Three Kingdoms New Emperor

Chapter 739 I need a decisive battle

One night nineteen days later, the night seemed to be the same as what Liu Xie saw when he crossed the river.But differently, before this night, here experienced a brutal battle that lasted for a whole day.

At this time, both Yuan Jun and Cao Jun were like two exhausted beasts, retreating to their lair helplessly, licking their wounds.There was a pungent smell of blood floating in the air, and many corpses that hadn't been collected in time were still lying inside and outside the barracks.From time to time, dying soldiers screamed, but no one dared to step forward to help him, because at some point, the enemy would shoot an arrow from the darkness.

Just as Sima Yi and Pang Tong deduced on the sand table map, when Cao Cao relied on the reputation of the Han Dynasty to protect him and arrived at Guandu, the war seemed to return to the original point.What is slightly different is that Yuan Jun is no longer as loud and arrogant as before, and there will be no more incidents of Yan Liang sending troops privately and Wen Chou taking revenge in anger.They have learned their lesson, but they just sacrificed the injury-for-injury style of play in Baima City again, hoping to defeat Cao Jun with the advantage of more troops and more generals.

As a result, Cao Jun's situation here is much harsher than before.Guandu is just a ferry, and there is no city like Baima.Due to Yuan Jun's pressing every step of the way, Cao Jun had no chance to separate a battalion to serve as horns and help each other.As a result, the entire Guandu was directly exposed to Yuan Jun's soldiers, so that Cao Jun could only fight head-to-head with Yuan Jun for consumption.

Another more severe thing is that Ju Shou suggested that Yuan Jun set up camp in Yisha Lei.Those camps are very simple, but the layout is like fish scales, layer upon layer and connected.

But it was these things that made Cao Jun tremble with fear—Yuan Shaojun obviously changed his mind and planned to fight a serious and protracted war—those fish scale villages are not strong enough, but they are easy to support each other. Continue to build a little bit ahead, and it can be repaired under the nose of the enemy in one breath.It will be like a grinding disc, slowly and powerfully grinding away the last drop of Cao Jun's blood and grain.

Among these camps, Jushou also suggested building a large number of archery towers.Those archery towers were ten feet low and twenty feet high, condescendingly shooting at Cao Ying.Once the battle started, the arrows would rain like rain, which would be the worst nightmare for Cao Jun.Cao Jun also thought about building archery towers to fight against them. However, Yuan's soldiers were numerous and powerful. Cao Ying's move was no less than Dong Shi's imitation.

Later, Cao Jun gave up taking the initiative to fight against Yuan Jun, and only relied on Guandu's strong defense line to resist Yuan Jun's attack.Finally, when Yuan Ying's archery towers were able to shoot into the front of Cao Ying, those patrolling soldiers seemed to pass through a life-and-death barrier every time they went out to patrol.Even some soldiers of Cao's army needed someone to cover them with a wooden shield.

The most obvious example is the emperor in the Han camp who likes to wander around when he has nothing to do. Since Yuan Jun's archery tower began to show off his power, he has never made a big tent again.

There are various indications that Yuan Shao has gained an advantage in this battle.At the same time, it also proves that Yuan Shao is still the number one man in the world: because as long as the big brother is serious, Cao Cao, the younger brother, is really hard to compete with him.

However, just as Yuan Jun was victorious, the atmosphere in Yuan Shao's army tent was very dull.The strategists and advisers of various factions stood with their heads bowed, like roosters who had been defeated in a fight.Even the generals who need the most imposing manner can only maintain an unyielding posture, standing awkwardly in the big tent.As for Yuan Shao himself, he was holding a wine glass, his eyes lacked focus, and he seemed to be uninterested in all of this.

But the people present were all too familiar with Yuan Shao, they knew that the calmer Yuan Shao seemed, the more violent thunder was brewing in his chest.

In fact, these civil and military guesses are not wrong at all. Yuan Shao is indeed trying his best to suppress the boredom in his chest at the moment: since the war with Cao Cao, not only did he not solve Cao Cao smoothly as expected, he even suffered setbacks in the first battle, losing two consecutive battles. general.

Although things turned around afterwards, the military rations were almost exhausted.The several letters sent by Yecheng's trial and assignment before were just talking about the requisition of troops and food, which caused complaints from all over the country. In the few letters now, they have directly reported where a small riot broke out.

In the current situation, it seems that Yuan Jun is winning steadily, but in fact Yuan Shao is just struggling to support it.While Cao Jun was retreating at Guandu, Yuan Jun was unable to win after several storms, which also made the morale of the army gradually unstable.If this continues, Yuan Shao will not only be unable to attack Cao Cao, but may also return to Hebei in despair because of lack of food and grass.At that time, he, the number one powerful man in the country, will become the number one joke in the country!

In addition, what also annoys Yuan Shao is that Dong Bai's recent actions are very secretive, as if he is plotting some kind of conspiracy.Yuan Shao knew that he had already broken with Dong Bai, and he didn't want Dong Bai to do something bad when the war was in full swing.

But if he said to get rid of Dong Bai just because of these doubts, Yuan Shao couldn't be so reckless.After all, Dong Bai was more comfortable using the chess piece in Chang'an City...

All in all, at this moment, Yuan Shao urgently needs a decisive battle!
Only a decisive battle can defeat Cao Cao's cowardly and insidious guy with a superior force, and let the world see clearly what will happen to Yuan Shao if he betrays him.

Only a decisive battle can let Yuan Shao's battle flag fly in this chaotic world, and let the world know who is in charge of the mainstream of this troubled world.

Only a decisive battle can drive out all the messy troubles in front of him, so that he can quietly plan for Yuan's future, or you can directly say, the future of this troubled world...

Thinking of this, Yuan Shao couldn't help but throw away the wine glass in his hand, and finally said what was in his heart to the full book of civil and military words: "I need a decisive battle."

After these words fell, the already silent tent became even more silent in an instant.Regardless of whether they belonged to the same faction or not, all the civil and military members looked at each other, not knowing what Yuan Shao was thinking.

"What? Can't you even come up with a clever plan to gather the essence of Hebei in the huge camp?" Things didn't go according to Yuan Shao's plan, and Yuan Shao couldn't suppress the anger in his heart, and he shook his sleeves again and said: "Could it be With the power of Hebei, they are no match for Cao Mengde alone?! If so, what is the use of me keeping you!"

"Ming Gong," Ju Shou is now in charge of the entire military aircraft, and he is the most responsible person. Hearing Yuan Shao's eagerness for quick success, he couldn't help persuading him: "Ming Gong was friends with Cao Mengde when he was young, so he should be well aware of this man's strategy. Although he is at a disadvantage now, so far There is no sign of defeat, and there is Guo Jia's plan. I am afraid that it will be difficult to win with Hebei soldiers and horses alone. I also hope that Ming Gong will refrain from impetuosity and plan slowly."

"You mean I'm not as good as Meng De?" Yuan Shao's face became even more ugly.

It's a pity that Jushou is an excellent strategist, but he is not a capable man who is good at observing words and demeanor. Instead, he discusses facts: "Since the war between the North and the South, Yan Liang and Wen Chou have been defeated one after another. Hebei soldiers and horses entered the big quagmire of Guandu. Doesn’t Duke Ming feel suspicious of such actions?”

However, Gao Lan was always paying attention to Yuan Shao's face, and couldn't help but refuted loudly when he saw this: "Our army is in a state of invincibility all the way, and now I have occupied the key points such as Baima, Yanjin, Wuchao, etc. Is this the cause of failure? Really? absurd!"

Gao Lan's original intention was to let Ju Shou see Yuan Shao's expression, and he would be fine after a while.Unexpectedly, Ju Shou really thought that Yuan Jun was arrogant, so he couldn't help pointing to the big animal skin map behind Yuan Shao: "Cao Mengde gave Wuchao to me, and he didn't feel at ease. Well-fortified. Cao Jun deliberately entangled on the western front and retreated deliberately before, just to let us have the illusion that this place is already safe, and store food and grass in Wuchao. When the time comes, they will cross the Wuchao Daze, Launch a surprise attack, and it will be done in one battle!"

The surroundings suddenly became very quiet, and Gao Lan couldn't help but said anxiously: "Don't talk nonsense, my lord. The battle at Wuchao was carefully planned by my lord, which forced Cao Cao to retreat to Guandu. How can you say that Cao Cao deliberately gave it to us? "

But it was obviously too late by this time.Yuan Shao finally couldn't bear it anymore, and angrily said: "Ju Gonghe! You have no other plan, but you dare to shake the morale of the army?! This general will remove you from the post of supervisor of the army and hand it over to you. Come on, Pull Jushou down to me, and let him and Tian Feng stay in the prison together and wait for me to break the voice of Cao Jun!"

(End of this chapter)