Cao Chun did not die as the rumors spread, but decisively abandoned his baggage and ran all the way.
Human beings' talent in retreat may have been fully utilized in ancient times. Few other races have such a balanced ability as humans. Those who can run faster cannot run as long as humans, and those who can run as long as humans cannot.
Running fast, turning into Rufeng was not only the elite of Cao's army, many ordinary soldiers could also keep up with gritted teeth.
But throughout the process of escaping, Cao Chun's entire queue was indeed shrinking. In addition to the soldiers who fell behind halfway, there were also some Hu cavalry who were originally attached to Cao Chun, and they basically fell behind inexplicably.
Gone, disappeared.
Disappearing together with these barbarian cavalry were the weapons and armor given to them by Cao Chun...
From God's perspective, or from the perspective of a certain Zhuge, or the reincarnation of Zhou Yu, Cao Chun should not have fought such a battle.
For Cao Chun, his only idea is to strive for a glimmer of possibility and a glimmer of hope belonging to the Cao family in the midst of impossibility, even if this glimmer of possibility and glimmer of hope seems so slim.
Although the soldiers left by Cao Chun to stop the attack bought Cao Chun some time and allowed Cao Chun to escape from the most dangerous area, the morale of Cao Chun's army was weakened at this time and they were unable to turn around and ambush Zhao Yun. Moreover, many times once the army once
Once you start escaping, it becomes difficult to control it. This is still the case even in the era of hot weapons in later generations.
After Zhao Yun joined Zhang He, he also began to pursue Cao Jun.
Suli Mohuba and others bowed down before Zhao Yun's horse as a matter of course, expressing their submission.
The situation in the Northern Desert created by Cao Chun with great effort was reversed by Zhao Yun with little effort, and he rebuilt the defense layout to ensure the control of the Northern Territory Protectorate in the Northern Desert.
Of course it's just a temporary verbal surrender and agreement...
Zhao Yun's army was so powerful that many of the Hu cavalry who had defected to Zhao Yun began to follow Cao Chun and bite him.
Cao Chun had no choice but to take the core elite of Cao's army and go into battle in person, kill the cavalry and defeat the most fiercely pursuing Hu cavalry. This was able to restore some of the morale of Cao's army, but it was still difficult to compete with Zhao Yun.
Until now, Cao Chun still has not given up his "hope"...
Because part of Cao Chun's plan is a defeat strategy, a chain strategy... Well, of course, these thirty-six strategies obviously appeared after the Han Dynasty, but it does not prevent Cao Chun from having similar ideas.
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Compared to Mobei, Youbei is Cao Chun's home field.
With Jizhou at its back and ample supplies, the roles of the two sides could be reversed. Cao Jun became the defender, while Zhao Yun became the attacker.
Yanshan will become the most obvious and least obvious trap.
Cao Chun hoped to set up an ambush in the Yanshan area, use the power of Yuyang and surrounding cities to invade part of Zhao Yun's troops, and rekindle the morale and fighting spirit of Cao's army. On the one hand, Zhao Yun's army, which came from afar, had to be careful of the front being blocked.
Due to the problem of the elongated food road, on the other hand, Cao Chun must be careful about dividing his troops into the Taihang Mountains to attack Changshan New City. Cao Chun will not engage in a decisive battle with Zhao Yun, but will rely on Jiancheng to compete with Zhao Yun, constantly strengthen the defense and consume Zhao Yun's troops, and then
The cavalry continued to attack, eventually forcing Zhao Yun to retreat.
Especially in the current climate, no one can guarantee when a heavy snowfall will suddenly occur. However, with the shelter of Yuyang City, Cao Jun obviously has an advantage in terms of time and location...
But what Cao Chun never expected was that when he was about to contact Yuyang, he received news that nearly broke him. Yu Zhutan led his men to attack Yuyang!
How can this be?!
How dare this guy?!
Yu Zhudan and those guys were looting wildly in Yanshan, which exposed the fortification defense originally prepared for Zhao Yun...
This sentence is really stuck in my throat.
Cao Chun did not dare to delay, so he could only immediately give up his plan to defend the north of Yanshan Mountain and retreat quickly.
The Hu cavalry who followed Zhao Yun are now very brave. They are almost equal to unarmored light cavalry. In addition, the Northern Desert war horses are hardworking and have extremely strong endurance. They can follow Cao Jun almost without sleep. They are just afraid.
Cao Jun, in turn, dealt with them just like Po Shihe, so the barbarians were often like a swarm of flies. As long as they were sure that the fly swatter could not hit them, they would pounce on them and carve up anything they liked, no matter it was
A piece of cloth or a bag of salt.
Cao Chun was well aware of the seriousness of the situation and did not dare to hand over the postponed task to others. He personally led the rearguard and controlled the marching speed of the entire army to prevent the rearguard from being bitten off piece by piece. Even so, Cao Chun was still under continuous attack by the pursuers.
With constant losses, they gave up more and more baggage, and the few remaining baggage cars were abandoned again. When they finally persisted through Yanshan, Cao Jun had less than five days of rations left.
Yu Zhutan's troops left at Gubeikou dispersed when they saw Cao Jun approaching.
Cao Chun retook Gubeikou, but he did not immediately flee to Yuyang, but instead set up a place at Gubeikou...
In the early morning of the next day, when the sky was dimming, Jiankun Po Shihe and his men and horses were the first to catch up. However, when Po Shihe arrived at Gubeikou to gather and prepare for the attack, they encountered some trouble.
It was foggy at the mountain pass.
A large white fog shrouded around the Gubeikou of Yanshan Mountain, with visibility less than one foot.
Po Shihe was ready to attack, but the heavy fog disrupted his rhythm.
Everyone knows that the retreating army is the richest meat, but this fog came at the wrong time.
"Sir, the fog is too heavy. Cao's troops will not be able to march in this weather... Why don't we wait?" Po Shihe's men said that the fog was too heavy and they could not see Cao's troops when they entered the mountain. Why not wait?
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"No... we can't wait!" Jian Kunpo Shihe Lujiao sternly rejected his subordinate's suggestion, "When you are running for your life, who cares whether there is fog or not?"
But attacking in such weather is a severe test for any army. Even a small accident may cause the entire army to collapse.
When the scout reported that he saw Cao Jun escaping, Po Shihe couldn't help it. He didn't want to miss the opportunity to pursue him. His greed made him impose a strong luck mentality on himself. Maybe the heavy fog would be beneficial.
After all, he couldn't see himself, and Cao Jun couldn't see where he appeared from, right?
The horn sounded in the mist, doing its best to stir up the dull white mist.
The lack of vision made the men and horses entering the mountains of Po Shihe involuntarily become cautious. They all tried to walk as lightly as possible, and the friction sounds made by their armor seemed to be amplified in the thick fog.
Jiankun's soldiers nervously held the weapons in their hands, and in the heavy fog, the bodies of the men and horses were soon covered with frost, and their hands and feet became a little stiff.
Upon seeing this, Po Shihe was about to let his men rest for a while, but when he saw something shaking in the thick fog, he was startled and shouted loudly, which also made the surrounding Jiankun soldiers nervous. It turned out that it was just
Several pine trees are swaying...
Everyone couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief, but before they could fully breathe out, they heard Cao Jun shouting and launching an attack from both sides!
The soldiers of Cao's army screamed strangely in the thick fog, and rushed forward to fight without fear. Various weapons stirred up the thick white fog, and then quickly dyed the white fog into pink or bright red.
Fighting in heavy fog, no one knew the number of opponents, and a small-scale ambush began.
Po Shihe and others had some psychological advantages at first. After all, they were the pursuers, while Cao Jun was the escapee. However, in the thick fog, the two sides turned into a melee. The meeting place was a mess of people, and there was no formation.
shape.
Soldiers on both sides relied on instinct to attack the enemies around them. Under such circumstances, the psychological advantage of Jiankun's soldiers was not obvious, and Cao's army's training and equipment in hand-to-hand combat slowly gained the upper hand.
Although Po Shihe also obtained some armor equipment from Changshan Army, compared with Cao Army, it is still far behind. And the shooting that the nomadic cavalry is good at is almost completely useless under the thick fog, even in the strong rear.
Kun's soldiers wanted to support them, but they couldn't find the target. They couldn't tell who was the enemy and who was the ally.
Cao Chun, wearing heavy armor, personally led his men to snipe the Poshi River in the Gubeikou Mountain Road.
This time the blockade was very resolute, and Cao Chun sent out his own elite troops. These Cao Chun's elite troops had a stronger will and better equipment than ordinary Cao Jun soldiers, especially Cao Chun himself, who was even more ferocious.
It seems that he wants to vent all the depression of the previous defeat on the Jiankun people.
The Jiankun cavalry tried to resist, but they were quickly put into eighteen postures by Cao Chun.
So the Jiankun cavalry couldn't bear the humiliation and left Gubeikou cursing.
Cao Jun successfully repulsed the Jiankun cavalry that followed all the way. Both sides suffered casualties, but overall, the soldiers of Jiankun Po Shihe suffered greater losses.
The Jiankun cavalry had to stop, helplessly watching Cao Chun's bleeding butt getting further and further away, and did not dare to continue the pursuit. It was not until Zhao Yun's large troops came up that they found Zhao Yun crying and complaining, but Cao Chun had already been
Got some breathing room…
Cao Jun, who had marched into the Northern Desert with great momentum a month ago, now returned to Youbei in disgrace. The two sides seemed to have returned to the situation before the war, but the balance of strength had changed greatly.
Cao's army has almost shrunk by half, especially the control over the Northern Desert has almost completely been lost. As Su Li and others completely fell to Zhao Yun's side, Cao's army's influence in Liaodong and its reputation in more remote areas have almost dropped to a minimum.
point.
Although Zhao Yun also suffered losses, they were basically within an acceptable range. The one with the highest loss rate was not Zhao Yun's Changshan Army who fought against Cao Chun, but Zhang He, who was a partial army...
Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the fighting strength of the nomads in Mobei has been basically in a state of being crushed. Even if they occasionally have an erection, they will soon die out. Originally, Xianbei had a chance to inherit the throne of the Xiongnu, but what happened?
Bad luck, or the wars during the Xiongnu period also hollowed out the weak foundation of the desert, making most desert nomads unwilling to fall into a war that lasts for decades or even hundreds of years.
The Xiongnu were a large nomadic alliance maintained by barbarism and violence. They were an unstable country. In the confrontation with the Han, they lost their foundation, which also caused the economic environment of the desert to seriously degrade again. This may be the reason why after the Xiongnu, Xianbei
It was not until the Five Husties devastated China that the nomadic people once again obtained the technology and craftsmanship of the northern Han people, gained the opportunity to thrive and develop again, and once again became a threat to northern China.
