Chapter 668: Restoring Hanoi and Shangdang
"Yuan Shao has been defeated and fled! Chase Yuan Shao!"
"General Zhang Fei and Ma Chao have blocked Yuan Shao in the wild king! All Yuan troops west of the wild king will be surrounded and annihilated! Those who surrender will avoid death!"
"Ju Su had known that he was going to be defeated and abandoned his army and fled!"
"General Que Yi has abandoned the darkness and turned to the light!"
As the general attack unfolded, Wang Ping's more than 2,000 arson squads and tens of thousands of Guan Yu's army at the Shimenxing Pass echoed each other, killing the Yuan army camp, which was originally the governor of Ju, on this night.
Guan Yu personally led the troops to rush, but he himself did not expect that the final attack would be so straightforward and unstoppable.
There were not many cavalrymen on Guan Yu's side, because they were blocked in the Qinshui River Valley in Shimen Xing, and they were mainly mountain warfare, and the cavalry could not be exerted here. So as early as when he surrounded Zhang Liao, the main cavalry forces were allocated to Xu Huang.
When Yuan Shao's main force began to retreat, Xu Huang slowly came from the north to meet, and Guan Yu's men had these thousands of heavy cavalry that could be killed in a system.
The morale of Yuan's army's troops with the cut-off rear was so low that they were so chaotic that Guan Yu was even a little unfair.
Guan Yu's troops rushed to kill while asking the soldiers to shout and disturb the morale of the enemy's army. These shouts were originally just a hit with dates or no dates. They didn't shout or not, and some of the content was contradictory.
But the Yuan army on the opposite side almost accepted everything. Some people believed that rows of soldiers from rows of soldiers surrendered decisively after being divided and surrounded.
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Two hours later, the county government in Qinshui County was temporarily cleaned up and temporarily served as the residence of Guan Yu, Zhuge Liang and others.
All the troops that Ju Su stayed in Qinshui County to block the entrance have been shattered, and the troops that were established have been annihilated. Only the scattered soldiers ran everywhere and have not been cleaned up.
The Tuoyi tribe in Jiguanxing was blocked further west, but the main reason was that the distance was relatively long.
After Qinshui was taken down, as long as Guan Yu's troops continued to go south and penetrated to the bank of the Yellow River west of Wen County, Kuo Yi would become a turtle in a jar, and all retreat routes were cut off, which would be completed sooner or later.
Ju Su and Xin Pi were unable to arrive at Guo Tu to meet Guo Tu, but were captured in the chaos.
At first, Ju Su wanted to escape and break through desperately, but he was caught by Guan Yu's small search cavalry troops and did not surrender. After Guan Yu's cavalry was angered, he almost shot all Ju Su's people around and shot.
However, because Ju Su was defeated and fled in this life, Xinpi was surrounded by him, and Xinpi was afraid of death and immediately shouted loudly: "Don't shoot arrows! This is Ju Lingjun! I can change the Qianhu Hou to Guan Yu when I am alive!"
Ju Su was so embarrassed that he could not afford to lose this person. He wanted to be heroic, but he had no choice but to not kill him.
When the Guanyu army cavalry heard that there was a chance to reward a thousand-human marquis here, they would not shoot arrows. The patrolling Hou Qu Jun personally took his personal soldiers to tie Ju Su and Xinpi.
Then, Guan Yu and Zhuge Liang had just summarized the results and analyzed the situation in Qinshui County Government, and Ju Su and others were sent.
Ju Su was bumpy on the road for half an hour, and he had no temper anymore, and he felt as if he was so sad that he didn't say a word.
When Guan Yu saw Ju Su, he knew him and personally ordered him to loosen his ties: "Sir, don't be fine. Guan still remembers that eleven and a half years ago, you brought His Majesty and Yideboya to Beijing.
If you are loyal to the Yuan family, you will be considered to be the end of your kindness. If Yuan Shao used your plan, he would not be defeated so badly - I heard that he wanted to completely deprive you of his authority in the end. It would be better to surrender.
I dare not say that with your status in Guandong and your old friend, as long as you sincerely surrender and try your best to persuade Yuan Shao to surrender to other prefectures and counties, it is still OK to give you a servant."
When Guan Yu was painting the cake, he was still a little bigger. In fact, if Ju Su did not make a great contribution after surrendering, he just helped persuade some other resistance, then at most he would be Jiuqing. This is due to the friendship and consistent qualifications between Ju Su and Liu Bei.
However, Ju Su directly sneered and dejectedly expressed his rejection, looking discouraged.
Guan Yu was a little angry and was about to attack, Xinpi jumped out and stopped him: "General Guan calmed down. Duke Ju was not the one who sold his former master to seek promotion. If the general really respected Duke Ju, please temporarily announce to the public that Duke Ju and his subordinates have died in their country, so as to avoid Yuan Shao's crime and our family.
My brother is still in Yuanying and will return to Yecheng soon. If he can rescue Ju Gong's family at that time, I will help the general persuade Ju Gong to surrender sincerely."
Xin Pi also took into account the face of both sides and explained that Ju Su's refusal to surrender for the moment was afraid that his family would be punished. Guan Yu calmed down for a while and did not make things difficult for the other party. He realized that even if the pawn was ambushed for a while, it would still be valuable in the future.
Ju Su was shocked, looked at Xin Pi dumbfoundedly, and pointed at him tremblingly: "Xin Pi! You have such an idea? You are even prepared for these things? Your lord asked you to send an order, hahahaha, it's really ironic! Alas, God doesn't bless Yuan!"
Ju Su Chang was taken back with a sigh and placed under house arrest in a room, but he was not tied up again. Someone also brought him food, water and clean clothes.
He couldn't sleep at all, so he opened his eyes and watched the roof spend half a sleepless night. The next day after dawn, it was about 10 o'clock.
He was just a little sleepy, but he heard the movement outside, as if a large number of Yuan Jun were defeated and incorporated, and a large number of prisoners of war came. Ju Su was energetic and wanted to go out and watch.
Unexpectedly, when he saw Tuo Yi wearing armor, he looked discouraged and said that he had just been attacked by Guan Yu and had been surrounded and cut off his back.
Zhuge Liang also sent someone to show him a lot of evidence that Yuan Shao was suspicious of him, and others reported his frame-up to Ju Su and Xin Pi, etc. So Tuo Yi only lasted more than Ju Su and surrendered this morning.
The distance from Zhuguanxing to Qinshui County is not far, and it is slightly closer than that from Qinshui County to Yewang County. When Kuo Yi gave up his resistance, he surrendered directly just when he met Guan Yu's vanguard cavalry, which was indeed faster.
Ju Su was completely speechless and continued his life as a temporary prisoner.
The Yuan army, with a total of about 20,000 people in Shimen Xing and Zhuguan Xing, was either defeated or surrendered in an established manner.
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Guan Yu and Zhuge Liang were busy chasing him and chasing him, so they really had no time to persuade him to surrender.
Because Ju Su had not been blocked enough, the days were over, so when Guan Yu's troops followed the Qinshui downstream and chased him downstream, Yuan Shao had not arrived in Huai County yet.
The reason why Yuan Shao walked slowly was because there were too many people and there were not enough boats, so everyone could not take a boat to retreat along Qinshui and then turn into the Yellow River. More than half of the soldiers had to walk along the river on their legs to retreat.
But Guan Yu realized that the enemy had become a frightened bird, so he was not afraid of being defeated by the enemy by division of troops. He divided the army into two parts, and the cavalry and infantry with ships took the lead and chased along Qinshui at the fastest speed. Soldiers who were not enough ships would slowly march and pursue them normally.
Fortunately, Yuan Shao was a little wary. He did not let the 90,000 people around him go together, but instead assigned a certain number of troops to stay behind to guard him. This prevented the entire army from being caught up by Guan Yu and falling into chaos.
However, it is inevitable that these guarded troops will be severely damaged or even eliminated by Guan Yu.
On the ninth day of the ninth month, Guan Yu's troops and Yuan Shao's rear army had the "third battle of the Yewang County defenders. The Yewang County defenders were severely injured, and sooner or later they were faced with annihilation.
On the tenth day of September, Guan Yu chased Huai County. At this time, even Ma Chao, who received the latest news, brought thousands of vanguard cavalry troops to travel on the road, rushed over from the north Danshui, and rushed into the battlefield. The thousands of people who stayed in Huai County who were delaying their time were wiped out again.
Guan Yu and Ma Chao advanced very quickly. At this point, the Yuan army knew that Ju Su and Qu Yi had been completely wiped out. The two of them "sacrificed their country" and the defenders of the wild king Huai County were also destroyed. Everyone had completely lost their morale and dared not have any resistance and delay, but they just fled without their lives.
Wenxian, Pinggao, Shanyang, and Wude are all determined by the mattress.
Ma Chao led thousands of cavalry to chase along the north bank of Qinshui, and chased Qinshui downstream of Huai County and merged into the mouth of the Yellow River. Finally, he chased Yuan Shao's troops.
At that time, Guan Yu's main force did not come, and Guan Yu only brought thousands of cavalry with Ma Chao, with the infantry behind him.
Ma Chao is on the north bank of Qinshui River and Guan Yu is on the south bank. The total number of cavalry is less than 8,000.
Yuan Shao's army's 90,000 troops were wiped out several thousand people in pieces several times before, but now only 80,000 people are left. But 80,000 people dare not turn around and fight back against the 8,000 cavalry, and they continue to be chased away, and some of the troops are even dispersed.
However, the total number of troops that Guan Yu and Ma Chao could reach the battlefield was really small, so even if the Yuan army was dispersed, they were unable to encircle and annihilate. In the end, Ma Chao rushed to the Qinshui River and shot arrows at Yuan Shao's own fleet in the river.
The Qinshui River is not big, so the boats in the river are not big. The biggest one is the mob, and there are no fighting ships or building ships. Yuan Shao’s own boat was just a mob, but he was treated like “snatching the ship and avoiding arrows from Qinshui”.
Zhang He personally raised a saddle to add a layer of insurance to Yuan Shao, blocking Yuan Shao's face, and also clamping his legs with the rudder to control the direction.
Even so, Zhang He was not a professional bodyguard at Zhao Yun and Xu Chu level after all, which led to Yuan Shao being shot by a haunted arrow. Fortunately, he was wearing iron armor and was only slightly injured in his flesh.
For Yuan Shao, his greater pain probably came from the fact that his lifelong arrogance was destroyed, the destruction of his self-esteem, and he actually ended up like this.
Just after being shot, Yuan Shao seemed to have become more depressed and unable to recover.
In the end, only a group of strategists represented by Xu You, as well as Zhang He, Gao Lan and others, accompanied him to escape back to Yecheng.
This protracted battle that started last winter, at its peak, Yuan Shao claimed to have used 300,000 people to attack Liu Bei, but only 30,000 left Lu Bu's side. His own direct troops fled back 80,000, including the soldiers who were disbanded by Guan Yu and Ma Chao's final stage of pursuit and still insisted on escaping back to surrender Yuan.
But no matter how you calculate it, the total remaining force is only 110,000. This means that the total annihilated troops reached 190,000, including the surrenders, captives, and 30,000 people in various places, fleeing and returning to farmers as hidden households, and 90,000 died (including death from epidemics).
The 190,000 army was destroyed, and Yuan Shao's ambition was also destroyed.
Yuan Shao's territory in Hebei also shrank to Jixian Hehui County (Xinxiang and Weihui), which is the last narrow mouth between the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain and the Yellow River.
To the west of the Taihang Mountains and to the north of the Yellow River, all the others were lost except for Taiyuan County controlled by Lu Bu in the north.
Although Zhang Fei failed to catch up with the pursuit of Yuan Shao's main force, he also took advantage of the fact that after the horse surpassed the territory, he also took over the territory behind Ma Chao to consolidate the area. Before Yuan Shao returned to Yecheng, he occupied the entire Shangdang County.
Chapter completed!