Chapter 54: Zhao Botao and Wu Jun's First Defeat
"Is it cavalry?" Zhao Feng listened to the sound of horses' hooves getting closer and closer, and he also frowned unexpectedly. Judging by the sound of horses' hooves, this is at least a cavalry of several thousand people. But this is too unrealistic, where did Sun Quan come from? Jiangdong and Jiaozhou are not places to produce horses, how could Sun Quan form such a large cavalry team?
"General, the enemy is in ambush!" Seeing the fire in the camp, Niu Jin was excited. At the same time, Huang Zhong and the others who were in ambush together also killed one after another, preparing to leave all the people and horses who came to rob the camp, and Zhao Feng had to lead the army to kill them.
"Sure enough, it's cavalry!" As soon as Zhao Feng led the army into the camp, he saw that almost all the cavalry in the camp were rushing around, and the first person turned out to be Sun Yi. At this time, Huang Zhong and others had already led the army to kill, but Sun Yi's cavalry was far superior to the infantry in terms of mobility and flexibility, so although the Xuzhou army had the upper hand, it was difficult to divide and surround the other party. Sun Yi led the army to rush left and right, rushing to kill in all directions, and for a while Zhao Feng couldn't help him.
"Surrounded Dazhai in all directions, the shield soldiers stepped forward and slowly approached to squeeze them to death!" Zhao Feng hurriedly ordered. This situation is not good at the moment, his own people are like rabbits and eat ashes behind his buttocks, and before he catches Sun Yi like this, he is tired to death. Now it's best to rely on the advantage of having a large number of people, trap them in the village first, and then slowly clean them up. When Huang Zhong and the others heard this, they hurriedly restrained their subordinates to slowly spread out the pocket formation, preparing to surround Sun Yi's thousands of cavalry in the core.
"Don't panic, kill me quickly!" Sun Yi saw that the originally panicked enemy army had gradually stabilized his footing, and the soldiers under his command were deeply encircled, but he was a little frightened, and hurriedly cheered loudly. Sun Yi is not Zhao Yun, and this kind of cavalry command ability is still very lacking. Replaced by Zhao Yun, you can find out the weak link of the opponent's encirclement in a short time, and then lead the army to fight your way out of the encirclement. As for Sun Yi, he obviously doesn't have this ability yet.
But now Sun Yi is not required to fight out of the encirclement, just when Zhao Feng was about to crush him to death slowly, suddenly there was a shout of killing behind him, but it was Tai Shici who led the army from Wu County to kill, taking advantage of the Xuzhou army to surround Sun Yi, and directly inserted into the weak link of his defense. Since the shield soldiers were all transferred to besiege Sun Yi, the rear army camp was suddenly dispersed. Tai Shi Ci took the lead, and the steel spears flew along the way, and in the blink of an eye, more than ten soldiers died under his guns.
"Kill!" Seeing that the Xuzhou army was a little confused, Sun Yi also led the army to rush and kill. In fact, Sun Yi only had 5,000 cavalry, and Tai Shici's army of raiding camps was only more than 10,000 people, but under the internal and external attacks, coupled with the flexible surname of the cavalry, and the Xuzhou army was a little panicked after the sudden attack, not only did his numerical advantage not be brought into play, but the Jiangdong army had a slight upper hand. Zhao Feng tried his best to restrain his subordinates to line up and meet the enemy again, but now it seemed that it was a little difficult to meet this requirement.
"Niu Jin, you quickly take a team of people to pick up General Gao, I'm afraid something will happen to him over there!" Zhao Feng has now felt that he and Pang Tong's strategy is very good, so that Sun Quan can see through it, his army is overwhelming, or it can be no problem, and the surprise attack of Gao Lan is more dangerous. Now there is only Niu Jin around him who can make do with it, and Huang Zhong and the others are still fighting, so they really can't help.
"I know, general, be careful yourself!" Niu Jin didn't have the consciousness of being a personal guard at all, and as soon as he heard the order, he immediately patted his horse and led a team of cavalry to kill Wu Jun. Zhao Feng took a look in his busy schedule, but saw that what he took away was actually part of his own personal guard cavalry battalion, and there were only about 100 people in total, so he remembered that this kid is only a long man now, and he can only mobilize so many people, but he rushed to Wu County like this, unless there was no ambush, otherwise it would be simply sent to death.
"Don't panic, gather slowly, and then engage the enemy!" Regardless of worrying about Niu Jin, Zhao Feng was still a little passive when he looked at the situation in the field, and hurriedly ordered. Under the greeting of him and his personal guard battalion, the Xuzhou army no longer had the luxury of annihilating Sun Yi's cavalry in one fell swoop, but began to gradually gather to resist Tai Shici in the east and Sun Yi in the west.
"The Xuzhou army is defeated but not chaotic, it is really the elite of the world!" Tai Shici also sighed when he saw this. Seeing that Zhao Feng was in the center and commanding properly, Tai Shici sneered and pulled out a poisoned arrow, put on his bow and prepared to shoot it again.
The sound of breaking the sky was loud, and then Tai Shi Ci felt that the airflow on his right side suddenly became abnormal, and he hurriedly dodged to avoid it, but saw an arrow coming, and the target was not himself, but the mulberry bow in his hand. With a "snap", his bow had been shot in two by this arrow, and he could no longer use it.
Tai Shi Ci felt a pang in his heart, he himself was one of the few archers in the world, and from this arrow, the opponent should be a sharpshooter who was not inferior to himself. looked up in the direction where the arrow was fired, but saw that it was Huang Zhong who slapped the horse and danced the knife and came straight to him, and he was still shouting: "Taishi Xiaoer, eat me with a knife!" Where would Tai Shi Ci be afraid of him, he snorted coldly and slapped his horse and danced his spear against it.
Not to mention the melee of the Xuzhou military camp, under the Shenting Ridge, Gao Ran, who was ambushed, saw that his camp was in flames, and immediately led the army to Wu County according to the agreement. Thanks to General Zhao for giving me this opportunity to make meritorious contributions, I need to thank him well in the future.
"Huh?" All the way to Gao Lan under the city of Wu County, he was stunned to find that there was already a team of men and horses waiting under the city of Wu County for a long time, and the first general was Lu Meng.
"You've seen through the plan, why don't you get off your horse and surrender?" Lu Meng also smiled when he saw Gao Ran coming. At this moment, there were shouts of killing behind the Xuzhou army, and Ding Feng and Pan Zhang each led a group of men and horses to outflank and block Gao Lan's retreat.
When Gao Ran saw this posture, he knew that it was unrealistic for him to want to take Wu County, but the only way to do this was to retreat and go back to meet Zhao Feng first, and then make another plan. At that moment, Gao Ran turned his horse's head and shouted loudly to the soldiers who were already a little flustered after the ambush under his command: "Brothers, there are few soldiers in Jiangdong, what is this ambush? Let's rush back to General Zhao, put them together and clean them up, and rush for me!" After saying that, he rushed ahead first, and his corporal and pawn also caught up with him under the encouragement of survival, and faced the three-way attack of the Jiangdong Army. So under the city of Wu County, the military camp of Xuzhou, both of them were fighting a decisive battle at the cost of life and death.
"Hey!" Tai Shi Ci set aside Huang Zhong's knife, and took advantage of the opportunity of the second horse to take a breath. After more than 100 rounds of fierce fighting, Tai Shici gradually lost the upper hand. At first, he didn't care when he saw that Huang Zhong was old, thinking that he could kill him with one sword. I didn't want to fight for more than ten rounds, but I couldn't take advantage of it at all, but even made a distress move, so I started to fight with it, wanting to bully the other party for being old and weak, and dragging the other party down with a war of attrition. I don't want this Huang Zhongzhong to be an unborn martial arts wizard, although he is over half a hundred years old, his body is strong but not inferior to a teenager. After more than 100 rounds of fierce battles between the two, it was Tai Shici himself who was too defensive, and he began to have some weakness under the passivity of the scene.
Taking time out of his busy schedule to take a look at the army that was fighting fiercely, Tai Shici found that the Xuzhou army had gradually grasped the initiative and began to give full play to its advantages in numbers and individual combat capabilities, and it would not be cost-effective to continue fighting. At the moment, he also ordered to evacuate, and Sun Yi saw that Tai Shici had withdrawn, so he hurriedly ordered his own people to start retreating. Zhao Feng saw that Sun Yi was unable to be chased by cavalry, so he immediately took Huang Zhong to dispatch a group of men and horses, and while pursuing Tai Shici, he also went to Wu County to respond to Gaolan.
"Dang!" With a loud bang, Gao Ran and Ding Feng both took a few steps back, but Pan Zhang on the other side took advantage of Gao Ran's strength to come and fight again, but Gao Ran had no choice but to take it. Now his army is surrounded by three people in the core, and he is entangled by these two people and cannot get out, and the situation is very passive. The Xuzhou Army lacked a command, and if it weren't for the fact that the individual combat ability was far superior to the Jiangdong Army, it would have been completely divided and annihilated by the Jiangdong Army under the command of Lu Meng.
"What kind of ability is to bully more and less!" Pan Zhang's knife was blocked by a stab from the oblique stab, Gao Ran turned his head to look, but saw that the person who helped looked very familiar, as if it was one of Zhao Feng's personal guards. Seeing Gao Ran's expression, it was obvious that he didn't know himself very well, and after Niu Jin waved his knife to force Pan Zhang back, he also took the initiative to introduce himself: "General Gao, General Zhao asked me to lead someone to meet you, everyone hurry up!" ”
"Good!" When Gao Ran heard that reinforcements were coming, he was really overjoyed, and hurriedly reorganized the army and horses to break through quickly, and at the same time told the army that the reinforcements had arrived, and the morale of the Xuzhou army was greatly boosted, and they all ran to the west without dying, and the Jiangdong army that dared to stop was all knocked down. How did they know that Niu Jin's support army only had about 100 people, just because they were all cavalry, and they rushed in before the encirclement of Pan Zhang and Ding Feng was formed. If he knew the reality of the reinforcements, he would be depressed to death.
As a result, the pressure on Ding Feng and Pan Zhang increased sharply, and finally they couldn't hold it anymore and were rushed out by Gao Ran. Ding Feng and Pan Zhang pursued for several miles, Zhao Feng and Huang Zhong came to meet the men and horses who were also about to arrive, and the two military horses were merged into one, Lu Meng saw that the other party was strong, and he did not dare to force too much, and he ordered to return to Wu County.
"General, the last general is incompetent and failed to take Wu County." After Gao Ran saw Zhao Feng, he was a little embarrassed. "This matter is only because we are not well planned, and the Jiangdong Army has seen through the strategy, what does it have to do with General Gao." Zhao Feng hurriedly comforted, but he was seriously unhappy and confused in his heart: he was unhappy because his strategy was recognized; The confusion is because I don't understand why Sun Yi suddenly appeared here, and there are so many cavalry under his command, but these two things are a little unusual.
At this time, the sky was already bright, and Zhao Feng ordered all armies to rectify the number of men and horses. In the night of scuffle, the Xuzhou army suffered more than 8,000 casualties, and at the same time, the Jiangdong army in the two battlefields also left more than 5,000 corpses, in addition to more than 300 prisoners. However, both sides of this battle obviously failed to achieve the expected results, Zhao Feng's desire to take Wu County was in vain, but Lu Meng's strategy to defeat the Xuzhou army in one fell swoop also failed. Zhao Feng, who was not in a good mood, still had to unite with Pang after the war and went to Zhang Fei's camp to recuperate from his injuries to report the results to him, after all, he was the supreme commander of this attack on Jiangdong.
Seeing Zhao Feng and Pang Tong coming in, Zhang Fei, who was lying on the bed, also straightened up, and asked with a hint of excitement: "Zhao boy, Wu Jun has already been taken?" ”
(To be continued)