They are really losers, losers who are powerless.

Even if you retreat to Yuzhang County and rely on Jingzhou, you may not be able to withstand the onslaught of the Wei army, and the fall of Wu County and Danyang County is a foregone conclusion.

Unless Liu Biao sent the Jingzhou army to help them hold Luling, use the advantage of Jingzhou's naval army to resist the Wei army, and take Peng Lize as the combat center, forcing the Wei army to fight a water war with them, and resist the attack of the Wei army with the advantage of water warfare.

In this way, it may be possible to hold on to Yuzhang County.

But then it was necessary to get Liu Biao's help, and the cooperation of the Jingzhou sailors, and the two armies to fight a joint operation, so as to contain the offensive of the Wei army.

Otherwise, the Wei army would never stop, and they had to be destroyed.

At this point, Huang Gai was helpless after crying bitterly, seeing that the occupation was changing to an unstoppable disadvantage, what could he do alone?

There is no need to defend Wuhu anymore, it can't be defended at all, if it continues to be defended, once Xu Huang crosses the river, it will cause disastrous consequences.

The battlefield along the river was precarious, but Huang Gai no longer planned to continue to send troops to support.

After sorting out the rest of the army, a group of people with more than 3,000 horses and horses quickly left the city, and all the characters on the official face were taken away, and all the food and previous things were taken away, leaving only the city full of Li Shu.

They planned to go to Danyang County to govern Wanling County first, and then take the roads of Jing County, Lingyang County and Poyang County to enter Yuzhang County, and settle down in Yuzhang County first.

Then at the same time, Lu Fan asked to send an envoy to Jingzhou to move Jingzhou reinforcements, so as to help keep Yuzhang County together, which would also be beneficial to Liu Biao, and Liu Biao would not be unable to understand.

So the plan was set.

Sun Quan and the others fled all the way, and Lu Fan himself took the lead with three fast horses and a group of guards to Jiangxia County, Jingzhou, to find Huang Zu to ask what was going on, and there were no troops.

Lu Fan conceived it this way, thinking of uniting Jingzhou soldiers in Yuzhang County to fight another battle, stop the pace of the Wei army's attack, protect Yuzhang County and even Luling County, and retain a trace of vitality and hope for Wu to recover.

The rest is left to fate.

But for Yu Ban and others, in order to eliminate the Wu State and give gifts to Guo Peng, in order to make Guo Peng happy by obtaining meritorious deeds in the stalls established in the new dynasty, they will do whatever it takes.

Are you kidding?

A lifetime of glory and wealth is in this fight, do you want us to give this great opportunity to others?

Yu Ban couldn't bear it, and Zhang Liao and Guo Jia couldn't bear it either, so the three thousand iron horsemen chased all the way under the leadership of Yu Ban.

Originally, Yu Ban was still a little apprehensive about whether he could catch up, thinking that they might really not be able to catch up, and they might really lose such a great opportunity, but soon, Yu Ban discovered something.

"Our war horses have horseshoes, right?"

During the break, Yu Ban asked Wei Yan, who had followed him to pursue.

"Yes, General, our war horses have horseshoes, and after nailing horseshoes to the horseshoe, not only the loss of the horse's hooves is greatly reduced, but the speed of the war horses is also much faster."

Wei Yan nodded.

"yes, that's it."

Yu Ban squatted down, lifted the hooves of the war horse under his crotch, and looked at the horseshoe below: "Wen Chang, now all the cavalry in the world, only our war horse is nailed to the horseshoe, right?" ”

"That's natural, only we have horseshoes, so the loss of our war horses has been greatly reduced, this battle has been fought until now, and the hooves of the war horses under my command have not been lost, and it seems that they can continue to fight, as usual, a fierce battle will come down, and the war horses will go to three out of ten."

Wei Yan couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "So, when Emperor Wu counterattacked the Huns, if the war horses had horseshoes, how could they fight a decisive battle in Mobei?" Maybe we can keep chasing the Huns to the west and completely destroy the Huns, and we won't make a fuss about halving the domestic household registration and losing a lot of horses. ”

"This is the Northern Expedition of the Han Wu Xiongnu, do you know this? Looks like you've read quite a bit? Have you also read "Taishi Gongshu"? ”

Yu Ban was a little strange.

"Yes, I read some, and the king told me that if you don't read for a general, you are a reckless man, and you have to read more in order to take on the heavy responsibility of commanding the army, so the king let me read a lot of books, and sometimes he will personally guide me to read and solve my doubts."

"The king personally instructed you to read? Still for you? It's true? ”

Yu Ban was surprised.

"Yes, really."

Wei Yan nodded.

Yu Ban looked at Wei Yan with some surprise, looked at him, and then smiled.

"The king is right, read more, there is no harm, people who do not read, is not able to lead thousands of troops, well, don't talk about this, in the past we all know that the horse's hooves are very badly damaged, galloping too much, the speed of damage will also be accelerated, so do not dare to use too much horsepower, run a period of rest for a while.

Although it is also now, but we have a horseshoe, we don't have to worry too much about the damage to the horseshoes, compared to the Wu people who don't have a horseshoe, we have an advantage in this point, they are afraid, we are not afraid, right? ”

Wei Yan frowned and nodded.

"The general is right, we don't have to worry about the horse's hooves being worn, but does it matter?"

"It's a big deal."

Yu Ban said: "We are not afraid of damage to the horse's hooves, we can run faster, they are afraid of damage to the horse's hooves, so we must run very slowly, we can run faster than them, as long as the war horses are fed, and they can't, they must rest more often than us." ”

"That means ......"

Wei Yan suddenly reacted and exclaimed, "We can catch up with them!" We just need to eat and sleep, and they have to let the horses rest for a while, and our horses are better than theirs, and there are more of them, and they will be faster! ”

"That's right! They're ahead of us, but we're sure we'll catch up! ”

Yu Ban clenched his fists fiercely.

"I didn't think of it before!"

Wei Yan looked excited: "It's still a new thing, we are used to the previous way, but now it's different, and with the saddle and stirrups, we also save a lot of effort, we can give full play to the horsepower, but they can't, they have to clamp the horse's belly between their legs, and they have to rest after running for a while, otherwise the horse can't stand it!" ”

"Yes."

Yu Ban looked at Wei Yan with a little appreciation: "Yes, yes, the book was not read in vain, I thought of these so quickly, very good, you are right, this is the case, in this way, we will definitely be able to catch up with them quickly, and they don't want to run to Jingzhou!" ”

Wei Yan nodded again and again, and then beckoned the soldiers to eat dry food, drink more water, and nibble on a few pieces of jerky, and then continued to pursue on the road.

If you want to talk about this battle ration, Wei Yan is really satisfied.

Being able to eat enough and gnaw a few bites of meat was unthinkable when I didn't join Guo Peng's army before.

Guo Peng has never slackened off in terms of military rations since the beginning of the founding of the army.

While the armies of other warlords were still eating vegetable porridge and wild vegetables, Guo Peng had already let the soldiers eat a few dry meals in Tuntian, Shanggu County.

While the armies of other warlords went up the mountains to pick fruits and go down to the river to fish hungry, Guo Peng was already able to ensure that the soldiers had one dry meal a day.

After arriving in Qingzhou, because of the proximity to the sea, Guo Peng took advantage of the seaside and used a large number of seafood and a large number of ducks obtained from locust control to supplement the meat for the soldiers.

When the area became larger and larger, and the scale of Tuntian became larger and larger, the staple food of the Wei soldiers was completely out of the category of thick vegetable porridge and became dry rice.

After the conquest of Hebei, trade routes with the nomads were opened, and the number of livestock obtained greatly increased, so beef, mutton and horse meat also became the meat that Wei soldiers could eat.

And when the Wei army was about to carry out large-scale war operations, Guo Peng would also make large quantities of dried meat in advance for the soldiers to equip.

Especially for cavalry, when it is necessary to run long distances, jerky and flatbread are the best food, basically one person has two horses, one horse rides a man, and one horse carries food, water and other necessities.

When the three artifacts of the cavalry are equipped, they can easily stabilize their bodies without clamping the horse's belly with their legs on a horse, and even part of their daily needs can be completed on a war horse.

Hardly non-stop, except for resting at night and letting the horses rest.

With such a speed of pursuit at the limit, Yu Ban was very sure to catch up with Sun Quan.