Great Han Empire

Chapter 755: A Storm of Troubled Heroes

In June, Huan (huan) water river.Feng Ting.

Xin Ping hurried to the camp of the Hanoi army and handed Yuan Shao's letter to Zhang Yang.

After Zhang Yang read the letter, his face showed embarrassment, "In front of me are the northern Xinjiang cavalry of Zhao Yun and Jiang Wu, and the northern Xinjiang elite of Lu Bu, Chang Gong, and Chen Jian. It is difficult for my 2 people to break through their resistance, so ..."

"You have read Master Yuan's letter, and you know what Master Yuan's intentions are." Xin Ping pointed to the map on the table angrily and said, "If we are unable to break through the blocking of the Northern Border Army After reaching Yecheng, Cao Cao will definitely stop when he reaches Ganling, so no matter how much we pay, we must complete this goal by mid-June."

Zhang Yang sighed.It never occurred to him that Yuan Shao's purpose in fighting this battle was not to suppress the rebellion, nor to pacify the world, but for his own hegemony.What Yuan Shao's hegemony is, I can more or less see a little bit, last year's prophecy and the five virtues have always said that the intention of "Yuan's replacing the Han" has been completely exposed.If it weren't for Cao Cao, Tian Kai and Liu Bei to rebuild the imperial line with the strength of the three alliances, it would be hard to say what the world is like today.

If Yuan Shao's intention can be realized this time, and Cao Cao, Liu Biao, and Liu Bei suffer heavy losses in the middle battlefield, Yuan Shao will successfully occupy the Central Plains and Jingzhou, and form a rivalry with Li Hong in Hebei.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yang couldn't help shivering.Did Yuan Shao premeditate everything now?Yuan Shao first used the words of prophecy and the five virtues to spread "Yuan's Daihan" all over the world, forcing Cao Cao and others to rebuild the imperial line in a hurry, and then he took advantage of the opportunity of going north to crusade against Li Hong to severely injure Cao Cao, Liu Biao and others , took the opportunity to occupy the Central Plains and Jingzhou, and rapidly expanded its strength.At the same time, Li Hong of Hebei was also hit hard by this battle, and was unable to go south in a short period of time, which gave Yuan Shao enough time to develop his strength.If Yuan Shao can defeat Li Hong and pacify the world in the future, then the "Yuan Shi Dai Han" that has already been spread all over the world will become a reality.

An almost flawless plot to usurp Han Zuo.

Brother Feng Xian's words are correct, Yuan Shao has no intention of reviving the great man, what he wants is his own hegemony, what he wants is Yuan's world, he is no longer the old Yuan Shao.

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"If Master Zhang thinks that he is not capable of defeating the Northern Border Army, then I would like to advise Master Zhang that you resign immediately to Master Yuan and replace you with someone who is capable of defeating the Northern Border Army." Seeing Zhang Yang's silence, Xin Ping said, He said bluntly, "Although you explained to Lord Yuan the reason for your private meeting with Lu Bu, this is not the reason for you to defy Lord Yuan's military order and refuse to attack the Northern Border Army."

Zhang Yang looked at him coldly.

"If you insist on disobeying the military order, then I won't cherish the favor any more." Xin Ping stood up abruptly and said loudly, "I suspect that you have betrayed Master Yuan and have treasonous affair."

The atmosphere in the big tent was suddenly tense, Dong Zhao, Yang Chou and other Hanoi civil and military officials all showed horror.

Zhang Yang smiled indifferently and said nothing.

"Lord Xin, this is the critical moment of the Hebei War, and everyone needs to be united. How can you be suspicious?" Dong Zhao asked angrily.

Xin Ping turned to look at him, and said with a contemptuous smile: "All in one mind? You accompanied Mr. Zhang to meet Lu Bu privately. Do you think I don't know? You can't escape the suspicion of adultery and treason."

Dong Zhao was furious, and just about to refute, Yang Chou who was beside him hurriedly stood up and held him back, "Lord Xin is just suspicious, why should Master Dong be angry?" Then he cupped his hands at Zhang Yang and said, "My lord, since Master Yuan has The military order, then we will obey the military order and launch an attack on Neihuang."

Zhang Yang looked at him coldly and didn't speak for a long time.

At this time, several other generals of the Hanoi Army also stood up to persuade Zhang Yang.Yuan Shao's army was blocked by the northern border army on the bank of the Yellow River, but the Hanoi army did not move. This is indeed unreasonable, and there is no reason, unless Zhang Yang has secretly defected to Hebei as Xin Ping said.Now as long as Zhang Yang leads the army to launch an attack, he can crush Xin Ping's unfounded speculation.

Zhang Yang waved his hand, "Master Han Hao, please rush to the camp immediately."

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In the middle of the night, Dong Zhao was awakened by the sound of hurried footsteps.

"Master Dong..." Zhao Hu rushed into the tent and pulled Dong Zhao up, "Xin Ping wants to kill you, run away."

Dong Zhao was so frightened that he trembled all over, without any sleepiness, "How do you know? What right does Xin Ping have to kill me?"

"Xin Ping has the imperial decree on him, as well as Master Yuan's warrant." Zhao Hu said eagerly, "Just now, Yang Chou called all of us captains to his military tent. Xin Ping showed us the imperial decree. Master Yuan wants to kill you, and he will take Master Zhang to Luoyang. Master Han Hao will replace Master Zhang as the prefect of Hanoi, and Yang Chou will lead our [-]-strong army when he is begged to be captured by Zhong Lang."

Dong Zhao cursed angrily, turned over and got up, and asked in a low voice while getting dressed, "How did you get out? How long have you been out?"

"I'm here to arrest you." Zhao Hu smiled wryly, "Master Zhang and you met Lu Bu privately that day, Yang Chou must have informed Yuan Shao, this bastard..."

"How many people did you bring?" Dong Zhao asked.

"Fifty, they are all my personal guards and will not betray me." Zhao Hu said, "Put on your armor, be caught between the personal guards, and rush out of the camp with me."

Dong Zhao patted him on the shoulder gratefully, and shook his head, "I can't escape. Once I escape, Mr. Zhang will be convicted of fornication and treason, and Yuan Shao will definitely kill him."

"Master Dong, it was Xiao En who arrested Master Zhang." Zhao Hu said, "Xiao En and I are both from northern Xinjiang. It was Master Zhang who brought us to Luoyang back then. We have been together for so many years, like brothers. I won't watch Yuan Shao kill him."

Dong Zhao was overjoyed, "Then let's go quickly."

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The military Sima on duty at the Yuanmen saw Zhang Yang and hurriedly knelt down to salute.

"Open the gate, I'm in a hurry." Zhang Yang waved the horsewhip in his hand, then turned his head to look at the military camp bathed in the night, with a hint of sadness and nostalgia on his face.

Suddenly, the war drums in the camp were beating, and the sound of "dong dong..." the drum instantly tore apart the silence of the night, and then the sound of galloping horses and the roar of soldiers soared into the sky.

The soldiers on duty who were pulling open the gate were about to close the gate immediately without hesitation.

"Open the door for me." Xiao En roared, and the sword came out of its sheath, "Those who disobey the order, beheaded."

The soldiers on duty were panicked, Qi Qi looked at Zhang Yang.Zhang Yang smiled wryly, "Open the door..."

Zhao Hu led Dong Zhao to the gate and rushed into the darkness.

Surrounded by Xiao En and others, Zhang Yang galloped away.

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Yang Chou led a team of cavalry to chase after five li and stopped.

Xin Ping wiped the sweat from his brow and said out of breath, "This Zhang Yang runs faster than a rabbit."

Yang Chou listened to the sound of the horse's hooves gradually disappearing in the darkness, and said regretfully, "Master Xin, let Zhang Yang go, and Master Yuan's strategy to defeat the enemy will be revealed. How can we fight this battle?"

Xin Ping smiled slightly, "Master Yang has done a lot this time."

Yang Chou gave him a frightened look, cupped his hands and said, "The lower official did not do his job well enough to allow Zhang Yang to escape. This is an unforgivable crime. Please, Mr. Xin..."

"What's wrong with Lord Yang?" Xin Ping comforted with a smile, "Letting Zhao Hu and Xiao En arrest people is my arrangement and has nothing to do with you."

Yang Chou gratefully thanked him again and again, but he was very puzzled, did Xin Ping let Zhang Yang go on purpose?He decided to report this matter to Yuan Shao immediately, lest he be implicated.

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In June, General Li Hong received an urgent report from Lu Bu.

Yuan Shao suspected that Zhang Yang had an affair with Lu Bu because he met Lu Bu, and wanted to kill Zhang Yang, forcing Zhang Yang to flee to Hebei. This seems to have no reason.Then he thought that Yuan Shu sent an envoy to Hebei to join forces with him to attack and kill the rebels, which made Li Hong have to treat this matter with caution.How credible are Zhang Yang's words?

But one thing is for sure, regardless of whether the Yuan brothers shake hands and make peace, they are all targeting the three alliances of Cao Cao. This is something that Hebei can take advantage of, but the three alliances of Cao Cao are not idiots. Brother's method, otherwise why would they rush to rebuild the imperial line before Yuan Shao?Why rush to unite with the Yuan brothers to attack Hebei?
To damage the strength of Hebei and the Yuan brothers, but also to preserve and develop their own strength, what amazing strategy did Cao Cao and his three alliances have?
"Have Liu Biao and Ma Teng's troops reached the middle battlefield?"

"We have not received this news." Fu Qian said, "After we gave up Dongwuyang, Yangping and Liaocheng, Cao Cao and Liu Bei did not take advantage of the victory to attack. Judging from this point, maybe Liu Biao and Ma Teng are really going to the middle battlefield .”

"The rebels can only force us to deploy reinforcements from the east and west battlefields if they continue to increase their troops on the central battlefield, so that the two wings of the rebels can advance quickly and keep the distance between their three armies." Sima Yi pointed at the map. He said, "In my opinion, if you want Cao Cao to advance quickly to Ganling City, it's better to let Yuan Shao in as soon as possible."

Li Hong looked up at Jia Xu, "What's Master Jia's opinion?"

"Let's retreat to Neihuang, Fanyang, and Yin'an first." Jia Xu laughed, "We must save face for Yuan Shao. If you push him into a hurry, he will bite."

Li Hong laughed loudly, "Okay, order Zhang Yan and Lu Bu to retreat immediately. Tell Qu Yi urgently not to fight recklessly. If it doesn't work, return to Ganling City."

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In mid-June, the Northern Xinjiang Army on the West Road retreated across the board.Yuan Shao immediately led his army forward, and the two sides continued to fight.

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After the Qin Ting military meeting, Ma Teng led five thousand cavalry to Hemu City to meet Liu Biao.

The two armies advanced along the Yellow River and joined Cao Cao at East Wuyang.In order to prepare for the surprise attack of the northern Xinjiang cavalry, the army marched slowly, and it took six days to walk more than 200 miles.

In mid-June, when Cao Cao learned that Yuan Shao had crossed Hebei and advanced to the Neihuang line, he immediately commanded more than 8 people from the Yanzhou Army, Jingzhou Army, Xuzhou Army, and Guanzhong Iron Cavalry to attack the Fagan and Leping lines.

Unable to resist, the Northern Xinjiang Army retreated across the board to Dahe Gudu, taking advantage of the favorable terrain and continuing to resist tenaciously.

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At this time, Tian Kai received Cao Cao's order and suddenly commanded the Qingzhou Army to cross the Dahe Gudu and attack Ganling City from the direction of Shu City.

Qicheng is less than two hundred miles away from Ganling City, and there is no danger to defend.

Li Hong hurriedly dispatched Wei Jun and Liu Ming to lead [-] cavalry to stop them, and at the same time ordered Yan Liang, Wang Dang, Zhang Liao, and Li Su on the East Road battlefield to quickly lead troops to support them.

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At the end of June, General Xingyuan moved to Ganling City, eighty miles away from Dahe Gudu Battlefield.

Qu Yi, Yan Liang, Wang Dang, Wen Chou, Gao Lan, Li Su, Wei Jun, Zhang Liao, Liu Ming, Lou Lu, Lu Huanyang and more than a dozen other generals rushed to Xingyuan to participate in the military meeting.

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Sima Fugan reported the latest battle situation.

After more than a month of hard work, the battlefield has moved back to a place more than 150 miles away from the Yellow River, but the Northern Xinjiang Army still has no chance to wipe out the enemy. On the contrary, the current situation is getting more and more serious.

The most unexpected change was that Cao Cao suddenly gave up the East Road battlefield, and let Tian Kai directly cross the Dahe Gudu to join the Middle Road Battlefield.

Originally, we were going to fight tenaciously on the middle battlefield, and lure the enemy deep into the east battlefield, and then make full use of the distance between the two battlefields on the middle and east battlefields to encircle and annihilate the rebels on the east battlefield first, and then wait for an opportunity to attack the rebels on the middle battlefield. Cao Cao, who would have thought that Cao Cao had given up on the East Road battlefield, making all our plans come to naught.

After Tian Kai's Qingzhou Army joined the middle battlefield, the total strength of the rebel army reached more than 10, which was evenly matched with ours, and the decisive battle situation has been formed.

We don't want to fight the rebels.The reason why we want to change the external line of operations to the internal line of operations is to disperse the forces of the rebels, destroy the enemy to the greatest extent, and preserve our own strength.If we are forced to fight the rebels this time, our losses will definitely be far greater than those in the outer line.In other words, even if we win this battle, we have lost the chance to pacify the world within three to five years.We actually lost this battle.

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"Cao Cao is very powerful. He made a three-way simultaneous attack. We couldn't tell the truth from the fake, and we were fooled." Li Hong shook his head and smiled, "This battlefield on the east road is basically a scam. Cao Cao's real purpose is to contain the enemy. Our strength is so that he can quickly reach Ganling City, and then force us to fight him in Ganling City. The decisive battle situation has been formed so quickly, which shows how passive we are now."

"Why didn't we see that he was so powerful back then?" Yan Liang sneered, "If we knew this, we should have killed him together when we were robbing the bride in Luoyang."

The generals roared with laughter.

"General, the decisive battle is decisive, what are you afraid of?" Liu Ming waved his hand arrogantly as soon as he clapped the case, "One hundred thousand against one hundred thousand, kill him like a ghost and howl like a wolf."

Qu Yi turned his head to look at him, and joked with a smile: "I can't see that King Youxian is so bold now, I admire him." Then his face changed, and he suddenly said viciously, "My Northern Xinjiang army has lost its troops, you alone Does Yu Ting want to rebel again?"

Liu Ming froze for a moment, then gave him a mournful face, and stopped talking.He understood Qu Yi's temper, knew that he was joking, and was not angry.

Now these northern Xinjiang generals are all generals who are in charge of their own affairs. They have a thorough understanding of the situation and know that a decisive battle is not a good thing for Hebei.As Fu Gan said just now, even if he wins this time, he will lose the opportunity to quickly go south to suppress the rebellion.A few years later, Hebei recovered its vitality, but people like Yuan Shao and Cao Cao also recovered their vitality, and they may be stronger than they are now.If this is the case, then the future counter-insurgency war will be very difficult, and the days of pacifying the world will be even more distant.

What method can be used to avoid a decisive battle and severely injure the rebels?

The generals talked about each other, and the debate was very lively.There is a general in Ganling, and everyone believes that Hebei can win this battle. This is the strongest belief in the hearts of the generals after countless tragic battles in the past ten years. The general will never be defeated, and will never be defeated.No one doubts.

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Li Hong signaled the generals to be quiet and listen to what Jia Xu had to say.

Jia Xu stood in front of the map, pointed to Nanpi and said, "Nanpi is three hundred miles away from Pingyuan City. If Nanpi is captured, the rebels can threaten us from the flanks. That is to say, the 250 miles from Ganling City to Xindu City The range is under the threat of the rebels, so we have always believed that the rebels will take advantage of our deployment of troops to support the central battlefield, divide troops to support the eastern battlefield, and quickly hit Nanpi, forcing us to continue to retreat."

"The reason why we have this judgment is because we think that the rebels are full of internal conflicts. They are unwilling to fight us, or the rebels dare not fight us so quickly, so we put all the opportunities to wipe out the enemy on the east road. on the battlefield."

"The rebel army obviously grasped our psychology very accurately, so they went uncharacteristically and resolutely abandoned the battlefield on the east road, and instead concentrated all their forces on the battlefield on the middle road, seeking an immediate decisive battle with us. The purpose of retreat."

"The purpose of the rebel army has been achieved. Now we have no chance of annihilating the enemy. We can only continue to retreat and retreat another 250 miles to Xindu City."

The whole place was shocked.

"We withdrew to Xindu City so quickly that the distance between the two battlefields was opened by nearly five hundred miles." Jia Xu pointed to Xindu City on the map with one hand and Ye on the map with the other. City, "Look, my lords, this is our chance to wipe out the enemy."

Zhang Liao immediately asked: "Lord Jia, judging from the situation introduced by Master Fu just now, firstly, we will not abandon Yecheng; secondly, Yuan Shao may not support Cao Cao; thirdly, the distance between the two battlefields is so large, The rebels must be careful. It is very difficult for us to divide our troops to encircle and wipe out Yuan Shao, unless Cao Cao wants to put Yuan Shao to death, but once Yuan Shao is defeated, how long can Cao Cao survive? I believe Cao Cao understands this truth very well, so under the current situation , he will never give us a chance to encircle and wipe out Yuan Shao."

Jia Xu nodded appreciatively, "My lords, let's quickly retreat to Xindu City, what hint do we give to the rebels?"

If Zhang Liao realized something, "Jizhou is about to succeed."

"Yes." Jia Xu said with a smile, "Advancing to the middle of Jizhou will make the rebels very excited, and the conflict between them will even weaken. However, due to our heavy garrison and the growth of the rebel army's food supply, they are repeatedly harassed by our cavalry. , they must be eager to defeat us, at this time, Yuan Shao was unable to go north for reinforcements, and in desperation, they had only one way..." Jia Xu pointed to Nanpi.

The generals suddenly woke up.

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(End of this chapter)