Just when the situation changed overnight in Luoyang, a storm was also brewing on the battlefield in Yuzhou.

A few days ago, when Yuan Shu learned that Zhang Liao was attacking Shouchun and the nest was in an emergency, he did not hesitate to return with an army of 100,000.

His foundation is in Jianghuai, if he loses Jianghuai, he will be homeless, and this son of the Zhong family will also become the biggest laughing stock.

It's just that Yuan Shu didn't expect that his return journey could be described as tragic to the end.

From Shouchun to Chen State is only a few hundred miles, if the horse is fast one day can return, but the return of 100,000 troops is not a day's work, it is already slow, and there are a large number of baggage from Chen State to loot and drag, walking is even slower, even if it is desperate for a day, it is only thirty miles.

Yuan Shu was worried about the situation in Shouchun, and he was anxious, so he reluctantly ordered to abandon the baggage and bring only grain and grass, and the speed of this march was much faster, but it was only more than fifty miles.

Yuan Shu wanted to take the elite first, but was stopped by his subordinates, there were too few soldiers and horses, even if he rushed to Shouchun, he couldn't beat Zhang Liao, in the face of Zhang Liao's elite soldiers, adding fuel tactics would only be to death, and only by concentrating troops to attack more and less, would he have a chance of winning.

In desperation, Yuan Shu could only order Ji Ling of Peiguo and Liu Xun of Lujiang to quickly send troops to rescue Shouchun.

But at the same time, after Yuan Shu withdrew his troops, Zang Ba in the back decisively pursued from Yingchuan, and the speed of the pursuit was much faster than Yuan Shu's marching speed.

Yuan Shu immediately ordered Li Feng and Liang Gang, who had withdrawn from Chen Liu, to break off.

Zang Ba is a rare fierce general in the world, not worse than Le Jin, Yu Ban, and better at commanding troops, how can Li Feng and Liang Gang resist, even eat defeats, Liang Gang was killed by the brave Zang Ba.

However, at this time, Yuan Shu could no longer take care of the rear, he retreated into the territory of Runan, but Runan was already in chaos, the Yellow Turban was raging, a large area of Haoqiang Fort was breached, and even the 10,000 soldiers and horses he left behind in Runan were gone.

Although he had long known that the situation in Runan was not good, the real situation exceeded Yuan Shu's expectations, which made him extremely angry, but what made him even more angry was that his main force was attacked by two armies of soldiers and horses during the night's sleep.

The two troops and horses that sneaked up added up to only 20,000, but they were extremely strong, with the banner of one Yang and one Jiang, Yuan Shu had not heard of it, but it was two unknown generals, who killed them and were defeated, and even Yuan Shu's Chinese army was almost broken through, so frightened that Yuan Shu disguised himself as a soldier and fled.

These two troops and horses were naturally led by Yang Han and Jiang Qi, and they were ordered by Zhang Liao to set up ambushes along the way to intercept Yuan Shu.

After dawn, Yuan Shu gathered the soldiers and horses, only to find that after a night, he scattered and lost more than 20,000 soldiers and horses, Yuan Shu was angry and the whole army wanted to fight with Yang Han and Jiang Qi, but Yang Han and Jiang Qi led the troops away.

Yuan Shu had no choice but to continue to rush to Shouchun, but Yang Han and Jiang Qi caught up again and killed nearly a thousand people.

Yuan Shu turned back angrily, but Yang Han and Jiang Qi retreated again.

After going back and forth like this several times, Yuan Shu thought that he had guessed Yang Han and Jiang Qi's intentions, which was to harass and delay him and prevent him from saving Shouchun.

Thinking of how critical the situation in Shouchun was, Yuan Shu was even more anxious in his heart, leaving Li Feng with 20,000 soldiers and horses, he personally led 60,000 main forces to abandon all baggage, and rushed to Shouchun day and night.

When I didn't want to enter Ruyin County, I was suddenly hit by a torrential rain, it was dusk, and the people who had been in Ganlin for a long time cheered, but Yuan Shu's army was a wail, and the 60,000 army was drenched by the torrential rain before they had time to camp, and they could only look for houses to take shelter everywhere.

Yuan Shu was angry and hateful, scolding God, but it was useless, such a dark and rainy night, he couldn't light a torch, and he couldn't see the figure clearly three steps away, so that his soldiers and horses were in a mess, and even the generals couldn't find their soldiers anymore, and the soldiers found a place to shelter from the rain, and the soldiers and horses completely lost their command.

In the face of such a power of heaven and earth, manpower could not resist, Yuan Shu could only take his cronies to hide in a seized mansion, and soon fell asleep from exhaustion.

As for the tens of thousands of soldiers under his command, most of them had nowhere to hide in the rainy nights, but to hide under trees or by walls, and drenched all night.

And on this rainy night, a detachment of men and horses came from the south to the north.

This team is Zhang Liao's soldiers and horses.

These days were too hot, Zhang Liao had already noticed that the weather was not right, although he could not be completely sure, but he had always taken precautions, in the days of attacking Shouchun, he had already sent people to explore the route of the ambush, even found a place to shelter from the rain, and also searched for many clothes, tarpaulins, and hats from the people.

Of course, he avoided the heaviest rain, gave the soldiers plenty of rest, and then set off.

By dawn, the rain had stopped.

Zhang Liao was already standing on a low hill in Ruyin County, holding a polished single bamboo telescope, looking at Yuan Shu's soldiers and horses in the distance.

At this time, Yuan Shu's subordinates were gathering soldiers and horses, and Yuan Shu had not yet seen anyone, completely unaware that Zhang Liao was already eyeing them from the side, opening his bloody mouth and fangs towards them.

This is exactly the effect that Zhang Liao took the soldiers and horses to travel at night in the rain, all sides of the war will have a judgment on the strength and position of the opponent, this judgment is very important, determines their own actions, from yesterday's intelligence, Yuan Shu will predict that he is still outside Shouchun City, so Yuan Shu will only be careful to guard against ambushes when he is about to arrive in Shouchun.

He led his troops forward for dozens of miles, but there was a time difference, which made Yuan Shu's judgment wrong and caught him off guard.

And this heavy rain helped him even more, which would make Yuan Shu relax his vigilance even more.

This is the essence of a raid, attacking where the enemy doesn't expect it.

Zhang Liao looked back at his soldiers and horses, although he was quite tired from running in the middle of the night, his momentum and military appearance were no different.

Zhang Liao was quite satisfied, not only because he had made preparations for the rain, but more importantly, his soldiers and horses were unparalleled, far better than Yuan Shu's soldiers and horses.

Yuan Shu had many soldiers and horses, but many of them had not been recruited for a long time, and they were uneven and did not have much training. His soldiers and horses are different, he follows the way of elite soldiers, and when recruiting, he is selected at all levels, and after joining the army, he is even more rigorously trained.

As a general, Zhang Liao has always pursued that the most powerful thing is not strength, but will, endurance and momentum, strength is often innate, and endurance, will and momentum are tempered the day after tomorrow, especially for the army, training soldiers and horses is to strengthen the will, endurance and momentum of soldiers, and then act in unison and strengthen cooperation.

And the overall strength of his soldiers is stronger than Yuan Shu's soldiers and horses, and his will, endurance, momentum and action are a hundred times stronger than Yuan Shu's soldiers and horses.

Although the march on a rainy night was tiring, it was just a drill, which was one of the subjects of normal training.

At this time, Yuan Shu's soldiers and horses were still gathering, and Zhang Liao did not rush to attack, but let the soldiers rest for a while.

He was waiting for Yuan Shu to gather soldiers and horses, but now Yuan Shu's soldiers and horses are too scattered, hiding everywhere, there are many of them, and it is troublesome to fight, and he has few soldiers, and it is not conducive to exerting combat effectiveness if he is scattered.

He had to wait until Yuan Shu's soldiers and horses gathered most of them, but they had not yet formed a surprise attack, that was the time when Yuan Shu's soldiers and horses were most unexpected, and it was the best opportunity.