This is Yuan Jun who was ordered to raid Cao Jun's left camp.
They all wore riding boots and straw sandals outside, walking slowly in the mud and moving forward slowly.
Mud ground is just like snow ground, it is easy to slip, but straw shoes will not be like this.
A crescent moon was hidden behind dark clouds in the night sky. The cool moonlight shined through the edge of the clouds, illuminating a small patch of bluish-white sky. Even the edges of the dark clouds were stained with a touch of white frost.
The ground was completely dark. Except for the firelight at the entrances of several camps outside Cao Jun's left camp, there were dark and hazy shadows everywhere.
Many sentries were placed outside Cao's camp, but they were eliminated one by one by the Yuan army's scouts who were several times their number.
No matter whether it was an open or hidden whistle, there was no time to issue a warning.
Outside a camp in the west, more than 300 people quietly gathered at the side entrance of Cao Jun's camp. Because there was no order, they did not dare to move rashly. They all hid in the shadows of the grass and trees, peeping from a distance.
Jiang Yiqu, the leading general of the Yuan army, came closer to observe and saw that there were only a few clusters of torches shining on the wall of the village, and a few sentinels could be seen vaguely.
There are almost no Cao soldiers patrolling around, because the ground is all muddy, and a thick layer of mud accumulates on the shoes after walking a few steps, so basically even if there are sentries, they just squat on the wall or in the archery tower.
There are not many people on the mountain.
Jiang Yiqu took a brief look at the scene on the wall and was making calculations in his mind. A lieutenant beside him had already whispered a suggestion: "General, Cao Jun's defense is not secretive. They must not have expected that we will come back - we might as well let the soldiers disperse and find others."
Climb the ladder over the village wall and seize the village gate."
"Let all the archers come forward and surround the village gate from both sides. Each team will disperse to both sides to ambush and clear the way."
Jiang Yiqu didn't listen to his words at all. He pursed his lips and squinted his eyes. He looked at the quiet camp dozens of steps away and just pondered. Then he said quickly: "Listen to my order and take action! Everyone is ready to fight!"
Then he pointed to the lieutenants on the left and right and told him, "When you take action, you have to be ruthless, you have to be quick, and you have to do it regardless of the cost!"
This order was given carelessly. The deputy general who came up with the idea was stunned. Just as he was about to speak, the colleague next to him suddenly said: "Quiet, the gate of the village is open!"
When I turned around to look, I heard a slight creaking and rubbing sound on the door shaft. The side door of Cao Jun's camp had been opened.
The deputy general stared at the dark group of enemy soldiers pouring out of the camp. He opened his mouth, but said nothing. He swallowed, turned around and went to greet his soldiers.
The right side of Cao's camp suddenly encountered a surprise attack. Even Xiahou Dun, as the general, had gone to support him. There were not many people left in the left camp, but they were still a vital force. They were afraid that Yuan's army would raid the main camp, so the main camp issued an order.
, let three thousand people be mobilized to the camp near the main camp.
The camps were scattered and scattered, and now the left camp was empty. Naturally, they put their troops not in the inner camp, but in the outer camp. At this time, they temporarily mobilized 3,000 troops to move closer to the right side of the left camp, although they were still in the left camp.
, but there is also a certain distance.
The most important thing is that the interior of the camp is connected, but Cao Jun dug a large number of ditches to divert water, making it extremely inconvenient to pass through the interior. Some planks were laid, and some were washed away, and the camp doors had to be opened and closed constantly.
, so I simply planned to come out from the west camp gate, and then move north from the front of the camp to the east.
Seeing this scene, Jiang Yiqu was overjoyed and said softly: "As expected by the military advisor, Cao Jun's right camp was attacked. The people in the left camp will definitely mobilize some people closer to the direction of the central army. Now the outside of their left camp is empty again.
a bit."
"General, now is a good opportunity to break into the camp."
A lieutenant general watched and said in a low voice: "They have divided up dozens of people from each battalion to go south. They must want to bypass the front camp. After they leave, we will launch an attack directly."
However, Jiang Yiqu thought for a while, shook his head and said: "No, attack directly, call the soldiers from behind, and let's seize the camp first."
As he spoke, he pointed to the camp directly in front of them, less than 200 meters away from them.
It happened that at this time, the soldiers who came out of the camp stepped on the yellow mud and gathered towards the north with great difficulty. They were not actually going to support the right camp. They were just transferred from the west of the left camp to the east of the left camp. In this way, if the main camp
If there is an attack over there, they can provide support nearby.
However, Yuan Jun relied on straw sandals to cross the many kilometers long yellow mud swamp area, and suddenly came to the front. This was something that even Guo Jia, Dong Zhao, Mao Jie and others did not expect.
Who would have known that Tian Feng had already ordered the soldiers to prepare straw sandals a month before the floods flooded Cao's camp.
While Jiang Yiqu asked people to mobilize the rear troops to approach, he took dozens of guards and hid behind a thick bush of basil on the roadside, carefully observing the enemy's actions almost face to face.
This place was only a few dozen steps away from Cao Jun. Cao Jun arrived in an instant. He held his breath and watched the enemy pass by thirty or forty rows. Then he saw a rolled-up military flag coming from the queue. He glanced around and found it immediately.
A general wearing armor and a leather helmet.
He is said to be a general, but he is probably a middle- and lower-ranking officer such as Qu Junhou or even a village commander.
But now Cao Jun's left camp has turned into a swamp, and there are not many people left behind. Such people are now considered senior officers among these people.
It’s him!
Jiang Yiqu straightened his back and rushed out. Before he could stand up straight, the steel knife in his hand had already been swung, and he drew a large circle from his side to the front, and rushed over the officer's head with the sound of wind.
The general leading the team was focused on the situation at the right camp. He never thought that he would be ambushed at the entrance of his camp. Suddenly, he saw a black shadow emerging from the roadside out of the corner of his eye. Thinking again
Before he could dodge in time, he felt a pain in his forehead and his breath was suffocated, and he lost consciousness in an instant.
The Cao soldiers in front and behind were afraid of accidentally slipping on the muddy ground, so they all concentrated on paying attention to their feet. When they heard a muffled "pop" and looked again, they were immediately shocked.
He saw his elder's head flying into the sky, blood spurting out from his neck, and his body falling limply. In the blink of an eye, he saw a tall and big Yuan Jun general standing in the queue holding a big sword.
They were all dumbfounded and had no idea what was happening.
"kill!"
Following this blast like spring thunder, the surrounding Cao Jun heard a series of dense and rapid trembling sounds of bow strings and crossbow arms from far and near, and dozens of arrows and crossbows smashed towards their heads and faces. Then the trees on both sides of the road were smashed.
Countless Yuan troops jumped out from the gully in the grass under the shadow, shouting and killing them, shooting arrows, slashing and stabbing with spears. In the blink of an eye, Cao Jun fell to the ground.
Cao Jun was bewildered and was chopped down by dozens of soldiers. Only then did he remember to form a formation to resist. Several small officers shouted desperately to gather the troops, but there were enemies everywhere. Where could they leave a chance?
But at this time, their general had already lost his life. In the chaos, the military flag was also snatched away by the opponent. In the darkness, it was unknown how many people from Yuan Jun came. They could only hear the shouts of killing from behind and behind, and the shadows of swords and guns on the left and right.
, I don’t know who screamed in despair, and the camp immediately exploded.
For a time, there were shouts of killing, scoldings, greetings, screams, and the sound of iron weapons clashing from all directions on the road that was a hundred steps long. Cao Jun in black military uniforms and cloth hats were scattered everywhere along the road.
Rolling around on the ground.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!"
The horn began to sound, and suddenly tens of thousands of Yuan's troops began to attack, but the attack was very messy.
There was originally a vast ocean to the west and northwest of Zuoying. Later, Yuan Jun cut off the water canal upstream. After a few hours, most of the water was released by Cao Jun's diversion canal.
The ground is still wet at the moment, and it is very easy to slip when you step on it. It is better to wear straw sandals, but once you start running, you will fall down even if you wear straw sandals.
However, the generals at all levels could barely maintain this mess, and soon the overwhelming Yuan army reached the edge of Cao's camp.
Jiang Yiqu had already rushed into a camp of Cao's army. In fact, there were not many people left in the camp. Everyone was still going out just now, but before the camp gate could be closed, he led 300 people and killed them.
After a burst of fighting, they snatched the gate of the camp, and then started to rush deeper through other camp gates between the camps. Cao Camp's defense facilities were still very complete, with not only earth mountains, watchtowers, and walls, but also
School grounds and large open space buffer zones.
But at this time, the school grounds and open space were flooded, and countless water diversion canals were dug inside. Yuan Jun dug almost two rivers to irrigate Cao Ying, and Cao Ying also dug almost hundreds of canals to divert water.
Therefore, after Yuan Jun rushed in, he was unexpectedly blocked by these water channels.
However, the number of Cao's troops in the stronghold was still too small, and it was difficult to organize effective resistance. Therefore, they were retreating steadily under Yuan's offensive. The fighting lasted from early midnight to three o'clock in the morning. Almost most of Cao's troops in the left camp retreated into the main camp.
camp.
During this period, some generals of Cao's army even wanted to counterattack, but were repulsed by Jiang Yiqu. It was not until the end of the Ping Dynasty, near dawn, that Yuan's army finally occupied the entire left side of Cao's camp.
At this time, the battle in the camp on the right was still going on. Fires were shooting into the sky, and all kinds of arrows, ram carts, nest carts, catapults and even ladders were being pushed over.
Yuan Shao simply set up a tent not far from Cao's camp, without even thinking about a confrontation.
There is no other way but to attack.
He didn't have much time. It had already taken a year from June last year to prepare for the war to June this year. He couldn't afford to wait any longer.
If you don't capture Cao Cao's camp while Cao Cao is away, how long will it take?
It was just getting light.
Yuan Shao personally took the last 20,000 troops to the front line.
Under his order, only 5,000 people were left for protection, and the rest pressed forward again. They must completely annihilate Cao's army today.
At this time, Cao's army faced a simultaneous attack from two sides by an army of 60,000. The newly joined 15,000 men suddenly began to attack Cao's main camp, causing the already chaotic situation to become even more chaotic.
Such large-scale legion operations require temporary command.
Yuan Shao had no command. He was in poor health and could only wait and watch from the rear. The front line basically relied on the generals to make improvised decisions.
It's just that although Yuan Jun has no command, Cao Jun also doesn't have one.
Cao Cao's people are not here, and Xiahou Dun's commanding ability is far inferior to Cao Cao's. As a result, the battles between the two sides are actually very unstructured, and they often rely on a melee.
Melee combat is what Yuan Jun is good at because they have so many people.
Soon at three quarters of sunrise, the sky was bright, the sun slowly rose, and a huge orange disk appeared in the east.
At this moment, to the west of Pu River, there are more than a thousand Qingqi, galloping towards Pu River.
Cao Cao was riding on horseback, unable to hide the fatigue in his eyes.
After disintegrating the Guanzhong Allied Forces, he immediately led the Yu Forbidden Army towards the front line. Before nightfall yesterday, they finally arrived at Jujube.
Approaching the front line, Cao Cao was afraid that the soldiers would not get any rest and rush into battle, so Cao Cao asked Yu Jin to lead the troops to rest for the night.
He himself only rested for two hours, then quickly rushed to Kuangcheng with a thousand light cavalry, hoping to return to the camp as soon as possible to direct the battle.
But when he approached Kuangcheng, what he saw was a vast country with a radius of dozens of miles. A huge river channel seven or eight feet wide was dug out on the southwest bank of Pu River. At this moment, the river channel was filled again, and there were thousands of people on the left and right.
Yuan Jun soldiers.
"Cao Jun!"
These Yuan's troops were actually auxiliary troops used to block the river. At this moment, when they saw Cao's troops suddenly appearing on the other side of the river, they were all startled. The leading generals shouted and turned around and ran away.
When Cao Cao saw this scene, his heart sank. He raised his right hand and made a fist, waving his palm towards the upper reaches of Pu River.
Pu River is a tributary of the Yellow River. It flows southeast first, and then moves to the northeast. Kuangcheng is located in the northeast on Pu River, so going upstream to Pu River is actually heading southwest.
After crossing the river, you can go around to the southwest of Kuangcheng.
What Cao Cao didn't expect was that the bridge across the river in the south was already occupied by Yuan's army. This made him feel very bad, so he stood on the north bank of the bridge and quietly waited for the arrival of the imperial troops from behind.
Yuan Jun on the other side did not destroy the bridge, and the two sides maintained a confrontation.
Time passed by, and at noon, Yu Jin's army finally arrived. At this time, a large number of Yuan's troops also swarmed across the river.
Tens of thousands of Yuan troops began to gather.
A giant luxury carriage drove slowly and stopped on the other side of the river, facing Cao Cao across dozens of feet of river.
The carriage door curtain opened, and Yuan Shao walked out slowly with difficulty, leaning on a cane.
A rare trace of blood appeared on his face. Looking at Cao Cao on horseback across the river, a smile appeared in his eyes.
"Benchu, long time no see!"
Cao Cao looked at Yuan Shao on the other side. No matter how dark his face was, he was the first to speak out: "I heard that I have been ill recently. How are you doing with your daily life?"
"Cough cough cough."
After Yuan Shao got out of the carriage, he felt a little cold when he was blown by the wind. He shrank down and barely supported his body and responded: "Lao Mengde is worried about me, but my daily life is okay."
Cao Cao pointed to the river in the distance and said, "Brother Benchu must have dug a river to flood my camp."
"yes."
Yuan Shao supported his crutches with both hands and said with a smile: "I took the opportunity to attack your camp last night. Now that your left camp has been captured by me, it will be a matter of time before the middle and right camps are defeated."
Cao Cao gently waved his hand to the rear, signaling Yu Jin to continue to detour south to support the main stronghold. At the same time, he said calmly: "That means it has not been broken. I still have tens of thousands of troops. After I cross the river, I will immediately join Brother Benchu."
Ask for advice."
"hehe."
Yuan Shao smiled, waved his hand and said: "Your army of tens of thousands will be destroyed in an instant, just come."
Cao Cao nodded: "In that case, please ask Brother Benchu to wait for me!"
As he said that, he reined in his horse and turned around to leave.
"Report!"
At this moment, a Pegasus scout from Yuan's army came to the front of the formation, knelt down on one knee and said: "Last night, we took advantage of the chaos to attack Cao's camp. Cao's army was defeated. Tens of thousands were killed and captured. The remaining troops retreated to Pingqiu."
"Hahahahaha!"
Yuan Shao raised his head and let out a maniacal laugh, his whole face full of excitement and joy.
Cao Cao's face on the other side changed suddenly, and a trace of panic flashed in his eyes.
"Hahahahaha."
Yuan Shao felt proud and elated, and he laughed wildly: "Meng De, did you hear it? Did you hear it?
He used his cane to hit the carriage and shouted at the top of his lungs: "I won! I won!"
In the past few years, Guandu has suffered a disastrous defeat.
Cangting was defeated miserably.
Appearing before his eyes all the time.
But this moment.
It was as if all the unwillingness and failure had turned into ashes.
He just laughed like this, laughing crazily.
It was as if the whole world seemed to be echoing with his laughter!
Cao Mengde, Cao Mengde!
I can lose to you many times.
But me.
Just winning once is enough!
In the end of this battle, I am the winner.
Hahahahaha!
Poof!
A flush suddenly appeared on Yuan Shao's pale face.
There was blood overflowing from the corners of his mouth.