The rumors in Yuzhou are a little exaggerated.
Cao Chun did not die like a spreading rumor, but decisively abandoned his baggage and ran all the way.
Humans' talent in retreat may have been full in ancient times. Few other races can have balanced abilities like humans. Those who run faster than humans, and those who run longer than humans can run faster. Those who move forward like the wind are not only the elite of Cao's army, and many ordinary soldiers can also grit their teeth and keep up.
However, during the entire escape process, Cao Chun's entire queue was indeed shrinking. In addition to the soldiers who fell behind halfway, there were also some Hu cavalry who had originally attached to Cao Chun, who were basically inexplicably left behind and disappeared.
The weapons and armor that Cao Chun sent to them disappeared along with these Hu cavalry...
From the perspective of God, or from the perspective of Zhuge and the reincarnation of Zhou Yu, Cao Chun should not have fought such a battle.
For Cao Chun, his only idea was to fight for a glimmer of possibility, a glimmer of hope, even this glimmer of hope seemed so slim.
Although Cao Chun stayed to block the soldiers to buy Cao Chun some time and allowed Cao Chun to escape the most dangerous range, the morale of the Cao army was disintegrated at this time and did not have the ability to ambush Zhao Yun in reverse. Moreover, many times, once the army began to escape, it was difficult to control, even in the later era of hot weapons, this was still the case.
After Zhao Yun joined Zhang He, he also began to pursue Cao's army.
Sulimo Huba and others took it for granted to Zhao Yun's horse and expressed their surrender.
The situation in the Northern Desert created by Cao Chun spent almost no effort to reverse it, and rebuilt the customs defense arrangement to ensure control of the Northern Desert Protection Office in the Northern Desert.
Of course it is just a temporary verbal surrender and agreement...
Zhao Yun's army was full of momentum, and many Hu cavalry who defected to Zhao Yun also began to bite him with the power of the tiger.
Cao Chun had to take the core elite of Cao's army to fight in person, kill a retaliation, defeat the most fierce Hu cavalry, which was the most fierce, and restored some of the morale of Cao's army, but it was still difficult to compete with Zhao Yun.
Until this time, Cao Chun still did not give up his "hope"...
Because in Cao Chun's plan, some of them were defeated battle plans and chain plans... Well, of course, these thirty-six strategies obviously appeared after the Han Dynasty, but it did not prevent Cao Chun from having similar ideas.
Compared to Mobei, Youbei is Cao Chun's home court.
With Jizhou backed, the supply was sufficient, and the roles of both sides could be changed. Cao's army became the defensive side, while Zhao Yun became the attacking side.
Yanshan will become the most obvious and least obvious trap.
Cao Chun hopes to set up an ambush in the Yanshan area, use the power of Yuyang and surrounding cities to invade part of Zhao Yun's troops, and revitalize the morale and fighting spirit of the Cao army. On the one hand, Zhao Yun's army, who came from afar, should be careful about the problem of the lengthened food line of the front line, and on the other hand, should be careful about the Cao army's division of troops to attack Changshan New City through Taihang Mountain. Cao Chun will not fight head-on with Zhao Yun, but will rely on the tough city to compete with Zhao Yun, constantly strengthen defense and consume Zhao Yun's troops, and then continue to attack with cavalry, eventually forcing Zhao Yun to retreat.
Especially in the current climate, no one can guarantee when a heavy snow will suddenly occur, and Cao's army, which is covered by Yuyang City, obviously has the advantage of the weather and place...
But what Cao Chun never expected was that when he was about to contact Yuyang, he received news that almost caused him to collapse. Yu Zhuzuo actually led his men to attack Yuyang!
How is this possible?!
How dare this guy?!
The guys Yu Zhuge robbed wildly in Yanshan, causing the defense of the fortifications originally prepared for Zhao Yun to be shown...
This is really a saying that the orange-heat wheat peel is choked in my throat.
Cao Chun dared not delay, so he could only immediately give up the plan to defend the north side of Yanshan and retreat quickly.
The Hu cavalry who followed Zhao Yun were now full of courage. They were almost equal to the armorless light cavalry. In addition, the Beimo war horses were hard-working and extremely endurance, so they could almost never sleep with Cao's butt, but they were afraid that the Cao army would deal with them like they would do Poshihe. Therefore, the Hu people were often like a group of flies. As long as they were sure that the fly swatter could not hit them, they would pounce over and divide up anything they like, whether it was a piece of cloth or a bag of salt.
Cao Chun knew the severity of the situation and did not dare to hand over the task of posting to others. He personally led the defender to control the speed of the entire army and prevented the defender from being bitten off one by one. Even so, the Cao army continued to lose money under the continuous attack of the pursuers. They gave up more and more supplies, and the few remaining supplies were discarded again. When they finally persisted in passing Yanshan, Cao army had only less than five days of food ration left.
Yu Zhuge's troops who stayed at Gubeikou dispersed when they saw Cao's army coming.
Cao Chun regained Gubeikou, but he did not flee to Yuyang immediately, but set up arranging at Gubeikou...
The next morning, when the sky was getting dark, Jiankun Poshihe and his men came first to chase him, but when Poshihe arrived at Gubeikou and was ready to attack, he encountered some trouble.
There was fog in the mountain pass.
A large white mist covered the ancient north entrance of Yanshan Mountain, with visibility less than one meter.
Poshihe was ready for the attack, but the rhythm was disrupted by the heavy fog.
Everyone knew that the retreating army was the fattest meat, but the heavy fog came at a very bad time.
"Sir, the fog is too strong, and Cao's soldiers cannot march after this weather... Why don't we wait a moment?" Poshihe's men said that the fog was too big, and they couldn't see Cao's army when they entered the mountain, so it's better to wait a moment.
"No...can't wait!" Jian Kunpo Shihe Deer Antlers vetoed his subordinates' suggestions with a calm face, "When escaping, how can you care about whether there is any fog?"
But attacking in such weather is a severe test for any army. Even a small accident may cause the overall defeat of an army.
When the scout's reward said that when he saw Cao's army escape, Poshihe couldn't help it. He didn't want to miss the opportunity to chase him. Greed made him exert a strong sense of luck on himself. Perhaps the heavy fog would be beneficial to him. After all, he couldn't see, and Cao's army could not see where he appeared, right?
The sound of the horn sounded in the mist, stirring the dull white mist with all its strength.
The lack of vision made the people entering the Poshi River involuntarily cautious. They all tried to lighten their steps, and the friction sounds made by their armor seemed to be amplified in the thick fog.
Jiankun's soldiers nervously held the weapons in their hands, and in the heavy fog, the bodies were soon covered with frost and their hands and feet became a little stiff.
Seeing this, Poshihe was about to let his subordinates rest for a while, but when he saw something shaking in the thick fog, he was shocked and shouted loudly, which also caused the surrounding soldiers to be nervous. As a result, he found that only a few pine trees were swaying...
Everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, but before they could vomit, they heard Cao's army shouting and launching an attack from both sides!
The soldiers of Cao's army screamed in the thick fog and rushed up to fight without fear. Various weapons stirred the thick white fog, and then quickly dyed the white fog into pink or bright red colors.
Fighting in the heavy fog, no one knew the number of opponents, and a small-scale ambush battle began.
Poshihe and others had some psychological advantages at first. After all, they were the chasing parties, and Cao's army was the escapee. However, in the thick fog, the two sides became melee, and there were chaotic figures at the battle and there was no formation.
The soldiers on both sides attacked the enemies around them with instinct, but in this case, the psychological advantages of Jiankun's soldiers were no longer obvious, while the training and equipment of Cao's army in hand-to-hand combat gradually gained the upper hand.
Although Poshihe also obtained some armor and equipment from the Changshan Army, it was still much worse than Cao Army. The shooting that the nomadic cavalry was good at was almost completely invalid under the thick fog. Even if the Jiankun soldiers in the rear wanted to support, they could not find the target and could not see who was the enemy and who was the friendly army.
Cao Chun, wearing heavy armor, personally led his people to snipe Poshi River in the Gubeikou Mountain Road.
This time the blocking and attack were very resolute, and Cao Chun sent his own elite troops. These Cao Chun's elite soldiers had stronger will and better equipment than ordinary Cao's soldiers, especially Cao Chun himself, who was very fierce, as if he wanted to vent all the depression of his previous defeat on the Jiankun people.
The Jiankun cavalry tried to resist, but Cao Chun quickly put on eighteen postures.
So the Jiankun cavalry could not bear the humiliation and withdrew from Gubeikou with curses.
Cao's army successfully repelled the Jiankun cavalry who had been marching all the way, and both sides suffered casualties, but overall, the soldiers in Jiankunpo Shihe suffered greater losses.
The Jiankun cavalry had to stop and watched Cao Chun's bleeding butt get farther and farther away. He didn't dare to continue chasing him until Zhao Yun's large army came up, and he found Zhao Yun and cried, but Cao Chun had already gained some breathing space...
Cao's army, who marched into the Beimo a month ago, has now returned to Youbei in a dilemma. The two sides seem to have returned to the situation before the battle, and the strength comparison has changed a lot.
Cao's army almost shrank half, especially the control of Beimo was almost completely lost. As Suli and others completely turned to Zhao Yun's side, Cao's army's influence on Liaodong and its reputation in more remote areas almost dropped to the lowest point.
Although Zhao Yun also suffered losses in this regard, he was basically within an acceptable range. The highest loss rate was not the Zhao Yun Changshan Army who fought against Cao Chun, but Zhang He who was a side army...
Since Emperor Wu of Han, the combat power of the nomadic peoples in the northern desert has basically been crushed. Even if they occasionally get an erection, they will soon die out. The Xianbei had the opportunity to inherit the throne of the Huns, but they were not lucky, or the wars during the Huns also emptied the weak foundation of the desert, making most nomadic people in the desert unwilling to fall into a war that lasted for decades or even hundreds of years.
Chapter completed!