Chapter 157, Rejuvenation
After Yuan's army occupied the county seat of Pingyuan, he drove straight into the hinterland of Youzhou, defeated 100,000 Youzhou soldiers, and attacked countless cities. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
In just one month, Yuan Shao successively captured 71 county seats, killed 290,000 Youzhou soldiers, and fought until he reached the Dasheng Pass by the Zhangshui River.
Gongsun Chan lost half of the land in Youzhou, and the soldiers were even more lost, and there was a shortage of soldiers.
On the thirtieth day of the lunar month of this year, it is the time for the whole family to reunite, but the victory pass is full of battle clouds and killing opportunities, and it will become the focus of contention between the two armies and will become a hell on earth.
Gongsun Zan scraped together another 80,000 people, preparing to defend the victory pass with 150,000 people, and fight to the death with Yuan Shao's 300,000 army.
On the first day of the first lunar month, the Yuan army crossed the Zhanghe River and landed in Xiaoling Town, the defenders of the town were driven by the Yuan army's brigade, and they had already fled, and the Yuan army easily occupied Xiaoling Town, and the soldiers were on the verge of breaking out under the city.
Gongsun Chan had a strategist named Huang Dao. He carefully analyzed the situation on the battlefield and believed that Yuan's army was in full swing and could not be confronted with it, and that he wanted to win by strategy.
The first is to give up the Great Victory Pass, retreat to Youzhou, preserve strength, and then send a small force to disguise itself as the main force of the Youzhou Army, lure the Yuan army to chase to Yanshan outside Youzhou City, and then use the Baima Yicong assembled in Yanshan in advance to eliminate the Yuan army and force Yuan Shao to retreat.
The second is to take the initiative to launch an invasion of Mei, raid the grain road of the Yuan army, cut off the food supply of the Yuan army, the Yuan army has no food, and will naturally retreat, and the danger of Youzhou will naturally be solved.
Gongsun Chan did not take the two plans of the zodiac, he was unwilling to give up the strategic place of Dasheng Pass, his troops were weak, and he took the initiative to attack, which was undoubtedly self-defeating.
On the second day of the first lunar month, the Yuan army officially attacked the city, countless boulders, bows and arrows flew to the city tower, and countless Youzhou soldiers died.
The Yuan army set up a ladder, or attacked the city with a rushing car, and the Youzhou army also used bows and arrows and stones to kill the sky.
On the fifteenth day of the first month of the first month, with the assistance of the powerful trebuchet, a large gap was opened in the city wall of Dashengguan, and countless Yuan soldiers swarmed up, and the Youzhou army desperately counterattacked, blocking the gap with the tactics of a sea of people.
Gongsun Zhan personally led the broadsword team to supervise the battle, and kept slashing and killing the retreating officers and soldiers, and after an afternoon of fierce fighting, Yuan's army never entered the victory pass half a step.
At night, Gongsun Chan ordered people to demolish the people's houses and plug the big gap in the city wall.
The next day, the Yuan army opened another gap, and the Youzhou army put up a desperate resistance and repelled the Yuan army.
After a month of tug-of-war, the Youzhou army lost more than 90,000 officers and soldiers, and the Yuan army also paid the price of more than 60,000 casualties, but still failed to distinguish the winner.
At this time, it was already the season of spring flowers, after several months of fierce fighting, Yuan's army suffered heavy casualties, the officers and soldiers were low, the victory pass could not be captured for a long time, and the food was almost insufficient.
Yuan Shao thought that he had occupied half of the land in Youzhou, and that the goal had been achieved, and there was no need to spend strength under the Great Victory Pass, and he was worried that Cao Cao of Yanzhou would take the opportunity to sneak attack his hometown Jizhou, but he hurriedly destroyed several county towns by the Zhanghe River, looted a large number of gold and silver property, left part of the army to defend the city, and led a large army back to Jizhou.
Although Gongsun Chan temporarily had a chance to breathe, his troops and food had been exhausted by Yuan Shao, and Youzhou had become an empty shelf, and Gongsun Chan was inevitably defeated in the end.
Just as Gongsun Zhan and Yuan Shao were each dismissing their troops, an ox cart traveled from south to north, heading towards Youzhou.
There were seven or eight bulging snakeskin bags on the ox cart, and I don't know what was inside? It was Mrs. Wang, who had a close relationship with Wu Liang and Gongsun Shaojin, and was affectionately called grandma by the two of them, in the dense forest of Linshan Town.
Mrs. Wang was originally full of white hair, old and old, she didn't know what adventures she had, her white hair turned green, the wrinkles on her face had all faded, her eyes were bright, she looked like she was only in her forties, and she was twenty years younger, which was really incomprehensible.
Mrs. Wang went all the way north, and seven days later, she finally arrived at Beiping Mansion in Youzhou.
Mrs. Wang was about to pass through the city gate in an ox cart, when the soldiers guarding the city shouted: "I see that you are sneaky, not like a good person!
"Official, it's all local products from the countryside, nothing special. Mrs. Wang said with a smile on her face.
"No, I'll have to take a good look!" said the soldier.
"The two officials worked hard, and these two pieces of silver were a little bit of the old woman's heart, and the two of them took them to drink. "Mrs. Wang is old in accidents, and she knows that the soldiers are constantly looking for ballast, just to extort bamboo and ask for money.
Mrs. Wang pushed the boat down the river and sent a tael of silver to the soldiers.
The two soldiers took Mrs. Wang's money, and they were so happy that they smiled, which was equivalent to half a month's salary.
"Okay, you can go!" When the two soldiers got the money, they stopped pursuing it, waved their hands, and signaled that Mrs. Wang could go.
"Master Xie!" Mrs. Wang sat back in the ox cart, drove the ox, and entered Beiping City.
Mrs. Wang asked passers-by about the location of Youzhou Mansion, drove an ox cart, and went straight to Youzhou Mu's Mansion.
When they arrived outside the house, the doorman did not let Mrs. Wang in.
"Little brother, I am the grandmother of your grandson, Miss Shaojin, and I am tired. Mrs. Wang said politely.
"Okay, you wait for now! I'll ask the eldest lady. When the doorman heard that it was the eldest lady's grandmother, he didn't dare to slack off, so he turned around and went into the house.
"There's Brother Lao. Mrs. Wang waited outside the mansion.
Youzhou Mansion, outside the secret room.
"Miss, there is a woman outside the house, saying that it is your grandmother, please go out and have a look. The doorman said loudly.
"Got it, I'll just go. Gongsun Shaojin agreed, the stone door opened, and Gongsun Shaojin, dressed in a purple samurai uniform, slowly walked out of the secret room.
In the past three months, Gongsun Shaojin has stayed at home, painstakingly studying the martial arts on "Dancing Ghost Urn", and has achieved a small success, and his strength has also reached the middle stage of Wufeng Realm.
Gongsun Shaojin came to the outside of the mansion, saw Mrs. Wang, looked at it for a long time, and then asked, "Grandma, is it you? How did you become younger?"
"Jin'er, I'm my grandmother! As for why I'm younger, I'll tell you later?" Mrs. Wang was very happy to see Gongsun Shaojin.
"Grandma, what's in the car?" asked Gongsun Shaojin curiously.
"It was grandma who brought you souvenirs. Mrs. Wang smiled kindly.
"Grandma was the best for me. Gongsun shook the gold and hugged Mrs. Wang and said coquettishly.
"Hehe, Jin'er, can you let grandma carry the things in first?"
Mrs. Wang dotingly touched Gongsun Shaojin's hair, and said softly.
"What are you still doing in a daze, help grandma carry things into the house!" Gongsun Shaojin instructed the doorman.
The guards carried all eight snakeskin bags into Gongsun Shaojin's boudoir.
Gongsun shook the gold and took Mrs. Wang's hand and returned to the boudoir.