The monstrous fire was still burning raging, and the open flame kept jumping upwards until it burned the entire camp of Gao Lan to the ground, and then it became a little dim.
But in late winter and early spring, there are still a lot of dead leaves and dead grass on the ground. Especially on the surrounding hills and hills, there are many trees growing. The flames follow the plants on the ground and begin to spread to other places.
The heat wave flames remained in the ashes, and the air was filled with a rich smell. The floating sun sky was gray, with countless gray particles floating around, covering the entire city.
In the early morning of the next day, the particles formed by burning vegetation turned into a thick gray fog. Under extremely low visibility, the city gate in the north of the city opened wide, and an army marched out of the city to the north, leaving this place of right and wrong.
Gao Lan gathered more than 30,000 remaining soldiers and retreated 30 miles away. In this battle, he lost more than 10,000 people. It was not that the casualties were huge, but that many men and horses were missing in the fire, and many people were separated.
Lost in the nearby mountains and forests, and still haven't returned to the team.
The battle situation at that time was that the Gaolan camp occupied the official road from Fuyang to Beipicheng, and the two sides fought on the plain in the middle. Zang Ba's tribe raided their camp from the west, and after defeating the Mayan tribe, they immediately attacked the Gaolan headquarters
, which is equivalent to attacking Gao Lan from both sides with Gongsun Zan in the east.
Two buns sandwiched with cheese, behind them were enemy reinforcements and fire, and in front was the enemy in front. The soldiers of the Gaolan Department could only choose to flee north or south. They fled in all directions. In addition, it was dark and the fire was strong in the direction of the camp, so they could get separated.
There are countless people who are being hunted.
However, one thing is quite lucky, that is, the Jiao Huo tribe sent out had no time to attack the city, so the former army was severely defeated. Therefore, the organization remained intact. After returning to the army, it became the only army capable of fighting at present.
After a major defeat, the army was demoralized and in need of rest. Gao Lan forcibly cheered up and ordered the soldiers to drag their tired bodies and start building a new camp again.
As a result, it was not yet evening, and at noon, a team slowly appeared on the official road in the southwest, holding the banner with the word "Ju".
According to the distance, Ju Yi should have arrived in Fuyang in the evening. However, Gao Lan's troops retreated thirty miles and came back again and again, shortening the distance, so that Ju Yi happened to meet Gao Lan at noon. The two met,
After learning about the situation, Ju Yi formed a camp with Gao Lan where he was, and then sent people to Beipicheng to inform Wen Chou.
After Wen Chou got the news, he sent someone to inform Yuan Shao, who had just set off. It was almost noon on the third day after Gao Lan's camp was burned down. Yuan Shao learned about Gao Lan's defeat outside Nanpi City. Although he was angry,
, and had no choice but to continue on the road.
On the third day, Wen Chou also arrived at Fuyang, and on the fourth day, Yuan Shao led his army to arrive in person. He joined Gao Lan's remnants, and the total number was close to 100,000. He marched eastward in a mighty manner, and arrived at the foot of Fuyang City. There was a sea of 100,000 soldiers, boundless.
No edge.
Yuan Shao started building camps and casting fortresses as soon as he arrived. A few days ago, a fire burned a mountain and burned all the surrounding vegetation. Since there was no continuous mountain forest, the farmland around the county became a natural fire break. Weeds in the farmland
It was burned out, leaving the ground desolate, and the fire gradually came under control.
After extinguishing the fire, Yuan Jun immediately began to cut down trees from further directions and built a camp on the deserted plain outside the city. Different from the previous wooden camp, this time the outer perimeter began to be built with stones to form a stone wall.
The entire camp was surrounded.
Then they dug a trench to collect water from the small river in the northwest of the city, introduced it into the camp, then used water and soil, built rocks and mud, baked them with fire, and built a wall with crenels on the wall. The defense was better than the one built by Gao Lan
The camp is more than twice as strong.
At the same time, high platforms were built, watchtowers and sentry towers were built, siege equipment was manufactured, trenches and traps were dug around the camps, and a large number of horses were placed at the entrance of each camp, as well as iron caltrops, horse traps, etc.
The entire outside of Fuyang City seemed to have turned into a large construction site overnight, with excavation, construction, and construction going on everywhere, with people coming and going, and the division of labor was clear.
At this moment, Gongsun's flag was still hanging on the city top, the flags were fluttering, and the gongs and drums were noisy. Near the city tower, Zang Ba, Xun You, Tai Shi Ci, Huang Zhong and others took a look, looking at Yuan Shao's army outside the city in the distance, busy in full swing.
As if they had long-term plans, several people looked at each other in confusion.
"Is Yuan Shao planning to build a city here?"
Taishi Ci was puzzled.
Xun You pondered: "They think we are Gongsun Zan, and they will definitely trap Gongsun Zan here and die."
"It looks like we're going to have to fight a tough battle."
Mr. Huang is already forty-seven years old this year. Logically speaking, he could call himself an old man in the Han Dynasty. However, his body is strong and his body is still strong. He looks towards the camp in the distance with a burning look in his eyes.
He is older, but his qualifications and military exploits are not high. Among the many generals in Qingzhou, he is ranked second only to the last one, lower than the young Taishi Ci and Zhao Yun, so naturally he is not convinced.
Therefore, he needs more military exploits and more victories to establish his position.
Zang Ba said: "We still don't want to confront Yuan Shao head-on. Our task is to delay time, not to fight to the death with Yuan Shao. Since he chose to build a camp to besiege us, then we have to wait for him to build it, which will take at least ten days and a half.
, we will leave directly when the time comes.”
Xun You stood on the city tower and looked solemnly at the intensive deployment of Yuan Shao's army outside the city. He shook his head and said, "Yuan Shao should not be underestimated. I'm afraid it won't be that easy for us to leave."
"Isn't there just three camps? Surrounding three buildings. Didn't we often do this before?"
Zang Ba asked in confusion.
Compared with the previous high-level camp, after Yuan Shao arrived in person, both the camp and the number of soldiers and horses were many times more rigorous and vast than before.
One camp is located in the northwest corner of the city, radiating from the west gate and the north gate. The other camp is located in the southwest corner, radiating from the west gate and the south gate.
The last camp is located outside the west of the city and is a frontal attack camp.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! As the saying goes, "the enemy must be surrounded", the three camps used the force of horns to block the north, south and west gates, leaving the east gate open, forming a perfect attack
City formation.
In "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu, "Besieging Three Ques and One" is one of the eight principles of marching and fighting, and it is extremely important.
In addition to leaving room for the enemy and not allowing the enemy to be destroyed with the determination of death, the most important thing is to cooperate with another idea in "The Art of War" of "Ten to encircle, five to attack, and twice to divide".
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For example, there are 30,000 people in the city, and you have 100,000. If you surround the enemy on all sides and put 25,000 people at each city gate, then the number of people at the gate on one side is actually less than the enemy.
In ancient times, a city was not large, usually covering several square kilometers. However, it always took a certain amount of time to support from one city gate to another.
Therefore, when you surround the enemy on all sides and each side has fewer troops than the enemy, it is easy to be defeated one by one.
Therefore, when the ancients marched to fight and captured a city, they would usually choose one city gate as the main attack, and gather a large number of troops to create frontal pressure on the enemy. At the same time, the other two city gates were used as auxiliary attacks to contain part of the enemy's forces.
Finally, one of the city gates was opened, that is, three gates were surrounded, but this was not really to ignore the enemy, but to ambush soldiers and horses outside the city, waiting for the enemy to escape through the opened city gate, and then suddenly attack them.
This is already a very conventional method of siege. Not only in the feudal period, but also in all dynasties, including the Anti-Japanese War and the Liberation War in modern my country, there were many tactics that required besieging the enemy, such as the Battle of Changping and the Battle of Maicheng. This is also true in the modern battles of Sanfeng Mountain and the Battle of Southwest Shandong.
Although this style of play is not suitable in field battles. For example, Liu Bang was besieged on Baishan Mountain, but it is normal in siege operations. Cao Cao in the late Han Dynasty, Li Shimin in the early Tang Dynasty, Yue Fei in the Song Dynasty, Qi Jiguang in the Ming Dynasty, etc.
Follow this rule as a guideline.
The reason why I say so much is to express that when Yuan Shao attacked Fuyang, all the formations and camp arrangements were perfect.
Even though Yuan Shu was a loser in history, he still preserved his sanity before becoming the number one prince in the world. At this time, he went to the city in person, gathered his advisers and his own wisdom, and demonstrated his strength.
In fact, even for the Battle of Guandu, there were no problems with all his arrangements, which were very standard military arrangements. If it weren’t for Xu You, a high-ranking second-in-command who led the way, all the checkpoints and rangers along the way to Wuchao would have been
, plus the garrison troops on the front line, it was enough for Cao Cao to drink a pot.
However, besieging three buildings does not mean that there is no way to break it. Because they have more than 30,000 troops in the city. Liu Bei is already rushing back. By then, the main force of the Qingzhou Army and the Luoyang Army will attack Yuan Shao together, and they will definitely be able to break it.
Surrounded by Yang.
However, Xun You was not so optimistic. He pointed to the north and south and said, "Take a closer look."
Everyone looked in the direction he pointed.
Fuyang City is a city in the southern section of the Bohai Sea. Its topography is mainly plains with a small amount of hills and rivers.
During the Warring States Period, this place belonged to the border area between Qi and Yan. The two sides often attacked each other, making this place inaccessible. In later generations, Huanghua and Haixing areas were uninhabited for hundreds of miles.
In the Bohai Bay area, the nearest city is Fuyang, which is more than a hundred miles away from the sea. There is no city in the middle, only some fishing villages and rural pavilions.
After Gongsun Zan and Liu Bei carved up the Bohai Sea, many people on the front line moved further south or eastward. In turn, later generations, the Huanghua and Haixing areas gradually gained some popularity and developed some villages and countryside.
Fuyang gradually became deserted, and the surrounding fields had long been neglected. There was a small hill in the north of the city, and the foot of the mountain was covered with dilapidated farmhouses, overgrown with weeds, and densely forested.
The same is true in the south of the city. Apart from the mountains of trees and bamboo groves, there are only fields covered with basil and abandoned houses outside the city.
Needless to say, the west of the city is the main official road from Beipicheng. There were originally a lot of farmland, a hill, and some trees on both sides of the road. The trees had been cut down by Gao Lan before, and the hill was burned.
After all, the fields are still covered with plant ash.
Therefore, after Yuan Shao arrived and wanted to build a camp, he had to cut down trees from the forests in the south and north of the city. A steady stream of trees were brought into the camp and became various facilities in the camp. The surrounding trees were decreasing at a rate visible to the naked eye.
All that is left is the vast primitive jungle to the east. This is the area where Gongsun Zan hid in the east of the city. The forest is so dense that even if tens of thousands of people hide in it, it will still flow into the sea like drops of water.
Xun You continued: "Yuan Shao deliberately surrounded the three city gates in the north, south, and west, leaving only the east gate. It was because the outside of the three gates was bare and unobstructed. The forest outside the east gate was as deep as the sea, and the vegetation was lush, making it look like outside the city.
We have no soldiers and horses, but as long as we ambush an army in the forest, we will be completely trapped in death."
"Yuan Shao has made up his mind to destroy us here."
Taishi Ci took over the conversation.
Zang Ba thought for a while and said: "So that's it. When we came out, we only brought twenty days of food and grass. If Ming Gong fails to force Yuan Shao to withdraw within twenty days, I'm afraid our entire army will be wiped out."
Xun You touched the goat's beard under his chin, his eyes sparkled, and he said with a slight smile: "Actually, we don't have to be so panicked. Yuan Shao's deployment is indeed exquisite, and he also has a large army in Wei County. Even if Ming Gong attacks fiercely, in a short time, he will be defeated."
It is indeed possible that we will be surrounded and killed, but we still have a sure way to escape."
"A way to escape?"
Zang Ba hurriedly asked: "What is the military advisor's clever plan?"
Xun You looked towards the north and said calmly and calmly: "It doesn't matter, we will see for ourselves in a few days."
He didn't say anything, and no one continued to ask.
The Qingzhou Army took over Fuyang City, and Yuan Shao intensively began building various fortifications outside the city.
Since we chose to use stockade walls and stone walls, the amount of work was naturally much higher than that of wooden fences. Beipicheng became a food transfer station, under the supervision of Zhang He. There were checkpoints and rangers along the way, with civilians and auxiliary soldiers coming and going.
Absolutely.
Except for the soldiers and horses who were on daily defense, most of the one hundred thousand troops were in working order. Cao Cao built the city overnight, but Yuan Shao did not have the ability, so it took him four to five days to complete the construction.
Don't think that this speed is very fast. In fact, it is quite slow. Qin Shihuang only spent nine years recruiting hundreds of thousands of people and building thousands of kilometers of the Great Wall.
Most wooden camps in ancient times can usually be built in about a day. All you need to do is dig a trench at the entrance of the camp, surround it with a wooden fence, and put up defenses such as horseshoes, iron caltrops, etc. It is a temporary camp.
The scale of the camp built by Yuan Shao is a little lower than that of the city, and a little higher than that of the wooden village. The outer wall is a wall, and the interior is still a wooden structure. With the scale of Yuan Shao's 100,000 troops plus tens of thousands of civilian auxiliary troops, even if he builds a city
, it is estimated that it only takes ten days and a half.
After the camp was repaired, the interior of the three-out camp was divided into multiple camps. Yuan Shao ordered the army to start bulldozing operations. They began to dig mounds of earth and build trenches just a stone's throw outside the city. At the same time, he asked the logistics craftsmen to speed up the production of siege equipment.
, prepare for the coming war.
Everything is to guard against Gongsun Zan's cavalry troops. It can be said that they are fighting step by step and steadily. On the day of the war, all Gongsun Zan's arrangements will be in vain, and it will be a trap.
Unfortunately, Yuan Shao didn't know that the soldiers and horses in the city were no longer Gongsun Zan. His cavalry had already left, and all traces were covered along the way.
There are still a lot of fresh horse manure left in the woods to the east of the city, in order to confuse Yuan Shao and make him think that Gongsun Zan's cavalry is still nearby.
Although a large number of scouts spread out and searched everywhere, the eastern area was really vast, covering hundreds of kilometers, and it was like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Therefore, Yuan Shao adopted cautious measures and used the general trend to press forward step by step in order to ensure victory.
A few days later.
All arrangements have been completed, and the time of war is finally coming.