Chapter 239: Confrontation
Cai Mao was finally deceived, the camp gate was wide open, and the camp gate was seized by Wu Anguo, who came to the deception city, followed by the charge of ten thousand horses, but these were far from enough, and the time when he hit Huyang was not the same as now, so there were some deviations in strategy; First of all, Cai Mao is a little more cunning than Deng Ji, and Wu Anguo is a hand, so he didn't kill him by surprise, or kill him, but just hit him with a hammer to vomit blood, and secondly, there are really a lot of military horses under Cai Mao's command!
That's 30,000 people! Counting the thousands of workers he temporarily found to build fortifications and transport materials, it was almost the same as Li Yu's troops! Cao's sudden attack almost directly defeated the Jingzhou army, but Cai Mao's "silver bullet" offensive was called a!
Who called people rich! "Hold on, hold on! After this battle, each person will be rewarded with 100 dollars! Kill one enemy for fifty dollars! Five hundred dollars for officers! The generals have a thousand dollars", okay, Cai Mao, who was holding his chest and constantly coughing up blood, shouted bitterly, and in an instant, the morale of the Jingzhou army was like a rainbow!
I have seen people who live for money, die for money, fight for money all their lives, suffer losses for money, fall for money, and finally die on money! is what the Jingzhou army looks like now, and there must be brave men under the heavy reward! These people screamed and counterattacked, and Cao Jun fell into a critical situation; The camp built by Cai Mao is really unique, quite powerful! How so? This is an amphibious camp, which can instantly turn the infantry into a water army, which means that the camp is not a flat river, which brings great trouble to the cavalry team from the north; The leading generals who came this time were Yu Ban and Wu Anguo, Li Yu was very dissatisfied with what Yu Ban did, but he also admired the resolute Yu Ban, this 10,000 cavalry was also the elite trained by Yu Ban, Li Yu suppressed his dissatisfaction and ordered him to come; Seeing Cai Mao's sprinkling silver bullet offensive, Yu Ban hated it! I thought in my heart: If Lao Tzu is rich, he will definitely reward you with millions of dollars to take your head! But this is really not the time to think about this, Yu Zhile turned his horse's head and shouted: "Hold on!" Hold on! Reinforcements are coming! Reinforcements are coming! ”
Li Yu's 30,000 infantry army was still behind him, and these people also knew it, and their hearts suddenly sank, and they fought frantically; "Drink! Drink! Drink! A hundred steps before the Jingzhou military camp, the Cao army's foot soldiers came in an instant, and they were crushed over like a chariot with uniform footsteps, and the momentum of thousands of troops and horses made the Jingzhou army pale, and the morale dropped again and again!
This time, even Cai Mao's promise will be useless! And this can't be blamed on these soldiers, night battles, where is it so easy to fight? In the dark night, do you know how many people there are on the other side? Ignorance is the scariest thing! Many Jingzhou soldiers began to drive the small boats in the camp down the river and escaped; If there is a deserter, there will be a second, and the Jingzhou army began to flee before the casualties reached one-tenth, I really don't know how this army was fabricated!
However, things took a turn for the better, and the rear army of Cao's army was suddenly attacked by the enemy! The army broke up, and there was a panic!
It turned out that Zhang Xiu and Jia Xu, who were stationed in Ye County, came to the rescue, and expected that Cai Mao, a guy who was arrogant and did not listen to persuasion, would suffer a big loss, Jia Xu left a hand, and saw that the Jingzhou military camp was on fire, and Zhang Xiujun, who was thirty miles away from Wancheng, began to ride over and surprise the Cao army; Considering that the night battle was attacked on both sides, Li Yu ordered to gather soldiers, form a circle, retreat little by little, stabilize the position, and temporarily get rid of the dilemma of being attacked on both sides; This trick is a bit mediocre! Li Yu thought too much about tactics and tactics and forgot the fundamental of soldiers' combat - morale! At this time, the enemy's bayonets are all on the tip of your nose, and you still retreat? This is not to imply that your own soldiers, the enemy is numerous, and it is powerful! How can it not be chaotic?
No matter how they were restrained, these people fled in panic, just like the Jingzhou army not long ago, fortunately, with their own appeal, they barely maintained the formation of 20,000 Qingzhou troops, and Li Yu was not defeated; It was not until they retreated to a small city on the edge of Huyang that Cao's army stopped the decline and gathered the rout; "How? Zixiao? I'm right! This Jia Xu is amazing! He can seize every opportunity! The embarrassed Li Yu lay on the ground panting, and his hands were still gesturing, but the expression on his face was a little weird, not the slightest decadence, but a little excited; Cao Ren nodded silently, a little incomprehensible to Li Yu's behavior, and after a while, Li Yu got up and patted Cao Ren on the shoulder: "Zhang Xiu and Cai Mao join forces, the army is huge, and it will definitely not let me wait to gain a firm foothold, and this small city will definitely not be able to stop their pursuit!"
Now you immediately organize a horse to fill the whole town with dead grass, tree branches, and anything that can be burned! I'm going to burn them on fire! Hey! ”
Fortunately, this small city is an empty city, and no one has lived in it for a long time, otherwise Li Yu really can't do this, and Cao Ren, who obeyed the order, did not dare to delay for a moment, and ordered the soldiers to collect weeds and cut down trees, and at the same time send soldiers to guard the city walls, giving the enemy an illusion that we must hold on; After arranging everything, Li Yu left only 1,000 cavalry to wait for the enemy, and the rest of the soldiers were ambushed in the woods not far from the city; As expected, the Jingzhou army and the Wancheng army joined forces, and chased and killed with angry horses and whips, without saying a word, first attacked the earth-shattering sound of the cowhide drum, and attacked directly, how could the earthen wall of the small city stop this group of livestock? But a few pillars of incense time, the city is broken!
But they were not resisted by Cao Jun, these Cao Jun ran away in a panic! This made Jia Xu a little disappointed: "Could it be the small army that Cao's army has dispersed?" This thought was just a flash, and after seeing the weeds and dead trees on the ground, Jia Xu was shocked: "Retreat quickly!" ”
How could a large army with a total strength of more than 70,000 people turn the spearhead so quickly, after the front army panicked, the rear army still didn't know what was going on!
Cao Jun, who withdrew from the back gate of the small city, shouted: "Jia Wenhe! My husband is giving you a big gift! Catch! "Whoosh! Hundreds of rockets were fired into the haystacks, first in smoke, then in flames!
As the saying goes, fire and water are merciless, human beings are also very afraid of flames at the earliest, this is a kind of fear that has been hidden in the heart, the fire in the small city has made the soldiers cry and run behind them in embarrassment, and many soldiers rushed to their own military formations in a panic, causing a strong riot; You want to! These people are all their comrades-in-arms, can they do it? All right! Make way for him! The people in front of them still knew what was going on, but the people in the back saw the fire, and some people ran out like black monkeys, can they not be frightened? The army was in disarray!
The Cao army in ambush on both sides rushed up and rushed over, intending to avenge the attack last night, and in a short period of time, only a few thousand people of the coalition army organized by no one met the Cao army, but they were crushed into minced meat in an instant!
The Jingzhou army and the Wancheng army were defeated and fled!
Li Yu pulled back a sentence, but he was not too complacent, went straight to Huyang, and set up an ambush on a small hill again, sure enough, Cai Mao and Zhang Xiu followed Jia Xu's plan to chase and kill, and were ambushed again, and the coalition army, whose morale dropped again and again, was defeated and fled back; At this time, Li Yu finally breathed a sigh of relief, but unfortunately he didn't realize that there were many fewer people chasing him this time! Soon, some complacent Li Yu was retributed, and was intercepted in front, and the rear was chased and killed again, and he fell into a heavy siege!
What's even worse is that Cao Jun's preparation was not sufficient, and he broke a lot of people carelessly, Li Yu could only lead people to break through desperately, and in the end only more than 10,000 people escaped, and fled to the boundary of Fengqiu Land, and finally stopped when he was answered by Shi Lian, the guard of Fengqiu County; After this battle, more than half of the 40,000 horses led by Li Yu were lost! This was the worst defeat he had, worse than being raided by Ma Teng and Han Sui in Chang'an, and he was even more embarrassed; "Jia Wenhe! Jia Wenhe! It's a last resort! It seems that there is still a lot of gap with him! Granny dripping! A modern person can't play an ancient old man! Li Yu scolded in his heart! But there was a smile on his face; and extravagantly set up a celebration banquet, killing pigs and slaughtering cattle to reward the three armies, only talking about how they broke Huyang to capture Deng Ji, deceived Cai Mao to earn Wuyang, and burned Zhang Xiu! didn't say a word about the fact of defeat, and no matter how much the soldiers pondered, they couldn't figure out what Li Yu was for; Why is Li Yu?
Look at Jia Xu's side again, he also let Zhang Xiu put on a celebration banquet, not mentioning the previous failures, only saying how they defeated the invincible and undefeated Cao Jun in the end, and like Li Yu, he praised his army like a flower, and said that the other party's army was like stinky shit, and he stepped on it as much as he wanted!
These two people are not for anything else but the morale of the army, this duel from the process of Cao Jun and Li Yu slightly superior, judging from the results, Jia Xu is better, half a catty against eight taels, no one took any advantage; Li Yu lost 20,000 horses, but when they broke through Huyang, they also captured 5,000 or 6,000 of Deng Ji's 10,000 Jingzhou soldiers! These people are now in the city of Sealed Hills; Relatively speaking, the Jingzhou army lost the general Deng Ji, as well as his 10,000 troops, Cai Mao's 30,000 troops also suffered many losses, and Zhang Xiu's army was the same, with a total loss of no less than Cao's army; No one took advantage of it, so naturally they had to continue fighting, and since they wanted to fight, they had to ensure the combat effectiveness and morale of the soldiers, so there was such a play; After resting for a few days, Li Yu transferred the city defense of Fengqiu and formed an army of 30,000 people to go out again, this time he left Yu Ban in Fengqiu, and transferred the guard Shi Jian out, the original intention was that Li Yu took revenge for personal gain, and did not want to see Yu Ban; Shi Lian is still a good person, half of his fellow countrymen and Li Yu are from the east of Yanzhou, Li Yu is from Qiaojun, and this Shi Lian is from Peiguo, not far away; And this Shi Lian also had a relationship with Xiahoudun in the past, but this person was unwilling to go to a high position with the help of Xiahoudun, which made Li Yu feel that this person was very good; He also has a good friend named Han Hao, who is his deputy and a good general; Of course, Li Yu is squeezing out of his own small circle of bans, but isn't this the ability to trust bans? How important is Fengqiu City, it is the only gateway to the south of Xudu, and there is no room for loss, Li Yu is also afraid that Jia Xu will make a trick and capture his rear, if Fengqiu is lost again, I am afraid that Xuchang will also be like a girl with open clothes
"Yin Warrior" Li Yu and "Poison Warrior" Jia Xu, fight again!
(To be continued)