A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 420: Although the general trend has gone, wars and crises persist.

October 30

Liu Bei seized the time to attack Yuan Shao.

The officers and soldiers of Yuan Shao's army all saw the red sky behind them.

At the right time, Liu Bei sent people to tie the news that Xia Jin had been burned and that Yuan's army was out of food supplies to arrows and shot them into Yuan's camp.

Although Yuan Shao tried his best to prohibit his soldiers from checking the news of the enemy's incoming troops, and those who disobeyed the order would be killed without mercy, this actually accelerated the spread of this news.

Due to Liu Bei's continuous aggressive attacks and the increasingly serious news of food shortages, Yuan Jun's morale continued to decrease until a certain point.

"Failed, defeated!"

A certain formation on the left wing of Yuan's army was suddenly torn apart. Upon seeing this, Lu Bu led Liu Bei's only one thousand cavalry troops and decisively charged into the enemy's formation and ran rampant until they were completely shattered.

Upon seeing this, Yuan Shao immediately sent his left cavalry commander Tadun to lead his own cavalry to block the gap.

Tadun followed the order.

When Lu Bu saw that it was the Wuhuan cavalry coming, a cold light flashed in his eyes, and there was even a bit of hatred: "Foreigners, deserve to die!!!"

Then he pushed his horse's belly hard, broke away from the cavalry column, and rushed towards the Wuhuan cavalry, just like Guan Yu yesterday.

Liu Beijun's cavalry behind him saw Lu Bu rushing forward and hurried to follow, but they couldn't outrun Lu Bu's command. Lu Bu was left far behind.

As Lu Bu rushed towards the Wuhuan cavalry column, he analyzed where the Wuhuan leader was, until he saw a huge wolf flag on the left wing.

"Aliens, suffer death!"

Tadun felt very hurt. Guan Yu was like this yesterday, and Lu Bu was like this today. Are there so many warriors among the Han people? Don’t we, the Wuhuan warriors, have any rivals?

It looked like there really wasn't any. Lu Bu shot one by one and was about to kill them in front of him.

"Withdraw, retreat, retreat. This is the Han people's own war. It has nothing to do with us Wuhuan people. Sons, follow me!"

Tadun escaped decisively and opened up a huge front.

Although Lu Bu hated the Hu people, he also understood that this was not the time to be willful. He returned to the order of his cavalry and led them in the direction of the retreat of the Wuhuan people towards Yuan Shao's central army.

Now Yuan Shao's two cavalrymen, the Wuhuan people abandoned him, and the other one was taken by Zhang He and has not returned yet. There is no cavalry to resist Lu Bu's attack.

But fortunately, Liu Bei's army only had a thousand cavalry, and his own army had 30,000 men.

"Hey, where is Mr. Yuan Shao? Zhang Yide from Yan is here!!!"

Yuan Shao, who was paying full attention to Lu Bu, was attracted by an angry shout.

It turned out that the Yuan army in the front army had been pierced by Zhang Fei and Guan Yu's Three Thousand Taishan Battalion. The front army was in a state of defeat, and Zhang Fei was leading a group of people to attack in the direction of his own army.

Yuan Shao's hands shook subconsciously, but he still pretended to be calm and did not speak. He just looked straight at Zhang Fei, who was getting closer and closer to him.

"Lord, if a gentleman doesn't stand behind a dangerous wall, he should take the first step!" At this time, counselor Feng Ji anxiously dissuaded Yuan Shao.

"Yes, my lord, you are our backbone. If something goes wrong, what will happen to our great cause?"

"Lord, withdraw!"

"My lord, please move!"

Yuan Shao immediately pointed at them with a face and shouted angrily: "Shut up, my soldiers are still fighting bloody battles here, how dare you say defeat, I have elite protection, so don't say any more.

Even if we are defeated, I will still live and die with the soldiers. Anyone who dares to retreat will be killed without mercy. "

"My lord, Zhang Fei is a general under Liu Bei. He is on the same level as Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Bai Gong, and Yuan Zhao. His bravery cannot be stopped by my lord's bodyguards alone.

The lord is the lord of Hebei, with millions of Jizhou people behind him, and the help of hundreds of thousands of cavalry from all ethnic groups. Even though this battle has been a little disappointing, the lord is still capable of fighting.

My lord, why don't you retreat temporarily and preserve your strength? Looking at the situation in the world, Liu Bei has exhausted all his potential at this time. Cao Cao will not miss this opportunity when he sees that Liu Bei has won but is unable to succeed.

Our army only needs to take a small step back to allow Cao Cao to attack Liu Bei. At that time, we and Liu Bei will fight fiercely on the plains, while Cao Cao attacks his base from Xuzhou. If we cannot look at each other from head to tail, even if Liu Bei wins this small victory, he will definitely win over Yuan. Under the attack of the Cao family, he died.

The Lord is exchanging a small defeat for a big victory. I ask your lord to carefully consider the pros and cons and not to be greedy for the small gains in front of you. "

While listening to Feng Ji's advice, Yuan Shao looked at Zhang Fei, who was only a few hundred steps away from him, and sighed: "In that case, withdraw."

When he reached the edge of the stage, Yuan Shao suddenly stopped, pointed at the big banner and said: "Don't move the banner, stay here and set a trap for Zhang Fei."

"It's my lord," the guard general on the side responded.

A quarter of an hour later, Zhang Fei arrived here and saw only the large banner rising to the sky, but Yuan Shao was nowhere to be seen. His face was red and black with anger.

At this moment, Yuan Shao's generals appeared from the high platform, laughed at Zhang Fei and said, "Zhang Fei, you have fallen into my master's scheme."

After speaking, he waved his big hand, and several crossbowmen emerged from the side and shot at Zhang Fei.

Zhang Fei hurriedly rolled off his horse, dodged the incoming arrows, stared at the generals and shouted angrily: "How dare you shoot Grandpa Zhang, you little thief, you will die!"

He casually grabbed the spear from the hands of the Yuan Jun soldiers on the side, threw it at the general of the army with force from his waist, and directly stabbed him to the core.

Seeing this, the crossbowmen on the side were so frightened that they dropped their crossbows and ran away.

Zhang Fei chopped down Yuan Shao's large army. As soon as the big banner fell, the entire Yuan Army's line, which stretched for several miles, collapsed in an instant. Liu Bei hurriedly ordered the entire army to attack.

It wasn't until the sun set and night was approaching that Liu Bei ordered his troops to withdraw their troops.

October 31st

Liu Bei obtained the results of this battle. He beheaded more than 30,000 people, captured 50,000 Yuan's troops, captured countless baggage, and more than 2,000 war horses.

November st

Liu Bei sent Zhang Fei with 30,000 troops to attack Pingyuan City in the south, and Lu Bu with 30,000 troops to attack Li Kingdom in the north.

Since Yuan Shao's army had been defeated, Gao Lan, the general stationed in the plains, knew very well that Yuan Shao was gone and Liu Bei was about to take control of Jizhou. Jian Yong continued to persuade him to surrender.

November 3rd

Gao Lan led 20,000 people from Pingyuan out of the city and surrendered. Liu Bei personally untied him and appointed him as a partial general in the Zuo General Mansion.

November 5th

Lü Bu conquered the Kingdom of Li with absolute superiority, beheading three thousand people and capturing more than five thousand prisoners.

At this point, the entire Pingyuan County was completely taken over by Liu Bei.

November 13
News came from Xuzhou. Cao Cao announced that he was about to raise an army of 100,000 troops to attack Liu Bei in two groups. General Cao Ren led 40,000 troops to attack Gaotang in the plains from Dongjun. He himself led 60,000 troops directly from Rencheng to Xuzhou.

At the same time, Sun Quan also accepted the edict from the Xudu court [Yangzhou Mu] [Southern General] and [Wuhou] and sent Zhou Yu with 10,000 naval troops and 30,000 infantry to attack Jiujiang.

After Liu Bei learned the news, he immediately organized the Xuzhou Army to retreat, leaving only Guan Yu's Qingzhou Army to defend Pingyuan County.

By the time the army returns to Xuzhou, it will probably be the first month of next year.

Since the winter in the south is not as cold as in the north, Cao Cao decided to send troops to attack Xuzhou first, and wait until next March to attack Cao Ren's army in the plains.

The day before Cao Cao's expedition, the emperor officially abolished the three princes, restored the prime minister system, appointed Cao Cao as [prime minister], and named him [Xuhou], [general] and [zhijie].

November 21

Cao Cao pledged his troops to go out to war in Xudu and invited Liu Xie to come for a military parade.

The elite Cao army slowly drove past the gate of Xudu City, which left a deep impression on the ministers of Xudu court.

December 6

The 20,000-strong army led by Cao Hong, the vanguard of Cao's army, arrived in Xuzhou. Xuzhou garrison Gao Shun knew that the small town alone was not enough to resist Cao's army.

Therefore, he decided to rely on the tall city walls of Xiapi and Tan counties to defend, waiting for Liu Bei's army to return for reinforcements.

December

Cao Hong defeated Xuexian, Yinping, Fuyang, and Wuyuan all the way, and left 10,000 troops in Wuyuan to guard against the Xuzhou Army in Tan County. He took 10,000 vanguards and arrived at Xiapi City.

Because he had expected it, Liu Bei left Gao Shun with a garrison force of 30,000 people before he went on the expedition.

In order to defend Liu Beijun's headquarters, Gao Shun left 20,000 people in Xiapi for defense and 10,000 people in Tan County.

Although there were only 20,000 men, Gao Shun relied on his previous experience in Le'an and cooperated with Bai Dian to give full play to Liu Bei's reputation in Xuzhou and recruited 50,000 strong men and tens of thousands of civilian men and women to cook for the city defense soldiers. Eat and transport the wounded.

Cao Hong knew that his ten thousand people were just building a camp for the arrival of the army, so he didn't have the guts to test Xiapi's city defense strength.

December 15th
Cao Cao's army arrived at Xiapi in the afternoon.

As the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, Cao Cao sent an envoy to Xiapi City to persuade Bai Dian, Gao Shun and others to surrender. As long as they surrendered to him, they would be free to choose all official positions below the prime minister.

But in the end, Cao Cao only got one sentence from Bai Dian: "How can we trust the words of the thieves?"

Cao Cao was very angry, but he had no choice but to vent his anger on the siege.

December 16
Cao Cao's army began to attack the city, because Cao Cao knew that if he captured Xiapi, it would be equivalent to capturing half of Xuzhou. Even if Liu Bei defeated him and lost Xuzhou, he would not be able to continue his momentum.

Therefore, Cao Cao's army, under Cao Cao's personal supervision, was very fierce, and almost every time he attacked with 200% of his strength.

In just one day, Cao Jun lost more than a thousand people under Xiapi City, and the Xiapi defenders also lost hundreds of people.

December 30
Cao Cao's army's siege operation has lasted for fourteen days, but they still have not occupied any section of the city wall. This made Cao Cao very irritated, because he knew that if it continued, Liu Bei would return to the army, so he decided to carry out a massacre. device.

"I am passing the order of the Prime Minister. If any troops attacking the city from now on dare to take a step back without the Prime Minister's orders, the first troops will be killed and the commander of the team will be killed. The commander of the army will be killed. The commander of the army will be killed. The whole army will be killed. Kill the general.

Xiahou Dun was ordered to be the supervisor and beheading officer. He led the three thousand troops in the legal camp and stood behind the army with a broadsword in hand. Anyone who took a step back would be killed. "

When the generals in the tent heard such harsh military laws, they already understood that Cao Cao was going to do something bad.

With this order, Cao Jun's casualties are destined to rise sharply, which also means that Xiapi's defensive pressure is even greater.

In these fourteen days, Cao's army lost more than ten thousand men, and Xiapi also lost more than six or seven thousand.

December 31st

In just one day, Cao Jun lost 3,000 people. However, the defenders of Xiapi did not adapt to the ferocity of Cao Jun. They lost more than 5,000 people and even occupied a small section of the city wall by Cao Jun.

(End of this chapter)