"Withdraw! Out of town! Fast! ”

Guan Yu gave an order to Bao Chu, who was injured and unable to fight anymore, and then led the three hundred soldiers who were temporarily entangled and stated, and fought and retreated, steadily breaking back. Although Chun Yuqiong's army advanced step by step, its speed was effectively slowed down by Guan Yu's resistance. This gave the city a chance to evacuate in time.

However, Guan Yu has few soldiers in his hands after all, and in the face of the invasion of Chun Yuqiong's troops wave after wave, his subordinates can be said to have suffered heavy casualties. Even if he tried his best and personally shot many times, when Guan Yu led his troops to retreat to the North City Gate, the number of his subordinates was still less than a hundred.

Seeing that the road leading to the north gate in the city was blocked by Yuan Jun one by one, Guan Yu sighed, knowing that the Bingzhou army that remained in the city would end up being more auspicious.

At this moment, the only thing Guan Yu can do is to retreat in time, leave a useful body, and it is not too late to take revenge. Of course, Guan Yu did not learn the "Big Big Wolf" children's shoes, and dropped a sentence "I will definitely come back". He just secretly swore that he would take revenge for this arrow.

Although Chun Yuqiong was very interested in the heads of Guan Yu and other enemy generals, he did not send troops to pursue. It's not that he doesn't want to pursue, it's that his subordinates are no longer able to pursue.

After years of accumulation, the prestige of the Bingzhou cavalry is not under the Liangzhou knights. When retreating, those with horses are of course faster than those without. Therefore, among the remnants of the Bingzhou soldiers who escaped from the city, there were hundreds of Han Dang's subordinate cavalry. Although these cavalry fled in a hurry, they still maintained a relatively complete cavalry formation.

These four-legged guys don't play much role in the city of the people, but they are strong in the vast plains outside the city. If Chun Yuqiong is a bold pursuit, he will inevitably be given an effective counterattack by the Bingzhou cavalry.

Besides, Chun Yuqiong traveled 200 miles on two days and one night. By the time they reached the city of the people, the soldiers were extremely tired, and the horses were exhausted. The conquest of the city relied on the excitement of the soldiers. But after capturing the city of the following people, what Yuan Jun needed was rest.

Chun Yuqiong didn't think that the more than 300 tired cavalry on his side. How much can be bargained for in front of an enemy who has a dual advantage in quantity and quality. What's more, Guan Yu, Bao Chu, Han Dang and other fierce generals are still strong, and they are all able to rival dozens or even hundreds of people. In front of such fierce generals, if you are not careful, the cavalry under Chun Yuqiong may all lose it.

Battles with high risks and small returns, Chun Yuqiong is not interested in taking risks.

Without the pursuit of the enemy. Guan Yu and the others escaped thirty miles away, and they could finally rest temporarily and gather the defeated army. Looking at the sparse defeated soldiers in front of him, Guan Yu felt that he had no face to go to see the lord arrogantly. Since the establishment of the Bingzhou Army, it has never suffered such a big defeat!

"Three thousand elite soldiers, five thousand auxiliary soldiers, just like this, all of them are gone for me at once?"

This is the roar of the insolence after getting the news.

In the face of the enraged commander-in-chief, the messenger knelt on the ground in fear. He pressed his face tightly to the ground, and didn't dare to say anything.

It's no wonder that insolence will go berserk in public. The battle of the city of the people. It's so depressing to lose. The Yuan army led by Chun Yuqiong was less than 10,000 people. However, in just one day, the military town, which had nearly 10,000 people garrisoned, completely fell into the hands of the enemy. 4,000 Bingzhou elite soldiers, 5,000 Jizhou auxiliary soldiers, and in the end, less than 1,000 people escaped!

Moreover. Zhang Qiang hoarded in the city of Lieren, used for the army to go south at any time, to deter Qiu Yuan's army's grain, weapons, and baggage, all intact and fell into the hands of Chun Yuqiong.

You know, that's enough for an army of 50,000 to last for two months!

Such a huge loss. It's like cutting a knife in the heart of the arrogance and making him lose a piece of meat!

It can be said that after the battle of Lieren City is fought, the strategic situation of the entire Jizhou battlefield will be completely reversed. The situation in which the arrogant had the upper hand turned into a great favor for Yuan Shao in an instant.

After getting the people, Yuan Shao could not only launch a counterattack on Yecheng with confidence, but also directly threatened the areas around Julu and Zhao, which made a huge flaw in the defense system of the Bingzhou army.

What's more, the great success of Yuan Shao's battle will greatly stimulate those powerful clans under the rule of the state army. Originally, these powerful clans submitted to the state, but they had to do it as a last resort under the threat of the strong military strength of the state. What they really support has always been Yuan Shao. Now that Yuan Shao has shown military strength enough to compete with insolence through the battle of Lieren City, presumably those heroes will immediately become restless, right?

Thinking of this series of consequences, it is strange that insolence is not angry and mad.

"What is the reason for the breakdown?"

The arrogant question, although the voice was not loud, but the coldness contained in the words could be heard by anyone. The sender could not answer this question at all, but only drew closer to Mother Earth.

And it wasn't him who asked insolently, it was Wei Xiao.

Wei Xiao only felt sweaty, and for the first time realized that the playmate in the hall when he was a child had now truly opened a bottomless gap with him. Under the arrogant rage, Wei Xiao, who has always used a knife and axe to put his neck on his face, has changed his face very seriously.

"Not yet...... Figure out ......"

"Then don't go check it out!"

Zhang Mad suppressed his urge to kill, and said this viciously. Hearing this, Wei Xiao was like a pardon, promised a promise, and hurriedly left from the lobby. After a moment of venting, the anger in his heart subsided a little, and he slowly calmed down.

-- Victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers.

――Even if it is Cao Cao, Liu Bei and the like, haven't they fought countless defeats?

-- Guard against arrogance and rashness, guard against arrogance and rashness......

Well, back in the house, after Ah Yes's body vented fiercely, the arrogant spirit can be regarded as completely stabilized, and he can look at the most serious defeat since he started the army relatively calmly. And Wei Xiao's movements were really not slow, and a day later, the reason for the sudden fall of Lieren City was roughly excavated by him.

“…… Chun Yuqiong suddenly sent troops, and after General Guan learned about it, he immediately dispatched men to defend the four cities. Unexpectedly, as the Jizhou army guarding the palace, there was a Bai Chang who secretly communicated with Yuan Jun and secretly opened the city gate. Yuan Jun then swarmed in. General Bao found that the enemy army had entered the city and resisted desperately, but was driven by Chun Yuqiong to attack from the 'Thor's Hammer'. General Bao couldn't resist it, and he was wounded several times, so he had to retreat......"

The sound of machinery echoed in the study of the Thorn Mansion. Zhang Yan frowned, tapped his fingers on the desk, and asked after a while:

"Then why did Bai Chang betray?"

Wei Xiao paused for a moment, and then replied hesitantly:

“…… Yuan thief to Jizhou epidemic, is ...... The lord is not virtuous, but he ...... Arouse the wrath of the heavens......"

The reason is good and powerful.

If atheism was prevalent in China during the harmonious years of later generations, Yuan Shao's propaganda was of course nonsense, and only the mentally handicapped would believe it. However, at the end of the Han Dynasty, when the art of proverbs was popular, whether it was the ordinary people or the literati, there were many people who believed in the proverbs.

Not to mention anything else, whenever the Han court received news of a major disaster in a certain place, it would use the court's immorality as a reason to dismiss the highest-ranking three princes, and use it to explain to the heavens:

- Look, the culprit has been deposed, God, you should be satisfied, right?

Even the imperial court is so high-sounding to respect the "induction of heaven and man", to let the three princes bear the black pot for natural disasters, how can the people dare to ignore the "dissatisfaction" of "God"?

Not long ago, when Guo Jiawei analyzed Yuan Shao's possible use of the epidemic, he had actually mentioned this method of blame. It's just that even Guo Jia didn't expect that Yuan Shao's use of the plague would come so quickly and so powerfully!

Later, when Zhang Shao summarized afterwards, he learned that Yuan Shao actually began to preach that Zhang Shao was not in the right position in Jizhou at the end of July, and the sky sent the plague to the people of Jizhou. Because the people of Jizhou have not really attached themselves to the insolence of the insolence, and Tian Feng, who operated this plan, has clever methods, he only quietly spread rumors in secret, so that these rumors have always been hidden from the people of the Bingzhou family, and have successfully spread throughout most of the arrogant occupation areas.

In the end, this plan directly led to the departure of most of the newly recruited Jizhou auxiliaries from Germany. The reason why Chun Yuqiong dared to go north alone and launch a surprise attack was precisely because of the 5,000 Jizhou soldiers stationed in the city, at least 3,000 of whom were dissatisfied with the Bingzhou army. Among them, thousands of people took the initiative to take refuge in Yuan Shao's side in secret.

If there is no such detailed support, Chun Yuqiong is not stupid, how can she do that kind of uncertain thing?

The rebellion of the Jizhou soldiers was just the beginning. Yuan Shao took the momentum of the Klete City and suddenly led the main force to the north. With the support of the grain and straw seized in the city, Yuan Shao's march was rapid. On the second day of the first month of October, the army of 50,000 personally commanded by Yuan Shao had already been killed under Julu City!

In fact, at this time, in Guangping City, south of Julu City, there was still a merger army of more than 1,000 people. However, wherever Yuan Shao's army went, the local heroes all enthusiastically took refuge. Without using Yuan Shao's soldiers, the Haoqiang in Guangping County spontaneously formed a coalition army, which had already blocked the siege of Guangping County. As a result, Guangping City itself could not be protected, although it had not yet been conquered by Yuan Shao, it was powerless to threaten Yuan Shao's march route.

As for Guan Yu and the others, who had escaped from Lieren City, they were driven to the border of Zhao by Yuan Shao's army. If you want to count on this newly defeated force to threaten Yuan Shao, it will take at least half a month to make Guan Yu and the others recover.

Not only did Haoqiang rebel in Guangping, but similar incidents occurred in most of the counties under the rule of insolence. For a time, the counties of Jizhou under the rule of insolence can be described as full of smoke!

The angry villagers, instigated by the powerful clan, shouted, "Get out of the state dog!" "Heaven punishes Han thief!" and so on, launching attacks on the merger state forces in the territory of the country on various scales. Even those Haoqiang who have not moved for the time being make the garrison feel like a man on their backs and full of threats. (To be continued......)