Peek at my diary, Cao Cao dominates the Three Kingdoms

In the fourth year of Jian'an, in July, Yuan Shao sent his troops south!

The decisive battle between the two strongest princes of the Han Dynasty, Cao Yuanshao, finally broke out!

Yan Liang, Guo Tu, and Chun Yuqiong led an army of [-] as vanguards.

Prepared to forcefully cross the Yellow River from Liyang, Chen Deng and Yu Jin, who were stationed in Baima, were attacked to ensure that the follow-up main force of Yuan Shao could cross the Yellow River smoothly.

Chen Dengyu has good military talents, and Yu Jin is good at training and commanding troops.

They deployed defenses along the Yellow River early on, and made preparations to delay Yuan Shao's crossing of the Yellow River in an attempt to buy more time for the arrival of Cao Cao's army.

Chapter 2: The Confrontation on the Two Banks of the Yellow River

Historically, only a few thousand troops from Liu Yan guarded the south bank of the Yellow River, so there were almost no obstacles for Yan Liang's army to cross the river, and they could send troops straight to the White Horse Fortress.

But now, under Lu Yan's advance planning, there are [-] defenders in East County alone.

Moreover, Lu Yan also specially asked Cao Cao to transfer Chen Deng to Dongjun. With Yu Jin, a general who is good at commanding troops, Dongjun is bound to play an extremely important role in this war.

After Yu Jin and Chen Deng noticed that Yuan Shao was going south, they deployed defenses on the south bank of the Yellow River early.

The shoreline of the Yellow River is very long, and there are many places that need to be defended.

In order to be able to detect the enemy's situation in time, the only [-] cavalry in Dongjun County have all been used as scouts, patrolling uninterrupted every day, and once there is a sign of Yuan Shao's army crossing the river somewhere, Yu Jin will send troops to go there support.

Yan Liang's army was stationed on the north bank of the Yellow River. With a hundred thousand troops and civilian husbands, the camp stretched for dozens of miles!

The two armies are separated from the Yellow River and face each other across the bank, and their various actions are basically clear at a glance. .

The northerners are not very good at water warfare, and the Yellow River is very fast. Yan Liang sent people to try to cross the Yellow River from different directions several times a day, but Cao Jun discovered them in time and shot them back with random arrows.

Yuan Shao did not build any large warships, and even Yan Liang's boats across the river were requisitioned temporarily from other families or common people.

Most of the northerners are not familiar with water. After the soldiers of Yan Liang were shot into the water with bows and arrows by Cao Jun or fell into the water in a panic, they basically announced that they could only feed fish.

After a day of probing, not many soldiers were shot to death by Yuan Jun, because there were 800 soldiers who fell into the water and drowned in panic...

After realizing that Cao Jun's defenses were tight and that forcibly crossing the river might result in heavy losses, Yan Liang stopped trying and turned to Guo Tu and others for a strategy.

Although Guo Tu is a villain, his intelligence is not bad.

He offered advice to Yan Liang, looking for a person with a similar body and appearance to Yan Liang, and asked him to wear Yan Liang's bright armor, pretend to be Yan Liang to command the army, and patrol the banks of the Yellow River every day.

At the same time, flags were planted all over the camps along the Yellow River in an attempt to confuse Cao Jun on the other side, so that Cao Jun could not see their specific deployment of troops.

After all these tricks, the real Yan Liang sneaked across the Yellow River with [-] cavalry in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River two to three hundred miles away at night.

day time,

Fake Yan Liang and Chun Yuqiong continued to send people to forcefully cross the Yellow River, firmly attracting Cao Jun's attention.

So much so that Chen Deng and Yu Jin on the south bank of the Yellow River did not realize that the real Yan Liang had already crossed the Yellow River and was heading towards the Baima Camp!

Fortunately, Chen Deng is also a man of extraordinary resourcefulness. He has seen the strangeness of the current situation from some details.

Chen Deng knew very well in his heart that he wanted to stop Yuan Shao's hundreds of thousands of troops on the north bank of the Yellow River with only [-] to [-] troops, which was tantamount to nonsense.

What he and Yu Jin had to do was to delay for as long as they could.

Although the White Horse camp is not too big, the fortifications outside are very complete.

There are trenches, horse traps, horse refusals, and more.

After stalemate with Yan Liang's army for almost three days, Chen Deng noticed some subtle abnormalities of Yuan Jun.

Therefore, Chen Deng decisively asked Yu Jin to withdraw all the defenders deployed along the Yellow River, and divide his troops to garrison the Baima camp and the camp in the direction of Puyang City.

Yu Jin was extremely puzzled by Chen Deng's request to withdraw troops.

This is well guarded, so how can you withdraw it?So Yu Jin asked Chen Deng, "Prefect, if we withdraw our troops at this moment, wouldn't we hand over the Yellow River to Yuan Shao?"

Chen Deng has cooperated with Yu Jin for more than a year and almost two years. He also has a good impression of this general who is both civil and military, and is a first-class general in allied wars.

Hearing Yu Jin's question, Chen Deng patiently explained to him: "General Yu, didn't you notice that when Yuan Jun crossed the river on the other side, he seemed a little too perfunctory?

Moreover, Yan Liang patrolled around the banks of the Yellow River every day in his shining armor, as if he was afraid that we would not see him. "

Yu Jin recalled it carefully, only to realize that it was indeed what Chen Deng said, "It seems to be true...but is there any explanation in it?"

Chen Deng frowned, stroked his light beard with his fingers, and said: "As I expected, the Yan Liang who was dangling around that day is probably just a counterfeit, and the real Yan Liang may have crossed the Yellow River and is heading towards us. Killed..."

"Ah?!" Yu Jin was shocked when he heard the words, and quickly confirmed again: "Is that true?"

"That's true!" Chen Deng said with certainty and decisiveness: "Yan Liangzhi's bravery is not invincible to fierce generals like Zhao Yun and Dian Wei!

Therefore, General Yu, you should quickly withdraw your soldiers.

We have to leave 1 people to stick to the Baima camp, and the rest go back to the camp in the direction of Puyang to form a corner with the Baima stronghold, and then stick to waiting for Prime Minister Cao's reinforcements, which is the best strategy! "

Yu Jin nodded and said: "I will send someone to recall the defenders. The prefect can lead the army back to the Puyang Camp, and a certain soldier will lead [-] soldiers to guard the White Horse Stronghold!"

Chen Deng knew that this was the best choice,

Because even if the White Horse camp was breached, Yu Jin, who was close to the quasi-first-class martial arts, might still be able to break out of the encirclement with his bravery.

If it were Chen Deng, a frail scholar with a "big belly", he would be chopped into meat by the rebel army as soon as the camp was broken.

......

Cao Cao led an army of Chen Bing in Yuanwu, and Lu Yan's [-] troops are now camping in Yuanwu.

It's almost night,

Although it is located in the Cao Jun camp in Yuanwu, it is still brightly lit, and there is an endless stream of people coming and going.

Lu Yan, Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, Xia Houlan, Tai Shici, Dian Wei, and the three brothers Liu Bei who were voluntarily transferred to Lu Yan's subordinates gathered in Cao Cao's central army tent at this moment.

It is already midsummer in June, and the temperature is already very sultry.

Although the large tent of the Chinese army is spacious enough, but now there are dozens of people standing in the big tent, and the air is not well circulated, so the big tent looks extremely hot.

Apart from Lu Yan, even Zhao Yun and Guan Yu were sweating on their foreheads, and the sweltering environment made people gradually become irritable.

Cao Cao put his hands behind his back, lowered his head, and wandered in and out of the tent, thinking.

Seeing that Cao Cao was thinking about the problem, everyone restrained their restlessness and waited patiently.

When Liu Bei first arrived in Cao Cao's big tent, he was taken aback by no less than thirty or forty military and civil officials in the fourth row of the big tent.

Back then, even when Liu Bei was in Xuzhou Muna's most glorious time, there were only seven or eight generals under his command, and a dozen or so civil and military officials, and there were no real advisers among the civil officials, and the military generals who could really fight were his own Just two brothers.

And under Cao Cao's tent, not counting the generals guarding one side, Xia Houyuan, Cao Hong, Zhang Liao, Xu Chu and others were recruited alone.

In addition, the group of extremely high-quality generals brought by Lu Yan, who seemed to be exuding golden light from top to bottom, almost blinded Liu Bei's titanium alloy dog ​​eyes...

Chapter 2 Temporarily avoid the front, avoid the real and attack the false!

Even Guan Yu, the fierce general under Lu Yan's command, would be speechless in his heart when he saw it.

"Zhao Zilong, Dian Wei, Tai Shici, and Huang Zhong are all superb generals.

Even Xia Houlan, who was unknown in the past, now has the strength of a quasi-first-class fierce general...

The strength of Lu Yan's generals is not inferior to that of Cao Cao!

However, he has no counselors under his account, maybe this is what he did on purpose to reassure Cao Cao. "

Guo Jia is not Lu Yan's counselor, he can only be regarded as a bad friend, or the kind who loves to cheat his teammates...

Of course, when you think of your big brother Liu Bei, there is no comparison with Lu Yan and Cao Cao...

Liu Bei's current military generals are full of fighters, Guan Erge and Zhang Sanye,

The civil servants have been assigned by Cao Cao to serve in various places. Even if they want to get together now, it may be very difficult.

Opposite Liu Bei, there are two rows of literati. One row is led by Xi Zhicai, and Xun Yu, Xun You, Jia Xu, Cheng Yu, etc. are the advisers; the other row is headed by Guo Jia, Dong Zhao, Jiang Ji The queue lined up one by one, there are seven or eight people in detail.

Such a luxurious think tank made Liu Bei both envious and inferior.

However, Liu Bei has now given up the idea of ​​fighting for world hegemony, and now he only wants to work with Lu Yan to protect the big man and the people of the big man, and also to protect his last sliver of ideals and stubbornness.

Some other miscellaneous thoughts in my mind were fleeting, and they were quickly forgotten by Liu Bei.

At this moment, Cao Cao, who had been bowing his head in thought, suddenly raised his head.

He looked at the advisers represented by Xi Zhicai, and asked aloud: "I have received the news from Dongjun that Yuan Shao sent General Yan Liang to lead an army of 30 to cross the Yellow River and attack the White Horse Stronghold. Leading an army of [-], waiting for an opportunity to cross the Yellow River... Everyone, do you have a countermeasure?"

Xi Zhicai took a step sideways without hesitation, stood out of the queue, cupped his hands and said: "My lord, Yuan Shao sent Yan Liang to capture the white horse to clear the way for the main force to cross the Yellow River. According to my subordinates, the prime minister can send a light Cavalry, support the white horse as quickly as possible."

Xi Zhicai only spoke half of what he said, which puzzled the generals on the other side.

Xia Houyuan immediately stood up and asked, "My lord, military adviser... Since Yuan Shao sent Yan Liang to attack the white horse, we should send the main force to quickly reinforce the white horse before the main force of Yuan's army crossed the Yellow River, otherwise Yan Liang will occupy the white horse and cover the white horse." Yuan Shao's main force has crossed the Yellow River, it will be bad."

Cao Cao looked at Xia Houyuan and said, "Don't worry if you are a brilliant talent, the military teacher has not finished speaking."

After hearing what Cao Cao said, Xia Houyuan folded his fists and retreated.

Xi Zhicai didn't speak, but retreated and said to Xun You: "Gongda, you came up with this plan, and you will explain it to the Lord and the generals."

Xun You stood up, then cupped his hands and said, "The fifty thousand soldiers and horses in Dongjun are mostly newly recruited soldiers. Although they have been practicing day and night, they have never actually been on the battlefield.

If I had waited for all my troops to rush to Baima, I am afraid that the Baima stronghold would have been breached before we arrived.Moreover, it will encounter Yuan Jun's main force head-on, and the gain outweighs the loss.

I think that Yuan Jun is in full swing now, and it is inappropriate to confront him head-on.We should avoid its edge first and drag him into tug-of-war or even positional warfare. "

Having said that, Xun You paused for a moment to give the others enough time to digest.

After Cao Cao nodded and signaled him to continue, Xun You continued:

"I believe that we can send a general to lead a partial army to pretend to cross the Yellow River to attack Yanjin; at the same time, send another general to lead the light cavalry to lurk outside the white horse and wait for the opportunity.

If Yuan Shaozhong planned to divide his troops, he could use all his cavalry to attack Yan Liang's back, break the siege of the white horse, and even join the Dongjun army to wipe out part of the main force of Yuan's army who crossed the Yellow River.

If Yuan Shao didn't fall for the plan, he would ambush Yuan Jun's pursuers in the middle of the way to cover Yuanlong and Wen Ze's retreat. "

Hearing this, Xia Houyuan's restless mood has calmed down, but he still has a question, so he asked aloud: "Dare to ask the military division, what should the main force of our Yangwu do?"

Xun You looked at Xia Houyuan and said, "Someone has said just now, avoid Yuan Shao's edge."

"You mean...retreat?" Xia Houyuan wondered if he heard it wrong...

"That's right, retreat, return to Guandu and stand firm!"

Without waiting for Xia Houyuan to ask again, Cheng Yu said: "Yuan Shao claims to have an army of 70, and the daily food consumption will be an astronomical figure.

We can set up many camps along the way, build fortifications, delay Yuan Shao's footsteps, consume their food and grass, and drain their morale.

With such an interception and consumption all the way, by the time Yuan Shao's army arrives at Guandu, [-]% of its combat power may have already lost [-]%. "

Only then did Xia Houyuan understand the intentions of the counselors, so after saluting with fists clasped, he remained silent.

Liu Bei was stunned when he heard that,

What feigning an attack, avoiding the real and attacking the false, what joining forces in one place and attacking the west, what avoiding the edge, consuming morale and food...

He used to be either "Brothers follow me", or "Brothers follow the second and third brothers". How has he seen so many dazzling and intricate schemes?

Liu Bei's expression remained unchanged, but he smiled wryly in his heart: "It's not wrong to lose... One of these resourceful people is already terrifying, and this group of meows is still..."

Thinking of this, Liu Bei glanced at Lu Yan who had been silent all this time.

From the beginning to the present, Lu Yan, who stands at the head of the military commander, has not said a word, "Could it be possible that all of this is within Mr. Lu's expectations?"

Do as the Romans do, after Liu Bei came to Lu Yan's command, he called Lu Yan Mr. like everyone else.

Moreover, regardless of Lu Yan's fame or strength, Liu Bei's "Mr.

Unable to figure out what was going on with Lu Yan, Liu Bei naturally wouldn't open his mouth casually, so he followed Lu Yan's example of staying still and watching the situation quietly.

Lu Yan kept silent, because he didn't want to interfere too much with the progress of the Guandu battle.

After all, Yuan Shao is indeed much stronger than Cao Cao.

If because of his own interference, Yuan Shao changed to a hidden place to store grain, and Xu You came to join Cao Cao as usual,

Without the advantage of Wuchao Tunliang's foresight, I'm afraid they will have to fight with real swords and guns.

At that time, the outcome will be a little unpredictable. Wouldn't it be that he lifted a rock and shot his own feet? It's too troublesome...

Cao Cao glanced at Lu Yan and Guo Jia,

Seeing that Lu Yan and Guo Jia also nodded slightly in agreement, they made up their minds and said:

"Yuan Shao's vanguard general Yan Liang, bravely crowned the three armies. Going to Baima, the main general must be Zilong!"