In mid-August, Yuan Shao's vanguard army had already arrived at the front line, and at the same time he sent several forces to attack three counties in the northwest of Qingzhou at the same time.
Liu Bei's tactical strategist Xun You suggested that we should adopt the strategy of retreating slowly to lure the enemy deeper.
Tian Feng, another tactical strategist, suggested to Zhang Fei in Ling County that he could attack Beiqiu from the side and pretend to attack Yuan Shao's rear, forcing Yuan Shao to divide his troops to rescue him, while in fact the main force would return to attack Xiajin.
Both Liu Bei and Zhang Fei adopted their opinions. Liu Bei sent Zhang Liao Taishi Ci as the vanguard and stationed at a pavilion about fifteen miles west of E County. This place is Xiban of E County. The terrain is low and there is a large area of farmland under the slope.
, there is a forest to the north, and the dilapidated pavilions and houses have long been deserted.
Zhang Liao was sitting under a ditch to rest. When he saw Taishi Ci approaching, he sat down a little and made room for him. Taishi Ci took an oilcloth and a water bag in his hand, handed them over and said: "First
Eat something, we don’t know when the enemy will come."
"The Military Intelligence Department said that Yuan Shao sent the vanguard general Chunyu Qiong and the accompanying military advisor Guo Tu with 8,000 troops to Xiajin. They have arrived on the west bank of the Majia River. This Tingzhai has a branch of the Pu River and should be only more than ten miles away from the Majia River.
Alright."
"To be precise, it should be fourteen miles away. The Majia River flows from the northwest of E County to the east, dividing Xiajin and E County into two. The mouth of the crossing is called Peifukou, which is exactly half the distance from this village to E County.
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"The military adviser asked us to ambush here, saying that he took advantage of the enemy's mentality that no one would ambush us after crossing the river, but I always feel that it is better to ambush by the river."
Zhang Liao tore the large piece of beef jerky in the oil cloth into two halves, divided half of it into Tai Shici's, and chewed it up with the water in the water bag.
Xun You asked them not to ambush by the river, but under the Xiangting slope far away from the river. The tactics used were exactly the same as Chen Mu's tactics used to defeat Zhang He in Shanyang.
He didn't set up an ambush in the right place, but he set up an ambush in a place where he shouldn't be.
This tactic was often used by General Xu, the later founding general of the People's Republic of China. The principle is very simple, that is, when the enemy passes by the terrain where an ambush is easy, he will carefully search around to prevent the enemy from ambush here.
And when they find that there is no ambush in a dangerous place, they will take it for granted that the enemy has not set up an ambush at all, and thus relax their vigilance.
If we attack at this time, we can easily defeat them.
But Zhang Liao still felt that it would be better to make a surprise attack by the river. Isn't it much better to attack the enemy halfway across the river than to fight in an encounter in the wild?
But since it was an order given by the military advisor, he would carry it out and there was nothing to object to.
Zhang Liao unconsciously touched a long and ferocious scar on his arm. Since he followed Ming Gong in the wild king in the sixth year of Zhongping, he has also been under Liu Bei for nearly ten years. He has been fighting in the north and south for many years. He has several scars on his body, especially on his arms.
This section is the most seriously injured.
Many of the brothers who followed him fell on the battlefield, but he was the only one who was still alive.
There was no one who would die during the march and battle. Zhang Liao was quite open-minded, but the hundreds of old soldiers from Bingzhou who had followed him to defect to Liu Bei had already been killed and injured, which made him quite emotional.
"Do you think Yuan Shao is a fool? Chunyu Qiong has fought with us several times and has never won. Last time we almost lost Ganling. The military advisor said that this person is mediocre and cannot lead an army at all. Yet Yuan Shao actually sent
If he becomes the vanguard general, will there be no one left in Jizhou?"
Taishi Ci did not ask Zhang Liao why he did not go to the river to ambush, but changed the subject and talked about Chunyu Qiong. Since Duke Ming had already agreed with Xun You's tactics, it was not a good thing to talk about him behind his back.
Zhang Liao thought for a while and sneered: "I heard that Chunyu Qiong is from the Yingchuan family. His father was once the prefect of Chenliu. He must be just a second-generation ancestor relying on the family to appoint his son."
"If I were that Yuan Shao, I would definitely kill this man. He has repeatedly ruined important things. Why should such a man stay in the army?"
"Won't we just send him here to die this time?"
"Haha, if that's true, I have to admire Yuan Shao's wisdom."
Taishi Ci laughed loudly, and the two of them ate their luncheon meat slowly while drinking water, while lying on the ground and chatting jokingly.
In fact, they didn't know that after the Ganling City incident, Yuan Shao almost killed Chunyu Qiong.
It's just that the Chunyu Qiong family is indeed a small and medium-sized family in Yingchuan. There have been several eunuchs in the family, and they have a very good relationship with the Guo family. Therefore, Chunyu Qiong defected to Yuan Shao with Guo Tu in his early years, and he also served in Yuan Shao's position.
Jizhou had contributed a lot when he was a herdsman.
Guo Tu has now become a favorite of Yuan Shao. The Yingchuan faction is not strong in Jizhou. Chunyu Qiong is the representative of the Yingchuan faction in the army, so Guo Tu must save his life and let him serve as a vanguard to perform meritorious deeds.
Therefore, it is not really that Yuan Shao likes Chunyu Qiong very much, but that he has no choice. This man is not capable. Who told him that he is from Yingchuan and has a good family background?
While the two were chatting, a soldier not far away suddenly rolled over and crawled to the bottom of the ditch. He crouched and said to them: "Two generals, here they are. They have just crossed the river. There are a thousand people exploring at the front.
There are thousands of people behind us, we will soon reach Pu Township, there are still three or four miles to go."
"Ready to fight."
Taishi Ci and Zhang Liao quickly swallowed the food in their mouths into their stomachs, then quickly touched the weapons at their waists, stood up, and slowly lay down on the slope, with a head sticking out among the weeds, staring into the distance.
The road at the entrance of Chuxiangting Village.
The location they were on was just a low slope, only one foot above the ground. The surrounding basil on the slope was more than one meter high. The field had long been barren and overgrown with weeds.
Among the basil bushes, heavily armed soldiers quietly walked up the slope. They were crouching under the west bank, with only their heads exposed among the grass. They were about ten feet away from the road to the entrance of the village. They turned out to be some soldiers from the village.
The fields and vegetable plots were now deserted, with only foxtail grass still swaying in the wind.
About two-quarters of an hour later, a line of soldiers and horses appeared at the end of the road at the entrance of the village.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! First there were three or five, and then in groups, forming a long winding snake, slowly passing through the woods to the north, and following the road into the village. And behind there were more
There was a large group of men and horses, and the general at the front was riding a tall horse, and his armor was very dazzling in the army.
This general was none other than Chunyu Qiong, who had made meritorious deeds. He was demoted from general to partial general, and then from partial general to captain. Now his life was miserable, so he became very vigilant and did not dare to be as careless as before.
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When he was crossing the Majia River before, he was cautious and sent a thousand people across the river first. After searching everywhere for a long time, he battled wits and courage with the air to make sure that no one on the other side of the river dared to cross.
Now they have arrived at the ambush of Zhang Liao Taishi Ci. When they saw the village from a distance, one of Chunyu Qiong's army commanders said to him: "General, there is a village ahead. It should be Pu Township, which is already far away from Yi County."
Less than fifteen miles away, Ming Gong asked us to find a camp outside the city first, and this place is just right."
"Well, let's set up camp here today. Tomorrow we will wait for Ming Gong's army to cross the Majia River before heading to Yi County."
Chunyu Qiong looked around. There was a forest to the north, a high and low slope to the south, some dilapidated villages in the distance, and a few low hills further away. There seemed to be people living under the mountains, so he pointed there and said
: "I see that the houses over there are not in ruins and seem to be inhabited. I sent people to arrest a few people to ask about the situation."
"only!"
The army commander took the order and left.
Another Army Sima said: "General, this is very close to Yi County. Do you think there will be an ambush?"
Chunyu Qiong laughed and said: "As long as we cross the Majia River, there will definitely be no more ambushes."
"Why?"
Army Sima asked curiously, wondering why Chunyu Qiong was so sure.
Chunyu Qiong said confidently: "Think about it, if the Qingzhou Army wants to set up an ambush, it can only do so in a dangerous place. The Majia River is the only place where it can be halfway across and attack. If there is no ambush there, there will naturally be no one behind.
.Because after crossing the river, there is a flat plain. Although there are some woods, these woods are not big. How many people can be hidden? It is impossible for anyone to ambush."
"I see."
The military commander gave a thumbs up and said: "The general has a clever plan, and my subordinates admire it."
"Pass my order to enter and settle in Pu Township."
Chunyu Qiong gave an order and ordered the army behind to start entering.
He would never have thought that there were thousands of people hiding under these high and low slopes.
Zhang Liao and Tai Shici watched Yuan Jun's vanguard begin to enter the village, and they couldn't help but tighten their weapons.
"Wenyuan, what do you say?"
Taishi Ci turned his head and looked at Zhang Liao: "I'll go back to my headquarters first. Will you charge first or should I charge first?"
"I rush!"
Zhang Liao visually measured the distance. The enemy had begun to enter the village. He was looking at Chunyu Qiong's position. If he was close, he hoped to rush up and stab the general to death.
"good."
Taishi Ci didn't say anything more. He squatted down, followed the path under the ditch, ducked into the dense basil bushes, and walked towards the men and horses he led.
They did not hide in the village, because when normal people enter the village, they will first scan the houses to see if there are any enemies hiding there. The small woods to the north are also not good. These are places where others will subconsciously think that people are hiding.
To come up with something unexpected, it must be hidden in a corner that no one expected.
The field ravine outside the village is an unexpected place for ordinary people. In history, Cao Cao defeated Wen Chou by scattering the baggage on the roadside, and then sent people to hide under the south slope of the road. When Wen Chou's army went to snatch the baggage, he waved the military flag and Xu
Akira and others got on their horses and defeated the enemy.
If you still don’t understand the impact of such high and low slopes on poor vision, you should have played the later-generation chicken-fighting game “PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds”. A small soil slope half a meter high. If you lie down on it, the enemy will not be able to see it. Shooting
No, it's the same principle.
To put it simply, the thousands of people led by Zhang Liao and Tai Shici were all Voldemort lying in the grass in the wheat field. Who would have thought that there would be thousands of people hiding in the field covered with basil, where the field of vision was poor and invisible.
Woolen cloth?
Chunyu Qiong's army slowly entered the village. As they expected, the soldiers entered various houses and searched to see if anyone was hiding.
Some soldiers went to the foot of the hill further northeast. There used to be some remaining people there, but Liu Bei later moved them to the plains to settle down, so there is no one there now. But since the enemy is willing to divide his troops, then
It could not be better.
"Ready to fight!"
Zhang Liao came down the slope and waved, and a horse's head emerged from a haystack not far away.
The soldiers took down the hay branches used to cover the horse. This war horse is an excellent Youzhou horse.
It was motionless and made no sound.
The war horse stood up, and the soldiers led it over. Zhang Liao raised the sword in his hand, got on the horse's back, and said to the soldiers beside him: "Wave the flag, beat the drum, attack!"
"only!"
The soldiers immediately carried out the order, raised the flags that were lying upside down in the field, and beat the gongs and drums loudly.
Almost at the moment when the attack bugle order was issued, in the vast wilderness fields around, countless soldiers lifted off the covering branches and trees, stood up, raised their swords and guns in their hands, and let out loud shouts of killing, toward the enemies on the roads and villages.
Kill and run away.
"Kill!"
"Go, go, go!"
"Let the enemy never come back!"
These soldiers are the strongest vanguard under Zhang Liao, and their bravery is no worse than those in the trapped camp.
Chunyu Qiong was shocked by the sudden ambush. The soldiers around him couldn't even figure out where the enemy was. They were in chaos for a while, because many soldiers did not form a formation or stick together, but were scattered in the village.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Including Chun Yuqiong, there are only less than two or three thousand people around him. Some of them have already swept through the village, and some are still on the official road behind and have not come in.
Others went to the nearby woods.
Although Chunyu Qiong clearly had eight thousand men and horses, he was completely unprepared, while Zhang Liao's Taishici did not have many men, only four or five thousand men.
But they huddled together and charged towards one target - the "big one" in the enemy's formation.
The command is the military flag.
During the cold weapon period, when both sides of the war were entangled, they would use the banner in the army to judge whether their general was still there. It was also where the general gave orders and stabilized the morale of the army.
When Guan Yu killed Yan Liang, Wan Jun saw Yan Liang's banner and rushed over to chop him to death.
When there was Baigou River, Zhu Di almost lost his men, but suddenly a demonic wind blew down the flag of Li Jinglong, the commander-in-chief of Zhu Yunwen's army. Zhu Yunwen's army thought that the leader had lost the battle and retreated one after another. Zhu Di quickly mobilized his courage to attack.
, leading to changes in the country and dynasties.
Therefore, the general's flag was very important in ancient times. There is an idiom called "killing the general and grabbing the flag" (qian), which is synonymous with "killing the general and seizing the flag". It means that the highest military achievement in ancient times was to kill the enemy general and seize the enemy's flag.
banner.
Zhang Liao took the lead, slapped the horse's butt vigorously, sat down and shot the horse out like an arrow. He was not far from Chunyu Qiong, only twenty or thirty feet, so he had already reached the enemy's formation in an instant.
At this time, Chun Yuqiong had not even reacted, and the soldiers protecting him hurriedly stabbed him with their spears and spears. Unexpectedly, Zhang Liao was so brave that he led his men into the formation, surrounded him on the left and right, and struck straight forward, killing him.
The seven or eight people in front opened a breach for the soldiers protecting Chun Yuqiong, then rode their horses and rushed in.
After entering, the enemy did not immediately surround them. Chun Yuqiong did not have such military capabilities, and the soldiers under his command did not have such military qualities. Each one of them fought independently, without even thinking about forming an encirclement, but instead fought with the troops who rushed over.
Zhang Liao's subordinates fought together.
Anyone who can go up and kill the enemy is considered good. Some soldiers under Chunyu Qiong even dropped their weapons and ran into the woods to the north. They had just come into contact with the enemy, and the entire army was already in a rout.
Seeing this situation, Chunyu Qiong became anxious at that time.
You must know that he is now guilty of a crime. The last battle at Ganling almost cost him his life. If he is ambushed in Puxiang again this time and loses his troops, Yuan Shao will definitely kill him.
In this situation, Chun Yuqiong quickly used her clever little mind, glanced over, saw the big flag raised behind Zhang Liao, and immediately understood that the enemy must be the leader leading the fight. If he could kill their leader
, seize the enemy's flag, and the enemy's military morale is disturbed, and defeat can be turned into victory.
Thinking of this, Chun Yuqiong shouted to the pro-army soldiers around him: "Kill, all of you, kill me. If we don't fight with all our strength today, we will all die here. The enemy's general is in front of us now. As long as we kill him, we will
You can win, follow me and rush!"
After giving the order, Chun Yuqiong was surrounded by pro-army troops and came to kill Zhang Liao. Chun Yuqiong was also brave. Knowing that it was either you or me who would die today, he clap his horse and wield his sword, and charged towards Zhang Liao, intending to put him to death and survive.
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But is Zhang Liao an ordinary man? He is second only to Guan Yu in history. He killed generals and captured flags, almost killed Sun Quan, and beheaded Tadun in the White Wolf Mountain Formation. Are you afraid that he will fight among thousands of troops?
When he saw the enemy general charging towards him, Zhang Liao was not surprised but overjoyed. He galloped his horse and raised his sword, charging towards Chunyu Qiong as well.
Taishi Ci also launched a surprise attack from the side, defeating the surrounding enemies and defeating them.
Because Chun Yuqiong was not the main force around him, and all the troops had dispersed to search for houses and clear out the surrounding forests. There were only two or three thousand people around him. Therefore, after discovering that there was a war on the general's side, the Yuan army in the distance was commanded by officers at all levels.
, all shouted and came to support.
Unexpectedly, Zhang Liao and Taishi Ci divided their labors and cooperated. Zhang Liao attacked Chunyu Qiong directly, while Taishi Ci intercepted the reinforcements from the side. The reinforcements did not come in one fell swoop, but in groups of three or five, widely dispersed. Taishi Ci defeated them one by one, and they were beaten in a panic.
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Here Zhang Liao led the army to attack Chun Yuqiong's troops, and the two sides collided like a torrent. Chun Yuqiong also had some strength, and fought with Zhang Liao. After fighting for more than ten rounds, his physical strength began to weaken.
After fighting for more than ten rounds, Zhang Liao became more and more courageous. Finally he found an opportunity and struck Chun Yuqiong in the chest with his sword, piercing the armor and driving him under the horse.
When Chunyu Qiong fell, Zhang Liao slashed his flag with his sword and kicked the flag representing the general to the ground.
"The enemy general is beheaded!"
Zhang Liao got off his horse, chopped off Chunyu Qiong's head, held it high and roared, his eyes as wide as a commander's, like a god of war, wanting to destroy all enemies around him.