Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 839 Everything Develops According to Estimates

Zhu Wei was not worried at all that Yuan Shang would be able to stand up again after fleeing to Youzhou.

After all, Youzhou is not entirely the territory of the Yuan family's children. In Liaodong County of Youzhou, there is also the power of Gongsun Du, the prefect of Liaodong, which is also a completely independent northern force.

It can be said that the Liaodong Gongsun clan had been in the Northeast for nearly 50 years in the era of the Three Kingdoms, and once conquered North Korea, turning it into Lelang County and Daifang County of the Han Dynasty.

In the original history, Yuan Xi and Yuan Shang finally fled to Liaodong. After being beheaded by the then lord of Liaodong, Sun Kang, he sent their heads to Cao Cao as a gesture of favor.

So now there are actually three strengths in Youzhou, one is Ma Teng's Fubo camp sent by Zhu Wei, the other is Liaodong Gongsundu, and the rest is the so-called governor of Youzhou, Yuan Xi.

What's more, Yuan Tan, who is also on the run in Youzhou, may not be willing to accept his younger brother who has seized power. Zhu Wei believes that they can definitely cause a good show in Youzhou.

Unless these two brothers can suddenly become enlightened and join forces for the sake of the overall situation, they will no longer fight over who is the boss, but even so Zhu Wei is not afraid, and at that time they can still be wiped out with a large army.

Of course, in terms of historical inertia, I am afraid that these two brothers will not get along very well. After all, they are both descendants of the Yuan family. It is estimated that they have been educated since they were young. Only after taking control of the power can we have external thoughts.

Well, anyway, after Zhu Wei discovered Yuan Shang's retreat through the Three Kingdoms game map, he was not too surprised. He just began to arrange means to swallow up the fat Yuan Shang left in Liyang.

At the same time, the cavalry of the Huyi Battalion led by Zhang Xiu and Zhang Liao had already been waiting for Yuan Shang to lead the troops in Hejian and Zhongshan in the north of Yizhou.

However, when Zhu Wei was paying attention to the Huyi camp, Zhu Wei suddenly discovered that there was an extra general in the Huyi camp, and it was Zhao Yun whom Zhu Wei had been thinking about before.

Perhaps it was also because Zhu Wei's attention was focused on Liyang and Yecheng before, and he really ignored the cavalry of the Tiger Wing Battalion that Zhang Xiu, Zhang Liao, Ma Chao, and Pang De sent to the hinterland of Yizhou to harass.

As a result, looking at it now, Zhao Yun had joined the Huyi Battalion's light cavalry at some point, and he was actually the leader of a light cavalry.

It's normal just to think about it again. After all, the Huyi Battalion entered Yizhou from Bingzhou, and fought all the way from Changshan to Bohai County. However, the military discipline was relatively good, and it did not cause any harassment or threat to the local people. It was only aimed at the Yuan Shao faction. Do it at the local county and township government offices.

So Zhao Yun was originally from Changshan. Although he didn't live in his hometown in Zhending County before, he might have mixed in these places.

Now that Zhao Yun met a cavalry unit like the Tiger Wing Battalion, and there were brave generals like Zhang Liao, Ma Chao, and Pound, it might be an encounter where he didn't know each other without fighting.

It was only later that Zhu Wei learned that Zhao Yun had taken the initiative to find the Tiger Wing Battalion to join the army. On the one hand, Zhao Yun had a good impression of the military discipline of the Huyi Battalion cavalry, and on the other hand, like Ma Chao, he was curious about this cavalry.

In fact, after Zhao Yun left Gongsun Zan and returned to his hometown, he encountered banditry from the Black Mountain Army. As a result, Zhao Yun fought against the Black Mountain Army in order to protect his hometown. Later, Zhao Yun was worried about the Black Mountain Army's revenge, so he had to leave his hometown to travel.

It's just that he was unwilling to join Yuan Shao's account. After all, he was once Gongsun Zan's white horse Yi Cong, and the White Horse Yi Cong was annihilated by Yuan Shao's Xianden camp, which made Zhao Yun feel a little repelled by Yuan Shao.

Zhao Yun also went to Youzhou for a while before, and he didn't want to go back to his hometown until he heard that the Huns invaded Yizhou. However, he met Zhu Weijun's Huyi Battalion again, and was attracted by the Huyi Battalion's light cavalry. It reminded Zhao Yun of his days in Baima Yicong.

So Zhao Yun inquired about some news about the cavalry of the Huyi Battalion of Zhu Weijun, and found that this army never disturbed the people, which made Zhao Yun feel good about it.

Later, when Zhao Yun was observing the light cavalry of the Tiger Wing Battalion, he happened to meet Ma Chao. At first, Ma Chao thought Zhao Yun was a spy of Yuan Shaojun, so the two fought each other, and the result was evenly matched.

In this way, friendship was established, so under Ma Chao's recommendation, Zhao Yun also took the initiative to join the light cavalry and became a cavalry commander under Ma Chao.

After Zhu Wei later learned about this specific situation, he couldn't help but feel a sense of surprise that he could find no place despite his iron shoes and that it took no effort. In addition, it was also thanks to Zhu Wei's extremely high discipline requirements for the army that Zhao Yun was able to punish Zhu Wei's army. Create a good impression, otherwise Zhao Yun would not be able to join even if he was curious about the light cavalry.

Of course, although Zhao Yun now belongs to the light cavalry of the Tiger Wing Camp, it can only be regarded as the icing on the cake.

It is impossible for Zhu Wei to promote Zhao Yun at will. Now even Ma Chao is just an ordinary cavalry general, so Zhu Wei just wrote down this matter. When looking for opportunities to expand Qingqi in the future, Ma Chao and Zhao Yun can be promoted Promote them so that they can also lead a cavalry unit alone.

Well, what happened to Zhao Yun was just an episode. No matter what, Zhang Xiu and Zhang Liao's Tiger Wing Battalion had received Zhu Wei's order before, and they were cruising in the northern part of Yizhou waiting for Yuan Shangjun's arrival.

Therefore, when Yuan Shang hurriedly withdrew his troops to the Raoyang and Zhongshui areas between Anping State and Hejian State, he encountered a cavalry attack from the Tiger Wing Battalion.

The light cavalry of the Huyi Battalion of the Zhu Wei Army, which has increased to more than 5000, is still much smaller than that of Yuan Shangjun who retreated this time, but at this time Yuan Shangjun's army is scattered, morale is unstable, and the will to fight is not strong. is the weakest state.

Most of Yuan Shang's soldiers already knew the news that Yecheng was destroyed and Yuan Shao was dead. Now they can only follow the young master to retreat to Youzhou. Whether they can return to Yizhou in the future is still a matter of discussion, although many of them are not from Wei County on the side of Yecheng. But many of them are still natives of Yizhou, so naturally they don't want to go to Youzhou.

In addition, the tactics adopted by Zhu Weijun's light cavalry are mainly cavalry and shooting. Therefore, when Zhang Liao, Ma Chao, Zhao Yun and other cavalry will lead troops to attack tens of thousands of Yuan Shangjun, they will rain feather arrows on Yuan Shangjun's head. All of a sudden, Yuan Shangjun's outer army formation was scattered.

Then Zhang Xiu and Pang De led the remaining heavy cavalry to charge and scattered Yuan Shangjun's formation, which triggered a collapse of Yuan Shangjun's domino cards.

And Zhang Liao, Ma Chao, Zhao Yun and other light cavalry generals took advantage of the situation and led the light cavalry to drive away Yuan Shang's defeated soldiers and continue to attack. From point to point, the situation that caused Yuan Shang's army to collapse expanded.

As a result, Yuan Shang, who originally had an elite main force of [-] to [-] people, finally continued to retreat northward with only less than [-] remaining troops.

As for the other nearly [-] to [-] troops, they were either killed and captured by Zhu Weijun's Tiger Wing Battalion cavalry, or they took the opportunity to desert. Few people were willing to continue to follow Yuan Shang in Youzhou.

So although Yuan Shang successfully withdrew into Youzhou, when he finally arrived at Ji County, he had only [-] to [-] soldiers with him. It can be said that the later, the more deserted soldiers on his side .

But everything was carried out according to Zhu Wei's estimation. After Yuan Shang went to Jixian County to meet Yuan Xi and Yuan Tan, the two brothers Yuan Shang and Yuan Tan secretly met again on the issue of who would succeed the new head of the Yuan family. Get into a fight.

Even though Yuan Xi was unwilling to compete for the position of Patriarch, he tried his best to mediate Yuan Shang and Yuan Tan, but this conflict could not be resolved peacefully after all.

But that’s a story for another day…

(End of this chapter)