At this time, Lei Yuan immediately rectified his troops and counted them down. His side suffered less than 300 casualties, which was a great victory. Unfortunately, the enemy situation around him was still very complicated at this moment and he had no time to celebrate his achievements. He only ordered the battlefield to be cleaned as soon as possible and arranged for the soldiers to go to a safe place in the mountains to rest as soon as possible.
Deng Tong's troops entered the battlefield a little later, and were snatched by Ma Dai's cavalry, but they did not make any contribution. He saw Ma Dai proud, and his eyes were about to spit out of fire.
At this time, he quickly caught up with Lei Yuan and asked, "General, since the elite troops of Xiahou Dun's headquarters have been destroyed, Yu Jin, who went south from Lu'an, has become an isolated army. Let's simply kill a resurgence, defeat Yu Jin, and take back the county in one breath, and then take down Lu'an and Bo'an and other cities. In this way, all the important towns in the northeast of Lujiang are in hand, with the strong city as the support. Even if Cao's army comes again, they will not be able to move us at any time."
His ideas cannot be wrong. Attacking cities and expanding power are the things that many soldiers want to do most after the victory, but Lei Yuan had never thought about doing this at all, and he did not want to create a situation for his own country to defend the city.
Lei Yuan shook his head and asked, "How many 'easy' are you talking about?"
Deng Tong said in surprise: "What?"
Lei Yuan pointed at him with the tip of the whip and said with a smile: "Old Deng, didn't you say that even if Cao's army comes again, 'available' will not move us? How many Cao's army can be considered 'available'?"
"Ahem..." Deng Tong said: "I think we can take those cities and recruit some new recruits. With the power of victory today, it is no problem to expand 10,000 people? More than 10,000 people occupied the city in the northern part of Lujiang, and backed by the mountain. Cao's army will come another 30,000 to 50,000, and I dare to fight them!"
He hesitated and lowered his voice: "The old sect leader was not so majestic back then! If you..."
Deng Tong was an old subordinate who had followed Lei Xu for many years. It seemed that he was a little obsessed with restoring the former power of the Huainan Haoyou Alliance.
"Take the Zhuchengs in the northern part of Lujiang, expand tens of thousands of troops locally, rely on the mountain in the south, and fight against Cao's army westward?" Lei Yuan sighed deeply: "Didn't we do this three years ago? Then what? Then Prime Minister Cao's army came overwhelmed, and Wu Hou fled back to Jiangdong. The Huainan Haoyou Alliance alone opposed Cao's army, and was crushed into powder in a moment."
"This..." Deng Tong was speechless for a moment.
Lei Yuan continued: "The Cao and Sun families are still easy to fight in the tug-of-war between the Jianghuai River. Our mission is to wander on the flanks of the battlefield and create some momentum, but there is no need to take the city of Lujiang as our own, and waste our power on it."
He paused and approached Deng Tong: "After all, we are just a guest army. We don't need to force the main force of Cao's army, right? What we need to do now is not to occupy the city, occupy land, and chew hard bones, but to seize the time to eat fat meat and pinch soft persimmons."
Deng Tong thoughtfully said, "Eat fat meat? Pinch soft persimmons?"
Lei Yuan nodded: "Xiahou Dun has been defeated, Yu Jin will definitely not worry about traveling to the county, he will probably turn back to Lu'an. That is a strong city, so we don't need to fight hard. At this time, taking advantage of the chaos of the Cao army, we will sweep the Cao army in Yulou, Anfeng and other places in the western part of Lujiang County, and expand our troops appropriately. Then... hahaha, it depends on the actions of Cao Gong and Wu Hou."
Lei Yuan's decision was immediately supported by many soldiers from the western part of Lujiang and Runan. For example, Ding Feng and Fan Shang were all from Anfeng people, and they immediately expressed their willingness to act in advance and be the vanguard of the entire army.
Lei Yuan agreed and rested overnight that night and advanced westward.
The next night, the detective cavalry discovered a Cao army camping in chaos. Lei Yuan did not disturb them, and found a hilly area from afar for the soldiers to rest for another night. In the early morning of the next day, an attack was launched.
Ding Feng and Fan Shangxian used the captured armor and flags to disguise their subordinates as Xiahou Dun's headquarters, and held several surrendered Cao army officers hostage, and went straight into the Cao army camp with a hunchback. They cooperated with the brigade that was attacking and killed the Cao army in an instant.
When the Cao army was running around, Fan Shang and others who entered the western part of Lujiang were in the defeated soldiers in advance, fanning the flames along the way, exaggerating how cruel Lei Yuan was and how tragic the defeat of General Xiahou's troops was. In this way, the morale of the Cao army that was left behind by Xiahou Dun was greatly depressed.
Some of the more talented Cao army officers tried to control the situation and stabilize the hearts of the people, but since Xiahou Dun went to Huan County, there was no news. The defeated soldiers brought back the damaged military flags and other things, which was obviously true. This was not a simple defeat, but the generals of the army and the elites of 5,000 people were all destroyed, and the backbone of the entire army was broken!
The soldiers are not fools, who can’t see the situation clearly?
As a result, when Lei Yuan sent elite troops to attack and kill everywhere, more and more Cao's army trembled. Most of them retreated in battle and retreated to the north of the Huai River or Yiyang and other places. Many local county soldiers heard that the enemy general who led the troops to kill this time was the leader of the Lei clan of Lujiang, so they simply turned against him on the spot.
It took Lei Yuan only two days to defeat more than 20,000 Cao's infantry in succession, and recruited large-scale surrenders and rebels. When the troops were approaching the city of Yulou, his own troops expanded to 6,000 in one breath.
The defenders of Yulou City were trying to defend to the death, and Lei Yuan immediately threw the heads of the beheaded soldiers of Xiahou Dun's headquarters into the city to deter them. Hundreds of heads fell into the city with a crackling sound. The defenders and generals could recognize that this was General Zhao, General Qian, and that was Sun Sima and Li Sima.
These familiar colleagues have now turned into hideous heads, as if evil ghosts were wandering in front of everyone's eyes. Who can stand such a tragic situation? After only a long time, there was a chaos in Yulou City. Two Qu Changs killed Sima, another unit in the city, and surrendered to the city.
Lei Yuan carried the surrendered troops and went north to capture Anfeng again.
There were 3,000 defenders in Anfeng, and the Cao army who fled back in the past few days had more than 10,000 soldiers. However, the more than 10,000 people had no command of the chief general, no deputy generals and staff, and they were all frightened birds. Ding Feng, Fan Shang and others continued to sneak in with the defeated soldiers, setting fires everywhere that night, shouting: "The enemy has entered the city!"
Before Lei Yuan's troops took advantage of the situation to attack and kill, the defenders were scared and opened four gates and fled all over the mountains. At this moment, Lei Yuan really didn't have time to catch him. He just wanted to enter the city to put out the fire as soon as possible and control the entire Anfeng City.
Although he did not intend to occupy the city, Anfeng was the place where Xiahou Dun's headquarters had been stationed before. The food, money, weapons, cattle and horses mobilized in the past few months were all concentrated here. The mountains and seas of materials were planned to be shipped to the Jianghuai River one after another, which was enough to maintain tens of thousands of troops, but now it is all cheaper Lei Yuan.
Lei Yuan played the emotional card of Huainan’s old friends with one hand, and held up the banner of fighting against Cao to destroy the thieves with the other hand, and distributed money and grain like water. Over the past two years, the local soldiers and the people have indeed suffered from exploitation and oppression, and have lived a hard life. So in just three or five days, his subordinates’ troops expanded from 6,000 to 10,000 to 20,000, and snowballed to a terrible level.
Of course, most of them are mobs with low combat power. Lei Yuan himself knew that unless he could spend a year and a half to train, these people could not be used to attack the city, nor could they play a role in the field, and they were purely like shaking flags and shouting. If Cao's army came again, these people would probably collapse, and it would be impossible to turn against each other again.
But how could outsiders judge for a moment? I saw that Lei Yuan's troops scattered across Lujiang, with tens of thousands of people, and they had the intention of crossing the Huai River to attack Runan County. The north of Runan County was Yingchuan County, which was where Xu Du was! What a terrible situation? Since Cao Gong defeated Lu Bu and pacified the Central Plains, no one has ever posed such a huge threat to Xuchang!
The emergency military newspaper rushed to Xudu and Yecheng like snow. Wherever the news came, all the listeners were shocked.
The Marquis of Wansuiting, the Minister of the Inspector of the Attorney General Xun Yu breathed heavily and wanted to hand the military report back to his subordinates. But he had been sick recently and had no strength on his thin wrists, so he couldn't even hold a piece of bamboo slip. The subordinates hurriedly came forward, put away the bamboo slips, and carefully filled them with the brocade bag.
"Mr. Ling, do you have any words to transfer to the Prime Minister?" the subordinate asked softly.
Chapter completed!