Zhang Liao led the army unceremoniously all the way to the city, and found that there was no figure of Gongsun Du and the Liaodong army, and after learning of its movements, he went straight to the north city wall.

And Gongsun Du, who was located on the northern city wall, had already gathered the remaining troops in the city, about 3,000.

Looking at the scene of the fire and killing in the city on the city wall, Gongsun Du roared with a hideous face: "What's going on? Where did this force come from? ”

The guard of the northern city wall arched his hand and whispered: "My lord, a certain has sent a scout under his command to investigate. How this force came in is unknown, but it is known that it is under the banner of Yuan, and the number is about thousands. ”

"Yuan Ziqi?" Gongsun Du frowned slightly: "Yuan Shao is now in a stalemate with Gongsun Zhan, it is impossible to be an enemy of my Liaodong at this time, this must be Yuan Shu's people." ”

"So what do we do?"

Gongsun Du listened to the shouting and killing in the distance, and said in a deep voice: "Now the situation is unclear and the enemy army is strong, let's withdraw first and find Zeng Tai, who is leading the army outside." ”

Then he decisively reorganized the army and withdrew outside the city, without the slightest idea of fighting with Zhang Liao. Although he didn't know much about the gap between the army under his command and the Jiangdong army, he also knew that his own army was definitely not an opponent under the same number, not to mention that the opponent might have an advantage in numbers.

Gongsun Du's withdrawal without any delay made Zhang Liao extremely depressed, but Zhang Liao who rushed to the northern city wall only saw the smoke and dust of the Liaodong army leaving in the distance, and he secretly hated it in his heart. Capture the thief and capture the king first, if Gongsun Du can be captured, the battle of Liaodong will be over. But Gongsun Du's timidity and caution surprised Zhang Liao, at this time Gongsun Du had already fled, and it was too late for him to regret it.

"General, do you want to lead the army in pursuit?" Zhang Bao asked.

"In order to march cheaply, our army didn't bring a single war horse this time, how can we chase?" Zhang Liao said in a deep voice: "I thought that this time I could directly capture Gongsun Du, and the worst thing was to destroy Xiangping's army, but I didn't expect Gongsun Du to be so timid. Let's stabilize the situation in Xiangping first, and then we will talk about it, Gongsun Du is blocked by Gongjin, and there will be no major incidents. ”

"What the general said is extremely true, with General Zhou here, Gongsun Du will definitely not be able to escape."

Zhang Liao nodded, and then ordered the soldiers to guard the four gates of Xiangping while stabilizing the situation in the city, and temporarily stationed in Xiangping.

On the other side, Zhou Yu, who was pinned on by Zhang Liao, was extremely depressed at this time. Not to his surprise, Gongsun Du learned that Gongsun Kang's current critical situation sent troops to support, originally he wanted to lead the army to ambush another wave, or to engage in a fraud or something, but he never thought that the reinforcements sent by the other party would be a complete wonder.

The army led by Zeng Tai is really well versed in the way of "steady", and sends scouts all over the place along the way, stopping and observing any disturbances, and trying to avoid all places that are easy to set up ambushes, but the three-day journey makes it take seven days to arrive.

What made Zhou Yu laugh the most was that he sent Zhao Yun to lead two thousand soldiers to seduce and deceive the defeat, but after the other party heard the information of these two thousand soldiers, he withdrew his troops directly! Withdrawn! Withdrawn! Say the important thing three times.

It was the first time Zhou Yu had seen this kind of strange thing for so many years, with an army of 20,000 in his hands and facing 2,000 enemy troops, he didn't try to tempt, and ran away without hesitation. This result made Zhou Yu dumbfounded. God, how can a general be so cowardly? Could it be that you are willing to send a team of less than 500 people over to attack?

Zeng Tai's attitude of leading the troops directly made Zhou Yu, who was bent on destroying him, unable to start. You can never wake up someone who is pretending to be asleep, and in the same way, you can never overcome someone who doesn't fight you. Zeng Tai was so timid and afraid of things, but Zhou Yu and others felt helpless. In a way, it is also powerful, and in the future, he can say that he was the one who made Zhao Yun, Sun Ce, and Zhou Yu helpless.

It took a lot of effort for Zeng Tai Zhou Yu, and even secretly informed the Gongsun Kang army besieged by him about his news, and pretended not to investigate and secretly allowed a few Gongsun Kang to send scouts who ordered Zeng Tai to come to support. But no matter how Zhou Yu seduced Shi Shi, Zeng Tai seemed to be iron-hearted, and never fought against Zhou Yu, leading an army of 20,000 as if he was out on an outing, wandering around.

"Gongjin, what now?" Zhao Yun said helplessly: "Today I led a thousand cavalry to provoke, but the other party still avoided fighting. ”

Zhou Yu's face turned dark when she heard this, she had never been so powerless, and he really had no way to meet this kind of "waste".

"Gongjin, why bother? You rode directly with me with 3,000 iron horses, and I will surely be able to defeat them. Sun Ce couldn't look at it and said indignantly.

Zhou Yu glanced at him: "As long as the other party encounters our army, withdraw immediately, you can catch up with the cavalry if you lead the cavalry to pursue, but we can't keep up." With the 3,000 iron cavalry you lead, you can defeat the opponent's 20,000 army, and I am afraid that you will also suffer heavy losses, so it is useless. Calculating the time, Xiangping should have been taken by Wen Yuan now, and the overall situation of Liaodong has been decided, since this team is not easy for us to deal with, let's let it go first. Wipe out the army of Gongsun Kang that we are besieging and talk about it. ”

The terrain of Liaodong is treacherous, mostly jungle swamps, and Zhou Yu also brought 3,000 iron cavalry under his command, which cannot catch up at all, and it takes a lot of time to transfer troops from Gao Guli, even if they are transferred, maybe the other party will withdraw directly when they learn of the situation. The gains outweigh the losses.

"Then this army doesn't care?" Sun Ce said angrily.

"Once Xiangping is taken, Liaodong will be in our hands, no matter how slippery this army is, it will only be a lone army, and it is only a matter of time before it is eliminated, so we are not in a hurry at this time." Zhou Yu said calmly.

Zhao Yun nodded when he heard this: "What Gong Jin said is good, Bo Fu, calm down." ”

"Got it." Sun Ce said with interest.

"Since the prey is not baited, there is no need for this bait to stay. Zilong, Bofu, let's attack tomorrow. Looking at the low city wall not far away, Zhou Yu said lightly.

At this time, the army of Gongsun Kang, who had become a turtle in the urn, had no morale, and the city wall of this small county town they were stationed was low and fragile, which was actually just a psychological comfort, and a charge would be taken. The defenders inside could be easily defeated by Zhou Yu.

On the second day, Zhou Yu led his army to launch a general attack. An army of 10,000 enemies, Sun Ce and Zhao Yun, easily captured the low county town, eliminated the defenders in it, and captured Gongsun Kang and some generals. Zhou Yu did not kill them all, but took them into custody and waited for Yuan Shu to deal with them. Later, Zhou Yu did not pay attention to Zeng Tai's army, and directly led the army to Xiangping to join Zhang Liao.

But at the same time, Gongsun Du, who fled from Xiangping, also led the army to gather troops with Zeng Tai and seek another plan.