The troops are expensive and fast. After Yuan Shao captured Liang Qi, he immediately sent his army southward.
Jiang Yiqu led the vanguard to reach Fushui, about 20 miles north of Yecheng, quickly attacked the city, broke through several camps deployed by Liu Bei's army on the periphery, and marched towards Yecheng.
It is said to be a camp, but it is actually a sentry and warning fortress on the periphery. The battle of Yiling burned the camp for 700 miles, and more than 40 camps were burned.
Liu Bei only had a total of 50,000 people. Dividing it into more than 40 camps meant that each camp had only a thousand people. If he had done this, Lu Xun would have defeated them one by one. Therefore, most of the camps were actually sentry posts, with dozens of people.
Hundreds of people is the limit.
Just when Yuan Shao's army was moving south, Liu Bei had just made a deployment response when he received news of the enemy's attack. Dian Wei hurriedly led his troops to fight, and Gao Shun's troops also began to put on armor.
Because Yuan Shao arrived suddenly, Liu Bei did not have much preparation time. It was really difficult to complete the coordination in a short time. Therefore, after the news of the enemy attack spread throughout the camp, there were signs of chaos everywhere.
Dian Wei's lieutenants at all levels quickly gathered their troops, then went out from the direction of their rear camp, bypassed Liu Bei's headquarters camp to the north, and hurried north toward the official road in the direction of Fu River to greet him.
This process took nearly an hour. It took three-quarters of an hour to assemble the men. It took more than half an hour to drive north. By the time Dianwei's troops had finished gathering, they had arrived at the official road to the north of Liu Bei's headquarters camp, about seven or eight meters away.
When they were inside and outside, they could already see Yuan Jun's scouts appearing in the wilderness.
In fact, Dian Wei's movement speed is already quite fast. He only has more than 10,000 people under his command, assigned to captains and army commanders at all levels. With good training, he can quickly complete the assembly and march northward within 45 minutes.
, but Gao Shun's reaction was much slower and he just started to hit the road.
It wasn't that Gao Shun's men were not disciplined, but that the armor of the heavily armored soldiers was cumbersome and troublesome to wear temporarily. So when the five thousand trapped troops completed their assembly task and began to go north, Dian Wei had already begun to arrange an enemy on the official road to the north.
Enemy formation.
The Dianwei Department has not yet started fighting over there, and the camp on Liu Bei's side is in chaos. A large number of soldiers are coming in and out, and they are beginning to gather in the school grounds. Zhang Liao's Department and the Qianzhao Department are also quickly taking action, and the whole camp is filled with a sense of chaos.
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This situation was quickly noticed by the defenders at the top of the city, and they immediately reported it to Yuan Tanfeng, Ji Xinping and others. The group quickly arrived at the top of the city to watch.
I saw flags waving outside the city, and the endless camps stretching into the sea.
In the past, this gave Yecheng a huge sense of oppression, because in addition to these, Liu Beijun also dug a large number of hills around Yecheng and built walls to cover the long-range attacks launched by catapults, high oars, and crossbows on the city head.
On weekdays, soldiers from Liu Bei's headquarters and Zhang Liao's troops outside the West City would come out to form a formation, and then use catapults, high oars and crossbows placed on the mountains to suppress the city head from a distance.
Then there may be several probing attacks, which last for several days, often making the soldiers in the city extremely nervous and tense.
But today, I saw that the troops who were supposed to attack outside the city were completely empty. Except for a few soldiers left behind, the mountains and walls outside were almost empty. The farther places were about four or five miles away from the city.
Outside, Liu Bei's military camp was in full swing.
When not fighting, soldiers also have their own tasks, patrolling, training, fetching water, chopping firewood, digging traps, building trenches, making weapons, etc. The division of labor is clear, and it is a very peaceful place.
An orderly look.
But now the gongs, whistles, and horns were sounding continuously. The soldiers dropped what they were doing and ran towards the inside of the camp. In the camp further away, there was an empty school field, where a large number of black cloud-like soldiers gathered, obviously Liu Bei.
The army is urgently gathering its troops, and it is very likely that something big is brewing.
If it's like this on the outside, people on the inside will be even more nervous.
Yuan Tan held on to the city wall tightly and said to Peng An, the general beside him: "Liu Bei is definitely going to invade in a big way. Hurry, gather the soldiers and prepare for battle."
"only."
Peng An hurriedly went to prepare.
Feng Ji looked at it for a long time and felt something was wrong, so he said suspiciously: "In the past, Liu Beijun assembled his troops outside the camp, and then formed a square formation in front of the city. Why did he assemble at the school ground inside the camp today? What a strange thing.
Weird thing."
"Are you trying to catch us off guard?"
Xin Ping said.
"Then it shouldn't be such a big deal."
Feng Ji stood on tiptoe to look around. In fact, this place was four or five miles away from Liu Bei's camp, about 2 kilometers away. It was very difficult to see the specific situation clearly from such a long distance.
But as long as you are not blind, you can see that the school grounds in Liu Bei's camp are crowded with people at this time, as if they have condensed into a dark cloud. If Liu Bei's army wants to carry out a surprise attack, they should also assemble secretly or at night, and assemble inside the camp during the day.
It’s not like you can’t see it.
"Let's take a look first."
Yuan Tan didn't know what was happening outside, so he ordered the soldiers to prepare for the enemy while continuing to watch.
In the distance, Liu Bei's army was still gathering rapidly, and farther north, the war had already begun.
Yuan Shao's former army had officially collided with Dian Wei. Because there were a large number of Xiutu cavalry in the army, Dian Wei was in a very disadvantageous situation at the beginning of the war.
After possessing stirrups, a large number of cavalry surrounded Dian Wei's arranged square formation for long-range mounted shooting. Dian Wei's army could only serve as targets on the spot.
This set of tactics was passed down from the Jizhou Army to the Xiutu tribes, and where did the Jizhou Army learn it? It is self-evident.
What's worse is that Dianwei's troops are part of the assault force of the infantry phalanx. The combination of arms is mainly focused on surprise attacks. It is very similar to Zhang Liao's Wansheng Army. The army will include sword and shield bearers, sword and ax bearers, spearmen and bows and arrows.
Hands, except for the spear and shield soldiers.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The Macedonian phalanx during the Roman Empire was a very famous phalanx of spears and shields. Many people think that Westerners use shields more, but in fact, Chinese civilization has never
Shields already existed during the Shang and Zhou dynasties.
By the Western Han Dynasty, the Chinese shield was a double-curved shield. Because its shape resembled a gourd, it was nicknamed the gourd shield. It was mainly equipped with the Central Army. By the Eastern Han Dynasty, people abandoned the double-curved shield with complicated craftsmanship and changed it to a rectangular square one.
The shield is the one we often see in TV series.
There are endless tactics used around shields. For example, when Ju Yi first climbed up to kill Baima Yicong, he erected a large shield on the spot and let the crossbowman hide under the shield. When Baima Yicong charged into the formation, the crossbowman suddenly came out.
They came out and fired thousands of arrows, killing Gongsun Zan's white horse Yi Cong and defeating them.
Therefore, our Chinese civilization already has many, many ways of using shields as tactics. Unfortunately, large shields are bulky and difficult to carry, so they are more suitable for blocking battles when forming formations on the spot, such as Ju Yi waiting for work and waiting for Gongsun Zan.
Come to die on your own.
Dian Wei wanted to seize the time to go north immediately, so he traveled lightly and without a large shield. This resulted in most of his soldiers having wooden round shields or even no shields. The so-called wooden round shields were only about the size of a pot lid and could not be defended at all.
An overwhelming amount of arrows.
But what can be done?
Dian Wei knew that he needed to buy time for the rear, so facing the enemy's mounted fire, he could only grit his teeth and continue to resist.
A row of Xiu Tu cavalry came on horseback, dozens of steps away from them. As they galloped, they bent their bows and nocked arrows. In an instant, the sky seemed to be covered by dark clouds, with hundreds of arrows densely packed like rain.
They also shot towards Dian Weijun.
"Raise your shield!"
Dian Wei shouted loudly.
Countless sword and shield players immediately raised the small bucklers in their hands high, but these small bucklers were basically wooden shields wrapped with a layer of iron. Whether they could hold them up basically depended on God's providence.
Countless arrows landed on the iron sheet outside the shield, making a crisp clanging sound.
And more of them hit the soldiers. Most of them were blocked by the armor on their bodies, but a small number of them hit the body, and the sound of "puff, puff" entering the flesh was heard endlessly.
"Ahhhhh!"
"Hurry up."
"Pull it down."
Just the first round of arrows made Dian Wei's army busy.
In fact, no one among them was shot dead, because Qingzhou has several large-scale open-pit iron mines and rich mineral resources, so ordinary soldiers have armor.
As long as the wooden shield protects the face, or simply curls up and crawls on the ground to protect important parts, it is still very difficult for the arrow to hit the head, throat, internal organs and other fatal places.
However, the limbs were not protected by armor. Many people were shot in the hands and feet, and they lost their combat effectiveness in an instant. They kept wailing on the ground in pain, which suddenly caused chaos in the formation.
Dian Wei immediately ordered the soldiers to transport the wounded soldiers back, but the enemy did not give him time. Then in the second and third rounds, countless arrows rained down on his head and face.
The whole army suddenly fell into chaos. When Jiang Yiqu, who was commanding the battle, saw this scene, he immediately drew his sword and shouted: "Kill!"
"kill!"
Yuan Jun launched an all-out attack, and the mountains and plains were filled with enemies.
The two sides quickly fought together, but the morale of Dian and Wei's army was weakened by several rounds of arrows. Not long after the battle, it began to be on the verge of collapse.
Even though Dian Wei fought hard to kill the enemy, he could not restore the decline. There were fewer and fewer soldiers around, and many began to drop their weapons and run away.
Seeing this situation, Dian Wei had no choice but to retreat and led a part of the death squad to cut off the rear and block the enemy's pursuit.
Jiang Yiqu took advantage of the victory and pursued him all the way south for about two or three miles. In front of him was a stretch of rolling hills, with the official road on one side of the hills, and to the west was a wilderness with some manors, villages and countless fields.
When he got closer, Jiang Yiqu saw that under the hills and above the official road, rows of heavy armored infantry formed a phalanx, blocking the intersection, while Dianwei's tribe trampled on the farmland and crossed the left and right sides of the official road next to it.
The canal used to divert water for irrigation quickly penetrated the field and ran towards the village in the distance.
"Stop!"
Jiang Yiqu immediately ordered the soldiers to stop. The closer to Yecheng, the more complicated the terrain becomes. Because Yecheng is surrounded by plains, there will be a large number of fields and manors close to the city, which is a very scary thing for horses.
, the combat effectiveness of Xiutu's various ministries has dropped a lot.
Jiang Yiqu also knew those people blocking the official road. They were the world-famous trapping army. Compared with Dian Wei's army, the trapping army with only 5,000 people was much more terrifying because they were composed of spearmen, shieldmen, bowmen and so on.
Crossbowmen and sword and shield bearers.
The soldiers at the front are equipped with rows of large rectangular shields. Each shield is controlled by a separate soldier, forming a dense shield formation. There is a spearman behind the shieldman, who will pull the shield through the gaps in the shield.
The spears are stretched out to stab the enemy, and there are also a large number of crossbowmen in the rear who can shoot flatly or projectile. The entire formation is like a turtle shell, leaving people with nowhere to start.
"General, we are Gao Shun's enemy!"
The lieutenant on the side said.
Jiang Yiqu nodded: "The trapped army is best suited for positional warfare, and it is heavily armored and difficult to break."
"Then what should we do?"
the deputy general asked.
Jiang Yiqu still had some brains and thought: "Ming Gong secretly summoned an army to raid Yecheng. Liu Bei must have been too late to prepare. Now sending Dian Wei and Gao Shun here must be to delay time. We will directly bypass the trapped troops and storm Liu Bei's barracks."
Village!"
"good!"
The deputy general took the order.
Jiang Yiqu didn't want to get entangled with the trapped troops here, so he took a detour from the side road.
The advantages of the trapped army are obvious. They are heavily armored and are invincible when charging into the formation.
But the weakness is more obvious. The armor is too heavy and not suitable for long-distance attacks.
Basically, wearing a suit of armor weighing several kilograms, I would be out of breath even if I could run hundreds of meters, let alone chase the enemy.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! So seeing Jiang Yiqu ignoring them, Gao Shun also knew what the enemy was thinking, and made a decisive decision: "Retreat, go back to the camp!"
At this time, Liu Bei's army headquarters camp was still gathering, and the news that Dianwei's troops were defeated had spread to the rear. Liu Bei learned of this, and quickly personally led the 10,000 people who had already assembled out of the camp, and came to the rear of the northern camp to prepare for the attack.
enemy.
Because when the camp was built, only enemies attacking from the front of Ye City were considered, and no sneak attacks from behind were considered. Therefore, although the rear of the camp was protected by a fence, it was only filled with supplies and grain stores.
If Liu Bei chooses to defend inside the camp, in such a late autumn season when the weather is dry and the enemy chooses to attack with fire, he will inevitably suffer heavy losses.
Therefore, Liu Bei had to personally lead the army on the expedition. At the same time, he asked Zhang Liao and Zhao Zhao to take care of him from the side, and then sent people to Guan Yu's camp to prepare him for battle. If Yuan Shao's army attacked, 80% of the people in Yecheng would come out to support them. They must not
At this critical moment, people from Yecheng stabbed me in the back.
At this moment, many soldiers gathered at the top of Yecheng City. From a distance, they could see the dust in the sky coming from the north, heading towards Liu Bei's camp.
"My father is back, it must be my father who is back."
Yuan Tan shouted excitedly.
Feng Ji was also very happy. He lay on the top of the city and shouted loudly: "Ming Gong has come back to save Yecheng. I have already told you that Liu Bei said that Ming Gong has gone north. It was a stratagem. Before, some of you said that you would surrender.
Now you know."
Many soldiers were quite ashamed, because many of them really imagined that Yuan Shao had gone north and abandoned them, and had even considered surrendering.
Fortunately, everything has survived.
Xin Ping hurriedly said: "Everyone, this is not the time to be happy. Liu Bei is powerful and cannot be easily defeated. We must go out of the city to support him before we can retreat from the enemy."
"Dong dong dong dong!"
At this moment, a huge sound of gongs and drums appeared in the direction of Nancheng.
Everyone's expressions changed drastically.
Feng Ji said: "No, this must be Guan Yu waiting for an opportunity. Once we leave the city, I'm afraid Ye City will be captured by him."
"What should we do?"
Everyone looked at each other.
Xin Ping said: "So what if Ye City is taken away by him? The right way is to defeat Liu Bei first. I don't believe that if we defeat Liu Bei, Guan Yu won't come to save him?"
"That's true."
A few people nodded, thinking it made sense.
Yuan Tan was about to order his soldiers to go out of the city to support him, but at this moment, a voice sounded that made him very disgusted.
"Is my husband back?"
Mrs. Liu didn't know where she heard the news, but she actually boarded the city at this time.
Yuan Tan has not been back to the mansion these days. Now that he sees Mrs. Liu coming, he has to bite the bullet and go up and say: "Mother, father is back to save us."
"Hmph, you rebellious son!"
Mrs. Liu snorted coldly, walked to the top of the city, looked at the north from a distance, and said happily: "My husband must have rescued Shang'er. When he returns to the city, I will dethrone you and teach you to dare to disobey me."
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Yuan Tan only felt cold and chilled all over his body...