Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 329 An Accident Happened
Yuan Xi swallowed a mouthful of spit, feeling his mouth was dry, he hadn't drank water for most of the day.

The Black Mountain Army was so difficult that he didn't dare to relax for a moment.

The last fire attack on the mountain caused the Black Mountain Army to suffer a lot. After checking the battlefield afterwards, the Black Mountain Army left nearly [-] corpses, including hundreds of armored soldiers.

This made Yuan Xi realize that the Black Mountain Army was not a mob. On the contrary, it was a huge separatist force that had defected to the Han court during the Han Ling Emperor's time, could recommend officials such as Xiaolian, and had the same power as the state shepherd.

After these years of operation, no matter how unbearable it is, it has accumulated a lot of capital.

Even though so many people were lost in the previous battle, it was almost painless for them, who had tens of thousands of vanguard troops.

Seeing that the opponent was not flustered when he retreated, Yuan Xi had a bad feeling. Sure enough, after cleaning the battlefield, after advancing for dozens of miles, he found that the opponent had followed suit and set up camp on the hillside of the mountain road, completely blocking the passage into the hinterland of Montenegro. .

Yuan Xi had no choice but to retreat to the opposite hill, and began to repeat the same tricks, starting to cut down and build a stronghold.

During this period, the Black Mountain Army brought people to attack several times, trying to destroy Yuan Xi's camp, but Tian Yu led people to repel them.

After two days like this, when Yuan Xi finally connected the camps together, the two sides confronted each other like this.

Now if there are no other changes, it will be very difficult for the two sides to win each other. The pure competition is logistics.

In this way, as long as the food road behind Yuan Xi is not cut off, his thousands of soldiers can hold back the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses on the opposite side, which is undoubtedly a profit.

What's more, the logistics of the Montenegrin Army today is not good. It will take ten and a half months. It will inevitably be short of food and low in morale.

But the point is, is things really going as Yuan Xi wishes?

You know, the tens of thousands of people on the opposite side are just the vanguard of the Black Mountain Army. In the previous battle of Yijing, the Black Mountain Army dispatched nearly 10 people!
Although after several wars, the 10 people lost a lot, but at least 7 to [-] people went back.

Taking a step back, there are only so many soldiers left in the Montenegrin Army, but now 1 people are here, what about the other 6 or [-] people?

Tian Yu stood on a branch, watching the movement in the opposite camp with binoculars, thinking about the difficulties he might face.

He had to face this problem directly, because if the opposite side came around from another direction and surrounded Yuan Xi's soldiers and horses, I'm afraid everyone would die here!
With such a large gap in military strength, it is not so easy to fight with a small gain!
What's more, on the side of Yan Rou who is in charge of protecting the grain road, Tian Yu is not completely at ease.

Even Tian Yu can be sure that if Yan Rou's two thousand soldiers meet tens of thousands of troops, they will definitely not die in vain, but turn around and run away.

This is not to say that Yan Rou is unreliable, but that if the gap between the two sides is too large, then the outcome of the battle will have already been decided.

Tian Yu jumped off the tree and went to find Yuan Xi. He was not afraid of death, but he felt that the time spent here was too long.

The soldiers below should also have thought of the current predicament, Tian Yu must ask clearly before he can find a way to appease the soldiers.

Otherwise, if he didn't believe what he said, how could he convince the soldiers?

He passed by Hua Tuo's camp and saw several fresh corpses lined up inside. Hua Tuo and several apprentices were busy with sawing with knives in their hands.

When Tian Yu walked into the tent, he saw Yuan Xi looking down at a piece of silk, frowning slightly.

Seeing Tian Yu coming in, Yuan Xi handed over the silk and said, "Sure enough, Jizhou is not very reliable."

"One of my ideas before was to use Yuan Shang's desire to strive for success and let him send troops from Wei County to enter the central passage of the Black Mountain Army."

"In this way, the Montenegrin Army will inevitably divide the main defense, and we can take advantage of the storm to attack the northern passage, making it difficult for them to take care of the beginning and the end."

"Now it seems that this idea has come to nothing."

Tian Yu was surprised when he heard this. When Jushou and Guo Jia proposed this idea, he still thought it was quite feasible, because Yuan Shang would come to share a piece of the pie out of emotion and reason.

It was even said that Yuan Shang would definitely come, because Montenegro meant a lot to Yuan Shang, much bigger than Yuan Xi!

Judging from Yuan Xi's tone now, Jizhou should have not sent troops, did something happen, or did they see through their thinking?
If the opponent guessed his intentions, and waited until both sides were defeated before picking the fruit, the Youzhou army might not even be able to eat leftovers in the end!

He took the silk and found that it was a secret letter from Jizhou. After reading the contents, Tian Yu was quite speechless.

It really just happened by accident.

When Jizhou was preparing to send troops to Heishan, Dongwuyang at the turn of Weijun and Dongjun rebelled.

Dongwuyang is the place where the Yuan family took the hostages of the Cao family last time. Although this place is located in Yanzhou and is still the seat of Dongjun County, it is quite special.

Because Zang Hong, the prefect of Dongjun stationed there, was directly appointed by Yuan Shao. Dongjun is nominally the boundary of Yanzhou, but it is a buffer zone between Yuan and Cao Cao.

Zang Hong, as the leader of the Suanzao League, although he was pushed out to take the blame, his identity is destined to have some friendship with the princes of all parties.

Especially his sponsor was Zhang Miao, and Zang Hong was a very loyal person, so Zhang Miao was surrounded by Cao Cao in Chenliu, and Zang Hong ran to Yecheng for help.

However, due to various reasons, Jizhou refused to send troops, and Zang Hong was released for more than a month, and finally returned to Dongwuyang angrily.

However, no one expected that Zang Hong would immediately rebel as soon as he returned!

Of course, on the surface, Cao Cao was the one who attacked Zhang Miao, and Cao Cao was Yuan Shao's thug. From Zang Hong's point of view, maybe Cao Cao's attack on Zhang Miao was ordered by Yuan Shao.

In order to raise the lord, Zang Hong raised troops to betray Yuan Shao, which is morally justified.

But once he rebelled, Yuan Shao couldn't sit still, because Dongwuyang was too close to Yecheng.

The border between Jizhou and Yanzhou is almost always bounded by the Yellow River. Jizhou is in the north and Yanzhou is in the south. Neither of them can easily reach the other's territory. Therefore, even though Yuan Shao and Cao Cao have their own thoughts, they seem to be in peace on the surface.

However, Dongwuyang is not only in the north of the Yellow River, but also controls an important ferry, so Yuan Shao immediately decided to send troops to attack Dongwuyang.

As a result, all the troops that Jizhou originally mobilized to attack Montenegro went to Dongwuyang, and on the side of the Montenegro army, the Jizhou army will not come for the time being!
When Tian Yu saw this, he just wanted to scold his mother. If you, Zang Hong, really wanted to save Zhang Miao, you could pull up an army and fight all the way to Chenliu. Now that you have openly rebelled, can you save Zhang Miao?
He thought to himself that this person really has some brain problems, otherwise he wouldn't be the leader of the leader who has been taken advantage of. He really thought that if you were the leader, the princes would not dare to do anything to you?
Tian Yu smiled wryly and handed the silk back, "This Zang Hong's behavior is too unexpected."

Yuan Xi also nodded helplessly, and said: "If a strategy relies too much on external factors, accidents are easy to happen. In the end, we still have to rely on ourselves."

"This matter is still my fault. I was too optimistic."

He thought to himself that he was really negligent, Jushou Guo Jia didn't know about the later generations, but he knew that the later generations Zang Hong rebelled, and the other party had guarded for a long time.

But at that time Yuan Xi had a fluke mentality and felt that the situation in the world had changed, and it might not follow the direction of later generations. In the end, things still happened.

Tian Yu said: "Now there is no news from the other two roads. What I am most worried about is that the Black Mountain Army will come around from both sides of Taihang Mountain and steal our back."

For the other two roads, Yan Rou waited for an opportunity to enter from the central passage and cut off the grain road.

Jushou and Zhao Yun went south from Jizhou, detoured to the southern entrance where the Black Mountain Army attacked Yecheng, and went straight to the opponent's base camp.

The three roads echo each other, and if there is a breakthrough in that road, turn around and cut off the enemy's back road, and echo with the other two roads.

Now that Yuan Xi's road has been blocked here by the former Black Mountain Army, it is very difficult to break in.

In order to guard against the enemy's encirclement, the best way is to retreat to the vicinity of Beixin City.

But in this way, although the pressure on Yuan Xi's road will be reduced, the other two roads will be isolated and helpless, the pressure will increase greatly, and there is a risk of being surrounded by the enemy.

Yuan Xi thought for a while, and said, "There is no way to retreat."

"If we retreat, and the opponent's former army turns back, it's tantamount to selling Yan Rou's way to the opponent."

Tian Yu said: "Although that is the case, most of Yan Rou's army is cavalry, so he can run if he can't fight."

"My son is the master of a state, if he is surrounded, I'm afraid the morale of the Youzhou army will be affected, just like Gaozu was climbing the mountain in Baishan that day."

Yuan Xi smiled wryly. He also understood this truth, but among the three paths, in fact, the path between him and Tian Yu really played a role of restraint.

The key lies in the journey of Jushou and Zhao Yunna.

The real purpose of sending troops along the way was not the southern pass of Black Mountain, but another purpose!

But to achieve this goal, we still need to join forces with Lu Bu!

Thinking of this, Yuan Xi couldn't help feeling a little anxious, why is there no news from Hanoi?
He said: "This passage cannot be allowed, otherwise the opponent will drive straight in, and the opponent will enter the hinterland of Youzhou."

Tian Yu said: "But the general on the other side is too threatening, I will lead people to block the main road, and the young master will go east to the Taihang Mountain to guard against the enemy's encirclement."

Yuan Xi thought for a while and said, "Let me think about it again."

Tian Yu was anxious, and said: "Young master, that female general in red armor has extraordinary martial arts skills. If she breaks in again, I'm afraid I won't be able to protect you!"

After hearing this, Yuan Xi could only say: "Okay, I will take people over the mountain tomorrow, and if there is any danger on either side, I can use rockets to communicate and send letters at any time."

At Lu Bu's mansion in Hanoi County, Yan's face was in disbelief, "He's gone?"

"how is this possible?"

"Are you sure you've searched the house?"

Several maidservants said cautiously: "I have indeed searched for everything, and there is no whereabouts of Mrs. Du."

Yan's first thought was that Lu Bu, these bold people, simply took Mrs. Du out of the mansion, and the golden house hides the beauty?

She turned to Lu Bu and said, "Your husband is hiding Mrs. Du?"

Lu Bu stared, "Why should I hide her?"

Yan snorted, then turned to Lu Lingqi, "You didn't see it either?"

Lu Lingqi replied honestly: "My daughter fell asleep, and when she woke up, Mrs. Du disappeared."

Yan Shi was puzzled, "In this way, could it be that she ran away by herself?"

"The guards in the mansion are so strict and let a living person escape, there will be no traitors, right?"

Lu Lingqi suppressed her face, but laughed so hard that she fell down, the person Qu Yi found was indeed reliable!

(End of this chapter)