Chapter 133: Early Encounter
Jia Xu said: God help me, we can finally eliminate Gongsun Zhan.
Frustrated: I thought that I would have to wait until the lord came back to eliminate Gongsun Zhan, but I didn't expect him to send it to the door himself.
Zhang Hedao: What strategy did the two military advisors have to defeat the enemy?
Frustrated: What we are afraid of is that Gongsun Chan will run away, we have a long way to go, and we have difficulty in supply, and now he takes the initiative to attack, isn't it exactly what we want? Gongsun Zan will definitely leave a few thousand people in Xiangping, plus the casualties of the siege in the past few days. He now has a little more than 20,000 troops in the city.
And we also have 20,000 men, and Zhao Yun has 3,000 cavalry outside the city. If Gongsun Chan rushes 20,000 people into the city to fight a decisive battle with our army, what do you think he has a chance of winning?
Our soldiers are veterans of many years of war, and our plate armor is invulnerable. Coupled with the use of terrain and thousands of strong bows and crossbows, how could Gongsun Chan be undefeated.
Zhang Hedao: Then let's eat 20,000 people and don't let him escape. Jia Xu said: No hurry, it will take three to four days to complete according to the speed of the tunnel, today is still the next day, Gongsun Zhan's tent is set up in Nancheng, which shows that the tunnel exit is also in Nancheng.
Frustrated: Now that you know the purpose of Gongsun Zhan, it will be easy to do, so let's have a good rest today and convene all the generals tomorrow.
Zhang Jie took all the booty, and finally arrived in Youbeiping, along the way, as soon as he entered Youbeiping, Zhang Jie sent someone to order Hao Zhao to bring 5,000 men and horses over, and take all the women, cattle and sheep to Jixian County.
There are more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in Hao Zhao in Jixian County, and there are nearly 20,000 people originally stationed in Zhang Hebu in Jixian County, although many of them are subordinates of the original Liu Yu who surrendered, but now Gongsun Zan is defeated and no one is stupid enough to go back against the water, so Zhang Jie is not worried about them. Jixian County is not far from Youbeiping, and Hao Zhao arrived in one day.
Zhang Jie said to Hao Zhao: Bo Dao, the Wuhuan people have suffered a lot of losses this time, I am worried that they will come to Youzhou to retaliate, you must be prepared to defend the city after you take these women back to Youzhou. The counties were also informed to take precautions and not to abuse these women. In the future, these will be married to the soldiers, cattle and sheep, you can start to distribute to the poor people in various places, if the rich families want to have to give money, or exchange food.
Horses, you can also sell some horses that you can't make war horses, but war horses are not allowed to be sold. You can send carrier pigeons to Yecheng to inform them of the matching. Let them send some men to bring food, and then pick up the horses and women. In the future, Youzhou will be self-sufficient.
You go back and tell Tian Tingshi that all the towns in Youzhou should be prepared to defend against the attack of Wuhuan, and when I destroy Gongsun Zhan, I will re-enter Wuhuan, and then the threat can be lifted to the bottom.
The next day, Hao Zhao led people to take the women, cattle, sheep and horses to Jixian County, and Zhang Jie was ready to set off to meet Wuhuan.
Zhang Jie said to Xu Huang: Let's leave Youbeiping and go north to find a place to ambush now, and strive to eliminate part of Wuhuan.
Xu Huang said: There are 30,000 horses in Badun, and we only have more than 10,000 points, but if it is an ambush, it is still possible to disperse the enemy, but it is impossible to completely annihilate the enemy.
Zhang Jie said: Originally, I wanted to destroy Wuhuan Liucheng, and then quickly return to Liaodong to destroy Gongsun Zhan. But now that I think about it, I didn't think it through at the time. We can't go to Liaodong, we have to stay in Youzhou, if we go to Liaodong, then Bang Dun will definitely come to attack the people of Youzhou in order to save these Wuhuan women. Although there is nothing wrong with a few big cities in Youzhou, some small counties are in trouble.
And Wuhuan is all cavalry, without us, the Wuhuan people can leave if they want to, and they can fight if they want, and the soldiers we stay in the cities can't do anything about them.
Now Gongsun Chan has more than 20,000 horses, even if we don't go to Liaodong, I believe that with the skills of the two military advisors, Gongsun Chan is not an opponent.
With Zhang He, Wei Yan, Ju Yi, and Wang Zhi, they can't deal with Gongsun Zhan, so let's not think about fighting for the world in the future, not to mention that there are Zhao Yun's 3,000 cavalry outside to respond.
So there is no need for us to go to Liaodong, our task now is to keep Youzhou from accidents and then eliminate Wuhuan. Xu Huang said: From the current point of view, Badun may be able to come back in the next two days, so we have to prepare today. Well!
Zhang Jie said: Gongming is reasonable, then you will set off after you send the order to go down to eat. We took 2,000 of Wei Yan's 5,000 people left behind and asked them to bring foot bows and crossbows. In ambushes, two thousand crossbowmen were sometimes more effective than cavalry. The remaining 3,000 men continued to defend the city. Tell the defenders not to open the gates without an order.
Prevent enemy attacks. Although there are not many people of 3,000, the Wuhuan people are not good at attacking the city, and with us on the periphery, it should be fine.
After the arrangement, Zhang Jie led nearly 12,000 cavalry, plus 2,000 infantry, and these infantry were the crossbowmen who defended the city in Youbeiping. It would definitely not work for them to deal with the Wuhuan cavalry alone, but now Zhang Jie is planning to ambush, which is better than the cavalry. The army moved quickly, and Zhang Jie asked the two thousand infantry and cavalry to take turns riding horses, which made these infantry very moved. Otherwise, they would have to chase after the cavalry.
After walking for more than a morning, it began to rain heavily, and although it was early summer, it was still a little cold.
However, due to the delay for too long, now the Wuhuan cavalry may have passed the Jinzhou region of later generations and entered western Liaoning. Zhishi went to Wuhuan from Liaodong, and later generations took the northern route, which is the later generation of Chaoyang, and then went west.
But in ancient times, this road was impassable, because there were few people, and many mountains were not passed. So it has always been going around in circles, and everyone has a war horse, and some people even have double horses. So quickly. It has been eight days since the breakthrough of Liucheng, and the news can be brought to Liaodong in four or five days after the letter is delivered, but it is impossible for the large army to be so fast, and now this road has not been greatly developed, and it is difficult to walk. It is very good to walk more than 1,000 miles a day for two or three hundred miles. In ancient times, only the Mongols of later generations could march hundreds of miles a day. The Wuhuan people are still far away.
The place chosen by Zhang Jie is the Wuhuan road at the foot of the Yanshan Mountains, in fact, it is impossible for later generations to take this road, but in ancient times, they were basically going around in circles. There are very few shortcuts, and in the era when there was no compass, many ancients relied on the stars in the sky to find their way, so they took a lot of unjust roads. Because there is only one way to cross the Yanshan Mountains. No one dares to go any other way.
Zhang Jie's army wanted to rush to the valley to ambush, but at this moment, the scout came to report that there was a Wuhuan brigade of cavalry coming over in front, about ten miles. Zhang Jie was also startled when he heard the news, now it is still far from the valley, and there is a flat river here, if the Wuhuan cavalry rushes over, the enemy is nearly three times his own, how can he fight? And Wuhuan is now in a hurry to return to Liucheng. Whoever dares to stop it will definitely fight to the death. Zhang Jie didn't expect to meet so early! Take a look at the latest chapters of "Mr. Storyteller of the Three Kingdoms" and read it for free for the first time.