When Yuan Shao's main force was attracted by the white horse, Cao Cao quietly led 30,000 elite troops, which was also his last family, to cross the Yellow River from Yanjin!
There is only more than 500 miles to go from Baima to Xudu, and the coach Xiahou Dun has been injured...
Everyone thought that Cao Cao would definitely come to support, so after Cao Cao spread the news, no one questioned it.
However...Cao Cao did not go to Baima, but forcibly crossed Yanjin. The defenders of Yanjin quickly fell with little defense.
Then Xia Houyuan led 3,000 leopard cavalry and traveled 300 miles in two nights and one day, from Yanjin to Jun County - the corresponding county seat on the north bank of Baimajin!
This marching speed is faster than ordinary scouts delivering messages...
Without any warning, they not only panicked the defenders of Junxian County, but also directly captured Junjin. Then they pretended to be defeated, falsely claiming that Liyang had been lost, and deceived Baimajin on the south bank. After burning the ferry, they returned to the north bank of the river.
of Junjin.
Then he sent out news to Li Yang, saying that Yuan Shao's main force had been defeated in Baima, and Yuan Shao was dead. He also sent out news to Baima, saying that Li Yang had fallen, the army's retreat had been cut off, and their food and grass had been cut off!
At the same time, Cao Cao personally led more than 20,000 infantry and cavalry and quickly marched towards Liyang...
Xiahou Dun and Xun You had already made an agreement with Cao Cao. Originally, Yuan Jun tried his best to suppress the spread of rumors. However, on the night of the fire in Baima Jin, Xiahou Dun, Yu Jin, Xu Huang, Cai Yang and others who were stationed in various camps in Baima sent out troops respectively.
The battlefield shouted "good news" from Liyang, Hebei!
For a while, in Yuan's army, the camps on the front line were okay, but many camps in the rear had already learned that Baimajin had been lost, so they easily believed the news and directly blew up the camps...
In history without the White Rabbit Effect, the Battle of Guandu was probably the same.
Historically, Cao Cao attacked from the east and west, pretending to attack Yanjin, and then defeated Yan Liang's vanguard in front of Baima, and then retreated all the way south. At Guandu, where there was no retreat, he fought Yuan's army - Guandu had no retreat and was already far away from Xudu.
Only two hundred miles.
At this time, Xu You was not pardoned because his family had committed a crime, so he separated from Yuan Shao and took refuge with Cao Cao. He told "Ah Hao" the location of Yuan Jun's granary, so Cao Cao successfully attacked Wuchao with his light cavalry and burned Yuan Jun's granary. Yuan Jun's morale was high.
The defeat made the Battle of Guandu a classic case of defeating more with less.
However, although Cao Cao succeeded in attacking Wuchao, Yuan's army was not actually starving. After all, the army had half a month's supply of food and grass, and they did not rely on large granaries to deliver food every day.
Even at that time, Cao Cao's army did not have much rations. If he really continued to fight, Cao Cao would still lose more than he won...
Yuan Jun was defeated not so much by the lack of food, but by "the news that the granary was attacked"!
Liyang is actually very safe now. It was just that it was bypassed and attacked Yanjin and Junjin, which were already unprepared, and burned Baimajin by the way.
It was just this fire that made Yuan Jun's officers and soldiers feel that the news was credible.
Compared with the camps that were attacked by Cao's army from the front, it was the camps in the rear that were not attacked initially. More camps were bombed in situ, and this panic continued to spread...
The bombing of camps in the era of cold weapons was completely uncontrollable. The more troops there were, the greater the damage!
Yuan Shao and the generals under his command hurriedly stabilized the morale of the army, so that they were not completely defeated. However, only half of the 300,000-strong army remained. The rest...most of them were not killed in battle, but "lost", and they needed to be gradually gathered up.
As a result, not only the Baima area, many defeated troops fled directly back to Hebei, and some even returned to Liyang in organized groups!
While bringing the unstable news to Li Yang, it also gave Cao Cao an opportunity...
In just three days, the false "Li Yang was lost" turned into the real "food road was cut off", and Yuan's army was on the verge of collapse.
Xu You suggested that Yuan Shao make a desperate move and continue to go south to capture Xudu. However, he was not only rejected by Yuan Shao, but also scolded by the bored Yuan Shao, accusing him of being unkind...
Xu You originally came up with the idea sincerely. It was expected that Xu Du did not have many troops at this time. As long as he defeated the main force of Cao's army in front of him and overwhelmed Xu Du - Xu Du was originally just an ordinary county town. Although the city walls have been reinforced, it is still in name only.
The capital of the country, but...how many people in the court are at odds with Cao Cao?
Even Dong Cheng wrote privately to Yuan Shao, hoping that he would come to save the emperor!
As long as tens of thousands of soldiers and horses are deployed under Xudu's walls, as soon as foreign invasion is imminent and internal aggression emerges, what can Cao A'hao do to stop him?
There are tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in Yuan Shao's hometown Yecheng. Xu You wants to come to Fengji who is staying behind. Even if he is two Guo Tu away from him, at least he is a calm and upright person. How can Cao Ahao sneak across the river with some people?
do what?
However, this sounds too risky, and Yuan Shao is not good at listening to advice that is inconsistent with his own subjective consciousness. In addition, Xu You had previously urged Yuan Shao to attack Xu Du. The irritable Yuan Shao took the opportunity to attack, accusing him of being with Xu Du.
The minister is involved and must be a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty...
Xu You was so angry that he stamped his feet, pointed at Yuan Shao's nose and said: You are the loyal minister, your family has been loyal ministers for four generations!
As a result, they broke up unhappy, and Xu You was even dismissed from his post and imprisoned by Yuan Shao.
When Guo Tu saw that Xu You wanted to attack, Yuan Shao was so angry that he immediately advised Yuan Shao to withdraw to Hebei. This was Guo Tu's wisdom. Why was Yuan Shao so angry? He suggested the opposite...
Subtly, Yuan Shao always adopts his opinions, and naturally he will rely more and more on him!
If it were a prosperous party struggle, Guo Tu might still have a chance to become a favorite, but now...
As a result, as Xu You said, a hasty withdrawal of troops will only make the military morale more unstable - the larger the number of troops, the more difficult it is to restrain the "military morale", and they are often passive in advancing without retreating.
Those who retreated did not wait to cross the river before deserters appeared in each battalion. And just after they crossed the river, they were chased by Xiahou Dun along the way, not to mention harassed by Xiahou Yuan's leopard cavalry who plundered both wings. When they arrived at Liyang,
The city tower has transformed into the king’s flag!
It turns out that just one day ago, the elite troops led by Cao Cao arrived at the border of Liyang.
During normal training, Cao Chun, who led the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, led two thousand Tiger Cavalry among the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, pretending to be the defeated army returning from the south bank, and deceived the gate of Liyang City - indeed many defeated troops were rushing back to Hebei at this time, Liyang
It was the first stop for them to reunite.
While there was bloodshed at the city gate, Cao Cao led the infantry ambushing outside the city to rush in and break through Liyang City!
Li Yang originally had a large garrison, but unfortunately, it accepted a large number of defeated troops before, and the city gate was directly opened by fraud...
With those frightened birds present, and losing the advantage of the city wall, they can only fight on the streets. How can these second-line troops be the opponents of Cao's elite army?
If city wall warfare is conducive to restoring the morale of the defenders, then street warfare is the opposite. It is the most test of the morale of the defenders. Not all armies can still have fighting spirit after the enemy troops enter the city...
After Cao Cao killed Jiang Qi who was guarding Liyang, he left and heard the news that the main force of Yuan's army had crossed the river.
Originally, it was because of the huge disparity in numbers between the two armies - even if Yuan Shao withdrew, there would still be hundreds of thousands of people in each battalion. Even if they could not withdraw together, Li Yang would be unable to bear the gradual encirclement!
Therefore, Cao Chun suggested that Cao Cao go first, and then set fire to the granary in Liyang after the tiger cavalry was defeated.
However, the military advisor accompanying the army, Guo Jia, offered a dangerous plan and was accepted by Cao Cao...
The reason is very simple. Guo Jia made the pros and cons very clear. This time he kept Yuan Jun in the dark and beat him up. Although it hurt his muscles and bones, but for the behemoth like Hebei, it was too painful to hurt his muscles and bones.
It’s just “one hundred days”.
Although it is not really such an exaggeration, it only takes two or three years for Yuan Jun to recover... And what about Cao Cao?
Not only will Yuan Shao be more cautious by then, but with the current situation in Xudu, Cao Cao will lose if he doesn't win.
Only a thunderous victory over Yuan Shao can deter the demons and monsters in the court. Otherwise, once Cao Cao's righteousness of "serving the emperor in order to punish disloyal subjects" is lacking, Yuan Shao's comeback will only be more ferocious than now!
Cao Cao also deeply agreed with Guo Jia's judgment, which was a rational aspect.
In addition, on the emotional side, Guo Jia's face was pale at this time, he was breathing heavily, and coughing so hard that his lungs were about to come out.
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Cao Cao finally listened to Guo Jia's suggestion and immediately ordered people to clean up the situation. The city walls were all replaced with soldiers who were not seriously injured but full of energy, so that they could wait for Yuan Jun.
When Yuan Shao was in Baima, the central battalion of the formation was at the rear of the entire army, and when he retreated, he was naturally at the front, and was even one of the first battalions to reach Liyang.
After Yuan Shao discovered that Li Yang had been lost, he went to the city in person to see Cao Cao...
Cao Cao, who had already washed and changed his clothes and stepped on the invisible hater, laughed and told Yuan Jun that all the land in Hebei had been returned to the imperial court, and even Yuan Shao's nephew Gao Gan had surrendered, and advised Yuan Shao to surrender.
Yuan Shao knew it was a lie, and was so angry that he almost vomited blood. He just wanted to order the siege of Li Yang and trap Cao Cao in the city. However, he could not hold back many of his frightened generals. They believed Cao Cao's lies, which caused another commotion...
Cao Cao even opened the city gates wide and released his capable infantry to charge Yuan Shao's main formation!
A few days ago, Yuan's army, who was still in Baima, could cover his eyes with smoke from cooking stoves, and looked like he could crush anyone, was on the verge of collapse. Seeing that the two supporting formations had collapsed, Yuan Shao had no choice but to lead the middle camp of his formation to retreat eastward.
He hoped to bypass Liyang - the land of Hebei had been completely occupied, and Yuan Shaocai didn't believe his lies.
However, after traveling for less than ten miles, when passing through a forest, the tiger cavalry ambushing in the forest snatched them out. First they shouted that Yuan Shao was dead, and then they shouted that Yuan Shao was dead. They skinned Yuan Jun again, so he had to continue to detour.
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After this round, Xia Houyuan and Leopard Cavalry caught up behind him and continued to beat up the drowned dog!
Even when he was chased into the valley, the engine of Yuan Shao's battle armor overheated and burned down - it was just a gilt armor, and it was easy for a BMW engine to run too powerfully. It would have been even worse if it was a wood and stone armor. This is why Lu Bu always looked at the white picture.
Reasons for training.
At this time, Yuan Shang, who was accompanying the army, unloaded his engine and gave it to Yuan Shao. Only then did his father escape with his life, but Yuan Shang himself died in the valley.
Unfortunately, Yuan Shao still had nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses running behind him. He could only be chased like a lost dog, while the 100,000 people behind him were stopped by Cao Cao in Liyang. Cao Cao told them a ghost story - the name is very
It's easy to guess, it's called "Yuan Shao is Dead"...