On February 14, the first year of Anding [193], a major battle between Yuan Shao's forces and Gongsun Zhan's forces started outside Raoyang City, Jizhou.

The two sides that participated in the battle were more than 30,000 people from Gongsun Zhan's army and more than 20,000 people from Yuan Shao's general Lu Yi. Of course, if the soldiers are counted, then the army of Gongsun Chan has 16,000 men, and the army of Koji Yi has 14,000 men. Occupying the fortified city and not needing too many logisticians, although the Koji Rebel Army was much worse in terms of total strength, the actual number of soldiers was not much different from that of the enemy.

Although Raoyang City is not a solid city, after all, it has a city wall more than three zhang high. If Lu Yi led his troops to hold Raoyang City, not to mention Gongsun Zhan's more than 30,000 troops, even if it was an army of 100,000, he might not be able to conquer it.

Therefore, when Gongsun Zhan's army came to Raoyang City, he did not prepare a few siege equipment at all. Because Gongsun Chan has taken a fancy to Lu Yi, in the current situation of being evenly matched, he will not stick to the city like a weak man at all, but will take the initiative to attack and fight to the death with his own side. And Gongsun Zhan's current military strength situation does not allow him to fight a protracted siege battle.

Of course, if Lu Yi can't hold on firmly, Gongsun Chan will cross Raoyang City and boldly advance to the hinterland of Jizhou. However, this high-risk no-exit scenario is not very likely.

Lu Yi's idea was roughly the same as Gongsun Zhan's expectations. Lu Yi never thought about it, just to keep Raoyang. As one of the most powerful generals in Jizhou, Lu Yi thinks highly of himself and is not afraid of fighting with Gongsun Zhan. In his heart, if he doesn't dare to attack, he is not worthy of being a Han general!

Lu Yi not only took the initiative to leave the scope of the city defense and challenged the Gongsun Chan army, but he even planned to defeat the Gongsun Chan army in one fell swoop. to end this battle for hegemony that has lasted for more than a year on the land of Jizhou. Then, Lu Yi thought that with such a great achievement, it was enough to surpass Chun Yuqiong, who was above him, and become the strongest general in Hebei!

For this battle, the formation of Koji Yi is very simple. He placed Zhang He's headquarters on the right flank, and handed over the left flank to Jiang Qi. His headquarters took Han Meng in the center, and Gao Lan, who had more cavalry, was in reserve. As for the miscellaneous brand of Ma Yan's department, due to the large number of recruits and the combat effectiveness is quite unreliable, Lu Yi didn't look at it at all, and simply let Ma Yan take charge of defending the city.

The response of Gongsun Dajun was to deal with Zhang He alone, Zou Dan to deal with Jiang Qi, and Gongsun Zhan's headquarters plus Liu Bei to Shang Qiyi. Yan Gang and Wang Men were in reserve. As for the Bohai Navy of his cousin Gongsun Fan, due to his weak combat strength, he was assigned to the left-behind battalion.

After many major battles, both sides are no strangers to the enemy. So, there was no opening statement, and from the very beginning, the battle was really hot.

Clear skies, constant blowing north winds. The battle flag was blown and hunted. However, in the earth-shattering shouts of the fighters on both sides. No one can hear the wind blowing. The sound of the knife slashing into the flesh and bones, and the sound of the spear head piercing into the chest, were louder than the sound of the wind.

The heavily armored samurai from Prudence are extremely powerful. These wild and untamed barbarians, armed with heavy battle axes, maces, and other weapons, and dressed in two layers of iron leather armor, constantly let out all kinds of war cries that imitated wild beasts in the fierce battle.

In order to reduce the weight of the armor. Their armor is only the front half of the body, and the back half of the body is unprotected. This made it extremely convenient for the Han army to supervise the war. If one of the Prudent Barbarians' wounds were found behind them, the expressionless Han Warlords would raise their swords and slash them from behind the unprotected backs of the Prudent Soldiers.

- Deal with barbarians, even their own subordinates. Gongsun Chan never relented. According to Gongsun Zhan's words, what is the use of living in this world if you dare not work the battlefield?

Under the double encouragement of heavy rewards and military law, more than 1,000 cautious barbarians all seemed to be fearless of death. Although they lacked large-scale military formation coordination training, the cautious soldiers relied on the small-scale cooperation they had cultivated from the fishing and hunting life, and they could also be said to have fought quite orderly. If it weren't for the fact that Zhang He's subordinates, who were hostile to them, were not weak, they were afraid that if one of them came down, the enemy's military formation would be torn apart.

Facing those cautious barbarians with antifreeze lard on their faces, small braids dragging on the back of their heads, and hideous and hateful faces, Zhang Heyingwu's face did not show any panic. Although the enemy is strong, the halberd warriors trained by Zhang He are elite soldiers who are admired even by Lu Yi.

Each euphorbia warrior wears delicate and protective armor, and the halberd in his hand is long and sharp. A single halberd warrior may not feel very outstanding in combat effectiveness. However, when the halberds are gathered in a group, and the two rows of halberds are arranged on top of each other, the skillful cooperation between them will make any enemy who wants to break through have to face more than three halberds and fall into a bad situation of being outnumbered.

Compared with the simple stabbing of the spear, the halberd also has hooking, pecking, cutting and other skills in the use. With the rough martial arts of a cautious person, in the face of a well-formed halberd array, it can be said that it is impossible to prevent it. If it weren't for the heavy armor protection provided by the Gongsun Army, they would not have the strength to fight against the battle formation discharged by the Euphorbia!

Fighting with the cautious people, according to Zhang He's judgment, one-on-one, the Euphorbia will most likely lose in the end; Two halberds against two cautious people, the outcome will be unpredictable; If it is ten against ten, the euphorbia will win; But a hundred Euphorbia soldiers lined up can deal with at least one hundred and fifty Prudent men. Now the number of euphorbia warriors is as high as a thousand, even if the other party has two thousand cautious people, it will be useless.

The change in the battle situation confirmed Zhang He's judgment. After more than half an hour of fierce fighting, more than 300 Su Shen people were killed, and the casualties of the Euphorbia were no more than 100 people. This kind of exchange ratio, although Zhang He is a little heartbroken, can also bear it.

However, it is obvious that the Prudent people can bear such a huge casualty rate. Even with more than 100 sword-wielding overseers eyeing the rear, the Cautious men stopped their forward attack. Based on Zhang He's experience in leading troops, it can be seen that if the Gongsun army exerts more pressure on the Su Shen people, these barbarians will immediately launch a rebellion.

It's just a pity that this kind of result didn't really happen. Shan Jing, who has a wealth of experience, is very experienced in the use of prudent people, and will never be so careless. Seeing that the prudent people fought hard to no avail, they simply made the golden ringing and let the cautious people retreat.

Zhang He just wanted to take advantage of the retreat of the cautious people to cover up and kill, but his face suddenly changed, and he shouted loudly:

"Raise your shield!"

"Raise your shield! Raise your shield! ”

Due to the urgency of the situation, Zhang He was unable to use the golden drum or battle flag to issue orders, so he had to let more than a dozen guards shout loudly in unison. Fortunately, the halberd warriors were in front of Zhang He's horse, and Zhang He's order was extremely timely. Just when most of the halberd warriors raised a small arm shield tied to their left arm over the front door, a rain of arrows suddenly poured down the sky!

The rain of arrows pierced through the faces of some of the halberders who were not as good as the shields, and many of them fell on the cautious people who were retreating. If it weren't for Zhang He's ability to become quick and notice the changes in the crossbowmen behind the enemy's formation, it would have brought a lot of casualties to the Euphorbia.

Gongsun Jun did not distinguish between the enemy and the rain of arrows, and stopped Zhang He's pursuit. After Zhang He reorganized the formation, he found that a large group of knights appeared in the enemy army. Since the cavalry of Northern Xinjiang learned the use of bilateral stirrups from the Liangzhou cavalry, the cavalry for the first time let the frontal attack combat mode replace the original guerrilla long-range shooting.

At this time, the Euphorbia had not yet made a perfect corresponding deployment for the frontal impact of the cavalry. Seeing that the Gongsun Army dispatched a cavalry team, Zhang He had to give up the idea of attacking in a big way, first listed the defensive formation, and then advanced in small steps. And every time he took five steps forward, Zhang He stopped and straightened out the formation.

Zhang He's conservative tactics, although they could be used in a perfect way, gave Shan Jing enough time to arrange the formation of his own infantry. When Zhang He advanced fifty steps forward and let the opponent's cavalry enter the range of his own crossbow, the opponent's cavalry simply withdrew from both sides.

At this moment, what was exposed in front of Zhang He was already a defensive formation composed of rows of giant shield spears. Even with the elite of the Euphorbia, it is difficult to achieve great results in the face of the traditional defensive formation of the Han army. However, Zhang He relied on the strong combat effectiveness of the Euphorbia to finally turn defense into offense and grasped part of the opportunity of the battle situation.

Compared with the small progress made by Zhang He, Jiang Qi's troops on the left flank were in passive defense from beginning to end.

Jiang Qizi Yiqu, born in a small and powerful family in Jizhou, has also produced many thousand-stone level generals on his ancestors. Although Jiang Qi's own martial arts skills are not high, he is deeply respected by Yan Liang, the "enemy of ten thousand", because of his outstanding art of war. In this battle, he brought less than 2,000 soldiers from his headquarters, as well as 2,000 strong auxiliaries allocated to him by Lu Yi, and the task was to defend. Defending the left flank and holding on until the end of this battle, Jiang Qi was a great achievement.

Of course, Jiang Qi wanted to complete the task in this battle, which was really not an easy thing to say. Because what he is about to face is Zou Dan, who has the most troops under Gongsun Zhan.

There were more than 8,000 people in Zou Dan's headquarters, except for the 2,000 old and weak auxiliaries who stayed in the camp, and the remaining 6,000 people were all brought to the battlefield by Zou Dan. Of these 6,000 people, the Hu people accounted for half, and the number of cavalry was as high as 3,000. Therefore, as soon as the battle began, Zou Dan released a large group of Hu guerrilla cavalry, and asked them to go around the flank of Jiang Qi's army, or even the rear, to attack and harass the enemy army.

Even if you exclude the 1,000 Hu rangers released by Zou Dan, his military array looks twice as large as Jiang Qi's troops at a glance. Relying on the large number of people, Zou Dan launched a wheel battle method against Jiang Qi's army, and dispatched a team of 500 people each time to attack Jiang Qi's army.

If Jiang Qi's army resisted stubbornly, the squad of soldiers withdrew to rest and recuperate, waiting for the next attack. But if Jiang Qi's troops can't resist and shows their flaws, Zou Dan will command the whole army to rush up, tear Jiang Qi's army through the gap in the enemy's line, and then defeat the opponent in one fell swoop!

Of course, due to the fact that Zou Dan has fought with the Jizhou army many times, the Jizhou army is already quite familiar with his set of tactics. But even so, Zou Dan's cavalry was there, relying on the advantage of mobility, and no one could do anything about him.

Jiang Qi is no exception.

However, Jiang Qi had never thought of defeating the enemy. All he had to do was procrastinate. Dragged until Lu Yi defeated Gongsun Zhan's Chinese army, it was a victory. (To be continued......)