Sima Xu Shu of the General's Mansion reported the latest battle situation. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

After more than a month of hard fighting, the battlefield had moved back to a place more than 150 miles away from the Yellow River, but the Northern Xinjiang Army still did not find a chance to annihilate the enemy. On the contrary, the situation is becoming more and more severe.

The most unexpected change was that Cao Cao suddenly gave up the East Road Battlefield and let Gongsun Zan directly cross the river and join the Middle Road Battlefield.

Originally, we were going to stubbornly block the middle battlefield, lure the enemy deep in the east battlefield, and then make full use of the distance between the two battlefields of the middle and east roads, first encircle and annihilate the rebels on the east battlefield, and then wait for the opportunity to attack Cao Cao on the middle battlefield. Who knew that Cao Cao actually gave up the battlefield on the east road, so that all our plans failed.

After Gongsun Zhan's Qingzhou Army joined the middle battlefield, the total strength of the rebel army reached more than 200,000, twice that of our army, and the decisive battle situation had been formed.

We are unwilling to fight a decisive battle with the rebels, and the reason why we want to change the external battle to the internal battle is to disperse the rebels' forces, destroy the enemy to the greatest extent, and preserve our own strength. If we are forced to fight the rebels this time, our losses will be far greater than those of fighting on the outside front.

In other words, even if we win this battle, we lose the opportunity to calm the world in three to five years, and we actually lose this battle.

"Cao Cao is very powerful, he made a three-way attack on the same thing, we can't tell the truth from the false, and we were fooled." Li Yi shook his head, Cao Cao, this guy is worthy of being a bull with a resourcefulness of 92, compared to Yuan Shao's people, he is indeed more than a star and a half stronger.

Looking at his strategists, Li Yi smiled and said: "This East Road battlefield is a scam at all, Cao Cao's real purpose is to contain our forces, so that he can quickly reach Ganling City, and then force us to fight a decisive battle with him in Ganling City." The fact that the decisive battle was formed so quickly shows how passive we are now. ”

"We didn't see him so good back then?" Zhang He sneered, "I knew this was the case, and when I pacified the Yellow Turban Army in Jizhou, I should have killed him together." ”

The crowd burst into laughter.

"Lord, the decisive battle is the decisive battle, what are you afraid of?" Li Zhong slapped the case, and waved his hand angrily, "These princes are just a rabble. Even if it's 100,000 against 200,000, we can kill him and cry wolf. ”

Guan Yu turned his head to look at him, and teased with a smile: "I can't see it, your kid is so bold now, admire." ”

Then his face changed, and he suddenly said viciously: "My Northern Xinjiang Army has lost troops, you kid is comfortable in his heart, isn't it??" ”

Li Zhong was stunned for a moment, then gave him a sad face and stopped talking. He understood Guan Yu's temper, he was joking, and he was not angry.

Now these generals in northern Xinjiang are all generals who are in charge of their own affairs, and they have a thorough understanding of the situation, and the decisive battle is not a good thing for Hebei. Just like Xu Shu said just now, even if he won the battle this time, he lost the opportunity to quickly go south to quell the rebellion. A few years later, Hebei recovered, but Yuan Shao and Cao Cao also recovered, and they may be stronger than they are now. If this is the case, then the future counterinsurgency war will be very difficult, and the day of pacifying the world will be even more distant.

What can be done to avoid a decisive battle and inflict heavy losses on the rebels?

The generals said everything to me, and the argument was very lively.

There is a lord sitting in Ganling, everyone thinks that Hebei can win this battle, this is the most solid belief in the hearts of the generals after countless tragic battles in the past ten years, the lord will not be defeated, will never be defeated.

No one doubts this.

Li Yi motioned for the generals to be quiet, and then motioned for Xu Maogong to step forward to explain.

As the chief military advisor, Xu Maogong attended this military meeting on behalf of the military advisor. After receiving Li Yi's signal, he stood in front of the map, pointed to Nanpi and said: "Nanpi is three hundred miles away from Pingyuan City, and when Nanpi is defeated, the rebels can threaten us from the flank, that is to say, the two hundred and fifty miles from Ganling City to Xindu City are under the threat of the rebels, so we have always believed that the rebels will take advantage of our deployment of troops to support the middle battlefield, and divide our troops to support the east battlefield in order to quickly hit Nanpi and force us to continue to retreat." ”

"The reason why we have this judgment is because we think that the rebels are full of internal contradictions, and they are unwilling to fight a decisive battle with us, or the rebels dare not fight us so quickly, so we put the opportunity to destroy the enemy on the battlefield on the eastern road."

"The rebels obviously grasped our psychology very accurately, so they went against the norm and categorically abandoned the eastern battlefield, and instead concentrated all their forces on the central battlefield, seeking an immediate decisive battle with us, so that they could also achieve the goal of forcing us to continue to retreat."

"The purpose of the rebels has been reached, and now we have no chance to destroy the enemy, so we can only continue to retreat, withdraw another two hundred and fifty miles, and withdraw to Xindu City."

Xu Maogong's voice fell, and everyone was shocked.

"We withdrew so quickly to the city of Xindu that the distance between the rebels on the two battlefields was stretched by nearly five hundred miles." Xu Maogong pointed to Xindu City on the map with one hand and Yecheng on the map with the other, "Everyone, please look, this is our chance to annihilate the enemy." ”

Gao Changgong immediately asked: "Mr. Mao Gong, judging from the situation introduced by Yuan Zhi just now, first, we will not give up Yecheng, second, Yuan Shao may not support Cao Cao, and third, the distance between the two battlefields is so large, the rebels are bound to care, it is difficult for us to divide our troops to the south to encircle and annihilate Yuan Shao, unless Cao Cao wants to put Yuan Shao to death, but once Yuan Shao is defeated, how long can Cao Cao survive?" Cao Cao must understand this truth very well, so in the current situation, he will never give us the opportunity to encircle and annihilate Yuan Shao. ”

Xu Maogong nodded appreciatively and said, "Everyone, let's quickly withdraw to Xindu City, what kind of hint do we give to the rebels?" ”

Gao Changgong said with understanding: "Jizhou is about to succeed......"

"Yes." Xu Maogong said with a smile, "Approaching to the middle of Jizhou will make the rebels very excited, and the contradictions between them will even weaken, but due to our heavy garrison, coupled with the growth of the rebels' grain routes, and the repeated harassment by our iron cavalry, they must be eager to defeat us, at this time, Yuan Shao is unable to go north for reinforcements, and in desperation, they have only one way......

Xu Maogong pointed his finger at Nanpi.

The generals suddenly woke up.

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In late June, Shin Capital City.

Shangshu's right servant, Tian Chou, was ordered to rush to Xindu City, and met with Zuo Zhonglang's generals Xun Yan, Jizhou Assassin Shi Bao Zheng, and Anping Guoxiang Zhen Yan to discuss matters related to the evacuation of the people.

Zhen Yan is the second son of Zhen Ju's younger brother Zhen Yan, and the second brother of Li Yi's wife Zhen Jiang. After Zhen Jiang married Li Yi, as her brother, Zhen Yan gained Li Yi's trust and was appointed as the Minister of State of Anping. And Zhen Jiang's third brother, Zhen Yao, succeeded Xun Yan as the county commander of Quanzhou.

In the early stage, the two million people were evacuated, mainly the people of dozens of counties in the four counties south of the Qinghe River, including Wei County, Qinghe County, Bohai County, and Pingyuan County.

However, this time there are fewer places to be evacuated, and the number of evacuated people has also been greatly reduced, only three counties between Qinghe and Xindu City, including Guangchuan County, Anping Guojing County, and Nangong County, with a population of about 100,000.

After the rebels approached the middle of Jizhou, because of the lack of protection of the two wings of the army, in fact, they had formed a lonely in-depth situation, in addition to concentrating on seeking a decisive battle with the Northern Xinjiang Army, they no longer had the strength to occupy all the cities within a few hundred miles, so the evacuated population was concentrated in the northern region of Qinghe Country and the southern region of Anping Country, Hebei did not need to use more financial and material resources, for the Jizhou Prefectures, they had to try their best to appease the panic and anxiety of the people, It is necessary to convince the people that the Northern Frontier Army will definitely defeat the rebels.

Tian Chou did not specify the general's strategy to break the enemy, which was a military secret and could not be announced to the public. He only said that because there was no chance of destroying the enemy at present, the general ordered the army to continue to retreat, so as to lengthen the enemy's battle line, force the enemy to show his flaws, and wait for an opportunity to find a good opportunity to strike a blow.

The immediate priority now is not to advise the people to evacuate quickly, but to stabilize the people's minds so that the whole of Hebei can work together.

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At the beginning of July, the Northern Xinjiang Army withdrew to Ganling City.

Cao Cao, Liu Biao, Liu Bei, Gongsun Zhan, Ma Teng and other five-way armies met under the city of Ganling.

At this time, Yuan Shao was still confronting the Northern Xinjiang Army on the front line of Neihuang and Fanyang.

Cao Cao was very anxious, and summoned Liu Biao, Ma Teng and others several times to discuss, urging Yuan Shao to go north to attack Yecheng as soon as possible, and contain the main force of the Northern Xinjiang Army, so as not to delay the decisive battle.

Cao Cao's urging made Yuan Shao very angry, and he replied to Cao Cao, your army did not touch the main force of the Northern Frontier Army at all, although you hit the city of Ganling, but you calculate how many losses you have? On the contrary, I am opposite the absolute main force of the Northern Xinjiang Army, there are more than 200,000 Northern Xinjiang Army in Jizhou, most of them are here with me, every time I take a step forward, I have to step on countless corpses, don't you know?

Yuan Shao had not yet reached Yecheng for more than a month, coupled with the sudden betrayal of Hanoi Taishou Zhangyang, Cao Cao lost his patience, and he immediately decided to divide his troops to support Yuan Shao and help Yuan Shao hit Yecheng in the shortest possible time.

Liu Biao, Ma Teng, Cao Hong, and Cao Chun led an army of 100,000 to the west along the Chi Road, attacking Qingyuan and Guantao, intending to connect with Yuan Shao's army.

The Northern Xinjiang Army did not resist, and successively abandoned Qingyuan and Guantao.

In early July, the Northern Frontier Army, which was holding the line of Neihuang and Fanyang, quickly withdrew to Yecheng when its flanks were threatened.

In mid-July, Yuan Shao led a large army to the city of Yecheng.

At this point, the decisive battle situation has been fully formed, and the Northern Xinjiang Army will either continue to retreat northward, or fight to the death under the city of Ganling.

The Northern Xinjiang Army chose to continue to retreat northward, and the large army withdrew across the Qing River and set up a formation along the north bank of the Qing River to block it. (To be continued.) )