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After careful deliberation with his subordinates, Liu Bei abandoned the frontal breakout and moved east instead, attempting to launch an attack from the flank of Guanting in order to join Cao Cao's main army.

Liu Bei must preserve his strength.

Now Xuzhou is being attacked by Yuan Shu from three directions, and the situation is precarious, and how many troops will safely withdraw to Xuzhou will be directly related to the safety of Xuzhou.

Zang Ba's escape on the Dongguang battlefield made Liu Bei lose face, but in fact, he was still secretly happy in his heart. Zang Ba helped save 10,000 Xuzhou troops, and the credit far outweighed the negligence.

However, Zang Ba's escape also made Liu Bei face a grim truth.

Although this is an excellent opportunity to deprive Zang Ba of his military power, if he does not have the strength, this 10,000-strong army will suffer heavy losses or be wiped out, even if he returns to Xuzhou, he will be seriously constrained by Zang Ba in military affairs. Even, it is impossible to return to Xuzhou again.

Now that Gongsun Chan is dead, as long as Cao Cao returns to the Central Plains, Qingzhou will be his. Although he has the intention to occupy Qingzhou, his strength is not enough, and the strength of the two sides will be reduced in the future, and his own situation can be imagined.

Worse could happen. Zang Ba has strength, but he has no strength, at this time Cao Cao may take advantage of the contradiction between him and Zang Ba to secretly unite with Zang Ba to seize Xuzhou.

Liu Bei's only way out at present is to keep this 10,000-strong army, and then pray for Jian Yong, Sun Gan, Chen Deng and others to help him block Yuan Shu and keep Xuzhou.

To Liu Bei's expectation, the Northern Xinjiang Army seemed to be suspected of preserving its strength, and it did not continue to chase the poor and fight fiercely like yesterday, but followed from a distance.

The Xuzhou army lost no time in speeding up.

Just then, Cao Cao's order arrived. Liu Bei was pleasantly surprised to learn that Cao Cao and Liu Biao had broken through the Guanting Pavilion and hurriedly supervised the army's rapid advance.

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Xian Yufu led the iron cavalry across the river, galloped all the way, and met Yan Rou in the early morning.

Yan Rou gave a detailed account of yesterday's battle and the situation near Guanting, and said: "Liu Bei is moving towards Guanting, preparing to meet Cao Cao, so that Li Zhong's troops guarding Guanting will face the attack of tens of thousands of rebels, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to hold on. Once the rebels break through Guanting, they will go directly south to Gulongju. Gu Longju is only a hundred miles away from Yangping and Dongwuyang, and if we can't block the rebels in the direction of Gu Longju, the rebels will break through smoothly. ”

Xian Yufu looked at the map carefully, shook his head and said, "It may be too late to support Li Zhong now." ”

"At present, Xu Huang's army is still forty miles away from us. The armies of Chang Yuchun, Xun Di, Gao Shun and others were rushing to the Fengting area to meet Gao Changgong and attack the rebels' rear army and left flank. That is to say, even if Xu Huang and we all rushed to Guanting to meet Li Zhong, we would only have less than 30,000 people, and we would still be at a disadvantage in numbers, except for defeating both enemies and wounding them, we would not be able to completely annihilate the rebels. ”

"If generals Chang Yuchun, Xun Di, Gao Shun and Gao Changgong can surround the rebels' rear army and the left flank army and drag them down, then after the rebels break through Guanting, we still have a chance to annihilate the rebels." Yan Rou pointed to Gu Longju on the map and said, "We can delay the escape speed of the rebels in the area of Guanting and Gu Longju, and then block the rebels in Gu Longju, and after the generals Chang Yuchun, Xun Di, Gao Shun and Gao Changgong defeat the rebels in the Fengting area and go south, we can fight back and forth with them to encircle and annihilate the rebels." ”

Xian Yufu thought for a moment, pointed to Fagancheng on the map and said, "Here are our two thousand iron horsemen, so that they can rush to Gulongju first." ”

"Tell Li Zhong that our reinforcements have arrived, and we are hurrying to the area of Gulongju to stop the rebels. It was suggested that he should take the preservation of troops as the best policy and decisively withdraw from Guanting at an appropriate time. ”

"Tell Xu Huang that we have rushed to Gulongju, and are ready to block the rebels' southward retreat in Gulongju, and ask him to come and meet quickly."

"Tell Chang Yuchun that we are gathering in Gulong to block the rebels, and ask him to lead the army south as soon as possible to encircle the rebels."

"Report our strategy of destroying the enemy to Guan Yu urgently."

As soon as the heralds dispersed, Li Zhong's letter arrived. I have been ordered to lead the army to withdraw to Gulongju, and ask General Yan to come to help quickly.

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Twenty miles east of the pavilion pottery, Fengting.

Chang Yuchun, Xun Di and others led the army to Fengting after dawn and quickly entered the battlefield.

Cao Hong and Man Chong saw that there were more and more Northern Xinjiang Army, and immediately led the army to break through to the west, preparing to join Cao Cao's main army, but the strength of the Northern Xinjiang Army had reached more than 60,000 people at this time, and they surrounded and intercepted under the command of Chang Yuchun, and completed the encirclement in more than an hour.

After Cao Cao received Cao Hong's request for help, he ordered Cao Ren and Li Dian of the rear army to lead an army to support.

Xun Di, a fierce general in northern Xinjiang, led the army to block the attack, and the two sides fought fiercely.

At this time, the encirclement had just been formed, and Mu Shun, who was responsible for encircling the rebels on the west road, had a firm foothold, and after a fierce killing of Cao Hong and Man Chong, the defense line was torn apart, and Cao Hong and Man Chong successfully broke through.

When the two saw Cao Ren, they immediately suggested evacuating.

Man Zhong said to Cao Ren: "The Northern Frontier Army has been chased by all fronts, and the slightest carelessness will wipe out the entire army." The Qingzhou Army is finished and can't be saved. ”

Cao Ren did not hesitate and immediately ordered to withdraw from the battlefield. The army hurried to Guanting and followed Cao Cao's main force south.

After Cao Ren withdrew from the battlefield, the Northern Xinjiang Army had no worries, and Chang Yuchun immediately ordered the encirclement and annihilation of the Qingzhou Army.

Gao Shun, Zhang Yan, Xun Di and others each commanded their soldiers and horses to launch a fierce attack on the Qingzhou army.

In the afternoon, the four main generals of the Qingzhou Army, Tian Kai, Shan Jing, Wang Men, and Zou Dan, were killed or wounded in battle and captured, and the Qingzhou Army lost its command and quickly collapsed, and the 20,000-strong army was annihilated.

At dusk, Chang Yuchun received a letter from Xian Yufu and Yan Rou. He discussed it with Gao Changgong, Gao Shun and others, and then decided to reorganize his troops and horses and immediately go south to pursue the enemy.

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Yanzhou East County, forty miles south of Guanting, Gu Longju.

There are several granges in Gulong, and this small city is built around the grange. The avenue leading to Tobuyang passes through the middle of the town. There is no city wall here, only an earthen wall built around the city, which is a bit unsatisfactory to prevent robbers and the army.

When Xiahou Yuan led the army to Gulongju, all four rooms here were empty, and there were no traces. Xiahou Yuan ordered the army to rest while sending scouts around to inquire about Cao Cao's news.

That night, the scouts reported that Cao Cao's army was blocked by the Northern Xinjiang Army at Guanting.

Xiahou Yuan immediately prepared to go north the next day to meet him, but as soon as he opened his eyes the next morning, the scout gave him a surprise: the Northern Frontier Army had been discovered twenty miles ahead.

Xiahou Yuan was very surprised, and Li Zhong was also very surprised, he never expected that the rebels would occupy Gu Longju first.

Li Zhong immediately sent people to ask Yan Rou for help, and at the same time commanded a large army to attack Gu Longju.

At noon, the scouts reported that Liu Biao's Jingzhou army was only twenty miles away from Gu Longju, and if the army did not withdraw from Gu Longju in time, it would be attacked by the rebels in front and rear.

Li Zhong had no choice but to lead his army to retreat westward, intending to join Yan Rou's iron cavalry and attack Gu Longju again.

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Yanzhou East County, twenty miles south of Guanting, Baishan Pavilion.

Since Gu Longju was captured by the rebels first, Yan Rou and Xian Yufu's encirclement and annihilation strategy could not be implemented, so they had to temporarily change their plans, preparing to use the sharp attack of the iron cavalry to divide the retreating rebels, and then encircle the rebels' rear army to encircle and annihilate them.

This strategy was completely in line with Guan Yu's orders. Guan Yu once asked all the armies to attack and kill the Cao army and the Gongsun army as much as possible, killing as many as they could.

According to the scouts' investigations, after the rebels crossed the Guanting, Liu Biao's Jingzhou army was at the forefront, followed by Cao Cao's army and Liu Bei's army, and Cao Ren's army was at the end. The three armies were separated by ten miles and retreated very quickly.

Yan Rou and Xian Yufu planned to wait for the main force of the rebels to attack after crossing the Baishan Pavilion, cut off the connection between the main force of the rebels and the rear army of the rebels, and then use one force to block the return of the main force of the rebels, and one force to encircle and annihilate Cao Ren with the infantry army of Li Zhong and Xu Huang.

Xian Yufu and Yan Rou led more than 10,000 iron horsemen to rush to the vicinity of Baishan Pavilion.

Scouts came to report. The main force of the rebels had just crossed the Baishan Pavilion, and the army could be mobilized.

"Where is Xu Huang's army?" Xian Yufu asked eagerly.

The scout replied, "We have crossed the Crown Pavilion and are killing the rebels in the back." ”

Xian Yufu asked again: "What about Li Zhong's army?" ”

The scout said: "We have entered the predetermined position, and we will only wait for the Iron Cavalry to attack, and immediately launch an attack on the rebels' flank." ”

Xian Yufu nodded and made an attacking gesture to Yan Rou.

Suddenly, the horn sounded, thousands of horses galloped, and the iron cavalry army marched towards the battlefield.

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Wei County, sixty miles southwest of Wei City, Sanshang Pavilion.

Zhao Yun, Zhang He, Yue Yun, Zhao Zhao and others led an army of more than 40,000 to surround Gaolan and Liyi in the area of Sanshangting.

Twenty-five thousand rebels set up camp on the favorable terrain and prepared to hold the camp and wait for reinforcements to arrive.

Although the Northern Frontier Army had a relatively obvious advantage in numbers, the enemy occupied favorable terrain, and if it attacked strongly, the losses would be very large. Moreover, Zhang Fei wanted to use this rebel army as a bait to encircle and annihilate the rebels who came to help from the direction of Fanyang and Neihuang, so although the area around Sanshang Pavilion was covered with war clouds, he neither heard the sound of war drums nor saw the posture of the iron cavalry galloping vertically and horizontally.

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Wei County, fifteen miles southwest of Sanshang Pavilion, Citing.

Wen Chou, Gao Gan and others led the army to Citing, and the two sides fought fiercely in the area of Citing.

Although there were only 16,000 people, only about half of the number of Yuan Shao's army, they still beat Wen Chou's 30,000 horses bitterly.

Wen Chou was worried that Yuan Shao's trapped life would be in danger, so he was anxious, and personally went into battle to supervise the battle, and asked Han Qiong, who was stationed in Neihuang, to rush to the army to come to support. (To be continued.) )