Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 616 Marching Slowly Like Ants
Yuan Shu organized an army to break through this time, but he also divided his army into five parts: front, center, rear, left, and right.

This front army is naturally the Lu Bu soldiers and horses led by Chen Deng. As the cannon fodder for the breakout and the pioneers who opened the way, they can be regarded as the fastest moving part of Yuan Shu's breakout army this time.

The central part is the area where Yuan Shu himself is located. In addition to the nearly [-] Yuan Shu's pro-army guards led by Ji Ling, it also includes the money and treasures brought by Yuan Shu from Shouchun, Yuan Shu's harem beauties, and children. This has slowed down Yuan Shu's speed a lot.

Although the money and treasures that Yuan Shu brought out from Shouchun were all loaded into cars, these money and treasures were not only gold and copper coins, but also many treasures of different sizes, such as coral, jade and the like, these things Most of them need to be loaded in boxes. Some of them are relatively heavy, and some of them cannot withstand bumps. If they are broken, they will be destroyed. Therefore, the speed of safe transportation is naturally limited.

In addition, Yuan Shu's harem beauties, sons and children, although they all sat in the carriage and did not need them to follow on foot, but these beauties also needed eunuchs and maidservants to serve them.

These people are not qualified to ride in a car. Of course, their walking speed cannot be compared with the marching speed of rude soldiers, so even if they are urged to run, the speed cannot be increased.

What's more, the physical strength of the eunuchs and maidservants is not good. The more they are urged, the easier it is to lose their physical strength and they can only collapse on the side of the road and cannot move half a step forward.

So just in the central military area where Yuan Shu is located, the speed of this kind of march can only be similar to the speed of ordinary walking.

As for the rear army left by Yuan Shu at the end, their marching speed was even slower.

This rear army was originally composed of the subordinate officials and family members who came out of Shouchun City together with Yuan Shu and nearly ten thousand rear troops. After the operation, the army also became a mess like refugees fleeing for their lives.

There was no reasonable restraint and management in the first place, and the chaotic crowd composed of officials' family members and a large number of servants and maidservants was even more difficult to control on the road, and there was no order at all.

In many cases, if something happens in front of you, you will stop at will, so the overall forward trend of the rear army will also stagnate for a long time.

However, many people here are not real common people, most of them are family members of Yuan Shu's close ministers, so Yuan Shu's soldiers and generals who are in charge of the rear of the palace dare not go up to urge them, they can't afford to offend them.

Therefore, all the pressure can only be placed on the left and right wing blocking troops arranged by Yuan Shu. We can only hope that they can stop Zhu Wei and Cao Cao's pursuit and delay the retreat of Yuan Shu's central and rear troops. .

For this reason, Yuan Shu also arranged [-] to [-] troops on the left and right flanks respectively, asking them to find suitable terrain and stop and defend on the spot, so as to prevent Zhu Wei and Cao Cao's army from pursuing.

However, the combat effectiveness of Yuan Shu's army is really difficult to determine. Even the breakout army brought out by Yuan Shu this time can be regarded as the elite composition of the army, but facing Zhu Wei and Cao Cao's pursuing army, there is still no way to compare.

Even if Zhu Wei and Cao Cao want to act again, they can't act too fake.

Even if the troops led by the two of them only used ordinary offensive strength, these Yuan Shu's troops responsible for blocking the attack would still appear to be defeated from time to time.

As a result, even if the Zhu Wei and Cao Cao armies took the initiative to slow down their pursuit, they were getting closer and closer to the rear area of ​​Yuan Shu's breakout army.

So there were all kinds of bad military reports, reporting to Yuan Shu, who was located in the central army, where Zhu Wei's army had approached, and what Cao Cao's army had just defeated the two thousand blocking army.

Under the panic, Yuan Shu couldn't come up with any countermeasures at all, he could only keep assigning troops to stop him, asking his troops to stand firm and not retreat.

This time Yuan Shu broke through, leaving his confidant general Zhang Xun in charge of the defense in Shouchun City, and Chen Ji and Liang Gang as assistant generals, and he brought three generals Ji Ling, Le Jiu, and Li Feng with him .

In fact, Yuan Shu still hopes that Zhang Xun can use the tall Shouchun City to defend the attack of Zhu Wei, Cao Cao, and Liu Bei.

It's just that Yuan Shu himself was extremely timid, and he didn't dare to stay and defend the city himself, for fear that something might happen and he would have nowhere to escape.

Then, on the way to break out of the siege, Yuan Shu just sent Le to resist Cao Cao's pursuit, and Li Feng to resist Zhu Wei's pursuit, but let Ji Ling, who has the best military ability, guard him.

I can't say why Yuan Shu's arrangement is bad, but he has already planned for the worst. If Le Jiu and Li Feng can't resist, at least he can let Ji Ling protect him and escape, as long as he can Survive your life, and everything will naturally come back in the future.

It's a pity that the abilities of Le Jiu and Li Feng are too ordinary, that is, the force value has reached the second-rate or third-rate realm, and the other military command abilities are all third-rate.

On Yuan Shu's side, they could only serve as ordinary generals in charge of troops and horses. Now that they are required to command tens of thousands of troops to resist Zhu Wei and Cao Cao's pursuit, what good solution can they come up with.

Therefore, Le Jiu and Li Feng could only send their troops one by one to stop Zhu Wei and Cao Cao's pursuit. As a result, it was like pieces of meat fed to Zhu Wei and Cao Cao. Zhu Wei and Cao Cao swallowed it.

But Le Jiu and Li Feng had no other ideas. They could only hope that Zhu Wei and Cao Cao would eat more slowly, so that they would be able to stop them longer.

However, the speed of Yuan Shu's advance could not be increased at all, and even became slower and slower. In this way, Yuan Shu's army, which was blocking the left and right flanks, was wiped out and defeated by thousands. People are angry and annoyed at Yuan Shu's so-called breakthrough.

Even Zhu Wei and Cao Cao got a little impatient in chasing them. They have already released the water like this. This Yuan Shu still has no self-knowledge at all.

If it wasn't for Zhu Wei and Cao Cao's efforts to restrain their pursuit, Yuan Shu's breakout army would have been completely defeated. It can be said that Zhu Wei and Cao Cao have already sent people to contact and discuss with each other. Do they want to give Yuan Shu more money? With some pressure, they will help Yuan Shu to let go of some burdens, so that Yuan Shu can run faster.

Otherwise, when Yuan Shu enters the ambush and trap in Quyang County, we don't know when it will be.

At this time, the sky has gradually darkened. Yuan Shu broke through at around two o'clock in the afternoon, and now it is almost four o'clock in the evening. It was less than four miles away from Shouchun City.

Now that the sky is getting darker, the speed of Yuan Shu's army breaking through the siege is also getting slower and slower, which is too slow...

(End of this chapter)