Three Kingdoms Strong Army System

Zhang Liao rushed directly to Yuan Shao's camp with 7 people. Yuan Shao immediately commanded the army to stop him. Seeing that Yuan Shao's attention was attracted by Zhang Liao, Liu Zhang, who had been preparing for the south bank of Zhangshui, immediately ordered Ma Teng, Gan Ning, Zhang Qin, Zhang Kui, Zhang Jie, Yan Yan, and Xu Huang crossed the river with an army of [-] to attack Yuan Shao's rear.

An army of 15 attacked Yuan Shao's 7 from the front and rear. In less than half a day, Yuan Shao was defeated and retreated eastward.

Then, with Keshui in the north and Zhangshui in the south, Yuan Shao's remnant army could not escape. Yuan Shao could only cross the Keshui under gullible guards and fled to Julu County.

Of his [-] soldiers, [-] were killed and more than [-] were captured.

Such Yuan Shao's elite troops were almost exhausted.

The 17 in Yecheng and the 2 in Bingzhou he conquered in the west make a total of [-]. The current strength of the entire Jizhou will not exceed [-].

After Yuan Shao fled to Julu County, he still felt that it was not safe, so he continued to flee northward, and did not stop until Anping Guozhi believed.

Xindu was the seat of Jizhou for a period of time before, and the city was relatively strong. Yuan Shao sent envoys to Qingzhou and Youzhou, ordering Yuan Tan and Yuan Xi to send troops to take back Jizhou.

After Liu Zhang defeated Yuan Shao, he immediately divided his troops into three groups. All the way, 4 people marched northward to attack Zhao Guo and Changshan County, and all the way eastward, attacking Wei Jun and Qinghe Kingdom. He himself led the main force to attack Julu County and Anping Kingdom.

There are not many troops in the whole Jizhou. In order not to waste time, they directly attack the county offices first, and then order the counties to surrender.

If one city and one county were to be captured, the entire Jizhou would not be able to be conquered in less than a year.

In just one month, Liu Zhang conquered Zhao State, Changshan County, Wei County, Qinghe State, and Julu County in Jizhou, and only the northern part of Anping State was still in Yuan Shao's hands.

Of the nine prefectures in Jizhou, Liu Zhang captured five and a half at once.

But at this time, Yuan Tan from Qingzhou brought 7 people, and Yuan Xi from Youzhou brought 5 people to Xindu to join Yuan Shao.

Yuan Shao's confidence suddenly rose, and he ordered people to deliver the letter of war to Liu Zhang's camp, but was driven out by Liu Zhang, and then hung a wooden sign on the gate, with two words written on it - no war!
As long as the free card is hung up, it means that you don't want to fight.

Of course Liu Zhang didn't want to fight. His 15 troops had been attacking continuously for a month, and the soldiers were very tired, and there was absolutely no need for him to fight Yuan Shao now.

As long as you wait for a while, the officials you send will take over the five and a half counties in southern Jizhou, and your strength will grow.

Yuan Shao was stunned, he had thought of many outcomes, such as Liu Zhang receiving his envoy arrogantly, or killing his envoy, but he never thought that Liu Zhang would hang up the exemption card.

For a moment, he didn't know what to do.

If Liu Zhang had been hiding in camps and cities, this battle would have been difficult to fight.

But that's what Liu Zhang did next. He felt that if he traded space for time, if he didn't come out to fight in the field, you, Yuan Shao, could fight if you wanted to.

Although Yuan Shao has gathered 14 people now, it is very difficult for him to attack the city one by one.

Yuan Tan transferred 7 people from Qingzhou. If he stays too long, the Beihai prefect and Donglai prefect may join forces to drive his forces out of Qingzhou, and Cao Cao in Yanzhou will definitely intervene.

No matter what Yuan Shao did, Liu Zhang would not come out to fight. He had food and a city.

One month later, all the officials of the five and a half counties in Jizhou occupied by Liu Zhang had arrived, and the support of the Jizhou aristocratic family was also in place, and Liu Zhang began to fight.

Do it all at once, second time tired, third time exhausted!

The morale of Yuan Shao's army declined, Liu Zhang was defeated in the first battle, repelled in the second war, and Yuan Shao's army was defeated in the third war.

Yuan Shao fled northward to Youzhou with the remnant army, and Yuan Tan was also forced to go northward. Liu Zhang immediately ordered Zhang Liao, Xu Huang and others to lead 5 people in pursuit, while he continued to attack Jizhou.

In another month, the Hejian Kingdom, Zhongshan Kingdom, Bohai County, and half of Anping Kingdom in the north of Jizhou all fell into Liu Zhang's hands. Even a part of Le'an Kingdom and Yuanyuan County in Qingzhou north of the Yellow River were also controlled by Liu Zhang's troops.

The prefects of Beihai and Donglai immediately went north and captured the prefectures and counties controlled by Yuan Tan. Cao Cao also sent Xiahou Dun to capture Jinan in the west of Qingzhou.

Yuan Shao, the overlord of Hebei, dominated the three prefectures in just over three months, and now only Youzhou remains in power.

Youzhou's soldiers are very powerful, but they have a huge shortcoming, that is, insufficient food and grass.

With the food and grass in Youzhou, one hundred thousand soldiers can be raised, but if you want to start a big war, you will definitely be short of food.

After Yuan Shao and his three sons fled to Youzhou, there were only 4 people left in total.

Later, Zhang Liao and Xu Huang also invaded Youzhou. They obeyed Liu Zhang's order and contacted Xian Yufu, Xian Yuyin, Yan Rou and others who were the former ministers of Youzhou Mu Liu Yu, while attacking the city and conquering the territory.

However, after two months, Yuan Shao was defeated again. Yuan Shao could only continue to flee east and enter Liaodong.

Liaodong is too far away, and now is not the time to spend a lot of troops to eliminate Yuan Shao in Liaodong. He ordered Zhang Liao and Xu Huang to stay in Youzhou, and then lead the main force back to Guanzhong.

Tao Qian and Yuan Shu contributed a lot to Yuan Shao's Jiaozhao in the next two months. They successfully held back Cao Cao's main force.

Tao Qian and Xia Houyuan's 2 people played the rookie pecking game in Pengcheng State for two months, and the total number of casualties on both sides was only more than 1 people.

With a main force of 5 people, Yuan Shu was finally blocked in the middle of Runan County, not because he didn't want to continue to attack, but because he was short of food again.

Yanzhou is densely populated, but most of the land is in the hands of the aristocratic family, and Cao Cao and the aristocratic family did not deal with it. He can only rely on taxation and purchases to obtain food and grass throughout the year.

Unlike Liu Zhang, after capturing the five and a half counties in the south of Jizhou, the aristocratic families in Jizhou took the initiative to send food and grass.

When leaving Jizhou, Liu Zhang remembered Guo Jia's idea for Cao Cao in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and then he wrote a letter to Gongsun Kang, the prefect of Liaodong.

After Gongsun Kang read the letter, he immediately ambushed more than a hundred knives and axes, and then sent someone to invite Yuan Shao and his son to come, saying that they had something to discuss.

When Yuan Shao and his son came, more than a hundred knives and axes came out and hacked and killed Yuan Shao, Yuan Tan, Yuan Xi and Yuan Shang.

Gongsun Kang ordered people to cut off the four heads of Yuan Shao, father and son, put them in a box, and then sent someone to Zhang Liao in Youzhou. Zhang Liao sent a fast horse to Liu Zhang who had already arrived in Guanzhong.

Yuan Shao's power is gone, and only Cao Cao, Tao Qian, Yuan Shu, Liu Biao, and a few minor princes in Jiaozhou, Qingzhou are left.

Liu Zhang decided to build his army for two years, while consuming the occupied Jizhou and Youzhou, while hoarding food and grass, and building weapons, armor and equipment.