On the sixth day of the ninth month, late at night, Yancheng. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The huge "Yuan" character Daxu bathed in the hazy night, flying in the air. Yuan Shao stayed under Ma Cheng, stared blankly for a while, and finally couldn't control his emotions and burst into tears.

Fate is so cruel and ruthless, it gave itself a fatal blow when victory was within reach.

The Central Plains was defeated, all dreams and hopes were shattered, and the imminent success of the king's hegemony had turned into a pile of powder under the ravages and trampling of the iron hooves of the cavalry in northern Xinjiang. From this moment on, I will have to fight for survival.

There were only a dozen guards who fled back with Yuan Shao, and they called open the city gate.

When Liu Biao, Feng Ji, Xu Xuan and others heard that Yuan Shao had suddenly returned, they immediately realized that there had been an earth-shattering upheaval on the front line, and several people were extremely frightened, and Pegasus rushed to the city gate to greet Yuan Shao.

Seeing Yuan Shao and more than a dozen guards walking into the city gate miserably, everyone looked exhausted and grief-stricken, Liu Biao and the others were all shocked, and their souls flew out of the sky.

The atmosphere in the hall was very bleak.

After listening to Yuan Shao's account, Liu Biao looked up to the sky and sighed: "Who of us would have thought that Li Yi would be so mad that he requisitioned Hu Qi from the desert to the south of the Central Plains. The Dahan Society is in danger. ”

Feng Ji looked blankly at the flickering candle flame beside him, silent.

After a long time, he asked softly: "I wonder if the 150,000 horses of the vanguard army can fight their way out of the encirclement?" ”

Yuan Shao shook his head and said in a hoarse voice, "Impossible." There were too many cavalry in the Northern Xinjiang army, and it was unimaginable. None of them can escape the fate of total annihilation. This battle was lost too badly. ”

Liu Biao was heartbroken, and asked a little blankly: "What should I do now?" Will it withdraw overnight, or will it wait for news from the forward army? ”

"Don't leave it to chance." Yuan Shao waved his hand sadly, and said helplessly, "If nothing happens, tomorrow morning, the cavalry army in the northern Xinjiang will be killed under the city." ”

"Withdraw immediately?" Liu Biao obviously couldn't give up his soldiers, and immediately asked again, "Don't you wait a day?" ”

"No waiting." Yuan Shao said very resolutely, "Urgently tell all departments to withdraw to the front line of Yanjin and Sujube overnight." In addition, he told Cao Cao to lead his army to hurry south and stick to the line of Zhongmu and Junyi to ensure that the army blocked the northern army on the south bank of the chasm. ”

Yuan Shao paused slightly, and then said: "After this defeat, the target of the Northern Xinjiang Army will definitely be Luoyang, so whether or not Hanoi can be held now will be directly related to the safety of Luoyang." ”

He looked up at Feng Ji, who was dejected, and barely squeezed out a smile, and said: "Yuan Tu, write a letter to the Gao Gan and Gao Rou brothers, asking them to stick to Hanoi, even if they are fiercely attacked by the Northern Xinjiang Army, they must defend Huaicheng for me, otherwise Luoyang will be attacked on both sides, and the situation will be precarious." ”

Feng Ji nodded, and immediately sat down at the desk.

Yuan Shao saw that everyone was depressed, so he comforted him: "Although we have been defeated this time, as long as we hold the Northern Xinjiang Army in Hanoi and Henan before winter comes, then we can launch a counteroffensive by waiting until next spring." ”

"It is impossible for Li Yi's Hu cavalry borrowed from the desert to stay in the Central Plains for a long time, and Hebei does not have such a strong financial strength to supply food for a long-term army of 200,000 cavalry, so I estimate that Hu Cai will return to the desert before the heavy snow comes. Hu Cai left the Central Plains, the strength of the Northern Xinjiang Army plummeted, and the Northern Xinjiang Army, which had been fighting continuously for half a year, would lose its strong attack power because of Hu Cai's departure, and had to stop for a temporary rest. ”

Yuan Shao slapped the table hard, and said loudly: "Don't be discouraged, we still have a chance to defeat the Northern Frontier Army." ”

Liu Biao, Feng Ji, Xu Xuan and others looked at each other, smiling bitterly and speechless.

It is indeed commendable that Yuan Shao can pick himself up from the devastating blow in such a short period of time and regroup his mood to clean up the mess, but everyone knows that after the defeat of this battle, both Yuan Shao and the coalition army have lost their self-confidence and lost the strength to compete with the northern Xinjiang, and the next days will be very difficult, and all forces will have to experience the bloody war in the painful torment.

"Where's Xuande?" Liu Biao asked in a low voice, "Do you want him to return to Xuzhou immediately?" ”

"Yes." Yuan Shao nodded and said, "Please immediately lead the army to withdraw across the Yellow River and return to Xuzhou with men and horses." At this moment, if Li Yi sends an army to attack Xuzhou for a long time, Xuzhou will be in danger. ”

"It seems that Zang Ba and Chen Deng are also more than lucky." Xu Mu sighed, "After this battle, Li Yi may occupy both Qingdao and Yanzhou at the same time, and ...... in the future."

"There will always be a way for us to defeat him in the future." Yuan Shao sneered, "Li Yi borrowed the power of the Hu people to attack the Central Plains, kill the Han people, and endanger the community, he will definitely be angry and spurned by the whole of Hebei, and he is not far from death." ”

Then he stood up suddenly, waved his hand and said: "Quickly tell Yuan Tan and Zhang Ji in Guanzhong, Chun Yuqiong in Guanxi, and the Central Plains War failed, please withdraw from the Hedong battlefield quickly, stick to Guanzhong and Guanxi, and ensure the safety of Guanluo." ”

"The letter told Luoyang Wenchou, Chen Lin of Yuzhou, and Yuan Xi of Nanyang to immediately transfer the recruited new soldiers to Yingchuan, Chen, Liangguo and other places in Gyeonggi Baguan, Henan and Yuzhou, and resolutely keep the northern Xinjiang army out of Hanoi, Henan, and Yuzhou."

"Everyone......" Yuan Shao's gaze swept over everyone's faces one by one, "At this moment, please make sure everyone must work together to fight rebellion and revitalize the society." ”

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On the seventh day of the ninth lunar month, in the early morning, Yuan Shao and Liu Biao led the army to withdraw from Yancheng and rushed to Yanjin in the direction of Yanjin in the night.

Soon after the army withdrew, the two received a surprising and painful news that Kuai Yue, Yan Liang, Liu Shao and Wen Ping had fled back with more than a hundred people.

Kuai Yue was hit by two arrows, and his blood-stained robe was stained. If it weren't for Wen Ping's desperate efforts to rescue him, he would have been trampled into a meatloaf by the Northern Xinjiang cavalry.

Liu Shao was disheveled, embarrassed, and in a trance, as if he had not yet come out of the extreme horror. Feng Ji asked about the battle situation several times at that time, and he repeated one sentence: "It's terrible, it's terrible, it's endless, it's endless." ”

Among the four people, only Yan Liang and Wen Ping, two generals, were relatively normal, but their bodies and minds were still immersed in the bloody battlefield, their speech was intermittent, and their eyes showed chilling fear from time to time.

Yan Liang said to Yuan Shao with some trepidation: "Lord, our 150,000 army is under siege, and it is gone in a blink of an eye, and it is swallowed up by the surging and earth-shattering waves in a blink of an eye, and we have no ability to resist at all, and we don't even have a chance to escape." ”

"Where's Jiang Qi?" Yuan Shao asked nervously, "Did he break through with you?" ”

"He's dead." Yan Liang said sadly, "When we broke through, we encountered the Northern Frontier cavalry, Jiang Qi and his personal guards were all killed, and none of them escaped. ”

"What about Liu Pan? Where is he? When Yuan Shao asked Yan Liang about the situation, Liu Biao didn't see his nephew, so he immediately became anxious, and asked Wen Ping repeatedly, "Where is Liu Pan?" ”

Wen Ping was speechless.

"Dead? Is he dead? Liu Biao grabbed Wen Ping's arm and shouted at the top of his voice, "Is he dead?" ”

"I don't know." Wen Ping's expression was gloomy, "We were scattered, maybe ......"

Wen Ping didn't say any more, and what he said was in vain. Under the frantic pursuit of the cavalry in the northern frontier, there was no possibility of surviving at all.

Liu Biao wailed, hugged his head and sat on the ground, wanting to cry without tears.

Yuan Shao looked at him sympathetically, wanting to comfort him, but he couldn't say a word.

He was very angry with Liu Biao at the beginning of the defeat, if it wasn't for Liu Biao's unauthorized order to attack, resolutely obey his orders and delay without fighting, how could he be defeated today? But immediately thinking of the overwhelming cavalry army on the battlefield, he felt that his resentment was not justified.

The army's grain and grass were on the verge of being cut off, and the delaying strategy could no longer be implemented, and since Li Yi had requisitioned Hu Qi from the desert to the south, he would take advantage of his superiority in strength to launch a fierce attack regardless of whether he took the initiative to attack or not. The coalition army was not defeated in Pingyangting, but in Guandu, and this defeat seemed to have been doomed as early as when Li Yi decided to recruit Hu Qi to attack the Central Plains.

Yuan Shao sighed and looked up at the dim starry sky, miserable. I hope that Xiahou Yuan and Zhu Ling can escape.

After the defeat of the war, in order to confront Hebei, all parties need to establish a stronger alliance and rebuild a stronger army, otherwise in two or three years, Li Yi will be able to break through each and take the world.

Yuan Shao now urgently needs these fierce generals to come back alive, and with the presence of these people, the strength of the coalition army can be quickly restored.

After all, if the army is gone, you can recruit people again, but if these generals are gone, no matter how many troops there are, it will be in vain.

"Order all the troops to speed up the retreat." After Yuan Shao learned the news of the annihilation of the vanguard army, his heart calmed down. He gave orders in succession, urging the army to retreat with all its might.

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Guan Yu and Xu Huang led the soldiers of the Second Army to rush seventy miles to the vicinity of Yancheng, and Zhang He led the army to meet. The two armies merged into one and surrounded Yancheng in the early morning, but the rebels had already withdrawn first, and Yancheng was an empty city.

The officers and men of the Second Army were exhausted from continuous fighting, and many of the generals asked for a day off to allow the exhausted soldiers to recuperate.

Guan Yu was also worried about an accident in the army, so the flying pigeon sent a message to the general Li Yi.

Li Yi agreed to rest the infantry army in Yancheng for a day, and at the same time ordered Zhao Yun, Gao Changgong, and Zhang He to lead their cavalry to pursue the enemy in separate ways, and be sure to intercept the rebels on the first line of the chasm water, and divide and surround them, so as to completely annihilate the rebels.

On the morning of the seventh day of the first month of September, Zhang He was ordered to lead the army to kill Yanjin and Suojube on the front line, and followed the rebels to chase and kill.

At noon on the seventh day of September, Zhao Yun led his army to Yancheng, and was immediately ordered to go south to Wuchao and capture Fengqiu before the rebels, so as to cut off the rebels' route from Fengqiu to the south.

At noon on the seventh day of the first month of September, Gao Changgong was ordered to lead the army to kill the ditch water, and preemptively attack the two cities of Yuanwu and Yangwu, striving to block the rebels north of the Jishui River and divide and encircle.

The three-way cavalry roared down and swept towards the land of Henan. (To be continued.) )