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Chapter 1115 The Change of Qingzhou (2)

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Zhang Liao was dissatisfied with the panic of his personal soldiers and said in a deep voice: "Don't panic, just say slowly, what happened?"

"Wei Zhi just received the news that Cao Zhang's order had been delivered, and Yu Xinzheng summoned all the generals and Ya to discuss matters in the big tent."

Zhang Liao sneered, didn’t Cao Zhang’s orders be issued all the time? What’s so strange about this?

Seeing that Zhang Liao did not take it seriously, the personal soldiers immediately said anxiously: "General, this time it is different. Cao Zhang issued a gold medal order!"

The gold medal order is the order of military dispatch. Zhang Liao also knew that it was Cao Zhang's supreme military order, just like Cao Zhang arrived in person. Zhang Liao also realized that the problem was serious. He pondered for a moment, turned around and ordered, "The personal soldiers gathered immediately!"

Zhang Liao's decades of fighting on the battlefield made him feel unusually sensitive to danger. When he heard that Cao Zhang's gold medal in the dispatch of troops had arrived at the military camp, he realized that the last time to turn against each other was coming.

Zhang Liao was wearing armor and rolling on his horse. At this moment, fire was lit up in front of him. Deputy General Yu Xin led thousands of soldiers to surround him. The soldiers held torches, carried swords and spears in their hands, and were full of murderous aura.

Yu Xin and Zhang Liao were their own masters. In the struggle for military power, they finally turned against each other. Behind Yu Xin, the famous generals and dozens of toothed generals were all covered in armor, each with fierce eyes, staring at Zhang Liao like a wolf.

"Listen Zhang Liao!"

Yu Xin no longer called General Zhang Liao, but called him his name directly. His voice was hoarse, and he had a beast-like cry in his throat. He raised his knife to point at Zhang Liao, "Zhang Gong has an order to return to Youzhou. For the sake of being the same Cao army, you can leave. If you dare to stop him, don't blame me for being ruthless."

Zhang Liao sighed in his heart. Cao Zhang really ordered them to retreat north. This undoubtedly gave up Qingzhou. He had no choice but to whisper: "You must obey Zhanggong's orders, and I have nothing to say, but I hope that General Yu should put the overall situation first and stay in Qingzhou. The Han army went north to Bohai County was just a delaying strategy. They must go south to Qingzhou, hope..."

Before Zhang Liao finished speaking, the soldiers around him shouted, "We are from Youzhou and are going back to our hometown!"

The shouting was noisy, drowning Zhang Liao's voice. Yu Xin sneered and said to Zhang Liao again: "Do you understand? We are Youzhou Army, what does Qingzhou have to do with us! I will give you another chance, you will leave now, otherwise..."

Yu Xin raised his hand, and thousands of soldiers raised their crossbows and pointed them at Zhang Liao and his five personal soldiers. Zhang Liao sighed and turned around and said to his personal soldiers: "Let's go!"

Zhang Liao turned his horse's head and led his five personal soldiers to quickly run out of the camp. The soldiers around him swarmed forward. Yu Xin stopped the restless soldiers and shouted loudly: "Let them go!"

Soon, Zhang Liao led his personal soldiers to leave the barracks, turned around and headed west, gradually disappearing into the night. Yu Xin laughed proudly and turned to the generals and said, "Pack up your luggage, we will return to Youzhou after dawn!"

The camp was filled with cheers, and the soldiers began to pack their luggage. One large tent disappeared, bags of food were placed on large trucks, and weapons were packed. At the same time, on a hill not far from the camp, Zhang Liao was silently staring at the camp, his eyes full of melancholy.

At this time, a confidant who had followed him for many years whispered: "Cao Wei is worried about internal and external troubles, and the situation is over. Why don't the general find another one?"

Zhang Liao shook his head, "I don't know, but Mr. Wei treats me well. How can I abandon him for my own benefit when he is worried and troubled!"

After saying that, Zhang Liao sighed a long time and said to the soldiers behind him: "Let's go!"

He turned his horse's head and ran down the mountain. The personal soldiers also urged the horse to follow Zhang Liao and rushed towards the distance.

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After dawn, the Youzhou army, which successfully broke away from Zhang Liao's control, drove north. Most of the soldiers were from Youzhou. Not only because Cao Zhang issued an order, they were more homesick and eager to return to their hometown. The two forces converged, making the northward return of Youzhou extremely smooth, and Zhang Liao could only leave sadly.

Two days later, Wan Youzhou Army entered Pingyuan County and prepared to cross the Yellow River from Gaotang County to the north. Opposite the Yellow River in Gaotang County is Pingyuan County. This area is a famous grain-producing area in Hebei, and grain supplements can be obtained in Pingyuan County.

More importantly, the Han army was in the Nanpi area of ​​Bohai County, and they had to bypass Bohai County and go north from Hejian County to Youzhou.

Gaotang County is a famous ferry crossing in the lower reaches of the Yellow River. This area is flat and the water flows smoothly. It is an ideal place to cross the Yellow River. Especially on both sides are regions with developed agriculture, with a large population, and the demand for crossing the river is also very strong.

In the morning, the Wanyouzhou army arrived at the bank of the Yellow River. It was late October. The autumn wind was bleak, the leaves were falling, and the millet and grain had been harvested into the warehouse. The earth appeared gray and black.

Today is the New Year of the Grain, and all parts of the world have a bumper harvest. The grain in Pingyuan County, the largest grain-producing county in Hebei also has a bumper harvest. The warehouse is full of new grain, which is a big temptation for the Youzhou army, which lacks military rations.

Like other Cao's army, the Youzhou army also used rafts to cross the river. The rafts were easy to carry and could be combined at will. Large rafts could even cross the cavalry at one time. Although rafts could not be used for water wars, crossing the river alone was more convenient than ships and was widely welcomed by Cao's army.

Within an hour, thousands of large and small rafts threw into the Yellow River. Ten thousand soldiers rode on rafts and paddled across the river. There were dense black spots on the river surface. Although it was convenient to cross the river in Gaotang County, the river surface was very wide, which was more than ten miles away, and it would take at least an hour to cross the Yellow River.

General Yu Xin also boarded a large raft and looked eastward. For some reason, he felt a sense of uneasiness in his heart. This uneasiness came from his smooth journey northward and marched from Qi County to the northwest for several miles. They did not encounter any obstacles, nor did they encounter the scouts of the Han army, and the Han army seemed to disappear out of thin air.

Yu Xin’s twenty years of military experience also told him that this situation was abnormal and there must be some hidden danger. Although he vaguely realized that something was wrong, the soldiers were as eager as they returned home, and he could not stop because of a kind of inner uneasiness.

Just then, a soldier suddenly pointed to the west and shouted: "General, warship!"

Yu Xin suddenly turned around and saw that on the river behind him, countless warships appeared at some point, with sails like clouds, slashing waves and rushing towards them.

Yu Xin complained repeatedly. He had been guarding against the Han army coming from the east and sent countless scouts to patrol the bank of the Yellow River to the east. He did not find the Han army warships, but did not expect that the Han army was not in Bohai County, but behind them.

Yu Xin shouted anxiously: "Retreat back to the shore! Retreat back to the shore quickly!"

His shouts were covered by the wind and could not spread far. However, at this time, the soldiers of Youzhou soldiers on the river surface all discovered the Han army warships coming. They were in a panic. The timing of the Han army's appearance was very accurate. Just halfway through the Cao army, they attacked halfway, causing most of the Cao army to retreat and advance too late. There was a panic of terrifying shouts coming from the river surface.

On the front of a warship of two thousand stones, Gan Ning sneered. He led his army to Hebei for this moment. He ambushed the Cao army in Youzhou. The Han army had been north for more than two months and had already breathed a sigh of relief. At this time, the war finally came. All ten thousand navy soldiers were ready to fight for the first time. The warship rushed towards countless Cao army rafts on the water like a sharp sword.

The turbid waves soared into the sky, screams resounded across the river, and rafts fell over the violent impact of the Han army warships. There were Cao army soldiers who fell into the water everywhere, begging and helping sounds rising and falling on the water, but they were the ruthless arrows of Han soldiers.

Rafts can only be used to cross rivers. When faced with the impact of naval warships, they have no power to fight back, and they do not even use the impact of Han warships. The waves discharged from the water as they pass by are enough to overturn the large rafts.

A two thousand stone Han army warship rushed around the surface of the Yellow River. For more than a dozen rounds, thousands of rafts were basically knocked over. Arrows on the warship were like rain, and Cao's soldiers who were struggling in the river ruthlessly shot and killed the river soldiers. The plasma dyed the river red, and broken and leaking rafts were floating everywhere.

Under the desperate paddles of many soldiers, Yu Xin finally rushed to the north bank of the Yellow River. More than 2,000 Youzhou soldiers who came ashore were gathered on the north bank. They looked at the killing of the Han army warships in the Yellow River helplessly. Everyone was frightened and didn't know where they would go.

Just as General Yu Xin came ashore, the soldiers of Youzhou soldiers on the shore suddenly burst into panic. When Yu Xin looked up, he saw two Han troops coming to Cao's army on the shore, one left and one right. The Cao's soldiers had already become frightened birds, and no one organized resistance and ran around.

A Han army came to him with iron guns, and Yu Xin's war horse and big sword had already fallen into the water. He couldn't escape, so he had to pick up a spear and stab him towards him. The Han general was Ling Tong. He and Ding Feng each led 5,000 troops to wait on both sides of the north and south to kill the defeated generals of the Youzhou army.

Ling Tong had long seen Yu Xin. Yu Xin's armor actually showed that he had extraordinary status and this contribution; how could Ling Tong let it go? He picked up the spear in Yu Xin's hand with a big iron spear, pressed his wrist, and pierced Yu Xin with a shot. Yu Xin screamed and died on the spot. He was sorry for him that he had just escaped from the killing on the river, but died at Ling Tong's hands.

Ling Tong lifted his body high, and the cheers of the Han army around him resounded throughout the sky.

On the south bank of the Yellow River, Ding Feng also led 5,000 Han troops to encircle and suppress more than 1,000 Cao's soldiers who fled back. Cao's soldiers knelt on the ground and surrendered, and no one was willing to resist.

In just one hour, the Cao army in Wanyouzhou was completely wiped out by the Han army, and more than 20,000 Cao army soldiers died in the Yellow River, and the number of casualties even exceeded that of the Central Plains War.

Two days later, the Han army warships appeared again on the sea outside Le'an County. The Wan Han army landed in Qingzhou and occupied Qi County again. This time, the Han army no longer confronted Cao's army. The army was full of murderous aura and the soldiers pointed directly at Cao Xiu's army.

But to Gan Ning and Lu Xun's surprise, shortly after the Han army re-entered Qi County, they received an emergency order from the King of Han, ordering them to negotiate peace with Cao Xiu, and the two families continued to confront each other and were not in a hurry to occupy Qingzhou.
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