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As soon as Alice left, the Gongsun Mansion was leaderless and chaotic.

When Gongsun Chan heard the news of the departure of his beloved wife Alice, he was so angry and anxious that he vomited blood and fainted, and the servants were in a hurry and at a loss.

Fortunately, the housekeeper stepped forward, on the one hand, he asked the doctor to come to treat Gongsun Zhan, and on the other hand, he arranged for everyone to clean up the ruins and rebuild their homes.

A few days after Alice left, Gongsun Shaojin recovered from her initial grief, and she clearly remembered what Alice had said to her before leaving: "Practice martial arts well, and when you reach the Wufeng realm, you and I will meet each other." ”

In order to reach the Wufeng realm as soon as possible, go to see your mother. is also in order to protect Wu Liang and protect his love.

Gongsun Shaojin locked herself in the secret room, drinking water and food were sent to the secret room by servants, she didn't want to see anyone again, she wanted to retreat and study martial arts.

Half a month later, an even worse situation happened, Yuan Shao concentrated 200,000 troops, both land and water, and launched a surprise attack and a full-scale attack on Youzhou.

The defenders of the counties and counties of Youzhou were beaten and dizzy, abandoned the city and abandoned the land, embarrassed, and suffered heavy losses.

Due to the absolute superiority of the Yuan army and the lack of unified command of the Youzhou army, it was like a plate of scattered sand, which was broken one by one by the superior Yuan army.

Yuan Shao also sent elite cavalry to outflank the back of the Youzhou army, deep, detour, outflanked, Yuan Shao used the cavalry with a speed far beyond the infantry, and successfully encircled the Youzhou army, nearly 100,000 Youzhou officers and soldiers were trapped in two small villages in the depths of Taihang Mountain, Xiazhuang and Pheasant Ridge, lack of food and clothing, and the situation was very difficult.

Yuan Shao transferred another 100,000 troops from Qingzhou, totaling 280,000 people, to launch a fierce attack on Xiazhuang and Yejiling, and the Youzhou army suffered heavy losses.

Gongsun Zhan, who was on top of the illness, heard that Yuan Shao had raided Youzhou, and the battle situation on the front line was urgent, and regardless of being seriously injured, he rushed to Dashengguan by the Zhanghe River overnight to command the battle.

Dasheng Pass is only more than 400 miles away from Youzhou, it is the last barrier in Youzhou, and it is also the key to open the gate of Youzhou.

The terrain of Dashengguan is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the strategic location is very important, and it has always been a place where soldiers must fight.

Dasheng Pass is built between two steep mountain peaks, the city wall is as high as dozens of zhang, all of which are made of large bluestone, and it is extremely strong. Gongsun Zhan dug several deep trenches outside the city, attracting water from the Zhanghe River, turning the trenches into moats, and once the Yuan army attacked the city, they either fell into the water and died, or were shot by bows and arrows, and stoned to death.

In order to hold on to the Great Victory Pass, Gongsun Zhan asked the city wall to be strengthened by ten zhang, and one million quintals of grain were stored in the city, which was enough for three years.

Gongsun Zhan transferred another 30,000 people from Youzhou, plus 40,000 defenders of Dasheng Pass, a total of more than 70,000 people, ready to defend Dasheng Pass.

In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, Gongsun Chan sent an envoy to Cao Cao in Yanzhou to rescue, offering a large number of gold, silver and jewelry, he hoped that Cao Cao would send troops to attack Yuan Shao's hometown Jizhou, so that Yuan Shao could not care about each other, so he could only withdraw from the army.

But the envoy went for half a month, like mud into the sea, without a trace, and Cao Cao didn't even have the slightest intention of sending troops.

It turned out that the messenger sent by Gongsun Zhan was killed by Yuan Jun halfway, and the gold, silver and jewelry also became the trophies of Yuan Jun.

However, the Youzhou army trapped in Xiazhuang and Yejiling was in a very critical situation, and after half a month of fierce fighting, the Youzhou army was reduced by eight-tenths, and there were only more than 10,000 people left in the 100,000-strong army.

More than 10,000 people braved the rain of stones, bows and arrows from Yuan Jun every day, starved, and could only drink one meal of millet porridge a day, struggling in the cold winter in the north.

The disaster is not alone, the pheasant ridge was captured by the Yuan army, and the generals of the Youzhou army seriously led more than 8,000 remnants of the defeated generals, retreated to Xiazhuang, and joined forces with the defenders of Xiazhuang, ready to do the final madness.

The wives and children of these Youzhou soldiers are all in Youzhou, once they surrender, their wives and children will immediately be enslaved, and finally die tragically in a foreign land, so they can't surrender, they can only die in battle.

Serious sent people to Dasheng Pass to ask Gongsun Chan for help, but Gongsun Chan refused to send troops, and asked Serious to fight to the death, consuming the strength of Yuan's army, until the last man, Serious was completely desperate.

At this time, the heavenly prince is not beautiful, it has a goose feather snowfall, and the Xia Zhuang is wrapped tightly, the Jizhou soldiers have already prepared, they all put on thick cotton clothes, put on hats, and the serious remnants of the army are still wearing single clothes, straw sandals, struggling in the ice and snow.

Many people had frozen to death from frostbite, there was not a single grain of food left, and the remnants of the army had been without food for a day.

Hungry and frozen, he ordered all 300 villagers in Xiazhuang to be driven away in order to save food.

More than 300 villagers were driven out of their homes, and their food and houses were seized by serious troops.

The villagers were very angry and took refuge in Yuan Jun. Yuan Shao was very happy to learn that the defenders of Xiazhuang were short of food and clothing, and ordered to surround but not fight, preparing to starve the remnants of Zheng's troops to death.

Seriously demolished the houses of the villagers and used them as firewood to keep warm, and finally got a little warmth, but the food of the whole village was gathered together, which was only enough for the army to eat for three days.

Three days later, when the grain ran out, Cheng Cheng and the soldiers killed the common people's pigs, dogs, cows, sheep, chickens, and ducks.

Later, the soldiers could only eat sweet potato baskets fed to the cattle to satisfy their hunger, and they were so dizzy with hunger that they didn't even have the strength to hold weapons.

On the 10th day, Yuan Shao launched a general attack, and more than 20,000 well-fed and clothed Yuan soldiers launched a tidal attack on Xiazhuang.

The Youzhou army threw down their weapons one after another and surrendered on their knees.

Serious and helpless, can only lead more than 2,000 people, surrender to Yuan Shao, the battle of Xiazhuang ended, Yuan Shao won a complete victory, Gongsun Zhan lost as many as 100,000 officers and soldiers, more than 30,000 more than the defenders of the Great Victory Pass.

Yuan Shao was lenient with the seriousness of the surrender, and gave them steaming white flour steamed buns and warm cotton clothes.

The soldiers of the Youzhou Army, who had not eaten steamed buns for half a month, were moved to tears, and they were even more serious about Yuan Shao.

Seriously proposed to Yuan Shao that Zhao Yi was his old friend, and he was willing to go to Zhao Yi and open the door to meet Yuan Jun.

Yuan Shao was overjoyed, rewarded him with a lot of gold, silver and jewelry, and went to the city to him.

Seriously entered Pingyuan County, and advised Zhao Yi bitterly: "Brother Zhao Xian, now that Yuan Gong's 300,000 troops are pressing the border, Pingyuan County is like an accumulation of eggs, and it is in danger. With only 3,000 defenders, they could not resist Yuan Gong's army at all. In addition, the city wall of the plain county town is only three zhang, and strong soldiers can climb the city with their bare hands, so it is better to surrender early and save the lives of 100,000 people in the county.

Since ancient times, good birds choose trees to perch, loyal ministers choose the lord and do things, Yuan Gongxiong is strategic, Lixian corporal, and came by the order of the Son of Heaven, will be able to dominate the world, Zhongxing Han room!

If the virtuous brother can go up to the Son of Heaven and return to Yuan Gong, this is the best policy! I hope that Brother Zhao Xian will make plans as soon as possible. ”

Zhao Yi pondered again and again and decided to surrender Yuan Shao and open the door to let Yuan's army enter the city.

Yuan Shaobing was bloodless, easily occupied Pingyuan County, and continued to advance towards the hinterland of Youzhou.