It's the end of October, and there are still three or four days to go into November.

However, Yuan Shu's army had already crossed Guangling County and began to march towards Xiapi County. Considering the vastness of the battle front, Zhang He decided to give up the territory of the twelve counties of Xuanguo, Xiaqiu, Xuxian, Suiling, Xuyi, Gaoshan, Huailing, Dongcheng, Quyang, Huaipu, and Huaiyin, and the whole army gathered in the area of Xiaxiang County to fight a decisive battle with Yuan Shujun.

At the same time, Zhao Yun's army had expanded to a 5,000-strong flying wing battalion, which was used as a ranger to fight behind enemy lines.

To put it simply, to carry out the basic principles of guerrilla warfare and conduct guerrilla warfare in enemy-occupied areas. Attack on the family that took refuge in Yuan Shu, the baggage troops of the Yuan army, and even those scattered small troops. Considering that Zhao Yun's intelligence is already as high as 135 points, and there are no other civilian personnel such as political commissars or military advisors, all deployments and attack directions are decided by him alone.

There is only one purpose: to make Yuan Shujun unat peace!

In fact, Yang Feng also has cavalry under his command, but after many battles, he gives people a fighting style that is good at fighting defensive and counterattack battles, which may have a direct relationship with the fact that he was a side general in the past, so it is obviously not suitable for the needs of serving as a ranger.

Yuan Shu's army began to move north, and the county seat, which had originally surrendered, quickly defected. Zhang He and they had not had time to change officials, so they did not force them to defend to the death, and if Yuan Shu came to attack, they could surrender.

If you can live, few people will choose to die, in the final analysis, this is not a foreign war, who is the people not to live? Therefore, these people do not have much resistance to the changes and changes of their forces. Maybe many people still think, whether Fang Yun or Yuan Shu, aren't they all Han courtiers? What difference does it make who rules like this?

In the final analysis, the political propaganda work in these areas needs to be improved.

This time, Yuan Shu dispatched an army of 50,000 troops, and directly put on the ambition of swallowing the two counties of Xiapi and Guangling. When he took possession of these places, according to his intentions, he was to leave about five hundred men, and at least two hundred men to garrison.

If he really did. Then nearly 20 or 30 county towns are bound to be divided into about 5,000 people. If calculated according to the garrison of 500 people, he will even be divided into 15,000 people, and only 35,000 people under Yuan Shu's command will be able to fight at that time.

At that time, the number of people is alone, and the two sides are already almost the same. Yuan Shufang did not have an advantage.

Fortunately, when Guangling County was captured, Feng Ji advised: "The lion fights the rabbit and does his best, and Fang Yun's command is also a veteran of the battlefield, so he should crush the past with an absolute advantage to achieve a complete expulsion from Xuzhou." And even the purpose of killing it! ”

Guo Tu also took the opportunity to admonish: "If the counties surrender, they can be used by the generals without the need for defenders." If you have two hearts, leaving the defenders is just making a wedding dress for someone else! ”

Yuan Shu also felt that this was indeed the case, and he became more trusting of these two Yuan Shao's think tanks. This is also something that can't be helped, originally Yang Hong, the biggest think-tank under his command, had already been slaughtered by Fang Yun when he was in Yuzhou, and before all aspects of his attributes reached the peak, he had already been extracted from the martial soul.

Later, he recruited Cheng Bing and entrusted him with a heavy task, plus the help of his clansman Yuan Yin. Only then did the strategist team be formed. It's just that the ability of the two of them is more inclined to govern the place than to give advice, so they can not provide much help.

Fortunately, he has the super-first-class military general Ji Ling, Sun Ce, a congenital general, and Sun Jian's Huang Gai and Han Dang, who are also first-class generals, which makes him still win a hundred battles after coming to Shouchun, and his power continues to expand.

Now Yuan Shao's strategists Feng Ji and Guo Tu have come to serve, and they have finally truly established a team of strategists.

As for Xun Chen, an important strategist of Yuan Shao in history, because Yuan Shao was not able to capture Jizhou. So it's still under Han Fu. Later, he also came to Jinyang with Han Fu as an official, so it can be regarded as the 'egg' that the Xun family put here in Fang Yun, right? On Liu Bei's side, the Xun family also invested, and Xun Yue, who was of the same generation as Xun Yu, was under Liu Bei's command at the moment. Served as the commander of Shangcai County.

Under the persuasion of the two strategists, Yuan Shu no longer bothered with the problem of garrisoning, but just went all out to kill Xiaxiang County. According to reliable intelligence, Fang Yun's troops were assembled there. In order to ensure the logistical problem, Yuan Shu even only brought enough military rations for ten days, if he could not defeat this army within ten days. Then he would have to transport additional rations.

The problem is that there is no garrison in his rear, so this transport line is not very safe. Fortunately, Sun Ce contributed a secret weapon, which he regarded as the key to victory.

Three days later, the army arrived outside Xiaxiang County, and Fang Yunbu had no intention of defending the city, and directly set up a formation outside the city. Looking at this neatly arranged infantry formation, even Yuan Shu had to admit that Fang Yun was indeed a little capable in terms of training.

At least, his command can't be so neatly formed. Looking back, I found that although the large army was assembled, it looked very neat. But if you take a closer look, you will find that the whole team is crooked, and it is not at the same level as other people's authentic squares, and it feels hot when you think about it.

Fortunately, he is still sensible, and naturally knows that a team like himself is actually a strong army in the world, even if it is not very perfect, but he can't ask for anything more.

"Up!" Yuan Shu didn't talk nonsense, and shouted directly to a crony beside him.

"Whoa!" This cronie is just an ordinary soldier, but at this moment he has an important responsibility - scolding!

I saw him riding a horse to about fifty meters in front of Fang Yunjun, and immediately let go of his voice and shouted: "Bah! Fang Yun's traitors hijacked the Son of Heaven to plot against him, as a citizen of the Han Dynasty and a soldier of the Han army, he didn't want to be loyal to the monarch and serve the country, but he wanted to help the emperor to abuse him.

A certain lord and queen general is the eldest son of the fourth and third princes of Yuan Valve, and is also the current head of the Yuan Valve. As for the servants, as long as they change their evil and return to the right, they can not only be spared death, but also kill Fang Yun on the side of the general Qingjun in the future, and they will definitely play to His Majesty...... Uh......"

Before he finished speaking, there was an extra arrow in the center of his eyebrows, and it turned out that Yang Feng directly rewarded him with an arrow.

"Yang Feng!" Zhang He roared.

"The last general!" Yang Feng replied with a clear conscience.

"You're one step ahead of me...... Well done though! Zhang He laughed.

"Thanks for the compliment, this is just the duty of the subordinates!" Yang Feng laughed.

This was originally a lot of nonsense, Fang Yun's subordinates only knew Fang Yun, what kind of Han Emperor they didn't know at all. Especially Yang Feng, Gao Shun and Zhang He, even implanted with die-hard procedures, in essence, Fang Yun is unswerving to death. It is said that it is a soldier of the Han Dynasty, but it is better to say that it is Fang Yun's private army, so for Yuan Shu's surrender, it is simply not a bird.

"This Fang Yun's way of being under the control is also powerful, but since they plan to send them to death. Then we will fulfill them! Above! Seeing this, Yuan Shu also nodded slightly, no matter who the loyal ministers were, they would like it. It's just that he knows it and doesn't use it. Then naturally he couldn't stay, and shouted directly to the back of the formation.

In a short time, more than fifty machines propelled by two people were pushed out, which at first glance looked a bit like bed crossbows, but the appearance was a little different. What is rare is that there are pulleys underneath. It can be pushed forward by two people, and it is obviously a weapon for battlefield fighting.

This thing is actually a ballista, or the simplest model of some kind of ballista. This was the ultimate secret weapon in Sun Ce's hands, and because it was kept very closely, Fang Yun's spies couldn't even steal it out.

Of course, he would not give the most complete version of the ballista design to Yuan Shu, but just took out this simplest single-shot ballista. But even so, it can shoot more than 300 meters directly.

As for the power part, within two hundred and fifty meters. It can directly penetrate more than a dozen unarmored soldiers. If you wear leather armor, you can penetrate at least five or so people. If you wear iron armor, you can penetrate about three people.

This is Yuan Shu's biggest secret weapon, with more than 30 planes that can throw shotshots and shoot more than 100 meters of stone carts, this is the main reason why Yuan Shu has almost no opponents all the way!

In the distance, these more than fifty ballistas killed the enemy in front, and then slowly advanced; In the rear, there is a stone cart behind to fire a scatter bomb to ensure that no one can be expected to approach within 100 meters; Closer places. There are also traditional arrows and crossbows, which cooperate with the infantry position for defense, and there are cavalry on both sides, if there is no way to crack this arrangement. It's enough of a headache.

In fact, what can really break this formation is more powerful weapons of war. It's just that now it's a field battle, not a siege war, so Zhang He didn't arrange a thunderbolt. Otherwise, with the range of the latest version of the Thunderbolt, there is no problem in hitting the weapons of war in the enemy's positions.

"Spread out!" Zhang He also had to be scrupulous, and immediately gave an order.

The soldiers quickly dispersed. The formation was as scattered as the stars in the sky. This is the 'Star Array' that Zhang Jiao once developed, playing is to spread out the battle, minimize the enemy's long-range attack, and a formation of cavalry raid power, if it is used by strictly trained soldiers, then it is definitely a sharp weapon for the Yellow Turban Army to counterattack the Han ace army.

However, everyone knows what kind of training the Yellow Turban Army has......

What Zhang He is using now is actually not a 'Star Array', but a reduced version of the 'Scattered Flower Array' of the variant. Although the troops are also scattered, they are not too scattered, and at least one or five people are defended in a group, which can be considered offensive and defensible.

"Hahaha, scattered like this, are you scared?" Seeing this, Yuan Shu couldn't help laughing.

"Lord, they're setting up a formation! See, although they were scattered and looked disorganized, they were actually defended in groups of five, with two shield men in front and two pikemen and one archer or crossbowman in the rear. With such a formation, the effect of our long-range strikes and even cavalry impacts will be much reduced. However, as soon as they get closer, their troops will also shoot at us with bows and crossbows as they advance, which is very clever! Feng Ji saw something and immediately reported it to Yuan Shu.

"He is worthy of being a military advisor, and he is really a discerning eye! It's just such a formation, how do we break it? Yuan Shu looked at it under his guidance, and sure enough, he couldn't help but admire it even more.

"The other party is just a trick, but under the absolute power, all the tricks are just the existence of being crushed!" Feng Ji smiled and said smugly.

With an effective firing range of 300 meters, with the attack range of these ballistas, no matter whether the opponent moves or does not move, it is destined to be tragic! This war was already doomed from the very beginning!

However, is Zhang He really just like this? (To be continued.) )

PS: The Ballista is designed from the Ballista of Heroes, which is a mechanical class with a slower attack speed but the longest firing range, and the Hair Cart, which also comes from there, has a long firing range and can attack in an area, with the only drawback being its slow walking speed.

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