In early November, following Yuan Shao's order, the main force of Yuan's army in Qinghe State officially began their journey.
The army of more than 100,000 people was divided into several groups and marched toward the east.
After Chunyu Qiong was killed by Zhang Liao's formation, Yuan Shao's troops replaced Han Meng as the vanguard, led 7,000 men across the Majia River, and successfully occupied the original Yi County.
Followed by 30,000 front troops led by Shen Pei and Yuan Shang. It is worth mentioning that, strictly speaking, Shen Pei and Feng Ji are not the traditional counselors who follow the monarch to make suggestions, but should belong to the low-profile version.
Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi.
Because their position in Yuan Shao's army is to be the commander-in-chief of the army. Historically, Yuan Shao used Shenpei, Fengji, and Jushou as the commanders of the army, and Tian Feng, Xun Chen, and Xu You as the masterminds, so Shenpei has always been an army leader.
general.
In Yuan Shao's army, Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Gao Lan, Zhang He, Chun Yu Qiong and Ju Yi have always served as generals. However, Gao Lan and Zhang He suffered repeated setbacks in front of the Qingzhou Army and were demoted to the north to deal with Gongsun Zan. And Yan Liang, Wen Chou had to deal with it again.
Guan Yu and Ju Yi of Luoyang were "dead" and Chun Yuqiong was beheaded. Now naturally Shen Pei could only lead the front army.
Originally, Yuan Shang should not appear in the front army this time, but when Yuan Shaoming knew that Yuan Shang could not be present, he still followed the advice of the reviewer and let Yuan Shang serve as the general accompanying the army. It can be seen that speaking rationally in front of a doting father will not be enough for him.
It's not a sensible thing to do.
Behind the front army was an army of 50,000 led by Yuan Shao himself. In the rear were tens of thousands of rear troops and auxiliaries transporting grain and grass. At the same time, around the army, there were a large number of scouts and scouts, as well as many scattered groups.
The small troops that came out, such as the soldiers and horses of Boping who went south to Lingxian, and the soldiers and horses of Huge State who went north to Yimu.
If you look down from a high altitude, you will see densely packed groups of soldiers marching in the vast white snow in the vast wilderness to the west of the ruined E County. It looks like a giant giant that swallows the sky.
Like a python, it winds and hovers on the road for more than ten miles, with no end in sight.
The vanguard army led by Han Meng, plus thousands of auxiliary soldiers, opened the way at the front and laid straw along the official road.
A large amount of hay and wooden branches are scattered on the road. The hay will absorb the snow water and make the originally muddy road slightly drier. The soldiers will not appear to be soaked in muddy water when they step on the official road covered with wooden boards and straw.
Here, the feet are soaked and damaged.
The sun hangs high in the sky, not bringing any warmth to the world. Instead, the howling cold wind from the north brings people a bone-deep chill. On a small hill in the southeast of Qian County, white light is reflecting
.
Zhang Liao was riding on his horse, watching from a distance with a telescope. He saw four miles away, a force of more than 10,000 people arrived at the old system of Yixian County and began to re-enter the repair work through the original ruins.
Further back, there were countless soldiers moving forward slowly, like ants one by one, struggling to move forward in the wind and snow.
"General, Yuan Jun has taken action."
One of Zhang Liao's subordinates, Li Shi, an old soldier from Bingzhou who had fought with him for many years, whispered beside him: "We must quickly inform the brothers behind."
"Um."
Zhang Liao put down the telescope, gently stroked the horse's head, and said in a deep voice: "The enemy is coming fiercely, so we still need to take shelter temporarily. However, the county has been destroyed, and it will take a long time to repair it. We still continue to step up the construction of fortifications.
Prepare to fight to the death."
"Then continue to break the ice now?"
"It's not broken. Even if part of it is broken, there are too many areas where we can cross the river. It's freezing and snowy now, and the ice is too thick. There's no need to bother. It's good to just catch some fish to improve the food for the brothers."
Zhang Liole turned his horse and said to Li Shi: "Ask the brothers in front to prepare their catapults and other equipment. Once Yuan Jun crosses the river, he will attack him head-on!"
"What about you, General?"
Li Shi was puzzled for a moment. When he went back to deliver the order, did the general have to do other things?
Zhang Liao smiled, pointed into the distance and said: "Look, Yuan Jun's vanguard is far away from the front army. Their front army has just arrived and is completely unprepared. Now they are building fortifications. I am lying in ambush in the jungle.
When they came to cut down the trees and prepare to set up camp, they attacked their auxiliaries."
In the Han Dynasty, there were forests everywhere. Although Hebei has been developed for a long time, there are only more than 6 million people living on the land of nearly 200,000 square kilometers, which proves that almost 90% of the land is in an uninhabited state.
Outside the city of Yixian is the Xiaoshui River, and to the east is the great river Gudu. At this time, the Qingzhou Army dug the Yellow River channel to the northwest of Gaotang, and introduced the Yellow River water into the original river channel, increasing the water flow.
This big river Gudu is not without water now. It is connected with several rivers such as the Majia River, Xiaoshui River, and Tuhai River. It is just that heavy snow has blocked the river, causing the surface to freeze. After the Yellow River water was irrigated, the already frozen river surface
Covered by water, it slowly melted, causing the river to become another obstacle.
However, except for the Dahe Gudu and several other rivers that have no ice near the channels, several other Gujiu rivers have frozen.
The surrounding swamps, lakes, etc. have not melted away. Zhang Liao's Wansheng Army is stationed outside Pingyuan City, which is at the corner of Pingyuan City. Therefore, he wants to break all the ice on several nearby rivers to defeat Yuan's army.
The purpose of blocking at all levels.
Unfortunately, the idea was good, but Yuan Shao didn't give him time. So he decided to lead some troops and hide in the forest not far away, killing and injuring the auxiliary soldiers who were building fortifications among Yuan Jun's pioneers. In this way, Yuan Jun once again repaired the county.
The time will be greatly increased, which will also give him more time to improve the defenses.
After listening to Zhang Liao's words, Li Shi stopped talking. He knew what kind of character his general was. Being reckless was a bit reckless, but Zhang Liao had always been wise to act recklessly and was never motivated by emotion.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Just as before, Yuan Jun certainly would not have thought that in this ice and snow, someone would specifically target their auxiliary soldiers who were out cutting down trees.
Li Shi led a few people back to report that there were still about a thousand infantrymen at the bottom of the hill.
Zhang Liao personally led these infantrymen around from the right side of the hill to a forest not far away in the south of Yi County.
It is winter, and everything is silent. The forest covers an unknown number of square kilometers, almost extending from Xiaoshui in the west to Dahegudu in the east. Many birds have flown to the south to spend the winter, and occasionally they pop up in the jungle.
A hare also quickly disappeared into the snow without a trace.
A thousand people entered the forest one foot deep and one foot shallow, heading north. Snow covered the entire forest, and it seemed like there was no sky above their heads. No sun could be seen. There was a thick layer of dilapidated leaves.
It makes a creaking sound when you step on it.
How big is the camp that can accommodate more than 100,000 people?
As the fulcrum of the frontline attack, Yuan Shao will inevitably place his base camp here. However, Han Meng's vanguard army is actually just building a prototype on the periphery. He will still have to go to Dahegudu, including the entire peripheral area of Fuxian County, which is densely packed and has
Countless camps were built.
Therefore, the amount of wood Yuan Jun needed was almost astronomical. Fortunately, wood in this era can be said to be inexhaustible. The history of Chinese war and civilization from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States to the present is only the beginning and has not yet reached its peak.
Groups of auxiliary soldiers and even combat soldiers swarmed toward the jungle to the south. The axes struck the trees one after another, and half of the forest was filled with the sound of collapse.
Following the direction of the sound, Zhang Liao walked for almost half an hour, nearly two or three miles, before reaching the north of the forest.
Hearing the sound getting closer and closer, it was even accompanied by the loud noise of falling trees, hitting the ground, and snow and mist flying. He waved his hand downwards to the soldiers behind him, signaling them to sneak quietly, then pulled out his knife and hid behind
Behind a tree, looking out.
He saw dozens of Yuan Jun soldiers not far away from him, about ten feet away, cutting down trees separately. This was just this place. Further out, they were like a swarm of termites, randomly attacking
As they poured in, the trees in the forest collapsed one by one. The forest shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye, leaving only bare wooden piles.
"Spread out!"
Zhang Liao saw this scene and gave orders to the soldiers behind him.
The pro-army troops immediately dispersed. Yuan Jun was cutting down in small groups, so he had to cut down in small groups. Otherwise, if he rushed out with more than a thousand people, he could only kill a few dozen people.
Yuan Jun and other people around him ran away when they saw the situation was bad, so they couldn't cause much damage.
Soon the soldiers were in their respective positions. After everyone was in ambush, Zhang Liao raised his sword angrily and shouted: "Kill!"
"Kill!"
Suddenly, a roaring roar seemed to be heard throughout the forest, and the elite troops of Wan Shengjun rushed towards Yuan Jun, who was six or seven times more numerous than them.
In addition to the 8,000 vanguard troops, Han Meng's army also had a large number of auxiliary troops.
These auxiliary soldiers were mostly engaged in manual labor, and many of them did not even wear weapons. The sudden attack immediately plunged them into chaos. They dropped their axes and wood and turned around and ran away.
Zhang Liao led more than a dozen soldiers and chopped down several Yuan troops who were cutting wood. Before he could continue killing, he found that the surrounding Yuan troops were swarming and fleeing to the north.
In the distance, Han Meng was urging the soldiers to quickly build the camp. Suddenly he noticed that there was chaos in the forest about a mile away to the south. He quickly climbed up and looked into the distance, and saw that the enemy was killing his auxiliary soldiers. He was shocked and immediately
Summon the soldiers into formation and prepare to face the enemy.
Wan Sheng's army came out of the forest, hacked to death hundreds of Yuan's soldiers, and then continued the pursuit with their bloody Huanshou swords.
One mile is not far at all, only about 400 meters. Yuan Shao's auxiliary soldiers and Wan Sheng's army chased and fled, and soon approached their camp.
In a hurry, Han Meng only had time to organize more than 3,000 troops and horses, and he hurriedly formed a formation in an open field to the south.
As a result, their formation had just been set up when their own auxiliary soldiers broke into the formation like headless flies, disrupting Han Meng's rhythm, and the formation in front suddenly became chaotic.
Zhang Liao was overjoyed when he saw this situation. He raised his sword with both hands. He was at the front of the team and charged in an awl shape. He plunged into the chaotic front formation of Yuan Jun. He swung around and slashed in all directions, beating Han Meng to the death.
They were retreating steadily, and their formation became even more unsustainable.
The sounds of fighting, the banging of weapons, and the grunting and hissing of people as swords and guns penetrated flesh were endless. Several times, Han Meng wanted to lead his troops to kill Zhang Liao who broke into the formation, but Zhang Liao hit him head-on.
Almost killed.
In desperation, Han Meng had to retreat while fighting, and the general's flag also began to retreat. The soldiers in a mess around him also hurriedly retreated when they saw the general's flag retreating.
With the front and rear losing ground, Wan Shengjun almost effortlessly dispersed the hastily organized 3,000 men.
What followed became a one-sided pursuit. Zhang Liao was covered in blood, and his rather young and heroic face was dyed bright red, adding a more ferocious color.
A brave Yuan Jun thrust his spear at him, but he dodged it and stabbed him diagonally, easily piercing Yuan Jun's throat. When he pulled out the sword again, there was only a big hole left in his throat, and blood almost spurted out.
came out and fell to the ground.
The most boring thing for human beings is to kill each other.
But many times in this world, people are not at their mercy. Whether they are soldiers at the bottom, generals at the middle level, or even Yuan Shao and Liu Bei at the top, for their own purposes, they can only bite the bullet and continue to face difficulties.
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Gloomy dark clouds covered the sky, and the sounds of swords, guns, swords and halberds clashing on the ground became less and less. There were more sounds of countless soldiers dropping their weapons and running hastily in the wilderness like ants.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Zhang Liao led his own army and killed more than a thousand enemy troops at the cost of only losing 139 people. It can be said that
The results were rich.
But what followed was that support from the front army had arrived. The battle lasted for less than half an hour, and the large force of the front army in the rear was also rapidly approaching Fuxian County. After discovering that the vanguard army was already in combat,
Shenpei dispatched general Feng Li and led 5,000 people to come quickly to support him, and he himself led a large army and arrived soon after.
At this time, Zhang Liao was still in a state of panic. The enemy in front was still running. His feet were so tired that they were almost his own. His arms were so sore from the constant swinging that he could only chop mechanically, but his eyes
But he continued to stare at the moving flag of General Yuan Jun in front of him.
At this time, the shouts of the people around him suddenly came to his ears. A familiar voice kept shouting. While Zhang Liao regained his senses slightly, it also made him numbly chop a man on his side again.
The enemy troops who came to attack him turned around to look.
"General General!"
As his vision gradually became clearer, Zhang Liao discovered that some soldiers were calling him from a distance.
The personal guard who had been following him also turned to look.
The soldiers shouted: "Yuan Jun's support is coming, Yuan Jun's support is coming."
Until then, Zhang Liao looked in the direction they were pointing and saw a large number of enemy troops rushing in in the wilderness to the west, like a torrent that was about to sweep everything away.
"No, withdraw!"
After realizing that something was wrong, Zhang Liao finally remembered that he had killed the superiors. He actually forgot that behind the vanguard was the main force of Yuan's front army, and he quickly issued a retreat order.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!"
A pro-soldier next to him immediately took off his horn from his waist, raised his head, and blew with all his strength.
The whining sound of the trumpet spread throughout the battlefield, calling back the sanity of the soldiers of the Wansheng Army who were as red-eyed as their leader. They stopped their pursuit and searched everywhere for the source of the trumpet sound.
"The general gave the order to retreat."
"Look over there, support from Yuan Jun is coming."
"The general is at the front, gather with the general first!"
Wan Shengjun was well-trained and did not turn around and run away immediately, but hurriedly moved closer to Zhang Liao.
They were originally fighting in separate groups, but lost their formation during the pursuit. They basically fought in small groups, and now they were summoned by the horn and immediately began to assemble in the direction of Zhang Liao.
Zhang Liao gasped for breath and wiped the water stains on his forehead that were either blood or sweat to prevent them from flowing into his eyes. After glancing around, he shouted: "Let's go, let's go quickly!"
At the same time, he sheathed his sword, moved his tired feet again, and retreated in the direction he was coming from.
When the soldiers saw him retreating, they immediately followed him.
It was almost a mile away, and when they almost reached the forest, Wan Sheng's army was almost gathered together, like tadpoles clinging to Zhang Liao's back, densely packed black dots huddled together.
At this time, Feng Li's army had already chased them less than a mile away. Zhang Liao led the soldiers into the forest. The two sides disappeared into the jungle one after the other.
There was only a mess and the corpses of thousands of Yuan Jun soldiers left on the place, and the blood dyed the white snow red. Suddenly there was a thunderbolt in the gloomy sky, and a light rain started to fall. A winter rain seemed to destroy everything.