Three Kingdoms New Emperor

Chapter 755 Hebei Raiders
A similar scene in Muye quickly unfolded in Hebei. The four armies of Lu Bu, Zhao Yun, Gao Shun, and Zhang Liao successively received battle reports from the Guandu front in Huguan, Leping, Yanmen, and Daijun.Similar to Xu Rong's army, their four armies advanced at the same time, and with a perfect outflanking strategy, they ruthlessly penetrated into the land of Hebei.

Judging from the sand table simulation map, Gao Shun went out of Huguan and pointed directly at Handan; Lu Bu went out of Leping and forced Julu County; Zhao Yun went out of Yanmen to attack his hometown Zhending; Invaded Youzhou on a large scale and confronted Xian Yufu and Karasuma's army; while Xu Rong's army swung eastward, intending to join forces with Liu Xiexie in Yecheng.

At this time, Liu Xie was using a charcoal pen on the horse to carefully draw out the offensive route of the four armies of the Han army.It can be seen from this small and simple map that the soldiers of the Han Dynasty all attacked from east to west on the land of Hebei, cutting the land of Hebei into fragments.

If such a situation is achieved, Yuan Shao will be completely cut off from his subordinates.This move is extremely clever, because Yuan Shao has not captured Youzhou for a long time, and people's hearts are not stable. Once the place lacks the direct control of the authority above, it will definitely be like a grass on the fence, whichever way the wind blows, it will fall to whichever side.

As for the state of Jizhou, the situation is roughly the same.First of all, the Han Dynasty was cut most carefully in the state of Jizhou, and the three armies of Zhao Yun, Lu Bu, and Gao Shun were responsible for cutting into three major areas.The possibility of Yuan Shao wanting to gather the power of Jizhou was greatly weakened. At the same time, Liu Xie and Xu Rong were still advancing step by step, which made Yuan Shao spread the news of failure to the land of Jizhou like a plague.

As long as Liu Xie and Xu Rong have another brilliant victory in Yecheng, Yuan Shao's forces will be irreversible, and will fall into a situation of complete disintegration.The other Han armies only need to rely mainly on political propaganda and supplemented by force intimidation, and more than half of Jizhou will change hands.

"Your Majesty, in this way, the land of Hebei may be completed in a month or so. It will be the most eye-catching battle since the resurgence of the Han Dynasty." Chen Gong glanced sideways at the map in Liu Xie's hand, and couldn't help but sigh.

But Liu Xie couldn't help but frowned and sighed slightly: such a rigorous and grand strategy took half a year for him and his confidant Hanchen.If you really want to count, even he, the leader, can't tell how much effort the Han Dynasty has spent on this strategy.

After all, in history, it took Cao Cao seven years to unify the north after Guandu.However, Liu Xie thought that it only took four months for the Northern Zhou Dynasty to destroy the Northern Qi Dynasty, which made Yuan Shao's forces quickly collapse in the front of the Han Dynasty.This kind of ambition requires Liu Xie to focus on everything and plan every step of the way, so that Yuan Shao can complete a series of landslides after the dominoes fall in the Battle of Guandu.

Moreover, even if this strategy can be successfully completed, the Han Dynasty has paid a considerable price.

First of all, after the Battle of Guandu, Cao Cao did not participate in any action to pursue and suppress Yuan Shao.After Cao Jun quickly conquered Puyang, he diverted from Puyang to Qingzhou, and dealt with Yuan Tan's forces entrenched in Qingzhou with all his strength.

Liu Xie had no way to stop Cao Cao's strategic request.After all, the Han Dynasty is still out of reach for Qingzhou.And Yuan Tan is also part of Yuan Shao's forces, and Cao Cao's actions are completely in line with the righteousness of acting as a monarch and defeating ministers.

In addition, Liu Xie had to let Liu Bei participate in the conquest of Liu Biao in Jingzhou.Moreover, this expedition is still dominated by Liu Bei, supplemented by Zhang He and Tai Shici.

The reason is also very simple. Compared with the Han Dynasty, Liu Bei is barefoot, so he can madly expand his territory and strengthen himself regardless of his care.Although the Han Dynasty is powerful, it also has strong constraints: Nanyang has a huge consumption of troops and supplies because of supporting the Northern War; Taishici still needs to allocate a lot of energy to guard against Sun Ce...

Quietly closing the map, Liu Xie began to think quickly in his heart.On the invisible chessboard in my heart, each chess piece was moved rapidly.When he finally opened his eyes, he couldn't help but sighed first, and then he shouted to the army behind him full of ambition: "Quicken up the pace, and soon, I will lead you back to your hometown and enjoy the peaceful life again!"

The responses behind him were sparse, just like the rain in this season, always not so happy.However, Liu Xie didn't take it seriously. After all, the main body behind him was [-] surrendered troops, and they were still surrendered troops who hadn't recovered from the failure.

Yes, the number of Liu Xie's army is not [-], but more than [-], which is less than half.Among them, [-] elite soldiers from Xu Huang and Huben served as the vanguard guards, and the remaining [-] were Yuan Jun recruited by Guandu.As for why the number of captives dropped sharply, Liu Xie had no choice but to do so.

The first thing to bear the brunt is naturally the problem of military rations. The rations consumed by [-] mouths a day are extremely staggering; secondly, for the sake of stability, [-] tigers are used to guard [-] captives. Even if these soldiers are unarmed, it is an extremely unstable situation. Hidden danger.

The last reason left is a bit beneficial to the Han army.

Yuan Shao used military force to show off his force, and he created this huge army.But in fact, the combat power of these big family private soldiers is not very good.Many people went to the battlefield with a sharpened wooden stick, and a ring-shouldered knife was a precious weapon among these defeated soldiers.

Liu Xie's streamlining of these surrendered troops will not only allow those real soldiers who are more inclined to the Han Dynasty and have a little combat power to have more life-saving equipment.It can also allow those people who have long been tired of being used as cannon fodder to return to the land and develop production. By the way, the news of Yuan Jun's defeat and loss will be spread silently throughout the land of Jizhou, and then the benevolence and righteousness of the Han Dynasty will be promoted.

In this way, Liu Xie thought that his battle against Yuan Shao would never be as hard as Cao Cao's.

Historically, when Cao Cao captured Yecheng seven years later, he still had no choice but to sigh with emotion, "There are so many righteous men in Yanzhao".The reason is that Cao Cao's heart was not strong at that time, and because of fear, he killed all the [-] soldiers captured in Guandu.And this move aroused the pain of the people of Yanzhao towards Cao Jun.

Fortunately, Liu Xie can use history as a mirror to avoid this tragedy and kill two birds with one stone.

Thinking of this, Liu Xie couldn't help but smile.At this time, a guard in brocade clothes broke through the array of tigers and came to Liu Xie: "Your Majesty, Yuan Shao's defeated troops have fled into Yecheng, and General Xu's army has also broken through Chaoge. Please show your Majesty."

This news is undoubtedly good news for Liu Xie.But he just smiled knowingly again, looked up at the sky, and ordered: "The whole army has chosen a place to set up camp, and today's march is enough. General Xu, just tell him to move slowly. Thoughtful."

The Jin Yiwei nodded in agreement, but did not see the simultaneous smiles of Sima Yi and Pang Tong behind Liu Xie.There were only Xu Huang and Chun Yuqiong, but they almost held each other, and asked in unison: "Little friend, what's the reason?"

Interestingly, Sima Yi's and Pang Tong's replies were exactly the same: "General, have you ever hunted?"

Xu Huang and Chunyu Qiong smiled at the same time, and replied in unison again: "Naturally."

But Sima Yi and Pang Tong didn't like each other anymore, they looked at each other, and then explained to Xu Huang and Chunyu Qiong.

The content of the explanation was longer this time, and the two finally did not say the same words, but the meaning was the same: "Now Yuan Shao is like a frightened bird, and he is wounded and fleeing. If we chase him urgently, Yuan Shao's injuries will definitely worsen. But the problem is This time, we had no choice but to force the elite soldiers, and we have already delayed for a long time. Therefore, Your Majesty will chase after them slowly, so that the wounded bird will leave the nest of the tragic defeat and despair, and wait for the air of panic to cover Ye. City, if we follow the trend, won’t we get twice the result with half the effort?”

Xu Huang and Chun Yuqiong nodded silently, and couldn't help but approve of Liu Xie's approach: there is no doubt that rushing troops to pursue and capture Yuan Shao or kill Yuan Shao is the quickest solution to the entire battle situation, but the problem is that it is more feasible to execute. Small and troublesome.

At that time, Guandu's hundreds of thousands of troops were in chaos, and it was impossible to discern Yuan Shao's position, let alone pursue him.More importantly, after Yuan Shao was captured or beheaded, the dragons in Hebei would also be leaderless. Before the Han army was gathered one by one, small forces would stand everywhere.

On the contrary, drawing it slowly like this, although time-consuming and labor-intensive, is the safest way for the overall situation.When Yuan Shao was trapped in Yecheng, he would only get news that the locals could not help him, and he was even more terrified. The trapping of Yuan Shao in various counties and counties would only speed up their surrender to the Han Dynasty, which in turn would deal a great blow to Yuan Shao.

In this way, the entire strategy of the Han Dynasty not only reached the ultimate tactical level where the rules are hidden under the nine grounds and the attack is soaring above the nine heavens, but also in the final strategy, the subtlety of subduing the enemy without fighting is also deeply hidden.

Even Liu Xie himself, savoring this battle carefully, couldn't help but feel happy in his heart.However, what is strange is that this Jinyiwei did not step down after receiving the order from the emperor.Liu Xiewei tilted his head and asked, "Is there any bad news?"

"Your Majesty is aware of the details," Jin Yiwei nodded in salute, and then slowly said: "After Yuan Shao collapsed into Yecheng, he immediately released Ju Shou and Tian Feng to take charge of military affairs..."

(End of this chapter)