On Liu Yu's side, he mobilized 20,000 Qingzhou soldiers from Qingzhou, with his general Tai Shici as the lieutenant general, and Guan Hai and Guan Cheng as captains, and personally led the army to attack Qinghe State from Pingyuan County.

In the direction of Qinghe State, guarding against Liu Yu's troops was Yuan Shao's general Wen Chou, who commanded more than 10,000 soldiers and horses to deal with the attack of Liu Yu's more than 20,000 troops, and there was no fortified fortress to defend, which was more difficult.

After several battles, although Wen Chou fought very bravely, he did not take advantage of it.

Limited by the gap in strength, Wen Chou gradually retreated under Tai Shi Ci's fierce offensive, and when Liu Bei went north from Yecheng, Liu Yu had already led his troops to advance to the area of Ganling County, pressing Wen Chou to fight.

Wen Chou had no choice but to retreat into the city for defense and give up field battles, so as to contain Liu Yu's soldiers and horses and buy time for the main force.

On the other hand, on the Yanzhou side, Qiao Mao also mobilized more than 20,000 troops, with Bao Xin, the Taishou of Dongjun as the lieutenant general, and Bao Xin's right-hand man as the captain, to attack the area of Guantao County.

In the area of Guantao County, the general of Yuan Shao, Jiang Qi led more than 10,000 troops to fortify in the area of Guantao County, and fought against Bao Xin and Yu Ban.

The two sides exchanged troops several times, each other won and lost, and Qiao Mao had many soldiers, the logistics was stable, Jiang Qi had few soldiers, the logistics was dangerous, and he gradually lost the enemy, so he retreated to Guantao County, but because of the lack of food and straw, he could not hold out for too long, so he asked for help from the rear.

But at this time, the trial can no longer help him, and the trial himself is difficult to protect.

On the front line of Wei County and Qinghe Kingdom, because of the all-out attack of Liu Bei's group, Yuan Shao's forces, which were outnumbered, were already at an absolute disadvantage, and it only took a little time for them to collapse.

And on the northern front, where Yuan Shao's power is stronger, is Yuan Shao's progress better?

The answer is no.

During the golden window when Gongsun Chan retreated in a hurry and the counties and counties of Youzhou were plundered by the Xianbei people and the Wuhuan people and almost collapsed, Yuan Shao did not seize the opportunity to defeat Gongsun Chan in one go.

Of course, it's not that he didn't work hard enough, he did his best, but Gongsun Chan also did his best.

Strategically, Gongsun Chan has been pressed and beaten by Yuan Shao, and is in a state of absolute disadvantage, and he can't keep Youzhou at all.

But after that, Gongsun Chan had already given up his strategy and concentrated on tactics, and the contest between the two sides changed from a strategic contest to a tactical contest, and there was no strategy under the county seat of Zhuoxian.

This is Gongsun Zhan's strength.

After Yuan Shao divided his troops to surround Fanyang City and Zhuoxian County, he surrounded them on all sides and attacked them with all his might, and the army took turns to go into battle, day and night, and the offensive was very fierce.

And Gongsun Chan and his subordinates also knew that this was a life-or-death situation, and they knew that this was their only chance to turn over.

To keep the county, there is still a glimmer of life.

If you can't keep the county, let's kill yourself directly!

Together, they burst out with a strong desire to survive, and they were very resolute in defending the city.

Yuan Shao surrounded Zhuo County with twice as many troops as Gongsun Zhan, cut off the communication inside and outside Zhuo County, swept away all military installations, filled in the moat, and then launched a strong offensive.

Then, he built an earthen wall outside the city, which was higher than the city wall, and condescendingly fired arrows inside, which once suppressed Gongsun Zhan's crossbowmen.

But then, Gongsun Chan led the army out of the city many times to fight, and was unstoppable, repeatedly defeated Yuan Shao's defensive forces, smashed the earthen wall outside the city, brought Yuan Shao a lot of trouble, and made Yuan Shao very annoyed.

Despite this, on the whole, Gongsun Zhan's defending troops were still pressed and beaten, and Yuan Shao's offensive was very fierce, quite a bit regardless of the all-out onslaught.

At this moment, Yuan Shao had completely ignored the rear.

He knew that Liu Bei would definitely come to attack after sending troops, and he also knew that the defense he set up on the southern front would be difficult to withstand the joint attack of Liu Bei and the three states, but as long as Yecheng could hold back Liu Bei's progress and buy him a little time, he would be sure to eliminate Gongsun Zhan.

Eliminate Gongsun Zhan, slaughter Fanyang County and Zhuo County, and take revenge, and then unite the cavalry of the Xianbei people and Wuhuan people to go south to fight Liu Bei together, which is the last tactic of Yuan Shaozhi's death.

If you win, you will have a wide range of skies.

You can't win, but you die.

For this reason, he didn't care about anything, it didn't matter if the logistics couldn't keep up, he directly used war to feed the war, plundered, burned, killed and looted the columns, and sent people to other counties to burn, kill, loot, and obtain war materials.

Relying on such tyrannical actions, Yuan Shao had accumulated a relatively large amount of materials, which could continue to support the battle and continue to launch a strong attack on Gongsun Zhan's army.

Gongsun Zan has more soldiers and horses, and he can still hold it up to some extent, while Fanyang County, which was defended by Tian Kai and Yan Gang, is not so rich in troops, and unfortunately there was an outbreak of epidemics, and many soldiers in the city fell ill and could not be treated, and the situation was very critical.

At the critical moment, Dong Zhuo's reinforcements arrived.

On the second day of December in the sixth year of Zhongping, 10,000 reinforcements from Dong Zhuo's department crossed Changshan and Zhongshan and arrived in Zhuo County and approached Fanyang County.

At that time, the situation in Fanyang County was relatively dangerous, and Lu Yi and Yan Liang focused on storming the county seat, and the arrival of Dong Zhuo's department suddenly disrupted their arrangement.

After Dong Zhuo led the troops to arrive, he immediately sent his subordinates to lead the cavalry under the command of Li Dao and Guo Yan to attack the troops of Liyi and Yan Liang.

Fierce fighting broke out between the two sides, and fierce exchanges broke out on the plain west of Fanyang County, and finally Lu Yi and Yan Liang could not resist the onslaught of Li Dao and Guo Yan, and had to retreat.

However, although they retreated, the army retreated in a rather orderly manner under the command of Ko Yi, maintaining a fighting posture, and Li Dao and Guo Yan tried to further destroy this army, but failed.

In the first round, the two sides barely managed to reach a draw, but Koji realized that Dong Zhuo's reinforcements were a major variable, and once they attacked at the same time as the army in the city, the situation would be very bad.

So Lu Yi decided to act separately from Yan Liang, he led his troops to fight against Dong Zhuo, Yan Liang led his troops to continue to besiege Fanyang County, not to let the army in the city easily fight, and at the same time informed Yuan Shao of the matter, in order to obtain Yuan Shao's military support, and strive to block Dong Zhuo in Fanyang County, looking for an opportunity to break it.

Dong Zhuo was also in a hurry, wanting to break through Liyi and Yan Liang as soon as possible, save Fanyang County, and then go to Zhuo County to unite Gongsun Zan to clean up Yuan Shao, so Li Dao and Guo Yan's failure to successfully break Yuan Shao's army made Dong Zhuo feel dissatisfied, so he decided to attack in person.

This time, Dong Zhuo attacked with all his might, mobilized all the assault horses, and personally led the troops to attack to boost morale.

In the face of Dong Zhuo's all-out attack, Lu Yi did not mess up the formation, but took his own private army as the backbone, and set up a large number of strong crossbows in the military formation, and he used all the strong crossbows that the whole army could use.

Dong Zhuo's assault cavalry rushed to the front, and he gave an order, arrows rained down, and launched a fierce counterattack against Dong Zhuo's assault cavalry, and at the same time, the spearmen in the army formation also attacked decisively, attacking the assault cavalry that was close at hand.

I have to say that this blow did bring some trouble to Dong Zhuo, but Dong Zhuo's assault cavalry is not easy to match, it is also quite brave, after a baptism of arrow rain, although there are great losses, but still fight to the death in front of the battle.

Li Dao and Guo Yan are both quite brave generals, they led their own soldiers to attack the military formation of Liyi, fought hard and bloody battles repeatedly, and never retreated, which brought great pressure to Liyi.

Koji Yi invested almost all of his private troops to fight against Dong Zhuo's assault cavalry, Dong Zhuo also suffered a lot of losses, but he did not retreat from the battle, and he must defeat Koji Yi, Koji Yi died for a long time, and finally couldn't resist, and ordered the crossbowmen in the rear to continue to release arrows to cover the withdrawal of the main force.

The last time Koyi successfully retreated, this time Dong Zhuo learned and ordered the front army to entangle Koyi to the death, not letting them escape, even if it was to exchange their lives for their lives, they must insist on fighting and never retreat.

This move can be regarded as entangled in Lu Yi, he didn't expect Dong Zhuo to fight so fiercely and fearlessly, and his army was so crazy, if he continued to fight like this, he would definitely be the first to be unbearable, because Dong Zhuo had more troops than him.

In desperation, he could only ask Yan Liang for help, and asked Yan Liang to quickly lead troops to help him retreat, but Yan Liang was now entangled by Tian Kai and Yan Gang, who were crazy in the city, and the fight was very fierce, and he couldn't pull out to support Koyi at all.

Yuan Shao's reinforcements were still nowhere to be seen, and Liyi's side finally couldn't support it, under the repeated impact of the Bingzhou Assault Cavalry, the military formation collapsed, and Liyi could only escape under the protection of a few guards, and it was too late to respond to Yan Liang, so he fled directly in the direction of Zhuoxian.

After Koji fled, his army continued to fight for a while before collapsing.

Dong Zhuo spent a lot of money to defeat Liyi's army, almost annihilating them, and then led his troops to the city of Fanyang County, and attacked Yan Liang, who had not yet figured out the situation here, and directly collapsed.

Yan Liang himself was besieged by Li Dao and Guo Yan from both sides in a state of confusion, both of them attacked Yan Liang's own formation with their own guards, Yan Liang and his guards fought desperately, rushed left and right, and could not break out of the encirclement.

In the end, all the soldiers around Yan Liang were killed, and Yan Liang himself was killed by Guo Yan behind him while stabbing Li Dao.

Yan Liang's army was annihilated, and the siege of Fanyang County was lifted.

(End of chapter)