Gongsun Zhang lay on the ground, enduring the heart-rending pain, and listened attentively to Gongsun Shuo's description of the battlefield.

"General, Li Yi's troops have moved north, and they seem to be about to leave the battlefield."

"Order Gongsun to play, immediately get out of the way to the north, and let the enemy pass." Gongsun Zhang said in a low voice.

"General......" Gongsun Shuo turned around and shouted, "Li Yi's troops are at a disadvantage, and we have surrounded them. ”

Gongsun Zhang closed his eyes, gasped for breath, and said with difficulty: "Save your strength, save your strength, we don't have enough people to stop him." ”

Gongsun Shuo gritted his teeth, roared angrily, punched the air, and then shouted wildly: "Order the left flank troops to give up the blocking, give up the blocking......"

Li Yi's cavalry suddenly let out an earth-shattering cheer, and they found that the enemy blocking them scattered like a tide on both sides, giving way to the entire northern defensive position.

The Youzhou Iron Rider roared away like a hurricane.

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The next morning, Li Yi led his troops to the waterfront of Tang again.

Gongsun Zhang and his troops have withdrawn. The battlefield was littered with the corpses of soldiers on both sides and the remains of war horses.

Li Yi ordered his men to immediately bury the corpses, clean up the battlefield, and clean up the loot.

"How much do we lose?" Li Yi sat on a tree stump and asked Dian Wei.

"Hui Lord, 224 soldiers were killed and more than 600 wounded." Dian Wei said loudly, "The enemy has killed more than 3,800 people......"

Li Yi was so distressed, the five thousand iron cavalry under his command were the most elite part of the Youzhou army. But the battle resulted in almost one-fifth casualties. Although the enemy's losses were ten times higher, it did not make Li Yi proud, because most of these Liaodong rebels were actually local herdsmen. And Liaodong must be under his command, which is killing his future people in disguise.

At this moment, Li Yi hated those heroes in Liaodong. These people are for their own selfish gain. provoked this war.

"Ordered Lu Longsai, let Zilong lead the army to set off, and then the army will go north along the Tang River, and together with Zilong, attack Liucheng on both sides." Li Yi said to Dian Wei.

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Bintu is about 40 miles away from Tuhe, and after the main force led by Gongsun Han evacuated from Tuhe, it has been withdrawn to Bintu.

Gongsun Zhang's cavalry rushed to Bintu at dusk and joined the main force.

Gongsun Han looked at Gongsun Zhang, who was dying and unconscious, and his heart ached.

In the middle of the night. Gongsun Zhang slowly woke up in a bleak and sad flute sound.

Gongsun Han sat quietly alone in the night, bathed in the faint moonlight, silently playing the transverse flute, thinking about his thoughts.

Gongsun Zhang walked over and asked, "I heard Gongsun Yang and Gongsun Yi say that you plan to fight with Li Yi in Liucheng?" ”

"The fourth and fifth are almost here." Gongsun Han nodded and said, "After their 30,000 army arrives, we have 100,000 troops. It's completely possible to fight the enemy in a decisive battle. Li Yi's surprise attack fails, I'm afraid it will come out, if the tens of thousands of troops of the Youzhou Army catch up, if we don't fight. If we don't stop them in Liucheng, I'm afraid that after retreating to Yangle, it will be difficult for us to hold on. ”

Gongsun Zhang closed his eyes and said slowly: "Now the troops are panicking. Morale is low, and at this time, the decisive battle with Li Yi in the Liucheng area is not exactly what the enemy wants. ”

Gongsun Han sighed. In an almost desperate tone, he said: "Third brother, Li Yi must only have a small number of troops coming from the seaside, this road is too dangerous, and the march of the army is extremely unfavorable. He must have had the idea of a sneak attack. Now that his plans have been revealed, he will definitely send a large army to fight us head-on. And if you want to dispatch a large army, you can only go to the White Wolf Water Valley. If we don't fight in Liucheng, we will retreat all the way, and our morale will become more and more low. Moreover, after abandoning Liucheng, the door of Liaodong will be opened, and Li Yi's tens of thousands of troops will rush in. At that time, I'm afraid it will be difficult for us to find an opportunity to hit Li Yi hard. After Li Yi occupied Liucheng, we have lost our geographical advantage. And our strength is not good, so we can only give up Changli, retreat to the danger, barely stabilize our position, and temporarily hold a corner. ”

Gongsun Zhang opened his eyes and said weakly: "We just lost for a while, losing thousands of people, and Li Yi only added 30,000 horses, and the two sides are still almost the same in strength." Big brother, you seem to be too persistent and care too much about the place we have now. You must know that we retreated in a hurry, not because we couldn't defeat them, but because we couldn't afford to lose or lose, and if we want to survive for a long time, we must have soldiers, troops, and strength, so we retreated. Even if Lao Wu joins us, in the face of the frontal resistance of tens of thousands of troops, we still have to retreat after a long and fruitless battle, and Li Yi still has to wave his army to pursue, and this situation will still appear today. ”

Gongsun Han withdrew the hand that held Gongsun Zhang, contemplating. Am you thinking wrong?

Gongsun Zhang glanced at him and said solemnly: "If we want to occupy Liaodong and achieve victory, we must occupy an absolute superiority in troops. We must do everything possible to destroy the enemy and achieve superiority in forces at the minimum cost, instead of a face-to-face decisive battle with the enemy, which will meaninglessly consume our existing strength. ”

Gongsun Han suddenly realized, and said with a shy face: "Third brother, I am indeed getting more and more stingy. ”

Although Gongsun Zhang was in pain, his eyes showed a look of joy, and he trembled his lips and said, "Big brother, do you know what to do?" ”

Gongsun Han smiled bitterly and said worriedly: "Third brother, you can't die, if you die, how can I support myself alone?" ”

Gongsun Zhang's face showed a calm expression, and he said calmly: "It's good to be dead, it's good to be dead, it's good to be dead." ”

Gongsun Han looked at him sadly, not knowing how to comfort him.

Gongsun Zhang couldn't support it and fell into a deep sleep.

Gongsun Han sat for a while and quietly walked out of the tent. He summoned more than a dozen children of the Gongsun family, including Gongsun Qiu, Gongsun Xing, and Gongsun Play, to the big tent in the army overnight.

"We withdrew our troops overnight, non-stop along the way, and retreated as fast as we could." Gongsun Han glanced at everyone and said firmly and forcefully.

The generals thought that Gongsun Han convened a meeting and was preparing to meet the pursuers, but they didn't expect that it was completely different, Gongsun Han asked to retreat, and he retreated quickly. Everyone was a little unacceptable for a while, and they all looked at Gongsun Han, hoping to hear his explanation.

"I discussed it carefully with the third child and decided to give up the idea of a decisive battle. The decisive battle, for us, the losses are too great. So we simply retreated in stride, retreated sharply, and lured the enemy into pursuit. The faster we retreat, the faster the enemy will chase. The farther we retreat, the longer the distance the enemy will pursue. If the enemy pursues too long a distance, the several pursuers following us will have problems covering and supporting, and their transportation of food and grass will become more and more difficult as the distance increases. At this time, it was our turn to strike and beat them hard. ”

Gongsun Han stood up, beckoned his subordinates to gather around the desk, pointed to the map spread on the desk, and said: "I will order Gongsun Lei to lead the Wuhuan cavalry to evacuate Liucheng, and then along the south bank of the White Wolf Water, launch a harassing attack in the area from Liucheng to Yangle, and induce Li Yi to divide his troops to pursue." At the same time, Kuaima informed Gongsun Yu and Gongsun Wen that they would not come to the guests and retreat directly in the direction of Changli, inducing Li Yi to divide his troops to pursue again. ”

"Where do we retreat?" Gongsun Qiu asked.

"Keep going east, and retreat to the perilous area." Gongsun Han pointed to the map and said.

Almost at the same time, everyone let out an exclamation.

"General, are we going to retreat for hundreds of miles in a row?" Gongsun Xing asked in disbelief.

"General, don't you want Yang Le and Chang Li anymore?" Gongsun asked in surprise.

Gongsun Han glanced at everyone and said with a smile: "Don't give up, give up, give up all." ”

"Why? That's where our ancestors have lived for generations. Gongsun asked loudly.

"As long as the enemy is destroyed, these places and these cities are not all ours." Gongsun Han said with a smile, "The more enemies occupy, the more dispersed the forces will be, and the easier it will be for us to attack them." Don't you all understand? ”

Gongsun Han returned to the big tent and walked lightly to Gongsun Zhang's side.

Gongsun Zhang opened his eyes and smiled at Gongsun Han. That smile is uglier than crying. Gongsun Han's heart trembled, tears almost burst out of his eyes, and he choked up and said, "Third brother, we are leaving." ”

"Okay, okay." Gongsun Zhang said with difficulty.

"We've been retreating until we're in danger, and we're going to walk for a few days, can you hold on?" Gongsun Han grabbed Bian Zhang's hand and asked in a low voice.

Gongsun Zhang nodded and said, "I can hold it." ”

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Li Yi led the men and horses of his headquarters from Tuhe to the direction of Liucheng, intending to attack Liucheng with the army led by Zhao Yun.

But to Li Yi's surprise, when he was about to arrive in Liucheng, the scout came to report that the Liaodong rebels in Liucheng had abandoned Liucheng and retreated in the direction of Changli along the White Wolf River Valley.

Li Yi was a little puzzled, not knowing why the Liaodong rebels took the initiative to abandon Liucheng. However, he still unceremoniously led a large army to occupy this small city.

Three days after Li Yi entered Liucheng, Zhao Yun led a large army to Liucheng.

Zhao Yun brought an army of 30,000, including 5,000 cavalry, and 25,000 foot soldiers.

The generals who came also included Zhang Fei, Zhang Jaw, Cheng Pu, Han Dang and others. However, Yue Fei and Guan Yu did not follow, and Li Yi asked them to stay.

However, several of the main strategists under Li Yi came, Xu Maogong, Jia Xu, Xun Yu, Xun You and Tian Feng.

Conquest of the four counties of Liaodong, Li Yi did not plan to fight with those powerful coalition forces in Liaodong, but planned to outwit them.

In fact, among these counties, that is, the Gongsun family of Liaodong's subordinate state, the will to resist is relatively resolute, and the other three counties are still on the sidelines.

As long as he takes the subject state of Liaodong with the momentum of thunder, the situation in Liaodong may change essentially. (To be continued.) )