Chapter 546

"Clop! Clop! Clop!"

With hooves flying, sixty thousand cavalry trampled the snow-covered road, sending mud and slush splashing everywhere!

Along the way were panic-stricken Hebei laborers fleeing for their lives; when they saw Liu Bei's great army, they were extremely terrified.

It was only this morning that they learned Yuan Shao and Cao Cao had run away, leaving them behind.

Liu Bei gave the order for Ju Yi and the others who followed to take control of these laborers and tell them not to run around.

Liu Bei spent the morning catching up to Yuan Shao's second rearguard unit!

The Hebei great shield and crossbowmen led by Chunyu Qiong!

At this time, with the freezing cold, the crossbowmen could hardly play much of a role and were directly crushed by Liu Bei's charging army!

Guan Yu, riding the Red Hare, moved at extreme speed and reached Chunyu Qiong's horse in an instant.

With a flash of his blade, Chunyu Qiong blocked only one strike before his head flew high into the air; he was killed instantly by Guan Yu!

The rest of the Yuan army scattered in a panic!

Liu Bei did not bother with these routed troops and continued to lead his iron cavalry, charge! Charge! Charge!

Even if he couldn't catch Yuan Shao and Cao Cao this time, he would leave their elite troops behind!

He would deal them a blow that would leave them severely weakened!

Liu Bei shouted loudly,

"Tell the soldiers, use up all the meat we've raised over these hundred days in these next few days! Whether you get concubines or cattle and sheep depends on these few days!"

"Understood!"

On the snowy ground, warhorses neighed, and the sound of hooves thundered; sixty thousand cavalry swept across everything like a rolling torrent!

Liu Bei's army was filled with high morale! At this moment, it was a great opportunity to beat a dog in the water and claim military merit; how could anyone let it pass? Everyone was frantically whipping their horses to catch up!

The saying that defeat is like a mountain collapsing was true; with Yuan Shao and Cao Cao running away first, how could the other soldiers have any heart to resist? They either surrendered or ran away!

But the infantry could not outrun Liu Bei's cavalry and were constantly being caught and crushed!

When Yuan Shao and Cao Cao received news of the pursuing troops behind them, they knew that if they didn't run now, they might fall into a situation of eternal damnation.

Yuan Shao directly took two thousand cavalry and broke away from the main force, frantically whipping his horse to flee!

Of Cao Cao's fifty thousand troops, ten thousand cavalry were taken by him, and the other forty thousand were left to Le Jin to lead; they could run as far as they could.

He still had thirty thousand of his most elite troops who had long since been taken away by Cao Hong; by this time, they had already crossed the Yellow River and had also made off with quite a bit of Yuan Shao's grain.

Liu Bei pursued all the way, crushing the units of Le Jin, Wen Chou, and others during the process; the mountains and plains were filled with the routed Yuan and Cao troops!

The cavalry shouted while pursuing!

"Kneel and you will not be killed!"

"Lord Xuande has ordered, kneel and you will not be killed!"

When the Yuan and Cao coalition forces heard this, they quickly threw away their weapons and knelt to beg for their lives!

Liu Bei let his generals continue the pursuit, while he stayed behind to begin gathering the surrendered soldiers and laborers.