Chapter 110: Continuous good news, great victory over the enemy [Subscription Request]

Fire in July.

Dongjun Dunqiu County.

In his early years, Cao Cao was demoted to serve as a county magistrate in Dunqiu.

He is very familiar with this place.

Dongyu is close to several Yellow River ferry crossings, and its geographical and war location are extremely important.

Zhang Liao received orders a few days ago and led his troops here.

Cao Cao's order was to not enter the city to fight a defensive battle, but to be more proactive, use Dunyu as bait, wait for the Qingzhou army to arrive, and defeat the enemy with an offensive!
Due to the terrain, the Qingzhou army entered Dongjun and broke through several small cities, approaching Dongyu in an unstoppable manner.

At noon, outside the city of Dongqiu, there was a huge crowd of people and the shouts of killing were deafening.

The Qingzhou army was attacking the low wall of Dongqiu County.

A little further away, there were undulating mountains. Zhang Liao hid in the dark, watching the battle from afar.

His eyes are sharp and calm, like a beast about to hunt its enemy.

Beside him are Cao Ren and Xiahou Dun.

Behind him were five thousand elite troops from Bingzhou and two thousand soldiers who were recruited after coming to Chenliu and had participated in the battle against Dong Zhuo, and could barely be considered veterans.

"The Qingzhou army has no formation, no formation, no formation, no formation, etc. Their armor is incomplete, their horses are scarce, and they just use their numbers to charge the city."

“They don’t know how to fight!”

Zhang Liao made a judgment after observation and tightened the weapon in his hand.

He is good at using crescent halberd, sickle, and spear.

He has not yet found a suitable weapon, so he is holding a spear.

Cold light radiates!

"My fellow soldiers, this is the first battle that the governor has fought since becoming governor of the state. We must win, not lose. When we fight bravely against the enemy, what should the soldiers do?"

"We are willing to follow the captain to fight and defeat the enemy!" the soldiers shouted in unison.

"Okay, I will personally lead a group of elite troops to attack the enemy's flag."

"Xiahou Dun, Cao Ren, you two lead a group each and attack the left and right. Do not linger in the fight, attack from the flanks, be quick, tear apart the enemy and attack them separately. If the enemy surrounds you, avoid them!"

Xiahou Dun and Cao Ren responded in unison.

The next moment, Zhang Liao kicked his horse's belly, rushed out from his hiding place, and headed straight for a hill in the distance.

There, surrounded by many Qingzhou troops, stood Huo Yan, the general of the Qingzhou army who had invaded Dongjun.

He looked at Zhang Liao who was charging out and sneered, "Another one coming to die. Pass the order, fight him!"

The war drums beat and the crowd swarmed in!
Zhang Liao's heart was filled with excitement and fighting spirit.

He had the ambition to become a general since he was young, and longed to have great power to conquer the world.

Suddenly, Zhang Liao whistled softly and waved his spear to sweep away a few scattered arrows.

The Qingzhou army had very few bows, most of which were captured in previous wars. Not many people knew how to use them, so their lethality was almost negligible.

Zhang Liao rode his horse and urged his military tactics to cooperate with the cavalry behind him, forming a front line, gathering thousands of troops, and looking down on everyone. Like a sharp spike, it pierced into the enemy's crowd.

With a point of the spear, cold light bloomed like stars, dazzling.

Suddenly, the spear tip shrank into a point, and three soldiers had their throats broken and were stabbed to death by the spear tip wherever it passed.

Seen from a distance, Zhang Liao's assembled troops plunged into the enemy's formation like a pair of scissors cutting through a piece of cowhide, and advanced towards the top of the mountain at an astonishing speed.

For the first time, Zhang Liao showed his ability to charge thousands of troops and defeat ten thousand enemies!
He lay low on his horse, staring at the Qingzhou general on the top of the mountain, and kept riding, advancing, and advancing.

Zhang Liao had his own way of leading his troops into battle. He used military tactics to unite the strength of thousands of soldiers. It seemed that he was defeating the enemy in a straight line, but in fact he was constantly adjusting the speed and direction of his horses in a small range so that his opponents could not trap him. This allowed him to gallop through the crowd and be invincible.

There was a stream of energy in his body that circulated back and forth, allowing him to kill dozens of people without getting tired, and he became more courageous as the battle went on.

What surprised Zhang Liao was that he felt the energy in his body, integrating with thousands of troops to kill the enemy, moving forward unhindered.

If he wins this battle and absorbs the luck of war, he may very well break through to a new level of military strategy!
On the hill, Huo Yan's expression gradually turned into shock.

By observing and comparing himself with Zhang Liao, he easily came to the conclusion that if he were Zhang Liao, it would be impossible for him to maintain that speed and frequency and kill his way up among thousands of troops.

Where did this brave warrior come from? He is so powerful!

Huo Yan was secretly frightened.

A quarter of an hour later, Zhang Liao was still charging left and right in the crowd, and the enemy was still unable to surround him.

He continued to thrust forward at the same speed, getting closer and closer to Huo Yan who was on the low hill.

Some of the soldiers behind Zhang Liao fell down and died in the chaos.

However, there were also many troops who were so blood-thirsty that they suddenly developed a fierce courage, forgetting about life and death, and followed Zhang Liao to charge towards the top of the mountain.

The real elites are the brave soldiers who have been tempered through repeated battles and in mountains of swords and seas of fire.

On the low hill, Huo Yan's fear grew stronger. After hesitating for a moment, he finally gave the order to turn around and withdraw his troops to the other side of the hillside.

His flag left the hillside and headed eastward.

The tens of thousands of Qingzhou troops besieging the county town discovered that the commander's flag had shifted, and their offensive slowed down.

Huo Yan was chased everywhere by Zhang Liao.

The main force besieging the city also began to become restless and retreated like a tide.

After Zhang Liao reached the top of the mountain, he continued to chase Huo Yan.

The Qingzhou army is already showing signs of decline.

The hooves of Cao's troops rose and fell like thunder...

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South of Chenliu, Huang Zhong was also swinging his hungry and thirsty sword, hacking at the Qingzhou troops that had entered the country.

With his powerful sword, he swung out with his knife, and the sword wave was as high as ten feet, swirling like lightning, indestructible, killing enemies and generals, and even splitting their armor!

In Chenliu, in the former prefectural government office.

Chen Ying discovered that a few days ago, Cao Cao left first with his concubine and Diao Chan, and then other people left one after another.

In the end, even horses such as Red Hare and Claw Yellow were taken away.

Zhen Yan, who lived with her, went back to the Zhen family a few days ago for something.

There were only guards stationed in the huge prefectural mansion, and she didn't even have the chance to talk to anyone.

Chen Ying vaguely understood that Cao Cao was on guard against her.

Because she is a loyal soldier of the Yuan family.

Cao Cao obviously had a plan this time. He was afraid that she would help the Yuan family and the prefect's mansion would be unsafe, so he brought Yu Qing and Diao Chan with him.

Chen Ying sighed.

She did receive an order from Yuan Wei to secretly monitor Cao Cao's itinerary, cooperate with certain arrangements, and plot against Cao Cao.

But Chen Ying also did some things secretly and did not report Cao Cao's itinerary in time.

She did this not for Cao Cao, but because she had hidden a secret for many years: her mother...the capital of Yanzhou.

Changyi!

War news came from all sides.

In mid-July, Zhang Liao defeated the Qingzhou rebel general Huo Yan for the first time. He chased the enemy for fifteen miles, beheaded Huo Yan, and killed thousands of enemies. The rest of the enemies collapsed and fled in all directions.

In the south of Chenliu County, Huang Zhong's battle record was similar to Zhang Liao's, and he defeated the enemy head-on.

The enemy divided their troops into two routes, one real and one fake, and tried to rush into Chenliu.

But Huang Zhong saw through his plan and defeated the enemy on two fronts, making him extremely famous!

By the end of July, the Qingzhou troops who entered Chenliu from the north and south were successively defeated by Zhang Liao and Huang Zhong under Cao Cao.

When the news reached Changyi, the people were excited.

However, fighting is still taking place in many places within Chenliu.

The deserters were scattered all over the place, and Zhang Liao and Huang Zhong were leading troops to pursue them.

The main force led by Commander Guan Hai himself relied on the human tide offensive to flatten many county towns in the northeast of Yanzhou.

His troops have already entered Jibei and Dongping in Yanzhou.

Amid the chaos, Cao Cao has been shrinking his defenses for several days and has not yet taken any formal action.

By mid-July, reports of two consecutive victories came, and the main force of the Qingzhou Army had crossed an entire county and had sufficient strategic depth.

At this time, Cao Cao decided to send troops to defeat the enemy!

In the chapter on military tactics in Sun Tzu's Art of War, there is a passage like this: In every battle, use the normal means to unite and the unusual means to win!
Cao Cao once wrote a note after this sentence: The main force is facing the enemy, and the surprise force will attack it from the side when it is unprepared.

Anyone who were to confront this huge army of millions of refugees head-on would be swept up and crushed to pieces.

If you can't defeat the enemy head-on, you have to use strategies!
Cao Cao then dispatched troops from multiple routes and sent them to attack from different locations.

Look at the march map.

The Qingzhou army that entered Jibei and Dongping rolled in the territory of Yanzhou like a huge snowball, sweeping away everything.

The total number of troops sent by Cao Cao was no more than 10,000, but after the battle, they fully utilized the advantage of cavalry, attacked from the flank of the Qingzhou army, used their high mobility, and ran away as soon as they approached, thus cutting off the enemy.

Attacks from the flanks and rear, ambushes taking advantage of the terrain, and other tactics were continuous.

The Qingzhou army was so large in number that Cao Cao only cut off a piece of it each time.

But after several battles, the advance of the Qingzhou army was actually curbed, and it was swallowed up bite by bite by Cao Cao and weakened bit by bit.

The Qingzhou army did not dare to split up their forces to pursue, otherwise they would lose their greatest advantage of being in a group.

More importantly, even if we divide our forces, we will not be able to catch up with the cavalry.

Cao Cao personally led the troops to deceive the world, secretly pass through Chencang, cover up his tracks, and after killing the enemy, he immediately disappeared to maximize his own advantages.

Guan Hai realized that something was wrong, but he was powerless to change the situation.

Even the generals under his command could not afford a horse each.

During the period when Cao Cao was shrinking his defense line, he also did one thing, which was to clear out the food supplies in the counties along the way, so that the Qingzhou army could not obtain supplies in time through looting, thus weakening their fighting spirit.

With so much cooperation from all parties, the battle lasted for more than half a month by the end of July.

Guan Hai counted the casualties of his troops and was secretly shocked.

They were trapped at the border between Dongping and Jibei and had been unable to advance for about half a month.

They had a large number of people, and their advantage was that no one could resist their frontal attack. Previously, Liu Dai wanted to use the city to defend, but he only lasted two more days before being overwhelmed.

The disadvantage of the Qingzhou Army is that it is too bloated and lacks flexibility.

The opposite was true of Cao Cao's cavalry.

All victories in history are essentially the result of using one's own strengths to overcome the enemy's weaknesses.

The key is whether you can play to your strengths and contain your opponents.

As long as the Qingzhou troops advance, Cao Cao's cavalry will catch up.

Half a month passed.

The Qingzhou army’s food supply was constantly being consumed, and the food crisis was also magnifying.

It’s very hot in early August.

Guan Hai paced back and forth in the camp anxiously.

Cao Cao used his cavalry to engage in entanglement and constantly attack him, which was almost unstoppable for Ma Shao's Qingzhou army.

If they force their way forward, their troops will quickly be weakened, and if they continue to advance deeper into Yanzhou, they may not even have a chance to retreat.

Guan Hai no longer dared to lead his troops to attack the heart of Yanzhou.

After repeated deliberation, he made an unwilling decision to withdraw his troops and stop attacking Yanzhou.

Guan Hai wanted to make adjustments, take a breath, and then consider counterattacking Yanzhou.

In mid-August, Guan Hai tried to withdraw his troops, but he did not expect that Cao Cao would begin to pursue him with all his might and would not let go.

He wanted to turn around to fight, but Cao Cao's cavalry still retreated.

After several repetitions, Guan Hai became somewhat at a loss as to what to do.

When his million-strong Qingzhou army retreated to the bank of the Ji River in Jibei State regardless of losses, the men and horses were exhausted, the soldiers had no fighting spirit, and they were actually on the verge of falling into a desperate situation.

The Qingzhou army had been chased for days without winning a single battle and was on the verge of running out of ammunition and food.

At this point, I almost didn't have the strength to run.

The Cao army was following closely behind them, and would attack them if they relaxed even a little.

The pressure accumulated over the past few months made all the generals, including Guan Hai, lose the courage to fight again.

That night, something unexpected happened.

Guan Hai and his personal army were the only team in the entire Qingzhou Army that was fully equipped with horses, with less than two thousand people.

They broke away from the main force and fled under the leadership of Guan Hai, abandoning the other Qingzhou troops and fleeing back to Qingzhou.

Nearly 800,000 Qingzhou troops were left under pursuit by Cao's army and lost their commander.

When Cao's army attacked again, the generals of Qingzhou army knelt down and chose to surrender.

At the same time, because the Qingzhou army was causing chaos in Yanzhou, the counties and prefectures around Yanzhou were also in chaos.

In Qiao County, Cao Cao's hometown, a burly young man, almost as strong as Dian Wei, returned home from learning martial arts outside, just as bandits gathered to attack.

This young man and his elder brother Xu Ding gathered thousands of local clansmen and built fortifications to resist the bandits. They broke out of the crowd several times and killed the enemy leaders. Their reputation for bravery spread to the surrounding counties within a few days!

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