In the fourth section of the third chapter, the storm and the fourth quarter were frustrated to stop Yuan Shao, who was about to leave,

"What do you mean, sir?" Guo Tu on the side looked at the iron cavalry army galloping in the distance, and said in a panic: "We have been fooled, Li Hong wants to kill the adult." ”

"What nonsense?" Frustrated and calm,

"Li Hong didn't want to kill the adult, but wanted to deter the adult with an iron horse, and force the adult to join forces with him to attack Gongsun Zhan." Yuan Shao sneered: "Li Hong is a madman, who knows what he will do?" Let's go, quickly withdraw ......" A hundred guards surrounded Yuan Shaoru and flew away.

Frustrated as he rode his horse galloped wildly, he kept looking back.

"Uh......h Woo ......" horns sound one after another, and the sound shook all over the world. The army of iron cavalry in the distance slowed down.

A white horse stands out and chases after it like a gallop. After that, ten horsemen lined up and followed on horseback.

After taking a closer look and making sure that the Iron Cavalry had stopped, he raised his hand and shouted,

"Your Excellency...... The general came to ...... alone" Yuan Shao looked back and shouted angrily: "Don't pay attention to him, let's go ......" Fu Zhu said loudly: "My lord, we need to meet with the general to determine the idea of the Northern Frontier Army." It's good for us. ”

"It doesn't matter to me what he thinks." Yuan Shao whipped it down and shouted loudly,

"I just want him to fight with Gongsun Zhan. Let's go, let's go back to camp. Frustrated for a moment, he suddenly grabbed Ma Jian,

"My lord goes first, I'll meet him." Yuan Shao glared at him angrily, waved his hand and ordered the guards on the left and right,

"Leave fifty horsemen to protect Lord Fu, and the rest follow me." Fu Zhu saw Li Hong. He was the same as before, with old leather armor and long hair that had been pulled out, except that his resolute face was covered with short black beards, and he looked more calm and powerful.

"General, I haven't seen you for seven years. You okay? ”

"Don't come unharmed, Lord Frustration." Li Hong bowed and said with a smile,

"I'm okay or not, Lord Fu should be clear." He smiled and pointed to the Iron Cavalry army in the distance and said, "What do you mean, my lord?" ”

"What do you mean?" Li Hong's face sank suddenly, and Yuan Shao was scolded. He scolded Yuan Shao for supporting Liu Yu as the emperor, and scolded until Yuan Shao seized Jizhou.

"I want to ask him, why did Jizhou become like this immediately when it came to him? Is Gongsun Chan going to forcibly occupy Jizhou, or is he going to destroy Sheji? If he doesn't have this ability, he won't be a Jizhou pastor. Now Jizhou is in chaos like this, it is all his responsibility. Frustrated thoughtfully.

Li Hong pointed to the direction in which Yuan Shao disappeared, and said angrily: "Please go back and tell Yuan Shao, tell him to weigh his own weight first, and if he does not have the ability to govern Jizhou, he will immediately go to the court and take the initiative to resign." Frustrated and evaded, he asked respectfully: "How many men did the general bring to Hebei this time?" ”

"Just these three thousand." Li Hong pointed at the iron cavalry army in the distance with the horsewhip in his hand,

"There is no army in northern Xinjiang to support Jizhou. Now the Saiwai Tuntian has not been completed, the people are in hardship, and the Hu tribes in the desert are constantly in friction. Under these circumstances, I did not dare to recruit the foreign army to the south. After a moment's hesitation, he asked again: "General, I heard that Northern Xinjiang has recently purchased a large amount of grain in Jing, Henan, and Yang, and has also recruited hundreds of thousands of people in Zhongshan and Changshan. ”

"Hmph......" Li Hong sneered and said rather conceitedly,

"To deal with Gongsun Zhan, 20,000 people are enough." There was a hint of mockery in his eyes.

"If Yuan Shao, the pastor of Jizhou, still wants to do it, tell him to send troops to Ganling State in three days, and attack Ganling City with my northern Xinjiang army." Li Hong said very arrogantly,

"What Yuan Shao thinks in his heart, I know clearly. He wants to consume the strength of my Northern Frontier Army, doesn't he? You tell him that if he doesn't attack Gongsun Zhan, I will immediately make peace with Gongsun Zhan, this Jizhou pastor, who will be Gongsun Zhan in three days. Frustrated, his face suddenly became ugly,

"General, you are the pillar of my dynasty, the hussar general of the Han Dynasty, you can't bend the law so arrogantly......"

"Do you say me?" Li Hong pointed to his nose and asked,

"Am I arrogant? What about Yuan Shao? Who made Jizhou what it is today? Then he glared at him and said,

"Does Yuan Shao want to take advantage of the fact that Gongsun Zhan and I are both defeated, and hit me so that the fisherman can profit?" Frustrated and wanted to defend himself, Li Hong waved his hand to stop him,

"Three days later, if Yuan Shao doesn't beat Gongsun Zhan, I will beat him." Fu Zhu hurriedly returned to the camp and told Yuan Shao what Li Hong had said.

Yuan Shao discussed with many subordinates for a long time, and could not determine whether Li Hong's words were true or false. Fu Zhu, Tian Feng, Xun Chen, and others all believed that the Northern Xinjiang Army outside the Saiwai had already moved south or was moving south, and with Li Hong's character and use of troops, he would never fight such a battle that was bound to lose.

But Yuan Shao and others do not agree with this view. Yuan Shao thought that Li Hong was fighting and could not use common sense to speculate, and he also specially told everyone about the Battle of Yicheng that year.

At that time, Li Hong was at an absolute disadvantage, but he miraculously won the battle by relying on the panicked defection.

"What do you mean, do you mean that the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army recruited by Gongsun Chan may defect?" Geng Bao asked suspiciously.

"Yang Feng, Wang Dang, and Sun Qin were all leaders of the Yellow Turban Army in the past, and with their abilities, it is normal for them to rebel against some of the former Yellow Turban Army officers and soldiers in the Youzhou Army." The judge said,

"I heard that some of the Yellow Turban Army in Montenegro recently ran to Handan to be appeased. It can be seen that Li Hong said that he could defeat Gongsun Zhan, and his confidence must have come from the defection of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army. ”

"I think Li Hong is eager to defeat Gongsun Zhan." Yuan Shao walked around the big tent with his hands behind his back and said,

"He came to threaten me today with 3,000 iron horsemen, which shows that he is very anxious. In order to prevent the Northern Army from becoming bogged down on two fronts in the coming months, he had to attack immediately. Yuan Shao then said his plan.

At present, the Yellow River has not yet thawed and opened, and the Yellow Turban Army is stranded in the Liyang area. If they could cross the Yellow River to the south to meet Sima Ju in early March, then the Yellow Turban Army would not be able to cross the Yellow River north to attack Jizhou until around April at the earliest.

Gongsun Chan will definitely hold out until April, but will the Yellow Turban Army go north in April? In the first battle of Dongguang last year, the 300,000 Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army was completely annihilated, so Yuan Shao was not sure that the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army would once again risk the destruction of the whole army to go north for a second expedition.

In order to ensure that the Yellow Turban Army could cross the Yellow Turban Army to the north in April, Yuan Shao believed that it was first necessary to ensure that the Yellow Turban Army of Montenegro could cross the Yellow Turban Army to the south in March, and secondly, to cut off the road for the Yellow Turban Army of Montenegro to return to Montenegro and force them to move south quickly.

In order to smoothly cut off the retreat of the Montenegrin Yellow Turban Army, Yuan Shao planned to agree to Li Hong's request and send troops to the Ganling State with great fanfare to deceive and paralyze the Montenegrin Yellow Turban Army.

After the Yellow Turban Army of Montenegro crossed the river, the army immediately broke away from the battlefield of Ganling Kingdom and killed Montenegro as quickly as possible.

Whether or not we can successfully capture Montenegro and sweep away the Yellow Turban Army stationed in Montenegro has a direct bearing on the stability of Hanoi and the security of the army after it enters Luoyang.

To this end, Yuan Shao ordered the various armies in Yanzhou to retreat appropriately, allowing Yu Poison and Zhenggu to cross the river with more Yellow Turban troops to the south, and at the same time ordered Cao Cao, the Taishou of Dongjun, to lead the army to Montenegro to help.

Yuan Shao also hurriedly sent troops to Yuan Tan and Gao Gan who were left by Chen, and launched an attack on Yuzhou as soon as possible, so as to flank Yuan Shu with Liu Biao.

"The Northern Xinjiang Army lost Yuzhou, and the Guanxi Battlefield and the Jizhou Battlefield fell into a bitter battle at the same time, in this case, Li Hong's best way is to abandon Luoyang and concentrate his forces to attack Jizhou." Yuan Shao finally said,

"This approach is different from what we've done in the past. First, our army will leave Wei County and enter the Ganling Kingdom, and the cities of Wei County should strengthen their garrisons to avoid being invaded by the Yellow Turban Army. The second is that Cao Cao went to Montenegro to attack and kill the Yellow Turban Army with us. When Cao Cao comes, our strength will be stronger, and at the same time, we can also transfer some troops to garrison Wei County. Yuan Shao stopped, looked at everyone, and said with a solemn expression: "Because Gongsun Chan occupies the Bohai Sea and the Hejian Kingdom, our supply of money and grain is very tight this year. Now we have to supply not only our own army with food and wages, but also food and salary for the northern Xinjiang army, and we can no longer sustain it. In a few months, if we can't take Luoyang and Yuzhou as soon as possible, the army will have to rely on Wei County for part of its grain and grass baggage. Therefore, the stability and security of Wei County is extremely important to us and cannot be missed. Gongsun Chan received a letter from Li Hong.

Li Hong said very politely in the letter, saying that Brother Bo Jue defeated the 300,000 Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army in the Battle of Dongguang and made great contributions.

With the order of the Son of Heaven, the eldest princess ordered to worship her brother as the general of Fenwu, the Marquis of Ji. I have sent the messenger to bring the decree and the seal, and I ask my brother to receive it.

Then Li Hong spoke earnestly, carefully described the difficulties of the imperial court and northern Xinjiang, and hoped that Gongsun Zhan would give priority to the society and immediately withdraw the army.

Li Hong even promised Gongsun Zan that as long as he could stop the army without fighting, he could not only garrison Jizhou, but he was also willing to go to the princess and the court to recommend him as the pastor of Jizhou.

Of course, the premise is that he must force Yuan Shao away. In the end, Li Hong said, I owe my brother a drink, and I have been looking for an opportunity to invite my brother to get drunk, I wonder if my brother can get together at Jieqiao?

Gongsun Chan accepted the holy decree and the seal of General Fenwu, but he refused Li Hong's invitation and was unwilling to go out of the city to meet Li Hong.

Changshi Guan Jing carefully read Li Hong's letter, and he believed that Li Hong was deliberately delaying the time for the decisive battle, and the reinforcements of the Northern Xinjiang Army might be on their way to Jizhou.

From the end of December to the present, the Youzhou army has sent thousands of scouts to Zhongshan, Changshan and Zhao to inquire about the military situation, but there has been no trace of reinforcements from northern Xinjiang.

According to the speculation of Guan Jing, Yan Gang and others, the reinforcements from Northern Xinjiang may indeed have not arrived in Jizhou, because a part of the Northern Xinjiang Army is now fighting Dong Zhuo in Guanxi, and only the Saiwai army can rush to Jizhou to support.

It took a while for the army outside the northern Xinjiang to assemble from receiving the order, and in addition, it was a harsh winter, heavy snowfall, and the roads were blocked, and it was already the fastest speed for the army outside the country to complete the assembly within two months.

There are more than 2,000 miles from Yunzhong, Wuyuan and other places outside the Saiwai to Julu County in Jizhou, that is to say, the army outside the Saiwai in the north will not reach the battlefield until at least the end of March or the beginning of April.

The opinion of Guan Jing, Yan Gang and others was to immediately launch an attack on the Northern Xinjiang Army. Gongsun Chan also agreed with Guan Jing's opinion, but considering the comparison of forces between the two sides, the Youzhou army did not have an absolute advantage, so Gongsun Chan was hesitant to start a decisive battle immediately.

At present, the Northern Xinjiang Army and Yuan Shao's army together will be nearly 50,000 people. Although there are about 100,000 people in the Youzhou army who can go to the battlefield, the main force is only 30,000 to 50,000 people, which also includes 10,000 iron cavalry in Youzhou.

Gongsun Zhan wanted to wait until early March, when the main army of Tian Kai and Liu Bei returned to help, and then start a decisive battle. Guan Jing disagreed.

He gave Gongsun Zhan a detailed analysis of the current situation in Jizhou, especially the movements of the Yellow Turban Army. Tian Kai and Liu Bei fought in Qingzhou for more than two months, seized four counties in the north of Qingzhou, and drove out hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turban troops.

The survival of the Yellow Turbans is becoming more and more difficult. At this time, if there is a big chaos in Jizhou, the Yellow Turban Army will definitely go north for the second time, and the state and county officials of Yan, Qing, and Xu are of course willing to help the Yellow Turban Army, and they wish that the Yellow Turban Army would go north.

After the Yellow Turban Army went north, the situation would be out of control, so Guan Jing strongly advocated that Gongsun Chan defeat the Northern Xinjiang Army first, and then go all out to deal with the Yellow Turban Army going north.

Gongsun Chan smiled and said, "Shiqi, what do you mean, we made peace with Yuan Shaoyan?" ”

"Yuan Shao suddenly withdrew his troops from Montenegro and stationed his troops in Qingyuan, his purpose is too obvious." Guan Jing said with a smile,

"Who is Yuan Shao? Didn't he know that Jizhou was a dead land? Yuan Shao's foundation is in Yuzhou, and Yuan Shao's ambition is to plot the world. Therefore, everything he is doing now is to weaken the strength of Northern Xinjiang and us, and prepare for him to successfully occupy Luoyang and dominate the world in the future. ”

"Now that the reinforcements of the Northern Xinjiang Army have not arrived, we can take this opportunity to join Yuan Shao to inflict heavy losses on the Northern Xinjiang Army, completely drive the Northern Xinjiang Army out of Jizhou, and then we will turn around and deal with the Yellow Turban Army." Guan Jing said calmly,

"We fought with the Northern Xinjiang Army, and fought with the Yellow Turban Army, and the strength consumption was very large, this is the result that Yuan Shao is willing to see, and he himself has no losses, why is he unwilling?"

"As long as Yuan Shao does not move, the 20,000 people of the Northern Xinjiang Army will die." Guan Jing said excitedly,

"We still use the method of Panhe to consume a large number of Yellow Turbans and surrender troops. They were not paid for two months, and they complained. Hum...... Without the benevolence and righteousness of adults, they would have been white bones a long time ago, where would they have food to eat and clothes to wear? ”

"It just so happens that we don't have much food, and it's best to die 50,000 or 80,000, which can solve a big problem." Yan Gang said with a smile,

"In the future, if they turn against us, we will be miserable. As long as our main forces are still there, the Yellow Turban Army has nothing to worry about. Gongsun Chan thought for a moment and nodded,

"Hurry to Tian Kai and Liu Bei, let them take the army to the bank of the Yellow River as soon as possible. As long as the river is opened, it will come to the aid immediately. At the end of February, Li Hong led the army to leave the boundary bridge and march towards Ganling City, a hundred miles away.

In the afternoon of the same day, Gongsun Chan received the news and immediately led his army to meet Li Hong's army. The two sides held each other at the Xifeng Pavilion fifty miles away from the boundary bridge.

Also on this day, Yuan Shao led his army to leave Qingyuan City and slowly walked in the direction of Ganling City. In February, Jizhou, Wei County, Yecheng.

In the early morning, a trace of fish belly white has just been revealed in the east, and the ancient Yecheng is hidden in a faint mist. The guards on the tower stretched out and looked out of the city with sleepy eyes.

Suddenly, his eyes widened and he opened his mouth to let out a howl of terror,

"Northern Xinjiang Army...... Leopard ......" jumped to