After Yuan Shao learned that Wen Chou also died at the hands of the Shu army, he beheaded more than 20 deserters, and the other soldiers who escaped by luck were all collected and organized as traps (death squads), led by Yuan Shao's personal soldiers to immediately go to Dao County as the vanguard of the army.

Seeing that Yuan Shao had lost his cool, he was about to step forward to admonish, but found that someone had grabbed his arm. When he looked back, it turned out to be Xun Chen, and he saw Xun Chen shaking his head at him without a trace. Frustrated and secretly sighed, giving up the plan to admonish, Yuan Shao could no longer listen to any opinions, and at this time, he stepped forward to admonish, which would only make Yuan Shao annoyed and ashamed.

It's a pity that the battle of shame that Yuan Shao was looking forward to was not able to fight. Due to the repeated defeats, Yuan Shaojun only had more than 20,000 cavalry left, but Shan Fu sent six cavalry teams, including the Fourth Guard Division and the Fifth Guard Division, with nearly 50,000 horses, to the enemy.

The six cavalry of the Shu army were divided into more than 20 units, surrounded near Yuan Shaojun, and they retreated and advanced, and launched a round attack on Yuan Shaojun's army almost without any gaps.

At the beginning, Yuan Shao was still furious, ordering the cavalry to attack, hoping to destroy one or two enemy troops, and fiercely vent the evil breath in his heart. However, when his cavalry was ordered to attack, the other Shu troops rushed in front of him like wolves, tore off a piece of flesh fiercely, and immediately relied on the super mobility of the cavalry after Yuan Shao's army lined up in formation, Yuan Shao's huge infantry could only angrily send the Shu army away, unable to do anything. When Yuan Shao's cavalry came back, he almost made Yuan Shao so angry that he vomited blood. It turned out that the cavalry who had been ordered to attack would be ambushed by the superior enemy of the Shu army after chasing it not far away, and lost nearly 2,000 cavalry in half an hour and had to retreat.

Then Yuan Shao learned to be shrewd, no longer sent troops to attack, and the army shrunk into a group and advanced towards Yuanxian County.

However, the Shu army didn't want Yuan Shao to go, and the cavalry rushed to Yuan Shaojun like waves, wave after wave, causing great losses to Yuan Shaojun, and seriously affecting Yuan Shaojun's marching speed, for half a day, he only walked more than three miles, and this road can be described as thorny and difficult, almost every step contains Yuan Shaojun's blood!

Even if Yuan Shao was unwilling and angry, he also understood that it was impossible to recover Yuanxian with his current strength, and if he continued like this, I am afraid that he would not be able to reach Yuanxian, and the army had lost nearly half of its morale and morale. Yuan Shao had to grit his teeth and order to withdraw to the Yin Pavilion with hatred.

But it is not so easy to retreat safely, Hua Xiong, Zhao Yun, Li Dian and others are none of them fuel-efficient lamps, and they chase and kill until the bottom of the Yin Pavilion City, and the rumbling sound of horses' hooves makes the entire Yin Pavilion City seem to be in an earthquake, and the people in the city think that the war has burned into the city, and they hide in their homes in fear one by one, and use all the things that can be moved in the house tightly against the doors and windows, silently reciting God's blessing. The Shu army drew a circle around Yinguan City, and only then did the trembling Yuan Shaojun send his troops back to the camp.

After the Shu army left, Yuan Shao counted the losses, almost vomited blood, except for the Wen Chou Department, he lost another 6,000 men and horses, counting the losses of the Wen Chou Department, in just one day, it lost nearly 10,000 people, and the death of the first general in Hebei Wen Chou (at least Yuan Shao thought it was) made this loss look so pale and terrible! What made Yuan Shao most angry was that compared to the huge losses, the results of the battle were minimal, and he retreated in embarrassment, but he did not capture a prisoner, did not take away the corpse of a Shu army, but left the remains of thousands of his own dead to the Shu army, and left thousands of prisoners behind. What's more, after today's defeat, Yuan Shao has no way to launch a new attack in the short term, look at the frightened soldiers, if you don't want to find a way to deal with the Shu cavalry, or find a way to restrain the Shu cavalry, if Yuan Shao orders an attack, I am afraid that the 100,000 troops in Yinguan City will immediately mutiny. The day the soldier picked up his weapon, he knew that he could die at any time, but the battle death could be said to be vigorous, but in the face of the powerful cavalry of the Shu army, they could only be beaten passively, but they did not have the slightest power to fight back, that is not called death in battle, that is called being slaughtered!

"Guo Tu, when will the reinforcements arrive?" Yuan Shao asked with a pale face.

"Lord Qi, 20,000 Youzhou reinforcements will arrive within half a month, 50,000 Jizhou reinforcements will arrive within a month, and 20,000 reinforcements from the Qingzhou Governor will also arrive in about forty days!"

Yuan Shao said categorically: "Order all reinforcements to speed up the march, and anyone who fails to arrive within the time limit will be subject to military law!" ”

"Subordinates obey!"

"Today's hatred, I will write it down, Liu Zhang'er, when my reinforcements are completed, the army will definitely press the border and avenge this sea of blood!" Yuan Shao looked at the west fiercely and said.

Frustration stepped forward and said: "Lord Qi, my subordinates think that the matter of revenge can be put aside for the time being, and now our army should consider how to deal with the Shu cavalry, if we don't solve the Shu cavalry, once our army attacks, I am afraid that it will face the same situation as today!" ”

Yuan Shao glanced at Fu Zhu coldly, and secretly scolded Fu Zhu for not being interesting, couldn't Fu Zhu see that he was talking ruthlessly from the outside power? Could it be that he was beaten up and couldn't even say a word of cruelty? How could he not know the threat of the Shu cavalry? But this trouble can't be solved in three or two days, if he doesn't cheer himself up like this, will he have to watch his morale become sluggish day by day? Yuan Shao suddenly had the urge to let people beat the frustration out of the county guard's mansion, but thinking that he had lost troops one after another, wouldn't it make the army's morale even more turbulent to deal with the frustration at this time?

After staring at Fu Zhu for a long time, Yuan Shao looked at Xu Yu with a cold face: "Ziyuan, how do you think the problem of the Shu army cavalry should be solved?" ”

Xu You saluted, thought for a moment and said: "Lord Qiqi, now that the Shu army has captured Xiliang, there is a horse farm in Xiliang, and my subordinates have heard that the Shu army has resumed trade with the countries of the Western Regions, and even Liu Zhang can get war horses from the Huns, so that the Shu army has a stable source of war horses." At the same time, the people in the northwest are well versed in horse nature, and Liu Zhang will not be troubled by the source of cavalry. As far as we know, the cavalry of the Shu army has nearly 200,000, and it is believed that this number will become larger and larger day by day. If you want to contain Liu Zhang, our army must establish a larger cavalry than Liu Zhang, which is not difficult for our army, the lord has Youzhou this natural horse farm, not to mention that the lord has a good relationship with the Huns, and it is not difficult to trade war horses from the hands of the Huns, and his subordinates think that our army must immediately recruit young and strong soldiers to join the army, and use the wealth of Jizhou to establish a cavalry that is enough to resist Liu Zhang's army. As for the soldiers, the subordinates thought that they could start from Youzhou and Bingzhou, the two places were adjacent to the nomads, and under the influence of the Huns, no matter how many men and women could shoot bows and arrows on horses, if the people in these two places were recruited into the army, they would be able to let the soldiers complete their training in the shortest possible time and form combat effectiveness, but in the short term, I am afraid that our army can only temporarily take a defensive position against Liu Zhang! ”

"How many cavalry did Liu Zhang arrange in Bingzhou?" Yuan Shao nodded and said.

The judge stepped forward and said: "Lord Qiqi, according to intelligence, Liu Zhang has deployed 70,000 to 80,000 cavalry in Bingzhou, and due to the containment of the Xiongnu, there are currently about 50,000 to 60,000 cavalry available to fight our army. ”

Yuan Shao calculated his cavalry in Bingzhou, the number of people was less than 20,000, not even thirty percent of the opponent, no, Yuan's own family, who was born in the four clans and three dukes, has always been above the opponent with absolute strength, and now he has let the enemy ride on his head, how can this be?

"Order all counties, strictly guard against death, without my general's order, no one is allowed to go out of the city to meet the Shu army without authorization, and those who violate the order will be beheaded!" Ordered Tian Feng to immediately recruit new soldiers, and told him that before the snow melts in the coming year, at least 60,000 qualified cavalry and 50,000 infantry must be trained. ”

All the people bowed in unison and said, "Yes!" ”

Frustratedly, he said: "Lord, in addition to recruiting new soldiers, my subordinates think there is one more thing that must be paid attention to!" ”

"What?" Yuan Shao said angrily.

"Lord Qi, rumors spread that Liu Zhang's expedition against Dong Zhuo last year used a crossbow that can shoot continuously, before, subordinates and others thought it was a fantasy talk, but after today's war, the crossbow is indeed a thing, after the observation of subordinates, the Shu army's crossbow can be fired about ten times in a row, that is to say, the Shu army is equipped with a crossbow soldier is equivalent to ten soldiers who use ordinary crossbows in our army. If Liu Zhang equipped every Shu soldier with this kind of repeating crossbow, then our army would need at least a few troops against the enemy to be able to fight. Therefore, his subordinates thought that they must immediately send people to infiltrate the county, try their best to obtain the secrets of the repeater, and then create our army's own repeater! ”

Xun Zhan also said: "My subordinates agree with Mr. Fu's words, the reason why General Wen died in battle today is because of the crossbow!" If our army can get the production method of repeating crossbows, even if the number of cavalry cannot be compared with the Shu army, the infantry equipped with repeaters can also pose a great threat to the cavalry of the Shu army, so that the cavalry of the Shu army dare not be rampant anymore. ”

Yuan Shao couldn't help but think of the strange repeaters and the dense rain of arrows they fired when the cavalry of the Shu army rushed towards his army before, as well as the frightened appearance of his own soldiers who encountered the repeaters for the first time, and couldn't help but nod, the repeater is indeed a terrible weapon, even if the enemy already has it, then he must get it, otherwise what is there to talk about dominating the world?

Yuan Shao then ordered Guo Tu to arrange for fine people to infiltrate the county and steal the secrets of the crossbow. Then, thinking of the loyal Yan Liang and Wen Chou, one only had a headless body, and the other couldn't even snatch a finger back, I couldn't help but feel a little heartache about what happened to these two generals, so I sent someone to negotiate with Yuanxian County, hoping to redeem it. It's a pity that it was the spoils of the Shu army, how could it be easily returned to Yuan Shao? Later, the two heads were wrapped in lime by Shan Fu and sent to Chang'an, but Liu Zhang had no interest in appreciating the severed heads, so he had the two heads buried on the outskirts of Chang'an.