When Cheng Ji and Qin Mi surrounded the rest of the battalions, Zhao Yun had completely killed the Qing Qiang soldiers and the Old soldiers and fled in anger, and then evacuated.

Liu Yan's Shu army had no large-scale cavalry, so he could only watch Zhao Yun break up and escape, and the morale of the entire army was severely hit.

They quickly cleaned the battlefield, repaired the places where the fortifications in the camp were broken, and counted some losses to bury the bodies. They found that there were more than 1,000 barbarian soldiers who were killed in battle and were seriously injured and could not be cured. Some minor injuries could be treated.

However, the source of troops in the two battalions, which originally had a fixed quota of 10,000 people, was only 30% left, or more than 3,000 people!

In other words, except for the dead, at least 5,000 people fled because they were beaten to the bombing camp. More than a thousand of them were captured by Zhao Yun when he withdrew his troops, and the rest should have fled to Longquan Mountain next to him.

The barbarians are brave in war, but their discipline is poor, and they are all supported by morale. Because these soldiers had never faced the cavalry on the plains in their entire lives, they dispersed fearfully and fled to the mountains in panic. Without the constraints of the Barbarian King to gather their troops again, these people would not come back and continue to work hard for Liu Yan.

Anyway, Qingqiang and the Sou soldiers are both mountain ethnic groups, and they live in woodcutting and hunting, and their ability to survive in the wild is extremely strong. It is late autumn of the ninth month of the lunar calendar, and the mountains and forests are not too cold. It is the harvest of wild fruits and wild animals are well-fed and ready to hibernate. Three thousand hunters are creeping into Longquan Mountain, and it is no problem to live for a month. They have to be forced out if they cannot find food in winter.

In addition to the barbarians who reduced the number of troops by 7,000, the other two battalions also suffered a slight loss, about 1,000 each. These losses were not all casualties, and many of them escaped in the chaos. Therefore, Zhao Yun's battle reduced the size of Liu Yan's army by 9,000, and the total front-line troops decreased from 60,000 to about 50,000.

Wang Lei counted all the losses, and then he went back to the back camp with a bitter face to apologize to Liu Yan.

In fact, when Wang Lei's camp was broken through early in the morning, Liu Yan was awakened, but he was sick and did not immediately take the matter.

"Eunuch! He is a humble and incompetent person and cannot restrain the barbarians from escaping. In today's battle, the number of our soldiers will be reduced by 9,000! Please sue you!" Wang Lei said very regretful.

Liu Yan knew that Wang Lei was still loyal. At this time, it was time to use people. He didn't want to speak ill of each other. He just waved his hand in an upset: "Victory and defeat are common among military strategists? We don't know how to deal with Hu Qi's rushing forward? The key is to learn lessons? Have you thought of a way to crack it?"

Wang Lei paused: "It's not yet... I think the most important thing is to speed up the construction of fortifications? Continue to dig deep into the pit in front of the camp, continue to pile up the earth walls, and all the antlers should be laid as soon as possible.

Today's battle? It's only two days since our army established a camp? The front of more than ten miles wide could not be covered with deer antlers to stop the cavalry from dying. Zhao Yun found a gap and took advantage of the situation. One of the fortifications like deer antlers had not been laid, and the rest were in vain."

"Ha..." Liu Yan shook his head speechlessly. He had no higher expectations for Wang Lei. This is the stupid way to fill the manpower, but since there is no other good trick, let's do it first.

...

The army was resting and recuperating until noon, and two reinforcements of thousands of people arrived later. It was drawn by the prefect of Guanghan Pang Xi from two county towns on the northern front.

Some reinforcements made up for today's war damage and fled. Liu Yan was a little calmer. He also issued a list of talents and asked the entire army for advice and suggestions. He found a deployment strategy for Zhao Yun's residing camp and raiding again. He also said that even if it was originally just a minor official, as long as the strategy was effective and feasible, no matter whether it was age or qualification, it would be promoted immediately? At least to a military rank of 400 stones.

This kind of extraordinary promotion is still rare under the Han Dynasty's official selection system, but who made it impossible for the time being in war, and everything can only be followed by force.

After giving out a heavy reward, two grassroots officials offered suggestions that afternoon. Liu Yan endured the pain and took time to listen humbly.

The first person to offer advice was a minor official from Chengdu County. He followed the army here and named Zheng Du: "Emistress, our army should send scouts to search at night, or divide the souvenirs into the mountainous areas on the east side of Nan'an County. Once Zhao Yun's troops were found to leave the city, he would try to warn him. There was no force under Zhao Yun who was good at crossing mountains and ridges, so that we could ensure the safety of our scouts."

Liu Yan felt that he could give it a try, so he asked the second suggestion.

That was the acting county magistrate of Wei County under the command of Guanghan Prefect Pang Xi, named Huang Quan. Today, he was ordered by Pang Xizhi to assist in leading reinforcements from Wei County to the front line.

Huang Quan advised: "Empress, our army should set up a whistle dock several miles in front of the camp. The whistle dock is not large, but only ten feet in a square meter, and dozens of people are enough to hide. But be sure to rammed earth and build a wall of two feet, so that the cavalry can't break through in a hurry. At this scale, thousands of young people can be repaired in one day.

When Zhao Yun attacks the camp again, our army will be warned several miles in advance. We also learned that Zhao Yun's main attack direction is beneficial to our army, but the Changqian battalions have more than ten miles of each surprise attack. Each time they are attacked, each army cannot move forward together. If the camps at the left and right ends are attacked, it will take half an hour for reinforcements to arrive in the distance.

Therefore, Zhao Yun left as soon as he touched it. Every time he was just fighting with one of our troops, he was not at a loss in the number of people on the local battlefield. Only in this way can we gain time for our troops to gather and deal with it."

After hearing this, Liu Yan couldn't help but nodded frequently.

This is indeed the reason for his defeat today. He claimed to be 60,000 troops, but most of them had not yet reacted and the battle was over. Zhao Yungui was in Nan'an County and he would come out to fight if he wanted to. Every time he concentrated his troops to pick a soft persimmon on the local battlefield, it was so disgusting.

Liu Yan praised, "Okay, just follow the plan. If the rectification method you proposed is indeed effective, it can prevent Zhao Yun from attacking the camp again. I will immediately promote you to govern the army."

Zheng Du and Huang Quan are just in their prime. If they weren't for the rapid promotion in war, it wouldn't be the turn of such young people to show their bright spots.

Liu Yanjun immediately strengthened the battalion defense according to this arrangement. Zhao Yun also felt that the enemy would definitely be wary of it, so he did not continue immediately.

After a day or two, Zhao Yun used the same trick again, but found that Liu Yanjun was strictly alert according to Huang Quan's deployment. Thousands of cavalry ran away, but they only took some time to pull out a whistle and killed dozens of enemy soldiers.

However, because of the delay of time, when he arrived in front of Liu Yan's camp, Liu Yan's army had successfully predicted Zhao Yun's main attack direction and had already assembled. Zhao Yun was unwilling to give up, so he tentatively used semi-circular tactics to suddenly fire an arrow and quickly withdrew. Because of the protection of the camp, Zhao Yun did not gain any advantage in one wave of attacks, but instead killed or injured dozens of cavalry.

When Liu Yancai heard that Zhao Yun had retreated, he breathed a sigh of relief and immediately fulfilled his promise and officially promoted Zheng Du and Huang Quan to military administration.

Liu Yan's army was increasing on the southern front, and he officially entered a stalemate with Zhao Yun.

...

From the Qing County of Guanghan County to Nan'an, you must first pass through the Luoshui River Valley near Luo County, cross the gap in Longquan Mountain, enter the Chengdu Plain, and then go south along the five counties of Luo County, Xindu, Chengdu, Guangdu and Wuyang. The total distance is more than 300 miles.

(Note: After entering the Chengdu Plain, the county town is very dense. There is one county at 30 or 40 miles away because the population is also dense. There is a 150 miles distance from Xi County to Luo County, and the next four counties are only 150 miles away)

Therefore, it has been six days since Huang Quan arrived at the front battlefield in Nan'an.

He didn't know that when he first set off with the recruits recruited by Wei County, Zhang Fei from Liu Bei's North Army had already occupied Deyang and Guanghan County, bordering Guanghan County and Ba County, which were only a few dozen miles away from Wei County.

Who made Zhao Yun fight too much after going around the southern line? Zhang Fei, who was steadily advancing on the northern route with infantry and ships, was like a transparent man at the beginning of the battle.

Because the infantry marched slowly, when Zhao Yun even reached Jade County, Zhang Fei occupied Deyang, the first county in Guanghan. He also took it away with the imperial edict and the swearing of surrenders only.

When Zhang Fei advanced to Guanghan again, he found that the city was already empty, and news was circulating everywhere that "the southern line had been attacked by Zhao Yun to Nan'an, and he was about to break through Longquan Mountain and was about to enter the Chengdu Plain."

Zhang Fei was so depressed that he wanted to recruit more prisoners, but it was difficult to make the enemy surrender. However, he yelled loudly and surrendered. The problem was that when counting the number of people, he found that there were not many guards in each county!

These were originally the target of my old Zhang’s surrender, but they were all transferred in advance to deal with Zilong!

When he walked to Xi County, he heard that Huang Quan, the acting county magistrate of Xi County, had just left and was almost free. Some counties surrendered too quickly before, and the county magistrate did not intend to inform Liu Yan, so Liu Yan did not know Zhang Fei's actual situation as soon as possible.

However, after all, Xi County is very close to the Chengdu Plain, and there are still some close friends who are interested in Liu Yan. At least the information about the fallen was transmitted immediately. However, in front of the Nan'an army, the information was sent to Liu Yan, at least two days after Xi County officially fell.

So, when Liu Yan found out, Zhang Fei had already gone north from Wei County for more than a hundred miles and got between Pang Xi's headquarters and Mianzhu.

Pang Xi's letter of help also arrived on the same day.

"Report! The envoy! Zhang Fei, the other main force of Liu Bei's army, had arrived at the periphery of Fucheng two days ago. Prefect Pang begged the envoy to withdraw some of the reinforcements transferred from the south, otherwise his troops would be empty and he would be unable to repel Zhang Fei in the field. He could only choose to defend the city to death! The counties in the southeastern part of Guanghan County have been surrendered by Zhang Fei!"

When the bad news came, Liu Yan was so angry that he almost came up. He screamed and fainted on the ground because of his blood pressure. Fortunately, the doctor used Xian Fang Huoxing Drink and Bazhen Decoction, two decoctions that specifically targeted the back of the symptomatic cervical swelling, and then he recovered.

"I must take care of myself! The poisonous ulcer has broken out of pus. It is no longer possible to rely on the immortal recipe to live life. It must be supplemented with Bazhen Decoction to replenish the pus." The doctor repeatedly told Liu Yan not to be shocked and angry, otherwise he might die at any time.

"Let Pang Xi defend the city to the death, I...I will go back to Mianzhu in person." Liu Yan said gaspingly. He was afraid that Mianzhu, the old nest, would be persuaded to surrender directly by Zhang Fei because no one was in charge, and that would be all over.

"Then... we finally brought the entire army here to intercept Zhao Yun, should we stay or leave?" Wang Lei, Huang Quan, and Zheng Du asked one after another.

Liu Yan gritted his teeth: "Wang Lei, please leave a piece of the rear, and the rest of the people will go back to Chengdu with me and Mianzhu. Now that things have come to this point, I can only let Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei fight together in the field, and finally decide the outcome.

Otherwise, they would use the method of "Peng Yue and Chu" to attack the north, and our army would attack the north, and they would attack the south, and sooner or later they would run away. Our army had no cavalry and its speed was far less than Zhao Yun. Zhao Yun could avoid the battle if he wanted to avoid the battle. Alas. I just blamed me for taking a look and thought that Zhao Yun had already brought most of the main forces of Liu Bei's army. I didn't expect that Zhang Fei would have so many troops and advance so quickly!"

Liu Yan dared not think about anything now. He just wanted to fight in the end with a fierce field battle based on the advantage of numbers.

If you win, everything is easy to say. You should recover slowly and find a way to find a way to get a detained son from Dong Zhuo or elsewhere.

If he loses, at most Mianzhu and Chengdu are left with two lonely cities. He and Pang Xi each guard one county, defend the city to the death, and completely abandon the entire Yizhou and the main army.
Chapter completed!