Those who are far-sighted have the troubles of those who are far-sighted, and those who are short-sighted also have the troubles of short-sighted people.
Liu Pi did not need to worry about the gains and losses of the strategy of secretly crossing the three passes like Yuan Shao, but he did have to be frightened by the fall of Yangkou Wall in front of him.
With the fall of the Yangkou wall, Yuan Shao's arrow has reached the throat of Taipingdao, and Taipingdao's situation has become more and more dangerous.
At the same time, Yuan Shao adopted an alternative method of attacking the mountain.
While Xinpi was attacking Yangkoubi, the generals of the Yuan Army's battalions also launched attacks on other peaks in the Tongbai Mountains. Their common strategy was to surround the mountain on three sides and leave the side leading to Taiping Peak alone.
When the Yellow Turban Army in the mountain could not withstand the combined suppression of Yuan Army, they could only passively gather towards Taiping Peak.
In this way, as the surrounding peaks of Tongbai Mountain fell, more and more Yellow Turban remnants at the foot of Taiping Peak were almost overflowing.
It is also natural that the reserves of the Yellow Turban Army are depleted faster and faster. First, the salt consumption is over, and then the firewood. Only corn is still enough.
However, in order to achieve these, Yuan Jun did not pay a heavy price.
When his army lieutenant colonel Huandian was attacking Tongshan, he was ambushed by the Shanliao people in the mountain and suffered heavy casualties. Although Huan Dian finally relied on his numerical advantage to complete his planned military strategy, he was still uneasy after suffering heavy casualties.
He took the initiative to plead guilty in the military report to Yuan Shao, but who knew that Yuan Shao did not mention the punishment at all in his reply to him, but he greatly appreciated Huan Dian's victory in conquering Tongshan, and even comforted Huan Dian himself. Don't worry about it.
Yuan Shao said that these deaths were inevitable in war and unavoidable in ancient and modern times. He said that he was a general who knew that people could not die, so he did not need to worry and feel sad.
It is said that after Huan Dian received this letter, he burst into tears. He faced Yuan Shao and vowed to die for the Yuan family.
It can be seen that Yuan Shaode was a man.
You must know that Huan Dian is not an ordinary person. He is a typical figure of the Han family who has become a general and a prime minister.
He was from Longkang in the state of Pei. He was a descendant of the public clan and his grandfather was Taiwei Huanyan. When he was twelve, his parents died and he was raised by his aunt. After that, he served his aunt like his parents, which can be described as pure filial piety.
Later, he was appointed Xiaolian as Langguan by Wang Ji, the Prime Minister of Pei State. This Wang Ji is none other than the adopted son of the great eunuch Wang Fu. He is cruel and violent, killing people like crazy. Later, he and his father were killed with a yang bat.
After Wang Ji died, no one dared to bury him, but Huan Dian did it. He directly abandoned his official position and buried Wang Ji. He also mourned for him for three years, built a tomb, built an ancestral hall, and fulfilled the rites of his people before leaving.
And what is this? This is loyalty.
Such a loyal and filial person is naturally a model of the Han family. Then he was replaced by Yuan Shao's uncle Yuan Wei and appointed as the censor. At that time, the Yuan family was at its peak.
As soon as Huan Dian entered Kyoto, he immediately became the core of Yuan's party. He often rode a green horse and was revered as a Censor on a green horse because of his failure to enforce the law.
After the Jiawu Blood Palace, the Yuan family collapsed, and Yuan Shao fled to Runan. Huan Dian lived up to his reputation and once again abandoned his official position and came to Runan to follow him.
Later, Yuan Shao rose again and worshiped him as a school captain. He often led troops in expeditions and made many military exploits.
But now Yuan Shao made him burst into tears with just a few words, which shows that Yuan Shao treats his own people really well. But when Yuan Shao didn't care about the life and death of his soldiers, how could those below care about military merit?
Later, Captain Sima Lang led a thousand men of Lang's party to defeat the Queshan people, burned the mountain city, and captured 3,000 people. The price was hundreds of casualties among Sima Lang's men. He could no longer fight, so he asked Yuan Shao for permission to leave Queshan. To absorb the music from the crowd.
Yuan Shao did not refuse, not only agreed, but also directly increased his troop strength by another five hundred.
Speaking of which, Yuan Shao still felt very sorry for Sima Lang. He knew this young man. He used to be an outstanding young man among the boys.
After that, he broke away from his family ties and joined Huangfu Song's army as a Knight of Hanoi. Then he disappeared.
From then on, there was one less romantic figure in Kyoto's circles. Not only them, but also people in their family thought that Sima Lang died in the war.
But they didn't know that although the young man in the past had disappeared, there was now a breeding man buried in his plump body.
After Sima Lang was captured by hunters near Yingyang, he has been exploited in the past few years.
But after all, Sima Lang was the top figure in the gentry circle, and his ability and charm were infinitely better than those of the hunter clan.
Originally, he had been imprisoned, and only the women would secretly pass some food to him. But soon Sima Lang's opportunity came, that is, chaos began in the Central Plains.
The competition among the heroes naturally brings a bumper harvest to the hunters, but the risks are also greatly increased.
During a hunt, they offended the tribe of Yingchuan Prefect Kong Ni, and their doom came.
After being surrounded and suppressed several times in succession, this hunter team could no longer sustain itself and was about to collapse.
At this time, Sima Lang stood up and led the team to win several battles, so everyone returned home. After that, Sima Lang continued to annex similar hunting teams and gradually strengthened his own arms.
Later, when Yuan Shao rose up in Runan and sent troops to attack Yingchuan, Sima Lang took thousands of his troops to join the army and was directly appointed as a school captain.
This is the reason why Sima Lang has stayed in this hunter team. He had several opportunities to escape, but he took a fancy to this armed force.
He is smart and understands that with the advent of troubled times, the status of the family has become useless, and whoever has a tribe can have a future. So, he carefully pulled out a piece of music, and after throwing himself at Yuan Shao, as expected, he became the captain of the school. This year, Sima Lang was not yet eighteen.
The suffering of being squeezed by the Hunters in the past has become a gift of fate due to his own abilities.
The dialectic between gains and losses is evident.
However, even though the losses of Yuan's army were not small, up to now, all armies have achieved their set goals, which is to trap most of the Yellow Turbans in the Taiping Mountain area.
So by now, everyone with a discerning eye knows that if the Yellow Turban Army does not fight a decisive battle with Yuan Jun, the Yellow Turban Army themselves will slowly commit suicide.
Therefore, Liu Pi and the others had no choice but to fight against the mountain.
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On September 18, in the morning, it was raining lightly at the foot of Taiping Mountain.
Although the sky at this time was not very bright, it was enough for a fight.
On the outskirts of Taiping Mountain, Yuan Jun's camp beat three hundred drums, and the officials in each camp were excited and clamored to attack the wall.
It was raining lightly at this time, the ground was wet, and the barriers were slippery, but it did not affect Yuan Jun's fighting spirit at all.
It can be said that Yuan Jun is now in a period of soaring combat power. Since Runan launched his troops, Yuan Jun can be said to have fought every three days and fought every five days. He either rushes to the battlefield or is still fighting bloody battles on the battlefield.
Ordinary people can become elite soldiers in such a high-intensity battle, not to mention that a large number of officials in Cao's army came from Fumin households. These were veterans of the battlefield, and they became more energetic after such cruel elimination.
In fact, what Yuan Shao is now adopting is a typical army-building method of using war to support war and using war to train troops.
The essence of why Yuan Shao was able to implement this cruel military training method was that there were enough people in Yuzhou. Previously, a large number of people were recruited into the army by their respective counties. At its peak, the total number of soldiers in Yuzhou totaled twice. A huge amount of one hundred thousand.
This is what Yuzhou, which has a population of eight million, can do. However, after so many years of exile and consumption, no one knows how big the population of Yuzhou is.
After Yuan Shao annexed the heroes of Yuzhou, his military strength once reached 150,000, but Yuan Shao did not need and could not afford to support such many soldiers.
So after some reduction, Yuan Shao finally had 50,000 elite troops in the core and 30,000 troops in the peripheral states and counties, with a total strength of 80,000.
It can be said that Yuan Shao was almost the leader in Guandong in terms of hard power at this time, and Cao Cao also wanted to subordinate him.
Another reason why Yuan Bing dared to fight was that Yuan Shao organized all his 50,000 elite soldiers into a separate household with military registration.
The military registration he held was not the humiliating household registration that he would later have. On the contrary, he was a group with special political and economic privileges, just like the military registration.
Military status is not simply an identity, but is linked to the land system.
As early as the period of dormancy in Runan, Yuan Shao and his chief adviser Xu You discussed what he would need to rely on to stand out among the heroes in the future.
Among them, Xu You's analysis was the most enlightening to Yuan Shao.
He first pointed out from a high position that any force must have its own ruling class if it wants to survive for a long time. Just like the Taishan Army at the peak of its power, he relies on the Qian Shou and Taishan Army.
As for Cao Cao, he also had his own ideas. He wanted to win over the wisdom of the world, that is, the class of Confucian scholars as his ruling class, with Qiao Pei warriors as the core, and Qingzhou native scholars and Yingchuan Yushi as the two wings.
So what does Yuan Shao focus on?
Due to the tragedy of the Blood Wedding, the current Yuan family is too thin to be the core support of the rule. And because of Xun Yu, half of the Yingchuan scholars have gathered under Cao Cao's command. They don't care that Yingchuan is now in Yuan Shao's hands. inside.
Therefore, under such circumstances, Xu You suggested that Yuan Shao pull up a separate force, that is, warriors.
This kind of warriors are very different from the generals of the past. Their profession is warriors, who make a living and make war their profession.
Xu You was from Nanyang, so he had no scruples about the conflicts of interests in places like Yuzhou and could paint freely.
He said that since warriors are to become a profession, or even the core, they must be given land. This was learned from the Taishan Army. The Taishan Army attracted many hearts by giving people points, and now Xu You plans to follow suit.
And now Yuzhou also has this condition.
Due to successive wars, the current registration and land records in Yuzhou were burned down, many people died, and a lot of land was vacated.
Now it is time to allocate these lands to warriors and let them occupy the land.
The land was not given to these warriors to farm, but to establish manors, and then let the fields and heads of the manors support them.
According to Xu You's plan, the 50,000 elite warriors at the core of the Yuan family, based on the standard of ten households raising one soldier, would require 500,000 households, a full three million people.
The Yuan family has not yet assembled such a huge human resource, so it has long been promised to these elite warriors that the population of this attack on the Yellow Turban Army will give priority to supplying their estates.
In this way, how could these Yuan Jun warriors not have a burning will to fight but an iron heart?