Chapter 755: Kill 1,000 Enemies, Lose 800

Half an hour later, Huangfu Chaobo's central army had suffered heavy casualties. Nearly half of the thousand soldiers in the Xianzhen Camp had been lost, and less than 700 of the 1,500 imperial guards were left. Zhang Miao's 1,000 guards were only more than 200. Although the Yuanrong crossbowmen had strong attacks, their defense was pitifully low. In close combat, they were almost unable to fight back against the Qingzhou soldiers.

At this time, the casualties of the Yuanrong crossbowmen had exceeded 500, and there were less than 600 of the 2,000 archers. Only the 500 Tiebi Camps, because almost everyone had reached the strength of a mid-level warrior, had more than 400 people tightly guarding Huangfu Chaobo's central army.

And Cao Cao's Qingzhou soldiers were also exhausted at this time, with heavy casualties. Among the 20,000 Qingzhou soldiers, except for the 2,000 elite soldiers around Cao Cao who did not move, the remaining 18,000 soldiers had more than half of their casualties.

You know, these are the elite soldiers selected by Cao Cao from hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turban captives. There are only 30,000 people in total. 5,000 of them were left to Cao Ren to guard Xuzhou, and 5,000 were left to Xiahou Dun in Puyang to confuse Huangfu Chaobo.

Unexpectedly, 30% of the soldiers died in one battle here. Cao Cao was already bleeding when he saw this situation. Among them, the Yuanrong crossbow soldiers played an indispensable role. The powerful crossbow soldiers caused thousands of Qingzhou soldiers to be killed and injured before they approached. During the battle, more than 2,000 Qingzhou soldiers, who made Cao Cao full of confidence, were killed and injured by the Xianzhen Camp, but the casualties of the Xianzhen Camp were only 500. It can be said that it was one against four. This battle made the Xianzhen Camp famous in one fell swoop and became the world's most powerful army in the game.

But at this time, Cao Cao could not think too much. Nearly 2,000 cavalry of the Sizhou Army had already reached more than ten miles away. If it dragged on, none of the more than 10,000 Qingzhou soldiers would escape. Just leaving like this means that Puyang has also been abandoned, and Cao Cao is actually very unwilling in his heart.

At this time, Cao Cao finally lived up to the name of a hero. After considering for only a few breaths, he issued an order to retreat. The Qingzhou Army that was attacking the Sizhou Army quickly disengaged, and then alternately covered, retreated to the battlefield, and then, after a little reorganization, went south without looking back.

At the same time, Cao Cao also ordered people to pass on the order to Xiahou Dun's troops in the city, asking him to abandon Puyang City, retreat from the south gate, and then cross the river to retreat to Weiguo and Dunqiu.

Although Xiahou Dun was unwilling to receive Cao Cao's order, he had to obey Cao Cao's order. After ordering the burning of supplies in the city, Xiahou Dun ordered the troops of various units to alternately cover and withdraw from Puyang.

But he forgot one thing, the Sizhou Army attacking the city was not the Huangfu Chaobo Central Army outside the city. They had enough strength to hold Cao Cao's army tightly and then slowly eat it up.

Xiahou Dun was worthy of being a general under Cao Cao. He soon found that it was almost impossible for his troops to evacuate safely, so he decisively arranged thousands of troops to cover the rear, regardless of other troops and unburned supplies in the city. He led the remaining 3,000 Qingzhou soldiers and Cao Jili's more than 2,000 Tiger Guards, as well as 2,000 elite soldiers in the city, to evacuate quickly, retreating from the south gate and crossing the river to the northeast.

On October 24, Huangfu Chaobo led nearly 80,000 Sizhou troops and Chenliu troops. After nearly half a month, with a loss of nearly 30,000 troops, he finally captured Cao Cao's three cities of Puyang, Baima and Yanxian.

The loss of Cao Cao's army was also about 30,000, of which Baima and Yancheng lost about 10,000 people, and Puyang City lost 10,000 soldiers. Cao Cao's army under the city also had a bloody encounter with Huangfu Chaobo's personal guard camp, so neither of the two families could say whether they had taken advantage or suffered a loss.

After the battle of Puyang, Huangfu Chaobo had time and energy to take care of the war in Hebei. As expected by everyone at the beginning, when the three great dukes of the Yuan family were fully fired, even with his own Baotao Camp, the situation in Hebei was still not optimistic.

Fortunately, the battle situation in Yanzhou had been decided, so Huangfu Chaobo was able to withdraw troops to the north of Jizhou, hoping to stabilize the situation of Han Fu's army.

However, fortunately, Han Fu's army was well prepared from the beginning of the war.

People were ordered to establish a second line of defense in Qing'an, Ping'en, Chi Zhang and Quliang. This was the last bottom line of Han Fu's army, which was to defend Weijun.

However, this was equivalent to throwing a Zhao State to Yuan Shao. Even if Han Fu's army moved most of the people and materials in these cities to Weijun, it would also increase the strength of Yuan Shao's army a lot, because time was too tight. At most, half of the personnel and materials could be moved to Weijun, not including the many aristocratic families who supported the Yuan family and disliked Han Fu.

Two days later, 10,000 reorganized soldiers of the Huben Camp crossed the river from Baima Port and entered Jizhou to support Han Fu's army.

At the same time, Zhou Tai's navy and Pan Feng's navy, totaling 15,000 troops, went down the river and approached Gaotang Port of Yuan Shao's army. Gaotang Port was originally a port in Pingyuan County, divided into two ports, north and south, and the port in Henan was close to Gaotang County.

Since Yuan Shao occupied several cities in Hebei Province of Pingyuan County, Gaotang Port Hebei Port was controlled by Yuan Shao's army.

Unfortunately, before Huang Zhong's army arrived at Qinghe State, news came that Ganling had fallen. Qinghe Prefect Zhao Fu was finally defeated by Yuan Shao's army. Ganling City fell under the fierce attack of Ju Yi's first-line soldiers, and Zhao Fu led his troops to retreat. Fortunately, Hua Xiong's Xiliang Iron Cavalry quickly went south after receiving the news and took over Zhao Fu's troops, and then the army retreated to Qingyuan.

The war situation affected the whole body. In the following two days, Guangzong and Jingxian were also lost one after another. Han Fu had no choice but to order the army to retreat to Qingyuan. Fortunately, with the addition of Huang Zhong's two schools of soldiers, and the shortened battle line, Han Fu's defense was finally not so difficult.

On October 29, after receiving the news that the war in Yanzhou was over and Huangfu Chaobo continued to send troops to support Han Fu, Yuan Shao summoned everyone to discuss the matter. In addition, he learned that Gongsun Zan had basically stabilized the two newly acquired counties in Youzhou and seemed to have the intention of going south to Jizhou. Yuan Shao finally decided to withdraw his troops back to Bohai, appointed Gao Gan as the governor of Qinghe, and left 30,000 troops including Ju Yi's first-line soldiers to defend against Han Fu's army.

After receiving the news that Yuan Shao's army finally retreated, Huangfu Chaobo's Huben Camp and Baotao Camp, which supported Han Fu's army, also returned to their respective garrisons.

So far, after nearly a month, this war involving six princes in three states in Guandong finally ended. At the end, everyone counted their gains and losses, and suddenly they realized that the one who benefited the most in this war was Tuberose, who not only got a county and several cities for free, but also got three famous generals in history.

At the same time, in order to appease him, the eldest son Tao, who temporarily served as the governor of Xuzhou, agreed to his recommendation and appointed him as the fourth-rank general of the front army, supervising the military and political affairs of Langya County and Langya State.