There were already fires everywhere in the front camp, and smoke was rising from all sides. Yuan Shu's soldiers were running around the camp in dozens and hundreds, slashing and burning tents whenever they saw anyone, and trampling on them as they pleased.
Since the front camp was separated from the battlefield by the fire, they could only fight in clusters here and there. When Yuan Shu's troops rushed in, they fell into pieces like wheat, with broken arms, legs, and blood flying everywhere, and heads.
The stump of the limb was kicked by human legs and horse hooves and rolled all over the ground.
There was also Sun Jian's army who was not afraid of death and rushed towards the enemy, risking his life not to hold back the enemy. But Yuan's army had too many people. Sun Jian's army only had 20,000 people, while Yuan's army had 70,000.
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Nearly four times that of his own. Although in a small terrain, there are too many people to move forward. They can only use refueling tactics to continuously send people to rush in. However, Sun Jian's army does not have too favorable terrain to defend. Yuan Shu did not
Sun Jian had no time to build fortifications, so he could only use carts as obstacles.
Sun Ce's offensive was going quite smoothly. The enemies surrounding the hillside had been killed. More than two thousand elite Danyang soldiers formed an awl formation with Sun Ce as the center, piercing the enemy's heart like a sharp knife.
After entering the enemy's formation, the two thousand people quickly changed their formation again and turned into a circular defensive formation. The outer layer was covered with shields, spears and straight knives. When the enemy shot arrows, they raised their shields and dared to get close.
Just chop with swords and poke with spears, and the injured person will retreat into the inner circle, and someone will naturally step up to take his place.
Hundreds of archers on the hillside were already ready to attack, with their bows and crossbows pointed at the enemies spinning around. In just a moment, Liu Xun was stunned by this combination of punches, spinning around like headless flies, and
Liu Xun himself was very frightened when he saw Sun Ce getting closer and closer to him.
You must know that Sun Jian's bravery is known to the whole world. Although Sun Ce has no extraordinary achievements, he beheaded the generals and captured the flag in Chen County, killed Ji Ling until his army was defeated, and killed Chen Ji in the yesterday formation. These heroic deeds, at least many of Yuan Shu's troops
will be known.
Now seeing Sun Ce's strength, Liu Xun was afraid and kept pulling his flag back. However, on the battlefield where it is difficult to judge the situation, soldiers often act based on the general's flag. If the flag is bravely raised towards
If the flag continues to be pulled back, the soldiers will naturally suspect that the army has been defeated.
Now that Liu Xun's generals and flags have begun to retreat, his troops have naturally begun to retreat as well. But it is not an easy thing to retreat in such an organized and disciplined manner. Some soldiers did not pay attention and were still moving forward.
As they charged forward, some soldiers hesitated for a moment and found that no one was around anymore. Some soldiers retreated and simply turned into running away, abandoning their helmets and running away.
For a time, the entire southern battlefield was defeated. Sun Ce led his soldiers into the encirclement, galloping wantonly among a sea of seven to eight thousand people, all the way to Liu Xun's general flag. As a result, he continued to kill,
The surrounding field of vision suddenly seemed to be much wider. Looking at it again, Sun Ce was immediately happy.
In addition to the corpses all over the place, other Liu Xun soldiers actually fled one after another and scattered like birds and beasts. You must know that judging from the situation, Liu Xun's troops were not defeated. Although Sun Ce's army's formation was not broken, the hillside had already reached the foot of the mountain.
, will break through at any time.
Once Liu Xun occupied this small highland, the situation was not optimistic for Sun Ce. Unexpectedly, because Liu Xun was afraid of Sun Ce's ability to kill the general and capture the flag, when he saw him charging, he kept retreating, causing the general's flag to fall.
Run after him.
As soon as he ran away, the soldiers followed him, and it quickly turned from a strategic retreat into a rout. However, this was a very common situation in ancient times with poor communication methods, and was not unusual.
After Sun Ce defeated Liu Xun's troops, he chose to continue the pursuit without rest, heading towards the southern flank of Yuan Shu's army headquarters in the distance.
He wanted to take advantage of the defeat of Liu Xun's troops and let these defeated troops attack Yuan Shu's army's tens of thousands of troops.
If it can really cause chaos, it will be no less than a battle in Kunyang.
But Zhang Xun, the former army commander, still had some skills. Seeing the defeat of Liu Xun's troops in the distance, he snorted: "Liu Xun, an incompetent man, was defeated so quickly. Where is the war supervisor?"
"The end is here!"
"You lead two thousand troops to guard the right side of the army, and another one thousand archers. If Liu Xun breaks his troops and attacks the formation, he will be killed without mercy!"
"only!"
The war supervisor went with the war team.
Currently, only Yuan Shu's front army is attacking Sun Jian's army. Yuan Shu's central army is further away on the battlefield, and Yuan Shu himself is standing on a hillside to observe the situation here.
Seventy thousand versus twenty thousand, the advantage lies with me. Even if Liu Xun's troops are defeated, it will only be a small part of the battle. The overall situation is still in Yuan Shu's advantage.
"Ming Gong, Zhao Yun is here!"
Yan Xiang was also riding a horse and was located behind Yuan Shu on the left. He saw a large group of people and horses rushing towards the bank of the Qishui River in the south.
Yuan Shu sneered and said, "We've come just in time, ready to form a formation."
Since Zhao Yun's ambush has been exposed, how could Yuan Shu not know about his existence?
Therefore, we had already taken a defensive position, with 40,000 people in the front army going to besiege Sun Jian, leaving 20,000 in our own headquarters, and another 10,000 in the rear, just to deal with Zhao Yun's troops.
Zhao Yun arrived here with a mighty army and stopped about two miles away from Yuan Shu's headquarters, watching the situation from a distance.
I saw the war raging over Sun Jian's headquarters, and the fires were spreading and burning in the nearby hills, plains, and hills. Originally, these places were a large amount of barren farmland and some small woods, but now they have turned into a sea of fire.
Sun Jian's headquarters and Yuan Shu's army were photographed in the huge flames, and slowly and continuously retreated from the original camp. The two sides fought from the front camp to the middle camp, and then from the middle camp to the rear camp. They were entangled endlessly, and it was difficult to distinguish the superior.
As for the southern battlefield, Sun Ce led two thousand dead soldiers, plus another two thousand soldiers behind him who were originally protecting the archers on the hill. They pursued Liu Xun fiercely and forced him towards Yuan Shu's headquarters. Now Zhang Xun sent out
The supervising team was already massacring Liu Xun's men, causing the battlefield there to be particularly chaotic.
"General, Yuan Shu is over there!"
Han Hao set up a pergola with his hands. Under the scorching sun, he saw a large Yuan character erected on the hill in the distance. In front of the hill was Yuan Shu's army, but there were not many people on the flanks.
If there is a sudden attack and kill at this time, it will be difficult for the army in front to turn around and defend as soon as possible. This may be a great opportunity.
However, Zhao Yun's eyes were focused on the flank of Yuan Shu's front army. Sun Ce was leading the troops to charge into the formation. Liu Xun's troops were scattered and defeated, and were forced to flee by Zhang Xun's supervising team. Thousands of people were like headless flies.
Running around, causing chaos in the area over there.
"Rush over there!"
Zhao Yun pointed in the direction of Zhang Xun's flank.
Han Hao wondered: "General, Yuan Shu's banner is over there, why don't you rush to kill Yuan Shu?"
"The hill Yuan Shu occupied is just a small hillside. You can go down from all sides. If we rush over, he can just escape from the other side, but he will be easily surrounded. We should take advantage of the situation to break the flank of their front army before making any calculations."
Zhao Yun made his own judgment in a short period of time.
In fact, he didn't think too deeply. If Sun Ce hadn't been attacking Zhang Xun's troops now, he would definitely go to Yuan Shu to kill him.
But seeing that Sun Ce is as brave as a tiger, Zhang Xun's flank is crumbling, and he only needs to add more fire to defeat him. Since there is such a good place, why must he go to Yuan Shu's central army to smash his head and cause bloodshed?
It has to be said that since ancient times, spearmen have been lucky, but Zilong is the only one with B. The spearmen in the world are lucky, Zilong has only one stone, and the rest are short of two buckets.
Because of the unexpected incident on the battlefield where Sun Ce rushed into battle, Zhao Yun made a correct judgment temporarily and did not fall into the trap specially set for him by Yan Xiang.
The main reason is that the flag on the hill does indeed have a big Chinese character Yuan written on it. The flag is fluttering. Not only is the flag an enlarged version, but the characters are also very large, as if it was specially designed to be seen clearly from a long distance away.
In addition, the nearby defense is relatively loose. Normally, if an ordinary general takes a quick look at it, he may really think that it is the enemy's headquarters, attack from the flank, and destroy the command post in one fell swoop.
However, the prerequisite for all this is that the enemy does not know the existence of this surprise force, so the defense will be so lax. If it is still like this after knowing, then there is a problem.
Now the person on the mountain is indeed named Yuan, but it is Yuan Shu's disciple Yuan Yin. Yuan Shu is on another hill nearby without raising a flag.
Once Zhao Yun makes a surprise attack, what awaits him is Yuan Shu's army that has already ambushed him and surrounds him.
Even if Zhao Yun can charge out with his own strength, most of his troops will have to stay here. Without the threat of Zhao Yun, Yuan Shu can calmly arrange to eliminate Sun Jian, and then return to Pingyu to deal with Chen Wen.
The entire southeast will fall into his hands.
This change in the battlefield also changed the general trend of the entire world.
Zhao Yun led his troops and shouted at Liu Xun's troops in Yuan Shu's front army in the distance: "Charge, kill over there!"
"kill!"
Following Zhao Yun, he fought for thousands of miles in Yuzhou, and the elite troops from Guanzhong who were attacking cities and territories in all directions were rushing toward Zhang Xun's troops like wind and clouds.
Yuan Shu, who was far away on the hill, opened his eyes wide and said in shock: "What's going on? He didn't come to attack me?"
Yan Xiang stroked his beard, frowned and said, "It's because there is a flaw on Zhang Xun's side, so Zhao Yun probably thinks it's better to fight there."
"What should I do?"
Yuan Shu was anxious. He didn't think that Sun Jian and Zhao Yun could defeat him. The problem was that if the delay continued, Pingyu might not be able to sustain it for long.
Yan Xiang said: "Ming Ming, don't be anxious. Even if Zhao Yun defeats Zhang Xun, he will not be able to threaten the Chinese army. He can hit the front of the army to respond."
"Let the Chinese army move forward to respond!"
Yuan Shu immediately gave his order.
At that moment, the sound of gongs and drums on the top of the mountain was loud, and more than a dozen messengers ran down to convey the order.
In ancient times when communication methods were very poor, it was very difficult to command tens of thousands of people in combat. Except for military geniuses like Cao Cao, Yuan Shu certainly did not have that ability.
The reason why he is able to temporarily maintain order in the army is mainly due to his large number of middle-level generals and a relatively complete military organizational structure.
In addition, Sun Jian's army is indeed relatively small, much worse than the coalition forces of Yuan Shao and Cao Cao in history. Otherwise, if Sun Jian had such 40,000 to 50,000 troops and was replaced by Cao Cao to command, Yuan Shu would have been defeated long ago.
Lost the armor.
It took nearly half an hour from the issuance to implementation of the Chinese army's coordination order. Over there, Zhao Yun had already rushed to Zhang Xun's headquarters, and cooperated with Sun Ce to start attacking Zhang Xun's formation.
By the time Yuan Shu's army came to support, Zhang Xun's troops were already on the verge of collapse, their flanks were scattered, and a large number of soldiers began to flee.
Sun Ce and Zhao Yun led their personal guards and rampaged through the army, as if they were in a deserted land.
Their target is Zhang Xun, who raised the banner with the word "Zhang" in the former military center!
As the leading general under Yuan Shu, Zhang Xun had not fought any victorious battles in history, but he could not be said to be completely incompetent. In the chaos, he barely stabilized the situation and constantly deployed troops from the left wing to besiege the two armies.
Resist their offensive.
The fighting lasted from the beginning of the morning to the end of the afternoon, lasting more than three hours, and there were fierce battles everywhere.
After Zhang Xun's front army was attacked, because Zhang Xun continued to mobilize troops from the left wing to defend, the reinforcements from the left wing to Sun Jian's camp were much less, so Sun Jian finally stabilized his position and began to lead his soldiers to counterattack.
On the vast plains of eastern Henan, within a radius of several kilometers, there were continuous seas of fire and corpses, and blood dyed the grasslands, hills, jungles and barren countryside red.
Until three o'clock in the morning, Yuan Shu could not attack for a long time, and when the front army also began to rout, he finally couldn't hold on any longer, ordered his troops to retreat, left corpses on the ground, and retreated to his camp in embarrassment.
The war stopped and both sides gathered their soldiers.
Because Yuan Shu's army was the attacker, Sun Jian used the defensive terrain to counterattack. In addition, Sun Ce and Zhao Yun attacked from the flanks, so the casualties were relatively serious. They only fought for half a day, and there were seven or eight thousand casualties. Sun Jian was not defeated in the end.
Instead, he hit his head and was bleeding.
However, Sun Jianjun himself did not get any benefits. Four to five thousand men and horses were killed and wounded. The front camp and the middle camp were destroyed. Although the rear camp was not seriously damaged because it was located relatively far away, some of the baggage and food supplies were still destroyed.
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Although on the surface, Sun Jian's army fought bravely and defeated Yuan Shu with less casualties than Yuan Shu's army. The problem is that the size of the two sides is not proportional. After all, Yuan Shu is outnumbered.
If he continues to fight like this, Yuan Shu can wear him to death just by consuming him.
It was just a small defeat at least. The morale of Yuan Shu's army also dropped a lot. Both sides had to take a step back. Sun Jian also withdrew his troops several miles. The original camp was destroyed and he could no longer stay. He had to find a new one.
At the camp, we began to build fortifications and slowly garrisoned them.
For a time, after a battle, both sides briefly stopped to rest and were in peace, but the battle continued for several days.
Four days later.
In the direction of Ruyang, behind Sun Jian, a large army was slowly approaching.
After observing for two days and discovering that Sun Jian's army had indeed moved, Yuan Shu's order arrived in Ruyang, and Ji Ling's army finally arrived on the battlefield!