Chapter 231: Expedition
After a qiē was well prepared, on a bright morning, Cao's army was finally ready to set out. This time to help Jizhou, it was Du Chen who was in charge. In addition, the White Tiger Battalion, the Vermilion Bird Battalion, and the Xuanwu Battalion are naturally all there. However, the Qinglong Camp was hidden by Du Chenxue.
After all, you can't all of your hole cards be exposed to the enemy, and you also need a guy to save your life. And this Qinglong Camp is what Cao Jun saves his life.
Yuan Jun didn't know the existence of the Qinglong Battalion, which allowed the power of the Qinglong Battalion to be exerted to the limit. When Gongsun Zan and Yuan Shao focused all their attention on the White Tiger Camp, the Vermilion Bird Camp, and the Xuanwu Camp, the soldiers of the Qinglong Camp were able to exert unexpected results. Of course, there are more absentees, just like Tian Feng, who is one more person in Cao's army.
After waiting for several days in Xuchang, Cao Jun finally finished his preparations. This is definitely the best news for Tian Feng.
Looking at the neat officers and soldiers of the Cao Army, Tian Feng was a little emotional. The reason why Cao Jun was able to develop so rapidly is inseparable from these elite Cao Jun soldiers and soldiers.
Looking at the full faces of the soldiers of the Cao army, it is much better than the Yuan army in Jizhou. Thinking of this, Tian Feng's expression couldn't help but be a little gloomy. Where Cao Jun is strong, it is where he is weak.
In addition to the ordinary soldiers of the Cao Army, what made Tian Feng feel most relieved was that he saw the figure of the White Tiger Battalion, the Vermilion Bird Battalion, and the Xuanwu Battalion. These three are all well-deserved trump card troops of the Cao army, and all three of them went out with the army, so it seems that the Cao army has made a cost.
Thinking of this, Tian Feng was somewhat comforted. It seems that the 5,000 military horses were not given for free. For this battle. Cao Jun is quite hard-working.
Of course, this is Tian Feng's own idea. As for Du Chen, the drunkard does not mean to drink.
The auspicious time has arrived. The army immediately set off to Jizhou to rescue. And looking at the army of Cao Jun that was slowly starting, Tian Feng finally showed a smile. Although the price is a little bigger, his goal has finally been achieved. As long as the goal is achieved, it is worth spending some energy and material resources.
Time flies, and a month has passed in the blink of an eye. And our classmate Du Chen is still on the march. Xuchang and Jizhou are far apart, and there is the Yellow River in the middle. This greatly affected the speed of the march of tens of thousands of troops.
At the same time, Tian Feng, who was in Cao Ying, was anxious and helpless. Even though I'm very anxious. But the speed of the march could not be kept up. Although Tian Feng understood, he was very worried about the safety of his lord.
As soon as the army on Cao Jun's side moved, presumably Gongsun Zhan would know about his move. And Cao Jun's rash intervention in the war will definitely make the war that tends to stabilize change in an instant.
There was no intervention from Cao Jun. Gongsun Chan may not be in a hurry. He will always besiege this Yuan Shao, so that Yuan Jun can't care about each other.
However, when Cao's army enters the war, the peace of the previous war will be broken. In that case, Gongsun Chan will definitely jump off the wall in a hurry, and he will definitely attack Yuan Shao, after all, Yuan Shao's role is gone.
But fortunately, Du Chen has already planned for this. He had already ordered Zhang Liao to lead 5,000 soldiers into battle lightly, and under the leadership of Fu Zhu, who came to meet him, he went to aid Yuan Shao. The role of these 5,000 soldiers. It is to answer Yuan Shao's breakthrough.
Yuan Shao is surrounded by the elite of the Yuan army, if it weren't for Yuan Shao, he was afraid that the elite would lose too much. He had already ordered someone to break through. Such peace and quiet are all caused by the thoughts of Gongsun Zhan and Yuan Shao.
However, if Gongsun Chan really wanted to take Yuan Shao's life, Yuan Shao would naturally not sit on the ground and wait for death, and he would definitely lead the army to break through at that time. And these 5,000 soldiers are used as surprise soldiers to respond to Yuan Shao.
For Du Chen's arrangement, Tian Feng was naturally very satisfied. But in addition to being satisfied, Tian Feng's heart was full of vigilance. Du Chen used his soldiers like a god, and he was afraid that before the army set out, he had already considered this matter clearly. Such a person has to be guarded, after all, he will be his enemy in the future.
When Cao Jun faced Yuan Shao's Yuan army, all the soldiers of Yuan Jun had reached the point of misery. Because they need to face not only the harassment from the Yellow Turban Army of Montenegro, but also the cavalry sweep of Gongsun Zhan.
For Gongsun Zhan's cavalry sweep, there was no way for Yuan's army to do anything. When Yuan Shao led his troops to pursue Gongsun Zhan, he took with him the most elite 3,000 cavalry in the army. And the rest of the cavalry was definitely not above the same level compared to Gongsun Zhan's cavalry.
Moreover, in addition to sending troops to harass the base camp of the Yuan army, Gongsun Zhan also divided the cavalry into a small team of 100 people and plundered in Jizhou. In this move, Gongsun Chan is an imitation of the Karasuma people.
Gongsun Chan has lived in Youzhou for a long time, and beyond Youzhou is the border of the Han Dynasty. If you live on the border for a long time, you will naturally often fight with Karasuma outside the border. And Karasuma often used this method to make Gongsun Chan dizzy, and now Gongsun Chan uses this method to deal with Yuan Shao, and the effect is also surprisingly extraordinary.
Jizhou is a plain with a flat river, and the most suitable is the cavalry that comes and goes like the wind. Therefore, Gongsun Zhan's attack tactics were very effective, but Yuan Jun did not have a good way to deal with it, so now Yuan Jun can only be beaten passively.
The news of Cao Jun's dispatch finally reached Gongsun Zhan's ears. For Cao Jun, Gongsun Chan is still quite jealous. Because Cao's army was fighting fiercely in the Central Plains, many powerful princes were defeated by Cao Cao. Therefore, Cao Jun's attack, Gongsun Zhan still attaches great importance to it.
On the one hand, he asked Zhang Yan to lead the Black Mountain Yellow Turban Army to attack and harass the Cao army, so that the Cao army's marching route would be obstructed, so that the Cao army could not support Yuan Shao in a short time, and on the other hand, Gongsun Zhan finally and definitely wanted to make a move against Yuan Shao.
He had surrounded Yuan Shao for a long time, and now it was finally time to clean him up.
Regarding the strategy of encircling the point to send reinforcements, Gongsun Chan was quite dissatisfied at first. Thinking that this is the best opportunity to eliminate Yuan Shao, why should it be so time-consuming to besiege him without attacking. If it weren't for Tian Yu's death to prevent Gongsun Chan from doing this, I'm afraid Gongsun Chan would have been unable to bear it a long time ago.
However, after beating Yuan Jun a few times around Yuan Shao, Gongsun Zhan began to like this feeling a little. There is no way, be prepared and wait for others to come. Such a good thing of waiting for work with ease, I am afraid that no one will not like it.
But the problem is that when Cao Jun comes, he can't wait for work. After all, after Yuan Jun and Cao Jun merge together. Their combat effectiveness is still stronger than their own.
What he relies on to survive is the nearly 10,000 cavalry under his command, and compared with the cavalry, Gongsun Chan will definitely not be afraid of anyone. But if you carry out a tough battle, then you don't have that capital.
And whether it is the Cao army or the Yuan army, they are very strong in foot, but the cavalry is not. So, after the two armies were merged into one. I will definitely deal with myself step by step. At that time, the encirclement and reinforcements had no effect, so he directly killed Yuan Shaohao.
And Yuan Shao, who was surrounded by Gongsun Zhan's army, also got the news. Although Yuan Shao was besieged, there were still scouts who risked their lives to deliver intelligence to Yuan Shao. After all, if Yuan Shao, who is the lord, has no knowledge of the outside world, what a terrible thing it will be.
learned that Cao Jun came to help. Yuan Shao knew that his time to break through had come. Especially when he learned that Cao Jun had secretly sent 5,000 soldiers. He strengthened his determination to break through.
With the 5,000 soldiers of Cao Jun as a surprise soldier, it will be much easier to break through by yourself. Because he got the news, these 5,000 Cao troops went into battle lightly, day and night, and appeared here very quietly.
Whether it is Yuan Shao or Gongsun Zhan, both of them are secretly preparing. One wants the other's life, while the other wants to protect his own.
At night, Yuan Shao assembled all his troops and stood by. He knows. Gongsun Chan was planning how to destroy himself, so he categorically did not dare to break through during the day.
Break out during the day. The target is too large and easy to expose. Although the night is also full of dangers, it is relatively safe.
Yuan Shao made two preparations, he ordered most of his men and horses to break through to the west, while he led the most elite soldiers in the whole army and Yan Liangwen Chou to break through to the south.
The reason for this is that on the one hand, it is more convenient for oneself to break through by having a large army to attract the enemy's attention, and on the other hand, there are 5,000 soldiers of Cao's army in the south to meet him, so it is safer to break through to the south.
Time is going by little by little, and Yuan Shao finally waited for the best picture for the time. You must be careful about the breakout of each item, otherwise if you accidentally hear any news from Gongsun Zhan, it will be an absolute fatal blow to yourself.
Although all the people around him are elite, the number of people is a minority after all. If he is surrounded by Gongsun Zhan's army, then he will be unable to fly, and he will have no chance to run if he wants to.
Seeing the large army quietly heading towards the west, Yuan Shao also began to prepare to break through to the south. However, when the war in the West did not start, he still did not dare to act rashly.
Soon, the large army of Yuan's army to the west was blocked by Gongsun Zhan's soldiers. And after Gongsun Zhan got the news of Yuan's breakout, he was ready to concentrate firepower to eliminate Yuan Shao.
According to the news from the scouts, the Yuan army in the west should be Yuan Shao's large army, so Gongsun Chan naturally did not dare to slack off. He hurriedly mobilized his army in an attempt to annihilate all of Yuan Shao's men.
And Yuan Shao waited for this opportunity, he took the elite troops of Yuan's army to the predetermined breakthrough site, and when the war in the west was stalemate, he began to break through according to the predetermined plan.
Due to the lack of preparation, and the fact that Yuan Shao's command was all elite, Gongsun Zhan's troops were suddenly defeated by Yuan's army. And just after Gongsun Zhan's generals collected their soldiers, he encountered a sneak attack by an unknown enemy army behind him.
The front and back flanked the soldiers, so that Gongsun Zhan's soldiers were not prepared at all, so soon, Gongsun Zhan's soldiers were defeated by the combined forces of Yuan Shao and Cao Jun. And it is precisely because of this that Yuan Shao finally escaped from the encirclement of Gongsun Zhan and escaped from Ascension.
After escaping from Gongsun Zhan's encirclement, Yuan Shao looked up to the sky and sighed. Under the threat of others, Yuan Shao has always lived a life of fear. And now that he has broken out of Gongsun Zhan's encirclement, Yuan Shao is naturally comforted in his heart.
The two armies of Cao Jun and Yuan Jun converged, and Fu Zhu finally saw the face of his lord again. Seeing Yuan Shao, who looked a little wolf, his mood was somewhat gloomy. He hurriedly stepped forward, and then asked anxiously, "Lord, are you okay?" (To be continued......)