Chapter 10 Winning the Central Plains in the thirtieth section of the eight-hundred-mile fast ride with Yuan Shao's order, flying like galloping through the pass.

Feng Ji, Shen Pei, Yuan Zhong, Xun Chen and others hurried to Yuan Shao's mansion to discuss countermeasures with Yuan Shao and Yuan Wei.

At present, Yingchuan's situation is very critical. Although the three big cities of Xuchang, Yingyin and Yingyang in the south of Yingchuan are still controlled by Liu Bei, due to the fall of Henan Guancheng, Nanyang's army went north to Guanzhong, and Liu Biao is fighting with the Jiangdong army in the Chaisang area of Yuzhang County, and only Runan, Chen Guo, Liang Guo and Pei** team in Yuzhou can quickly support Yingchuan.

However, these four counties have limited troops, and most of them are newly recruited new soldiers, so they cannot pose a mortal threat to the Northern Xinjiang Army, at most they help Liu Bei hold the southern part of Yingchuan, and it is extremely difficult to drive the Northern Army out of Yingchuan immediately.

"Only with the support of the Jingzhou army can we hold Yingchuan." The trial suggested that Yuan Shaoshu inform Yuan Tan and ask him to send people south to Jiangdong again, and try his best to facilitate peace talks between Cao Cao, Liu Biao, Sun Quan and Zhou Yu, so that Liu Biao could free up his hands to lead the army north to support, so that Cao Cao and Sun Quan could join forces to threaten the Central Plains and force the Northern Xinjiang Army to withdraw from Yingchuan.

The suggestion of the trial did not receive a response from the public. Hebei's sacrificial Feng had just married Cao Cao's daughter, and Chen Hao, an important minister of the Jinyang court, had just married Sun Quan's sister, and the three families had a harmonious relationship and were negotiating peace.

At this moment, in order to get out of the predicament, Jiangdong urgently needs Hebei to contain Cao Cao, so as to concentrate on attacking Jingzhou and avoid being attacked by Cao Cao and Liu Biao in the future.

Cao Cao was sandwiched between Hebei and Jiangdong, and his life was difficult, and he also urgently needed to stabilize Xuzhou and control the two counties of Yangzhou and Jiangbei to avoid being swallowed by Hebei in the case of weak strength.

In order to concentrate its forces to take Luoyang and take the Central Plains, Hebei also urgently needs to stabilize the situation in Jianghuai, so as not to be dragged by Cao Cao and Sun Quan by two things.

Each of the three countries will benefit from the peace talks. Therefore, there is a great possibility that the peace talks will succeed. On the contrary, Yuan Shao was in a bad situation at the moment, and he came forward to mediate all parties purely to hold Luoyang, and could not bring any substantial benefits to Cao Cao, Liu Biao, and Sun Quan.

Therefore, even if Yuan Tan rushed to Jiangdong in person, I am afraid it would be difficult to prevent Jiangdong from attacking Jingzhou, it would be difficult to persuade Cao Cao and Li Hong to turn their faces, and it would be even more difficult for Liu Biao to go north to support Yingchuan under the pressure of Jiangdong Army.

Yuan Shao thought about it for a long time, but still accepted the suggestion of the trial.

"The key to whether the current tense situation can be reversed is the battle in Guanzhong. As long as we defeat the Northern Frontier Army in Guanzhong, the situation in the world will be shockingly reversed. Yuan Shao said,

"Now that Brother Jingsheng is fighting with Sun Quan and Zhou Yu, the Jingzhou Army will not be able to go north in the short term, and Brother Jingsheng is also powerless, so it is indeed unlikely that this mediation will succeed. However, the key for us now is the battle in Guanzhong. It doesn't matter if Brother Jingsheng can go north to support immediately, we just need to keep in touch with them. Once the Northern Xinjiang Army was defeated in Guanzhong and Hebei retreated, Li Hong's threat to Cao Cao and Sun Quan was greatly reduced. At that time, our strength was restored, and I believe that Cao Cao, Sun Quan, and Zhou Yu will make the wisest choice that is most beneficial to us. After careful discussion with everyone, Yuan Shao and others then made a series of deployments.

He ordered Xin Ping, who was in the Henan battlefield, to immediately lead his army to counterattack and recapture Guancheng at all costs. At present, the target of the attack of the Northern Xinjiang Army has been clear, in order to hold Yingchuan, the army on the Henan battlefield must recapture Guancheng, threaten the rear of the Northern Xinjiang Army, and contain the strength of the Northern Xinjiang Army on the Yingchuan battlefield.

After the loss of Yangzhai, Luyang became the only way for Luoyang to keep in touch with the southern prefectures and counties, and it could not be lost in any case.

But now the Nanyang army is divided into three, and the strength is very weak. An army of Nanyang went north to Guanzhong to participate in the Battle of Guanzhong, and another army of Yuan Xi was brought to Hanzhong to meet Zhang Lu, and the remaining army was mainly to protect the Son of Heaven and stay in the city, with only 5,000 people, so the situation in Luyang was extremely critical.

Yuan Shao hurriedly wrote to Yuan Xi for this 100,000 yuan, ordering him to return to Nanyang with the army day and night, rush to Luyang City to defend the key pass, and ensure that the gallop from Luyang to Yique Pass is smooth and unimpeded.

Yuan Shao also ordered the commanders of Guangcheng, Yique, Dagu, and Yuyuan to prepare for the battle and always guard against the attack of the Northern Xinjiang Army on the passes.

Feng Ji had suggested that troops should be transferred from Luoyang to the south to strengthen the defense, and at the same time gather troops to kill Yingchuan from the direction of Yuyuan Pass to recapture Yangzhai, but Yuan Shao was worried that Luoyang would not have enough troops and could not support the Hanoi and Henan battlefields in time, so he vetoed Feng Ji's proposal.

In the end, Yuan Shaoshu told Liu Bei and the Taishou of all counties in Yuzhou, hoping that they would work together to defend the line of Yingyang, Yingyin and Xuchang, and find ways to defeat the Northern Xinjiang Army and recapture Yingchuan.

Yuan Wei and others said goodbye and left. Yuan Shao stood at the door, looking at their tired figures, and a sense of sadness and fear suddenly rose in his heart.

The uneasiness quickly spread throughout his body, leaving him almost breathless. Guanzhong, now all hopes are pinned on the battlefield of Guanzhong, once the battle of Guanzhong failed, Luoyang immediately fell into the encirclement of the Northern Xinjiang Army, if he wants to turn the tide and turn the tide, it will be even more difficult.

Will the Guanzhong War be lost? Will Han Sui defect on the verge of defection? If Hebei encircles Luoyang on all sides, the battle line is too long, and the forces will be seriously dispersed, and it will not be able to form an absolute advantage over Luoyang on any battlefield.

In other words, as long as I win on one of the battlefields, the siege strategy of Hebei will fail.

I still have a chance, and I still have a chance to beat Hebei. In July of the fourth year of the establishment of the Han Kingdom (200 AD).

At the beginning of July, Guanzhong, Xinfeng City. Han Sui received a letter from Xu Rong and was furious when he learned that Hebei was in a hurry to move its population to Guanzhong, believing that Hebei had deceived him.

Hebei has always said that the army entered Guanzhong in order to attack Guanxi and Luoyang, but after the army entered Guanzhong, Hebei suddenly decided to move the population to Guanzhong, which was obviously to force itself to withdraw to Xiliang.

In order to get Guanzhong, Hebei has impatiently raised its war knife. However, Han Sui was worried that his troops would not be enough, and he was reluctant to attack.

If the Xiliang people defeated the Northern Xinjiang Army at a heavy price, not only would they not be able to continue to occupy Guanzhong, but it would also be a problem to defend the Western Frontier.

Han Sui didn't want to take risks, he wanted to hit with one hit, and he was still waiting patiently. After Yuan Shao's letter was delivered to Guanzhong, Han Sui breathed a sigh of relief.

The Northern Xinjiang Army launched attacks at the same time in Henan and Yingchuan, indicating that the army on the Central Plains battlefield did not rush thousands of miles to the Guanzhong battlefield.

In the Zhengbaiqu camp on the south bank of the Weishui River, there was only the Northern Frontier Army in the east of the river. There were only 50,000 troops in the east of the river, and the first line of Fenglingdu and Dayangcheng on the north bank of the Yellow River needed to be defended by troops, and the troops who could cross the river into Guanzhong did not exceed 40,000.

At this time, the Northern Xinjiang Iron Cavalry also appeared. An army of about 5,000 men slaughtered Maoling and Pingling from Anding County, and had two skirmishes with the Xiliang Iron Cavalry.

The scouts scattered along the line of Chiyang and Gaoling replied that they had found traces of the Northern Frontier Iron Cavalry on the north bank of Zhengguoqu, but the number of the other side was not large, about five or six thousand.

At this moment, Pang De's army was still in the Tianqiong Desert, so Han Sui estimated that the iron cavalry that Hebei could recruit and transfer into the pass was about 20,000 to 30,000.

But now the results of the scout's investigation differed greatly from his estimates. Han Sui was a little uneasy, and ordered the scouts to get as close as possible to the Zheng Baiqu camp of the Northern Xinjiang Army in order to investigate the situation of the Northern Frontier Iron Cavalry.

At present, on the battlefield in Guanzhong, he has 60,000 horses. Excluding the troops stationed in Chang'an, Huaili and other cities, the number of troops that can be put into battle on the battlefield is less than 50,000.

Yuan Shao's army of 40,000 had secretly rushed to the lurking position. The combined number of the two armies was about 90,000.

If the strength of the Northern Frontier Army is close to the results of the scouts, it is indeed about 50,000 people, then it will be difficult for the coalition forces to completely annihilate the opponent.

Besieging the opponent with less than twice the force, especially when the Northern Frontier Army is on guard, it is the best result to be able to inflict heavy damage on the opponent, but his own losses must be large.

Han Sui was unwilling to pay this loss, he wanted to use the Weishui River to lure the Northern Xinjiang Army to the south bank of the Weishui River, and gather absolutely superior forces to encircle and annihilate it.

Then they crossed the river and launched a pursuit, besieging and killing the remaining Northern Xinjiang army on the banks of the Yellow River. For this reason, Han Sui specially sent Ling Ru to Zhengbaiqu, pretending to negotiate the specific details with Hebei, and at the same time asked Xu Rong to immediately lead the army to cross the river to attack Huayin and capture Tongguan.

Xu Rong politely refused, saying that the general was currently commanding the army to attack Luoyang in the Central Plains battlefield, and Hebei was not financially rich enough to fight on both battlefields at the same time.

Xu Rong believed that the best time to attack Tongguan should be in October, that is, after the population moved to Guanzhong, when they were ready for autumn ploughing.

Han Sui was at a loss. Xu Rong had no intention of crossing the river at all, he had already begun to arrange the relocation of the population, but Yuan Shao sent three letters a day to urge, begging Han Sui to attack immediately, otherwise not only Yingchuan would be lost, but even Luoyang would be in danger.

Gao Gan, Xin Bi, and Zhu Ling also rushed to Xinfeng City in person to urge. Gao Gan even threatened that if the adults were unwilling to fight, we would attack alone.

The high-ranking cadres have limited troops and no iron cavalry, so if they attack rashly, they will definitely be defeated. As soon as Gao Gan was defeated, the Northern Xinjiang Army had an excuse to fight Han Sui.

The two of them can still fight with the Northern Frontier Army together, but fighting separately is killing themselves. Han Sui was annoyed and scoffed at Gao Gan's threat,

"If you dare to attack alone, I will immediately drive you to the Weishui River with the Northern Xinjiang Army to feed the fish." On the first day of July, Ling Ru hurriedly returned from Zheng Baiqu,

"Sir, Meng Qi (Ma Chao)'s return to Guanzhong has been known by the Northern Xinjiang Army, and Xu Rong has ordered Pang De to lead the army to return to Guanzhong from the Tianqiong Desert." Han Sui was shocked.

Once Pang De's army arrived in Guanzhong, the strength of the Northern Xinjiang Army doubled, and the Battle of Guanzhong could not be fought at all.

"Quick, urgently summon Gao Gan and Xinbi." Han Sui waved his hand resolutely,

"Attack the Northern Frontier Army immediately." At the military meeting, Han Sui made a detailed attack deployment.

"We took the initiative to cross the river to attack, which is tantamount to a decisive battle with the Northern Xinjiang Army." Han Sui patted the Wannian City on the map hard,

"This place used to be called Liyang, it was the capital of the Qin State, and later Gaozu Liu Bang also lived in this capital for four years, and the city was very strong. The main camp of the Northern Xinjiang Army is here. After Yang Feng led the army into Guanzhong, he first built a camp in Xiaqi, but then probably considered not crossing the river to attack Tongguan for the time being, so he moved the camp to the northwest for a hundred miles, relying on Wannian City, backed by Baiqu, and built a large military camp. ”

"This barracks looks like a crescent-shaped formation, but it's actually a geese-shaped formation, and its attack power is far greater than its defensive ability. If we attack head-on, the losses will certainly be large. Therefore, I plan to first contain its two flanks with a large army of infantry, and the Chinese army will launch a strong attack with the superiority of iron cavalry, destroy its army, cut off the connection between its two flanks, and then gather the main force to encircle and annihilate one of its wings, and inflict heavy damage on the opponent. ”

"Sir, what if the Northern Frontier Army retreats into the city?" Gao Gan asked.

"They won't go back into the city." Han Sui looked at the map and sighed softly,

"For the Northern Frontier Army, they are very eager to fight this battle. This battle is won, Guanzhong is theirs, and Luoyang is just around the corner. If they lose, they can guarantee the safety of Hedong and wait for the opportunity to make a comeback. For us......" He looked at the generals and smiled bitterly,

"We can only win, not lose."

"Your Excellency will immediately return to the camp and lead the army across the river overnight." In the empty tent, Han Sui stood in front of the map, his expression was in a trance, and he was silent for a long time.

"Sir, is it necessary for us to have a decisive battle?" Zhang Ming quietly walked behind Han Sui and asked in a low voice.

"This is the last hope." Han Sui sighed bitterly,

"The relocation of people from Hebei to Guanzhong has already shown their determination. They asked us to leave Guanzhong and go back to Xiliang, without any room for negotiation. ”

"Why did Hebei do this?" Zhang Ming shook his head painfully,

"Why do they have to push us to the brink?"

"They need people to defend the western frontier." Han Sui's face showed a hint of murderous aura,

"Since Hebei doesn't give us a way out, then we have to fight to the death."

"But ......" Zhang Ming hesitated for a moment and said in a low voice,

"If we lose, the future ...... So I think...... We might be able to take a step back......"

"Hebei doesn't give us this opportunity." Han Sui knew what he wanted to say, and sighed helplessly,

"I should have given up everything, but the people of Hebei were carried away by the victory and thought that they were invincible in the world. In their eyes, we Xiliang people are not vulnerable at all. This time we won, and I will never leave Guanzhong. "On the beginning of July, in Guanzhong, the scouts of Zheng Baiqu's camp rushed back from all directions.

Han Sui crossed the Weishui River with the Xiliang army and killed it in a mighty way.

"Have you ever found Yuan Shao's army?" This is what Xu Rong is most concerned about.

"The army of Gao Gan and Zhu Ling is hurrying from Qingge Ferry. Xinbi's army, together with the Xiliang army, was hurrying north from Xinfeng Ferry. ”

"Han Sui was enraged." Yang Feng said with a smile,

"I didn't expect him to actually fight us."

"A battle to decide the winner." Koji Yi said excitedly,

"Mr. Wenyo is back. Okay, okay, I'm just waiting for this day. Xu Rong sighed in a low voice and waved his hand at Chen Wei, who was standing beside him,

"Urgently order the generals to discuss matters in the big tent." Jump to