Three Kingdoms Strong Army System

At this time, there were only a few ministers and soldiers around the emperor. Dong Cheng, a young prince of Xiliang, led the emperor and ministers to retreat to a village in front of Hulao Pass. The village was surrounded by Xiliang cavalry.

They surrounded the village and did not attack immediately, because they were afraid of hurting the emperor by attacking rashly, but waited for Li Jue and Guo Si to come over.

Unexpectedly, at this time, a voice suddenly came from behind them, and the ground shook. When they turned around, they saw a general coming with a large number of cavalry.

Dressed in rhinoceros leather armor, these cavalrymen are full of energy and have strong fighting spirit in their eyes.

The leading general was Cao Ren, a relative of Cao Cao. When he saw the Xiliang cavalry, he immediately pointed his long knife forward and shouted loudly, "The Son of Heaven is in the village ahead, escort him!"

"Quick, block them!" The Xiliang cavalry reacted quickly, and they immediately dispatched part of the cavalry to stop Cao Ren.

However, Cao Ren had many soldiers, and in less than half an hour, the Xiliang cavalry was defeated steadily.

That Xiliang general didn't like it, and immediately shouted to his subordinates: "Quick, go and report to Da Sima, we have encountered an enemy and we can't resist it."

The soldier left for only a moment, and the Xiliang cavalry was completely defeated. They had no choice but to leave the village and retreat.

Cao Ren immediately ordered the army to surround the village, and then built a defense line on the spot, waiting for Cao Cao's army.

Over there, after Xiliang's defeated army, he told Li Jue what happened outside Hulao Pass.

Li Jue immediately ordered the army to speed up the pursuit.

Li Jue and Guo Si fought in Luoyang for many years, forcing Xu Rong and Zhang Ji away, killing Fan Chou and Niu Fu, and annexing Duan Yan, with an army of 20, they lost less than [-].

In order to suppress Luoyang, Li Jue and Guo Si did not dare to bring all the troops directly under them, but only stayed with more than 2 people.

When they led the main force to the outside of Hulao Pass, they found that there was no one in the village reported by their subordinates.

When they called to close, they found that the tiger prison was closed, with dense banners and closed doors.

There was a big "Cao" character inserted on the wall, and they yelled and cursed several times, but no one paid any attention to it. With more than [-] cavalry, it was almost impossible to conquer Hulao Pass.

Li Jue and Guo Si had no choice but to lead his subordinates back to Luoyang. After losing the emperor and some important court officials, Li Jue and Guo Si no longer had any scruples, and the two attacked each other even more fiercely.Everyone wants to annex each other and monopolize the Luoyang area.

However, Henan County and Hongnong County, with a population of more than one million, have long been ravaged by them.

The number of Xiliang army continued to decrease during the fighting between the two of them.

But Cao Cao arrived in time to meet the emperor outside Hulao Pass, and then led his army to guard the emperor into Hulao Pass. After seeing Li Jue and Guo Si's army away from the pass, he withdrew and went to Chenliu County.

Cao Cao ordered the army to occupy Hulao Pass, and the area east of Hulao Pass in Henan County also fell into Cao Cao's hands.

After returning to Chenliu County, Cao Cao was about to discuss with the people. When he moved the capital to Xu County, Yingchuan County, Yuzhou, someone came to report that Liu Zhang's envoy asked to see him.

Cao Cao discussed with Xun Yu and others, guessing that Liu Zhang's envoy came to persuade him to attack Yuan Shao. Sure enough, after the envoy came to see him, he did propose an alliance with Cao Cao to attack Yuan Shao together and divide Yuan Shao's land equally.

Cao Cao agreed to the envoy on the surface, but stood still.

Because, at this time, Cao Cao had more important things to do, and that was to move the capital to Xu County.

The state capital of Yanzhou is too close to Yuan Shao, facing Yuan Shao's army at any time, and the strategic depth is insufficient.

The first advantage of moving the capital to Xu County is to stay away from Yuan Shao’s land, the second advantage is to get rid of the constraints of the Yanzhou family, the third advantage is to get better support from the Yingchuan family, and the fourth advantage is to strengthen the rule of Yuzhou .

Yuzhou is located in the hinterland of the Central Plains, with a small area but a large population. Except for Cao Cao and Yuan Shu, Taishan County is occupied by Zang Ba.

Moving the capital to Xu County was not an easy matter. Although the emperor wanted Cao Cao to lead his army back to Luoyang, he also knew that it was currently impossible.

So he could only obey Cao Cao and cooperate with moving the capital to Xu County.

After the capital was moved to Xu County, Xu County was changed to Xuchang. Cao Cao also moved his government office to Xuchang in order to control the emperor.

However, he is still stationed in Chenliu, always paying attention to the battle between Liu and Yuan.

A few days later, Qingzhou Inspector Kong Rong and Beihai Minister Kong Rong also received Liu Zhang's envoy. Although they treated the envoy with courtesy, they did not agree to send troops immediately.

The strength of Kong Rong and the governor of Qingzhou was not as strong as Yuan Tan alone, and they dared not agree to Liu Zhang's request at all.

Outside Jinyang City, although Liu Zhang had some expectations, he didn't pin all his hopes on the three princes including Cao Cao. After the envoy left, he was always looking for opportunities to fight.

Yuan Shao and Liu Zhang confronted Taiyuan County, and both had a common weakness, that is, the supply line was too long.Yuan Shao needed to transport grain from Jizhou, and Liu Zhang needed to transport grain from Guanzhong. The grain roads between the two sides were too long, and it was unknown how much grain was consumed on the road.

This puts a lot of pressure on the logistics of the two parties.

But in such a big battle, it is definitely not possible to tell the winner in ten days and half a month.

Although half of Yanmen County and Taiyuan County were captured by Yuan Shao, Liu Zhang still has an advantage in terms of geographical advantages, that is, Shangdang County is still in Liu Zhang's hands.

Shangdang County overlooks Hanoi, Jizhou and Taiyuan, occupies Shangdang County, and naturally suppresses Taiyuan County geographically.

While Liu Zhang actively confronted Yuan Shao on the frontal battlefield, he dispatched partial divisions to prepare for a sneak attack on the flanks.

Not only that, he also sent a small group of elite cavalry to attack Yuan Shaoliang Road.

Yuan Shao captured Youzhou and had Youzhou cavalry, while Liu Zhang also had Qiang cavalry and Hun cavalry, which were stronger than Yuan Shao in terms of cavalry strength.

During the month from April to May, Liu Zhang's small cavalry attacked and burned Yuan Shao's grain transport team five times, causing him to lose 4 shi of grain and grass.

Yuan Shao was furious and wanted to shoot the army to attack, but Tian Fengjushou tried his best to stop it, but Guo Tu slandered them, saying bad things about Tian Fengjushou and the two.

Yuan Shao put Tian Fengjushou and two men into prison, and then adopted Guo Tu's strategy, ordered Yan Liang and Wen Chou to lead an army of [-] to attack Jinyang, and Zhang Yun and Gao Lan to attack Daling with an army of [-]. Ling led an army of [-] to attack Pingtao. He wanted to attack across the board, but Liu Zhang couldn't look at each other head to tail.

On Liu Zhang's side, Fazheng and Liu Ye proposed a strategy, ordered the generals to defend Jinyang, and then used Pingtao as the main battlefield to contain Han Meng and Zhu Ling from the front, and then encircled him on all sides to defeat his [-]-strong army.

Then, they set up an ambush at the place where they had to retreat, and killed more than half of the remaining troops. Han Meng was beheaded on the spot, and Zhu Ling led his troops to surrender.

Of the 3000 troops, less than [-] fled back to Yuan Shao's camp.

Then Zhang He and Gao Lan, who attacked Daling, also had a situation. Although they were not defeated immediately, they were besieged by Xu Lai, Gan Ning, Chen Lu, and Yan Yan.

Zhang He was cautious. Although he had 3 troops, he did not dare to act rashly. He ordered people to ask Yuan Shao for help, but Guo Tu persuaded Yuan Shao not to send reinforcements because Zhang He was from Hebei.