"Ran away?" Xiahou Yuan looked at the baggage and armor that could be seen everywhere on the official road, and asked the scout with a smile: "Have you checked these rutted horseshoe prints, Zhang Liao ran away?" ”

The ring knife was stuck diagonally on the ground, and his thick arm was holding the hilt, Xiahou Yuan took off his pocket and raised his hand to rub it from his neck to the top of his head. The calloused palm gave the neck a rough touch, making him unconsciously twist his head to make the sound of the joints twisting, looking back at the Yan army prisoners who were tied up and kneeling in a row in the distance, and scolded angrily: "Cut, cut them all, what kind of general should Zhang Liao be, and run away when he heard the wind?" ”

The devastating defeat of the scouts could not make Xiahou Yuan feel a little easier, Zhang Liao's presence here and the fact that the scouts alone had thousands of soldiers meant that the Yan army north of the Yellow River would have to be eight or nine times out of ten, if not all of them went east. His partial division did not come over as the main force to fight against Zhang Liao, which made him feel very frightened...... The most intuitive feeling of General Shenxing's change in mentality for his subordinates was that they had only traveled twenty miles in half a day.

This distance was already a normal march for ordinary foot soldiers, but for Xiahou Yuan's soldiers, it was too slow to be slow, and even made them a little unaccustomed.

This is all because Xiahou Yuan, who was cautious along the way, thought that Zhang Liao's army would pose an incomparable threat to him, and he was worried that he would be defeated by Zhang Liao alone and wanted to slow down his march to wait for Yu Ban's Taishan army to catch up, and hoped to be the first to discover the traces of Zhang Liao's troops in the north of Liangshan.

Even if Cao Cao dealt with Zhang Liao, he would not be able to support him, and when he said goodbye to Cao Cao in Liqiu, because he expected the various situations that would occur in the battle, Cao Cao made a special trip to tell him that if he met Zhang Liao in a narrow way, although this possibility was very small, once he met Zhang Liao...... No matter how cautious you are!

Xiahou Yuan looked forward to a big battle with Zhang Liao when Yu Ban's troops arrived, so as to win the battle for Dongjun and lay the foundation for leading his army north to fight for Jizhou after the torrential rain in Hebei.

But this was all in vain when they marched to the official road where most of Zhang Liao's troops had previously stopped to rest. There was no ambush, no attack, no pursuit, only a mess of official roads and dense forests awaited them, and the chaotic ruts and horseshoe prints all revealed that there had been a hasty retreat here. After careful investigation by scouts who are familiar with tracking, there are traces of soldiers and horses running in the mountains and forests on both sides between the official road and the woodland, but these two tracks have circled a few times in the dense forest within three or five miles and then returned to the official road, and in the northwest direction, which is the direction from which Zhang Liaojun came, the tracks of five or six miles were hastily covered, and then walked through the mountain road to the northeast.

That was the direction of Yanggu City.

For Xiahou Yuan, it was like the door ringing in the dark night, and he was terrified that he had entered the thief, hiding behind the door and clenching his fists to prepare to share life and death with the infiltrator...... I was worried all night, and when it was dawn, I found that it was just a lost cat.

was slighted, and the mess all over the ground seemed to laugh at his prudence.

Xiahou Yuan couldn't have imagined that Zhang Liao would be so decisive no matter what, the entire scout team said no, don't want it, judging from the layout of this camping official road, it is not just a strong man who breaks his wrist! With his eyes closed, Xiahou Yuan was able to calculate all the arrangements after Zhang Liao received the news half a day ago.

Zhang Liao's suspicious formation is simple but requires quick wisdom, thinking that he will pursue with all his might, so he didn't spend time arranging the suspicious formation, and he didn't plan to engage with himself from the beginning, maybe he didn't see through Cao Jun's arrangement, he just thought of Cao Cao, and wanted to bypass Liangshan to attack Cao Jun's belly, but he didn't expect to meet himself here. The three or five miles long suspicious array on the east and west roads is just hoping that his scouts will go around in circles in the forest to kill time, Zhang Liao only intends to rely on these to drag himself for half an hour, and he is going to Yanggu to leave his baggage in order to travel lightly.

"This Zhang Wenyuan is really difficult to deal with!"

Xiahou Yuan couldn't help but regret it, if he wasn't so careful, maybe he could bite his tail behind Zhang Liao and gnaw a piece after the forced march, but unfortunately it was too late for half a day, this would make Zhang Liao Bacheng already run into Yanggu City, and it would be even more difficult to fight in the field, so he had to wave his hand to the soldiers and said: "Okay, order the whole army to rest tonight, let Yu Wenze's Taishan army move faster, and then send someone to tell Cao Gong the situation." ”

Zhang Liao hid in Yanggu City, Xiahou Yuan really had no choice, even if Yanggu was a small city without a moat, it was also a city. Zhang Liao's subordinates have more soldiers than him and Yu Ban have added to one place, and it is impossible to storm it, if Zhang Liao does not come out again, I am afraid that by the time Cao Cao leads the army to arrive, they have not captured the city.

However, what Xiahou Yuan didn't expect was that Zhang Liao was far more difficult to deal with than he imagined.

At the same time that Xiahou Yuan set up camp on the official road north of Liangshan Mountain and south of Quqiu Mountain, he crossed Quqiu Mountain, which ran for more than ten miles, and Zhang Liao was holding a long knife and leading a horse to walk slowly between the mountain roads. Behind him, turning the mountain road, there were countless Yan soldiers holding torches high and marching without saying a word.

"Gongtai, through this mountain road, can you reach the east entrance of Liangshan North Road?"

Chen Gong was also tired from climbing the mountain road, leaning on the trunk of the tree to open the water bladder and pour it into his mouth, nodded to Zhang Liao, and said: "General Zhang, we have 20,000 troops under Liangshan, why don't we set up an ambush on the spot, we will definitely be able to defeat the enemy, why do we need to cross Quqiu Mountain." You left General Yan in Yanggu and took five thousand soldiers and horses with you; General Bei led the cavalry around the mountain and joined our army on the east side of the North Yangsan Road, which was too dangerous. ”

Lejin Li Dian's attack caused Zhang Liao's subordinate troops to suffer more than 6,000 losses, and then except for Yan Zhi who went to Puyang, even if Yanbei gave a scepter, Zhang Liao was able to control only 20,000 soldiers and horses, and then after this division of troops, Beiyan led the cavalry to bypass, Yan Rou led Hu cavalry to block the exit of Liangshan North Road west to Yanggu City, Zhang Liao's headquarters was only more than 8,000 left, and only a small part of them were cavalry.

If you encounter Cao's army at the eastern entrance of North Yangsan Road, it will be disadvantageous.

"Gongtai thinks that if you fight in the northern province, you can win?"

Chen Gong did not have the slightest doubt about this, and said to the scout who ran back that the Cao army under the banner of Xiahou only had a few thousand soldiers and horses, even if there were most of them behind, and the soldiers were only more than 10,000.

But Zhang Liao waved his hand, still walking forward with a long knife, and said after a long time: "You can win the battle with that army." But the enemy is on guard, and the battle for victory will cause heavy losses to the soldiers. They are Cao's partial division, but Zhang is the main force of the Yan army, and it is not worth it to attack the division and damage the main force. ”

"Now that I know where the enemy is, but they don't know where I am, and they want to attack me but they don't know where I'm defending, and they don't know where I want to attack, they won't defend it...... Defeat them from the back, and then go to find Cao Cao. If all goes well, the battle will be won when the river level is stable and the lord goes south. ”