Chapter 233: Three-way scuffle

After Zhang Ning set the tone, Zheng Gu and Bian Xi reorganized their troops and horses, and marched out of Bohai County to Xiu County in the west. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

Yan Liang, who was defending the southern part of Bohai County, had already discovered the movements of the Yellow Turban Army, so he waved 20,000 troops to chase and kill, trying to annihilate the Yellow Turban Army.

Zhang Ning stayed behind the palace, and ordered Bian Xi to lead 3,000 cavalry from the west to fight the front station, Zhang Ning led 10,000 infantry troops from the west to the right flank of Yan Liangbu, waiting for the opportunity to move.

Yan Liang personally led the elite vanguard, searching for the traces of the Sugu Division, and finally found the Zhenggu Department one hundred and twenty miles northeast of Xiuxian County. Yan Liang didn't say a word, beat the drum and marched, and went straight to the camp of the Chinese army.

These Yellow Turban Army fought for many years, and there was not much fear of Yan Liangbu, who was equal in strength, Yan Liangbu shouted and killed the sky, and the smoke and dust were billowing out, and they had entered the range of bows and arrows.

Unexpectedly, these arrows are not single-bow arrows, but thick thin spears, and the bow is not a single bow operated by a single person, but a large bow similar to the bed crossbow in Jiang Shengjun's army, they did not master more sophisticated design skills, and when firing, two soldiers pulled the bowstring with the force of pushing forward with both feet, and then launched the thin spear-shaped arrows, although the range was not much farther than the three-stone bow, but the lethality was huge.

Yan Liangbu raised the big shield, but the dense arrows immediately broke the defense, the thick arrows were nailed to the wooden shields, and directly cracked those wooden shields, and the broken wood was scattered all over the ground, and the soldiers hiding behind the wooden shields were extremely dense, and they were directly pierced by these arrows, and some arrows actually pierced three people with one arrow.

Yan Liang was shocked, and hurriedly retreated, leaving more than a thousand corpses in front of the battle, and luckily withdrew from the range of the bow and arrow.

It was extremely inconvenient to assemble the big bow in the Zhenggu army, and the firing range was difficult to adjust in time, so he could only watch Yan Liang's troops retreat, and because Zhang Ning strictly explained in advance that he could not take the initiative to fight, Zhenggu had no choice but to hold the formation and prepare for defense.

After Zhang Ning led the army back to the predetermined position, he did not see Yan Liang's soldiers and horses, but saw a big battle flag in the distance, embroidered with the word "Gongsun". Zhang Ning hadn't figured out what was going on, but the soldiers over there had already discovered Zhang Ning's department.

Gongsun Fan was looking for an opportunity to fight at the junction of the plain and the Bohai Sea, and did not find Yuan Shao's army for many days.

When Zhang Ning entered Jizhou, in order to hide people's eyes and ears, the yellow scarf was removed, and the relationship between the seasons made the clothing somewhat similar to that of Yuan Shaojun, and Gongsun Fan had never fought with Yuan Shaojun since returning from Qingzhou, so he couldn't tell the difference.

Zhang Ningbu knew Gongsun Fan, and when he was in Qingzhou, he didn't suffer less from Gongsun Fan, and when the enemy saw it, he was very red-eyed, so he went head-on and fought with Gongsun Fan.

Gongsun Zhan's other way of soldiers and horses Yan Gang Department returned to Jizhou after all the way to the north, in response to the offensive of Gongsun Chan in the north, originally Yan Liang defended the southern line, because of greed, to chase and kill the Yellow Turban Army, Yan Gang Department has been killed until the south of Nanpi City 100 miles, did not see any movement of Yuan Shaojun, at the beginning was worried that this was Yuan Shao's ambush strategy, and later found that it was really no one, so I was relieved.

Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zhan's army fought hotly in the north, and was shocked to hear that Yan Gang led his troops to Nanpi, so he had to return to the army to defend, during this time, many counties in Bohai County were broken by Gongsun Zhan, Yuan Shao's war materials were only in Nanpi, if Nanpi was lost, Yuan Shao would become a rootless duckweed, so keeping Nanpi was Yuan Shao's only choice, and he was still wondering why Yan Liang didn't have any news, was he defeated?

The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and there is no room for negligence, Yan Liang made his own opinion, stealing chickens and rice, not only did not destroy the Yellow Turban Army, but lost more than 1,000 people, and the south gate of Nanpi became completely defenseless, and Yuan Shao had to take the risk of withdrawing his troops.

Gongsun Chan noticed the signs of Yuan Shao's army retreating south, so the whole army attacked, Yuan Shao was worried that Nanpi was lost, only cared about the march, and only left a small number of troops behind the palace to contain Gongsun Zhan, Gongsun Chan did not do a senseless pursuit, but suddenly changed the route of the march, and attacked the boundary bridge with a sudden momentum.

Yuan Shao didn't expect Gongsun Chan to come to this move, Chun Yuqiong, who defended the boundary bridge, was quickly killed and retreated, Gongsun Chan entered the boundary bridge after paying the price of more than 3,000 casualties, Yuan Shao's sphere of influence moved nearly 100 miles south, Chun Yuqiong built a barrier, which was able to withstand Gongsun Zhan's offensive.

Yan Gang did not encounter the enemy army all the way, thinking that Yuan Shao was entangled by Gongsun Zhan, so he rushed forward lightly, and was ambushed by Koji Yi thirty miles south of Nanpi City, and was almost captured.

It is said that Yan Liangbu's two attacks were repelled by arrows, knowing that the effort was futile, he had to lead the army to retreat, and when he withdrew to Dongguang County, he encountered Gongsun Fan and Zhang Ningbu of the Yellow Turban Army fighting bloodily.

Gongsun Fan couldn't tell the difference between Zhang Ningbu and Yuan Shaojun, but Yan Liang could see it at a glance, he saw Zhang Ningbu and Gongsun Fan fighting, and was trying to get the benefit of the fisherman, but he saw the smoke and dust billowing in the northeast direction, at first glance he thought it was a reinforcement sent by Yuan Shao.

Yan Gang and Tian Kai led the army to retreat south, retreated to Dongguang County, and saw that Gongsun Fan was fighting, thinking that they were fighting with Yuan Shao's soldiers and horses here, so they waved their troops over to help.

Zhang Ning was already struggling to support, but when he saw that there were many reinforcements coming, he knew that something was wrong, and in a blink of an eye, he saw Yan Liang's banner, so he ordered the surrounding soldiers to shout in unison: "General Yan, come and help, we can't hold on!" ā€

Yan Liang heard it inexplicably, but the three soldiers and horses of the Gongsun family could hear it clearly, it was really Yuan Shao's soldiers and horses who dared to fight, and Gongsun Fan had no problem dealing with Zhang Ning, so Yan Gang and Tian Kai waved their troops to attack Yan Liang, Yan Liang understood Zhang Ning's trick, but at this time, it was impossible to distinguish with the soldiers and horses of the Gongsun family, so he waved his army to meet the battle.

At this time, it was a short encounter, Yan Liang was already skilled, and he led the soldiers and horses to rush left and right, killing Yan Gangbu and Tian Kaibu and retreating, and Zhang Ningbu was not much better, and was chased and beaten by Gongsun Fan.

Zhang Ning led the soldiers and horses to move closer to Yan Liang's department, Yan Liang's army faced Yan Gang and Tian Kai, and he had no time to take care of Zhang Ning's department, Zhang Ning continued to go around in circles, Gongsun Fan was so anxious that he simply stopped chasing and went directly to attack Yan Liang, in his opinion, they were all Yuan Shao's soldiers and horses anyway, and it was the same to fight anyone.

Zhang Ning saw that the war had been successfully led to Yan Liangbu, so he led the army to the west, and after meeting with Zhenggu, he followed Bian Xi's trail and went straight to Xiuxian.

On the southern battlefield, Yan Liang and the three soldiers and horses of the Gongsun family were killed in the dark, and finally both were defeated, and each retreated thirty miles to camp in preparation for the battle in the coming day, the confrontation between Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zhan entered the stage of stalemate, which was also a trouble for Han Fu, but Han Tie did not like it and worried, because more troublesome things were waiting for him to face.