Peek at my diary, Cao Cao dominates the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 420 Yuan Shao rises again and stationed troops in Cangting

In November of the third year of Jian'an.

Cao Ren and Xu Huang's army arrived in Hanoi County. Yuan Shang, a high-ranking cadre who had been attacking Shanyang for a long time, saw that Cao Jun and Yuan Jun had arrived, so he had to retreat.

However, nearly half of the land in Hanoi County has been occupied by Yuan Jun. With this buffer zone, it may be difficult for Cao Ren and others to threaten Jizhou from Hanoi County. At least most of Yuan Shao's goals have been achieved.

After learning the lesson of rushing forward last time, Yuan Shao plans to take every step this time.

First solve the worries of Hanoi County, and then gather troops and horses, and wait for the opportunity to go south to attack Cao Cao again.

At this time, Yuan Xi, who had returned to Youzhou, assembled another [-] troops and marched south into Jizhou.

Adding the strength of Gao Gan, Yuan Shang and Yuan Tan, Yuan Shao's capable soldiers reached more than 17.

It's just that these 17 soldiers and horses are Yuan Xi, Gao Gan guarding Youzhou, and most of the soldiers and horses in Bingzhou, if there is another mistake, then Yuan Shao may really be in a desperate situation.

The great victory in the Battle of Guandu allowed Cao Cao to basically control the area near Hanoi.

That is to say, from Dongjun County up to Hanoi County, the area bounded by the Yellow River was occupied by Cao Cao.

Whether it is Baima, Liyang or Yanjin, they are completely out of Yuan Shao's control, and Yuan Shao can no longer cross the Yellow River from these two places to attack Cao Cao.

But although this section is no longer under Yuan Shao's control, Cangtingjin in the northeast is still under Yuan Shao's control.

Cangtingjin can also be regarded as a place to cross the south and threaten Yanzhou.

After Yuan Shao got the support of Yuan Xi's [-] troops, he immediately dispatched Yuan Tan to garrison at Cangting. In the coming year, Yuan Shao personally led the army to go south, directly entered Yanzhou from Cangtingjin, and took Chenliu directly!
To be honest, the current Yuan Shao is already like a gambler who has lost his eyes. He no longer cares about other objective conditions, and he only thinks about making a comeback.Perhaps it was Yuan Shao who was unwilling to lose to Cao Cao, whom he had always looked down upon in the first battle at Guandu; or maybe it was because he knew that his time was short and wanted to clear away Cao Cao's confidant for his son Yuan Shang before he died. Big trouble.

In short, Yuan Shao was going to put all his eggs in one basket and had another decisive battle with Cao Cao.

If he wins, Yuan Shao can drive straight in and take down Yanzhou, and even wipe out Cao Cao in one fell swoop;
If defeated, the number one prince who used to own the land of the four states in the world will decline rapidly, and even never recover from it.

Jian'an four years, early March.

The Taiyuan Academy began to recruit students, and at the same time, the two subjects of military and political science were also opened to students from the former Taiyuan Academy.

Due to Cao Cao's victory over Yuan Shao last year, Cao Cao's prestige has greatly increased, and the first batch of students from various local colleges have graduated. This year, there are nearly three times more students taking the exam than last year!
However, freshmen can only apply for common subjects, namely Confucianism, mathematics and engineering.The military and political subjects are only open to students from the former Taiyuan College, and they have to go through strict background and ideological investigations to ensure that the students who enter the military and political subjects are basically capable and loyal enough.

Here, Yang Xiu and Cheng Wu naturally joined the Second Military and Political Division; Fazheng and Meng Da, who had drank and sang together last time, also entered smoothly.

As for Zhuge Liang, because of his comprehensive ability and excellent ability, and the last call to refute Yuan Shao, Yang Biao had already appointed him as a disciple by Yang Biao, and he was a person who could walk sideways in the Tai Academy.

In April, the results of the new admissions will come out soon.

Lu Xun successfully entered the Confucian classics, and his talent is no worse than Zhuge Liang.

Coupled with the close relationship between Lu Xun and Lu Yan, after entering the Imperial Academy, Lu Xun naturally attracted the favor of countless doctors and the envy of his classmates.

But among this group of newly joined students, there was one person that caught Lu Yan's attention, "Sima Yi, Sima Zhongda!"

Lu Yan looked at Sima Yi's information on the list and remained silent for a long time.

Sima Yi has just reached the weak crown this year. It is rumored that he was smart and generous since he was a child. He was erudite and learned a lot about Confucianism.

After a full cup of tea, Lu Yan gently put down the list, and murmured: "Zhuge Liang, Sima Yi, this pair of fateful enemies met together haha, it's a good show."

The new year's spring plowing is approaching, and Yuan Shao's ambition is revived.

Yuan Shao gathered the three prefectures of Bing, You, and Ji, claiming that 20 soldiers and horses went to Cangting Xiazhai, and threatened to fight Cao Cao to the death!
Facing Yuan Shao's challenge again, no one in the court jumped out to oppose fighting Yuan Shao this time.

Cao Cao Guandu defeated Yuan Shao's army of nearly 50 with 20 soldiers. You, Yuan Shao, only came with [-] this time. Do you look down on my prime minister?

After Cao Cao recovered for nearly half a year, his soldiers had recovered to [-], but this time he did not persuade Yuan Shao at all.

Cao Cao, who was participating in the opening ceremony, heard that Yuan Shao was gathering again to invade Yanzhou. Instead of worrying, he laughed and said to the new students: "Yuan Benchu ​​wants to kill himself, God can't save him!"

Sima Yi stood among the crowd, silently observing Cao Cao, who was exuding a domineering aura, and said in his heart: "It is not difficult to defeat Yuan Shao, but the difficulty is how to annex Yuan Shao's foundation. The Yuan family has managed Jizhou for many years, and the centipede died. Not stiff. Prime Minister Cao, don't get carried away too much, be careful if you stumble, it won't look good."

As the war was approaching, the opening ceremony ended in a hurry this time.

Cao Cao personally led an army of [-], and marched towards Cangting with Cheng Yu, Zhang Liao, Xia Houyuan, Le Jin, Li Dian and others.

This time Lu Yan, Zhao Yun and others did not participate in the battle,

The main reason is that Lu Yan wants the soldiers under his command, as well as the cavalry that Yuan Jun surrendered, to reorganize and plan.

Although there is no dragon cavalry battalion of Zhao Yun's department, Cao Cao still has the tiger and leopard cavalry led by Cao Chun and Cao Xiu, plus the newly promoted general Gan Ning and his [-] elite cavalry, Cao Cao still has nearly [-] cavalry of.

In the Battle of Guandu, Cao Cao's biggest gain, apart from generals Zhang Xi, Gao Lan and others, was the nearly [-] horses.

Because Zhang He didn't take the Wuhuan cavalry with him when he attacked the city later.

After Wuchao was burned and Yuan Shao's camp was attacked, almost all the Wuhuan people ran away. When Zhang He and Gao Lan surrendered, only more than [-] cavalry followed and surrendered. Cao Cao gave all these thousands of cavalry to Zhao Yun, and then distributed them. Nearly half of Lu Yan's horses were killed.

After Lu Lingqi joined, Lu Yan now has two powerful cavalry battalions in his hands.

One is the Dragon Rider Battalion led by Zhao Yun and Xia Houlan. After the First World War in Guandu, the number has been reduced from 5000 to 3000; the other is the Bingzhou Wolf Rider with nearly [-] people. It was the general Hao Zhao and others.

In order to make the two cavalry have a relatively balanced combat power, Lu Yan selected the Yuan Jun cavalry, and added soldiers recruited from other places to enrich the dragon cavalry battalion, making up the number of [-].

Then there is Dianwei's Iron Buddha.

Lu Yan selected a thousand of the tallest and strongest horses from the more than [-] captured war horses, put heavy armor on them, and filled them with iron pagodas.

At this point, Dianwei's Iron Buddha has changed, from heavy armored infantry to heavy armored cavalry, and its power has been raised to a higher level again!
As a veteran combat force, the Beiwei Army expanded from three thousand to five thousand.

It's not that Lu Yan doesn't want to expand his elite combat power, but that with the current finances of Chenliu County, he can barely support these troops.

Look, nearly 2 cavalry, as well as heavy armored cavalry and Beiwei army, all of them can be called gold swallowing beasts.

If it weren't for the fact that Chen Liu's business system was the best among big men, Lu Yan would never have dared to play like this.
(End of this chapter)