After the hope of peace was shattered, Qingzhou Mansion no longer dared to have illusions.

Jinan County, Le'an Country and Beihai Kingdom began to truly fulfill their rear responsibilities, and a steady stream of reinforcements and materials were assembled and sent to the front line of Pingyuan County. After receiving supplies from the rear, Guan Yu and Zhang Feixing shì greatly improved, and on the premise of defending steadily, they still had the strength to launch a series of counterattacks.

Yuan Jun also tried to cut off the supply lines of the Qingzhou army, but was unsuccessful.

At this stage, although the Yuan army has an absolute advantage in strength, the Qingzhou army also has a fairly strong counterattack strength when fighting on its own. Take Yuan Shao's middle route army as an example, Yuan Shao divided his troops to bypass Pingyuan City, intending to deploy defenses along the Yellow River line, cut off Qingzhou Mansion's support for Pingyuan City, one night, Guan Yu sent a small force to infiltrate Yuan's army camp and set fire, the defenders in the city drummed and shouted to kill, pretending to rob the camp, so that Yuan Shao's middle route army did not dare to be careless, and in fact, Guan Yu led the mobile troops to attack at night, and Yuan Shao sent Yuan Shao to the rear of the plain Yuan army was defeated, killing more than 5,000 people, and when Yuan Shao learned the true situation, Guan Yu had already returned to Pingyuan City.

Since then, Yuan Shao has no longer done that useless work lightly, but still honestly fought a war of attrition.

For more than ten days in the following days, Yuan Shao's Middle Route Army and Right Route Army were still rejected from the plains and the Gaotang line. The only advance was the Left Route Army under the command of Yuan Tan, and the northern area of Pingyuan County had been completely occupied by Yuan Tan's troops. Yuan Tan was ready to continue to lead his troops south to attack Ande County, and after defeating Ande County, the Left Route Army would be able to join forces with Yuan Shao's Middle Route Army and attack the plain city that Guan Yu was defending.

However, Yuan Shao suddenly changed his mind and sent someone to deliver a new order.

Yuan Tan was no longer asked to move closer to the Middle Route Army, but to let Yuan Tan cross the Yellow River. Attack Le'an Kingdom to the east!

Yuan Tan was a little puzzled at first, but he still had good strategists under his account. Xin Ping and Guo Tu quickly understood Yuan Shao's intentions.

Xin commented: "There are many main soldiers, and Guan Yu has few soldiers. Only relying on the hard defense of the fortified city, Gongzi went south to the plain and attacked the plain with the main prince's middle route army, which was just the icing on the cake and only increased the momentum. The lord let the prince continue to advance eastward, coerced Le'an, and let the flames of war ignite in the hinterland of Qingzhou, which will undoubtedly make Qingzhou Mansion even more uncomfortable! ”

The judge also smiled: "Under Liu Bei's account, the only one who can command the army is Guan Zhang and the two." It was engaged in a battle with our Central Route Army and the Right Route Army, and the Left Route Army under the command of Childe was marching forward. Continue to attack to the east, stretch the battle line, and let Qingzhou Mansion take care of one and lose the other, I believe that it will not be long before Guan Yu and Zhang Fei do not want to retreat. Don't hesitate, go all out to the east! ”

The Left Route Army did not join up with the Middle Route Army to besiege the plains, but suddenly attacked Le'an alone, which really made Qingzhou Mansion scramble for a while. This is a clear bullying of Liu Bei's young generals, and the Qingzhou Mansion is depressed. The Qingzhou Mansion did not dare to sit idly by and watch Yuan Tan's actions, nor did it want to abandon the plains so quickly and let Yuan Shao advance eastward in an all-round way without scrupulousness. In desperation, Qingzhou Mansion was forced to adjust.

Zhang Fei took advantage of the night to withdraw from Gaotang and go north, and sent his troops into Pingyuan City. to enhance Guan Yu's strength. Guan Yu will continue to defend the plain and hold back the main force of Yuan's army. Zhang Fei returned to Le'an and led the follow-up troops of Qingzhou Mansion. Stifle Yuan Tan's attack.

After the adjustment, it was difficult for Yuan Tan's Left Route Army to advance as before, but Yuan Shang's Right Route Army was finally liberated. The Right Route Army, which was not suppressed by Zhang Fei, was like a bird released from its cage, and captured Gaotang three days later, and from then on it was out of control, and soon brought the southern part of the plain into control. Similarly, Yuan Shang did not move closer to the Middle Route Army, but chose to continue to attack Jinan County eastward!

The left and right wings were breached, and Guan Yu, who was stubbornly defending Plains City, suddenly increased his pressure.

In order to avoid being dumpled by Yuan's army, it is wise to retreat quickly, since Yuan's left and right armies did not attack the middle of the plain, if Guan Yu chooses to retreat now, he can retreat with his whole body. However, Guan Yu did not do that, but continued to stick to the plain very strongly, putting on a posture of swearing to the death of the plain city, this decision was conducive to the overall strategy of Qingzhou Mansion, but it also put himself in danger. According to the current situation, Guan Yu's back road will be cut off sooner or later, and the plain will become an isolated city.

After Yuan Shang entered Jinan County, he copied Yuan Tan's earlier successful model in the northern part of the plain.

The Right Route Army won successive battles, and within five days, it successively attacked Licheng and Taixian.

The loss of two county towns in five days surprised Qingzhou Mansion, you must know that Licheng and Taixian are far apart, nearly 100 miles away, and the time for Yuan Jun to hurry is almost two days. Yuan Shang's right army is only 50,000 troops, each county has about 20,000 troops, and there are capital-level city walls, which are obviously a bit unbelievable at such a speed, and it is hard to believe that those players who occupy famous cities have seriously organized resistance.

Jian Yong scolded unceremoniously: "Strangers have no virtue!" Inhuman shameless! ”

To the east of Taixian County is the Dongping Tomb, and the Qingzhou Mansion believes that the Yuan army will never be able to break through the Dongping Tomb lightly.

Dongpingling is the seat of Jinan County, the city is high and thick, and most importantly, the county town is not yet open to players.

Yuan Shang attacked for two days, and soon realized that the hardness of Dongpingling was not the same level as the player's famous city that was broken before, and decisively stopped the attack. Qingzhou Mansion didn't be happy for long, and began to burst into tears again: after Yuan Jun rested for a day, he directly bypassed Dongpingling and continued to attack eastward! Yuan Shang couldn't bargain in front of Zhang Fei in the early stage, and watched his eldest brother Yuan Tan keep scoring, and now he finally caught the opportunity, Yuan Shang naturally didn't want to miss it, and constantly encouraged his soldiers to go east, east, and then east.

Yuan Shao has been on the plains, urging the soldiers and horses to attack the city every day, and always paying attention to the progress of the left and right route armies.

Recently, Yuan Shang's expression has been very prominent, which makes Yuan Shao feel very good, if the war ends like this, he will make Yuan Shang his heir, and the resistance will be much smaller. However, after all, Yuan Shao is the one who has been the master of the Guanasean, and under Yuan Jun's good appearance, Yuan Shao still maintains a little calm.

If the current situation continues, Jinan County will soon be taken. After losing Jinan County, Zhang Fei's Le Anguo, which was guarded, faced the attack of Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang, even if Zhang Fei could support it for a while, Guan Yu had to make a choice immediately, because his back road would soon be completely cut off.

If Guan Yu didn't want to die in Plains City, he had to evacuate quickly.

Yuan Shao was not worried about Guan Yu retreating, as soon as Guan Yu retreated, it meant that the entire plain fell, and it also meant that the most powerful middle route army was liberated. At that time, it will be restored to the situation at the beginning of the war, when the three armies are advancing together, and it is more advantageous that Yuan Shao has occupied at least two more counties than before the war, and the strength of Qingzhou has been greatly weakened.

All Qingzhou will be just around the corner!

But Yuan Shao knew very well in his heart that this qiē calculation was too ideal, and it was based on the premise that there were no accidents.

There has always been an unstable factor in Qingzhou, and that is Aniu's Fengxiang City.

Yuan Shao has dealt with Ah Niu many times, and the memories left are not good, Yuan Shao knows the strength of Fengxiang City, even if his power is not what it used to be, even if he has long regarded Qingzhou as a bag, Yuan Shao does not want to turn his face with a certain city lord prematurely.

If you want to turn your face, it should be after defeating Liu Bei!

Sending troops to Qingzhou, Yuan Shao waved the banner of "avenging Kong Rong", and the target was Liu Bei, but in fact, Yuan Shao's ambitions did not stop there. Yuan Shao carefully concealed his full intentions, that is, he did not want to see Fengxiang and Qingzhou Mansion jointly send troops, so far, Yuan Shao is very satisfied with Ah Niu's restraint. Pingyuan, Jinan, and Le'an are all the territory of Qingzhou Prefecture, but once Yuan Shang occupies the entire Jinan County, Yuan's army will face the Qi State of Aniu, and Yuan Shao is not sure if Fengxiang City will change its previous relative neutrality because of the threat of surveillance.

Therefore, after Yuan Shang captured the two counties of Jinan, Yuan Shao sent an envoy to Fengxiang City.

Fengxiang City Lord's Mansion.

Tian Feng represented Yuan Shao and released goodwill to a certain city lord.

Tian Feng said: Yuan's army attacked Qingzhou, completely because of Liu Bei's assassination of Kong Rong, Yuan Shao admired Ah Niu's respect for the Son of Heaven, admired Ah Niu's courage to expand the territory, and especially appreciated Ah Niu's selfless quality of promising not to seek land in Qingzhou......

Tian Feng, on behalf of Yuan Shao, warmly invited, and Ah Niu sent troops together to quell Liu Bei's rebellion (whether Liu Bei Tong disagreed or not, first put on a rebellion hat), but if Ah Niu was inconvenient to send troops, Yuan Shao could fully understand; After the end of the rebellion, an upright and selfless person like Ah Niu is needed to help Qingzhou recover stability as soon as possible; In order to thank Ah Niu for his support for quelling the rebellion (not sending troops is the greatest support), Yuan Shao will submit a letter to the imperial court to exempt Qi and Donglai County from taxes for three years, and ask Ah Niu to be promoted to the rank of lord......

All in all, Tian Feng did his best to praise his ability and gave a certain city lord enough face.

Ah Niu smiled happily and first thanked Yuan Shao for his kindness. and "there is insufficient evidence that Liu Bei is the culprit of Kong Rong's assassination", regretting that Feng Xiang was not able to send troops to help the war. Then, Ah Niu expressed his admiration for Yuan Shao, and praised Yuan Shao's conduct, family background and ability, and said it with great beauty, so that Tian Feng blushed a little when he heard it. Just when Tian Feng really couldn't listen to it and wanted to end this unnutritious conversation, a certain city lord made a small request.

I hope that Yuan Shao will make a public commitment and never take the initiative to attack Fengxiang.

Ah Niu was ashamed to explain that some people in Fengxiang thought that Yuan Shao would attack Fengxiang if he defeated Liu Bei, and although a certain city lord himself did not believe it, in order to take care of everyone's feelings, he also asked Yuan Shao to make a public promise to make everyone feel at ease.

Tian Feng is crazy.

Promotion, tax exemption, property, and talent can all be promised, but if you want Yuan Shao to publicly promise not to fight Fengxiang, how can this be made? However, if a certain city lord's request is not agreed, wouldn't it be a disguised admission that Yuan Shao intended to do something to Feng Xiang?

Tian Feng once again learned the difficulty of a certain city lord.

Tian Feng had to say: I need to go back and ask for instructions.

This kind of perfunctory obviously can't deceive Ah Niu.

On the way back, Tian Feng frowned and pondered, and finally realized: "Qi Guoxiang expected that I couldn't agree, in fact, he didn't want me to agree, this battle can't be avoided at all......"