It seems that this is the only word left in Yuan Jun's heart.
Throw away the armor; throw away the weapons; throw away the military flag. You don’t need anything, but you have to save your life.
The wind was howling and the dust was flying. The Luoyang troops behind them were chasing after each other, but one was running for his life and the other was chasing and killing, and the distance was gradually widening.
Soon Yuan Jun had crowded into the official road to the north. Tens of thousands of people were squeezing and jostling. Countless small black spots spread out in the wilderness. The official road could no longer be squeezed, so they had no choice but to flee into the wild.
There are some villages and fields along the river bank. No one cares about the crops anymore. They go straight through the fields and run to the villages, fields, and the plains and forests to the north.
The entire surrounding area of Yuan Jun's camp has become a mess, surrounded by panicked figures running around like headless flies, and soldiers shouting in panic everywhere.
Some people shouted, "Oh my God! The general has been defeated, we have been abandoned." Some people shouted, "We can't hold the front anymore. Let's run for our lives!" There were also people who were trampled because they fell down and howled, "Don't step on it, don't step on it, ah ah ah."
ah.".
Some people shouted angrily, "What the hell are you officials! They only care about escaping for their own lives and don't care about our lives or lives. How dare I worship them so much!"
Defeat has become a trend, and everyone has only one purpose - to survive.
Guan Ping and Guan Hai led the vanguard in pursuit. When they rushed to the entrance of the official road in the north, they could already see a large number of enemy soldiers escaping north through the official road. At this time, in the forest on the right, arrows suddenly rained down towards the official road.
The chasing Luoyang army shot him away.
"No, there's an ambush!"
Guan Hai split a few arrows with his knife, and quickly reined in his horse and retreated. The soldiers who were chasing in groups on the official road also reacted quickly and retreated quickly. The surrounding area was in chaos, and the soil was trampled and kept making "thud, thud, thud, thud, thud, thud, thud."
"Voice.
Meng Dai clenched the weapon in his hand, took a few deep breaths, and said to the soldiers around him: "Don't be afraid, everyone, this is not a retreat, it is luring the enemy to go deeper. Don't be afraid of death and charge me. Stop the pursuers first, and then kill them."
As long as they are scared off, they will definitely continue to pursue."
"kill!"
After saying that, Meng Dai took the lead and rushed out of the woods. There were only a few hundred soldiers beside him. There were about three to four thousand people ambushing here this time, but everyone was scattered far apart. It was impossible for them all to gather around him.
around.
Yuan Jun, who had been in ambush since the morning, did not know the specific situation. Suddenly he saw the frontline soldiers in front of him suddenly retreating. He was both frightened and frightened. When Meng Dai raised his arms and rushed out first, he looked at each other in shock and did not wake up.
Overwhelmed, only the hundreds of soldiers around him rushed out after him.
Yuan Jun's army was highly hierarchical. Officers at all levels were in charge of some soldiers. Although everyone was close to each other, the archers around Meng Dai immediately changed their weapons and launched an attack after suppressing the pursuers. No one else had the first time to attack.
After reacting, there was a bit of a disconnect between the front and the back.
This is normal. The whole world knows that the Military Intelligence Department is pervasive. Yuan Shao has long expected that undercover agents may have been placed in the Jizhou Army. Therefore, when making tactical deployments, it is impossible to disclose the news to lower-level soldiers and officers in advance.
Therefore, the lower-level soldiers and officers did not know what they were doing here at first, and seeing the front line collapse, they naturally could not follow Meng Dai's idea immediately, so that the large soldiers behind did not rush out.
Guan Ping and Guan Hai were frightened at first. They knew that Yuan Jun had an ambush. Guan Yu had warned them before, asking them to be careful about the ambush and not to cause more casualties by the ambush.
So when Meng Dai came out, they were immediately ready to turn around and leave. But when they turned around and saw that there were only a few hundred enemies, they immediately laughed, and Guan Hai quickly raised his sword and went forward.
Over there, Meng Dai rushed out for a short distance. Only then did the middle and lower-ranking officers of Yuan's army react and quickly urged the soldiers to rush forward.
"The captain has been killed, why are you still hiding here? Come on, come on, we are in ambush!"
"You're so scared. Didn't you see that the enemy was scared off by us? Come on!"
"A bunch of useless bastards, do you want to die hiding here?"
The Qu Junhou of Yuan Jun reacted quite quickly. While urging the soldiers, they raised their swords and shouted angrily: "I'm afraid you'll die, motherfucker!" They opened their legs and pushed them away.
When everyone saw someone taking the lead, and saw that the Luoyang army was indeed frightened by their archers at first, and had already begun to retreat, they suddenly felt braver in their hearts, and they all shouted together, emerging from the woods like mountains and plains and heading this way.
kill.
Unexpectedly, as soon as they came out, they saw an enemy general riding his horse towards Meng Dai. Meng Dai did not expect that the soldiers behind him would be out of touch with him. When he looked back, his heart was completely cold.
When he turned around again, he saw Guan Hai roaring and rushing towards him. At this moment, it was too late to turn around and run away, so he could only bravely ride on his horse and stab Guan Hai in the heart with his knife.
However, Guan Hai was the number one warrior in the Yellow Turban back then, and his strength was far superior to Meng Dai's. He first deflected Meng Dai's sword with a side shot, and then moved it upward, wiping Meng Dai's neck.
In an instant, blood flowed out. Meng Dai opened his eyes wide and fell from his horse unwillingly, paying the price with his life for his recklessness.
"The captain is dead, the captain is dead!"
"No, run away quickly."
"run!"
After Meng Dai's death, Yuan's army, which had just rushed out of the forest, lost all their courage. They abandoned their helmets and armor and fled north following Yan Liang's defeated troops.
Guan Hai dismounted and cut off Meng Dai's head. The military merit of a captain's head was already very high. After all, there were only a few general-level figures in Jizhou.
Guan Ping immediately waved his knife forward: "Continue to pursue!"
A steady stream of Luoyang troops behind them began to chase forward. The entire official road was densely packed with people. Because there were too many people, more people began to flee into the surrounding wilds. The forests, fields, villages, and plains were all filled with people.
Especially for forests, the reclamation rate of the Jizhou Plain during the Han Dynasty was actually far lower than that of later generations. After all, during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, many places were no different from primitive societies. From the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods to the Han Dynasty, it only lasted seven or eight hundred years, and there was no industrial age.
It is simply impossible to cut down so many trees.
Jizhou has many primeval forests, full of snakes, insects, rats, ants, jackals, tigers and leopards. It is common to see several tigers and a group of jackals in almost one jungle. But the soldiers cannot care about so many. In order to escape, even if they are lost in the
In the wilderness, at least survive first.
The Luoyang army swept through the entire plain like a torrent, running in front and chasing behind. Soon they ran for several miles. There were hills more than ten feet high on both sides of the official road here. It was autumn, and the leaves were falling.
The accumulation is a good place to set fire.
If Yan Liang was as smart as Liu Bei and could imitate Liu Bei's example of setting fire to Bowangpo, the situation in the battle might have turned around. However, he was knocked off his weapon by Guan Yu three times. He had already been frightened and fled north with the scattered soldiers.
Didn't think about these issues.
The Luoyang army pursued and captured all the way. This battle was a complete victory. They also knew that there was an ambush here. Guan Ping and Guan Hai, as the vanguard, had arrived here with thousands of soldiers and horses. They looked around and sent out soldiers to search.
After a while, the soldiers reported back that there were human traces near the hill, but by this time they had long since disappeared. Perhaps they had run away long ago when they saw something was going wrong.
Guan Ping immediately sent someone back to report.
Chen Mu and Guan Yu were in the second echelon of the pursuers. After hearing the news, Guan Yu said to Chen Mu: "Fourth brother, could it be that the enemy has created a false suspicion about the formation, but there is actually an ambush behind it?"
"Will not."
Chen Mu smiled and said: "Yuan Jun probably didn't expect that Yan Liang would be defeated so quickly. He collapsed in a hurry and failed to evacuate in an orderly manner. Once the front army collapsed, the ambush troops behind were also affected. How could they still have the courage?
Continue to ambush?"
"Um."
Guan Yu nodded and said: "In that case, let's take advantage of the victory and pursue it. We will attack Ye City today and march to the city!"
Chen Mu agreed: "It is better to use the remaining brave men to chase the poor bandits, and not to pretend to be an academic overlord."
With an order, all Luoyang troops dispatched to pursue.
Yuan Jun's side was indeed as Chen Mu expected, starting from Yan Liang's defeat it turned into a big rout.
Originally, according to Yuan Jun's plan, Yan Liang went out to fight Guan Yu. Even if he could not win, he would at least have to fight for a hundred rounds to stabilize the morale of the army, then withdraw into the formation and slowly retreat.
When Cao GUI was debating a war, he would judge whether the enemy had been defeated by the rut marks. In the battle of Wancheng where Cao Cao attacked Zhang Xiu, Jia Xu judged the authenticity by recognizing people.
As for the Battle of Huanshui between Guan Yu and Yan Liang, Chen Mu should have understood Yan Liang's current situation just through the enemy's flag and his understanding of Yan Liang.
Normally, even if Yan Liang failed, he shouldn't have been defeated so completely. From luring the enemy deep into the battle, it directly turned into a battle royale.
But he lost so quickly that the morale of the army was unstable and collapsed instantly. There was nothing he could do about it.
The person who originally ambushed in the second level was Shi Huan, who ambushed thousands of crossbowmen.
However, after Meng Dai died in the front, the defeated troops fled to the rear. When Shi Huan learned that Meng Dai had been beheaded, he was so frightened that he did not dare to continue to block the enemy, so he withdrew his troops and fled with the defeated soldiers.
What Chen Mu and Guan Yu didn't know was that before Shi Huan ran far over there, he suddenly remembered that if he ran back, according to military orders, he would definitely die.
So without any hesitation, he suddenly led his troops back, found Guan Ping and Guan Hai in front, and announced his surrender anyway.
This Shi Huan is not Cao Cao's subordinate Shi Huan. He was originally a general in Wang Fen's department, and he was in charge of some of the crossbowmen together with Zhao Fu. He did not have much loyalty to Yuan Shao, but Yuan Shao was appointed as his successor by Wang Fenqin to follow him.
Yuan Shao.
Now that defeat is imminent, it is time to surrender.
After accepting Shi Huan's surrender, Guan Ping sent someone to send a message to the rear while waiting for his father and fourth uncle to catch up.
Now both the Luoyang Army and the Jizhou Army are widely dispersed. In the surrounding land of several square kilometers, soldiers and horses on both sides are intertwined and their forces overlap.
If they rashly continue the pursuit without waiting for the reinforcements to catch up, they won't be able to do much with their few manpower, so they might as well wait first.
After about ten minutes, Guan Yu and Chen Mu arrived belatedly. They personally led five thousand soldiers and horses, joined the vanguard army, and continued to pursue.
At this moment, Yan Liang had already reached Huanbei Pavilion, which was twenty miles away. This battle was destined to be a big failure for him.
After only three rounds of fighting with Guan Yu, he was ruined because of a mistake he made at the beginning.
But at that time, he couldn't do anything without running. He had no weapons in his hands and fought Guan Yu with his bare hands. Not to mention Yan Liang, even if Lu Bu came over, there was only one way to die.
So there is no solution in that situation.
After running to Huanbei Pavilion, Yan Liang finally breathed a sigh of relief. He didn't know what happened to Meng Dai Shihuan who helped stop the pursuers behind him, but he knew that he must cheer up now and prepare for the decisive battle.
Huanbei Pavilion is located twenty miles north of Huan River. There are several village Wubao nearby. The reason why it was chosen here is because the terrain here is already the most dangerous place.
There is a undulating mountain range to the east of the official road in the south of Ting. The locals call it Cuiyun Mountain. The mountain is not high, and the top is less than 100 feet. This is already one of the few foothills on the Jizhou plain. At the foot of the mountain is the official road, and Cenbi's army is there.
Ambush in the mountains.
Because to the west is a tributary of the Huan River, and the nearby Wubao villages rely on this mountain and this river for their survival. If the Luoyang army wants to go north, this place must be passed through, so it was chosen as the ambush place.
After Yan Liang arrived, Cen Bi immediately came out to meet him. When he saw countless troops retreating behind him, he was shocked and said: "General, this is..."
"The soldiers did not know that we were pretending to be defeated, but in fact we were ambushing us, so the morale of the army was weakened."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Yan Liang explained, looking around: "How are you preparing?"
"The preparations are complete."
Cen Bi hesitated and said: "It's just that the military morale is probably..."
Yan Liang waved his hand: "It doesn't matter. Even if the front army is defeated, Guan Yu's army will definitely relax its vigilance. As long as our rear army is stable, we will be able to repel it. You go ahead and make preparations. Bring me a weapon. I will personally
Lead the army to meet the enemy."
"only!"
Cen Bi nodded yes.
Although he had just experienced a disastrous defeat, Yan Liang felt that he had no chance of making a comeback.
Because he originally placed his treasure in the rear and did not expect the front army to defeat Guan Yu.
It is obviously more advantageous for Yan Liang to launch a counterattack on the official road. Because of the limited width of the official road, it is difficult for the army to move together, and both sides need more courage.
However, Yan Liang was still in ambush, and his morale was higher, so he naturally had the upper hand.
After a long time, the Luoyang army finally arrived at Huanbei Pavilion. There were dense forests at the foot of Cuiyun Mountain, pavilions along the official road, and small bridge villages on the river bank in the distance, creating a harmonious scene.
But when the Luoyang army was about to arrive at the pavilion, the atmosphere suddenly changed. Countless arrows rained down from the hillside beside the official road. They were densely packed and turned hundreds of Luoyang soldiers into hedgehogs.
Immediately afterwards, groups of Yuan's troops came out from the mountains and forests at the southern foot, nearly 20,000 troops in total, while Guan Yu's side, at full strength, only had 7,000 troops.
At least in terms of numbers and morale, Yan Liang had the upper hand.
However, what Yan Liang didn't know was that at this time, a large army was approaching quietly to the north of the official road, about four or five miles away.
Among the crowd of Luoyang soldiers, Guan Yu, who was wearing a green robe, also narrowed his eyes and stared at him.