Chapter 205: Stalemate in Qian County
Yuan Shu was in the city of Qiaoxian and didn't sleep all night, waiting for Ji Ling to send back the good news. [ads:This site has a new URL,Shorthand method:,.] But after the time passed, a soldier reported that Lei Bo and Chen Lan had come back alone. Yuan Shu had a bad premonition at this time, and hurriedly went to the city wall of Qian County to watch the battle.
When Yuan Shu arrived at the city wall to watch the battle of the Xuzhou military camp, he found a cavalry from far and near through the torches in the distance, marching towards the gap where Ji Ling led people to rush into the Xuzhou military camp.
"It's over!" Suddenly, these two words appeared directly in Yuan Shu's brain. If Ji Ling's retreat is blocked and he is surrounded in the Xuzhou army camp, then Ji Ling and Le are destined to be more auspicious. Yuan Shu wanted that victory to go back to Yangzhou, not another defeat.
After Lei Bo and Chen Lan went back, they realized that they had made a big mistake, and when they fled back, they forgot to tell them what happened before. If Yuan Shu really wanted to deal with it, then they would inevitably be punished. Now, they can only pray that Ji Ling and Le will be able to detect that something is wrong and return in time.
"My lord, it seems to be General Ji Ling." While Yuan Shu was stunned on the city wall, Li Feng saw that the cavalry of the Xuzhou army had retreated before the gap was encircled, although the retreating soldiers seemed to be more than half of the ones who had entered.
After Yuan Shu listened to Li Feng's words, he suddenly came to his senses. hurriedly looked towards the periphery, and sure enough, he found that a team of soldiers was really coming towards Qian County. "Hurry up, quickly open the city gate and go to pick up General Ji Ling." After seeing this, Yuan Shu hurriedly ordered someone to pick up Ji Ling and retreat.
Before he experienced the Battle of Tiger Pass, Yuan Shu thought that his strength was very strong, but after really experiencing that battle, Yuan Shu found that the only general he could take out his hands was Ji Ling, and the most trusted ones were Ji Ling and Le. The reason why the cavalry was led by Lei Bo was because Ji Ling and Le were not good at training cavalry, so they were handed over to Lei Bo and Chen Lan.
Now that Ji Ling finally escaped in the tiger's mouth, he had to answer it anyway, otherwise Ji Ling would have escaped, but because no one answered, he was surrounded again, so Yuan Shu really couldn't cry.
Li Feng listened to Yuan Shu's order and hurriedly took five hundred soldiers out of the city to pick up Ji Ling and return to the city. Fortunately, Cao Bao didn't have the intention of killing all these soldiers who robbed the camp, so it was also a good thing for Ji Ling and the others to retreat to Qian County. It's just that in this way, the 5,000 soldiers brought by Ji Ling and the other four generals only came back, but less than 2,000 people returned.
Yuan Shu's army suffered heavy losses, and the losses of the Xuzhou army were also not small. In total, the casualties of the Xuzhou army were close to 8,000, but the elite in Cao Bao's hands only had a few hundred casualties, including Cao Bao's own soldiers who were scattered among those ordinary soldiers. In this way, the two sides can only be regarded as a draw.
When the sky brightened, the Xuzhou army chose to strengthen the camp after cleaning up the battlefield, but it did not have the idea of continuing to attack the city or surround the county town on all sides. As for Yuan Shu, at this time, because he had suffered a loss, he didn't dare to move.
Yuan Jian and Yan Xiang understood it at this time, and Cao Bao didn't want to fight this battle. Cao Bao had not captured Qian County before, not because Cao Bao did not have this ability, but because Cao Bao wanted to borrow Li Feng's hand to constantly consume Tao Qian's strength, so that Tao Qian would pay more attention to Cao Bao.
Even now, Cao Bao just wants to go to the county seat. Cao Bao has never chosen to besiege the city, which shows that he wants to let Yuan Shu's army leave. Yuan Shu left, so Cao Bao naturally took Qian County, which was a great achievement. Moreover, after Yuan Shu left, Xuzhou and Yangzhou were adjacent to each other, and there would be a war in the future, so Tao Qian could not do the thing of unloading the mill and killing the donkey, so he could only continue to reuse Cao Bao.
But now, although Yuan Shu didn't dare to move, he wouldn't leave. After the sky brightened, Yuan Shu received news from the rear, saying that Sun Jian had brought 5,000 troops to help in the battle. Although the army brought by Sun Jian is also a soldier of Yangzhou, it is Danyang, which produces elite soldiers in Yangzhou.
The Danyang Army is famous all over the world because of its bravery. And Danyang often has the whole village and the whole township of young people join the army, so that there are many soldiers in it. What brother-in-law, brother-in-law, aunt, uncle, etc., the relationship is chaotic, but there is also an advantage to this, that is, the Danyang soldiers are not only fighting for their generals, but also to protect their relatives, so every time they fight, they are desperate.
Although the Danyang army has strong combat effectiveness, it also has weaknesses, otherwise, how could Yuan Shu be willing to hand over Danyang to Sun Jian's hands so happily. Most of the Danyang soldiers do not abide by military discipline, and their own rules are second to the rules of Khan's death, and military discipline is not worth mentioning in their eyes. For example, Zhang San became the commander of the army, and his subordinate Li Si violated military discipline, but Li Si was Zhang San's uncle, and Zhang San still dared to enforce military discipline against his uncle?
Now that Yuan Shu heard that Sun Jian led his troops to help, he only needed to wait for another day, and the Xuzhou army would have to be attacked from both sides, that is, Cao Bao could train again, and he could not fight against the enemy forces on both sides at the same time, not to mention that Sun Jian was also good at training, and Sun Jian's reputation as "Jiangdong Tiger" was known to the world.
Yuan Shu was waiting for Sun Jian's arrival, and Ye Mo was also taking Xu Huang and Dian Wei and the vanguard army all the way, and it was nearly a day's journey to throw off the army.
"Lord Taiwei, there is still about a day's journey, and I will be able to reach Qiao County in a wait. According to the news sent back by the scouts before, there has been no movement between Yuan Shu and Cao Bao now. Cao Bao is not in a hurry, but why is there no movement in the Yuan Shu army? When he was resting and preparing to leave, Xu Huang looked at Ye Mo and asked.
Ye Mo is also thinking about this problem, if it is said that Ah Bao is not in a hurry, then Ye Mo can understand, anyway, it is not him who is running away, and if Cao Bao moves alone, he will definitely give the Wenchen generals under Yuan Shu's account an opportunity to take advantage of, it is better not to move. It's just that Yuan Shu shouldn't be in a hurry to flee back to Yangzhou, otherwise when he is caught between himself and Cao Bao, he will definitely suffer another fiasco.
Ye Mo thought about it for a long time, and he couldn't figure it out, could it be that Yuan Shu still had hole cards? If you don't understand, you can only think about it slowly, or wait another day, and when you get to the county, the problem will be understood.
"General, grab a scout in front and say it's looking for Lord Taiwei." Just when Ye Mo couldn't figure out and was about to leave for the horse, a soldier suddenly came to report to Xu Huang.
As soon as Xu Huang heard the soldier's words, he immediately looked at Ye Mo. Ye Mo also felt strange at this time, he didn't know who would come to find him, and he had found this place. Ye Mo looked at Xu Huang and nodded. After Xu Huang got Ye Mo's answer, he asked the soldier to bring the captured man over.
The arrested scout came to the scourge, claiming to have been sent by the Luo family. As soon as Ye Mo heard that it was the Luo family, he understood that this must be news from Jiangdong.
"Say, what kind of news can make the Luo family find this place at any cost?" Ye Mo understood that if he wanted to find him, the Luo Family Chamber of Commerce must have spent a lot of money, not to mention anything else, there must be a lot of people sent out.
"Sun Jian raised troops from Jiangdong and came all the way to Yuzhou. The head of the family asked the villain to tell Lord Sù that he must be careful of Sun Jian's army. Moreover, the head of the family also got the news that Wei Zhongdao seemed to be in Sun Jian's army. Seeing that Ye Mo did not avoid others, the scout understood that these people could rest assured.
After Ye Mo listened to the scout's words, he immediately understood Yuan Shu's hole cards, and it was estimated that it was Sun Jian's army. "Alright, you can go back. Ye San, take him to entangle. Now that he knew the news, Ye Mo instructed Ye San to entangle this scout a little.
"Lord, what happens next?" Dian Wei listened to the soldier's words, and then asked Ye Mo. Things seem to have changed again.
But Ye Mo was a lot more relaxed at this time, the unknown enemy was the most terrifying, but now that Sun Jian's army had been exposed, Ye Mo was not worried. Only those who already know the enemy can think of a way to deal with it, and as for what way, let's think slowly on the way.
(Twelve was called out in the morning, and twelve did not save the manuscript, only the current code.) I have only uploaded it now, and I ask for your forgiveness. )xh118