The purpose of the mobile cavalry to go south this time was to defeat Sun Jian's Yuzhou rescue army. In order to create enough pressure on Sun Jian, the first step is to crush Sun Jian's cavalry, so that Sun Jian will lose the advantage of mobility and battlefield intelligence.

As for Sun Jianjun, if he didn't want to give up the dominance of the battlefield to the enemy, he would have to fight with the superior cavalry of Zhao's [] army. As long as Sun Jian's cavalry can show a certain strength and not be completely suppressed by Zhao's cavalry, it can ensure a certain degree of battlefield mobility and intelligence acquisition ability.

As a result, the cavalry of both sides inevitably engaged in contact again. And in the second large-scale cavalry battle that followed, Sun Ce tasted a lot of suffering. Because this time, his opponents are:

"White Horse General" Zhao Yun.

Zhao Yun, the arrogant brother-in-law, as a general of the army, has never been outstanding in command. However, as a fierce general on the battlefield, in today's world, even if Lu Bu is included, Zhao Yun's force is enough to rank among the top five in the world. In contrast, Sun Ce, who is only in his twenties and has not been insolently ignited, is more than inferior to Zhao Yun.

In fact, Sun Ce's force is also quite good, not long ago, he successfully broke through the limit of "a thousand people to break" and was promoted to a new "ten thousand enemies". But when encountering an old and powerful "10,000 enemies" like Zhao Yun, Sun Ce's force is a little insufficient.

Because of this, when Sun Ce fled back to Sun Jian's army camp with the defeated soldiers, he had five wounds on his body. Even if these wounds are not fatal, but without two or three months of general recuperation, Sun Ce doesn't want to go to the battlefield again. This is also the result of Sun Ce seeing that the situation is not good, and running away as soon as possible.

Sun Ce was defeated and fled back, which made Sun Jian angry and realized that the combat effectiveness of the enemy's mobile cavalry really could not be underestimated. And after the opponent received reinforcements from motorized cavalry. Chen Liucheng is completely impossible to be defeated.

The tens of thousands of cavalry that suddenly attacked alone had enough strength to deal with Sun Jian's army. Coupled with the strong city defense and tough defenders, a fool would try to continue to storm Chen Liucheng in such a situation!

With Sun Jian's battlefield experience, of course, it can be seen that he is the most dangerous person at the moment. In fact, it was not Cao Cao, but his Yuzhou army. If you are not careful, the Yuzhou army may be raided by the cavalry of Zhao State, and there will be a big chaos.

If it is an ordinary general, in the face of this situation, I am afraid that I will start to think about retreating. But Sun Jian gave an order, led the main force of 10,000 foot soldiers, and launched a strong counterattack on the mobile cavalry that had just arrived.

Sun Jian's use of troops was extremely clever, and the timing of his selection was extremely surprising. The commander of the motorized cavalry, Li Dao. Unexpectedly, Sun Jian dared to take such a risk, and he was caught off guard when his foothold was unstable. Moreover, defense is really not the strong point of cavalry. As a result, Sun Jian personally led the troops to kill for a while, and the mobile cavalry suffered a big loss, with thousands of casualties.

This number may not seem too large, but it is a motorized cavalry since its inception. The largest loss suffered. If it weren't for the mobility of the motorized cavalry, they would have fled quickly when they were beaten. Casualties are feared to increase by one or two times.

Having defeated the cavalry of the Zhao army, while the Yuzhou army was still celebrating the victory, Sun Jian's order was again unexpectedly issued. This time, Sun Jian asked the whole army to retreat at full speed!

Fortunately, Sun Jian has led the troops for more than ten years, with amazing achievements and deep prestige. His men were convinced of him. Even if he couldn't figure it out, the Yuzhou army obediently carried out Sun Jian's order.

In this way, when Li Dao finally collected the scattered defeated troops and turned back to fight Sun Jian again, Sun Jian had already retreated sixty miles. Came to the west outside Kaifeng City, and formed a corner with the defenders of Kaifeng City.

Kaifeng at this time was not the Bianliang City with a population of one million in the later Song Dynasty. However, city defense has always been the biggest obstacle for cavalry. With the cover of the city, many tactics of the mobile cavalry could not be used. And using the food hoarded in Kaifeng City, Sun Jian didn't need to think about any supply problems within a month.

In this way, relying on Sun Jian's bravery and Lao La's command, the arrogant and well-designed plan to hunt for reinforcements in Yuzhou was considered bankrupt. Although the mobile cavalry can continue to move south and burn the flames of war to Yuzhou, it may fall into a state of being surrounded by people because the battle line is too long and too deep behind the enemy.

Fortunately, it was Guo Jia, the world's first-class strategist, who followed Li Dao's army as the supervisor, and he also had expectations in advance about the result of annihilating or severely injuring Sun Jian in a successful battle. After failing to make a plan, Guo Jia decisively used the next preparatory battle plan. That is:

——Turn south and attack Chen Guo.

Chen Guo belongs to Yuzhou, but it has always been firmly grasped by Liu Chong, the king of Chen, and has no subordinate relationship with Sun Jian, the Yuzhou pastor. Liu Pet is good at shooting, and he is the only prince and king in the Liu princely states in the world who has the strength to fight. Since the turmoil in the world in the first year of Zhongping, Chen has maintained stability and prosperity due to Liu Chong's strong suppression and the proper administration of Prime Minister Luo Jun.

Therefore, despite the fact that Chen Guo is just a county, it can have a standing army of more than 20,000 people, and it is well-trained and well-equipped. This strength is already equivalent to the combined strength of some sparsely populated states.

However, even though King Chen and Liu Zhong had a strong army, they had never participated in any major battles between the princes. And the territory under his rule has also not changed for more than ten years. Because, Liu Pet is the vassal king of the Han family, this identity determines that other princes dare not trouble him for no reason, but it also makes Liu Pet unable to attack other princes at will, in order to expand his own territory.

Of course, the strength of the princes next to Chen Guo is too strong, which is also the main reason why King Chen and Liu Chong have never raised troops in a big way. Except for the attack on Jizhou with Cao Cao and Sun Ce two years ago, Chen Wang and Liu Chong really did not fight the enemy seriously.

Such a strong prince and king, Guo Jia was stupid and took the initiative to attack?

There are intrinsic reasons for this.

When Guo Jia asked Li Dao to take the main cavalry south to Chen, a good news suddenly came from the east:

Yuan Shu's forces actually collapsed!

In fact, Zhang Qi went south to fight this time, and he had no intention of attacking Yuan Shu on a large scale. The reason is very simple, Yuan Shu died by himself, and the rest of the princes were eyeing him with a very unfriendly attitude. There are few in the world that can help insolence attract hatred!

In the final analysis, all of this was due to Yuan Shu's self-proclaimed "King of Huainan", after all, unlike other princes who only called the prince.

If you want to say that Liu Biao, Liu Bei, and Liu Zhang are kings, there is an excuse for having the surname Liu. Cao Cao, Sun Jian and Ma Teng proclaimed the duke, and they did not directly provoke the bottom line of the Han court.

But Yuan Shu is different. He blatantly violated Emperor Gao's White Horse Alliance, broke the tradition of not being King Liu Buwang, and made it clear that the next step was to become emperor. At this point, it is widely recognized by the corporal of the world that even the rebels in the north are arrogant and know how to measure more than Yuan Shu.

This invisible barrier has actually severed the alliance between Yuan Shu and other princes. Liu Bei, who was in the east, directly sent people to Yuan Shu's territory to persuade the generals to leave Yuan Shu. And in the case of enemies on all sides, Yuan Shu would certainly not be stupid and sent people north to support Cao Cao - it was too late for him to protect himself!

It was such an arrogant Yuan Shu who was only slightly used to divert the attention of the princes at the beginning of the army, but when the main force of the arrogant did not move, he was completely defeated by a partial division of the commander of Xuzhou Assassin Shi Xie Xun!

Xie Xun's men and horses were originally used to contain Cao Cao's attention. After conquering Dongcheng, which was originally under the jurisdiction of Xuzhou, Xie Xun actually stopped his troops and was ready to join the attack on Yanzhou and Yuzhou.

However, who knew that after Yuan Shu lost a small county town, he seemed to be stimulated by something, and he refused to give up.

Under the circumstance that Runan was still wreaking havoc by Liu Pi and Gong Du, Yuan Shu, who was arrogant on the cliff, brazenly mobilized 20,000 soldiers from Jiujiang County and Lujiang County, known as 80,000 troops, divided into three routes, led by the generals Zhang Xun, Ji Ling and Yuan Shu himself, and launched an attack on Xie Xun with great momentum.

Well, Yuan Shu actually saw that Xie Xun only had 4,000 foot soldiers and 800 cavalry in his hands at this time, and wanted to use his superior forces to win back a game on Xie Xun, so as to revive the prestige of Yuan Shu, the king of Huainan, and then facilitate Yuan Shu's next move to become emperor.

The result......

Xie Xun's troops were indeed much smaller than Yuan Shu's, only equivalent to the number of soldiers and horses on a certain road between Ji Ling and Zhang Xun. However, the combat effectiveness of the army depends on many aspects in addition to the number of people. Whether it is in terms of training, morale, or generals and equipment, Xie Xun's Xuzhou division is above Yuan Shujun.

When Yuan Shu's three-way army attacked, Xie Xun was not afraid, and made full use of the opportunity of Yuan Shu's three-way army, with the fierce generals Sun Guan and Yin Li as the vanguard, and attacked with all his strength, first breaking Zhang Xun's left army. Then, taking advantage of the victory on the left, Xie Xun ignored the threat of Ji Ling on the right, and launched a strong attack directly on the main force of Yuan Shu in the middle lane.

It is said that Yuan Shu's Chinese army, just counting the strength, is twice that of Xie Xun. With twice the advantage of troops, Yuan Shu had no reason to be easily defeated by Xie Xun, who had few soldiers. As long as the situation on the battlefield was a little more normal, it was natural for Yuan Shujun to thwart Xie Xun's offensive.

However, Yuan Shu thought that he would win this battle, and in order to show off his martial arts, he actually brought his concubines to the battlefield. But those women live in the harem all the year round, where have they experienced such bloody wars?

Seeing the Xuzhou army coming over like a mad tiger, they lost their faces one by one and were terrified......

Being yelled and shouted by these women, Yuan Shujun's already low morale dropped again. Taishan's fierce generals Sun Guan and Yin Li were just a surprise attack, and they defeated the vanguard of Yuan Shuzhong's army. (To be continued......)

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