Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

In Duchang City.

After Cao Ren confirmed again and again that the Northern Expedition Army led by Li Ji was still in Chunyu City, he dared not hesitate any longer.

He immediately led an army of nearly 30,000, escorting thousands of large and small vehicles loaded with money, food and supplies, and took advantage of the fact that the snow on the road had melted a lot, and slowly headed towards the direction of Le'an State.

Just looking at Cao Ren's army that stretched for ten miles, a sense of worry inexplicably flashed through his mind.

Even though the Han army had sent a large number of scouts to keep a close eye on Chunyu City and report every half hour, Cao Ren still couldn't help feeling uneasy.

It is a big taboo for a large army to escort a large number of vehicles during the march and for the formation to be too long and too loose.

However, when the grain and grass in Linzi City were burned, in order to ensure sufficient grain and grass, Cao Ren had no choice but to make this choice.

Without enough food and grass, everything else is just empty talk.

"Or maybe I'm too sensitive? I'm scaring myself..."

Cao Ren maintained a calm expression throughout his expression and tried his best to calm the strange feeling in his heart.

Chunyu City is more than 200 miles away. Even if the Han army has scouts secretly exploring Duchang City, it will be fine for Li Ji to hastily send cavalry to stop them after the Han scouts pass the information back to Chunyu City.

In terms of time, this was enough time for Cao Ren to lead his army across the Jiashui River.

Later, even if the Han army's light cavalry pursued them, Cao Ren could make full use of the irrigation water to stop the cavalry's pursuit.

At present, although there was an unexpected heavy snowfall at the beginning of winter, it is still early winter after all. The weather has gradually warmed up, at least not enough to freeze the irrigation water.

However, even though he thought so in his heart, a vague sense of uneasiness still made Cao Ren choose to urge the army to speed up its march.

As long as they cross the Jiashui River, they will be not far from Le'an County, and they can also use the Jiashui River to temporarily block the light cavalry pursuers that the Han army may send.

Duchang was not far from Jiashui, less than fifty miles away. However, due to the burden of large amounts of money, grain and supplies, they had not yet reached Jiashui until the next day.

However, on the first night of the march, Cao Ren almost stayed awake all night, paying close attention to the reports from the scouts of Chunyu City, and was prepared to abandon some of the money, food and supplies at any time to preserve his troops as much as possible.

It was not until the next morning that Cao Ren's heart finally calmed down.

There is no other reason.

According to the latest scout report, the Han army in Chunyu City sent 3,000 light cavalry out of the city, chasing in the direction of Jiashui.

Sometimes, an unsheathed sword often puts the greatest pressure on people.

At this time, the Han army learned the news that Duchang City was abandoned as expected, and hurriedly sent out pursuers, which made Cao Ren feel relieved.

No matter how fast the Han army's light cavalry was, it would still take them about two hours to reach Jiashui compared to the lone scout who delivered the intelligence first.

But for Cao's army, irrigation was just around the corner.

At most an hour and a half would be enough time for the army to cross the irrigation water.

"Send orders to all units to speed up the march, rest after crossing the irrigation water, and reward them with meat soup!" For Cao Ren, who was short of food and grass, the biggest incentive he could give at the moment was a bowl of hot meat soup, even if there would not be many shredded meat in it.

But for Cao's army, which was traveling day and night in early winter, this was enough to boost their morale.

Immediately, the speed of Cao's army increased slightly, and they sped up to rush towards the irrigation water that was nearby.

When they arrived at the necessary bridge to cross the irrigation water within a hundred miles, Cao Ren, who knew that the pursuers were not far away, urged the army to cross the river, while arranging people in advance to cover the rear and quickly destroyed the bridge to stop the Han cavalry from pursuing.

Cao Ren just watched as fully loaded vehicles of various sizes slowly began to cross the bridge. He secretly estimated the time and made sure there was enough time. Finally, a smile appeared on his face unconsciously.

The most dangerous part of evacuating Duchang City is about to be safely passed. All that is left is to wait for the retreat to Le'an State, and then we can follow Mao Jie's plan and slowly plan to find an opportunity to regain the abandoned Qingzhou territory...

Suddenly, a sharp sound of arrows was heard.

This startled Cao Ren, and he didn't have time to figure out who fired the flare!

"Boom boom boom!"

The passionate drumbeats of the Han army sounded from far away on the west side of the Jiashui River. Not only did Cao Ren not feel the slightest surge of blood, but he felt as if he were falling into an ice cellar.

At the moment, vehicles of all sizes were stuck on the bridge and moving slowly, and only less than half of the 30,000-strong army had passed...

At this moment, they were suddenly attacked by the enemy. Cao Ren, who was well versed in military tactics, instantly understood that this was an attack when the enemy was halfway across the river!

For a moment, Cao Ren had no time to sort out why the Han army had appeared so mysteriously on the west side of the Jiashui River. He almost frantically urged and shouted, "Arm the troops and form a battle array!"

However, just as Cao's army gradually saw the Han army's infantry advancing in the distance with the sound of drums, they saw a horse leading the way, like a ball of hot flame in winter, crashing into Cao's army who were hastily trying to form a battle array to resist the enemy.

"Sun Bofu, the former general of the Han Dynasty, broke through the formation. Who will stop him?!"

At this moment, Sun Ce, who was charging into the battle on horseback, abandoned the slightly shorter ancient ingot knife and wielded a large halberd that was 70% similar to the Fang Tian Huaji.

Sun Ce, who had followed Li Ji since childhood, had not learned even a third of the strategies, but had learned 70% of commanding troops. Moreover, through Li Ji's relationship, he learned countless martial arts from Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Xu, Gan and others, and became proficient in all kinds of weapons.

Prior to this, Sun Ce had not yet developed enough strength and his martial arts had not yet formed a system, so he had been unable to find a weapon that perfectly suited him.

It was not until Zhao Yun's suggestion that Sun Ce tried the halberd, which already combined the advantages of many weapons, that he suddenly felt comfortable with it and was able to fully display his strengths.

Of course, the halberd used by Sun Ce was not exactly the same as Lu Bu's Fang Tian Hua Ji. It was more of an imitation of the weapon of Xiang Yu, the King of Western Chu, and was named "Ba Wang Ji" by Sun Ce.

The three years of peace in the war were also the period when Sun Ce truly accumulated his strength and made great progress in his martial arts. Otherwise, he would not have been mentioned by Li Ji as one of the "Five Tiger Generals" along with Guan, Zhang, Zhao and Huang.

Now, Sun Ce, who had been away from the battlefield for three years, wielded the Overlord Halberd in his hand with a sense of invincibility like Lu Bu. He rushed into Cao's army that had no time to form a battle line, and no one could match him wherever he went.

When Cao Ren saw this, he was both shocked and angry.

How could Sun Ce's bravery be so amazing?!
Cao Ren was horrified, and knew that even if he went forward himself, he would not be able to defeat the enemy. He could only urge his officers and lieutenants to go forward to stop Sun Ce, in order to complete the formation of the army as soon as possible. (End of this chapter)