In this battle, although he had been extremely careful to avoid direct engagement with the opponent, he still lost hundreds of people. Peng Biao's mood is really not good, and he feels that the other party is really an invincible opponent in the field, if he really fights head-to-head, even if all his forces are pressed, he may not be able to win.

This battle also made Peng Biao give up the idea of gathering troops and attacking Liang County instead, and the march had made him helpless, and Jiancheng was really difficult to start. Rather than running away, it is better to make up your mind to concentrate your forces on the Huainan front line and engage in a grappling fight with the other side to slow down its march.

Moreover, judging from the arrangement of the other side later, the people were not dispersed, but carried with them, which shows that the main general of the other side is not a person with a strong heart, and the speed of the opponent's march will undoubtedly be delayed even more, and the logistical pressure will become greater.

Although Peng Biao also understood that his tactics of driving civilians to death were really hurtful, even within their current Zhao State, if they were sent back to the rear, they might be used as an excuse to attack him. But at the moment, he can't take care of so much, the other party is not an opponent that can be defeated head-on, if he can't keep Shouchun before the reinforcements arrive, the blame will undoubtedly be greater.

Therefore, after leading the army and retreating, Peng Biao did not even try to try to hold Huliangshu, but directly led the army to retreat again, joined the men and horses on the back road, and repeated the previous actions of gathering people.

The situation around Huliangshu also spread and was known, so for a while, those dock walls in Huainan either spontaneously gathered to defend the danger, or simply abandoned their homes and fled to the mountains.

This also brought great trouble to Peng Biao, who understood that what he did this time could be described as drinking to quench his thirst and messing up his own position. No matter what this victory or defeat is, if the country still wants to stabilize Huainan in the coming days, it must have strong troops stationed here, otherwise it will inevitably be a series of rebellions, and it will not be possible to live in peace.

From this point of view, if Peng Biao can't win this battle, then his future is really worrying, he has lost his land and lost the public, and the rule of virtue in the past few years will at least be greatly reduced in this land of Yuzhou. Therefore, he needs to have a great contribution to protect him from liquidation afterwards.

The previous battle made Peng Biao more aware of the temperament of the enemy's main general, Shen Zhezi, or benevolent, but also limited. Simply driving the people into battle will not cause any impact on the other side, and because of the chaos of those people, it will cause a lot of trouble to their own departments.

So next, Peng Biao no longer deliberately gathered people to rush into battle, but transferred the main force to the south, broke through the dock wall in the realm, and created a large number of displaced people to attack the south. No matter what the outcome of this battle is, it will be difficult for him to gain a foothold in Huainan in the future, so it doesn't matter how the situation in Huainan will be ruined in the future, he just wants to be able to do his best to create a fighter to win.

However, after such a rampant place, Peng Biao soon tasted the consequences.

In the land of Huainan, there are not too many dangerous places to defend. The terrain of the Jianghuai hills has gradually stabilized, and there are occasional shallow slopes and ponds, which are not dangerous places for people and animals to be sad about. But if you really want to choose a place to be stationed, it is not completely without a choice, and Luodu, located in the south-west of Huainan, is a good choice.

Where Luo Du is located, it is a barren mountain in the remnants of the General Ridge, and it is also a watershed between the Huaishui and Luojian among the many waters in Huainan. And Luodu is a short waterway that runs through the mountains and connects the two rivers.

In the summer, it can be used as a waterway to connect the two rivers, and in the winter, when the water is exhausted, it is not easy to navigate, because the two rivers flow here, but it becomes a horizontal ditch separating the north and south. In the early years, when Zuyue was at odds with the Jiangdong court, he used to build fortifications here, and stationed troops here to prepare for the south.

On the one hand, he sent people to dig deep into Luodu, which was in the dry season, and demolished several stone bridges on Shuidu, and on the other hand, he continued to mobilize troops to assemble at the fort north of the waterway.

So far, more than 4,000 people have been gathered here, of which only more than 2,000 are Peng Biao's own descendants, and the rest are local troops in Shouchun.

Most of these people were ancestral generals in the past, or they could not be trusted, but in terms of resisting the northward advance of the Yuzhou army, they were consistent with Peng Biao's intentions. After all, if they hadn't betrayed the ancestral covenant in the early years, Shouchun would not have been attacked by Zhao so easily. Once the Jiangdong Imperial Court recovers Shouchun, whether it is to pursue them to surrender to the enemy in the city, or to follow the ancestral covenant in the early years to make a rebellion, it is impossible to let them go easily!

Because too many troops were invested here, as a result, Peng Biao's troops in Shouchun City were less than 2,000 people. This is already an extremely dangerous number, but at the moment Peng Biao has to do this, he can only hope that the reinforcements will come early, or break the opponent here.

Left near the crowd, a large number of people drove south. Peng Biao also sent a large number of rangers to cruise south of Luodu, one to spy on the military and the other to drive away the people.

The speed of the Yuzhou army going north is getting slower and slower, which is a good phenomenon for Peng Biao, and the more they come north, the pressure on logistics will increase by one point. Even if the army is strong, but with so many displaced people taking refuge, food and grass must be in short supply. Therefore, the rangers who went south were also tasked with waiting for an opportunity to harass the other party's grain routes.

Further south of Luodu, it can be described as a human tragedy, a large number of people were expelled into the wilderness, and the fields were littered with corpses, some of them were forced to die of hunger and cold, and some were beaten and killed by the cavalry driven by the rear road.

Perhaps because they also understood that their side was in a bad situation, the cavalry redoubled their tyrannical attitude when they drove away the people. They did not even allow the people to stop for a long time, and as soon as they found that the ranks were stagnant, they rushed forward to chase and kill.

In the bitter cold wind, a team of more than 200 displaced people was slowly moving south on the gentle slope, they seemed to be a whole clan, all unkempt, and their clothes were dirty and torn. Some of the strong men were carrying old people on their backs or children in their arms, their thin chests rising and falling violently, and large puffs of white gas spewed out of their mouths, and the whole team struggled forward.

At this time, the sound of horses' hooves suddenly sounded in the rear, which was tantamount to the sound of urging for life for the people in the team. As the sound of the horses' hooves drew nearer, the old and weak in the procession trembled, and the women and children hung their heads and wept. The strong ones tried to quicken their pace, and their steps were already staggering and faltering.

However, how could the legs be as fast as the four hooves, and soon seven or eight horsemen in leather robes had appeared behind them, these slave soldiers were originally just wandering aimlessly in the wilderness, but after seeing this group of outcasts, their eyes flashed with cruel light.

One by one, the horses chased after them, brandishing their whips and scolding those who were left behind, and their mouths were filled with scolding in nonsense or Chinese, and cruel laughter.

"Anu go quickly!"

At the back of the procession was an elderly woman in his arms, while the other hand was holding the young child to run wildly, but the child stumbled and fell. At this moment, a slave rode up on a horse, and the horse's foot happened to step on the back of the child who was struggling to get up, and the child let out a scream that was not like a human voice, and then hot blood poured out of his mouth.

"My ......"

When a woman next to her saw this, tears welled up in her eyes, and she turned over and threw herself at the child who had stopped convulsing. However, when the slave soldiers on the horse saw this, even if they drew a long knife and slashed it, the woman immediately collapsed and died.

"Ah......h

When the strong man in front of him heard the sound and turned his head to look, his eyes were already cracked, and a tragic roar came out of his mouth, and then he pushed the old woman forward with both hands, knelt on the ground and cried out sadly: "The son is not filial, and he can no longer serve his mother to the south!" ”

With that, he rolled on the spot, grabbed the gravel from the ground, and was about to raise his hand to smash the slave soldier who had already rushed towards him, when an arrow flew out diagonally, straight through his throat! This person's expression was hideous and tragic, and his body still swooped a few steps in the huge earthquake, and when the slave soldier swung his knife and slashed, his arms were closed and he grabbed the back of the knife, and then he fell heavily to the ground!

The slave soldier didn't expect this person to explode so vigorously when he was dying, and he was pulled and leaned over for a while and almost fell off the horse, his body twisted to stabilize his body, and the back of his head was hit by a heavy object and completely fell off the horse's back. It turned out that the old woman threw herself at him and knocked him down with her body!

"The old slave should be damned!"

The slave soldier cursed, let go of the handle of the knife that was still deep in the corpse's body, turned his hand and grabbed the old woman's hair, hooked her throat and closed her five fingers, the old woman's throat bone was suddenly broken and there was no sound, only the bulging cloudy eyes looked directly at the slave soldier.

Rao is murderous like hemp, the slave soldier still felt cold when he saw the terrifying sight, and he hurriedly turned over and was about to get on the horse again, but there was a strong wind behind him, and a rock hit his forehead, and blood gushed out in an instant, blocking his vision. At the same time, the sound of hurried footsteps sounded, and a hot breath sprayed in the ears, followed by severe pain, and the whole ear had been torn off by sharp teeth!

Five or six people on the side turned over and rushed over, one by one with flesh and blood, the slave soldier was quickly thrown to the ground, although his hands and feet were struggling violently, but there was a sharp pain everywhere he could eat, and he became a bloody man in an instant, and his wailing stopped abruptly!

"Stop, you untouchables don't want to live!"

Seeing this, the slave soldier on the side suddenly froze, and waved his knife to rescue his companion, but he himself was directly hugged by someone on the head of the horse, and he would not let go. After a moment's pause, someone on the side screamed and pounced, blocking the blade with his hands and devouring people with his teeth!

More than 200 homeless people finally broke out in a desperate situation, and they were all dead on the left and right, and they would rather die than be rampant by these slave soldiers who ravaged the countryside! Each with flesh and blood, hard to shake the iron hooves of slave soldiers.

The slave soldiers were besieged by this, and were pulled down from their horses by people fighting for their lives, fighting and scuffling for most of the quarter, and all eight slave soldiers died on the spot, one by one, without all the corpses, their chests were dissected, and the plasma liver and intestines were spilled all over the ground!

Similar scenes are by no means isolated cases, they are repeatedly staged in this cold winter wilderness, and the murderers are always killed! With the sharp increase in casualties of the rangers dispatched, and the cavalry of the Yuzhou Army also frequently rushed to meet the displaced people, Peng Biao did not dare to send a small group of rangers south for a while!

After another three days, the main force of the Yuzhou army finally appeared on the south bank of Luodu, and as soon as it appeared, the car formation was arranged into a battle formation along the dry water, and it was a posture of long-term garrison and confrontation here.

Facing each other for two days, but the other party did not attack, Peng Biao couldn't help but be suspicious, while he choked the passage of the Yuzhou army to the north, in fact, the road to the south was also blocked. On the third day, he climbed the camp and found that there were no cavalry in the opponent's formation!

After a little silence, Peng Biao's face has changed greatly, and he immediately sent a ranger to go east along Luojian, and he got the news in a few moments that several fort passages in the northeast of Luojian were attacked last night, and now they have been taken by the Yuzhou army. In other words, the east and south of Peng Biao's department were blocked, and the west was frozen water, and there was no place to cross at all!

"Shouchun ......"

As soon as he understood his situation, Peng Biao's face immediately changed, once Shouchun was lost, the position he chose to snipe his opponent to the north became a Jedi surrounded on all sides!

At this time, he realized that the reason why the other party was slowly advancing was not just a simple drag on the baggage, but more likely to attract his main force to the south and create an opportunity for other troops to attack Shouchun!

However, if the other party dares to do this, isn't he afraid that the reinforcements from the back of the country will arrive in time, and then capture Shouchun back, and by the way, he will attack himself on both sides, completely annihilate the other forces of the other party, and at the same time break this seemingly desperate encirclement?