613, drive away Yuan Shu
Although Yuan Shu knew that the breakthrough needed to be streamlined, and he needed to break away from the pursuit of Zhu Wei and Cao Cao's army with lightning speed, this was already the result of his conscious streamlining.
First of all, of course, Yuan Shu was reluctant to give up his money and treasures, and secondly, he didn't want to leave his harem beauties for Zhu Wei, Cao Cao, and Liu Bei to spoil, so he made up his mind to take them all.
On the contrary, it was really useful food and grass materials, but he didn't carry a lot of them in this breakthrough army, and in Yuan Shu's opinion, these things became a burden that would drag him to escape.
In addition, the family members of Yuan Shu's generals and Wenchen also had to be taken away together, in fact, this was Yuan Shu's means to restrain the generals who stayed in Shouchun City, and these were all hostages to restrain them.
If they dare to surrender the city, then their families will naturally have no good end.
This Yuan Shu is not good at other aspects, but he is definitely a good hand in things that appeal to his own people.
Therefore, under the drag of such a huge burden, to be honest, Yuan Shu's breakthrough action is like a joke, if it weren't for Zhu Wei and Cao Cao's intention to let him enter the ambush place in Quyang County from Shouchun City, he could launch a surprise attack outside Shouchun City, and he could easily defeat Yuan Shu's so-called breakthrough team.
However, now that Yuan Shu has broken through, he has also lined up the 80,000 troops to the left and right sides, which is to resist the pursuit and flanking attacks of Zhu Wei and Cao Cao's army.
Therefore, if Zhu Wei and Cao Cao do it now, it is very likely that they will not be able to attack Yuan Shu directly, so that it is possible for Yuan Shu to escape back to Shouchun City, or let Yuan Shu lose these burdens and escape in the chaos.
On the contrary, this does not allow Zhu Wei and Cao Cao to be completely sure that they can capture and kill Yuan Shu, and only by letting Yuan Shu enter the ambush trap in Quyang County can they ensure that nothing goes wrong.
In this way, Zhu Wei and Cao Cao also slowed down the offensive of pursuing Yuan Shu's breakthrough army, and just led the troops all the way to drive Yuan Shu's army to Quyang County.
Of course, after Yuan Shu's army broke through, Zhu Wei and Cao Cao quickly sent troops to block the east gate of Shouchun City, and the remaining 100,000 troops of Yuan Shu continued to be trapped in Shouchun City.
However, at this time, the troops left by Zhu Wei and Cao Cao on the side of Shouchun City were actually just a false shelf, used to scare the defenders in Shouchun City, Cao Cao didn't know how to arrange it, anyway, Zhu Wei's side had already transferred most of the troops to Quyang County to ambush.
Previously, Zhu Wei had already transferred Huang Zhong's Jiangdong Battalion, Mu Lan, Teng Yuyan, and Zhang Xiu's cavalry back, and now there was no need for them to intercept Yuan Shu on the side of Runan and Lu'anguo, so they naturally wanted to concentrate their forces.
Therefore, this time, Zhu Wei only left about 50,000 or 60,000 people in the Chinese military camp plus logistics auxiliaries outside the south gate of Shouchun City, with Lu Su temporarily as the commander of the army, Zhuge Liang as the auxiliary, and then left Lu Dai, Lei Bo, Chen Lan, Huang Gai, Sun Jing and other generals to help Lu Su continue to put on a false frame for attacking the city.
Just when Yuan Shu led his troops to break through, Zhu Wei took Sun Shangxiang, Sun Quan, Zhou Yu and the personal guards of the 3,000 Baiyu battalion, as well as more than 10,000 light cavalry commanded by Mu Lan and Teng Yuyan, and Zhang Xiu's Liang cavalry battalion of about 10,000 troops, participated in the pursuit and drive Yuan Shu's breakthrough army to Quyang County.
However, such a force is like a hastily pursued army, and Yuan Shu will not suspect that Zhu Wei and Cao Cao are in an ambush that has been prepared for a long time.
And Zhu Wei's side mainly asked Mu Lan and Teng Yuyan to lead the light cavalry to shoot arrows on the periphery of Yuan Shu's breakthrough army, and weaken Yuan Shu's blocking soldiers and horses little by little with the help of bow and cavalry tactics, but they would not rush up, forcing Yuan Shu's blocking soldiers and horses too much, and directly causing Yuan Shu's army to collapse.
Of course, the real main forces of Zhu Wei's army, such as Pang Yan's Xionglu battalion, Tai Shici's Shenjian battalion, and Huang Zhong's Jiangdong battalion, about 50,000 or 60,000 troops have been ambushed in Quyang County under Jia Xu's command.
As for Cao Cao's side, Zhu Wei only saw through the map of the Three Kingdoms game that Cao Cao sent two armies to ambush in Quyang County, and now Cao Cao seems to have personally brought more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, seemingly in a hurry, in the north direction of Yuan Shu's breakthrough army, chasing and forcing Yuan Shu's army to flee to Quyang County.
From the east gate of Shouchun City to the territory of Quyang County, it is about half a day's journey.
Chen Deng, under the pretense of Lu Bu, led the soldiers and horses of Lu Bu who broke through the siege to successfully highlight the two interception military villages of Zhu Wei and Cao Cao, and then ran in the front and became the vanguard of Yuan Shu's army to break through.
However, in this way, Chen Deng's troops and horses led by Lu Bu did not encounter many pursuits, which also made Lu Bu's soldiers and horses a lot more stable.
Although Lu Bu has not really appeared now, even Gao Shun and Chen Gong are gone, and Lu Bu's army has now suddenly become the vanguard and main force to help Yuan Shu's army break through, and it seems that it has become a vassal of Yuan Shu's army, everything naturally makes the atmosphere in Lu Bu's army a little strange and unusual, making the petty officers and ordinary soldiers under Lu Bu's account somewhat suspicious.
But Chen Deng still used the name that Lu Bu was injured and could not lead the troops in person to cover up this suspicion.
After all, Chen Deng was indeed a military advisor and strategist who was deeply trusted by Lu Bu, and it was still acceptable for him to come forward to convey Lu Bu's military orders, and now that Lu Bu's army had just highlighted the encirclement, everyone had the mentality of returning to their own base camp in Xuzhou safely, and they didn't want to cause more trouble or anything.
So now, although Lu Bu has not seen the main general Lu Bu in the army, nor has he been able to see the deputy general Gao Shun and the military advisor Chen Gong, but under the urging of Chen Deng under the pretense of Lu Bu's military order, under the command of Cheng Lian, Hao Meng, and Cao Xing, who have surrendered to Chengcheng, the ordinary petty officers and soldiers in Lu Bu's army have no time to think about it.
Anyway, for these Bingzhou soldiers who fled with Lu Bu from Chang'an to Gunzhou, and then from Gunzhou to Xuzhou, everything is still to ensure their own safety first, and after the army returns to Xuzhou safely, they can naturally know what happened, what is the matter, and they can solve it at that time.
In fact, in a way, Lu Bu's invincible image is too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, so the soldiers in Lu Bu's army still have some blind trust in Lu Bu, thinking that Lu Bu should not have anything happening, maybe everything is really as Chen Deng said, but he was injured and couldn't directly command the army.
Of course, they would not have thought that the invincible Lu Bu would be killed without any movement, so it was difficult for them to believe that Lu Bu would be held hostage by a civil servant like Chen Deng, so they didn't think about it in any other direction at all.
In this way, Chen Deng's command of Lu Bu's troops and horses under the guise of Lu Bu was quite smooth, as long as he brought Lu Bu's army into the ambush set up by Zhu Wei and Cao Cao in Quyang County, he could naturally take advantage of the external threat and surrender Zhu Wei again with Lu Bu's army.
Of course, now Chen Deng is also responsible for leading Yuan Shu's army into the trap, as long as he takes Lu Bu's soldiers and horses in front as the vanguard, he can naturally let Yuan Shu's breakthrough army in the rear enter the ambush together.
It's just that now Chen Deng's side is walking smoothly with Lu Bu's soldiers and horses, but behind Yuan Shu's breakthrough army, it has become a ten-mile-long expansion situation, and the speed of movement is getting slower and slower......