In order to save energy, Wen Chou still let the troops advance at a constant speed.

When he was only one mile away from Gan Ning's troops, he shouted, "Rush over!"

The soldiers began to speed up, spread out from the marching formation to an attacking formation, and then kept shouting.

"Kill!"

Use this to intimidate the enemy in front of you!

However, Gan Ning's 5000 men were veterans who had experienced many battles, so they did not panic at all.

Soon, Wen Chou's cavalry encountered Gan Ning, and they began to fight, and the infantry behind them rushed over.

The sound of fighting reached Ma Teng, and he immediately got on his horse with the weapon in hand, and then shouted loudly, "Come on!"

Then [-] cavalry, led by Ma Teng, began to charge out, and then went straight to Wen Chou's rear.

The speed of the cavalry on the flat ground was still very fast, but within a cup of tea, they appeared near Gan Ning.

At this time, Wen Chou's 1 people and Gan Ning's 5000 people had been killed inextricably.

Wen Chou is a fierce general in the world, but Gan Ning is not bad either. He actually resisted Wen Chou immediately. Although he looked inferior to Wen Chou, but if he didn't fight for thirty or fifty rounds, the outcome would be close.

Ma Teng is a veteran of cavalry, he took the cavalry and charged towards Wen Chou's rear, only then did Wen Chou notice it.

He secretly said: I was fooled.

"retreat!"

Wen Chou made a decisive decision. After estimating the number of enemy cavalry, he knew that it was impossible for him to destroy the enemy's camp, so he decisively ordered the withdrawal of troops.

However, his troops had long been intertwined with Gan Ning's troops, and they were inextricably intertwined. It was very difficult to completely evacuate.

Even if he issued a military order, it would be difficult for all the inferior soldiers to complete the order, but Wen Chou couldn't control it anymore. He broke out in a wave, repelled Gan Ning, then turned his horse's head and ran back immediately.

As soon as the five thousand cavalry saw that the chief general Wen Chou had run away, they immediately ran back with him and moved the flag. Some infantry also noticed it, and they immediately turned around and ran along with him.

But at this time, Gan Ning would not let them run away easily. Gan Ning caught up with a reinforcement cavalry, chopped him down with a single knife, and continued to chase and kill him.

Retreating after death and exposing the rear to the enemy is simply looking for death. Many reinforcement infantry just turned around, and before they had time to run a few steps, they were caught up by Gan Ning's troops and killed.

At this time, Wen Chou knew that many people would die if they retreated, but if it was later, more people would die. He didn't care about anything else. It would be considered good if he could bring [-] cavalry back to Yecheng. As for [-] infantry, it might be difficult Take it back to Yecheng.

Ma Teng's 1 men slammed into Wen Chou's cavalry.

Ma Teng's cavalry are Qiang and Hu hybrids. Many cavalry have lived on horseback since they were young. Their horses are also good horses from Xiliang. On Wen Chou's side, the horses are Youzhou horses, and the people are from Jizhou. Seventy percent of those who fell to the ground were their cavalry.

When Wen Chou saw the result, he knew that there was no need to fight. He clenched his long knife tightly and opened the way ahead. He didn't have the energy to deal with the cavalry who couldn't keep up.

"Quickly, send over two thousand archers to meet General Wen!" Yuan Shang shouted from the city wall.

Soon, some archers took bows and arrows to the city wall of the south gate of Yecheng, bent their bows and set arrows, and pointed outside the city.

Wen Chou rushed back to the south gate of Ye City with the remnant army, but quickly passed the suspension bridge and entered the city gate.

Ma Teng, who was chasing him, wanted to follow into Yecheng, but just as he approached, he was shot back by the archers on the city wall.

Ma Teng glanced at the hundreds of cavalrymen who had fallen on the ground, then glanced at the city wall angrily, and shouted loudly: "Retreat!"

After counting the battlefield, they found that there were about 4000 Yuan Jun corpses outside the city, and another 2000 people surrendered on the spot because they could not evacuate.

Zhang Jie finally set up the camp an hour later.

"Okay, that's really good!"

In the handsome tent, after Ma Teng told Liu Zhang the results of the battle, he was very happy.

After laughing for a while, he said, "If we kill him twice at the east and west gates of Yecheng tomorrow, I'm afraid there won't be many defenders in Yecheng."

But Fazheng stood up and said, "Master, Yuan Shang was fooled today, but I'm afraid he won't be fooled tomorrow or the day after tomorrow!"

"Isn't that better?" Liu Zhang asked back.

"It's true, we can easily set up a camp, but we should be prepared, let's arrange it like today!"

Sure enough, on the second and third day, when Liu Jun camped outside the east and west gates of Yecheng, Yecheng did not send anyone to attack. They thought it was another trap.

After the camps on three sides of Yecheng were established, 3 soldiers and horses were stationed in each. Twenty miles outside the south gate of Yecheng, there were [-] people from Liu Zhang. They are all here, and the three big camps only have food and grass for five days, which is also to prevent Yecheng from attacking at night.

The three large battalions dispatched scouts day and night to block outside the city gate, monitoring the movements of Ye City at all times, but Ye City is vast, so doing so could only prevent large troops from leaving the city, but could not stop small troops.

On the main roads around Yecheng, Liu Zhang scattered more than a thousand scouts to investigate the surrounding movements, and even ambushed guards on the necessary roads.

The three counties of Neihuang, Buqiu, and Liangqi in Wei County are the closest to Yecheng, and they were also the first to receive orders from Yecheng.

These three counties are the closest to Yecheng, and their troops have been drawn out so badly that each county only has a thousand troops.

Because, they have no excuses.

If he lost the city, he might still be able to survive, but if he didn't rescue Yecheng, he would definitely be punished by Empress Yuan Shaoqiu.

The county magistrates of the three counties each left hundreds of people to maintain the defense of the county, and then sent most of the troops to support Yecheng.

Neihuang was in the south of Yecheng, and Buqiu was in the east of Yecheng. The reinforcements sent by these two counties had just arrived at the outskirts of Yecheng when they were discovered by Liu Zhang's scouts and then ambushed.

The defeated soldiers fled back to the city, the magistrates of the two counties did not feel sad, so they also explained to Yuan Shao, they never sent troops to reinforce Yecheng, but ordered to mobilize the young and strong in the city to start defending the city.

Liang Qi was in the north of Yecheng, separated from Yecheng by the Zhangshui River. When they had just crossed the river, they were attacked halfway across the river by a Sima under Zhang Qin's subordinates, causing most of them to be killed or injured.

The first wave of rescue was easily defeated by Liu Zhang's troops.

Across the farther city of Yecheng, when they heard that the reinforcements from the three counties of Neihuang, Buqiu, and Liangqi were robbed and killed, none of them dared to come alone to reinforce Yecheng.

Before attacking the city, Liu Zhang and the others wiped out nearly ten thousand enemy troops.

After a few days, three hundred crossbows and one hundred catapults finally arrived, and these days, fifty catapults were successively produced in Liu Zhang's camp, and a large number of stones were collected.

The stones used to smash people only need to be the size of a human head, but the stones used for siege need to weigh a hundred catties, otherwise the effect will not be good.

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