While Cao Cao's heart was full of anger, Liu Qi's heart was as comfortable as eating ice cubes in the summer, after hearing the news of Zhao Yun's capture of Qian County, Liu Qi suddenly became overjoyed, and then clapped his hands and smiled: "Zhao Zilong is finally going to show the demeanor of his generation of famous generals." ”

In fact, after Zhao Yun surrendered to Liu Qi in recent years, except for the battle of relieving the siege of Xuzhou, there are not many outstanding achievements, especially after hearing about Liu Bei's death, he has hardly fought a big battle, the reason why he has been constantly promoted is mainly because of the relatively good governance of Pengcheng, in addition to the strict management of the army, there has been no mistake, but this is too far from Liu Qi's expectations, so that Liu Qi suspects that Zhao Yun in history has such a big name, Is it Liu Chan's deliberate momentum in order to repay the grace of saving his life?

But after today's battle, Liu Qi finally saw the other party's demeanor as a famous historical general.

At this time, Liu Qi naturally had the detailed information of Zhao Yun's attack on Qian County, and Zhao Yun was in danger at that time, calmly saw through the reality of Jiang Ji's army, and then deceived Jiang Ji's trust by means of deception, and then attacked Jiang Ji's army with thunderous means, beheaded more than ten generals under his command, and captured Jiang Ji alive, and then treated people with sincerity, and recruited Jiang Ji Mu is also well aware, and can't help but praise Zhao Yun for being brave and strategic, bold and careful, and really the first class general in the world. In the end, he lived up to his good intentions of trying his best to win it over that day.

So, Liu Qi, who was happy, immediately ordered Zhao Yun to be the general of the auxiliary state, the Marquis of Yongchang Pavilion, and the military of Pengcheng, Qiaojun, and Huainan, which means obviously, that is, let him be responsible for contacting Xu Shu in Yangzhou. Jointly deal with Zhang Liao of Huainan, and be responsible for governing Huainan after pacification.

At the same time, when the news of the capture of Qian County reached Shouchun, Zhang Liao, the commander of Yangzhou Assassin Shi, Huainan Taishou, and Zhengdong General Zhang Liao suddenly felt heavy pressure, and his army confronted Xu Shu for many days, and the two sides won and lost each other. Although his side is on the side of defending the city, but Xu Shu changed the previous safe method, led the army to attack for many days, and the losses of his own side in the past few days were much stricter than before, originally he had already asked for reinforcements from Yanzhou Assassin Shi Sima Lang, but he did not expect that the county fell, he was completely blocked from returning, even if he had the spare strength to defend the city, Shouchun was only a lonely city in the territory of Dachu. As long as the food and grass are cut off for a long time, the armor and equipment cannot be replenished, and his army can only collapse in the end.

It was precisely because of this that Zhang Liao angrily chopped off Zhang Xi's head, the leader of the only army that came to "support" him, Zhonglang, who was originally stationed in Xiao County.

This person led more than 10,000 people to guard Xiao County, and even let Zhao Yun break the camp, leaving only 800 people from more than 10,000 people, which led to the fall of Zhan County. His situation was in such a passive position, if only he could have been a little more attentive. Restraining Zhao Yun's soldiers and horses, why did he fall to Qian County? Why is he in such a disadvantageous situation? Although such an incompetent general is very close to him, Zhang Liao's management of the army has always been fair and selfless, so he naturally wants to kill him to appease the anger of the public.

However, killing Zhang Xi could not solve all the problems, because with Zhang Xi entering Shouchun. Almost all the soldiers in the city knew the news of the fall of Qian County, and their morale was shaken very badly for a while, although the soldiers had few plans to surrender due to the prestige that Zhang Liao had formed all the year round, but they no longer had the confidence to hold the city, and even some soldiers began to quietly pack their bags. Be prepared to evacuate quickly at any time when the situation is not good.

Zhang Liaonai returned to the camp tent and discussed with the generals Niu Gai, Sun Qing, Liu Yi and his son Zhang Hu: "Now that the county has been obtained by the Chu general Zhao Yun, the road to the north of our army has been broken, and only a lonely city of Shouchun is left, which is useless to defend. ”

Niu Gai and the others naturally have no objections, of course they don't want to wait for death, and even they are more eager than Zhang Liao to return to their homeland, but because of the majesty of the main general, they don't dare to say it.

So Zhang Liao decided to quietly open the north gate at night and lead the army to withdraw from Shouchun City, which he had guarded for many years.

To tell the truth, since he surrendered to Cao Cao, he has been leading the army to guard the Huainan area, in order to deal with Xu Shu's various strategies, it can be said that he has worked hard, of course, he has accumulated a lot of experience, and it can even be said that he is the most familiar general in the whole world with Xu Shu and those civil and military forces under his command, Huainan must not leave him, and it is precisely because of this that he missed the battle of Guandu, the siege of Yecheng, the conquest of Wuhuan and other series of major battles.

And it is precisely because of the perennial guard that Zhang Liao has long regarded Huainan as his second hometown, and today he suddenly wants to leave, and there is a strong sense of reluctance in his heart.

"Alas, farewell, Shouchun, I hope that in this life I Zhang Liao will come back, but now the Chu army is winning on all fronts, and the lord's army has lost large areas of land such as Yingchuan, Runan, Qiaojun, Huainan and so on, which will further concentrate the strength of Zhao Yun, Lu Meng, Xu Shu and others, and cause huge pressure on our army's Yanzhou, and Luoyang is even more threatened by the enemy's strict zhòng, it is said that the soldiers of Hangu Pass can not withstand the fierce impact of the catapult, just rely on the advantages of the terrain to support it, as for Hanoi, More than half of its strength was aided to Xiahou Yuan in Hedong, and the other half was aided to Luoyang, and it was unable to make any support for Hangu Pass, and Luoyang, in addition to maintaining the huge expenses of Sima Yi's troops in Hangu Pass and Yangzhai, also had to deploy more than 10,000 men and horses in Luoyang City to prevent some ministers of the DPRK and China from colluding with Liu Qi and doing rebellion. ”

Zhang Liao couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly, now the entire land of Henan has fallen into turmoil, and even Hedong, Hanoi and other places in Hebei have fallen into unprecedented war mobilization, and the whole Great Wei is really stable, but the land of Jizhou, Youzhou, and Qingzhou, even if it is a merger, the situation is tense because Liu Qi's army is gathered in Shangjun.

Although there is no war in the current annexed states, he knows that both sides are trying to win the annexation of the Xianbei tribes, and as long as this work is done, no one can guarantee that the war will not break out.

It is precisely because of these reasons that Zhang Liao has no confidence in himself for the first time in his life, and he keenly feels that he may never have a chance to come back after leaving Shouchun.

Although he was reluctant to give up, but Zhang Liao could only grit his teeth and leave, in the quiet night, the unattended Shouchun City was extremely depressed for a long time, and everyone was concerned, because only they knew how much blood they shed in order to collect the city, and how much they paid, now it is not that they can't hold it, but because the rear soldiers are incompetent, they gave their rear to the enemy, and the city they fought for is now a lonely city. They had to leave, and they were not afraid in their hearts, but resentful, and they didn't know why a stupid person like Zhang Xi could guard Xiao County.

But few people know that this Zhang Xi is actually a clan brother of their main general Zhang Liao, and it is precisely because of Zhang Liao's recommendation that he can take on the heavy responsibility of sticking to Xiao County, but can Zhang Liao be blamed for this? Because before he recommended him, Zhang Xi was a brave and warlike general with quite a brain, and he won Zhang Liao's trust, who would have thought that in just a few years, this kid would degenerate into such a virtuous demeanor?

And it is precisely because of this that Zhang Liao's heart is particularly guilty, he feels that it is precisely because of his own ignorance, the fall of the county, the difficulty of Shouchun, he is facing such a passive situation, he feels sorry for the trust of King Wei, sorry for the soldiers who have fought bloodily for Shouchun City for many years with him.......

And not long after Zhang Liao's army left, he saw a few figures suddenly appear in a dense forest outside the city gate, these people looked at Zhang Liao's army in the distance, and suddenly rode south, and soon came to a military camp twenty miles away, holding the bronze talisman given by General Zuo, galloped directly into the military camp, went straight to the Chinese military tent, and then gasped and said: "General Qiyu, the military division expected well, Zhang Liao really led the army to retreat half an hour ago, leaving a large amount of heavy grain and grass in the city, in order not to alarm us, They didn't even dare to burn it, and although the Cao army flag was still flying at the head of the city, it had actually become an undefended city. ”

After hearing the news, he was overjoyed and immediately ordered Qin Song, Sun Gao, Fu Ying and others to lead an army of 5,000 to occupy Shouchun, and he personally led the army, as well as Liu Ye, Tai Shici, Hou Cheng, Song Xian, Wei Xu, Cheng Pu and others to chase and kill from behind.

But I heard the military advisor Liu Ye say: "General, Zhang Liao is a famous general in the world, although the retreat is hasty, he will definitely lead the elite troops to break off, so the next official Jian, we don't have to fight the enemy directly, just follow from afar, I believe that if we want to send the news to Qianjun, Zhao Zilong will definitely lay a defense in front, as long as Zhang Liao's army is blocked, we will lead the army to take advantage of the victory and attack, and we will definitely be able to capture Zhang Liao alive." ”

Xu Shu was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately decided to adopt Liu Ye's opinion, and he commanded an army of 40,000 to set off immediately, following Zhang Liao's army, and at the same time ordered 800 miles to expedite the horse, and deliver the news to Zhao Yun's county, and then asked Zhao Yun to lead the army to ambush on the main road, be sure to block Zhang Liao's retreat, this time no matter what, Zhang Liao can no longer escape. (To be continued......)