Cao Cao retreated.

He knew that it was useless to fight, he couldn't eliminate Yuan Shao, and it would only increase casualties.

And Yuan Shao didn't have the strength to pose a threat to him.

At least in the short term, there is no way, he has survived this crisis.

"It's a pity that you don't fight, otherwise Lao Tzu will be able to wipe you all out."

Watching Cao Cao retreat, Zhang Ming also felt very regretful.

When Cao Cao retreated, there were still more than 10,000 troops and nearly 20,000 troops.

And Yuan's army still has an army of about 30,000.

Cao Cao retreated, and Yuan Shao was also overly frightened, and his face turned pale at this time.

He had never experienced anything so dangerous, and they were almost wiped out.

Yuan Shao didn't care about anything else and hurriedly retreated.

After crossing the river, Yuan Shao only took a short rest, and then asked Chun Yuqiong to escort him back first.

And Zhang Ming seemed to have been forgotten.

This Yuan Shao has a good face, how can he be willing to see Zhang Ming at this time, it is too faceless.

Yuan Shao ran away, leaving Yan Liang and Gao Ran and the others to deal with the rest of the matter.

In fact, there is nothing left, just clean up the camp, bury the corpses of the fighters, and then you can evacuate.

Zhang Ming didn't plan to stay, asked for a few days of food and grass, and left directly.

When leaving, as the host, Gao Ran sent Zhang Ming off.

"General Gao, there will be a period later, so don't leave it at that."

Zhang Ming left with people, Gao Ran didn't talk nonsense, he also had a lot of things to do.

In other words, although Cao Cao survived this catastrophe, he suffered heavy losses in his troops.

Now there are less than 20,000 soldiers and horses, but there were nearly 80,000.

And Yuan Shao was even worse, losing more than 100,000 people in this battle.

However, Yuan Shao has a lot of money, more than 100,000 people, and he may be able to recover in a year.

After Cao Cao withdrew his troops, he left directly and did not stay in the camp, and even a lot of grain and grass in the camp were directly discarded.

Now, nothing is more important than these soldiers and horses.

On the way back, Cao Cao asked two military advisors to accompany him.

"The biggest beneficiary of this battle is Zhang Ming, this Zhang Ming is smarter than us." Cao Cao said when he went back.

Guo Jia and Cheng Yu also felt a lot of emotion in their hearts.

Before, they thought that Zhang Mingrat's eyes were short-sighted and content with pleasure.

Now, they have discovered that Zhang Ming is a brilliant strategist.

After analysis, they believed that this strategy might have been proposed by people around Zhang Ming, who had Xi Zhicai, Lu Zhi and Tian Feng around him.

Outsiders don't know that this Lu Zhi is actually not Zhang Ming's core personnel.

In this battle, Zhang Ming lost more than 2,000 people, but the benefit was the greatest.

Zhang Ming gained a strategic advantage and weakened Yuan Shao and Cao Cao at the same time.

Cao Cao said: "You said that Zhang Ming could have predicted this situation in advance? ”

Guo Jia said: "There shouldn't be, Zhang Ming was improvising in this battle, if there was no Ju Yi at that time, we would kill it, I believe that Zhang Ming would turn to attack Yuan Shao." ”

Cheng Yu also nodded and said: "If Yuan Shao dies, Zhang Ming will be able to take Qingzhou and Jizhou, and the strategic value is immeasurable." ”

Cao Cao also felt this way, feeling that Zhang Ming was a pack of wolves on the battlefield, and once there was an interest, he would rush up and bite.

Cao Cao didn't know whether to be happy or sad now.

Glad to have such a natural ally to deal with Yuan Shao.

Sadly, this ally is not reliable at all, and could be used against him at any time.

"Lord, this chapter is already worthy of our attention, whether it is friend or foe, we should attach great importance to it." Guo Jia said.

Cao Cao nodded silently, thinking about something in his mind.

"After I go back, I will vigorously develop football and let Ang'er also form a team himself."

Football can maintain the relationship between the two countries, and can even become an important diplomatic venue.

In this battle, it was indeed Zhang Ming who benefited the most.

Zhang Ming went all the way north, and he was in a hurry to go back.

This time, the north can stop for a while.

There will definitely be no big war for at least half a year.

Although Yuan Shao lost more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, as well as a large amount of grain and grass, he was still the most powerful prince in the world.

It controls nearly three states, has deep pockets, and has a large number of soldiers.

Yuan Shao went back angrily, and when he was on the way, he had already issued an order to let people start preparing grain and grass and recruiting soldiers and horses.

In terms of grain and grass, the Zhen family alone is enough to provide him.

The impact of this battle is huge, and people of insight can see that it may affect the future situation, while ordinary people only see the immediate winners and losers.

Zhang Ming went all the way to the north, the horse was crashing, and he wanted to hurry back and reap the fruits of this victory.

This time, the two were weakened, and they also got a county.

Originally, Yuan Shao thought that if he won, he would be able to slowly eat away at Zhang Ming, and even let Zhang Ming be his thug and help him fight the world.

As a result, a county white was given to Zhang Ming.

Zhang Ming returned to Jixian County, and Yuan Shao and Cao Cao also went back separately at this time.

When they returned, they were licking their wounds.

Yuan Shao is okay, he just gives the order, and his subordinates will get money and food, and then start recruiting and training soldiers and horses.

And Cao Cao can't, he still has enemies to the south, and he is also internally unstable.

The most important thing is that Cao Cao is poor.

Cao Cao didn't have much food and grass, and he didn't have any money.

At this time, Cao Cao was getting some money and food.

No way, he really doesn't have any money.

So, Cao Cao secretly organized a team.

This team is one of the originators of tomb robbing, Captain Touch.

There's really no way, don't go to the tomb robbery, there is no money.

Many people will dislike this digging of people's ancestral graves, but Cao Cao also has to do it.

He really didn't have any money.

After going back, Cao Cao began to have a headache.

Once again, Cao Cao was discussing the matter of fundraising, and Cao Cao was discussing it with his subordinates and Cao Ang.

"Hey, how can this Zhang Ming be so rich, and he can still repair the city with a lot of money."

Cao Cao sighed and said.

Cao Ang suddenly said, "We can borrow it from him." ”

Some people laughed, thinking that Cao Ang's words were too ridiculous.

Cao Cao also shook his head.

Cao Ang saw that everyone didn't believe him, so he said: "Zhang Ming opened a special thing called Qianzhuang in Youzhou, which is specifically for loans. ”

"In Youzhou, many businessmen are short of money, so they use land and real estate to mortgage, and then lend money, according to the time interest is different, and the repayment is when the time comes, so many people can do several times the business."

Cao Ang said simply, everyone was dumbfounded, business can still do this.

Although, private lending has always existed, and it is still usury.

But what Zhang Ming did was for everyone (currently limited to Youzhou)

Zhang Ming treats lending as a business.

Cao Cao sighed and said: "I can't borrow it, this model is really good, but we don't borrow a little bit, and Zhang Ming has already lost all the money, and there is no money to lend us." ”

Cao Ang thought differently.

"Father, uncles, this Zhang Ming's thinking has always been different from others, and he can make money, in fact, the money he spent on repairing the city is different from ours."

Everyone wondered, is there still a city repair that doesn't cost money?