After Zhang Liao captured Donghai County in one fell swoop, he immediately stationed Donghai County with a unit. He himself led the main force out of Donghai County to move south, setting up an ambush at Qingsongling, which was more than 30 exceptions in the city, preparing to ambush Cao Cao's army that returned to the rescue.

However, Zhang Liao waited in Qingsongling for a whole day but did not wait for Cao Cao's army. He couldn't help but feel something was wrong.

At this moment, Ma Chao's messenger hurried to report to Zhang Liao: "Report to General Zhang, Cao Cao led his army across Shushui not long ago and went south!"

Zhang Liao was surprised and asked anxiously: "Did General Ma Chao intercept Cao Cao?"

"Report to General Zhang, we were caught in Cao Cao's trick of attacking the west and thinking that Cao Cao's main army crossed the river in the east, so we rushed to the east to block Cao's army. Who would have thought that Cao Cao's main force crossed the shallows from the west at this time and crossed the Shushui River!

When our army reacted, the enemy had already crossed the river. When the villain came to report to General Zhang, General Ma Chao was leading the army to pursue Cao Cao, and ordered the villain to come and ask the general to lead the army to join him quickly so as to encircle and annihilate the Cao army in one fell swoop!"

Zhang Liao nodded, immediately sent an order, and set off the entire army to go south at full speed.

The army headed south and soon arrived at Shushui, crossing Shushui from the shallows where Cao's army crossed the river before, rushed south.

At sunset, the army arrived at a place called Yehu Ridge and heard only the sound of killing sounds in front of them.

Zhang Liao immediately ordered the entire army to stop advancing and gather quickly, and at the same time sent scouts to inquire about the situation.

Not long after, the scout reported: "Report to General Ma Chao, General Ma Chao encountered a hiding in Yehu Ridge, and the two sides are fighting fiercely!"

Zhang Liao immediately ordered the cavalry to stand on time, and then personally led the infantry to rush to Yehuling.

When I arrived in front of Yehu Ridge, under the afterglow of the setting sun, I saw the entire Yehu Ridge full of figures. The huge killing sound was earth-shaking. I couldn't tell who was the officers and soldiers of our side and who were the officers and soldiers of the Cao army!

Zhang Liao immediately ordered someone to shoot a sound arrow. The messenger next to him immediately bent his bow and shot the sound arrow into the sky. The sharp sound rose into the sky, and it was still very harsh on this chaotic battlefield.

Immediately afterwards, the same arrow rose from the left, middle and right directions of Yehuling. Zhang Liao immediately identified the general distribution of Ma Chao's troops, and immediately divided his troops into three units to support Ma Chao's troops in three directions.

Xiahou Yuan was leading 30,000 troops to resist Ma Chao based on the terrain. Unexpectedly, Zhang Liao's army rushed up again at this time, and suddenly felt that the pressure increased greatly. He saw that the defense lines in each direction were successively destroyed by the opponent!

Xiahou Yuan was very anxious and turned his head and shouted, "Are you not ready yet?"

At this time, a general rushed up and said anxiously: "General, all the turmeric oil and dry firewood have been arranged!"

Xiahou Yuan's eyes showed a fierce expression and shouted: "Set the fire immediately! The whole army retreated!"

After a while, countless flames rose from all over the Wild Fox Ridge, and at the same time, the golden bell, which represents retreat, rang out rapidly.

When the Cao army was shaking under the fierce attack of Liu Xian's army, the shaky troops heard this sound, and felt as if they were amnesty, and they all left the battle and retreated in a hurry!

Seeing that the enemy was retreating, Liu Xianjun's army was reluctant to let go, and they all roared and chased after him.

However, the flames rising everywhere spread rapidly, like countless fire snakes wandering around the mountains. The flames rolled and howled, and the entire mountain seemed to be burning.

Seeing that the situation was wrong, Zhang Liao and Ma Chao urgently ordered the troops to stop pursuing and retreating. However, more than a thousand anxious officers and soldiers were still trapped in the sea of ​​fire, and they disappeared in a blink of an eye!

The troops hurriedly retreated to Yehu Ridge.

At this time, the entire Wild Fox Ridge was burning, and the huge mountain turned into a flaming mountain!

Ma Chao turned his head and said to Zhang Liao: "The enemy cut off the road ahead, and I am afraid we will rush to Shouchun. We cannot waste time here!"

Zhang Liao nodded and turned his head to ask the general who was familiar with the terrain on the side: "How to bypass Yehu Ridge?"

The general thought for a while and pointed to the east and said, "Let's go east for two days, cross the Poyi River, and then go south, you can go around Yehu Ridge and continue south."

Ma Chao frowned and said, "It takes two days? Is there no other way?"

The general shook his head and said, "As far as the villain knows, if you want to go south, besides going to Yehu Ridge, you can only go around the Poyi River to the east!"

Zhang Liao said to Ma Chao: "Meng Qi, I'm not waiting for time, so I'll ask you to lead all the cavalry first! I'll lead the infantry brigade to follow up!" Ma Chao nodded and said, "That's it!"

Xiahou Yuan temporarily blocked Liu Xianjun's pursuit with fire at Yehu Ridge, and then rushed south to meet with Cao Cao who was heading south at full speed, clasped his fists and said, "King of Wei, the enemy was blocked north of Yehu Ridge!"

Then he said with a depressed look on his face: "But in order to stop them, in less than a day, my tens of thousands of people actually lost nearly half!"

Xu You said angrily: "Where is no one who doesn't pay a price in war? Why should the general be so concerned?"

He then clasped his fists at Cao Cao and said, "King of Wei, the fire in Yehu Ridge can only stop the other party for several days. We don't have much time!"

Cao Cao nodded, thought for a moment, and said to Xiahou Dun and Xiahou Yuan: "Yuan Rang, Miaocai, you will lead 100,000 elite troops to move forward lightly. After crossing the Huai River, the enemy troops in Jiujiang County will immediately launch an attack! In order to defeat the enemy in one fell swoop!"

The two of them agreed with their fists and hurried down.

After a while, all the 100,000 elite soldiers led by Xiahou Dun and Xiahou Yuan rushed to the south in full speed in a light posture.

Cao Cao looked at the back of the 100,000 army and frowned slightly, not knowing what he was thinking.

At the city of Jiujiang, after a day of fierce attack, Liu Xianjun suspended the offensive and withdrew his troops back to the camp.

Liu Xian and his subordinates discussed the next offensive strategy in the big tent.

Xu Rong said: "According to the bombardment effect of today's vehicle-mounted artillery, it may take about ten days to blow the city wall open..."

Diao Chan smiled and said, "It will take at least half a month for my husband's father-in-law Sun Jian to arrive on the battlefield, so we don't have to worry."

Everyone started to laugh.

Liu Xian looked at the sand table in front of him, and looked thoughtful. He turned his head and asked Diao Chan: "Chan'er, is there any news about Yide?"

Diao Chan smiled and said, "Just about to report to her husband, I received a message from my third uncle not long ago. They bombarded Shouchun for a day. According to the third uncle, it would take about half a month to blow up Shouchun's city walls......"

Liu Xian couldn't help frowning and murmured, "It's too hard to continue fighting like this! I have to think of a way to break through these two cities as soon as possible! I'm always worried about wasting time here!" As he said that, he couldn't help looking at Guo Jia.

Guo Jia smiled and clasped his fists and said, "Weichen has a plan..."
Chapter completed!