is not long, only in the direction of Linyi and Pingyin, less than a hundred miles wide. Xu Chu occupied Gu Cheng just to help us block Yuan Shao's attack surface. That gives us a chance."

"The pressure of defense is reduced, and the flexibility of attack is greater, so I want to talk about this first?"

Cheng Gongying nodded with a smile: "That's right, the pressure of defense is now on Cao Cao's body." And our army will be able to give full play to the advantage of strong mobility. Finding ways to eliminate Yuan Shao's living force and destroy his war potential is the strength of our army! Siege and seizure of land is obviously not the chief of our army1

"That's right! The son-in-law also thinks so, we should be going to fight and harass the enemy, and we should definitely not be the ones who hide behind the city wall and defend it, father-in-law, you give the order, we will take the initiative to attack. smashed Yuan Shao's rear into pieces, turning the world upside down1

Yan Xing said emotionally. Han Sui thought about it for a while, and smashed it on the table with a heavy circle: "Okay! Then let Yuan Shao see the majesty of my Xiliang Iron Ride 1

Cheng Gongying smiled and said: "Lord, since this is the case, then give up Fucheng and Gangxian and hand them over to Fu Zhu to guard, and our army will only leave the five cities of Dongping, Fanxian, Yingcheng, Dong'e and Wuyan1."

"This"

"Lord, dare to give up to obtain, the problem at hand is Yuan Shao, as long as Yuan Shao is defeated, there is a lot of territory, if you can't win the battle, then we can't hold on to how much territory we have on hand now."

Han Sui frowned, his face was a little tangled, but he still understood the reason, that is, it was inevitable that there would be some flesh pain in his heart!

"Okay, as Zhixian said, I ordered to abandon Gangxian and Fucheng, gather the defenders in Wuyan, order Li Chen to guard Dongping, order Cheng Yin to go to Wuyan, order Yang Qiu to garrison Fanxian, and Zhang Heng to garrison Dong'a, and you and I are ready to attack1

"No1

Yuan Shao took Pingyang, his heart was very happy, and he finally got the lost Hebei back, should his bad luck end.

"Let Lu Kuang be stationed in Anyang, let Zhu Ling be stationed in Dangyin, let Jiang Yiqu be stationed in Pingyang, and Chen Lin will preside over the reconstruction of Dunqiu, and Jiao will assist."

"The last general will receive the order 1

Yuan Shao glanced at the generals under the tent with great ambition, stroked his beard proudly and said:

"Ordered the Zhangjaw Division, the Liyi Division, the Pan Feng Division, and other armies to reorganize the army, replenish grain and grass equipment, and enter Linyi 1 with the southern crossing of Keri

"No1

The generals took the order and left, only the ministers were left in the big tent, Yuan Shaoshi Shiran sat down, looked at Xu You and said: "Ziyuan, this time our army is going south with a thunderous momentum, may sweep away Han Sui in one fell swoop?" ”

Xu You twisted his goatee and tilted his head and smiled: "Ben Chu is too unproductive, Ben Chu should ask if he can defeat Cao Cao in one fell swoop, Han Sui is just a clown who jumps off the beam, why be afraid 1."

"Uh, haha that's right, our opponents can only be Cao Cao, and Liu Bei1

"Exactly, my lord, Han Sui was defeated in Henan, and the main body of our army's confrontation will be Cao Cao, but Han Sui can't be underestimated, he will definitely not be willing to fail, but will once again sacrifice the magic weapon of guerrilla warfare 1

"So how does Jeongnam think he should deal with it?"

"If they are guerrilla, we will dig up their roots! The subordinates thought that our army should ignore Cao Cao for the time being, but concentrate on attacking Dong'e, Dong'e is down, Han Sui's offensive line will be closed, on the contrary, our army can covet Dongping, and put the spear tip on Han Sui's heart, this is Guo Bisheng, will Han Sui attack or defend at that time? ”

"Haha, good strategy! It's just that Cao Cao really knows how to watch from the wall? ”

Xiu nodded and said, "Why not give it a try?" ”

On August 20, Yuan Shao's army crossed the river and reached Linyi, and on the second day, Yuan Shao's army began to advance along the Yellow River to the east! To be continued.