As the sky darkened, the speed of Yuan Shu's breakthrough army became slower and slower.

In this way, if Yuan Shu is continued to be allowed to grind, it is still a question of whether he can get to Quyang County tomorrow morning, knowing that this is the case, Zhu Wei and Cao Cao have no need to set up an ambush in Quyang County, and they can completely set up a formation to kill Yuan Shu on the periphery of Shouchun City.

With the combat effectiveness of Yuan Shu's army now, it should be easy to surround Yuan Shu.

It's a pity that now the main forces of Zhu Wei and Cao Cao are ambushed in Quyang County, Zhu Wei only has more than 10,000 light cavalry and Zhang Xiu's cool cavalry battalion, and Cao Cao's side is actually only more than 10,000 troops chasing Yuan Shu.

Therefore, if Zhu Wei and Cao Cao want to do something to Yuan Shu now, some of them are insufficient, although it seems that Zhu Wei and Cao Cao can easily break through the blocking troops left by Yuan Shu, but that is also the reason why Yuan Shu did not fight back with all his strength.

Every time he put 3,000 or 2,000 troops to block Zhu Wei and Cao Cao's pursuing army, it was equivalent to cutting off a piece of meat from himself every time and feeding it to Zhu Wei and Cao Cao for nothing to swallow, which was really an idiotic move.

If he is willing to make up his mind and simply send 20,000 troops to block in front of Zhu Wei and Cao Cao's pursuing army, he can block Zhu Wei and Cao Cao's pursuit, and breaking through the resistance of 20,000 troops and breaking through the resistance of 2,000 or 3,000 troops is a completely different concept.

In fact, after all, Yuan Shu still has nearly 80,000 troops on his side, but Zhu Wei's more than 10,000 light cavalry belongs to the guerrilla army, and he is not good at fighting with the enemy, as for Cao Cao, he also has no intention of fighting hard with Yuan Shu here, so he still needs to find a way to drive Yuan Shu to the ambush in Quyang County.

After Zhu Wei and Cao Cao discussed, they decided to help Yuan Shu reduce his burden together to increase his escape speed.

So according to the agreement of Zhu Wei and Cao Cao, the two of them respectively sent a surprise army to break through Yuan Shu's blocking army, kill the middle and rear of Yuan Shu's breakthrough army, stimulate Yuan Shu, and let Yuan Shu speed up the pace of escape.

Zhu Wei found Zhang Xiu here and asked Zhang Xiu to take the Liangcai battalion to a raid, and after Zhang Xiu received the order, he took his 4,000 Xiliang cavalry and more than 2,000 Hu soldiers to kill Yuan Shu's army.

Zhang Xiu's 4,000 Xiliang cavalry were basically heavy cavalry, and more than 2,000 Hu soldiers also became light cavalry sword and shield bearers after providing war horses on Zhu Wei's side, which was also very suitable for raiding Yuan Shu's army.

After all, a surprise attack on the enemy army must have enough defensive power, and if this point is handed over to the light cavalry led by Mu Lan and Teng Yuyan, it will be a long attack on the enemy with his own shortcomings, so now Zhu Wei can only arrange Zhang Xiu to do this.

Of course, Zhang Xiu was not worried that Zhu Wei was asking him to die, he also knew that Yuan Shu was now a dog that fell into stones, and he was just going to pick up a handful of dog hair this time.

Soon, Zhang Xiuzhi's army, with the assistance of more than 10,000 light cavalry commanded by Mu Lan and Teng Yuyan, defeated a Yuan Shu blocking army of about 3,000 people, and then before Yuan Shu's army could react, they went to the middle and rear of Yuan Shu's breakthrough army.

Under the protection of more than 4,000 Liangcai cavalry cavalry in the surrounding Liangcai battalion, Zhang Xiu was also wearing Liangcai heavy armor, holding a lance and gun, and smashed into the middle and rear of Yuan Shu's breakthrough army as if he had entered no man's land.

Then, the 6,000 cavalry led by Zhang Xiu, like a sharp blade cut into the cream, rushed to the middle and front of Yuan's army without difficulty.

And the army on Yuan Shu's side mainly protects the area of the Chinese army where Yuan Shu is located, so the more than 10,000 Yuan Shu soldiers left on the rear army's side, in the face of Zhang Xiu's cavalry raid, did not have much resistance at all and fled.

At this moment, the area where Yuan Shu's rear army was located was completely chaotic, especially when it came to the area where the families of Yuan Shu's officials were located, the whole scene could be regarded as a mess of chickens flying and dogs jumping.

Fortunately, Zhu Wei also instructed Zhang Xiu before, not to slaughter the family members of these Yuan Shu officials too much, as long as they were stopped, so there was no bloody massacre scene.

But under the surprise attack of Zhang Xiu's cavalry, Yuan Shu also had to abandon the subordinate officials and families in the rear who slowed down the speed of the march, and at the same time, he was afraid that the Chinese army where he was would also catch up, so he finally accelerated the speed of escape.

At the same time, under the persuasion of Yang Hong, a strategist beside Yuan Shu, Yuan Shu also deliberately left a few carts of copper coins, wanting the Zhu Wei and Cao Cao armies who chased them to fight each other for money.

Of course, because the team of Yuan Shu to break through is very large, so a big situation has been paved on the road to Quyang County, and now Zhang Xiu's side can only be regarded as intercepting part of the family members of Yuan Shu's officials.

Of course, at this time, it was not only Zhu Wei's side who sent Zhang Xiu to make a move, but Cao Cao's side also seemed to have sent a cavalry and infantry force of four or five thousand troops, and also raided into the middle and rear areas of Yuan Shu's army, and also gnawed down a piece of Yuan's army like a hunting dog, which should have captured some of Yuan Shu's officials' families.

After that, Zhang Xiu asked his subordinate Hu Che'er to continue to lead 2,000 Hu people and cavalry to chase and kill the remnants of Yuan's army, while he stayed behind to guard the captured families of Yuan Shu's officials, waiting for Zhu Wei to come up and arrange.

There were at least three or four thousand family members of Yuan Shu's officials who were captured by Zhang Xiu here, of course, in addition to some of them were the immediate family members of those officials, there were also many side clans, servants and the like.

In fact, there may be dozens or hundreds of family members of an ordinary official here, and if it is a family from a noble family, it will be at least a few hundred people, and these families also carry a lot of family wealth, so they naturally need servants to drive the carriages carrying people, and they also need servants to push the carts loaded with money.

Therefore, the family members of Yuan Shu officials of all sizes add up, and there are naturally a lot of people, and there are also a lot of large and small cars.

In order not to be snatched away by Cao Cao's army, and in order to prevent his Xiliang soldiers from looting and making trouble, Zhang Xiucai deliberately stayed behind to protect them.

In this way, when Zhu Wei came to this area with three thousand White Feather Battalion guards, he saw a large number of prisoners guarded by more than four thousand Xiliang cavalry.

Seeing Zhu Wei coming, Zhang Xiu came up to report a matter to Zhu Wei, saying that among the families of these Yuan Shu officials he had captured, there seemed to be the family of Qiao Rui, the general under Yuan Shu's account, including Qiao Rui's old father and two daughters.

Fang Cai was probably afraid that Zhang Xiu's Xiliang cavalry and Hu people's light cavalry would rob their family property, and Qiao Rui's old father, Qiao Taigong, took the initiative to ask Zhang Xiu to shout, saying that he was willing to sacrifice his two beautiful granddaughters to Zhu Wei and let Zhang Xiu keep their family safe.

When Zhang Xiu heard this, she also went to see the two daughters of Qiaorui, who were about fifteen or sixteen years old, and they were really beautiful embryos......