Xiahou Yuan said nothing and didn't expect that the Hedong Army, who was obviously beaten by himself and couldn't fight back, would suddenly run behind him. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Now that Tongguan is lost, the news of Hongnong's loss has reached Xiahou Yuan's camp one after another. And I heard that Cao Cao's eldest son, Cao Ang, suffered a defeat in Hongnong, and almost gave his life. Xiahou Yuan finally couldn't hold on anymore and was ready to withdraw his troops.

But Xiahou Yuan also knew that the Hedong Army would never let itself withdraw so easily. If it is not dealt with properly, it will be a situation of collapse on all fronts.

His own camp was originally a horn with Wenxi. As soon as he withdraws his army, Wen Xi will definitely not be able to hold it. On the other hand, Hedong County's security is newly attached, although Taishou Wangyi defected to Cao, but most of the soldiers and horses in the city are towards Tian Jing, and it is very difficult to hold Anyi.

Xiahou Yuan thought about it, but the best way was to order Wang Yi to lead the defenders of Anyi to withdraw their troops to the south first, retreat to the line of the Yellow River, and then organize forces to counterattack in the future. He divided his elite troops to defend Anyi to ensure that his army could calmly move south. In his own camp, he did not reduce his banner or stove, and gradually withdrew his troops every day and at night. He only left 3,000 elite soldiers and finally evacuated. This is risky, but it is the best way to do it at the moment.

After Xiahou Yuan thought about it, he immediately notified Wang Yi and discussed the method of retreat. The plan was decided, and their only hope was that the Hedong army would discover his plan later. It's best to wait until all the troops have left.

Xu Shu has also been waiting for news from Wei Yan. When Tongguan City was broken, Wei Yan had already sent someone back from the waterway to report the news, and now it has been many days since Xu Shu received the news of Hongnong. Wei Yanqi's successful attack on Tongguan greatly encouraged everyone. Now is the time for a major counteroffensive by the Northern Army.

Xu Shu knew that sooner or later Xiahou Yuan would have to withdraw, but he didn't want to be led by the enemy. On the second day after receiving the news of Hongnong, the Hedong Army, which had been hanging the battle free card for many days, suddenly sent people to call for battle. Xu Shu ordered more than a dozen sergeants with loud voices to shout in front of the battle, "Tongguan has been broken, and the soldiers and horses of Hexi have broken Hongnong and attacked Luoyang." If Xiahou Yuan still does not withdraw his troops, he will have to surrender to our Hedong. Xiahou Yuan, surrender! Xiahou Yuan, surrender! Xu Shu didn't let people confront Cao Jun, but just shouted these words over and over again from morning to night.

This time, Cao Jun's soldiers and horses all heard it clearly. Which one still doesn't know about Hongnong's war. There was a lot of rumor in the army for a while, and the army's heart was in turmoil, and Xiahou Yuan scolded Xu Shu for being shameless, but there was no way.

At night, Xiahou Yuan summoned all the generals and asked them to appease the soldiers and stabilize the morale of the army. On the other hand, the process of preparing for the withdrawal of troops is accelerated.

The withdrawal of the troops on the side of Wang Yi did not go well, and the soldiers under his command delayed in every way, while the people in the city watched coldly. In the end, under the constant urging of Xiahou Yuan, Wang Yi led the officials of the county guard and less than 3,000 men and horses to the south.

Xiahou Yuan took over Anyi with less than 2,000 soldiers and horses, which was originally to delay the Hedong Army and cooperate with the army's southward retreat. These people knew that their fate was determined the moment they entered the city, and that they were destined to be outcasts.

The day after Wang Yi retreated, Xiahou Yuan ordered the main force of the battalion to retreat south. He couldn't wait for the evening to act again, Xu Shu let people shout, on the one hand, it shook the morale of Cao Jun, and on the other hand, it also showed that the enemy was ready for a counterattack. Xiahou Yuan's only hope was that the Hedong Army would not react too quickly. As long as they launched a tentative attack first, the 3,000 soldiers and horses of Xiahou Yuan's headquarters would fiercely defeat the Hedong army, and then gain time to retreat.

But Xiahou Yuan guessed wrong, Xu Shu was far bolder than he imagined. In addition to leaving Wu Xi and Qi Tai's 5,000 soldiers and horses in the north to prevent Xianbei from taking advantage of the fire to loot, Xu Shu transferred all the soldiers and horses of Pingyang County to a total of more than 13,000 people for a comprehensive counterattack.

Xu Huang led 3,000 cavalry as the vanguard to attack Cao's Dazhai, and Wang Ping led a battalion of 6,000 soldiers and horses of the infantry army to follow, dividing and encircling the enemy army and gradually destroying it. In addition, 1,000 rangers were sent to reconnoiter the enemy on both sides of the battlefield and eliminate scattered deserters. After Xu Shu led the 3,000 Chinese army, he dealt with the prisoners and cleaned up the battlefield. For Anyi, Xu Shu only sent one person to receive it, that is, Yang Xiu, but not now, but when he won a decisive victory on his side.

Xu Huang was holding back his strength this time and was going to fight Cao Jun to the death. After all, the previous battle of Hedong was too aggrieved. This time, the Hedong cavalry was all equipped with the best war horses of the Huns, and the chest of the horse was protected by iron armor, including the leather armor of the knight's whole body, the cavalry spear of the two battles, and the sharp scimitar, which was the most well-equipped heavy cavalry in the history of the Hedong Army. It has only one function, which is to charge, charge, and charge.

Xu Huang's cavalry tore Xiahou Yuan's troops like sharp knives, dividing them apart. Three thousand heavy cavalry against three thousand foot soldiers, there is almost no suspense about the outcome of the battle.

In less than a stick of incense, there were less than five hundred people left around Xiahou Yuan. Xiahou Yuan saw that the general trend was gone, so he had to lead his troops to break through, and in the end the enemy was too tight, Xiahou Yuan only brought more than a hundred guards and evacuated the battlefield on a fast horse.

Xu Huang's cavalry had neither time to encircle and suppress the defeated soldiers, nor did they rest. Instead, they went directly south to attack the other retreating Cao troops.

At this time, Wang Ping's Chinese army followed closely, dividing and encircling the enemy's army, gradually breaking through, and those who surrendered collected their weapons and handed them over to a small number of soldiers to guard, waiting for the rear of the army division to deal with.

In this way, the main forces of Xu Huang and Wang Ping pursued for a long time, killing Cao's army and bleeding.

The cavalry did not set up camp until the city of Anyi was under the city. The infantry army behind them arrived at the city of Anyi in the evening.

Anyi was originally not a big city, but when it was used as a temporary capital for the emperor, Tian Jing ordered someone to preside over the repair. But even so, Anyi is also the best defended city in the entire Hedong. Xu Shu's more than 10,000 soldiers and horses could not capture Anyi at all, but Xu Shu did not plan to attack it. He just ordered to surround the four gates of Anyi City and not let go of a single Cao army.

At night, Xu Shu gathered to discuss countermeasures, if he couldn't capture Anyi, he would go south to pursue Cao's army, but he was afraid that the rear would be unsafe.

If the siege lasts for a long time, I am afraid that Xiahou Yuan's troops will withdraw to the front line of the Yellow River. Xu Shu was going to send a few spies from the Flying Eagle to enter the city at night to see if he could contact the big clans in the city to secretly cause trouble and seize the city gate, so that he could quickly take Anyi. If it is feasible, a fire will be raised on the watchtower in the north of the city the next night.

On the evening of the second day, there was a fire on the watchtower in the north of the city, and then there was a great chaos at the north gate, and the city gate was opened after a while. Xu Shu ordered Wang Ping to lead his troops into the city, quickly controlled the four gates, and occupied the county government. When I entered the city, I saw that it was none other than Huo Jun, the commander who disappeared that day.

It turned out that Huo Jun saw Wang Yi surrender that day and knew that the matter was irreparable. He did not choose to retreat north with the defeated army, but chose to hide in the city to a wealthy merchant family. He knew that Cao Jun's control of Anyi would not last long, and he hoped that one day he would be able to make the first contribution to the destruction of Anyi City, so as to make up for the loss of Anyi that day. It's just that Huo Jun didn't expect this counterattack to come so quickly.

On the evening of the same day, except for a few Cao troops who resisted at the North Gate, almost all the rest were captured. Xu Shu sits in Anyi, and Zhang Bang Anmin. Xu Huang and Wang Ping's horse infantry marched south day and night, continuing to pursue Xiahou Yuan's main force.

It was also Cao Jun's bad luck, just in time for the heavy rain from the sky, the roads were muddy, and the speed of retreat was not fast. Relying on their familiarity with the terrain, the Northern Expeditionary Army quickly caught up with Cao's army. In the vicinity of Yanchi, the Northern Army and Cao Jun engaged in a large-scale encounter. In the end, Xiahou Yuan left a thousand corpses, and with less than 10,000 defeated soldiers, he went south to Dayang.

And the Wang Dangsuo stationed in Dongyuan showed signs of moving eastward. The 10,000 soldiers and horses brought by Lejin from Hanoi also entered the Hedong border.

Xu Shu ordered the troops of Xu Huang and Wang Ping to withdraw to the vicinity of Anyi, and after three battles, they attacked and destroyed more than 3,000 Cao's troops and captured more than 5,000 people. The first stage of the Hedong counterattack was a very resounding victory.

Xu Shu knew that how to settle the captives was the most important thing now. Early the next morning, Xu Shu raised his tent and asked all the captives to assemble in the schoolyard. Xu Shu said to the captives in the camp: "If you are willing to go home to farm, I will not stay, take ten steps forward, and I will send you three days' rations in a while, and you can leave." Then he asked the soldier to light a pillar of incense, and did not speak, but only watched the reaction of the captives. As a result, after a pillar of incense, less than a hundred people stood up. Xu Shu asked people to directly distribute three days' rations to each person, and immediately let them out of the camp.

At this time, the other people in the captives were stupid, they didn't expect Xu Shu to release them so easily, but it was too late to regret it.

Xu Shu continued, "Those who are willing to join my Northern Army should stand on the left side of the team." I will give you the same treatment as the Northern Army, and there will be no discrimination. "This time it was obviously much better than last time. After a pillar of incense, about half of them chose to join the Northern Army. Xu Shu nodded, born in troubled times, farming and business are precarious, and being a soldier may have the opportunity to make contributions and seal his wife and son. Our Northern Army has always been loyal to the Han Emperor, and this time it was your General Xiahou who provoked our Hedong first, otherwise we would never have turned our weapons at our compatriots. If you join the Northern Army, I will not let you fight a civil war, but send you to the real northern battlefield, and let you defeat the Xianbei people and defend my Han rivers and mountains! "

After that, let Wang Ping arrange someone to escort these people north to Pingyang County, and handed them over to Qi Tai and Wu Fang to disperse and join the soldiers and horses of each school.

Now Xu Shu looked at the rest of the people in the end and sneered: "You neither go home nor join the Hebei Army, it seems that you want to go back to the Cao Army barracks." If my guess is correct, you all have parents, wives and children in Yanzhou, don't you dare to rebel against Cao? "

At this time, a deputy general looked humane: "General Mingjian, many of us have such hardships. "

Xu Shu said, "In this way, you will be incorporated into our army's military cantonment in Pingyang, responsible for tuntian, not on the battlefield, if my general and Prime Minister Cao Cheng strike down in the future, I will let you go back." Xu Shu ordered someone to take these people north and hand them over to Zhao Yan to deal with.

Now that the Hedong counterattack has won the first stage, Xu Shu knows that with the arrival of Lejin's soldiers and horses, Xiahou Yuan will definitely not give up, and there are more tricky battles waiting for them.