Zhang Jiao followed his lord's orders, and instead of attacking other cities, he frantically recruited new people.

And step up the training of them, planning to one day, once again train hundreds of thousands of elite troops.

At the same time, he wanted to find an opportunity to attack Yuan Shao's Jizhou again, intending to be ashamed.

As the saying goes, where he falls, he must get up.

In Youzhou, there is a different scenery.

At this time, Youzhou had been occupied by Yuan Shu, and he was not very kind to Xue Yun's troops.

So after beating away the Yellow Turban Army, let them come from and where they will go back.

Dian Wei, who was reckless, saw that Yuan Shu's people were not merciful at all, and he couldn't wait to rush up and beat people directly.

But he was stopped by Wen Chou, who knew that if Dian Wei beat Yuan Shu's people, it would be his own lord who would suffer in the end, so he endured it.

It's just that when he was leaving, he suddenly said, "Ben will report everything that happened in Youzhou to my father-in-law, so that your father-in-law had better give an explanation." ”

There was a hint of threat in Wen Chou's words, but the general in charge of guarding Youzhou didn't pay attention to it at all, and said indifferently, "Listen to it." ”

After speaking, Wen Chou left with his Yuan family's army, which was less than 5,000 people.

Thinking that they had gathered a total of nearly 20,000 people in Youzhou, they didn't expect that after a battle, they lost more than half.

Moreover, of the remaining thousands, two-thirds were wounded, which shows that their battle with the Yellow Turban Army was completely a vicious battle.

On the way back, Dian Wei still couldn't hold back the anger in his heart.

said, "Brother Wen, can you just bear Yuan Shu's approach? They're completely bullying. ”

Wen Chou shook his head and replied, "Of course I can't bear it, but we can't directly fight Yuan Shu's army. Because in the end, the one whose reputation is damaged must be our lord. Don't worry, when we go back, I will explain everything to the lord, and the lord will definitely give us this bad breath. ”

Not only these two generals, but in the army of thousands of people, there was no excitement or joy on everyone's face because of the victory.

Some are as angry and hateful as Dian Wei, and they can't wait to go back now and fight to the death with Yuan Shu's army.

In the end, they returned to Jizhou, where Xue Yun and his group of strategists and generals had been waiting outside the city for a long time.

Xue Yun originally planned to go up and say two words of celebration, but when he saw Dian Wei's angry face and the sullen mood of the soldiers behind him, Xue Yun sensed a different taste.

Especially when he sent out an army of 20,000, how could he come back with such a small number of people?

If they were alone and fought a bloody battle with the Yellow Turban Army, and in the end these people survived, Xue Yun would not be surprised.

But he obviously received a flying pigeon from Yuan Shu, saying that Youzhou was a great victory, and the 30,000 soldiers he sent joined forces with Wen Chou and them to kill the Yellow Turban Army without leaving a piece of armor.

In other words, with the help of Yuan Shu, Wen Chou still suffered heavy losses.

Could it be that Wen Chou and they are also facing a force similar to the "People's Army"?

Xue Yun knew that things were very likely to be different from what he expected, so he let these soldiers rest and recuperate from their injuries.

Then he called Wen Chou and Dian Wei to the hall and asked what happened in Youzhou?

Yan Liang and the others were also on the side, and when they listened to Wen Chou and Dian Wei's narration, they were all angry.

Yan Liang scolded angrily: "What does this Yuan Shu mean? Playing our brother as a monkey? ”

Even Zhao Yun, who has an extremely good temper and does not get angry easily, said, "This Yuan Shu, as a prince, actually did such a thing. ”

It turned out that when the Yellow Turban Army attacked Youzhou, Wen Chou had always adopted a defensive strategy and never took the initiative to attack.

The battle originally went smoothly, although Wen Chou's side was at a disadvantage in numbers, but the Yellow Turban Army also paid a heavy price.

Wen Chou believes that according to this style of play, it will not be a problem to persist for another ten days and half a month.

Anyway, they have plenty of food and can afford to use them completely.

On the contrary, if the war drags on for a long time, the Yellow Turban Army will withdraw due to lack of food and grass.

But the originally beautiful plan changed after Yuan Shu's reinforcements arrived.

The general sent by Yuan Shu was a small person who was not famous.

In front of generals such as Wen Chou and Guan Yu, they are local chickens and dogs.

But after seeing Wen Chou, this general did not see the respect that his superiors should have at all.

You must know that Wen Chou's status in Yuan Shao's army is the same as Ji Ling's in Yuan Shu.

It stands to reason that this general should respectfully obey Wen Chou's command, but when he came to Youzhou City, he faced Wen Chou and them with the attitude of a large army commander.

Moreover, this general does not understand the art of war at all, and even the strategists who follow him do not know much about marching and fighting.

Wen Chou couldn't help it after hearing their marching formation, so he said his thoughts.

Who knew that at this time, the general took out Yuan Shu's edict, saying that he could replace Yuan Shu with full authority to handle the affairs of Youzhou.

To put it bluntly, Youzhou is now his master, and Wen Chou, Guan Yu and others must follow his orders.

Although Wen Chou did not belong to Yuan Shu's troops, he could leave Youzhou with his subordinates.

But he was worried that doing so would hurt the hearts of the people of Youzhou and be detrimental to Yuan Shao's reputation, so he endured it for a while.

And the general's strategy for retreating is very simple, that is, to drive all the troops out of the city and directly fight the Yellow Turban Army.

Wen Chou hurriedly said, "We will suffer heavy losses in this way, it is better to wait for work, hold on to the city, the Yellow Turban Army will not be able to break through for a long time, and it will definitely retreat." ”

But the general snorted coldly, "Now that our army is more than the Yellow Turban Army, if we still choose to defend at this time, wouldn't it be to grow the morale of others and destroy our own prestige?" If you don't agree, you can leave now, but you have to think clearly, what will be the loss to your father-in-law by doing so? ”

He used Yuan Shao to threaten Wen Chou, but Wen Chou could only agree stubbornly.

took all his soldiers and went out of the city to meet the battle with Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Dian Wei.

Originally, Wen Chou thought that Yuan Shu's army would follow him, but who would have thought?

When all his troops had come out, the general closed the gates again.

In the face of the shouts of Wen Chou and others, he also turned a deaf ear, and Wen Chou knew that Yuan Shu just wanted Wen Chou to bring out his army, so that he could better take over Youzhou City.

Wen Chou knew that he couldn't choose to leave, so he took his remaining brothers and directly fought with the Yellow Turban Army, which was twice his size.

The battle lasted for a long time, and it was not until the news of Jizhou's victory reached Youzhou that these Yellow Turban troops chose to retreat.

It's just that because the battlefield was too chaotic at that time, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were nowhere to be found.

There were only a few thousand surviving soldiers in Wen Chou, which was why they were eager to go to war in the face of Yuan Shu's army.