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In the middle of September of the second year of the Han Dynasty, it was overcast.

After Yuan Shao withdrew to Hanoi, he regretted it. The losses in this battle were far greater than he expected, which made his mood very low for a while.

Four months ago, he sent 150,000 troops north, but now the total number of withdrawn troops is less than 60,000, and the number of losses is more than 60%. And these losses are basically caused in the last half a month.

In order to hold back Cao Cao's army and give the Northern Xinjiang Army time to encircle and annihilate them, although Yuan Shao accepted the advice of the strategists and recognized the loss of part of his troops, such a huge loss still made him fall into deep self-blame.

Yuan Shao misjudged the situation, believing that it would take some time for the Northern Xinjiang Army to spend some time on the battlefield on the East Road, which delayed the retreat and allowed the main force of the Northern Xinjiang Army to catch up.

However, Feng Ji and Guo Tu thought that this loss was acceptable, because Cao Cao's situation was definitely more difficult, and even if he finally escaped from the siege, he would not be able to maintain the alliance of the three against Yuan Shao.

Now no one knows whether Cao Cao broke out of the encirclement and escaped from Jizhou, so Yuan Shao discussed with everyone for a long time and made two preparations.

If Cao Cao, Liu Biao, Liu Bei and others were completely annihilated by the Northern Xinjiang Army, then the Central Plains would be occupied by Yuan Shu in the short term.

During the period when Yuan Shu seized the Central Plains, he could first send Yuan Xi from Nanyang to Jingzhou in order to expand his strength as soon as possible, and then look for an opportunity to annex Yuan Shu and form a confrontation situation across the river with Hebei.

If Cao Cao, Liu Biao, and Liu Bei all fled back, then there would be two situations in the Central Plains: First, the Northern Expedition army was almost completely annihilated. Cao Cao and others no longer have the strength, so they can only retreat to Qingzhou to meet Gongsun Zan first, trying to make a comeback, first, Li Yi deliberately put Cao Cao and others back in order to combat the power of Yuan Valve and curb the expansion of Yuan Valve's strength. In this way, the Central Plains is about to go to war, and this is exactly what he needs. The more intense the fight between Cao Cao and Yuan Shu became, the greater the certainty that they would be waiting for an opportunity to capture the Central Plains.

How many people Cao Cao, Liu Biao, and Liu Bei can bring back is directly related to the future pattern of the Central Plains, and for this reason, Yuan Shao and the strategists have formulated a lot of countermeasures.

The Northern Expeditionary Army withdrew within less than a month after Yuan Shu's attack, disrupting Yuan Shu's deployment, even if Yuan Shu had taken Xuzhou and captured most of Yanzhou, but his foothold was not stable, as long as he was defeated in a battle, he would be crushed for thousands of miles.

Therefore, if Cao Cao brought back enough troops, the first priority was to help Yuan Shu consolidate Xuzhou to ensure that Yuan Shu and Cao Cao fought fiercely in the Central Plains.

If Cao Cao's strength is greatly damaged and he is unable to fight against Yuan Shu, then he must use his existing strength to unite with Cao Cao to fight Yuan Shu, drag Yuan Shu back to the front line of Xu and Yang, and give Cao Cao a period of time to recover his strength.

In addition, whether it is for the present or the future, the issue of imperial domination must be resolved. Now that the Son of Heaven is being held hostage by Yuan Shu, the threat to his future domination of the Central Plains is too great. In order to ensure the success of the hegemony, it is now necessary to threaten Yuan Shu to send the Son of Heaven back to Luoyang.

Yuan Shao immediately gave Yuan Zhong and Xu You, who were stationed in Liyang, and Han Juzi and Jiang Qi, who supervised the transportation of grain and grass in the direction of Puyang, to immediately withdraw their troops to Chen Liu, pay close attention to the situation in the Central Plains, and be ready to attack Yuan Shu at any time to welcome back the Son of Heaven.

Yuan Shao wrote a secret letter to Xu Yu again, asking him to meet Yuan Shu immediately.

Yuan Shao said in his letter: "If Cao Cao is weak, you tell Yuan Shu that if you don't send the Son of Heaven to Luoyang, I will join Cao Cao to beat him back to Yangzhou." If Cao Cao is strong and evenly matched with Yuan Shu, you tell Yuan Shu that as long as he sends the Son of Heaven to Luoyang, I will join forces with him to defeat Cao Cao and help him capture the Central Plains. ”

Yuan Shao also urgently ordered Wen Chou, Gao Gan, Gao Rou and others to lead a large army, immediately cross the river from the direction of Yanjin and go south, join the army of Xu Xuan in Runan, and threaten Xu and Yang from the direction of Liang, Peiguo, and Runan, forcing Yuan Shu to bow down.

At the same time, Yuan Shao urgently told Yuan Xuan and Yingchuan Guo Yuan in Nanyang to secretly station troops on the front line of Xinye and Chaoyang, and once he learned the news of Liu Biao's defeat, he immediately went south to Xiangyang and controlled the counties of Jingzhou.

Yuan Shao also wrote to Yuan Tan in Guanzhong that Ma Teng's 10,000 iron cavalry had been defeated on the Dongguang battlefield, and whether Ma Chao could be stabilized at this time was directly related to the safety of Guanzhong.

Ma Teng has strength, Yuan Shao in order to win him over, and he divided Guanzhong equally, but now Ma Teng's strength has been greatly damaged, and the balance has been broken, whether Ma Teng is willing to subordinate to Yuan Shao, or wants to continue to have half of Guanzhong is unpredictable.

Judging from the current situation, due to the victory of the Jizhou War, Hebei's influence on Xiliang will become more and more great, and it is difficult to guarantee that Han Sui will not take the opportunity to say against Ma Teng and join forces with the Northern Xinjiang Army to capture Guanzhong.

For this reason, Yuan Shao repeatedly warned Yuan Tan not to contradict Ma Chao.

The Battle of Jizhou caused immeasurable losses to Hebei, and the Northern Xinjiang Army was unable to attack Guanzhong in the short term.

In addition, in order to cope with the forces dragged by the Jizhou battlefield, the army of Han Sui and Zhang Liao suffered a very large loss in Guanzhong within a few months, and they would withdraw from Guanzhong soon, so before Ma Teng did not return to Guanzhong, Ma Chao must be stabilized no matter what, and he cannot fall into Hebei's discord plan at this moment, so that Guanzhong will fall into chaos.

Two days later, Yuan Shao left Hanoi and returned to Luoyang.

In order to prevent the Northern Xinjiang Army from taking advantage of the situation to attack Hanoi, Yuan Shao ordered Han Qiong, Zhang Nan and Tao Sheng to lead their troops to stay on the front line of Dangyin and Chaoge.

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Xu Shu stood in front of the map and pointed out the locations of the various armies one by one. Finally, he said: "According to the order of the lord, starting tomorrow, the soldiers and horses participating in this big battle will return to their respective stations one after another to start resting. ”

Yue Yun hesitated for a moment and asked in a low voice, "Sir, don't fight Qingzhou anymore?" ”

"I don't have anything to eat now, what are you fighting?" Zhang Fei scolded dissatisfiedly, "You don't want to think about how much food more than two million people who have migrated north to move back for more than five months, from moving out to moving back?" In addition, this year, dozens of counties and counties in the southern part of Jizhou have been fallow due to wars, and there is no harvest in the fields, and more than 2 million people can only rely on relief to survive, and the situation will not improve until next spring, so ......"

He sighed helplessly and said, "It's not that the lord doesn't want to fight, but he can't afford to fight." ”

"But......" Yue Yun stopped talking.

"But what?" Zhang Fei on the side frowned, not angry and arrogant.

Yue Yun said: "But there is a big drought in the Central Plains this year, and Yuan Shu is now attacking the Central Plains, Gongsun Zan is dead again, and the 50,000 Qingzhou army has been completely wiped out by us, Cao Cao and the others have no time to take care of Qingzhou at this time, we can easily take it, how can we give up such a good opportunity?" ”

Zhang Fei glanced at him, a rare smile appeared on his face, and said, "Is it the first time for you kid to participate in such a big battle, and you haven't enjoyed it yet?" ”

Yue Yun smiled and said, "If the lord gives me a month, I will definitely take Qingzhou." ”

"Okay." Zhang Fei waved his hand very happily and said, "When we arrive in Handan, we strongly persuade the eldest brother to attack Qingzhou immediately." ”

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Yanzhou East County, Cangting.

Cao Cao, Liu Biao, and Liu Bei led their troops to withdraw across the Yellow River and temporarily stationed in Cangting.

The news sent by the scouts made Cao Cao and the others worried. Yuan Shu rushed ahead of them and surrounded Dong'e, and the army fell into the predicament of being cut off from food and grass.

After the army withdrew across the Yellow River, there were still more than 6,000 Liu Biao's army of 50,000, more than 7,000 of Liu Bei's army of 20,000, and more than 17,000 of Cao's army, including Ren Jun, who supervised the transportation of grain and grass in Dongwuyang.

If you add the 15,000 Xiahoudun who went north to rescue, the total strength of the Cangting area is about 45,000 people. Although the number of the army was not much less than that of Yuan Shu, the morale of the army was low, and there was not enough food and grass, so it was impossible to fight at all.

Cao Cao needed time to recuperate his army. In order to prevent Yuan Shu from taking the initiative to attack, Cao Cao ordered the army to move east along the Yellow River and rush to the front line of Linyi and Chiping to temporarily avoid the edge.

Gaotang City in Qingzhou Plain County is the grain and grass accumulation land of Gongsun Zhan's army, if nothing else, Zang Ba is now in Gaotang City.

Zang Ba escaped from the battle, if he did not give an order to appease in time, he was very likely to take away the grain and grass of Gaotang City, flee to the hinterland of Qingzhou, and take advantage of the fact that Cao Cao and Yuan Shu had no time to take care of Qingzhou in the Yanzhou War, and united with the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army to occupy the entire territory of Qingzhou.

In order to appease Zang Ba, after Cao Cao crossed the river, the first thing he did was to issue an order in the name of the Son of Heaven to pardon Zang Ba's guilt, and let Liu Bei's Gong Cao engage in carrying the holy decree to Gaotang day and night.

Two days later, Cao Cao led his army to Linyi, and at this time, news also came from Gaotang City, more than two hundred miles away. This news made Cao Cao, Liu Biao, and Liu Bei have mixed feelings.

The three of them were overjoyed that it was not Zang Ba who was now stationed in Gaotang City, but Xiahoudun, Li Dian, Wen Ping and Huang Zhong. After being pursued by Lü Bu near the curtain, they fled across the river in disarray, gathering 3,000 remnants of their army along the way.

Fearing that Pingyuan City had been lost, the four men turned southeast and fled, crossing the Yellow River near Ande City.

Like Cao Cao, they also believe that Zang Ba fled to Gaotang. But when I arrived in Gaotang City, I found that Zang Ba didn't come at all, and I didn't even see a shadow. In addition to grain and grass here, there are 3,000 Qingzhou soldiers who supervise the transportation of grain and grass.

Since Xiahoudun was in Gaotang, the problem of food and grass for the army was temporarily solved. If Yuan Shu can be defeated and recaptured before the end of the month, the army's grain and grass will be able to last longer.

By October, the army would be able to hunt down Yuan Shu and recapture Yanzhou, open up the connection with Xuzhou and Yuzhou, and get the support of grain and grass from Xuzhou and Jingzhou. Even if Yuan Shu had occupied the entire territory of Xuzhou at this time, as long as Liu Biao continued to stay in Yanzhou, Jingzhou's grain and grass would still be transported to Yanzhou continuously.

After recapturing Yanzhou, Yuan Shao's attitude is very important, which is also one of Liu Biao's goals to continue to stay in Yanzhou.

Yuan Shao will definitely be able to escape back to Luoyang, but if Yuan Shao wants to maintain Yuan Valve's prestige and maintain his strength, he must be consistent with Cao Cao, Liu Biao and others, and join forces to defeat Yuan Shu's rebellion. (To be continued.) )