Because it caused significant material losses on one side and drowned thousands of soldiers, Que Yi's 20,000 troops were disbanded, and Xun Chen was really punished for several days in Yuan Shao's place.

His favor among all the strategists was once reduced to the lowest level, and he was less trustworthy than Tian Feng and Ju Su now. In addition, families like the Xun family in Yingchuan also reduced their influence to Yuan Shao by one level.

However, after Xun Chen calmed down, he realized that his plan was not completely failed. Because as long as the construction continued and the waterway retreat passage in Yewang City was cut off, he could eventually kill Guan Yu and Zhuge Liang.

Moreover, during this period, Yuan Jun did not stay idle after surrounding the three strongholds in Guan Yu, but further bypassed the city and pushed forward the land acquisition regardless of the grain route. The southern line of land had already pushed through the county, surrounding the county.

Then the advance blocked the two important passes on Wangwu Mountain, Zhuguanxing and Jiguanxing, and blocked the main roads of the Han army from land to Hedong to support Hanoi.

In other words, the 60,000 people left in Hanoi County, only Qinshui Shui Road, the retreat route. If Qinshui is blocked, these 60,000 people will be caught in the jar.

Yuan Shao's army died nearly 20,000 times, and more were injured and fled, but it was worth it if the strategic goal was achieved.

Xun Chen then sold his old face and even used the last influence of his family credit to endorse Yuan Shao, and highly recommended the above principles to Yuan Shao:

"Lord, I was plotted by Guan Yu before, just because we were unprepared. Guan Yu came to attack, which means that Guan Yu was afraid of us doing this. So the more the enemy is afraid, the more we have to insist on doing it. How can we give up because of obstructing setbacks?

Although Zhang He and Gao Lan suffered losses, the two generals, however, were not more than 5,000 people who died because of this. General Tuo Yi’s losses were mainly due to the dispersion of the troops’ bombing camps. The proportion of soldiers killed by Guan Yu’s night attack was not high. If it could be collected in time, we must persevere at this time."

Yuan Shao was afraid of losses and hesitant, and he was reluctant to continue to prepare for both ways. He organized a siege and digged Qinshui to divert the route.

Two days later, on the fourth day of the July 19th, several gaps appeared in the walls of Yewang City that were completely smashed and flattened by the catapult formation. The infantrymen of the siege could already rush into the gentle slope directly.

This good news made Yuan Shao slightly excited, and his consumption of slow work and meticulous work turned slightly disdainful to Xun Chen, and his defensive vigilance for the construction position was reduced a little again - of course, he would not give the other party a chance to attack at night. After all, Yuan Shao was not the one who fell twice in the same pit.

However, after the city wall was broken, it was discovered that Zhuge Liang had already made two and three defense lines in the broken wall in the past few days, which was equivalent to a simple inner city. After the Yuan army entered the gap, they still faced the enemy's condescending blockade. There were even more divine arm crossbow soldiers waiting to shoot at the gap in the city wall.

As a result, the siege effect on the fifth day of July was even worse than when the city wall was broken on the fourth day of July, and the casualties of Yuan's army increased. After all, when the city wall was broken, Yuan's soldiers felt that victory was in sight, and they could win after crossing this hurdle. When they kicked, they were very energetic.

If you cross a mountain and find another mountain ahead, it will easily form a momentary morale trough, and you will feel that the enemy's tenacious resistance is endless.

Yuan Jun had to reorganize the dispatch to restore morale, prepare to organize the attack at a new pace on the sixth day of July. He also arranged for troops to change defenses, allowing the idle Wen Chou and Jiang Qi and other new troops to completely replace Zhang He and Gao Lan.

Unexpectedly, Guan Yu and Zhuge Liang did not intend to continue to waste time with them.

Yuan Shao is still preparing for a new round of attacks on the sixth day of the seventh day. On the evening of the fiveth day of the seventh day, Guan Yu took advantage of the previous few days to pour the valuable and heavy city-defense materials on Yuan Jun. Finally, he consumed all the remaining valuable and fine materials, and the remaining valuable and soft materials were enough to take them away with the ship.

Then Guan Yu took seventy or eighty ships, hundreds of boats and more boats that had been modified with caravans, leaving him with a remaining army of only 20,000 people and 3,000 war horses. He broke through from the water gate of Yewang North City and directly entered Qinshui, where the water level had begun to drop again in recent days, and broke back to Shimen Xing.

Yuan Shao did not expect that Guan Yu would not leave sooner or later, so he received news repeatedly and tried to send troops to pursue and intercept it, but it was too late.

When Yuan Shao's army was destroyed for the first time three days ago, he was actually the most alert. When the city wall was about to be broken, he was also more alert, because from the perspective of war mentality, those points are time points that the enemy is more likely to walk and despair.

If it is not good, if it drags it backwards and drags it to the day when Zhuge Liang arranged the second and third line of defense in the broken wall of the Yewang City, it will be a high-risk period for Guan Yu to withdraw his troops.

Unexpectedly, Guan Yu chose to "retreat" when the new round of killer weapon had just been revealed and our army's battle situation could still persist in a new round of cycles."

It was like the stock traders in later generations who had been making graphics for a long time to deceive the leeks, but as soon as they hit the daily limit, they were decisive and decisive, cutting Yuan's leeks.

When Yuan Shao's troops organized the pursuit, Guan Yu had sailed upstream for more than twenty miles, further destroyed the embankment from the river, which had not been completely repaired, and then continued to go upstream.

Yuan's army's ships were all downstream and they would definitely not be able to catch up. Only the cavalry responded quickly enough to be able to ride and intercept the two sides of Qinshui, but Guan Yu's army had ships, so riding and shooting were useless at all.

Only a few people sailed at night and the single warships that collided and stranded were surrounded by Yuan's army and rushed to the front and killed. During the process, five or six ships were lost, and dozens of small boats were also inevitable.

How could it be possible to avoid losses at all if 20,000 people were removed?

The troops moved back to the fifth day of the sky and were approaching Shimen Xing. At the entrance of Shimen Valley, there were troops camping guarding the pass. Just two days before Guan Yu retreated, Qinshui County outside Shimen Xing was also abandoned by the Han army, and all the guards in Qinshui County were retreated to Shimen Xing to carry out the pass.

There is a gentle slope of the river valley on the west side of Shimen Xing, and the east side is the Qinshui flowing through the valley. This is the junction between the Taihang Mountains and the Hanoi Plain. The Qinshui drop is relatively large, and the ships cannot move upstream by themselves.

So the soldiers got off the boat after passing through the defense line, and then stood on the east bank to pull the boat through the turbulent river channel of these miles.

Yuan's army chased to the entrance of Shimen Valley. Because this place was also a dangerous place at the eight levels of Taihang, it could not be attacked. He watched Guan Yu retreat from the turbulent river on the side of the valley.

Therefore, the Yewang, Qinshui and Wenxian fought several times, and the result was that Yuan Shao originally planned to divide the Han army, defeat each one, concentrate his superior forces and fight in the round-rotary battle, and wipe out Guan Yu's 60,000 defenders in the outskirts of Hanoi County.

As a result, Yuan Shao died a total of more than 20,000 people, injured and fled for 40,000, but only in exchange for killing thousands of enemies.

After Guan Yu released blood to Yuan Shao, more than 50,000 people still walked through Qinshui, and the Yellow River waterways were successfully retreated. Relying on the three of the eight Taihang passes such as Shimen Xing, Zhuguan Xing, and Jiguan Xing, they continued to fight against the valley blocking battle with Yuan Shao.

Moreover, after Yuan Shao's troops further advanced, logistics supply could only rely on the main stream of the Yellow River. The shipping conditions of other Qinshui and Jishui have seriously deteriorated.

The water attack strategy that had been fooled to force Guan Yu to move in the past left behind a large area of ​​originally fertile and well-irrigated low-lying farmland that was flooded. The originally rich land of half of the western county in Hanoi was filled with small swamps and drowned people.

Since the water breaks out on the first day of the July 1st to the sixth day of the seventh month, after six days of brewing, the plague gradually became fierce. When Zhuge Liang left, he used humanitarian considerations to distribute the excess medicinal materials that could not be taken away from the army, and all those that could withstand typhoid fever and other summer insect-borne infectious diseases, were distributed to the people of the Wild Kings.

At the same time, before leaving, Zhuge Liang also organized the bodies of the offensive and defensive sides and the dead of the people in the city to be burned and treated in a total of more than 10,000 pieces. Anyone who could receive the corpse was collected, and all the abandoned timber from the houses smashed by the siege were burned and treated in a concentrated manner.

Because Zhuge Liang knew that in the environment where the enemy attacked and diverted rivers and swamps, even burying the corpses shallowly prevent them from being soaked on a large scale and rotten infectious diseases. They must be burned to be absolutely safe.

However, Zhuge Liang could not collect the corpses of the enemy-controlled areas in the siege positions outside the city. Moreover, he could not "cross the river with his people" when he withdrew, because there was not enough ships at all, and it was already very good to be able to transport 20,000 soldiers away.

The people just hope that they will temporarily serve as a submissive person in the occupied areas and pay attention to their own sanitary conditions.

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When Yuan Shao took down the Wild King City, he was also filled with mixed feelings.

So many people died, suffered two setbacks, but finally lost ground and recovered.

In the entire Hanoi County, except for the mountain passes of the Eight Passes of Taihang, all the rich areas on the plains were brought back. However, the difficulty of continuing to attack did not decrease at all.

None of the enemy's guards and blocking troops were wiped out, and they were all withdrawn by Guan Yu and Zhuge Liang using their waterway advantages. Even the large corps infiltrated the enemy's backbone in advance and surrounded them without any effect. It was so embarrassing that there was no control and control of the river.

However, in order to boost morale, even if you know that the results of the battle are not ideal, you still have to say that you have won a great victory in the propaganda.

It’s like when Mr. Chang asked Hu Zongnan to conquer northern Shaanxi, even if he took down several empty cities that the other party gave up, no vitality could be wiped out. However, Mr. Chang’s newspaper media still had to write a big book to emphasize that there were great victory in the front and major strategic victory.

The general restored the Yewang! Restored Hanoi! Breaking the curse of the Battle of Changping in history! The Danshui in Shangdang County and the navigation in the Yellow River Basin were reopened!

The publicity intensity of this time is even greater than that of the early propaganda of Guandu Battle in history, after Guan Yu killed Yan Liang after Guan Yu killed Yan Liang, Cao's army voluntarily gave up Yanjin and Baima, retreated to Guandu, and allowed Yuan Shao to "restore Yanjin and Baima".

Xun Chen also took this opportunity to nominally restore Yuan Shao's trust in him: no matter what, he really scared you to the point of scaring Guan Yu and Zhuge Liang, for fear that he would not be able to walk around again.

But anyone with a discerning eye knows that Xun Chen has lost the opportunity to be adopted again.

At the same time, Xu You, who advocated the attack of the large corps from the single line of Hanoi County, was unable to fight a siege war and large-scale annihilation of the main force of the enemy due to Xun Chen's involvement. Xu You's credit endorsement in Yuan Shao's heart also declined again.

Ju Su finally felt that he had the opportunity to promote his multi-way attack attack plan.

When the logistics conditions of the Hanoi Road All-Road were severely damaged, only the division and attack could be divided into logistical pressure, reduce stacking punishment, and further realize the threat of siege to Guan Yu.

At that time, we will either encircle and annihilate Guan Yu or force Guan Yu to continue to step back. No matter what, we will be much more proactive than we are now facing the three Xings of Taihang.

Ju Su searched for him, but Xun Chen had been proven to be unable to unite, and the other strategists were not united. Ju Su only had Xin Ping, and the two tool people were left with Xin Pi brothers. With these tool people, they helped him offer advice, so as to avoid Yuan Shao's distrust and resistance.
Chapter completed!