Wen Chou, who was watching the battle in the rear, saw that the defeat was decided, and couldn't help but sigh deeply, and immediately ordered: "Mingjin withdraw the troops!" ”

The battlefield immediately sounded a rapid sound of gold, which was stopped in the ears of tens of thousands of Yuan soldiers like a heavenly sound. The generals of the Yuan army were also shocked by the momentum of Pang De's army, these Xiliang soldiers were too ferocious, even if they killed the enemy on the battlefield, they did not even let go of the dead corpses, and all the soldiers who were cut down had to have their right ears cut off before they stopped, causing many soldiers who fell to the ground and pretended to be dead or unconscious lost one ear and did not dare to resist.

At this moment, as soon as he heard the sound of Mingjin, the frightened Yuan army was immediately defeated, and he didn't listen to the command of Ji Ling and the others at all, and ran back desperately.

Pang De knew that ordering the pursuit and killing at this moment would definitely inflict heavy damage on the enemy army, but this was contrary to Ma Chao's order, Ma Chao did not want to slaughter the Han people, his policy and strategy was to try to catch alive, whether it was an enemy general or an enemy soldier. 200,000 strong people is not a small number, if they can be captured alive, no matter how poor it is, there will be 200,000 more laborers, and its significance is immeasurable.

Xu Shu, who went out with the army, also knew Ma Chao's purpose, and when he saw this, he hugged his fists and said: "Don't worry, general!" Yuan Jun has already been frightened, just lead the troops and then feint to attack, and there will be a big harvest before chasing to Yuan Jun's camp! ”

Pound felt that it was reasonable, and immediately led the team to pursue it, and tens of thousands of soldiers shouted loudly: "Put down your arms, surrender and get a reward!" Stubborn resistance, sin even three clans! At the same time, Ma Dai and Xu Shu were left to deal with the wounded, take care of the prisoners, and clean up the battlefield.

Yuan Jun has become a frightened bird at this moment, once retreated, it can no longer stop, along the way lay down their arms and surrendered countless people, Pang De led the troops to chase until ten miles before the Yuan army camp to press the prisoners to return with a full load.

After this battle, more than 3,000 of Pound's 100,000-strong army were killed, tens of thousands were slightly wounded, and about 2,000 were seriously wounded. But it is insignificant compared to the Yuan army, Wenchou's 200,000 army, more than 20,000 killed, nearly 50,000 captured, plus the escaped and scattered soldiers, the Yuan army that returned to the camp shrank by nearly half.

When the news reached Wuchao, which was three hundred miles away, Ma Chao was overjoyed, and immediately ordered to add one level to the rank of general above lieutenant rank in the Pang De Army, and a bounty of fifty. The basic monthly salary of non-commissioned officers in the army was doubled, the number of lightly wounded was tripled, and the number of seriously injured was doubled fivefold, and the bereavement pensions of the soldiers who died in battle were paid in strict accordance with the regulations. Those who are seriously injured and disabled will be arranged to work within their capacity to ensure that they have no worries about food and clothing in the future. Not only that, in order to boost the morale of the army, Ma Chao also sent people to spread the news to Xuzhou, Xiangyang and other garrisons, and within a few days, hundreds of thousands of troops under Ma Chao knew the news, and the army was excited and morale was high.

However, it was said that after the defeat of Wen Chou, he would no longer go out of battle easily, and sent a handwritten letter to Shouchun to Yuan Shao, firstly to explain the reasons for the defeat, and secondly, to ask for reinforcements to come to help the war.

Yuan Shao's face was gloomy and terrible, and he immediately handed over Wen Chou's handwritten letter to all the strategists for circulation, and only after a long time did he ask: "Wen Chou's new defeat and the loss of nearly half of the 200,000 army, what do you think?" ”

Feng Ji stood up and said: "The defeat in this battle is also reasonable, and Pang De is also a brave and good general under Ma Chao!" In the past, it was said that the Xiongnu, the Wuheng, the Xianbei, the Hanzhong, the prestige spread, and its subordinates were all elite soldiers in a hundred battles, and Wen Chou's command was just a group of rabble, how could it be compared with the Pound army? ”

Yuan Shao said unhappily: "Having said that, but the two armies were defeated miserably just after the battle, didn't it frustrate the spirit of the million-strong army under my command?" ”

Feng Ji said: "Ma Chao is strong and strong, and he has repeatedly created strange things to defeat the enemy. As I expected, there must be more strange things in Ma Chao's hands that have not been used, and we still need to be careful to prevent it! General Wen's defeat was a defeat on ordnance, not his own incompetence! ”

Yuan Shaoshen thought so, nodded and said: "Ma Chao is scheming, as early as the period of the first emperor, he secretly developed forces, manufactured ordnance, and recruited talents, but we started too late!" ”

Everyone nodded in unison, only to hear Yuan Shao say again: "There is no turning back arrow when you open the bow, no matter what, you have to fight Ma Chao to the death!" I wonder if you have a good plan? ”

Feng Ji, Xin Ping, Guo Tu, Yan Xiang and other strategists all frowned and were silent, this matter is very important, who dares to make suggestions easily, in case it does not work, it will cause fire. Seeing that the scene was embarrassing, Feng Ji said: "Failure is a common thing in soldiers, General Wen is superhuman, brave and good at fighting, plus Xu You's advice, even if he can't take Nanyang, he can firmly contain Pang De's elite division in Jingzhou, which is also beneficial to the great cause of the lord!" ”

Yuan Shao said: "What does Yuan Tu mean by this? ”

Feng Ji said: "Ma Chao is extremely deceitful, and he sent heavy money in advance to win over Liu Biao and Zhang Xiu, the purpose of which is to pull the two into the Central Plains War, so that the lord thinks that the two have taken refuge in Ma Chao, and then send troops to attack Jingzhou!" In this way, Liu Biao and Zhang Xiu had no choice but to take refuge in Ma Chao, and Ma Chao also achieved the goal of recovering Jingzhou without blood! So far, most of this plan has been successful! ”

Yuan Shao nodded, gritted his teeth and said: "Ma Chao is a thief, this father will never let you succeed, I will immediately repair a letter to Liu Bei and Zhang Xiu, re-establish friendship with them, and concentrate all my strength to attack Jizhou!" ”

Feng Ji shook his head and said, "The lord must not!" At this time, it was too late, now Pang De controlled the northern part of Jingzhou, Zhang Liao crossed the river into Jiangdong, Sun Jian was caught off guard, Jingzhou's Changsha, Baling, Hanshou and other places were all taken by him, and at this time if he wanted to make friends with Liu Biao, it was tantamount to slapping himself in the face! ”

Yuan Shao secretly regretted in his heart that he shouldn't have fallen for Ma Chao's evil deeds in the first place, and then remembered that the war in Xuzhou had made no progress and Wen Chou was defeated, so he had no clue in his heart, and asked: "What should I do?" Could it be that the horse super thief took a big advantage in vain? ”

"Of course not!" Feng Ji said categorically: "He has a good plan, I have a wall ladder, and now I should be a general, concentrate the rabble to feint Jingzhou, contain the 150,000 troops of Pang De and Zhang Liao, and at the same time speed up the battle in Guangling, and mobilize all elite forces to attack Jizhou." If Jizhou is down, Qingzhou and Xuzhou will be like weaning children, and it will be easy to win! ”

Yuan Shao nodded slightly when he heard this, and was about to speak, but he heard Yan Xiang say: "This plan is not appropriate!" Pang De and Zhang Liao are not ordinary people, and they are all accompanied by resourceful people, how can a group of rabble stop the elite soldiers of the two? It is easy to say that there are local princes such as Sun Jian in Jiangdong, but Pang De is like a sharp sword hanging over the head of the lord, and he must not be careless. Otherwise, once it breaks through the defense line and counterattacks Yuzhou, it will definitely echo with Ma Chao who is sitting in Wuchao, and retreat to attack Yanzhou's Liyi and Chun Yuqiong, and can also go straight to the hinterland of Yuzhou, and the troops will be in Shouchun! (To be continued.) )