Sun Ben didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly followed Sun Ce's instructions and returned to the city to gather people.

The defenders in the city, most of them are stopping on the city tower at the moment, it is not difficult for Sun Ben to gather people, he only needs an order, and it will not be long before the remaining 4,000 defenders in the city can gather at least 2,000 people.

Those defenders were scattered on various towers in the city, and it would take some time to gather all the four thousand defenders, and what Sun Ce lacked the most was time.

Fortunately, 2,000 people are enough.

He brought more than 2,000 people, counting the 2,000 people summoned by Sun Ben, and merged them into one place, that is, he had a force of more than 4,000 people, and he was not afraid of Yuan Yao and others, and he had the strength to fight.

And in Sun Ce's view, Zheng Bao and Zu Lang are just some rabble, and the real threat is just the 3,000 men and horses under Yuan Yao's command.

When he defeated Yuan Yao's men, the remaining Zu Lang and Zheng Bao were just clowns jumping off the beam.

It didn't take long for Sun Ben to gather the men to arrive, and Sun Ce immediately took the people and went straight to the location of Yuan Yao's army.

However, it is a pity that he was delayed for a long time, and Yuan Yao, a cunning boy, quickly made full preparations for the withdrawal of the army after receiving the news.

Sun Ce's men and horses, when they arrived at the city gate on the other side, directly pounced.

Yuan Yao had already led his army to the north.

Looking at the mess all over the ground, with no trace of the enemy at all, Sun Ce hated it so much.

"Bo Fu, those thieves seem to have received the news in advance, and they all ran away!"

Sun Ben appeared beside Sun Ce, took a fixed look at the mess outside the city, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

These days, he can be harassed by these thieves tirelessly, and even get a good rest all day, in order to prevent the enemy from breaking the city, it is exhausting.

Now that those thieves have finally escaped, he can naturally breathe a sigh of relief and relax for a while.

But Sun Ce didn't seem to intend to stop there, gritted his teeth, and continued to say to Sun Ben.

"They can't run far, they should have just evacuated, we chase, we must defeat them!"

"Otherwise, there will be endless troubles!"

Sun Ce can understand Yuan Yao's power, in the entire Jiangdong, there are few opponents who can make Sun Ce look at him squarely, and after only fighting Yuan Yao once, he regarded Yuan Yao as a strong opponent.

If you don't defeat it now, it will only get harder and harder in the future.

What's more, the shame of being defeated and retreating by Yuan Yao last time was still on Sun Ce's head, and he didn't earn this face back, but he was not happy in his heart.

"Then Yuan Yao should have run this way, brothers, follow me!"

As he spoke, Sun Ce directly led everyone straight to the direction of Moling County in the north and pursued the past.

Sun Ce's men and horses are all elite disciples of Jiangdong, and they have been marching and fighting in Jiangdong for several years, so they know a lot more about the terrain of Jiangdong than Yuan Yao's men and horses.

What's more, Sun Ce is only responsible for pursuit, so he can travel lightly and does not need to carry too much baggage.

And Yuan Yao and Zheng Bao brought too many military supplies, and if they were evacuated, those grains, grasses and equipment could not be completely discarded, so the speed of the march could not be fast.

This is also why Sun Ce felt that his soldiers and horses could be pursued, and when Yuan Yao and his party had not yet arrived at the next city, he wiped out Yuan Yao on the way to escape.

It's a pity that Sun Ce's men don't have any war horses, so his men and horses can't march too fast, and they chased for several hours in a row, but they didn't chase Yuan Yao's soldiers and horses.

However, Sun Ce could still use some clues on the road to determine that Yuan Yao's army was running in this direction.

"Bo Fu, I've been chasing for more than two hours, it's getting dark, and I haven't seen the enemy, are you thinking about going back?"

Sun Ben was actually reluctant to pursue, after all, the strength of the other party, he was also a little afraid, although with Sun Ce's support, but not long ago, Sun Ben understood that Yuan Yao had already fought with Sun Ce.

Moreover, Sun Ce's soldiers and horses were killed, and Sun Ce only had 2,000 remnants left, this amount of manpower, if it really matches Yuan Yao's soldiers and horses, it is really difficult to say whether the outcome will be said.

Sun Ce didn't want to continue chasing at this time, but he had to chase it.

Because he also knew when he began to pursue Yuan Yao that the vanguard army sent out by his subordinates had no news.

Outside the city, except for a part of the corpses, the rest of the people were gone.

Through some of the prisoners on the battlefield before, it can be known that that part of the soldiers and horses were captured by Yuan Yao's people.

Deng Dang, Lu Meng and others, they are all elites under Sun Ce.

All of them were taken away by Yuan Yao, and Sun Ce had a big head when he thought of it.

In order to save his subordinates, he wanted to continue the pursuit.

"No, there are still hundreds of soldiers under my command who have fallen into the hands of Yuan Yao, and we must rescue them all before they escape!"

Sun Ce was worried in his heart, and he was unwilling to retreat, so he could only continue the pursuit.

Seeing Sun Ce say this, even though he was a little reluctant, at this time, he still had to take Sun Ce as the main body, and continue to speed up his pace and pursue to the north according to Sun Ce's order.

In order to run faster along the road, they only brought their own rations for half a day.

When passing through a valley and woodland, according to Sun Ce's original character, he must have marched cautiously, and he would definitely send some scouts to the front to inquire about the news.

But this time, in order to pursue Yuan Yao, his men and horses were almost gone, and the number of spies sent out was very small.

There were only a few scouts on horseback, scouting the way in front, and by the way, exploring the direction in which Yuan Yao's army had left.

But it is also because of the small number of people, ignoring a lot of details.

The army had just arrived in the woodland when suddenly there was a commotion from both sides.

"Kill!"

A shout, followed by a large number of soldiers and horses pouring out from both sides of the woodland, first a round of arrows whizzed out.

The arrows were dense like rain, shooting towards Sun Ce's location.

"Not good, there is an ambush!"

Sun Ce was shocked, and then shouted at the people behind him.

He also hurriedly used the weapon in his hand to start resisting the random arrows.

And this roar also shocked the soldiers and horses under his command, watching the dense rain of arrows shoot out, many of the soldiers who were in front were immediately shot, and let out heart-rending cries of pain.

In the blink of an eye, the men and horses under Sun Ce's command were in a mess, and there was no sense of tightness in the march just now.

Yuan Yao and Tai Shici slowly stood up from the rear, their faces full of pride, and then shouted at the soldiers of the warrior camp around them.

"The enemy army has been tricked, soldiers, the opportunity to make a contribution has come!"