Liu Bei rushed back to Qingzhou day and night, and Xun Yu came out to greet him. After entering the mansion, Xun Yu said: "Lord, Yuan Shao has done his best to the elite north, and Youzhou is difficult to support alone, I have sent Zilong and Guorang to lead the army into Hebei to disturb Yuan Shao's back road, and sent a letter to Lu Gong, asking him to choose an opportunity to help." Now Yuan Shao's army has besieged Jixian County, and the state high-level cadres have invaded Dai County, and the soldiers have reached Lingqiu. ”

Liu Bei took the map, and after a cursory look, he knew that Zhao Yun's attack on Jizhou did not work. Yuan Shao sent a partial division to delay Zhao Yun. However, since I have returned to my teacher, it is different.

So Liu Bei ordered Huang Zhong to lead his troops westward and Yan Yan to attack the Bohai Sea. He led Tai Shici and Liu Ke into the Qinghe River and joined Zhao Yun. Yuan Shaobing besieged Jixian County, and it was too late for him to lead his army north, so he could only surround Wei to save Zhao.

After Yuan Shao's successive defeats in Xian Yufu, he heard that Liu Yu sent Xian Yu Yin to help, so he set up an ambush in Yuanshui to wait for Xian Yu Yin. Xian Yuyin rescued Zhuo County, hurried, and when crossing the river, he was attacked by Yuan Shao's army and half crossed.

Yan Liang protruded, cut fresh in the chaos of the army, and the Youzhou army was defeated and scattered. Since it was broken in silver, Yuan Shao made Chun Yuqiong lead 20,000 people to surround Zhuoxian County like an iron bucket. He led Yan Liang and Wen Chou to rush away from Guangyang.

Yuan Shao's purpose is very clear, not limited to the gains and losses of one city and one place, but directly to Jixian County, where the heart of Youzhou is located. As long as you capture Jixian County and capture Liu Yu. Youzhou can be decided without a fight.

It must be said that the plan of action for this decapitation is quite correct. It's a pity that there is a little flaw in the whole plan. First, Yan Rou used all his strength in Daijun and entangled Gao Gan. Gao Gan walked, Yan Rou chased; Gao Gan stopped to fight, and Yan Rou fought and retreated. Liu Yu and Yuan Shao couldn't borrow Wuhuan to ride, but Yan Rou raised his arms and easily gathered two thousand Wuhuan light horses. Wuhuan rode against the state, and you chased me on the boundary of Dai County, entangled with each other. Yan Rou took advantage of the geographical advantage to forcibly block Gao Gan's intention to enter Youbeiping and then directly enter Jixian County along the water control, and forced Gao Gan to retreat to Lingqiu County.

The second is that after Yuan Shao entered Youzhou, he summoned Dun to help, but the expected reinforcements did not come as agreed this time. This made Yuan Shao angry in his heart, and at the same time, he was also worried about whether Wuhuan would go to help Liu Yu. This made it impossible for him to concentrate on attacking the city, but to dedicate a force to prevent the sudden attack of the Wuhuan cavalry.

Liu Yu was in Jixian County, gathered all his subordinates, and said: "I am in Youzhou, trembling, and self-motivated by diligence and thrift." Today, Yuan Shao raised troops to attack with trumped-up crimes. How crazy and stupid. Although Jicheng is besieged, Qingzhou has entered the Qinghe River, and Huang Hansheng has also come from Liaoxi, which is coming soon. I also hope that Zhuqing will be united with me and guard this city together. When the reinforcements arrive, the internal and external attacks will be combined, and Yuan Shao will retreat! ”

Liu Yu has always treated his subordinates with kindness, and everyone has to listen to him, and everyone obeys him. So they went out of the house, ordered the soldiers, gathered the people, and went to the head of the city to control Yuan Shao.

Yuan Shao raised troops to storm Jixian. However, Liu Yu is not Yuan Shu, he comes to Youzhou, as long as he has a little more money, he will either build bridges or open canals. Because Jixian County is governed by the state, it has also been repaired several times. The city defense is strong and the facilities are perfect. The Jizhou army is anxious, how can it be attacked.

Huang Zhong came from Liaodong, but his speed was much faster than Liu Bei. Hearing that Yuan Shao was marching and besieging Jixian County, Huang Zhong was deeply afraid that Youzhou would be lost. So the starry night march, on the way to meet the Wuhuan led by the Badun, and more than 1,000 horses, and galloped for a day and night, and then rushed to the territory of Jixian County.

When Huang Zhong set up camp, he sent people to explore it, unknown, and the scout came to report: "General, Yuan Shao is attacking the city very much, and the city is still owned by Liu Yuanjun." ”

Huang Zhong heard that Jixian County had not fallen, and he was sure in his heart. So he ordered the three armies to rest and recuperate before going to war.

However, he said that after Tian Yu and Zhao Yun divided their troops, they thought that they had few soldiers, and if they wanted to save Youzhou, it was better to attack Yuan Shaoliangdao. So Tian Yu led the army to ambush day and night, sneaking to the river, bent on intercepting Yuan Shao's grain road. Yuan Shao's grain supervisor was none other than the general Gao Lan.

This person is not known for his martial arts, but he is familiar with military books and is good at raising soldiers. And both temperament and weight. It was Yuan Shao who used him as the grain supervisor. Tian Yu wandered among the rivers for several days, and finally found out carefully. On this day, Gao Ran took the grain to Zhangshui and wanted to cross the river. Suddenly, a drum sounded, and a group of people and horses poured out on both sides of the river bank like a tide.

Gao Ran looked at it, but it was the Qingzhou Army. Secretly heard that the Qingzhou army had entered the Qinghe River, and sure enough, it attacked my grain road. So he shouted: "Don't panic, close the car formation to refuse." And the sergeants did according to their plan, and they made the grain wagons end to each other in a circle. Then set up people in the circle and erect shields to form a formation to protect themselves.

Tian Yu only wanted to burn grain, and when he saw that Yuan's army was stubborn and did not fight, he was overjoyed, so he first ordered the soldiers to attack him with rockets, and then rushed to the front of the car and set fire to the grain. After succeeding, he came back to fight Gao Ran, and saw that Gao Ran was comfortable with it, and he couldn't fight, so Tian Yu shouted and led the army to retreat.

Gao Ran saw that the Qingzhou army was retreating, so he ordered the soldiers to put out the fire. After the fire was extinguished, Gao Ran came to ask about the loss. The lieutenant said happily: "The general's clever plan, this time it is just the loss of dozens of carts, more than 100 stones of grain, and the rest is fine." ”

However, it turned out that Gao Ran was just in case, and dozens of carts were divided into grain teams, and their bags were filled with sand, gravel and soil. When Tian Yu came, Gao Ran made people surround the car on the outside, Tian Yu burned the car, thinking that he had a plan, but he didn't know that only the car was destroyed, but Yuan Shao's grain and grass were not lost.

After Tian Yu attacked and burned Yuan Shao's grain, he was still far behind, and Gao Ran knew that there was a Qingzhou army, so he had no response, and ordered the counties to send troops to escort him along the way. Tian Yu followed one journey after another, thinking that there was no more chance, so he stopped going.

A lieutenant in the army persuaded: "General, Yuan Shao invaded my Youzhou and killed the Zhongxiang Party in our state." Although our army has few soldiers, it cannot be saved. can also plunder in Jizhou to aid me in Youzhou. ”

Tian Yu saw that this was an old man under Gongsun Zhan. These people have never taken human life and their own lives seriously, and they are all team leaders who kill people and set fires. If you listen to him and cause destruction in Jizhou, how many innocent people will have to die? Do you want the reputation of the lord? When the lord knows, if one is counted as one, he will have to ask for it.

After pondering for a while, Tian Yu said: "Military law is ruthless, indiscriminately killing innocent people is beheaded, have you forgotten?" ”

The lieutenant said, "How dare you forget." However, if you don't kill people, you can always set fires, right? ”

So, Tian Yu took this group of people to crisscross the river and the Bohai Sea, and did not enter the city. They gathered together on the outskirts of the city, dispersed the people, and set fire to the houses. The people watched their houses and family assets being ruthlessly devoured by a fire, and they wanted to save them but were desperately stopped by the Qingzhou army. One by one, they looked at the skyrocketing fire, and their hearts were heartbroken, and they jumped to their feet and scolded.

When the lieutenant heard the scolding, he was furious and reprimanded: "Yuan Shao invaded my Youzhou for no reason and killed my people. I, Youzhou Liu, made Jun benevolent and sent me to the south, just to harass and set fire, in order to make Yuan Shao retreat, but to hurt the lives of one of them? If you want to blame and scold, you will complain about Yuan Shao, and you must complain about my Youzhou! ”

Everyone cried, and their family business was destroyed, so they had to flee all the way to the county. The counties were shocked when they saw the endless stream of refugees, and because of the questioning, the people said that Liu Yu sent troops to sneak into the country and drove the people to burn down the houses. The county guard was shocked, and while arranging for people to relieve the refugees, he reported to Yuan Shao. This Liu Yu is simply too vicious. If it burns all the way like this, the people will flock to the county one after another, how can the grain in the government treasury support the people?

Yuan Shao got the letter in Jixian County, took the case, and scolded: "Liu Bei is so insidious, he actually faked Liu Yu's name and did this vicious thing. Yuan Shaoyuan was on the front line, knowing that Liu Yu was surrounded by him and couldn't shrink out, how could he send someone to sneak to Jizhou, this must be done by Liu Bei.

Liu Bei said that he was very innocent, and he had never ordered anyone to do this at all. When he arrived in Jizhou, Liu Beifang heard about it, and for a while, he couldn't help laughing. Although this method is a little bit underestimated, it is very effective.