Cao Ren and Shi Huan died and escaped, but the battle situation was not reversed in the end.
The 20,000-strong army that showed off its might a few hours ago fell apart in an instant. Except for the twisted corpses on the ground, discarded flags, drums and baggage, as well as clusters of prisoners squatting in a circle with their heads in their hands, there was no one left.
Leave no trace.
The war clouds dispersed, and cheers erupted in the wilderness.
Defeating more with less and paying a small price to win such a battle, the soldiers certainly had reasons to be happy. However, the people under Dongyang City were even more excited than them. They died under the enemy's butcher knife.
Escape is just one of them. What is even more exciting is that the Qingzhou Army really fought back.
Of course, no one, including the Qingzhou generals, is sure what kind of message the distant smoke is conveying. Jizhou's main army is still like a heavy cloud, weighing on everyone's hearts.
However, no one really cares. The minions have been cut off. Is Yuan Shao's final defeat still far away?
The return of the Qingzhou Army means that the violence is gone. Is there anything more joyful than this?
Amid thunderous cheers, Zhao Yun and Taishi Ci met again.
"Okay, brother, you have done a great job in Qinghe." Zhao Yun's face was full of sunshine, a little joking, and his tone was also a little teasing. He looked like a naughty boy next door, completely watching
It does not show the majesty of killing the general and seizing the flag just now.
"Come on!" Taishi Ci didn't feel like he had escaped death. He was in a bad mood at the moment.
He has a very forthright personality and rarely gets entangled in anything, but he is still a little depressed at the moment. If he had known that Zhao Yun would come, why would he charge so fiercely? After counting, more than half of the three hundred warriors who rushed into the battle with him were killed or injured.
More than a hundred people died on the spot.
"My lord asked me to come to rescue you, but in turn I was asked to rescue you, and also lost so many brothers... Sigh." Taishi Ci shook his head and sighed.
"It's the younger brother who took advantage of him." Zhao Yun didn't take the credit. He also saw what the sworn brother was struggling with: "If the elder brother hadn't entangled Cao Ren, he might not have fought with a suspicious formation. There was also an ambush in the Hanoi army.
Careful work is also the key to victory in this battle."
As he spoke, he pointed to the surroundings: "There are also these. The ancients once said: He who wins the hearts of the people wins the world. After this battle, the name of the lord's benevolence will spread throughout the world and be admired and praised by generations to come."
Seeing that he was serious, Taishi Ci couldn't help but feel a little funny: "Okay, okay, I said Zilong, can you not be so serious? You are seventeen this year, not seventy, you act like a little old man
What are you doing? By the way, how did you come in such time? If it were any later, maybe our brothers wouldn’t be able to see each other again.”
Zhao Yun was not angry either.
His martial arts specializes in finding flaws in others, and he speaks and acts in a very strict manner, making it impossible for anyone to find any faults. This kind of character seems too mature for a middle-aged person. For a young man, he is just too mature.
It's not a matter of being a bit mature.
Strictly speaking, his personality is quite different from that of Taishi Ci and Xu Shu. Taishi Ci is very adventurous, while Xu Shu is good at changing situations. However, I don’t know if it’s because of their complementary personalities, but after getting along, the three of them had a good relationship, and in the end, they still had a good relationship.
Taking the opportunity of Taishi Ci to take advantage of Xu Shu, they became sworn brothers of Jinlan.
He automatically filtered out Tai Shici's previous ridicule and answered the following question seriously: "It's all based on the lord's prestige..."
Zhao Yun's delay in showing up put great pressure on Cao Cao, and he even gave up on deciding the outcome with Wang Yu in Liaocheng.
In fact, the reason why Zhao Yun was delayed for so long was not Wang Yu's trick, nor was it because of the war in the north, it was just because he had recruited too many troops, far exceeding expectations!
Including Cao Ren, many of Cao Cao's generals had the experience of recruiting troops from other places. Cao Ren recruited more than a thousand troops in Huaisi, and Xiahou Dun also recruited a similar number in Danyang. It's not that they didn't want to recruit more troops, but they were recruiting troops abroad
, which costs a lot of money, food and time, and is far less efficient than recruiting within the jurisdiction.
Cao Cao sent people abroad to recruit troops because he did not have territory at that time. Wang Yu sent Zhao Yun north to recruit troops. Qingzhou had experienced many wars and was short of manpower and material resources, so he had always been cautious in recruiting troops within his jurisdiction. In addition, it was also because
Due to the particularity of the military type, Zhao Yun wanted to recruit cavalry.
Recruiting cavalry is definitely more difficult than recruiting infantry.
Wang Yu's predetermined target was about a thousand people. He set this number because he remembered that Zhao Yun secretly recruited troops in his hometown before joining Liu Bei.
It was by relying on the hundreds of cavalry recruited by Zhao Yun that Liu Bei struggled with Cao Cao both offensively and defensively in Runan for a long time. Cao Cao thought he could easily defeat Liu Bei, but ended up fighting several head-on battles, but could not defeat the opponent, and finally resorted to
After mastering the unique skill of robbing grain, Liu Bei was dealt with, thus avoiding the embarrassment of fighting on two fronts.
Before Runan, Liu Bei faced off against Cao Cao in Xuzhou, but basically never won and was defeated repeatedly. Without the territory in Xuzhou, most of the elite soldiers and generals he had accumulated previously were lost. When he arrived in Runan, he almost started from scratch.
, As a result, his frontal combat capability has become stronger, which can be seen from the combat power of Zhao Yun's hundreds of cavalry.
It was precisely because of knowing this that Wang Yu asked Zhao Yun to go north to recruit troops when the war broke out again at any time.
His current reputation is much stronger than when Liu Bei was in Runan in his previous life. Although Zhao Yun cannot recruit Gongsun Zan's old subordinates now, Gongsun Zan has promised to provide all kinds of conveniences.
Therefore, he definitely believed that Zhao Yun's harvest from this trip should be greater than in history, and at least he could build a thousand-man army that could be put into combat immediately. However, Zhao Yun, the executor, was a little uneasy, fearing that he would not be able to complete the task.
Task.
Facts have proved that both Wang Yu and Zhao Yun underestimated themselves.
Wang Yu's name was unexpectedly loud, and Zhao Yun's popularity was far better than he imagined. As soon as the recruitment flag was raised, candidates gathered. What Zhao Yun had to worry about was not whether the number could be filled, but how to proceed.
filter.
There are too many people. If there are any who come to apply, bring them with you. Even if Gongsun Zan's horses are ridden away, Zhao Yun will not be able to raise a single cavalry. At most, he can only have half cavalry and half infantry.
After careful selection, Zhao Yun recruited more than 800 athletes in his hometown of Changshan alone. Then he went to Zhongshan, Hejian, and finally Youzhou. Along the way, he recruited more than 3,000 athletes!
That is to say, Gongsun Zan made a bold move, otherwise Zhao Yun would really have to come back on foot. The number of horses that Wang Yu and Gongsun Zan had agreed upon in advance was only two thousand. This Wang Yu expected to be lenient to the enemy and negotiated according to the configuration of one person and two horses.
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Of course, no matter how generous Gongsun Zan is, it is not an easy task to gather so many horses. In fact, the demand for war horses has suddenly tripled, which has already caused Shan Jing and other Youzhou civil servants to complain incessantly. You know, they are also there
There was a series of battles, not only to deal with Wuhuan and Xianbei, but also to guard against Liu Yu. How could six thousand horses be taken at once?
Although under Gongsun Zan's orders, Shan Jing and others did not dare to prick, but there is still no problem in doing some small tricks. They are violating the rules and deliberately wasting time... In other words, Zhao Yun has a good temper and is orderly in doing things. If he is replaced by Tai Shi Ci,
It's not necessarily going to cause much trouble.
However, Zhao Yun's journey to recruit troops was delayed after all. To be honest, after encountering so many accidents, Zhao Yun had already worked very hard to be able to come back before the battle was over.
The return journey is not so easy either, as there is a lively fight in Hejian County.
The Wangmen's rebels attacked so quickly that Zou Dan couldn't even lift his head. Letters to Youzhou asking for help came one after another. If Wu Yuan ordered Tian Yu to show his bravery and rely on hundreds of infantry to unite the people in the city,
Zhuang defended the city, and Zou Dan's front may have completely collapsed.
At this time, of course Zhao Yun couldn't leave from the river.
It's not that I'm afraid of anyone, it's just that Zou Dan was beaten so badly, and my family just passed through Youzhou. I saw it, so why not help? But it's easy to help, but what if the time is delayed and the war is missed?
?
Hejian is not the main battlefield. Even if Zou Dan is really defeated, as long as the main force of Qingzhou wins, the Wangmen will have to spit out as much as they eat. There is no point in arguing here.
Therefore, Zhao Yun detoured around the Bohai Sea and traveled quickly. Just yesterday, after arriving at Nanpi City, he saw Wang Yu's messenger as soon as he entered the city.
"Wuji is in Nanpi?" Upon hearing the name of the messenger, Taishi Ci was immediately stunned. When Wang Yu went north for the second time and fought the battle of Longcuo, Fang Yue was there. This time he detoured behind enemy lines, and he was still thinking about it.
He brought Fang Yue with him, but when he asked, Fang Yue told him that he had another mission, and ended up running away to Nanpi.
"Yes, my lord asked General Fang to go north to look for my younger brother. He took the military order with him. After receiving the order, he went to Qinghe for rescue. After receiving the order, the younger brother did not dare to delay. As soon as he arrived with General Fang, he went south under the starry night. After dawn, he met his elder brother on the road again to contact us.
The messenger from the Youzhou Army, so... luckily we caught up, otherwise it would have been very dangerous."
"Wuji was the one who led the pursuit of the Hanoi army?" Taishi Ci patted his head as if he was in a daze. Suddenly, he thought of something else, and his face suddenly changed: "That's not right!"
"What's wrong?" Zhao Yun was stunned.
"The time is wrong!" Tai Shici yelled, and then he crossed his fingers and said: "A certain person left the camp on the first day of the lunar month, and the victory was reported on the seventh day of the lunar month. According to your statement, Wuji left the camp on the ninth day of the lunar month.
Going north, that is to say, the lord has just received a report of victory from a certain person and has already anticipated what will happen today?"
"...It seems that is indeed the case." Zhao Yun thought for a while, calculated, and then nodded seriously.
"Oops, it's really bad now." Taishi Ci was really worried now.
Originally, he thought that the previous fight was good, but the ending was a bit poor. But looking at it now, he was wrong before. Otherwise, why did the lord send Wuji to find Zilong as soon as he heard the good news? Zilong was too late before.
No return, my lord has always remained calm.
Of course, Zhao Yun would not see him troubled and wanted to comfort him, but he just couldn't find the point. After a while, Fang Yue also returned with his team. As soon as they met, he gave Tai Shi Ci another heavy blow.
"Ziyi, you missed a good opportunity this time. Let me tell you, just because of your accident, the lord launched the decisive battle ahead of time." Fang Yue grinned and said matter-of-factly: "Do you know what method my lord used to deal with Yuan Shao? Crossing the Yellow River at night! Amazing, right? Didn't you expect it? Do you regret it? Fly across the river and attack Yuan Shao's camp at night! These are what you are best at!"
"Oh my god...are you kidding me?" Taishi Ci was about to cry but had no tears.
Camp raids, or night raids, that's what I'm best at. Originally, I had my own share of the decisive battle, but in the end, because of my greed for merit, I ruined a great achievement, and there was no place to complain.
Well, it also hurts my brothers, this is really...
I’m so depressed. (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!)