Chapter 6: The Friendly Army Who Came to Send the Head
Not long after Tai Shici left Beihai, Yuan Shao's army advanced to Beihai, and their preparations were swift and sufficient.
After all, with the blessing of Yuan Shao's effect against the wind, their work efficiency has improved a lot.
Perhaps Yuan Shaojun had never reached this level before.
They felt unprecedented motivation and cohesion, and the confidence that this apparent increase in strength brought to them was beyond the reach of any words.
Yuan Shao looked at such a team, and suddenly felt that the future was bright, what else could he worry about?
If he can maintain such a state of mind, then what is he afraid of?
What's wrong with Liu Xuande, even if he is the number one prince in the world who seems to be now, I, Yuan Shao, am still not afraid.
Liu Xuande is like a cloud, and I Yuan Benchu also has generals Yan Liang and Wen Chou, who can break the enemy, and there are countless famous generals in Hebei.
Liu Xuande has Chen Chen under his account, and there are countless resourceful people, but I, Yuan Benchu, also have Fu Zhi, Xu You and others to help.
Isn't that a close match?
Even if there is a huge gap in the territory now, Yuan Shao still has the confidence to face Liu Bei, because he feels that Liu Bei is still unstable at this time no matter what, so the territory in his hands is only temporary, and what he really controls is only the merger of states, and the gap with himself is not big, and he can still fight.
The 50,000 elite Yuan army, under the command of Yan Liang and Wen Chou, was monstrous and overwhelming Beihai.
The defenders of Beihai were on the city wall, and they could feel the pressure from afar.
"Can we hold it?"
Wu Anguo stood beside Kong Rong, listening to Kong Rong's question, he felt Kong Rong's voice even tremble a little, indeed, how could these tens of thousands of ordinary foot soldiers in Beihai County compete with Yuan Shao's army with tens of thousands of elites?
Such momentum has been dominant from the beginning.
"If I were at my prime, I would still be able to fight."
Wu Anguo did not answer Kong Rong's question head-on, but tightened the hammer in his hand, although his one-handed hammer is not weak now, but when he really fights Yan Liangwen Chou, this is definitely a fatal weakness.
If the offense and defense can't be integrated, then he is full of flaws.
Therefore, he can only lead the Beihai defenders to defend the city wall of Beihai County to the death, and if the city wall is broken, then there is no way to save the city.
The only hope now may be Tai Shi Ci who rode out of the city alone to ask for help, but now Tai Shi Ci is estimated to have just arrived at the Black Mountain Army, and if he really wants to invite Liu Bei, a big reinforcement, it will take half a month, even if it is the Dingyuan Army, it will take at least ten days to be ready to attack and break the siege.
What's more, it's not Tai Shi Ci who asks for help, and people must be willing to come to support.
Therefore, Wu Anguo must carry an illusory expectation to meet the attack of Yuan's army.
The pressure on him has never been greater.
Even if the Yellow Turban besieged the city at the beginning, it was just a bit of pressure for him, but now that the Yuan army is besieging the city, the 50,000 elite Yuan army still has perfect siege equipment, and this pressure is not of an order of magnitude at all.
"Last, do your best."
Wu Anguo also had no way to make any promises to Kong Rong, because he knew that he might not be able to keep Yuan Shaojun out of the city for too long, and if there was any way to break the situation, then he could only defend it.
In fact, this is no longer a matter of guarding generals, even if Tai Shici stays in Beihai County and does not ask for help, the role it can play is still very small, and they do not have the strength to change the entire battle situation by themselves.
It's really that the gap between the two sides is too big.
Most of them win more with less without accidents, but they actually have a certain advantage in high-level strength, so they can beat a team with more people with fewer teams.
In this situation, if you ask Wu Anguo to stabilize it, you are actually embarrassing him.
However, not all armies are Liu Bei's army, and it still takes a certain period of time to attack the city, but in the current situation, it should be a month to capture Beihai County, and reinforcements must arrive within a month, otherwise Beihai County may be captured at any time.
"Well, thank you."
Kong Rong also knows this situation, even if he doesn't know much about military affairs, he can feel the current gap.
Yuan's army was like a wolf and a tiger, and his own soldiers looked a little wilted, and his hope now could only be in his allies and other reinforcements.
The other two clansmen surnamed Liu of their own Qingzhou Alliance, their strength is not as good as Kong Rong, but their county also has its own army, and the coalition formed by them is nearly 10,000.
Kong Rong had already asked someone to send them a message and ask them to bring in troops to rescue them.
This is already the extreme he can think of.
"My lord, go and rest first, leave it to me here, at least, I can let you sleep peacefully."
Wu Anguo raised his head and looked at the enemy army slowly advancing outside the city, and comforted Kong Rong, to be honest, Kong Rong was indeed very good to him, the soldier died for his confidant, even if he gave his life here, he would try his best to hold Beihai County until the support arrived.
"I'll just rest."
This Beihai has Kong Rong's hard work, the war is imminent, he can't calm down and sleep, to the side to rest, waiting for the start of the war, he has to watch with his own eyes, personally cheer for the soldiers on the city wall, so as to improve morale.
However, the fact that Yuan Tan was killed by Zhao Yun's arrow also spread, and everyone knew about it, so Kong Rong also knew that he must pay attention to safety and not cause trouble to Wu Anguo and them.
It is estimated that after Zhao Yun shoots Yuan Tan to death, there will be a trend in the whole country, that is, the main general will begin to become low-key and not wear some conspicuous and arrogant clothes.
But in fact, there are not many people in this world who can do this, and shoot the opposing main general directly from outside the range of the archer.
A full dozen may be the number of palms.
So most people are just wary of air.
The Yuan army did not begin to attack the city immediately after arriving, but set up camp at a safe distance in a decent manner, they wanted a success rate, a safe take, not speed.
Yan Liang and Wen Chou are indeed excellent generals, and there are many famous generals in Jizhou, such as Gao Lan, Han Heng and others as auxiliaries, and the actions of the 50,000 army are in good order.
What is shown is the strength and demeanor of the first-class army of the Han Dynasty.
Wu Anguo has not left the city wall, Yuan Shao and they have not launched an attack, and Kong Rong has not gone back to rest.
When dawn broke on the second day, Yuan's army suddenly blew the horn of siege, and even the defenders of Beihai were ready to take shifts to prevent Yuan's army from attacking.
The ferocity of this first wave of offensive was still beyond Wu Anguo's expectations.
The first attack launched by the Yuan army had successfully rushed to the city wall, although it was quickly suppressed back, and the defenders of Beihai also successfully held this wave of impact, but Wu Anguo still felt that it was not good.
Because of this first impact, Yuan Jun only used the cloud ladder, and did not use too many other siege equipment, saying that it was a siege, but this time it was more like a test of strength and a feint.
Wu Anguo felt a deep sense of helplessness.
This feeling is actually that the opponent just gently punches you with his fist, and as a result, you use all your strength to barely block the opponent's fist.
Fortunately, the Yuan army did not seem to intend to break out and capture the Beihai county city at one time, they continued to attack, but they were limited to climbing the city wall, although they created a lot of tense moments for the Beihai defenders, but there was no real breakthrough in the Beihai county city.
This also made Wu Anguo defend for two days, and suddenly felt that he might be able to hold Beihai County as well.
Maybe it's a delusion.
But Wu Anguo suddenly saw another army suddenly appearing in the northeast of Beihai City on the city wall, and his illusion was even more obvious.
Because coming from the northeast will only be the coalition army they have allied with, the county army under the command of the clan surnamed Liu, if this team can harass and impact Yuan Shao on the flank, then there is no doubt that the success rate of Yuan Shao's siege will be lower.
Even......
Wu Anguo felt that he could still lead his troops out of the city to merge with the friendly army, and then fight with the Yuan army, and then take the friendly army into Beihai County to help defend the city.
However, as soon as this idea arose, it was denied by Wu Anguo himself.
Although the current situation seems to be okay for oneself, it must not be easily floated.
Thinking about the strength of their own side and the strength of their allies, with the level of soldiers of their coalition army, if they want to fight a decisive battle with Yuan's army in the suburbs, they must be crushed.
The reason why he can successfully defend Beihai County now is only because of the tall and strong city wall, if he gives up this advantage to go out of the city, he will be a fool.
Wu An Guoqing was fortunate that he was still a general with a qualified military sense of smell and tactical literacy, so he was not attracted out of the city to make mistakes.
He told the defenders to prepare to meet the friendly troops on the northeast wall, and the archers were also in place, hoping to bring the friendly troops safely to the city to assist in the defense.
The friendly forces were indeed heading towards Butterworth, but the unexpected happened at the same time.
Yuan Jun also divided a team and left their big array, this person has more than 10,000 people, and if you look closely, you can see clearly that it is Wen Chou who personally led the team.
The team headed straight for the friendly forces in the North Sea that had come to their aid, and they intercepted them in the path of the friendly advances.
In other words, if the friendly army wants to go to the city of Beihai County, they must first pass their level.
How many horses can there be in the county, so most of the soldiers of the friendly army in Beihai are foot soldiers, nearly 10,000 foot soldiers, and the training is not in place, and their movement speed is not very fast.
So they were intercepted by Wen Chou's people.
Wu Anguo could only watch in amazement on the city wall as the friendly troops were stopped by Wen Chou and his people, and a battle broke out.
The distance between them was not far, but Wu Anguo did not have the courage to go out to relieve the siege.
Because he knew that once he led his troops out, Beihai would be directly taken down by Yan Liang, who was watching from the sidelines, and he had no choice.
Wu Anguo watched as his allies were slaughtered by Wen Chou's people.
This is the difference in strength, and it is also the result of encounters in the suburbs under this gap in strength.
This reminded Wu Anguo that he could not go out of the city to fight.
But when this friendly army came, it sent a wave of heads, and nothing else was done.
Wu Anguo looked at the whole process with a dull look, from the friendly army was intercepted by Wen Chou, and a battle occurred, as a result, the general who led the friendly army was directly slashed by Wen Chou, and the soldiers of the Yuan army were not on the same level as the soldiers of the county country, and even played a battle loss ratio close to ten to one.
After Wen Chou harvested this wave of heads, he did not plan to attack the city, but after collecting the spoils, he led people back to the big array.
Wu Anguo seemed to see the smile on Wen Chou's face.
He suddenly realized a problem.
Yuan's army did not capture Beihai County, not because it couldn't get in, not because he defended the city well.
It's because they didn't have the idea of taking Beihai County right away, they wanted to use Beihai County as a bait to fish here.
See who takes the bait, and take it as the real catch.
Therefore, when an allied alliance comes to support, it will be intercepted on the way and eliminated on the spot.
It is estimated that if the Montenegrin Army does not organize a large-scale team to come to the rescue, it is estimated that it will also be the result of a wave of annihilation, just like a gourd baby saving grandpa.
Wu Anguo shuddered when he thought of this, Yuan Jun's plan was very big.
If he didn't guess wrong, then Yuan Shao had already sent people to capture the towns of those two counties, and there should be an ambush nearby, waiting for the arrival of other teams.
After all, Yuan Shao brought it to Qingzhou, but there were 100,000 troops, and now there are 50,000 troops, and I originally thought that 50,000 troops were left everywhere, but now it seems that they have gambled a lot, leaving some people to guard against the Dingyuan army, and others should have come.
And if not conservatively.
Yuan Shao this time, the target may not be their three-city alliance, they are just a small target incidentally.
What he really wants to solve may be Zhang Yan, the Montenegrin Army who has been elusive in this Qingzhou.
You must know that although the individual strength of the soldiers of the Black Mountain Army and the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army is very weak, when they have a huge change in numbers, their strength will also improve to a certain extent.
Especially after the disappearance of the Yellow Turban camp, the effect of the rabble has also disappeared, and they can now use the crowd tactics to pile up, without fear of fighting a collective collapse or something.
Moreover, Guan Hai of Qingzhou, who had cholera before, also teamed up with Zhang Yan and became part of the Montenegrin army.
Today's Black Mountain Army is already the most tricky force in Qingzhou.
And judging from the previous performance, Liu Bei and the Montenegrin Army should have some kind of cooperation agreement, so they don't do anything to each other, so if Yuan Shao wants to fight Liu Bei, he must first solve the Montenegrin Army.