Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are brave and incomparable, these two gods have always followed the left and right since they formed a righteous relationship with Liu Bei, and they will never abandon them, and their brotherly relationship is very good. Now, Liu Bei finally made the history of Qingzhou Thorn, and had the foundation to achieve a career, but he was immediately suppressed by Yuan Shao, and Guan Zhang and the others were naturally unwilling to be beaten back to their original form, and vowed to block the enemy army to the death.

The problem is that what can determine the outcome of a war is mostly the overall strength, not the individual's blood.

In this war, Yuan Shao's advantage was very obvious.

In terms of troops, Yuan Shao easily dispatched an army of 200,000, while Liu Bei only had 60,000, a difference of several times; In terms of talents, Yuan Shao's generals are like clouds, strategists are like rain, Liu Bei's capable fighters are only Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, and Jian Yong, who is good at debating the most suitable for lobbyists, has to make a cameo appearance as a strategist; In terms of money and food population, on the one hand, Yuan Shao, who owns the land of three states, and on the other hand, Liu Bei, who actually only owns four counties, is completely incomparable; On the people's hearts, the fourth generation of the Yuan family and the third duke, the protégé and the old officials are all over the world, Liu Bei is a down-and-out clansman, it must be explained that the identity of this clansman is doubtful, he said it himself, and it has not been confirmed and accepted by the Han family......

No matter how you look at it, Liu Bei's resistance can't see a bright future.

In the face of absolute strength, any stubborn resistance can only be a joke.

Central Plains County.

After Yuan Shao captured the kingdom of Qi, he besieged Pingyuan City.

The plain is a county town, and the player has no right to capture it at present, it is a second-level capital, and the city defense conditions are better, and Qingzhou Mansion has selected some key cities, and Pingyuan City is on the list. The upper limit of the army in Pingyuan City could reach 50,000 troops, but due to the financial constraints of Liu Bei's Qingzhou Mansion, only 30,000 troops were actually recruited. But with more than 30,000 people under Guan Yu's department entering the Plains City, the number of defenders in the Plains City is as high as more than 60,000 people!

Although Yuan Shao's middle route army had an army of 100,000. But if you want to break through the heavily fortified city, there is little hope.

Facing Plains City. Yuan Shao was in a dilemma.

Forcibly attacking is equivalent to using the soldiers' desperate efforts, and not only will the damage be very strict, but the time spent is unimaginable. Well, there have been spies who have reported that Qingzhou Mansion has gathered a large amount of grain and grass materials in the plain city, and the method of besieging the city and consuming grain is not easy to use.

Another option is to bypass Plains City and continue eastward.

But. Guan Yu's army was behind him, and Yuan Shao was very worried about the safety of the rear.

Pingyuan City is in Hebei, only fifty miles away from the Yellow River, once Yuan Shao's army crosses the Yellow River, Guan Yu is fully capable of cutting off the back road, after all, Guan Yu still has more than 30,000 mobile troops in his hands to go out of the city. Even if he didn't block Yuan Shao's back road, Guan Yu had many options, such as going north to attack Yuan Tan, or going south to join forces with Zhang Fei to attack Yuan Shang. As long as he waits for the opportunity to eat one road, Yuan's plan to divide and attack in three ways will be declared bankrupt, and maybe he will have to take the life of a son.

Moreover, Guan Yu may also lead his troops into Jizhou. Launch a counterattack.

Yuan Shao found Tian Feng, Fu Zhu and others to discuss.

Tian Feng said: "Liu Bei's soldiers are outnumbered, and Qingzhou Mansion has the strongest resistance in the early stage of the war, but this resistance cannot last. As the war dragged on. The power of Qingzhou Mansion will continue to be consumed, but it will not be effectively replenished. Qingzhou Mansion will become weaker and weaker, as long as the energy consumption consumes the strength that Qingzhou Mansion has finally gathered. The war that followed was much easier. ”

Frustratedly: "Guan Yu is Liu Bei's general, the lord will lock Guan Yu in Pingyuan City, and the only person available to Liu Bei is Zhang Fei." The two sons attacked the north and south of the plain, Zhang Fei lacked skills, and it was impossible to protect the plain thoroughly, I believe that it will not be long before the two sons will make a breakthrough...... If I make a contribution to the two armies on the left and right, Guan Yu doesn't want to sit in the lonely city, so he can only go out of the city to break through, and at that time, the lord will wave the army to cover the killing, and Liu Bei will be defeated! ”

Chen Zhen also said: "My middle route army dragged Liu Bei's main force, just so that the two sons could play to their heart's content." ”

Chen Zhen said very vaguely, he actually wanted to remind Yuan Shao, you arranged for Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang to lead one each to go on the expedition this time, didn't you just want the two to be separated? What a good opportunity.

Yuan Shao categorically ordered to storm the plains!

100,000 people attacking a fortified city of more than 60,000 people seems a bit reckless, but don't forget that Yuan Shao can mobilize far more troops than that. Restricted by the rules of the famous city troops, only 20% of the troops can be transferred out of the city at a time, if the troops transferred abroad die in battle, they can be transferred from the city again, Yuan Shao can continue to obtain a steady stream of troops, with a huge reserve of troops, to exhaust the opponent's last bit of strength.

This is called hurting people by the heart.

When Zang Hong attacked Ah Niu, he did the same.

Plains City was in the midst of a brutal siege, and for a long time, fierce attacks and defenses were fought every day. The dreary war drums and the noisy shouting and killing have become the daily homework of Pingyuan City, and a large number of Yuan soldiers died in battle under the city every day, and the blood dyed the moat red.

Southern Plains County.

When the forward of the right army crossed the river, he was attacked by Zhang Fei and folded thousands of sergeants, and the discounted troops could be replenished from the rear soon, which was not a problem, but it was annoying that Yan Liang was injured. Yan Liang was one of the best generals in Yuan Shao's army, and his injury directly affected the morale of Yuan Shang's right army.

Under the relief of the trial and Feng Ji, Yuan Shang quickly regained his strength and cheered up to deal with Zhang Fei.

At the beginning, Yuan Shang also followed the example of the Left Route Army and the Middle Route Army to attack the county seat, and after only two days of fighting, he found that it was not good. Gaotang is not as good as the country and Leling, although the scale of the three counties is the same, but the defender of Gaotang is Zhang Fei, as well as the 20,000 Qingzhou mobile troops led by Zhang Fei, the siege troops of the Right Route Army, died a happy death, Yuan Shang hit his head under Gaotang City, and quickly collected his troops on the third day.

Yuan Jun began to call for battle under the city, asking Zhang Fei to go out of the city for a decisive battle.

Zhang Fei naturally didn't do it, but Yuan Jun immediately changed his shouting array to a scolding array, and one by one the loud-voiced ruffian soldiers came out in turn and expressed cordial greetings to the female relatives of Liu Guan and Zhang...... Zhang Fei endured until the afternoon, and finally couldn't hold back his anger and led his troops out of the city. Yuan Jun refused to fight alone, so a scuffle was fought until dark, and the two armies damaged each other, and each withdrew its troops.

Yuan Shang was very happy, although the field battle was not won or lost, but the purpose of consuming Zhang Fei's troops was achieved.

But he underestimated Zhang Fei's determination to take revenge.

That night, Zhang Fei led 5,000 Qingzhou soldiers to attack Yuan Shang's camp at night, set fire to the wind, and took advantage of the chaos to kill people, and Yuan's army was in chaos. Zhang Fei led his troops to assault Yuan Shangzhong's army Dazhai, Yuan's general Han Juzi desperately resisted, and was stabbed to death by Zhang Fei, at this time Mu Yuanjin and Lu Weihuang had reorganized their troops, Zhang Fei knew that there was no hope of killing Yuan Shang, and returned to Gaotang County.

This night attack made Yuan Shang lose face, and also made Yuan Shang understand that he would not be able to continue eastward without solving Zhang Fei. Yuan Shang thought about a detour, but the Right Route Army had already crossed the Yellow River, and the risk of a detour was far higher than that of the Middle Route Army, and Yuan Shang was also worried that if Zhang Fei crossed the river to the front line of the plain to help Guan Yu beat Yuan Shao because of the detour of the Right Route Army, even if Yuan Shang made a great contribution, it would be difficult to recover the lost points in front of Yuan Shao.

Yuan Shang made the same choice as Yuan Shao and attacked Gaotang!

Northern Plains County.

Due to the shortage of generals in Qingzhou Mansion, Yuan Shao's left army that attacked the north of the plain did not encounter any resistance and came to the city to besiege Leling County.

There are not many troops in Leling City, and the lord who occupies the county has to accept the order of Qingzhou Mansion to recruit 20,000 soldiers, plus Leling has a first-class capital city defense after all, if you are determined to defend it, it is not difficult to defend Yuan Tan's 50,000 people for a month or two. However, the lord occupying Leling, like the lord of Qiguo County faced by Yuan Shao's middle route army, would not be effectively loyal to the princes at all, and although he was forced to recruit 20,000 troops under the pressure of the Qingzhou government, he was no longer willing to invest half a cent in the city defense facilities.

The lord was quite annoyed: "This is the income of the broken county, and it is already the limit to maintain 10,000 troops, Nima, forcing Lao Tzu to levy an extra 10,000, this is a proper cheat, I want to make Lao Tzu bankrupt." ”

As a result, Leling broke on the fourth day.

This result caught Yuan Tan off guard.

50,000 people attacked a fortified city defended by 20,000 people, how could it be taken so smoothly? Yuan Tan once suspected that this was the arrogant plan of the Qingzhou Mansion, and deliberately showed weakness to trick himself into the trap. But this expedition to Qingzhou is related to who can become Yuan Shao's heir, the army won the battle, and they always dare not attack, Yuan Tan's heart was horizontal, and he led his troops to rush to Banxian.

Who would have thought that the county would fall faster and take it in three days!

Yuan Tan made breakthroughs one after another, but his heart became more and more uneasy, especially after learning about the progress of the other two armies, the eldest son of the Yuan family seemed to smell the breath of conspiracy, and began to beat the drum in his heart. He was willing to use the rest of the troops as an excuse to suspend the pace of the offensive, but Yuan Shao soon sent someone to send an order: the Left Route Army would move south on the same day, attack West Pyeongchang, and move closer to the Central Route Army.

Due to the hard work of Guan and Zhang, in the early stage of the war, the Qingzhou Army successfully delayed the offensive momentum of Yuan Shaojun, but correspondingly, the war was introduced into the mode of attrition of fighting for comprehensive strength in advance, which was extremely unfavorable to the Qingzhou Mansion, which was a small profit.

Yuan Shaojun's three-way army was pressing, and Pingyuan County was like a small sailboat in a storm, struggling to survive.

What worries Guan Yu and Zhang Fei even more is that as the war continues, there will be problems within Qingzhou Mansion.

According to the plan, because Liu Bei was seriously ill and bedridden, Guan Zhang and Zhang Fei led the troops to fight on the front line, Liu Zhen was responsible for the deployment of troops and materials in the rear, and Jian Yong assisted Liu Zhen and was responsible for liaison and negotiation with all forces. Guan Zhang fought bloody battles on the front line for several days, and although Guan Zhang used the famous city troops as much as possible when defending the city, their mobile troops were inevitably damaged.

The problem lies in the logistics that Liu Zhen is responsible for.

It has been almost ten days since the start of the war, and the front line has not been reupped.

The food and grass materials are still sufficient, but the troops have been damaged and have not been replenished in time, which makes Guan Yu and Zhang Fei weaker and weaker, and the two are very anxious. Qingzhou Mansion has set up troop assembly points in each county to integrate the troops sent by various famous cities one after another, usually county towns or county seats, but the people sent to Jinan County and Le'an Country in front have reported that there are no reinforcements at the assembly points!

Guan Yu sent people back to Beihai several times to urge, and Liu Zhen replied that "I am doing my best to supervise it, please let my uncle relax."

Half a month after the start of the war, reinforcements still have not arrived.

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei had no choice but to transfer the troops of each city in Pingyuan County to replenish the battle losses. But at this time, Yuan Tan captured West Pingchang, and the ten counties of the plain went to the fourth, plus the plain and Gaotang have been at war, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei can only draw troops from the four county towns, a drop in the bucket.

At this moment, Jian Yong came to Plains City.