Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 356 Yuan Zhao (Eleventh)

Three years later

Spring of the 11th year of Xingping (204)
After three years of recuperation, after the end of spring plowing, Yuan Shao sent [-] troops to conquer Cao Cao again.

At the same time, Cao Cao first completely surrendered Zhang Xiu in Nanyang in the first year, and then recuperated for two years to expand the scale of the farm. Now there are [-] troops.

The positions of the two sides are as follows:

[Yuan Shao Camp

Lord: General Yuan Shao
Generals: Hussar General Wang Jue, Wei General Qu Yi, Chariot General Han Meng, Former General Jiang Qi, Rear General Jiang Yiqu, Left General Lu Kuang, Right General Gao Gan
Advisers: Wang Xiao, Shen Pei, Pang Ji, Xun Chen, Guo Tu, Xin Pi, Xin Ping

Tiger and Leopard Cavalry: 3000
Ordinary cavalry: 10000
Pawns: 60000]

[Cao Cao Camp

Lord: Cao Cao, Inspector of Yanzhou

Generals: Cao Ren, Xia Houyuan, Xu Huang, Cao Xiu, Cao Zhen, Cao Chun, Zhang Xiu, Zhang He, Gao Lan, Yu Jin, Le Jin

Advisers: Xun You, Guo Jia, Jia Xu, Liu Ye, Cheng Yu, Sima Yi, Xu You

Elite cavalry: 1000
Ordinary cavalry: 4000
Pawns: 35000]

Because Yuan Shao has an emperor, he can promote his subordinates as he likes. On the other hand, Cao Cao, because there is no emperor, his generals don't even have a serious official position.

Although Tian Feng and Jushou were executed by Yuan Shao, and Xu You defected to Cao Cao's camp, the internal fighting in Yuan Shao's camp was still very serious.

Yuan Shao had three sons, and his counselors also supported his three sons respectively.

Guo Tu and Xin Pi supported the eldest son Yuan Tan, Shen Pei and Pang Ji supported the young son Yuan Shang, Xun Chen and Xin Ping supported the second son Yuan Xi, only Wang Xiao remained neutral.

Endless life and endless internal fighting are the characteristics of Yuan Shao's forces.

(As far as the internal fighting situation of the Yuan family is concerned, if it is really unified, it feels similar to the Sima family, and it will also fall into unlimited internal fighting, and in the end it will be chaotic.)
Another month later, Yuan Shao's army was assembled, and a mighty [-] army came to Yanjin again.

Yuan Shao had a total of [-] infantry, [-] cavalry, and [-] tiger and leopard cavalry. He distributed [-] infantry to six generals, and each general commanded [-] infantry. General Wang Jue commanded three thousand tiger and leopard cavalry.

The specific combat deployment of Yuan Shaojun is as follows:
[Yuan Shao: 10000 cavalry, sit in the rear, coordinate and coordinate, rely on the speed advantage of the cavalry, and quickly support all battlefields at any time

Wang Jue: 3000 tiger and leopard riders, do whatever you want, move freely
Qu Yi: 10000 soldiers, defending the Wuchao granary

Lu Kuang: 10000 soldiers, attack Guandu North Gate
Han Meng: 10000 pawns, attacking Guandu West Gate
Jiang Qi: 10000 infantry, attack Guandu South Gate
Jiang Yiqu: 10000 infantry, attack Guandu East Gate
Gao Gan: 10000 infantry, to prevent Xuchang Cao Jun from supporting Guandu]

On Cao Cao's side, all the main forces were concentrated in the two cities of Guandu and Xuchang, and after the experience and lessons of Wang Jue's "crossing the river in white clothes" last time, Cao Cao directly and completely sealed the gates of Xuchang this time, and did not allow any outsiders to enter or leave the city. .

Zhang Xiu guarded Nanyang against Liu Biao in Jingzhou and Liu Bei in Xinye County; Cao Ren guarded Xuchang against surprise attacks; Cao Zhen guarded Luoyang against the Xiliang army in Guanzhong; Cao Xiu guarded Hefei against Sun Quan; The main force of Yuan Shao's army was occupied, and Cao Cao himself brought other generals to prepare for a decisive battle.

The second Guandu war is about to start!
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Jiangdong
"My lord, the traitor GUI Lan is dead!" Lu Su respectfully said to Sun Quan.

"I see." Sun Quan nodded, and the big stone in his heart finally fell.

Since he came to the throne, Jiangdong's local snakes who refused to obey the Sun family took the opportunity to rebel.

When Sun Ce was in power, these local snakes did not dare to rebel openly, but kept sending assassins to assassinate.

For more than four consecutive years, Sun Quan has been busy suppressing countless rebellions in Jiangdong, and he has no time to spare to expand the territory.

At this time, news of Yuan Cao's second decisive battle came.

"Let them fight for a while longer, and wait for me to accumulate strength!" Sun Quan had an ambition to separate Jiangdong from his heart. He didn't want the value of a united front, he wanted to separate one side.

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Yizhou
成都
"Hasn't the winner been decided yet?"

"Alright, so I can be emperor for a few more days."

Compared with the decisive battle in the Central Plains, what Liu Zhang really cares about at this moment is Zhang Lu in Hanzhong. This Zhang Lu has always wanted to go south to capture Chengdu, which is very annoying.

……

Guanzhong
"The Son of Heaven is with Yuan Benchu, of course we should take refuge in Yuan Benchu."

"No, didn't you see the result of the last battle of Guandu? Yuan Benchu ​​suffered a loss of soldiers and generals. I think he will lose to Cao Cao sooner or later, so we should rely on Cao Cao."

The Xiliang Army in Guanzhong split. Since Li Jue and Guo Si died together in the fire, the entire Guanzhong and Liangzhou have been controlled by Ma Teng and Han Sui.

Ma Teng wanted to join Cao Cao, and Han Sui wanted to join Yuan Shao, and the two sides were at loggerheads.

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Xu Chang
"Ming Gong, our craftsmen have already invented the horseshoes that Yuan Shao's tiger and leopard ride on, and are now researching the manufacturing technology of horse armor. As long as they are researched and then introduced from Guanzhong to Liangzhou horseshoes, then we can also have our own horseshoes. Tiger and leopard ride!" Guo Jiaxin was very happy. After the last battle at Guandu, Cao Cao realized how powerful tiger and leopard riders were, so he asked craftsmen to (pirate) study (version) Yuan Shao's Ma Deng horseshoe and imitate his own. Madden Horseshoe.

However, Yuan Shao's Madden horseshoe is an advanced product imported from the Wang family. The Wang family's smelting technology is stronger than that of the Central Plains, so although they are all Madden horseshoes, the quality produced by the Wang family is better.

"En." Cao Cao nodded. It is a good thing to be able to imitate Madden's horseshoe technology, but he still can't forget his Xun Yu.

Among all his advisers, Xun Yu is definitely the most important one, not one of them, but now, Xun Yu was captured by Wang Jue, and he did not know where he was taken.

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Xiangyang
"Husband, drink the medicine!"

Mrs. Cai brought medicine soup and fed Liu Biao the medicine herself.

It took several years to finally put down Zhang Xian's rebels in Jingnan, but Liu Biao felt that his time was running out, so now he has no ambition to expand the territory, and only wants to guard Jingzhou's old nest and pass it on to his descendants .

Originally, he planned to pass the throne to the eldest son Liu Qi, but now he changed his mind and planned to pass the throne to Liu Cong.

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Namyang County

Xinye County

This is the forward position against Zhang Xiu. Liu Bei has fought Zhang Xiu more than a dozen times here, and every time whoever takes the initiative to attack will suffer, and no one can do anything about it.

"My lord, now that Zhang Xiu's main force has been transferred by Cao Cao to the front line of Guandu to fight Yuan Shao, it is better to take this opportunity to attack Wancheng and drive Zhang Xiu's forces out of Nanyang County." Liu Beixin's counselor Xu Shu suggested.

After years of wandering, Liu Bei has one more counselor, Xu Shu, and one more military general, Zhao Yun. Nothing else has changed, and there is still no territory. Xinye County is temporarily lent to him by Liu Biao for development.

"We only have [-] infantry and [-] cavalry, so we can't act recklessly." Liu Bei said cautiously.

A small Xinye County naturally cannot support more than 3000 soldiers, and Liu Biao supplies all his food and grass.

(End of this chapter)