Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

"Yuan Shu, don't leave!"

Zhang Fei watched Yuan Shu's chariot retreat and let out a loud roar. He no longer cared about the rest of the cavalry. The black horse under his crotch neighed and suddenly increased its speed. He left his cavalry behind and chased after Yuan Shu.

A short distance of a hundred steps was just a few breaths for the black horse walking on snow.

Yuan Shu suddenly looked back and found that the distance between him and Zhang Fei was visibly closing. This made Yuan Shu feel a chill in his heart. He whipped the three horses pulling the cart, increasing their speed even more.

And with his superb driving skills, Yuan Shu always kept the chariot from tipping over at such a speed.

"Hurry up!"

Yuan Shu kept whipping his horse, trying to increase its speed by another three points.

"Don't leave! Don't leave!!!"

Zhang Fei, who was chasing alone on horseback, shouted at the top of his voice.

The scene of one car and one horse, one chasing and one fleeing, made many soldiers of Yuzhou confused.

In particular, the large banner of the Yuzhou Army was fixed on Yuan Shu's chariot, so that countless Yuzhou soldiers watched from afar as the large banner rushed left and right in the army formation.

Sometimes to the left, sometimes to the right...

But even though the Yuzhou army tried to stop Zhang Fei from time to time, Yuan Shu drove at full speed for a while but still could not completely get rid of Zhang Fei, which made Yuan Shu so anxious that his adrenaline surged.

Doesn't Yuan Shu know how brave Zhang Fei is?
If Zhang Fei really gets close to us, then everything will be over.

Just when Yuan Shu saw that Zhang Fei seemed to be getting closer, Ji Ling shook off Zhou Tai's entanglement, led his troops to attack from the side, and stopped Zhang Fei again.

"Don't hurt my lord!"

"Get away!!!"

The sound of weapons clashing from behind that gradually faded away made Yuan Shu feel as if he had escaped death.

Until this time, Yuan Shu had devoted some of his attention to observing the war situation.

The result undoubtedly made Yuan Shu despair.

Just as Zhang Fei was chasing Yuan Shu in a panic, the Yangzhou army had already torn three large holes in the front line of the Yuzhou army.

Previously, Ji Ling had to give up stabilizing the front army situation and retreat to protect Yuan Shu...

In addition, Yuan Shu was running all the way with a large banner, and the morale of the Yuzhou army, which was already on the verge of chaos, plummeted, and a large-scale rout began to occur.

The defeat is set!

As this thought emerged in Yuan Shu's mind, he couldn't help but feel a little dazed.

How could the battle situation, which was originally in a great advantage, be completely reversed in less than half an hour?

As the battle situation developed, Yuan Shu was aware that if the front army was defeated, the central and rear armies, which had completely lost their formation and command, would also be defeated.

"Li Zikun!!"

Yuan Shu roared unwillingly and turned back suddenly, only to find that Zhang Fei seemed to have gotten rid of Ji Ling and was chasing him again.

In addition, on the outskirts of the battlefield, the White Horse Volunteers led by Tian Yu also seemed to want to intercept Yuan Shu from the outside.

This made Yuan Shu suddenly wake up. Without even bothering to curse Li Ji, he quickly drew his sword and cut off the large banner fixed on the chariot. He then kicked away all the objects that were in the way on the chariot.

On the one hand, it was to prevent the high-raised banner from continuously attracting pursuers, and on the other hand, Yuan Shu also wanted to reduce the burden on the chariot and increase its speed.

As for whether the fall of the banner would lead to the complete collapse of the Yuzhou Army, which was already on the verge of collapse, Yuan Shu had no time to consider such a thing. The next moment, Yuan Shu flicked the whip in his hand, steadily controlled the three violent war horses, and drove the chariot to escape to the rear at an astonishing speed.

Looking at Yuan Shu's chariot from afar, it was like a residual shadow, and it completely disappeared at the end of the sight in an instant. Li Ji couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

"Even if Emperor Gaozu's personal charioteer Xiahou Ying were reborn, he might not be able to defeat Yuan Shu..."

Yuan Shu knew nothing about Li Ji's praise.

However, this did not prevent Yuan Shu from driving his chariot all the way without stopping for even a moment.

After galloping all the way through Xiangyang, Yuan Shu ran for an unknown number of miles until his three horses died of exhaustion. Yuan Shu estimated that he had run more than a hundred miles, and only then did he feel a little relieved.

After running for such a long time, Yuan Shu was already starving and had a rough idea of ​​the direction.

Yuan Shu then abandoned his chariot and continued northward on foot.

The battle of Jingzhou had been lost, but Nanyang County was still in the hands of Yuan Shu. Yuan Shu roughly guessed the location and felt that he was probably not far from Xinye City.

Therefore, Yuan Shu planned to enter Xinye first, and then return to Yuzhou to make further plans.

However, just as Yuan Shu groped his way to Xinye, he saw from afar that the gate of Xinye City was wide open, and there were faint sounds of shouting and killing coming from inside the city.

This made Yuan Shu feel cold all over...

If the Yuzhou army had not been defeated so quickly, and if he had not seen the situation was not good and drove his chariot for hundreds of miles, he would have just happened to see this scene.

If they retreated at a normal speed, the defeated Yuzhou Army would be ambushed when they retreated all the way back to Xinye City to rest and recuperate.

Moreover, even if he had not lost the battle of Jingzhou, but had been in a stalemate with Li Ji, once Xinye City in the rear was broken, it would be several times more difficult for him to bypass Xinye City and Wancheng at the same time to maintain logistics and food supplies.

Yuan Shu stood far away and watched the shouting and killing sounds in Xinye gradually fade away. A "Wei" flag was put up on the city wall, but he was unconsciously reviewing the entire battle situation in his mind.

"It turns out that the defeat was decided long ago..."

Yuan Shu murmured.

When Li Ji kept his troops in Yicheng motionless and seemed to be afraid to move forward, luring Yuan Shu, who was in a dilemma, to advance towards Li Ji, the direction of the war was almost determined.

Fighting beyond Xiangyang City, the Yuzhou Army's battle line was further extended, and the burden of logistics and food was further increased...

Once Xinye City is captured, the supply of Yuzhou Army will become a big problem.

Unless the Yuzhou Army can completely defeat the Yangzhou Army in one battle, the Yuzhou Army will either win a small victory or a draw, and will eventually have no choice but to retreat.

In fact, if Yuan Shu had not driven the chariot alone for more than a hundred miles, but had led his defeated troops back to Xinye City without knowing anything, Xinye City might very well have been the place where Yuan Shu died.

"Li Zikun...it turns out he has always been invincible..."

Yuan Shu felt extremely complicated.

And how did this detachment of troops hide from him and attack Xinye City at such a perfect time?

Yuan Shu vaguely guessed that it was because of his previous hesitant and slow marching speed that gave the enemy enough time to bypass him.

He was so cautious at every step, but he failed to focus on one thing and neglected another, and still fell into Li Ji's evil scheme!

"With this man helping Liu Da'er, how can I conquer the land of Jingyang in the south?"

Yuan Shu, who had always been confident, was now filled with self-doubt.

Soon, seeing that the commotion in Xinye City had gradually subsided, Yuan Shu did not dare to linger and hurriedly headed east. He had even made up his mind to leave Nanyang as soon as possible and return to Yuzhou. (End of this chapter)