Chapter 832: Liu Yu's Destruction

Facing the strong crushing force of Yuan Shao's army, although the two players Huangjin Tianxia and Xintianyou led the army to resist desperately, they were like a mantis blocking a chariot with several cities and counties against powerful princes. The two players only resisted for less than half a month. , were destroyed by Yuan Shao's army.

The two men led their subordinate generals and nearly 10,000 troops to flee into Zhang Yan's territory in embarrassment. Yan Liang, Wen Chou and others led the troops to follow closely. After several days of fierce fighting with Zhang Yan's army in Zhending City, they finally returned without success. Jizhou The battlefield became quiet again.

After this battle, Yuan Shao finally controlled most of the territory of Jizhou and became the true king of Jizhou.

On August 10, Ji Ling's 50,000-strong army arrived at Xiapi and set up camp less than five miles away from Xiapi City. A battle between Cao and Yuan's armies was imminent.

Almost at the same time, the second batch of Anton Army troops also arrived at Ge Ling. Huangfu Chaobo divided it into three parts according to his original strategy. The 90,000-strong army was handed over to Huang Zhong, Wang Ran and Zhang He respectively. Wan Yuzhou's army also has three troops with ten thousand each. As for the players' soldiers and horses, each army has less than ten thousand people accompanying them. The rest of the players' soldiers and horses have joined the coalition army dominated by a few people across the world.

After two days of rest, the three armies sent troops to Anyang, Xinxi and Baoxin respectively, while Huangfu Chaobo himself continued to lead the Guards in Xincai to coordinate and command.

Since getting the news about Ji Ling's army, Huangfu Chaobo is not as worried as he was at first. After Ji Ling defeated Sun Ce's army, he must have returned to Xiapi immediately, not Runan, so the Runan battlefield There is no particularly big threat for the time being, but for safety reasons, Huangfu Chaobo still gave all the assault cavalry to several armies so that they could discover the enemy's situation as soon as possible.

It's just that Huangfu Chaobo is still worried about the future focus and expansion direction of the Anton Army's combat preparations, mainly because his two major military advisers have different opinions.

Xu Shu's opinion is to go north and then south, first deal with Lu Bu in Bingzhou and Yuan Shao in Jizhou, and then turn around to deal with Cao Cao. In his opinion, the Yuan family's foundation is too deep. Yuan Shao's development in the past two years has not been rapid due to the restriction of war horses. , but once Lu Bu is here and establishes a foothold, he will definitely have interests with Yuan Shao.

You must know that Bingzhou is short of food, but has many war horses, but Jizhou is just the opposite. Once the two families unite, their power will expand rapidly, and then it will be troublesome to deal with it.

But Cao Cao in Yanzhou was different. Sizhou, Qingzhou, and Yuzhou were all under the control of the Andong Army or allies. It was not easy to develop, so he advocated going north first and then south.

But Pang Tong's idea is exactly the opposite. Although Yuan Shao looks strong, his character is flawed, and Lu Bu is even more so. But Cao Cao is different. Cao Cao has a stoic character, is proficient in the art of war, values ​​virtuous people and loves talents, and Nanyang's Xu Shao was famous for his knowledge of people, and he once said to Cao Cao: "You are a traitor in peace, but a hero in troubled times."

Therefore, in Pang Tong's view, Cao Cao was much more dangerous than Yuan Shao, but neither could convince the other, so the two brothers came to blows. Fortunately, this issue was not so urgent until Yuan Shu's demise.

In mid-August, Cao Cao and Yuan Shu's army finally started fighting, and on the Yuzhou battlefield, the three armies of the Anton Army also began a new offensive. Huang Zhong's troops attacked Anyang, Zhang He's troops attacked Xinxi, and Wang Ran's troops attacked Baoxin. Of the three armies, Wang Ran's troops were the first to fight.

Because of Huangfu Chaobo's request, the army did not rush to capture the city, but relied on Yuan Shu's army to train troops. Therefore, the offensives of the three armies were not fierce, but carried out tepidly. Of course, in addition to this reason, after several days of fighting, Wang Ran discovered that although Huang Yi's imperial army had been destroyed, the resistance of the cities in Runan had not weakened, but had become more determined.

After reporting this discovery to Huangfu Chaobo, Wang Ran continued to devote his energy to training troops to attack the city.

But now Huangfu Chaobo's thoughts have crossed the Huai River and entered the boundary of Huainan.

After arranging the battle for the four armies, Huangfu Chaobo began to arrange for Shi A to send people to quietly cross the Huai River to find out information about Yuan Shu's troops in various parts of Huainan.

By this time, some information had begun to come back. To Huangfu Chaobo's surprise, Huang Yi already had news. It turned out that after Huang Yi escaped, he returned to Shouchun directly under the protection of his soldiers and did not stay in Runan.

After Yuan Shu knew what happened, he did not punish Huang Yi because his purpose of sending troops to Runan was to delay time. He did not expect that Huang Yi's genius of sending supervisory troops to other cities actually achieved his goal. Therefore, Yuan Shu did not scold Huang Yi for losing 30,000 imperial troops.

However, in order to block the coalition forces north of the Huai River, Yuan Shu ordered people to strengthen the defenses of the cities in Huainan. At the same time, he ordered people to control the three cities of Luxian, Biguo and Xiyang on the northeast line of Tongbai Mountain in Jiangxia County. Not only that, He also ordered a large number of beacon towers to be deployed along the south bank of the Huai River at locations suitable for large armies to cross the river.

In this way, as soon as the coalition forces north of the Huai River are found to be crossing the river, Yuan Shu's army can quickly mobilize the army for defense. Another point is that although Yuan Shu's navy is not very good, there are no tigers or monkeys in the mountains. As a king, the Anton Army has no naval power to compete with it in the Huai River.

At the end of August, all three armies of the Anton Army captured the target city. After the army rested for a few days, Huangfu Chaobo arranged the war again. Zhang He and Wang Ran led troops to attack Yuanlu and Fubo, while Huang Zhong began to prepare to cross the river. .

Although the news from Shi A's shadow said that it was difficult to cross the river, Huangfu Chaobo was still prepared to let Huang Zhong lead the troops to give it a try.

It was already the beginning of September, and the war in Youzhou had completely ended. Liu Yu, who had lost Liu Bei's support, had no strong generals to resist Gongsun Zan and his generals. After holding on for two months, the remaining 50,000 troops were finally defeated.

In mid-August, Juyang was captured by Gongsun Zan's army, and then Liu Yu was beheaded by Gongsun Zan, and Liu Yu's forces were destroyed.

Just when everyone was amazed at the destruction of Liu Bei and Liu Yu's forces, hundreds of miles away in Lelang County, Liaodong, the domineering royal family that had been silent for several years suddenly sent out troops. Taishi Ci led 10,000 cavalry and 30,000 infantry to attack Gongsun Du.

Within a few days, they broke through several cities in Rang (remove the upper and add Ran) Handan, Hunmi, and Zengdi, and completely separated dozens of cities in the south of Lelang from Liaodong County. Gongsun Du was shocked and immediately led 50,000 troops to the south to support. However, they were defeated by Taishi Ci at Zengdi City. Only less than 30,000 of the 50,000 troops retreated to Fanhan and never dared to leave the city and cross the river to fight.

In this way, everyone knew that it was only a matter of time before the domineering royal family took control of Lelang County and became a local lord.