Yuan's army was defeated like a mountain, and the trees fell and the money scattered. Yuan Tan fled from Qingzhou City under the protection of Xin Ping and others and fled to the west. Lu Bu's army occupied Linzi in one fell swoop, and then divided his troops into two groups. Zang Ba and Ju Yi led 50,000 troops to the east to capture Donglai County and Bohai County. Ailang personally led 30,000 troops to advance westward. Zhao Yun was the vanguard and went to attack Linji in the west, which was the capital of Linji County. Chen Gong led the rest of the troops to stay in Linzi and responded in the middle.

Ailang led an army of 30,000 to Dong'an of Jishui. At this time, Zhao Yun, as the vanguard, sent someone to send news that Yuan Xi had given up Linji and retreated to Jizhou.

Ai Lang was overjoyed and joked: "Didn't that boy Yuan Xi want to defeat me? Why did he run away before he met?" The generals couldn't help laughing.

Ailang went to the officer who came to report the news: "Zilong defeated Yuan Xi in an instant, it's great!"

The officer hurriedly said, "I dare not hide the general. Yuan Xi was not the one who fought away from us. He ran away by himself. Before we arrived in Linji, he had already fled. Our army did not fight fiercely with anyone, and easily occupied Linji! The local officials who had not had time to escape said that it was because not long ago, an urgent military report came from Guandu. Cao Cao led the army to defeat Yuan Shao, and Yuan Shao led the remnants to Jizhou. Yuan Xi received the news and immediately gave up Linji and led the army to Jizhou."

Everyone was shocked when they heard this, except Ai Lang. Huang Zhong couldn't help but say, "This is really unbelievable! Yuan Shao's 700,000 army against Cao Cao was less than 300,000, and he was rich in food and supplies. He should have a great chance of winning. Why was Cao Cao defeated in just over a month? Could Cao Cao be a god?"

Ailang smiled and said, "That's nothing strange. Xu You defected to Cao Cao. Cao Cao knew the place where Yuan Shaotun put food and grass, Wuchao. Then he sent elite troops to attack Wuchao. Chunyu Qiong, a waste who only knows how to drink, is naturally not Cao Cao's opponent. Wuchao was occupied by Cao Cao. Then..." Although Ailang had watched "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", he was watching it briefly, and the most concerned thing was whether the actresses were beautiful and coquettish enough. If they were not beautiful and coquettish enough, he wouldn't watch it. Therefore, he only knew about the plot of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". He only knew that Yuan Shao was defeated after the Battle of Wuchao, but it was unknown how he was defeated. He turned his head to look at the officer who came to report the news and asked, "I'm right?"

The officer quickly clasped his fists and said, "The general is wise, it is not bad at all." Huang Zhong, Huang Wudie and others looked at Ailang with surprise, feeling incredible. They didn't understand how Ailang guessed it. It would be impossible to say that he had received the military newspaper first.

Ailang was quite proud and asked Ao: "How was it after the Battle of Wuchao?"

The officer said: "I heard that after the Battle of Wuchao, Yuan Shao sent Zhang He and Gao Lan and other generals to lead the elite main force to raid the Cao army camp, but fell into Cao Cao's ambush and lost. The two generals were worried about Yuan Shao's punishment and led their troops to surrender to Cao Cao. Later, Cao Cao led the army to attack Yuan Shao's camp head-on. Yuan Shao's morale was in chaos. After only a long time, the Cao army broke through the camp. The army collapsed! It is said that Yuan Shao only fled back to Hebei with only a few hundred cavalry, and Cao Cao immediately led a large-scale crossing of the Yellow River north. At present, only the knowledge is

These situations." Ai Lang couldn't help but want to lead his army north to beat the dogs in the water and grab the fruits of victory. However, he was a little worried about the battle situation in the south. He hesitated for a moment and finally decided to rush back to Linzi to discuss with Chen Gong before making a decision. As soon as he thought of this, he did not plan to enter Linji. He ordered Zhao Yun as the leader to defend Linji for a while, and asked Huang Zhong and others to lead the army across the Ji River to rest. He himself led Huang Wudie, Dian Wei and hundreds of personal soldiers to turn around and hurried back to Linzi.

Speaking of Cao Cao's blessing, Xu You surrendered at the last moment. After learning about the Wuchao's life gate, he immediately controlled the situation on the battlefield and won consecutive victories, killing Yuan Shao's 700,000 troops, with only a few hundred cavalry left to escape the Yellow River. However, not all of Yuan Shao's 700,000 troops were annihilated, and a considerable majority were actually broken up. Yuan Shao escaped the Yellow River, and collected various defeated troops in Chaoge, and obtained 280,000 troops, preparing to resist Cao's army in Chaoge. At this time, the Cao army, due to the great victory in the Battle of Guandu, Zhang He Gaolan led the elite troops to surrender, and also selected more than 200,000 elite soldiers from the more than 300,000 captured soldiers and horses to be included in the battle sequence. As one went up and down, the Cao army had soared from 270,000 to more than 600,000 troops. The situation with Yuan Shao was completely reversed, and Cao Cao's troops were twice as powerful as Yuan Shao.

Cao Cao left the necessary troops to defend Wuchao, Guandu and other key points, and he personally led a 550,000 army across the Yellow River and rushed to Chaoge to the camp. At this time, Yuan Shang led a 50,000 army to Chaoge to support Yuan Shao, and Yuan Xi also led 20,000 troops to Chaoge, which restored Yuan Shao's troops to 350,000. Although the difference was not small compared to the Cao army's momentum, it at least increased the confidence to defend Yuan Shao's officers and soldiers.

Ai Lang rushed back to Linzi and saw Chen Gong. Before he could speak, he saw Chen Gong clasped his fists with joy and said, "General, he just received a military report from General Zang Ba. The prefect of Beihai County and the prefect of Donglai County surrendered without fighting. Now these two major counties have fallen into our hands."

Ailang was overjoyed and shouted, "Okay! That's great!" Then he said to Chen Gong with excitement: "Public Terrace, I want to lead my army to attack Jizhou. I can't let the meat be eaten by my father-in-law!"

Chen Gong asked with a smile: "I don't know what the lord is going to plan? If he occupied Jizhou before Cao Cao, would he just hold on?"

Ailang was stunned and said, "Whoever eats it will belong to whoever belongs, can you still want me to spit it out?"

Chen Gong said: "Cao Cao's current military power is as strong as Yuan Shao before. Under Cao Cao's leadership, his power is not comparable to Yuan Shao before! If the general took over Jizhou first and Cao Cao led his army to the city, what would happen? Could it be that Cao Cao would let the general occupy the rich city of Jizhou?" Ai Lang was stunned and said: "If it were me, I would definitely not want others to pry my corner of the wall and would definitely tell the other party to get out. If the other party doesn't listen, I'm not polite!" As he said that, he couldn't help frowning. He already understood what Chen Gong meant. If he led his army to attack Jizhou, he would probably run into Cao Cao, and a big battle would inevitably be inevitable. Ai Lang was unwilling to fight with his father-in-law, not to mention that Cao Cao, who is now in full swing, is looking for death.

Chen Gong said: "The general is no longer right. People have the same heart. Cao Cao will never sit idly by and watch us grab meat from his mouth. The result of this approach can only be a war with Cao Cao when it is most unfavorable to us. And we still have the threat of Sun Jian, and we cannot concentrate our efforts to compete with Cao Cao at all. The battle with Cao Cao is inevitable, but it is definitely not now. The only place where Cao Cao can tolerate us to seize is Qingzhou. Apart from that, we should not do what he wants for the time being."

Ai Lang was a little unwilling to give up, and suddenly felt aroused, and he hurriedly said, "Can we join forces with Yuan Shao to deal with Cao Cao?"

Chen Gong showed admiration and smiled and said, "The General's idea is very good. If Yuan Shao had the ability of Sun Jian and Liu Bei, I would definitely advise the General to join forces with Yuan Shao. But in fact, Yuan Shao was stubborn and rude and restrained, so the previous 700,000 army would be defeated. It was like this before, and now the situation has completely reversed. How could Yuan Shao compete with Cao Cao? If I were Cao Cao and the General led his army to attack Yanzhou, half of the troops could restrain Yuan Shao in Chaoge, and at the same time, lead the other half of the troops to attack Xuzhou directly east! What do the general think?"

Ailang was shocked and frowned and muttered: "Cao Cao still has more than 100,000 troops in Yanzhou. Although we have more than 100,000 surrendered troops, our combat power is really urgent. It seems that it is difficult to achieve results when attacking Yanzhou."

"Yes. It's hard to achieve results when we attack Yanzhou, but more than 200,000 Cao's army could run rampant in Qingzhou, Xuzhou. At that time, our army failed to attack Yanzhou, but I'm afraid that Xuzhou and Qingzhou will be lost. The result is obvious. Now is definitely not the time to start a war with Cao Cao. On the contrary, we must try to avoid fighting with Cao Cao!"

Ailang couldn't help but nodded, and couldn't help but curse in anger: "Why can others just do it? It's so difficult for me!" Then he said with a depressed look on his face: "It seems that I have to watch my father-in-law eat meat!"

"That wouldn't be the case."

Ailang was stunned and said angrily: "I said to Gongtai, what do you mean? Didn't you say you can't go to war with Cao Cao? Why...?"

Chen Gong smiled and clasped his fists and said, "What I said below is that we cannot compete for territory with Cao Cao, but the benefits are not only territory. As far as we know, most of Yuan Shao's money and grain reserves are in Jizhou. We can bypass all counties and counties as quickly as possible to directly attack Jizhou. After seizing the piles of money and grain, we will immediately return to Qingzhou. Fight quickly and withdraw quickly, aiming to seize the money and grain reserves of Yuan Shao."

Ailang's eyes lit up, he became excited and shouted, "What a plan! What a plan!"

Chen Gong said: "The purpose of this battle is to say fast, so you don't need to have many troops, you just need to bring cavalry." Ailang nodded and immediately called the commemorative officer to pass on the order.

The next morning, Ailang took Dian Wei Huang Wudie and several thousand cavalrymen to Linji. When he arrived at the thousands of battle cavalry under Linji and Zhao Yun, a total of nearly 10,000 battle cavalry were out of Linji and rushed to the northwest. At the same time, Huang Zhong and Zhao Yun each led an army of 10,000 to attack Pingyuan County in the northwest of Linji and Bohai County in the northwest of Linji respectively.

At this time, in the northwest of Qingzhou, there were still 10,000 or 20,000 troops on the north bank of the Yellow River. At the same time, the prefects of the two counties mobilized tens of thousands of civilian troops, waiting for the Lu Bu army that had occupied Qingzhou to attack. The alarm suddenly came, and the two counties immediately became nervous and closed the city gates to prepare for the Lu Bu army's attack. However, the Lu Bu army, which attacked the Bohai Sea and the Pingyuan, did not attack the city, but instead set up camp outside the city, and only went to the city gate to challenge every day.
Chapter completed!