"You have a point. But if you don't withdraw now, how can you lure the enemy? Yuan Xi scratched his head.

"The Admiral thinks... The enemy will not give up encirclement and suppression of us just because we have 50,000 or 60,000 troops. On the contrary, they knew that the lord was here, and he was defeated by Zhan Hong, and he would definitely attack in a big way. We just have to stay here and wait for work. ”

"Okay."

Yuan Xi looked at the Han Gu on the side and said, "Don't attack the city in the past few days, let the soldiers rest and prepare for a big battle." ”

"Yes." "Do we need to do anything to prepare?" ”

"You don't need any preparation. In my eyes, Cao Cao's army, except for the tiger and leopard cavalry, the Qingzhou army, and the short-lived Shenji battalion in Chang'an, are all garbage, and I am not afraid of any more. ”

"Having said that, Cao Cao's army is stronger than Yuan Shang and Yuan Tan's, so we can't be careless."

..........

Li Dian also agreed with Xi Gu's words, and said: "We must at least find a battlefield close to the water source, the lord should know that the giant beast is afraid of fire, Cao Cao controls such a large piece of the Central Plains, can he not have fire oil in his hands?" ”

"Hmm."

Yuan Xi said: "The matter of fire oil really worries me. So far, I have not received any news from Cao Cao storing oil oil, and I have not discovered oil fields. But this does not mean that Cao Cao does not have oil for kerose. He must have been hiding. ”

"General Li Dian, your proposal is very good, we need to find a water source before we can fight the Cao army."

Yuan Xi got up and looked at the map behind him, looked for a long time on the map, raised his hand and said: "From here to the north, about a hundred miles, there is a river called Datang River. He is a tributary of the Yellow River from Xuzhou, where we can fight the enemy. ”

"Li Dian."

"Yes." Li Dian stepped forward.

Yuan Xi instructed: "From now on, you must send more scouts, pay close attention to the enemy's movements, and once we find that Cao troops are coming, we will move towards the Datang River." I'm sure Cao Jun will follow. ”

"No."

Li Dian responded.

After the victory, Zhang Hu and Lianhong led the army back to the camp.

Zhang Hu never believed that with more than 10,000 soldiers, he defeated Yuan Xi's wolf cavalry and giant beasts.

On the contrary, he was already intoxicated with the joy of victory.

"General Zhang, they all say that Yuan Xi is invincible, but I can't see that. Their wolf cavalry has good defense, but they carry too much weight and move slowly, so it is difficult to hurt me. If it weren't for the ambush, I would have wiped them all out! Hiroshi said with a smile.

"General Lead, don't you think it's suspicious? The most elite wolf cavalry under Yuan Xi's command, such combat effectiveness? Zhang Hu shook his head secretly, he didn't believe it if he died.

"Haha..." Lian Hong smiled: "General Zhang, facts speak louder than words. Yuan Xi's wolf cavalry, no matter how strong the rumors are, is also human. If it is a human being, there will be fear, a sharp weapon will pierce the body, and then death. How can we be undefeated when we have laid an ambush and dealt them a fatal blow, and they have engaged us in battle under extremely unfavorable circumstances? ”

"But don't forget, the wolf cavalry army has defeated more than 100,000 Xianbei iron cavalry, defeated the Xiongnu iron cavalry, and the Goguryeo army, they are a veritable iron army with great achievements."

"So what, isn't it still defeated? Defeat at our hands! ”

He smiled again.

"Next, we should report to Zang Ba and Prime Minister Xuzhou and mobilize a large army to encircle and annihilate Yuan Xi. This is a rare opportunity not to be missed. General Zhang, at such a time, he can't retreat. ”

"I'm just a little worried."

"What is there to worry about? Believe me, as long as we have enough troops, we will definitely be able to make a contribution! "It's not so much that he is confident, but that he is unwilling to give up the honor he has already received.

Zhang Hu also realized this and said: "Our honor is really insignificant compared to the entire imperial court... General, do you understand what I mean? ”

"You..."

He didn't understand it all at once.

After careful consideration, I barely figured it out.

"General Zhang, are you trying to say... For the sake of my own face, I don't care about the court? ”

"I didn't say that. It's you who said it yourself. Zhang Hu snorted: "Anyway, I don't agree with you reporting to Xuzhou and the prime minister." The purpose of our coming here is to rescue Ren Cheng and at most contain Yuan Xi. Now we have won the first battle, and the task is well accomplished. As long as he stabilizes his position in the next month and does not lose Rencheng, it will already be a great achievement. ”

"Are you willing to let go of the chance to win?" Lian Hong shook his head secretly: "I'm unwilling!" Maybe Yuan Xi is stronger than we thought, but his elite wolf cavalry has already been killed by me... ”

Zhang Hu interrupted him: "You killed most of them? Do you see a wolf on the battlefield? The wolves all ran away, leaving behind only a thousand corpses. They can form another wolf cavalry at any time. ”

"I don't care about that!" Zhan Hong said firmly: "I will definitely report to the top!" ”

With that, he turned and walked away.

................

He said this, but he didn't do it when he went back.

He is still worried that because of his recklessness, irreparable consequences will be caused. In his heart, like Zhang Hu, he didn't believe that the invincible wolf cavalry would be defeated so easily.

He did not report to Xuzhou and Cao Cao.

It's done discreetly and decently...

But.

The battle of Rencheng had already alarmed Xu Yan and the two states, and almost every official and general, they sent scouts, staring at Ren Cheng and Yuan Xi's army all the time.

The battle between Yuan Xi and Zhang Hu and Lian Hong had already spread to various places that night.

If Zhan Hong sent the war report to them and asked them to rush to encircle and annihilate Yuan Xi, they might suspect that this was a trap set by Yuan Xi. But Zhang Hu and Lian Hong did not ask them for help, indicating that Yuan Xi was very likely to be defeated.

As a result, the garrisons of Xu Yan and the two prefectures, in order to make meritorious contributions, all gathered towards Rencheng.

The veterans of the Cao Army, who had been defeated by the Hebei Army, all wanted to be ashamed, they did not receive Cao Cao's orders, and they also participated in the battle on their own.

"Lord, urgent military situation..." Lang Gu broke into Yuan Xi's camp: "Our men found that there were two enemy forces, nearly 30,000 people, coming from the direction of Xuzhou. They had already passed Changyi, less than one hundred and fifty miles from Rencheng. ”

"I already know..."

Yuan Xi pointed to the map and said, "These more than 30,000 enemy troops are all Cao Cao's Yanzhou army, which was recently transferred to Pengcheng to garrison. I didn't expect that they would come faster than Xiao Pei's garrison. In just a few days, he marched more than 400 miles. ”

"It turns out that the lord knows about it." He asked, "I don't know who the general is?" ”

"Ahem..."

Yuan Xi coughed lightly: "I haven't investigated this yet. But no one can change the outcome of this war. You give notice that tomorrow evening, the whole army will move north. ”