Liu Zheng was stunned when he heard this.

Subconsciously, I realized that something was wrong.

He immediately continued to ask Dian Wei in a hurry.

"Dian Wei, tell me carefully, how many people did Zhang Fei take away when he evacuated!"

Dian Wei didn't care much about this before.

After all, it's just a irrelevant little thing.

It is normal for Zhang Fei to withdraw some people, and he must take away money and other things.

Even if Dian Wei himself, he would have done this too.

So I didn't take it seriously at all.

But after Liu Zheng asked, he had to think about it carefully.

"I'm not particularly clear about Your Majesty. The Jinyiwei who conveyed the information did not tell the specific number, but said that Zhang Fei's army took away many people when he left."

"I didn't ask specifically, I just thought it was some aristocratic families who were forced to leave by Zhang Fei's men."

"No, this is absolutely impossible. If you want to coerce the people, Zhang Fei could have done this a few days or even longer ago. There is no need to wait until now and plan to withdraw from Yecheng."

"They really plan to retreat! No, they just plan to migrate and leave all the people from Yecheng and even the entire Jizhou. In this way, even if we finally take Yecheng back, we will not get any benefits!"

Liu Zheng has always been the only one who does such a harmful thing, but he didn't expect that others would do it like this.

He was so angry that he immediately asked Dian Wei to go down and call Xu Huang, Lu Bu and others.

Soon Xu Huang, Lu Bu and others came here again.

They didn't know why, but Liu Zheng hurriedly called them over.

But Liu Zheng was so anxious that they guessed in their hearts that it would be no good.

"Your Majesty is so anxious to come to us. Is there anything wrong?"

Xu Huang asked Liu Zheng respectfully.

Liu Zheng didn't have time to explain anything to Xu Huang and others.

Then he immediately ordered them.

"Gongming, you can quickly lead your cavalry and rush to pursue Zhang Fei and others who escaped from Yecheng. Even if you cannot intercept them, you must ensure that the people who took them away are kept!"

Liu Zheng made a long story short and said something to Xu Huang and Lu Bu, asking them to lead their cavalry to pursue them.

After all, it was to pursue Zhang Fei, mainly to intercept the people Zhang Fei took away.

And only Xu Huang and Lu Bu were under Liu Zheng's command and some cavalry were still there.

Zhang Fei's men had already left first. If the cavalry were not used, even if some infantry could catch up with them, they would definitely be approaching Yanzhou.

Only by using cavalry can we be bigger.

After hearing Liu Zheng's order, Xu Huang didn't ask much, because he knew that he had to hurry up now.

As for what he wanted to know, someone would definitely tell him on the way to pursue Zhang Fei and others.

Neither Xu Huang nor Lu Bu hesitated and took the order with a tense expression.

After summoning his cavalry, he immediately began to pursue the direction of Yecheng.

Liu Zheng's troops were stationed in Handan City. Although they were not far from Yecheng, there was still a lot of news coming and going, and it took some time.

When Liu Zheng sent troops to stop Zhang Fei from escaping with the people.

Two days have passed in time.

With these two days, Zhang Fei had already retreated to Wuchao with his large army.

When Xu Huang and Lu Bu's cavalry chased him.

Zhang Fei and his horse retreated with all their might. When they heard cavalry chasing behind them, they were not even ready to take the battle at full speed to retreat towards the Yellow River.

Although Xu Huang and others were chasing and catching up with Zhang Fei's retreating army in the Wuchao territory, they only brought thousands of cavalry over and did not dare to charge head-on.

Although Zhang Fei's strength was hit, he still had an army of 40,000 under his command.

These people are not something that can be done with just a few thousand cavalrymen.

If there is really a fight, Xu Huang and others have little chance of winning.

Their purpose is just to restrain Zhang Fei and not take these people away.

In this case, the cavalry will drive away the periphery and attack the soldiers escorted these people, and then they will be able to complete the task.

But Zhang Fei's men are also smart, not all the people gathered together.

Instead, these people were removed in batches, and they took different paths.

After Xu Huang and his men rescued a group of people, there were many other groups waiting for him to rescue them.

This took several days to work hard.

Wait until Zhang Fei and others' troops evacuated from Jizhou.

It's been a few days later.

Although Liu Zheng tried his best to let Xu Huang and Lu Bu take their men to save them and prevent Zhang Fei from migrating the people of Jizhou, the time for saving was still a little short of it.

Even though many people were left behind, some people who were closer to Yanzhou had already been migrated away.

When Xu Huang and Lu Bu arrived later, it was useless.

Zhang Fei still took away a lot of the population.

Fortunately, Jizhou has a large population, and Zhang Fei only occupied several cities such as Yecheng, and the number of people he could take away was limited, so it was impossible to completely damage Jizhou's vitality.

If we really want to say that the vitality of Jizhou was damaged, it was the Yellow Turban Rebellion ten years ago. At that time, it was the biggest blow to Jizhou's population, with more than one million casualties.

Now dozens of people have been migrated away by Zhang Fei, which is nothing at all.

As soon as Zhang Fei left, the remaining few cities that were originally occupied by Zhang Fei became no threat at this time.

If Zhang Fei's troops were stationed here, if Liu Zheng took back these cities, it would be a lot of effort. At least if it was fought, it would definitely be inevitable to spend a few days.

Now that Zhang Fei has left directly, there are not many soldiers and horses left in these cities, and there are no soldiers and horses to guard them. It doesn’t take much effort to take Liu Zheng’s men back.

Anyway, it's just an empty city.

After Zhang Fei left for a few days, Liu Zheng took back the cities that had been occupied by Zhang Fei before.

However, after Liu Zheng's men chased Wuchao City by the Yellow River, they did not continue to chase after him.

The Yellow River is a natural barrier that separates Liu Zheng's men and Zhang Fei's territory.

Even if Liu Zheng wanted to continue chasing, it would not be so easy for his men to cross the Yellow River.

Moreover, Liu Zheng was not able to continue chasing Zhang Fei at this moment, and he had only more than 20,000 troops left.
Chapter completed!