Chapter Seventy-Four: The Mengjin Offensive and Defensive Battle

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Gao Yuan was resolute in his strategy, and there were generals like Zhao Yun and Zhang Liao, who forcibly seized the state from the hands of the two veteran princes who dominated the entire northern part of China.

When he stepped onto the stage of the battle for hegemony, he naturally became mortal enemies with Cao Cao and Yuan Shao. Compared with him who started from scratch, Yuan Shao and Cao Cao were too strong.

Although Gao Yuan won a certain victory in the early stage, in the eyes of Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, who had gone through hundreds of battles and too many battles, Gao Yuan's appearance was just a small episode.

Therefore, Gao Yuan, who rose among the two overlords in the north, became a piece of fat. The two overlords, when they grow up with a big mouth, want to eat him.

Yuan Shao died down for the time being, but Cao Cao came again. The non-stop offensive of these two people gave Gao Yuan no time to breathe and recharge.

In the relatively stable month at the end of 201, he was already out of breath when he was newly annexed to the prefecture and Hanoi county, just to appease the local government and reorganize the political and military affairs of the counties.

When Gao Yuan competed with Cao Cao and Yuan Shao for the annexation of the state, he also lost his troops and lost his generals, and the wolf cavalry of the state was less than 3,000.

Fortunately, he had a strange army of Montenegrin troops, and after recalling this army of soldiers and horses, plus the surrender of troops, this had 8,000 troops.

Due to the early defeat of the Hun King Huchuquan, many war horses were obtained. Later, he "blackmailed" Yuan Shao and got countless money, food, and armor. Therefore, Gao Yuan reorganized 5,000 wolf horsemen and 3,000 heavily armed soldiers.

However, with the expansion of the territory, many places need to be defended, and each county also needs armed forces to maintain stability, so the number of troops is even more dwarfed.

In the face of Cao Cao, who was heavily armed on the south bank of the Yellow River, the situation was very precarious, and if one was not handled properly, the previous achievements would be lost. And for him, who is not very well-established, giving up his previous achievements means defeat. Whether it is Cao Cao or Yuan Shao, they will never give him the opportunity to make a comeback, and they will definitely chase after him until they are completely eliminated.

Early spring 202.

Yuan Shao, who was severely knocked by Gao Yuan, had no choice but to hoard strength again. The Central Plains War has therefore entered a period of calm.

Liu Bei nested in Xuzhou, recruiting troops and horses, looking for an opportunity to attack Qingzhou.

After a winter of correction, he mobilized the rich troops of Yuzhou, Guanzhong, and Guanxi, and gathered 40,000 soldiers and horses in the camp in the south of the Yangtze River, and the momentum was violent, and he wanted to cross the river to counterattack Hanoi.

As the saying goes, the plumbing duck prophet of the Spring River, when a group of ducks descended the Yellow River, the Cao army camp in the south of the Yangtze River was frequently mobilized.

The news soon spread to Huai County, the county of Hanoi.

This must be a prelude to the army, Gao Yuan can't care about the "crazy Sima", he ordered Pei Yuanshao, Zhou Cang 1,000 people to pass the Huguan, and ordered Zhang Hu, Gao Ya, Tian Yu, Yan Rou and others to divide troops to guard important counties in various places.

And Gao Yuan himself, together with the generals Zhang Liao and Zhao Yun, led the only military force, five thousand wolf horsemen from Bingzhou, to Mengjin Ferry.

Tian Xià's eyes converged here, five thousand VS forty thousand, and almost no one was optimistic about Gao Yuan. In the eyes of the Tianxià people, he must be like Zhang Xiu, Yuan Shu, and Lu Bu, who were wiped out in front of Cao Cao's powerful army.

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At Mengjin Ferry, the drums shook the sky.

On the river, five or six hundred warships flying the Cao Army's flag marched noisily. Of course, most of the warships in this are called warships because they are on the miàn with soldiers who can fight. In fact, it is similar to the small fishing boats of later generations, there are twenty or thirty people on one boat, some holding shields, some rowing, and some firing arrows.

I saw these warships, like popcorn opening the gates, and in the roar, a puff of bows and arrows shot out. Gathering in the air, it immediately obscures the sky and the sun.

And on the shore, there are sheds. As long as the Cao army's warship was close to the shore, the soldiers of the Gao Yuan Army under the shed would shoot a rain of arrows.

The dense array of bows and arrows are like bullets visible to the naked eye. It is like two hostile swarms of locusts, covering the sky and the sun, going back and forth between the shore and the river.

Half an hour later, the rain of arrows stopped, and Cao's warships retreated like a tide.

"My lord, our army has lost more than 200 people." Zhang Liao and Zhao Yunce immediately went to the high ground on the east side of the ferry, although their side repelled the first wave of Cao's attack, but the two generals were quite worried.

Looking at it from afar, "full of red rivers", floating corpses drifting with the waves, thinking about it, it is estimated that Cao Cao has left nearly a thousand people. With the advantage of shore defense, the casualty ratio of one to five can make the commander of the attacking side vomit blood. But the casualty ratio is still too high for Gao Yuan, which comes from the strength of Cao's army.

Cao Cao's troops were almost ten times that of Gao Yuan, and if he continued to fight like this, the situation would not be optimistic.

In a cold war, one thousand enemies are killed and eight are self-inflicted, and only when the enemy is defeated can we destroy the enemy on a large scale. However, this is on the river, and the enemy will leave as soon as he rows, and it will not be able to form a chain reaction of large-scale annihilation of the enemy at all.

Gao Yuan frowned tightly and said, "Order all departments to be vigilant, and release arrows when enemy ships approach." ”

On the other hand, the Cao army side, the Jiangnan camp.

Cao Cao was also a little anxious, he tried to attack today, and found that the Gao Yuan army was very well guarded. He could have forced his attack with superior forces, but he couldn't bury too many soldiers and horses in a small distance.

Cao Mengde, president of Zhongyuan Group, looked at the directors and managers in the account and said, "Do you have a good way? ”

At this time, the military advisor Xun Yu said: "My lord, our army has many soldiers and Gao Mengyan has few soldiers, so we can divide them into waves and make feints day and night. In this way, our army can take turns to rest, while the Gao Yuan army cannot rest. It was a tiring tactic, and it could consume his arrows. ”

Guo Jia and the others nodded when they heard this, and said in their hearts that it was worthy of Xun You, and it was really a good plan.

However, Cao Cao trembled in his heart when he heard Gao Mengyan's three words, and raised his eyebrows and asked, "Feint?" What if you can't deceive Gao Mengyan? Isn't it a waste of time? "He is beating Yuan Shao for the time difference, if it takes too long, Yuan Shao will slow down, and he may not know who it is.

Xun You touched his beard and said with a smile: "Lord, the art of war is only between the virtual and the real. If Gao Yuan's active defense is a feint, and if Gao Yuan thinks that he has seen through our army's strategy and passively defensive, it is true! ”

Cao Cao stroked his palms and laughed: "Gongda has a clever plan! He instructed Xiahou Xuan, Xiahou Yuan, Cao Hong, Cao Ren, Xu Huang, Yu Ban, Li Dian, Le Jin and other generals to act according to the plan and make a situation of landing in Mengjin day and night.

Boss Cao really has a lot of soldiers.

Day 2.

When Zhang Liao came to the big tent of the Chinese army, he saw Gao Yuan's eyes red, holding a copy of Sun Tzu's Art of War, kneeling on the seat and sitting in a "daze".

Zhang Liao admired the lord's studious work very much, and even during the war, he never left the book of war. He couldn't help but think that if General Lu could do the same back then, he would never end up dying.

When there was a faint shout of killing by the river, Zhang Liao carefully reported yesterday's military situation and said: "Lord, last night the Cao army launched ten attacks, all of which were repulsed by our army. Our army lost more than 200 people, and the losses of Cao's army could not be counted because they were at night, but they were estimated at more than 1,000 people. Cao's army is organizing an attack again, and General Zhao Yun is leading his troops to defend the defensive line. ”

Ten attacks in one night, because Gao Yuan's troops were small and always on high alert, so the whole army did not rest. And Gao Yuan, as the main general, did not rest.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Zhang Liao reminded again: "My lord, our army consumes a lot of arrows. ”

Gao Yuan suddenly realized that this arrow didn't mean that I could pick it up and use it when Cao Jun shot it. A large number of arrows will be damaged after touching the ground, or the arrows will be broken, or the shaft will be bent, and they will not be usable. Therefore, under the uninterrupted garrison, the inventory of arrows of the Gaoyuan army was sharply reduced.

At this time, Gao Yuan was aware of it and said: "One blow, then decline, and three exhaustion." And Cao Mengde marched into the army ten times a night with drums, this would never be a normal attack, this must be his tired tactic, and it consumed our army's arrows. ”

Hearing Gao Yuan say this, Zhang Liao's side agreed, and after thinking about it, he said: "My lord, in this case, should the soldiers take turns to rest and reduce the frequency of firing arrows." ”

Gao Yuan glanced at the military book and said in a deep voice: "False and real, if our army relaxes, Cao Mengde will be angry instead, what should I do?" ”

"It's ......." Zhang Liao was speechless.

Gao Yuan thought about it, his current situation, facing Yuan Shao and Cao Cao in a row, is no less than our army being encircled and suppressed by superior enemies many times in later generations, and he must choose the correct anti-encirclement and suppression line, and the wrong line will definitely fall into a place of no return.

Thinking of the anti-encirclement and suppression, Gao Yuan thought about the insights of later generations, and suddenly had an idea.

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