In the absence of a big advantage, or when it is not necessary, Zhang Yu will not use his own soldiers to fight for consumption.

It is not beneficial to fight with Liu Bei to consume, Zhang Yu can only let them go first.

Zhang Yu and they retreated, and Liu Bei's army failed to succeed in the sneak attack, but joined forces with Ji Ling.

"Brother Xuande, you and I should join forces." Ji Ling said.

Liu Bei also hypocritically approached Ji Lingtao, and then scolded Zhang Yu and Sun Ce.

With Liu Bei coming, Ji Ling also thought carefully, if he could let Liu Bei help block it, then his soldiers and horses could be withdrawn a lot.

Zhang Yu and the others retreated, just a few miles away, obviously not letting them cross the river easily.

Although Ji Ling and Liu Bei joined the army, it was not easy to cross the river easily.

Now Zhang Yu can not attack, but when you have more soldiers and horses to cross the river, as soon as there are fewer soldiers and horses here, they can attack, at least some of them will be left.

Knowing that he couldn't be in a hurry, Zhang Yu first ordered Zhou Cang to cross the river with 20,000 soldiers and horses from the mouth of the Yangtze River to recover the several cities occupied by Liu Bei.

Sure enough, Liu Bei and Ji Ling were also troubled.

"Brother Xuande, at this time, we should get through the difficulties together and resist the enemy together." Ji Ling said.

A very polite word, but Liu Bei didn't think so, Ji Ling was going to make him sacrifice.

There is no way, Liu Bei has no ships, and now Ji Ling controls the dock.

"I am willing to leave 10,000 soldiers and horses behind, and not let Zhang Yu and Sun Ce succeed." Liu Bei was still very shrewd, and immediately knew what Ji Ling meant, so he had to make a sacrifice.

Ji Ling nodded, Liu Bei left 10,000 and 10,000 himself, minimizing the loss.

Liu Bei also tried to get close to Ji Ling, and asked Ji Ling to say some good things to Yuan Shu.

It turned out that Liu Bei knew very well that Xuzhou couldn't go back, and the cities he occupied Zhang Yu definitely couldn't go back.

In this way, Liu Bei has become a lost dog again, with no territory and no supplies.

He needed a place to live.

Ji Ling also had considerations, now they have huge losses, hundreds of thousands of troops have not returned, and Yuan Shu is also very weak.

At this time, Ji Ling naturally wanted to increase Yuan Shu's strength, so he immediately sent someone to write a letter to Yuan Shu.

Liu Bei and Yuan Shu can be said to be Wang Ba and Mung Bean.

Both sides take what they need and hit it off.

Speaking of Yuan Shu, he has a lot of experience in the past few days.

was so complacent that he went back to organize people and wanted to unify Jiangdong.

Within a few days, Jiangdong had an accident, and his soldiers and horses were attacked from front to back, and suffered heavy losses.

Now, they are being chased away, and only some of them have escaped.

Most of them are still on the other side of the Yangtze River, and if these people can't come back, Yuan Shu will be weaker than ever, and he may be annexed at that time.

Yuan Shu was shocked, and sent someone to pick up Yuan Shu and rescue him with all his might.

On the one hand, he immediately mobilized all the families in the territory and asked them to send their families to Yuan Shuna to form an army.

At the same time, let the families in the territory donate food, grass, and money to rebuild their own army.

Yuan Shu is crazy, and at the same time, there is no way, he does not maintain a strong army, and it will not be long before he will be annexed.

The Yuan family still has a lot of prestige at this time, and he has soldiers and horses in his hands, so those families have no choice but to do it.

If they didn't comply, Yuan Shu would take them under the knife, and if Yuan Shu failed, all their previous investment would be wasted.

Yuan Shu still has a relatively strong control over his own territory, and immediately collected 300,000 troops from these families.

There is a large army, and ordinary soldiers are everywhere, grabbing a handful, but there are not enough officers to make the army combative.

No matter how much an army has no combat effectiveness, it will be in vain.

Zhang Yu attaches great importance to this, Zhang Yu attaches great importance to training officers, especially officers at the grassroots level, and he will select good seedlings to go to the corresponding academy for training.

If there are grassroots officers, the combat effectiveness will be strong.

However, Yuan Shu couldn't help it, he expanded the army too much, and died too much, and there were not many officers to use.

Yuan Shu doesn't care so much, it's better to have such an army than nothing.

As for the officers at the grassroots level, he can only use some veterans to act as them.

It took Yuan Shu a few days to assemble a large army.

Soldiers do, but most of them are unarmed.

Some of the weapons are out of the family, but there is really no armor or anything.

Such an army can only be put together first, and the rest of the problems can only be put aside first.

Yuan Shu is miserable, who knows that this battle will cripple him.

Yuan Shu panicked and rushed to the Yangtze River in person to watch Ji Ling bring the army back.

I'm afraid he won't be able to sleep if he doesn't bring it back.

Now Yuan Shu is in a difficult situation both internally and externally, externally, surrounded by enemies, and now that he is dying, anyone can stab him.

Inside, he is so reckless, working hard and hurting money, the people are not happy, and the family is not happy, and they don't know when to stab him.

On the edge of the Yangtze River, Yuan Shu had already arrived and withdrawn some soldiers.

Yuan Shu looked at the Yangtze River with a blank eye, and every time a boat or bamboo raft came over, it gave him a little more hope in his eyes.

However, Zhang Yu would not give him any good news.

When Liu Bei arrived for half a day, Zhang Yu began to attack again.

The attack intensity is not very high, but it can also drag them across the river.

If you want to cross the river, you have to leave enough people behind.

After attacking for a long time, Yuan Shu and the others sent tens of thousands of soldiers.

There were fewer and fewer soldiers left on the Yangtze River, and Zhang Yu's offensive became more and more fierce.

Night, and not enough to cover up all the killing.

Entering the night, Zhang Yu and the others launched an offensive on all fronts, from several directions, even on the Yangtze River.

Zhang Yu and the others have already mobilized ships, which will mobilize a large number of merchant ships, divided into two groups, one to attack the other shore and one to attack their side.

Attacking with arrows on the edge of the Yangtze River, Yuan Jun and Liu Bei's soldiers and horses were defenseless and were killed and wounded in large numbers.

Suffered heavy casualties from the enemy again.

At this time, they still had more than 20,000 troops who had not crossed the river, all of them were left behind, and they could no longer cross the river.

After attacking for half an hour, these people knew that there was no way to live, and most of them surrendered, and a few committed suicide by throwing themselves into the river.

This is the end of the battle here.

On the other hand, of course, the merchant ships could not attack from the shore, but under the cover of the night, the merchant ships approached, and then they opened fire with full firepower, and the arrows in the sky flooded the enemy on the Yangtze River.

More than 2,000 enemies who did not have time to run were shot on the banks of the Yangtze River.

"It's over, and it's time for the reckoning to begin." Zhang Yu looked at the reckless Yangtze River and said.

After a while, Sun Ce took his big future to Zhang Yu to bid farewell, and he wanted to hurry back to arrange.

Zhang Yu didn't say much, gave him some boats, and arranged for him to go back.

At this time, Sun Ce's heart was bitter, because when he went back, he only had more than 30,000 soldiers and horses.

(End of chapter)