After Zhang Fei arrived at the battlefield, he saw that the endgame was like this, so he roared and charged, and slaughtered wildly at the infantry who were still breathing on the north bank of Yishui.

Due to Zhang Fei's arrival, the morale of Cao's army became increasingly collapsed. The retreating troops did not care about waiting for the ships. The troops responsible for providing cover were completely in chaos, and all dived and swam to escape from Yishui.

Regardless of whether you can swim or not, those who can't swim can hold a broken wooden board and think that you can swim.

A considerable number of these troops were infantry under Zhang He.

Because they were not Cao Cao's confidants, the allocation priority of the ferry was "naturally" reduced. They were also asked to protect the rear of friendly troops and prevent the friendly troops from being opened and stabbed by Zhang and Zhao.

Now Zhang Fei swept across the river bank from west to east, and Zhao Yun swept across the river bank from east to west. What courage does these old Zhang He's subordinates have to resist?

After half a bloody battle, thousands of people were killed and drowned, the remaining troops began to collapse, and many surrendered.

During the chaos, Zhang He also tried to restrain his subordinates, organize resistance, and prevent greater losses caused by chaos.

After a fierce fighting between dogs and teeth, Zhang He actually bumped into Zhang Fei again. The two of them strangled them with their confidants and cavalrymen.

But this time Zhang He was not lucky enough to help Xu Chu. The two met. Because of the mutual contempt and despise each other, the insults of the past few days revealed the old truth. It was a new and old hatred together, and the score was particularly popular.

Zhang He knew that life and death were on the front line, so he also started to develop his martial arts skills, and showed his best condition in his life, and devoted himself to bloody battles for more than fifty rounds.

But in the end, his strength gradually disappeared, and his move flaws became more and more obvious. Zhang Fei took the opportunity to stab the shoulder with a spear, seriously injured and fell off the horse.

Fortunately, the battlefield was by the river. After Zhang He fell off his horse, he rolled down to Yishui, and fell into the river with Jia.

The night was heavy at the fourth day. Zhang Fei only thought that Zhang He must have drowned in iron armor, and he was not as good as chasing him in the chaos. He was afraid that his horse's hooves would fall into the mud, so he picked other soft persimmons and pinched them. In the end, Zhang He was caught by his subordinates who risked their lives to swim in the water.

However, even so, Zhang He drowned for more than a cup of tea before being rescued, and later left many sequelae.

For example, because the brain is hypoxia for a long time, although it is rescued, the brain is still damaged. At the same time, the root of the lungs is left, and the military doctor misdiagnosed as tuberculosis (in fact, it is because of inhalation of sewage, which leads to inhalation pneumonia).

As for the left shoulder that was stabbed by Zhang Fei with a spear, it caused the left arm to be unable to return to its fullest state, which did not exert much strength.

Once the news of Zhang He was seriously injured and life and death spread, the troops behind the Cao army became increasingly in a chain reaction and collapsed. That scene was even worse than when Zhang Fei beat Zhang He in the Battle of Langzhong in history, and he put down his weapons and knelt down and surrendered.

Moreover, Zhang He's good luck of "hard injury and death" is not something that everyone has.

Some people can't even drown in iron armor, so naturally others were sucked away by him.

Just now, on the other side of the battlefield, Gao Lan also supervised the battle and tried to save some time for his subordinates to retreat, but in the end he met Zhao Yun in the fight.

In the night battle, the two of them never had a common name, but they fought and rushed to kill each other, and stabbed the enemy when they saw it.

Zhao Yun flew up and down with an iron spear, like dancing pear blossoms and floating snow. There was no enemy in the gun, and he had already killed more than a hundred people during the battle.

The iron-armored cavalry who followed Zhao Yun closely followed him was like a pair of red-burned steel knives cutting into butter, and it was effortless to slaughter.

The spears and halberds of Hebei soldiers want to break the iron armored cavalry, and they usually rely on strict battles. The spears and halberds are like forests to face the enemy. Now there is no formation and it is trampled on by the back of the breastplate cavalry. It is not a destruction.

Suddenly, Zhao Yun saw an enemy general facing him, who seemed to be wearing exquisite iron armor. He shot him with one shot and found that the enemy general could not be killed with one shot.

Zhao Yun then concentrated and became steady, observed carefully and used all his strength to assassinate the opponent in three moves.

However, after the killing, Zhao Yun didn't know that he was killing Gao Lan, but he just thought that there was an unknown young general with good martial arts among the enemy. But after the killing, Cao's army was indeed even more chaotic.

It was not until dawn the next day that there was no Cao army alive on the north bank of Yishui. The Han army began to clean the battlefield. Zhao Yun learned from the surrendered prisoners that he accidentally killed Gao Lan during the fifth day.

As the first ray of sunshine shines on the river in the early autumn wind at the end of July blew, the originally not cold weather actually gave people a trace of coldness from the depths of the soul.

The wind is whistling and the Yishui is cold. Those who cross the Yishui north will not be allowed to return.

On the surface of the Yishui River, before Cao's army crossed the river last night, they used shipwrecks to build reefs to block the waterway to prevent Taishici's navy from directly driving the ship to cut off the return journey.

Therefore, when the bodies of soldiers who died in battle at night float downstream, they mostly hang on the shipwreck reefs, and the more they are blocked, the more crowded they become, just like impurities in the water flow encountering the purifier filter element.

After dawn, Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei saw that the river surface at the shipwreck reefs had been blocked, the water flow became slow, and blood was accumulated in these poorly circulated corpse bays. The entire river surface was red and it would not dissipate for a long time.

It is estimated that there are at least 10,000 or 20,000 corpses in the river water and on the banks of the Yishui River. The number of people who surrendered and captured will not be less than the corpses in the river.

The last group of Cao soldiers who successfully withdrew did not wait for the boat to cross the river, nor did they have to swim and carry wooden boards. They directly stepped on the shallows formed by the reefs in the dark and walked directly across the river.

If I hadn't stepped on it and drowned in the darkness, it would have become a stepping stone for my comrades to escape from my life. And there would be basically no chance of struggling to get up, even if I could be aquatic and swim, it would be useless.

When the army on the plains collapsed, they trampled on themselves. Most of the fallen people had no chance to stand up, let alone in the river. Even if they didn't die immediately, they would be trampled to death.

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However, the battle result was so huge that Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun were still not satisfied with it.

They knew that Cao's army was seriously injured and unstable in their foothold. After a quick round of work, they felt that it was just right to take advantage of this opportunity to grab land and catch more enemies.

After all, the navy has the advantage of Zhao Yun. If he changes his position a little, he can use Taishici's fleet to transport most of the cavalry to the south bank. The Hebei Plain is without any dangers. After passing Yishui, it is very suitable for cavalry to continue chasing. As long as he does not encounter a city, he will simply go wherever he wants to go in the wild.

Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun led cavalry units with good physical strength, mainly light cavalry without iron armor, mainly archers and cavalrymen, and continued to chase dozens of miles south of Yishui within one day.

Anyway, there is no hard bones in the field of large corps, and this kind of plundering battle cannot use iron cavalry. Mobility and endurance are the most important, and light cavalry is enough.

Zhao Yun's troops chased the farthest place, and even chased to the north bank of the Zhang River, directly south to the next big river.

In the following days, the remaining enemies were cleaned up in this way. The Han army gradually completely wiped out the buffer zone south of the Yishui River and north of the Zhang River.

The Cao army who stayed in this area were either captured or killed and fled.

Cao Cao's own direct troops also realized this situation, so Cao Cao had no intention of gaining a foothold after passing Yishui.

He knew that either he would not retreat, and once he retreated, he would have to cross two rivers in a row and retreat to Nanpi City, the capital of Bohai County on the south bank of Zhangshui. Only by using Nanpijian City and Zhangshui can he gain a foothold.

Just like after the defeat of Chibi, it is definitely not enough to retreat a little bit, and you will still be chased and beaten, and you have to retreat to Jiangling in one breath.

Nowadays, it is also of this nature to retreat to Nanpi.

Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun chased and killed him all the way, occupying about 20% of the land in the north bank of the Zhang River in the northwest corner of Bohai County, temporarily taking over, and temporarily occupying more than half of the Hejian County in the west.

Of course, the Han army only cleaned the field and had no power to attack the city. The remaining troops of Cao's army hurried into the city and did not dare to come out. Considering that there is no danger between Yishui and Zhangshui, unless all of them can be taken to Jizhou, it would be meaningless to consider the temporary ownership of these fields.

But because it was the end of July and the busiest time of autumn harvest, Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun adapted to the situation and recruited some strong laborers to transport grain. The harvesters followed the military and civilians and men and immigrated to Youzhou in the future.

Then these civilians were asked to harvest all the grain from the two counties in Bohai and Hejian on the north bank of the Zhangshui River to supplement the Youzhou army's grain consumption this year.

Anyway, the population density of Jizhou is too large, and the problem of too many people and too few fields must be solved. It will not be bad to move some to Youzhou. If the world is peaceful, it will be moved to guard the border sooner or later.

Of course, Liu Bei's camp must not do the kind of thing that forced the relocation of all the people, and even harvesting food, it is impossible to fish out of the water. After all, it is necessary to leave stuttering for the people so that they can survive.

Just think that it was to collect the military farm tax that Cao Cao wanted to collect, which was about 40% of the actual harvest of the people. (But it is already much higher than the tax rate of Liu Bei's court,)

When choosing to immigrate, we also use promises to tempt the people to voluntarily immigrate, such as promising to divide the land into Youzhou, which is vast and sparsely populated, or to give it to the land in Liaodong and western Liaoning.

In this way, the government has explicitly stated that everyone does not recommend that everyone follow the army because they will definitely not be willing to leave the land in their hometown. They only choose landless farmers who have no real estate to immigrate.

Such a meticulous operation took some time. Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun rampaged in Yinan, Zhangbei, and left for more than half a month.

But Cao Cao could only stare at him throughout the whole process and did not dare to fight back any more.

The Hebei Plain is fertile and rich, and Jizhou is still the largest population state under Cao Cao's rule. Even after a series of bloody battles, it still has more than 4 million people.

This number accounts for one-third of Cao Cao's total territory of more than 12 million, and the other four states combined are only twice that of Jizhou.

Bohai County has always accounted for one-third of the total population of Jizhou, and there are still 1.5 million people. The land temporarily occupied by Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun lives in at least 400,000 farmers. In addition, most of the Qinghe County next to it is occupied, and at least 700,000 people are temporarily controlled by Liu Bei.
Chapter completed!