-- The book continues --

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, although the vigorous Yellow Turban Rebellion was suppressed, it dealt a heavy blow to the rule of the landlord class of the Han Dynasty, and caused the already rotten Eastern Han Dynasty regime to fall apart and exist in name only.

In the process of suppressing the Yellow Turban Uprising, the officials of various prefectures and counties monopolized the military and political power, and the landlords and powerful also organized "tribes" one after another, occupied territory, formed large and small separatist forces, and turned into a long-term war of power and profit and mutual annexation, resulting in a miserable scene in the Central Plains where "white bones are exposed in the wilderness and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles."

Yuan Shao finally defeated Gongsun Zhan, according to Youzhou, Jizhou, Qingzhou, and Bingzhou, all of which had the land of Hebei, intending to go south to fight for the world.

Yuan Shao selected 100,000 elite soldiers and 10,000 war horses in an attempt to attack Xudu in the south, and the Battle of Guandu kicked off.

The decisive battle between the two families of Yuan Cao is about to break out.

Yuan Shao's supervisor was frustrated, don't drive Tian Feng's advice, when Cao Cao destroyed Liu Bei, he destroyed Cao Cao in one fell swoop, but Yuan Shao wanted to destroy his former friends in a dignified manner.

At the same time, the little overlord Sun Ce died, and Sun Quan succeeded to unify the six counties of Jiangdong.

The Guanzhong candidates expressed neutrality and did not help either Yuan nor Cao.

Liu Bei's whole army was defeated, and he fled to Hebei to join Yuan Shao, Yin Lihua forced Guan Yu, and Cao Cao sent Zang Ba, Sun Guan, Sun Kang and others to contain Yuan Tan.

A real war is not something that can be decided by comparing the superior and the inferior.

Yuan Shao marched to Liyang in an attempt to cross the river in search of a decisive battle with the main force of Cao's army. He first sent the generals Guo Tu, Chun Yuqiong, and Yan Liang to attack Liu Yan, the Taishou of Dongjun in Baima, in an attempt to seize the key points on the south bank of the Yellow River to ensure that the main force crossed the river.

It was getting late, and the horses stopped to rest for the night. Just as he stopped, a man in the distance came running on horseback.

"Yuan Shao sent the general Yan Liang to lead the army and besiege Baima."

Yin Lihua wore a veil and couldn't see clearly, Xun You thought for a moment, as if he had some countermeasures, and saw that Guo Jia and Yin Lihua had not yet spoken, so he said: "Lord, I have a plan, I can send troops to Yanjin, lead Yuan Shao to divide the army to block, and then relieve the siege of Baima." ”

"Good!"

Outside Baimajin, Yuan Shao's military headquarters was stationed. In the camp, a big man sat on a chariot with a large knife beside him. With a bit of pride, he looked at Cao Jun stationed on the white horse in the distance.

"Why the drums!"

"General, there is a group of Cao Jun's light cavalry galloping ten miles away!"

"Prepare for war."

"The person who came is Mr. Yin, in Xia Yanliang, can you talk about it! Yuan Gong often mentions Mr., saying that the Tiger Prison is not too rushed, if Mr. is interested, Yuan Gong wants to invite Mr. to the army as a guest! ”

The white-clothed man leading the army waved his hand, and the cavalry raised its blade, the blade of which reflected the sunlight and flickered as the horse galloped.

Yan Liang stopped talking, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and a crimson shadow suddenly rushed out of the cavalry.

What made people stunned was that the young general was actually a woman, who carried a halberd and rode on a red war horse, and came from the dust.

Yan Liang was stunned for a moment, the woman's halberd had already stabbed out, Yan Liang looked down at the halberd blade that passed through his chest, blood overflowed from his mouth, and asked weakly, "Who are you?" ”

"Lu Bu's daughter, Lu Wen is also!"

"Lu Bu?"

As soon as Yan Liang died, the army formation, which had not been assembled, completely dispersed under the momentum of Cao's army.

Before setting out on the expedition, the master smiled bitterly and told her that Lu Wen didn't listen to the master for the first time, and the horse's name was Chitu, which was given to her by the master, or left by her father, so she was very close to her.

Yan Liang is not an unpopular general, even if he can't win against Lu Wen by force, if he wasn't careless in the formation, he wouldn't be able to kill Yan Liang at all.

Suddenly, ten years have passed, and Lu Wen has grown up.

The Cao army in Yanjin was just a virtual soldier, and Yan Liang died in battle. And Cao Cao has also led the army to Guandu and set up a camp to build defense.

Yuan Shao stood in the tent with the battle report, his face was slightly gloomy, and it was a white-robed female general who was good at breaking his face on the white horse, this woman was good at mental calculations, and she was also good at the method of military formation, Yuan Shao shouted outside the tent: "Come on!" ”

The news of Yan Liang's destruction came from Baima, and at the same time, Yuan Shao's main force also approached Guandu and established a camp, and the camp of 100,000 troops was about dozens of miles wide from east to west and Cao Ying. The soldiers stationed in Cao's camp stood on the camp wall every day and saw Yuan Jun's camp, and their hearts were like a sinking stone pressed on their chests.

Yuan Shao stood on his own camp and looked at Cao Ying, the wind in the high place was strong, the wind swept his robe endlessly, surprisingly there was no soldier on the camp, the sound was bursting, into the camp, Guo Jia was holding a long piano in his arms, Yuan Shao's eyes looked at the person on the camp wall, that person he knew, used to be the gentleman under his account, Guo Fengxiao.

"Lord, are you attacking the camp?"

"Wait." Yuan Shao frowned and said, "Cao Mengde, I, Yuan Benchu, came here, why did I avoid it?" ”

"Cao Gong still has to do something, and he can't welcome Yuan Gong."

Yuan Shao held his sword and hesitated whether to step forward, could it be that he had reached an alliance with Jiangdong Sun Quan, Yuan Shao raised his hand and said, "Withdraw!" ”

In history, the Cao army took Zhang Liao and Guan Yu as the vanguard, and Cao Cao personally led the general Xu Huang and others to follow, Guan Yu rushed to Yan Liang's side under the cover of Zhang Liao's army, stabbed Yan Liang to death in the crowd, and pulled out the saber on his waist to behead him. None of the generals of the Yuan army could stop Guan Yu. Yuan's army was scattered.

Now that Lu Wen has killed Yan Liang, Yin Lihua doesn't know if she will think about it in history, so she asked Guo Jia to sing an empty city plan.

Yuan Jun receded like a tide, Guo Jia's piano sound gradually stopped, Zhang Liao stood by Guo Jia's side, and held Guo Jia's hand suspiciously, Guo Jia's legs were weak.

After Cao Cao relieved the siege of Baima, the people who had migrated Baima retreated westward along the Yellow River.

Yuan Shao led the army across the river to pursue, and the army reached the south of Yanjin, and sent the generals Wen Chou and Liu Bei to continue to lead the army to pursue Cao's army.

"General Wen Chou, I found that Cao's army stopped and camped in front of White Horse Mountain."

"Good, march!"

Yuan Jun walked in the mountains and forests for about an hour, and saw the rows of camp tents on the mountain road from a distance, Wen Chou raised his hand and made a few gestures behind him, and on the mountain road, the Ling flag waved quietly.

Seeing Yuan Jun, Cao Jun didn't seem to be surprised at all, but waited for it, which made Wen Chou's heart feel different, a feather arrow was caught in Wen Chou's hand, the arrow body trembled, the expression on Wen Chou's face became complicated, and Cao Jun had an ambush.

"General Wen Chou, if you surrender, I won't kill you."

"Hmph. Don't underestimate me and wait for Hebei Erlang. ”

Yin Lihua ordered an attack.

Xu Huang and others turned over and got on their horses, Wen Chou felt that his chest sank, and he didn't know who killed Wen Chou (in history, Wen Chou was killed by the rebel army, not Guan Yu in the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms), Xu Huang and others successfully returned to Guandu.

"Yuan Gong said, Wen Chou, in the next life, I will serve the work of dogs and horses." This was Wen Chou's last sentence before he died.

Yan Liang and Wen Chou were all famous generals in Hebei, but they were beheaded in a battle, and the spirit of Yuan Shao's army was bruised.

In August, the main force of Yuan's army approached Guandu, set up camp according to the sandpile, about dozens of miles wide from east to west, Cao Cao also set up camp to confront Yuan's army, and Cao's army "fought unfavorably".

In September, Cao's army attacked again, and the battle with Yuan's army was unfavorable, and once again retreated to the camp and held on.

Yuan's army lost the first battle, but it still had a clear advantage in troops, grain and grass, military goods, and financial resources.

Yuan Shao built the building turret, piled up the soil like a mountain, shot Cao Ying with arrows, the building was full of archers standing on the soil slope, Yuan Shao pulled out the long sword at his waist, the archer pulled the bow and set the arrow, the bowstring opened the feather arrow to the air, the arrow cluster flew into the air, and fell like rain, from top to bottom, shot into the Cao camp.

"Yuan army attacking the camp, Yuan army attacking the camp!"

Yu Ban carried the scabbard at his waist and shouted to the retreating soldiers: "Don't mess up! ”

"Push the thunderbolt!"

It wasn't long before huge carts loaded with stones were pushed in front of the camp with the sound of wheels rolling.

Under the order of Yu Ban, the stone was thrown, accompanied by a sound, smashed on the building and smashed the soldiers above, blood flowed all over the ground, Cao Cao walked out of the tent, Dian Wei followed him.

Seeing Yuan Shao standing calmly on the battlefield, standing alone with his sword raised, he mistakenly thought that he seemed to have seen Yuan Gong back then.

Fu Zhi looked down at the long sword at his waist, the gentleman wore a sword, but he rarely used a sword, and this time he had to use it.

Yu Ban had already walked up to the camp wall, looking at Yuan Jun who was getting closer and closer, and commanded with a calm face.

The smoke and dust were raised, Yuan Shao continued to order the Yuan army to attack, and on the other side, people were digging tunnels to attack, and the Cao army also dug a long trench in the camp to resist, crushing the Yuan army's strategy. The two sides held each other for three months, Cao Cao's external situation was difficult, the front soldiers were short of food, the soldiers were tired, and the rear was not stable, Cao Cao almost lost the confidence to hold on.

Back then, Chu and Han were between Xingyang and Chenggao, and no one in Liu Bang and Xiang Yu was willing to take a step back, thinking that if they retreated first, they would be succumbed.

Cao Cao was determined to continue to hold on to the standby and strengthen the defense at the same time, and ordered the Diannong Zhonglang, who was in charge of logistics and supply, to take Ren Jun as a part of the ten-way column, shorten the distance between the front and rear of the transport team, and use the re-formation to strengthen the escort to prevent the Yuan army from attacking; On the other hand, he actively sought and captured fighters, defeated the Yuan army, and soon sent Cao Ren and Shi Jian to intercept and burn thousands of grain wagons of the Yuan army, which increased the supply difficulties of the Yuan army.

During this period, Liu Pi of the Yellow Turban Army of Runan County rebelled, Yuan Shao sent Liu Bei to help, and sent Han Xun to cut off Cao's army's western road, all of which were broken by Cao Ren.

——To be continued——