Chapter 289: Counterattack on All Fronts (3)

The current Jizhou cavalry is well-equipped, and the standardized equipment production has made the soldiers and horses under Jiang Sheng's command surpass the times, and the 8,000 soldiers of the Gaolan Army are all light cavalry equipped with light armor, and they have an awe-inspiring atmosphere as soon as they leave the city. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Most of Lu Xiang's troops are infantry, only 1,000 cavalry, and the equipment is compared with Gao Lan's army, and it is no wonder that Yuan Shao only has a county in the Bohai Sea, while Jiang Sheng has a rich Le'an County and the entire Jizhou with abundant products, and the strength is naturally incomparable.

Gao Ran knew that Lü Xiang had a large number of soldiers, so he ordered the 8,000 cavalry to divide into two parts, march in unison, and go straight to Lü Xiang's Chinese army.

The cavalry under Zhang Ning is also equipped with sophisticated armor weapons, since Yuan Shao sent troops, Zhang Ning's Yellow Turban Army has openly fought in the name of Jiang Sheng's command, and Xun Yu directly allocated a lot of weapons and equipment to them.

Most of the Yellow Turban Army led by Zhang Ning were Yan and Zhao soldiers, and there were also many Qingzhou soldiers who fought bravely, and now they are even more powerful after changing to new equipment. When Gao Ran went to battle, Zhang Ning ordered Bian Xi and Zheng Gu to lead 3,000 cavalry each to plunder the Gao Lan army.

Gao Ran took the lead, led the cavalry to form an inverted triangle charge formation, and directly entered the Lu Xiang army formation.

At the beginning of Lu Xiang's troops, he thought that Dongguang did not have many soldiers, and planned to fight quickly, so he did not build a camp, but simply camped.

Lu Xiang ordered the crossbowmen to shoot the Gao Ran cavalry, and Gao Ran, who rushed to the front, brandished a broadsword to protect his body, but the knights around him were not as agile as Gao Ran, and people were constantly shot and fell off their horses, and the knights behind were protected by armor, and the power of the arrows was weakened, and they only suffered some minor injuries, which did not affect the battle.

The cavalry was fast, and soon entered the camp of Lü Xiang's army, and the crossbowmen could no longer play a role, and Lü Xiang ordered the infantry to form a formation to surround and kill the cavalry of Gao Lan's army.

Lu Xiang's infantry formation still has some doorways, and Gao Lan's cavalry felt a lot of pressure after they entered it, although it caused huge damage to Lu Xiang's army, but Gao Lanjun also had war horses fall from time to time, and the knight was quickly cut into a blur of flesh and blood after landing.

Bian Xi and Zhenggu saw on the flanks that Gao Lan's army had fallen into the encirclement of Lu Xiang's army array, so they changed the plundering formation to attack and killed them from the left and right flanks.

Since the other party was cavalry, Lu Xiang had a headache, so he could only divide his troops to resist, and this division of troops, the pressure on Gao Lan's army suddenly decreased, and he immediately turned to a counterattack.

The three cavalry were murderous, constantly killing the soldiers of Lu Xiang's army, Lu Xiang's army was frightened inexplicably, and Gao Lan's three armies seemed to be more and more brave the more they fought, Lu Xiang knew that something was wrong, so he waved his army and retreated.

Gao Ran also saw that his army had suffered a lot of losses, and the intention of the attack had been achieved, so he also waved his army and withdrew to Dongguang County.

On the side of the county, Guan Yu led 10,000 infantry to garrison and hold on, Wen Chou repeatedly fought, Guan Yu ignored it, Wen Chou had no choice but to attack, Guan Yu personally led the soldiers to defend the city, countless crossbow arrows shot down from the city, and many of them were rockets, the ladders of the siege were ignited, and soon broke apart, and the soldiers of the Wen Chou army who had not had time to withdraw fell to death from mid-air.

Wen Chou's first siege of the city was frustrated, so he had to set up camp and think of another way.

Yuan Shaobu on Yangxin's side waved Jiang Yiqu's army to attack, Tian Kai, who defended Yangxin, bluffed in the city, and the main army went around the rear camp of Jiang Yiqu's army from the flank, and then took advantage of the dusk to suddenly attack, Jiang Yiqu's army was caught off guard, and responded in a hurry, Tian Kai's army lit a fire while fighting, and burned Jiang Yiqu's rear camp, and the grain and grass reserves were also burned.

After the goal of burning the camp was achieved, Tian Kaijun withdrew to Yangxin County and never fought again.

Jiang Yiqu's army was completely destroyed in grain and grass materials, and the casualties were not small, and he was unable to figure out Yangxin, so the army retreated from the camp, and Tian Kai also went by him.

The battle on the southern front basically came to an end, and the two armies of Lü Xiang and Wen Chou set up camp and patrolled back and forth outside the city, trying to trap the two armies.

After all, the supplies of the two counties of Dongguang and the overlap are limited, and there will always be a time when they run out, as long as someone sends supplies to the city or someone in the city goes out of the city to raise grain and grass, Lü Xiang and Wen Chou's army will concentrate their forces to annihilate it.

Lu Xiang and Wen Chou's judgment is completely correct, Gao Ran and Guan Yu are worried about this matter, there are many soldiers and people in the city, but the grain and grass reserves are limited.

The reserves of Dongguang County seem to be only able to last for about half a month, and the situation in the overlapping county is slightly better, Guan Yu has few soldiers after all, and it is not a big problem to maintain it for one or two months.

On the northern battlefield, Chu Yan led 20,000 iron cavalry from Yuyang County, Youzhou to the south, Gao Gan's 20,000 infantry cavalry mixed troops were surrounded by Chu Yan's iron cavalry, twelve breakthroughs failed, Lu Kuang gathered all the troops in the north of Bohai County to risk death to rescue Gao Gan, and was just captured on the way by Yu Ban who captured Shuzhou.

Yu Ban felt that the opportunity could not be lost, so regardless of the fatigue of the expedition, he led the army to hurriedly press.

Lu Kuangzhi was rescuing Gao Gan, and he didn't dare to fight at all, and retreated north in an orderly manner as soon as he fought with Yu Ban's department, how could Yu Ban give him a chance? So immediately after the pressure, the two armies fought in the northern part of Bohai County, and the Yu forbidden army was completely stalked, regardless of how many enemies were killed, just entangled Lu Kuang's army.

Lu Kuang was angry and anxious, it seemed that if he didn't defeat Yu Ban, it was unlikely that he would be able to save Gao Gan, so he personally led the team to fight against Yu Ban.

Yu Ban saw that the lord was about to go out, he was overjoyed, a rapid war drum sounded, Yu Ban waved his sword to meet him, and all the soldiers fought bravely to be the first, and followed Yu Ban into the enemy formation.

Lu Kuang saw that Yu Ban was brave, determined to capture the thief and capture the king first, and went straight to Yu Ban, Lu Kuang's martial arts skills were much worse than Yu Ban, and Lu Kuang regretted it a lot as soon as he fought him, but he was entangled in Yu Ban and it was difficult to get out, and all the departments under his command also fought with Yu Ban's army.

This distraction was not tight, and the back of Yu Ban's big knife hit Lu Kuang's heart, and Lu Kuang only felt a strong attack, his eyes were dark, and a mouthful of blood spurted out.

Lu Kuang was about to return to the horse to defend, only to feel a cold neck, entangled by the horse whip, Yu Ban Tan copied his hand, grabbed Lu Kuang directly from the horse, and lay on the back of Yu Ban's horse.

Yu Ban's left and right soldiers hurriedly came up to help and tied up Lu Kuang.

Yu Ban shouted: "The main general has been captured, and he still doesn't stop!?" ”

This voice was in place, and the two armies, which had been fighting endlessly, stopped, retreated separately, and formed a formation.

After the two armies faced each other, Lu Kuang's subordinates saw that Lu Kuang was captured, and it was no fun to fight, so they abandoned their weapons and surrendered.

Many soldiers were frightened and fled in all directions, but the forbidden army didn't care, let those people escape, Lu Kuang had been captured, and the soldiers and horses under his command naturally couldn't go north, and the high-level army was completely isolated.

In addition to those who died in battle and escaped, there were 2,000 cavalry and more than 13,000 infantry troops.

After the victory, Yu Ban's army escorted Lu Kuang and his subordinate troops, returned straight to Shuzhou, and then organized the whole city to consolidate the city defense in case of contingencies.