How could the judge not be overjoyed when he learned that Liu Bei was leading the army in person, and that there were only 6,000 soldiers and horses?
You know, Yuan Jun was well prepared for this attack.
At that time, Yuan Shang led the front army of 30,000 men, plus the remaining 6,000 men of Han Meng, the vanguard army who had been condemned, for a total of 36,000 men.
In addition, because Yuan Shao loved his three sons deeply, he added another 20,000 troops, for a total of 56,000 elite troops to attack the plains.
During the bloody battle at Dahe Gudu, Yuan Shang lost thousands of men and horses, including thousands of soldiers killed by crossbows and catapults during the strong attack across the river.
Immediately afterwards, the pontoon bridge was laid overnight, and the battle across the river began. On the river beach, many troops were killed and wounded by enemy archers, and now they can still maintain a strength of just over 50,000.
Taishi Ci and Zhang Liao fought bravely in the early stages, but in the middle and later stages, Yuan's army raided Zhang Liao's camp, causing loopholes in the port defense. The Qingzhou Army also suffered heavy casualties, with thousands of dead and wounded soldiers.
In this way, even if Huang Zhong's reinforcements are included, the number of troops in the camp there will definitely not exceed 30,000, and the approximate number should be more than 20,000. And Liu Bei came here this time, and only brought 6,000 troops, which means
The total strength of the Qingzhou Army is only more than 30,000.
In this way, the Jizhou army can at least ensure their superiority in strength, and they also control a camp and are already in an invincible position. If they can capture or kill Liu Bei among the rebellious army, then they will directly win the battle of Qingji.
No need to fight again.
When Shen Pei thought of this, he couldn't help but feel excited. If he could catch Liu Bei, it would be a great achievement. The most important thing is that with his wisdom, he quickly figured out another point, that is, Yuan Shang was standing there
Next to him!
As Yuan Shao's most hated enemy, Liu Bei is also Yuan Shao's biggest enemy. Whoever can kill Liu Bei will become the Yuan family's biggest hero. And Yuan Shang is Yuan Shao's favorite son. If he can take the credit for killing Liu Bei, he will be Yuan Shao's favorite son.
If Yuan Shang is on top, then Yuan Tan's position as the heir apparent cannot be preserved at all.
Although he would not be the biggest contributor by doing this, he was betting on the future leader of the Yuan family. When Yuan Shao eliminated Liu Bei, the biggest obstacle, he occupied the land of Qingzhou and Youzhou, plus Bingzhou and many people who surrendered to him
The northern nomads suddenly became the strongest in the world.
Then the troops will go south to unify the Central Plains, and the Yuan family's foundation will be completed. When Yuan Shao dies, Yuan Shang will naturally inherit the great cause. By that time, as the biggest contributor to Yuan Shang's rise to power, he will surely become the head of the hundred officials, and he will
The clan will also rise.
What could be more wonderful than this?
Shen Pei narrowed his eyes, showed a bright smile on his lips, and said to Yuan Shang: "Congratulations to the young master, if we can catch Liu Bei today, the young master will have made a great contribution. When the time comes, the young master will also look at the young master in a different light.
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After all, Yuan Shang is a young boy. He is young and lacks battlefield experience. He still has some stage fright before the battle. He asked worriedly: "This is what you said, sir. It's just that the enemy troops and the Xuanjia heavy cavalry are the best soldiers and horses in the world. We
Can we really defeat them and capture Liu Bei?"
Shen Pei smiled and said: "Of course I also know that it is not easy to capture Liu Bei, but don't worry, sir, I have a countermeasure. At this time, Duke Ming is in Yi County, which is only more than twenty miles away from here. It only takes less than two days to report the news quickly.
We can arrive there in a quarter of an hour, and when Duke Ming comes, it will only take less than an hour. During this time, as long as we hold them back, Liu Bei will be able to capture them!"
Hearing that Shen Pei was planning to move reinforcements from behind, Yuan Shang then remembered that the battlefield was not far from Qian County, and he suddenly realized: "Sir, sir, you are very thoughtful. As long as father comes over, they will definitely die!"
At this time, the situation outside changed again. The trapped troops advanced step by step and began to press against Yuan's army on the outskirts of Taishi Ci's camp.
Because Yuan Jun did not receive the order, he could only retreat continuously for a while.
When the judge on the wall saw this, he screamed, "Quick, let them withdraw immediately."
But it was obviously too late.
I saw that when the trapped army was less than fifty steps away from Yuan Jun, suddenly the spearmen and shieldmen in the front row dispersed left and right, revealing the crossbowmen in the middle. These crossbowmen all used chain crossbows, which could shoot three shots about one foot in succession.
Long short arrow.
They lined up in a neat row, and the moment they were released by the gun and shield men in the front row, they had already aimed at Yuan Jun's position and pulled the triggers one after another.
Thousands of arrows pierced the void, emitting a harsh whistle, and shot towards Yuan Jun, who was still at a loss over there.
But this was not the end, because it was an improved serial crossbow. They pulled the trigger again, and the second wave of arrows followed immediately, followed by the third wave. Then the crossbowmen withdrew,
The second row of crossbowmen from the back continued to come up, maintaining a two-stage shooting posture.
All this happened too fast. It's not that Yuan Jun was well-trained. But they saw that the enemy was like a group of iron bastard shells. They probably couldn't run fast, and they were forty or fifty steps away, which is about sixty or seventy steps away.
The distance of 3 meters should be safe no matter how you think about it.
Who would have known that there were two thousand crossbowmen inside these iron bastard shells? Yuan Jun was caught off guard, and people in the front row fell down after being hit by arrows. Those behind quickly turned around and ran away. In an instant, tens of thousands of Yuan Jun troops were overwhelmed by the crowd and fled like birds and beasts.
"hateful!"
Seeing that the trapped troops took advantage of him not paying attention and directly defeated the vanguard troops he sent to surround Taishi Ci's camp, Shen Pei became furious and shouted: "Where are the messengers, where are they dead!"
"exist!"
The messenger quickly ran over in panic.
"Go, let Yin Kui organize the troops, gather the soldiers, don't let them chaos, tell Su You and Guo Zhao, let the soldiers come out of the camp immediately, and let Yin Kai surround the army from the side, do you understand?
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"only!"
The messenger immediately ran out to deliver the order.
Yin Kui, Su You, Guo Zhao, Yin Kai and others are all the captains leading the army this time. In fact, there are more than 100, there are also Lu Kuang, Lu Xiang, Ma Yan, Zhang Kai and others, but these people are all lined up outside the camp.
Of course, there is no need to arrange the formation. The two sides just set up their formations and fight with real swords and guns.
Soon, Yin Kui over there collected the soldiers of the Yuan Army who had been scattered by the trapped troops, and reorganized their troops. The trapped troops did not pursue them. In fact, they could not catch up. With thirty kilograms of armor on their bodies, they could not run away even if they wanted to.
No matter how fast, we can only form an array on the spot.
In Taishi Ci's camp, Huang Zhong, Zhang Liao, and Taishi Ci had naturally noticed the existence of the trapped troops. Taishi Ci was overjoyed and said: "It's Duke Ming. Duke Ming has personally come to rescue us. Now we will go out and plunder the formation."
"Well, I have ordered people to dismantle the iron cables deployed by Yuan Jun on the river. Once the iron cables are removed, the soldiers who stayed on the ship will continue sailing, crashing the pontoon bridge and cutting off their escape route!"
Huang Zhong touched his beard. He did not join the army until he was forty-two years old. Eight years have passed and he is fifty years old. If he does not make contributions at this time, when should he do it?
"Open the gate of the village! I'm going to take advantage of you!"
Zhang Liao slapped the wall of the village with his palm. His shoulder was still bandaged. He had been injured in the previous battle, but now his face was full of resentment, and his eyes were full of unwillingness and bloodthirsty mania.
This time he lost his camp and lost his troops and generals. Duke Ming personally gave him ten thousand victorious troops. It was a slap in the face. How could he not be furious?
Taishi Ci also understood his mood and immediately roared: "Open the village gate!"
"Open the village gate!"
As the messenger shouted, the gate of the camp slowly opened.
Huang Zhong, Zhang Liao and Tai Shici turned around and got off the wall, got on their horses, took the lead and rushed out with their weapons.
The army from the rear began to move out continuously. Under the command of middle-level officers such as captains and army commanders at all levels, more than 10,000 troops quickly began to form battle formations in the open space outside the camp.
Most of these soldiers were subordinates of Huang Zhong and Zhang Liao. Taishi Ci's subordinates had been sticking to the front line before and suffered too many casualties, so they stayed in the camp. Zhang Liao's subordinates had dragged their tired bodies into the battle before. After the bloody battle, they were all exhausted and were in the camp.
It took nearly two hours of rest to recover.
Under normal circumstances, if the opposite general is a smart man, he should immediately order an attack. Because the enemy's formation has not yet been deployed, your own formation has been laid out, and you still have a large number of people, the advantage is very large.
However, the trapped troops were watching eagerly nearby, and the soldiers and horses of the Yin Kui tribe were still in the process of reorganizing. There was still some distance between the two camps. By the time their rear troops arrived, the enemy had already arranged their formations, so the trial deployment could only
Seeing the enemy arranging their troops after coming out of the stronghold, they didn't dare to go over and harass them.
When Liu Bei saw Zhang Liao and others coming to help, he immediately sent someone to inform them, asking them to prepare, pack up their belongings, and prepare to evacuate to the east.
The purpose of coming here this time was to lift the siege of the riverside and rescue everyone. Even if they could not seriously injure the enemy, at least they could not cause more casualties to their subordinates. Therefore, the main purpose was to evacuate.
Although the three of them wanted to continue fighting bloody battles, Liu Bei issued a death order. With no choice, Taishi Ci could only order people to go back to the camp to inform the captain who was staying in the camp, asking him to pack his luggage and take care of the wounded soldiers.
Take them with you and prepare to withdraw from the rear camp.
All orders are being carried out in an orderly manner, and the iron chains on the river are being removed.
After all, they occupy the south side of the river and are very close to the big ship coming from the south. There are ship-guarding soldiers on the ship, floating on the river. Yuan Jun has nothing to do against the Qingzhou Navy. He can only watch helplessly as the navy moves forward.
With the cooperation, the Qingzhou Army removed the chains on the river.
The two sides faced off for almost half an hour. From the bloody battle in the early morning to Liu Bei's rescue, more than seven hours had passed. Both sides were almost rested. The two sides were separated by about a stone's throw in the ice and snow, staring at each other.
After the defenders in Taishi Ci's camp moved their baggage and began to evacuate from the direction of the rear camp to the east, Liu Bei gave an order and the troops of Zhang Liao and Taishi Ci Huangzhong retreated in an orderly manner.
As soon as they took a step forward, Shen Pei and Yuan Shang became anxious. It is estimated that Yuan Shao has just learned the news not long ago. It will take some time to get all the soldiers and horses here. If they are allowed to leave like this, it will be a cooked duck.
It flew away. Not to mention the big fish Liu Bei, even people like Zhang Liao, Taishi Ci and Huang Zhong didn't want to let anyone go.
At that moment, the judge no longer hesitated, and immediately issued an order, ordering Lu Kuang, Lu Xiang, Ma Yan, Zhang Kai and others who were the first to form the battle formation to quickly fill in, entangle Liu Bei's army, and at the same time let the people who had been defeated before
The defeated Yin Kui, Su You, Guo Zhao, and Yin Kai attacked from the flank.
The most critical thing is the enemy's side. Since the enemy's army has strong fighting power and the enemy monarch Liu Bei is there, the morale must be high. Shen Pei did not dare to let others attack, so during the confrontation stage, he personally selected five thousand soldiers and held shields.
and spears, adopted stalemate tactics.
When the enemy troops moved over there, Liu Bei watched indifferently from his horse, and then signaled to Gao Shun: "Let the army move to the flanks of Zhang Liao, Tai Shici and his troops, and block the enemy's attack path."
"only!"
Gao Shun immediately conveyed Liu Bei's intention to the soldiers in the front row. The officers shouted, and the battle formation of the fallen army suddenly changed.
Originally, their position was southeast of the camp occupied by Yuan Shang and northeast of Taishi Ci's camp. At this time, the formation quickly changed. The original front team became the flank, and the original right sword and shield hand flank became the front team, and then they did not retreat.
Reverse advance, move forward quickly, facing the army of Lu Kuang, Lu Xiang, Ma Yan, Zhang Kai and others who are coming from the side.
It is still very troublesome for the heavy infantry group to change the square formation, which is far less convenient than that of ordinary infantry. Let alone the heavy armor on the body, it is also very inconvenient to quickly change direction when forming the formation. Fortunately, the trapped troops are well-trained,
Before the enemy could get close, he had already quickly adjusted his position.
At this time, it was too late for Lu Kuang, Lu Xiang, Ma Yan, Zhang Kai and others to try to change the direction of the charge, because it was impossible for the soldiers to convey orders to everyone during the charge, and they were all arranged in advance.
Then give the order to charge.
Therefore, in war, those who attack first will often suffer some losses. As the saying goes, strike later. As long as you give the enemy time to adjust and attack head-on with the best posture, you can easily win.
Shen Pei was afraid that the Qingzhou Army would evacuate smoothly, so he had to arrange his troops to charge first, trying to entangle Zhang Liao Taishi Ci's troops who were evacuating to the rear.
But unfortunately, Liu Bei responded immediately, immediately adjusted the position of the trapped troops, and stopped in front of them.
It was obviously too late for Yuan Jun's officers to make temporary adjustments. The army was trapped together, and 20,000 to 30,000 people launched a charge together. Everyone had to bite the bullet.
A young recruit who had seen how powerful the trapped army was before did not realize the concept of tens of thousands of people rushing forward. When he saw that the trapped army in front had opened the wall of death, thousands of archers and crossbowmen were facing it.
When they launched another volley, they stopped abruptly in fear.
But before he could turn around and run away, the soldiers who were still charging forward behind him had knocked him to the ground. His fall caused several soldiers to stumble, but more people stepped on them.
, several Yuan Jun soldiers were trampled to death when they launched a charge.
Lu Kuang was riding on his horse, shouting at his officers to maintain order, not to cause chaos, and to charge forward steadily.
When fighting in front of the formation, we are not afraid of a small number of people or a large number of enemies. We are afraid that without the officers to command the soldiers, the organization will be disrupted. Once we cannot advance and retreat together, the entire front will fall apart in the blink of an eye.
Fortunately, the trampling here was just a small wave that the large army could not afford. In the blink of an eye, Yuan Jun had already reached the front of the trapped army.
"shoot!"
Gao Shun roared angrily, and the crossbowmen fired a volley. Thousands of crossbow arrows came out in response, and they galloped towards the dense crowd.
The chaotic arrows cut through the void like raindrops and fell into the sea of Yuan Junjun, causing repeated screams.
Yuan Jun, who was at the front, fell in large numbers in an instant, but after firing his bow, there was no turning back. No matter how many people died in front, all the soldiers of Yuan Jun still had to grit their teeth and charge forward like a torrent under the pressure.
The trapped troops stood on the spot, like the mainstay in the flood. When the enemy approached, the shield hands on both sides closed again, and the steel shields were placed vertically on the ground, tightly connected.
The next moment, Yuan Jun rushed on top of the shield, erupting with a huge collision force. Both sides were pushing forward and backward. The crossbowman in the middle immediately hung his crossbow on his waist, drew out the Huanshou sword, and began to shoot from the top of the shield.
As he slashed outwards, spearmen kept stabbing outwards from the gaps.
The entire trapped army seemed to be overwhelmed by the crowd. On both sides of the trapped army, more Yuan troops were killing Zhang Liao, Taishi Ci, Huang Zhong and others at the rear of the trapped army.
The charge that swept forward like a tidal wave, with a powerful force, slammed into the Qingzhou Army who was tightly arrayed. The two sides fought together, and a bright wave suddenly bloomed, and a fierce fight broke out.
Human bodies were thrown away, war horses screamed, the cold glow of weapons confused the dark sky, and the bright red blood dyed the cold beach red.
Zhang Liao had long wanted to avenge his shame, so he rushed into the formation first and slashed at an enemy soldier with his sword. The soldier wanted to use his sword to block the sudden sword, but he couldn't withstand the terrifying force and made a "dang" sound in his hand.
The sword was knocked away.
The man and the horse were intertwined, and the tip of Zhang Liao's cold knife had penetrated him. At the same time, his remaining strength was like thunder, and he picked up the man behind him like a skewer of candied haws. Blood splattered and screams filled the field.
The huge body of the war horse poured into the enemy formation, and swords and spears were stabbed from all directions. Zhang Liao grinned, showing a cold and cold look, his eyes were filled with bloodthirsty murderous intent, and he waved the big knife in his hand, blocking the wind and blocking all the attacks.
open.
Another rider came from the flank. With a slash of his sword, he killed several Yuan soldiers who were besieging Zhang Fei. Their heads flew high and blood splattered, turning Zhang Liao into a bloody man. The man who came was none other than Huang Zhong.
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Although Huang Zhong is old, already fifty years old, and has declined slightly since his defeat with Lu Bu, he still maintains a strong combat effectiveness and is a tiger general in the Qingzhou Army.
After helping Zhang Liao to relieve the siege, Huang Zhong rode his horse and led his bodyguards towards the enemy's formation to kill them.
Among the rebellious army, they vaguely saw a horse-riding general in front, leading dozens of personal guards, besieging a sturdy young man. The man was wearing the uniform of the Qingzhou Army and kept slashing with a broadsword in his hand. Although he had the strength to parry,
Unfortunately, there were too many enemies around, and it was difficult to fight back, so he was beaten back and forth.
Huang Zhong naturally knew this person. He was Xu Chu, the personal guard brought back from Henan by Duke Ming a few years ago.
At the beginning, Xu Chu's combat power was not as good as Zhang Fei's, but in the past few years, he often went on expeditions, conquered bandits and bandits from various places, and often fought with Yuan's army. His martial arts gradually matured. Although he was still not as good as Zhang Fei, he had a promising future.
Ming Gong's personal guard. Seeing that he was in danger, Huang Zhong naturally could not sit idly by and ignore him.
At that moment, Huang Zhong rode his horse and galloped away. The sword in his hand was flying like a butterfly. He was slashing and stabbing from left to right. In an instant, he killed more than ten Yuan soldiers who were besieging Xu Chu.
Cut it down.
boom!
As soon as the blades collided, the gun shaft used by the enemy to block was cut off, and the helmet and head were split into two pieces!
This terrifying force almost made all the surrounding Yuan Jun soldiers take a breath.
Splitting the gun shaft is nothing, because there are very few iron gun shafts, and the shafts of most long guns are made of hardwood. If you chop with all your strength, it is not impossible for a strong person to do it, but it will also chop the hardest head of the person wearing the helmet.
If it breaks into pieces, that would be terrible. Even among men, Lu Bu probably doesn't have that much strength.
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It was normal, so he shouted: "Xu boy, you don't need so much effort to kill people. Save your energy and kill more enemies. Fighting on the battlefield is not how you do it!"
"I know!"
Xu Chuweng said angrily: "I just hate that this guy doesn't dare to fight me alone and has people surround me. I'm going to chop him alive!"
"Hahahahahaha."
Huang Haha slashed a crescent moon with the big sword in his hand, swept away the surrounding enemies, rode his horse to Xu Chu's side, and said with a smile: "Boy, good job, I will follow you Uncle Huang today, and I will teach you how to kill people!"
After saying that, he rode his horse again and was already deep into the enemy's formation.
Xu Chu glanced at the enemy general's body angrily, turned around and rode in to follow him.
This enemy general was Yin Kai who was ordered to attack the trapped army from the flank. The flank of the trapped army was protected by Xuanjia heavy cavalry. Xu Chu, as the commander of Xuanjia heavy cavalry, led the cavalry to kill each other and came to Yin Kai.
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Because there were too many enemies, even though the Xuanjia heavy cavalry was heavily armored, after a round of charge, they were trapped in the formation and found it difficult to break out of the encirclement. Many Xuanjia heavy cavalry were pulled off their horses by Yuan Jun soldiers, even though they could not be cut with swords and guns.
They were also beaten to death with blunt instruments such as hammers and axes.
Even Xu Chu himself was out of touch with the troops and was besieged by Yin Kai's troops. Now that Yin Kai was dead and the military flag fell, his troops immediately lost their command. In the midst of chaos, soldiers in the rear were commanding in the distance.
The commander of the trapped army noticed this situation and immediately sent another army commander to take over the task of commanding the battle.
Both sides were furious, but Yuan's soldiers were outnumbered. In the frontal charge, Zhang Liao's Taishi Ci and Huang Zhong suffered heavy casualties. Even a school captain, several army commanders and other middle-level officers were killed, leaving the front line to fight.
The Qingzhou military establishment also experienced a brief period of chaos and was almost on the verge of collapse.
Liu Bei had no choice but to command the trapped troops to fight and retreat at the same time, and lure the enemy to the ambush point where his own Qingzhou Army of 10,000 troops was ambushing.