"Li Yi asked me to bring a message to the trial, saying that if he couldn't stay in Luoyang, he could go back to Jizhou, and Li Yi promised to at least give him a taishou. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info" Xu You said coldly, "I asked Li Yi, then you have been in touch in the past few years, and Li Yi said no." How can it be? ”

"Many officials from Jizhou in Luoyang have contact with their families, and there are always several letters exchanged a year. Although the judge is a senior official in Luoyang, he is not allowed to contact his family according to the regulations, do you believe that he really has not been contacted? If there is no connection, why is he so familiar with Hebei's new policy? And he also talked about the benefits of Hebei's new deal in front of you three times and twice in front of us, what does this mean? Isn't it obvious? ”

"In my opinion, after this war, no matter how we win or lose, we will defect to Hebei. His life is hard to save, what is he still doing in Luoyang? Is he an idiot willing to stretch his neck and cut you off? ”

"The talent of the trial is obvious to all, plus he has fought side by side with Li Yi, he will inevitably be reused by Li Yi when he arrives in Hebei, and we will meet a strong opponent at that time."

Yuan Shao became angry when he heard this, and immediately ordered: "Pass the order, arrest the trial match, and take him to Luoyang." When we win this battle, I want him to take a good look at what is so clever about Hebei's new policy? ”

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The time quickly entered July of the fourth year of Jian'an.

Yuan Shao asked Liu Biao and Fu Zhu to sit in Xuchang, and took Feng Ji, Xu You, Yuan Zhong and others north to Zhongmu.

When he arrived in Zhongmu, Yuan Shao did not enter the city, and rushed directly to the front line of Guandu to inspect the army.

Kuai Yue, Deng Yi, Yan Liang, Liu Shao, Gao Gan, Jiao Touch, Liu Pan and other military and political officials came out of the camp to greet them.

After Yuan Shao and everyone exchanged pleasantries, he asked Yan Liangdao: "What about Prime Minister Cao Cheng and Liu Cheqi?" Sick? ”

Yan Liang sneered: "The prime minister and the general of the left chariot cavalry felt that they had no face to see the lord, and they led the army to be stationed near Putianze on the west side of Guandu, about ten miles away from here. ”

"Oh?" Yuan Shao glanced at him in surprise, "Why don't you let them be stationed in Guandu?" ”

"It's just two villains." Yan Liang said disdainfully, "After I returned to Zhongmu with them, Zhengnan planned to let them be stationed on the front line of Guandu, but the two of them refused on the spot in unison, and they had to set up another battalion and station it near Putianze. The reason is simple, it's just that we're worried that we're going to eat them in one bite. ”

"Is it safe for them to be stationed in Nursery Field?" Yuan Shao's face showed anger, and he said coldly, "It seems that if I invite them to Guandu to discuss matters, they won't come?" ”

"Nine times out of ten, they won't come." Yan Liang nodded and said, "After Cao Hong took 20,000 horses south to Yuzhou, they only had about 60,000 people, but this time they suffered a lot of losses in Yuanwu and Yangwu, and now there are only more than 40,000 people at most, of course they will have this kind of worry." In addition, what happened to Jeongnam shocked them a lot. Yan Liang looked at Yuan Shao, and the words behind him were not spoken.

He ordered the abandonment of Junyi and Kaifeng and the withdrawal of Zhongmu without authorization, although he kept the third line of defense, it was also a fact that he violated the military order.

On the battlefield, there is a limit to the command of the general of the unified army on the battlefield. The trial authority has the right to requisition troops from Junyi and Kaifeng to return to reinforcements, but it does not have the right to order the abandonment of Junyi and Kaifeng.

Looking at it now, it is indeed a little hasty to decisively order the withdrawal of Junyi and Kaifeng, he can be completely bold, and still leave some people to guard the two cities of Junyi and Kaifeng. Although this will not have any impact on the overall situation, at most it will only kill more people on the battlefield of Guandu, but at least he has not violated military orders, and he can make the merits outweigh the faults.

"Do you think that the imperial court ordered the arrest and trial, and the reason is insufficient?" Yuan Shao understood Yan Liang's thoughts, and immediately asked, "Do the prime minister and the left rider think that if the trial has been arrested, their future will be even more uncertain?" ”

Yan Liang looked at the group of military and political officials who followed behind, and said with a wry smile: "When I was ordered to arrest Zhengnan, the prime minister, the general of the left chariot, Yidu and others were very angry and ...... the imperial court."

He looked at Yuan Shao and said in a low voice: "There are also big opinions on the lord." ”

"Hmph......" Yuan Shao sneered, "When the judge ordered the army to withdraw from Junyi and Kaifeng, he should know how much of a crime he had committed. Does he still complain? Did he say anything? ”

Yan Liang sighed and shook his head.

Yuan Shao glanced at him suspiciously, turned his head and asked Gao Gandao: "Did you say anything before the trial was escorted to Luoyang?" ”

"He said that the Central Plains War was going to be lost, the Han Society was going to die, and the life of the lord was worried." Gao Gan said hatefully, "Shen Zhengnan's head was given to his mouth." ”

Yuan Shao's eyes were murderous, and the muscles on his face twitched involuntarily.

In the evening, Yuan Shao returned to Zhongmu City and held a banquet to entertain the generals.

He comforted the generals and said: "Although the Northern Xinjiang Army successfully attacked, broke through the second line of defense, and entered Henan, they did not change the stalemate of the confrontation between the two sides on the battlefield, and did not change their disadvantage in troops. Retreating to the third line of defense is nothing more than moving the blocking line back more than a hundred miles for us. We still have the strength to defeat the Northern Frontier Army, and we should maintain sufficient confidence in defeating the Northern Frontier Army. “

Yuan Shao's words were high-sounding, making the generals drowsy. In fact, everyone knows that the premature loss of the second line of defense not only deprives the army of the best opportunity for a counteroffensive, but also loses the initiative on the battlefield.

Now the army is suppressed by the Northern Xinjiang Army on the narrow battlefield west of the chasm water, hundreds of thousands of troops are crowded into a pile, except for desperate resistance with numerical superiority, there is almost no room for counterattack, and the reason for this extremely passive situation is Yuan Shao's conservative defense strategy.

The defeat and collapse of the Northern Xinjiang Army is not the same as retreating in the city to defend passively, the army should replace defense with offense, combine offense and defense, adopt flexible and changeable attack strategies, and firmly control the initiative on the battlefield.

However, Yuan Shao's defensive strategy was only to defend but not attack, and as a result, the Northern Xinjiang Army seized the opportunity, boldly adjusted its troops, gathered heavy troops to break through the northern battlefield, and then directly killed the chasm, completely ruining the excellent situation that his side had finally obtained.

Grasping the initiative on the battlefield and defending with a positive mentality, and being passive on the battlefield and fighting with the mentality of being trapped and fighting, the battle result is fundamentally two different things.

However, Yuan Shao avoided talking about his own mistakes in strategy, and still attributed the emergence of today's passive situation to the mistakes in battlefield command and the fact that some ministers ignored military orders in order to preserve their strength, and the spearhead was directly aimed at Cao Cao and Liu Bei.

Yuan Shao rewarded the civil and military officials on the battlefield of Guandu in the name of the Son of Heaven, which more or less stimulated their emotions, and many people swept away the gloom and frustration on their faces, and happily took the reward back to the front.

After sending the generals away, Yuan Shao was extremely angry at Cao Cao and Liu Bei's refusal to go to Zhongmu to discuss matters. He roared angrily in the camp: "As an important minister of the court, how can you be so disregarding the overall situation? Do they still have social issues in their hearts? ”

When he said this, he didn't expect that when he wanted to trap Cao Cao and Liu Bei before, he didn't think about the consequences of the loss of Liu Bei and Cao Cao's army.

"Of course they don't dare to come, for fear you'll kill them." Xu You said with a smile, "If you want to eliminate the fear of the prime minister and the left rider of the two people, so that you can work together, boost morale, and continue to give full play to the combat effectiveness of the Cao and Liu armies, I think it is best for you to lower your posture first, release your past suspicions with them, and be honest with each other, so that they can truly feel the sincerity of the past." ”

"Then I will be honored and go and see them for myself." Yuan Shao thought of Cao Cao and Liu Bei's embarrassed appearance, he was in a good mood, waved his hand and smiled, "Do I like to kill people?" ”

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Because the Northern Xinjiang Army was constrained by the shortage of money and grain in Hebei, the supply of grain, grass and ordnance became more and more difficult, and they might have to rush to fight a decisive battle on the Guandu battlefield. The battle that follows is bound to become more and more intense.

In order to cope with the upcoming decisive battle, Yuan Shao urgently told Luoyang Lougui, Yuzhou Han Qiong, and Jingzhou Liu Biao to think of all means to deliver grain, grass and ordnance to the Guandu battlefield as quickly as possible.

Yuan Shao also specially instructed Lou Gui and Han Qiong, the soldiers newly recruited in Luoyang and Yuzhou counties, not to train, and to send them directly to the battlefield.

"Is there any news from Yangzhou?" Yuan Shao looked at Yuan Zhong and asked, "Jian Yonglai of Xuzhou said that there are too many troops stationed in the south now, and Xuzhou cannot provide grain and grass for so many troops, and the counties are overwhelmed and it is difficult to support them, so I ask the imperial court to allocate grain and grass from the counties of Yangzhou as soon as possible to alleviate the crisis." ”

"Yangzhou Assassin Yan Xiang came to write and said that in late June, Jiangdong Sun Ce and Zhou Yu had been ordered to send grain to Jiujiang County. Yan Xiang planned to send this batch of grain to Xuchang first. Yuan Zhong hurriedly replied, "If nothing else, this batch of grain can soon be sent to Liang and Pei in Yuzhou." ”

"Where's the grain in Jiujiang County?" Yuan Shao asked, "In April, I urged Yan Xiang to prepare as soon as possible. Why haven't we all raised it yet? ”

Yuan Zhong hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Yan Xiang said that since the death of the highway, Li Shu, Yuan Yin, and Liu Xun have gone their separate ways and don't listen to him at all. Liu Xun was originally going to lead his army north to the Central Plains battlefield, but he was reluctant to go north because he was worried that his brother would investigate his crime of defeating Dong Zhuo in Hanoi nine years ago. After the death of the highway, he took in a lot of the road's subordinates, moved from Xia Cai to the west, and stationed troops in the Anfeng and Anfeng areas of Lujiang County, and had close contacts with the remnants of the Yellow Turban in Dabie Mountain, as if there was a meaning of occupying the mountain as the king. ”

"Occupy the mountain as the king? I don't think he wants to live anymore. Yuan Shao's face sank, "When he was defeated, he was defeated, why did he abandon me and defect to Yuan Shu?" When the Central Plains War is over, I must grasp him and ask him well. ”

"Tell Yan Xiang that whoever dares to disobey the imperial decree will be punished for rebellion and killed." (To be continued.) )