"Tell Chang Yuchun and Yide about this news urgently. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info" Li Yi turned his head to Liu Bowen and said, "You send a letter to Yun Chang again, I agree with him and Mao Gong's strategy of destroying the enemy, and all the armies on the battlefield in Jizhou are under his command." ”

"Ordered Chang Yuchun, asked him to throw away all his baggage, and rushed to Qingyuan and Guantao with all the troops to encircle Cao Cao. It is necessary to reach the battlefield within two days. Li Yi paused slightly, and then added, "Tell Chang Yuchun that this is the last order I gave him, and it will be Yun Chang who will give him the order in the future." ”

"Lord, the more than 20,000 Jingzhou soldiers who escaped from the Dongguang battlefield ......" Guo Jia asked in a low voice, "Let them escape?" ”

"Let them run away and leave them alone." Li Yi said with a smile, "If this battle can completely annihilate the rebels and punish the rebels such as Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, what is the use of these 25,000 people?" ”

Li Yi, Liu Bowen, Jia Xu and others discussed some details, and then Jia Xu drafted a chapter and reported it to the imperial court.

Li Yi also urgently ordered the officials of the counties and states such as Zhong Xuan, Bohai County, Hejian State, Anping State, Ganling State, and Wei County to immediately organize more manpower to go south to help the army transport grain, grass and baggage.

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In early September, in the Qinghe Kingdom, ten miles southeast of the city, Lu Bu's iron cavalry caught up with the fleeing Jingzhou army.

When the officers and men of Jingzhou saw the billowing smoke and dust flying in the air behind them, and heard the majestic horn sound in the wind, they were so frightened that their hearts and souls were scattered, and the speed of escape suddenly accelerated.

"Run to the southeast, ...... to the southeast" Xiahoudun galloped wildly, roaring incessantly, trying to prevent the collapse of the army. Five miles to the southeast is the Great River, where the terrain is undulating, which can effectively block the impact of the iron horse.

"General Xiahou, how many roads are we from Plains City?" Wen Ping's guards were holding bloody swords and killing the fleeing soldiers, and his heart was in pain.

"Sixty miles to go." Xiahou stopped his horse, looked back at the Northern Frontier Iron Cavalry that was getting closer and closer, and said with a desperate expression, "General Wen, if we don't give up this army, none of us will be able to escape." ”

Wen Ping's sitting horse raised his neck restlessly and hissed, as if he felt the bloody and murderous aura coming from the roar.

"Let's go." Wen Ping shouted, "Since I brought them to Hebei, I will bring them back." If I die, I will die with them. ”

Xiahoudun's face turned red, he was speechless in shame, turned around and beat his horse away.

The iron cavalry of the northern frontier roared like a tide, and the deafening sound of killing and the huge roar of thousands of galloping horses broke through the smoke and dust that covered the sky and soared straight into the sky.

The cloud-like arrows let out a thrilling roar, and the black clouds in the sky that were moving at high speed were like bloodthirsty beasts with teeth and claws, rushing into the Jingzhou army. The soldiers of the Jingzhou army rushed to the wolf, and the miserable shouts rose to the sky in an instant. War knives flew in the air, spears spat out letters like poisonous snakes, and cold weapons wantonly devoured fresh lives. Bloody fields dotted the scorching battlefield, and fear and hatred filled the summer sky.

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Wei Xu roared, and a spear pierced the enemy's body, and before he could straighten his waist, he saw a long arrow roaring out of the corner of his eye. Cao Xing was so frightened that he threw away his spear and planted it with all his might.

There was a "boom" sound, and the long arrow flew out of his neck.

When Gan Ning saw the long arrow shooting in the air, he was so angry that he roared loudly, and he hit the horse as if flying.

Wei Xu fell so hard that he staggered to his feet, but a whistling war knife had already slashed down at him. Wei Xu screamed, there was no way to hide, and instinctively closed his eyes.

"When ......" exploded, a long halberd came into the air, and it was hard to block Gan Ning's inevitable knife, "kill ......" Lu Bu roared wildly, pulled out the knife with his left hand, and chopped it on Gan Ning's shoulder blade at an unbelievable speed.

Blood burst out, Gan Ning snorted miserably, the war knife was out of his hand, just at this time his war horse was shot by a stray arrow, and the war horse monster neighed in pain, and his four hooves flew like flying, carrying him at a gallop.

Wei Xu opened his eyes violently and touched his head with palpitations.

"Let's go......" Lu Bu yelled at him.

Wei Xu comprehended and grabbed the halberd.

The next moment, Lu Bu's halberd waved, and Wei Xu's vigorous body rose into the air and landed steadily behind Lu Bu.

Lübler stopped his roaring horse, stretched out his bloodstained hand, and took the paperwork sent by the fast horseman.

In the letter, Chang Yuchun ordered him to give up the pursuit of the Jingzhou army, and hurried to Qinghe to join the main army, preparing to encircle and annihilate the main rebel force of Cao Cao and others.

Seeing that he was about to completely annihilate the Jingzhou army in front of him, but he had to give up, Lu Bu was very unhappy in his heart. He scolded angrily, panting and wiping the beads of sweat from his face, then looked up at the battlefield.

In the distance on the riverbed, soldiers from both sides were fighting fiercely.

On the river embankment a few hundred steps away on the opposite side, several officers of the Jingzhou Army were directing the soldiers who had fled to the opposite bank to quickly line up, ready to make a last stand, but few people seemed to stop, and the soldiers who escaped to the river embankment rushed away like madmen.

He looked back behind him, from the back of his horse to the horizon, there were mangled corpses and discarded ordnance banners everywhere, and a dozen warhorses that had lost their owners were standing among the corpses, waiting alone.

Pursuing all the way to the present, the road three or four miles long is paved with the corpses of the enemy, and the 25,000 Jingzhou troops have little left and can be withdrawn.

Lu Bu thrust the halberd in his hand into the ground, escaped from the leather bag next to the horse's belly, raised his head and drank a sip of water, and then spit slowly and methodically on the ground.

"Herald, Mingjin...... Withdrawal from the battlefield ......"

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In early September, Qinghe country, fifteen miles southwest of Ganling City.

Zhao Yun took Guan Yu's order and walked around the grass. Zhang He, Yue Yun, Xianzhao and others stood beside him, looking at him quietly, and no one spoke.

Zhao Yunjian frowned, and said very anxiously: "If the rebels are indeed retreating westward, we should follow Yun Chang's orders and go south to Fagan and Yuancheng first, completely cutting off the rebels' retreat." ”

"You've decided?" Zhang He said worriedly, "Although there is a letter from Duke Mao on it, you must know that once we go south to attack Fagan and Yuancheng, it will be tantamount to disobeying Chang Yuchun's military orders." If this matter is investigated......"

Zhao Yun sighed and said, "If it weren't for the urgency of the matter, Yun Chang wouldn't have done this. ”

"Zilong, for the sake of prudence, let's wait." Yan Rou whispered, "If the rebels retreat west to lure us away from Ganling City, wait until we are gone, and then they will turn around and retreat south from the direction of Ganling. Our guilt will be great. ”

Zhao Yun hesitated for a long time, but still waved his hand resolutely and said, "I believe that Yun Chang, you will immediately lead the Second Army to the south." ”

"Send it away first, or hit Yuancheng first?" Zhang He saw that Zhao Yun had already made a decision, so he did not persuade him again. Ask directly about the target of the army.

Zhao Yun turned his head to look at a few guards standing not far away, and several guards hurriedly walked over with a map and spread it on the ground.

Yun Chang said that the rebels retreated westward with the purpose of meeting Yuan Shao. Because they were retreating so quickly, we were caught off guard and did not have the forces to stop them. Although the two generals, Li Zhong and Sun Guan, were rushing to the front line of Qingyuan and Guantao, they were too far away from Qingyuan and Guantao, and they were afraid that it would be too late. Therefore, after you go south, you will directly insert it in the northwest direction to the line between Guantao and Weicheng, and cut off the way for the rebels to retreat westward. ”

"Then Fa Gan and Yuan Cheng are not fighting?" Yan Rou asked.

"I'll fight." Zhao Yun said, "We are iron cavalry, we have no siege equipment, we say that we are besieging the city, but in fact, we are besieging the city." The connection between the inside and outside of the city is cut off, so there is not much difference between the number of people and the small number of people. ”

"Zilong, if the rebels are retreating westward, then we are only more than a hundred miles away from the rebels at most, why can't we kill them directly, why do we have to go around to the Guantao area to block the attack?" Zhang He looked at the map carefully and asked a little puzzled.

"There are 100,000 rebels, and if we kill them directly from the flanks, not only will we not be able to defeat the rebels, but we will make them withdraw faster. The faster the rebels retreat, the earlier the time to rendezvous with Yuan Shao. In that case, we would completely lose the opportunity to encircle and annihilate the rebels. Zhao Yun explained, "The purpose of our battle is not to drive out the rebels, but to inflict heavy losses on the rebels, and to beat Yuan Shao, Cao De, Liu Biao and others to the deathbed, so that after we recover our vitality, the difficulty for us to go south to pacify the world will be greatly reduced." If we just drove them away, and the rebels were still strong, then when we went south a year or two later to put down the rebellion, we can imagine how difficult it would be. ”

Zhang He and the others nodded again and again.

"Could it be that the lord still wants to eat Yuan Shao?" Yue Yun said with a slight surprise.

"The main thing is to beat Yuan Shao." Zhao Yun said, "Yuan Shao is the most powerful, if he can be annihilated, not only will the war in the Central Plains continue, but Guanzhong and Kwantung will also be in danger." ”

"But Yuan Shaoyuan is in Yecheng, we surround Cao Cao, he will definitely run." Yue Yun asked puzzledly, "Could it be that after we surrounded Cao Cao, that idiot Yuan Shao would still kill himself to save Cao Cao?" ”

Zhao Yun thought for a moment and said with a smile: "We surrounded Cao Cao, no one knows whether Yuan Shao will come to the rescue." Fighting a war is like this, it is impossible to count the last resort, you can only take one step at a time. ”

"Haha......" Zhang He stretched out his hand and patted Zhao Yun, "Zilong, you are too greedy." In fact, even if Yuan Shao escapes, we can still eat Cao Cao's rebel army, plus the hundreds of thousands of people we eliminated in Dongguang, the record is already very brilliant. ”

Zhao Yun laughed and said, "Indeed, indeed, I am too greedy. Okay, let's go first, and I'll tell you as soon as I have news. (To be continued.) )