241 The death of Wen Chou
This formed Qingzhou army was led by Cao Ren, who led two thousand Qingzhou troops to resist the advance of Yan Liang and Wen Chou.
The two sides fought each other in close quarters on a road flanked by dense forests.
Cao Ren's army was small in number and soon fell into decline, while Yan Liang Wenchou led a large number of people and the offensive momentum was fierce, Yan Liang personally went into battle to urge the soldiers to attack, and soon, his army had the advantage.
Cao Ren led the army to fight and retreat, and about half an hour after the battle, Cao Ren ordered the rear army to desperately block the attack of Yan Liang's army, and decisively led the army to retreat.
Because the retreat was too hasty, he actually threw away more than 50 carts carried by the army, and these carts were occupied by Yan Liang's army who pursued them.
A soldier accidentally knocked over a box on a large cart while in pursuit, and the box fell to the ground and fell open, filling it full of copper coins.
"It's money!!"
The soldier couldn't help but shout, attracting a lot of attention.
When a group of soldiers saw the money all over the ground, they immediately rushed over to grab the money without chasing, and you pushed me into a mess.
More soldiers rushed over, you pushed me, I pushed you, knocking over a lot of boxes, and as a result, these boxes were filled with copper coins and silk cloth, as well as some food and ordnance, all of which were war materials.
The eyes of the soldiers of Yan Liang's army were red, and suddenly no one cared about military discipline and pursuing the enemy army.
Later, Yan Liang and Wen Chou were still laughing at the weakness of the Qingzhou army just now, and Guo Peng was a parallel commodity in name only, but they suddenly found that the soldiers of the former army were in chaos, and the military formation was directly chaotic without orders, which made the two of them a little surprised.
Some soldiers reported that some ordnance and materials dropped by the Qingzhou army when they retreated were captured by the soldiers, and they were all scrambling.
Wen Chou felt that it didn't matter, but Yan Liang didn't think it was good.
"It's still on the march, it's a scramble, it's too early, we still have to go to crusade against Guo Peng, immediately order the army to reorganize, don't fight, defeat Guo Peng is afraid that there will be no loot?"
Wen Chou felt that it was the same, so the order was issued, and officers began to rectify military discipline.
However, most of Yuan Shao's army are newly recruited troops, they have little combat experience, and they joined the army just to eat and grab money, especially for this kind of thing, they are very skilled, and their eyes are red when they see money, who still cares about military discipline?
If the army really wants to break up, it will be useless for the main general to kill more people.
Many generals are well aware of this.
Therefore, the chaos is getting worse and worse, and it cannot be rectified at all.
Yan Liang and Wen Chou felt a little anxious, and were just about to go into battle to rectify military discipline in person, but suddenly the rumbling of war drums and shouts of killing came from all sides.
Yan Liang and Wen Chou were shocked, only to find that a large number of Qingzhou troops had appeared on their left and right sides, and these Qingzhou troops had slaughtered from the dense forest and rushed towards them.
Before the two of them could react, they saw the Qingzhou army that had just broken up and turned around and killed, rushed from the front, and then looked back again, and was surprised to find that they had even rushed a Qingzhou army on the way back.
The few Qingzhou army generals who had just been defeated rushed over with these soldiers and horses, and their own army was simply unable to fight against it as a whole.
"What? How so? ”
"Oops! Hit the trick! ”
Yan Liang and Wen Chou were shocked when they saw the Qingzhou army coming out from all directions.
Only then did they realize that they were surrounded, surrounded by the Qingzhou army!
The soldiers of the Yuan army were also shocked, they were still looting property just now, and they were in chaos, but they suddenly saw the Qingzhou army killing in large numbers, and the reflex was to escape.
Holding the looted property, he fled lifelessly, and fled on the retreat road, although there was also the Qingzhou army on the retreat road.
In such a situation, the Yuan army in the chaos directly collapsed, and the few Yuan soldiers who maintained the formation and the personal soldiers around Yan Liangwen Chou were also difficult to maintain under the impact of such a rout wave, and there were many who retreated.
They all ran back and forth without their lives, and they couldn't be rectified at all, Yan Liang and Wen Chou couldn't do it if they wanted to form an army to fight a bloody road, and the scene was chaotic.
Seeing that the situation had become like this, Yan Liang and Wen Chou realized that they could not do anything, so they could only take the personal guard cavalry to fight their way out.
It was Guan Yu who blocked their retreat, Guan Yu led the army to block the retreat of Yan Liang and Wen Chou, and a large number of routs rushed over, Guan Yu waved his army to intercept and kill, killing many Jizhou soldiers.
However, people's desire to live is still very strong, and they can do a lot of things in order to survive.
Yan Liang and Wen Chou rushed desperately under the protection of the guards cavalry, and actually really killed a bloody way out, Guan Yu was furious and stared at Wen Chou, who was fighting with a knife.
Thinking of the shame of having to pretend to be defeated, and the shame of being ridiculed by Wen Chou, Guan Yu's heart was full of anger.
With his legs between the horse's belly, Guan Yu rushed over with a spear.
Wen Chou was swinging his knife to slash the Qingzhou soldiers who intercepted him, and he didn't notice that Guan Yu was sprinting towards him, and when he noticed that something was wrong and realized that he was enveloped by a strong murderous aura, he turned around and blinked his eyes, only to see that the sharp spear tip had reached his chest.
"Wen Chou Hugh is gone!!"
In the next second, the sharp tip of the spear pierced Wen Chou's chest.
The huge inertia that Guan Yu carried when he charged stabbed Wen Chou directly off his horse and nailed him to the ground.
Wen Chou looked up to the sky and spurted out a mouthful of blood, looked at Guan Yu's face in disbelief, and in an instant, he recalled that not long ago, he easily beat Guan Yu and Zhang Fei away.
Isn't that right?
With such doubts, Wen Chou left this world forever.
Wen Chou's death caused even more chaos.
On the other side, Guan Yu focused on assassinating Wen Chou, so that Yan Liang was able to break out of the encirclement under the protection of his personal guards and fled without his life.
Seeing a big fish run away, Guan Yu was annoyed that he had failed to make a full contribution, and after chopping off Wen Ugly's head with a knife, he was even more annoyed and killed the rest of the Jizhou soldiers, killing corpses all over the field.
In this battle, the Qingzhou army's strategy of luring the enemy into the depths was used very well, and the tactics of encircling on all sides were also good, and the Yuan army was defeated at a small price, and the losses of the Qingzhou army were minimal.
It can be said that the Yuan army ran all the way, and the Qingzhou army chased all the way, chasing the remnants of the Yuan army out for more than ten miles.
According to statistics after the war, the Qingzhou army killed thousands of people, captured thousands of people, and killed Wen Chou, Yan Liang only escaped with a few hundred remnants of soldiers, and the Qingzhou army can be said to have won a complete victory.
When Guo Peng heard the news of the victory, he laughed and praised Xun Yu who proposed the strategy.
"Wen Ruo's strategy really worked, Yan Liang is ugly, brave and brave, but he has no brains, Yuan Shao used them to lead the troops, which shows how good his level is."
Xun Yu breathed a sigh of relief and was happy that his plan had succeeded.
"Yan Liangwen's ugly army retreated, Yuan Benchu's plan failed, and Ming Gong could continue to plan."
After this battle, Xun Yu gained a firm foothold in Guo Peng's camp, showed his face, and gained a reputation.
Cheng Li saw that Xun Yu was reused by Guo Peng as soon as he came, and felt that his background was far inferior to Xun Yu, and if he couldn't make meritorious contributions, he was afraid that his status would not be guaranteed.
Cheng Li had a sense of crisis, so he immediately offered another strategy for Guo Peng.
Use these captured Jizhou soldiers to play psychological tactics to make the county seat of the country self-defeating.
"We can behead the captured Jizhou soldiers under the city, show the captured battle flags and battle armor, so as to deter the defenders in the city, let them know that the reinforcements have been defeated, Yuan Shao is powerless to rescue, make them desperate, and then surrender and divide them, and it will not take long for there to be turmoil in the city."
Cheng Li said to Guo Peng.
Guo Peng was very happy to hear this, stroked Cheng Li's back, and appreciated it greatly.
"Zhongde has no last resort!"