Yan Liang's death was a pot of cold water for Wen Chou and Jiang Yiqu. Although Wen Chou had a good relationship with Yan Liang, he was not in a hurry to be arrogant and arrogant and think that he could avenge Yan Liang.

After he and Jiang Yiqu planned to choose a more secure way of fighting, which was to bite Guan Yu and not let him go, but he did not give Guan Yu a chance to fight quickly.

After all, Guan Yu's reputation in this life has reached a level of "shocking China" ahead of schedule, and Wen Chou knows how much he has.

What's more, Wen Chou in official history is not as written in the Romance. When he heard that Yan Liang was killed, he went to seek revenge and was killed by Guan Yu. Wen Chou was killed by Cao Cao. After taking Xun You's "bad enemy" trick, his soldiers robbed money and were in chaos. They were attacked by Cao's army and died in the chaos, which means they didn't know who died.

However, Luo Daida thought that Yan Liang was killed by Guan Yu was a foregone conclusion, so he made up half of his credit for him, which seemed neat.

On the night when Yan Liang died in battle, Wen Chou and Jiang Yiqu took a look at the damage to the war. The 20,000 cavalrymen who fought were killed, injured and fled and captured. The total losses totaled as much as 4,000 people.

In contrast, the total casualties of Guan Yu's troops were actually only about one thousand, but Wen Chou could not get the data now, so he could not compare them.

The reason why the losses were so heavy was that Yan Liang's military formation was drilled through, which led to Guan Yu being able to use an iron cavalry to grind meat in close combat with the light Youzhou thunder cavalry. The rear light cavalry was cut into vegetables and was very serious in the chaos. In the short period of time when he successfully withdrew from contact, more than 2,000 people were lost.

The total loss of the Zhajia heavy cavalry was close to 2,000, because half of them were lost when they were first cut. The remaining half of the casualties were because the light cavalry ran fast and the heavy cavalry ran slowly when they were withdrawn. Guan Yu formed a local fight with less and more when he fought, which led to a more crushing situation.

Many Yuan Shao's heavy cavalry knew that they could not escape, and there were brave people among the front-line officers, so they decisively led the team to cut off the rear and cover the friendly forces to distance themselves, resulting in heavy casualties.

There were about three or four hundred people, who were covered with indiscriminate arrow rain when their archers retreated and injured their horses and fell.

Since Guan Yu's army was able to clean up the battlefield by defeating one side, these horse-descending people and the wounded Yuan army in the previous battle naturally became prisoners of war. In comparison, almost all the wounded people of Guan Yu's army could be rescued. With these changes and deterioration, the defeated people seemed to be so miserable.

Wen Chou and Jiang Yiqu still had 75,600 people, but they did not dare to launch an offensive against Guan Yu, who had 24,000 left.

The two couldn't sleep at night and discussed the response at the bonfire at the door of the military tent. Jiang Yiqu suggested:

"The other disadvantage of today's defeat is that Guan Yu occupied the position in advance and chose the battlefield. General Yan just felt that the enemy was rare and he had a chance to win the encounter, so he made a rash move.

In Yanshi, the width of the detour between Heluo is too narrow, a total of more than ten miles wide, and it will be occupied by Yanshi County. Tens of thousands of cavalry troops cannot be carried out. Since the encounter has been completed and the lessons have been learned, we cannot bear these terrain disadvantages next time and cannot allow Guan Yu to choose a battlefield.

The cavalry troops can cross the Luoshui south, advance westward quickly and go around Guan Yu's side, and wait for an opportunity to return to attack the empty space. Anyway, the Luoshui is not wide. Once the main force on the north bank is tight, the cavalry can cross it at any time. If the detour is far enough, Guan Yu will not have any chance to cross it halfway."

Wen Chou nodded after hearing this. It was true that 70,000 to 80,000 people were gathered in the narrow frontal battlefield between Heluo, and even the number of people could not be exerted. If both sides fought in a formation, Guan Yu could completely fill the frontal battlefield with 24,000 people, but the reserve team was much smaller.

When there are too many people and fewer people, the width of the front of the battlefield is a great advantage. If the width is large, the two wings can encircle the enemy. If this cannot be played out, it will form a wheel battle or a tactic of adding fuel, which will benefit one side of the elite rather than one side of the more people.

Wen Chou made a decision: "What Captain Jiang said is very much, then this is how the 16,000 cavalry left by General Yan is still under your command. You will implement the tactics of rapid advancement of the South Crossing Luo River, threatening Guan Yu's side and behind. I led 60,000 infantry to block the front, so that Guan Yu could not take care of each other.

In addition, we should not be anxious to fight in the next few days. Wait a little while. When the inspector and supervisor catch up, maybe he has a more suitable solution. By the way, we also need time to report all the causes and effects of fighting against Liu Bei's army on the front line, so that those colleagues in charge of civil affairs can organize an excuse to start a full war."

Wen Chou said this, which made him seem not illiterate, but he still has some political common sense.

The battle between Liu Bei's camp and Yuan Shao's camp is still a "confrontation" and an "armed conflict". Neither side has issued an ultimatum on this incident and has officially declared war in full swing.

Although ancient China did not pay attention to the strict diplomacy, we still had to fight for the battles. Considering the speed of the messenger, it was still necessary to declare war for at least three days.

On the eighth day of May, the treatment of the wounded and the adjustment of the deployment of both sides passed safely.

Starting from the ninth day of the lunar month, Jiang Yiqu implemented Wen Chou's plan to cross the Luo River to the south, and advanced to Guan Yu's side that morning.

Guan Yu's scouts were also very keen and discovered this trend almost immediately, which led to Guan Yu having to recognize the situation and trying to adjust himself to a safer position.

...

On the noon of the ninth day of the lunar month, the Guanyu camp in Yanshi.

After Guan Yu was shot in an arrow on his right forearm, the military doctor in the camp treated him the wound as soon as possible.

Fortunately, it is just an ordinary mass-market arrow on the battlefield, not the kind of poison arrow that can be cooked in a pot of aconitum sauce when defending the city. So just clean and clean, bandage it with clean gauze, and apply anti-inflammatory herbs.

Liu Bei's camp now has a small amount of high-alcohol alcohol, which can be used to clean up the wounds after being injured by senior officers. Of course, Guan Yu's army also brought it on the expedition. As Guan Yu's identity, of course, he could also enjoy 40-50 degrees of alcohol washing the wound. In addition to the pain, he recovered faster.

After the wound was treated, after two nights of rest, at least it would not hinder Guan Yu from commanding the troops.

At this moment, he was serving several personal soldiers for dinner. Guan Ping and Zhao Lei were sitting next to him, reporting on the situation of the troops and supplies respectively. Yin Guan was sitting by the side for lunch. He was a staff officer and did not need to deal with daily trivial military affairs.

Then the scout entered the tent and reported the information about Jiang Yiqu detouring from south of the Luo River.

Guan Yu felt the wound on his arm hurt slightly for a few seconds, but his expression did not change, and he didn't even frown, but a drop of sweat hangs off the outer corner of his left eyebrow.

Yin Guan sat opposite him and quickly picked up a piece of linen cloth to wipe Guan Yu's sweat, whispering: "After these two days of contact and the previous prisoners have also been tortured. Wen Chou and Jiang Yiqu still have as many as 70,000 to 80,000 people. Even if they are willing to fight us, they are afraid they will not be sure of winning.

What's more, the general is injured now, but fortunately the enemy is not aware of the injury, so he dare not act rashly. It would be better to calm down and retreat slowly, kill Yan Liang, and win a small victory. This battle can be regarded as a momentum, and retreating will not damage the reputation of the king and the general.

If you stay for a long time, I am afraid that the Yuan army will have more and more reinforcements. Even if you fight to the death, you will be able to repel Wen Chou for the time being? You will still be unable to capture Luoyang City. Luoyang is now under the hands of Yuan Shao. After joining Lei Bo, it will be a hundred thousand troops to defend the city. Even if you put General Zhao and General Ma's troops in from Yique and Hangu Pass, you will not be able to capture Luoyang, which is guarded by 100,000 Yuan's troops."

Tactical victory has already won one game, but the strategic goal before the war is impossible to achieve. When the battle situation is in this range, the team is indeed a safe choice.

But generals like Guan Yu who have fought for more than ten years certainly know that they should not retreat in a hurry, and the more they have to retreat, the more they cannot show their rush to retreat. Otherwise, the enemy's pursuit would be as constant as the wolf pack that smelled the smell of blood.

It is best to pretend to escape like Cao Cao withdraws his troops, but leave the elite troops behind, and be fully prepared to fight to the end at any time, defeat the enemy's pursuers and then quickly escape.

Yin Guan persuaded Guan Yu from the current battlefield situation. After Yin Guan finished speaking, Zhao Lei couldn't help but add something from a diplomatic perspective with concern:

"General, before we sent troops, we came with the intention of "sneak attack on Luoyang and taking advantage of the last few generals trapped in the lonely city of Yuan Shu army to trick him into surrendering to his city." Now the development of the battle situation has far exceeded our expectations and is involved more and more.

Even if the king once hinted that you can find excuses to destroy the alliance with Yuan Shao when necessary. But we are not fully prepared to go to war with Yuan Shao in full. Our army has been dragged in Heluo for a long time, and Hedong's old nest may be threatened by Lu Bu, Bingzhou and Zhang Yang. Now they have the excuse to go to war in full."

This reason is also very important.

After thinking, Guan Yu ordered: "Spread news to the outside world, deliberately let the enemy know that I was caught in an arrow in my arm and could not fight in person. Then he drove his camp and returned quickly, all the war horses were pulled into caravans, and all the cavalry were walking.

Note that this must not only be done, but also let the enemy scouts see it. When marching, the chariots are outside to cover the infantry and let the enemy see that our horses are used to pull the cart temporarily.

I don’t want any of these supplies in the camp. I give up and show that the enemy is weak. Anyway, it’s May now, and there’s no camp. There’s just a little more mosquitoes at night and I can’t die of freezing.”

Yin Guan and Zhao Lei thought about it and realized that the general wanted to scare the enemy once before retreating. Although they were not sure about the effect of doing so, the army was subject to orders. Guan Yu, as the main general, felt that this was more effective in deceiving retreat and luring the enemy. Of course, the people below had to implement it.

In addition, another advantage of Guan Yu being able to do this is that Yanshi is not far from Heyin and Xiaopingjin Ferry. If you give up your baggage, you can get there in one day. Even if you bring a caravan, it will be enough for a day and a half.
Chapter completed!