Chapter 164: Ambush

At night, Cao Cao's men and horses left quietly, he was not well-known in the Yellow Turban, and the Yellow Turban easily ignored Cao Cao, after all, he had just arrived.

And Ye Chen, if they left quietly, they would be concerned, so Ye Chen and they didn't choose to leave quietly.

When the sun shone on the earth again, Ye Chen and the others made a lot of movement, they began to change guards with the Han army who came to them, and then left with a swagger.

"Qu Shuai, why did this cavalry leave, it depends on their direction in the direction of Changshe." The movement in the morning alarmed Bocai, who thought that the Han army was about to attack the city, so he immediately went to the city to check.

What Bo Cai saw at the head of the city was not that the Han army was attacking the city, but that he was changing the defense, and his defeated cavalry handed over the camp to the infantry, and they all packed up their things and evacuated.

"The cavalry is not good at attacking cities in the first place, maybe the Han army will transfer them to other places." Bo Cai couldn't guess what the Han army was going to do, but for him, the departure of this cavalry was a good thing for him.

By the time Ye Chen and the others left, the Han army had finished sorting out, and the siege began in the afternoon.

The offensive of the Han army was quite ferocious, feints in two directions, and attacked in two directions, but the difference this time is that the Han army attaches great importance to casualties, protects the city well when attacking it, and suppresses the head of the city with bows and arrows.

The first day of the siege ended, the Han army suffered more than 1,000 casualties, and the Yellow Turban casualties were more than 5,000 people, because this batch of Yellow Turbans was not only not the elite, but also the old and weak with worse combat effectiveness, the young people were mostly lost under the Changshe City, and now the morale of the Yellow Turbans is extremely low, because there are city walls in them so that they will not collapse.

In the evening, the Han army did not attack, but Bo Cai was not easy at all, through today's offensive and defensive battles, he knew that he could not hold out for a few days, the Han army's offensive was not very fierce, and there was no attack at night.

"Someone." Bo Cai thought about it for a long time and decided to let Peng come to the rescue.

After a while, a small leader of the Yellow Turban came in, "Send more people, disperse, sneak out, and send a message to Peng Tuo, so that he can lead the army to join forces with the outside and defeat the Han army, otherwise we will be broken by each one, and we are not allowed to write letters or convey them orally."

Bo only knew that according to the normal situation, most of these people would be intercepted by the Han army, if the letter was likely to be discovered by the Han army, in fact, it was very likely to be discovered by sending people out, because the Han army would interrogate people if they caught them, but Bo Cai couldn't care so much, and now he couldn't last a few days without foreign aid, then the yellow scarf would be completely finished.

That night, many Yellow Turbans tried to sneak out, but most of them were intercepted by the Han army, if they hadn't deliberately let a few people go, then none of them would have been able to escape, so the message for help was spread.

And Ye Chen, after they had walked a long distance to the Changshe, they stopped and camped, yes, they had been camping since the afternoon, but in the evening, they began to march out of camp.

The difference is that they did not move in the direction of Chosha, but moved from the trail in the direction of Yingchuan, and then bypassed Yingchuan from a distance and moved in the direction of Runan. Now Yingchuan is completely surrounded, and there are not many yellow turbans outside, and even if there are, they will be discovered by scouts early and then eliminated.

Ye Chen and the others came to a place more than a hundred miles away from Yingchuan, there was a dense forest here, they hid inside, Cao Cao's men and horses had already been here, and the surrounding places for dozens of miles were all controlled, so as not to let the Yellow Turban find them.

This is the place where Ye Chen and them are ambushed, why did they choose here, this place is close to Yingchuan, and the terrain is not very dangerous. The Yellow Turbans are easy to be negligent, they came from Runan, according to their speed, it will take several days, and when they are almost to Yingchuan, they must have slackened, and then it is the best time to ambush.

Ye Chen disappeared from the sight of the Yellow Turban, and as soon as they disappeared, it was several days, and the Han army had been attacking Yingchuan in an orderly manner in the past few days, attacking until noon every morning, resting at noon, continuing to attack after lunch, and stopping when it was dark.

The Han army attached great importance to casualties in the attack, and the rhythm of the attack has always maintained the same intensity, causing tens of thousands of casualties to the Yellow Turbans every day, for five consecutive days, and when the Han army mastered the rhythm, the casualties became smaller and smaller, the combat effectiveness of the Yellow Turbans became worse and worse, and the morale was so low that it almost collapsed.

In fact, Huangfu Song was sure that Yingchuan City could be captured in half a day, and news came out every day in the past few days, which was deliberately released by the Han army.

But after the fifth day, Huangfu Song began not to attack the city, but only besieged the city, because he had already received the news that Peng Tuo had sent troops, and he would enter the ambush site in three more days, even if he was discovered by Peng Tuo at this time, it would not matter.

Because Peng Tuo had already mobilized the troops of Chen Guo and Runan, and there was no big city in their location, it was found that it was a big deal for Ye Chen and Cao Cao to besiege the city together, and the cavalry was not good at attacking the city, but if the Yellow Turban dared to leave the city, he would be slaughtered by the cavalry.

When the time comes, Huangfu Song captures Yingchuan, and then goes to concentrate on eliminating this yellow scarf, then the yellow turban will be basically eliminated, and the other cities will have one or two thousand yellow turbans, no need to fight at all, the army will besiege the city, and it will be solved at any time. Therefore, Huangfu Song surrounded and did not fight, so that unnecessary casualties could be reduced, and after Ye Chen and their side were resolved, they would capture Yingchuan in one fell swoop.

Peng Tuo received the news and hurriedly came with more than 100,000 yellow scarves, in fact, he had expected it when the Han army had not yet besieged the city, and when Bocai failed, he knew what day it would be, so he began to mobilize troops and horses early, otherwise he would not be able to be very fast, at least it would take five more days to get here.

"Report, the Yellow Turban army appeared fifty miles away, and it is expected to arrive here after noon." The scout came to report.

"It's finally here." Ye Chen whispered.

"Give the order, and the whole army will start eating." What if you don't have enough to eat in the war, eat a full meal first, and wait for the yellow scarf to come.

At the same time, Ye Chen also sent an order to Cao Cao, and agreed that the two of them would attack at the same time from one side.

The Yellow Turbans marched rapidly for several days, they were already exhausted, they were not elite, most of them were not young and strong, and Runan was attacked by a sneak attack, they were even short of food, and many people could not eat enough.

Ye Chen observed in the dense forest, these yellow turbans were already moving slowly and chaotically, and they were not at all guarded.

In fact, it's not that Peng Tuo doesn't understand and doesn't know how to guard against sneak attacks, but that he doesn't have the energy at all, he often has to take the troops around, maintain order everywhere, and keep urging.

These people were not trained, they couldn't even march basically, they could only walk in a mess, and they didn't even have a formation, so Peng Tuo was very tired from doing these things every day, and he didn't have the energy to do other things.

Peng Tuo urged the army forward, but he didn't know that a net had been laid out in front of him waiting for him.

Peng Tuo led his army slowly into the ambush.

Ye Chen and Cao Cao were already ready, while Peng Tuo was still riding horses in the ranks, walking back and forth, scolding a few words from time to time, urging them to march quickly. There are old people and children in their ranks. The old ones are fifty or sixty years old, and the younger ones are eleven or twelve years old, and it is difficult to think quickly.

But there is no way, the yellow turban seems to be powerful, but there are not many elites, and the elite has been put into the battlefield in advance, and the yellow scarves on the battlefield rely on more people to win, in fact, the casualties are very large, that is to say, the green and strong part of the yellow turban are lost on the battlefield.

"Cavalry sortie." After a cannon sounded, the signal for this matter was agreed, so Ye Chen decisively ordered to start charging.