Chapter 48: What Happened to Bocai

Jiang Sheng believed in the strength of the cavalry, but underestimated the defeated Yellow Turban Army, resulting in being surrounded by the Yellow Turbans and almost annihilated. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Fortunately, Cao Mengde led the army to arrive in time to relieve the siege of Jiang Sheng.

Cao Mengde roared, thousands of cavalry strangled behind him, the Yellow Turban Army had already been frightened by the death battle posture of Jiang Sheng's cavalry, and now there were so many cavalry, where did they still have the heart to fight, and began to scatter and flee.

The main force of the official army led by Huangfu Song has also been killed, and the Yellow Turban Army only hates that his father and mother have lost two legs, and they run around without their lives, and the heart of fighting to the death inspired by Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang collapsed instantly.

In the face of tens of thousands of officers and Cao Cao's thousands of cavalry troops besieged, the Yellow Turban Army scattered like birds and beasts, each fled for their lives, Bo Cai led the tail of the department to attack the rear of the official army, but a drop in the bucket, this pot bottom salary plan is difficult to become a climate, Huangfu Song divided a force to intercept Bocai, Bo Cai saw that the general trend has gone, if not retreat, it will be the whole army annihilated, so he waved the army to the west.

Jiang Sheng breathed a sigh of relief, gathered his troops and got out of the battle, they were too tired, and rest was the first priority. After counting the number of people, Jiang Sheng blamed himself a little, because his light enemy rushed forward, resulting in the death of thirteen cavalry team members, and the others had different degrees of wounds, which was the first major loss since the formation of the army, which also gave Jiang Sheng a head start, no matter when he could not get carried away, he had to keep a clear head. Although he has no power, he is also a lord, and any one of his orders may decide the life and death of others, so he must be cautious.

However, it was said that Zhang Bao was killed and lost his armor, and luckily broke out of the encirclement, camped fifty miles south of Xinzheng County to rest, and Zhang Liang went east to WS County for a short stay.

Huangfu Song led his army eastward to pursue Zhang Liang, while Zhu Jun led his army north to pursue Zhang Bao. Jiang Sheng was still fighting as an independent regiment in the northern area of Yingchuan County.

Bocai retreated in time, which was regarded as preserving his strength, and learned that Zhang Bao was stationed in Xinzheng, and decided to rescue Zhang Bao, in order to prevent being surrounded by the official army, Bocai led all the main forces step by step, and cautiously advanced to the northeast.

On the sixth night of the fifth month of the seventh year of the light and the seventh year, the starry sky was brilliant, and the crescent moon was half hung in the sky, and it looked like a very quiet night.

The fire flickered in the marching camp of the Yellow Turban Army's Bocai Division, and from time to time there were groups of patrol soldiers, and the guards guarding the gate were also double posts, which seemed to have a high level of vigilance.

Suddenly, I heard the sound of war drums, as if thousands of troops were rushing over. The camp suddenly became noisy, and groups of soldiers rushed out of the tent and waited for them.

The sound of war drums and horses' hooves drew closer, and the Yellow Turbans' eyes widened and they were completely on the verge of battle.

However, the Yellow Turban Army waited for a long time and did not see the official army attacking, and the sound of war drums and horses' hooves went away again, and finally disappeared completely, without any movement.

Bocai was very annoyed: "What do the night watchmen do to eat?" If the enemy army does not know anything, they will randomly issue alarms and destroy the morale of the army! From now on, I will change shifts once every hour, and the vigilant ones will keep an eye on me, don't make a fuss at the slightest fuss! ”

The soldiers on guard took a few reprimands and returned to their posts in disgrace.

The crescent moon was setting in the west, and the drums of war sounded again, and this time I saw the torches in the distance, as if they were getting closer and closer.

This time, the soldiers on alert thought that it was a real enemy attack, and hurriedly went to report to the general on duty at night. The general on duty at night looked at the tent sleepily and scolded: "You are stupid, why are you stealing the camp with a torch!" Go back and look at the dots! ”

As a matter of fact, the officers and men of the Bocai battalion did not have the heart to sleep, and some people had already seen the little sparks in the distance and saw that there was no movement in the battalions, so they were relieved, but it was already past the best time to fall asleep, and the large army did not sleep all night.

When he gathered in the morning, Bocai also had dark circles under his eyes, and the soldiers in the battalion were all sluggish. Bocai had to reduce the mileage of the day's march to allow the soldiers to rest as much as possible.

No need to ask, this method of attack and harassment was all made by Jiang Sheng, after the bloody battle that day, Jiang Sheng's cavalry obtained high-grade armor and iron spear equipment, and the war horses were also carefully selected good horses, and each horse was equipped with a short bow, supplemented with fire oil, flint, arrows, and more importantly, Huangfu Song allocated five hundred cavalry to Jiang Sheng, which made it more convenient to start a sneak attack.

In order to avoid the adverse effects of poor coordination, Jiang Sheng divided the newly added 500 cavalry into three parts, respectively, because Ban, Zhang He, and Deng Mao were appointed as military marquis (lower than Sima of other departments, equivalent to the seven-rank military attaché), each with 150 people, and the original cavalry plus the newly added 50 cavalry was led by Jiang Sheng himself. During the battle, the military marquis commanded independently, strategically cooperated with Jiang Sheng in battle, and tactically still used the tactics and formations familiar to the officers and cavalry, while the fifty people led by Jiang Sheng personally ran in in actual combat.

In the next three days, Jiang Sheng organized cavalry to harass the Bocai army, and the frequency was significantly accelerated, which made the Bocai soldiers sleepy and demoralized; However, the cooperation of Jiang Sheng's cavalry is improving, and the morale is high.

Bo Cai was entangled and impatient, so he left half of the soldiers and horses to guard the camp, and personally led half of the troops to search for Jiang Sheng's cavalry.

On May 11, Bocai's army was exhausted, and he couldn't find the shadow of Jiang Sheng's cavalry, so Bocai decided to ignore Jiang Sheng's cavalry and eliminate all interference to join Zhang Baojun.

Just when Bo Cai was about to give up, Deng Mao and several horses were "accidentally" discovered by Bo Cai, Bo Cai was overjoyed, and the command team pressed up.

Seeing that this was "not good", Deng Mao led several horsemen to flee eastward.

In normal times, Bo Cai would not have been fooled by this, but he was so angry that he was desperate, and more than 10,000 soldiers and horses were brought into the ambush circle by Deng Mao's horses.

Jiang Sheng only had a total of 700 cavalry, and it was absolutely impossible to encircle and annihilate him, but the ambush must have an ambush fighting style.

Jiang Sheng concentrated most of the arrows on both sides of the valley, and after Deng Mao introduced the Bocai army, he and the more than 100 horsemen reserved at the mouth of the West Valley blocked the valley with dry firewood, and poured fire oil on it, only to light the fire and plug the mouth when the front of the Bocai army arrived.

More than 200 horsemen in the forbidden belt ambushed around the mouth of the East Valley, and after the Bocai army entered the valley, they quickly sealed the entrance and blocked the mouth of the valley with dry firewood and oil.

Zhang He took 200 horsemen to the right wing, and Jiang Sheng took 200 horsemen to the left wing, only to wait for Bo to enter the wing.

It didn't take long for more than 10,000 soldiers and horses to enter the valley, and Bocai also paid special attention to both sides of the valley and found no abnormalities, and from a distance, there was nothing abnormal at the mouth of the valley, so he ordered the army to move forward at full speed and pass through the valley as soon as possible.

Yu Ban saw that the Bocai army had entered the valley, and a gong sounded, sending out a battle signal.

As soon as Bo Cai heard that something bad was going on, he organized the soldiers to move forward at great speed, but when he walked to the mouth of the valley, he was dumbfounded, the raging fire burned all the mountains and rocks, how could he rush out?

Jiang Sheng and Zhang He's second army began to launch rockets and oil jars into the valley, and the valley was already dry, and with the addition of oil and rockets, it suddenly burst into flames.

Bo saw that the fire in front of him was blocking the road, so he ordered the rear team to change to the front team and withdraw the same way.

Bocai can govern the army quite well, although he changes direction in an emergency, but he has a basis for advancing and retreating, which is remarkable, but God does not pity Bocai.