Chapter 361: Encircling the Point for Reinforcements
Jiang Sheng's Zhang He led the second army day and night, and had already set up an ambush on the road of Xiahou Yuan's reinforcements, and the fourth army led by Yu Bansu was not idle, and joined the local army of Chen Gong, and marched to the southwest of Juyang, waiting for the reinforcements sent by Cao Cao.
Cao Cao planned to let Cao Chun lead the tiger and leopard to ride to rescue Lejin, but Mao Jue hurriedly stopped: "By all means, the walls of Jurong City are thick, and the two armies of Lejin can still support it, Jiang Sheng's army is coming, but he is not in a hurry to attack the city, just waiting for the lord to send reinforcements." β
Cao Cao said angrily: "You mentioned the aid to Puyang, the army was defeated, and Yuan Rang (Xiahou Dan's expression) lost his left eye; The sneak attack on the black nest was mentioned by you, and the whole army was wiped out, and I almost died; Now that Lejin is surrounded by Juyang, it is you who proposed it again if you don't save it. Which side the hell are you from? β
Mao Jue was very embarrassed and said: "Jiang Sheng has long-range weapons, and he is an army of tens of thousands, and the reason why he does not move is that he has regarded Juyang as a thing in his bag, and he wants to eat the reinforcements of our army without fighting, and then trap and die in the two armies." If we send troops to rescue at this time, we will be able to fight against it, and our army will probably cease to existβ"
Cao Cao was furious, drew his sword, and shouted: "Mao Jue, you are presumptuous! β
Cui Yan, Liu Ye, Cheng Yu and others hurriedly persuaded Cao Cao that Cao Cao was now in an upset mood, and Mao Jue, a straightforward strategist, did not know how to speak, which directly angered Cao Cao.
After everyone persuaded for a long time, Cao Cao gave up, "Lock up Mao Jue first, and then deal with it after saving Lejin!" β
Mao Jue has always been upright and upright, and when the sergeant put shackles on him, he still persuaded bitterly: "The lord thinks twice!" β
Cao Cao also has his troubles, and now he has been defeated one after another, and the soldiers have begun to centrifuge, if he loses his reputation of not saving himself, his team may completely collapse!
Cao Zhen and Li Dian were immediately ordered to lead 20,000 cavalry to Juyang, and sent a message to Xiahou Yuan of Shanyang County on an 800-mile fast horse, agreeing on a reinforcement time, intending to concentrate troops to rescue Lejin's soldiers and horses.
Jiang Sheng has always been the first in intelligence, and soon after the Cao army dispatched, Jiang Sheng also sent Xuanjia cavalry, 780,000 to 40,000, and the odds of victory were quite large.
When Xiahou Yuan received Cao Cao's military order, he was already close to Zhang He's pocket array, so he ordered the whole army to speed up the march and rush to the agreed place as soon as possible.
Zhang He saw that the opportunity had come, and the Longbow detachment entered the position, the torches were lit, and the Longbow detachment lit the arrows. Zhang He gave an order, and the trebuchet launched a jar of tung oil into Xiahou Yuan's array, and then the rocket was fired, and Xiahou Yuan's army suddenly burst into flames.
The cavalry and infantry were mixed together, there was chaos, countless casualties, and the surrounding area was Zhang He's soldiers and horses, far away with hand crossbows, close with spears, Xiahou Yuan's army was surrounded in the fire.
Xiahou Yuan was quite calm, and in this kind of chaos, he was able to gather troops, gathered nearly 10,000 horses, and broke out under the leadership of Xiahou Yuan.
This kind of action is tantamount to a moth to a fire, Zhang He can't bear to look at it directly, but the battlefield is the battlefield, either you die or I die.
Zhang He ordered: "The soldiers of all brigades must use their lives, don't let anyone escape!" β
30,000 against 30,000, the strength is equal, but as soon as Zhang He started the battle, Xiahou Yuan's troops were disrupted, and there were countless tramples on each other, and their morale was exhausted. And Zhang He's soldiers and horses were waiting for an attack.
A round of fighting will make a judgment, even if Xiahou Yuan has the talent to reach the sky, it will be difficult to break this situation!
Zhang He stood on a high place, looking at the soldiers of the Cao Army in the sea of fire, and he was fascinated.
Xiahou Yuan launched another attack, but only increased casualties.
Zhang He sent someone over to shout and ask Xiahou Yuan to surrender.
Xiahou Yuan saw that the general trend had gone, knowing that it was irretrievable, he pulled out his sword and was about to kill himself, but his own soldiers hurriedly stopped him, and after some hard persuasion, Xiahou Yuan threw the saber on the ground, and his soldiers picked it up, raised it high, and walked out of the formation.
Xiahou Yuan drooped his head and followed behind, and Zhang He rode over.
Xiahou Yuan looked soot and stood in front of Zhang He dejectedly, Zhang He turned over and dismounted, hugged his fists and said: "Brother Miaocai!" In Xia Zhang He, he was the commander of the Second Army under the command of King Jin. β
Xiahou Yuan said coldly: "I don't know you, how did you know my name?" β
Zhang He said with a smile: "Brother Miaocai's appearance is detailed, I have long known it, there are few wise and brave generals under Cao Mengde, you are the one I admire more, when the alliance was against Dong Zhuo, I also helped you get out." At that time, I was a nobody, and Brother Miaocai naturally didn't know it. β
Xiahou Yuan said: "It's okay, today's defeat is useless, it's useless to talk more, if you want to kill, you have to kill quickly!" β
Zhang He said: "The first military discipline of the King of Jin is not to kill those who surrender!" You're thinking too much! Come on, protect General Xiahou back to the camp! β
To put it bluntly, it's escorted!
There were not many of Xiahou Yuan's subordinates who were struggling in the sea of fire, and Zhang He didn't bother to pay attention to it, so he gathered his troops and horses and went to Juyang.
The good news of the annihilation of Xiahou Yuan's entire army reached Xu Huang, Xu Huang immediately ordered troops and horses to attack Shanyang County, and the soldiers and horses of Cao's army left behind in Shanyang County fled in despair, and within a month, the entire territory of Shanyang County fell under Jiang Sheng's rule.
The battle on the Western Front was a hard-fought encounter, Yu Ban's sword and shield team showed its might on the battlefield, Chen Gong's infantry guarded the rear, Yu Ban served as the main attacker, and the Xuanjia cavalry swept the formation with more than 10,000 people.
Originally, it was also a good ambush battle, but the problem was that the infantry army under Chen Gong was not running-in with Jiang Sheng's regular army, and there was a problem in coordination, and the ambush battle became an encounter.
After the start of the war, the two armies were intertwined, and the sound of shouting and killing, war drums, and gold and iron intersecting was endless.
From the morning to the nightfall, the two armies will never retreat, this weather is good, the full moon is shining, the earth is as bright as day, the sweeping Xuanjia cavalry joined the battle group at this time.
In the melee of more than 100,000 troops, both armies were red-eyed, and in the cold moonlight, the meat grinder-like fighting never stopped.
In the end, Yu Ban and Cao Zhen's two armies were sleepy and lacked horses, unable to fight again, Cao Jun's Chinese army commander Li Dian made people beat the war drums, more than 8,000 Xuanjia cavalry caught up, and the chief general of the Chen Palace local army saw the disparity in strength, so he sent the infantry army to participate in the battle.
It was another killing, and until dawn, the two armies were really unable to fight again, and they all withdrew their troops.
When the losses were counted, the main generals on both sides were surprised, Yu Ban lost seventy percent, the Xuanjia cavalry lost four thousand people, and the local army sent by Chen Gong lost more than half.
On Cao Cao's side, Cao Zhen only had 1,000 people left, and Li Dian lost more than half. In terms of troops, Jiang Sheng's side is obviously more than Cao's army, and there are 6,000 horsemen of the Xuanjia Cavalry, the world's first special forces!
The two armies had just rested for half a day, and in the afternoon the fighting broke out again, and it was summer, and the corpses of those killed in yesterday's battle began to decompose, and red-headed flies flew all over the sky.
As the sun set, the entire dusk was bloody, Cao Zhen's physical strength was seriously overdrawn, his eyes were getting darker and darker, and dozens of wounds on his body had already declared him dead.
In this battle, the 40,000 cavalry of Cao's army were annihilated, Yu Ban lost 25,000 people, the Xuanjia cavalry lost more than 7,000, and Chen Gong's infantry army lost more than 20,000.
Li Dian, who was disheveled, was tied up into a rice dumpling and became a prisoner of war.