837. Everything is developing according to estimates
Zhu Wei was not worried at all that after Yuan Shang fled to Youzhou, he would be able to turn over again.
After all, Youzhou is not entirely the territory of the Yuan family's children now, and there is still the power of Liaodong Taishou Gongsun Du in Liaodong County, Youzhou, which is also a completely self-reliant northern force.
It can be said that the Liaodong Gongsun clan was in the era of the Three Kingdoms, and it can be regarded as being divided in the Northeast for nearly 50 years, and once conquered North Korea and turned it into Lelang County and Obifang County of the Han Dynasty.
Originally, in history, Yuan Xi and Yuan Shang finally fled to Liaodong, but after being beheaded by Gongsun Kang, the lord of Liaodong at that time, they sent their heads to Cao Cao to show their goodwill.
So now there are actually three strengths on the Youzhou side, one is the Fubo Camp of Ma Teng's Department sent by Zhu Wei, the other is Gongsun Du of Liaodong, and the rest is the so-called Youzhou Thorn Yuan Xi.
What's more, Yuan Tan, who is also fleeing in Youzhou now, may not be willing to accept this younger brother who has seized power, Zhu Wei believes that they will definitely be able to make a good show in Youzhou.
Unless these two brothers can suddenly open their minds, join forces for the sake of the overall situation, and no longer fight over who is the boss, but even so, Zhu Wei is not afraid, and when the time comes, he can still extinguish them in one fell swoop with a large army.
Of course, in terms of historical inertia, these two brothers may not get along very well, after all, they are both children of the Yuan family, and it is estimated that the education they received since childhood is that they must first settle the inside after the outside, eliminate the internal problems first, and only after controlling the power can they have external thoughts.
Well, anyway, after Zhu Wei discovered Yuan Shang's retreat through the Three Kingdoms game map, he was not too surprised, but he began to arrange means to prepare to swallow the fat that Yuan Shang left in Liyang.
At the same time, the cavalry of the Tiger Wing Battalion led by Zhang Xiu and Zhang Liao had already been waiting for Yuan Shang to lead his troops over in the northern part of Yizhou.
However, when Zhu Wei paid attention to the Tiger Wing Battalion, Zhu Wei suddenly found that there was actually an extra general in the Tiger Wing Battalion, which was Zhao Yun that Zhu Wei had remembered before.
Perhaps Zhu Wei's attention was on Liyang and Yecheng before, and he really ignored the cavalry of Zhang Xiu, Zhang Liao, Ma Chao, and Pang De's Tiger Wing Battalion who were sent to the hinterland of Yizhou to harass.
As a result, now that Zhao Yun doesn't know when he has joined the light cavalry of the Tiger Wing Battalion, he is actually the marquis of the light cavalry.
It's normal to just think about it again, after all, the Tiger Wing Battalion entered Yizhou from Bingzhou, all the way from Changshan Country to Bohai County, but the military discipline was relatively good, and there was no harassment and threat to the local people, but it was only specifically aimed at the county and township officials in the local area of Yuan Shao's faction.
Then Zhao Yun is originally from Changshan, although he was not in his hometown in Zhending County before, he may have mixed in these places.
Now that Zhao Yun has encountered a cavalry unit like the Tiger Wing Battalion, and there are brave generals like Zhang Liao, Ma Chao, and Pang De, maybe it is also an encounter that he doesn't know each other.
On the one hand, Zhao Yun has a good impression of the military discipline of the cavalry of the Tiger Wing Battalion, and on the other hand, he is also curious about this cavalry, just like Ma Chao.
In fact, after Zhao Yun left Gongsun Zhan and returned to his hometown, he encountered bandits from the Montenegrin army out of the mountains to raid and plunder, and as a result, Zhao Yun started with the Montenegrin army in order to protect his hometown, and then Zhao Yun was worried about the retaliation of the Montenegrin army, so he could only leave his hometown to travel.
It's just that he is unwilling to invest in Yuan Shao's account, after all, he used to be Gongsun Zhan's White Horse Yicong, and the White Horse Yicong was annihilated by Yuan Shao's first camp, which made Zhao Yun a little repulsed by Yuan Shao in his heart.
Zhao Yun also went to Youzhou for a period of time before, until now he heard that the Huns had invaded Yizhou and wanted to go back to his hometown to see, but he met Zhu Weijun's Tiger Wing Battalion again, and then he was attracted by the light cavalry of the Tiger Wing Battalion, which reminded Zhao Yun of the days when he was in Baima Yicong.
So Zhao Yun listened to some news of the cavalry of the Tiger Wing Battalion of Zhu Wei's army, and found that this army never disturbed the people, which also made Zhao Yun have a good impression.
Later, when Zhao Yun observed the light cavalry of the Tiger Wing Battalion, he happened to meet Ma Chao, Ma Chao thought that Zhao Yun was Yuan Shaojun's spy at first, and the two sides fought each other, and the result was comparable.
In this way, they made a friendship, so under the recommendation of Ma Chao, Zhao Yun also took the initiative to join the light cavalry and became a cavalry marquis under Ma Chao.
After Zhu Wei later learned of this specific situation, he couldn't help but have a sense of surprise that he had no place to find and no effort to get it, and it was also because Zhu Wei had extremely high discipline requirements for the army, which also allowed Zhao Yun to have a good impression of Zhu Weijun, otherwise Zhao Yun would not have been able to join even if he was curious about the light cavalry.
Of course, now that Zhao Yun belongs to the light cavalry of the Tiger Wing Battalion, it can only be regarded as the icing on the cake.
It is impossible for Zhu Wei to promote Zhao Yun or something at will, and now even Ma Chao is just an ordinary cavalry general, so Zhu Wei just wrote down this matter, and when he looks for opportunities to expand light cavalry in the future, he can promote Ma Chao and Zhao Yun, so that they can also lead a cavalry unit alone.
Well, Zhao Yun's matter is just an episode, no matter what, Zhang Xiu and Zhang Liao's Tiger Wing Battalion received Zhu Wei's order before, and roamed in the north of Yizhou to wait for Yuan Shangjun's arrival.
Therefore, when Yuan Shang hurriedly led his troops to retreat to the Raoyang and Zhongshui areas between Anping and Hejian countries, he encountered the attack of the cavalry of the Tiger Wing Battalion.
Although the light cavalry of the Tiger Wing Battalion of the Zhu Wei Army, which had increased to more than 15,000 troops, was still much smaller than the troops that Yuan Shangjun retreated with this time, Yuan Shangjun's morale was scattered and unstable at this time, and his will to fight was the weakest.
Most of Yuan Shang's soldiers already know the news that Yecheng was broken and Yuan Shao was dead, and now they can only follow the young master to withdraw to Youzhou, whether they can return to Yizhou in the future is two to say, although many of them are not from Wei County on Yecheng's side, but many of them are still locals in Yizhou, so naturally they don't want to go to Youzhou.
In addition, the tactics adopted by Zhu Weijun's light cavalry were mainly cavalry shooting, so when Zhang Liao, Ma Chao, Zhao Yun and other cavalry generals led their troops to attack tens of thousands of Yuan Shangjun, and rained down on Yuan Shangjun's head, Yuan Shangjun's peripheral army formation was scattered.
Then Zhang Xiu and Pang De charged with the remnants of the heavy cavalry, and they broke up Yuan Shangjun's position, which triggered a collapse like the collapse of Yuan Shangjun's dominoes.
And Zhang Liao, Ma Chao, Zhao Yun and other light cavalry generals took advantage of the situation to drive Yuan Shang's defeated soldiers to continue to attack, and the situation of Yuan Shang's army collapsing from point to point became bigger and bigger.
As a result, Yuan Shang, who originally led 50,000 or 60,000 elite main forces, finally continued to retreat north with only a remnant of less than 20,000 troops.
As for the other nearly 30,000 or 40,000 troops, they were either killed and captured by the cavalry of Zhu Weijun's Tiger Wing Battalion, or took the opportunity to desert, and few people were willing to continue to run to Youzhou to follow Yuan Shang.
In this way, although Yuan Shang successfully withdrew into Youzhou, when he finally arrived at Jixian County, the troops he brought with him were only 16,000 or 7,000, and it can be said that the later he went, the more deserters there were.
But everything was carried out according to Zhu Wei's estimate, and after Yuan Shang went to Jixian County to meet Yuan Xi and Yuan Tan, sure enough, on the issue of who would succeed the new head of the Yuan family, the two brothers Yuan Shang and Yuan Tan secretly fought against each other again.
Even if Yuan Xi was unwilling to compete for the position of the head of the family, he tried his best to adjust Yuan Shang and Yuan Tan, but this contradiction could not be resolved peacefully after all.
But that's another story......