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The land of China is full of auspicious snow, and the outside of Runan City is covered with silver.

In the night, the infantry team quietly approached the city, but the defenders at the city were not aware of it at all.

The team was about 3,000 people, all wearing white robes and walking in the snow. The general was eight feet tall, with a leopard head and a round eyes, and a spear in his hand. It was Zhang Yide, a man from Yan.

After Yuan Cao broke out in the Liyang area, Liu Bei had been coveting Runan, but Cao Cao was prepared for it. Not only did he send his clan brother Cao Hong to stay in Runan, but he also arranged two capable deputys for him - Man Chong and Zhang Xiu.

Although Cao Hong was a reckless man, he was resourceful and resourceful. He was as careful as a child. Under his suggestion, Cao Hong stabilized his defense, did not seek to make contributions, but wanted to be without mistakes.

As for the remnants of the Yellow Turbans in the territory, Liu Pi, Gong Du and others, they were allowed to be rampant in the territory, but they just kept the peace in the city of Runan, so as not to give Liu Bei an opportunity to take advantage of it. After the decisive battle between Cao Cao and Yuan Shao was over, they would settle accounts with these bandits.

A few days ago, Man Chong's father died of wind and cold. Man Chong went to the funeral for thousands of miles and returned to his hometown in Shanyang.

This news was obtained by the scouts placed in the city by Liu Bei and was quickly passed to Liu Bei in Lujiang. Chen Gong looked like a torch and felt keenly that the time was coming to take Runan, so he asked Liu Bei to prepare his troops in secret and attack Runan.

Liu Bei now owns two county towns, Huainan County and Lujiang County. His troops have expanded to 50,000, with dozens of good generals and dozens of staff. He has become a force that no prince dares to underestimate.

Huainan is a place of four battles, with a thoroughfare of nine provinces, surrounded by powerful enemies. Liu Bei adopted Chen Gong's opinion and ordered Guan Yu, Guan Ping and his son to lead 15,000 troops to take charge of Shouchun and form a junction with Lujiang.

Liu Bei was deeply impressed by Chen Gong's strategy. Since he received his assistance, he has walked from a stray dog ​​who is living under others to the road to the prosperous road. Therefore, he followed Chen Gong's advice.

Since Chen Gong said that the time was coming to take Runan, Liu Bei ordered Zhang Fei and Wei Yan to lead 20,000 generals to follow Chen Gong to advance towards Runan. Liu Bei himself, Chen Dao, Mi Fang and Mi Zhu led 20,000 troops to defend Lujiang, in case the Sun family in Jiangdong took the opportunity to attack.

More than 300 miles from Lujiang to Runan, the mountain roads are rugged, and the roads are mostly withered plants and trees, and their whereabouts are hidden, which is very beneficial for the march.

After Man Chong left, the weather gradually became colder. Cao Hong felt that only fools would use troops in these cold winter years, so he relaxed his vigilance.

Until Chen Gong and Zhang Fei led their troops into Runan, only eighty miles away from Pingyu County, Cao's scouts still did not find Liu Jun's whereabouts.

After the sky became dark, auspicious snow fell from the sky, and the sky and the earth were covered with whiteness.

Chen Gong ordered all the soldiers to apply cold-proof objects such as pine oil on their hands, and marched to Pingyu City overnight, and sent people to contact Gong Du and Liu Pi who had been secretly supporting Liu Bei.

Liu Pi and Gong have been entrenched in Runan for many years, and have gathered more than 5,000 Yellow Turban Remains under their command. They have been in secret contact with Liu Bei and were invited by Chen Gong. They happily sent troops to help and rushed to the city of Runan overnight.

After a quick march in the middle of the night, Liu Jun had approached Pingyu City only twenty miles away.

Chen Gong was worried that he would be seen by the defenders on the top of the city, so he ordered Zhang Fei to select 3,000 elite soldiers to put on the white clothes he had prepared before, and marched under the city of Runan with the cover of white snow. When he arrived at the city, he caught the defenders off guard. After occupying the city gate, he raised a fire as a call, and then led a large army to attack with Wei Yan.

The sky and the earth were covered with white space, with large scattered snowflakes falling, and the defenders on the city took turns to avoid the snow, and the patrol troops were reduced by at least half.

It was not until Zhang Fei led his army across the moat and laid the ladder on the city wall that Cao's army, who was guarding the city, exclaimed: "No, there is an enemy!"

There were only dozens of patrolling soldiers on the city wall, and were shot by the dense rain of arrows from thousands of people under the city. They died suddenly and died. Liu Jun easily climbed to the top of the city.

"Huerhey..."

Zhang Fei roared, swung the spear in his hand, cut down the suspension bridge with his own hands, and then captured the city gate, and ordered people to raise fire on the top of the city to meet Chen Gong and Wei Yan's army.

Cao Hong and Zhang Xiu were awakened in their sleep and hurriedly organized the city's troops to meet the enemy. Under the command of the two generals, 15,000 troops guarding the city launched a counterattack towards the city gate.

Zhang Fei waved a snake spear and led three thousand elite soldiers to block the city gate, like a rock, and remained motionless.

Cao Hong and Zhang Xiu led their troops to fight to the death, but they were unable to regain the city gate. For a moment, the sound of killing in Runan City shook the sky and flesh and blood flew everywhere.

In just about an hour, Chen Gong and Wei Yan led a large army to attack. Liu Pi and Gong Du also led more than 5,000 Yellow Turban troops from the north and surrounded Runan on three sides to attack fiercely. Cao Hong and Zhang Xiu could not resist and could only lead their troops to break westward.

At dawn, a flag with the word "Liu" floated on the head of Runan City, but in just one night, the owner was changed.

Only two hundred miles from Runan to Xuchang, if you lose Runan, the barrier will be lost to the south of Xuchang.

Cao Hong collected defeated soldiers and counted the number of people. This battle lost more than 4,000 people and had more than 10,000 troops under his command. He retreated north to Shangcai, and arranged defense lines in Ancheng area to prevent Liu Bei from driving straight in and attacking Xuchang. He also sent people to rush to Guandu to ask Cao Cao for emergency.

It was especially cold on both sides of the Yellow River. A thick layer of ice formed on the surface of the river, and the soldiers could hardly stretch out their hands. The armor was worn on their bodies and the scabbard was almost impossible to pull out without force.

The Yuan and Cao armies had been in stalemate near Guandu for seven or eight days. Because of the cold, they both stopped moving their troops. Yuan Shao and Cao Cao both wanted to retreat, but the enemy did not move. I did not move, and neither side was willing to withdraw from the battlefield on their own initiative.

Even though Cao Cao had experienced many battles, he had long been happy and angry, but when he received Cao Hong's letter of help, he was still in a cold sweat.

He slapped the table and scolded: "Raising tigers is a disaster, raising tigers is a disaster... I really regret letting Liu Bei go, the ungrateful thief! Runan is lost and Xuchang is not at peace, so I retreat!"

Unexpectedly, Liu Bei's combat power was so amazing. All Cao Cao's staff were surprised. After thinking for a while, Guo Jia still came out to offer suggestions.

"Duke Cao, Liu Bei's power has become stronger, and it may be difficult to wipe out for a while; there is a large Yuan family army in the north, and we are attacked from both sides. If we attack on both sides, our army may not be able to support it. Only when we further deepen our relationship with Sun Ce of Jiangdong and win over the Jiangdong Legion to restrain Liu Bei can we resolve the crisis in Xuchang!"

Cao Cao thought for a moment and nodded in agreement with Guo Jia's statement.

He ordered Dong Zhao to travel to Jiangdong instead of him, and appointed Sun Ce as "Mr. Wu" in the name of the emperor, and betrothed his niece to Sun Ce's younger brother Sun Kuang as his concubine. This is not the end, and he also promoted the civil and military officials under Sun Ce one by one in the name of the court, and tried his best to win over it.

Dong Zhao received the order, took more than a dozen followers, walked south through the snow, and headed towards Jiangdong.

"Retreat the troops and wait until the spring is warm, then go back to Guandu to compete with Yuan Shao!"

With Cao Cao's order, 60,000 Cao's troops set out to retreat south.

When passing through Zhongmu County, Cao Ren was left behind, and the two generals Le Jin led 30,000 troops to prevent Yuan's army from rushing straight in.

Cao Cao himself brought Xu Huang, Li Dian, Xu Chu and his staff back to Xuchang at night, preparing to plan a counterattack on Runan.

When he heard that Cao's army, eighty miles away, suddenly retreated. Staff Xun Chen hurriedly asked to see Yuan Shao: "Lord, Cao's army suddenly retreated. It is probably because of military information behind it. If it were not Liu Bei or Liu Biao, please order the army to seize Chenliu in one fell swoop!"

Yuan Shao shook his head and rejected Xun Chen's suggestion: "The weather is so cold, how can we fight? It's only October, and the ice on the Yellow River is one foot thick. How about it when the twelfth lunar month?"

"My father, the weather is really cold. Just staying in the tent is already trembling all over, let alone fighting! Retreat the army, the cold wind is getting worse and worse?" Yuan Shang, who had been burning next to him, said with a pale face in a thick cotton coat.

Because Yuan Shang accidentally got infected with the cold, Yuan Shao was so anxious that he couldn't sleep or eat in the past few days. He had long wanted to withdraw his troops, but Cao's army did not retreat, and he could not take the initiative to retreat.

The Yuan family has suffered two consecutive defeats in Baima and Yanjin. If they take the initiative to withdraw their troops this time, they will inevitably feel that they have lost, so Yuan Shao is hesitant. But since Cao Cao takes the initiative to withdraw his troops, there will be no such rumors again!

"Retreat, retreat, retreat!"

Seeing his son's pale face, Yuan Shao said three times to retreat, got up and walked to Yuan Shang, reached out and touched his hot forehead, and said worriedly: "Why is it getting hotter and hotter? The doctors in the army are really useless! We will retreat to Yecheng immediately and find the best doctors to treat my son!"

Looking at Yuan Shao's appearance as a kind father, Xun Chen had nothing to say and shook his head and left the handsome tent.

Yuan Shao immediately summoned civil and military staff to discuss strategies to withdraw the army.

After some military discussion, Yuan Shao made a decision, led by Zhang He and the other generals Gao Lan to retreat northward to Yuanwu County, fifty miles northeast of Guandu, to confront Cao Ren from Zhongmu opposite him across Guandu.

Yuan Shao led the other troops back to Jizhou. When the flowers bloomed next spring, he marched into the Central Plains and hunted the Cao army at Guandu to compete with the male and female.

Three days later, Gao Shun led his troops back to Huai County, placed the team properly, and went to the city to pay a visit to Yuan Mai.

Due to heavy snowfall and inconvenient transportation, Yuan Mai's information was much slower. He still didn't know about the news that Yuan and Cao suddenly withdrew from Guandu. He was very surprised by Gao Shun's sudden return.
Chapter completed!