Chapter 553: The rear troops

Jiao Chu's Youzhou soldiers have long been dissatisfied with the commander Yuan Shao's behavior of his soldiers as the headmaster. Staying behind in front of the powerful Jiangdong Army means death. Moreover, no matter how hard you try, even if you fight to the death in blood, you will be like your lord Yuan Xi. It is not as good as Yuan Shao's magical eyes and it is difficult to please!

How could Jiao Chu not know about this situation? In case of precaution, Jiao Chu gathered his confidants and controlled a team of hundreds of people, which not only calmed down but also played a role in supervising the battle. This move was still effective at the beginning, but after the intensive shooting of the Yuzhou Camp, he faced the fierce and rapid attacking soldiers of the Yuzhou Camp, and he was immediately unable to support him!

Someone shouted, "Let's run, everyone~~ run back to Youzhou!" Then dozens of soldiers gave up their long spears, quickly left the army, spread their feet, and ran away all the way.

The soldiers of Youzhou, who were defeated and had a low morale, had this intention. At this moment, they saw someone taking the lead in escaping, and they put down their weapons and fled in scattered ways. In their opinion, there might be a way to escape, and staying behind the palace will only be a dead end!

Jiao Chu and his confidants were unexpected. When they reacted and stopped them with force, there were probably no more than three or four thousand soldiers in Youzhou who fled! Jiao Chu urgently ordered his confidants to leave some of them to block the attack of the Jiangdong Army. The rest of them quickly went up the floating bridge and followed Jiang Qi's troops to retreat to the north bank of the Jishui River!

The governor of Youzhou, Yuan Shao's second son Yuan Xi, was leading the remaining Youzhou soldiers to support the north bank of the Ji River, where Hebei troops gathered. As long as they crossed the Ji River, everyone would be safe.

Cheng Pu, how could Huang Gai allow Jiao Teng and others to retreat easily? The order they received was to attack with all their might, defeat the Hebei Army's rear troops, and then bit the Hebei Army, forcing them to divide their troops back and stop them, thereby delaying their withdrawal and creating conditions for the actions of other Jiangdong Army units.

"Dong~~~~~~~" "Dong~~~~~~~~" "Dong~~~~~~~~~~~"

After the general flag of Yuzhou Camp, the cowhide drum was hammered by the drummers. The intense sound of the drum ignited the manliness in the blood vessels of the Yuzhou Camp soldiers. Their eyes became even more scorching, and the strength seemed to be endless. The shouts of killing were shocking, and the swords and spears were dazzling. With the drums, the outermost layer of the Youzhou military formation collapsed within a moment.

"Kill! Kill! Kill~~~"

Among the Yuzhou camp troops, more than 200 light cavalry rode out on horseback, and raised their sabers high with a sharp sabers, chasing the Youzhou soldiers who were running around. Every time the sabers were swung, a head would roll on the yellow soil, with blood mist splashing, accompanied by more screams.

On the plain, cavalry and stance are chasing from behind, which is simply a one-sided massacre! The blood of the Youzhou soldiers dyed the land on the south bank of the Ji River red, mottled. With this nourishment, the flowers and plants here will definitely grow more beautifully next year.

However, Jiao Chu was no longer in the mood to take care of these pursued subordinates at this moment. The floating bridge was very narrow and could only allow two teams of people to pass by. Many soldiers who were eager to retreat were crowded together, and the passage was not smooth. The floating bridge swung, and from time to time, soldiers fell into the Ji River and were immediately swept away by the storm.

Jiao Chu left several confidant captains to cut off the rear. After he persisted for a while, his eagerness to return home had the upper hand. Under the protection of more than ten personal guards, he turned around and stepped onto the floating bridge. Behind him, thousands of Youzhou soldiers were struggling to support him.

At this time, after the Jiangdong Army's catapult was pushed into the military formation, it immediately began to launch, and huge stones fell into the air. The target of the target was naturally the floating bridge carrying the dreams of Youzhou soldiers returning home!

The huge rock fell into the water, splashing huge splashes of water, and the floating bridge suddenly shaking. Jiao Tung relied on his strong body and had the power of the commander, and occasionally squeezed away the crowded soldiers in front of him and tried his best to move forward.

A huge rock flew over, drew a wonderful arc in the air, and hit the middle of the pontoon bridge with a loud "bang", and the thin pontoon bridge was smashed into two sections! Jiao Teng had already squeezed into the middle of the pontoon bridge, but he could only watch the pontoon bridge breaking a few steps ahead of him. The pontoon bridge began to tilt slowly, and the turbulent river water quickly spread across the pontoon bridge. Hundreds of Youzhou soldiers on the pontoon bridge made a heart-pounding scream. However, at this time they were powerless. With the sound of the pontoon bridge breaking, these people fell into the water one after another in despair!

Jiao Chu was in it, and was squeezed together and unable to move. Even with his martial arts, he could not retreat to the shore. After a while, Jiao Chu was swallowed by the Taotao Jishui along with his subordinates.

When Yuan Xi heard this, he had to sigh. The floating bridge was gone, and the soldiers of Youzhou on the south bank would definitely not be able to meet with him. He could only hope that they could save their lives and return to Youzhou in the future.

After receiving some soldiers who had returned to the north bank of the Ji River, Yuan Xi ordered the entire army to march to the north and catch up with Yuan Shao's central army as soon as possible.

At this moment, if Yuan Xi knew that more than ten floating bridges had been successfully built downstream of the Ji River, and a large number of Jiangdong Army soldiers had already penetrated directly into Yuan Shao's central army through the floating bridge, he would not have been so anxious to meet with Yuan Shao.

After Zhou Yu found out that Yuan Shao's army had retreated north, he quickly made a decision to pursue and issued military orders to the generals of various departments of the Jiangdong Army. According to Zhou Yu's arrangement, all departments were ready to chase the Hebei Army.

The commander of the Yuzhou camp Cheng Pu and Huang Gai received was to attack the troops behind the Hebei Army, delay their marching speed, and then defeat them, encircle the enemy in segments, kill or forcefully land, and preserve all the supplies, food and supplies of the Hebei Army to achieve the best results. Then they chased them all the way, and were appropriately distanced from the rear of the Hebei Army to maintain strong pressure on them.

The baggage battalion had already been ordered to find a suitable location for buoyancy bridges. After Zhou Yu's military order was issued, more than ten buoyancy bridges were erected within half a day. The main forces of the Jiangdong Army continued to pass through the buoyancy bridges and arrived at the north bank of the Jishui River.

The commander of these troops was Lu Su, who had always been relying on the left and right hands of Zhou Yu. He had plans to include Dongchengying, Niuzhuying, Xinyiying, Shanxingying, Zhongyiying, Changshaying, Wanchengying and other units, with a total force of more than 100,000!

Lu Su led a 100,000 army and was attacking fiercely from the side on the way to withdraw the Hebei army!

Zhou Yu personally took charge of the camp and planned it in a unified manner. Considering that the 20,000 soldiers in the Nanchang Camp had insufficient experience in fighting the formation, Zhou Yu kept him in the Jiangdong Army camp. The head of the Nanchang Camp Zhu Zhi was also prepared to attack. If the Jiangdong Army had an emergency, he could set out for rescue at any time.

At this time, it was another scene in Liyang, an important town on the north bank of the Yellow River...
Chapter completed!