Although Cao Jun temporarily retreated, Yuan Yao did not relax his vigilance because of this.

Who knows if they will play a comeback and kill a horse pistol.

In case Cao Jun took advantage of Yuan Yao and the others to relax their vigilance and kill them directly, it would be another fierce attack, and this small county town might not be able to stop it.

What's more, even if they are not for the siege, but just to attract the attention of the defenders in the city, so that the soldiers defending the city will not be able to rest well, it is very likely.

Yuan Yao left a small group of men and horses to remain on duty, while the rest returned to the barracks to rest.

Fortunately, they were only defending, and this time the defense was relatively in place, and there were not many injured, and there were not even deaths.

The wounded were mainly arrows shot from under the castle tower, and there were not many of them, but they happened to hit a few unlucky ghosts.

In addition, during the third wave of attacks, some people climbed the tower and engaged in hand-to-hand combat on the corridor of the tower, and several defenders were wounded.

Fortunately, these things are not a big deal, the wounded go down to recuperate, and the energetic people continue to carry out their own responsibilities.

Yuan Yao was tired for a day, but he didn't go to rest, but called Ji Ling and Qiao Rui.

"Childe, your arrangement this time is really useful, then the Cao army really came to attack the city, this attack failed, they lost 2,000 people!"

Although it was dark when Cao's army attacked tonight, Qiao Rui was also a veteran of the battlefield, and he was still clear about how many men and horses appeared on the battlefield.

Judging by the rhythm of Cao Jun's attack and the dead corpses on the ground, he could roughly judge something.

The vanguard of the Cao army will definitely not have too many manpower, Xiahoudun can send several waves of soldiers and horses one after another, and Qiao Rui can also know that these people are roughly a few thousand.

Although the whole army was not annihilated, the casualties were still very serious, and after a rough calculation, we can know that Cao's army must have more than 2,000 casualties tonight.

"Two thousand people, it's not bad, but it's a pity that there is no vanguard of the Cao army."

Yuan Yao had a slight regret.

"Childe, where is it so easy."

"After all, the Cao army is also an elite division, and it is also the regular army of the imperial court, and it is not something that ordinary soldiers and horses can deal with on the frontal battlefield."

"Being able to wipe out 2,000 of them is already a great achievement, and if you go back to play Your Majesty this time, Your Majesty will definitely reward your son with a big prize."

This feat, if it is passed back to Shouchun, Yuan Shu must be extremely happy, Yuan Shu is quite disgusted with Cao Cao, and he can make Cao Cao deflated, this good news, I am afraid that it can make Yuan Shu happy for a whole year.

"Well, today's battle will definitely be a sensation, General Qiao, you can indeed send someone to send back Shouchun, so as to make my father happy."

Yuan Yao did not refuse Qiao Rui's proposal, after all, this kind of thing that can improve his reputation is also good for him, and it would be better if he could still get some rewards for it.

"Yes, the last general will go to write a recital overnight and send people and horses to Shouchun."

"Then there will be General Law."

Qiao Rui didn't dare to slack off, after all, he also had credit for this kind of thing, although it was not the main credit, but he was able to get his hands dirty because of it, so he was naturally very positive, and soon went down to write a recital.

And Ji Ling was just about to leave, but Yuan Yao stopped him.

"General Ji Ling stays."

"Childe, what's the matter?"

"The Cao army has been killed, we have won the first battle this time, I estimate that it will not be long before the main army of the Cao army will arrive here."

"According to my estimates, it shouldn't be a problem to block Cao Jun's attack for a few rounds."

"So the things we planned with Lu Bu at the beginning are also on the agenda."

"The general can send someone to inform Lu Bu and ask him to prepare in advance, so as not to delay the military plane, and it would be a pity to miss the opportunity."

On the one hand, Yuan Yao sent someone to ask Yuan Shu for a reward, and on the other hand, he had to go to Lu Bu and explain to him that he was preparing to act.

In this way, he can be sure that he can use his little soldiers and horses to defend this county.

After having Yuan Yao's order, Ji Ling did not hesitate. Soon acted according to Yuan Yao's orders.

found two more clever guards to accompany them, and asked them to go to Huaibei quickly to convey orders to Lu Bu.

It didn't take long for Yuan Yao's news to be delivered to Lu Bu.

If Lu Bu was still in Xuzhou, it would naturally take several days, but Lu Bu attacked Huaibei this time and did not withdraw his troops.

His soldiers and horses are still stationed near Huaibei.

In this way, it is not particularly far from Zhu County, where Yuan Yao is located.

It only took two or three days for the men and horses sent by Ji Ling to deliver the news to Lu Bu's military camp tent.

After Lu Bu learned the news, he was overjoyed.

Soon asked the guards who ordered him to go back and reply to Yuan Yao.

After receiving the news, they will immediately set out to rush to Xuchang to attack Cao Cao's lair.

Attacking Cao Cao from the land of Huaibei, as long as you bypass the eyes of Cao's army.

Using the cavalry to quickly intersperse, it was able to kill Xuchang in a very short time.

When the time comes, break through Xuchang City and capture Cao Cao's family and the little emperor.

Even if Cao Cao can come back to the rescue in the end, he will inevitably lose his troops and suffer heavy losses.

Of course, the premise of all this is that Yuan Yao can delay the pace of Cao Cao's army attack in Zhu County.

At this moment, Yuan Yao didn't know that Lu Bu's army had set off towards Xuchang.

Because within two days of blocking Xiahoudun's night attack on the city, he was attacked again by Cao Cao's main army.

Although the speed of the main march of Cao's army was not fast, it also reached the outside of Zhuxian on the third day after Xiahoudun's failed attack on Zhuxian.

After Cao Cao arrived here, the Thunder Fury was slightly suppressed by him.

After asking the reason why Xiahoudun and the others had been stagnating here.

Cao Cao couldn't help but be interested in the garrisons stationed in Zhu County.

"Zhongde (Cheng Yubiao), are you saying that the person stationed in this county is the sister-in-law of Yuan Highway?"

Cheng Yu had roughly described the battle that happened outside the city the day before yesterday to Cao Cao, and told Cao Cao that the defender in the city was a son-in-law named Yuan Yao.

"Back to the lord, I have already sent someone to search, if nothing else, this Yuan Yao is the concubine who was previously established as the prince by Yuan Shu."

"It's actually the son of Yuan Shu! I can also use thousands of soldiers and horses to block your attack, so I have some interest in this kid! ”

Cao Cao had just lost his son, and a few months earlier, in the Battle of Wancheng, his eldest son Cao Ang had been killed on the battlefield because of Zhang Xiu's rebellion.

Originally, he had high hopes for Cao Ang, but unfortunately Cao Ang passed away one step ahead of him.

Now that he heard that the defenders in this city were actually Yuan Shu's son, naturally Cao Cao also wanted to see how capable Yuan Shu's son was.