Chapter 223 True and False Tian Kai
With the help of Xin Ping, Yuan Tan quickly commanded the baggage troops and civilians to build camps and camps on an open space fifteen miles away from the "Tian Kai Army". He also arranged various defenses to defend Luzhai, resist horses and villages, and began to rest and accumulate energy.
Unexpectedly, at the third o'clock, he suddenly heard the sound of drums around the village, killing sounds shook the sky, and torches were dancing, as if countless enemy troops were dancing. Yuan Tan suddenly woke up, immediately jumped up, put on his clothes, carried his sword and walked out. He shouted loudly to his generals under his command, Lu Kuang, Lu Xiang, Han Fan, Liang Qi and other generals gathered their troops and prepared to go out of the village to fight.
"Young Master, don't be impulsive." Unexpectedly, Xin Ping hurriedly came and persuaded: "Tian Kai camped here without complying with the military tactics. He sent a large army to attack at night, not attack quietly, but beat the drums to fight. There must be conspiracy. Our army's momentum is better than Tian Kai, and he will definitely fall in the plan for the night. Don't pay attention to him for now, and then he will be able to compete with him after dawn."
When Yuan Tan heard this, he thought it was reasonable, but he was still uneasy in his heart and asked, "If the enemy attacks at night and sets fire to the camp, how can our army deal with it?"
Xin Ping smiled and said, "Our army has eight thousand powerful crossbows in hand, so why not be afraid of the enemy approaching? Just shoot crossbows outwards, how can the enemy approach the camp? After dawn, our army will collect the corpses for the enemy."
Yuan Tan was overjoyed and urgently ordered the four generals Lu Kuang, Lu Xiang, Han Fan and Liang Qi to guard the four directions, each leading two thousand powerful crossbowmen to shoot arrows at the place where the torches were flying outside the village and the figures were jumping. Soon, the powerful crossbowmen on all sides arrived at their positions and saw the fire outside the village, and the sound of killing was approaching. Eight thousand crossbowmen all aimed at the outside of the village, and the arrows were like rain for a while.
When Li Ping and others saw the powerful crossbow attack outside, they were excited and shouted harder. However, it turned out that He Bai had a story of borrowing arrows with the generals. The protagonists of the story were naturally not Zhuge Liang and Cao Cao, but a story of Chu and Wu in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
Although Li Ping was afraid when he heard Tian Kai's powerful crossbow from Yuan Jun, he immediately thought of the story of He Bai's straw boat borrowing arrows. So he made a plan and ordered the collection of vehicles everywhere and to build the straw man. By the time Yuan Jun arrived, he had collected 2,000 large chariots and made 50,000 straw man. He put on old clothes and applied wet mud. Each chariot was placed with twenty-five, and two soldiers raised shields to protect them. Two baggage soldiers were responsible for pushing and pulling.
That night, the Yuan army was just arriving, tired and unclear about the enemy situation. The whole army dispatched to intercept all the scouts who were patrolling the night outside. The others stood there in all directions, pushed the carts and shouted at Yuan army. They waved torches and shone the shadows of the straw man on the cart. Behind the carts, there were two thousand cavalrymen, and two thousand infantrymen were guarding against Yuan army's hand-to-hand combat.
Yuan Jun couldn't see clearly at night, and regarded the straw man as an enemy, mistakenly thinking that Gongsun Jun was really attacking. He was afraid that he would be ambushed when he went out to fight, so he had the method of Xin Ping shooting with a powerful crossbow.
He Jun pushed the cart and shouted at only 150 steps outside the Yuan camp. Occasionally, a powerful man threw arrows at the Yuan camp with a strong bow to prevent the Yuan army from seeing through. The sound of war drums was knocked from the third day to the fourth day, and the sound of hissing and killing did not fall, but he became more and more high.
The high morale made Yuan Jun pale and his heart was very scared. Such a powerful crossbow formation could not be defeated by Gongsun Jun. Fortunately, the army did not leave the camp easily, otherwise they would have been defeated by Gongsun Jun's dead soldiers.
The crossbows were desperately pulled, and the powerful crossbowmen were exhausted. Yuan Tan was anxious to make the substitutions not change the crossbows, and continued to shoot outwards, so as not to let the crazy Gongsun Jun approach. Until the fifth day, all the crossbow arrows of Yuan Jun were shot out, and even the bows and arrows shot out most of the arrows, and Gongsun Jun did not retreat temporarily.
At Yuan Tan, Xin Ping looked at each other in front of him. When he didn't know what to do, Gongsun Jun's shouts outside the village gradually stopped and finally quietly. The generals of Yuan's army breathed a sigh of relief and finally forced Gongsun Jun back who had been crazy all night.
After the sunrise, the generals of Yuan army came out of the camp to see, wanting to know the brilliant achievements of his army last night, but they did not expect that there were no dead bodies outside the camp. Yuan Tan said in surprise: "Mr. Zhongzhi, is Gongsun Jun so loyal that he took away the dead bodies when he withdrew?"
But when Xin Ping looked at the battlefield with a pale face, she said nothing, and after a long time she suddenly shouted, "I'm so angry." She suddenly fainted from behind with anger.
Yuan Tan hurriedly rescued Xin Ping and asked cryingly: "Mr. Zhongzhi, what's the bad thing? Is the tiring man so angry?"
Xin Ping struggled and bowed to Yuan Tan in shame: "Young Master, Xin Ping is incompetent and has been trapped by the enemy's army. Last night, the enemy did not attack the camp, but used the method of borrowing arrows by the straw man to borrow millions of arrows from our army..."
After hearing Xin Ping's speculation, Yuan Tan was stunned and speechless for a long time. He actually had such a way of fighting in this battle. But when Xin Ping was so blamed, he blamed himself for not fulfilling his responsibility to join the army, and his heart was warm. No matter what, Xin Ping still had a loyal and righteous heart.
So Wenyan advised: "Mr. Zhongzhi, don't blame yourself. I haven't seen a few million arrows yet. If you lose them, just lose them. Anyway, there are countless craftsmen in Jizhou, and million arrows can be made in just a few months. It's no big deal."
After hearing this, Xin Ping was moved and was moved by Yuan Tan's great affection. He immediately became moved to death. Thinking of something, Xin Ping suddenly changed his expression and said, "Grand Prince, Tian Kai used tricks to borrow the arrows of our army's powerful crossbows, making our army's eight thousand powerful crossbows useless. The next time it will be the time for him to attack. Our army cannot control the cavalry and shooting and raiding formations of the Youyan cavalry, so he can only withdraw his troops."
Yuan Tan shook his head and said with a smile: "Our army withdraws at this moment, and morale will decline. Tian Kai leads Youyan cavalry to pursue the ranks, and our army may find it difficult to retreat to Rencheng. Only by facing the difficulties and fighting with him can we withdraw safely."
Xin Ping said deeply: "The eldest son saw Wanli clearly, but Xin Ping was ashamed of himself. I don't know when the bloody battle will take place? Xin Ping is incompetent, but she still has some martial arts, so she can take a vanguard and hold a spear for the eldest son."
Yuan Tan turned his eyes and saw that the generals were indignant, so he said firmly: "The bloody battle is today."
"Today?" All the generals were shocked and Yuan Tan said affirmatively: "Our army has come from afar. We have been tired for a day, but we were deceived by Gongsun Jun. We must be angry and uneasy. We must take advantage of this anger that has not been scared by the Youyan Cavalry to fight Tian Kai in blood. Only in this way can we win."
The generals thought carefully and said that the army was tired, but Gongsun Jun was not relaxed. At this time, they were definitely pushing the arrow back. Even if there was an ambush on the road, the army could fight with him with an indignation. So they praised him with Xin Ping: "The eldest son is wise and wise, Xin Ping (we admire him. Now we are ready to go to war."
However, at this time, the generals of He Jun and Li Ping were laughing and escorting 2,000 large chariots back to the main business. Each straw man had two or thirty arrows on his body. Roughly calculated that he had obtained no less than one million arrows from Yuan Jun's office overnight, and the inventory of Yuan Jun's arrows was almost exhausted. Without the killing weapon of crossbow arrows, most of the Yuan Jun's combat power was gone.
Just after returning to the camp, he was still counting arrows, but he saw Tian Kai leading the army. It turned out that although Li Ping did not report to Tian Kai last night's battle, he was too powerful and was discovered by Tian Kai from Quyang. Later, Tian Kai heard about Li Ping's plan last night and was immediately impressed. So he led his troops to come in a hurry, trying to find the bad luck of Yuan's army.
Li Ping's army was exhausted all night, so naturally he did not pay much attention to Tian Kai's actions. However, Sima Hao Zhao said quietly: "Master, the Yuan army lost millions of arrows and became a toothless tiger, which can be easily broken. Tian Kai's departure must be for the nearly ten thousand powerful crossbows."
Li Ping felt aroused, but gave up and said, "Although the strong crossbow is good, you have to fight to get it. Our army was too tired last night, so let Tian Kai go. I have millions of arrows in my hand, and even if Tian Kai has no arrows, it is useless. Our army can use arrows to exchange with him, and we are not afraid that he will not change them."
Hao Zhaoxi said: "Then our army will be able to replace at least half of his powerful crossbows."
Li Ping laughed and said, "Bo Dao is too greedy and is easy to control arrows, but it is rare to have a strong crossbow. I will be satisfied if I can have three thousand pieces."
Tian Kai excitedly led his troops to find the bad luck of Yuan's army, and just met Yuan Tan to fight. The enemy met with him and immediately collided without asking questions and answers.
Although Yuan's army was tired, they came with a breath of resentment. There were fierce generals Lu Kuang on both sides, Lu Xiang clashed left and right, and Yuan Tan in the center, and Xin Ping and the two of them personally wore armor and spears to fight. Yuan's army was very energetic, and they killed Tian Kai's army with their armies and cavalry to retreat.
Tian Kai was shocked and urgently ordered the troops to go to Heying to ask Li Ping for help. Although Li Ping was also difficult to solve, he still stood up and beat the drum to gather troops and led the troops south. When he arrived at the battlefield, he happened to see Tian Kai's army retreating in full swing.
Li Ping was furious and ordered the army to separate from each other, allowing Tian Kai to defeat the army and welcome the Yuan army. Yuan Tan, Xin Ping and the generals of the Yuan army were bleeding and laughing wildly, cheering and celebrating the victory of the army, Li Ping led the army.
Yuan Tan looked at the escaped Tian Kai's big flag and the new Li Ping's big flag in shock and asked, "Mr. Zhongzhi, how could Tian Kai have two big flags? Who is the one who defeated and who is the one who came?"
Xin Ping smiled bitterly and said, "Tian Kai's army was defeated by our army. Anping's single classics were restrained by Gao Yuancai. Where can Tian Kai have a large army to support. This army must not be Gongsun Zan's Youyan army, but... an unknown army last night."
Yuan Tan turned around and saw that the soldiers' faces were tired, their resentment had disappeared, their formation was scattered, and some people fell to the ground even more asleep, so they could not fight again. They looked at the new "Tian Kai" army, divided into eight teams, and each looked at their own targets and came fiercely.
Yuan Tan couldn't help but sigh and shouted: "It's not that I, Yuan Tan, cannot fight, but that God wants to defeat me, and I am incompetent. Withdraw the troops..."
Li Ping led his troops to chase after him. After occupying Yuan camp, he chased for twenty miles before returning victoriously.
In this battle, He's army killed more than 700 levels and captured more than 9,400 enemies, including more than 3,900 injured. Eight thousand powerful crossbows, three thousand oxen horses, mules and donkeys carrying cars, tens of thousands of civilians and 150,000 stones of food, and all of them were taken. Yuan Tan led less than 7,000 people to flee to Yang's County.
Tian Kai was jealous of Li Ping's capture and was willing to ask for it. Only then did he exchange a thousand good horses for two thousand powerful crossbows of equal value and two hundred thousand crossbow arrows. However, He Jun seized all the infantry weapons of Yuan Jun, and Li Ping gave them to Tian Kai as a bonus, which made Tian Kai, who suffered serious damage to the infantry, was very happy.
Chapter completed!