Zhang Yan took Gao Shun, Chen Gong, Cheng Lian and others all the way to the south, and walked for about seven or eight miles, and Lu Bu chased after him from behind, and Cao Cao did not send troops to pursue.

Seeing each other at a time, when Zhang Yan was sure that there were no chasing soldiers behind him, he made the army stop temporarily, after all, most of Lu Bu's subordinates were infantry, and they had just experienced a bloody battle, everyone was injured, and they would definitely be exhausted after running so far in one go.

After the order was given, everyone stayed where they were and took a nap.

Zhang Yan's subordinates were nothing, but when Lu Bu's subordinates heard that they wanted to rest, one or two of them sat on the ground like deflated balls, and breathed a long sigh of relief.

In order to escape for their lives, they ran as if they were dead, except for Gao Shun and Chen Gong riding horses, Cheng Lian and others were on foot, and all the blood and sweat on their bodies were mixed together, which was really fishy.

At this moment, when they heard the order to rest, they all collapsed to the ground, gasping for breath, remembering that they were surrounded by Cao's army just now, and they were almost wiped out, and they still had a little palpitations.

Lu Bu rode a red rabbit horse, glanced at Cheng Lian and the others who were paralyzed on the ground, his brows furrowed tightly, and his eyes showed a trace of pity, which was fleeting.

"Xiahoudun attacked Dingtao, Xiahouyuan attacked Chen Liu, presumably Brother Feng already knows, right?" Zhang Yan came to Lu Bu's side and asked in a low voice.

Lu Bu nodded, with an angry expression on his face, and said sharply: "Damn Cao Cao!" ”

Zhang Yan asked: "Brother Feng Xian has devoted all his strength to attack Puyang, presumably there are not many troops left in Chenliu and Dingtao, and at this time, Chenliu and Dingtao are afraid that they have already been occupied by the Cao army." And Brother Feng Xian was attacked by Cao Cao here again, and suffered heavy losses, I don't know what Brother Feng Xian has planned? ”

"Chen Liu and Dingtao are the foundation of my foothold in Yanzhou, and my family is also in Dingtao, I must retake Dingtao, only in this way, I can have a foothold in Yanzhou." Lu Budao.

Zhang Yan said: "Don't hide it from my ancestors, my army was also ambushed by Yuan Shao's army in Cangting, and it also suffered heavy losses. Not only that, Yuan Shao personally led an army of 50,000 people, who had crossed the Yellow River and was now stationed in Baima, and would arrive in Puyang at noon tomorrow. Yuan Shao led his army south, not accidentally, he must have joined forces with Cao Cao. Yuan Shao's strength was strong, and his troops were strong, so our army had to retreat to Changyi first, temporarily avoid the edge, and then slowly try to do it. If Brother Feng wants to recapture Dingtao, I should do my best to help Brother Feng. Cao Cao has the help of Yuan Shao, he is bound to attack wildly, I am in Changyi, Brother Feng is in Dingtao, our two armies echo each other from afar, each other is horns, as long as we stick to not fighting, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao have no way to take us. What's more, Gongsun Chan is still behind Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao will inevitably have some scruples, and he will not dare to stay in Yanzhou for a long time, and as soon as Yuan Shao leaves, we will send troops together to attack Cao Cao left and right, which will definitely make Cao Cao difficult to take care of. ”

After hearing this, Lu Bu nodded and said, "Now it's the only way to go." ”

The two of them have decided to discuss it, Lu Bu called Chen Gong and Zhang Yan to discuss together, Chen Gong has no opinion on Zhang Yan's proposal, the three of them hit it off, and after resting for a while, they continued to hurry, first to catch up with Zhang Liao, Hao Meng, Song Xian, Hou Cheng and others, and then join forces together, and then try to recapture Dingtao.

In normal times, Zhang Yan, Lu Bu and others finally caught up with Zhang Liao, Xu Chu and others after a night of wild running, everyone joined forces, Lu Bu re-ordered the soldiers and horses, he brought out 30,000 soldiers and horses, but now there are only more than 3,000 people left, I have to say that this trip to Puyang, he didn't catch anything, and he lost so much.

However, most of Lü Bu's soldiers and horses were newly recruited, and at best they had only been trained for a few months, so in order to drive Cao Cao away, Lü Bu drove them to the battlefield, and dealing with the battle-hardened Cao army was undoubtedly equivalent to death.

However, fortunately, the trapping camp led by Gao Shun has been charging ahead, and Lu Bu has been constantly boosting morale, so he has fought with Cao Cao until this time.

However, when Cao Cao led his army to suddenly attack the camp, these soldiers immediately became a mess, and no matter how they stopped it, they could not stop their riots, and the result became more and more violent, and Zuihou was taken advantage of by Cao's army.

Now the more than 3,000 soldiers around Lu Bu are the real elite of Lu Bu's army, Gao Shun, Zhang Liao, Hao Meng, Cheng Lian, Song Xian, and Hou Cheng are all men from Bingzhou who followed Lu Bu early on.

In addition to these people, there are also Wei Xu and Cao Xing, who together form the eight strong generals under Lu Bu's account. It's just that this time, Lu Bu didn't bring Wei Xu and Cao Xing out, but let Wei Xu and Cao Xing stay in Dingtao, together with Xu Yan, Wang Kai, Xue Lan, Li Feng and others, responsible for protecting his family.

Xiahoudun sneaked up on Dingtao, and at this time, Wei Xu, Cao Xing, Xu Yan, Wang Kai, Xue Lan, Li Feng and others didn't know what was going on, and what happened to his family?

Lu Bu was anxious and couldn't rest assured, so he took Chen Gong, Zhang Liao, Hao Meng, Song Xian, Hou Cheng, Cheng Lian and other cavalry to leave Zhang Yan first, but left the infantry to be led by Gao Shun and returned with Zhang Yan.

Zhang Yan knew that Lu Bu was worried about his family, so he didn't stop him, and after saying goodbye to each other, they immediately separated.

Lü Bu led more than 800 cavalry to gallop towards Dingtao, while Gao Shun led the rest of the infantry to follow behind Zhang Yan's army, always maintaining a neat line along the way.

Zhang Yan, Xu Chu, Gao Shun and others, when they walked to Lihu County, just in time for Tai Shici, Niu Jin, Xu Sheng, Chen Qi, Zhang Hong and others, so everyone joined forces and continued to retreat to Changyi.

On the one hand, Zhang Yan sent scouts to inquire about the movements of Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, and on the other hand, he accelerated his march and retreated south at a speed of eighty miles a day.

A day later, the army arrived in Juyang, where they rested for the time being.

The scouts reported that Yuan Shao's army had entered Puyang City and joined forces with Cao Cao, but did not make an operation. In addition, Dingtao also came to the news, although Xiahoudun attacked Dingtao, but failed to capture it, heard that Lu Bu rushed to the rescue, Xiahoudun then withdrew to the west, went to Chenliu, and Xiahouyuan together, surrounded Yongqiu.

Zhang Miao and Zhang Chao had few soldiers and did not dare to fight with Cao's army, Zhang Miao even crossed the city at night, took advantage of the night to flee south, and went to Huainan to borrow troops from Yuan Shu, leaving Zhang Chao and his family in Yongqiu City.

Who knows, Zhang Miao was caught by Cao Jun halfway through the journey and directly dedicated to Xiahou Yuan. Xiahou Yuan was furious, so he beheaded Zhang Miao to show the public, and held Zhang Miao's head, shouting and scolding under Yongqiu City.

When Zhang Chao saw the head of his brother Zhang Miao, he was angry, weeping bitterly, and was overwhelmed with grief, but he was holding the city to the death, and Xiahou Yuan had no way to capture it.

It happened that Xiahoudun led the army to come, Xiahouyuan and Xiahoudun planned a little, and Xiahoudun led the soldiers and horses of the headquarters to pretend to be Lu Bu's soldiers, disguised that the rescuers arrived, and opened the city gate in the middle of the night.

Cao Jun then moved into Chenliu, and Xiahoudun temporarily served as Chenliu's guard, and if the counties under his rule were not satisfied, Cao Jun sent troops to conscript, so that the counties heard the wind and surrendered.

When Zhang Yan heard the news that Zhang Miao and Zhang Chao were killed, he was also saddened. So, he told Gao Shun the news that Xiahoudun and Xiahouyuan occupied Chenliu, and Zhang Miao and Zhang Chao were defeated and killed.

When Gao Shun heard the news, he immediately asked Zhang Yan for his resignation and decided to facilitate Zhang Yan's separation tomorrow.

Juyang County is also a fork in the road, Zhang Yan wants to go back to Changyi, he must take the road to the east, and Gao Shun wants to go back to Dingtao, he takes the road to the west, the two armies are different roads, and they can only be separated.

Therefore, Zhang Yan agreed to separate from Gao Shun and others at the next day.

After the separation, Zhang Yan's army moved more quickly, without stopping and sleeping along the way, and finally returned to Changyi after two days and one night of wild running.

After returning to Changyi, Zhang Yan immediately ordered an increase in troops to Yanzhou, and asked Chen Qun to lead 10,000 troops to Kang's father, hand over the soldiers and horses to Yu Ban's command, and first hold the necessary passage from Yanzhou to Xuzhou. After that, he ordered Taishan to guard Zhuge Jin and Qingzhou to defend Shi Zangba respectively and guard the pass.

Zhang Yan was stationed in Changyi, making adequate defenses, and keeping an eye on the movements of Cao Cao and Yuan Shao's armies.

It is strange to say that after a few days, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao did not move at all, and even Wen Chou, who was stationed in Shouzhang, did not move, which inevitably made Zhang Yan have a trace of doubt.

It stands to reason that Cao Cao and Yuan Shao should take advantage of the victory to pursue, drive the army to the city, and then swallow Lu Bu and Zhang Yan in one go.

But I don't know Weishenme, until now, the two armies have not taken any action, it seems that Yuan Shao's arrival is just to relieve Cao Cao's crisis?

Zhang Yan didn't know, so he could only continue to send scouts to investigate, and he didn't relax his vigilance at all.

At the same time, in Puyang City, in Cao Cao's room, Xun Yu, Xun You, Guo Jia, and Cheng Yu were all sitting around Cao Cao, and everyone's faces were covered with a layer of dark clouds.

Cao Cao frowned even more, at a loss.

Yuan Shao led the army to Puyang for several days, but never mentioned the matter of entering the army, every day with his subordinates in the city to drink, 50,000 troops are even more Puyang City siege of the water leakage, the entire Puyang City, as if has become his territory, quite a dove occupies the magpie's nest feeling.

Cao Cao thought about the conditions proposed by Yuan Shao for a long time, and did not dare to agree easily, and today he gathered Xun Yu, Xun You, Guo Jia, and Cheng Yu into his room, ready to discuss the matter again.

The room was quiet, deathly silent, and nothing could be heard except the breathing of a few people. But in the minds of several people, they were busy, and they were all constantly thinking about how to reply to Yuan Shao's conditions.

After a long time, Cao Cao finally spoke, and said loudly: "You are all my think tank, I don't know what your opinions are on the conditions proposed by Yuan Shao?" ”