Yuan Shao currently has two relatively stable grain roads, one goes south from Baima through Yanjin to Guandu; the other goes directly south from Yanjin.
The name Yanjin not only represents a ferry, but starting from Yanjin County south of the north flow of the Yellow River and going northeast to the ferry in Huaxian County, this area is collectively called Yanjin.
Cao Ren, Xu Huang, Le Jin and others from Hanoi County have been secretly coveting the Yanjin Ferry on the north bank of the Yellow River for a long time.
Cao Ren needed to leave troops for Shi Huan to guard Hanoi, so he only brought 10,000 soldiers for this trip, which was a small force.
Yuan Shao did not attack Hanoi County because he wanted to attack Cao Cao directly and win a quick victory. However, he did not expect that he would lose two generals when he first arrived at Baima Yanjin. Now his main force has been dragged into the quagmire of a war of attrition by Cao Cao.
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Yuan Shao left 20,000 defenders at Yanjin Ferry and Baima Ferry respectively.
Among them, Yanjin Ferry was guarded by General Jiang Qi.
Jiang Qi has been reinforcing the defenses at Yanjin Ferry during this time. The scout posts are active day and night. The defense is watertight, so Cao Ren and others have never been able to find an opportunity to strike.
But today, Cao Jun's scouts discovered a very important piece of news, which finally made Cao Ren decide to send troops.
In a forest, Cao Ren's army was taking a short rest.
Taking advantage of the rest time, Cao Ren summoned Le Jin and Xu Huang and expressed his thoughts, "Tonight, the Yuan army will have more than 100,000 stones of grain and grass passing through Yanjin. I have decided to send troops to attack in a sneak attack to destroy their troops."
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Xu Huang was the most prudent. After thinking for a while, he replied: "But Yuan Jun's defense is tight, and with so much food and grass...will they be on guard?"
"I think this is a God-given opportunity... Gongming, are you too cautious?" Le Jin said disapprovingly.
Cao Ren was the commander-in-chief, and he finally made up his mind: "If we can destroy hundreds of thousands of stones of food and grass, the pressure on Yuan Jun will definitely increase, and the pressure on the lord will be reduced accordingly. We must act tonight, and we must take advantage of the food."
Destroy them before crossing the Yellow River!"
"Here!" Xu Huang saw that Cao Ren had made up his mind, so he and Le Jin clasped their fists to accept the order, turned around and left, getting ready.
Night falls quickly.
In the woods, more than 10,000 soldiers were all well fed and were waiting quietly in the woods, sharpening their swords.
Cao Ren stood on the edge of the woods, looking far away in the direction of Yanjin Ferry, with a trace of murderous intent quietly gathering on his face as calm as water.
Time passed slowly, and before I knew it, late night had arrived.
There is no moon tonight, which is a good day for murder and arson.
It was almost time, and Cao Ren immediately heard the sound of dense footsteps behind him.
He took a breath and said in a deep voice: "The time has come, brothers, act according to your plan!"
Behind him, Xu Huanglejin and 10,000 soldiers followed closely. The 10,000 soldiers made no sound except for the sound of footsteps. They were as quiet as a ghost army.
Cao Jun quickly marched towards the ferry ten miles away, and the night was their best cover.
When they were more than a mile away, Cao Ren saw the light of the ferry in the distance.
"They're delivering food overnight!"
Seeing this, Cao Ren no longer hesitated at all. He pointed his sword forward and shouted loudly: "Brothers, attack!"
Le Jin picked up the spear, stretched out his scarlet tongue and licked his chapped lips, showing a slightly crazy smile, "Brothers, charge with me!"
Xu Huang was holding a mountain-breaking ax, with no expression on his face. He just shouted one word in a concise and concise manner: "Up!"
The ten thousand soldiers began to accelerate, and then sprinted at full speed!
The distance of 500 meters only takes two or three minutes under the soldiers' full sprint.
By the time Yuan Jun heard the thundering shouts of killing and reacted, Cao's soldiers had already begun to climb over the ditch outside the camp.
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"
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"It's Cao Jun! It's Cao Jun coming to kill!"
It was difficult to see how many enemies there were in the darkness. Yuan Jun was in a panic and was already in a mess, running around and screaming in panic.
However, when Cao Ren and others led the soldiers into Yuan Jun's camp and overturned several tents in succession, they found that there was no one in the tents, only piles of dry firewood!
Cao Ren looked around again and saw that there were only a few dozen people running around, shouting loudly for the enemy to attack.
Cao Ren's scalp suddenly went numb, he reacted and shouted: "No! I've fallen into a trap!"
Before Cao Ren could call for retreat, there was a bang, and Yuan Jun's shouts of killing came from outside the camp!
"Kill!"
"Kill the thief!"
"General Wu, if you don't get off your horse and kneel down, how long will it take?!"
In the dark of night, Cao's army was ambushed, and there were shouts of killing from all directions. The soldiers could not help but feel a little frightened and panicked.
Three generals, Jiang Qi, Zhang Nan, and Jiao Hu, came out of the darkness from three directions!
Xu Huang and Le Jin led their troops to gather around Cao Ren. Cao Ren suddenly said to Xu Huang with some guilt: "I regret not listening to what General Xu said. Yuan Jun really has an ambush... Now there are shouts of killing from all directions, southeast, northwest, we
If you don’t know whether the enemy is real or not, what should you do now?”
Xu Huang looked at the growing fire around him, turned to Cao Ren and said: "General, we'd better find a direction immediately to break out of the encirclement with all our strength. The longer we delay, the more detrimental it will be to our army!"
Cao Ren continued to ask: "In your opinion, in which direction should we break out?"
"If we charge in from the west, the enemy will definitely prevent us from returning the same way we came. I'm afraid they will gather heavy troops at the west gate." At this point, Xu Huang pointed to the front and said, "Let's go towards the east!"
"Okay!" Cao Ren chose to follow Xu Huang's advice this time, raised his sword and shouted again, "Brothers, follow me out of the siege!"
As Xu Huang expected, the three armies of Yuan's army all gathered towards the west gate, which was the gate through which Cao's army entered.
Under normal circumstances, when people are frightened, they will subconsciously avoid unknown situations; after an army is ambushed, most of them will choose to retreat back to the original route.
However, this time Cao Jun was frightened but did not panic. On Xu Huang's suggestion, he rushed in another direction, which made Yuan Jun's wishful thinking come to nothing.
After rushing out of the fire and fighting his way out of the east gate of the camp, Cao Ren found that there were only a few hundred soldiers from Yuan outside the gate, making noisy noises.
After killing them, Cao Ren said fearfully: "Fortunately, I listened to Xu Huang's suggestion this time. If we retreated the same way, we might really be surrounded and annihilated by Yuan's army..."
After Cao Ren led his army out of the ambush, he fled towards the east, towards the lower reaches of the Yellow River, without looking back.
Yuan Jun was unable to pursue him, so he had to withdraw his troops angrily.
In the camp, Sergeant Yuan quickly put out the fire.
Zhang Nan and Jiao Chu surrounded Jiang Qi, and said with a little excitement and a little regret in their tone: "The general has a clever plan, and Cao's army has indeed come to rob the camp. It's a pity that General Cao also had some courage and rushed from the east.
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Although Jiang Qi felt a little regretful, he quickly calmed down and said, "Everyone, although Cao Jun escaped, he must be on guard."
Then Jiang Qi looked at Zhang Nan and said: "General Zhang, General Jiao, I have to trouble you two to continue to supervise the transportation of grain and grass. The sooner the grain is delivered to your lord, the sooner we can feel at ease."
"Here!"
After Jiang Qi made arrangements, he led his soldiers to pack up the camp.
But what Jiang Qi, Cao Ren and others didn't expect was that in just over half an hour of their confrontation,
There was also a group of people hiding in the dark who watched their entire process clearly!
"We're going to rob the camp, but you still have to watch me, Gan Xingba!"