Although the Yuan army was defeated, it did not reach the point of defeat, after all, the main general Yan Liang was still there, and the Chinese army was still in his hands, plus Chun Yuqiong in the rear sent reinforcements in time, and the decline of Yan Liang's army did not evolve into an uncontrollable rout in the end.

However, the White Horse City could not be attacked, and after summing it up, Yan Liangjun, who knew that he could not be the enemy of the main force of the Cao army, retreated on the same day, and the siege of the White Horse was solved.

Although he successfully relieved the siege of White Horse and severely damaged the general of the Yuan army, Yan Liangbu, Cao Cao had no intention of continuing to hold on to White Horse City. The reason is naturally because the white horse is too close to Liyang, the main seat of Yuan's army, and it is difficult to hold on. So Liu Yan and Yu Ban led the soldiers and civilians of the white horse to protect the military supplies, grain and grass to withdraw first, and Cao Cao personally led the army to break off.

Over there, Yuan Shao received Yan Liang's defeat in Liyang, but he was a little annoyed. However, Yuan Shao himself was embarrassed and would not blame the victory or defeat of this battle on his confidants, after all, it was fundamentally because of his own strategic judgment error that he fell into Cao Cao's plan to attack the west, which allowed Cao Cao to take advantage of the loophole to save the white horse.

The soldiers and horses sent out because of the plan had already arrived near the Yanjin ferry at this time, and Yuan Shao did not recall it, relying on the absolute superiority of his soldiers and horses, Yuan Shao simply sent another light cavalry to Yanjin, led by his other favorite general Wen Chou, to snipe the retreating Cao army.

On this day, Liu Yan took his 2,000 Dongjun soldiers and twice as many people as the people, escorting grain and grass to walk on the official road along the bank of the Yellow River.

Because of the natural barrier effect of the Yellow River, the Yuan army on the north bank of Yanjin did not send cavalry scouts to reconnoiter the area on the south bank under the control of Cao's army, but only erected a few watchtowers on the bank of the river to monitor the movements of Cao's army.

The Yellow River often flooded or diverted because of a severe flooding and bursting of the embankment, but the middle reaches of the Yellow River in the late Eastern Han Dynasty were diverted. That is, the Yellow River is divided into two at a certain place, and the two streams are separated by several miles or hundreds of miles and drive eastward, and then merge at a certain place and finally return to the sea in the east.

Yanjin and Baima are both crossings of the Yellow River, but these two ferries are only ferries of the northward flow after the diversion. The reason why Cao Cao dared to abandon Baima Ferry and continue to shrink his defense to the south after giving up Liyang and other important Hebei towns was to rely on the southern flow of the Yellow River as the last barrier.

Yuan Shao is also very clear about this. After all, if a decisive battle was fought on the land between the north and south divisions of the Yellow River, on the one hand, it would be extremely unfavorable to the already insufficient logistics supply of the Cao army, and on the other hand, if the Cao army lost the battle and retreated, then the Cao army could only jump into the south flow of the Yellow River.

Therefore, there is an explanation for the defeat of Yuan's army in the Battle of White Horse. After all, Yuan Jun didn't expect that Cao Cao would come to save White Horse City, which was no longer trivial in the overall situation, and he didn't expect that Cao Cao not only brought all the main forces to rescue, but also played a trick. If it had been a normal battle in the past, Yuan Shao would not have fallen for Cao Cao's clumsy plan as easily as this time, but this time it can only be described in two words: carelessness.

Fortunately, after saving the White Horse City, Cao Cao still behaved normally, understood the principle of accepting it when he saw it, and led the army to retreat to the south bank of the Yellow River in time with the captured armor and baggage, otherwise when my Yuan Benchu's 700,000 troops pressed over from Baimajin, I could capture Cao Thief's head in a battle!

However, because of the defeat of the Yuan army in the first battle, Yuan Shao was not prepared to immediately confront the main force of the Cao army at this time. And Wen Chou, who is ranked as the first general in Hebei, naturally knows the strategic plans of the Cao army and the thoughts of his own lord, so although he also leads 100,000 troops, Wen Chou's task is only to attack the Cao army, just look at the thousands of light cavalry main forces allocated by Yuan Shao to Yan Liang.

There was a levee near Yanjin, but there was a section of official road built on the inside of the embankment, so Liu Yan's logistics team was easily discovered by Yuan's sentinels. Wen Chou, who was trustworthy, did not hesitate at all, and immediately led his five or six thousand light horsemen to cross the northern stream of the Yellow River.

When Cao Jun's scouts reported to Liu Yan Yan about the movements of the Liang army, Liu Yan immediately ordered his chariots and horses to disperse and choose their own paths.

If this is a normal time, the brigade's grain transport team encounters a small number of elite troops, although this strategy of dividing the brigade into squads cannot annihilate the opposing enemy soldiers, but it can minimize the losses. After all, most of the grain robbery wars are to rob more with less, and rob the weak with fine. In this case, the robbed must learn to play to their strengths and avoid weaknesses, try their best to give full play to their numerical superiority, and use the opponent's numerical disadvantage to offset the opponent's superiority in combat power.

However, at this time, Yuan's army was not on the same level as Liu Yan's soldiers and horses in terms of the number of soldiers and horses, so Liu Yan's emergency strategy was completely ineffective. Facing the Cao army, which was only six or seven thousand people and horse foot soldiers together, Yan Liang divided the six thousand light cavalry under his command into three teams, left, center, and right, and separated to chase after the Cao army.

Liu Yan scattered his soldiers and horses after the strength of a battle, but he was unwilling and did not dare to give up the grain and grass easily, hesitated to be caught up by the Yuan army light cavalry, in front of the well-equipped and energetic Yuan army light cavalry, Liu Yan's department had no power to parry, but a face was defeated by the Yuan army, Liu Yan was also desperately running away to avoid being the first Cao general of Hebei Shuangsha Wenchou's bloody blade.

The Dongjun soldiers under Liu Yan were killed and fled, but Wen Chou did not have time to collect the materials and chase the Cao army, because the scouts were reporting, but a Cao army of soldiers and horses was coming to regain the lost grain and grass.

Wen Chou was originally hesitant between the two choices of whether to face the battle or not, but after hearing that the leading general of the Cao army was Yu Ban, Wen Chou ordered his subordinates to ride lightly and prepare for the battle after laughing a few times.

Yu Ban, who rushed to the rescue, obviously did not expect Liu Yan to be defeated so quickly and thoroughly, but he led three thousand light soldiers and a small number of cavalry to kill, this miscellaneous soldier is naturally not enough in front of Wen Chou, and it was just a round, Yu Ban himself was killed by Wen Chou and lost his armor and fled in embarrassment, and the soldiers and horses under Yu Ban's command were either surrendered or dispersed, and there was no threat to the Yuan army.

As the saying goes, the opportunity must not be lost and never come again, Wen Chou naturally refused to let go of such a great opportunity to invite merit and reward, and immediately divided his troops again to expand the results of the battle, and personally led an army to attack the baggage convoy escorted in the forbidden place.

The poor and dignified Han Yishou Tinghou and Cao Sikong Ai will be banned in Wen Ze, just fled back to their rear army and did not take a breath, they had to face the first general of Hebei again, Wen Chou, under the irresistible situation, Yu Ban had to order his subordinates to flee with chariots and horses, and he also led only a dozen people to flee in a hurry.

Wen Chou didn't chase Yu Ban, after all, the probability of capturing and killing General Cao Jun was too small, it was better to chase more Cao Jun's chariots and horses and seize more grain, grass and baggage.

After all, Wen Chou, who is the highest level of the Hebei Group, is very clear that the grain and grass that Liu Yan and Yu Ban escorted respectively are quite "rich", not only the large amount of materials that Cao Cao originally hoarded in White Horse City to fight against the Yuan army, but also a large number of Yuan army materials captured from Yan Liang a few days ago. If these are all grabbed, it will definitely be recorded as the first major achievement of Yuan Jun's southern expedition in the past few months!

With the permission and encouragement of the commander-in-chief, the light cavalry of the Yuan army, who had won consecutive battles, no longer cared about it, and rushed to loot grain and grass and baggage. In troubled times, the armies of the princes more or less had written or unwritten rules that the captured spoils of war were rewarded to the generals concerned according to a certain percentage of the money, so in the face of this considerable amount of grain and grass, the red-eyed soldiers of the Yuan army even competed with each other.

For the competition for captured materials among his subordinates, generally speaking, as a commander-in-chief, he will not interfere too much. After all, most of the warriors are still fighting, and this grabbing the spoils of war and killing people in battle are the same thing, whoever has the ability will make meritorious contributions!

Under normal circumstances, Wen Chou's indulgence is extremely conducive to stimulating the fighting spirit of his subordinates, but today's Wen Chou seems to have forgotten that the enemy he faced this time was Cao Cao, who was known for his treacherous and cunning, and Cao Jun, who had always been rigorous and delicate, how could he make such a big mistake when the battle situation was already extremely unfavorable to his side?

After all, Wen Chou, who is the highest level of the Hebei Group, is very clear that the grain and grass that Liu Yan and Yu Ban escorted respectively are quite "rich", not only the large amount of materials that Cao Cao originally hoarded in White Horse City to fight against the Yuan army, but also a large number of Yuan army materials captured from Yan Liang a few days ago. If these are all grabbed, it will definitely be recorded as the first major achievement of Yuan Jun's southern expedition in the past few months!

With the permission and encouragement of the commander-in-chief, the light cavalry of the Yuan army, who had won consecutive battles, no longer cared about it, and rushed to loot grain and grass and baggage. In troubled times, the armies of the princes more or less had written or unwritten rules that the captured spoils of war were rewarded to the generals concerned according to a certain percentage of the money, so in the face of this considerable amount of grain and grass, the red-eyed soldiers of the Yuan army even competed with each other.

For the competition for captured materials among his subordinates, generally speaking, as a commander-in-chief, he will not interfere too much. After all, most of the warriors are still fighting, and this grabbing the spoils of war and killing people in battle are the same thing, whoever has the ability will make meritorious contributions!

Under normal circumstances, Wen Chou's indulgence is extremely conducive to stimulating the fighting spirit of his subordinates, but today's Wen Chou seems to have forgotten that the enemy he faced this time was Cao Cao, who was known for his treacherous and cunning, and Cao Jun, who had always been rigorous and delicate, how could he make such a big mistake when the battle situation was already extremely unfavorable to his side?

After all, Wen Chou, who is the highest level of the Hebei Group, is very clear that the grain and grass that Liu Yan and Yu Ban escorted respectively are quite "rich", not only the large amount of materials that Cao Cao originally hoarded in White Horse City to fight against the Yuan army, but also a large number of Yuan army materials captured from Yan Liang a few days ago. If these are all grabbed, it will definitely be recorded as the first major achievement of Yuan Jun's southern expedition in the past few months!

With the permission and encouragement of the commander-in-chief, the light cavalry of the Yuan army, who had won consecutive battles, no longer cared about it, and rushed to loot grain and grass and baggage. In troubled times, the armies of the princes more or less had written or unwritten rules that the captured spoils of war were rewarded to the generals concerned according to a certain percentage of the money, so in the face of this considerable amount of grain and grass, the red-eyed soldiers of the Yuan army even competed with each other.

For the competition for captured materials among his subordinates, generally speaking, as a commander-in-chief, he will not interfere too much. After all, most of the warriors are still fighting, and this grabbing the spoils of war and killing people in battle are the same thing, whoever has the ability will make meritorious contributions!