Although Xiahou Yuan has gone through a few small defeats, he has completely recognized the situation.

knows that fighting water battles and mountain battles with Liu Beijun in Xuzhou belongs to one's own shortcomings and the strengths of attacking others.

However, if he wants to complete the change of course and adjust the deployment, it will take at least half a month to make a difference.

As mentioned earlier, Gao Shun made a surprise attack out of the city at night, burned the Cao army's grain transport team outside Juxian County, and defeated Zhang He's grain ambush soldiers, which happened in the middle of August in the seventh year of Jian'an.

In other words, Xiahou Yuan will not be able to complete all strategic adjustments and organize a new offensive until at least the end of August.

And the reason why it has been delayed for so long is not that Xiahou Yuan does not work hard, but that this series of failures has caused very serious material losses.

Since the defeat under Juxian County, the grain that should have been transported to the besieged camps of the counties further upstream has been burned.

The news spread to the counties, causing Gao Ran and Li Dianbu to also feel panic.

In order to avoid greater unexpected losses to the troops, Gao Ran Li Dian decisively chose to immediately relieve the siege and withdraw the troops after consulting Xiahou Yuan.

Lu Su and Zhou Tai did not go out of the city to chase and kill them. But in order to hurry up and strive for the suddenness of the withdrawal, Gao Ran also lost a lot of canes and other heavy materials when he left.

All these things add up, and the total loss of materials is very exaggerated.

As strong as Cao's army, it also had to reraise military rations and ordnance, all kinds of baggage, and replenish vehicles and ships.

The only thing to be thankful for is that Xiahou Yuan's final decisive contraction can be regarded as an abandonment of people, and there is a lot of additional losses in things, but the army is saved.

From June to August, two or three months of fighting, the total losses of the army ended up being between 12,300,000.

Considering that these losses were accumulated in five consecutive small defeats, and that they also helped Cao Jun learn a lot of lessons, this total amount is quite acceptable.

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While Xiahou Yuan was shrinking and reorganizing and adjusting his strategy, Cao Cao, who was in Xudu, naturally received the latest report from the front line in late August.

Knowing that within a month and a half since the last report, Xiahou Yuan had lost three more battles and lost 7,000 more men and horses, Cao Cao was also depressed.

Although the losses in each battle were not particularly large, the successive small defeats were too demoralizing.

All of a sudden, even the Xudu court had a trace of people's hearts fluctuating, and there were rumors in many hidden corners that there were people who were dissatisfied with Cao Cao: although Cao Cao had the posture of a hero, he could only win Yuan Shao, and when he met Liu Bei, he was defeated in a series of battles.

Cao Cao naturally laughed at these tongue-chewing tongues, and his confidence would never be dampened by gossip.

He knew very well that his previous series of defeats were due to the fact that the battlefield experience had not been switched, and the troops were not adapted to mountain warfare and coastal warfare.

Victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, as long as you learn a lesson and sum up your experience, you will win in the next battle!

One thing to say, among the heroes of the late Han Dynasty, Cao Cao and Liu Bei are the two with the best mentality, and the other princes in the world do not have this kind of perseverance compared to them.

Some princes have a very solid foundation at the beginning, but they can't afford to lose even a big defeat, and they will collapse directly if they lose.

After Cao Cao accepted the failure, he first reviewed and analyzed it, and then he chose to look forward very openly, no longer entangled.

A few days after receiving the report of defeat, he convened Erxun to discuss the next stage of countermeasures behind closed doors and review the overall situation.

Cao Cao didn't like nonsense, and as soon as the main strategists arrived, he got straight to the point:

"Miaocai was defeated again in Langya, and thousands of additional troops were folded, and he had already made up his mind to use the policy of filial piety, in the name of the thieves of Mount Tai, to invade the East China Sea in the south, and to find Liu Bei's army to break the enemy in the field.

This policy has been planned in advance for a month or two, and it can be implemented at any time if it is to be implemented - I wonder if Wenruo and Gongda have any objections? ”

Xun Yu and Xun Yu said that this policy is not in violation of the law and can be implemented. Xun Yu has also reminded Xun Yu of the risk of this reminder before, since Cao Cao feels that it is okay, there is no need to talk about it anymore.

Xun Yu only added a few words solemnly, persuading Cao Cao not to expect too much from Guo Jia's alternative.

"Please also ask Ming Gong to learn from the truth, although there is no mistake or omission in the strategy of filial piety, but the time shift is different. In the past month and a half, General Miaocai has lost some soldiers, horses, money and food, and the morale of the troops in Xuzhou must be low.

Therefore, the subsequent southern invasion of the East China Sea, Xiapi, and even the Huaibei part of Guangling should not be expected too high, but should be carried out cautiously. After all, it is impossible for us and Liu Bei to fight to the death. It is already August now, and it is estimated that it will be September when General Miaocai is fully prepared and goes south for a decisive battle.

Judging from the battle situation of Eryuan on the Northern Front in the past few months, our fight with Liu Bei should be limited to this winter. If you can't make a breakthrough quickly, you should stick to it. lest when our army moves to the north next year, the southern part of the army will be insufficient, which will be taken advantage of by Liu Bei. The benefits of our hearts, after all, are still in Hebei. ”

Cao Cao touched his beard, figuring out the timetable that Xun Yu had planned for him, and felt that it was safe.

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As for how this time was decided, it is a long story, and it is also related to the Hebei war situation in the past few months.

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Since May, after Yuan Shang "said that his father had passed", Yuan Shang and Yuan Tan quickly fought, and the time was basically synchronized with the battle of Cao Liu, only a little later than the start of the war of Cao Liu.

It's not that Yuan Shang is so anxious, as soon as he saw Cao Jun and Liu Bei fighting, he had the courage to attack his own brother.

But Yuan Tan was as anxious as Yuan Shang, and the two sides provoked each other, and the war was on the verge of breaking out.

Before the official start of the war, Yuan Tan also contacted Liu Bei's side, hoping that Liu Bei would send reinforcements. Liu Bei used the reason that "our army has just started a war with Cao Cao in Xuzhou", and he could not spare strength to reinforce Yuan Tan, and advised Yuan Tan to forbear.

In order to show that Liu Bei's side was benevolent and righteous, Zhuge Jin also persuaded Liu Bei to send an envoy to Yecheng, trying to persuade Yuan Shang to admit his mistake to his eldest brother, and also designed a step for Yuan Shang, explaining the behaviors of "being soft to the court of Xudu, and saying that the son is over the father" and other behaviors as "in order to take back the four counties of Hejian and temporarily make a mistake with Cao Thief, and endure humiliation".

But Yuan Shang completely ignored the steps given by Liu Bei's envoy, and refused to publicly state that he was "vain and wronged, bearing humiliation", and also thought that this was Liu Bei's trick to lead the water to the west, in order to drive a wedge between Yuan Shang and Cao Cao, and share the pressure for Liu Bei.

The negotiation drama has collapsed to this point, and Liu Bei is also benevolent to Er Yuan. After Yuan Tan heard that his younger brother refused, he thought that he had seized more righteous names, so he launched an active attack on Yuan Shang at the end of June-

That's right, at the beginning of the war between Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang, it was actually Yuan Tan who attacked first. Although Liu Bei repeatedly advised Yuan Tan to be serious and not to attack first, he still attacked.

Just because Yuan Tan overestimated the energy of his father Yuan Shao Yuwei, he felt that he must seize the opportunity of the third brother's great unfilial piety and set up the banner.

As for Yuan Tan's paper strength, manpower, and material resources are far weaker than Yuan Shang's, Yuan Tan also feels that this is not a big deal. He thinks that as long as he occupies the righteous position, those old generals who remember the benefits of his late father will definitely come to vote one after another.

As a result, in just over a month, the truth educated Yuan Tan and let him know: Yuan Shao's prestige Yu Ze is no longer valuable.

No one cares who is more filial between Yuan Shang and Yuan Tan, and who inherits Yuan Shao's legacy.

The two sides were just a dogfight without faith, and the formal infighting between the Yuan family made the hearts of the people of Hebei fall into a great void, and their morale and cohesion fell to the bottom.

Many soldiers were still holding their breath and were willing to fight against Cao's army, feeling that they were defending Hebei. And with the war between Er Yuan, everyone's hearts were empty.

Most people don't know what they are fighting for, why the Yuan family fights themselves harder than Cao thieves, what else can such a family be loyal to?

Under such circumstances, Yuan Tan's strength on paper was far inferior to Yuan Shang, and the troops sent out to take the initiative to attack were almost wiped out.

When he came back to defend Bohai County, he was immediately beaten and retracted back to Nanpi Lonely City.

In the process of bloody offensive and defensive reversal, not only did the soldiers on both sides suffer heavy casualties, but Yuan Shang's side also lost the general Su You, and Yuan Tan's side also lost the Youzhou general Wang Men.

Guan Tong helped Yuan Tan defend Nanpi, and Zhang Nan was transferred to Zhuo County to defend Youzhou's Yishui defense line - when Cao's army attacked last year, Cao Cao was not so ambitious, and directly crossed Yishui to attack Youzhou, because Cao Cao was also worried that he would go too deep and be cut off by the enemy to make dumplings.

But Yuan Shang attacked Yuan Tan, but he didn't have so much fear. Yuan Shang already controlled most of the territory of Jizhou, and had a long Yishui border with Youzhou, as long as he could enter Youzhou, Yuan Shang would definitely be able to gain a firm foothold, and there would be no lone army going deep.

While Zhang Nan was stubbornly defending the Yishui defense line, the other generals of the Youzhou Department saw that Yuan Tan's side was gone, and sure enough, someone had a different heart - Jiao Fu, who was in charge of Youzhou's military power with Zhang Nan, actually saw that the situation was not good, and surrendered to Yuan Shang.

Historically, Jiao Touch is not a hard bone, after Cao Cao broke through Yecheng and took Jizhou, the first time the troops came to Youzhou, he coerced Zhang Nan to surrender to Cao Cao together. It's just that Zhang Nan in history later voted for Liu Bei during the Battle of Chibi, but Jiao Touch became a hardcore pro-Cao faction and has always worked hard for Cao Cao.

(Note: There are also some historical materials that Liu Beijun's later Zhang Nan is not the same person as Zhang Nan of the Youzhou Department, and I believe that it is the same person here, and it will be treated as simplified)

Jiao touched this kind of two-faced wall grass, and now he encountered the dispute between Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang in advance, seeing that Yuan Shang is powerful, and it is also the Yuan family, it is not surprising that he directly cast soft bones.

Fortunately, Zhang Nan in this life was reused by Yuan Tan, and he fought side by side with Tai Shici, and he was also rewarded by Liu Bei's side, so he was not coerced by Jiao.

The final result was that Jiao Touch and Zhang Nan fought in Zhuo County and Guangyang County, and each killed and injured some soldiers. Zhang Nan desperately stabilized the hearts of the soldiers who were devoted to Yuan Tan, so that Guangyang County and Youzhou Core Ji County were not lost.

However, Jiao Touch retreated westward with the troops who failed in the mutiny, and still occupied the two westernmost counties of Youzhou, Dai County and Shanggu County, and took refuge in Yuan Shang. Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang are in Youzhou, which is equivalent to taking Yanshan as the boundary, and the land west of Yanshan is nominally attached to Yuan Shang.

Yuan Tan was beaten to the point that only a lonely city in Nanpi was left in Jizhou, and the city was defended by the management of the city, and Youzhou also lost the two counties west of Yanshan, relying on Zhang Nan to defend Zhuojun and Ji, and maintain the Yanshan defense line.

This is the backlash suffered by Yuan Tan who did not measure himself and took the initiative to attack the third brother.

But this is also the price that has to be paid, because it is such a fiasco that Yuan Tan completely recognizes the reality and recognizes that his father's signboard no longer has appeal.

All the generals that Yuan Tan could use, one in Nanpi and the other in Zhuo and Ji, Qingzhou's hometown and the Yellow River defense line, were no longer available. In an emergency, Guo Tu, Xin Bi and Tai Shici could only be put in charge of the defense of Qingzhou's western front.

Last year, Liu Bei wanted him to express Taishi Ci as Donglai's Taishou, but Yuan Tan refused to express it for a long time.

Now Yuan Tan has suffered a loss, in order to hug his thigh to save his life, he responded to last year's conditions without saying a word, and Cousin Shi Ci is too shou for Donglai. There are also two officials under Liu Bei who are appointed as Taishou-level officials, and Liu Bei is allowed to send reinforcements deep into Qingzhou and take over the defense of some key areas, just to withstand the pressure of the third brother.

It was at this moment that Yuan Tan was really willing to recognize himself, so he would be a puppet for Uncle Liu. What ambitions were all shattered by the third brother.

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