Chapter 474: Yuan Benchu had no confidence
The camp where Zhao Hui's army was located, those camp tents were all put away.
All kinds of supplies were also loaded onto the wagon.
The rainy season is coming soon, and even if Yuan Shao doesn't attack, Zhao Hui will have to retreat temporarily.
He will not completely withdraw from Jizhou, but he will basically retreat to Zhongshan Changshan for a generation.
After the rainy season, he can continue to use troops against Yuan Shao.
Now they continue to be stationed here, first, it is difficult to transport grain and grass.
In fact, the food and grass in the army have only been enough for five days.
If the grain and grass are not supplied in time, as long as it is delayed by one day, the impact on morale will be very large.
Moreover, when the rainy season arrives and the water level rises, the camp where Zhao Hui is now is actually very dangerous.
When the army was withdrawn, Zhao Hui did not show up, but handed it over to Guo Jiadianwei to command.
Zhao Hui still wanted to see if he could lure Yuan Shao to attack.
He still didn't give up.
Take the opportunity of this retreat to see if you can ambush Yuan Shao.
It's just that Zhao Hui does this, and there is also a certain risk.
First of all, there are 100,000 troops, and now they are about to retreat, and they still haven't seen Zhao Hui, and they don't have a bottom in their hearts.
Even if there were still most of the people before, they thought that Zhao Hui was not dead.
Now they are all shaken.
Zhao Hui has not appeared until now, and the army has begun to retreat, and many people have no hope in their hearts about whether Zhao Hui is still alive.
Because it has always been Zhao Hui who has the advantage.
If Zhao Hui didn't die, why did he give up his advantage and withdraw his troops?
These soldiers, without taking into account that the arrival of the rainy season, will have a great impact on them.
Zhao Hui is seeking stability, and the rainy season is too unfavorable for him.
His current adventures are actually still under Zhao Hui's control.
Although the morale of the soldiers is low, there will be some unrest in the army.
But Dian Wei Guojia is still enough to deal with it.
But if the rainy season comes, stay here and don't retreat.
The advantages that Zhao Hui had achieved before will really be completely sent back.
Don't look at Yuan Shao who is being pressed very badly by Zhao Hui now.
But it really only takes one chance for Yuan Shao to turn defeat into victory.
Zhao Hui didn't want to give Yuan Shao any chance.
In the three-month rainy season, he was just able to let the army retreat to Changshan, and after three months of repair, when the rainy season passed, he was re-leading the army with high morale and killing it again.
And these three months can also allow Xu Huang to consolidate Qingzhou.
When the time comes, the three-way army will march together, which will be enough to sweep Jizhou.
It seems that this retreat will give Yuan Shao a chance to breathe.
But when Zhao Hui makes a comeback three months later, Yuan Shao will face an even more powerful army.
The retreat now, just because of the season, is a strategic retreat.
Dian Wei and Guo Jia are still trying to maintain order in the army.
Zhao Hui's yellow lion, led by a groom calf.
Zhao Hui himself, although he is still in the army, has temporarily disguised himself as a pro-soldier, wearing ordinary armor and holding an ordinary Mo knife, instead of his one-zhang-long, ninety-one-pound one.
Zhao Hui's current personal guards, as well as the Modao Iron Horseman, their strength is far inferior to Zhao Hui.
Therefore, the weight of the Mo knife he can can is basically only about fifty catties.
The Great Army has already begun to retreat.
Dian Wei was in charge of the break.
"Report, Yuan's army is dispatched and is pursuing."
Guo Jia waved his hand and said, "Continue to investigate." ”
"General Zilong, where are you now?"
"It's already in Jizhou."
After Zhao Yun retreated to Yanzhou after Cao Cao, he did not pursue it anymore.
With the remaining more than 1,000 cavalry, he withdrew from Qingzhou.
Qingzhou now has Xu Huang, which is enough to suppress the situation.
Beihai City, also a few days ago, was broken by Xu Huang.
Without Cao Cao's containment, Yuan Shao couldn't spare his hands now, so he sent people to support.
The remaining more than 10,000 soldiers in Beihai City have already run away by now.
Only five or six thousand remained.
In the face of Xu Huang's army, they couldn't wait for reinforcements, and they didn't have too strong a heart to resist.
The situation in Qingzhou is becoming more and more stable, and Xu Huang's control over Qingzhou is getting stronger and stronger.
Yuan Shao didn't want Zhao Hui's 100,000-strong army to leave.
Although he now thinks that Zhao Hui Jiucheng may be dead.
And Zhao Hui has no heirs now.
But if you let the 100,000 army go back.
The generals left behind by Zhao Hui can continue to control Youzhou and merge with the state.
Tian Feng wanted to persuade Yuan Shao not to be impulsive, and after thinking about it, he sent spies to continue to inquire.
But Yuan Shao did not agree.
There must be inquiries, but the army must also set off.
If he doesn't send troops right now, even if he gets the exact news, he can guarantee that Zhao Hui is dead, but at that time, he will lose the best time to pursue.
Yuan Shao now regrets that he didn't send troops yesterday.
He didn't care whether the Zhao army would have a backup hand when he retreated, and he would chase after it first.
Although the whole army was ordered to go out, Yuan Shao still led 20,000 men to attack first.
He couldn't wait any longer.
I regret why I hesitated the other day.
Of course, while sending troops, Yuan Shao also continued to inquire about the situation of Zhao Hui's army.
In particular, the morale of the army, as well as the observation of the number of people.
Although Zhao Hui is dead, there are still people like Dian Wei, Guo Jiajia, and Jia Xu.
None of them were mortals, and Yuan Shao didn't dare to be careless either.
The army is like a torrent of steel, rolling up the sky with dust.
"Is there any news of Zhao Hui?"
The army advanced, and from time to time a horse came to Yuan Shao's side.
The first thing Yuan Shao asked was about Zhao Hui.
"Nope."
"What is the morale of the enemy army, but there is a riot?"
This is the second sentence of Yuan Shao's question.
"The morale of the enemy troops is low, but the formation is neat, and there is no riot for the time being." The spy said.
"Revisit." Yuan Shaodao.
The 20,000-strong army continued to advance, and Yuan Shao had not stopped.
Behind him, there were 30,000 troops, coming.
Although Yuan Shao led the army to catch up.
But he was not in a hurry to attack. Instead, he followed Zhao Hui's soldiers and horses from afar.
Although he now thinks that Zhao Hui is dead.
But Yuan Shao was not careless.
Zhao Hui here, there are still 100,000 troops.
In terms of troops, it is much higher than Yuan Shao.
If Yuan Shao wants to win, he still has to put more thought into it and prepare more.
What Yuan Shao wanted to see was not a neat queue of soldiers and horses.
Rather, it is a chaotic army, an army that is fleeing or even routing.
Only then could Yuan Shao be sure that with the forces he now had, he would defeat Zhao Hui's army in one fell swoop.
If it was someone else's army, Yuan Shao didn't need to be so careful.
But this is Zhao Hui's army, and Yuan Shao has already suffered too many losses here.
Even if the morale of this army is not increased now, even if Zhao Hui, the commander, is dead.
But there are also Dian Wei, Guo Jia and others.
Yuan Shao did not have an invincible general in his hands who could defeat Dian Wei.
When he faced Zhao Hui's army, he no longer had the confidence he had before.
At this point, Yuan Shao himself is not aware of it now.