Chapter 120 Chapter 17: The Yuan Family Can't Fight The Cao Family Reaps the Benefits (2)

After Li Dian and Cheng Yu received Cao Mengde's letter, they quickly opened it and wrote: Yuan Jun may cut off our food roads, if so, don't fight hard, use guerrilla tactics to disrupt them separately, and use land as a supply of food and grass. Li Dian and Cheng Yu ordered the troops transporting grain and grass to stop temporarily.The two of them personally went to the river bank to observe the enemy's situation. Cheng Yu said: "Obviously Yuan Jun wanted to intercept by water. There are not many soldiers wearing armor on land, which shows that they underestimate the enemy's slackness. It is better to attack across the river first, and it will definitely deal a fatal blow."

Li Dian hesitated, and said: "The Prime Minister's meaning..." Cheng Yu encouraged Li Dian and said, "The Prime Minister asked us to protect the grain and grass. As long as this goal is achieved, the Prime Minister will not blame us." Li Dian had always believed in Cheng Yu, so he ignored Cao Mengde's instructions. The two led an army across the river to attack Gao Fan's camp on the north bank. Gao Fan's reinforcements to rob food had not yet established a foothold.Under the sudden attack of Li Dian and Cheng Yu, Yuan Jun was quickly defeated.In this way, the transportation of grain and grass on Cao Jun's waterway will be unimpeded.

At the same time that Cao Mengde received the news from Li Dian and Cheng Yujie, bad news came from Hedong. It turned out that after receiving Yuan Shang's order, Gao Gan, the governor of Bingzhou, who was good at strategy, first appointed his general Guo Yuan as the prefect of Hedong, and went directly to the counties and counties of Jinglue Hedong, as if he was forced to take office.On the one hand, Gao Gan persuaded Shanyu Huhao of the Southern Huns to lead the Xiongnu army as the vanguard, directly harassing various counties and counties in Hedong, and on the other hand, he secretly sent people to join forces with Ma Teng and Han Sui, the main force of the generals in Guanzhong, to attack Cao's rear. , in order to break Cao Jun's deployment in Hedong.Due to lack of preparation, Cao's army retreated in successive defeats in the Hedong area, and many cities opened their doors and surrendered.Only Shi Jiakui of Hedong County defended Jiangcheng and barely blocked Yuan Jun's attack.However, Guo Yuan's military strength has an overwhelming advantage, and he has surrounded Jiangcheng tightly, constantly urging Jia Kui to surrender.The people in Hedong all love Jia Kui, the parent official of Hedong County, because Jia Kui has made great achievements in the management of Hedong, especially in the development of agriculture.So the elders of Hedong asked Guo Yuan not to kill Jia Kui. If this condition was complied with, the elders of Hedong would lead all the county people to surrender.These petitioners are all famous and charismatic people in Hadong County.Guo Yuan agreed, and Jiangcheng fell in peace.

Guo Yuan thought highly of Jia Kui's ability and integrity, so he wanted Jia Kui to be his general.Jia Kui refused, and Guo Yuan put a sword on Jia Kui's neck to intimidate him, but Jia Kui still refused, and pressed his hand on the hilt of the sword, hoping to speed up his own fate.Guo Yuan hurriedly took back the sword, for fear that Jia Kui would commit suicide. Guo Yuan then had Jia Kui's head pressed to the ground and forced him to kowtow, in order to insult him and attack his psychology.Jia Kui shouted loudly: "There is no reason for a country's court to order officials to kowtow to thieves!"

Guo Yuan forced him to shout to the common people, "Cao Cao is an illegitimate son, a thief who usurped the Han Dynasty." However, Jia Kui said to the people: "In the past, the prime minister asked Zaoyi Duwei to manage our Hedong so well. Prime Minister Cao will come back from Liyang soon!" Guo Yuan was furious and wanted to kill Jia Kui. The people in Jiangcheng shouted: "Guo Yuan, if you want to kill the virtuous king, all the people in our city will die in front of you immediately!" Outraged, Guo Yuan ordered Jia Kui to be locked in the cellar. In the middle of the night, a man named Zhu Gongdao secretly rescued Jia Kui. After Jia Kui escaped from danger, he immediately asked someone to tell Cao Mengde the news of the fall of Hedong County.

When Cao Mengde got the news, especially when he heard Jia Kui and the people in Jiangcheng describe the morale of Jia Kui and the people in Jiangcheng, he looked up to the sky and sighed, "My negligence caused the people in Hedong to suffer again. I am ashamed of the elders in Hedong!" It's tears.He raised his head from the extreme grief and indignation, and the words of the elders who were eating pots of pulp on the small hill by the bank of the Yellow River seemed to linger in his ears again. "Prime Minister of the Great Han Dynasty, can you just watch the Yuan brothers insult officials and trample on the common people? No, the steps to wipe out the Yuan Group have to be taken a step further!"

Cao Mengde decisively ordered Zhong Yao, the captain of the Sili school guarding Luoyang, to be in charge of the defense of Hedong. Zhong Yao's army soon found the Xiongnu army in Nanchanyu and surrounded them in Pingyang County.But two days later, Guo Yuan's Bingzhou Army also arrived in Pingyang.The situation was extremely urgent, and Cao Mengde did not objectively evaluate Guo Yuan's ability under the impulse of the moment. Zhong Yao sent Zhang Ji, the commander of Xinfeng County, to lobby Ma Teng of the Guanzhong Army and state his interests.Ma Teng was still a little hesitant, and his counselor Fu Gan said to Ma Teng: "Since ancient times, those who follow virtue prosper, and those who disobey virtue perish. Mr. Cao was ordered by the emperor to punish the rebellious, rule the world with the law, and let the people not worry about food and clothing. This is the way , the Yuan family disregarded the life and death of the Han people and drove the Huns to invade Hedong. Can you afford it?"

Ma Teng, who was sitting quietly watching the dispute between Cao and Yuan, was moved by Fu Gan's words, so he sent his son Ma Chao to lead more than 10,000 troops, with Pang De as the vanguard, to Pingyang County to help Zhong Yao. On the Pingyang battlefield, several of Zhong Yao's generals advocated retreating because Guo Yuan's momentum was too strong.But Zhong Yao had already estimated that Zhang Ji's lobbying had a great possibility of success, so he encouraged the generals and said: "If we lose the battle again, the prime minister's morale in Liyang will be greatly damaged. After a while, Ma Teng will Come to help us. If we retreat, Ma Teng will look down on us even more and fall to the Yuan Clan, won't that be more troublesome?" Zhong Yao ordered people to dig a tunnel overnight to transport the people in the city and a large number of troops out, while sending people Negotiate with Guo Yuan to gain time to delay Yuan Jun's attack.After Guo Yuan agreed to Zhong Yao's not-too-excessive surrender conditions, he flooded into Pingyang City on a large scale, but was surrounded by the army that Zhong Yao withdrew from the tunnel. Days later, the food in the city was empty.At this time, the Guanzhong Army led by Ma Chao Pound had arrived and captured Pingyang without a single soldier. Guo Yuan was killed by the rebel army, and the Southern Huns surrendered to Shanyu Huhao.In this way, Yuan Jun's business in Hedong fell short.

105 When the two armies of Yuan and Cao fell into a stalemate, Liu Biao, the governor of Jingzhou, Yuan Shao's old ally, sent Liu Bei to take the opportunity to capture Ye County in Yuzhou.The Yuan Shang brothers thought that Cao Mengde would win Ye County if the backyard caught fire, so they decided to wait for an opportunity to counterattack.Cao Mengde did not move, and only sent Xiahou Dun, Yu Jin, and Li Dian to lead troops to attack Liu Bei. The reason for this arrangement was that Yu Jin and Li Dian were cautious and resourceful, which could be reconciled with Xiahou Dun's bravery and lack of strategy.

When Liu Bei saw Xiahoudun's army arriving, he immediately burned down the camp and retreated to the southwest. Xiahoudun ordered the whole army to pursue him. chase." Xiahou Dun refused to listen, so he ordered Yu Jin and Li Dian to stay in Ye County, and led his army to chase Liu Bei fiercely.Seeing that Yu and Li's army were chasing and killing them, Liu Bei could not resist, so the whole army withdrew and retreated into Jingzhou.