In Xudu, more than 100,000 people from each department went north to the Yellow River in batches in the name of escorting grain and grass. Zhang Xiu, Xu Huang, Hou Cheng, Song Xian, Cen Ning and other troops left, joined Yu Jin and Li Dian, and stationed troops on the southern line of the Yellow River.
One day, Ding Yi bid farewell to the emperor and quietly left the city. He brought more than 10,000 troops and horses in Zhang Liao and Huang Zhong’s troops. Zhang Liao was a five thousand horse army, and Huang Zhong was an infantryman, who brought his ten-day military rations and went north.
Fifty miles away from the city, Ding Yi led the entire army to the east, using Zhang Liao as the front army, and stayed along the road at night. When he saw that the city was not in, he encountered the people who were arrested and Huang Zhong was the rear guard, and the entire army ran. Bypassing Dingtao and Zhencheng, he went straight to Dongjun, the capital of Yanzhou.
Guan Yu left Yanzhou and Liao Hua was in charge of Dongjun. He was worried that more than 10,000 soldiers were weak, so he ordered the counties to recruit new recruits and supplement Dongjun.
Ding Yi and Zhang Liao disguised themselves as new recruits from Jiyin County, and suddenly entered Dongjun from the south gate. Liao Hua was focused on the front line of the Yellow River and was blocked in the yamen. Before the fight, he was captured. More than 10,000 veterans in Yanzhou had already spread throughout the four prefectures. Most of the county towns along the way opened the door to surrender. Some of them would rather die than surrender, but were besieged and defeated. The momentum was greatly boosted for a while.
Zhang Yan divided a team of 20,000 infantry to Sun Qing, and asked him to lead the team to circle over Taihang Mountains and kill into Yanmen County. He was in Changshan County and divided his troops with Zhao Yun and rushed directly to Zhongshan Country, Anping Country and Hejian Country. Zhang Yan fought with Yuan Shao for more than ten years, and he was killed from more than one million people to 300,000. The hatred was deep like the sea. This time he left the Taihang Mountains, he decided not to return to the mountain. Therefore, as soon as he entered Zhongshan Country, his first thing was to set fire. Zhang Yan was like a locust for the crops to be harvested. Seeing that the city was not in, he just ignited the fire, and three counties and states were burned to white ground by him! Until the Youzhou Governor Yuan Xi led his army into Jizhou, between the two armies, Zhang Yan ignored it and sent Xiaoshang Guo Damu, Li Daxian, Huang Long, left-bian Zhangba and others to bring 5,000 soldiers into Youzhou to continue setting fires.
Yuan Shao’s army stopped in Guandu and fought with the imperial soldiers. During the stalemate, he suddenly heard that many defeats were defeated. Yuan Tan’s level was sent to him. Yuan Shao had poor psychological quality. When he saw his son level, he vomited blood and fainted. He was unable to manage the officials for several days, and the entire army was in chaos.
At this time, all the soldiers and horses of the court crossed the river on the southern front of the Yellow River. Yuan Shao was defeated and died in the chaos. Xu You, Zhang He, Gao Lan, Zhang Nan, Jiao Chu and others all surrendered; Tian Feng, Ju Su, Shen Pei and others were captured, but they were not surrendered and were beheaded and showed to the public.
Yuan Xi and Yuan Shang fled north and were captured by Zhao Yun. In the end, even the surrendered high-ranking officials and more than 50 relatives of the Yuan family were all taken to Xudu and killed and told the world.