Being flanked from both sides, Wang Mohemao chose to kneel down and surrender without hesitation.
This made Dian Wei feel a little regretful, because he didn't even take much action. When the enemy attacked before, he just ordered the spearmen to set up a defensive position.
As a result, when the ambushed troops came over to make dumplings for Yuan Jun, they quickly surrendered without giving him a chance to enjoy his life.
But Dian Wei is not Zhang Fei. Since the enemy surrendered and won the battle, it is already a great achievement, so it doesn't matter. This is the first victory he has won since leading the army alone, and it is also very precious.
After defeating Yuan Jun, Dianwei sent people to escort the prisoners and retreated all the way to Gaoting, about 20 miles north of Pingyuan County. At the same time, part of the Bohai County territory originally occupied by Qingzhou in the north overlapped, and Yangxin and other places also began to shrink their troops.
Gathered in the Kingdom of Li.
Zang Ba blocked the attack in sections along the Majia River in the north, fought day and night, and finally defeated the invading Yuan army. The pressure on him was still relatively high, because Yuan's army in the Bohai Sea had a large number of people. Attacking from north to south, there was nothing along the way.
Except for a few rivers to the east, there is no danger to defend this dangerous place.
In several battles in the west and north, fewer people defeated more. This was due to the Qingzhou Army's perfect defense line preparation and appropriate tactics, as well as the quality of the soldiers on both sides, familiarity with the terrain, and the morale of the soldiers.
In summary, Qingzhou was already prepared and caught Yuan Jun off guard.
However, after several consecutive victories, the Qingzhou Army did not take advantage of the victory to pursue it, but began to shrink in all aspects. Including the Li Kingdom in the north, they all gave up. Zang Ba led the army to move closer to Ande County in the southeast and stationed on the plain.
To the northeast, Qingzhou’s first line of defense opens.
Yes, including in Puxiang, Yimu, Liguo and other places, it is not the first line of defense of the Qingzhou Army, but a proactive blockade. Even if the enemy's vanguard army is not defeated, their offensive momentum must be blocked.
, and then began to move to Pingyuan County.
Pingyuan County is located in the circle surrounded by the ancient Jiuhe River. There are nearby rivers such as the Majia River, the Pu River, the Tuhai River, and the Kejin River. The soil in these places is relatively soft, the sediment is silted, and there are a large number of alluvial fan intersections.
fan edge depression.
To put it simply, there are many swamp lakes like Baiyangdian. Jize Township, Huangze Township, Juyeze County, Leize Township, etc. in the Han Dynasty all have such terrain. Therefore, the Qingzhou Army has a large number of troops in these places.
Water fortresses, fortresses, camps, and ships are used to fight the enemy in swamp decisive battles.
Just when the Qingzhou Army took the initiative to attack and repelled the vanguard troops sent by Yuan Shao one by one, two days later, Yuan Shao, who had just arrived in Xiajin with the main army, received the news and became furious and punished the generals.
, and wanted to personally lead the army to attack Fuxian County.
Fortunately, his group of advisers were still sensible and persuaded him. After Yuan Shao regained his composure, he seemed to have recalled his heroic role in his early years. He no longer chose to make a desperate move, but slowly and slowly sent out light cavalry and troops to sweep away the enemy.
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A large-scale war cannot be fought so quickly. Both sides will carry out exploratory attacks. Including the vanguard sent by Yuan Shao, they will also conduct probings again and again to find out the details of the enemy.
Historically, Yuan Shao planned to attack Cao Cao in the first month of the fifth year of Jian'an, which was the first month of the lunar calendar in 199 AD. He only set off from Yecheng to Liyang in February, and then sent Yan Liang, Wen Chou and others to attack Baima, Yanjin and other Yellow River crossings to protect the main force.
Cross the river.
The defenders in the two places stayed for two full months. In April, Cao Cao personally went north and led his army to relieve the siege of Baima Yanjin. Then he moved the people south and waited until August to start the confrontation in Guandu.
Therefore, it is impossible for a truly large-scale war to end immediately and overnight.
The hundreds of thousands of troops may seem like just a number, but including the logistics personnel, the total number may exceed 300,000. How can their food, weapons, equipment, and coordination and dispatch be completed in a day or two?
Therefore, no matter how anxious Yuan Shao is, he can only use a small number of front troops to explore the route first, and then the main force will conduct military dispatch in the rear, waiting for a suitable opportunity to attack.
Just as Yuan Shao was preparing to attack Hanoi, after he believed that Hanoi was not enough to pose a threat to him and that the biggest enemy was Qingzhou, the main force began to be dispatched to the east on a large scale. The journey from E County to Xiajin was only seventy or eighty miles.
Within a hundred square kilometers, a large number of rangers and infantry were roaming around, attacking the scouts, sentries, and camps sent by Qingzhou.
Suddenly, the storm was about to come, and the main force of the Qingzhou Army immediately began to move back. The front line soon became E County. E County is very close to the plains, so this city must be a battleground between the two sides.
In the central area, Liu Bei also stepped up efforts to fortify the city, shrink his troops, and prepare to attack Yuan's army head-on at the first line of defense.
This period of time is the preparation and testing stage for both sides. How the scouts and scouts on both sides faced each other head-on on the vast Hebei Plain will not be shown for the time being. The large-scale war between Qingzhou and Jizhou has begun, at least for a short period of time.
There can be no end in time. At this time, there is also a battle taking place in Luoyang.
In early August, the autumn wind blows. Today is a cloudy day without the sun, and the sky is completely white. The warm spring breeze carrying the fragrance of wild flowers slowly floats in the mountains. The originally green mountain forests have become intertwined with green and brown, and there are accumulations of water under the forest.
There is a thick layer of accumulated leaves, which makes a crunching sound when stepped on.
"Do you see clearly?"
"See clearly."
"How many people are there to the east?"
"Six, where is Simeon?"
"Six, too."
"Sneak over there later. I'll take care of the one on the east side, and you take care of the one on the west side."
"good!"
Guan Cheng and Wang Dan, two captains of the Luoyang Army, led several people to squat under a dense forest, which is the mountain forest to the north outside Linlu Valley.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The mountains outside Linli Valley are not too steep, and there are even a large number of valleys and plains. In later generations, this was near Yuejin Canal, although it was located in a continuous mountainous area.
Among them, most of these mountains are small mountains less than tens of feet high, and there are no particularly steep mountains. Only when you go west and enter the Linlu Mountains will the mountains overlap and become difficult to overcome.
Here, Yuan Jun was stationed on the top of the mountain on both sides of the valley entrance, and deployed a large number of defense mechanisms. If you come out of the valley entrance to the east of Linlu Valley, you will be attacked by them, and they also arranged a large number of traps in the mountains and forests to the west.
, it is also difficult to attack from the mountain.
But compared to the heavily defended west side, the defense on the east side is much worse.
Because they originally came to guard the Luoyang army in Linli County in Linli Valley, and to the east is Anyang. After crossing the Huanshui River, it is less than a hundred kilometers away from Yecheng. There are densely packed and large-scale Yuan troops garrisoned behind, such as Jiu
In Houcheng, Wucheng and other satellite cities of Yecheng, tens of thousands of Yuan's troops guarded Yecheng.
With the support of so many troops and important towns in the rear, although the Yuan army at Linligukou knew that the Luoyang army was attacking outside Anyang City, they did not feel threatened.
After all, they occupy the mouth of the valley and can defend on both sides. Once the enemy attacks from outside the valley, they can also use the fortifications to hold on and then call for reinforcements.
But they never expected that Chen Mu had sent someone to secretly observe them for nearly a month.
Although the Yuan army in Linlu Valley occupied a dangerous position, their weak defense to the east still exposed a serious problem, that is, the vigilance of the sentry posts was extremely low, and they actually lit bonfires when they were standing sentry in the mountains and forests in the middle of the night.
This is understandable, after all, it is autumn, and the temperature in the north is getting cooler. It is also a mountainous area, and the temperature at night can be freezing.
In order to deal with the enemies in Qingzhou, Yuan Shao was transporting winter clothes as strategic materials to the Ganling front line. For a while, there were no winter clothes on the western battlefield and even on the northern battlefield, and they were still wearing thin summer shirts to fight. The soldiers were not living well.
Not having a good time.
But if lighting a bonfire while guarding at night can explain the low temperature at night, and the fear of getting sick from the cold air, then it makes no sense that the mountainous area in the north, which has almost no fortifications and has several trails to go up the mountain, is so poorly defended.
Yuan Jun placed the main defense force in the west, less in the east, and there was almost no defense in the north. Except for a few hidden sentries, there were not even traps or fortifications. As long as he attacked from the north, he could even go up the mountain to surprise them.
Go to the camp.
After preparing for nearly a month, Chen Mu personally led 3,000 men, and the three generals Guan Hai, Wang Dan, and Guan Ping, and cooperated with Xu Huang who was in Linlu Valley, decided to start an attack on the entrance of the valley to pull out the root.
nail.
At this moment, the soldiers and horses quietly reached the foot of the mountain, surrounded by rolling mountains. Through observation at night, they knew that there were two hidden sentries of Yuan Jun hidden in this mountain.
Chen Mu was walking in the mountains with almost no roads. The sharp cattails could cut people's clothes. The thorns with sharp outer thorns collided with the armor, making a clanking sound. There were also cockleburs hanging on people's bodies, and
Snakes, insects, rats, and ants all over the mountains and plains have become a nightmare for the soldiers.
It is no wonder that Yuan Jun at the entrance of the valley is so lax in his defense to the north, because the mountain forest to the north is completely in the state of a primitive jungle. There are no roads, no smooth roads, only rugged mountains and endless dense bushes and wild woods.
Guan Ping slapped the ants on his body, and when he reached the foot of the mountain, he took off his boots, shook out the stones inside, and said to Chen Mu, "Fourth uncle, are you sure you can go up the mountain from this place? It can't be a cliff, right?
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Chen Mu said with a smile: "If the place they occupy only has east and west sides for travel, then tell me why they still have sentry posts here? Since there are sentry posts, it means there is a road up there, but it is indeed difficult to walk, so
They don’t think there is an enemy that can attack us.”
"oh."
Guan Ping learned another new knowledge and suddenly realized: "No wonder the fourth uncle has only asked us to keep an eye on the movements of the mountain pass here for half a month. I am still thinking that he only asked us to find where the secret sentry is, and he did not go into the mountain to search.
Find the way, what if you don’t find the way?”
Chen Mu waved his hand and said: "There must be a road before the car reaches the mountain. It connects the north and south of Huan River and connects the southwest of Ye City. If we can take it down, we can surround Anyang and scare Ye City."
"I see."
Guan Ping nodded, thinking that he had learned a lot from his fourth uncle.
At this time, Guan Cheng emerged from the dense forest, still stained with blood on his body, and said to Chen Mu: "Four Generals, the two hidden sentries on the mountainside have been dealt with. They were all secretly wiped on the neck, and there was no sound."
Good guy, I didn’t expect these people under me to have the potential to join the Brotherhood.
Chen Mu thought in his mind.
He was still worried about whether his attack was secretive enough. Once someone blows the iron whistle or bangs the gong to expose the target, he will have to attack by force. Now it seems that his worries were in vain.
"According to the plan, it is already past noon, and Xu Huang's side should have launched an offensive to attract the enemy's attention."
Chen Mu said calmly.
"clear."
Guan Cheng nodded and ducked back into the forest.
Behind Chen Mu and in the surrounding woods, bushes, and heaps of weeds and basil as high as a person's waist, there were countless rustling sounds.
Groups of soldiers walked out, stepping on the thick dead leaves and branches, making a crunching sound.
As a famous theatergoer in the late Han Dynasty, Chen Mu would never go to the battlefield to die in person, so he deliberately chose a good place, which was on a hill here.
The eldest nephew Guan Ping led the soldiers slowly behind Guan Cheng and Wang Dan. Each of them led hundreds of troops. Under the arrangements of officers and generals at all levels, they sneaked into the mountains and followed the steep slope of about 60°.
Slope, climb up slowly.
The forest is too dense. The trees cover the sky and the sun. There are countless bushes, weeds, vines and basil below. Let alone standing on the mountain, even in the jungle, even from a few meters away, you may not be able to see the enemy.
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Therefore, the Luoyang army did not advance in a scattered manner. Instead, under the leadership of officers, they cut through the thorns and thorns in the mountains and forests, carved out three roads, and slowly marched towards the top of the mountain. Moreover, the mountains and forests here are not the enemy's garrison.
We have to cross this ridge and then climb another mountain.
There are two secret sentries above the mountain ridge, and they are just a few people. In such a place, it is usually a hard job, and there has been no war for a long time. Everyone has relaxed their vigilance, not even thinking of patrolling the mountain, and they all
Spending time taking a nap.
Then Guan Cheng and Wang Dan led the assassins to easily remove these hidden sentries again, and then the rear troops finally climbed to the mountain ridges. These mountains were only dozens of feet high, but it took them almost three quarters of an hour to climb up.
, you can imagine how complex the internal terrain of these rugged wild mountains and forests is.
After passing this ridge, there is another hill in front. In the distance, on the dense forest on the top of the mountain, you can still vaguely see the enemy's outer wall and the military flag hanging on it.
Chen Mu also arrived here quickly. Looking at the hills on the opposite side, he could still faintly hear the shouts of killing, and nodded slightly.
It seems that Xu Huang's side is already fighting with the enemy, and it's time to attack.
Thinking of this, he opened his red lips slightly and said lightly: