In early September of the second year of Jian'an of the Han Dynasty, Wei County, Shiguo, Qingzhang River. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The elite of the 32,000 Northern Xinjiang Army, under the leadership of Xu Da, quickly crossed the Qingzhang River.

"This place is located at the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain, and one hundred and fifty miles further out of Taihang Mountain into Zhao State." The county commander of Sheguo stood beside Xu Da and respectfully introduced, "After arriving at the border of Zhao State, it will be Handan City for another sixty miles." ”

Xu Da looked at the surrounding mountains and said happily: "Tao Lingjun, your scenery here is very good." ”

"But it's too poor here." The county commander surnamed Tao smiled bitterly, "In the deep mountains and old forests, there is no good food, and the general is neglected." ”

Xu Da seemed to know his thoughts, smiled at him, and said, "This is a special situation, the imperial court ordered me to rush to the battlefield within eight days. If I carry grain and grass to cross the Taihang Mountain, I will definitely lose time, so I have to trouble the counties along the way to provide food for the army. I am very grateful that you have taken out all the relief food in the treasury this time. When I arrive in Handan, I will report to the general and ask him to return all the grain to you in the shortest possible time. ”

"It's a deal." This Tao County Commander was not polite at all, and immediately bowed down and said, "At the speed of the general, you will be able to reach Yecheng in three days, and you will be able to put it into the battlefield in four days." The lower officer is here to wish the general a victory. ”

Xu Da smiled slightly, returned the salute lightly, and said, "If I can defeat the rebels this month, I will return to Jinyang soon." On the way back, I'll bring you food by the way. ”

Tao County Ling was surprised and delighted, and thanked him again and again.

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In early September, three miles west of Yin'an City.

Lu Bu sat in the valley of the great river, silently looking at an unknown wildflower at his feet, looking very depressed.

The news from the scout is very bad. There were a large number of rebel soldiers and horses stationed in Fanyang and Neihuang, and the grain and grass convoys transported from Puyang to Fanyang were also heavily escorted, all of which indicated that Yuan Shao's main army had withdrawn to the line of Neihuang and Fanyang.

I'm too late.

Now there are only 18,000 men and horses in Yuan Shao's army from the south, if they can't quickly occupy the line of Neihuang and Fanyang, the strategy of encircling Yuan Shao will definitely fail, but with these 18,000 iron cavalry to cut off the rebels' grain routes, it is simply impossible to capture two cities.

Wei Xu and Cheng Lian slowly walked to Lu Bu's side.

"General, what shall we do? Is it a direct attack on Fanyang? Wei Xu asked in a low voice.

"At present, we don't know anything about the situation on the battlefield in Wei County, we only know that Yuan Shao's main force has been pushed to the front line of Fanyang and Neihuang." Lu Bu said helplessly, "At this time, if we fight Fanyang, or take the initiative to attack the rebels' grain routes, it may alarm the rebels and force the rebels to flee back to the Central Plains quickly." In this way, we will not be able to encircle Yuan Shao. ”

"Or ...... Let's go north and plug into the west of Wei City? Cheng Lian asked hesitantly.

"Quietly inserting it along the big river to the west bank of Wei City is equivalent to giving up the siege of Yuan Shao." Lu Bu shook his head, "Before we receive General Guan's order, we must block the retreat of Yuan Shao's army no matter what. ”

"Blocking the rebels' retreat?" Wei Xu's eyes lit up, and he immediately asked, "What does the general mean that we will directly kill on the north bank of the Yellow River and capture Liyang City, Changshoujin and Puyangjin?" ”

"What do you say?" Lu Bu asked rhetorically, "The two cities of Fanyang and Neihuang are a hundred miles away from the north bank of the Yellow River, and even if Yuan Shao's army retreats, it will take a day. For such a long time, Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun should be able to lead the army to kill, right? ”

Wei Xu and Cheng Lian looked at each other and nodded at the same time.

"Listen to the general." Wei Xu said with a smile, "We are too far away from the Pavilion Tao Battlefield, and even if there is news, we don't know when it will be delivered." Now that we're here, we can't just sit here and do something. ”

Lu Bu stood up, waved his hand, and said loudly: "That's good...... Let's go to the north bank of the Yellow River and surprise Yuan Shao. ”

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In early September, sixty miles northwest of Weicheng, drinking horses gathered.

Zhang Fei, Zhang He, Li Jing, Wei Yan, Yu Ban, Pan Zhang, Guan Hai, Xian Yufu, Yan Rou, Sima Ju, Yu Poison and others gathered in the camp.

According to Guan Yu's order, after the army crossed the Qing River from the north of Wei City, a part of the army surrounded Wei City in the east and west to attract the rebels from the direction of Neihuang and Fanyang to come to the rescue, and the rest of the army was ambushed between Wei City and Fanyang, preparing to ambush the rebel reinforcements.

But there is one thing that the generals are very worried about, is Yuan Shao in Weicheng or not? If Yuan Shao was not there, would the rebels come to the rescue of Wei Cheng?

"Everyone here has a great appetite now, and they can't wait to eat Yuan Shao and Cao Cao in one bite." Li Jing shook it gently while holding the pu fan, and said with a smile, "We have fought with Yuan Shao and Cao Cao for many years, and we know these two people very well. It's not easy to eat them. Don't be underestimated. ”

"This opportunity is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and if you don't kill them, you won't have such a good opportunity in the future." Zhang Fei said confidently, "Regardless of whether Yuan Shao is in Wei City or not, let's eat this enemy first." If Yuan Shao runs away, we will eat Cao Cao, anyway, this time we will eat one anyway. ”

At this time, Zhang Fei's personal soldiers hurriedly walked in and brought the latest orders.

Guan Yu gave the latest combat order.

Withdraw all blocking forces from the line of Guantao and Weicheng, and let the rebels meet.

Yu Ban led his army to steal the rebels from the west of Wei City.

Li Jing led his army to encircle the rebels from the north of the line between Guantao and Weicheng.

The infantry armies of Zhang He, Xu Huang, Li Zhong and Sun Guan surrounded the rebels from the south of the line between Guantao and Weicheng.

The armies of Chang Yuchun, Gao Shun and Gao Changgong surrounded the rebels from the east of Guantao. The Northern Xinjiang Army gathered 190,000 troops to surround the rebels on the line of Guantao and Weicheng.

Zhang Fei led an army of 30,000 directly to the south, joining the 36,000 iron cavalry of Zhao Yun and Lu Bu, a total of 66,000 troops to attack the rebels on the front line of Fanyang and Neihuang.

Zhang Fei and the generals carefully discussed the details, and then immediately took action.

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In early September, Weicheng.

After Yuan Shao entered Weicheng, the news sent by the scouts made him restless.

Cao Caodi's army was blocked in Daliuxu, the subway cavalry army of the Northern Xinjiang Army appeared between Guantao and Weicheng one after another, and Zhang Yan's army was eyeing the north bank of the Qing River.

Yuan Shao had an intuition that the Battle of Dongguang must be over, otherwise it would be impossible for so many Northern Frontier Iron Cavalry to appear in the area of Guantao and Weicheng.

Now that the Northern Frontier Iron Cavalry has arrived, is the Northern Frontier Infantry Army still far away? Has the Northern Xinjiang Army surrounded Cao Cao and is using Cao Cao as bait to attract him?

Just when Yuan Shao was worried, the scout sent another urgent report, and the Northern Frontier Iron Cavalry blocking in front of Wei Cheng suddenly disappeared.

Did the army go north to attack and meet Cao Cao at Daliuxu? Is the Northern Xinjiang Iron Cavalry meeting Zhang Yan and surrounding behind him?

Yuan Shao and Chen Lin discussed for a long time around the map, and agreed that the Northern Xinjiang Army had surrounded Cao Cao. The sudden disappearance of the Northern Xinjiang Iron Cavalry shows that after the Northern Xinjiang Army surrounded Cao Cao, it had turned the target of encirclement and annihilation to itself.

Chen Lin said categorically: "Lord, our goal has been achieved, and now we must retreat immediately!" ”

Yuan Shao did not hesitate at all and immediately ordered the withdrawal of the troops.

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In early September, Wei County, thirty miles southwest of Guantao City, Daliuxu.

Just as Cao Cao was about to launch an onslaught with all his might, the Northern Frontier Army withdrew.

Cao Cao immediately realized that the tide of battle had changed. The retreat of the Northern Xinjiang Army from the direction of Daliuxu may have been a troop adjustment made in order to encircle Yuan Shao. He realized that this was an opportunity, so he hurriedly ordered: "Order all departments to withdraw from the battlefield immediately." ”

Liu Biao led the Jingzhou army to Guanting, thirty miles away.

Cao Hong and Man Chong led the 20,000 Qingzhou army left by Gongsun Zan as the left flank of the army, and Liu Bei led the Xuzhou army as the right flank of the army. After Cao Ren and Cao Chun led 10,000 troops, the rest of the men and horses followed Cao Cao to live in the Chinese army, turned around and retreated rapidly to the southeast.

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In early September, ten miles southwest of Weicheng, Langfeng Pavilion.

Yu Ban, Sima Ju and Yu Poison led their troops across the Qinghe River and outflanked them in the direction of Weicheng at high speed. At this time, the scouts reported urgently that the rebels in Wei City had left the city and were advancing in the direction of Langfeng Pavilion.

"The rebels are going to run!" Yu Ban was taken aback and shouted loudly, "Urgently inform the two generals Zhang Fei and Zhang He that the rebels have withdrawn from Weicheng, and ask them to quickly kill to the line of Neihuang and Fanyang to cut off the retreat of the rebels." ”

"Urgently inform General Zhao Yun and immediately rush to Langfeng Pavilion to rendezvous and surround the rebels."

"Urgently inform General Guan Yu that the rebels in Wei City are retreating in the direction of Fanyang, and the strategy of encircling the rebels on the front line of Guantao and Wei City may be blocked, please pay close attention to the movement in the direction of Daliuxu."

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The two sides met at Langfeng Pavilion, and a fierce battle immediately began.

The Northern Xinjiang Army had just crossed the river, and some of the troops were still a few miles away, and the numerical disadvantage quickly appeared, although Sima Ju, Yu Poison and others supervised the army to fight to the death, but they were still torn apart by the Yuan Shaojun led by Gao Ran.

Sima Ju was furious and ordered the generals of all the departments to take their personal guards to kill, even if they were all killed in battle, they could not let the rebels cross Langfeng Pavilion.

Yuan Shao was worried that the Northern Frontier Iron Cavalry would be killed from behind, so he ordered Lu Yi to kill from both wings with an army of 20,000, and he said: "There are only more than 20,000 people in front of Yu Ban, and he can't stop us." After rushing through Yu Ban's blockade, we broke out of the encirclement. ”

40,000 Yuan Shao's troops were killed like a tide, and more than 20,000 northern Xinjiang troops could not resist and retreated in defeat after defeat.

The soldiers who were forbidden to watch fell at the feet of the rebels one by one, and their hearts were wrenched. With a dark face, he asked the scout who had just rushed back, "How many roads is General Zhao Yun's iron cavalry from the battlefield?" ”

The scout replied in a low voice, "General Zhao Yun is coming from Yuancheng, about forty miles or so. ”

Zhang Liao was furious, whipped down with a volley, and ordered: "Command the army, get out of the way, and let the rebels pass." (To be continued.) )