While Guan Yu was drawing the camp, Jiang Yiqu and Wen Chou on the opposite side also discovered this situation.

Jiang Yiqu could have taken advantage of the cavalry's maneuver power to quickly go back and go far enough to Guan Yu's side back, and then cross the Luoshui River to intercept Guan Yu's rear route again. However, as Guan Yu also began to retreat, he tightly defended the north bank of Luoshui while retreating, which greatly reduced Jiang Yiqu's detour speed and efficiency.

Coupled with the news that Guan Yu's army suddenly released that "Guan Yu was injured by an arrow shot by Jiang Yiqu's Youzhou cavalry", there were so many smoke bombs, and Jiang Yiqu became increasingly afraid to take the initiative to seek war.

He also had to inform the situation encountered on the front line that he had just rushed from the sour zao outside Hulao Pass last night to the military supervisor of Wen Chou's army to listen to the opinions of the military supervisor. Although the two departments were only twenty miles apart, the messenger's round trip also required some time to delay.

(Note: Yuan Shao often sends his confidant advisers to serve as military supervisors, Ju Su is the chief military supervisor of each army. In addition, troops like Yan Liang and Wen Chou that lead tens of thousands of people to fight also have temporary military supervisors. This time, the military supervisor was Shen Pei, and Hebei sent a counselor to cooperate with Yan Liang and Wen Chou many times)

After careful consideration, Shen Pei suggested that Jiang Yiqu speed up the back, and even go around to the east of Luoyang City, and then cross the Luo River north to block Guan Yu's retreat, so that it should be able to open a sufficient safe distance to prevent Guan Yu from cheating.

Once it is found that the combat power of Guan Yu's army has not been damaged, it can also change its tricks in time to avoid the war. It can even consider first dividing troops to surrender and accept Lei Bo's adaptation.

Jiang Yiqu implemented the plan of auditing and supporting: Since Guan Yu might be showing weakness and luring the enemy into fraud, then he should go a little further and avoid Guan Yu's fraud.

The remaining half of the day on the ninth day of the fifth lunar month is spent in this kind of mobile warfare.

In order to delay Guan Yu's speed, Wen Chou occasionally sent light troops to harass him head-on, so that Guan Yu had to form a formation and retreat without using the long snake formation that marched faster. However, Guan Yu was rigorous in governing the army and defeated all the harassments that delayed time one by one, so the marching speed had to slow down a little.

In the evening of Shen, Jiang Yiqu finally walked around twenty miles west than Guan Yu, and saw the city wall on the east side of Luoyang City.

Jiang Yiqu felt that there had been enough distance. On the one hand, some people were divided, about three or four thousand, and he called for opening the city gate to let some Yuan army cavalry enter the city to surrender, and controlled some of the city gates.

On the other hand, he brought the remaining 12,000 cavalry to cross the Luoshui River from the east gate of Luoyang, and Wancheng directly threatened Guan Yu's flank.

After all, Luoshui is an important tributary of the Yellow River. Most of the river sections are more than 100 meters, which is 50 or 60 feet wide. In the east of Luoyang City, there is a section that is particularly wide, which is as large as 300 feet wide. However, although this place is wide, it is precisely because of its wideness that the water is shallow and slow, and the water volume is evenly distributed.

If more than 10,000 cavalrymen from Jiang Yiqiu had to cross the river in other places, they had to find boats. When they arrived at the wide and shallow and gentle river channel east of Luoyang City, they could find shallows to let their horses pass by and unable to die. They just had to walk slowly and be cautious.

Jiang Yiqu and even Yan Liang and Wen Chou had never attacked Luoyang before. Their understanding of the surrounding geography must be more theoretical, and they rely on the guidance of other seniors in the same camp who had served as officials in Luoyang and even led soldiers.

For example, Yuan Shao himself, plus Chunyu Qiong, these two were one of the eight lieutenants in the West Garden of Luoyang back then, and were very familiar with the geography of military use around Luoyang. However, Yuan Shao was arrogant and most of the Hebei generals who had never been to Luoyang needed geography knowledge and details before the war, so they could only ask Chunyu Qiong for advice.

Jiang Yiqiu's decision to cross the river here was also the result of combining theory with practice. After starting to cross the river, he realized that the speed of the troops crossing the river was slower than expected.

The three hundred feet wide river channel should allow the horses to slowly pass by, and they would not be able to walk without half an incense stick. If there are too many horses in parallel, they will easily step on the silt beaches that are not shallow enough to sink. If there are fewer parallels, there will be no enough horses to share the impact of the Luo River flow.

In the initial attempt, because of unfamiliar with hydrology, dozens of cavalry and horses drowned and washed away.

When Jiang Yiqiu crossed the river slowly, he suddenly noticed that thousands of cavalry rushed towards the north bank on the east side, and his troops were in a state of being "half-crossing".

"Guan Yu? How could he come so quickly? There are only five or six thousand horses in his army at most. Our army has been confronting them for two days, how could it not know?

At noon just now, in order to withdraw his troops, the horse team assigned to pull that strange cart. How could it be that there was enough horsepower to suddenly accelerate to attack me? Moreover, the speed of this cavalry marching is probably faster than when he killed General Yan the day before yesterday! How could this be done!"

Jiang Yiqu was filled with depression and a little despair. He felt that the amount he had left was large enough, and it was at least twenty miles away from Guan Yu. It was definitely time for the whole army to cross the river.

Guan Yu changed his tricks temporarily. Could it be that he gathered troops and formed a combat formation? None of these are needed? How could he be so fast?

It was not until Guan Yu's cavalry came close that Jiang Yiqu solved this doubt in his heart that Guan Yu was proud of, but he didn't even wear the forging steel breastplates! Other equipment that would cause the troops to be too heavy and slow were omitted, and the horse's leather chest pockets were not equipped either.

Guan Yu temporarily adjusted his Iron Cavalry equipment and obtained the power similar to that of a light cavalry. At the same time, he continued to use the combat tactics of heavy cavalry?

Who could have expected this trick to temporarily take off the iron armor that Liu Bei's camp has relied on for many years in a special specific battlefield environment in exchange for a faster and better opportunity to arrive at the battlefield?

Although the defense has indeed plummeted without iron armor, you can't stand Jiang Yiqiu's troops just crossed half of the river! Once the disadvantage of light armor is offset by the advantage of half-crossing attack, they still have obvious advantages.

In horror, Jiang Yiqu also saw Guan Yu's iconic red-faced beard and the eye-catching blue dragon sword. Even though he was still not able to see other details clearly, Jiang Yiqu still felt a chill.

He didn't know that Guan Yu was just to boost morale and stabilize people's hearts, and the weak was solid. From beginning to end, Guan Yu was running with a knife in one hand and directed his men to rush to kill. He didn't get up at all because the injury on his right hand made him unable to exert force at all.

Even if you are riding a horse without any force, Guan Yu feels a slight pain in the wound on his right arm because of the increased blood pressure due to the accelerated blood circulation. Perhaps after the bluff is over, the wound here will collapse again, which will take several more days to heal.

However, Guan Yu's appearance was already very effective. Because before the war, Yuan Shao's cavalry heard that "Guan Yu was caught in an arrow the day before yesterday and was in a hurry to retreat quickly and lose all the tents and other supplies." So as long as Guan Yu showed his face, the Yuan's cavalry would feel panic that "we were trapped again."

This made thousands of people feel this thorn, and their morale and fighting will be hit. It was originally a huge buff, which was better than Guan Yu killing hundreds of people with his own hands.

Jiang Yiqu didn't have the courage to confirm whether Guan Yu had the ability to rush to kill himself. There were not many personal soldiers who had arranged a formation around him, so he decisively started to tear off his iron armor when Guan Yu was a hundred steps away from him, and then jumped into the Luoshui with a thud and tried to dive and hide his whereabouts and return to the south bank.

As a result, Jiang Yiqu obviously overestimated his water quality as a Hebei general. Although he could swim a little, the technical action of "swimming" was obviously too high. If he accidentally failed to master it, he was washed downstream of the Luoshui River.

Fortunately, he was a general. The soldiers next to him stared at him to protect him, shouting that the soldiers who had not crossed the river on the south bank had been searching for him, but at least they did not drown. He was just unconscious for a short while, and was found by the soldiers, choked on the water with a hammer on his back, and woke up without becoming a shameful drowning general.

"Cough cough cough... how long have I fainted?" Jiang Yiqiu, who choked out of the river, lay down for a while and calmed down, and realized that he had fought another battle just now, and hurriedly cared about military affairs.

"Captain, during the period when you were drowning and unconscious, we were already defeated. Thousands of cavalry on the North Bank were killed and injured and fled, many of which were killed and drowned by the Luoshui River. Our army lost at least 20% of the cavalry. However, if you take it, you may be able to rescue some missing ones. Guan Yu's army has passed, and we dare not pursue it any longer."

Jiang Yiqu sighed with regret, but he had no choice but to do anything. He didn't have Jia Xu around him. He didn't know the truth that "after the victorious soldiers failed to pursue the defeated soldiers, he could consider using the defeated soldiers to pursue the victorious soldiers and might win again."

Since they lost two games in a row, Jiang Yiqu and Wen Chou lost confidence and dared to join forces to follow the crowd slowly, farther away, and only asked for gifts to leave the country and send this plague god.

...

After getting rid of Wen Chou and Jiang Yiqu’s close pursuit, Guan Yu finally marched quickly and retreated steadily to the direction of Xiaopingjin’s way. All the horses were vacated again to pull the caravan.

After all, the Yellow River flows from west to east. On the way to Guan Yu withdrew, these caravans were pulled by horses on the shore. If you paddle down the river, you need to drive against the current, so try to take the land by the flat river.

However, Guan Yu finally killed Yan Liang, defeated Jiang Yiqu and scared him to jump into the river and choke on the water. He also forced Wen Chou away, but he did not arrive in Xiaopingjin safely.

Just when Guan Yu was a little relaxed, a defeated soldier fled to Xiaopingjin. Guan Yu was shocked and quickly stopped the way to find the officers among the defeated soldiers to ask questions. After searching for a while in the chaos, he found a blood-covered general. It was Hao Pu who was left by Guan Yu at the ferry guarding the Xiaopingjin ferry.

Guan Yu asked anxiously: "What's going on? Did Yuan Shao's army launch an attack on us from Hanoi so quickly? Or did the former Yuan Shu's former subordinate of Hangu Pass suddenly attack? You have two thousand people at Xiaopingjin Ferry, and those few people in Hangu Pass can't do anything to you!"

After asking, Guan Yu was still very sympathetic and asked Hao Pu to drink some water. The other party gasped for a moment before crying: "General, it is Wei Yue, the general of Lu Bu. Cheng Lian used his elite troops to cross the ferry and captured the Xiaopingjin Ferry. This is what happened this afternoon.

In order to persuade the surrender, the enemy army also attacked our army, saying that at this moment, Qingshui Hekou and Dongyuan were also attacked by Zhang Liao and others respectively. They also said... They also said that Lu Bu would come to take the general's head in person and Zhang Liao would take over the entire Hedong territory."

Guan Yu angrily rebuked: "This is impossible! The killing of Yan Liang was only three days ago, which means that our army and Yuan Shao's army had formal conflicts, but only three days ago! If Yuan Shao wanted to start a full war against us, the messenger would return and make a decision without time? Is Lu Bu gathering troops from Shangdang or the Ye Wang, and marching and transiting without time?

At this time, with Yuan Shao's indecisiveness, he could hear the news of Yan Liang's death and make a decision to start a full war. It would be great to send a messenger to notify Lu Bu. Maybe Lu Bu hasn't even been notified yet! How could Lu Bu's army appear in Qingshui River in Hedong County?"

Even the anger is angry, but it should be a fact that Xiaopingjin Ferry was taken away. After a brief anger, Guan Yu fell into a tense thought: What depth has the enemy's invasion on the rear? How can he reopen the way back if the road was cut off?
Chapter completed!