Yuan Shao's army retreated to the camp. The morale of the three armies was low and lifeless!
He should have defeated Gongsun Zan, seized Youzhou, and unified Hebei in one day!
However, who would have thought that although Gongsun Zan was dead, an even more troublesome Lu Fengnian would appear!
Ever since Lu Bu's death, his second brother had appeared out of nowhere, and his name had shaken the Nine States within a few months.
All the dukes were fighting to rope him in!
In order to express his goodwill, Yuan Shao did not even blame Lu Fengnian for occupying his Julu City without a word. Instead, he sent an envoy to deliver a handwritten letter to express his goodwill.
The various vassals even sent messengers to Julu to express their goodwill to Lu Fengnian, afraid that they would fall behind!
This kind of prodigy who was both wise and brave, Yuan Shao thought that he had already overestimated him very much!
However, he did not expect that he would still underestimate Lu Fengnian's strength in the end.
Yuan Shao had said several times that Lu Fengnian was more than ten times uglier than Yan Liang!
This was not purely about martial strength. Otherwise, why would Yuan Shao send Yan Liang, Wen Chou, and Lu Fengnian to fight at the front lines?
Yan Liang is ugly and brave, but he is smart and calculative.
Among Yuan Shao's generals, only Zhang He was considered a commander. Zhang He was not weak, but he was still much weaker than the two generals.
Lu Fengnian had defeated Xu Huang in one move and defeated the Cao camp generals with Diao Chan in his arms. Xu Chu and Xiahou Dun had almost lost their lives!
His martial strength was extraordinary, even more so than Lu Bu's!
In the afternoon, they would break out of the encirclement, and at night, they would attack Xiapi City and recall the Breaking Ranks Camp.
Such courage and boldness were far from what ordinary people could compare to!
After seizing the city, he didn't have any greed and decisively abandoned the city north.
All of this showed that his attainments in the art of war were extremely high!
Such a person was truly a talented general.
However, this person was able to gather the hearts of the people and make many talented people obey him. This person had the ability to lead and was indeed a young hero!
That's right, the most important thing was that this child was only eighteen years old!
He was still very young and had a bright future!
Such a person, saying that he was ten times uglier than Yan Liang, why not?
However, Yuan Shao had never expected that Lu Fengnian was not only ten times stronger than Yan Liang and Wen Chou in terms of overall ability, but he was also more than ten times stronger than Wen and Yan in terms of martial strength!
When he thought about how Yan Liang and Wen Chou were killed by Lu Fengnian, Yuan Shao felt extremely regretful!
If he did not waste his breath on Lu Fengnian and directly led his army to charge forward, how could he, a mere 800 Snow Dragon Cavalry, possibly stop them?
If not for this, how could he have lost two of his beloved generals?
No, three brave generals!
The most hateful thing was that the five thousand elite soldiers led by Gao Lanhe were all wiped out by Lu Fengnian!
Yuan Shao's army was said to be 400,000 strong. However, after disregarding the 100,000 auxiliary troops, he still had 300,000 combat troops left.
Among them, there were only 100,000 elite soldiers, while the 5,000 elite soldiers that Gao Lan brought with him, Yuan Shao's elite force of that level, had a total of less than 30,000 people!
Lu Fengnian had killed five thousand of them!
Three of his generals were killed, and Yuan Shao lost his arm in pain. He was in low spirits, and the army he led was also intimidated by Lu Fengnian's peerless might, causing the morale of the army to fall into chaos!
As a result, Yuan Shao could still be defeated in this battle against a mere few thousand troops!
What he needed to do now was to reorganize the army's morale and stimulate the soldiers 'fighting spirit and killing intent!
A battle plan against the Snowy Dragon Knights!
As long as the Snow Dragon Cavalry Battalion was annihilated, the rest of the troops would be insignificant!
So what if Lu Fengnian was alone?
Other than running, he would die!
In the commander's tent, Yuan Shao and the others were discussing military plans!
"Everyone, the main reason for this defeat is that I underestimated Lu Fengnian. I was careless!”
"Fortunately, Ziyuan advised us to retreat temporarily.”
"Otherwise, even if we kill Lu Fengnian, our army will suffer heavy losses!”
"This way, our army will suffer a great loss. The rest of the villains will take the opportunity to launch a surprise attack.”
Zhang He said,"My lord, there is no need to blame yourself. Please pull yourself together!"”
"Lu Fengnian was too cunning. Three generals died tragically, and Zhang He was also grieving!”
"We must regroup and take revenge for the sacrificed warriors!”
"You're right, Xu Yi!" Yuan Shao said seriously.”
"Lu Fengnian has gone too far. He's such an arrogant brat. If we let him off this time, he'll definitely think that our army is afraid of him!”
"As the saying goes, pride is bound to fail!"
"Ever since Lu Fengnian started his career, he has never lost with his Snow Dragon Cavalry!”
"The battle has just begun, so we must have been careless!”
"Now that the soldiers have recovered, they should turn their grief into motivation!”
"Along the way, we have rarely suffered defeat. Now that we have suffered a defeat, it is good for the soldiers to remember.”
"It's because I've never seen Yan Liangwen lose before, that's why when I saw Yan Liangwen die, I lost my guard and the morale of the army fell into chaos!”
Although Yuan Shao had great ambitions but little talent, he indeed could not be considered a mediocre lord.
After calming down and analyzing the situation, Tian Feng and Ju Shou nodded in agreement.
"My lord, after Lu Fengnian enters the Yi Capital this time, I'm afraid he won't come out so easily!”
"Gongsun Zan's fortifications are very strong, and it's extremely troublesome to deal with!”
"Especially now that we can't dig a tunnel, we can only raise our troops and attack!”
Tian Feng cupped his hands and said.
"Yuan Hao is right. All schemes and plots are meaningless now. We can only use absolute military strength to forcefully attack Yi Jing!”
"However, this way, the loss of troops will definitely be huge. There's really no good plan!”
At this moment, Qiushou stepped forward and bowed." Reporting to my lord. We were guarding against Lu Fengnian previously, so we couldn't delay or attack forcefully!"”
"Now that the hidden dragon has emerged from the abyss and is trapped in the Yi Capital by us, it doesn't matter anymore!”
"We only need to surround Yi Jing City. Once the food reserves in the city are exhausted, there will definitely be chaos!”
"When the time comes, we'll attack with all our might and finish it in one go!”
Xu You and Tian Feng both agreed that it was feasible!
With such a unified strategy from his strategists, Yuan Shao didn't hesitate and directly gave the order to execute it!
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