Chapter 298: Regret
Yuan Shao didn't react until this time, but it was too late, because he was now trapped in the other party's city, and even the city gate was closed, and at the head of the city, feather arrows poured down like flying locusts, and the soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and the screams were endless, listening to Yuan Shao's ears, he was even more upset.
"It's really hateful, I didn't expect there to be such a trick as a deception, but I really can't understand it, these people are probably out of food now, right? That Wang Ling was a little yellow and thin when he first saw me, and he was obviously hungry, otherwise I wouldn't have believed him easily, but they were still loyal to Pei Qing, what did they rely on to support him? ”
Yuan Shao was still puzzled in his heart, but then he saw that the soldiers on the other side were all fighting bravely, and at the same time, his face was ruddy, and he didn't look hungry at all, and suddenly realized that the other party's army was not out of food, and the reason why Wang Ling and Guo Huai looked yellow and thin was probably deliberately hungry before seeing him, so as to win his trust.
"Such an abominable deception to me with such a despicable scheme!" Yuan Shao scolded secretly in his heart, but at the same time, he was also secretly strange, I don't know why Pei Qingjun knows why there is still food to eat now? According to what is said, even if Pei Qingjun does not reach the point of cannibalism, it is time to gnaw on the bark and grass roots, no, it is winter, and there is no bark and grass roots to gnaw at all.
Yuan Shao's general Han Meng desperately attacked the city gate, trying to break through the city gate and save Yuan Shao out, at the same time, the general Lu Yi also struggled to attack the city gate outside the city, in order to rescue Yuan Shao, if it was just an ordinary city gate, it is estimated that it would have been broken a long time ago, but now in the middle of the city gate hole is a stone gate, this stone gate is the jack gate in the later generations, usually use a winch to hang the jack gate, and put it down at an emergency moment, how can this jack gate stop a thousand catties? It's not that easy to attack. This thing had never appeared in the history of the time, and because the whole thing was stone, it was difficult to destroy it in a hurry, so the soldiers under Yuan Shao's command who were blocked in the city could be said to have suffered heavy casualties
Despite this, Yuan Shao and his soldiers never gave up the pursuit of life, they tried their best to attack the stone gate, after nearly an hour of struggle, finally broke the stone gate a hole, in this case Yuan Shao ignored the rest, hurriedly drilled out of this hole, and escaped outside the city.
But I didn't expect that at this time outside the city there were also enemy troops in the fierce attack, in this hour, because the three army soldiers were leaderless, under the other party's onslaught, suddenly lost their square inches, plus it is now night, and I don't know how many people there are on the other side, so the soldiers have no desire to resist at all, they have scattered and fled, in order to fight for the way of life, kill each other, trample on each other and more than 20,000 people died.
After finally escaping from the city gate, Yuan Shao didn't have time to catch his breath when he saw the soldiers scattered everywhere, and in desperation, he had no choice but to restrain the soldiers and retreat, intending to return to the base camp and reorganize his troops to fight again.
However, before he arrived at the headquarters camp, Yuan Shao saw a sky-high fire in the camp, and before Yuan Shao could react, he saw the strategist Feng Ji next to him exclaiming: "Not good, our army's grain and grass!" ”
"What? Grain and grass burned? This, this, how can this be? As soon as Yuan Shao heard that the grain and grass were burned, he suddenly felt that his eyes were dark, this was the capital he relied on to fight, and now it was all burned, which meant that he had lost all his military rations, and even if there was no loss in this battle, he could only retreat because of the lack of food.
"Months of planning, this time all in vain, I'm afraid this time, I will never be able to set foot in Hanoi again, the idea of blackmailing the Son of Heaven to make the princes have been completely shattered, I have lost tens of thousands of troops and millions of military rations in this war, and my savings for several years have been squandered, isn't it painful?"
The more Yuan Shao thought about it, the more aggrieved he became, he couldn't help screaming, spitting blood, if it weren't for Han Meng's quick eyes, he would almost be planted under the horse......
What made Yuan Shao even more worried was that the tens of thousands of troops under his command were panicked because they saw the grain and grass being burned, and they had no intention of fighting at all, or they scattered and fled, or they chose to surrender directly.
In desperation, Yuan Shao had to decide to return to Huaixian County first, and then collect soldiers and horses to withdraw from Hanoi and return to Jizhou.
However, when Yuan Shao returned to Huaixian County and ordered someone to call the door, he was shot back by random arrows, and he saw a general on the city head say loudly: "Yuan Gong is invited, can you know Xu Gongming in Hedong?" ”
"What? Huaixian County was also occupied by Pei Qing? This, how is this possible? Didn't Pei Qing always only know self-defense? Why did it go against the norm today and directly occupy my Huaixian County? ”
Yuan Shao was originally defeated, coupled with the burning of grain and grass, the ambition of the whole person was emptied, and now Huaixian City was occupied by the enemy, which made matters worse, under the rapid attack Yuan Shao really couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of blood, and actually fainted, although Han Meng held him again, but he fell into a coma, and finally woke up after a long time of rescue.
When Yuan Shao woke up, he was on the way to Dangyin County escorted by his soldiers, Yuan Shao forcibly got out of the carriage, looked around, and found that there were only more than 2,000 horsemen left around him, Yan Liang and Wen Chou all looked lonely, Feng Ji, Xian Pei and Guo Tu and others also did not say a word, and Lu Yi did not know where to go, which made Yuan Shao even more sad, the army of 100,000 was dispersed, and he declared war on Pei Qing with arrogance, but he never expected that it would be such an ending, and now he returned to Jizhou in a gloomy manner, I am afraid that it has become the laughing stock of the world.
"Alas, I really regret not being at the beginning, Tian Feng strongly recommended it when he was about to go on the expedition, but he insisted on going his own way, but he wanted to fight Pei Qing, and the result was like this, I knew it was like this, why did I have to do it in the first place?"
Yuan Shao sighed and regretted it, but he knew that it was useless for him to regret it, because he was so angry that he lost almost all of his capital, in this case, even in the face of Gongsun Zhan's attack, I am afraid that he can only take a defensive position, coupled with the cooperation of Zhang Yan of the Black Mountain Army, it is not so easy for him to protect himself.
Guo Tu on the side was silent after hearing this, but his eyes kept flickering, because Guo Tu was worried that once Yuan Shao returned to Jizhou, Tian Feng would definitely be reused again, but this Tian Feng has always been against himself, once Tian Feng is reused, I am afraid that his future life will not be easy.
"After I go back this time, no matter what way I try, I have to get rid of Tian Feng, otherwise I will be in danger." Guo Tu's eyes flashed with a hint of fierceness, and he said silently.