In fact, General Qiao Rui was not without a chance, let alone without consideration, to bring the Huainan chariot that had gradually deviated back to the right track, at least on the night of the overthrow of the Xuzhou forward team, Qiao Rui had the idea of withdrawing the main force to the south bank of the Huai River overnight. But it's a pity that Qiao Rui was also confused by the successive victories of three battles and three victories, and felt that he was a little too afraid of the enemy before, overestimating the combat effectiveness of the Xuzhou army, and underestimating the morale and fighting spirit of the recruits under his command, plus the army was quite tired after attacking the camp and pursuing more than 40 miles, so after hesitating again and again, Qiao Rui finally gave up the idea of crossing the river overnight and retreating, and missed this best opportunity for tactical adjustment.

The next day, Qiao Rui still had a chance, after confirming that Qin Yi's army had been defeated all the way and did not return, Qiao Rui, who was temporarily carefree, inevitably moved the idea of taking the opportunity to cross the river to the south, but when summoning the generals under his command to announce this decision, Qiao Rui, who has always been very prestigious in the army, was unanimously opposed by the generals under his command this time, and every general of the Yuan Shu Army believed that the combat effectiveness of the Xuzhou army was nothing more than that, although it was convenient for the army to retreat to the south bank, but there was no chance to expand the results of the battle, so not only did no one support Qiao Rui's decision, Some people even suggested that Qiao Rui simply raise troops to the north and take the initiative to fight a decisive battle with the main force of the Xuzhou army.

As the former army commander, as long as Qiao Rui can make up his mind, no matter how much the subordinate generals oppose it, it will not play any role, but Qiao Rui hesitated at this moment, on the one hand, he resolutely opposed the generals who retreated from the victory, and on the other hand, Xiao Yuan Sangong must station the main force on the north bank to face the death order, in the Three Kingdoms era, Qiao Rui, who can only be regarded as a second-rate general, is inevitably a little hesitant to make a decision, unable to make up his mind, and take out the courage of the main general to issue a death order for those who do not retreat.

In addition, there is another important factor that affects Qiao Rui's decision, that is, the Xuzhou army did not fight well during the Zhuyi War last year, and the reason why Qiao Rui himself lost to the Xuzhou army on the battlefield was also because Yuan Shujun made the Qiao Rui army unstable, and the Xuzhou army dispatched the Langya army, the ace of infantry warfare at that time, coupled with the poor reinforcement of Xiao Yuan Sangong, Qiao Rui was forced to abandon the only rudimentary Huangshan battalion and retreat south, and at the same time, in that war, Qiao Rui's team also inflicted heavy losses on the Langya army, the best infantry team in Xuzhou at that time, and made the Langya army pay a heavy price to barely succeed in the attack.

I was not convinced by the defeat last time, and this time I fought with Qin Yi again, after Qiao Rui came to the conclusion that the Xuzhou army was still nothing more than this, she couldn't help but have such a thought, "Now that there is no blind command of the lord to drag me back, I will lead 30,000 troops to fight against the Xuzhou army alone, and I may not necessarily lose, right?" Even if I can't defeat the main force of the Xuzhou army, I can rely on the camp fortifications to resolutely defend and wait for the real main force of our army led by General Zhang Xun to reinforce the main battlefield. Besides, the enemy's forward has lost consecutive battles, which must have an impact on the morale of the sharp spirit, and our army can help the soldiers improve their morale and fighting spirit, and the advantage is still on the side of our army! ”

After having this idea, and considering the letter of reprimand after Xiao Yuan Sangong learned that he only sent a division to cross the river and camp, Qiao Rui gritted his teeth and decided to take a gamble, and withdrew the order of the whole army to withdraw to the south bank of the Huai River, and instead strengthened the camp and built camp fortifications, and at the same time ordered the rear army on the south bank to rush to repair the pontoon bridge across the river, transport a large amount of grain and grass and military supplies across the river, and prepare for a protracted battle. And the generals of Yuan Shu's army saw that Qiao Rui was lost and returned, and naturally they were also thunderous, while fantasizing about the rich rewards and scenery after breaking the enemy army, they couldn't wait to go down to carry out the order.

Missed this last opportunity to retreat, poor General Qiao Rui no longer had a chance, just when the soldiers of Yuan Shujun unhurriedly began to build and strengthen the fortifications, the main force of Xuzhou, which had been crawling like a turtle, suddenly accelerated the speed of the march, and the people stepped up their horses and whips, and rushed to the Zhongli battlefield against time.

The speed of the Junzi army was so fast that even the scout sentry horses sent by Qiao Rui could not reach the dust, these scouts found that after the Xuzhou army suddenly accelerated the speed of the march, they also rushed back to Zhuli to call the police to Qiaorui, but before they ran far, the Junzi army marching at full speed had already killed from the rear, and under the random arrows, one after another Yuan Shujun scouts fell from their horses, and then the soldiers of the Junzi Army who rushed up didn't even bother to wave their knives and axes, and directly trampled these Yuan Shujun scouts into meat with their horses' hooves. None of the fish that slipped through the net could get rid of the pursuit of the Junzi Army, and no Yuan Shujun scout was able to send the news to Zhongli and give Qiao Rui time to react.

Tao Ji's promise in front of Tao Ying did not brag at all, in the case of gradually equipping each Junzi Army soldier with three war horses, the distance of less than one hundred and fifty miles is indeed a short running distance for the Junzi Army, even if it is in the case of letting the soldiers rest for an hour and a half at night, the Junzi Army still rushed to the Zhongli battlefield in only one afternoon and one night, and suddenly appeared in front of the Yuan Shujun team who did not even have a completely stable camp. And when they saw the cavalry of the Gentleman's Army descending from the sky, Yuan Shujun, who was still immersed in the joy of winning all three battles, was also dumbfounded.

"How is that possible? How can it be? The most shocked was Qiao Rui himself, so much so that he exclaimed in front of the panicked Yuan Shujun soldiers, "According to the distance, the Xuzhou army is at least a hundred miles away, even if it is a rapid march, it will take at least tonight to reach Zhongli, how can it be here now?" Our scouts went there, why didn't any of them call the police? ”

After exclaiming, Qiao Rui turned to his outpost officer Yang Zheng and shouted, "Yang Zheng, how did your sentry horse sentry?" Why have you not reported to me that the enemy has already arrived outside our barracks? ”

"The last general ......, and the last general doesn't know." Yang Zheng replied with a sweaty heart: "The last general is also wondering about this, why did no one report the news of the scout horse sent to the sentry, and not a single scout horse returned?" ”

"Rubbish!" Qiao Rui was furious and kicked Yang Zheng away. At this time, Qiao Rui's deputy Song Wei came up and persuaded: "The general is not annoyed, why our army scouts are derelict in their duties to detect the enemy's situation, you can slowly investigate, now the thief army cavalry is far away, the soldiers and horses must be exhausted, it has reached the end of the crossbow, the last general please order to lead the army out of the camp to meet the battle, and break the thief army!" ”

In the last battle of Zhuyi, the Junzi Army basically did not go into battle openly, Qiao Rui did not personally understand the Junzi Army and did not hear the logo and slogan of the Junzi Army, and could not let the enemy's cavalry show off outside the camp, so he quickly agreed to Song Wei's request for war, and let Song Wei lead 5,000 infantry out of the camp to meet the battle, Qiao Rui himself led the crowd to the camp gate to climb the height to watch the battle, and ordered the whole battalion to be on guard.

After a while, the poor General Song led the army out of the camp, and the gentleman's army faced the round formation outside the camp gate, Tao Ji, the cousin of Deputy Director Tao's lack of virtue, was not afraid of anti-joy when he saw it, and said with a smile: "Okay, I deliberately didn't shout slogans, and finally someone came to the door to send him to death, Guan Yu Zhang Fei Lu Bu, which of you is up?" ”

Through guessing the boxing decision, the Junzi Army singled out General Lu Bu, one of the three gods of war, and became the lucky one to make merit, happily carrying the Fang Tian painting halberd made of wood and rushed out of the flag array, leaving Guan Yu and Zhang Fei The two 'fierce generals' of the Junzi Army lamented their bad luck in the team. And after General Lu Bu crossed the battle and killed, he naturally opened his voice and shouted, "Lu Bu and Lu Fengxian are here, you and other rats, just come up and send them to death!" ”

"Lu Bu? Lu Fengxian? Like all the unlucky guys, poor General Song Wei was also taken aback, and hurriedly slapped his horse and stepped out of the battle, exclaiming: "You are Lu Wenhou? Lu Wenhou didn't die under the city of Changyi, how could he still be alive? ”

"Definitely! My surname is Lu Mingbu, the step of the pace! The word is fresh, the fish and sheep are fresh! Nameless rats, suffer death! ”

General Lu Bu's answer naturally made General Song Bu angry, and when he saw General Lu Bu wielding his halberd to kill, General Song Bu did not hesitate to jump his knife and raise his knife, and shouted angrily to kill General Lu Bu, and then General Lu Bu of course shouted the slogan of the symbol of the gentleman's army fighting general, and then threw the halberd around and ran, "Nameless rat, spare your life this time!" ”

"General Song————!"

Then, of course, the heart-rending screams of the soldiers of Yuan Shujun, in front of everyone's eyes, the light cavalry of the gentleman's army, which was ambushed behind the two teams of heavy cavalry, slaughtered neatly, and shot three hundred feathered arrows at the poor General Song, and shot the poor General Song Cheng into a hedgehog with his men and horses, and killed them on the spot. And after being stunned, when the soldiers of Yuan Shujun angrily rushed towards the shameless gentlemen desperately, the most skilled Mangu tactics of the gentlemen's army naturally came into play.

In the thunderous shouts of killing, the poor infantry of Yuan Shujun slaughtered the Junzi army with full of anger, and the shameless hypocrites turned their horses' heads together, trotting to keep their distance, bullying the enemy's two legs with four legs, while constantly turning back and firing arrows, shooting Yuan Shujun's soldiers who could not get close at all. And after receiving the careful guidance of the archers of the Lu Bu Army, the accuracy of the bows and arrows of the soldiers of the Junzi Army has also been significantly improved, basically an average of five arrows can hit an enemy, and ten arrows can kill an enemy.

Seeing such a situation in a high place, Qiao Rui, who had heard of this shameless tactic in the mouths of Zhou Yu and Cheng Pu, suddenly turned white, and suddenly understood that the army had encountered that group of plague gods, and in fright, Qiao Rui hurriedly stopped the generals' pursuit and asked for orders, and hurriedly sent a fast horse to order Song Wei's army, so that Song Wei's team quickly withdrew, not to die in vain!

Its practical use of Qiao Rui's order, the soldiers of Yuan Shujun under the command of Song Cheng have spontaneously stopped their pursuit after finding that it is impossible to catch up with the Junzi Army, but what makes these Yuan Shujun soldiers even more angry is that they have just stopped chasing and killing here, and the Junzi Army, which ran faster than a rabbit just now, turned around like a leper dog, not to mention that it was still an overwhelming bow and arrow hospitality, Yuan Shujun soldiers continued to scream and keep falling, and when Yuan Shujun rushed up and fought hard, Junzi Jun had already run away again. And Qiao Rui's order was conveyed, when the Yuan Shujun retreated on all fronts, the Junzi Army immediately turned around and rushed back, constantly pulling bows and arrows on the war horses, desperately shooting the poor Yuan Shujun soldiers, feathers and arrows everywhere, poor Yuan Shujun soldiers fell one after another, blood splashed one after another, screams and screams were endless, in order to avoid bows and arrows and rush to escape for their lives, the soldiers of the Yuan Shujun trampled on each other, countless dead, and many Yuan Shujun soldiers scattered and fled, becoming the souls of the arrows under the arrows of the Junzi Army's wanton pursuit and slaughter.

When the remnants of the Song Dynasty finally withdrew to the camp barely protected by the walled fence, there were only more than 3,000 people left of the 5,000 infantry at the time of departure. I also regret that I wasted more than a day of precious time in vain and did not withdraw the main force across the Huai River in time. But now it's too late to regret it, crossing the river under the current situation of a strong enemy is looking for death, so Qiao Rui has no choice but to quickly order Dobu to guard the camp fence with a strong bow and a hard crossbow, and at the same time hurry up to repair the camp fortifications, planning to block the footsteps of the Junzi Army before considering the next step.

Yuanshu military camp has a strong bow and crossbow guard, do not like the desperate consumption of the gentleman's army of course refused to launch a strong attack, but do not like the strong attack does not mean that the gentleman's army hiding behind the fence Yuan Shujun has no way, has been lacking in virtue cousin completely damaged Tao Ji personally out of the horse, led a group of loud gentlemen soldiers in front of the Yuanshu military camp in front of the village scolding, but also pointed to the name of Qiao Rui, from the eighteenth generation of Qiao Rui's ancestors to Qiao Rui's grandson who has not yet been born, the scolding is mean, the vocabulary is rich, Rao is Qiao Rui is also quite cultivated, and he can't help but tremble with anger.

"Qiao Rui Xiao'er, your mother still has the face to call himself a general, and Xuewang Ba is also a general hiding in a turtle shell? If you still want to give a damn face, get out and fight your ancestors to the death! If you don't dare to come out, it's okay, listen to your mother-in-law and your daughter-in-law still have a little looks, send them out, let us enjoy it, we will leave immediately after enjoying it, keep it for your mother-in-law and leave some seeds in your daughter's belly, help you pass on the family lineage, and leave a few excellent children and grandchildren! Lest Qiao Rui, your mother sigh in the underworld, saying that she gave birth to a pig back then, and now you have given birth to a few dogs for her! ”

The poverty of scolding words in the late Eastern Han Dynasty can be seen from the fact that Zhuge Lao Demon scolded the old man Wang Lang to death, so after hearing Tao Ji learn these vicious and obscene words from his cousin who lacked virtue, not only Qiao Rui himself was so angry that his whole body trembled, but all the generals under Qiao Rui were also like thunder, or rushed to the fence and scolded the gentleman's army, or rushed to Qiao Rui to ask for battle, and asked to lead the army to fight with this group of hypocrites with strange mouths. As a result, the generals of Yuan Shujun, who scolded the Junzi Army, were all scolded bloody, and Qiao Rui's refusal to send troops to death also made Yuan Shujun's military spirit confused, and the morale of the three battles and three victories was also extremely low.

"Let them scold, don't get entangled with these hypocrites and real villains." Qiao Rui suppressed the anger in his chest with anger, and ordered with a blushing face, "Pass the order, and those who go out to fight without permission will be killed immediately!" Intensify the emergency repair work, build pontoon bridges, and be prepared for emergencies! ”

After scolding for more than an hour, Tao Ji, who had a dry mouth, saw that Yuan Shujun refused to go out of the camp to die again, so he had no choice but to lead the Junzi Army to temporarily retreat ten miles to rest - at the same time, Tao Ji had to tell Tao Ying to personally issue an order to let the soldiers boil the drinking water before drinking, so as not to be infected with schistosomiasis, which was very rampant in the Huai River valley in this era. Although Yuan Shujun also sent a large number of scouts to explore the horses out of the camp, monitor the movements of the Junzi army and probe the location of the main force of the Xuzhou army, but these scouts and horses are basically out of the camp one by one, and the light cavalry of the Junzi Army with primitive binoculars in their hands As soon as they see the Yuan Shujun scouts, they will immediately swarm and shoot arrows, so that only a very small number of lucky people of the Yuan Shujun scouts are lucky enough to escape back to the camp, and they don't know anything about the situation of the main force of the Xuzhou army.

Qiao Rui probably shouldn't waste his life spying on the movements of the main force of the Xuzhou army, because when it was about the time of Shen, the first main force of Xuzhou had already arrived on the Zhongli battlefield under the leadership of the Xuzhou general Chen Zhi, and joined the Junzi army who contained the Qiao Rui army here, and confirmed that the Qiao Rui army did not rush to cross the Huai River. And the scouts of the Qiao Rui army could not get close to the five miles of the Junzi army, and they knew nothing about it.

Immediately afterwards, most of the hours later, Tao Ying personally led Xu Chu, Gao Shun and Cao surnamed and other main troops to the Zhongli battlefield, seeing that Chen Zhi did not immediately launch an attack in order to grab merit, Tao Ying praised Chen Zhi Yitong, and ordered the whole army to rest on the spot, patiently waiting for the rear army led by Zang Ba and Xu Sheng. It wasn't until it was completely dark that the Xuzhou rear army and the people's team carrying grain and grass also arrived at the battlefield, and Tao Ying ordered the whole army to go south and set up camp at five miles of the camp on the north bank of the Qiaorui army.

At the time of the second watch, more than 100,000 people of the Xuzhou army approached the five miles of the Qiaorui army camp, and began to camp overnight. Seeing such a momentum of the Xuzhou army, Yuan Shujun, who had been cleaned up by the Junzi Army, was of course frightened, and Qiao Rui himself couldn't sleep, patrolling the camp overnight, urging the soldiers to repair the fortifications and consolidate the defense, and at the same time sent clippers and fast horses to Shouchun to report the emergency, and asked Yuan Shu to quickly transfer the elite soldiers to respond.

There are also generals who made a statement in front of Qiao Rui, suggesting that the Xuzhou army should come from afar, with an unstable foothold and a lack of people and horses, and send troops to attack the Xuzhou army overnight, and maybe they can win. Qiao Rui hesitated again and again, and finally shook his head and rejected this suggestion - the enemy is outnumbered, and he sends troops to steal the camp, once he misses, he will inevitably suffer heavy losses, and he will lose valuable elite soldiers in vain, so it is better to resolutely stand on the defense, as long as the camp fortifications are strong, the army can hold hope for a long time.

The night passed quickly, the next morning, the camp was basically set up in Xuzhou army dispatched 20,000 main forces in one breath, led by Tao Ying personally to attack the bridge Rui camp, Qiao Rui saw that the Xuzhou army had many infantry, the most feared gentleman army could not perform hooligan tactics, so he also personally led the army out of the camp to test the reality of the Xuzhou army. In a moment, the two armies each shot their positions, Tao Ying personally jumped out of the battle, and scolded in front of the formation: "Listen to the bridge and the horseman, Yuan Shu relies on my jade seal, invades my land, poisons the living beings, and is unkind, not only does you not give a little advice, but also dares to help the tiger to abuse!" Now that I have led an army of 100,000 to this point, how long will you kneel down and surrender soon? ”

"Shameless thief, you, the world's most despicable and vicious person, dare to clown off the beam, and bark at the rabid dog?!" Qiao Rui scolded back, turned around and shouted: "Who dares to take off the head of the pottery thief with me?" ”

"The last will go!" Yesterday, Yang Zheng, the cavalry captain who had just crossed the bridge, slapped his horse out of battle, and went straight to Tao Ying with a gun, Tao Ying only opened his mouth to Xu Chu next to him, Xu Chu immediately yelled excitedly and slapped the horse out of the battle, waved his knife to kill Yang Zheng, the two horses collided, poor General Yang Zheng didn't even see Xu Chu's movements clearly, only felt that the knife flashed in front of him, and he felt that he flew into the sky like a cloud driving fog, and in addition to the blue sky and white clouds, there was a headless corpse that slowly fell from the war horse.

"That corpse, why is it so familiar?" This thought was also the last thought of poor General Yang Zheng when his head fell to the ground.

"Piff, suffer death!" Xu Chu cut Yang Zheng was still not satisfied, and non-stop killing to Qiao Rui, Qiao Rui was shocked, and quickly urged the deputy general behind him to step forward to face the battle, the two deputy generals responded to the voice, each holding the halberd spear left and right to kill Xu Chu, Xu Chu knife short first set up the right side of the halberd enemy general's halberd on the small branch, and then the left hand poked out, grabbed the halberd halberd rod, rose up to the left, the halberd enemy general pulled off the war horse, the halberd tail castrated, and smashed on the left side of the spear of the enemy general, the spear knocked away, the spear will be shocked, quickly reined in the horse and turned back, Xu Chu had already thrown out the halberd in his hand, and the halberd tail was in the middle of the face of the enemy general with the spear, and it was directly inserted into the brain, and the blood and brain were splashed at the same time, and the enemy general with the spear was also killed on the spot.

Seeing that Xu Chu killed the two generals in the blink of an eye, he knew that Qiao Rui, who had a few catties and taels, was timid in his heart, and hurried back to his horse and left, the soldiers of the Qiao Rui army were also frightened, and they turned around and fled, and Tao Ying waved the flag triumphantly behind him, and Song Xianhou Cheng on the left and right wings immediately rushed up to kill, and the red eyes of the soldiers in the lead killed the enemy. cut the poor soldiers of the Qiaorui Army to the point that they were crying wolves, hugging their heads and running around, and at the same time, every soldier of the Qiaorui Army also wondered in their hearts, "No, the Xuzhou Army a few days ago, wasn't it so fierce?" ”

"Kill——!" Finally there is a rookie to bully, the Xuzhou soldiers who have been abused by the veterans of the Lu Bu Army every day for more than half a year have finally caught an opportunity to vent, all of them are like beating chicken blood, rushing faster than one another, slashing one by one fiercely, the veterans of the Lu Bu Army are also competing for the lead, shouting and slashing frantically with excitement, any Yuan Shujun soldiers who dare to stop in front of them are cut into several large pieces without exception, the killing of Xuzhou soldiers on the battlefield is shocking, and the poor Yuan Shujun soldiers are crying and shouting all over the place, and the corpses are also everywhere.

In the war, there was even such a scene in the Xuzhou army for the first time, a Xuzhou soldier held a freshly cut off head in his left hand, and the enemy prisoner who had laid down his arms and surrendered in his left arm, dragging the enemy prisoner and still rushing forward, and his right hand was still holding a bloody steel knife to slash the enemy frantically! Seeing such a scene, Tao Ying also smiled with satisfaction, and said secretly: "It's finally like a little bit, old man, thanks to you." ”

Unable to withstand such a crazy frontal attack of the Xuzhou army, when Qiao Rui fled back to his own camp in embarrassment, he planned to close the camp and defend it, but his own defeated soldiers were still pouring into the camp in an endless stream, but the gate of the camp could not be closed, and Qiao Rui could not bear to order the assassination and shooting of his own defeated soldiers, only after a little hesitation, Tao Ying, who led the Chinese army to chase after him, had already seized this rare opportunity, beckoned Gao Shun who was eager to try in front of him, pointed to the gate of the Yuan Shujun camp that was still crowded with defeated soldiers, and said with a smile: "General Gao Shun, If he is allowed to close the camp and defend it, even if our army has the Wind Feather Army to suppress the defenders' bows and crossbows, and the Thunderbolt to destroy the enemy's camp defense, I am afraid it will take some time. So, it's up to you. ”

"No!" Although Tao Ying did not ask Gao Shun to fight, Gao Shun still agreed loudly with his fists in understanding, and then Gao Shun turned over and dismounted, walked to the front of the eight hundred soldiers of the trapped camp, pointed at the gate of the Yuan Shu military camp with a steel knife, and shouted: "Trap the camp and listen to the order, go straight to the enemy camp, and open the way forward for our army!" ”

"No!" The soldiers of the eight hundred trapping camps agreed neatly, pulled out the steel knives on their waists together, followed behind Gao Shun, and silently killed the gate of the Yuan Shu military camp, and also killed the enemy more than ten times their own without hesitation!

At the same time, Tao Ying also issued a new order, "Beat the drums, general attack!" Give me a battle to break the enemy and completely smash the turtle shell of the bridge! ”

(To be continued)