Chapter 488
Bullying less with more is not necessarily effective in many cases.
It is said that the tiger can't stand the wolves, but if the number of wolves is a little smaller, I am afraid that the outcome will be reversed.
With Zhang He's martial arts, it is said that the tigers have wronged him, at least at that time, there were definitely a few who could be stronger than Zhang He in terms of martial arts, and they could even be described as a handful. In the entire Three Kingdoms period, only Lu Bu, Zhao Yun, Dian Wei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Ma Chao, Huang Zhong, Xu Chu, Yan Liang, and Wen Chou were the only ones who could surpass Zhang He in martial arts.
The rest of them, such as Zhang Liao, Tai Shici or Sun Ce, are not very different from Zhang He, even if they can beat some, they are only slightly better.
On the other hand, Guan Hai and Wu Anguo and others, although they have also received a lot of training and training in the Qingzhou Army over the years, there is still a considerable gap compared with Zhang He. As I said before, in a one-on-one situation, you can hold on to 30 rounds at most, and in a 2-on-1 situation, you may be able to hold on to 70 or 80 rounds.
As for Pei Yuanshao? In this kind of level duel, it's hard to say whether he's here to drag his feet or what? When the four of them fought, Guan Hai and Wu Anguo spent a lot of effort to protect Pei Yuanshao, otherwise they would not be embarrassed like this.
At this point, the three of them obviously lost the ability to continue to fight with Zhang He. But just when Zhang He was about to get rid of the three people in front of him, and then eat the Qingzhou army on the river bank in one bite, the light cavalry in the distance galloped quickly, and even knocked several soldiers of the Jizhou army along the way.
Every warrior who has experienced a hundred battles has a very outstanding intuition, and it is with this intuition that they can survive the previous battles. So when he saw that cavalry, Zhang He instinctively had an ominous premonition.
But to be honest, this actually doesn't have much to do with intuition, no matter who sees someone riding a fast horse rushing towards him in a panic, even if he bumps into several of his own people along the way, he doesn't care, he can't think that the other party will be good news, right?
It's the same now, but Zhang He never thought that the other party would actually be such bad news?
"How is this possible? Didn't the military advisor already put down the rolling logs in the direction of the upstream? Even if the people of the Qingzhou Army erected a pontoon bridge upstream, they should have been destroyed! ”
It's like the building boat that has been sunk, completely sinking to the bottom of the river.
"General, the villain definitely didn't lie about the military situation." Seeing the disbelief written on Zhang He's heroic face, the cavalryman wiped the dust on his face and couldn't help but say loudly. "The pontoon bridge seems to have appeared out of nowhere, and most of the rolling logs arranged by the previous military division have been released, and the rest of the bridge can't cause any effective blows, and even be used by the other party to strengthen the pontoon bridge."
Speaking of this, the cavalryman also looked a little desperate.
Previously, Xu You arranged a lot of rolling logs in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, just to deal with the pontoon bridges that the Qingzhou Army might erect. No matter how many pontoon bridges the other party erected, Xu You was confident that under the rolling logs arranged by himself, they would only be destroyed.
But this time
The pontoon bridge erected by the Qingzhou Army was indeed destroyed a lot, but the pontoon bridge that suddenly appeared caught him off guard. With all the logs already dropped, there was nothing they could do about it. It will certainly be too late to cut down the rolling timber temporarily, and the only way is to send enough soldiers and horses to tear down the pontoon bridge. But now almost all the soldiers and horses are arranged here in Zhang He, and there are not enough soldiers and horses to dismantle the pontoon bridge.
At this time, how could Zhang He not know that he was in the scheme.
This pontoon bridge that suddenly appeared is certainly not the remnants of the previous rolling logs, because it is simply impossible, hundreds of rolling logs down the Yellow River, maybe it is impossible to all hit the Qingzhou building boats, because the Qingzhou army's building boats on the Yellow River occupy a small area, but the pontoon bridge is not necessarily
The pontoon bridge, but across the entire Yellow River, there is no place to miss, and now a pontoon bridge suddenly pops up, the only possibility is that this is deliberately designed on the opposite side, and there seems to be only one explanation at the moment.
After getting this news, of course Zhang He would not be willing to continue to entangle with the three people in front of him, now that the Qingzhou army on the river bank has been trapped, there is no threat to them. The real threat is the Qingzhou army on the river bank, if they really let them erect a pontoon bridge, so that the Qingzhou army on the other bank can continue to cross the Yellow River, then everything he did along the Yellow River before would be in vain.
Thinking of this, Zhang He immediately grabbed the spear and was about to turn the horse's head and leave here.
After getting the news, he no longer had the interest to continue pestering them.
But at this time, Guan Hai, Wu Anguo, and Pei Yuanshao on the opposite side glanced at each other, but chased after them, and did not intend to let Zhang He leave so easily.
Didn't they do so much before just to keep Zhang He from leaving?
Now, seeing that things are about to succeed, how could they let Zhang He leave easily.
Needless to say, the three of them had already surrounded Zhang He from three directions and would not let him leave. Otherwise, everything that has been done before will be wasted.
Looking at the three people who stopped him, Zhang He's expression also became hideous.
"You three, look for death!"
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Almost all of Zhang He's colleagues who got the news, Yan Shao and others on the boat also got the news.
Looking at the position upstream, the sinking ship, Yan Shao was distressed but also happy. According to the news that came back not long ago, the pontoon bridge has been erected, although there is only one, but even if it is a pontoon bridge, it can already transport a large number of troops to cross the Yellow River.
For Yan Shao, as long as there are three to five thousand soldiers and horses to cross the Yellow River, it is equivalent to success
"Lord, please quickly arrange for soldiers and horses to cross the river, as long as there are enough soldiers and horses to cross the Yellow River, Zhang He's horseman has no choice but to give up the Yellow River and retreat to the plain!"
Standing beside Yan Shao, Jia Xu nodded with satisfaction and admonished Yan Shao.
"What Wen He said is extremely true!" Yan Shao agreed, and then said to an officer beside him. "Quickly send the boat back, order the soldiers and horses to cross the river immediately, and all the soldiers and horses who cross the river will be handed over to General Gan to command!"
When the officer heard this, he clenched his fists at Yan Shao and immediately turned to leave.
The military situation is like fire, not to mention that after paying a huge price, the fighter plane that was finally obtained cannot be disgusted at all. Even if there is even a slight mistake because of this, it is a huge crime.
After the officer left, Li Ru stood aside and pondered for a while, and also admonished.
"My lord, since Zhang He's soldiers and horses have been dragged on the bank of the Yellow River, why don't you immediately send a light army to take the plain? As long as we take the plains, Zhang He has only one choice: returning to Jizhou. ”
"It's a feasible plan." Cheng Yu pondered for a moment and agreed. "Now Zhang He's soldiers and horses are on the opposite side of us, there must not be many soldiers and horses left in the plain, as long as there are three or two thousand soldiers and horses, I believe that the plain can be captured."
However, the question now is, where did these three or two thousand men come from?
If you want to talk about soldiers and horses, Yan Shao must have them, and this time he can be regarded as pouring out of the nest for the Northern Expedition. Now there are at least 30,000 soldiers and horses on the side of the Yellow River alone, and in addition, there can be about 20,000 follow-up soldiers and horses. Such a huge number of soldiers and horses is a huge advantage compared to the more than 10,000 people under Zhang He's command.
But there is still a question, how to get over?
In order to cross the Yellow River, they entangled with Zhang He for a long time, and later made a very complicated game in order to be able to pass. Now it is difficult to erect a pontoon bridge, which can allow some soldiers and horses to pass, but there is still a need for some soldiers and horses to resist Zhang He's counterattack.
In this way, there are very few soldiers and horses that can be called, two or three thousand, which doesn't seem to be much, but it can't be taken out for the current Qingzhou army.
"This is not in a hurry, and it is thanks to your strategy that the pontoon bridge can be erected, especially since you predicted the trap set by Zhang He's in the upstream, otherwise, I am afraid that we will still be isolated on the south bank of the Yellow River now, unable to advance an inch."
Yan Shao was also very distressed about the matter of soldiers and horses, and in the end he could only put it aside first, and praised everyone present instead.
It is indeed worth praising it so much, it turned out that before crossing the Yellow River, Yan Shao and others had already set up a plan to attack the west, that is, to let Guan Hai and others lead the soldiers and horses to cross the Yellow River and attract Zhang He.
In order to be more realistic and deceive Zhang He, Yan Shao really invested a considerable amount of strength and made a posture of attacking with all his might, so that Zhang He had to concentrate most of the soldiers and horses in his hands.
But if that's all there is to it, it's not enough.
Because Yan Shao knew very well that Zhang He still had hundreds of cavalry in his hands. The number of cavalry may not be very large, but it is the largest mobile force in Zhang He's hands, as long as this force is still in Zhang He's hands and not taken out, Yan Shao will not be able to carry out the next step The movement speed of the cavalry is too fast, if Yan Shao really makes any moves, these cavalry can arrive in a very short time, and then destroy anything that Yan Shao's soldiers and horses are erected there.
The combat effectiveness of these hundreds of cavalry is also amazing, and with the small number of troops that have just crossed the Yellow River, it is impossible to be an opponent. If you don't get it right, you have to pay your wife and break your soldiers, and then the gains outweigh the losses.
So it wasn't until Zhang He's cavalry was also put in that Yan Shao started the next step.
This step, as mentioned earlier, was to involve Zhang He's experience on the bank of the Yellow River, so that the remaining boats under his command began to cross the river, and several pontoon bridges were erected on the Yellow River.
As long as Zhang He didn't have time to pass the pontoon bridge, everything would be easy to say. At that time, no matter how brave Zhang He was, he was definitely not Yan Shao's opponent. What's more, in terms of bravery and commanding ability, in Jizhou's military strength, Zhang He may be the kind that is outstanding, but under Yan Shao's tree, to be honest, Zhang He can compete for the position at the end of the top five at best, and he is still competing with difficult opponents like Xu Huang or Zang Ba.
But
Just as Yan Shao began to take the next step, Jia Xu raised an objection. I feel that things can't be so simple and successful, at least judging from the information obtained so far, Zhang He is not only brave, but also quite resourceful, maybe he will prevent them from using this hand and set up arrangements in advance
So the work of several people after that turned into speculation about what Zhang He might do.
A few people around Yan Shao, after all, are the most outstanding wise men in the world today, and they quickly thought of the strategy that Zhang He, or Zhang He's strategists, might be able to get by, that is, rolling wood.
As long as a bunch of rolling logs are arranged in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, and then go downstream, no matter what is on the river, they will eventually be destroyed by these rolling logs.
As a result, not only did all the pontoon bridges along the way be destroyed, but even Yan Shao's Qingzhou Navy sank one of the boats, which can be said to have caused Yan Shao heavy casualties.
However, before that, Yan Shao ambushed another hand, and this hand was also related to Gan Ning, who left not long ago
After thinking that the Jizhou army might play like this, Yan Shao arranged for Gan Ning and some old water thieves with good water skills around him to drive a few small boats, mingle in the previous boats, and secretly cross the Yellow River.
Then, while the other boats were busy erecting the pontoon bridge, they carried several strong ropes across the Yellow River
To be exact, part of it was left on the south bank of the Yellow River.
After the rolling logs were down the rushing river, Gan Ning led the people to pull up the ropes, and then reinforcing them in their place to make sure that the ropes would not go wrong.
Several ropes, and soon a simple ropeway was formed on the Yellow River. Of course, this is not the key, after all, most of the soldiers and horses in the Qingzhou army are landlubbers. Even if there were ropes, they might not dare to cross the Yellow River like this. The real hand was still behind, and Gan Ning ordered the boats that had crossed the Yellow River before to slowly sail to the position of the rope and dock.
Soon, more than a dozen boats lined up on the river, connected to each other, forming a simple pontoon bridge in the future. After that, Gan Ning asked his men to fix the boat and ropes, and even made a lot of ropes from the other side of the Yellow River, and after more than ten ropes followed and fixed the boat, this simple pontoon bridge was no longer a problem
At this time, if Zhang He could do another rolling wood offensive, Gan Ning could only stare dryly. It's a pity that neither Zhang He nor Xu You expected Yan Shao to have this hand, and now the people who stare at him have become them.