Chenggao County, guarding the east gate of Luoyang, has an eye on the entire Guandong.
After Dong Zhuo arrived, he immediately held a meeting.
The structure of the Xiliang army is very simple. The number one leader is naturally Dong Zhuo, followed by the five lieutenant generals, Niu Fu, Dong Yue, Duan Xuan, Hu Zhen, and Xu Rong.
Next are Li Jue, Guo Si, Zhang Ji, Fan Chou, Li Meng, Wang Fang, Yang Ding and other captains.
Then the next level down, there are mid-level officers like Hua Xiong.
All the generals present at the meeting, including the five lieutenants and generals, had gone to guard other passes. He only brought Xu Rong over to the most important Hulao Pass, which shows that he recognized and valued Xu Rong's ability.
At the moment, Lu Bu stood aside, Li Ru and Yan Zhong were arranged on the left and right sides, and below Xu Rong, Zhang Ji, Fan Chou, Li Meng, Wang Fang, Yang Ding, Hua Xiong and other generals of the Xiliang Army, a total of dozens of people, gathered together, according to their official positions.
Large and small sitting in rows.
Dong Zhuo sat high in the hall, looked around, and said: "The rats in Guandong were in vain and rebelled openly. How are they any different from animals? This time the imperial court sent me to go on an expedition to wipe out all the bandits. What do you think?"
Li Ru was good at officialdom and intrigues, but Xun You was good at micromanaging tactics, and Li Ru couldn't do it, so he kept his mouth shut and sat quietly in his seat without speaking.
However, there was Xu Rong, a master tactician in Dong Zhuo's army. He stood up and said: "Grand Master, the rats from Guandong are coming fiercely. We will attack them head-on. We cannot let anyone underestimate the momentum of our Xiliang army."
Dong Zhuo said happily: "What are you going to do?"
Xu Rong thought for a while and said: "I have seen the map. Coming from Xingyang, we must pass through Bin River. At that time, the Grand Master can strictly organize his troops and display his banners to increase the power of the army. I will lead the army out of the city and ambush at Bin River.
In the forest, when the rat vanguard army from Guandong arrives, the entire army will come out to annihilate the rat soldier vanguard and defeat the rat soldiers' vigor."
Hulao Pass is located 20 kilometers northwest of Xingyang. In the Han Dynasty, it was almost fifty miles away. The tributary of the Yellow River, Sishui, passed through Chenggao County, so it was also named Sishui Pass.
Above this pass is the Yellow River, below is Mount Tai, and to the east is surrounded by the Surabaya River. It can be described as extremely dangerous.
The Bin River flows south, and there is another tributary called Bin River, also known as Bian River. It is not the Tongji Canal dug in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, but an ordinary small river in the Han Dynasty. The river is only twenty meters wide and deep.
The shallow part is two or three meters, and the shallow part is just above the ankle, which cannot stop the attack of the army.
Later, when Cao Cao learned that Dong Zhuo had moved the capital, he thought that Hulao Pass was no longer guarded, so he thought about letting the heroes from the Kanto region march in. However, the heroes were afraid to move forward, so Cao Cao set out from Xingyang himself and was ambushed by Xu Rong on the edge of the Bin River.
I almost died here.
So this place is a pretty good ambush point.
After listening to Xu Rong's words, Dong Zhuo immediately said: "Okay, Xu Rong listens to the order and orders you to take two elite troops out of the city. If something goes wrong, evacuate immediately. Do you understand?"
"only!"
Xu Rong took the order and left.
In the Han Dynasty, a corps consisted of five people and had a corps leader.
One Shi is divided into two corps. There are ten people, and there is a Shi chief who leads the two corps.
The front, rear, left, right, and middle Wushi form a team of fifty people, with a captain who leads the Wushi.
The two teams form a village of one hundred people, and there is a village leader who leads the two teams.
There are five tuns in the front, left, right and center, each with 500 people. There is a qu chief or qujunhou who leads the five tuns.
The five songs are composed of one group, with 2,500 people, and a military commander who leads the five songs.
The two divisions form one school, with 5,000 people and one school captain.
The five divisions at the front, left, right and center form an army, with 12,500 men, and five captains under them. The leader is at the level of Wugan Zhonglang General.
This was probably the army establishment at that time, but the specific number of people still depended on the actual situation. After all, the late Han Dynasty was very chaotic, and any team could be assembled into an army.
For example, when Lu Zhi asked for the Yellow Turban, a lieutenant general would lead a lieutenant and five captains. There should have been only more than 10,000 people, but he had more than 30,000 people. This shows that the establishment was not so strict in many cases.
However, Dong Zhuo's army was a regular army and its organization was naturally very clear, so Dong Zhuo gave Xu Rong two troops, which was actually 5,000 men.
Among these five thousand people, there were two military commanders, including Hua Xiong.
After Xu Rong took the order and left, he quietly left the city with Hua Xiong's men and another group of men, totaling two soldiers.
As the armies of both sides get closer and closer, the reconnaissance horses from both sides have already been dispatched. Near Songshan Mountain and along the Yellow River, there are scouts from both sides. Especially the closer to Chenggao County, Dong Zhuo's reconnaissance horses are everywhere.
There were hundreds of cavalrymen coming and going as scouts.
Scouts from both sides came and went, either in groups of three or five, or in groups of ten or twenty, carrying out silent confrontations before the real battle came. But the Xiliang army's scouts were all highly skilled equestrians.
, were skilled with bows and horses, and often the coalition troops would be fired upon by a volley before their probing horses could get close, and they would either die tragically on the spot, or they could only retreat and not dare to approach.
Therefore, the coalition scouts had to give up their exploration near Hulao Pass and could only wait for Sun Jian to cross the river before making any plans.
Since the coalition forces were moving west, they only knew that the main force of Dong's army must be at Hulao Pass, but they did not know that Xu Rong had left the city. While Sun Jian sent detective horses to inquire about the situation, he led his soldiers to attack quickly towards Hulao Pass.
And go.
Binshui is only four or five miles away from Hulao Pass, so it is very close. Because it is close to the Songshan Mountains, the nearby mountains are densely forested and have abundant water and grass. It is a good ambush point, so Sun Jian was very cautious and did not attack quickly.
When we were two or three miles away from Bin River, suddenly there was a loud shout of killing in the forest on the left, and a group of men and horses rushed out. The leader of the general roared: "Hua Xiong of Xiliang is here, who dares to fight with me!"
"There is indeed an ambush!"
Sun Jian's general Cheng Pu said: "Ming Gong, why don't you retreat first to avoid his attack?"
Sun Jian said angrily: "I am the vanguard and have issued a military order in front of the alliance leader. How can I retreat without fighting? Brothers, follow me and kill!"
"kill!"
The army behind him followed Sun Jian like wolves and tigers up to kill the enemy.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The reason why the coalition forces want to attack from the east is because although the front of Hulao Pass is surrounded by Surabaya and has more forests, the terrain is much wider than other passes.
Times, it can accommodate so many people.
Therefore, the two sides were actually fighting on a plain, and apart from the Bin River, there were only some small woods nearby.
Such an open terrain is ideal for frontal attacks.
Sun Jian took the lead and rushed over. Danyang's elite soldiers were as fierce as tigers. They followed Sun Jian into the enemy's formation and fought with Hua Xiong's soldiers and horses.
"when!"
The two broadswords collided together, the blades exchanged, and sparks flew out.
As soon as they fought, Hua Xiong knew something was wrong.
Because he had received the order from Xu Rong and was pretending to be defeated, but he wanted to test Sun Jian's strength. As a result, after fighting for several rounds, he felt a little tired and his mouth was numb. He didn't expect that the man in front of him was so powerful.
It wasn't that he couldn't beat him, but he found that Sun Jian was really strong. He couldn't defeat him in a short time, and there was even a risk of being defeated.
However, Hua Xiong only led a thousand men, and a battle with eight thousand Danyang soldiers in an open area would be a dead end.
After discovering this problem, Hua Xiong quickly turned from a false defeat into a real defeat. He stood out from the encirclement of Sun Jian, Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, Zu Mao and Han Dang, and shouted loudly: "Retreat, retreat!"
At that moment, his soldiers left hundreds of corpses, weapons and armors scattered all over the floor, and ran away crying for their fathers and mothers.
"Chase!"
Sun Jian shouted.
Cheng Pu advised: "My lord, be careful of fraud."
Sun Jian pointed his sword at Hua Xiong's back and laughed and said: "Look, Demo, Hua Xiong abandoned his helmet and armor, and the soldiers were frightened. It is a real defeat at first sight. There is no sign of deceit. Don't worry. I will wait for you."
Hua Xiong captured and beheaded him to achieve the first victory."
Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, Zu Mao, and Han Dang were all veterans who had followed Sun Jian in his northern and southern campaigns. After taking a quick look, they realized that the enemy had indeed lost the battle and was not faking it. They immediately stopped trying to dissuade him and followed Sun Jian to continue the pursuit.
This can be regarded as a mistake.
Xu Rong just let Hua Xiong fake defeat and feint attack, there was no need to actually fight.
As a result, Hua Xiong was eager to try it out.
He almost died after trying this, but he faked it for real, resulting in a complete rout of the soldiers. Sun Jian made a mistake in his judgment, thinking that they were really defeated and not pretending to be defeated, so he chose to continue to order the pursuit.
The two sides chased and fled, and soon approached Binshui.
Xu Rong hid in the forest and paid close attention to the distant horizon. Hua Xiong was already riding towards him on horseback. The soldiers behind him were all in a state of panic, abandoning their helmets and armor.
"What is Hua Xiong doing? I asked him to fake defeat, but I didn't expect that it turned out to be a real defeat!"
Sun Jian was able to tell that Hua Xiong was truly defeated, and Xu Rong could also see it at a glance.
It doesn't matter if you throw away your helmet and armor. The key is that the soldiers can't panic and run away in a mess without any plan.
Because when you fake a defeat, you must be organized and disciplined, and know what to do before and after the formation, so as not to disperse the ambush behind you. If you really lose, you will attack your own ambush formation, which is a big taboo.
"General, what should we do now?"
Another military commander of Xu Rong asked.
"Archers prepare!"
Xu Rong gave the order without hesitation.
"But over there..."
"I asked the archers to prepare, didn't you hear the order?"
"only....."
Photographed under the authority of Xu Rong, the military commander had to convey the order.
Soon, Hua Xiong ran very fast because he had a horse. He had arrived at the Bin River and was the first to cross the river.
There were seven to eight hundred soldiers behind them, and they were chased by Sun Jian and others. Many of them fled along the way, and by the time they got close to Bin River, only four or five hundred soldiers were left.
Sun Jian's army also arrived. Since Bin River is just an ordinary river, the water is very shallow, almost only reaching a person's ankles. It can be crossed by a trickle of water, and it can hardly form an obstacle to block the road.
So when he saw groups of defeated soldiers jumping into the water like chasing ducks and about to flee to the other side of the river, Sun Jian pointed his sword and said: "Kill!"
"kill!"
Danyang's elite soldiers also rushed down the river, riding on the waves to continue the pursuit.
The river is really too shallow, and this is a river beach. The deepest part is only up to the waist, and the shallowest part is only up to the ankles. There is no distance between the two sides.
When the defeated troops in front had just reached the other side of the river and had not had time to run into the woods on the other side, the pursuing troops had already reached the center of the river.
Seeing this scene, Xu Rong decisively ordered: "Shoot the arrow!"
"Archery!"
The heralds in the forest roared one after another.
"No, there's an ambush!"
Sun Jian and his four generals were all on horseback, almost reaching the other side of the river. When they heard a sound coming from the woods opposite, they couldn't help but be horrified.
Suddenly, an overwhelming rain of arrows fell, not only the pursuers, but also the defeated soldiers under Hua Xiong's command were shot to death one by one.
The vanguard soldiers fell on their backs, and Sun Jian retreated under the protection of his four generals. He was still hit by an arrow in his shoulder.
"Withdraw, withdraw, withdraw!"
Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, Zu Mao and Han Dang shouted while escorting Sun Jian to evacuate.
The vanguard army was in chaos, but Xu Rong's 4,000 ambush troops came out from the forest and defeated Sun Jian to a complete defeat. He almost died in the chaos.
If Zu Mao hadn't taken his helmet and headed east alone, attracting pursuers, Sun Jian might have died here on the spot.