Chapter 1021 Counterattack
Liu Bei returned and dispatched resources in Beihai to ensure strong support to the frontline. He strongly deposited 20 million gold into the Qingzhou Prefecture treasury before leaving. He was originally intended to attack Fengxiang City, but in the end, Qingzhou Prefecture, which was on the verge of bankruptcy, suddenly became more abundant. The Qingzhou Prefecture war machine was fully launched, and Guan Yu and Zhang Fei did not have to worry about their backs, they just needed to focus on the war.
In Le'anguo, due to the failure of the powerful vacuum cleaner plan, the troops of Qingzhou Prefecture did not turn against each other, and Yuan Tan naturally could not enter Donglai County. The Yuan's left-wing army confronted Guan Yu.
Zhang Fei rushed to Dongpingling and joined the Cao-Zheng coalition forces, and the strength of the Jinan County coalition forces increased greatly.
After learning that Cao Cao had entered Qingzhou to fight, he brought troops to the Yanzhou border as promised and threatened Taishan County. Through the player's message, Cao Cao learned about the abnormal movements of the Xuzhou army at the first time. A certain city lord also asked someone to remind him, asking Cao Cao if he wanted to return to his army to resolve the danger in Yanzhou first.
Cao Cao sneered: "It's okay. Tao Qian, a rat, has a son who is filial to him, so he can't cause trouble."
The guardian of Taishan County was Cao Ren, a brother of Cao Cao, who was both wise and brave.
The first time the two armies fought, Cao Ren won the battle, and killed two generals Tao Qian in a row, and then returned to the city and kept their limits. The Xuzhou army entered Yanzhou for thirty miles and wanted to lure Cao Ren to fight, but Cao Ren was still unmoved. As a result, the Xuzhou army did not dare to advance rashly. At this time, Tao Qian also learned that Qingzhou Prefecture did not join forces with Yuan Shao, and the Xuzhou army's situation suddenly became extremely embarrassing and was in a dilemma.
As for the wildfires, Liu Biao, who had high hopes for Jingzhou, did not move at all.
Liu Biao has always been known as the "maintaining dog". He has insufficient enterprising spirit. Even if he takes action, he must wait and see clearly. If everything develops as planned, Liu Biao may still pretend to behave and send troops to threaten Cao Cao's rear. However, the plan has undergone a drastic change, and it would be quite difficult to make up his mind. Liu Biao also has a good excuse: if Jingzhou Prefecture wants to threaten Cao Cao's rear, he still needs to use Yuzhou. If Yuzhou Prefecture does not agree to use Yuzhou, Liu Biao will refuse to send troops on the grounds that he is "friendly neighbors and friendly" to avoid provoking "interstate conflicts."
Liu Biao became a turtle with his head, and Tao Qian was even more alone. After thinking about it all night, Tao Qian felt that his attack was too hasty and was better to go home and reunite with his beautiful wife and concubines, so the Xuzhou army began to retreat. Cao Ren was worried that this was the Xuzhou army's plan to lure the enemy, so he did not send troops to pursue him and allowed Tao Qian to retreat.
The wildfires used to restrain Cao Cao's two princes, but almost did not cause any trouble to Cao Cao.
Liu Bei, Cao Cao and A Niu all relieved their worries and could fight Yuan Shao with all their might.
The battlefield of the decisive battle is Jinan County.
Objectively speaking, Yuan Shao still had an advantage in his coalition. Moreover, although the Wildfire Army failed to attack Fengxiang, they also had powerful forces. They not only could provide communication support, but also had many famous cities to provide support for Yuan's army.
Yuan Shao was fighting away. In addition, this war was unexpected, and his confidence in fighting attrition with the coalition forces was greatly reduced. In order to avoid the long and long nights, Yuan's army began to take the initiative, trying to take advantage of the favorable opportunity of still having the advantage and try to consume the strength of the coalition forces as much as possible.
The coalition forces are now strong and strong, so they are not showing any weakness. They face the enemy head-on.
When the two armies were facing each other, Yuan Shao took the initiative to fight the generals because he had Yan Liang, Wen Chou and Han Meng under his tent.
As a result, Yuan Shao was sad. If he was given a chance to do it again, he would not fight even if he died.
Guan Erye of Qingzhou Prefecture did not come. There was Zhang Fei, who was the bravest army; although Cao Cao of Yanzhou had not received Dian Wei and Xu Chu, there were also Xiahou brothers, all of whom were fierce soldiers; as for Fengxiang City, there were not too many great people... The generals ended in the complete defeat of Yuan's family. Yan Liang, who had just recovered, was injured by Xiahou Dun. In addition to being sad, he was even more firmly believed that "Qingzhou is not a good place."
The victory of one-on-one battles led to a sharp rise in the morale of the coalition forces, and they gained a slight advantage in the subsequent group battles.
Yuan Shao sent all the cavalry, hoping that the elite Youbian cavalry would turn the situation around.
The Fengxiang cavalry immediately responded to the battle.
The two cavalry with their own characteristics are amazing in combat power. Once the joint combat mode is activated, chemical effects will occur. Both cavalry have powerful and efficient long-range attack methods, and the coverage attack of the Hercules arrow complements the frontal attack of the Great Yellow Crossbow! In terms of melee combat, the lightness and elegance of the flying wings are perfectly combined with the invincible thunder. The combat power is not as simple as 1+1 equals 2, but is a geometric increase!
Two special cavalrymen beat Yuan Shao's Youge cavalry torture, making everyone marvel at the strength of Fengxiang Army again. The Wuheng cavalry generally believed that it was a very happy thing to have friendly troops like Feiyi and Thunder. For example, now, at such a large-scale battle scene, they almost don't have to fight tough battles. Just be careful when hitting the dog in the water, and they can reap a lot of results, and their casualties are very low.
At dusk, the two armies retreated their troops.
In this battle, the Yuan infantry suffered not much loss, but the few cavalry left suffered devastating blows, and the remaining remaining defeated soldiers had almost no combat power.
The coalition won the cavalry duel and further occupied the initiative on the battlefield.
Cao Cao was a man who knew the military and one of the famous military strategists of the Three Kingdoms. He knew how to use his advantages. The next day after the battle, the Feiyi Camp and the Wuheng cavalry left the main battlefield and entered the plains. Their combat goal was very simple: intercepting Yuan's support, so that Yuan Shao could not get effective supplements!
This trick of removing firewood from the cauldron seems ordinary, but in fact it is very fierce, which makes Yuan Shao very uncomfortable.
There are still many wise men under Yuan Shao's tent.
Tian Feng believes that a large number of coalition forces are gathered around, and the coalition cavalry is very strong. Even if the Yuan army wants to withdraw, they will pay a heavy price. However, the overall strength of the Yuan army is still slightly stronger than that of the coalition forces, and has three states as the backing, and the war potential is huge. Now, only by burning the boats and fighting for the thickness with the coalition forces can we have the chance to turn defeat into victory!
Ju Yuan also said: "The coalition comes from three forces, and they may not be united. We can take advantage of this. Although they are united in the fight against us now, if we fight hard enough, their losses will be too great, so naturally some people will want to preserve their strength! Even if they are not trapped, the three forces of the coalition will have different strengths and their trust is also different... Liu Bei is the weakest, and his relationship with Cao Cao and Zheng Aniu is not strong enough. As long as there is a chance, we should seize the Qingzhou army's fierce attack and constantly consume Liu Bei's strength. When he cannot continue and Qingzhou Prefecture is unable to fight again, we will send people to spread rumors that Liu Bei wants to preserve his strength, and the coalition will definitely have internal strife!"
Yuan agreed deeply and gritted his teeth and continued to fight with the coalition forces.
For five consecutive days, from morning to night, both armies suffered heavy losses.
What surprised Yuan's army was that there was no sign of a failure in succession. Except for the relatively weak Yanzhou army, the Fengxiang army and Qingzhou Prefecture were both like chicken blood and were not afraid of head-on battles.
——Liu Bei is the governor of Qingzhou and has a strong sponsorship of 20 million yuan. Of course, he is not afraid of tough battles.
——The Fengxiang Army took the initiative to seek war. To a large extent, it was due to the forced force of Emperor Wu of Han and Zong Wuyan: "Send our Mingcheng troops to death quickly. Don't be polite, you can't afford to support so many troops!"
Yuan Shao didn't know the reason, so he had ten thousand in his mind why he didn't know who to ask for the answer.
When the war came to this point, he had no choice but to grit his teeth and persevere. The only thing worthy of comfort was that the wildfire was still unstoppable, and they also showed their determination to burn their boats. The wildfire realized that it was difficult to directly threaten, so it began to change the gathering point of the troops to Jinan to assist Yuan Shao's army in battle.
On the seventh day, Yuan Shao heard bad news again.
The Canglan Navy detoured thousands of miles and went upstream along the Yellow River's mouth to the rear of Yuan Shao's army, and placed 10,000 Fengxiang troops in the north of Pingyuan County. Originally, the threat of 10,000 Fengxiang troops to capture the rear was not great. Instead, it might have been eaten by Yuan's army. However, Yuan Shao did not expect that the Fengxiang army captured Ande County and had a county town as a stronghold. The 10,000 infans "airdropped" by Fengxiang immediately increased their survivability and destructive power.
The two cavalrymen of Fengxiang were in Jinan County, destroying the southern supply line of Yuan's army, which made Yuan Shao feel like a big head. Yuan's army had to trust more on the northern supply line. Now Fengxiang's airdrop was successful, and with the Canglan Navy inspecting along the Yellow River, Yuan's northern supply line immediately fell into chaos.
At this time, the coalition forces sent envoys to Yuan Shao's camp and demanded that Yuan Shao withdraw from Qingzhou and shake hands and make peace.
At a huge cost, it has occupied most of the three counties and states in Qingzhou. Yuan Shao obviously could not accept the proposal of the coalition forces. The strategists also believed that the coalition forces took the initiative to seek peace, which shows that the coalition forces were also unsustainable, and no matter what, the Yuan army could not give up all the territory occupied in Qingzhou. Yuan Shao sent people to beat the envoys out in a stick to show his determination to fight to the end.
The negotiations failed and the two armies continued to fight.
On the tenth, an army of 20,000 people landed in the Bohai Sea, destroying the townships of Bohai County.
The Liaodong Army took action this time. Feilong Baby had a grudge with Yuan Shao. If he had the opportunity to poke Yuan Shao's chrysanthemums, the baby naturally didn't want to miss it. After all, the stronger Yuan Shao, the more dangerous it was in Liaodong. The Liaodong Yellow Turban used waterways to bypass Yuan Xi's defense line and directly destroyed Yuan Shao's lair.
Yuan Shao was furious and fainted on the spot.
After hearing the news, Yuan Xi led his troops to launch a tentative attack on Liaodong. However, although the Liaodong army drew 20,000 people to attack Jizhou, the old nest was still defended without any leakage. Yuan Xi returned in vain.
Liu Bei, Cao Cao, A Niu and Baobao, all four princes joined forces. No matter how strong Yuan Shao's capital was, he would not dare to say that he had a higher chance of winning.
The coalition was also difficult to defeat Yuan Shao. If it was consumed for a long time, it would only increase everyone's losses. Moreover, as Ju Su expected, there were differences within the coalition at this time. Liu Bei was the governor of Qingzhou and hoped to recover the entire Qingzhou; A Niu was determined to fight abroad and had no pursuit of Qingzhou territory, and participated in the war entirely because Yuan Shao threatened Fengxiang; Cao Cao participated in the war, in addition to assisting A Niu, he also hoped to gain some benefits, and this would inevitably be contrary to Liu Bei; the baby was relatively simple, and he knew that he could not occupy the territory, so he wanted to take the opportunity to weaken Yuan Shao.
With differences, the coalition forces are no longer as strong as before.
Negotiation has become the first choice for both sides.
After repeated consultations, the negotiations had a final result; Yuan Shao withdrew from Jinan and Le'an and retained Pingyuan County; Cao Cao controlled Jinan and Le'an still belonged to Liu Bei.
Yuan Shao was not very satisfied. He only got one plain county, but finally got something. Liu Bei was not very satisfied. He lost two counties, but he retained the position of governor of Qingzhou and two counties. The most satisfied was Cao Cao, who had the same harvest as Yuan Shao and paid far less than Yuan Shao.
Chapter completed!