Even though Yang Rui had been searching for Feng Ji, Qian Yi, and Zhang Hei's troops along the way, with Sky City's extremely fast speed, they still managed to reach the vicinity of Liaocheng County in less than two hours.
The situation of Liaocheng County being occupied was naturally quickly grasped by Yang Rui. This time, there was no need for Yang Rui to waste time looking for them. A large number of Yuan Shao's troops were gathered in front of him.
Yang Rui immediately prepared to attack the city, but was stopped by Cheng Yu and Guo Jia. The two of them believed that Yuan Shao had crossed the Yellow River and came here to collect water, so he definitely wouldn't choose to stay in a county. Instead, he should be making further moves.
Therefore, it was better to wait for Yuan Shao's troops to leave the city. Although Yang Rui had several times the number of troops in Liaocheng County, it shouldn't be too difficult to take down the city. However, in comparison, attacking a city would cost much more than fighting on flat ground.
The only thing that needed to be done now was to find Feng Ji, Qian Yi, and Zhang Hei's troops as soon as possible and prevent the news of the battle in Yang Ping County from spreading to Liaocheng County. Otherwise, Yuan Shao's troops wouldn't dare to leave the city easily.
As for Pingyuan County further north, thanks to the reinforcements of Sun Qian, Zhang Ning, and Han Dai, as well as Du Yang, Ju Shou, Han Fu, Han Hao, and Yu Jin, Yang Rui wasn't too worried. However, he urgently needed to understand the exact situation.
Therefore, Yang Rui left Cheng Yu, Guo Jia, Gao Shun, Dian Wei, Zhao Yun, and Huang Zhong in the City in the Sky, as well as the 60,000 elite soldiers, near Liaocheng County so that they could intercept the enemy and monitor the county. Yang Rui himself, on the other hand, steered the City in the Sky northward to the Pingyuan County.
Cheng Yu, Gao Shun, Dian Wei and the thirty thousand soldiers were settled in the middle between Liaocheng County and the Yellow River. Guo Jia, Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong and the other thirty thousand soldiers were settled fifty to sixty kilometers to the south of Liaocheng County.
With Cheng Yu and the other five generals, as well as the number of Yuan Shao's troops, even if there were 20,000 Yuan Shao's troops gathered in Liaocheng City, as well as the tens of thousands of soldiers along the way, there shouldn't be any problems dealing with them.
Even if news of the battle at Yangping County was accidentally leaked to Liaocheng County, and news of Yang Rui's troops appearing near Yangping County was known to the other side, the most likely scenario was that Liaocheng Yuan Shao's troops fled towards the Yellow River and Ji River.
Cheng Yu, Gao Shun, Dian Wei, and the thirty thousand soldiers were in that direction. It was not easy for Yuan Shao's troops to escape.
Just as Yang Rui was settling the generals and soldiers in Liaocheng County, in Ganling County across the river from Liaocheng County. Tens of thousands of soldiers were taking advantage of the evening to cross the river.
This group of soldiers was none other than Yuan Shaosuo and his own troops!
Yuan Shao had only started to cross the river after receiving the news that the vanguard troops had set up a foothold in Liaocheng County. It was precisely because of the delay in time that the troops he personally commanded did not fall into Yang Rui's trap.
It had to be said that this situation could be considered Yuan Shao's fortune!
On the other hand, Yang Rui was operating Sky City alone. Although he had discovered quite a few scattered Yuan Shao's troops along the way, there were no counties controlled by Yuan Shao's troops along the way.
This situation allowed Yang Rui to let out a sigh of relief.
When Yang Rui arrived near Gaotang County, he discovered that the situation near the city was similar to the situation in Yangping County. There were tens of thousands of troops stationed outside the city. The entire Gaotang County looked like it was in imminent danger.
From the [Battle of Xuzhou] system storyline information, Yang Rui had already learned that Yuan Shao had sent out a total of sixty thousand troops. Previously, ten thousand of them had appeared near Yangping County, while nearly twenty thousand people were stationed in Liaocheng County. With the addition of the ten thousand people outside Gaotang County, almost all of Yuan Shao's troops had appeared.
From this, Yang Rui could already roughly deduce the arrangements of Yuan Shao's troops. Yuan Shao's choice of gathering places in Yangping, Liaocheng, and Gaotang were also basically understood by Yang Rui. Part of the reason was because of the system information, but the most important part was still the extraordinary detection ability of Sky City in Yang Rui's hands.
Since this was the case. Yang Rui did not have to worry too much about the other regions in Pingyuan County. The total number of Yuan Shao's troops that had yet to appear was less than ten thousand, and this included the small forces that were scattered all over the place. It was impossible for them to pose an effective threat to Pingyuan City and the other regions in the county.
However, the current situation in Gaotang City was very dangerous. Yang Rui looked at the night sky that was about to fall and secretly thought of a plan to get out of Gaotang's predicament.
To Yang Rui, he had spent a lot of effort in Qingzhou. No matter which city, town, or village was attacked, or if the NPCs were killed or injured, to Yang Rui, it was a loss that he did not want to see.
He had been the Governor for a long time. Although Yang Rui was not as merciful as Cheng Yu, Guo Jia, and Gao Shun thought, with his deep understanding of the game, NPCs were another kind of life form. At the end of the day, their lives were no different from reality!
At midnight, Yuan Shao's troops outside Gaotang City were sleeping soundly. The soldiers on sentry duty also lost their spirits.
"Pfft!"
"Pfft!"
"Pfft!"
"Pfft!"
A black shadow flashed past. In the northeast of Gaotang City, dozens of soldiers guarding outside Yuan Shao's camp were taken down almost simultaneously.
"Coo coo!"
"Pfft!"
Then, a few birds chirped nearby. More figures appeared around Yuan Shao's camp.
"Someone's here! Uh! "
"Pfft!"
"Pfft!"
"Pfft!"
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
"Pfft!"
"Pfft!"
As more and more soldiers arrived, about half an hour later, the people in Yuan Shao's camp seemed to have finally realized that something was wrong.
However, just as that person was about to shout out a warning, a figure suddenly appeared. However, he was quickly pushed down by a figure nearby. At this moment, a large number of black shadows that were lying in ambush in the surroundings simply pressed forward and rushed towards the northeast corner of Yuan Shao's camp.
These black figures were Yang Rui's troops.
The construction of Yuan Shao's camp might not be as good as Guo Jia's Qianji Black Armor Camp, but it was not as simple as the camps in the Yellow Turban Rebellion storyline. The reason why Yang Rui's troops could reach the edge of the camp and even infiltrate a small area of the camp was mainly because of the dozens of Sixth Grade bandit leaders.
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