Chapter Seventy-Two: The Battle of Dingtao!

Time is like flowing water, rushing endlessly, and half a month has passed in a blink of an eye......

The officers and men in the Haw Par Battalion were all trained according to Jiang Zhe's training regulations, and they were still complaining that Mr. had tortured them so badly in the first place, but now they found out that Mr. was really "cruel" and spared no effort......

Let's just say that the spear in the first day was originally just a flat spear, but as the day passed, this "ruthless" gentleman came up with a new trick...... Hang a stone from a spear......

How much more is it twice as difficult?

But with the fighting spirit in his heart, he surpassed the fighting spirit of those veterans to enter the tiger and leopard battalion, and let more than 3,000 soldiers persevere.

Let's talk about Zama step...... Well, they don't blame the "kind" gentleman at all, really, not at all......

It turned out that Jiang Zhe was also thinking in his heart: The soldiers were also very tired from training, and it was not good to use a punishment system, so he changed the rules with a stroke of the pen.

If none of the three bowls are broken, you can get an extra bowl of meat! With the original bowl, that's two bowls!

Thinking of this, these soldiers were overjoyed, if after hard training, they could eat two bowls of meat, how wonderful it would be?

It's a pity that, as Jiang Zhe said earlier, the more you care about him, the more you will make mistakes, and the soldiers who have suffered a few losses suddenly remembered Jiang Zhe's words, tried to try, and tried not to care about the bowl on their heads and hands......

If you really can't underestimate the wisdom of the ancients, Li Tong invented a trick: when standing on the horse, he thought about the meat he would eat today, or guessed the dinner at night, but he didn't want to think about it, so he ...... He was the first to eat a double portion of meat......

Li Tong immediately told the recruits about this "trick", so there were fewer and fewer broken bowls, I remember that when Xun Yu learned about it, he was furious...... Of course, because it is inseparable from government affairs, Xun Yu is only against the ban, and Li Ru is also slightly affected.

The second is to practice guns, which is Yu Ban's duty, but after Jiang Zhe saw it, he said, "It's too fancy!" ”

Yu Ban was stunned for a moment, and then realized that what he taught was naturally his own marksmanship routine, which belonged to the general's battle, but how could those soldiers use these?

So Yu Jing followed Jiang Zhe's instructions and only taught those soldiers the most basic tricks: stabbing, picking, sweeping, and so on.

For this reason, Jiang Zhe also said to those soldiers who had a little regret in their hearts, "Remember these basic moves, all the exquisite marksmanship is made up of these most basic moves, but you regret that you can't learn the general's exquisite marksmanship?" ”

Yu couldn't help but hear Jiang Zhe's praise, and his face was full of smiles.

"But the battlefield is quite chaotic, who will let you wait for this marksmanship to be used?" Jiang Zhe said lightly, "On the battlefield, in order to retain physical strength, it is best to kill with one hit!" It doesn't matter if the move looks good or not, it's far less important than your life! A move that can kill an enemy is an excellent move! Remember! ”

Li Tongdi's hearts were awe-inspiring, and they slowly learned about the madness of the 800 tiger and leopard battalion, especially the general with fierce and red eyes, who had almost bitten the enemy general to death......

During the day, they were already tortured like this, and Jiang Zhe naturally would not let go at night, and gave an order: Hearing the sound of the snare drum, put on the armor within an hour of incense, and bring the blade to assemble in the field, if someone violates the time limit, needless to say, the soldier will consciously run around the barracks to ten laps.

What's even worse is that Jiang Zhe doesn't make people beat the drum every time......

Sometimes there is nothing to do overnight, and it's time to go on and on......

Moreover, Jiang Zhe also ordered Yu Ban's guards to go to the soldiers' tents and "steal" the soldiers' weapons.

Second, those soldiers who are accustomed to hearing the sound of drums will find that their weapons are gone. Wait until it's time to assemble and take a look, hey! There was a pile of weapons at his feet......

Don't say much, run ten laps first!

Under Jiang Zhe's "torture", now those soldiers in the barracks are really sleeping with weapons, as soon as they heard the wind and grass, they immediately opened their eyes, pulled out their weapons, and looked at those guys who let them run ten more laps with hatred!

Since the weapons were not easy to steal, Yu Ban's guards switched to stealing armor, but when they entered the camp, they were dumbfounded.

Those soldiers were forced to sleep by Jiang Zhe, and the weapons they were holding in their arms were naturally their sidearms......

In a word, the Haw Par Battalion is transforming into the elite soldiers that Jiang Zhe expected.

Of course, there are also many soldiers who really can't stand such high-intensity training and regretfully quit; Others could not keep up with the pace of the other soldiers and left in tears.

So...... The Haw Par Battalion has been reduced from more than 4,000 to more than 3,100!

While Jiang Zhe was training, Cao Ying was leading his army to resist LΓΌ Bu.

When Cao Jun first arrived, Chen Gong, a strategist in Lu Bu's army, advised Lu Bu to take advantage of Cao's lack of strength to fight early, but Lu Bu held his own courage and did not listen to Chen Gong's words.

Second, the two armies clashed, and the soldiers on both sides suffered heavy casualties, and each of them dismissed their troops.

After that, Cao Ying's strategist Xi Zhi calculated Lu Bu, lured Lu Bu with grain and grass, and then laid a heavy ambush.

But he never expected that Lu Bu saw that his soldiers were surrounded by Cao Ying's army, and he was ruthless and came towards Cao Ying's army, and no one could stop him.

Lu Bu sat down with the red rabbit, holding Fang Tian's halberd, killing several generals of Cao Jun in a row, defeating Cao Hong in several moves, and breaking Xiahou in more than ten moves, Li Dian also stepped forward, but was beaten away by Lu Bu's halberd, if it wasn't for the generals to save him, he was poisoned by Lu Bu.

At that time, Lu Buliu was commanded by other generals, and since he and Zhang Liao and hundreds of elite horsemen, they rushed straight to Cao Yingzhong's army, and those who stood in his way were all killed by him, and they were menacing.

Cao Ying made a statement left and right to make Cao Ying retreat, and Cao Ying shouted angrily, "If you retreat, where will you put a certain soldier!" Only to the death! Immediately, he pulled out the sword at his waist and met Lu Bu, who was close at hand.

Cao Ying has also practiced martial arts since he was a child, but he is too much worse than the talented Lu Bu, and after ten moves, Lu Bu shouted angrily, "Cao Mengde, today is your death!" ”

"Rest hurting my lord!" Le Jin stepped forward, and at that moment Lu Bu was going to make a killing move, but the blade was cracked, and he spat blood from his mouth and flew off the horse, and was rescued by Cao Ying's guards.

Thanks to Lejin, the other generals also arrived, and Cao Ying, Xiahoudun, and Cao Hong besieged Lu Bu, and finally fought him.

At this moment, a horn sounded in the distance, and then the drums shook the sky, and Xiahou Yuan, the Taishou of Dongjun, finally led the troops to arrive.

When Cao Jun saw that reinforcements were coming, their morale was greatly boosted, and Lu Bu's army could not stop it, so they were defeated and retreated one by one.

Cao Ying snorted, "Miaocai, come to help and kill this fang!" ”

Lu Bu was already reluctant to fight Cao Ying and the others, but when he heard this, he was secretly frightened in his heart, and he made a false move, and turned his horse away.

So Cao Jun slashed and beheaded more than 3,000 people.

After three days, Cao Ying led the troops to Dingtao, and Lu Bu used the words of Chen Gong, a strategist in the army, to set up a phalanx of 100 people in front of the formation to provoke Cao Ying to break.

Cao Ying took a look and saw that the army array was vast, faintly revealing a murderous aura, attacking and retreating, and he was shocked.

Unexpectedly, Guo Jia stroked his palms on the side and smiled, "Chen Gongtai's move is to humiliate himself in vain!" ”

With Cao Hong, he personally ordered a hundred soldiers, bows, crossbows, guns and shields, and whispered a few words in Cao Hong's ear to let him break the formation, and sure enough, Cao Hong broke through the Chen Palace in an instant and set up a military formation.

The morale of Lu Bu's army plummeted, and Lu Bu was furious and scolded Chen Gong.

Why is Guo Jia so confident that he can break through the Chen Palace's military formation, it turns out that one of the six volumes of the Heavenly Book is elsewhere, and the first volume of the earth scroll is "Hundred Battles and Strange Strategies"!

When Cao Ying asked, he was overjoyed, and he ordered all the generals to listen to Guo Jia's dispatch.

The two armies clashed, Guo Jia raised the command flag and dispatched back and forth, both of which attacked the enemy's weakness, which made Lu Bu in a dilemma.

In just three days, Lu Bu lost six battles in a row at Guo Jia and retreated to Dingtao.

Cao Ying was angry that LΓΌ Bu had invaded Yanzhou several times, and on the one hand, he desperately attacked the city, and on the other hand, he ordered Xiahou Yuan to cut off LΓΌ Bu's army grain route.

Lu Bu had little food in the army, and the army was discouraged, so he had no choice but to consult Chen Gong, who did not care about his previous suspicions, but set up a plan.

At night, an army was sent to sneak out of Dingtao, pretending to be an army transporting grain, and slowly returned to Juye, ordering Zhang Liao to lead 500 fine horsemen and ambush them on the main road.

Xiahou Yuan really hit the plan, seeing that the number of times he escorted grain and grass to Dingtao was so frequent, he also said that there was no food in the city, and he was overjoyed in his heart and led 3,000 soldiers to rob the grain.

Unexpectedly, all the elite soldiers of Lu Bu's army were hidden on the grain truck, and they were killed together when Xiahou Yuan was slack, and Zhang Liao also led five hundred elite horsemen to kill.

Xiahou Yuan was defeated, and only a few hundred people were left to rush to Cao Ying.

Cao Ying saw that Xiahou Yuan's army was defeated, and Lu Bu's army was open again, and he was anxious.

He also ordered Cao Hong to lead an army of 2,000 and pretend to be a grain transporter to Hao Meng, the general of Lu Bu.

Hao Meng had already heard that Chen Gong's design had defeated Xiahou Yuan, and he had no vigilance in his heart, and was suddenly attacked by Cao Hong, killing indiscriminately, not only breaking more than a thousand soldiers, but also losing the camp and countless banners, and retreated into Dingtao in desperation.

As soon as Hao Meng's camp was lost, Dingtao was immediately surrounded by Cao Ying, Lu Bu was furious and wanted to behead Hao Meng, but fortunately he was persuaded by the generals.

Lu Bu asked Chen Gong for a plan, Chen Gong pondered for a moment, and came up with another plan.

It turned out that he saw that the spring was warm and the ice was melting, and the terrain where Cao Ying's army set up camp was quite low, and he wanted to dig water and drown Cao's army, the only thing he was worried about was that the terrain of Dingtao was also low, so Chen Gong ordered to use sand and soil to fortify the city gate, and on the other hand, he ordered the general of Lu Bu's army, surnamed Cao, to dig water.

I don't want to say that Guo Jia stood on a high place and looked at Dingtao from afar, and saw that the gate of Dingtao was closed, and he was very suspicious.

When he returned to the camp and informed Cao Ying of this, Cao Ying immediately made a decision, and on the one hand, he and Xiahou Yuan had 2,000 soldiers, and asked him to inspect the water source, and on the other hand, he immediately pulled out the camp, and even re-camped on the high slope.

Chen Gong saw Cao Ying's camp, sighed secretly, and beckoned Cao's surname back.

I didn't want the surname Cao to return to the army when I happened to bump into Xiahoudun and Xiahou Yuan, and there was a chaotic battle, and both sides suffered a lot of losses.

Lu Bu had no choice but to stick to Dingtao.

Sima Xizhi in Cao Ying's army saw that Lu Bu closed the four doors and did not come out, so he made another plan and used earth and stone to build a high slope not far from the front of Dingtao.

When Chen Gong, Lu Bu's military advisor, saw it, he was shocked, and immediately made it clear to Lu Bu: If it occupies a high place, we will have no place to live!

Lu Bu pondered for a while, and immediately led the army forward, wanting to rush Cao's army.

I didn't want Guo Jia to be prepared, so he ordered 2,000 crossbowmen and 2,000 archers, following Jiang Zhe's method of three sections, Lu Bu couldn't advance to the death, and he still lost countless soldiers, so he had no choice but to retreat into Dingtao again.

The high slope Cao Ying, who offered the advice of the drama Zhicai, recruited thousands of people, and in three days, condescendingly, shot the houses in the city with rockets.

Chen Gong sighed in his heart, so he had to ask people to pour the roofs of the houses in the city with muddy water.

After going back and forth, grinding for more than half a month, even if Xi Zhi saw that the rocket was useless, he still asked the soldiers to shoot it at night intervals to wear down the fighting spirit of Lu Bu's army in the city.

Every time he was baptized by Cao Jun's arrows, Lu Bujun was miserable, and he didn't have a trace of fighting spirit in his heart.

Seeing that there was nothing to be done, Lu Bu said to Chen Gong, "I want to abandon Dingtao and defend Juye, how about it?" ”

Chen Gong said, "The lord is very good! Immediately, Chen Gong made another suggestion, set up a false flag, let the people in the city wear Lu Bujun's uniforms, stand at the head of the city, and left Zhang Liao and five hundred elite horsemen to supervise the people, and led the army into the night and slowly retreated.

Cao Ying saw that Lu Bujun didn't see any movement for three days, and he was puzzled, so he recruited Xi Zhicai and Guo Jia and asked.

Xi Zhicai stroked his palms and smiled, "Lu Bu must be retreating!" It is the people who defend the city! ”

Cao Ying was shocked and immediately ordered to attack the city, and Zhang Liao in the city saw that the plan was discovered, so he immediately decided to abandon Dingtao and left.

Sure enough, as Xi Zhicai said, Cao Ying didn't bother to get Dingtao, and then hesitated and said, "The people in the city said that Lu Bu had just left for two days, why don't you send a general to lead the cavalry to pursue?" ”

"No!" Guo Jia shook his head and said, "If Chen Gong is not good in Lu Bu's army, how can he not set up a broken army?" Now Lu Bu only has one city left, Juye, so it's better to take it slowly! ”

"Good!" Cao Ying looked at the two strategists, and the three of them stroked their palms and laughed.

(To be continued)