This battle in the western suburbs of Dongcheng is definitely the most wretched battle in the life of the little overlord Sun Ce, after the first battle, Sun Jian's veteran Han Zhong arrow was killed, the loss of soldiers was more than 400, the wounded more than 500, Sun Ce himself was even hit by five arrows, although these five arrows did not hit the fatal point, but also let the little overlord be injured and hung up, the result of the battle against the enemy, but not even the head of a gentleman's army soldier was cut off, only with a bow and arrow to wound an unknown number of gentleman's cavalry, the loss was solid, the defeat was incomparable.

In fact, the Junzi Army not only injured more than 50 people by the arrow, but also killed two soldiers, but the soldiers of the Junzi Army were strictly trained, and when the arrow was dying, they still held the horsewhip tightly so as not to fall off their horses, and paid great attention to covering each other during the attack.

If someone else is replaced, under the condition that the army still has an absolute advantage, of course, he will not be able to swallow this breath for anything, and he will say that he will catch the Junzi Army to get this field back, and then fall into the trap of Deputy Director Tao, wasting precious time in vain. But the little overlord who defeated the nine counties and eighty-one states in the south of the Yangtze River with his bare hands is still the little overlord, despite such a fiasco, although he has been completely angered by Tao Ying, Sun Ce still kept a cool head, did not go to deal with the gentleman's army that was more cunning than a fox, and chose to wave his army eastward in the early morning of the next day, and went straight to Guangling, where Tao Ying was bound to rescue, and always grasped the initiative on the battlefield with clumsy victory.

Through the scouts found that Sun Cejun set off, Tao Ying secretly scolded Sun Ce'er for deceit, but also could only stubbornly order the gentleman to set off, detour back to Sun Cejun's flank to disturb the battle, before leaving, Tao Ying also shamelessly declared to all the soldiers of the Junzi Army: "Soldiers, we go to fight Sun Ce'er this time, there is only one combat policy, fight and run!" Even if only one wave of arrows is released in one attack, killing only one enemy is our victory, and we can retreat! Always pay attention to the flag command, run as soon as you see the retreat flag, never entangle with the enemy, and never melee with the enemy! ”

Of course, Tao applied such a shameless tactic as a last resort, the number of the Junzi Army was too small, and after a few battles, the number of the Junzi Army had been reduced to less than eight hundred, and this precious seed really couldn't withstand the slightest toss. However, this tactic is shameless and quite effective............

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! ”

On the official road, Sun Cejun, who was carrying heavy grain wagons and baggage wagons, was marching hard, and suddenly there was a heart-rending scream from the scout from the north, and a team of Sun Cejun scouts who discovered the enemy's movements fled back to the brigade with rolling and crawling, and then, the gentleman's banner fluttering in the wind was the first to appear in the field of vision of Sun Cejun's team, and the panicked Sun Cejun team also sounded the shouts of the generals to order the array, but before Sun Cejun's soldiers protected all the precious grain carts in place, the northern hilly area had already rushed out of the overwhelming cavalry, In the war horses, they pull their bows and arrows together, and rush to the near place, not to mention that they are covered by a rain of arrows.

"Whew! Shout! Shout! Shout! Shout......! In the sound of numbing feather arrows breaking through the air, dense feather arrows neatly descended on Sun Cejun's team, and Sun Cejun's team also sounded a scream of middle arrows. Then, another wave of arrows rained down, and more Sun Cejun soldiers were injured or even fell down by arrows, but when Sun Cejun finally organized an archery team to shoot back, the banner in the ranks of the Junzi Army flashed, and hundreds of Junzi soldiers immediately turned around and ran together, quickly leaving out of the coverage of Sun Cejun's army, leaving broken arrows and feathers all over the ground, as well as countless Sun Cejun soldiers who fell to the ground and groaned.

There are also Sun Cejun generals who can't bear such a humiliation and lead the elite soldiers to pursue, but they are greeted by the unique trick of the Junzi Army, Mongolian Mangu Gang tactics, while running away and releasing arrows backwards, Sun Cejun's cavalry can not release arrows on horses, dismount and release arrows or strangle the war horse and release arrows, the bowstring has just been opened, and the shameless Junzi Army has already run away, out of the range of Sun Cejun's bow and arrows, when Sun Cejun's infantry and cavalry charge forward to close the distance, the Junzi Army's feather arrows have already pounced in front of him, paid the price of his life to close the distance, and as soon as he pulled the bow, the gentleman's army ran away again, so repeatedly, he couldn't just be beaten, and the nest was to the extreme.

This was repeated several times, Sun Cejun didn't dare to chase it, honestly retreated to the brigade to bandage the wounds, and scolded the hypocrites for not being able to save seriously injured companions, but Sun Cejun's brigade had just restarted and didn't go far, but the Junzi Army came out from behind another dirt mountain under the guidance of the leading party, not to mention that he first used a bow and arrow to kill Sun Cejun's scouts who had no time to escape, and then rushed to the nearest place and there were several waves of arrow rain, shooting and wounding dozens of Sun Cejun soldiers, and then turned around and ran, not giving Sun Cejun the slightest chance to fight in close combat, continued to leave a place of corpses and wounded soldiers for Sun Cejun, and let Sun Cejun's generals and soldiers stomp their feet and scold their mothers.

Immediately afterwards, after several successful sneak attacks, the Junzi Army adjusted its tactics again, and the sudden sneak attack was no longer to go into battle together, but to let the three teams of light cavalry of the Junzi Army take turns to go into battle, taking turns to sneak attack and harass, so as to save horsepower and bows and arrows. In this way, Sun Cejun's fun is even greater, Tao Ji, Nian Bin and Gao Zhong respectively led the gentleman's army light cavalry took turns to go into battle, and suddenly rushed out from behind the forest behind the mountain is one or two waves of arrow rain, killing more than a dozen or twenty Sun Cejun soldiers at a time, and then returning to Ma Sa's legs and running, Sun Cejun just concentrated the crossbowmen to drive away Tao Ji, and the light cavalry led by Nian Bin killed the scarce parts of Sun Cejun's crossbowmen and released arrows, Sun Cejun's crossbowmen just transferred to that position to release arrows, Nian Bin ran away again, Chang Gao Pet appeared farther away with more than a hundred light horses, and suddenly rushed out and shot people with arrows.

Angry but the shamelessness of the gentleman's army and the light of the army can not fight back, and seeing that the gentleman's army dares to divide the troops in the case of absolute inferiority in the army, a general of Sun Ce's army led more than 300 cavalry to chase after Gao Pet reluctantly, vowing to kill all the more than 100 shameless hypocrites, and when this tooth general chased Gao Pet out of ten miles, the two teams of Gentleman's Army heavy cavalry killed left and right, Gao Pet turned around and killed back, Tao Ji and Nian Bin also led two teams of light cavalry from the rear to outflank up, forming a local favorable situation of fighting more and less, After the cavalry of Sun Cejun who surrounded this group just frantically released arrows, and wiped out most of the cavalry of Sun Cejun with bows and arrows, the rescue of Sun Cejun's brigade arrived, and the Junzi army quickly turned its horse's head and disappeared from the field of vision of Sun Cejun's brigade.

Under such vicious harassment, Sun Cejun's marching speed would have been a dream if he thought about it faster, but on the first day of his journey, Sun Cejun, who was in a hurry to attack Guangling, had only walked less than forty miles, and the itinerary was far from meeting Sun Ce's requirements before departure.

The sky finally got dark, and the Junzi Army, which had driven back like blood-sucking flies, finally disappeared without a trace, and Sun Cejun, who was tormented by the rogue tactics of the Junzi Army, finally had some time to rest, hurriedly set up camp, protected the grain cart in the middle of the team, and rested directly on the official road for the night. After arranging all these camping affairs, several leaders of Sun Cejun's army, Sun Ce, Zhou Yu, Cheng Pu and Huang Gai, gathered around the bonfire again to discuss how to deal with the fly tactics and leper dog tactics of the Junzi Army.

"Major General, you can't go on like this." Cheng Pu was the first to speak: "Tao Ying'er is despicable and shameless, although one of his sneak attacks killed our enemies is not much, but the impact on our morale is too serious, we can't just be beaten, and if it goes on for a long time, our morale will be drained before the team arrives in Guangling." ”

"Old General Cheng, there aren't many soldiers who killed us in Tao Ying'er?" Zhou Yu smiled bitterly, took out the statistical casualty report and said, "Does the old general know how big our casualties are today?" Three hundred and sixty-five were killed and more than 590 were wounded, of which more than 100 were seriously wounded. ”

"How is that possible? So many? Cheng Pu was taken aback.

"A little bit adds up, Tao Yingxiao'er only shot a dozen or twenty of us at a time and ran away, but cumulatively, the amount is considerable." Zhou Yu sighed, and his smile was even more bitter, "If that fool Sun Gao hadn't led the army to pursue, our casualties might have been reduced by half, but if he chased, our casualties would have been great." ”

"This Tao Ying child, it's really fucking shameless!" Huang Gai, who has always been steady, scolded an unprecedentedly swear word, and said hatefully: "Only release arrows and don't fight in close combat, run away after releasing cold arrows, and don't give us a chance to fight in close combat at all!" Such shameless cavalry tactics, this is the first time the old man has seen it! Shameless! ”

"Shameless is indeed too shameless, but I admire Tao Ying'er even more. Such cavalry tactics are unheard of in ancient and modern times, and it is thought that he was the first to create Tao Ying'er. Zhou Yu smiled bitterly and said: "Bo Fu, we chose the wrong opponent this time, Tao Ying Xiao'er is actually far more difficult and dangerous than Liu Xian'er. ”

Sun Ce said nothing with a gloomy face, the bonfire shone into his eyes, and all that was reflected was a faint green light, and after a long time, Sun Ce finally said a word, and asked thoughtlessly: "You say, Tao Ying'er's cavalry, why can they charge and release arrows at the same time?" You are all masters of riding and archery, and you must know how difficult it is to pull a bow and release arrows when charging a horse, and it is even more difficult for you and me to turn around and release arrows while charging, why can an ordinary cavalry of Tao Ying Xiaoer easily do this? ”

"I've been mindful of this for a long time." Zhou Yu said in a deep voice: "According to my observation, it seems to be related to the horse gear equipped by Tao Ying'er, but it is too far away to see what kind of horse harness it is." Moreover, Tao Yingxiaoer is obviously paying attention to secrecy, and his soldiers' corpses and war horse corpses are all taken away without bothering, and they don't give us a chance to study. ”

"In the battle in the western suburbs of Dongcheng, Tao Yingxiaoer left two corpses of war horses." Huang Gai interjected and said: "But the saddle was taken away by Tao Ying Xiaoer, and the eight hooves of the two war horses were also cut off and taken away by Tao Ying Xiaoer. ”

"The horse's hooves were cut off and taken away? Why? Sun Ce was carried back to Dongcheng for treatment when he was hit by the arrow, and he didn't see it, so he couldn't help but ask in surprise: "Could it be that Tao Yingxiao'er's war horse and horse's hooves also have secrets?" ”

Huang Gai smiled bitterly and couldn't answer, and Zhou Yu next to him interjected and said: "Tao Ying'er's secret is definitely more than that, have you paid attention to it?" The war horses used by Tao Ying children, most of them are very short inferior war horses, walking on rugged mountain roads and climbing mountains and wading through rivers are like walking on the ground, in the complex terrain, our war horses can not catch up with them at all, it can be seen that Tao Ying children ride war horses also have strangeness. ”

"We are not careful enough to probe the enemy!" Sun Ce slammed his fist on the ground, gritted his teeth and said, "Before, we were all deceived by Tao Ying'er's nerdy name!" This child is not the lamb we imagined, but a snake! Viper! ”

"Bo Fu, there's a sentence I know you don't like to hear, but I still have to say it." Zhou Yu said in a deep voice: "If it doesn't go on like this, we have to make another plan, in my opinion, it's best for us to withdraw first, try to find out all the secrets of Tao Yingxiao'er's hypocrite army, and then make another plan!" ”

Sun Ce didn't speak, but Cheng Pu resolutely objected: "No, you must not withdraw from the army!" The major general has finally come to this point, and there is no turning back, so he can only continue to walk! If the major general turns back this time, he will have no chance in the future. ”

"Who says there's no chance?" Zhou Yu objected: "Bo Fu is just twenty years old, there is still time to wait, and as long as we find out Tao Ying'er's secret and follow suit, Bo Fu will create the same gentleman's army in the future, then it will not be our troubles Tao Ying Xiaoer's cavalry, but the cavalry of all the princes in the world who are afraid of Bo Fu!" ”

"Gongjin, you were wrong this time." Sun Ce said in a hoarse voice: "General Cheng is right, I have come to this point, it is impossible to turn back, Lu Ziheng finally used the excuse of taking advantage of the fire to rob and persuade Yuan Shu to allow me to lead the army to the east alone, Yuan Shu's subordinates are already full of rumors, if I go back like this, not only will it be difficult to encounter such a good opportunity in the future, even if such an opportunity arises again, Yuan Shu Lao'er will not be able to hand over all my father's old troops to me and allow me to lead the army alone." ”

Speaking of this, Sun Ce asked Zhou Yu in a hoarse voice: "Gong Jin, it may be a misfortune that we ran into Tao Yingxiao'er's gentleman's army in the first battle of our reading power, but why don't you think about it the other way around, how can it not be our great luck to meet the current gentleman's army?" ”

"Our great luck?" Zhou Yu paused for a moment, then quickly came to his senses, and said secretly: "Indeed, Tao Ying Xiao'er's gentleman's army, now there are only seven or eight hundred people, it is already so difficult and tricky, if he expands his army and strengthens his strength, we will meet him again, it will not be a headache how to wipe out these seven or eight hundred gentlemen's army, but a headache how to escape from the knife of this gentleman's army!" ”

Thinking of this, Zhou Yu changed his words and said: "Okay, let's discuss how to deal with Tao Ying Xiao'er, this child's tactical purpose is obvious, that is, to disturb us and delay our advance as much as possible, although the ultimate goal is not clear to us, but one thing is certain, Tao Ying Xiao'er, don't want us to arrive in Guangling as soon as possible to launch an attack!" ”

"I feel that way, too." Cheng Pu nodded and proposed: "I suggest that we speed up the trip as soon as possible, as long as we arrive at Guangling City, Tao Yingxiao'er, who does not dare to fight a tough battle with us, will have nothing to do." ”

"I suggest that the cavalry be concentrated." Huang Gai suggested: "The infantry is specifically responsible for protecting the grain and grass and the heavy march, and the cavalry is specifically responsible for chasing and pinning down Tao Yingxiao'er, as long as our cavalry bites Tao Ying'er, the infantry can march smoothly." ”

"Absolutely not!" Zhou Yu resolutely objected: "If we do this, we will be more dangerous, you can also see Tao Yingxiaoer's maneuvering speed, much more than our cavalry, if we concentrate the cavalry to pursue him alone, it will just give him the opportunity to break us all." At that time, he pulled our cavalry around the land of Guangling, gnawing us at every opportunity, and in the end our cavalry would only be dragged down and completely wiped out by him little by little! ”

Huang Gai was speechless, and only after a while did he say hatefully: "When Tao Yingxiaoer is caught, the old man must cut open his head with his own hands to see what miscellaneous pieces are in his head, how can he figure out so many immoral tactics?" If this continues, we don't have to think about any fighting formations and fighting generals, and when it comes to fighting, we will have to compete for speed and ordinary soldiers. ”

"Perhaps, this is exactly the purpose of Tao Yingxiao'er." Zhou Yu sneered and said: "Xuzhou lacks generals, and even more fierce generals, Tao Yingxiaoer uses the overall actions of ordinary soldiers to make up for the lack of personal force, which is a good way." ”

"Let's do it." Sun Ce finally spoke, and said in a hoarse voice: "From tomorrow, our army will march in the form of a phalanx, with the grain carts in the center and the long shield hands outside, and then gather the strong crossbowmen together and equip them with war horses. When Tao Ying'er was disturbed again, we first used a long shield to resist Tao Ying'er's bow and arrow, and then returned fire with a strong crossbow, the range of the strong crossbow was farther than that of the bow and arrow, and we did not suffer a loss in shooting. ”

"But in this way, we will still have casualties, and after Tao Yingxiaoer has suffered a loss, he will definitely adjust his tactics, put a wave or two of bows and arrows and run, and don't give us a chance to shoot with a strong crossbow." Zhou Yu was still a little worried, and said: "There is a more critical point, if we march in the form of a phalanx, our speed will be seriously slowed down, and the journey will be delayed even more. ”

"The trip will not be delayed." Sun Ce shook his head and said gloomily: "Gong Jin, you seem to have forgotten one thing, Tao Ying Xiao'er's bow and arrows will run out, and the dry food will run out!" When his bow and arrows are used up and the dry food is eaten, he will only have two options left, one is to fight us in close combat, and the other is to withdraw to Guangling to replenish! Of course, we are not afraid of Tao Ying Xiao'er in close combat, if he retreats to Guangling to replenish bows and arrows, food and grass, we can also march with all our strength. ”

"What Bo Fu said is extremely true, I really forgot this, Tao Ying'er ran long distances and couldn't carry a lot of grain, grass and bows and arrows." Zhou Yu nodded and said, "Then let's do it, wait patiently for Tao Yingxiao'er's bow and arrows and grain and grass to run out, and then march with all your might." ”

Huang Gai and Cheng Pu also felt that Sun Ce's analysis was very reasonable, so they agreed to Sun Ce's proposition together, and just as Sun Ce and the others were about to disperse and rest, the general Fu Ying cautiously walked up, and the probe probed to the brain stopped talking, Sun Ce saw his movements, and took the initiative to ask: "General Fu, what's the matter?" ”

"Major General...... you ......." Fu Ying hesitated a little, and only after a while did he cautiously ask, "Young General, is your wound okay?" Are you feeling sick? ”

"Are you alright? What is this for, you ask? Sun Ce asked suspiciously.

"It's okay." Fu Ying breathed a sigh of relief and replied honestly: "The last general is responsible for escorting the wounded soldiers, among the wounded soldiers of our army tonight, there are more than 20 people whose injuries have suddenly worsened, fever, convulsions, and convulsions of limbs, and there is a soldier who was originally only injured in the thigh, and he went for no reason, the medical officer said, it is likely that the enemy's arrow is fed with the poison of aconite, and the last general knows that the young general has also been hit by the arrow, so hurry over to take a look." ”

"The arrows fed the aconitum poison?" Sun Ce was dumbfounded, and then scolded: "Gentleman's army! Sure enough, a fucking hypocrite! ”

Before the words were finished, Zhou Yu, Huang Gai and Cheng Pu had already pounced on Sun Ce, and hurriedly untied the gauze on Sun Ce's wound, Sun Ce couldn't cry or laugh, and even said that his wound was not abnormal, but Zhou Yu and others refused to believe what they said, until they carefully examined the five arrow wounds on Sun Ce's body, and found that the five arrow wounds did not flow black blood or purple or blue, so they carefully bandaged Sun Ce's wounds, and then scolded together: "Tao Ying'er, hypocrite!" What a villain! ”

By the way, if Zhou Yu and others knew the symptoms and incubation period of tetanus, they would definitely not dare to worry about Sun Ce's injury, because the symptoms of tetanus are very similar to aconitum poisoning, and the incubation period is as long as three to seven days, and only a few patients will show symptoms within one or two days..................

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The night passed quickly, because he found that Sun Cejun's camp was well guarded and the moon was not bright enough, Deputy Director Tao, who did not like to fight tough battles, was merciful and did not attack at night, so that Sun Cejun had a good night's rest, and also let the soldiers of the Junzi Army who were also exhausted have a good night's rest. But the next morning, when the Junzi Army sneakily touched Sun Cejun's approach again, Deputy Director Tao regretted that he did not have the courage to chase the poor Kou overnight to expand the results, because Sun Cejun this time put out a huge turtle formation march, clustered the precious grain carts in the middle, the long shield was outside, and the archers were hidden inside, even if the Junzi Army wanted to sneak attack, it was difficult to effectively kill and injure the enemy, and at the same time had to risk being returned by the enemy's archers.

Danger is danger, and while secretly admiring Sun Ce's calm and wise, Tao Ying still ordered Tao Ji to launch a tentative sneak attack, in order to test the enemy's reality and find the flaws in Sun Ce's tortoise formation. As a result, Tao Ying was fortunate that Sun Ce really had a back hand, when the light cavalry of the gentleman's army led by Tao Ji launched an attack, Tao Ying clearly saw in the telescope that before Tao Ji rushed closer, Sun Ce's turtle formation had already been adjusted internally, and a team of cavalry quickly moved in the direction of Tao Ji's assault from the inside, and then when Tao Ji approached to release arrows, the cavalry immediately raised their wooden crossbows, pulled the trigger on Tao Ji's team, and shot crossbow arrows!

Seeing this, Tao Ying immediately put down the telescope and ordered decisively: "Raise the banner, let Tao Ji withdraw, don't let the soldiers sacrifice in vain, our horse bow and Hun bow are not as long as the crossbow!" ”

Li Ming and other personal soldiers agreed, quickly stepped forward to play the flag, and ordered Tao Ji to retreat, but fortunately, this banner was played in time, and the Tao Ji light cavalry, which had been hit by arrows and suffered many casualties under Sun Cejun's strong crossbow shot, quickly retreated, which avoided greater casualties, and Sun Cejun did not pursue and continued to advance eastward.

Seeing this scene, Lu Su also sighed: "Sun Bofu and Zhou Gongjin are really powerful, they thought of a way to deal with our cavalry so quickly, if we don't want to solve Sun Ce's strong crossbow threat, our next battle will not be easy to fight." ”

"The crossbow array is not invulnerable, but the terrain in this area is not suitable for cracking." Tao Ying frowned and said, "Do you want to stop disturbing and wait for Sun Ce'er to cross the ancient pond and enter the open area surrounded by plains on all sides before restraining them?" ”

"I think it doesn't matter if Sun Ce passes through Gutang." Lu Su smiled and said: "If Sun Cejun maintains such a formation and marches, the speed will definitely not be fast, which is equivalent to being indirectly restrained by us." ”

Tao Ying nodded slowly, and after thinking for a moment, Tao Ying ordered: "The whole army immediately headed east, in advance of the open area east of Gutang, where to rest and adjust, and wait for Sun Ce Xiao'er's army." ”

"No." Lu Su hurriedly objected and said: "Childe, if our army enters the open area in advance, Sun Cejun will inevitably speed up the march, and the best way is to maintain the same advance speed as Sun Cejun, and constantly use banners, slogans, gongs and drums to intimidate the enemy, so that the enemy does not dare to march boldly, forcing them to continue to crawl." Doing so would also save bows and arrows, so that our army would not have to rush back to Guangling to supply bows and arrows. ”

"Reasonable." Tao Ying grinned toothily and said, "It's still a clever military advisor, so let's do it, force Sun Ce to learn turtle crawling, and compete with Sun Ce for patience." ”