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After a year and a half, Koji Yi once again set foot on the embankment on the south bank of the Yellow River. Looking at this once familiar land, Koji's feelings were very complicated.

Although Lu Yi was once Yuan Shao's subordinate, he has never been reused and trusted by Yuan Shao, because he is not Yuan Shao's own person, he fought in Liangzhou in his early years, and was once Dong Zhuo's subordinate. Later, Dong Zhuo was defeated, and he joined Yuan Shao's command. But because he used to be Dong Zhuo's general, Yuan Shao has never liked him very much.

In the later stage of the Jizhou War the year before last, Yuan Shao sold the Liyi of the palace in order to escape for his life, and Liyi was very dissatisfied with this, so he was caught by the Northern Xinjiang Army and brought to the general Li Yi, and found that when Li Yi valued himself very much, he also surrendered very simply, and then got Li Yi's reuse, became the deputy commander of the Fourth Infantry Army to which Tai Shici belonged, and led an army of 8,000 people alone. This kind of treatment is completely incomparable under Yuan Shao at the beginning.

In order to repay the favor of the lord Li Yi, in the past year or so, Lu Yi fought very fiercely on the battlefield in Hanoi, which made Yuan Shaojun Zhang Nan and Guo Tu stationed in Hanoi a headache.

As for Yuan Shao, the former lord, Lu Yi has no good impression.

The embankment was covered with corpses, blood soaked the dirt, and a foul smell of blood emanated from the air.

In the distance, the war drums sounded softly, and a group of soldiers, guided by the battle flag, were regrouping their ranks and preparing to advance to Aocang City, which was ten miles away.

The follow-up steps that came down from the ship, cleaning up the battlefield while unloading heavy equipment from the ship.

The adjutant general and a group of lieutenants and military commanders walked in front of Wang Dang.

The adjutant general bowed and asked, "General, is the army immediately entering Ao Cang City?" ”

"Don't stop, pull it out. Before the enemy's reinforcements arrived, he took Aocang and forced Xingyang City. Lu Yi waved his hand vigorously, "If we can't take Xingyang City, we won't be able to gain a foothold in Henan, let alone hold Yuan Shao's army." ”

"General, Yuan Shao's main forces are now in the area of Zhongmu and Chenliu, only two or three hundred miles away from Xingyang, their speed of reinforcement will be very fast, and the time left for us to attack Xingyang is too short." The adjutant general said worriedly.

"No faith?" Koji asked with a smile.

"Xingyang is the gateway to Luoyang, and hitting Xingyang is like hitting Yuan Shao's throat." The adjutant general said, "Once Yuan Shao gets the news, he will definitely go all out to rescue." We don't have enough troops, so we may not be able to ......."

Koji shook his hand, interrupting the lieutenant's words, and walked forward.

The lieutenant and the generals hurried to follow.

"Let me ask you, under the current circumstances, can we take Luoyang?" Koji asked as he walked.

"I can't." The adjutant general hesitated for a moment and said, "There are tens of thousands of troops in Luoyang, and there is a danger of being imprisoned. Zhongmu and Chen Liu, with Yuan Shao's main army. Yuzhou is also close at hand. If we are not careful, we will be surrounded by the enemy. ”

"Yes." Koji nodded, stretching his leg over the corpse of an enemy. When his gaze inadvertently swept over the head of the corpse, he couldn't help but let out a "huh" and immediately looked back at it. It was a thin old man with a white beard.

"There are still soldiers of such an age in Yuan Shao's army?" Koji asked in surprise. He remembered that when he was still in Yuan Shao's army the year before last, the soldiers in Yuan Shao's army were all young and strong.

"I heard that after the Jizhou War, Yuan Shao, Cao Cao and other rebels were conscripted in large numbers, and men between the ages of 14 and 60 became conscripts." The adjutant general said, "It is rumored that Yuan Shao has 300,000 troops. Liu Biao in Jingzhou was attacked by Liu Zhang of Yizhou and Sun Ce and Zhou Yu of Jiangdong last year, and he also recruited a large number of troops last winter, and it is said that his total strength also reached 300,000. ”

"There are many people who have a lot of fart." Koji sneered, turned and walked on.

"You are right, Yuan Shao's purpose in assembling a large army in Zhongmu and Chenliu is to wait for an opportunity to enter the Central Plains, but before entering the Central Plains, he must minimize our threat to Luoyang, so it is very likely that he will take advantage of the time when our Northern Xinjiang Army is assembled in Hanoi, attack Jizhou, cut off our retreat, and force us to withdraw." He stopped, looked at the generals behind him, and asked with a smile: "You say, what should Yuan Shao do after he hears that we crossed the river and headed south?" ”

"Give up going north to attack Jizhou, and instead fight with us in Henan, and strive to kill us on the south bank of the Yellow River." The adjutant general said, "If Yuan Shao succeeds, he can not only recapture Hanoi, but also occupy the Central Plains." At that time, we will have to withdraw to Hanoi in time. This time we have nothing to gain except for dragging Yuan Shao and preventing him from attacking Yizhou. ”

The adjutant general shook his head and continued: "If this is the case, I think it is really a losing move for the imperial court to order more than 60,000 troops to enter Hanoi and attack Henan in the south. ”

"It's too early to say, it's too early to say. The lord must have had another purpose. Lu Yi smiled, then he pointed to the generals and said with a serious expression, "Since we are the first to fight the Yellow River, we must fight the majesty of our Northern Frontier Army." ”

He waved his hand and said categorically: "Within two days, take Aocang for me, and the soldiers will come to Xingyang City." ”

………………

In mid-March, Wei County, Jizhou, Changshoujin.

......The dull sound of the spear penetrating the body was creepy, and then the bloody tip of the spear came out with a touch of blood.

The recruit Xiao He stared at the tip of the blood-dripping spear in a daze, and looked at Captain Wu's tall body staggering back. Wu Chang's terrible scream rushed straight into his ears, the sound was so clear and very long that it covered all the sounds on the battlefield, and the huge fear suddenly invaded Xiao He's whole body like a cold wind that was cold to the bone.

Although Xiao He has been in the Northern Xinjiang Army for three years, he was transferred from the garrison to the standing army in the second half of the year before last, that is, after the Jizhou War. In that battle, several major standing army suffered a lot of battle losses, and there were not a few soldiers like Xiao He who entered the standing army.

Although they have been in the Northern Frontier Army for a long time, they are still new recruits for the real battlefield.

Xiao He trembled, he wanted to run, but his legs seemed to be unconscious, and he didn't move.

The "Zizi ......" sound from the blood spurting out of Wu Chang's body pierced Xiao He's heart like a sharp arrow, making Xiao He feel a heart-rending pain, and at the same time, the huge fear also overwhelmed him. Xiao He instinctively opened his mouth wide and screamed loudly: "Save my ......"

The tip of the spear suddenly disappeared, blood flew all over the sky, and Wu Chang fell with a bang.

Xiao He saw Wu Chang's eyes, saw the hatred that rushed to the sky, and then he saw the tip of the spear, the little residual blood on the tip of the spear flew into the air, they flew, like a budding flower suddenly blooming, gorgeous and weird, and the eerie murderous aura rushed to his face.

"Xiao He, raise your shield...... Raise the shield ......" The veteran Guo Zhen shouted hoarsely, the spear in his hand plunged into the enemy's lower abdomen at an alarming speed, and then he turned and ran towards Xiao He, his right hand almost at the same time as the battle knife behind his back.

An enemy collided head-on, and the skinny Guo Zhen roared, bursting out with incredible power all over his body, and he simply knocked the enemy upside down and flew up.

The spear pierced the shield and sank with great force. Xiao He couldn't stand, and fell to the ground with the shield and others. The enemy roared, and the spears were united, and they struck again.

Three spears blocked Guo Zhen, and he was powerless to rush over. Guo Zhen howled in despair: "Xiao He, kill him, kill him......"

Xiao He fell in a pool of blood, watching the spear falling from the sky.

He could see the enemy's face, hear the gasp from the enemy's mouth, and he could even see his own fearful expression in the enemy's eyes.

At this moment, he suddenly forgot to be afraid, and his helpless hand touched the hand crossbow hanging from his waist. This is my father's hand crossbow, and my father taught him to practice firing a thousand times.

Xiao He subconsciously pulled the trigger.

The bolt pierced the enemy's chest and burst into the sky with a speck of blood. The body that flew suddenly stopped for a moment, and then even the person with the spear, still viciously slammed into Xiao He on the ground.

Xiao He turned over at this moment, crawled with a roll, and grabbed the long shield that fell beside him.

The spear poked into the ground, the tip of the spear sinking into the ground. The corpses of the enemy fell to the ground.

Xiao He was so frightened that his soul flew away, lying on the ground, staring blankly at the three pillars of blood that spurted out from the wound behind the enemy.

"I killed him, I killed him......" Xiao He stared blankly, forgetting the noisy, bloody and cruel battlefield.

"Cut off his head, cut off ......" Guo Zhen's excited and hoarse voice came from his ears again, "Cut off ......"

………………

Five miles behind Changshoujin, the camp of General Pingbei.

The herald jumped off his horse, almost rolled in front of Li Jing, and reported loudly: "General, the enemy has withdrawn ......"

Li Jing nodded casually and asked, "What?" After only three days of fighting, they stopped? ”

The herald said, "General, the enemy has retreated on all fronts and is retreating in the direction of Puyang. ”

Li Jing frowned slightly, leaned over to look at the map, and asked, "Is the news accurate?" ”

"The scouts have just sent news from the other side that Yuan Shao's troops have been retreating one after another since last night." The herald said breathlessly, "After General Pan Zhang got the news, he immediately sent me to report to the general. ”

Li Jing was secretly surprised, and walked around the grass with his hands behind his back.

Yuan Shao retreated so quickly and gave up his plan to attack Jizhou, apparently because Zhang Fei and Tai Shici's army had already crossed the river to attack Henan.

Judging from the schedule, the time for the Northern Xinjiang Army to attack Henan was only three to five days at most. In such a short period of time, the Northern Xinjiang Army will definitely not be able to take Xingyang. If Xingyang can't be taken, the Northern Xinjiang Army will have no foothold, as long as Yuan Shao's reinforcements rush back, plus the reinforcements from Luoyang, the Northern Xinjiang Army will soon be defeated under the attack from the east and west. As a result, the strategy to drag Yuan Shao's army on the battlefield in Henan failed.

The top priority at the moment was to immediately hold back Yuan Shao's army and give the Northern Xinjiang Army in the Henan battlefield enough time to capture Xingyang.

If you want to hold Yuan Shao back, you can only change your strategy and immediately cross the river to the south, approaching Baima and Puyang.

He only has an army of 16,000, but Yuan Shao on the opposite side has 50,000 or 60,000 horses, can he hold Yuan Shao back? (To be continued.) )