Chapter 688 Yan Liang Retreats

"Well!"

The Qingzhou soldier spat out a mouthful of blood and looked down in disbelief. The spear pierced his chest. The blood from the wound dyed the spear shaft and armor red. His strength also continued to drain with the flow of blood.

"kill!"

The sword and shield wielder shouted loudly, put away his big shield, and made a leaping slash. The ring-headed sword fell heavily on the Qingzhou soldier's neck. With a pop, Dou Da's head fell directly to the ground. His eyes were wide open and he could not close his eyes. .

"very good!"

Hao Zhao praised: "You have done a good job. When a large army fights against the enemy, it is necessary to cooperate with each other in battle formations. Otherwise, even with the bravery of King Xiang, Meng Ben, and Xia Yu, they will be just ordinary men."

Although the Liangzhou soldiers were small in number, they cooperated with each other. Even if some brave men among the Qingzhou soldiers turned around and fought, they were killed by the coordinated Liangzhou soldiers. As the brave men died one after another, naturally no one dared to Turned back.

"kill!"

The Liangzhou soldiers chased and killed Cao Jun all the way, scaring Cao Jun to the point of peeing. He threw away countless supplies of food and grass, and many people left the queue and fled in all directions.

But Cao Hong never dared to look back, he just kept running away. He didn't know how long he ran, but he only felt pain on the inner side of his thighs, and then he stopped.

Cao Hong looked around blankly and saw that there were probably less than 2,000 Cao troops surrounding him.

Of the nearly 10,000 troops he brought, this is the only one left?

Cao Hong was dejected, lowered his head and stared at the Huanshou knife on his waist, staring motionless for a long time.

Minlang!

Cao Hong pulled out the Huanshou sword and placed it across his neck.

"Nearly 10,000 troops suffered heavy losses. How can I have the dignity to meet my lord?"

Cao Hong cried out sadly and was about to draw his sword to commit suicide, but was hugged by his deputy.

"If General Zilian dies, where will we go?"

The lieutenant general advised earnestly: "Victory and defeat are common matters for soldiers. The general can collect the defeated soldiers along the way and return to Pingyuan County to hold on. The general commits suicide. If Pingyuan County is lost, wouldn't the Prime Minister blame him?"

With a clang, the Huanshou knife fell to the ground.

"That's right." Cao Hong sighed and said, "Forget it, let's go back to Pingyuan County first and gather the defeated troops along the way before we talk about anything else."

"All troops withdraw to Pingyuan County!"

After Cao Hong was defeated, he had no choice but to lead the remaining defeated troops to retreat. Along the way, he collected the scattered Cao troops and routed them. At the same time, he withdrew all the garrison troops in the counties of Qinghe County and brought them all back to Pingyuan County for defense.

In this way, Cao Hong's attack was self-defeating. Not only did he fail to lead his army into Yecheng, but he also lost several counties in Qinghe County that Liu Ye and Yuan Shao had annexed during the battle of Yecheng. The defense line was withdrawn to Pingyuan County.

Xu Huangjun achieved a complete victory.

Under Yecheng, Liu Ye led the gentry in the city out of the city, carrying pigs, sheep, grain, rice and other items, and went out to reward the victorious Liangzhou army.

"How is this capture, General Komei?"

Liu Ye cupped his hands and smiled at Xu Huang.

Xu Huang sat on the horse with a smile on his face and told Hao Zhao on the side: "Bo Dao, let us know how our army killed and captured the enemy."

"yes."

Hao Zhao clasped his fists and then said to Liu Ye: "Mr. Ziyang, our army killed, wounded and captured more than 6,000 enemy troops this time, and captured more than 3,000 stones of Cao's army's food and grass, as well as several golden drums and flags."

Liu Ye's eyes lit up: "The total number of Cao's troops is only ten thousand, and the number of casualties and prisoners alone exceeds 6,000. Including the fleeing enemy troops, I am afraid that Cao Hong can take down two to three thousand troops at most, and our army can take advantage of the situation to regain Qinghe County." !”

Xu Huang nodded and agreed: "This is exactly what I meant. Cao Hong is also a strong man. He has already withdrawn the garrison from the counties in Qinghe County back to Pingyuan County. I have sent troops to occupy Qinghe County."

"Well, the key now is Yan Liang."

Liu Ye smiled and said: "Our army should spread this news widely so that Yan Liang can retreat."

"Hahaha!"

Xu Huang laughed and said: "He had better retreat when he sees the difficulty, otherwise our Liangzhou army will be like a rainbow and we will be able to defeat the Youzhou army in one go."

Liu Ye personally presided over it and sent many agents to spread the news of Cao Hong's defeat to Youzhou.

Zhongshan Kingdom, Puyin County.

In the vast wilderness, a camp of Yuan Shao's army was stationed in place. Countless flags were fluttering in the wind in the camp. There were two large flags, one with the word "Yuan" written on it, and the other with the word "Yuan" written on it. There is a word "Yan" written on it.

"What, Cao Hong was defeated?"

In the Chinese army tent, a general wearing black armor with a wolf-like waist and ape-like arms was sitting at attention. It was Yan Liang, who was known as the number one general under Yuan Shao.

Yan Liang showed an expression of disbelief and murmured to himself: "Cao Hong had a total of 10,000 troops, how could he be defeated so quickly?"

"That's not necessarily true."

"Um?"

Yan Liang heard the sound and looked at Feng Ji who was aside, and said hurriedly: "It may not be true? What does this mean, military advisor?"

Feng Ji planned for Yuan Shao to capture Jizhou. Although since Yuan Shao occupied Jizhou, more and more advisers were under his command, but Feng Ji was still the most valued person by Yuan Shao, and he always treated him with courtesy. Therefore, many of Yuan Shao's generals also had Feng Ji. Very respectful, Yan Liang is no exception.

Fengji gently stroked his beard and said slowly: "Liu Ye turned back to Luoyang and left Xu Huang with only 20,000 troops. Now our army and Cao Hong's army are at odds to attack Jizhou. Xu Huang has a calm character and is extremely They won’t all come out in force, it’s not that easy to defeat Cao Hong.”

"Perhaps this is false news released by Xu Huang in order to confuse our army." Feng Ji analyzed: "I heard that before Liu Ye left, he left Huainan Liu Ziyang to assist Xu Huang, both in literature and in military affairs. Maybe In order to confuse our army and buy time for Xu Huang, Liu Ziyang released false news and asked us to withdraw?"

Yan Liang's eyes lit up: "So Xu Huang wants to stabilize our army first and defeat Cao Hong's army before fighting with our army?"

Feng Ji nodded slightly: "It's possible."

"Then our army will speed up its march!"

Yan Liang said decisively: "Since Xu Huang has sent troops to fight Cao Hong quickly, the main force must have left Yecheng. Now that Yecheng is empty, it is a good time for us to quickly go south!"

Feng Ji pondered for a while: "That's fine, but we still need to intensify our efforts to find out more information."

Yan Liang immediately decided to lead 10,000 Youzhou troops to quickly go south, planning to attack Yecheng while Xu Huang's main force was away.

However, as intelligence came, the news of Cao Hong's defeat really came. After the spies reported that Xu Huang personally led the army to station in Yecheng and planned to lead the army north, Yan Liang had no choice but to lead the army back north.

"It's a pity. I didn't expect that the news of Cao's army's defeat turned out to be true." Feng Ji sighed.

Yuan Shao's army was defeated by Liu Ye's army. He didn't expect that even a mere Xu Huang could use his troops like a god. For a moment, he felt that his future was bleak.