Yuan Yao was also shocked when he saw that Peng Cai did not blindly follow Zhu Hao, but led his troops to break out in the opposite direction.
Does this person also think reversely?
Yuan Yao frowned, he still underestimated Peng Cai. Keeping an enemy with brains like this would definitely be a disaster.
In this case, I can't let you go!
"Xiao Huang, follow me to chase Peng Cai!"
Huang Yi's eyes widened: "Just us?"
"We only have 500 people here, how can we pursue them?"
Yuan Yao took the horse reins from the soldiers, checked his armor and weapons again, and said without raising his head: "Didn't he defeat him last time with only 500 men? What's more, he is only a general who defeated the army now. Although there are thousands of people around us, they are just a panicked crowd!"
Huang Yi looked at the battle situation and still hesitated: "It's not that I'm afraid of him, but the battle is in full swing right now. Wouldn't it be a pity to leave now?"
"Look, Lao Huang has already intercepted Zhu Hao. If we go to support Lao Huang now, wouldn't we have a chance to capture Zhu Hao alive?"
After Yuan Yao finished checking up and down, he glanced at the battlefield again.
"Zei Rong has abandoned Zhu Hao and fled. The battle has been decided and the outcome has been decided. What is there to see!"
"Prison Barracks, follow me!"
Yuan Yao didn't waste any more time and gave the order directly.
"Okay, okay, you are the boss and you have the final say. Can't I just go with you?"
Huang Yi muttered, and finally looked back at Huang Zhong, who was fighting with Zhu Hao's horsemen.
Uncle, you must win this first attempt to capture Zhu Hao alive!
Just as Peng Cai expected, he easily led the crowd to rush out from the west.
Looking back, I saw that most of my subordinates were still there, and I finally felt relieved.
Looking further away, Zhu Hao seems to have been surrounded on three sides, and there are dangers and dangers.
Fortunately, he didn't follow Zhu Hao and ran eastward. Even if he could escape, he would probably suffer heavy losses.
Peng Cai was about to look away when he noticed that a flash of yellow in the distance was getting closer and closer.
Peng Cai was shocked, yellow, that was the color of Yuan Jun's armor!
"Walk!"
"Don't stop! Spread your legs and keep running!"
Peng Cai led his troops and ran three miles westward. Although they were completely out of the battlefield, the yellow streak followed closely behind them.
Damn Yuan Yao!
"General, do you still want to run west? If you run further, you will reach Zhuge Xuan's camp!"
The subordinates pointed to the west, and the fence of Zhuge Xuan's army's camp was clearly visible in the distance.
"Now run south and take a detour back to Yuhan City. Maybe you can meet General Zuo Rong's troops on the way, so you won't be afraid of Yuan Jun's pursuit!"
Peng Cai's eyes rolled around, thinking of the past when Yuan Yaoqi attacked Liao, and also thought of the vulnerability of Zhuge Xuan's army.
"No, if you run like this, you will be caught up sooner or later. Instead of running away in panic, it is better to fight him!"
Peng Cai gritted his teeth, brandished his sword and ordered: "Attack, attack Zhuge Xuan's camp!"
In the distance, Yuan Yao, who was chasing after him, saw that Peng Cai did not change direction, but rushed towards Zhuge Xuan's camp, and secretly said something bad.
At this time, Zhuge Xuan was pacing anxiously in the camp.
He abandoned the army and fled on the battlefield. He originally wanted to flee directly back to Nanchang, but when he heard that Liu Pan and Yuan Yao were still fighting fiercely with Zhu Hao's army, he ran back to his camp.
It wasn't until the panic passed that Zhuge Xuan sent people to gather up the stragglers.
At this time, a confidant ran over, and Zhuge Xuan asked quickly:
"How many horses are left? Have they been fed?"
"Back to the prefect, there are three horses left, and they are all fed."
Zhu Ge
"What's the situation at the front? Has the spy not returned yet?"
"Prefect, the spies haven't returned to camp yet. I will send a few more spies to investigate ahead!"
Zhuge Xuan nodded and was about to wave the man down when he saw a soldier running towards the camp gate.
"It's not good, it's not good, Lord Prefect!"
"The enemy is coming, the enemy is coming!"
Zhuge Xuan quickly looked towards the camp gate and saw countless Zhu Hao soldiers pouring out of the camp.
"How did the enemy army get here?"
Zhuge Xuan's face turned earth-colored, and he said in panic: "Go and get the horse quickly!"
The cronies quickly turned around and went to the stables to fetch the horses, while Zhuge Xuan sat down on the ground and murmured:
"How could Liu Pan and Yuan Yao be defeated so quickly..."
Although there are still hundreds of soldiers in the camp, they are not prepared for war.
In order to collect the previously defeated troops, Zhuge Xuan kept the camp door wide open, but now he allowed Peng Cai to easily enter the camp.
Yuan Yao watched all this from behind, and he was ready to kill Zhuge Xuan.
"How many cavalry do we have?"
Huang Yi: "There are only more than thirty cavalry, and most of the cavalry are assigned to Lu Dai and Lao Huang."
Yuan Yao gritted his teeth: "I'll give you my twenty personal riders, and you'll bite Peng Cai to death. I won't let him close the camp door!"
Huang Yi was stunned when he heard this, but he didn't hesitate and nodded immediately.
Fifty riders, led by Huang Yi, began a full-speed pursuit.
After Peng Cai entered Zhuge Xuan's camp, he ordered his subordinates to kill all the soldiers in the camp.
Yuan Jun was in pursuit, but Peng Cai had no one available for him, so he could not send anyone to the rear to stop the pursuers.
They had no choice but to take the risk of seizing Zhuge Xuan's camp to defend themselves, hoping to repel Yuan's army and then retreat.
After boarding the tower, Peng Cai looked at the pursuers behind him and didn't know whether to be angry or laugh.
It turned out that Yuan Jun, who had been chasing three to four thousand of them just now, only had a few hundred men.
If I had known earlier, I should have made a comeback, defeated the pursuers first, and then turned around directly south.
However, it was too late to regret at this time. Peng Cai could only order his subordinates to quickly climb the towers and village walls and occupy the antlers and other places to resist the Yuan army's strong attack.
However, switching from offense to defense is easier said than done?
Not to mention that these clan soldiers under him don't know how to defend a camp.
"What are the archers doing standing on the ground? Why don't they go up to a high place and shoot arrows to fend off the enemy!"
"Don't let the spearmen come in, stay behind the antlers and horses outside the camp!"
"..."
While Peng Cai was busy commanding his troops, Huang Yi had already led fifty cavalry to form a simple wedge formation, like an awl, directly inserted into Peng Cai's army.
Peng Cai said angrily: "Close the village door quickly! Don't let anyone in, close the door quickly!"
"General, there are nearly half of our brothers outside!"
"So what if they come in? They can still resist the enemy outside. But if they come in, can they hide in the camp and wait for others to knock on the door?"
At this time, Peng Cai realized that he had made another mistake. He should not have defended the camp just now, but should have gone out to counterattack.
His troops are several times larger than Yuan's army. If he goes out to fight in the field, he can still use his numerical advantage. But if you choose to defend the camp, you can only fight across the village wall and cannot use it at all.
Although Huang Yi did not lead the cavalry to the gate of the village, he succeeded in causing a commotion among the enemy troops, causing the gate to be blocked tightly by the enemy troops themselves.
Yuan Yao also led his troops to attack and immediately organized his soldiers to kill them behind, making the scene even more chaotic.
Although Peng Cai gave various orders on the tower, no one outside the camp listened to him at this time.
When lives were at stake, everyone only saw the safer camp, and no one was willing to listen to Peng Cai's words and launch a counterattack.
Peng Cai shouted hoarsely, but to no avail.
At this time, his subordinate pointed to the back and said: "General, someone ran away from the back door!"
Peng Cai was desperate and knew that the situation was out of control.
In this battle, I lost again.
And he was completely defeated by himself.
"Peng Cai, do you dare to come down and fight me?"
Huang Yi had already seen Peng Cai, who was roaring all the time. Seeing that he was trying to escape, he immediately spoke out in anger.
"You and I are one on one. If you can beat me, I will let you go. How about that?"
Peng Cai was about to go downstairs. He was startled when he heard this. He lay down at the entrance of the tower and took a look, and then he saw Huang Yi.
"It turns out it was you who was chasing me all the way!" Peng Cai gritted his teeth as he looked at Huang Yi, who had a close relationship with Xiushui.
In the chaos of the war, he did not see Yuan Yao fifty steps away, but regarded Huang Yi as the leading general.
"Are you serious?" Peng Cai asked loudly.
Huang Yi immediately replied: "Seriously, it's absolutely true!"
Peng Cai sneered and was about to speak when suddenly there was a force in his chest, followed by a sharp pain.
Looking down, he saw an arrow stuck in his chest, with less than half of the arrow body going in.
There was a stream of blood from Peng Cai's mouth and he collapsed on the tower.
Then there was a strange scream from upstairs.
"The general is dead!"
"Peng Zhonglang will be shot to death!"
Not far away, Yuan Yao put down his strong bow and breathed a long sigh of relief.
It's none of my business if Huang Yi agrees to a duel.
The news of Peng Cai's death quickly spread throughout the camp and beyond.
"Those who surrender will not be killed!"
Under the roar of Yuan Jun, many of Peng Cai's men abandoned their weapons and surrendered.
…
After the battle, Huang Yi led his men to clean the battlefield, but no trace of Zhuge Xuan was found.
But Peng Cai, who was hit by an arrow in the chest, was not completely dead and still had half a breath left.
When Yuan Yao's face appeared in Peng Cai's eyes, Peng Cai's pupils immediately narrowed sharply.
"Still alive!"
Yuan Yao looked at Peng Cai who was breathing out more and taking in less air. He shook his head and said, "When you chose to run west instead of east, I looked at you a few times."
"I didn't expect that I overestimated you. I'm trying to imitate you, but in the end I'm digging my own grave!"
Peng Cai stared at Yuan Yao, but couldn't say a word.
Yuan Yao stopped looking at him, turned around and left.
What fell in Peng Cai's sight was the quiver on Yuan Yao's back and the specially made feather arrows inside.
Peng Cai's chest surged sharply, his eyes widened within a few seconds, and he breathed out completely.
After a while, Lu Dai came with his troops. When he saw the camp full of prisoners, he immediately exclaimed: "General Shenwu!"
There was no suspense about the outcome of the main battlefield. Zhu Hao's army was defeated and most of his 20,000 troops were lost. They abandoned their camp and fled overnight.
In the evening, after cleaning the battlefield, Huang Zhong came to Yuan Yao to plead guilty with a look of shame on his face.
"The general is incompetent and failed to retain Zhu Hao. Please punish me, young master!"
Yuan Yao quickly helped Huang Zhong up: "What crime is the general guilty of?"
"I was just talking to Lieutenant Lu and the others about how brave you, Old Huang, are on the battlefield!"
Lu Dai also hurriedly stepped forward, with admiration on his face: "I have heard from the young master that the captain Zhu Haojun, the captain named Wang Hai, and other six people were all killed by General Huang in Baidu. Shooting from a distance, General Huang has such skill in riding and shooting, please teach me more in the future!"
Yuan Yao also smiled and said: "Yes, without the archery skills you taught me, Lao Huang, how could I kill Peng Cai with one arrow?"
"Old Huang, you should take the lead in this battle!"
…
The Battle of Yuhan ended with Zhuge Xuan's victory, but Zhuge Xuan, the nominal biggest winner, was missing.
It wasn't until the third day that someone reported that Zhuge Xuan had fled back to Nanchang City.
Yuan Yao was completely disappointed with this person. If Zhuge Xuan can act honestly and according to the plan in this battle, the result will be much greater than it is now.
This person is worthless!
Yuan Yao made a conclusion in his heart and immediately sent Huang Yi and Zheng Bao to sneak back to Nanchang City.
Half of Zheng Bao's troops went with Yuan Yao to conquer Yuhan, while the other half stayed at the northern camp of Nanchang City.
In the Battle of Yuhan, Zheng Bao was only responsible for guarding the camp. I thought there would be nothing wrong with Yuan Yao sending him back to Nanchang, but after Yuan Yao gave him some advice, Zheng Bao, who had nothing to accomplish, immediately became excited.
Liu Pan was seriously injured in this battle. After hearing this, Yuan Yao immediately dug out his wealth and personally visited Liu Pan with the golden sore medicine prepared by Hua Tuo and Zhang Zhongjing.
This actually greatly changed Liu Pan's impression of Yuan Yao.
But only for a while.
Within a few days, news of the incident came from Nanchang.
Huang Yi and Zheng Bao, with the cooperation of the county magistrate Chen Li and others, controlled the inside and outside of Nanchang City and relieved Zhuge Xuan's remaining military power.
Not only that, Zheng Bao and Huang Yi led their troops to disperse Zhuge Xuan's personal guards, and put all the Zhuge family under house arrest in the prefect's mansion.
Chen Li and others also issued Yuan Yao's order, and dismissed Zhuge Xuan from the post of prefect because of his unkind administration and the boiling of public resentment.
Yuan Yao, in order to show off his power as a general, took the post of governor of Yuzhang.
Not only that, Yuan Yao even recruited stragglers to expand his army.
By the time Liu Pan learned all this, it was already too late.
"Damn Yuan Yao, he does one thing to his face and another behind his back!"
Liu Pan was so angry that he slapped the case and said, "It was useless for me to think that this man is a gentleman. It turns out that he was just covering up his villainous behavior!"
The deputy general next to him hurriedly said: "General, don't get angry, be careful of your wounds!"
Liu Pan ignored the gaping wound on his arm and ordered angrily: "The whole army will set off today and return to Nanchang!"
"If you want to fight Poyang, let Yuan Yao fight alone. I won't care about it, General!"
While Liu Pan was leading the army, the scouts also immediately reported the information to Yuan Yao.
Yuan Yao just smiled and said: "Since he wants to go back to Nanchang, let's go back too."
Huang Zhong said: "Zhu Hao has been defeated, so we should not give him a chance to breathe. If our army can take advantage of the victory and pursue it, the battle will be decided!"
Yuan Yao shook his head: "This person is nothing to worry about, and..."
"Even if I don't chase him, I'm afraid he won't live long..."
"In contrast, Nanchang is the foundation of our army in the future, so we must not lose anything!"
"What if Liu Pan loses his head and attacks Nanchang directly, even if he captures Poyang, what's the use!"
But Huang Zhong still said straightforwardly: "Even so, Huang Zhong still wants to lead his troops to chase him and capture the entire Yuzhang County for the young general as soon as possible!"
Looking at Huang Zhong who volunteered, Yuan Yao was also a little moved.
Indeed, with Huang Zhong's ability, it was easy to deal with Zhu Hao and Zuo Rong.
