Chapter 213: Leveraging Strength
Gao Ran was defeated and Zhang Xiang continued to garrison Quanzhou, but suddenly the Yuan army did not move again, and even withdrew the Yuan army in various counties, leaving only a few important cities, and the Yuan army did this but made Zhang Xiang at a loss.
If you take over other cities, you will inevitably leave soldiers in each city, and if you leave a small amount of Yuan's army, you can swallow it at any time, and the strength of Zhang Xiang's main army will be weakened.
That's really losing the watermelon and picking up the sesame seeds, Tian Feng changed from comprehensive defense to key defense, and seemed to have given up a lot of cities, but he completely reversed the situation, defending the middle and leading the attack to hide the killing opportunity.
It's much better than the original hard encounter, the cities retained by the Yuan army are all county towns or first counties of each county, each of which is not easy to mess with, and each city is equipped with heavy troops, not that it can be captured if it is captured, but it also reflects the great cause of Yuan Shao's family.
Zhang Xiang's side can't gather an army, and the current situation is that Zhang Xiang's side has become a defender and a comprehensive defense, once there is a loophole, Yuan Jun will take the opportunity to enter, which will give Zhang Xiang a headache.
Zhang Xiang also received the situation in Jizhou, the Montenegrin army seemed to have a large number of people, but unfortunately although the orders were uneven, although they all obeyed Zhang Yan's orders, they still fought separately and piled up together.
There is no discipline in the battle, Yuan Shao only used one Wen Chou to stabilize the situation, but the Black Mountain thieves are not without action, at least they contain Yuan Shao's many soldiers, otherwise Liu Bei would not be able to support it now.
Liu Bei's situation is diametrically opposed to the Black Mountain thief, Liu Bei's subordinates have more fierce generals, and Zhang Xiang already knows from the news from Jizhou that Zhao Yun has also invested in Liu Bei's command, so Liu Bei already has three tiger generals under him.
It's a pity that it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and it is difficult for a general to defeat four hands without soldiers! If it weren't for the fact that Han Qiong and Yan Liang only had 20,000 troops under him, Liu Bei would have been eaten long ago, after all, Liu Bei only had 7,000 plain soldiers under him.
It can be said that the situation in Jizhou has fallen into a stalemate, and it may change at any time, Liu Bei and Zhang Yan can be defeated at any time, Zhang Xiang has to admit that Yuan Shao's strength is much more powerful than he imagined.
I used to take it for granted, Zhang Xiang's sudden adventure attack was a bad move, what Zhang Xiang has to do now is how to turn the situation, Zhang Xiang is facing nearly half of Yuan Shao's soldiers and horses.
The results of the battle have been settled, but the Jizhou side is different, Jizhou is now three forces together, and many speculators are also waiting for the opportunity, which is an opportunity to start.
Zhang Xiang can only shift his focus to the Jizhou battlefield, which is also the last thing Zhang Xiang wants to see, putting the decision in the hands of others, this is not Zhang Xiang's character, but now this situation can only do this.
Tian Feng did give Zhang Xiang a big surprise and forced Zhang Xiang to this point, and among the two allies in Jizhou, Zhang Xiang could only support Liu Bei, and Zhang Yan at least had a way back.
If he can't win, he can withdraw to Taihang Mountain, Zhang Yan did the same before, he and Yuan Shao have become neighbors for so many years, and Zhang Yan relied on this method to make Yuan Shao helpless.
And Liu Bei is different, Liu Bei has been up and down all these years, and he has never had real power, and he finally gained a firm foothold in Qingzhou, how could he give up his achievements to Yuan Shao?
So Liu Bei's side will definitely fight to the death, Liu Bei does not lack the capital to win more with less, what he lacks is a good strategy, Liu Bei does not have a good strategist, so he will be so passive.
Zhang Xiang felt that he could act as Liu Bei's adviser and give him advice, although Zhang Xiang was very reluctant, but this was also a way out of the way, Yuan Shao's strength was too strong.
Han Qiong, Yan Liang and Zhang Xiang have dealt with each other more or less, Han Qiong is old and strong, Yan Liang is resolute, and he is not easy to deal with, and among the two, Han Qiong is still the main commander, and Han Qiong's steady and general methods cannot be dealt with.
The confrontation between Zhang Xiang and Han Qiong has always been at a disadvantage, if it weren't for Zhang Xiang's wit in the end, Han Qiong would not have been dismissed by Yuan Shao at all, and Zhang Xiang's last victory could only be a fluke.
This time against Han Qiong again, Zhang Xiang was not sure, Zhang Xiang sent Jizhou's eyeliner to Liu Bei, closely monitoring the situation on the battlefield, Liu Bei also attached to a mountain range to confront Yuan's army.
In fact, not only Zhang Xiang regretted a little, Liu Bei also regretted a little, Liu Bei stood on a high place and looked at Yuan Jun's camp from afar, during this time Liu Bei brought out 7,000 plain soldiers, with a loss of more than half.
Although Guan Yu, Zhao Yun and others also beheaded several generals, Yan Liang and Han Qiong were not damaged and could not hurt Yuan Jun at all, Yuan Jun was still in absolute upper hand, and at this time Zhang Xiang's spies found Liu Bei.
Let Liu Bei sneak attack Yuan Jun's right camp, Liu Bei was very suspicious at first, but now he can only be a dead horse as a live horse doctor, Liu Bei decided to believe Zhang Xiang once, this time Zhang Xiang did not lie to him.
Zhang Xiang carefully studied the situation of Yuan's army, Han Qiong's right camp is now garrisoned by Jiang Qi, and the generals who defend the camp are generally rotated regularly, and Zhang Xiang also took a lot of effort to find out Jiang Qi's location.
Jiang Qi is careless and sloppy, the good thing to say is to be informal, and the ugly thing is to put out loopholes, of course, the camp he is stationed in is empty, it stands to reason that Han Qiong should not use Jiang Qi to guard the camp.
It's a pity that Jiang Qi was born in an extraordinary background, Jiang Qi's word Yihan is not something that ordinary people can take, the country name of the Han is Han, if it is not for the family, it will be suspected of taking such a word.
The Jiang family is very powerful in Jizhou, and after Yuan Shao got Jizhou, he deliberately wooed the Jiang family, Jiang Qi, as a descendant of the Jiang family, naturally has privileges in the army, so Han Qiong also has to use him.
Although Jiang Qi has no ability, his subordinates are still good, and the Jiang family naturally has some family soldiers, these people have guarded Jiang Qi since childhood, and these people also followed the army after Jiang Qi joined the army.
secretly did a lot of things for Jiang Qi, but people from the family soldiers also had a disadvantage, that is, everything was centered on Jiang Qi, so the guards of the camp also took protecting Jiang Qi as their first priority.
This also made Zhang Xiang see an opportunity, so Zhang Xiang let Liu Bei attack the right camp, Liu Bei launched a night attack, although it was indeed not a good time for a night attack that night, but Liu Bei could only bet on this.
Zhao Yun Guan Yu attacked the right camp of the Yuan army, and the guards of the Yuan army were much smaller than the two expected, but at this time, Ma Kui was a step slower, and Ma Kui was also one of the few strategists among Liu Bei's three brothers.
He deliberately slowed down, just to see Yuan Jun's reaction, he found that the right camp of Yuan Jun was chaotic, so he had an idea to attack Yuan Jun's left camp, but Ma Kui did not attack immediately.
Instead, he waited until Guan Yu and Zhao Yun did not move before attacking the left camp of the Yuan army, at this time Han Qiong and Yan Liang's second general was already in the right camp, watching Liu Bei's plain army leave, but he didn't expect that the left camp was also in chaos at this time.
Maybe God is really looking after Liu Bei, Yuan Jun's left camp is the place where grain and grass are hoarded, and Han Qiong and others don't dare to be sloppy, thinking that this is Liu Bei's plan to attack the east and the west, and the focus of the Plains Army is grain and grass.
At the beginning of the war, Liu Bei did not find Ma Kui's troops, even if the army retreated, he did not see anyone, at this time the left camp of the Yuan army was in chaos again, and Liu Bei immediately realized that it was Ma Kui's side that was making trouble.
Liu Bei didn't care what his shortcomings were, he was good to his brother, at least the brother he recognized, Liu Bei knew very well what he would lose without Ma Kui, so Liu Bei immediately returned to the army to support.
After all, Liu Bei was in the direction of the right camp of the Yuan army, and if he went to support the left battalion, it would definitely be too late, so Liu Bei could only attack the right camp again, and after the retreat of the Plains Army, Jiang Qi felt that it would be okay tonight.
As for the situation of the left battalion, it has nothing to do with him, as long as the right battalion does not lose him, he is satisfied, Jiang Qi did not expect Liu Bei to launch a second night attack, Jiang Qi was caught off guard all of a sudden.
At the critical moment, Jiang Qi would not work hard for Yuan Shao, but chose to ask for help from Han Qiong and Yan Liang, and he personally went to ask for help, and threw all the soldiers in the right camp, and he couldn't do it without a general.
Although Jiang Qi is an unreliable general, but the general's run, Liu Bei instantly killed it, and the Yuan army was immediately defeated.
As long as this offensive is maintained, Ma Kui's side is safe, and he can even expand the results of the battle and achieve a greater victory, when Han Qiong Yanliang saw Jiang Qi, he knew that something was wrong, although Ma Kui had been forced into a corner.
But he can only let go temporarily, after all, there are not many people on Ma Kui's side, Yan Liang left his deputy general to guard against Ma Kui, Han Qiong also let Jiang Qi make meritorious contributions, and Jiang Qi also knew that this battle did have his own faults.
What's more, it was a beating of the water dog, Jiang Qi was also willing to attack Ma Kui, and the reason why Yan Liang left the deputy general was because he liked his stability, which was also complementary to his personality.
After the adjutant general received Yan Liang's order, the soldiers did not rush to attack, but chose to deploy their defenses carefully, and the matter of the attack was handed over to Jiang Qi.
Yan Liang's lieutenant general is a person who does not seek merit but seeks no fault, so he will not choose to rashly attack Ma Kui, since the right battalion was attacked twice, the deputy general was also afraid that the left battalion would be attacked twice.
Jiang Qi did something wrong, he had others to stand up, he couldn't follow the nonsense, Han Qiong and Yan Liang returned in time to resist the attack of the Plains Army, and Liu Bei had no choice but to retreat again.
At this time, Ma Kui also retreated when he heard the movement, last night's battle Yuan army can be described as a heavy loss, the biggest loss is morale, the source of troops can find a way to make up for it, after all, this is Jizhou.
But it's hard to make up for the morale when it's gone, Liu Bei didn't expect that just because of the words of the Bingzhou spies, there would be such a big result and his own losses were not much, which made Liu Bei believe in Zhang Xiang more, Zhang Xiang of course would not always help Liu Bei, Zhang Xiang's purpose was to put pressure on Yuan Shao through Liu Bei, so that Yuan Shao would ask for peace with him, as for Liu Bei's life and death, Zhang Xiang didn't care. (To be continued.) )