Zhang Liao retreated to the clouds, facing hundreds of thousands of enemy troops, he only felt like Mount Tai was overpowered, and he had the heart to fight to the end, but he was unable to hold the territory. Zhang Liao sent a messenger to ask Chang'an for help again, and this was the fifth time he had asked Chang'an for help!

"Report! ......" A scout officer rushed into the lobby and knelt down and said, "Xianbei people, Zhang Jaw, Gao Lan, the three armies are marching together and pressing into the clouds!" ”

Feng Zhong hurriedly said: "There are hundreds of thousands of people on the other side, and the lonely city in the clouds is only afraid that it can be defended!" ”

Zhang Liao frowned.

Another scout officer rushed in and reported breathlessly: "General, Yuan Shao has another 100,000 troops entering Taiyuan County!" ”

Feng Zhong's face turned pale, "This, how is this good?" ”

Zhang Liao stood up, "Pass my general order, abandon Yunzhong, and retreat to Wudu!" "Wudu, located in the southwest corner of Wuyuan County, is sandwiched between Yunzhong County and Xihe County, and there are deserts on three sides. Feng Zhong hurriedly said, "I'll go and prepare immediately!" He hugged his fist at Zhang Liao and left in a hurry.

Zhang Liao exchanged for the generals and gave instructions in detail, and several generals took the orders and left.

The order to retreat has been issued, but there is no chaos in the clouds, because most of the people have already evacuated, and the entire city in the clouds is almost only left with the army. The teams left the clouds in an orderly manner, and the subordinates led by Feng Zhong were mixed in the middle of the team.

Nearly 200,000 troops from Zhang Jaw, Gao Lan, and Kebineng marched together towards Yunzhong City.

Suddenly, the scout reported that Zhang Liao had led his army to escape from Cloudsdale.

Zhang Jaw said to Gao Lan: "Zhang Liao knows that the general trend has gone, so he gave up Yunzhong. We don't have to blindly chase him, the general can command the troops and horses of the headquarters into the clouds and sit in the five northern counties, and I urge Kebi to join me to take the military capital! ”

Gao Ran thought for a moment and nodded.

The plan was decided, and the two immediately began to act. Gao Ranshuai's 50,000 troops went straight to the clouds, and Zhang Jaw found Kebineng to lure him into the military capital with him.

At the same time, the general Chun Yu Qiongshuai's 100,000 troops went west out of Taiyuan County to launch a fierce attack on Xihe County. Since there were not many defenders in Xihe County, Chun Yuqiong was like a bamboo, and after a few days, he surrounded Lishi City, the capital of Xihe County. The defender of Lishicheng was too guarded Fang Sheng, who was originally Dong Zhuo's cronies, but now seeing that Yuan Shao's army was strong, he set a trap and killed the two generals who finally Zhang Lang, and Kaicheng surrendered.

The West River was lost, and the shape of the north became even more severe. Zhang Liao was worried that Chun Yuqiong would cut off his retreat, so he had to abandon Wudu and retreat south overnight.

At the same time, Gao Ran led an army of 50,000 into Cloud City, and at this time, Cloud City became an empty city, and there was no figure in the originally huge city.

Gao Ran set up a guard post and immediately ordered the sergeants to disperse and rest.

The sergeants scattered around the city in groups of three or five, found stoves in the houses, and began to make fires for cooking. The smoke of the cooking stove rose and the smell of rice wafted through the air, but no one noticed that the fire ignited the oil in the pipes buried in the ground, which were made of bamboo pipes and connected to the firewood and grass storage sites throughout the city, and the flames spread along the pipes at a rapid speed.

A sergeant came out of the kitchen and went to the firewood and grass not far away to push the firewood, and saw a fire rising from the ground and quickly spreading towards the firewood and grass pile.

The soldier was stunned for a moment, and then saw the flames rush into the firewood and grass pile, and in an instant the flames rose. The soldier was taken aback and turned back, shouting as he ran: "Oh no! It's on fire! But before he could finish speaking, he saw fires in many parts of the city, and shouts and shouts came one after another.

Countless flames sprung up from the city, igniting the firewood, grass, and sulfur that had been prepared in advance, and in the blink of an eye, the fire became the climate, whistling, rolling and moving in the air! Many soldiers couldn't dodge, they were ignited by the flames, screaming and rushing around, the scene was shocking!

Gao Ran, who had just taken off his armor, suddenly heard shouts outside, and hurriedly ran out of the gate, only to see that half of the sky was already burning! Gao Ran's face changed, and he hurriedly ordered all the troops to hurry out of the city, in fact, he didn't need to give an order, all the departments were already doing this!

Gao Ran didn't bother to put on his armor, stepped on his horse and fled out of the city. At this time, the houses on both sides of the connection were already burning, and the billowing flames turned the connection into a hearth. The crowd burst out of smoke and fire, and their clothes, pants, and beards were scorched everywhere. But they escaped anyway, and thousands of soldiers were trapped in the city because they were slow to escape, and it was impossible for them to escape!

Gao Ran looked at the burning city, frightened and felt extremely angry, he didn't expect Zhang Liao to be so difficult, people had already withdrawn, and he actually laid such a trap, so that he lost thousands of people in vain!

The eyes turned to Chun Yuqiong's side, Chun Yuqiong occupied the West River, thinking that he was invincible, leaving only 20,000 people to guard the West River, and he commanded 80,000 people to kill Shangjun in the west, one hoped to cut off Zhang Liao's retreat, and the other also wanted to occupy the vast land of Shangjun.

The army marched day and night.

However, Chun Yuqiong didn't know that Zhang Liao had already retreated to Fushi City, where the Shangjun Governance Office was located.

"General, Chun Yu Qiong's army is coming, and it will arrive in the city in three days!" Xue Hengyu, the defender of Fushi City, reported.

Zhang Liao asked, "What does General Xue think we should do?" ”

Xue Heng pondered: "Fushi City is backed by Yanshui, and the money and food are sufficient, enough to hold on!" ”

Zhang Liao frowned and said: "Our army is newly defeated, and the morale of the army and the people is low. You must take the initiative to win a battle! ”

Xue Heng frowned and said, "How is this situation possible?" ”

"I have a point. I'll leave all the infantry to you, you defend the city for me, and I'll bring my own cavalry to attack!" ”

Xue Heng was taken aback, "No way!" The general only has more than 20,000 cavalry, even if all of them are tiger warriors, it is difficult to defeat the opponent's 80,000 people! ”

"I've made up my mind, you just do what I say!"

Xue Heng couldn't, so he had to promise.

Zhang Liao let his soldiers rest for a day, and then commanded 20,000 horsemen out of the city and went in the direction from which Yuan Shao's army came.

Chun Yuqiong didn't expect Zhang Liao to dare to take the initiative. But when his 80,000 army stopped marching and buried the pot to cook, Zhang Liaoshuai's 20,000 iron cavalry suddenly killed, and the unprepared Yuan Shao's army was in chaos, and the whole mountain field seemed to explode the pot, and the 80,000 army fled in all directions in a chaotic manner, and the army was defeated.

Chun Yuqiong finally escaped with his life, led less than 40,000 remnants of the defeated army to retreat to Xihe City, raised his head and called the door, a row of flags was suddenly erected on the city, and the flag was a big Lu character, Chun Yuqiong was shocked and at a loss. It turned out that Jia Xu had long expected that Chun Yuqiong would rush westward, so he ordered Xu Huang to lead 10,000 turquoise horsemen to leave Chang'an and march north, pass through Tongtian Mountain and enter the city of Xihe, first use the camouflaged troops to open the city gate, and then the army entered, killing the traitor Feng Zhong, who collaborated with the enemy, to control Xihe in one fell swoop.

At this moment, the city gate was opened, and Xu Huang led an army of 5,000 horsemen to rush out.