Chapter 719: The Sizhou Army Escaped

The root cause of all this was Huangfu Chaobo's own underestimation of the enemy, so this battle can be said to have ruined nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses. Every time he thought of this, Huangfu Chaobo felt that he regretted it. If he had considered it more carefully and cautiously, the consequences might not be so.

After Huangfu Chaobo left the wounded camp, soldiers soon came to the camp. They had to help these seriously injured soldiers and arrange them in various places, such as soldiers dressed as guards on the wall of the camp. Some soldiers would be placed in various places in the camp. They would use various materials in the camp to block the enemy as much as possible in order to buy time for the retreat of Zepao.

After all this was arranged, it was already night. At this time, there were no other soldiers and horses in the camp except the seriously injured soldiers. Even the horses left in the camp were injured horses.

Huangfu Chaobo stood on the floating bridge, looked back at the camp again, and secretly vowed in his heart that he would avenge his previous shame when he came back next time.

At this time, the same arrangement was also estimated in Wenxi City. All the soldiers and horses preparing to leave had gathered more than ten miles north of the Sushui River, and nearly 20,000 horses were ready. Except for leaving 1,000 white horse volunteers and cavalry to guard the central army, all other horses were used to transport personnel.

First, more than 10,000 people were sent to Gengxiang, and the rest of the people walked to Gengxiang. After the horses sent the people, they sent people to drive the horses back overnight. The two sides met halfway and sent more than 10,000 people with horses. Repeatedly, until everyone arrived in Gengxiang.

Of course, the premise is that Xu Rong did not catch up before everyone arrived in Gengxiang.

When the army started to set off, Yang Feng in the north and Zhou Tai in the south also received the news at the same time. After nightfall, Yang Feng began to arrange soldiers to cross the river quietly. There were not many soldiers crossing the river this time, only a few hundred people, but they needed to occupy Donghuang on the other side of the river overnight, and then build a pontoon bridge overnight to prepare to help the army cross the river.

The next morning, players in Pi's territory suddenly discovered that a bridge had been built on the Fenshui River overnight, and then the Donghuang Town on the riverside was also controlled by the army, prohibiting anyone from entering or leaving. For a while, the army didn't know what had happened, but soon the news was discovered by officials in Pi's city, and then Pi's county closed the city gates, and teams of soldiers climbed the city walls and waited for battle.

Time went back to the night of the retreat. After joining the army, Huangfu Chaobo ordered to set off overnight. The more than 10,000 soldiers who left first were slightly injured, and the others who were slightly injured and could move by themselves would move with the majority first.

Of course, they were not asked to hurry with the brigade, because there were still many baggage carts in the army, pulled by horses, which were usually used to transport food and supplies, and now they were just used to transport soldiers. Put a few bags of food on each car, and then let the soldiers ride on it, killing two birds with one stone.

Nearly twenty days after leaving the Sushui River,

Huangfu Chaobo ordered the army to light torches and advance at full speed. For a moment, in the dark night, it was like a huge fire dragon, stretching for miles, all the way north.

The next morning, the two armies of Anyi went to attack the camp as usual, and the first round of attack was still 5,000 Xiliang Army infantry. What made people feel very happy was that, as Xu Rong expected, the first round of attack broke into the camp. But this time it seemed too easy, and Xu Rong suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.

Sure enough, not long after, the camp was actually filled with flames.

"Damn it, the Sizhou army has already run away!" Xu Rong stood up and shouted angrily;

Soon, dozens of soldiers ran out of the camp and came to Xu Rong's generals and said: "General, there are only some wounded soldiers in the Sizhou army camp, and the rest of the soldiers and horses have disappeared, and there are things that can start fires everywhere in the camp. Many soldiers have been trapped by the fire."

"Quick, Fan Chou, the cavalry bypass the camp and go to the floating bridge to check the situation." Xu Rong suppressed his anger and said: "Jiang Taishou, immediately order the soldiers to build a floating bridge, at any cost, and build the floating bridge as quickly as possible. The cavalry will be ready. Once the bridge is built, they will set off immediately. The Sizhou army has many wounded soldiers and can't run fast."

As he issued a series of military orders, the soldiers of both armies became busy all of a sudden. Teams of cavalry roared out of the army formation, and under the leadership of the generals, they bypassed the Sizhou army camp with blazing flames and headed for the floating bridge behind them.

A large number of civilian craftsmen from Anyi City also came out, dragging a large amount of wood and other materials with horse-drawn carriages, running towards the south bank of the Sushui River. They were going to build a floating bridge.

In fact, Xu Rong had been preparing for the crossing of the river. However, on the one hand, because he really wanted to capture the Sizhou camp as soon as possible, and the resistance of the camp was indeed very fierce, neither Xu Rong nor Jiang Pei cared much about the crossing of the river; on the other hand, the Sizhou cavalry on the other side of the river patrolled the river day and night, and Xu Rong had little chance to build a bridge even if he wanted to. If the bridge was built far away, it would not be of much significance to Xu Rong.

However, even so, Xu Rong still asked Jiang Pei to order the craftsmen and civilians to prepare various materials so that the floating bridge could be built quickly at the right time.

Originally, Xu Rong thought that the bridge would be built after the camp was captured, but he did not expect it to be so fast.

When Fan Chou led the cavalry to the floating bridge behind the Sizhou Army camp, he saw that the floating bridge was still there, and he couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief. Although he didn't know why the Sizhou Army had such an omission, Fan Chou was still more cautious and sent hundreds of people to dismount and prepare to seize the floating bridge, because everyone could see that Sizhou had already set up defenses on the other side of the river, and some soldiers were guarding there.

When Xu Rong and Jiang Pei rushed to the floating bridge under the escort of their personal guards, they saw that more than a hundred soldiers of Fan Chou's army had walked to the center of the floating bridge, and they could cross the river only a few dozen steps away.

At this time, dozens of rockets suddenly shot out from the Sizhou Army on the opposite side. As soon as the arrows with black smoke fell on the bridge deck, they immediately ignited the bridge deck of the floating bridge. In a moment, the fire quickly surrounded more than a hundred soldiers of Dong Zhuo's army on the bridge, and the entire floating bridge was engulfed in a sea of ​​fire.

Looking at the sea of ​​fire in front of him and listening to the screams of his soldiers, Xu Rong felt his blood boiling. However, he soon calmed down and said to the generals around him: "Pass the order, order the craftsmen and civilians to build the pontoon bridge within half a day, and all cavalry to stand by. After the bridge is built, General Fan will lead the cavalry across the river and pursue us immediately."