Liu Bei's order to Gongsun Zhan was not to attack, but to build an army to prevent and deter Yuan Shao.

Liu Bei also specially instructed Gongsun Zhan to tell him his plan to encircle, and let Gongsun Chan wait for the order, and not to send troops to attack Yuan Shao without an order, but to wait for the army to encircle, and crush Yuan Shao and the Jizhou rebel group in one go.

Gongsun Zhan also thought so at first, he didn't plan to do anything, just waiting for the order of the Luoyang Imperial Court.

However, there are too many dogs around him, and he wants Gongsun Zan to make contributions, and even take them with them to make contributions together, and get the praise of Liu Bei and Lu Zhi, so as to be promoted to Luoyang.

They got together to talk about state affairs, thinking that Gongsun Zhan's appointment as the assassin of Youzhou as a native of Youzhou must be the result of a rush to follow power, and it will inevitably be adjusted after the war, so whether he can be promoted at that time depends on the results of this battle.

If you don't take advantage of the time to get more victories now, when will you wait?

They analyzed that Liu Bei arranged too many people in this battle, Dong Zhuo, Liu Yu, Qiao Mao, and the Central Han Army in Luoyang, plus his Gongsun Zhan, the five-way army attacked a Yuan Shao, which was the rhythm of dividing Yuan Shao's five horses.

Yuan Shao will definitely die, and correspondingly, Gongsun Chan may not be able to get more merits.

The history of the other states is not easy to match.

Qiao Mao is okay, Dong Zhuo is a veteran, the battle is very fierce, Liu Yu is also an old bureaucrat, I heard that he has a good set of dealing with the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou, and the army under his command is also quite strong.

Everyone wants to take credit, but there is so much credit, one person eats more, and the rest of the people are not enough to eat, if the meritorious service is not enough, how can Gongsun Chan be promoted to the sun with his military exploits?

So a group of people began to give advice to Gongsun Chan and let him take the initiative.

Yuan Shao is now messing around in Jizhou, making people hate dogs, many Jizhou people hate Yuan Shao, and don't cooperate with Yuan Shao, if they can take the lead and catch Yuan Shao off guard, they may be able to make a miraculous achievement.

At that time, it will not be a dream to ascend to Luoyang.

After hearing this, Gongsun Chan felt that it was not good at first, and it was definitely not a good thing for him to violate the order like this.

"Without Xuande's order, how can I attack without permission?"

As a result, his subordinates persuaded him.

"When a good fighter is found, it must be vigorously grasped, take the initiative to attack, surprise and defeat Yuan Shao in one fell swoop, if you achieve meritorious service, you can pacify Yuan Shao in a battle, save the military expenditure of the big fight, maybe the general will thank you at that time."

At that time, Gongsun Chan was still hesitant.

"But it's not a good thing to send troops without permission, right?"

"With your relationship with the general and the captain, is this a serious problem?"

Gongsun Zhan's subordinates were persuaded and said: "As long as you make a meritorious contribution, and then ask the general and the captain for a favor, and make up for the merits, there will be no problem, otherwise after this battle, you will inevitably step down from the history of Youzhou Assassin, and what position will you hold?" ”

Being persuaded like this, the balance in Gongsun Zhan's heart began to waver.

So after learning that Liu Bei had disposed of Yuan Shu, Gongsun Zhan began to discuss with his subordinates about dealing with Yuan Shao, and finally made a plan with his cousin Gongsun Yue, his subordinates Yan Gang, Shan Jing, Tian Kai, Guan Jing and others to take the initiative to attack Yuan Shao.

He found out that Yuan Shao had troops in Gaoyang County to prepare for war, and there were not many soldiers and horses, about three or five thousand, and he had more than 30,000 soldiers in his hands, so he thought that he could win and could surprise Yuan Shao.

After thinking about it for a night, Gongsun Chan made up his mind.

Subsequently, on October 29, Gongsun Chan ordered his generals Tian Kai and Yan Gang to lead 10,000 troops to the south to attack Gaoyang County, preparing to take Yuan Shao by surprise.

Yuan Shao was indeed caught off guard.

Because there was no accurate news that Gongsun Chan was going to send troops, the battle in Gaoyang County happened very suddenly, and when Gaoyang County Guard General Lu Yi learned that Gongsun Zhan's army was coming to attack him, there were still three hours before Gongsun Chan's soldiers arrived in Gaoyang County.

The incident happened suddenly, and the generals around Koji were panicked and asked Koji if he wanted to retreat.

But Koji Yoshiki was not alarmed.

"If you flee without a fight, what awaits us after you go back will inevitably be a strict military law, and you may even be beheaded for this, do you want to be beheaded for this? I don't want to anyway. ”

Of course, everyone didn't want to be beheaded, but Gongsun Zhan was outnumbered, and Gaoyang County was regarded by Yuan Shao as the least threatening road, so the number of vigilance troops arranged was the least, only more than 3,000.

How can more than 3,000 people fight against an army of more than 10,000?

Although there is a shortage of soldiers and horses in the city, so the food can be supported for a longer time.

And now send people back to ask for help, Yuan Shao will definitely send people to help, there is no need to support for four months to get out of the siege, everyone still has the possibility of survival, so no matter what, you can't give up this city.

After some analysis, Koji stabilized people's hearts, so the army rushed to implement the clear of the walls around the county town before Gongsun Zhan's army arrived.

They destroyed roads, burned down houses, demolished bridges, blocked wells, and did everything they could to embarrass Gongsun Chan's soldiers.

Then the residents of the city were mobilized to heighten and strengthen the city wall, carry the city defense equipment to the city, and bury the listening urn at the foot of the city wall to make urgent preparations for the defense of the city.

Under his arrangement, the defense work of the city was completed in an orderly manner when Tian Kai and Yan Gang's headquarters arrived, and the defending army was ready for battle.

Tian Kai and Yan Gang first tried to persuade Koji Yi to surrender, and persuaded Koyi not to follow Yuan Shao to do rebellious things with the name of righteousness, and Koji Yi wanted to laugh when he heard it.

Before, he responded to Yuan Shao's call, followed the power of liquidating eunuchs, and robbed many eunuchs of their properties, thus becoming a huge rich man in Jizhou, and lived a luxurious life, although he regretted it a little now, but there was nothing he could do.

People have been killed, money has been robbed, and luxurious days have passed, what else can he do?

There is only one way to go to the dark.

So he killed the envoy and decided to fight to the death, Yan Gang and Tian Kai were very angry, so they ordered the siege of the city on all sides, attacked the city with all their might, razed the city to the ground, and killed everyone in the city.

The war began like this, Gongsun Zhan's troops attacked fiercely, Koji Yi defended to the death, the battle was very fierce, and it was impossible to tell the winner for a while.

Koi Yi sent the news to Yuan Shao and asked for reinforcements, and Yan Gang and Tian Kai also sent the news to Gongsun Zhan, hoping that Gongsun Chan could also send troops to increase the weight as soon as possible, and strive to take down this nail as soon as possible and further attack Jizhou.

The news of Yan Gang and Tian Kai was sent to Gongsun Chan first, and when he learned that the raid was unsuccessful, Gongsun Chan was very angry, felt that Tian Kai and Yan Gang were useless, and wanted to ask for the guilt.

Changshi Guan Jing hurriedly persuaded Gongsun Zhan.

"It is unwise to punish the general in battle during the war, I hope you can restrain your anger and wait until the war is over before making a decision, now you should take Gaoyang County as soon as possible, and break Jizhou before Yuan Shao's army reacts, otherwise when he reacts, the first credit will not belong to you."

Gongsun Chan felt that what Guan Jing said was reasonable, so he immediately ordered the main force of the army to march and march in the direction of Gaoyang County with 20,000 troops.

On the third day of November in the sixth year of Zhongping, when Gongsun Zhan's vanguard arrived in Gaoyang County and began to increase the siege of the city, Yuan Shaocai had just received a report from Liyi asking for help, and he was very surprised to learn that Gaoyang County was besieged by Gongsun Zhan's 10,000 army.

"There was no news before, and Dong Zhuo, Liu Yu, and Qiao Mao did not move, why did Gongsun Chan move first?"

Regarding Gongsun Zhan's sudden attack, the think tanks under Yuan Shao's command didn't know what the situation was.

A few days ago, they had just determined the military situation of the encirclement, and there was no sign of the garrisons in the direction of Jizhou, Yanzhou, and Qingzhou, so why did Gongsun Zhan's subordinates, who planned to take the initiative to attack, have this situation?

Could it be that Gongsun Chan already knew that they were going to take the initiative to attack and had also contacted the foreigners?

That's why it's the first to strike?

No, even if this news leaks, it won't be so fast.

Yuan Shao and the think tanks were puzzled, and they couldn't figure out the reason why Gongsun Chan initiated this action anyway.

But this doesn't matter, since Gongsun Chan has already acted, they must launch a counterattack, break Gongsun Chan as soon as possible, and destroy Youzhou, otherwise once the siege is launched, Jizhou will inevitably be defeated.

Now it's time to rush.

Yuan Shao immediately dispatched his subordinate general Yan Liang to lead a vanguard army of 10,000 men to gallop forward to support Gaoyang County, and he himself also led the main army to march forcibly and march at the fastest speed, in order to reach Gaoyang County and Gongsun Zhan as soon as possible.

After the order was issued, Yuan Shao was relieved, but the local common people and magistrates fell into blood mold.

The crossing of a large army has always been a very terrible thing, and it is a severe test for both local officials and ordinary people, although this time there is a task of forced marching, and the army is not allowed to stay at will, but this requires greater local material preparation and road maintenance.

Some places where there are better habits on weekdays are fine, and some places that are negligent in official duties on weekdays have exploded, and the commander has led his subordinate officials and officials to work sleeplessly overnight, and must complete the task before the arrival of the army.

Otherwise, if the march is delayed, Yuan Shao will definitely reward them with a knife and let them move their heads.

Yuan Shao didn't care about any of this, he only asked for the speed of the march, rewarded the local officials when he encountered smooth places during the whole march, memorized their names, and prepared to promote, and once he encountered a blockage, he grabbed the local officials and beheaded them, and then sent another shrewd and capable subordinate to take over the place.

The march of tens of thousands of troops tossed many places to death, but thanks to their sacrificed their lives, Yuan Shao's reinforcements arrived before the city of Gaoyang was broken.

(End of chapter)