Tao Ying led the soldiers and horses to defeat Ji Ling in one fell swoop outside the city of Yongqiu, and Yu Ban led the soldiers and horses to chase until the evening, I don't know if Yuan Shu had an ambush in other places, so Tao Ying had to collect his troops and return to clean up the battlefield.

The battlefield was cleaned up until the next morning, and nearly a dozen yuan was killed in this battle, and as many as 2,000 enemies were annihilated. Moreover, nearly four or five thousand Huainan soldiers who surrendered were captured.

Escorted the troops, and then collected the armor, flags and other items on the ground, the fallen knives and armor were enough to equip nearly a thousand troops, and this battle was really a complete victory.

After Ji Ling retreated from Steroid Hill, he wanted to make a comeback, but after seeing Tao Ying's strength, under the persuasion of the generals, Ji Ling reported to Yuan Shu, saying that the winter was cold and it was not easy to use troops, so it was better to wait until the spring of the next year to attack Pengcheng.

Yuan Shu rebuked Ji Ling for a few words, but could only agree. So Ji Ling withdrew his army and returned to Zhuyi to station, but Zhuyi was a small county town and it was not easy to defend for a long time, so Ji Ling moved the main force from Zhuyi to Huainan and temporarily withdrew his troops first.

After the victory, the winter cold kept the soldiers tormented. So Tao Ying, who had been busy for several months, also wanted to take a good rest, so he accepted Yu Ban as the marshal of the southern expedition, and let Zhao Yuncheng Lian and the second general stay to listen to Yu Ban's command, and the three of them stayed in Yongqiu Town to guard the south gate of Pengcheng Guo.

After the arrangements were made, Tao Ying led nearly 20,000 soldiers and horses back to Pengcheng to station, Pengcheng needed him to do too much. In the past six months, he has set up a new school next to the Taoling Town Mechanical School, named Taoling Town Gunpowder School, and he handed over the ** to the teachers and students who are interested in fire from various schools such as the Mechanical School, and transferred them to the Gunpowder School.

Now winter is a good time for class, so Tao Ying can't wait to go back and instruct them to make gunpowder. Moreover, the first round of reform in Pengcheng has just entered the formalization process, and now it is necessary to accelerate the pace of reform. Although Xiaobawang went south, Tao Ying decided to go to Jiangdong quickly, occupy the six counties of Jiangdong first, and recruit Xiaobawang's talents, so that he could really defeat them in the later stage!

Therefore, after the beginning of spring, Tao Ying's policy must be adjusted significantly, and he must rush back to discuss with the ministers. When Tao Ying left, Yu Ban began to strengthen the city wall again, fortunately, a lot of slaves were captured, plus the people were strong, a total of nearly 10,000 people strengthened the city of Yongqiu.

In the spring of the next year, Yuan Shu will definitely go north again, and Ji Ling may not be the only one who will come, so in order to prevent the battlefield from burning directly to Yongqiu City, Yu Ban discussed with Zhao Yun and Cheng Lian again, and the three decided to take advantage of Ji Ling's withdrawal to take the opportunity to recapture Zhuyi and Fuli counties.

The two counties are just in the same position as the mound, and it will be very easy to rescue them when the time comes.

So when the snow was about to melt, the ground was still frozen, and while it had not yet thawed, Yu Ban left 5,000 people to guard Yongqiu City, and led 20,000 troops to attack Zhuyi County.

Yu Ban led the troops, so he sent Zhao Yuntianwei as the vanguard, and Zhao Yun led the troops from Ningqiu to Zhuyi in only half a day. More than 1,000 cavalry were killed under the city of Zhuyi before the noon thaw.

Zhuyi City has become a ruined wall at this time, hesitating Tao Ying did not expect Yuan Shu to attack Xuzhou in advance, so he did not work these newly attached cities, so the city wall still retains the original city wall, which is relatively low.

Unfinished snowflakes dotted the mound of earth on the city wall, on which the banner of Yuan Shu's army floated, and on the city stood sparsely no more than three hundred men and horses.

Seeing that many large armies were coming, the officers and soldiers defending the city hurried to inform the commander. When the city keeper came to the city, he looked at the people and horses that appeared in the distance, the earth trembled a little, and the county man next to him shouted that it was not good!

"My lord, it's cavalry!"

The county magistrate pushed the county away: "Nonsense, I can see it!" ”

After the county commander was pushed aside, the county commander looked at the soldiers who were getting closer and closer, and the first one led by the general was Yuan wearing white armor and riding a white horse. There were also two huge banners behind him, with a big Zhao character written on it, and the other one with a few big characters of Tianwei Army.

The county commander was a military general and illiterate, so he pulled the county over and asked, "Look at whose military horses?" ”

The county is an old gentleman, after getting up from the ground, he looked at the flag outside the city, and swayed for a long time before saying: "Look at that flag, it seems to be the soldiers and horses of the second son of Xuzhou who worshiped the third brother Zhao Yun!" ”

As soon as Zhao Yun was mentioned, the county commander scolded, and kicked the county Cheng to the ground: "You are blind, it took a long time to say, he was killed under the city, how can I run?" What a fucking back, Lao Tzu spent money to buy a county order, how did he come up and meet this unlucky ghost! ”

After the county order was finished, he ran towards the city, and the population of Zhuyi County was only a few thousand, and after Ji Ling's sack, the population dropped to only two thousand. Moreover, the people in the surrounding villages have also moved to Pengchengguo one by one, so the new county magistrate spent a lot of money, but he didn't even get the capital to buy officials in the past half a month, so he was also very angry.

After running down from the city, the county commander took his family, packed up his money and fled through the south gate. As soon as the county order was gone, the whole county was in chaos again, and the soldiers were unrestrained and soon began to plunder the city. The county is an old gentleman, and although he has no status in the county order, the soldiers still respect him very much.

So when Zhao Yun killed the city, the county lieutenant of the city said to the county magistrate next to him: "Old gentleman, look, the county commander has escaped, what should we do?" ”

Lao Xiancheng raised his head and looked at the cavalry standing in rows outside the city, the cavalry were all dressed in white armor, and they were extremely powerful under the city.

"This, this ......"

The old county man said for a long time, and the county lieutenant next to him saw that he had only more than 300 horses, and he had already heard of Zhao Yun's name, and he knew that he was not Zhao Yun's opponent, so he had to say: "Everyone has heard of the second son's good name, not to mention that he also has a lot of favors to our people, I think it is better for us to take refuge in the second son!" ”

The county lieutenant spoke, objecting to none.

So when Zhao Yun shouted to the city under the city, the city gate of Zhuyi County was opened after a while. The county seat took the county lieutenant and others out of the city and surrendered.

Zhao Yun did not spend a single soldier, collected 300 soldiers from Zhuyi, occupied Zhuyi City, then entered the city to pacify the people, and appointed the county as the new county commander to deal with the affairs of Zhuyi County. Then he began to familiarize himself with the surrounding geography under the leadership of the county lieutenant, and then prepared for the army garrison after the beginning of spring.

In this winter, Zhao Yun brought masons from Yongqiu City, and recruited masons in Zhuyi County to start building a new Zhuyi County. Hearing that Zhao Yun occupied Zhuyi County, the people of Zhuyi who had fled returned to their homes in Zhuyi County one after another, and they especially believed in Zhao Yun.

Here, Zhao Yun recovered Zhuyi County, and recruited nearly 2,000 troops in Zhuyi County to form an infantry team.

Fuli County, like Zhuyi County, is on the plain, and there are no big rivers and mountains as barriers, so these places are easy to attack and difficult to defend.

When Cheng Lian killed Fuli County, Fuli County ordered 500 soldiers to guard in Fuli County. I heard that it was Cheng Lian, who had killed Ji Ling's two generals and fought with Chen Lan alone, and Fu Li County knew that he couldn't hold Fu Li County, so he led his troops to retreat from Fu Li County early.

Out of Fuli County, if you want to go back to Huainan, it must be a dead word, so in the end, the county order thought that since there was no other way out, it was better to go and mix with the second son, so he also led the troops to take refuge in Chenglian.

But when he heard that Cheng Lian was Lu Bu's old department, Lu Bu betrayed the lord several times and had a very bad reputation, so in the end, Fu Li County Commander led his troops to Zhuyi County to take refuge in Zhao Yun, and Zhao Yun's soldiers and horses increased by five hundred!