Chapter 170: There are no ifs in war

Xian Yufu did not hesitate to pay nearly 2,000 casualties of cavalry, and defeated Wen Chou's troops in one fell swoop, which completely disrupted Yuan Shao's deployment and reversed the situation in Jizhou.

It was also Wen Chou's bad luck, if he received Yuan Shao's order half an hour later, then when Xian Yufu led the cavalry to arrive, he could also rely on the protection of the camp to resist the cavalry rushing at high speed, but some things were just so coincidental, just when his troops completely uprooted the camp and began to move slowly, Xian Yufu came......

Of course, Xian Yufu didn't just prepare the trick of punching and rushing for Wen Chou, although the five thousand infantry who came behind him were some recruits and miscellaneous fish, but they brought some things specifically to deal with Wen Chou's army, such as rockets and grease for arson, such as "biological weapons" that can emit a lot of poisonous smoke after ignition, such as "Pittle Iron Tribulus" that can block people and horses in the camp......

In short, when Xian Yufu went south from Youzhou, he didn't come empty-handed, and he still brought some "meeting gifts" to Yuan Shao. These greeting gifts are all belongings carefully accumulated by a lewd guy, and they were originally intended to be used to deal with Gongsun Zhan, but Yuan Shao jumped out in Jizhou to make trouble, so he asked Xian Yufu to take some away, which doesn't seem to have come in handy until now.

If it weren't for the urgency of time and the long distance, it is estimated that Liu He would have asked Xian Yufu to bring more than a dozen siege bed crossbows that Jicheng had just made, so that Yuan Shao could taste the horror of "heavy firepower".

Xian Yufu and Tai Shici led 4,000 cavalry to continue south, preparing to go to Fang County to set fire to Yuan Shao's backyard, but Liu Zheng and Xu Miao did not hesitate to carry the wounded soldiers and prisoners to the east, towards Gaoyi City.

When Yuan Shao recovered from his anger and shock, he released the hapless Guo Yuan, and then urgently discussed the next countermeasures with his subordinates.

The advice given by Tian Feng was to immediately attack Gaoyi at all costs, and not to try to eat Xian Yufu's cavalry again, otherwise there would be a danger of total rout.

Yuan Shao was a little hesitant, feeling that even if Wen Chou's 10,000 soldiers and horses were destroyed, he now had at least 30,000 soldiers and horses under his command, and he could still walk sideways in Jizhou, and he might not be able to eat the remaining troops of Xian Yufu.

Tian Feng saw Yuan Shao hesitate, so he said: "I speculate that Xian Yufu has now led the army to cross Jishui in the south, and his purpose is to besiege Wei to rescue Zhao, and he wants to make the illusion of besieging the house county, so as to attract the main army to come to the rescue, so as to reduce the pressure on Gaoyi." But if we divide our troops to go to the rescue, we may be ambushed by Xian Yufu on the way, and Zhang Yan may also take the opportunity to jump out and attack. ”

Xin Ping objected to Tian Feng and said: "The house county is now only guarded by Zhang Xu with 3,000 soldiers, if we don't go to the rescue, in case we are attacked by Xian Yufu, our grain and grass will completely fall into the hands of the enemy, and the consequences will be unimaginable!" ”

Tian Feng refuted Xin's comment, saying: "Xian Yuyin dares to devote all the cavalry to a decisive battle with General Wen's troops in the field, but he will definitely not use cavalry to attack the city, so there is no danger in the county for the time being." As long as we take Gaoyi before Zhang Yan arrives, the grain and grass problem will be solved, and when the time comes, Han Fu and the others will be controlled, and Xian Yufu will be helpless. ”

"You two don't argue! In this way, appoint Jiang Qi to lead 5,000 people to urgently reinforce the house county, and the remaining 25,000 people will immediately attack Gaoyi City with all their might! Yuan Shao finally made a compromise decision.

In Gaoyi City, Han Fu, who was looking forward to the arrival of reinforcements day and night, suddenly heard the drums outside the city shaking the sky, and his heart was sad.

So far, 5,000 soldiers have died in battle, and the remaining 3,000 people have not given up resistance because of the news of the arrival of reinforcements.

Han Fu shouted to Fu Zhu, Min Chun and other state officials in front of him, and said sadly: "Now that I have no way out, Yuan Shao has killed and injured many soldiers in order to seize Gaoyi, and he will put all the accounts on my head." When the city is broken, you will take my head and surrender to him, and he will forgive you. ”

Min Chun was not afraid, and said loudly: "The matter is not yet the last step, maybe the reinforcements will be killed in the next moment, I, Min Chun, swear to follow the adults to the death!" ”

After saying this, Min Chun strode out of the state governor's mansion and went to the city to direct the soldiers to fight.

The fierce siege battle began again, and Yuan Shao's soldiers carried ladders and pushed siege trucks and well railings and other large engineering equipment, pouring towards Gaoyi like a tide.

At this moment, not far from the southwest of Gaoyi City, an earth-shattering drum suddenly sounded, but Zhang He, who had been silent, arrived at the critical moment with the remaining 8,000 soldiers under his command!

Ever since Koji Yi led his troops to retreat from Gar Tao City to Wucheng Mo, fifteen miles to the north, Zhang He has been paying close attention to Ko Yi's movements. As long as the Yi tribe continued to stay in Wuchengmo, Zhang He would not leave the city, because he knew that if he left the city, he would be besieged by Yuan Shao's army. However, once Zhang He learned that Liyi's troops had left Wuchengmo to attack Gaoyi in the north, he did not hesitate to abandon the city of Gaotao and led all his troops and horses to reinforce him.

Yuan Shaojun, who was attacking the city at the south gate and the east gate, suddenly heard the sound of marching drums behind him, so he hurriedly sent a part of his troops and horses to intercept Zhang He.

Zhang He personally commanded 3,000 halberders to charge forward, and it was inseparable from the intercepted Yuan Shaojun.

Seeing the ferocity of Zhang He's army, Ko Yi hurriedly transferred the 800 Xiandeng dead soldiers who were besieging the city to the rear to block Zhang He's halberd soldiers, so the battle became more and more fierce and cruel.

The battle on the southwest corner of Gaoyi was still going on, and suddenly there was another drum in the northeast corner, but it was Xu Miao and Liu Zheng who led 5,000 infantry, holding a large group of prisoners, and carrying the wounded soldiers to arrive!

The troops deployed by Yuan Shaojun in the northeast corner of Gaoyi City were originally Wenchou's troops, but Wenchou's troops were swept away by the 6,000 cavalry of Xian Yufu, and now they don't know where they fled to. And after Wen Chou was defeated, Guo Yuan didn't see Xu Miao and Liu Zheng arrive with the follow-up infantry, so no one in Yuan Shao's camp, including Tian Feng, knew that Dao Xian Yufu still had 5,000 infantry! Because he didn't know that there were still these 5,000 infantry in Ludao, when Yuan Shao's army attacked the city, he concentrated his superior forces on the south gate and the east gate, which could not be attacked for a long time.

Three thousand recruit eggs plus two thousand county miscellaneous soldiers, the combat effectiveness is almost zero, but when it comes out at this critical time, it is different.

Xu Miao organized his propaganda team to shout in unison: "Wen Chou has been captured, reinforcements have arrived, Yuan Shao will be defeated!" The slogan rushed into the north gate of Gaoyi City, and then climbed to the top of the city, shouting at the city, as if thousands of troops were coming.

The defenders of the city, who were ready to give up resistance, first found that reinforcements had arrived in the southwest corner, and then saw that a large army had also arrived in the northeast corner, and they were also holding many captured prisoners of the Yuan army.

Liu Zheng led a large number of infantry to rush to the city, and then instructed them to take out some small baggage-like things from the backpacks they carried, and after lighting them with fire, they all left the city.

These small bags wrapped tightly in linen cloth contain flammable grease and pungent smell of poisonous plant powder, which, when ignited, emits a choking smoke, which is definitely the "best work" of the pit father.

In addition to organizing the soldiers to throw "biochemical weapons" bags to Luxia, Liu Zheng also instructed everyone to throw the "pit daddy" iron thistle to Luxia one by one, for fear that Yuan Shao's soldiers would not be tossed miserably by biochemical weapons.

The morale of the head of the city is like a rainbow, and the fierce battle outside the city is in full swing, and a siege battle that was originally without suspense has finally turned into a war of attrition for life, which is not the result Yuan Shao wants.

If Yuan Shao didn't look at the 6,000 high-grade war horses brought by Xian Yufu and delusionally annihilated Xian Yufu, but had already made up his mind and put all his troops into the siege battle, perhaps, at this time, he had occupied Gaoyi and was cleaning up Han Fu, Fu Zhu and Min Chun and others in the state pastor's mansion.

If Yuan Shao listened to Tian Feng's advice and did not send Jiang Qi to lead 5,000 soldiers to reinforce Fangxian County, then without waiting for Zhang He to lead the army to catch up, perhaps Gaoyi City had already been breached.

This is war, which can be boldly assumed, but cannot change the outcome.

When Tian Feng found that the infantry who came to the rescue from the northeast threw all kinds of strange weapons, he knew that the Youzhou side had actually made sufficient preparations to rescue Han Fu this time. These preparations included the risk of heavy casualties, the use of various means, and the war of attrition with Yuan Shao......

"Lord, Gaoyi City is no longer able to conquer, and the rapid army retreats south!" Tian Feng suggested to Yuan Shao, who was red-eyed.

"Unwilling! I'm not reconciled! Yuan Shao thumped his chest, looking like a dead old lady's painful appearance.

"Lord, although this battle has been frustrated, our main force is expanding its territory in the state, as long as we return to Yecheng to rest for a while, we will definitely be able to avenge this tomorrow!" Xin Ping also loudly persuaded Yuan Shao.

Yuan Shao looked up to the sky and sighed, and finally gave the order for the whole army to retreat south.

Jiang Qi led 5,000 infantry to the west, and when he was about to arrive at Fangxian County, he received news that the Montenegrin Army was besieging Zhang Xu and Su You who were stationed in the county seat, so he urgently ordered the soldiers to give up some heavy baggage and forcibly marched to Fangxian County for reinforcements.

When Jiang Qi led the army to the east bank of Jishui, he suddenly heard the sound of hooves behind him, but it was Xian Yufu, who was secretly receiving the enemy, led four thousand cavalry to surround him!

Jiang Qi looked west, it was boiling water; Jiang Qi looked east, it was the rolling Youzhou cavalry. He suddenly began to envy Guo Yuan, who was injured and fled back to the camp.

Jiang Qi didn't want to die, he wanted to break through from the east, so he led the army to counterattack Xian Yufu's cavalry, but was killed by Tai Shici's halberd that rushed out first.

Jiang Qi died, and the 5,000 infantry behind him completely collapsed, and finally surrendered without a fight, becoming the largest surrender force in the Jizhou melee.

Zhang Xu and Su You, who were defending the county, did not wait for reinforcements in the end, and faced the siege of 50,000 Montenegrin troops in turn, and finally led 800 remnants to break through from the south gate and fled all the way back to Yecheng.

After the house county was broken by the Montenegrin army, all the grain and grass stored in the city belonged to Zhang Yan, and Xian Yufu did not come to compete with it. This is also an agreement reached in advance. After Zhang Yan got a large amount of grain, grass and military funds, he did not massacres the soldiers and civilians in the city, and finally returned the clean and slippery house county to Han Fu, which was not too much.

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