On the way to Yanggu, Yu Ban's march was slow and slow, and he was waiting for Xiahou Yuan to catch up from behind. There is no way for the Taishan soldiers alone to be stationed in Yanggu City, there are too few soldiers, and they don't know the reality of Yanggu City, not to mention that it is late at night, and the soldiers are already extremely tired.

Fortunately, after only eight miles, Yu Ban found a suitable location where he could camp in the village, and then ordered his subordinates to rest, and released the riders to inform Xiahou Yuan, who went to retrieve the baggage, the specific location of their camp.

From the beginning of this war, Cao Jun felt a completely different pressure from the previous war in the Central Plains, which made them breathless and too tired. Fighting with the Yan clan is different from the past battles with the Yellow Turbans, the rebels, Jin Shang, and Yuzhou. In the past, under Cao Cao's troops, many enemies had already been strategically defeated to them, and almost all the generals marched to the predetermined position, and then launched an attack, with some failures and more victories.

But unlike the Yan war, the Yan soldiers and horses were the soldiers who stood out after the melee in the north, and their generals were all heroes, and even in most ways, the Cao clan in Yanzhou was under more pressure than the Yuan clan in Qingzhou.

The war in Qingzhou has been fought for half a year, and the Yuan army's front army has been wiped out, and the land of the three northern counties has been lost, and there is no power to return to heaven. Compared with Qingzhou, the pace of war in Yanzhou is faster, from the beginning to the present is less than February, excluding the time of the generals in the march, the real time to engage in the battle is only half a month, but what has happened in this half month?

According to the previous military strategy, Cao Renbu, who instinctively lured the main force of the Yan army to Puyang, did not respond, Zhang Liao's main force did not go to Puyang at all, but Cao Renbu did not have the ability to advance eastward, why is this?

The soldiers and horses of the former army Li Dian and Le Jin failed to break through the enemy's Fan County defense and failed to capture the city, why is this?

Why did Zhang Liao appear in North Yangsan Road?

Judging from every battle carried out, Cao Ren did not have a single defeat, Cao Ren successfully rushed into Puyang City, Le Jin Array slashed Zhang and crushed Li Dian's conflict, and Xiahou Yuan completely annihilated the Yan Army Scout Battalion in a frontal battle against the five thousand battalions of Wuhuan soldiers.

But are they relaxed?

Cao Ren was not relaxed, because Yan Zhi's Wuhuan soldiers were wandering outside the city, tens of thousands of people fled to death, most of the baggage was lost, and he lost the ability to continue to advance eastward, and he could only rely on the city to supply his subordinates, otherwise Cao's army would not be able to hold out in Dongjun until the cold winter came; Li Dianle did not have an easy time, a battle caused heavy losses to the Li family's soldiers, withdrew to Xiaqiu to replenish the troops and followed Cao Cao's army to advance to Fanxian, almost losing the ability to fight independently; Yu Ban and Xiahou Yuan were even more relaxed, because they hadn't touched Zhang Liao's shadow until now!

Just looking at every battle, Zhang Liao has been losing and retreating. But looking at the entire Dongjun battlefield, what did the Cao generals see? Since January, Zhang Liao's figure has been active in the entire Dongjun, from Puyang to Fanxian, from Fanxian to Yanggu, he is like a ubiquitous ghost, as if he will jump out of his side at any time, give a heavy blow, and then flee away.

The one who is most anxious about this should be Cao Cao, who has just entered Fan County. In Fan County, he finally received a battle report from the soldiers and horses on the left and right flanks, Cao Ren's subordinates suffered heavy losses in Puyang, and his enemy was Zhang Liao; The right flank Xiahou Yuan intercepted the enemy in the north of Liangshan Road, but the pursuit was already far away, and his enemy was also Zhang Liao; His former army clashed with the enemy outside Fan County, and the enemy was also Zhang Liao!

"Where is Zhang Wenyuan!"

Cao Cao gritted his teeth and said this, and his palm slashed the map, Fan County attacked, and Fan County did not have Zhang Liao; Puyang was attacked, and Puyang also did not have Zhang Liao; Liangshan North Road encountered, but Liangshan North Road still has no Zhang Liao!

In the battle report of victory, the facts behind it made Cao Cao feel cold all over his body - Zhang Liao dragged Cao's 60,000 troops in the land of Dongjun with 30,000 soldiers and horses, and defeated tens of thousands of young and strong people.

If you carefully calculate the casualties of each department, even if you don't count the people and only the soldiers, Li Dianle's casualties are close to 5,000, and the result they achieved is to kill and injure 6,000 Zhang's Beiyan troops, and kill Zhang's troops in battle; Cao Ren's troops held Puyang with 1,000 casualties, and the casualties brought to Hu Cai were negligible; Xiahou Yuan killed Zhang Liaobu scout Sanqu, pursued Hu Qi in the forbidden department, injured more than 1,000 self-inflicted and killed 2,000 enemies.

The Cao clan lost nearly 8,000 soldiers and horses, and was the main army including the Li family soldiers, Taishan soldiers, and Cao clan soldiers; And the 9,000 soldiers and horses lost by Zhang Liao's department, there are more than 7,000 Hu cavalry, and the soldiers and horses that really belong to Zhang Liao's headquarters are only those Sanqu scouts!

This is Sun Bin horse racing, Zhang Liao used the lower horse to fight out the Cao family's upper horse, so when Zhang Liao's upper horse fights, who can resist it?

Cao Cao couldn't help but be a little envious of Yuan Shaolai, he would rather fight against a military technician like Lu Yi who won every battle, rather than a military strategist like Zhang Liao, who lost every battle. Not to mention, Zhang Liao still has some hints of military power.

The pressure that Koji can bring to people is tangible, and as long as you can defeat Koji in the military battle, all the pressure will no longer exist...... Although the Yuan clan has not yet appeared such a general who can defeat Lu Yi in battle, there is still a hope; But the pressure that Zhang Liao brought to Cao Cao was invisible, he was not anywhere, but he was everywhere, and he was moving around and around, and sending troops one after another was unguardable.

This battle was too difficult for Cao Cao.

If his enemy is only Zhang Liao, then it is easy to say, but although Zhang Liao has repeatedly fought in Dongjun as the main force, Cao Cao will not forget that he is the main force of the Cao family, and Zhang Liao's identity is ...... It's just that the Yan family is biased!

He is a partial division that blocked the rear army because of the big river, and the lone army went deep into the enemy camp, why did he fight the war so brilliantly!

"The general is angry, and the general has two strategies, but Zhang Liao can be eliminated." Cheng Yu, an eight-foot-long planner from Dongjun, arched his hand and said: "The general is worried about Liao, because he is a one-man soldier, there is no heaven above, no earth below, no master behind, and no enemy in front." A soldier of one man is like a wolf like a tiger, like wind and rain, like thunder and thunder, shaking and shaking, and the whole world is shocked. Where does the general think Liao is? ”

Cheng Yu quoted Sun Tzu's Art of War to say that it is Zhang Liao's current situation, he not only has no master behind, no enemy in front, but also has no food and himself, and even the life and death of this army are in danger.

"Cao just doesn't know where Zhang Liao is, can Zhongde know? Hurry up! ”

"General Hui, his subordinates don't know where Liao is, but his subordinates know where Zhang Wen is far away." Cheng Yu said as he tightened his sleeves and pointed his finger on the south bank of the Yellow River on the map, and said: "Dongjun, the public book set up a death-bound situation for Zhang Liao, the three armies marched together, and Dongjun was in the danger of dying in Zhang Liao. The river was blocked, and there was no food and grass available in Liao, so he only had two directions where he could go...... First, the eastward entry into Mount Tai is connected with Qingzhou Koji, and the grain and grass supply of the Koji Department is obtained; Second, it is to take the baggage of General Xiahou! ”

Cheng Yu's fingers drew a circle on Quqiu Mountain, to the south, and rolled up a little heavier in the north of Liangshan Road, but before he could say anything, there was a messenger outside the tent of the Chinese army rushing over, falling out of the tent, and rolling into the tent The clothes and armor collided endlessly, and he shouted without getting up: "Ming Gong, Xiahou General Quqiu Mountain was ambushed by Zhang Liaobu and was defeated!" ”