Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 86
When the scouts sent by Zhang Kai returned to the valley, they brought back some bad news.

They encountered enemy scouts to the west and south!
After the two sides met face to face, they did not fight, but retreated into the forest at the same time, and went back to report.

After Zhang Kai heard the news, he jumped off the bed.

Wrong, why is it west and south?

Isn't Cao Cao's army in the north and east?

Are you surrounded on all sides?

Zhang Kai felt that the development of the situation was out of control!

Damn it, even if you kill Cao Song, you won't be able to escape!
He took a few steps in the room and ordered: "Wake up everyone and go to Fei County!"

The general was puzzled and said, "Fei County? Wasn't that just slaughtered by Cao Cao's army a few days ago?"

Zhang Kai was upset and shouted, "Don't ask, just go!"

He wanted to gamble that Cao Cao's army did go around behind him in order to save Cao Song. If he retreated towards Xuzhou, he would be surrounded instead!

The way to survive now is to retreat into Fei County, betting that Cao Cao's army will be dark under the lights and will not search Fei County again, so that he can wait for the opportunity to find an opportunity to escape.

In this case, Cao Song can't kill him now, it's best to keep him as a hostage!
Just when Zhang Kai ordered everyone to leave, taking advantage of the confusion, Cao De slipped into the forest on a horse and disappeared into the night.

Seven or eight li to the east of Fei County, a long procession of refugees was rushing towards the city in the dark.

These are the people who fled from the counties of Langya County. After hearing that Cao Cao's army invaded Taishan County and turned to Qingzhou, these refugees fled all the way west and wanted to enter Fei County to escape.

There were several carriages in the team, and there were several people sitting in the largest carriage, a middle-aged man, two handsome boys of thirteen or fourteen, and two beautiful girls of fifteen or sixteen.

The middle-aged man was worried, and said to one of the young men: "According to my nephew's idea, first take refuge in Fei County, and wait for Cao Cao to attack the siege of Hua County, then take the opportunity to go south, pass Donghai County to Xiapi County, and then cross the river to Jiujiang county?"

This young man's face is like a crown of jade, his lips are like vermilion, his eyebrows are clear and his eyes are clear, and his gestures and gestures are like everyone's demeanor.

Before he could speak, another teenager next to him said, "Uncle, I think brother's move is too risky."

"We went out of Langya to avoid disaster. We should go directly south from the beginning, go to Donghai Kingdom, bypass Xiapi, and go south to cross the river."

"Furthermore, there are thousands of people fleeing with us. What should we do if someone finds out their whereabouts?"

After hearing this, the middle-aged man nodded slightly and said, "Actually, Jun'er's words are very suitable for me. Go to Fei County to take refuge. If there are bandits inside, it will be very difficult for us to escape unscathed."

The young man bowed his head in thought for a while before, and said, "Uncle, brother, did you expect Cao Cao's army to appear in Yangdu County earlier?"

The middle-aged man and the boy named Jun'er were at a loss for words.

If the young man hadn't detected something wrong in advance, they might have all been killed in Yangdu County.

The young man continued: "If we escape from Yangdu and head south, we will definitely catch up, because this time Cao Jun wants to divide his troops into two groups and attack Yangdu. He will go south from the east and detour to the east of Xiapi. Our way of retreat will be blocked."

"At this time, the only way out is to flee in the direction of Yanzhou first, and then do the opposite, so as to avoid the opponent's army."

"This is also forced out of helplessness. If there is no other way, Liang'an dares to take the risk?"

The two girls on the side listened and nodded slightly.

The middle-aged man heard this, and sighed: "In that case, let's listen to Liang Er's words and rush to Fei County to take refuge."

The young man named Zhuge Liang turned his eyes to the distance outside the car, hiding the worry on his face.

Man proposes, God disposes.

This trip is already extremely dangerous, almost a gamble, but what if there are other forces besides Cao Cao's army?
I don't know if God will be on his side this time.

It was already late at night when Yuan Xi received the urgent report from the scouts.

Suppressing his drowsiness, he and Zhang Yun woke up everyone and rushed to the valley overnight. When they got there, it was already dawn.

In the village in the valley, except for the dozens of corpses that fell to the ground, the houses are already empty.

Zhang Yun jumped off his horse and carefully observed the footprints and ruts on the ground. Finally, he went around the house a few times and came out and said, "There are a lot of people on the opposite side, maybe more than 500 people, and they brought a lot of carts."

"According to what you said, this is most likely Cao Song's family!"

After hearing this, Yuan Xi started to have a headache again, the number seemed to exceed his expectations.

Along the way, there were sporadic and scattered soldiers who had diarrhea and fell behind. Of the [-] soldiers who came, only [-] soldiers left with combat strength have taken the lead.

In normal times, this kind of loss is also normal. When many soldiers go into battle, it is not bad to be able to exert half of their strength.

But now that he wants to rescue Cao Song and his party from Zhang Kai, the soldiers may not be enough.

Zhang Kai may not be Zhang Yun's opponent, but the two sides fought a war of attrition, and the remaining [-] soldiers of his own had to save people, and the outcome was still unknown.

And the north is Fei County, if the opponent hides in the city and refuses to defend, the cavalry of one's own side will be useless, and the combat power will be a little weaker.

He raised his head and said to Zhang He, "It's not too late, let's get on the horse and speed up to catch up!"

Hearing this, Zhang Yun hurriedly let everyone out of the valley and chased north.

Although he was on the road all night, Zhang He was not worried about the state of the soldiers. Although he was tired, he could take turns to rest on the mule cart, and he still had the most basic fighting strength.

This method is so easy to use. In the future, if you lead your own troops to fight, you must get more mules!
But what surprised Zhang Yun the most was that under Yuan Xi's leadership, he actually tracked down the traces of Cao Song's family!

At first, when he left Yecheng with Yuan Xi, he felt that rescuing Cao Song's family was just a sudden whim of a family member like Yuan Xi.

In a place as large as Taishan County, looking for a convoy is tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack. It is estimated that after a few days, Second Master Yuan will return home in frustration.

But Zhang He didn't expect that Yuan Xi led the team all the way over the past ten days, without any detours, and actually succeeded!

Everyone went all the way to the north, and they saw the dilapidated city wall of Fei County from a distance.

But what made everyone feel bad was that there were several black smoke coming out of the city, and there were screams and shouts of killing.

Both Yuan Xi and Zhang Yun were a little dazed. Didn't Fei County have been slaughtered long ago? Why are they still fighting?

Zhang Yun hurriedly dispatched spies, everyone slowed down vigilantly, and rushed to the city gate, and the spies reported back not long after.

"There was a fight in the city. There was an army of hundreds of people fighting with the people inside. They were killing people!"

Yuan Xi and Zhang Yun looked at each other, what's going on?

On the main road in the city, the former middle-aged man stood on the carriage and said angrily: "You are the subordinates of Taozhou Mu, why did you attack the people of Langya in this state?"

"I am Zhuge Xuan of Langya, declared by Yuan Gonglu (Yuan Shu) as the prefect of Yuzhang, and now I am about to go to Jiujiang!"

"Yuan Zhoumu and Tao Zhoumu are friends rather than enemies, retreat quickly!"

Zhang Kai stood in the distance, his face was uncertain, how could this Zhuge Xuan appear here?

He originally wanted to find an opportunity in the city to kill Cao Song's family before leaving, but he didn't expect that there were nearly a thousand refugees fleeing here!

With so many pairs of eyes staring at him, it was impossible to hide it.

Or, kill them all?
(End of this chapter)