Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 617 Helping Yuan Shu Lighten His Burden

As the sky darkened, the speed of Yuan Shu's breakout army became slower and slower.

In this way, if Yuan Shu continues to dawdle, it will still be a problem whether he can reach Quyang County tomorrow morning. If he had known this, there would be no need for Zhu Wei and Cao Cao to set up an ambush in Quyang County. Yuan Shu.

With the combat power displayed by Yuan Shu's army now, it should be easy to surround and kill Yuan Shu.

It's a pity that Zhu Wei and Cao Cao's main forces are now in ambush in Quyang County. Zhu Wei only has more than [-] Qingqi and Zhang Xiu's Liangqi Battalion, while Cao Cao actually only has more than [-] troops chasing Yuan Shu.

Therefore, if Zhu Wei and Cao Cao wanted to do something against Yuan Shu, they would have insufficient troops. Although it seemed that Zhu Wei and Cao Cao could easily break through the blocking soldiers left by Yuan Shu, that was also because Yuan Shu did not fight back with all his strength.

Every time he deploys [-] or [-] troops to block the attacking army of Zhu Wei and Cao Cao, it is equivalent to cutting a piece of meat from himself every time and feeding it to Zhu Wei and Cao Cao for nothing. It is really an idiot. move.

If he made up his mind and simply sent [-] troops to stand in front of Zhu Wei and Cao Cao's pursuing army, he could instead stop Zhu Wei and Cao Cao's pursuit, break through the blocking of the [-] army, and break through the blocking of the two or three thousand troops. is a completely different concept.

In fact, Yuan Shu still has nearly [-] troops, but Zhu Wei's more than [-] light cavalry are guerrilla troops, and they are not good at fighting the enemy. As for Cao Cao, he also has no plans to fight Yuan Shu here, so it is better We need to find a way to drive Yuan Shu to the ambush in Quyang County.

After discussing with Cao Cao, Zhu Wei decided to reduce Yuan Shu's burden and increase his escape speed.

So according to the agreement between Zhu Wei and Cao Cao, the two sent a surprise army to break through Yuan Shu's blocking army and kill to the middle and rear of Yuan Shu's breakout army, stimulating Yuan Shu so that Yuan Shu could speed up his escape.

Zhu Wei found Zhang Xiu and asked Zhang Xiu to take the Liangqi battalion to make a surprise attack. After Zhang Xiu took the order, he took his 2000 Xiliang cavalry and more than [-] Hu soldiers to attack Yuan Shu's army. The direction killed the past.

Zhang Xiu's 2000 Xiliang cavalry were basically heavy cavalry, and more than [-] Hu soldiers also provided horses from Zhu Wei's side, and they became light cavalry with swords and shields, which was very suitable for raiding Yuan Shu's army.

After all, a surprise attack on the enemy must have sufficient defensive power. If this point is handed over to the light cavalry led by Mulan and Teng Yuyan, it will be to attack the enemy's strengths with their own weaknesses, so now Zhu Wei can only arrange Zhang Wei embroidery to do this.

Of course, Zhang Xiu wasn't worried that Zhu Wei was asking him to die. He also knew that Yuan Shu was already a dog that fell into the rocks, and he was just going to pluck a dog's hair this time.

So soon Zhang Xiu's army, with the assistance of more than ten thousand light cavalry led by Mu Lan and Teng Yuyan, defeated a Yuan Shu blocking army of about 3000, and then went to the center of Yuan Shu's breakout army before Yuan Shu's army could react. Kill where the rear is.

Guarded by 4000 armored Xiliang cavalry from Liangqi Battalion, Zhang Xiu was also wearing Liangqi heavy armor, holding a lance and entered the middle and rear of Yuan Shu's breakout army.

Then the [-] cavalry led by Zhang Xiu, like sharp knives pierced into butter, charged towards the front center of Yuan Hou's army without any difficulty.

However, Yuan Shu's army mainly protected the central army area where Yuan Shu was located. Therefore, the more than ten thousand Yuan Shu soldiers left behind by the rear army could not resist Zhang Xiu's cavalry raid at all and dispersed. And escaped.

This time, the area where Yuan Shu's rear army was located was completely chaotic, especially the area where Yuan Shu's officials and family members were located, the whole scene could be regarded as a chaotic mess.

Fortunately, Zhu Wei had also told Zhang Xiu before not to massacre the family members of these officials and officials of Yuan Shu too much, but to just stop them, so there was no bloodshed and massacre scene.

However, under the surprise attack of the cavalry commanded by Zhang Xiu, Yuan Shu also had to abandon the subordinate officials and family members who slowed down the marching speed. At the same time, he was afraid that his Chinese army would also be caught up, so he finally sped up his escape speed.

At the same time, under the persuasion of Yuan Shu's counselor Yang Hong, Yuan Shu also left several carts of copper coins on purpose, hoping that Zhu Wei and Cao Cao's army who came after him would fight among themselves for money.

Of course, because Yuan Shu's breakthrough team was very large, a big situation was also laid out on the road leading to Quyang County. Now Zhang Xiu's side can only be regarded as intercepting a part of Yuan Shu's family members.

Of course, at this time, not only Zhu Wei sent Zhang Xiu to make some moves, Cao Cao also seemed to send a force of four to five thousand cavalry and infantry, and also raided into the middle and rear of Yuan Shu's army. The area, like a hunting dog, gnawed down a piece of Yuan Shu's army, and probably captured some family members of Yuan Shu's officials.

Afterwards, Zhang Xiu asked Hu Che'er under his command to continue to lead [-] barbarian saber cavalry to hunt down the remnants of Yuan Shu's army, while he stayed to guard the captured Yuan Shu's family members, waiting for Zhu Wei to come up to make arrangements.

There are at least 4000 to [-] family members of Yuan Shu's officials captured by Zhang Xiu here. Of course, apart from some of them are the immediate family members of those officials, many of them are from the side clans and servants.

In fact, the family members of an ordinary official here may have tens or hundreds of people. If the family belongs to the gentry family, there will be at least a few hundred people. These families also bring a lot of wealth, so they naturally need servants To drive the carriages carrying people, servants are needed to push the carts loaded with money.

Therefore, if the family members of Yuan Shu's officials, big and small, were added up, the number of people would be quite a lot, and there would also be a lot of cars, big and small.

And Zhang Xiu had a military order from Zhu Wei's side, and he also deliberately searched for some of the large-scale officials' family members as targets and captured them, in order not to be snatched by Cao Cao's army, and also to prevent his Xiliang soldiers from plundering When there was trouble, Zhang Xiucai deliberately stayed to take care of her.

In this way, when Zhu Wei came to this area with 4000 Baiyu battalion guards, he saw a large number of prisoners guarded by more than [-] Xiliang cavalry.

Seeing Zhu Wei coming, Zhang Xiu came up and reported something to Zhu Wei, saying that among the family members of Yuan Shu officials captured by him seemed to be the family of Yuan Shu's general Qiao Rui, including Qiao Rui's father and two daughters.

Just now, it was probably because Zhang Xiu’s Xiliang cavalry and Huren Qingqi would plunder their family wealth. Qiao Rui’s old father, Grandpa Qiao, took the initiative to ask Zhang Xiu to dedicate his two beautiful granddaughters to Zhu Wei, so that Zhang Xiu kept their family safe.

When Zhang Xiu heard this, she also went to see Qiao Rui's two daughters. They were both about fifteen or six years old, and they were really beautiful beauties...

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