Chapter 17: The Three Wars of Qiyang
Until the news of Ji Lingjun's defeat came, Yuan Shu was still arguing with his advisers Yang Hong and Yuan Jian about how to march fifteen miles away.
Originally, Yuan Shu's "Imperial Forest Army" should only be ten miles away from Ji Ling's troops, so that they could take care of the front and back. But Yuan Shu came on his BMW this time, oh no, it was the Son of Heaven Long Yuan.
The regular dragon chariot is pulled by six horses, but the difference in Yuan Shu is that it is a super version of the dragon chariot pulled by twenty-four horses of the same coat color.
The dragon chariot is also different from the carriage, and the dragon chariot should be able to take care of the emperor's residence. And Yuan Shu Yuan Road's dragon chariot is equivalent to a mini version of the palace, which is more than enough to eat, drink, Lazar, and sleep with women and set up banquets. And there is not just one Dragon, there are two. One acted as his own former dynasty and received civil and military officials. One is equivalent to a harem, where several concubines of Yuan Shu live.
Such a large dragon chariot has six zhang in length and width, that is, twelve or thirteen meters. There is no matching road at all, and Yuan Highway is stepping on farmland all the way.
In addition, Yuan Shu's Imperial Forest Army also held the dragon and phoenix, sun and moon flags, fighting in all directions; holding a golden gourd and a silver axe, a yellow and white axe; Holding a yellow Luo pin gold umbrella cover. There are all the other things that should be used by the Son of Heaven, and Yuan Shu not only brought them all, but the specifications are often better than those of today's Son.
The entire so-called Imperial Forest Army is simply a guard of honor!
With such an army, can the journey be slow?
Originally, Yuan Shu's idea was also very good, but unfortunately the reality was too skinny. He didn't even think about leading the Imperial Forest Army into battle himself. thought that Zhang Xun and the Seventh Route Army were enough to clean up Zhang Xiu, a dog who lost his family in fear all day long, at most let Ji Ling check and fill in the gaps, so that he could go out by himself. Yuan Shu didn't even plan to come this time, but the palace room hadn't been completely built yet. This time, the right to travel to the west and go out to inspect the people of my Zhong family.
So at the beginning, after hearing the news that Zhang Xiu did not divide his troops into seven ways to face the battle, but concentrated his troops for a decisive battle. He also breathed a sigh of relief, finally he didn't have to kill this group of lost dogs in Huainan, it could be solved once and for all.
But after hearing that Zhang Xiujun had defeated Zhang Xun's 50,000 elite soldiers in just a quarter of an hour, Yuan Shu's mouth was open, as if he could swallow the jade seal of the country that he couldn't put down.
Well, even if Zhang Xun's 50,000 horses are just known as elite soldiers, the real elite soldiers are his own Imperial Forest Army and Ji Ling's Tiger Army. But that's 50,000 strong soldiers! Even if it is 50,000 pigs, a quarter of an hour may not be able to scare the pigs into turning around and running wildly!
Zhang Xun, are you a pig?
In a hurry, Yuan Shu found his own long history Yang Hong and the strategist Yuan Jian to discuss. This time, Yang Honghe's opinion is very unanimous. That is, immediately abandon the things that the Son of Heaven was carrying, and march to support Ji Ling. At the same time, the Sixth Route Army, which was still arranging the encirclement, moved the encirclement fifteen miles to the east, and responded to Ji Ling's seven-way attack on Zhang Xiu's army.
Yuan Shu also knew the priorities, and immediately ordered all the valuable things of the Son of Heaven to be placed in place. But he must carry the dragon and phoenix, sun and moon flags, four buckets and five square banners, gold melons and silver axes, and yellow and white moons that show the power of Emperor Zhong's Tianwei; I changed to a six-horse-drawn Son of Heaven Dragon.
Fortunately, these things are not too troublesome and do not affect the speed of the march. However, Yuan Shu's Imperial Forest Army marched forward less than ten miles, and there was still fifteen miles away from Ji Ling's army, and the defeat of Ji Ling's army arrived.
It is much the same as Zhang Xunjun's defeat. The main generals were all captured by Guan Yu, and then the whole army was defeated.
The difference is that this time Zhang Xiujun first used the defeated army to rush into battle, causing Ji Ling's army to compress and a little chaos. Then he used 6,000 Xiliang iron cavalry to maneuver on time, and under the condition that Zhang Fei took the lead, he broke the defense line of Ji Linghu's army from the side. Then the Yongliang army swarmed in.
Because of the adjutant general's poor command, Ji Ling's 30,000 tiger elite only lasted for half an hour.
Hearing this news, Yuan Shu didn't even have the heart to scold. Solve Zhang Xun in a quarter of an hour, and solve Ji Ling in half an hour. Coupled with the time spent marching on the road, in less than half a day, he lost all two henchmen and 80,000 elite soldiers.
It's up to you next!
Discussed with Yuan Jian and Yang Hong who accompanied the army again, and this time the two had different opinions.
Yang Hong suggested that while he was still twenty miles away from Zhang Xiujun, he immediately retreated into Qiyang City to defend himself to avoid the edge of Zhang Xiujun. Wait for the other six routes to come with a full army, and then close the siege and turn defeat into victory.
Yuan Jian thought that Zhang Xiujun was already at the end of the crossbow. After all, in one morning, there were two battles, and they marched dozens of miles while fighting. Now should take advantage of the opportunity for them to repair and have lunch, continue the rapid march, take the initiative to attack, and break through Zhang Xiu's army. Even if it can't be broken for a while, it doesn't matter, it only takes an hour or two, Qiao Rui, Chen Ji and others will come to attack, and they will definitely win when the time comes.
Yuan Shu was not as resourceful as his brother Yuan Shao, and he quickly made a decision. Continue to move forward to meet Zhang Xiujun. On the one hand, he did think that Zhang Xiujun had reached his limit and could not give Zhang Xiujun any more chances. On the other hand, if you run back to Qiyang City, your own things for the Son of Heaven will have to be cheap.
Yang Hong may have guessed Yuan Shu's thoughts, but he didn't persuade again, and took the initiative to ask to lead five hundred soldiers to take care of Yuan Shu's royal things. and recruited the defeated soldiers of Ji Ling and Zhang Xun to prepare for another battle.
The Imperial Forest Army set out again and marched quickly to attack Zhang Xiu's army.
Zhang Xiujun was indeed eating at the moment. It was really an accident to capture Zhang Xun this time, or a soldier who happened to see Zhang Xun and exclaimed: "General, why didn't you die?" ”
This broke Zhang Xun's identity. As for capturing Ji Ling, Guan Yu said that half of the credit lies with Da Wanma.
Half of the credit is on Da Wanma, which is equivalent to Zhang Xiu. Zhang Xiu was also overjoyed, and ordered someone to send Zhang Xun Jiling to Li Tong of the rear army and detain him separately.
Yuan Shu marched fifteen miles with 30,000 Royal Forest Army, and finally arrived in front of Zhang Xiujun.
The smoke of the cooking ground where Zhang Xiujun was stationed rose, and although Zhang Xiujun had already lined up the battle formation at this moment, Yuan Shu was already laughing out loud at this moment.
"God help me Zhongshi! The smoke rose from behind Zhang Xiujun's array, and he must have not eaten it not long after he buried the pot in the pot. Look at the defensive formation they put in place, and you can know that the end of the strong crossbow is also. Li Feng, Liang Gang, and Le quickly led the troops and horses of the headquarters to divide the three armies into the center, left and right, and quickly attacked the enemy! Yuan Shu was wearing gold armor, with two knives hanging from his wrists, standing in front of the formation, laughing and laughing.
Yuan Lian in the back was secretly calculating the time, calculating that the fifteen-mile distance was not enough time to bury the pot and chop wood for water for cooking. It's just that he doesn't know why, and his heart is slightly uneasy.
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On the hill, Zhang Xiu, Liu Bei, and Jia Xu watched as Yuan Shu's 30,000 elites of the Imperial Forest Army launched a charge.
"Yuan Shu, Yuan Shu, you really don't care about the soldiers. traveled dozens of miles, and he didn't even let his subordinates eat a bite of food, and he didn't let his breath take a breath. To rashly attack my two-victorious army is really a death sentence! Zhang Xiu pressed his sword and laughed.
Look for trouble? Liu Bei paused for a moment, and said with a smile: "This language is very good!" Yuan Shu has not died once or twice. In the early years, the princes of the Eighteenth Route attacked Dong Zhuo, and this person dared to privately withhold the grain and grass of the pioneer Sun Jian, which led to the defeat of the allies; The political side is also tyrannical, exhausting and fishing, and Nanyang County, the first county of the Han Dynasty, was tossed into a poor county by him; Now he is brazenly claiming the emperor, making enemies of the world, and using soldiers is also arrogant; This time there is no doubt about death! ”
Zhang Xiujun was indeed a little tired from marching and fighting. But the level of exhaustion was not as severe as Yuan Shu and Yuan Jian imagined. Because when Zhang Xun was broken, the Liangzhou soldiers and the Xiliang Iron Cavalry were used as reserves, and only the Yongzhou soldiers Xiaopei and Runan soldiers were used to exercise.
The Xiliang Iron Cavalry of the Breaking Discipline Ling Army took the lead, and the Liangzhou soldiers were the main force. At this time, the other troops just make a soy sauce, and it will do. Therefore, strictly speaking, Zhang Xiu's military officers only fought one battle today.
In addition, Zhang Xiujun really didn't have time to cook, and he couldn't even boil water, but this didn't mean that Zhang Xiujun didn't eat.
On the eve of the war, Zhang Xiu ordered all the remaining grain to be made into dry food. Nowadays, burying the pot for cooking, in fact, is just boiling some half-cooked water to eat dry food.
In fact, to be honest, this is also a last resort. Zhang Xiujun's food is no longer enough for 100,000 people. So Jia Xu made some articles on this, and still buried enough pots and stoves for 100,000 people to confuse Yuan Shu to lead the army to attack.
It is rare to see an army that dares to take the initiative to fight in front of the Xiliang Army, and Zhang Xiu's army is also stunned at the moment.
Even if we have been fighting all morning and have only eaten a little dry food, you are in even worse shape! It was also a morning of marching, and I didn't even eat lunch! We also took advantage of the boiling water to rest for half an hour, and you started fighting as soon as you arrived at the place, and we were even stronger than you in terms of physical strength!
Not to mention that our morale is high at this time, and there are more people than you!
The only thing that is desirable is that your army is very well equipped, well-armoured, and its weapons look sharp.
Soon Zhang Xiujun also sounded the horn of marching. It is still the Xiliang Iron Cavalry in the center of the wedge-shaped array, which is commonly known as the awl array.
The Xiliang Iron Cavalry, who had survived the 6,000 battles, tacitly followed one by one, the tip of the cone was aimed at Yuan Shuzhong's army, and at the same time rode forward. Then the spectacular side was revealed: the war horses of the six thousand Xiliang Iron Riders almost opened their front hooves and followed the hind hooves at the same time, and the knights also maintained the same movements, holding the spear in their right hands, maintaining almost the same body ups and downs, and moving forward!
Except for Zhang Fei in the front row, he only cared about rushing to the enemy formation and did not maintain the formation. The other knights and mounts all maintain the same movement, which is breathtaking.
Even Yuan Shu, who watched the Xiliang Iron Cavalry charge, couldn't help but sigh: "This kind of cavalry is much better than Lu Bu'er's Bingzhou wolf cavalry!" Falling into the hands of Zhang Xiu is really a tyrannical thing, when I capture this batch of war horses and train them into cavalry, why not be afraid of him Lu Bu. ”
Not to mention anything else, just this momentum instantly overwhelmed Yuan Shujun. You only have 30,000 horses, and I have one-sixth of your elite cavalry! And that's not counting the other four thousand light horsemen.
If this battle can't be won, Zhang Xiu won't have to mess around.
Calling Li Tong, who had not been in battle, Zhang Xiu explained in his ear, and Li Tong immediately had a happy face and rushed down.
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