According to common sense, Ji Miao, the eldest son of Ji Ping, who was not acquainted with Yan Liang, should be difficult to gain the trust of General Yan Liang, let alone to prompt General Yan Liang to make a major decision such as risky advancement. But sometimes things are so coincidental. After the official war with Cao's army, in order to facilitate the internal annihilation contact with the Cao army's own dry food, the Grand Duke of Yuan San once told the person who signed the letter of attack on Cao Yi to tell his confidant general Yan Liang. Although Ji Ping and his son did not sign the letter of morality, they also knew that the names of Dong Cheng and Wang Zifu were on the list. As a result, General Yan Liang naturally believed Ji Miao's words after the two were compared.

After believing Ji Miao's words, General Yan Liang naturally hoped that Ji Ping could succeed in poisoning and help him establish a great achievement. As a result, General Yan Liang quickly fell into ecstasy - a large number of scouts and memorials came to report, saying that the Cao camp in Wating suddenly sounded and cunning sounds shook the sky, and the whole camp was hung with filial piety, and white banners were raised at the gate! There was even a smart memorial even touched the Cao army camp and heard the conversation between Cao army soldiers with his own ears, saying that Cao had been poisoned and died, and that Cao's close servant, guards and medical officer, had been arrested, and were torture and arresting the culprit of the poison!

After confirming this news repeatedly, General Yan Liang, who was overjoyed, naturally had the idea of ​​beating the dogs in the water to expand the results of the battle, and naturally had the idea of ​​robbing the camp overnight. As a result, when General Yan Liang personally led 10,000 elite troops to attack Cao's camp at night, he fell into the trap set up by the elder Cao's general. General Yan Liang's team had just entered Cao's camp. The drums of war sounded, and Cao's four ambushed soldiers came out, killing from the east, west, south, and north at the same time. Yan Liang's army was in a hurry and was defeated. The Cao's army, who was waiting for work, rushed into pieces and could not take care of each other.

At this time, Boss Cao's bad luck finally came to an end. During the melee, Yan Liang led dozens of cavalry to break through in a hurry, and happened to hit the team led by Dian Wei, the most powerful general of the Cao army. Dian Er, who fought with naked hands, was almost crazy to see Yan Liang running in front of him. He raised his halberds and rushed towards Yan Liang with blood red eyes. Yan Liang gritted his teeth and raised his sword to fight, but he was panicked and could not resist Dian Wei's strange power comparable to Xu Chu. After barely supporting him for more than ten rounds, he sold a flaw. He drove away and didn't dare to continue to entangle with Dian Wei. But unfortunately, General Yan Liang did not know that Dian Er came in addition to his skillful martial arts and amazing strength, he also had another skill - the flying halberd!

"Where is the man going?!"

With a loud shout, Dian Wei handed the iron halberd with his right hand and pulled out a small halberd inserted on his back, and a halberd shot towards Yan Liang, hitting Yan Liang's vest, and the tip of the halberd passed through his heart. The poor General Yan Liang also screamed and turned over and fell off the horse, becoming the first Yuan general who died in the battle of Cao Yuan!

After Yan Liang died, Yuan Shao's army, which was already in a state of collapse, naturally had no chance. Ten thousand elite soldiers were annihilated by Cao's ambush, and more than 70% of them were annihilated by Cao's ambush, and the rest either surrendered or fled to a foreign land. Only a very small number of people fled back to the Baima camp to report the news. The generals of Yuan Shao's army who were left behind were shocked and could only hurriedly lift the siege and flee to the ferry crossing the river to retreat. Cao's eldest son promoted his style and beat the dogs to chase him. Liu Yan's troops, who were besieged by many Cao's army, also went out of the city to attack Yuan Shao's army, and worked together to attack Yuan Shao's army. Yuan Shao's army, which had no leader, was defeated again. He was killed by Cao's army, and the flags were flowing blood, and the horses were lost, and there were countless food and supplies. The 30,000 troops retreated alive to the Yellow River, and the rest were either killed or captured by Cao's army.

"In fact, the biggest contributor to the victory of this battle was the Tao thief." When Cao's civil and military officials congratulated Cao's victory, the humble boss Cao said a big truth, "If the Tao thief had not warned him in time, this battle would have been a crushing defeat and Yuan's army won. This shows that if I and the Tao thief could work together to fight against Yuan Shao, then Yuan Shao would be destroyed and I would be victorious with the Tao thief!"

The two bad guys of Mr. Cao and Deputy Director Tao are indeed invincible in the world. If it were the case, Deputy Director Tao sent a letter to scold Da Yuan Sangong for summoning Cao's army to seek peace, trying to go up the house and pull out the ladder to put Xuzhou army in danger. The bad-tempered Duke Yuan Sangong had long disregarded Deputy Director Tao, the unworthy son-in-law. However, after receiving the news of Yan Liang's destruction in the front army, he received a letter from the unworthy son-in-law. No matter how angry he was in the stomach, he would not dare to do anything casually. He could only send troops to avenge Yan Liang, and reply to the son-in-law to explain the reason. He said that he actually wanted to eliminate a military disaster for his son-in-law when he negotiated with the envoy of Cao's army. When negotiating with the envoy of Cao's army, he would ask Cao's army not to retaliate against his son-in-law, so as to appease the unfilial son-in-law.

In addition, the third Duke of Yuan, must not ask his son-in-law to take over Dingtao and Changyi as soon as possible, effectively restrain the main force of Cao's army's southern line, cover the Jizhou army's southward crossing the Yellow River, and then wait for a chance to join forces in Yanzhou to defeat Cao Boss. When Shen Pei and Feng Ji proposed to appropriately reward Deputy Director Tao's war horses and encourage the Xuzhou army to act as cannon fodder, the third Duke of Yuan was hesitant and stingy. After he hesitating for a long time, he said: "Let's wait until he takes Changyi and Dingtao. I said that when Ying'er takes down Dingtao and Changyi, he will reward him with a thousand war horses. I can't speak without trust."

The day after sending a reply to his son-in-law, Yuan Sangong left Yuan Shang, Feng Ji and others to guard the rear of Yecheng, and personally led the main army of Jizhou to swear south. The scale of the troops sent by Da Yuan Sangong this time did reach an astonishing 300,000. The team that came to Yecheng from Qingyou and Ji Prefectures stretched for more than 50 miles. The vanguard led by Wen Chou had crossed the Qinghe River, but the rear team did not leave Yecheng City. The flags were like forests, swords and guns were like seas. The slogan "Strike the thieves by the orders and swear to destroy the Cao thieves" was shocking and the momentum was extremely amazing.

Upon receiving the news, Boss Cao did not dare to neglect at all. He quickly transferred back to the Xiahou Dun team, which was originally used to prevent accidents on the southern line, to replace the Liu Yan team, who was destined to be useless, to defend the secondary cities such as Juancheng and Fan County, and completely exposed the empty hinterland of Yanzhou to the Xuzhou army. He pieced together more than 60,000 troops from all over the east and west of Guandu to pretend to be 70,000. He moved all the Baima people to Zhongmu, west of Guandu, and voluntarily gave up the Baima strategic location and retreated to Yanjin, which was closer to the Guandu General Pass, so as to retreat to Guandu at any time.

The boss Cao was helpless to do this. The Yellow River is not as wide as the Yangtze River, and there are ferries everywhere in the Qianli River section. It is difficult to prevent the division of troops and the rules are difficult to guard. It is not only difficult to stop Yuan's army from moving south, but also to disperse his already disadvantaged forces. It is better to concentrate troops to guard the Guandu General Pass, so that we can concentrate our strength to fight the Yuan Shao army at one point. However, regarding the fact that Cao did not withdraw Guandu immediately, Xun You and Cheng Yu and other advisers had complaints and advised: "Prime Minister, our main force should withdraw directly from Guandu. Yanjin is not a place for long-term defense. If Yuan Shao did not cross the river in Yanjin and crossed the river in Baima, then our army would not only be useless to station in Yanjin, but also be pursued by Yuan Shao's cavalry when retreating to Guandu."

Facing the doubts of his lackeys, Cao Lao laughed but said nothing. Guo Jia coughed and explained: "What the Prime Minister hopes is that Yuan Shao divides his troops to cross the river. Yanjin is in the upper reaches of Baima. If Yuan Shao's main force crosses the river, then our army suddenly crosses the river north of Yanjin, and Yuan Shao's grain route will be in danger of being attacked by our army, so Yuan Shao will inevitably choose his troops to enter Yanjin. Most of the boats that Yuan Shao had prepared before were on Baima. If the river crossing in Yanjin is not prepared enough, he can only divide his troops to cross the river. Once Yuan Shao divided his troops, wouldn't our army have the opportunity to win again?"

Speaking of this, Guo Jia coughed and added, and smiled: "Is Yanjin very far away from the white horse?"

"So that's it, the Prime Minister is indeed brilliant." Cheng Yu and Xun You suddenly realized it, and then Cheng Yu said worriedly: "Prime Minister, if Yuan Shao did not divide his troops into white horses, he chose to divide his troops across the river at other ferries, or Yuan Shao simply refused to divide his troops and chose to confront our army in Yanjin, and then transferred boats from the White Horse to prepare to cross the river in Yanjin. Once the stalemate is long, our army will not be enough for food and grass, then our army will..."

Boss Cao smiled bitterly and said after a while: "Let's take one step at a time. If it really doesn't work, I will quickly retreat and return to Guandu to guard it. Fortunately, the Yellow River is not so easy to cross. Yuan Shao's desire to pursue our army on the whole line is not just about doing it."

The luck of the boss Cao is recognized as better than that of the Grand Yuan Sangong, and this time is no exception. After receiving the news that the boss Cao gave up the White Horse and retreated to Yanjin with all his might, the Grand Yuan Sangong was proud that the enemy fled without fighting, and he could not help but feel a little depressed as if he had eaten a fly. Because in this way, it was easy for the main force of Yuan Shao's army to cross the river in Baima, but the food supply of Yuan Shao's army was exposed to the sword of Cao. Therefore, the Grand Yuan Sangong could only listen to the bad idea of ​​Guo Tu, the staff of the army, and led the 30,000 vanguards to cross the river to Baima. He personally led the main force to change the route of the march and rushed to Yanjin, which was seriously insufficient to cross the river, and confronted the Cao army, preparing to take down the white horse and stabilize the pace, and then plan to cross the river in the entire army.

"My lord, you must not do this." Ju Su, who inherited Tian Feng's mantra, jumped out and persuaded him: "Although the thief Cao abandoned the white horse and retreated to Yanjin, Yanjin was only fifty miles away from the white horse. The light cavalry could arrive in an instant, and the infantry could arrive for half a day. If the lord divides his troops to cross the river, it will give Cao's chance to defeat our army's partial troops."

Speaking of this, Ju Su didn't care that the face of Yuan Sangong was already longer than a donkey, and said jokingly: "Now that the plan is that the entire army should be stationed in Yanjin and confront the Cao bandits across the river. Then, we can either dispatch and collect ferries, or build ferries on the spot, and prepare for crossing the river. When the Cao bandits were severely famined, they would run out of food and grass, or when Tao Ying captured Changyi, Dingtao, and Cao bandits were forced to retreat, our army would cross the river and pursue them calmly, and they would win a great victory!"

"Shut up!" The Grand Duke of Yuan shouted unbearably, "I personally led 300,000 troops to attack Cao. The troops pointed out, and the heaven and earth changed color! The morale is high and the battle is fast! Just like you, the morale is slow, the morale is delayed, and when the morale is exhausted and the morale is shaken, that is the biggest mistake!"

Ju Su was still trying to persuade him again regardless of his life. However, the Grand Duke of Yuan three waved his hand angrily, blocking Ju Su's continued advice, and then shouted: "Ming Wen Chou quickly advanced to the Baima crossing the river, crossing the river to seize the ferry crossing of the Baima City, and do not fight with the Cao thieves at will! Then he ordered Chunyu Qiong to be the second team and Han Meng to be the third team, each leading 15,000 troops to rush to the Baima crossing the river in turn, and attacked the Cao thieves in a horn with the main force!"

The decision of the Grand Duke of Yuan San of Yuan certainly made Mr. Cao laugh and tilted his mouth. When Wen Chou's army arrived at the Baima to start crossing the river, the Cao army soldiers lurking on the high side of the south bank immediately lit the wolf smoke, and a wave of wolf smoke rose every five miles, and in less than ten minutes, the enemy situation was sent to Mr. Cao. Mr. Cao immediately led five thousand light cavalry to the White Horse to fight. Most of this group of war horses were brought from the Chang'an area by Mr. Cao's good friend Zhong Yao. It took less than two hours to arrive at the Baima Ferry and killed Yuan Shaojun and caught Yuan Shaojun off guard.

As we all know, an army is the most vulnerable moment when crossing the river: not only the army is divided into two ends of the river bank and cannot look at each other, but the soldiers' psychology is also the most vulnerable at this time. If they are attacked by the enemy at this time, the entire army must be in chaos. The old slippery boss Cao also firmly grasped this precious opportunity, taking advantage of the opportunity that Wen Chou's army had just reached halfway across the river, and taking advantage of the opportunity that Wen Chou's army was panicking in front of the self-army where the divine weapon fell from the sky, and extremely decisively

Leading the army and leading the army into the enemy group - Boss Cao's military power is not inferior to the young and powerful Deputy Director Tao. The two generals Xiahou Yuan and Dian Wei also led their troops to attack desperately and directly penetrated into Yuan Shao's army like crazy. The panicked and chaotic southern bank Yuan also collapsed. They either trampled on each other and fled in scattered areas, or fought on board the ship to flee to the south bank. Countless people were killed and drowned, and more than 10,000 soldiers who crossed the Yellow River were almost wiped out.

By the way, it may be because the wings of Deputy Director Tao, the demon moth, General Wen Chou was much better this time than in history. Seeing that the situation was not good, he fled on a ferry in time, and personally chopped down countless soldiers who tried to rob the ferry, avoiding the misfortune of the ferry being crushed by his own defeated soldiers. He was extremely lucky to escape the Yellow River to save his life, and also failed to achieve full success in this surprise attack by Boss Cao.

After winning another surprise attack on the White Horse Ferry, which greatly boosted morale and established confidence in victory, the boss Cao, who was even more slippery than the fox, immediately chose to stop when he was about to get what he wanted. He took the opportunity of Yuan Shao's military boats and ships not yet ready, and immediately withdrew from Guandu. Although the defeated Grand Duke Yuan was furious, he was unable to cross the river quickly. Sending some troops to cross the river would only give him a chance to be defeated by Cao. Therefore, he could only watch as boss Cao picked up enough small gains and then left, retreated to Guandu's throat and strangled to guard the death!

Of course, it is not all bad news for the Grand Duke Yuan San. At least the day after the withdrawal of Cao, Deputy Director Tao, the filial son-in-law of Grand Duke Yuan San, sent a messenger to the Grand Duke Yanzhou hid through the hinterland and sent a new document of victory to Grand Duke Yuan San. After more than a month of hard battle, the Xuzhou army finally broke through Changyi City, the largest city on the southern line of Yanzhou, and forced Cao Chun, the Cao army's heavy general, to lead the remnants of the defeated generals to retreat to the small city of Cheng's city to defend the city. During the siege, more than 20,000 enemies were killed and many generals of the Cao army were killed! - Of course, because Cao's army blocked the road, the heads could not be sent.

"Okay, okay, Ying'er is really good, she is really good!" After reading the letter of victory from his filial son-in-law, the Sangong of Yuan, who had never laughed since Wen Chou was defeated, finally laughed happily and clapped and said, "In this way, Ying'er only needs to take down Dingtao and annihilate the remnants of Cao Chun of the Cheng clan, and the two armies of Hebei and Xu can join forces to defeat Cao thieves! Let me reply to Ying'er and ask him to take down Dingtao as soon as possible to advance north, and meet with me in Guandu to fight Cao thieves with Cao!"

"If Yuan Shao was furious and killed the envoy, our army could turn the spearhead rightfully and attack Qingzhou with confidence." Liu Ye added with a grim smile.

"Attack Qingzhou?" Deputy Director Tao, who had been salivating at the six counties and two countries of Qingzhou, smiled, nodded first, then shook his head, and smiled shyly: "Wait a minute, the situation is unclear, so let's see the situation before you attack Qingzhou. Anyway, Zang Ba and Sun Guan have already been prepared and can take action at any time, and they can't delay time."
Chapter completed!