Chapter 379

Tian Feng shook his head; he was very helpless about Yan Liang's suggestion!

Did he not want to move the common people?

It's just that the people of Qingzhou have no grain!

Moving the common people requires a supply of grain!

Their grain supply is only enough for one hundred thousand troops!

Moving the remaining six or seven hundred thousand common people in the three commanderies of Qingzhou is simply impossible!

"Damn it, damn it!"

Yan Liang cursed; at this moment, he only felt like he had punched the air!

Having one hundred thousand troops but no place to use them!

Such a huge number of refugees, he can't kill them!

He can't stop them either!

Are they just going to watch this group of people leave?

"Retreat!"

After thinking for a long time, Tian Feng was also deeply helpless!

That piece of trash Yuan Gonglu was defeated too quickly!

This gave the ambitious Cao Mengde an opportunity to directly flank and head straight for Yuzhou!

Tian Feng's original plan to capture the entire Qingzhou territory was stillborn!

Once Taishan Commandery is occupied by Cheng Yu, then what they will face is the pincer attack of fifteen thousand troops under Lin Yang!

By then, once their grain and retreat routes are cut off, their one hundred thousand troops will be in trouble!

Thinking of this, even though Tian Feng was unwilling, he had no choice but to retreat!

At the same time, on the other side, in Jizhou, Xindu City—

"Report, my lord, urgent news from Qingzhou!"

Yuan Benchu took the eight-hundred-mile urgent report sent by Tian Feng and hurriedly opened it!

Just after one look, the expression on Yuan Benchu's face suddenly became extremely angry!

"Tian Yuanhao, you brute, you have ruined my Qingzhou common people!"

Cursing, Yuan Benchu could no longer hold back and smashed the intelligence in his hand onto the ground!

The sudden rage caused everyone in the room to change their expressions slightly!

Shen Pei, Guo Tu, and the others picked up the letter suspiciously, but after just one look, Shen Pei, Guo Tu, Xu You, and the others were all stunned!

The content of the letter was very simple!

But it was very outrageous!

"How is this possible? Zhou Yu and Huang Zhong gathered more than six hundred thousand common people in Qingzhou?" Guo Tu exclaimed, his eyes filled with disbelief, "Where did they get so much grain?"

Yes!

Everyone knows that Xuzhou has grain!

They even know that the two commanderies of Qingzhou have a lot of grain!

But you, a small Yuling City, have stored enough grain to feed more than six hundred thousand common people?

Crazy!

This must be crazy!

"My lord, this is fake news!"

Shen Pei, at this moment, didn't even care about attacking Tian Feng!

Now, he felt that this intelligence was fake!

This is completely contrary to common sense!

How much grain does it take to feed six hundred thousand common people, and for a month?

Moreover, the letter also said that the people of Qingzhou are still migrating on a large scale!

Fake!

This must be fake!

"How can a military report sent by the army itself be fake?"

Yuan Benchu stared angrily at the people below; he didn't want to think about why Lin Yang had so much grain!

What he wanted to know even more!

Was what Tian Yuanhao and the others were doing!

Actually just watching his own common people flow away!

Even if they die!

He cannot let this group of people be sent to Lin Yang!

"Cough, cough, my lord, now you should let Tian Yuanhao retreat and solve Gongsun Zan of Youzhou first!"

Wasting time in Qingzhou, Cao Mengde, that guy, fooled everyone!

From the very beginning, Cao Mengde never intended to send troops to Xuzhou!

This also resulted in them having achieved nothing so far!

Splitting troops for nothing, dragging down the progress of capturing Gongsun Zan!

"Retreat!"

Clenching his iron fists, Yuan Benchu at this moment held a grudge against both Lin Yang and Cao Mengde in his heart!

These two guys, one fooled him!

The other caused his plan to occupy four provinces to completely fall through!

"Lin Ziyuan, after I finish dealing with Gongsun BoGui, the next one is you!"

The cold words were spoken, but Yuan Benchu had already decided!

After dealing with Gongsun Zan, he would lead his army south to compete with Lin Ziyuan!

And at this very moment, Lin Yang had already led fifty thousand troops to the border of Runan Commandery!

Yuzhou, Runan Commandery, Linquan territory

"My lord, now that Yingchuan Commandery and Chen Commandery have fallen into Cao Mengde's hands, Yuan Gonglu has retreated to defend Gushi City, and our army cannot move forward!"

Before the military camp, Guo Jia looked at the tall Gushi City before him and couldn't help but shake his head!

Yuan Gonglu's two-hundred-thousand-strong army was routed!

Yet he could still rely on this fortified city to defend half of Runan Commandery; this is the foundation of the Yuan family!

Yuzhou is the base camp of the Yuan family and a group of noble families!

The troops Yuan Gonglu has here are simply too many!

Now there are one hundred and thirty thousand troops in Gushi City, enough to block their army!

"Hehe, this Yuan Gonglu is really hard to kill!"

Looking at the tall city walls of Gushi City, Lin Yang also sighed!

After pursuing all the way, Yuan Gonglu could still hold half of Runan Commandery; this made Lin Yang have to sigh at the depth of the noble families' foundation!

No wonder in the Battle of Guandu, Cao Mengde defeated Yuan Benchu's army and conquered four provinces, yet it still took a long time!

In the eyes of ordinary people, Cao Mengde used a big fire to burn Yuan Benchu's grain and then instantly achieved victory!

However, the reality was that Yuan Benchu, under the triple blow of his important ministers rebelling, his grain being burned, and an epidemic in the army, still retained most of his strength!

If he hadn't died early, causing his four provinces to split!

It would have been impossible for Cao Mengde to completely defeat Yuan Benchu!

A major defeat, as long as there is support from noble families, can still stabilize the situation and defend the city!

For example, Yuan Gonglu before him is just like that!

"My lord, now that we have occupied two commanderies of Yuzhou, and half of Runan Commandery, we can retreat!"

Guo Jia also had some understanding of the noble families in Yuzhou!

Yuzhou is densely populated and full of noble families!

The Guo family of Yingchuan comes from Yuzhou!

Therefore, it is very difficult to attack Yuan Gonglu, who has the support of noble families!

"No hurry, the things I asked Gongjin and the others to send will be here in two or three days, let's wait first!"

Having finally beaten Yuan Gonglu into this situation, Lin Yang didn't want to give up just like that!