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Chapter 211 Battle of Guandu
My charming and short-lived ancestor: Ahhh! That is to say, where is my Gongjin?
Who in the clouds sent a brocade book: Hey, Liu Bei is already dead at this time, Gong Jin must have died young long ago
Wuduwuyu: Ahhhhh! My Gongjin

I can’t sleep at night (Guan): Agreed! Poor Gongjin is like this

I send my love and the bright moon: Isn’t it said that Quan Xun is here? Why is Gong Jin involved?
goin: Agreed! We've strayed off topic again.
Fuling (Guan): Forget it, just let Yueyue start another topic. This topic is already messed up.

A piece of bamboo: seconded
Community of Contradictions: Seconded
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Su Yue also saw the comment and said, "Then let's just talk about the Battle of Guandu?"

Early
In the first month of the fifth year of Jian'an (200 years), the cavalry general Dong Cheng, the partial general Wang Fu, and the Yue cavalry captain Zhong Ji accepted the belt edict of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty and wanted to kill Cao Cao. However, the incident was revealed and the three tribes were destroyed by Cao Cao. .

Yuan Shao finally got a legitimate reason to start the war, so Yuan Shao took the imperial edict to attack Cao Cao and sent Chen Lin to write an appeal and publish it publicly. In the appeal, Cao Cao was unbearably scolded.

Yuan and Cao openly declared war.

When Cao Cao was deploying a war against Yuan Shao, Liu Bei, who participated in the Yidai Zhao conspiracy, rose up against Cao Cao.

In February, Yuan Shao marched into Liyang, intending to cross the river and seek a decisive battle with the main force of Cao's army.

He first sent generals Guo Tu, Chunyu Qiong, and Yan Liang to attack Liu Yan, the prefect of Dongjun in Baima, in an attempt to seize key points on the south bank of the Yellow River to ensure that the main force could cross the river.

In April, in order to seize the initiative and win the first battle, Cao Cao personally led his troops north to relieve the siege of White Horse.

At this time, counselor Xun You believed that Yuan Shao had more troops, so he suggested attacking from the east and west to disperse his forces. He first led troops to Yanjin, pretended to cross the river and attacked Yuan Shao's rear, so that Yuan Shao could divide his troops to the west, and then send light cavalry to quickly attack Yuan's army attacking Baima. If they were not prepared, they would be defeated. Yan Liang.

Cao Cao adopted this suggestion, and Yuan Shao actually divided his troops into Yanjin, and ordered Guo Tu and Chunyu Qiong, who were attacking Baima, to lead their troops westward and advance into Yanjin.

Ju Shou dissuaded Yuan Shao: "Yan Liang has a short-tempered and narrow personality. Although he is brave, he cannot be allowed to serve as a general alone."

Yuan Shao refused.

After Guo Tu, Chunyu Qiong and others led their troops to Yanjin, Cao Cao took the opportunity to lead his light troops to quickly attack Yan Liang.

Cao's army took Zhonglang General Zhang Liao and Pioneer General Guan Yu as the vanguard, and Cao Cao personally led General Pi Xu Huang and others to follow.

Guan Yu saw Yan Liang's command (the general's military chariot was equipped with a banner and Zhang Gai). When Zhang Liao's army was fighting with Yan Liang's army, Guan Yu rushed to Yan Liang's side and stabbed Yan Liang to death in the crowd. He took out the sword from his waist and beheaded him before returning. None of Yuan's generals could stop Guan Yu. Yuan's army was defeated.

After Cao Cao solved the siege of Baima, the people who migrated to Baima retreated westward along the Yellow River.

Yuan Shao led his army across the river in pursuit and reached the south of Yanjin. He sent generals Wen Chou and Liu Bei to continue to pursue Cao Jun. Cao Cao had less than 600 cavalry at the time, stationed at Nanban (south of Baima), while Yuan's army had 5,000 or 6,000 cavalry. The infantry followed.

Cao Cao ordered his soldiers to unsaddle and release their horses, and deliberately discarded the baggage beside the road.

As expected, Yuan Jun fell into the trap and scrambled for property.

Cao Cao suddenly waved the "hui" in his hand and ordered an attack. Xu Huang and others got on their horses, finally defeated Yuan Jun, killed Wen Chou (Wen Chou was killed by the rebel army, not Guan Yu), and successfully returned to Guandu.

Yan Liang and Wen Chou were both famous generals in Hebei, but they were killed in one battle, and the vigor of Yuan Shao's army was dampened.

相持
Yuan Jun lost the first battle, but he still had obvious advantages in terms of military strength, food, military supplies, and financial resources.

In July, he marched to Yangwu (now north of Zhongmou, Henan) and prepared to go south to attack Xudu. In August, the main force of Yuan's army approached Guandu and set up camp along the sand, which was about tens of miles wide from east to west. Cao Cao also set up camp to confront Yuan's army. Cao's army was "unfavorable in the joint battle."

In September, Cao Jun attacked again, but was unsuccessful in the battle with Yuan Jun. He once again retreated to the camp and held on.

Yuan Shao built towers and oars, piled mountains of earth, and shot down Cao's camp with arrows.

Cao Jun made a stone-throwing device called a thunderbolt chariot, which destroyed the oars built by Yuan Jun.

Yuan Jun dug tunnels to attack again, and Cao Jun also dug long trenches in the camp to resist, defeating Yuan Jun's plan.

The two sides were in a stalemate for three months. Cao Cao was in a difficult situation. There were few troops in the front and no food, the soldiers were tired, and the rear was unstable. Cao Cao almost lost the confidence to hold on. One day when he saw that the soldiers transporting food were exhausted, he couldn't bear it and couldn't help blurting out, "But fifteen I've broken the rules for you every day, so I won't work for you anymore!"

Cao Cao wrote to Xun Yu, discussing how to retreat to Xudu. Xun Yu wrote back: "Yuan Shao has gathered his main force in Guandu and wants to decide the outcome with Gong Gong.

If you are weak, you should be strong. If you cannot control it, you will be taken advantage of. This is the key to determining the general trend of the world.

When the Chu and Han Dynasties were between Xingyang and Chenggao, neither Liu Bang nor Xiang Yu was willing to take a step back first, thinking that if they retreated first, they would lose their power.

Now one is equal to ten, and it has been half a year since Yuan Shao was unable to advance by guarding the key points.

The situation has become clear, there is no room for maneuver, and a major change will soon occur.

This is your chance to win by surprise, don't miss it. "

So Cao Cao determined to continue to stand by and strengthen the defense at the same time. He ordered Diannong Zhonglang, general Ren Jun, who was in charge of logistics supplies, to take ten columns as one, shorten the distance between the front and rear of the transport team, and use a compound formation (two formations) to strengthen the escort. Preventing Yuan Jun's attack; on the other hand, he actively sought and captured fighter planes and defeated Yuan Jun. Soon, he sent Xu Huang and Shi Huan to intercept and burn thousands of Yuan Jun's grain trucks, which increased Yuan Jun's supply difficulties.

Battle of Guandu
During this period, Liu Pi, the Yellow Turban Army in Runan County, rebelled. Yuan Shao sent Liu Bei to help, and sent Han Xunchao to cut off Cao's army's western route, but Cao Ren defeated them all.

Jiangdong Sun Ce intended to attack Xudu, but was assassinated by an assassin.

surprise attack
In October, Cao Cao was fighting Yuan Shao for a long time. The people were tired and many rebelled against Yuan Shao. Cao Cao's army was short of food.

Yuan Shao also sent vehicles to transport grain, and ordered Chunyu Qiong to lead ten thousand troops to escort him.

Ju Shou suggested that "in addition, send Jiang Qi to lead a supporting army to march outside the grain transport army to cut off Cao's army from looting", but Yuan Shao did not comply.

Chunyu Qiong led the grain transport army without external reinforcements and stayed overnight in Wuchao (southeast of today's Yanjin, Henan), which was only forty miles away from Yuan Jun's camp.

At this time, Yuan Shao's counselor Xu You defected to Cao Cao and suggested that Cao Cao launch a surprise attack on Wuchao with light troops and burn his luggage.

Cao Cao immediately put it into practice, leaving Cao Hong and Xun You to guard the camp. He personally led five thousand infantry and cavalry, faked the flag of Yuan's army, had horses bound to their mouths, each with a bunch of firewood, and used the dark night to sneak attack Wuchao on a small road. Upon arrival, they immediately laid siege and set fire to them.

After Yuan Shao learned that Cao Cao had attacked Wuchao, on the one hand he sent light cavalry to rescue him, and on the other hand he ordered Ning Guo Zhonglang General Zhang He and General Gao Lan to lead a heavy force to attack Cao Jun's camp.

But Cao's camp was strong and could not be attacked. When Cao Jun rushed to attack Wuchao Chunyu Qiong Camp, Yuan Shao's reinforcements were approaching.

Cao Cao's soldiers fought to the death and defeated Yuan's army. Cao Jun's general Yue Jin beheaded Chunyu Qiong and others, and burned all their food and grass.

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