Under the urging of the officers, the Jizhou Army quickly rushed towards the bank.
What Yuan Shao and others saw was Liu Bei's army's rear camp on fire. Everyone thought that Guo Tu had succeeded, and the trapped troops retreated like bereft dogs.
But when Liu Bei, Chen Mu and others stood above the camp and looked down, what they saw was the Jizhou army coming to die like moths to the flame.
At the front were rows of soldiers holding halberds. They charged the most bravely, howling like wolves and charging.
These people are the famous Euphorbia warriors, who are specially used to deal with black armored heavy cavalry and trapped troops.
Because the halberd of the Euphorbia is a bit like a sickle mounted on the gun, with barbs on it. When dealing with the black armor heavy cavalry, you can use the barbs on the halberd to chop the horse's legs. When dealing with the trapped troops, you can use the tip of the spear.
prick.
Therefore, if they really encounter them on the battlefield, as long as the Euphorbia warriors cooperate closely and there are more people than the trapped troops and black armor heavy cavalry, there is no chance of defeating them.
However, everyone knows that the Euphorbia soldiers are Yuan Shao's personal guards, and their number is not large. According to the "Book of the Later Han", there are only a few hundred people.
The reason why there are not many in number is because the Euphorbias are also heavy infantry, and they select hundreds of elite soldiers, and it is very difficult to train them to cooperate closely. Without Ju Yi, Yuan Shao basically has no generals to train troops.
Therefore, it is difficult for the Euphorbia warriors to form a large scale and cannot pose a threat to the black armor heavy cavalry and the trapped troops.
And the most important point is that if even the Euphorbias have been dispatched, it means that Yuan Shao has exhausted all his cards and has no other means. This is a desperate attack. Either Liu Bei will die or he will.
Death.
Therefore, at this moment, an extremely critical battle has arrived.
Chen Mu looked down with a smile. After years of planning, Yuan Shao's elite troops, including the dead soldiers and the Jizhou cavalry, were all wiped out in many wars. Only the Euphorbia soldiers were left.
The number of Euphorbia warriors in history was not large, but under the threat of the trapped army and Xuanjia heavy cavalry, Yuan Shao also tried his best to cultivate them, so there were more than a thousand of them.
As long as these last elites are eliminated, Yuan Shao will no longer be able to cause any trouble.
"Brother, prepare for the decisive battle."
Chen Mu said to Liu Bei.
Liu Bei nodded: "Then let's fight."
"The general has left camp."
Gao Shun said to Liu Bei in a deep voice.
"Well, go ahead."
Liu Bei unconsciously touched the double swords at his waist and said, "I'll go too."
Chen Mu said in surprise: "Brother, why do you need to take risks yourself?"
Liu Bei shook his head: "With the heavy cavalry of black armor protecting me, I will be fine. This battle must be settled between me and Yuan Shao."
"Brother..."
"Fourth brother, there is no need to persuade me, I will never let Yuan Shao go."
Liu Bei's eyes were sharp. Helping the Han Dynasty was the biggest mission for him. Only Yuan Shao was the most troublesome in the north. If Yuan Shao was let go, he didn't know when he would be able to unify Hebei.
Therefore, he must fight in person in this battle, leading the Xuanjia heavy cavalry and the troops from behind to attack from front to back, making sure that Yuan Shao cannot escape from his hands.
Chen Mu thought about it and stopped trying to persuade him. His eldest brother had been fighting for many years, so he should know how to take care of himself.
Now according to his layout, Yuan Shang has been defeated for the most part. If everything goes well, Zhang Liaodian, Wei Xuchu and others will be on their way back. It would be best if Yuan Shao can be defeated in this battle. If not, then they can continue to contain him.
What's more, Zhang Fei had already gone to Changle, and he should have captured the Changle granary by now. Under his successive plans, Yuan Shao was already dead, and today is Yuan Shao's burial place.
"This sand dune is indeed a place where dragons are trapped. Fortunately, it's not a trap."
Chen Mu thought to himself.
The mighty Jizhou Army had already begun to charge up the slope. When they were getting closer and closer to the camp, Liu Bei's military camp suddenly opened, and rows of heavy armored infantry quickly came out of the camp to form formation.
Yuan Shao and others who were looking down the distant slope suddenly became confused. Shouldn't they huddle up at this time and use the camp to defend themselves?
What is the operation of opening the door and coming out for a decisive battle?
Yuan Shao asked in surprise: "Is it Liu Bei who wants to break out from the front? Does he think my Euphorbias are made of clay?"
Several of the counselors under his command looked at each other, not knowing what the Qingzhou Army was doing.
However, one of the generals said: "Perhaps Gao Shun wants to fight for the last time. The trapped army is known as the best in the world in charging and fighting. It is famous for being good at attacking but not good at defending. He wants to defeat us head-on and survive in death!"
"It's possible."
Yuan Shao nodded, finding a reasonable explanation for the strange behavior of the Qingzhou Army.
Almost as soon as the trapped troops came out of camp and formed their formation, the Jizhou Army was already in front of them. Before the two sides even collided with each other, there was already an extremely terrifying atmosphere.
"Fire the arrow!"
Gao Shun immediately issued an order. The trapped army was composed of heavy armored soldiers and strong crossbowmen. There were three thousand heavy armored soldiers on the outside to protect the strong crossbowmen inside.
At this moment, the gun and shield bearers at the front gave way one after another, and the crossbow bearers came out with their hand crossbows, arranged in formation and began to release the crossbow arrows.
The arrows covered the sky and the sun, and instantly shot the Jizhou army at the front into the air. Except for the heavily armored Euphorbia warriors, ordinary soldiers had a very small chance of survival as long as they were within the shooting range.
After one round of crossbow shooting, the second round will begin soon. The crossbow held by the strong crossbow is a serial crossbow. The range is very short, but the shooting speed is extremely fast, and it can form a powerful fire network.
Because based on the calculation of two soldiers standing per meter, a thousand crossbowmen standing in a row are 500 meters apart. The ones in front are crouching and the ones behind are standing. This way, two thousand crossbowmen can be moved about 200 feet apart.
Within the width range, release the crossbow arrows outward.
The serial crossbow can be quickly ejected in a short period of time. When faced with a large-scale enemy attack, the most terrifying part is that it can even release ten or twenty thousand crossbow arrows in a short period of time, covering a range of forty or fifty steps in front of you.
Imagine what it would be like to be covered by 10,000 to 20,000 crossbow arrows within a hundred meters in front of you. The ground was densely packed with arrows, and the more than 2,000 Jizhou troops at the front were instantly killed and injured.
This chapter is not finished yet. Please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Almost immediately after this round of arrows, the scene that the Jizhou Army behind saw was a deathly silence in the front row. There were corpses staggering here and there, some of which were not there yet.
Totally dead, wailing and screaming, blood flowed all over the ground, the injured kept rolling, and the dead bodies were piled on top of each other, giving people a great visual impact.
"What are you doing standing still? Go ahead and kill them. They have no more crossbows!"
A general shouted.
"kill!"
The Euphorbia warriors roared in unison, and the enemy's crossbows suppressed the soldiers behind them, just when they needed to step forward.
With the charge of the Euphorbia soldiers, the morale of the army was finally stabilized, and the Jizhou army continued to move forward.
Indeed, as the general said, the crossbowmen no longer have crossbow arrows. The serial crossbow designed by Ma Jun is like a revolver. After firing, the crossbow has to be reloaded.
However, loading crossbow arrows is very cumbersome, even more troublesome than a matchlock. It is necessary to open the lid of the crossbow box and load the arrows one by one. Therefore, in actual combat, the serial crossbow cannot shoot in three stages like a musket.
Without the suppression of the crossbows, the Jizhou army from behind surged up again. The crossbowmen retreated like a tide, and the gun and shield men behind them immediately took a step forward, letting the crossbowmen pass through the gap, and then formed a formation on the spot.
, put the shield upright on the ground, leaving only the spear pointed at the enemy.
This is the scary thing about the trapped army. There are crossbows in the distance and spears nearby, which are as difficult to break as a turtle shell. The most important thing is that the crossbowmen inside will reload the crossbows and continuously throw them outside. In order to break this turtle
The shell is not that simple at all.
Soon, the trapped soldiers collided with the euphorbia soldiers. The length of the halberd was slightly longer than the spear, and the spears and halberds on both sides kept colliding. The euphorbia soldiers used the barbs on the halberd to hook the joint of the spear head and pull it out.
I want to break the formation of the trapped army.
However, both sides were elite warriors, so it was not easy to pull each other off. Some of the strong ones did pull off the spear heads, and some even hooked the shields, overturning the shields to the ground, opening a gap.
However, the trapped troops cooperated closely. If there was a gap, they would immediately move to the left and right to fill the gap. At the same time, there were also some strong soldiers who brought the enemy's halberds over.
Both sides were in a stalemate, stabbing each other with spears and halberds, but not many people were actually killed. It was like two hedgehogs fighting, neither one could do anything to the other.
Yuan Shao watched from a distance and saw that his army was already engaged in a decisive battle with the trapped army. The two sides were in the wrestling stage, so he said: "The trapped army is indeed extraordinary. It can actually withstand the impact of my tens of thousands of troops."
"The trapped troops are heavily armored soldiers. It's not that easy to disperse them."
Liu Hui touched his goatee and said: "However, the weakness of the heavy armored infantry is that the armor is too heavy, which will lead to physical exhaustion. I believe that it will not be long before the trapped army will be defeated due to exhaustion of physical strength. Ming Gongjing is waiting for the good news.
That’s it.”
"Um."
Yuan Shao nodded, with a smile in his eyes.
At this moment, a fast horse galloped over from a distance. The man was dressed in Yuan Jun's clothes and was covered in blood. He was hit by an arrow in the shoulder. Fortunately, it was not fatal and he could barely hold on.
Yuan Jun from the periphery had discovered this person a long time ago and confirmed his identity. After hearing that this person had important information to report, he immediately brought him to see Yuan Shao.
"Ming Gong!"
That man was the spy sent by Yuan Shang to report the news. There were more than fifty or sixty people in total, but he was the only one who escaped.
"what happened?"
Yuan Shao frowned, thinking something had happened to Yuan Shang.
However, the spy's next words made him feel like a bolt from the blue, and he was so shocked that he could not speak.
The spy said: "Ming Gong, something bad has happened. Zhang Liao Dianwei did not go south at all. The interrogation and supervision army said that all this was Liu Bei's plan, and we fell into it!"
"What?"
Yuan Shao opened his eyes wide, full of disbelief: "You say it again?"
"Zhang Liao Dianwei didn't go south at all, we fell into a trap!"
The spy said it again.
"Impossible, absolutely impossible!"
Yuan Shao drew out the sword from his waist and stared at him fiercely: "The fire in Liu Bei's rear camp is proof of this. Will he burn down his own rear camp? You must be a trick of the enemy to disrupt the morale of our army and behead you!"
"Ming Gong!"
The spy was shocked, and before he could react, he was killed by Yuan Shao with a sword.
Yuan Shao's face was splashed with blood, and he looked like a madman.
He would never believe that he had fallen into Liu Bei's plan, because the Qingzhou Army in Weiqiao, the food and grass in Zhaojian Tomb in the east of Xiabao, and the fire in Liu Bei's back camp all proved that he was not wrong.
Yuan Shao would rather believe that these are true than believe that he has fallen into a trap, because he has no way out, the army is pressing on the border, and there is no way to turn back.
None of the counselors spoke, Liu Hui frowned, Xun Chen closed his eyes to rest, Xu You's eyes rolled around, and the atmosphere was strange.
After a while, Yuan Shao burst out laughing: "Everyone, Liu Bei is just trying to trick me into dreaming!"
"Dong dong dong dong!"
Before Yuan Shao finished speaking, a sound like thunder suddenly came from the distance, as if thousands of troops were galloping and roaring.
Everyone unconsciously looked to the southeast. In the wilderness, countless densely packed heads appeared. At the front was the black armor heavy cavalry. Two thousand cavalry were rushing towards this place like a tide.
Liu Bei rushed to the front, holding his double sword high: "Yuan Benchu, you have fallen into the trap, and today is the day you die!"
"Yuan Benchu, you have fallen into a trap, and today is the day you die!"
"Yuan Benchu, you have fallen into a trap, and today is the day you die!"
"Yuan Benchu, you have fallen into a trap, and today is the day you die!"
All the Qingzhou troops shouted.
The sound is like a roaring tsunami.
"this!"
Seeing Liu Bei's army's sudden appearance of tens of thousands of troops, Yuan Shao was completely stunned and couldn't believe his eyes.
Because the main reason why he chose to attack was that Liu Bei transferred about 30,000 of his main troops to Weiqiao in the south, resulting in a serious shortage of his own troops.
According to the information given by Guo Tu, many of Liu Bei's troops went north to attack Yuan Shang first. Only a small number of soldiers and Gao Shun's trapped troops were in the camp.
Therefore, after weighing the balance, Yuan Shao launched an active attack. Otherwise, he would not have attacked Liu Jun's heavily defended camp.
But now seeing these extra troops, Yuan Shao finally realized that he had indeed fallen into a trap.
Liu Bei's main force has never left.
From beginning to end, it was not one hundred thousand against forty-five thousand, but one hundred thousand against seventy thousand. Among the troops going south, only Zang Ba's troops were real.
"Pfft!"
Thinking of this, Yuan Shao became so angry that he spat out a mouthful of old blood and fell down.
"Ming Gong, Ming Gong!"
The people around him were so frightened that they quickly climbed off their horses and went to help him.
The bodyguard held Yuan Shao's upper body, and he was almost dying and said: "Send the order, withdraw the troops!"
After saying that, he tilted his head and fainted.
"Withdraw troops, withdraw troops!"
"Hurry up."
"Send Ming Gong off first!"
Many of Yuan Shao's personal guards at the foot of the slope were in panic. While following Yuan Shao's instructions, they raised money and retreated their troops, while at the same time they hurriedly put Yuan Shao on horseback and prepared to escape.
Liu Bei from behind brandished his double-pronged sword and shouted: "Kill!"
"Kill."
The Qingzhou Army roared loudly.
At the same time, the Jizhou Army's clanging gold sound was incessant. The appearance of the large group of troops and the sound of gold ringing from the rear made the Jizhou Army on the front line feel a sense of fear and panic.
Many people did not understand the situation, but suddenly heard someone say "lost, defeated", and they were defeated like a mountain and began to flee.
The entire Jizhou Army was like an iceberg breaking in an instant, and everyone was running away like headless flies with no direction.