Seeing Sun Jian's multiple arrows, Huang Zu was overjoyed, he knew very well the power of this crossbow, Sun Jian had no chance of survival, so he gathered everyone to leave quietly and quickly, he was afraid that when Sun Jian's subordinates found out that Sun Jian had died, they would definitely go crazy and retaliate, it was better to leave early, or go back to the mountain camp first.

The crossbow captain quietly suggested, "Young master, we can leave with their corpses to force them to retreat!" ”

"Good!" Huang Zu took this suggestion, and immediately two crossbowmen stepped forward to lift Sun Jian's body, one carrying Sun Jian's long knife, and everyone left quickly.

So many people carried Sun Jian's body alternately, without delaying the speed of the march, over two hills, through two long canyons, and finally everyone returned to the camp.

At this time, about nearly 10,000 officers and soldiers have fled back to the camp, and some people have returned one after another, and everyone is anxiously waiting for Huang Zu to come back, it is Huang Zu who risked his life to lead away the Yangzhou cavalry, so that they have a chance to escape, so the officers and soldiers are grateful to Huang Zu.

Huang Zu was in a good mood, and after a few words of encouragement to everyone, he asked them to hurry up and eat to prevent the Yangzhou army from attacking, and he entered the big tent and ordered the chief officials to draft documents, and send people to the camp of Yangzhou thieves early the next morning, and report to Liu Biao quickly; He firmly believed that with Sun Jian's body in hand, he would be able to force Yangzhou to retreat.

Huang Gai and others chased into the dense forest, and lost the trace of Sun Jian, everyone searched separately, only found a pool of blood, and no traces of the fight, and everyone did not hear the cry for help, Huang Gai and others estimated that Sun Jian must have been ambushed by the enemy and was looted.

The situation was urgent, Huang Gai left 500 cavalry to continue the search, and everyone returned to the barracks to negotiate.

Sun Jian disappeared, and everyone was very anxious.

Due to Sun Ben's older age and highest official position, everyone elected him to temporarily manage the entire army, and Yuan Shu would arrange it after returning to Yangzhou.

Sun Ben ordered the infantry to stop the siege and defend for the time being; The cavalry went out as soon as possible to loot enough food in preparation for the retreat.

He believed that if Sun Jian was kidnapped by Jingzhou, he would definitely send someone to discuss the withdrawal of the army, and he must prepare in advance, and everyone thought deeply of Sun Ben's opinion.

At the same time, he drafted a letter to report the love Pegasus here to Yuan Shu, so that he could take up his mind early and take precautions.

In the evening, the 500 cavalry in charge of searching the mountain still did not find any trace of Sun Jian, so they had to return to the camp.

Fortunately, the cavalry who had gone out to plunder returned, and the looted food was enough for them to eat for two days.

However, they still did not wait for the Jingzhou people who came to the peace talks, Sun Ben decided that tomorrow the cavalry will continue to go out to search for grain, if there is no news of Sun Jian tomorrow, they will leave for Yangzhou early the day after tomorrow, close to the looted grain, can not support them to wait here for a long time.

Everyone silently accepted Sun Ben's order.

The patriarch of the Huang family and everyone in the city were surprised that the Yangzhou thieves had stopped attacking the city, and they guessed that something earth-shattering must have happened within the enemy.

Some people estimate that the grain and grass were burned, and the soldiers had no heart to fight, which was due to the bold and careful orders of the old patriarch, and also to the results of the heroic attack of the Danyang soldiers.

Whatever the reason, they all believed that Xiling City had been preserved, and the enemy would soon leave.

Sure enough, at noon the next day, Huang Zu sent a sergeant to deliver the letter to the Yangzhou barracks.

Everyone circulated it and learned that Sun Jian was dead, and they all cried.

After his mood stabilized, Sun Ben choked up and asked, "Who can send an envoy to the enemy camp to welcome back the lord." ”

Xu Kun, as Sun Jian's nephew, stood up and applied to go, Sun Benyun.

Huang Zu agreed that Xu Kun would welcome back Sun Jian's body, but an agreement must be signed, and the soldiers and horses of Yangzhou should immediately withdraw from the boundary of Jingzhou, and compensate Jingzhou for 200,000 stone millet and 20 million yuan.

Xu Kun did his best, otherwise, it would be difficult for them to return to Yangzhou smoothly. Xu Kun can see clearly, without Sun Jian, the troops have no cohesion, Huang Gai, Zu Mao and other veterans will never completely obey Sun Ben's orders, if they can't unite as one, how to win?

Even so, Huang Zu did not immediately return Sun Jian's body, but waited for their army to leave the ground in Jingzhou before sending a naval army back to them.

Xu Kun had to accept this reality, immediately returned to the camp, and urged everyone to set off and return to Yangzhou.

Seeing that there was a lot of silence in the Yangzhou military camp, and there were bursts of crying, the Huang patriarch and others on the city wall knew that the Yangzhou commander was killed in battle, and it must have been Huang Zu's doing, but the Huang patriarch began to worry about Huang Zu's safety again.

The officers and soldiers were full of respect for the Huang family; Several big families in Xiling City also admired the Huang family, and the Huang family made great contributions to the preservation of Xiling City and their family.

At this time, Yuan Shu led the army to Qichun, and he vowed to take the city and make it the territory of Yangzhou, otherwise, 30,000 Jingzhou troops were stationed here, and with the assistance of a powerful naval army, he would not dare to go west.

Sun Jian's war reports continue to come, he is sure to take Xiling City, so that Yuan Shu is very happy, he is very confident in Sun Jian's combat power, if so, he can have a solid foothold in Jingzhou, can gradually expand the territory and people, Jingzhou sooner or later is his Yuan Shu.

But before he could be happy for a few days, and before he could take Qichun City, bad news kept coming.

First of all, Jingzhou sent 40,000 reinforcements, hoping that Yuan Shu would support them as soon as possible; Yuan Shu was helpless, now he didn't even conquer Qichun City, the enemy has 30,000 troops to defend the city, if you want to conquer it, it is not a day's work, and the loss will not be small, he also hopes to wait for Sun Jian to occupy Xiling City, force the defenders in Qichun City to surrender.

Later, the news of Sun Jian's disappearance shocked him greatly, and he secretly blamed Sun Jian for not going out in person and acting as a momentary authority.

The next day, the news of Sun Jian's death in battle came again, which made him speechless, which was like breaking his arm.

This foreshadowed the defeat of the Battle of Jingzhou, which he had prepared for two years.

Yuan Shu knew in his heart that if he couldn't expand his territory and enhance his strength, he would be gradually eliminated in the battle of the princes, and the only outcome after being eliminated was death.

Military advisor Yang Hong's face was like ashes, he never expected that there would be someone in Jingzhou who could rival Sun Jian; Now that it's happened, what's next?

To their relief, Sun Jian's men controlled the situation and the officers and soldiers did not disperse.

After his mood calmed down, Yuan Shu respectfully asked: "Master Yang, where should the art go?" ”

Yang Hong said: "My lord, the front line is newly defeated, to prevent civil strife, we must stabilize the hearts of the people and the army, and then seek development!" At present, the most important thing is to first pick up the remnants and corpses of General Sun, bury them ceremoniously, and make reasonable arrangements for the officers and soldiers under his jurisdiction to encircle his generals. ”

Yuan Shu said: "Okay, everything according to the words of the military advisor, Shu is stationed here, waiting for their return, and the news will be tightly sealed, so as not to spread it." ”

"Yes, my lord!"

Yang Hong had always thought that Sun Jian had too much power, so he suggested that Yuan Shu remove him from his post as the Taishou of Lujiang County, but the soldiers under his jurisdiction could not be transferred, and now Sun Jian died unexpectedly, which was more conducive to maintaining a balanced relationship between Yuan Shu's generals.

He attached great importance to the cavalry, Danyang soldiers and several generals under Sun Jian's jurisdiction, and hoped that Yuan Shu would welcome them back here and show a grand gift, not only to bring the cavalry and Danyang soldiers under the jurisdiction of Yuan Shu's headquarters, but also to hope that those generals could be used by Yuan Shu.

Yuan Shu asked again: "Master Yang, how should we choose our next target?" ”

"Yangzhou Jiangdong area!" Yang Hong thought to himself, persimmons are still looking for soft pinching, although the Yangzhou Navy is not Jingzhou's opponent, it is more than enough to fight the Jiangdong Navy Army.

Just when Yuan Shu and Yang Hong were calculating others, they didn't know that his backyard had caught fire, which made him even worse and his strength plummeted.