First there was the neighing of horse hoofs, and then there was a "bang", and both the man and the horse fell heavily to the ground.
Not just one person, but the five scouts running at the front did not escape. Because they were so close, they all tripped over the snagging rope before they could stop.
Immediately, the soil flew up, and a large amount of gray smoke sputtered from the horse trap in front.
Qin Yanxuan's ambush point was very good. There was a low slope on the left side of the official road, and below it was a vegetable field in a nearby village. The people were hiding on the reverse slope below the slope, and the people on the official road above could not see it at all.
On the right side was a ditch covered with dense weeds and some trees. The guards covered their bodies with branches and lay down in the basil bushes on both sides of the road.
Almost as soon as the enemy knights came over, the trip horse rope was pulled up from the ground, tripping the first few knights, and the guards immediately rushed out.
Call!!
The second team and the third team of rangers behind them pulled up the reins at the same time to stop the horses under their crotches. At the same time, one of them turned around and ran back, while the others immediately drew out the weapons on their waists and prepared to fight.
The man who ran back was not timid, but wanted to go back immediately to report the news. The mission of the scout ranger was not to fight the enemy in the wilderness, but to detect the enemy's information as soon as possible.
Feedback from the base camp.
Therefore, in many scout battles, after detecting enemy intelligence, they often dispersed and escaped quickly. Only when it was really impossible to escape, would they fight to the death to cover their teammates and bring important intelligence back.
Yuan Jun's scout team is already the elite among the elite. Although they have not yet figured out what is going on and why there are enemies in their rear area, it has become almost instinctive to go first and report the news.
However, just when the ranger turned around and ran back for the first time, a cold arrow flew from the nearby forest and pierced his throat. Blood immediately poured out, and the ranger fell from his horse with a look of reluctance.
.
Ju Yi put down the bow and arrow in his hand, drew out the knife from his waist, and led more than a dozen of his own guards to rush out from the forest, staring at the rangers in the middle and blocking the road behind them.
In front are the guards from the Military Intelligence Department, and behind are the personal guards led by Ju Yi. The two sides are already outflanking.
The two ranger captains of Yuan Jun looked at each other and did not speak. They only made eye contact and knew the answer in each other's minds almost at the same time - break out separately and settle down with their destiny!
This is a common tactic used by scouts. If they have the choice, they are not willing to choose it. However, the official road of Xiangting is no better than the plain area. There are a large number of fields, villages and some jungles and hills on the left and right sides. The terrain is very complex.
Escape without using cavalry.
Moreover, the enemy will surround them from the front and back. If they rush forward and backward, they will basically choose to fight head-on with the enemy. When there are fewer people than the enemy, and there are a large number of traps such as horse ropes and horse traps around, it is impossible to rush directly and recklessly.
matter.
So they can only choose to break out!
Without any hesitation, the ranger captain behind shouted loudly: "Turn back and kill us!"
The five rangers turned around collectively and raised their swords.
There is a trap in front. If you rush directly, you will fall into the trap. There are more enemies in the back, but at least there is no trap. As long as you rush through, you will have a chance to survive.
The other four rangers dispersed. Some ran into the woods on the left, while others rushed into the vegetable fields on the right. In an instant, everyone dispersed like birds and beasts.
Ju Yi didn't care about the Military Intelligence Department. He was a general who trained troops in the rear, and he had nothing to do with the Military Intelligence Department. The subordinates he trained naturally had their own set of coordination, and the Military Intelligence Department also had their own style of play, and they mixed with each other.
Harmony can only cause chaos, so everyone mind their own business.
Almost at the moment when the five rangers rushed over, Ju Yi fixed his eyes on the ranger captain who was charging directly towards him. He put the knife in his hand back into the scabbard, opened his hands, and used his fingers to
The head is constantly clenched to adjust the posture.
As a Xiliang native who has been dealing with horses and Qiang people since childhood, Ju Yi knows very well how to control a horse that is accelerating with bare hands. In other words, this kind of thing is too childish for him.
If it is a war horse that is already running at full power, it may still be difficult. But whether it is a car or a horse, it takes a short time to prepare from the start to the top speed. It takes at least a minimum for a fuel-powered car to accelerate from zero to a hundred.
Four or five seconds, let alone a horse.
Therefore, in Ju Yi's eyes, a war horse that had just started running was not as fast as a human being. He fluttered his hands, and in an instant the horse rushed in front of him and was about to hit him head-on.
When he was knocked away.
Ju Yi suddenly shrank and dodged sideways. Then he suddenly wrapped his hands around the neck of the war horse. With the help of the power of the war horse, he jumped up instantly and kicked the scout off the horse with a flying kick.
"boom!"
The scout captain fell heavily to the ground, but his horse was taken away by Ju Yi.
Not only him, but other scouts were also uniformed by the elite guards trained by Ju Yi. These people worked in groups of three or four, either to attract attention from the front, or to make sneak attacks from the side. They were all strong and coordinated, and soon they
Just take down all five scouts.
The ten guards from the Military Intelligence Department over there did not dare to show weakness. Although they were not like Ju Yi because they were from Xiliang and had special methods of dealing with horses, they had prepared many strange tools.
For example, ropes, fishing nets, forks, etc. made of rope.
Almost as soon as the four rangers here dispersed and escaped, several large nets were thrown out. The first ones trapped were the two rangers running into the vegetable field. The soil in the vegetable field was very soft, and the horses
He couldn't run at all and was easily caught in a fishing net.
The other two were chopped down alive by the Siwei who was hiding under the grass with a fork, and the other was shot at close range by a serial crossbow and turned into a hornet's nest. A total of fifteen Yuan army scouts were wiped out in an instant.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! No way, this is the only way for Yuan Jun's scouts to escape. Because the width of the official road is not suitable for nine cavalry to run side by side, or even only three
People side by side.
If nine people turn back together, they only need to pull up the rope to knock down the three people in front, and all the people behind will be tripped by their own people.
Therefore, dispersing and breaking out can only be the only choice among all strategies. Unfortunately, it is still no match for Ju Yi and the Military Intelligence Department.
Ju Yi is very familiar with horses, and the Military Intelligence Department is full of clever tricks and uses every possible means.
Both sides have their own merits.
After capturing a group of prisoners, the group immediately cleaned up the battlefield and then quickly fled the scene with the horses and prisoners.
Yuan Jun's scouts were not just a few people, but one after another. As an army with 40,000 people, Yan Liang could not have only a few dozen scouts under his command, but hundreds, or even nearly a thousand.
He arranged an ambush on the official road in the north, and scouts sent messages back and forth constantly. Once a group of scouts were found to be missing, a chain reaction would soon occur, making the enemy alert.
It is different to clean the battlefield so that the enemy is not alert. After all, the scouts send messages from the base camp to the various ministries. If there is a missing group, as long as the base camp does not notice it, the other ministries will not know about it. So now for both sides, it is
Buying time.
The prisoner was captured and taken to a hidden stronghold of the Military Intelligence Department several miles away. Ju Yi stayed outside the room without questioning him. In terms of the level of torture, he certainly could not compare with the spies of the Military Intelligence Department who were engaged in special professions.
After a while, Qin Yan and Lao Zhou came out and said in a deep voice to Ju Yi: "Colonel Tao, I have asked. All the arrangements of Yuan Jun and all the detailed operations have been clearly explained."
Ju Yi was slightly surprised. He did not immediately ask what the enemy's deployment was, but asked: "When did Yuan Jun's elite scouts become so vulnerable? They were all recruited so quickly. I didn't expect that the soldiers under Yuan Shao's command actually changed."
So bad."
After losing himself and the soldiers who first climbed to the death, Yuan Shao became increasingly weak. Even the elite scouts of the army turned out to be like this. If it were the former soldiers who first climbed to the death, they would probably die.
Can't say a word.
However, Qin Yan and Lao Zhou looked at each other and smiled: "Actually, it's not that Yuan Jun's elites have become inferior, but that Siming once trained interrogation techniques for the early military intelligence department guards. In addition to physical torture, Siming said
The most important thing is to open the enemy's psychological defense line, and the simplest and most effective one is the prisoner's dilemma."
"Prisoner's Dilemma?"
Ju Yi looked puzzled, this word was quite new.
"To put it simply, it is a separate trial. The condition we propose is that the person who confesses first is spared a life, and the others die."
Qin Yan explained: "We captured twelve prisoners this time. Not everyone of these people is willing to die. As long as one person speaks, it will be easy to get what we need."
"I see."
Ju Yi understood. There were thousands of thoughts in his mind. He looked towards the south unconsciously. He suddenly remembered the time when Chen Mu and Liu Bei tried to persuade him to surrender with one red face and one white face.
At that time, perhaps they were taking advantage of their revengeful mentality and deliberately provoked themselves.
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Early in the morning, the Luoyang army began to move out again.
Each battalion seemed to have rehearsed countless times. The soldiers lined up in neat battle formations and gathered at the school field outside the camp.
After all the camps were assembled, everyone began to leave the camp.
There was a huge crowd outside the entire military camp. Soldiers from each battalion were in place according to the order of deployment. They lined up and stepped on the rammed earth. The dust was flying everywhere and they made a neat "boom" sound.
At first glance, it seems that the army is still a bit chaotic, but in fact everyone is working step by step. The army of more than 20,000 people is as organized as two thousand people holding a conference.
The Chinese have had a high degree of discipline since ancient times. They are prone to blind obedience when they are defeated. They also tend to follow the crowd when they line up.
Because those who disobey management have either been kicked out of the army or have gone elsewhere.
Chen Mu rode a horse out of the military camp under the protection of a heavy black armor cavalry. Not far away, Guan Yu was directing his soldiers to start moving to the river. His green robes fluttered in the wind, and his neat beard was tied into braids this time.
.
"Si Ming!"
Several guards approached him quietly and said, "There is news coming from the front."
"oh?"
Chen Mu got off his horse and asked, "What's going on?"
Siwei took out a simple map and drew on it: "Yuan's army totaled about 40,000 troops. Ten thousand people were led by Lieutenant Cenbi and were stationed in the forest at the southern foot of Huanbei Pavilion. This forest is the only way to Beiguan Road.
Through the road.”
"Um."
Chen Mu nodded: "What else is expected?"
Siwei added: "Colonel Meng Dai led 5,000 men to ambush at the entrance of Guandao in the north. He said that once Yan Liang in front was defeated, he would act as the first reinforcement to block it."
"Following them were Colonel Ma Yan and Colonel Shi Huan. These two were respectively stationed in the Zhaojiawu Fort area south of Huanbei Pavilion, and in Yangping Township, about three miles away from Guandaokou. Yuan Jun ambushed every few miles.
Thousands of troops were recruited to provide support."
"Yuan Jun is conducting a staged attack."
Chen Mu pondered: "What is General Tao's plan?"
Si Wei said: "General Tao has arrived about thirty miles west of Huanbei Pavilion and is moving towards Huanbei Pavilion."
"good."
Chen Mu nodded: "I understand, go ahead."
"only!"
Si Wei took the order and left.
After receiving the information, Chen Mu immediately found Guan Yu to communicate with him.
Knowing Yuan Jun's plan, Guan Yu laughed and said: "That Yan Liang has nothing to do. This battle will just annihilate him and defeat Wei County in one fell swoop."
Chen Mu said: "I originally just wanted to defeat Yan Liang Wen Chou, but unexpectedly the enemy made a mistake, so I started a battle of annihilation. If the enemy can be completely wiped out in this battle, then the entire Wei County will be in ruins, and Yuan Shao's vitality will be greatly damaged!"
"Um."
Guan Yu nodded: "Today, I will not let Yan Liang go!"
After saying that, the two urged the horses to move.
The army slowly moved to the river. Guan Hai once again led the vanguard across the river and occupied the north of the Huan River with a wide view.
In fact, it was not that Yan Liang had never thought about attacking while they were crossing the river, but the field of vision here was too wide and they could see the area three or four miles away. Unless they had cavalry to attack quickly, it was a pity that the cavalry was completely wiped out and they had no choice.
Since they couldn't attack halfway, they could only think of other ways. The duel between Yan Liang and Guan Yu reached a deadlock. He couldn't keep up with his physical strength and couldn't defeat Guan Yu. Yan Liang didn't want to die, so he naturally had to choose to fake defeat.
The cold autumn wind howls past, blowing across the vast North China Plain, blowing across the endless fields, stirring the trees on the hills, and making people feel relaxed and happy.
Yuan Jun's camp also started taking action early in the morning, and rows of soldiers quickly formed formations outside the camp. But compared to the dense and boundless sea of people last time, the number of people this time seemed to be less than half, with less than 20,000.
people.
But no matter what, the number of people on both sides is still calculated in huge numbers. The constantly moving heads and the invisible sea of people all indicate one thing - this is a large-scale war!
Guan Yu came out of the crowd, and Yan Liang in the distance also stood at the front of the group. They were just a stone's throw away, and they could see the murderous intent in each other's eyes in their serious gazes.