When Cheng Ji and Qin Mi came up with the rest of the battalions, Zhao Yun had completely killed the Qingqiang soldiers and the Suo soldiers and fled, and then evacuated.

Liu Yan's Shu army did not have a large-scale cavalry, so he could only watch Zhao Yun retreat after destroying the two battalions, and the morale of the whole army was dealt a major blow.

They hurriedly cleaned the battlefield, repaired the places where the fortifications of the camp had been breached, counted the losses, buried and burned the corpses, and found more than 1,000 barbarians killed in battle and seriously wounded and could not be treated. There are also minor injuries that can be treated.

But the original quota of 10,000 soldiers in the two battalions is now only 30%, that is, more than 3,000 people!

In other words, excluding the dead, at least 5,000 people fled because the camp was bombed. Among them, more than 1,000 people were captured by Zhao Yun when Zhao Yun withdrew his troops, and the rest should have fled into Longquan Mountain next to him.

The brute soldiers are more brave in battle, but the discipline is also poor, and they are all supported by a breath of morale. These soldiers, who had never faced a cavalry charge on the plains in their lives, were so frightened that they fled to the mountains. Without the barbarian king's restraint to regather his troops, these people would not be stupid enough to come back and continue to work for Liu Yan.

Anyway, Qingqiang and Subing are both mountainous peoples, who hunt for a living, and their ability to survive in the wild is extremely strong. It is now the late autumn of the ninth month of the lunar calendar, and it is not too cold in the mountains and forests, it is the harvest of wild fruits and the wild beasts that have raised enough fat to prepare for hibernation. There are 3,000 hunters in Longquan Mountain, and it is not a problem to live for a month, and they will be forced out only if they can't find food in winter.

In addition to the reduction of 7,000 barbarian soldiers, the other two battalions also suffered slight losses, about 1,000 each, and these losses were not all casualties, many of them took advantage of the chaos to escape, so Zhao Yun reduced the size of Liu Yan's army by 9,000 people in one battle, and the total strength of the front line dropped from 60,000 to about 50,000.

Wang Lei counted all the losses, and then went back to the camp with a bitter face to ask Liu Yan for his guilt.

In fact, when Wang Lei's camp was broken through early in the morning, Liu Yan had already been awakened, but he was sick and did not see things immediately.

"Envoy! It is incompetent and incompetent, unable to restrain the barbarians from escaping, and in today's battle, the number of our army has been reduced by as many as 9,000 people! Please make the king guilty! Wang Lei's tone was very remorseful.

Liu Yan knew that Wang Ti still had loyalty, and at this time it was the time to employ people, he didn't want to speak ill of each other, but waved his hand in disgust: "Victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, we don't know soldiers, we don't know how to deal with Hu Qi's rushing battle, and there is no way - the key is to learn a lesson, have you thought of a way to crack it?" ”

Wang Lei paused: "Not yet...... The most important thing is to expedite the construction of fortifications, continue to dig the pit in front of the camp, continue to pile up the earthen wall, and lay all the antlers in place as soon as possible.

In today's battle, the loss was only two days after our army set up camp, and the front of more than ten miles wide could not be covered with antlers everywhere to prevent the cavalry from trampling, so Zhao Yun found a gap and took advantage of the void. One of the fortifications such as antlers has not been laid, and the rest of the places have become useless. ”

"Heh......" Liu Yan shook his head speechlessly, he didn't have higher expectations for Wang Lei, this is the most stupid way to do manpower, but since there is no other good trick, let's do it first.

……

The army rested and reorganized until noon, and then two reinforcements of thousands of people came, which were transferred from the two county towns on the northern line by Pang Xi, the Taishou of Guanghan.

There were reinforcements to make up for today's battle damage and escape, and Liu Yan was a little settled in his heart. He also sent a list of talents, asked the officers and officials of the whole army to offer advice and ideas, and found a deployment strategy to deal with Zhao Yun's raid on the camp again, and said that even if he was originally just a small official, as long as the strategy was effective and feasible, regardless of age and seniority, he would be promoted immediately, at least to a rank of 400 stones.

This kind of exceptional promotion is still very rare under the official election system of the Han Dynasty, but who makes it wartime now, everything can only be done in a hurry.

After the heavy reward was issued, there were actually two grassroots officials who offered advice that afternoon, and Liu Yan endured the pain and took time to listen humbly.

The first to offer advice was a small official from Chengdu County, who came here with the army named Zheng Du: "Envoy, our army should send more scouts to search before the night, or divide the troops to go south along Longquan Mountain until the mountainous area on the east side of Nan'an County, and once Zhao Yun's soldiers and horses are found out of the city, try to warn." Zhao Yun did not have troops under his command who were good at climbing mountains and mountains, so they could ensure the safety of our scouts. ”

Liu Yan felt that he could give it a try, and asked the second donor.

It was the acting county lieutenant of Yunxian under Pang Xi, the Taishou of Guanghan, named Huang Quan, who had just been ordered by Pang Xi today to assist the superintendent of the reinforcements from Yuxian County to the front line.

Huang Quan admonished: "Envoy, our army should set up a sentry dock a few miles in front of the camp, the sentry dock is not vast, but each place is ten zhang wide and dozens of people can be hidden." But it was necessary to ram the earth to build a wall of two feet, so that the cavalry could not break through in haste. With such a scale, it can be repaired in a day with thousands of Ding Zhuang intensively.

Zhao Yun attacked the camp again, and our army could be warned several miles in advance, and learned that Zhao Yun's main attack direction - our army was in a strong position, but the battalions of the long trench were more than ten miles away, and each time they were attacked by surprise, the armies could not move forward together. If the camps at the far left and right ends were attacked, it would take half an hour for reinforcements from the distance to arrive.

Therefore, as long as Zhao Yun touches and leaves, every time he is actually only engaged in a battle with a part of our army, Zhao Yun's numerical disadvantage on the local battlefield is not obvious. Only in this way can we buy time for our army to assemble and respond. ”

Liu Yan listened and couldn't help nodding frequently.

Today's defeat is indeed the truth, he claims to be 60,000 horses, but most of them have not yet reacted, and the battle is over. Zhao Yungui is in Nan'an County, and if he wants to fight, he will come out to fight, and every time he concentrates his forces to pick a soft persimmon on a local battlefield, this is too disgusting.

Liu Yan applauded: "Okay, just follow the plan, if the rectification method you proposed is really effective, it can prevent Zhao Yun from attacking the camp again, and I will immediately promote you to the army management." ”

Zheng Du and Huang Quan have just been weak in their years, and if it weren't for the rapid promotion during the war, it would not be the turn of this kind of young man to show his brilliance anyway.

Liu Yanjun immediately re-strengthened the camp defense in accordance with this arrangement. And because Zhao Yun won a big victory on the first day, he also felt that the enemy would definitely be on guard, so he didn't follow immediately.

After an interval of a day or two, Zhao Yun repeated his old trick again, but found that Liu Yanjun had strict warning according to Huang Quan's deployment, and thousands of sudden horsemen ran away, but it took a lot of effort to pull out a sentry dock and kill dozens of enemy soldiers.

However, because of the delay, when he rushed to Liu Yan's camp, Liu Yanjun had successfully predicted the direction of Zhao Yun's main attack and had completed the assembly. Zhao Yun was unwilling, but tentatively used the semi-whirling tactic to suddenly release a round of arrows, and quickly withdrew. Because of the protection of the camp, Zhao Yun did not take advantage of the wave of shooting, but killed and wounded dozens of cavalrymen.

Hearing that Zhao Yun had retreated, Liu Yan breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately fulfilled his promise and officially promoted Zheng Du and Huang Quan to govern the army.

There were more and more Liu Yanjun on the southern front, and he and Zhao Yun officially entered a stalemate.

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From Yu County in Guanghan County to Nan'an, it is necessary to first pass through the Luoshui River Valley near Ruo County, cross the gap in Longquan Mountain, enter the Chengdu Plain, and then go south along the five counties of Luo County, Xindu, Chengdu, Guangdu, and Wuyang, with a cumulative distance of more than 300 miles.

(Note: After entering the Chengdu Plain, the county seat is very dense, and there is a county in thirty or forty miles, because the population is also dense.) There is a distance of 150 miles from Yu County to Luo County, and the next four counties add up to 150 miles away)

Therefore, the day when Huang Quan rushed to the frontal battlefield in Nan'an was six days after he set off from Yuxian.

He didn't know that when he first set off with the recruits recruited by Yu County, Zhang Fei on Liu Beijun's North Road had already occupied Deyang and Guanghan counties bordering Guanghan County and Ba County all the way, and he was only a few dozen miles away from Yu County.

Who let Zhao Yun fight too loudly after the detour on the southern front, and Zhang Fei, who was steadily advancing on the northern route with infantry and ships, was like a transparent person in the early stage of the battle.

Because of the slow march of the infantry, when Zhao Yundu reached Yandao County, Zhang Feicai occupied Deyang, the first county in Guanghan, and he also relied on the holy decree and the persuasion of the army to surrender, and almost took it without blood.

When Zhang Fei advanced to Guanghan again, he found that the city was already a little empty, and the news that "the southern line has been beaten by Zhao Yun to Nan'an, and he is about to break through Longquan Mountain and enter the Chengdu Plain".

So much so that Zhang Fei was very depressed, he wanted to recruit more prisoners, but it was difficult to do it - the enemy surrendered with a loud shout, the problem was that when the number of people was counted, it was found that there were not many guards in each county!

This was originally the target of my Lao Zhang's surrender, but as a result, he was transferred in advance to deal with Zilong!

When I walked to Yu County, I heard that Huang Quan, the acting county lieutenant of Yu County, had just left, and it was almost for nothing. Some counties surrendered too quickly before, and the county officials did not plan to report to Liu Yan, so Liu Yan did not know Zhang Fei's actual situation at the first time.

However, after all, Yuxian County is very close to the Chengdu Plain, and there are still some henchmen who want Liu Yan, so they can pass on the information of the fall as soon as possible. However, Liu Yan was in front of the Nan'an Army, and this information was sent to Liu Yan, at least two days after the official fall of Yu County.

Therefore, when Liu Yan knew, Zhang Fei had already continued north for more than 100 miles from Yuxian County, and got stuck between Fucheng and Mianzhu, where Pang Xi was stationed.

Pang Xi's letter for help also arrived on the same day.

"Report! Envoy! Zhang Fei, the other main force of Liu Beijun, had already arrived at the outskirts of Fucheng two days ago. Pang Taishou begged Jun to withdraw some of the reinforcements that had been transferred south before, otherwise he would be empty of troops and unable to repel Zhang Fei in the field battle, so he could only choose to defend the cage city! The counties in the southeastern half of Guanghan County have all been recruited by Zhang Fei! ”

When this bad news came, Liu Yan was so angry that he almost didn't come up, and the poisonous sores on his back burst out because of the rise in blood pressure, and he fainted to the ground with a scream.

"Take care of your health! The poison has burst out of pus, and it is no longer enough to rely on the immortal prescription to survive and drink, it must be supplemented by Bazhen soup to collect pus. The doctor repeatedly instructed Liu Yan not to be angry, otherwise he might break out at any time.

"Let's ...... Let Pang Xi defend the city, I ...... I personally returned to Mianzhu to sit in town. Liu Yan said hoarsely, he is now afraid that Lao Chao Mianzhu will be directly persuaded by Zhang Fei to surrender because there is no one in charge, and it will be all over.

"That'...... We finally brought the whole army here to intercept Zhao Yun, do we stay or leave? Wang Lei, Huang Quan, and Zheng Du asked one after another.

Liu Yan gritted his teeth: "Wang Ti, after you leave one part broken, the rest will go back to Chengdu and Mianzhu with me." The matter has come to this point, and the only way to fight to the death is to let Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei meet in the field, and finally win the battle.

Otherwise, they will use the method of 'Peng Yue and Chu to scratch Chu', our army will attack the north when they go south, and our army will attack the south when they go north, and sooner or later they will be exhausted. Our army has no cavalry, and the speed is far inferior to Zhao Yun's, and Zhao Yun can avoid the battle if he wants to, alas. It's just that I looked away, and I thought that Zhao Yun had already brought most of Liu Beijun's main forces, but I didn't expect Zhang Fei to have so many people and horses, and he advanced so fast! ”

Liu Yan didn't dare to think about anything now, he just wanted to fight for victory and defeat in the last vigorous field battle with numerical superiority.

If you win, everything is easy to say, slowly recuperate, and find a way to spend a lot of money to get a detained son from Dong Zhuo or elsewhere.

If he loses, then at most there will only be two lonely cities of Mianzhu and Chengdu, he and Pang Xi will each defend one county, cage the city to defend it, and completely abandon the entire Yizhou and the main army.

However, there is no hope for the cage city to be stubbornly defended, after all, Liu Bei Sheng's aim is to slowly pacify the peripheral counties and reorganize the people, and he has no reinforcements to rescue, it is nothing more than a few months late death.