Surrounded by his own soldiers, Liu Bei rushed left and right in Hepu City. Looking around, it seemed that the streets were full of Liang army cavalry running fast, as well as Liang army infantry holding shields and simplified military formations, slowly advancing along the street. The whole city was filled with weapons, people shouting, and horses neighing.

The sound of war horses thrusts came from the front of Liu Bei, and several tall Liang army heavy cavalry were galloping towards Liu Bei. Liu Bei turned his horse's head and fled to the side street. The dozen personal infantry and cavalry beside him mustered up the courage to greet the other party and come to cut off the rear for him.

The two cavalry who rushed to the front, and with a knife on the left, they slashed the opponent's shoulder. If they were ordinary armor, they would have to remove an arm. But the opponent was Liang's heavy cavalry, wearing excellent iron armor. The sword cut through a crack of the shoulder armor and its strength was exhausted. Before Liu Bei's personal soldiers could withdraw their swords, their heads were smashed by the opponent's wolf-toothed stick and fell off the horse. The man on the right directly collided with the opponent's war horse. His war cavalry, which was much shorter than the opponent, immediately turned over to the ground. Before he could get up, he was kicked into the head by another Liang army heavy cavalry who rushed towards him.

These Liu Bei's personal cavalry who intercepted the Liang army were soon removed by the Liang army. The heavy cavalry continued to chase Liu Bei. Swhoo... two consecutive sounds, Liu Bei's war cavalry had collapsed to the ground, which also made Liu Bei fall and eat shit, and one of his front teeth was knocked off. The Liang army's long archer, who was hiding in some corner, secretly sniped Liu Bei.

As soon as Liu Bei got up, he heard a few screams behind him. The last few personal soldiers who were staying beside him were either sniped by bows and arrows, or killed by more than a dozen Liang army guns and shield soldiers who were chasing him. Several iron armored heavy cavalry were also coming behind the guns and shield soldiers.

Even though Liu Bei claimed that Mount Tai collapsed in front and his expression remained unchanged, and the tiger was not shocked when it came back and was now pale and full of despair. He pulled out his two swords and decided to be the last fight in the world. At this critical moment, a voice burst into tears in Liu Bei's ear: "Brother, get on the horse quickly!" Liu Bei looked up and saw Zhang Fei, who was wearing a bandage and shirtless, rushing to the front, and there was a war horse with a saddle behind him.

Without saying a word, Liu Bei turned over and jumped onto the mount prepared for him by Zhang Fei and headed towards the only North Gate that was not blocked by Liang's army. The personal infantry and cavalry behind Zhang Fei were facing Liang's army...

At sunset, the Liang army had completely controlled Hepu City. Liu Bei and Zhang Fei also fled into Huang Zhong's camp. They continued to collect the defeated troops in Linjiang who had escaped from Hepu City. After counting, they found that more than half of all the troops had been lost. More importantly, the food and grass stockpiled in Hepu City were "left" to the Liang army.

The dejected Liu Bei and Zhang Fei and Huang Zhong discussed the advance and retreat.

At the moment, the Linjiang Army suffered heavy losses and lost most of its food and grass and strong cities. It was extremely difficult to send people from the few people to transport food and grass here.

Besides, it is not easy for these people to defend the camp, so it is undoubtedly a dream to expel Liang's army from Hepu. Liu Bei quickly made a decision to withdraw from Hepu in full.

At dawn on the second day, when the Liang army light cavalry, who had a tentative attack, rushed into the Linjiang army camp, the camp was empty. They left in a hurry, and the camp tents were not collected and taken away, and they were not even burned.

Dian Wei said to Gan Ning: "Brother, it seems that Liu Bei has been retreating for a while. Should we divide our troops to pursue him? If we can capture him, it will be a great contribution."

Gan Ning was also moved after listening to Dian Wei's suggestion, but finally shook his head and said, "There will be more than four or five hundred miles north to the north. Liu Bei occupied this county for some time, but I don't know how many troops he deployed in it. Moreover, Liu Bei's heroic army was the only one who pursued him in depth. The key is that our troops were too few and we had to complete the task of occupying the three counties of Jiaozhi. The remaining troops were not enough."

Dian Wei nodded convincingly and said, "In this way, Xingba, then we will act according to the previous plan. Sweep across the three counties of Jiaozhi, Rinan, and Jiuzhen."

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In the autumn of the second year of Xiuwu, the Dianwei Army stationed in Hepu, and the Ganning Army returned to Jiaozhi, and joined the Meng Huo Army, who was left in Jiaozhi. In just three days, it captured the important city of Longbian City.

Then, with the cooperation of Lin Tao's fleet, thousands of battle elephants and four thousand infantry cavalry exited from the mouth of the Pushui River, along the coast, the waters advanced side by side, sweeping across the two counties of Jiuzhen and Rinan. In fact, only a few battles were born, and most of the defenders descended in a glance. By the late winter of the second year of Xiuwu, the scouts and warships of Liang appeared on the border and coastline of Linyi respectively.

The King of Linyi personally led his army, carrying sheep and wine to reward the Liang army, and made a gesture of surrendering to the Liang State. Before this, Linyi State had little contact with Liang State. Therefore, this battle not only allowed Liang State to capture most of the territory of the former Nanyue State, but also subdued all the foreign countries on the six lands between the West and the South China Sea to foreign states. The Maritime Silk Road Traffic was controlled almost all of the Liang State's hands, and there was no worry of being cut off from the harassment.

On the eve of the Spring Festival in the third year of Xiuwu, Gan Ning and Dian Wei returned triumphantly. Feng Yu personally took his ministers to accompany the capital Zhuyang to greet them.

After greetings between the king and his ministers, Gan Ning suddenly thought of Taishi Ci again and asked Feng Yu: "Your Majesty, I wonder what happened to Taishi Ci that we captured on the Hepu battlefield half a year ago? Did this stubborn guy surrender?"

Feng Yu smiled without saying a word, and a voice sounded behind Gan Ning: "I didn't expect General Gan Ning was still thinking about someone so much." He looked back and saw that it was Taishi Ci. Gan Ning grinned and said, "Brother, are you still offering sacrifices to me? How did you figure it out?"

Taishici seemed embarrassed to tell the past, lowered his hands and said silently. Feng Yu laughed from the side, "This matter is a long story, so it is not convenient to talk about it in detail here. Our monarch and ministers slowly chatted at the banquet."

After talking, the ministers had entered the hall and each had seated. The palace maids and eunuchs served dishes and wine, and then a banquet was held. Gan Ning and Dian Wei learned about the incident of the Liang army's life in the Nanyang area of ​​Zhuyang during the period when the Liang army conquered the three counties of Jiaozhi...

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In the Nanyang area, since the Wei army Xu Huang, Zhang He and Xu You tried to attack Dankouwu Fort and Zhuyang, they focused on reclaiming Nanyang. Cao Cao, who received the report from Xu Huang, recalled Xu Huang and Xu You, leaving only Zhang He and more than 10,000 troops to stay in Nanyang.

Before Xu Huang left, Zhang He asked him to write to Cao Cao on his behalf, asking Cao Cao to continue to import population to Nanyang to settle down. Zhang He's original words were that Nanyang was fertile and a flat horse. On such a terrain, it was easy to attack and difficult to defend, and it was thousands of miles away from the hinterland of Wei. If a large number of people could be implanted, it would not only consolidate the city defense of each city, but also replenish food and grass nearby when attacking Liang Kingdom in the future, and there would be no need to transport grain thousands of miles away.

Cao Cao, who received the report from Zhang He, highly praised Zhang He's strategy of military farming and gathering troops. He immediately issued an imperial edict, ordering officials from Yan and Henan to recruit refugees and provide them with reclaiming materials.
Chapter completed!