After Zang Ba broke through the encirclement, he left 500 brave men and headed north, while he asked the soldiers to drop their helmets, take off their armor, sprinkle all the way along the way, and then swaggered all the way to the west with the army.

Yuan Tan led the pursuers to chase over, found this fork in the road, saw that the road to the west lost his armor and stretched for a long distance, but on the road to the north there were only footprints, he was about to lead the army to chase west, but heard Guo Tu shout: "Slow." ”

"What advice do you have?" Yuan Tan hurriedly asked.

Guo Tu said: "Zang Ba has always been cautious in the use of soldiers, and the road to the west is full of discarded armor of soldiers, which is obviously leading us to the west. Don't be fooled, I conclude that Zang Ba led the army to the north, and the north is Gaotang, maybe Zang Ba wants to go to meet Zhao Yun's army. ”

Yuan Tan immediately made a decision, and immediately ordered the army to go to the north, chased for more than an hour, and finally caught up with the five hundred daring people, Yuan Jun rushed up, and cut those daring people into meat sauce, but only one was left alive. Yuan Tan asked him about the whereabouts of Zang Ba's army, and the daring man just laughed, saying that Zang Ba was already out of danger at this time, and it would be difficult to find him again.

Yuan Tan was furious, slashed the soldier to death, and looked at Guo Tu with resentment.

Guo Tu's face was hot for a while, but he didn't expect that he would make a mistake and fall for Zang Ba's strategy. At this point, Guo Tu had nothing to blame, and immediately said to Yuan Tan: "The eldest prince, Zang Ba only has thousands of remnants of the defeated generals, and he can't set off any storms at all, so it is better to leave some soldiers to garrison Licheng, and the eldest prince will lead the army into Jizhou to attack Zhao Yun." If only the eldest prince could capture Zhao Yun and kill him. Dedicate the head to the lord. That's many times stronger than defeating Zang Ba! ”

Yuan Tan nodded heavily, and immediately ordered the withdrawal of the army. At this time, the soldiers of the Yuan army had already occupied Licheng, Yuan Tan was angry that the people in the city helped Zang Ba to defend the city together, and he lost many troops, and in a fit of anger, he actually ordered the slaughter of the city, men, women and children. Not a single one is left. In addition, he indulged the soldiers to rob for a day, and everything they grabbed belonged to themselves.

The 30,000 surviving people in the poor city died tragically under Yuan Tan's butcher's knife. At the beginning, Zang Ba was worried that these people would suffer if they followed him, and he was afraid that he would be killed by Yuan Jun, so he left them and didn't take them away, but he didn't expect to be slaughtered by Yuan Tan.

After Yuan Tan slaughtered the city. Chun Yuqiong, Jiang Qi, and Zhu Ling were each sent to lead 5,000 soldiers to attack Beihai, Qi County, and Donglai. He led the army to Jizhou to meet Zhao Yun, as for the ghost place of Licheng, Yuan Tan did not leave a single soldier at all, and took the looted things and went to Jizhou in a mighty way.

Zang Ba retreated to the area of Mount Tai, and with the assistance of Taishan Taishou Zhuge Jin, he was resettled, and when he learned that Yuan Tan had slaughtered the city, he was immediately annoyed, and he hated Yuan Tan even more.

So, Zang Ba asked Yu to draft a proclamation and spread it to all counties in Qingzhou, announcing Yuan Tan's evil deeds of slaughtering the city to the world, and calling on the people of Qingzhou to fight against Yuan's army together.

In the months that followed, the people of Qingzhou spontaneously organized themselves and continued to attack and harass the Yuan army, making the Yuan army a target in Qingzhou.

But that's all for later.

Now, after Zang Ba arrived in Mount Tai and was resettled, he recuperated here with peace of mind, and always paid attention to the movements of Yuan's army, and tried to fight back.

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Zhao Yun led 10,000 guards and pro-army, and Chen Qi as a strategist, and the group ran rampant in Jizhou, and everywhere they went, they all looked at the wind and fell.

Zhao Yun stayed in Ganling City for two days, and then led the army to the north, and the troops approached Nanpi City, the county seat of Bohai County. After Zhao Yun led his army into Nanpi City, he killed the bullies and opened the official warehouse to relieve the local poor people, which won the support of the local people.

Subsequently, the text of Yuan Shao's murder of the monarch came, and Zhao Yun publicized it, and claimed that he was ordered by the regent to come to rescue the people of Jizhou. For a time, the young and middle-aged people in Jizhou asked to enlist in the army and follow Zhao Yun, but they were all rejected by Zhao Yun, unwilling to let the people of Jizhou risk their lives.

A day later, Zhao Yun led the army to leave Nanpi, before leaving, killed Bohai Taishou and Nanpi County Order, and informed the people that his departure was only temporary, and the regent would send a large army to occupy Jizhou in the future, and when the time came, he also hoped that the people would actively join the army.

After Zhao Yun left Nanpi, he led his army to continue northward, successively capturing Hejian Kingdom, Zhongshan Kingdom, and Changshan Kingdom, and Zuihou was stationed in Zhending County of Changshan Kingdom.

Zhending County is Zhao Yun's hometown, and this time he returned to his hometown, one is to visit his mother who has not seen him for many years, and the other is to recruit soldiers.

Zhao Yun's mother passed away three years ago, when Zhao Yun was still in Xuzhou and could not return to his hometown to visit.

Since Zhao Yun followed Gongsun Zhan, he entrusted his mother to the care of his fellow villager Xia Houlan, who treated her like her own mother, and served her for the rest of her life.

In addition, Zhao Yun's reputation is very good, and everyone admires him in his hometown. Therefore, Yuan Shao sent people to look for Zhao Yun's family several times, but the villagers concealed it, saying that Zhao Yun's parents died in his early years, and he was alone, without relatives and no reason.

This time, Zhao Yun returned, accompanied by Xia Houlan, and went to his mother's grave to pay respects, and then asked Xia Houlan to follow him out to explore the world.

Xia Houlan's parents died when she was a child, and she was alone, but fortunately, Zhao Yun often helped her, and she had already regarded Zhao Yun as her eldest brother, and she had also practiced martial arts with Zhao Yun. Xia Houlan has not married in the past few years, so she is still alone, so she followed Zhao Yun.

After that, Zhao Yun recruited 300 brave men from his hometown Zhending, issued them weapons and armor, and left Zhending with him.

Zhao Yun went south from Zhending, passed through Julu, and once again approached the city of Yecheng, and Yuan Shang, who stayed in Yecheng, was so frightened that his face was like dirt.

In the past half a month, Zhao Yun has almost swept the entire Jizhou, and the secret reports like snowflakes have kept flying into Yecheng, basically saying that they have been attacked by Zhao Yun, which makes Yuan Shang have a headache, but he can't solve it.

When he was upset, he didn't want Zhao Yun to come to the city again, so he was so frightened that Yuan Shang immediately closed the city gate and did not dare to fight.

Zhao Yun used the strength of an army to disrupt the entire Jizhou, making Jizhou restless.

But the reinforcements had not yet arrived, and Yuan Shang was in a state of confusion and did not know how to respond.

However, fortunately, Zhao Yun did not stay in Yecheng for a long time, and only stayed for an hour before heading southeast.

The task given to Zhao Yun by Zhang Yan is to turn Jizhou upside down, and now that Zhao Yun's goal has been achieved, it is time to lead the army back.

Although Zhao Yun is gone, the legend of Zhao Yun has been left everywhere in Jizhou, and it is said that Zhao Yun has three heads and six arms, and his magical powers are vast. Because Zhao Yun killed bullies and severely punished corrupt officials along the way, he won the hearts of the people, and the government declared that Zhao Yun was a demon who ate people and did not spit out bones.

After Zhao Yun left, in the Jizhou area, the homes of ordinary people basically enshrined Zhao Yun's statue to Shen Kan and worshipped him, and the name of General Huwei was even more famous, and even spread to Youzhou and Bingzhou.

Zhao Yun led the army to Dongwuyang again, crossed the river from here, went to Cangting on the other bank, encountered more than ten small troops on the way, but did not dare to provoke Zhao Yun, and Zhao Yun did not have the same general knowledge as them, led the army to cross the river, on the tenth day of February, arrived at the south bank of the Yellow River, entered the Cangting territory, and then along the Yellow River, all the way to the west, towards Puyang.

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Near Xiancheng, Yuan Shao listened to Tian Feng's suggestion, and while sending soldiers to dig ravines, he sent people to deliver a letter to Cao Cao, ordering Cao Cao to lead his army to Xiancheng and join forces.

After Cao Cao received Yuan Shao's warrant, he did not hesitate, took an army of 40,000 people, took the waterway, went down the river, arrived at Baima, and then rushed from Baima to Xiancheng.

In the past few days, Yuan's army has formed a confrontation with Zhang Yan's army in Xiancheng, and it is not easy to fight, and it has no sharpness.

And Zhang Yan because Yuan's army dug many deep and wide ravines, whether it was cavalry or infantry, could not cross, so he stationed troops in Xiancheng and did not attack Yuan Shao.

However, Zhang Yan was secretly urging skilled craftsmen to develop secret weapons, and once the secret weapons were successfully developed, it was likely to be the end of Yuan Jun.

Cao Cao led his army to the boundary of Xiancheng soon, and he himself was allowed to enter the Great Tent after being informed.

"See the lord!" As soon as Cao Cao entered the big tent, he immediately paid homage to Yuan Shao.

When Yuan Shao saw Cao Cao coming, he smiled happily, immediately stepped forward, grabbed Cao Cao's hand, and said happily: "Meng De came at the right time." ”

Cao Cao said ashamedly: "The subordinates are incompetent, unable to lead the army to break through the Tiger Pass, let alone capture Ao Cang, but suffered from Tai Shi Ci's attacks in Hanoi one after another, losing more than 20,000 people, and asking the lord to punish him." ”

After hearing this, Yuan Shao did not blame, but said calmly: "Victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, and Meng De must not make a final conclusion based on the victory or loss of a war. Not only did you get thwarted, but I was also blocked. It seems that we underestimated Zhang Yan too much. ”

As soon as the words fell, Yuan Shao was lonely. However, in his eyes, there was a strange glance inadvertently, and he secretly glanced at Cao Cao, which was fleeting and did not find anything.

Cao Cao hugged his fists and said: "Lord, on the way I came, I have heard that Zhang Yan has a very powerful army, what is it called the Iron Cable Chain Horse Formation, I don't know if the Lord has thought of a way to crack it?" ”

"Tian Junshi presented me with the strategy of deep ditches and high fortifications, which can at least block the attack of the chain horse formation, so that our army will not suffer losses." Yuan Shaodao.

Cao Cao said: "The deep ditch and high fortress are just a temporary expedient measure, and now my subordinates have come to support with 40,000 troops, why are you afraid of Zhang Yan's iron chain horse formation?" It's better to let your subordinates fight tomorrow, and you will definitely be able to destroy the chain of iron horses! ”

Yuan Shao said with a smile: "If Meng Deken makes a move, he will definitely be able to get twice the result with half the effort." Come, you and I haven't seen each other for a long time, and today we won't get drunk and won't return! (To be continued......)