Cao Ren and Xu Huang's armies arrived at Hanoi County. Yuan Shang, a senior official who had been attacking Shanyang for a long time, saw that Cao's and Yuan's troops had arrived, so he had to retreat.
However, nearly half of the land in Hanoi County has been occupied by Yuan's army. With this buffer zone, it may be difficult for Cao Ren and others to threaten Jizhou from Hanoi County. Yuan Shao has at least achieved most of his goals.
After learning the lesson of rushing forward in a hurry last time, Yuan Shao planned to take steps step by step this time.
First, the worries of Hanoi County were solved, and then they gathered their troops and waited for an opportunity to go south to attack Cao Cao again.
At this time, Yuan Xi, who had returned to Youzhou, assembled another 60,000 troops and marched south into Jizhou.
Including the military strength of Gao Gan, Yuan Shang and Yuan Tan, the number of capable soldiers under Yuan Shao's command reached more than 170,000.
It's just that these 170,000 soldiers and horses are Yuan Xi, the high-ranking cadres guarding Youzhou, and most of the soldiers and horses in Bingzhou. If there is another mistake, Yuan Shao may really be in a desperate situation.
The great victory in the Battle of Guandu allowed Cao Cao to basically control the area near Hanoi.
That is to say, from Dongjun up to Hanoi County, the area bounded by the Yellow River was occupied by Cao Cao.
Whether it is Baima, Liyang or Yanjin, they are completely out of Yuan Shao's control. Yuan Shao can no longer cross the Yellow River to attack Cao Cao from these two places.
However, although this section is no longer under Yuan Shao's control, Cangtingjin in the northeast is still under Yuan Shao's control.
Cangtingjin can also be regarded as a point where it crosses the river south to threaten Yanzhou.
After Yuan Shao received the support of Yuan Xi's 60,000 troops, he immediately dispatched Yuan Tan to garrison troops in Cangting. In the next year, Yuan Shao personally led the army south, directly entering Yanzhou from Cangtingjin, and taking Chenliu directly!
To be honest, Yuan Shao is now like a gambler who has lost his sights. He no longer cares about other objective conditions and only thinks about making a comeback. Perhaps, Yuan Shao lost the battle at Guandu to someone he has always looked down upon.
Cao Cao was unwilling to give up; perhaps, he knew that he had only a short time, and wanted to clear away a serious problem for his son Yuan Shang before he died.
In short, Yuan Shao is ready to make a desperate move and have another decisive battle with Cao Cao.
If he wins, Yuan Shao can march straight into Yanzhou and even eliminate Cao Cao in one fell swoop;
If defeated, this first prince who once owned the land of four states in the world will decline rapidly and even fall into despair.
It was early March in the fourth year of Jian'an.
Taiyuan College began to recruit students, and at the same time, military and political subjects were also open to students from the former Taiyuan College.
Due to Cao Cao's victory over Yuan Shao last year, Cao Cao's prestige has greatly increased.
In addition to the first batch of students graduating from local colleges in various places, the number of students taking the Taiyuan University exam this year is nearly three times more than last year!
However, they can only apply for common subjects, namely Confucian economics, mathematics and engineering.
As for the two subjects of military and political affairs, because they are only open to students from the former Taiyuan College, and must go through strict background and ideological investigations, those who can enter are basically students who are capable and can guarantee their loyalty.
Here, Yang Xiu and Cheng Wu naturally entered naturally; Fazheng and Meng Da, who had drank and sang together last time, also entered smoothly.
As for Zhuge Liang, because of his comprehensive and excellent abilities, and the last time he scolded Yuan Shao, he had already been appointed as a disciple by Yang Biao, and he was a person who could run around in the Taiyuan Academy.
In April, the new admissions results will be released soon.
Lu Xun successfully entered the Confucian classics. His talent was no worse than Zhuge Liang's. In addition, he had a close relationship with Lu Yan. After entering Taixue, he naturally attracted the favor of countless doctors.
But among the new students, there was one person that made Lu Yan particularly concerned.
"Sima Yi, Sima Zhongda!"
Lu Yan looked at Sima Yi's information on the list and remained silent for a long time.
Sima Yi, whose courtesy name was Zhongda, had just reached the throne this year. He had been smart and resourceful since childhood, erudite and devoted to Confucianism. He was the only person in the Wei Dynasty who could compete with Zhuge Liang.
After a long cup of tea, Lu Yan gently put down the list and murmured: "Zhuge Liang, Sima Yi, these destined enemies... Haha, there is a good show..."
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The new year's spring plowing is about to begin, and Yuan Shao's ambitions are restored.
Yuan Shao gathered together the three prefectures of You and Ji, claiming to have 200,000 soldiers and horses, and went to Cangting to go to the stronghold, threatening to fight Cao Cao to the death!
Facing Yuan Shao's challenge again, no one in the court stood up to oppose fighting Yuan Shao this time.
Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shao's army of nearly 500,000 with 100,000 men. You only had 200,000 this time. Isn't that a piece of cake?
After nearly half a year of recovery, Cao Cao's soldiers were replenished to 100,000.
Cao Cao, who was attending the opening ceremony of the school, heard that Yuan Shao was gathering again to invade Yanzhou. Instead of worrying, he laughed and said to the new students: "Yuan Benchu wants to destroy himself, and God can't save him!"
Sima Yi stood in the crowd, silently observing Cao Cao, who was exuding a domineering spirit, and thought to himself: "It is not difficult to defeat Yuan Shao, but the difficult thing is how to annex Yuan Shao's foundation... The Yuan family has been running Jizhou for many years.
You're dead but not stiff... Prime Minister Cao, don't get too carried away and be careful of falling over."
As the war was approaching, this opening ceremony ended in a hurry.
Cao Cao personally led an army of 100,000 and marched towards Cangting with Cheng Yu, Zhang Liao, Xia Houyuan, Le Jin, Li Dian and others.
This time, Lu Yan, Zhao Yun and others did not participate in the battle. The main reason was that Lu Yan wanted to reorganize and plan for Zhao Yun, Lu Lingqi, and the cavalry that had surrendered from Yuan Jun.
Although Zhao Yun's dragon cavalry battalion is gone, Cao Cao still has Cao Chun, the tiger and leopard cavalry led by Cao Xiu, plus the newly promoted general Gan Ning and his 800 elite cavalry, Cao Cao still has nearly 5,000 cavalry.
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In the Battle of Guandu, Cao Cao's biggest gain, apart from generals Zhang He, Gao Lan and others, was the nearly 10,000 war horses.
Since Zhang He did not bring the Wuhuan cavalry with him when he later attacked the city, Wuchao was burned and Yuan Shao's camp was attacked, and almost all the Wuhuan people fled.
When Zhang He and Gao Lan surrendered, only more than 5,000 cavalry followed them. Cao Cao gave all of these thousands of cavalry to Zhao Yun, and then divided up nearly half of the horses.
After Lu Lingqi joined, Lu Yan now has two powerful cavalry battalions in his hands.
One is the Dragon Cavalry Battalion led by Zhao Yun and Xia Houlan. After the Battle of Guandu, its number was reduced from 5,000 to 3,000; the other is the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry with nearly 10,000 people, led by Zhendong General Lu Lingqi.
, the deputy generals are General Hao Zhao and others.
In order to give the two cavalry forces a relatively balanced combat strength, Lu Yan selected Yuan Jun cavalry to enrich the dragon cavalry camp, and added soldiers recruited from other places to make up the number of eight thousand.
Then there is the Iron Buddha in Dianwei.
Lu Yan selected a thousand of the tallest and strongest horses from the more than 10,000 captured war horses, put them in heavy armor and put them in the Iron Buddha Tu.
At this point, Tiefutu has transformed from a heavy armored infantry into a heavy armored cavalry, and its power has once again increased to a higher level!
As a veteran combat force, the Beiwei Army has expanded in number from three thousand to five thousand.
It's not that Lu Yan doesn't want to expand his elite combat power, but Chenliu County's current finances can only barely support these troops.
Look, there are nearly 20,000 cavalry, as well as heavy armored cavalry and Beiwei troops. They are all gold-eating beasts.
If Chen Liu's business system hadn't been the best among the Han Dynasty, Lu Yan and Cao Cao would never have dared to do this...