Chapter 604 Hanging Yan Liang

Yan Liang withdrew his troops in a hurry, leaving behind 50,000 troops to block Xi Zhicai, and then he led the army to retreat in a hurry.

Xi Zhicai didn't rush to pursue, and even let Yan Liang go.

His goal was not Yan Liang's army, Yan Liang had 200,000 troops with him when he left, and Xi Zhicai couldn't handle it at all.

Xi Zhicai stopped the harassment and waited for Yan Liang's army to leave.

Three hours later, when it was almost dawn, Xi Zhicai suddenly dispatched an army to surround the enemy's barracks.

After the siege, Xi Zhicai was not in a hurry to attack.

"Yuan Jun inside, listen, you are surrounded, and at the same time you have been abandoned. Pinggu County and even the entire Yuyang County have been captured by me. Yan Liang hastily retreated. If you stay, you will die."

Xi Zhicai ordered the soldiers to shout, over and over again, and kept shouting for a long time, but Xi Zhicai didn't intend to do anything.

"real or fake?"

"Can't we go back?"

"The back road is really cut off?"

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Many soldiers began to waver.

"Don't listen to them, anyone who dares to spread rumors, beheaded."

Several generals were frightened, fearing that the spread of these words in the barracks would seriously affect the morale of the soldiers.

But the stricter the prohibition tomorrow, the more the soldiers believed it was true.

Xi Zhicai made a conscious effort to deliberately open a hole so that they could exchange news with the outside world.

At the same time, Xi Zhicai asked the soldiers to speak out, telling them various signs and letting them speculate.

After listening to Xi Zhicai's words, the soldiers speculated carefully, and became more and more sure that there was a big problem in their rear.

"Yeah, the situation is great, and Liaodong could have been directly breached. If you say you want to retreat, you will retreat, and the retreat is so hasty."

"Oh, this Zhang Yuguo is really powerful,

There are still surplus troops to attack us. "

"General Yan has run away, what are we doing here?"

The soldiers began to waver.

Yuan Jun's generals have been unable to stop all kinds of rumors, and the spread of rumors keeps morale low.

After another half a day, the soldiers began to become restless, and the situation of Xiaoying might happen at any time.

"It's almost there, attack with all your strength."

Xi Zhicai launched a fierce attack when he saw the timing was almost right.

Either you don't attack, or you have to hit it with one blow, and use the most violent attack to crush the enemy.

On the other side, Yan Liang left 50,000 soldiers and horses there, and then quickly withdrew his troops, running more than 100 miles in a day.

In fact, he could be faster, but he was afraid of being ambushed, and he didn't dare to consume too much of the soldiers' physical strength, so he paid attention to rest along the way.

There were no ambushes on the first day.

However, there is an army coming in the direction of Yan Liang, and it is expected that the two armies will meet in two days.

This army is Huang Zhong's heavy cavalry.

Zhang Yu asked Huang Zhong to leave his army and go to Youbeiping County to ambush Yan Liang's retreating army.

Huang Zhong only has about 50,000 soldiers and horses, and it is somewhat difficult to ambush Yan Liang's 200,000 troops.

But it's okay to delay his actions and take the opportunity to eat up Yan Liang's small army.

If he can't ambush his army, his actions will be delayed.

Zhang Yu still needs more time to arrange, and at the same time, he needs to slowly consume Yan Liang's troops, otherwise Zhang Yu will not be able to eat Yan Liang's army at all.

Yan Liang was cautious along the way, because he knew Zhang Yu's nature and liked sneak attacks the most.

Yan Liang dared not march at night.

The next day, Yan Liang walked for another day without encountering any enemies.

But the 50,000 soldiers and horses he left behind were almost unable to hold on.

Xi Zhicai launched a fierce attack when he saw the time was right.

That violent attack did not record casualties.

Even with a large number of casualties, Xi Zhicai did not change his strategy, he just used the most violent attack, even if he exchanged his life with the enemy.

Yuan Jun was able to resist at first, but Xi Zhicai's fight was too crazy.

Several armies continued to attack violently, not caring about casualties at all.

In one day's attack, Yuan Jun lost more than 13,000 people, and Xi Zhicai's soldiers and horses also suffered similar casualties.

Originally, they could continue to hold on, but it was not unreasonable for Xi Zhicai to blow their morale for a day.

Soldiers lost hope and were abandoned again, further demoralized.

When someone tries to run away, when someone wants to surrender, the army loses control.

"Surrender, we surrender."

"No more fights, no more fights, I want to go home."

"I want to go home."

After one day and one night, the remaining Yuan army surrendered.

At the end of this battle, Xi Zhicai wiped out the 50,000 troops left by Yuan Jun in two days and one night.

Of course, they lost more than 17,000 troops.

But this battle has no regard for casualties.

"Leave five thousand soldiers and horses to guard the prisoners, and the rest follow me to pursue Yan Liang." As soon as the battle was over, Xi Zhicai ordered the march.

The army regrouped and attacked Yan Liang.

Yan Liang wanted them to block behind them for five days, but they were wiped out in less than three days.

At this time, Yan Liang was in a very difficult time. His soldiers already knew the news that Pinggu County had been breached. He could only keep it a secret for a few days, but in the end he couldn't hide it.

Zhang Yu would not let him hide it, so he would naturally spread the news along the way.

On the third day, Yan Liang continued on his way.

I walked for a long time.

"report"

"Report, General, a cavalry is coming to our rear."

When Yan Liang was on his way, he was also very surprised to hear a cavalry attacking from behind them.

"The whole army is ready to stop them." Yan Liang ordered.

The whole army moved, divided into several sections, and if they were not gathered together, they would be crowded and trampled.

"The reaction is quite quick, so let's let you go." Huang Zhong saw that they were preparing quickly and there was no chance of a sneak attack, so he led the soldiers and horses around and bypassed them.

After bypassing, Huang Zhong didn't leave, but circled around.

Yan Liang's eyes are full of fire, what is he going to do.

Of course Huang Zhong came here for a sneak attack, since he couldn't make a sneak attack, he delayed their actions.

The two sides were in a stalemate for more than an hour, Huang Zhong did not take any action, and Yan Liang did not dare to move.

"Asshole, I was fooled." Yan Liang realized that this must be used by the enemy to delay their march.

But so what if you know, there are more than 40,000 to nearly 50,000 heavy cavalry, how dare Yan Liang ignore it?

If it weren't for the heavy cavalry to ambush, if Huang Zhong had ambushed well and attacked suddenly, their losses would definitely be great.

In the end, Yan Liang was on guard, and then started to march again, but Huang Zhong followed immediately.

"Damn it." Yan Liang realized the danger and had to stop Huang Zhong.

He immediately sent troops to drive Huang Zhong away, but Huang Zhong didn't confront them head-on, and left as soon as he touched them.

After expelling them several times, Huang Zhong and the others didn't have the energy to follow, because the heavy cavalry exhausted too much energy, not only the physical strength of the people, but also the horses had to bear tremendous pressure.

But Huang Zhong and the others had achieved their goal, and it was getting dark soon. Yan Liang and the others couldn't go far, they walked more than 50 miles in one day. The strongest system to dominate the Three Kingdoms