Chapter 189: Rules of the Battlefield
"Okay, I'll see what you, red-faced thief, are capable of." Yuan Shu's eyes rolled, and he said with compassion, and all the princes immediately understood what Yuan Shu meant, and they all agreed to Guan Yu's battle.
"Since this is the case, it will be up to Yun Chang to fight Lu Bu." Yuan Shao nodded, and as he spoke, he threw an arrow to Guan Yu.
"Order." Guan Yu took the arrow and said that he was leaving.
"General Guan, wait a minute." Cao Cao hurriedly spoke out and stopped Guan Yu.
"What else do you command?" Guan Yu looked back at Cao Cao and asked.
"General Guan, the red rabbit BMW that Lu Bu sat on with the Fang Tian painting halberd in his hand is a rare treasure, and there is no way to use the weapon Cao, but Cao has a BMW named Jueying, which is no worse than that Chitu, General Guan can go and get it." Cao Cao called a soldier as he spoke.
"Thank you, sir." Guan Yu thanked him and left with the soldier.
This Cao Cao is really enough to make a lot of money, that Jueying is his own mount, he has to ride every time he goes out, and now in order to win over Guan Yu, he directly let Guan Yu ride out to fight.
"Alliance leader, everyone, hurry up and gather your troops." Seeing Guan Yu walk out, Cao Cao said with a fist.
"Mengde, what do you mean by this?" Yuan Shao looked at Cao Cao and asked, and the others were also puzzled.
"Ladies and gentlemen, Lu Bu is arrogant, only leading more than 10,000 people to dare to come to my camp to drown, this place is open, which is conducive to our army to set up a formation, we don't take this opportunity to get rid of Lu Bu, when will we stay?" Cao Cao explained with a slight smile.
"This ...... When people come to drown the generals, our army will be pressed, and I am afraid that they will fall into the hands of others. Yuan Shao frowned and said.
"Alliance leader, soldier, treacherous, at this time, how can you take care of those rules, then Lu Bu is brave, if we miss this opportunity, I am afraid that we will have to pay a greater price to lay the tiger prison." Cao Cao said a little anxiously.
"Okay, according to Mende's words, you should quickly go and straighten out the army." Yuan Shao thought for a moment, nodded and said, everyone agreed, and left one after another.
In fact, before the pre-Qin period, there were still many rules on the battlefield, and it was only from the beginning of the Warring States period that those rules gradually disappeared, but a big family like the Yuan family sometimes had to take care of their reputation.
In the Spring and Autumn Period, the Zhou Dynasty still had a great influence on people, and at the very beginning, the Duke of Zhou ruled the world and established seventy-one countries.
Among the 71 countries that were divided, 16 were the sons of King Wen, 4 were the sons of King Wu, more than 50 countries were people with the same surname, and only a dozen of those meritorious ministers were sealed.
In addition, for hundreds of years, the princes have intermarried with each other, so it can be said that everyone is a relative, and most of the battles fought are battles of honor or recognition.
At that time, the war was more like a battle between the village and the village in the future, I will give you a war letter, if you are afraid, you will recognize me as the boss, if you are not convinced, we will make an appointment for a time and place to fight, whoever loses will rely on the other party, most likely there will not be too many casualties.
In addition to the war book, slaves and commoners at that time were not allowed to participate in the battle, and the two warring sides on the battlefield were nobles, and the lowest rank was also the son of the noble, that is, the sergeant among the nobles, from which the word warrior came from.
And these warriors fought in chariots, and as for those civilian slaves who followed behind the chariots, they were called pawns, and they did not need to participate in the battle, but only served the warriors on the chariots.
Moreover, at that time, there were no horse battles and infantry battles, only chariot battles, that is, the warriors on the chariots, could not attack the foot soldiers who followed the opponent's chariots.
During the battle, the number of chariots on both sides must be equal and one-on-one, and the chariots next to each other must not be engaged.
When the chariots of the two sides are fighting, the weapons of the two sides can only exchange fires once, and after the chariot turns again, the number of times is usually not much, because the chariot will generally break after a few battles like this.
If one side is wounded in battle, the other side must stop attacking and let the other side return to the camp to heal, and the white-haired warrior must not be captured, because the white-haired warrior is an old man who needs to go home and retire.
If one side chooses to retreat and run, the other side is generally not allowed to pursue, but it is okay to pursue, only fifty paces.
In addition, the battlefield agreed by the two sides must be at the junction of the two sides, and it must be in the field, so as to avoid the destruction of farmland in the war, so it is also called a frontier or field battle.
There is also a war book must be famous, not to start a war at will, the envoy of the war book, the enemy not only can not be killed, but also must be treated as a guest.
If the monarch of the enemy country dies, the court of the enemy country is in turmoil, the enemy country has a plague, or there is a famine, a flood, or the national power is empty, you cannot attack the other party at these times, and if you do, it is a villain's act, and it will be despised by everyone.
There are many allusions in this, such as the battle of Yanling, the main general of the Jin army charged back and forth on the battlefield, and met the chariot of the king of Chu three times, and got off the chariot to salute, and the king of Chu also appreciated it very much, and gave him a bow.
There was also a civil strife in the Song Dynasty, Hua Bao and Gongzi Cheng met on a narrow road, and the two shot each other with arrows, Hua Bao shot an arrow first and missed, and was ready to shoot again.
Gongzicheng shouted very angrily, you don't follow the rules, you have already shot an arrow, this time it's my turn, Huabao really put down the bow, and was killed by Gongzicheng with an arrow.
In the Battle of Hongshui, there was a war between the Song State and the Chu State for the right to compete for the overlordship, and both sides of the war were powerful countries at that time, and to some extent, the Song State was even stronger than the Chu State. However, Song Xianggong was defeated by the state of Chu because of the ceremonial battle.
The Jin State and the Chu State were at war, the Jin army failed, all the chariots of the Jin army were fleeing, only one was parked and did not move, the Chu army caught up and helped others repair the car, until the chase did not stop until it was fifty steps, and the enemy repaired the chariot many times in the middle.
These things, which seemed to be jokes in later generations, were called the battle of justice and benevolence at the time, and were greatly appreciated by the world.
Some people will think that the people in the Spring and Autumn Period were too pedantic and moral. But isn't this kind of "faith" and "benevolence" exactly what has been slowly missing in the later wars?
Until the emergence of the hundred schools of thought, the position of Zhou Li in people's hearts was broken, and it was also fought for hundreds of years, and all the vassal states played a real fire.
In the end, it changed from a battle for hegemony to a war of annexation, and the previous vassal states fought back and forth to make other vassal states recognize themselves and be the boss themselves, and when they went to the warring states, they were for the purpose of annexation, and they were destroying the country at every turn.
There are no more rules on the battlefield, but everything is done, and various schemes are used in the war in order to win.
Although most of the rules have been forgotten and replaced by various stratagems after a thousand years, most people will still abide by the most basic rules such as generals against generals against soldiers.
So when Cao Cao said that he would attack the whole army and attack Lu Bu, who came to fight the generals, Yuan Shao was still a little hesitant.