This world is unreasonable. Novel .

That night, and even since crossing the Yellow River north into Hebei, Yuan Benchu ​​had actually always followed the so-called "principle" in doing things.

He followed the advice of his advisers and chose a political offensive after winning a military victory over Han Fu. He also followed the advice and chose to strategically suppress Gongsun Zan instead of taking the initiative to attack. And because the overall situation was in control, he was extremely conservative during the night's battle.

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Relatively speaking, Gongsun Zan, who abandoned Pingyuan City and the Yellow River defense line, and led five thousand cavalry across Jiudu for a surprise attack, was undoubtedly an unreasonable example.

But the result was that the reasonable Yuan Benchu ​​was defeated by the opponent, while the unreasonable Gongsun Bogui fought his way into the opponent's Chinese army camp, sweeping away ten years of depression!

As a result, Yuan Shao, who was forced to be impatient, simply imitated Gongsun Zan and stopped being unreasonable.

And the most interesting thing is here. When Yuan Shao was unreasonable, the situation reversed.

Yuan Shao ordered the whole camp to raise fires everywhere, and ordered the whole army to fight... Braziers, torches, torches, and even fire piles were all fired up at once, lighting up the rammed earth platform and most areas in the camp like daylight, and also lit up Yuan Shao.

My position is undoubtedly exposed.

Gongsun Zan was naturally overjoyed, and then he personally led the cavalry forward, trying to approach the general's platform. Unexpectedly, he was not the only one who was excited by seeing Yuan Shao. Soldiers and horses from all over the Yuan army camp saw Yuan Shao standing on the general's platform with a sword and shouting for command.

They also fought bravely and resisted with all their strength; and what was even more unexpected was that the defeated troops who were originally driven as pioneers actually began to gradually restore order when they had clear vision and saw the supreme commander. Some of them

Hiding in the camp, some people took advantage of the opportunity and fled to the flanks, while others simply obeyed the instructions and turned back to fight because they had weapons in their hands.

For a while, although Gongsun Zan saw Yuan Shao from a distance, he could not get close.

Not only that, because the troops and horses in the Yuan army's camp were extremely heavy, and there were a lot of debris in the camp, which was not conducive to trampling, so once the three thousand Youzhou cavalry stopped advancing, they immediately fell into a hard fight.

Not to mention, Ju Yi and Zhang Zha, who were in the front and rear camps, must have been on their way here after seeing the situation in the Chinese camp.

Of course, when things have reached this point, Gongsun Zan has not only released the depression that he had suppressed for more than ten years, but also won an absolute victory in a desperate situation. Therefore, he laughed loudly, but was too lazy to care.

, but ordered all his subordinates to blow the trumpets and prepare to evacuate again.

The trumpets sounded repeatedly, and the three thousand Youzhou cavalrymen in the Chinese army camp immediately reined their horses and turned around, retreating in an orderly manner while fighting. But how could Yuan Shao live up to his expectations? He personally shouted and issued repeated orders, causing the soldiers in Yuan's camp to come forward one after another.

At the same time, another tiger guard with feathers and feathers flew towards Zhang Jiao and Ju Yi, asking the two of them to leave the camp and go to the breach on the right side of the Chinese army camp to stop Gongsun Zan.

However, that's all. The most deadly battle has already occurred at the camp gate where the breach is located on the right... Although the number of three thousand cavalry is not large, they are tall and large, so the narrow camp gate and breach are at this time.

It became the most dangerous place that hindered the cavalry's retreat. Small units of Yuan's army kept squeezing along the fence, trying to risk their lives for immortality.

After all, Yuan Benchu ​​had just announced on the general platform that anyone who could kill or capture Gongsun Zan would be rewarded with tens of thousands of gold.

Of course, this small-scale force would die in front of the large-scale cavalry that maintained formation and order, but even death seemed to be enough at this time, because they greatly delayed the opponent's retreat.

This is the inherent danger of cavalry attacking a camp. It is said that it is easier to get in than to get out.

And up to this point, no matter how calm Gongsun Zan looked, he still could not be said to be out of danger.

"This is just a matter of fighting for a breath!" Xu You couldn't help but get excited when he saw such a situation on the general platform. "Primordial Freedom is here to boost morale. You must have a bodyguard with me. I will step forward to supervise the battle!"

Yuan Shao was already red-eyed by the battle situation. Without saying a word, he immediately stuffed back the long sword that he had snatched from the opponent's waist. The latter did not hesitate and immediately led a group of Yuan Shao's soldiers with the sword.

The Tiger Guards moved forward in person, trying to gather a force and squeeze through the flank along the camp fence to block the breach on the right.

"Isn't this an old friend from Luozhong in the past?" After waiting for a while, Gongsun Zan's eyesight was very good on the battlefield. He saw Xu You personally leading an elite force to command and intercept him from a distance, but he couldn't help but laugh loudly and remained calm. "Zi.

Brother Yuan, you and I have one hundred thousand gold, can you let me go?"

Xu You sneered at this and didn't bother to pay attention to the other party's ridicule... Firstly, he didn't have a loud voice like Gongsun Zan, so he could shout back but he couldn't shout back; secondly, he also knew that Gongsun Zan couldn't bring out that much.

Money comes.

But at the same time, Xu Ziyuan was secretly alert, because Gongsun Bogui was too calm, which meant that he must have back-ups.

By the way, Xu You didn't know that the opponent still had two thousand cavalry outside at this time, and he didn't have time to know because the battlefield was changing rapidly. Within a moment, Gao Lan and Cui Yan from the right camp came! They brought more than a thousand remaining soldiers with them.

, regardless of life or death, as if he had some deep grudge against Gongsun Zan, he personally came to the gap between the central camp and the right camp, trying to block the other side.

Then, Gongsun Zan was not surprised but was happy when he saw this, while Xu Ziyuan was not happy but was surprised when he saw it.

Especially the latter, after all, he is the first-class smart man in the world. He has figured out the details here almost instantly. If Cui Yan does not care about life and death to intercept it, it must not be cowardice; but if it is not cowardice,

, then why didn't they block it before? There must be soldiers and horses to contain them; and to block them now, it must be that the soldiers and horses had already pulled away when they heard the horns blowing incessantly.

But the problem is, since the restraining troops and horses had such strict orders and strict discipline, how could they really leave and never come back? How could they really leave Gongsun Zan and Sanqian Paoze in the Yuan camp? All these cavalrymen were

With a Youzhou accent, how could he possibly escape in a place like Jizhou, abandoning more than half of his fellow villagers and generals?!

Thinking of this, Xu You almost instantly gave up the idea of ​​grabbing the ten thousand gold, because it was already too late.

Sure enough, just when Cui Yan was trying to intercept Gongsun Zan at Gaolan, and the morale of the soldiers in Yuan's camp was greatly boosted, suddenly, trumpets were blown outside the camp and inside the camp, and then the sound of horse hooves came rolling in. The Youzhou army's old skills were heavy

Shi, once again staged a good show of horse riding on the joint camp between the right camp and the central camp, destroying everything. And this time it was a front and rear attack, with Tian Kai outside and Gongsun Zan inside, Gao Lan was destroyed almost instantly.

Cui Yan, this remnant soldier!

At this moment, not only was the road ahead clear, but the pursuing troops everywhere were also temporarily blocked by the defeated troops, making it difficult to catch up.

However, Gongsun Zan received support and killed more than a thousand people again. However, he still did not rush out of the camp. Instead, he raised a tree in the camp and pointed at Yuan Shao's general platform from a distance, declaring with a sneer: "The fourth generation and the three princes are nothing more than local chickens and tile dogs!"

Then, the man turned his head to look at Guan Jing beside him and asked in a loud voice: "Sir, Yuan Benchu ​​used to think that I was worthless, but today he paid ten thousand gold for my head. What do you think I am, Gongsun Zan, really worth?"

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Guan Jing was covered in blood and his heart was racing. No matter how hard he was, he fought hard on his horse and loudly replied: "My lord, you can overwhelm your country today!"

Gongsun Zan laughed loudly again, then rode away, took the road from the now empty right camp, and retreated calmly.

At this point, Gao Lan and Cui Yancang fled in panic, with their jaws open. Ju Yi couldn't catch up, Xu You sighed and returned, Yuan Shao was dumbfounded, and Chen Gong simply turned back.

In other words, this battle, regardless of the causes and consequences, and the various twists and turns, was just a matter of fact. Gongsun Zan only brought 5,000 Youzhou assault cavalry to attack Yuan Shao's camp of more than 40,000 people. Not only did he destroy Yuan Shao's two camps, he also killed the left camp.

The commander-in-chief Cui Juye, the commander-in-chief Cui Yan of the injured right camp, and the deputy general Gao Lan of the Chinese army camp once invaded Yuan Shao's camp and shaken the opponent's main camp. In the end, the entire army retreated!

What's even more frightening is that at dawn the next day, rough statistics show that whether they died in front of swords, under the hoofs of horses, pushed by friendly troops, or simply burned alive by fire, Yuan Jun finally sorted out the corpses of his own army, which turned out to be no less than three or four thousand.

Coupled with the six to seven thousand wounded and the thousands of local Qinghe auxiliary troops who escaped, the total number of casualties in this battle was more than ten thousand!

Correspondingly, there were only three to five hundred corpses of Gongsun Zan's Youzhou cavalry found on the battlefield!

The facts are before our eyes. No matter what, Gongsun Bogui won an undoubted victory in this battle, while Yuan Benchu ​​suffered an unprecedented defeat!

"I just learned today that in troubled times, you must never underestimate the people of the world!" Unexpectedly, after the defeat, Yuan Shao did not feel too depressed. Instead, he sat on the general platform and personally directed and organized the camp and gathered the dead and wounded.

, it took a long time to show a trace of fatigue to Xu You and other confidants, but he only took the blame on himself. "Today's defeat is all due to our arrogance after the Battle of Jieqiao. We thought we were in control of Hebei, and that's why we were controlled by Gongsun Bogui.

Fighter planes led to such a disastrous defeat..."

Yuan Shao's attitude, and the fact that he was almost the only one who refused to retreat in the face of danger and turned the tide last night, can be called the only bright spot, so he is as tough as Chen Gong, who was born in Xiliang since childhood and is as wild as Ju Yi, whether it is a staff member or a general, at this time

They lost their temper and apologized one after another.

Naturally, Yuan Shao comforted them one by one, and then he personally took everyone to comfort the injured Gao Lan and Cui Yan, so as to comfort them, which made the latter two even more ashamed.

However, as the sun gradually set, Yuan Shao still did not rest after finishing all these things. On the contrary, he urgently needed a formal military meeting to discuss how to deal with the next situation.

"The matter has come to this, and our army has suffered heavy casualties. Should we retreat temporarily to avoid the danger?" Since the tent was damaged in the battle, Yuan Shao led his troops back to the rammed earth general platform to discuss matters, and as soon as they sat down, they

Get straight to the point.

"You can't retreat!" Chen Gong had already thought about it and responded with bloodshot eyes. "If we retreat at this time, we will not be able to retreat before the autumn harvest in Hebei, and if we cannot retreat to the five counties in Jizhou before the autumn harvest,

Then why should we confront General Wei?"

"Gongtai is right." Feng Ji also immediately stepped forward to express his position. "After this battle, we don't expect to attack Handan before the autumn harvest, but we must try our best to capture Yecheng to protect ourselves anyway? So the overall situation cannot be messed up.

You still have to grit your teeth and hold on."

Yuan Shao nodded slowly.

By the way, this is the problem... Why do all the wise men under Yuan Shao think that Handan should be attacked, and Gongsun also thinks that the opponent will attack Handan? This is not only because Handan is attacking Taihang, Shangdang, Taiyuan, Gongsun

The weakest point of the force must be passed through, and because the intersection point of the strategic red lines of both sides is at this place, both sides have to launch offense and defense here.

What's the meaning?

It's very simple. Don't forget that Handan and Yecheng actually belong to the same city circle. Handan and Yecheng are only a few dozen miles apart, and there is no danger to defend them.

For Gongsun, naturally because Bingzhou is his fatal point, the shielding of Handan is very important; for Yuan Shao's camp, Yecheng is also an important fulcrum for controlling Hebei, and it is a strategy that must be mastered

Red line node.

If you think about it, you will know that Yuan Benchu's basic base is Qing and Yan now. In the future, there may be five counties in the southeast of Jizhou. And there are several junctions between his and Gongsun's forces. The northernmost is Zhuojun, and there are several near Hejian.

The big rivers, Yishui, Zhangshui, and Hutuohe have sufficient strategic buffers; in the middle, there is a huge Julu Ze in Anping and Julu, which can be left alone temporarily; but here in Yecheng, there is really no way to buffer it.

, because after Hanoi and Wei County are released, even Yanzhou will be directly threatened!

Therefore, don't ask why Yuan Shao must attack Handan. By the same token, if Gongsun Qiu has recovered and Handan is still in hand, he will definitely try to attack Yecheng!

This is the inevitable result of the overlapping of strategic red lines. On the map, Yecheng and Handan are actually two sides of the same body... and the whole world is really as clear as a chessboard in the eyes of a wise man.

"What you two gentlemen said is absolutely true." Yuan Shao said slowly, holding the sword that was hung again on his waist. "I think so too... You can't retreat under any circumstances! If you retreat now, you will give up Hebei to

Gongsun Wenqi, when I take Qing, how will the two states of Yan compete with the people who are sitting in Youji and merged with them? In the past, Shizu sent out sudden cavalry from the ten counties of Youzhou to defeat the bronze horse thieves of Jizhou and got more than 100,000 infantry.

Then he can proclaim himself the emperor and establish the system, so that he is called the Bronze Horse Emperor... Now the Youzhou sudden cavalry is in the hands of Gongsun. We have seen how powerful they are last night, so these elite infantrymen of Jizhou really can no longer compete with Gongsun.

That’s right! It’s just that after this big defeat, there are always adjustments to be made, what do you think should be done?”

"If you think this place is unsustainable at first, you can make it difficult first and then make it easier." Xu You said, "Let's not worry about Han Wenjie for now. Let's mobilize the elites from Jieqiao here to continue to suppress Gongsun Zan. If Gongsun Zan is defeated, we will continue northward.
To be continued...