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Chapter 460 The Battle of Guandu

Shao Zhen felt that all the players from the Three Kingdoms had substitutes, and it would be a pity that he couldn't find someone else if he could disguise himself.

Sun Ce of Eastern Wu died, and his younger brother Sun Quan inherited his father and brother's foundation and lived in Jiangdong.Cao Cao made him a general.In order to make peace with Cao Cao, Sun Quan rejected Yuan Shao's request to form an alliance against Cao Cao.

Yuan Shao attacked Cao Cao with 700,000 troops from Ji, Qing, You, and the four prefectures.This is the famous "Battle of Guandu" in history.

Tian Feng, a counselor who was imprisoned in prison, urgently wrote to Yuan Shao, advising him to "just keep quiet and not rush into the army."Yuan Shao refused to accept the loyal advice and wanted to fight Cao Cao to the death.

Cao Cao personally commanded an army of [-] to meet the enemy.Before the war, he judged the situation with his counselors, and believed that Yuan Shao had many soldiers and sufficient food, and the enemy was strong and we were weak, so it was not easy to win. However, Yuan Shao also had an Achilles' heel: arrogance and lack of strategy, avoiding talents and rejecting advice.

Yuan Shao's counselor, Ju Shou, advised Yuan Shao: "Although our army is numerous, it is not as brave as his army; although his army is fine, but its food and grass are not as good as our army. Our army has food, and the advantage lies in guarding slowly. If we don't fight, we will be defeated; if our army advances quickly and fights fiercely, it will fall into Cao Cao's arms. Please think twice, my lord." Yuan Shao not only refused to listen, but instead locked Jushou in the forbidden army.He ordered the three armies to go to Guandu quickly, and set up 700,000 troops to camp in the east, west, south and north.

Cao Cao adopted Guo Jia's suggestion and acted decisively to dampen his spirit with a quick battle.

Yuan Shao first used his army of diggers to dig tunnels but failed, so he built earthen hills to encircle the stronghold, and fired arrows day and night to harass him.The war was stalemate for a period of time, and both sides won and lost each other, but Cao Cao finally wanted to abandon Guandu and return to Xudu due to lack of food and grass and exhausted soldiers.Xun Yu, who stayed behind in Xudu, wrote a letter suggesting that Cao Cao stick to Guandu, stabilize the morale of the army, win the battle, and lose if he retreats.On the one hand, Cao Cao used Liu Ye's thunderbolt chariot to deal with Yuan Shao's crossbowmen, and at the same time ordered Xu Huang and others to harass Yuan Jun's supply line and strive for the initiative.

Yuan Shao sent his general Han Meng to send food and grass to the front of the army to help the army, but was robbed and burned by Xu Huang.The counselor Shenpei reminded Yuan Shao: "Wuchao is the place where our army stores food, and it must be defended with heavy troops to prevent accidents."

Yuan Shao sent Chunyu Qiong, who was addicted to alcohol, to guard Wuchao.The imprisoned Jushou asked to see Yuan Shao regardless of personal safety, and shouted: "Han Meng's food and grass have been robbed, and Wuchao is in danger. Beware of Cao Cao's surprise attack on Wuchao." But Yuan Shao failed to pay attention.

Because of the lack of food and grass, Cao Cao sent a secret letter to Xudu to urge food. The letter was intercepted by Yuan Shao's counselor Xu You. Suspicious, Xu You learned that his family members were imprisoned, and angrily defected to Cao Ying.

When Cao Cao saw Xu You coming to the camp, he was overjoyed. Before he could put on his shoes, he went out barefoot to greet Xu You. Advise Yuan Shao to attack Xuchang." Cao Cao was shocked: "If Yuan Shao follows Ziyuan's plan, I will be defeated!"

Xu You deliberately asked Cao Cao how much food was left in the army, but Cao Cao refused to say anything clearly. Xu You said loudly, "Don't lie to me, the army has run out of food!" It's gone, I bow to Xu You, and sincerely ask for advice to break Yuan Zhice.

Xu You told Cao Cao that Yuan Shao's 700,000 troops had all their food, grass and supplies in Wuchao, and Chunyu Qiong, who was guarding Wuchao, was addicted to alcohol and could surprise Wuchao.

Cao Cao personally led [-] elite soldiers, falsely called Yuan Shao's grain guard Jiang Qi, attacked Wuchao at night, burned all his grain and grass, and sent Chunyu Qiong back to Yuanying to humiliate Yuan Shao.

Yuan Shao sent generals Zhang He and Gao Lan to attack Cao's camp, but they were defeated because Cao Cao had already laid an ambush.Yuan Shao listened to the slander and suspected that the second general had the intention of surrendering Cao, so he did not fight effectively.Zhang He and Gao Lan were forced to defect to Cao Ying.Seeing that the time was ripe, Cao Cao divided his troops into eight groups and went straight to Yuanzhai. He won a complete victory, obtained a lot of food and supplies, and found many letters from Yuan Shao's camp that had privately communicated with Yuan Shao.The entourage suggested that all these people be beheaded.Cao Cao replied: "When Yuan Shao is strong, I can't protect myself, let alone others?" So he ordered all the letters to be destroyed.All the soldiers in the army were convinced.

Yuan's army collapsed, and Yuan Shao fled across the river with only [-] cavalry.Ju Shou was shot and killed, and Cao Cao ordered him to be buried at the Yellow River Ferry.Tian Feng was gifted to death by Yuan Shao in prison.

In the Battle of Guandu, Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shao with less, and Chen Bing on both sides of the Yellow River.

When Yuan Shao returned to Jizhou, his eldest son Yuan Tan, second son Yuan Xi, youngest son Yuan Shang, and nephew Gao Gan led troops from Qing, You, and Bingzhou to help the battle.Yuan Shao gathered more than 20 troops and dispatched troops to Cangting to avenge Guandu.

Cao Cao used Cheng Yu's strategy of "ambush from ten sides" and sent Xu Chu to lure Yuan Jun to chase him up the river.Because Cao Bing had no way to retreat, he could only turn around and fight to the death, killing Yuan Jun's corpses all over the field, and blood flowed like rivers.Yuan Shao hugged his third son and wept bitterly, fainted and vomited blood, so he had to go back to Jizhou to recuperate.

Cao Cao celebrated the victory at Cangting and rewarded the three armies. Suddenly he received a letter from Xun Yu: "Liu Bei raised troops in Runan and took advantage of the situation to attack Xudu."Because Liu Bei was outnumbered and defeated, he defected to Liu Biao in Jingzhou.According to Cheng Yu's suggestion, Cao Cao led his troops to Guandu to attack Yuan Shao.Yuan Shao was defeated again, his old illness relapsed, and he vomited blood and died.Before he died, he abolished the elders and established the younger ones, and appointed his third son Yuan Shang as General Sima, which aroused Yuan Tan and Yuan Xi's dissatisfaction.

Guo Jiajin advised Cao Cao that there is no need to rush to attack, and it will not be too late to attack Yuan Jun after his brothers turn against each other.Sure enough, Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang started killing each other.Taking advantage of the situation, Cao Cao used Xu You's plan to break the water of the Zhang River and capture the city of Jizhou.Yuan Shao's counselor Jianpei would rather die than submit, but was beheaded by Cao Cao and buried in the north of the city after his death.After the city was broken, Cao Cao worshiped Yuan Shao, Xu You was arrogant and rude, and was killed by Xu Chu.

Yuan Shang went to Youzhou to vote for Yuan Xi, Yuan Tan surrendered to Cao Cao, was rejected, was killed by Cao Hong in the battle, and counselor Guo Tu was also shot and killed by Le Jin.

When Cao Cao went to Wuhuan and returned to Yizhou, Guo Jia died of illness and left a secret letter: "I heard that Yuan Xi and Yuan Shang went to Liaodong, and the Duke of Ming must not add troops. Gongsun Kangjiu feared that the Yuan family would be annexed. Doubt. If you use troops to attack them, you must join forces to meet the enemy, and you cannot rush; if you slow down, Gongsun Kang and the Yuan family will definitely plot against each other, and it is inevitable." Cao followed his words and stood still.Soon Gongsun Kang suspected that Er Yuan wanted to occupy Liaodong, killed Er Yuan, sent his head to Cao Cao, and was willing to submit to the court.So far, Liaodong has been settled.

After seven years of hard work, Cao Cao finally unified the north.When he came back, he changed his route and walked along the coast. Standing on the stone on the edge of the Bohai Sea, looking at the raging sea, looking back on the battle history in the past, he became very popular in poetry, and recited a famous poem "Guan Canghai", which has been handed down to this day.

Cao Cao defeated the strong with the weak, defeated Yuan Shao, and unified the north.In order to advance south, he trained troops and garrisoned fields in Xudu.

After Liu Bei failed in Runan, he defected to Liu Biao in Jingzhou. He once persuaded Liu Biao to attack Xudu by Cao Cao's northern expedition to Wuhuan, but Liu Biao failed to accept it.

Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei were living in Jingzhou. When someone in Jiangxia rebelled against them, Liu Bei called for a battle to fight against them. Soon, the Jiangxia rebellion was quelled and he won the "Delu" horse.

Mrs. Cai, Liu Biao's wife, worried that Liu Bei would seize Jingzhou.For this reason, Liu Biao had no choice but to let Liu Bei live in Xinye.

One day, Liu Biao asked Liu Bei to come to Jingzhou to talk about his concerns. He wanted to abolish the elder and establish the younger, but he was afraid of hindering the etiquette;Liu Bei didn't think about it, and said: "Since ancient times, the way of abolishing the elders and erecting the younger, and taking chaos, if you are worried about Cai's power, you can cut it slowly." Unexpectedly, Mrs. Cai who was hiding behind the screen heard it.She hated Liu Bei, and ordered her younger brother Cai Mao to surround the post in the middle of the night to kill Liu Bei.Liu Biao's guest, Yiji, informed Liu Bei of Cai Mao's plot, and Liu Bei quietly left the posthouse and returned to Xinye.Cai Hao conspired with Mrs. Cai again to kill Liu Bei at the Xiangyang Conference.

At the grand meeting in Jingxiang, Liu Biao asked Liu Bei to host the guests, accompanied by his two sons, Liu Qi and Liu Cong, and Zhao Yun followed Liu Bei, not far from his left and right sides.At this time, Cai Mao had ambushed soldiers and horses everywhere in the city.The east gate, south gate, and north gate are all guarded, and only the west gate is left, because there is Tanxi in front of it.In order to make it easier to start, they transferred Zhao Yun to the side hall for the banquet.

Yiji tried to tell Liu Bei secretly: "Only Ximen can do it, and you should leave quickly."

Liu Bei rode a "Delu" horse to the west gate, Cai Mao led his troops to chase after him, Liu Bei escaped from the west gate, but a big stream blocked his way.The stream is several feet wide, the current is very fast, and the pursuers are about to come. In a hurry, Bei rushed his horse down the stream. The horse's hooves sank, and he whipped fiercely, shouting: "'Delu', you really hurt the Lord!" I didn't want this horse. Suddenly he jumped out of the water and flew to the west bank.Cai Mao led the army to the stream, saw that Liu Bei had jumped over the Tan stream, and saw that Zhao Yun had led his troops to find him, so he had to go into the city.

Liu Bei escaped from danger, came to Shuijing Villa, and asked Mr. Shuijing for help.

Liu Bei and Ma Yuetan River came to Shuijing Villa and met with Sima Hui (Mr. Shuijing).Liu Bei asked Sima Hui for advice and asked him to come out of the mountain to help.Sima Hui pointed out to Liu Bei: "Wolong and Fengchu get one, and the world can be safe." "You should go and visit yourself."

Zhao Yun looked for Liu Bei everywhere, and then met at Shuijing Villa.The two returned to Xinye together, but on the way they met Shan Fu (real name Xu Shu) singing by the side of the road. Seeing that he was extraordinary, Liu Bei mistook him for Wolong and Fengchu.

Xu Shu assisted Liu Bei, used troops for the first time, and defeated Cao Cao in a row, so that Zhao Yun broke the eight-door golden lock formation in one fell swoop, and Guan Yu also took Fancheng.Cao Cao was shocked and wanted to take Xu Shu in. He used Cheng Yu's trick to bring Xu's mother to Xudu, earned his handwriting, faked Xu's mother's letter, and tricked Xu into Xudu.

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