Yuan Shao, who had no achievements, left behind the bodies of more than 2,000 innocent soldiers and retreated to Lin County in shame. He probably wouldn't come to visit Huguan again in the short term. According to the unspoken rules of everyone taking turns to be a banker, Yuan Shao should sit and watch the performance of other forces or the court's central army in the next round. If he still adopted conventional siege measures, he would not think others would be much better than himself.

As soon as Yuan's army evacuated, many reserve troops wearing masks immediately poured out from Huguan, and cleaned up all the bodies of Yuan Jun who were left under Huguan and the seriously injured soldiers who were abandoned. If these bodies were not disposed of in time and allowed to rot under Huguan, it is very likely that a new plague would be triggered. Since Yuan Shao ignored it, Zhenbei Army had to be responsible for cleaning up the battlefield.

More than a thousand Yuan soldiers who had been shot and died were transported by the reserve troops to a burning ground far away from Huguan by a specially made sealed carriage. When the plague was raging, the burning grounds excavated by the Bingzhou counties were rarely used, and now they were used. These Yuan soldiers were all local children in Jizhou, but now they were about to die. It was really pitiful and sad. They just wanted to join the army to support the elderly and young in the family. Who had ever thought that this bloody military salary would cost life?

Zhao Yun, who was seriously injured, did not brutally issue a killing order, but sent someone to Lu County, which is closer to Huguan, where there is a large field clinic specially equipped for the Huguan Guards, equipped with many doctors who can perform surgical operations, which can rescue most of the wounded Yuan army who have not yet died.

Once these wounded soldiers are rescued by Bingzhou, they can play a very important role in the future. What is their specific role? You can recall some of Zhao Xing’s usual practices before. In short, just make money and not lose money.

Yuan Shao, who returned to Lin County, went to see Zhu Yan and reported the battle situation of the attack on Huguan in a vague way. The general idea was that Zhao Yun, the chief general of the pass, was very powerful, and the soldiers at the pass were sharp and the bows and arrows were sharp. He failed to attack Huguan for the first time.

After hearing Yuan Shao's complaints, Zhu Yan, regardless of whether Yuan Shao's face was sluggish, carefully asked some details of the siege at that time. For example, "How far can the bows and arrows of the soldiers be closed, how many soldiers fired long arrows, how much time it took to start the attack to withdraw the troops, and how many casualties were in the vanguard?"

Yuan Shao had no choice but to blush and bite the bullet and answer some questions from Zhu Yan. Although Zhu Yan's status in the court is not as high as Yuan Weigao, he has heavy troops in the world and ranks among the nine ministers, so it is not something that Yuan Shao can offend now.

After listening to Yuan Shao's introduction, Zhu Yan frowned, thought for a while, and then said to the deputy generals beside him: "Send someone to summon generals from the East Alliance Army to come to the Central Army to discuss matters and discuss the attack on Huguan."

An hour later, Gongsun Zan brought Tian Yu and Murong Ping, Zhang He brought Ju Su and Xu You, Taishi Ci brought Wu Anguo and Chen Deng and others to Lu Zhi's tent, and everyone sat according to the level of positions. Zhu Yan, who represented the court, naturally sat in the main seat in the middle, Yuan Shao, who sent the most troops, sat on the right hand next to Zhu Yan, while Gongsun Zan sat on the left hand side of Zhu Yan, and Qing Xu, who was sending troops, and Liang Zhou, who was sending troops, sat outside.

Zhu Jun general Yuan Shao led his troops to test the results of attacking Huguan. Then, without waiting for everyone to express his opinions, he said again: "I had known that the soldiers in Bingzhou had very strong combat power, but now it seems that they are only stronger than we imagined. Attacking Huguan will inevitably be difficult to achieve overnight. You also need to work together to fight for a long time! Tomorrow, I will lead the imperial troops to attack Huguan. Everyone will follow me to watch the battle!"

On the second day, Zhu Jun personally led 20,000 Southern Army from Lin County. At noon, he finally arrived five miles away from Huguan, so he set up camp on the spot and did not immediately launch a battle against the key points that day. In the afternoon, Zhu Jun led all the generals to a mile outside Huguan, and carefully observed the terrain and defense situation of Huguan.

After watching the battlefield on the spot, everyone's hearts were very heavy, because everyone had hardly found any flaws in Huguan. The quiet Huguan stood quietly, and the defenders on the city could clearly see the situation of the imperial army five miles away set up camp, but they had no reaction at all. This quiet and terrible army was either a mourning soldier that was about to collapse or a strong brigade that would never retreat. Judging from the dismay of Yuan Shao's nose a few days ago, the vanguard army guarding Huguan obviously belonged to the latter.

Zhao Yun, who had a "six-mile eye" in his hand, naturally saw Zhu Jun's troops five miles away very early. After the Eastern Alliance Battlefield Observation Group under the city approached Huguan, Zhao Yun even saw the solemn expressions on everyone's faces from the monocular. To say that the person with a normal face was Taishi Ci. Zhao Yun had never seen Taishi Ci before, why could he recognize this general? It was nothing more than the Shadow's credit. Among the three armies that came to besiege Bingzhou this time, Zhao Xing asked Shadow to copy the portrait of a real person and send it to the main generals of each army for reference.

Although the court has been blocking Bingzhou, Shadow Team members with super penetration and action are still active in some areas. The correspondence between Zhao Xing and Kong Rong has never stopped. When Zhao Xing ordered people to send Kong Rong the revised and bound "Four Books and Five Classics" to Kong Rong, you can imagine how excited the descendants of Confucius would be.

Kong Rong did not want to get involved in this attack on Bingzhou. Because of Lu Zhi's face, he had to let Taishici and Wu Anguo lead 10,000 Qingzhou soldiers to the eastern front to help. Kong Rong knew that Zhao Hu, the general of the Zhenbei General's Mansion, did not hesitate to kill people and wanted to save Taishici's mother, but he still sent Taishici as the main general to attack Zhao Xing. The mystery was only a few people involved.

Seeing that Zhu Jun was not in a hurry to launch an attack, Zhao Yun got off the wall. Instead of standing foolishly at the top of the city, it would be better to go back to the inner room and read more books. Anyway, when to launch an attack is the power of the attacking side. As long as the defensive side is strictly guarded according to the deployment, it will be fine.

The "Battlefield Observation Group" in Waihu Pass returned to Zhu Jun's camp. Everyone gathered together to discuss tomorrow's attack plan.

"The range of the guards at the gate is significantly higher than that of our side. Judging from their unscrupulous shooting, the reserves of arrows in the gate must be very amazing. If you want to use up all the arrows of the guards, you are afraid that our side's 130,000 troops are not enough." Ju Su said a fact that everyone could not deny.

"Since the Huguan defenders have the arrows, I have to suppress the number of people. Tomorrow, I will mobilize 8,000 archers to carry out suppressive shooting of the defenders on the city, so that the defenders on the city dare not show up, and take this gap to order the siege troops to reach the juncture." Zhu Jun came up with such a simple and easy way according to the conventional fighting style.

If the longbow group guarding the pass was pressed by the eight thousand archers who quickly moved closer and could not fight back, then they would have to rely on the heavy infantry guarding Huguan to play their positional combat advantages and chase the Southern Army soldiers who risked their lives to climb up the pass. However, in this way, the casualties of the vanguard army would rise straight, and this battle would be difficult to fight.

No matter what, the Zhenbei Legion has long been mentally prepared for the price he should pay. As long as Zhao Yun's figure is always accompanied by the soldiers on the gate, this army, which first started out as the Yellow Turban refugees, will burst out with amazing resilience and combat effectiveness.
Chapter completed!