The heavy rain was a Han sword that opened on both sides, cutting off Zhang Liao's retreat, and also blocking Cao Cao's opportunity to attack Jizhou in the north after defeating Zhang Liao. Without the opportunity to advance north, this war was a useless effort for Cao Cao and Yuan Shao to increase casualties, and now, they can only use this useless effort when it is difficult to ride a tiger...... Carry on to the end.

Because Zhang Liao and Lu Yi are still active in the land that originally belonged to them, and are more active.

In addition to defeating these two armies and horses, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao were as pale and powerless in the face of natural disasters on the river as Yanbei, who was blocked by the flood and had more than 30,000 troops in Hebei but was helpless.

If these two troops and horses are defeated, the Henan army will still not be able to attack the land of Hebei before the spring of next year, unless the severe cold this year can freeze the river, but the Central Plains soldiers are not tolerant of the cold in the north. If these two armies could not be defeated, the situation would be even more unfavorable for them, and Lu Yi seized the land of the three counties of Qingzhou, while Zhang Liao continued to march. By any measure, the results weren't too good for them.

It is worth mentioning that Li Quan, Li Dian, and Le Jin led the remnants of the defeated soldiers from Fan County to withdraw to Xiaqiu, which was beyond Cao Cao's expectations.

Eight thousand soldiers and horses came out of Xiaqiu, but there was only one battle in Fan County, and only two thousand were left when they returned, even if the strategic intention of covering Xiahou Yuan and leading Yu Ban to enter the South Liangshan Road through the narrow mountain road under the Liangshan River was achieved, it still seemed too tragic.

No one is wrong, Cao Cao's strategic deployment is excellent, Li Quan's command is not flawed, Le Jin sacrificed his life and forgot to die in the battle array, Li Dian spared no effort to rescue Paoze, and even Yu Ban and Xiahou Yuan also took this opportunity to attract all the attention of the Yan army to cross the Liangshan South Road and lay the foundation for the victory of the general battle.

But Cao Cao couldn't laugh, the Li family's soldiers had high combat power, far beyond ordinary soldiers, but such an elite was seriously damaged in the first encounter with the Yan army, and even almost couldn't return. In addition to heartache, Cao Cao was more afraid of the combat strength of the Yan army.

Although the front army has won a small victory, it also means that the next battle will be the time for him to pour his army north, and before that, he must pin all his hopes on the east and west armies to make a contribution, attract the attention of the enemy army in the west, and move the tiger away from the mountains to attack the enemy's belly and back in the east.

Now it seems that there is at least one good news, that is, Zhang Liao, as the main general of the Yan army, did not appear in Fan County. Most likely, Zhang Liao is on his way to Puyang.

"Zixiao's side, you should send someone back, right?" Cao Cao was pacing in the military tent, and he had to wait for the news of Cao Ren's Puyang direction to come back before he could decide on the regulations for sending troops north, so he was very anxious. As for Xiahou Yuan and Yu Banbu bypassing the mountain road, they don't have to worry about it anymore, the time around it all depends on their inner estimates, if they expect the scouts to bypass Liangshan and Ju Yeze to send back the news, then the offensive will definitely be too late. "Why hasn't there been any news yet?"

It's not that Cao Ren didn't send the news back, but Yan Zhi was too tricky, so Cao Ren couldn't send the news back, and now Cao Ren is even more anxious than Cao Cao.

In fact, it was also to blame Chen Gong for his bad luck, so he hurriedly stopped Yan Rou's subordinate Wuhuan soldiers and dropped a sentence for Hu Er to tell, turned his head and walked away towards Fan County. But Chen Gong forgot that in front of him was not the soldiers of the Han frontier, but the Wuhuan people of the Donghu species, and among the Wuhuan people, only about half of them could speak Chinese, and the other half of the lingua franca was the Donghu language shared by Xianbei and Wuhuan.

The group of Wuhuan soldiers he encountered, no one happened to be able to speak Chinese, and it was rare for someone to understand, but it was far away, and it was impossible to understand it when he learned his tone in front of Yan Zhi...... What he wanted to convey to Yan Zhi was not delivered at all.

even heard 'Cao Apo is not in Puyang' as 'Apo is in Puyang'. This is very interesting, Yan Zhi is not a person with great courage, if it is Zhang Liao who leads the troops here, with Zhang Wenyuan's courage, when he hears that Cao Cao is in Puyang, he must shout 'one and one, the brave can get ahead' and lead the army to raid. But Yan Zhi didn't have that much courage, what was the most important thing to him?

Safe.

He led the four thousand Wuhuan cavalry to look at Puyang City, which was far away and unoccupied, and did not dare to enter, so he had to lead his troops to lurk in the mountain col east of Puyang City, and sent scouts to look at Puyang from afar, and he couldn't stop fighting between heaven and man in his heart...... If it is really Cao Cao's personal visit, will he go or not?

Thinking so, I listened to the scout's report, and the soldiers and horses of the distant brigade pulling the Cao Zi banner were all over the world, and they crossed the Pushui and went towards Puyang City without dodging!

Almost instinctively, hearing this news made Yan Zhi coldly suppress all the worries in his heart, and led the horse to the mountain with an iron spear, and on the way he shouted an order in Donghu language: "Gather soldiers and horses, gather soldiers and horses, and prepare for battle!" ”

Climbing up the mountainside, Yan Zhi, who was sheltered by grass and trees, looked at Pushui, but it was not a black press, such a big Cao banner! The vanguard soldiers and horses have crossed the Pushui and marched and guarded on the north bank, and it seems that there are nearly 10,000 horses on foot, which is terrifying. Looking at the river again, they were toe-to-

After only looking at it twice, Yan Zhi felt a chill in his heart...... Where else is there to fight? 4,000 soldiers and horses hit 60,000, isn't that pushing yourself to death? Needless to say, he didn't dare to say that the group of Wuhuan soldiers beside him alone would not stick to that person.

Wuhuan soldiers fight for the Han people, but they don't know what it means to see death as home!

Waving his hand weakly to call his cronies, Yan Zhi pointed to Pushui in the distance, and said weakly: "Feiqi told my brother that the main force of the Cao army is in Puyang, and it is not the enemy of our department, even if General Zhang is in person...... Wait a minute! ”

Yan Zhi looked at it carefully, how could he feel that this huge army array was not right inside and out?

He couldn't see clearly through the grass and trees, but there was something strange to him. The king of the northern army, Yanbei, is rich and rich, and the military uniform is unified, whether it is the cloth inlaid leather armor of the county soldiers or the leather inlaid iron armor of the general headquarters, or the large iron armor of the elite troops, all of them are based on the dark color of iron and stone, supplemented by red lacquer, and the color of the uniform is just the opposite of the main red auxiliary Xuan of the old Han army. After all, Yanyu Erzhou is not as rich as the north, and Yan Zhi is reluctant to use lacquer to understand...... But no matter how poor he is, Cao Yanzhou's subordinates who personally led the soldiers except for the cavalry in front of them were all variegated, looking like linen mixed together.

This strange feeling is most obvious when the Yanzhou army is getting closer and closer to Puyang City, because Puyang is closer to here, and it seems that because it is about to enter the city, the sense of separation between the five or six thousand cavalry in front and the foot soldiers behind is getting stronger and stronger.

Yan Zhi finally realized that it was not an army close to 100,000, but a huge cavalry army of nearly 10,000 with tens of thousands of people!

Yan Zhi felt that he was afraid that he would really have to make a dare to die with 4,000 rushing to 60,000 today.

"All men are on horseback, and when the enemy cavalry enters the city, and the gates are blocked by foot soldiers, let me scatter them...... That's not an army, it's a bunch of people! Tell my brother that Cao Yanzhou is not in Puyang! ”