"If you go to Youzhou, you should still have time to loot, this kind of combat situation, you don't even need to pretend to be a bandit, and the cavalry is the most comfortable."

"And the people can take advantage of the chaos to flee and return to their hometowns, even if they are homeless, after all, there is still land in their hometown in Jizhou, and the slaves under the scholars can get rid of the slave status."

"If the belongings are snatched and taken away, the food can be burned."

"The people have no food, so they will naturally find a way to leave and return to Jizhou."

Jia Xu gushed endlessly, he was originally from Liangzhou, had traveled to the northern states, and understood that there was a mountain road from Bohai County that could directly enter Youzhou.

However, if you have to pass through three passes between the mountains before you can get out of the mountain, the original loss will be very large, but now if you chase and kill Yuan Shao flawlessly, the soldiers and horses in Youzhou will not have time to react, and with the ability of the sword and shield battalion, they will cross the mountains and mountains and enter the already low level.

It's still no problem.

The level is seven or eight feet high at most, and it is built against the mountain for two years, and it is an excellent choice to climb over and climb and hit the gate.

After hearing this, Xu Zhen and Zhuge Liang couldn't help but glance at each other, this old man is quite ruthless.

Xu Zhen only thought of protecting the remaining places before Yuan Shao, only Jia Xu didn't care about the lives of the people and directly plundered Youzhou, so it would definitely be more effective.

However, I don't know how many people will starve to death.

"Sir, if this is done, won't the people all become outcasts?"

"Then I-" Jia Xu paused for a moment, blinked and changed his words: "Impossible, once they find out that there is chaos, they will only flee, we only need to prepare grain and grass to open the warehouse and release grain, and we can still plant a season of grain in time." ”

"After the autumn harvest, then settle down, so that within a year or two it will become more and more stable, otherwise, Yuan Shao's mind is extremely vicious, and his intentions are intolerable, he wasted the land and swept away the property, it is a plan for self-interest to damage him, so that he can establish a solid foundation in Youzhou, and we will consume a lot of money and grain when we take over Jizhou! And because there is no population, it will not prosper for a few years! ”

His thoughts can only be described in four words! Kong Ming, you say! ”

The corners of Zhuge Liang's mouth twitched, and he said helplessly: "Outrageous." ”

"Four more."

"Heartbreaking!"

"Not bad!" Jia Xu faced Xu Zhen, solemnly bowed his hand, his face was even a little red, and he held Xu Zhen's palm like a pilgrimage, pressing his excitement, "My plan is not only to regain money and food, but also to save the people from slavery and return to their homeland. ”

"Okay, it's okay."

Xu Zhen patted the back of his hand, it was really amazing, his eyes were filled with tears, if he didn't understand your old character, he might have been really moved.

Bright and upright Jia Wenhe.

"Send troops first, let the lord help you, and immediately attack into Youzhou to attack the front after taking the Bohai Sea."

……

Overnight, the flying horse crossed hundreds of miles and delivered the letter to Qinghe, and Cao Cao smashed it on the ground when he saw it.

Then he slowly walked over and picked it up, patted his head and Guo Jia smiled bitterly: "I just finished talking to Junyi and will never enter again." ”

"He also expressed admiration and admiration, you say this ......"

Guo Jia smiled, "In fact, whether to march or not, this power is in the hands of the lord, you can force Yuan Shao to enter, and you can sit back and watch Yuan Shao exhaustion, but since Bowen has something to ask, it must also be to protect the remaining counties from being plundered by Yuan Shao." ”

"Jizhou's population is still very important."

"If all the people are taken away, who will plough the fields, cultivate the wasteland, build water conservancy, and cut down the mountains and forests?"

"Bowen is afraid that the people will be swept away, so he wants to start a war, and once there is a war, the people can flee."

"Their homeland is in Jizhou, and they can only return to Jizhou if they escape, and they will make a huge loss to Yuan Shao at this time."

Cao Cao nodded suddenly, "Then march." ”

……

The order came out, Cao Chun took tens of thousands of tigers and leopards that night, and directly entered the plain county, and cooperated with the soldiers and horses led by Xu Chu to quickly obtain three or four cities, and when the army arrived in the early morning, all the small cities around the country were all surrendered, only one plain city with thousands of defenders could not hold it at all.

After fighting for half an hour, they were directly killed, mainly because the guards did not mean to surrender, it seems that they should have received a death order, and they are too brainless to be loyal to Yuan Shao when they live.

After that, the army directly marched into Bohai County, and the same army drove straight in, and was deeply supported by the people, scholars, and Hanmen, and even many defenders of the city opened the city gate directly when they saw this.

In just seven days, the Bohai Sea was occupied, and even the city with a stubborn resistance was captured under the strong attack, which is enough to show that Yuan Shao had already lost the support of the people in these boundaries of Jizhou.

It was only then that he captured the Bohai Sea so smoothly, and in this way, Yuan Shao knew that Hejian was his only chance.

Garrisoned a large number of troops into Hejian County, and then began to rob the people as before, and took the people away, with the people in hand, Xu Zhen did not dare to attack and slaughter, if he killed the people all the way, then the Cao family and his Xu Bowen's benevolent and righteous people over the years will be completely damaged!

At this point, Yuan Shaocheng is full of confidence in his chest, and he can undoubtedly grasp Xu Zhen's weaknesses.

Sure enough, in the past few days, Xu Zhenjun did not make much movement, Yuan Shao gradually slowed down his pace, and withdrew steadily, carrying hundreds of thousands of people plus hundreds of thousands of grains and grass property, hundreds of carts of gold, silver and jade, the army protected each other, although it was slow but the distance was not far, and it was about to enter the Youzhou area.

In Youzhou, he ordered his son Yuan Xi to lead tens of thousands of elite soldiers early on, and came to greet him with a good general who had experienced a hundred battles.

In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, the armaments are the most elite, and the horses ridden are from the sophisticated Humvees of the horseback clan, and the arrows and crossbows are assembled and prepared, just to meet Jizhou, and then build a strong city defense in Youzhou, even if it is not too much to build another Yijing.

The closer Yuan Shao got to Youzhou, the more stable his heart became, although he failed to win most of the counties, which made Xu Zhen and Cao Cao react, but fortunately, they didn't leave them too much money and manpower, and if they wanted to make up for this vacancy in a short time, they had to hurt the vitality of the whole territory.

But then the firelight from the night completely dispelled his sense of joy, and the fire was very large, because the soldiers and horses in Youzhou piled up the grain together, and the wind was not strong but it could still blow the fire, especially when the temperature plummeted at night, the wind would be extremely fierce.

The fire that broke out made Yuan Shao personally see that most of the grain and grass carts were in the sea of fire, and almost all the cavalry guarding around were in a pool of blood, and among the piles of corpses, there were occasionally a few corpses of Xu Junjia's cavalry, and the property had almost been looted, and the people had all fled, and almost did not appear here.

At this time, someone came from a distance, ran for a long time before he came to Yuan Shao, and dismounted in a panic to report, his expression looked frightened and flustered, "Lord, lord!" An hour ago, from the mountains on the border of the Bohai Sea, Xu Zhen's armored cavalry and Cao Cao's tiger and leopard cavalry suddenly came out and raided our garrison! They burned most of the grain and grass, and plundered all the treasures. ”

"Also, take advantage of the chaos...... Hundreds of thousands of people were released. ”

"How could you let it go!" Yuan Shao put a breath on his chest for a while, and asked astringently: "These, don't these people really follow me?" After so many years of preferential government, can't you get the support of the people? ”

"The lord, the second son, the second son, he ......"

"What's wrong with Xi'er?!"

Yuan Shao suddenly panicked, and his heart immediately seemed to be caught, and the deputy general immediately explained: "He took the general and went to hunt down Xu Zhen." ”

"The second prince said that he would definitely stab this person, and he would never let him be arrogant and domineering again, ignoring my civil and military forces in northern Xinjiang."

"Alas! Come back! Go and call Xi'er back immediately!! Xu Zhen can't chase it! ”

Yuan Shao was so angry that he began to stomp his feet on the war horse, why were his sons so uncomposed, Xu Zhen was scheming, he dared to come to raid, he must have already prepared to lay an ambush, just waiting for the pursuers to follow.

"Go chase Xi'er back immediately! Call back! Xu Bowen can't chase it! ”

"Whoa!"

Yuan Shao looked left and right, seeing that the distance of hundreds of zhang on this road was a mess, and the people brought from the river behind him were also in a commotion, so anxious that they were dizzy, their blood was surging, and their heartbeat accelerated too much.

Soon, other lieutenants surrounded him, and Yuan Shao asked puzzledly: "With so many belongings and jewelry, baggage and jade, Xu Zhen and Tiger and Leopard should not have carried auxiliary horses, how can they take them calmly?" ”

"Are there any other soldiers!?"

"No, he, he ordered the people to take their belongings back to Jizhou, and they can take as much as they want......"

"Then you should chase the people!" Yuan Shao was in a hurry, you have a fart for chasing Xu Zhen!

The deputy general looked embarrassed, looked left and right before sighing embarrassedly: "I went to chase and kill the people first, and Xu Zhencai led the troops to order the grain and grass cart......"

"This ......"

Yuan Shaoren was stupid, waiting for the open space with dull eyes, to be honest, he didn't even know what Xu Zhen looked like until now, but he had actually made it like this.

This has come and gone, not only the loss of grain and grass, but also the loss of reputation, stealing chickens and rice.

The people were taken hostage and the hearts of the people were lost, property was robbed, and grain and grass were burned.

Could there be a worse situation than now...... The most important thing is why Xu Zhen is sure that such a march will be successful, how dare he!

Coming out of the border mountain range of Bohai County, there must be at least three passes, and even if there are only 3,000 people in those three passes, they can be blocked overnight, this is a pass, a pass that is easy to defend and difficult to attack!

The pass barrier was built with the help of the terrain, in order to prevent the enemy from attacking from the path, and once discovered, he could lay an ambush and counterattack.

Oh, no......

The real mistake was that I focused my soldiers and horses on Hejian County......

Yuan Shao suddenly turned his back to the sky, closed his eyes with remorse, and his face was full of despair, "Oops......"

"There's too much to count, and I can't count it anymore."

Yuan Shao's heart collapsed, coupled with the exhaustion and illness in his body, he actually had a feeling of soreness in his eyes, and he really wanted to rest.

Not only did he have to guard against Cao Cao's use of troops, but also against Xu Bowen's various calculations, and none of the advisors around him could count these two people.

No, they still have strategists under their command.

There must be a strategist under Xu Zhen's command.

Cao Cao has Xun's uncles and nephews, Guo Fengxiao, and Xu You...... There are many other talented people I don't know about.

It is not unjust to have this result.

Yuan Shao looked at the fire in the distance, and was speechless for a while, wanting to cry without tears.

……

After dawn, Yuan Xi came back alive, but there were two scars on his face, one hand was pierced by an arrow, and the war horse was no longer his original mount, but an ordinary war horse.

There were only a few hundred riders around.

I didn't even see a single foot soldier.

"Father, my son was defeated, and my son rashly pursued and was ambushed by the sword and shield battalion...... Unexpectedly, Xu Zhen ambushed the elite of the sword and shield on the mountain. ”

Yuan Xi knelt down in front of Yuan Shao, and at this moment, the male lord who had been spanning half his life was finally laughed at in an extremely desperate rage.

"Haha...... The father's 650,000 were defeated, what is the defeat of this one? ”

Yuan Xi raised his head blankly and looked at his father incredulously, don't blame me?

What do you mean by that?

But before Yuan Shao could reply, he spit out a mouthful of blood directly, and fell to the ground weakly, exhausted, and under the double blow of extreme despair, he had lost the will to insist on supporting.

"Father! Father! ”

Yuan Xi cried and pounced on him and shouted, and the only remaining soldiers and horses around him hurriedly came to help, and then Gao Lan, Zhao Zhao and others could only order to go back quickly with the remaining grain and grass first.

First returned to the land of Youzhou, established several strictly guarded passes along the way, specially arranged sentry posts on the mountain, and at the same time arranged patrols like honeycombs at the passes in various places.

Yuan Xi knew in his heart that although Xu Zhen's raid was successful, the price he paid was also very large.

There was no way he didn't care at all.

More than 1,000 armored cavalry and thousands of tiger and leopard cavalry were confessed on the battlefield, which can be called a heavy blow, any elite soldiers and horses are extremely rare, and this is also the only time Xu Zhen did not get the battlefield to clean up the sovereignty of the raid.

Yuan Xi also sent people to clean up the battlefield and collected the comprehensive armor and combat knives of the dead soldiers, although this kind of forging knife method is not known how to study it, and the skills cannot be learned, but this more than 1,000 pairs of armor and ring head knives have really strengthened the armament.

In this way, the next time he faces Xu Zhen, he will definitely not be so passive, at least he has the ability to fight back!

Use his armaments to defeat him!

But now this idea is just a beautiful fantasy for Yuan Xi, the strength of the armored cavalry is not only as simple as armament, but also the tactics and personal bravery account for a huge proportion, if it weren't for the elite of these soldiers in Youzhou, even ten times the strength would not have so many casualties.

……

At noon, after Xu Zhen returned to the mountain, he was about to walk slowly and was about to get out of the mountain pass, when he called Zhang Liao to come to him, "Order all the soldiers and horses to go to Hejian County, and then start to garrison the government and lead the people back to settle down." ”

"What will they get?" Zhang Liao asked with a solemn face.

"There is no need to loot, it is voluntarily handed in, and the warehouse will be opened and the grain will be released later."

Jia Xu suddenly approached on the other side, and said: "I think that I still have to speak among the people, Yuan Shao has been looting and ignoring the lives of the people, because there has been no return for many years of benefit." ”

"If it spreads like this, it is a beating, and the people can obey it."

Xu Zhen was silent for a moment, then nodded: "Okay, Mr. is really benevolent!" ”

Jia Xu gave up his hand in fear: "Ouch, it's a false praise." ”

(End of chapter)