When Liu Bei and Fa Zheng talked about the beauty of Langya, Yuan Xizheng and his adviser Han Xuan were quarreling with each other.
A few days ago, Yuan Xi received news from Shen Pei. He learned that Yuan Shao had an accident north of Yi County and was now under house arrest by Yuan Tan and may have died. He was immediately panicked.
He wanted to retreat immediately, return to Jizhou as quickly as possible, and send troops with Shen Pei to attack Yuan Tan, and then become the lord of Jizhou.
Compared with this, Xuzhou is not worth mentioning.
But Han Xuan strongly opposed it.
Han Xuan, whose courtesy name is Jingran, was from Bohai. He was short and young. Yuan Xi was not very fond of it, but this person was recommended by Tian Feng, so he had to accept it and stayed in his body as a military plan.
Facts have proved that although Han Xuan was not good-looking, he was extremely smart. After Yuan Xi marched into Langya, he was able to fight to the vicinity of Yangdu so smoothly. Han Xuan's several suggestions played a key role.
So after Yuan Xi received the news from Shen Pei, he immediately invited Han Xuan to discuss it.
However, Han Xuan said that the possibility of Yuan Shao's death was extremely small. If this is true, Yuan Tan would not be able to escape the name of killing his father, which was a reference to thousands of people. Not to mention becoming the lord of Jizhou, it would be great that he could save his life.
Since Yuan Shao is still alive, Shen Pei asked Yuan Xi to retreat immediately, return to Jizhou and attack Yuan Tan, which was a very irrational action. When this was heard by Yuan Shao, it would make Yuan Shao feel that the people of Jizhou wanted to take the opportunity to attack and support Yuan Xi.
Mainly.
At that time, the situation would be beneficial to Yuan Tan.
Han Xuan said that as long as Shen Pei was not so stubborn that he was stupid, he would most likely ask Tian Feng to come out and give him advice. Tian Feng would definitely stop Shen Pei from being reckless and to calm down.
Therefore, Yuan Xi should not only not withdraw his troops at this moment, but also take the initiative to attack, take down Langya as much as possible, push the front line into the East China Sea, and directly threaten Tan County.
In this way, not only will Langya County be owned by Yuan Xi, but the manpower and material resources can be mobilized, but Xuzhou will also be shocked. Yuan Xi has enough prestige and strength to compete with Yuan Tan for his successor.
Going back now is definitely not the best way. Not only will the counties that have been captured be lost, but they may also be pursued by Liu Bei and suffered a great defeat.
The two had an argument, so Yuan Xi took a compromise approach.
While sending people back to Yecheng to find out the news, he also shrinks the defense line to prevent Liu Bei from counterattacking.
Today, he invited Han Xuan to the banquet, intending to apologize to Han Xuan and discuss the retreat. But he was not optimistic. As soon as Yuan Xi spoke, the two of them started to argue.
Yuan Xi had been enduring for several days and thought he had given Han Xuan enough face. Seeing that Han Xuan was still unwilling to give in, the hidden disdain in his heart erupted again. Finally, he said without hesitation and said the Bohai people repeatedly, before
He once supported Gongsun Zan, but now he wants to support Liu Bei.
Han Xuan was not a good-tempered person either. After hearing this, he turned his back on the spot and left.
Yuan Xi regretted it very much, but couldn't wipe his face and apologized, and was so angry that he was furious in the tent.
At this time, he understood Yuan Shao's difficulties a little.
The people of Jizhou are too domineering and relying too much on them. They will be influenced by them and cannot be independent in everything, and become puppets in name only.
Two days later, Liu Bei launched an attack.
Shi Ren and Mi Fang each led two thousand infantrymen to attack Yuan Xi's camp from both east and west.
Since the battle between the two sides, Yuan Xi has been attacking, and Liu Bei is the main defense. Liu Bei takes the initiative to attack, and this is the first time, Yuan Xi is not even mentally prepared.
In a panic, he wanted to send someone to Han Xuan to discuss, but the words came to his mouth and swallowed them back.
He still knows the strength of both sides so many times. Although Liu Bei has generals like Zhang Fei and Chen Deng, his subordinates can be considered elite, in terms of offensive ability, he is still the Jizhou soldiers, Qingzhou soldiers and Youzhou soldiers led by him
The cavalry is stronger.
Liu Bei is a little reluctant to defend, can he still get a bargain when he takes the initiative to attack?
I can command this battle myself, and there is no need to ask Han Xuan for help.
At the beginning, Yuan Xi's idea was indeed correct. After the initial panic, Yuan Jun quickly calmed down, defended the camp under Yuan Xi's command, and launched an orderly counterattack.
Shi Ren and Mi Fang were blocked from attacking, and both sides entered a state of disengagement.
Seeing this, Liu Bei felt hopeless to win, so he prepared to let Shiren and Mi Fang pretend to be defeated, lure Yuan Xi out of the camp, and ambush him again.
But Fazheng stopped him.
Fa Zheng kept staring at Yuan Xi's central army, and he found a problem: Yuan Xi defended very steadily, but had almost no interest in counterattack, which was completely different from the vigorous fighting spirit when he was fighting before.
Logically speaking, Yuan Xi would quickly fight back with such a good opportunity. He would not hide behind the camp and shoot arrows, but use the impact of the cavalry to attack the infantry.
Either Yuan Xi doesn't want to fight, or the general he commands is not Yuan Xi, or the person who led the war before was not there.
Fa Zheng immediately made suggestions to Liu Bei, sending the strongest Zhang Fei to conduct a powerful assault on Yuan Xi's camp, and making Chen Dao's personal guards ready to attack.
If Yuan Xi sends cavalry to counterattack, he will cover Zhang Fei and others to retreat.
If Yuan Xi still kept his troops still, he would use the speed of the cavalry to attack the Yuan army's baggage camp and set fire to the baggage.
After a moment of hesitation, Liu Bei accepted Fazheng's suggestion.
He made only a small modification.
He handed over the command to Fa Zheng, and he and Chen Dao led the cavalry to attack.
Fa Zheng accepted it without hesitation.
Liu Bei issued an order, and the sound of war drums that were not too slow was blew up. Not only Shi Ren and Mi Fang reorganized the offensive, but Zhang Fei also led 3,000 infantrymen to rush out.
The sword and shield hand rushed to the front of the Yuan army's camp in the rain of arrows, covered the crossbowman and shot it forward to make up for the lack of crossbow power. Zhang Fei led the personal guard camp and rushed to the front of the Yuan army camp, holding a giant axe.
, break the door in person.
The generals of the Yuan army's front battalion did not expect that Liu Bei would be so decisive and not prepared enough. He was panicked for a moment and immediately asked the Central Army for help and asked Yuan Xi to send troops to reinforce.
There were only one thousand people in his camp, and he couldn't stop Zhang Fei's fierce attack for how long.
When Yuan Xi received the news, he did not dare to neglect and immediately sent central troops to reinforce.
What he thought of happened again. Liu Bei and Chen Dao suddenly attacked, and more than a thousand cavalrymen entered the Yuan army camp and headed straight for the central army where Yuan Xi was, with the intention of killing generals and running to the flag.
Yuan Xi was panicked and didn't know what to do.
Liu Bei went to fight in person, and the morale of the cavalry rose sharply. Under the gaze of the Yuan army soldiers in the camps on both sides, he quickly went deeper.
Yuan Jun never expected Liu Bei to send cavalry to attack, and he didn't expect Liu Bei to attack himself, and he was not even ready for the crossbow, and watched Liu Bei run past him.
All they can do is to warn the Central Army.
Liu Bei went crazy and broke into the battle himself.
The Yuan army infantry who was ordered to reinforce the front battalion heard the warning message and saw the cavalry rushing towards him. They were panicked and stopped advancing one after another, lined up on the spot, preparing to face the impact of the cavalry.
Liu Bei suddenly changed his direction of progress, gave up Yuan Xi's central army, and rushed straight to the baggage battalion beside him.
More than a thousand cavalrymen ran around the baggage battalion and shot the prepared arrows into the battalion. The fire-burning objects tied to the arrows ignited the mountains of food and supplies piled up in the battalion. The baggage battalion quickly caught fire and became a mess.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Liu Bei broke into the door.
The cavalry rushed into the baggage camp, set fire everywhere, and killed wantonly.
When Yuan Xi reacted and knew that Liu Bei's target was not him, but the baggage camp, it was too late.
The baggage camp has been burned into a sea of fire.