The Jagged Cavalry of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 295 294 Sweeping Jizhou

After breaking out of the encirclement, Zang Ba left five hundred men who dared to die and headed north, while he asked the soldiers to drop their helmets and armor, sprinkle all the way along the way, and then swaggered and led the army all the way west. go.

Yuan Tan led his pursuers in pursuit and found this fork in the road. He saw that the road to the west had been abandoned for a long distance, while the road to the north had only footprints. He was about to lead his army to chase west, but I heard Guo Tu shout: "Wait a minute."

"What advice does the military advisor have?" Yuan Tan asked hastily.

Guo Tudao: "Zang Ba has always been cautious in using troops. The road to the west is full of soldiers' discarded armor. This is obviously leading us to go west. Don't be fooled, my son. I conclude that Zang Ba will lead the army to the north. Now, to the north is Gaotang, maybe Zang Ba wants to join Zhao Yun's army."

Yuan Tan made a decisive decision and immediately ordered the army to go to the north. After chasing for more than an hour, he finally caught up with the [-] daredevils. .When Yuan Tan asked him about the whereabouts of Zang Ba's army, the man who dared to die just sneered, saying that Zang Ba was already out of danger at this time, and it would be difficult to find him again.

In anger, Yuan Tan beheaded the soldier and looked at Guo Tu with resentment.

Guo Tu's face was hot for a while, he didn't expect that he made a mistake and fell into Zang Ba's trick.At this point, Guo Tu has nothing to blame, and immediately said to Yuan Tan: "My lord, Zang Ba has only a few thousand remnants and defeated generals, and there is no trouble at all. Why don't you leave some soldiers to garrison Licheng, and the lord will lead the army into the city?" Jizhou, go and attack Zhao Yun, if the eldest son can capture and kill Zhao Yun and present his head to the lord, it will be many times stronger than defeating Zang Ba!"

Yuan Tan nodded heavily, and immediately sent an order to withdraw the troops.At this time, the generals of the Yuan army had already occupied Licheng. Yuan Tan was angry that the people in the city helped Zang Ba to defend the city together, which caused him to lose a lot of troops. In a rage, he ordered the massacre of the city.In addition, the soldiers were even more indulgent to rob for a day, and all the things they robbed belonged to themselves.

The [-] people who survived in the poor city died tragically under Yuan Tan's butcher knife.At the beginning, Zang Ba was worried that these people would suffer if he followed him, and he was afraid of being killed by Yuan Jun, so he left them and did not take them away, but he was slaughtered by Yuan Tan. If Zang Ba had known such a result, Zang Ba would definitely send The people of the whole city took it away.

After Yuan Tan slaughtered the city, he dispatched Chunyuqiong, Jiang Qi, and Zhu Ling each to lead [-] soldiers to attack Beihai, Qijun, and Donglai. He himself led an army to Jizhou to fight Zhao Yun. Tan didn't leave a single soldier behind at all, and took the looted things and rushed to Jizhou in a mighty way.

Zang Ba retreated to the Taishan area, and with the help of Zhuge Jin, the prefect of Mount Tai, he was resettled. When he learned that Yuan Tan had slaughtered the city, he was immediately annoyed and hated Yuan Tan even more.

Therefore, Zang Ba asked Yu Fan to draft a call to action and spread it to all counties in Qingzhou, announcing Yuan Tan's evil deeds of massacring the city to the world, and called on the people of all Qingzhou to fight against Yuan Jun together with the enemy.

In the next few months, the people of Qingzhou spontaneously organized and continuously attacked and harassed Yuan Jun, making Yuan Jun a target of public criticism in Qingzhou. Finally, with the cooperation of Zang Ba, Yuan Jun was completely driven out of Qingzhou.

However, these are later stories.

Now, after Zang Ba arrived at Mount Tai and was resettled, he recuperated here in peace, and kept an eye on Yuan Jun's movements, striving to fight back.

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Zhao Yun led an army of [-] bodyguards and Chen Gui as a counselor. The group ran wild in Jizhou, and everywhere they went, they looked forward to the wind and surrendered.

Zhao Yun stayed in Ganling City for two days, and then he led his army to the north and approached the city of Nanpi, the prefecture of Bohai County.After Zhao Yun led his army into Nanpi City, he punished bullies and opened official warehouses to help the poor local people, which won the support of the local people.

Afterwards, Yuan Shao's call to kill the king came, and Zhao Yun publicized it vigorously, and claimed that he was ordered by the regent to come to rescue the people of Jizhou.For a while, young and middle-aged people in Jizhou asked to join the army and followed Zhao Yun, but they were all rejected by Zhao Yun, unwilling to let the people of Jizhou put themselves in danger.

One day later, Zhao Yun led his army to leave Nanpi. Before leaving, he killed the prefect of Bohai and the county magistrate of Nanpi, and told the people that his departure was only temporary. The regent will send an army to occupy Jizhou in the future. The common people joined the army enthusiastically.

After Zhao Yun left Nanpi, he led his army to continue northward, conquering Hejian, Zhongshan, and Changshan one after another, and finally stationed in Zhending County of Changshan.

Zhending County is Zhao Yun's hometown. The purpose of returning to his hometown this time is to visit his mother whom he has not seen for many years, and to recruit soldiers.

Zhao Yun's mother passed away three years ago. At that time, Zhao Yun was still in Xuzhou and could not return to his hometown to visit. This time, when he came back, he was on a different road with his old mother. It was a bit sad.

Since Zhao Yun followed Gongsun Zan, he entrusted his old mother to Xia Houlan, a fellow villager, to take care of her. Xia Houlan treated her like her own mother and took care of her until the end of her life.

In addition, Zhao Yun's reputation is very good, and everyone in his hometown admires him, and everyone responds to it.Therefore, Yuan Shao sent people to look for Zhao Yun's family several times, but the villagers all concealed it. They all said that Zhao Yun's parents died in his early years, and he was alone, with no relatives or reasons.

This time when Zhao Yun came back, accompanied by Xia Houlan, he went to worship in front of his mother's grave, and then asked Xia Houlan to go out with him to explore the world.

Both of Xia Houlan's parents died since she was a child, and she was alone. Fortunately, Zhao Yun often helped her out. She already regarded Zhao Yun as her big brother, and she also practiced martial arts with Zhao Yun.Xia Houlan has not been married in recent years, so she is still alone, so she followed Zhao Yun.

Afterwards, Zhao Yun recruited [-] strong and brave men from Zhending, his hometown, distributed weapons and armor to them, and left Zhending with him.

Zhao Yun went south from Zhending, passed Julu, and came to the city of Yecheng again. Yuan Shang, who stayed behind in Yecheng, was frightened.

In the past half a month, Zhao Yun has almost swept across the entire Jizhou. Secret reports like snowflakes have been flying into Yecheng, basically saying that he was attacked by Zhao Yun. This caused Yuan Shang a headache, but it couldn't be solved. .

When he was upset, he didn't want Zhao Yun to come to the city again, and Yuan Shang was so frightened that he immediately closed the gate of the city, not daring to fight.

With the power of one army, Zhao Yun disrupted the whole Jizhou, making Jizhou restless.

But the reinforcements had not yet arrived, and Yuan Shang was in a state of confusion, not knowing how to respond.

However, fortunately, Zhao Yun did not stay in Yecheng for a long time, and only stayed for an hour before heading southeast.

The task Zhang Yan entrusted to Zhao Yun was to turn Jizhou upside down. Now, Zhao Yun's goal has been achieved, and it's time to lead his army back.

Although Zhao Yun has left, there are legends about Zhao Yun everywhere in Jizhou.Because Zhao Yun killed bullies and severely punished corrupt officials along the way, he won the hearts of the people. The government all declared that Zhao Yun was a devil who ate people and didn't spit out bones.

After Zhao Yun left, the homes of ordinary people in the Jizhou area basically enshrined Zhao Yun's statue on top of Shenkan for worship, and the name of General Huwei spread far and wide, even spreading to Youzhou and Bingzhou.

Zhao Yun led his army again to Dongwuyang, crossed the river from here, and went to Cangting on the other side. On the way, he met more than ten small groups of troops, but none of them dared to provoke Zhao Yun. On the [-]th day of February, arrive at the south bank of the Yellow River, enter the boundary of Cangting, and then follow the Yellow River all the way westward towards Puyang.

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Near Xiancheng, Yuan Shao listened to Tian Feng's suggestion, sent soldiers to dig a ravine, and sent someone to Cao Cao to deliver a letter, ordering Cao Cao to lead his army to Xiancheng to join forces.

After Cao Cao received Yuan Shao's order, he did not hesitate to take [-] troops, took the water, went down the river, arrived at Baima, and then rushed from Baima to Xiancheng.

In the past few days, Yuan Jun's deep ditch and high fortress formed a confrontation with Zhang Yan's army in Xiancheng.

However, because Yuan Jun dug many deep and wide ravines, neither cavalry nor infantry could cross them, so Zhang Yan stationed troops in Xiancheng and did not attack Yuan Shao.

However, Zhang Yan secretly urged skilled craftsmen to develop secret weapons. Once the secret weapon is successfully developed, it is likely to be the end of Yuan Jun.

Cao Cao led his army to the border of Xiancheng soon, and he was allowed to enter the tent after he himself was notified.

"See my lord!" Cao Cao paid homage to Yuan Shao as soon as he entered the big tent.

Seeing Cao Cao coming, Yuan Shao smiled happily, stepped forward immediately, grabbed Cao Cao's hand, and said happily: "Meng De came at the right time."

Cao Cao said with shame: "My subordinates are incompetent, unable to lead the army to break through Hulao Pass, let alone capture Aocang. Instead, they were attacked by Tai Shici one after another in Hanoi, losing more than 2 people. Please punish me, my lord."

After Yuan Shao heard this, instead of blaming him, he said calmly: "Victory or defeat is a common matter in military affairs. Meng De must not make a conclusion based on the victory or defeat of a war. Not only was your attack blocked, but I was also blocked. It seems that , we underestimated Zhang Yan too much back then."

As soon as the words fell, Yuan Shao felt lonely for a while.However, there was a strange glance in his eyes inadvertently, and he secretly glanced at Cao Cao, which was fleeting and he didn't notice anything.

Cao Cao clasped his fists and said, "My lord, on the way I came here, I heard that Zhang Yan has a very powerful army. It's called a chained cavalry formation. I don't know if my lord has thought of a way to break it?"

"Jundi Tian presented me with the strategy of deep trenches and high fortifications, which can at least block the attack of the chained cavalry formation. In this way, our army will not suffer losses." Yuan Shao said.

Cao Cao said: "Deep ditches and high fortifications are just a temporary measure. Now that my subordinates have come to support us with [-] troops, why should we be afraid of Zhang Yan's cavalry formation with chains of chains? Why don't you let your subordinates go out to battle tomorrow, and you will be able to find ways to destroy them?" Iron chain chain horse formation!"

Yuan Shao laughed and said, "If Meng De is willing to take action, we will definitely get twice the result with half the effort. Come on, you and I haven't seen each other for a long time, and we won't return today if we're not drunk!"

(End of this chapter)