Peek at my diary, Cao Cao dominates the Three Kingdoms

This person must be Yuan Shao's general, don't let him go easily! "

Thinking of this, Wei Yan cheered up and concentrated on fighting.

Although Han Meng was brave, he was only a second-rate general. It was just because of his special weapons and great strength that it was hard for him to get used to at first.

And Wei Yan is a first-class peak, and has received advice from famous experts. After the two battled to the [-]th or [-]th round, Han Meng gradually began to fall into the disadvantaged.

Most of the people who use the double hammer are powerful generals. They can often smash the enemy's skull in the first few rounds by relying on the power of heavy weapons and their own strength.

But this heavy weapon is doomed not to last.

Seeing through Han Meng's weakness, Wei Yan was not in a hurry, and slowly wrestled with him.

Finally, after thirty rounds, Han Meng was exhausted and his moves began to deform.

The more Han Meng fought, the more frightened he became. He was also amazed by General Cao's bravery, and thought to himself:

"How can a Cao general who ran out casually be able to defeat me? And the doll just now was able to fight me three times. Could it be that the brave generals in Cao's camp have overflowed to such an extent?"

Yuan Jun was retreating steadily at this moment, the front army wanted to retreat, but was blocked by the rear army.

In the horror of life and death, some people raised their butcher knives towards their robes...

Yuan Jun drew his sword and slashed at the robes of the rear army. Seeing that the situation was not good, the soldiers of the rear army finally turned around and fled.

After the rear army was overwhelmed by the former central army, Yuan Jun's soldiers finally opened up the way to retreat, but perhaps less than half of the [-] troops could escape in the end.

Han Meng looked back and saw that the way to retreat had been cleared up, he couldn't waste his life with General Cao any longer, and he was afraid that his life would be wasted...

Han Meng saw the right time, deliberately sold a loophole, and forced Wei Yan to retreat with the injury-for-injury style of play.

Wei Yan didn't want to fight with the opponent to lose both sides, so he had to retreat temporarily as a last resort.

Han Meng got the chance and immediately left the battle, then turned his horse and fled all the way without looking back.

"Withdraw! Quickly withdraw!"

Han Meng shouted while running, relying on his horse, he quickly overtook the fleeing infantry and ran to the front of the rout.

Cao Jun chased and killed all the way, and did not stop until he reached the mountain fire.

Yuan Jun could rush through the fire without hesitation, but Cao Jun couldn't afford to use his life to claim the military exploits, and he still had to fight when he arrived at Guandu.

Chen Dao looked at the growing mountain fire and said to Wei Yan, "Unfortunately, the mountain fire blocked our pursuit and failed to take the head of General Yuan."

Wei Yan shook his head and said: "Then General Yuan is also a brave man, it is not so easy to kill him."

Looking at the raging fire again, Wei Yan sighed and said, "Forget it...the fire won't stop for a few days. Let's leave Jiluo Mountain for now, rest and wait for the fire to stop before heading to Guandu Bar."

Chen Dao naturally had no objection, and replied: "It's all up to the general!"

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Guandu, outside Cao Jun's city wall.

Although Yuan Shaojun's siege equipment was destroyed by Cao Jun's catapult, after all, they had plenty of people, and it only took two or three days to rebuild the siege equipment they needed.

It is estimated that Cao Jun has a powerful catapult,

Yuan Shao did not build more wells, but focused on building scull carts, and also tried to make some trebuchets.

What made Yuan Shao angry was that,

The catapult built by his own craftsmen was far behind Cao Cao's catapult in terms of range, accuracy, and weight of the catapult. Yuan Shao finally had to give up his plan to build a catapult and shoot with Cao Cao.

Yuan Shao reinforced the scull cart and enlarged and thickened the shield, so that Cao Jun's catapults could no longer destroy the scull cart.

Yuan Jun hid behind the scull cart and came to attack the city at a fixed point every day, which made Cao Jun extremely uncomfortable.

On the city wall, it happened to be the turn to be on duty today.

He took the three brothers Tai Shici, Dian Wei, and Liu Guanzhang, and led more than ten thousand people to resist Yuan Jun's attack.

Everyone knew that the Guandu battlefield would probably be a protracted battle.

Before Yuan Jun's soldiers crossed the moat, Cao Jun stopped shooting arrows, because even if they shot arrows, most of the arrows were shot on shields and scull carts.The stone bombs of the trebuchet are not so easy to find, the surrounding stones have been dropped, and if you want to find it, you can only transport it from a farther place.Therefore, Cao Jun is saving the materials for defending the city as much as possible, and is preparing for a long-term battle.

Zhang Fei swept the two soldiers of Yuan Jun who jumped out of the city wall with a spear, and muttered in his mouth: "It's really endless..."

Holding a sword, Liu Bei stabbed to death a Yuan soldier who was trying to climb over the female wall. He came to Zhang Fei and said, "Third brother, didn't you really want to fight before, why are you complaining now?"

"I want to capture the flag like the second brother, instead of playing gophers here every day."

Liu Bei: "..."

After Guan Yu cleaned up his defensive area, he came to Zhang Fei and Liu Bei to support him, and happened to hear the conversation between Zhang Fei and Liu Bei.

So, he said: "At least for now, Yuan Jun has no flaws. We may have to defend for a long time..."

Liu Bei nodded, and said, "That's right, Guandu has become a stalemate here, and I'm afraid we need to look for variables elsewhere."

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Under the city wall, Gao Lan said to himself: "Cao Jun's defense is still flawless, but our army still has to continue to attack with human lives..."

"I hope the Digger Army of the military division can succeed..." Seeing that the siege soldiers were driven off the top of the city again, Gao Lan had no choice but to shout: "Retreat!"

Chapter 223 Variables, Right Behind Boss Yuan

In Yuan Jun's camp, Gao Lan returned after failing to attack the city, and came to Yuan Shao to plead guilty.

These days, Gao Lan comes back every day to plead guilty, which seems to be a routine...

Let Gao Lan go down to rest first.

Yuan Shao sat in the main tent, his expression was not in a hurry.

In his opinion, Cao Jun's defense will be broken by him one day, but it is only a matter of time.

After pondering for a while, Yuan Shao asked the judge who was standing below: "Zhengnan, how is the progress of the digger army?"

The judge heard Yuan Shao's question, so he stood up and cupped his hands and said: "My lord, the digger army is about to reach the moat, as long as they can pass the moat smoothly, the digger army can dig down Cao Jun's city wall!"

Yuan Shao smiled and replied: "Okay! Keep digging, as long as the city wall can be dug down, Cao's army will be in chaos."

Yuan Shao is repeating his old trick, planning to use the trick he used to dig down the walls of Gongsun Zan Yi's capital to deal with Cao Jun.

At this moment, a messenger from outside rushed to report, saying: "My lord, General Han Meng was defeated by Cao's army at Jiluo Mountain, and returned home in a complete defeat."

The news of Han Meng's defeat and return dilutes the joy of diggers who are about to complete their mission.

And Xu You, who stood at the head of all the counselors, looked even more ugly at the moment.

He was the one who contributed to the strategy of hijacking the Liang Dao, but now the partisan who hijacked the Liang is defeated, isn't this just slapping himself in the face in public...

Although the failure of robbery does not hurt the overall situation, it is his own plan after all, and after all, he still has a somewhat ugly face when he fails.

What Xu You is worried about now is not the failure of borrowing money, but what he is more worried about is his competitor Guo Tu, "Guo Tu looks like a villain... I'm afraid he is laughing at himself right now?"

Thinking of this, Xu You couldn't help but cast a glance at Guo Tu.

Sure enough, that guy was staring at Xu You with a smile that was not a smile, which made Xu You feel a chill in his heart.

If it was Jushou, maybe it would have been a big blow by now, but Xu You is a self-proclaimed gentleman, and he would not do such a thing by hand.

In fact, Guo Tu was not just watching Xu You's jokes.

You know, when Xu You was in Jizhou, he was somewhat greedy for money on weekdays, and his family was even more unscrupulous, seeking the people's fat and anointing.

In order to take the position of the mastermind, Guo Tu sent people back overnight to collect Xu You's crimes.

Poor Xu Ziyuan boasted that he was unparalleled in intelligence and resourcefulness, but at this moment he just thought that Guo Tu was just watching his jokes... People's hearts, Xu You still underestimated the viciousness of people's hearts after all.

Less than a quarter of an hour after the messenger came to report, Han Meng stumbled in with disheveled hair and a smoky smell all over his body.

Yuan Shao, who was still a little angry in his heart, was shocked when he saw Han Meng who was about to be smoked into bacon.

"My lord! My subordinates were negligent, and Cao's army set fire to the mountain, which resulted in a bad start and a great defeat..."

"Set fire to the mountain?! Is Cao Jun so ruthless?" Yuan Shao was surprised again.

You must know that there may be many local people relying on the mountains to eat. This fire may not only cut off the livelihood of the people, but may also affect the survival of the surrounding people.

However, the people in Yingchuan and Chenliu areas under Cao Cao's rule had long been lifted out of poverty and became rich, and those who lived at the foot of the mountain might have to find a new place to build a house.

"Cao Jun is really crazy..." Yuan Shao sighed, and said, "Han Meng, please explain the process in detail."

Han Meng then put himself in an ambush in Jiluo Mountain, but Cao Jun fired rockets and set the woods on fire, and he finally retreated, emphasizing it.

Of course, in these words, the main point is to clarify Han Meng's bravery and fearlessness in order to let the soldiers retreat, and to weaken the small details that he was ambushed because he underestimated the enemy...

After hearing Han Meng's narration, Yuan Shao was speechless and fell into deep thought.

After a few breaths, Yuan Shao said, "Forget it, Cao's army set fire to the mountain, and no manpower can stop it.

Moreover, raiding the grain road is just the icing on the cake. Even if Cao Jun has food, they will inevitably be defeated in a few days. "

Han Meng escaped, and immediately knelt down on one knee begging for his life: "Master, please give me another chance, let me make up for my mistakes!"

Yuan Shao said: "Since you are determined to make up for your mistakes, then when Cao Jun's defense is broken in the future, you can go to the vanguard to destroy the city and pull out the stronghold for me."

Han Meng was overjoyed, bowed deeply and said: "I guarantee my life, I will live up to my lord's expectations!"

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In the next two days, Yuan Jun's digging army finally passed under the moat.

The general in charge of the digging army calculated the distance and shouted loudly: "Brothers, according to the estimated distance, we will be under the city wall in a few steps ahead. Everyone, work harder and finish your work. You will have meat when you go back today." Drink the soup!!"

When Digger heard that there was broth to drink, bursts of cheers erupted, and even the shovel he waved in his hand became lighter and more powerful.

Yuan Jun, who was at the front, dug down with a shovel, but suddenly there was a sound of metal and stone.

"Shut up!", and a clear voice sounded, and the digger turned his head and shouted: "General, I seem to have dug a big rock in front of me!"

Hearing this, the general of the Die Zi Army pushed aside the crowd and came to the front. With the help of the faint light of the fire, he groped and inspected the boulder in front of him carefully.

After a while, the general seemed to have thought of something, and immediately yelled: "What kind of boulder is this! You bastard Cao thief, his grandma actually built the city wall down to the ground!"

It turned out that when Ren Jun built the city wall, he got Lu Yan's suggestion and laid the foundation underground.

Moreover, the fact that Gongsun Zan was dug up by Yuan Shao to the base of the wall was known all over the world, so Ren Jun did not stop doing two things, and laid the foundation two feet deep, which can be called frenzied.

The tunnel should not be too deep, otherwise the risk of hypoxia and landslides will be multiplied.

Yuan Jun's diggers dug the tunnel at a depth of about four or five meters. Their current depth is about two meters away from the deepest part of the city wall foundation.

The soil on the part of the moat is extremely unstable, and it may collapse due to being soaked in water at any time.If Yuan Jun dared to take the time to dig deeper, it is very likely that the city wall did not fall down, but he buried himself first...

In desperation, the general Die Zijun had no choice but to report the problems he encountered to Yuan Shao.

Knowing that this plan might not work, Yuan Shao finally had to give up the method of digging tunnels.

Another trick was broken by Cao Cao, and Yuan Jun could only return to the tug-of-war with Cao Cao...

But in another place, another variable came.

We all know that the Yellow River often floods or diverts its course.

Even because of a serious flood and breach of the embankment, the middle reaches of the Yellow River in the late Eastern Han Dynasty were actually diverted.

That is to say, the Yellow River forked somewhere, and the two rivers were separated by several miles or even hundreds of miles and drove eastward side by side, and finally merged at a certain place and finally returned to the sea.

Yanjin and Baima are both ferry crossings of the Yellow River, but these two ferry crossings are only crossings between the North Stream after diversion.

The reason why Cao Cao dared to abandon Baima and Yanjin Ferry after abandoning Liyang and other important towns in Hebei, and continue to shrink southward for defense, is that there is still the southern flow of the Yellow River and Guandu Ferry as the last barrier.

Now that Cao Jun and Yuan Jun are confronting each other in Guandu, Yuan Jun is a hundred miles behind, leaving Cao Jun with room to make a difference.

Cao Ren, Xu Huang, and Le Jin from Hanoi County have disappeared from everyone's eyes for a long time.

Now that Yuan Shao left a large space behind him, this gave Cao Ren and others room to show off their maneuvers.

Chapter 224 Cao Ren Robbed the Camp

Yuan Shao currently has two relatively stable grain roads, one is from Baima to the south via Yanjin to Guandu; the other is directly from Yanjin to the south.

The name Yanjin does not only represent a ferry, but starts from Yanjin County in the south of the Yellow River North River, and goes all the way to the ferry in Huaxian County in the northeast. This area is collectively called Yanjin.

Cao Ren, Xu Huang, Le Jin and others in Hanoi County have been secretly coveting the Yanjin ferry on the north bank of the Yellow River for a long time.

Cao Ren needed to leave troops for Shi Huan to guard Hanoi, so he only brought [-] soldiers with him on this trip, not many troops.

Yuan Shao didn't attack Hanoi County, but he wanted to go straight to Cao Cao and make a quick decision, but he didn't expect to lose two generals when he first arrived in Baima Yanjin, and now his main force was dragged into the quagmire of the war of attrition by Cao Cao middle.