Chapter 307: A Little Test

As Lu Bu and Zhou Yu led their troops to kill, Yuan Shaojun's array was shattered and was on the verge of collapse. Yuan Shao's siege troops did not quickly return to the battlefield as he expected, but were entangled by Huang Zhong's troops on the city wall. This change made Yuan Shao, who was already a little flustered, even more at a loss.

In the final analysis, Yuan Shao is just a child of a family, and compared to Ao Lie and Cao Cao, who were born in the army, they are not a little worse. Relying on more people to win battles is his specialty, but under the disadvantage to save the situation, Yuan Shao is powerless, limited by his own ability, Yuan Shao does not have that ability at all.

But the reason why Yuan Shao was able to dominate Hebei was not because of his own ability. Under Yuan Shao's command, there are still a lot of talented people. Seeing that the situation was a little bad, Feng Ji came to Yuan Shao's side and said in a low voice: "Lord, Lu Bu is brave, Zhou Yu is strategic, these two people should not be underestimated, if the lord orders to shrink the defense, leave those peripheral sergeants, first lead the troops back to the camp to gather men and horses, and then fight with them." ”

Feng Ji's strategy is not very good, abandoning the sergeant will affect Yuan Shaojun's morale, but if he doesn't do this, according to the current trend, I'm afraid the casualties will be greater, don't forget, behind Zhou Yu's cavalry, but there are still 20,000 infantry troops, it won't be long before these 20,000 infantry troops will rush to the battlefield, completely cutting off Yuan Shaojun's back road, and then if you want to run, it will not be so easy. Therefore, Feng Ji's strategy can be described as a strong man's plan to break his wrist, at the cost of half of the battle losses of the men and horses, in exchange for the safe retreat of the army.

But Yuan Shao obviously didn't think so. He reprimanded: "Do you want Ben to escape? Yuan Shao did not adopt the strategy of Feng Ji, but stubbornly chose to stay and continue to fight, waiting for the siege troops to form an encirclement with his own formation. This is the saddest point of Yuan Shao, but he has talents but does not get Yuan Shao's attention. He would rather stay for the sake of those false names than abandon his troops and return to the camp to regroup. Of course, in Yuan Shao's heart, he didn't realize the danger of staying, otherwise, the first one to turn around and run away would probably be him Yuan Shao.

Ignorance comes at a cost. This is an inescapable fate. Yuan Shao had just rejected Feng Ji's suggestion. Lu Bu had already led 20,000 elite dragons to break through the blockade of Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang's troops. Without the command of Erlu, Yuan Shao sent Lu to resist Lu Bu's 10,000 men could no longer form a blockade against the Longxiang army, and the formation was soon disrupted, and the elite of the Longxiang army rode on their horses and were condescending. Constantly slashing or stabbing with dragon horn guns. Inflict damage on the Yuan army around him.

Subsequently. Lu Bu held Fang Tian's halberd high and led the elite of the Long Xiang Army to the center of Yuan Shao's battle array, preparing to complete this chiseling. The other side. The cavalry of Zhou Yu's army, with Zhou Tai and Xu Sheng as the tip of the knife, had also gotten rid of the entanglement of the Yuan army that came forward to block, and after slightly adjusting the formation, they also killed towards Yuan Shao's core formation.

In the collision of the body with the horse, it was undoubtedly the cavalry that had the absolute upper hand. In the Yuan army formation, which mainly consisted of infantry, the sergeants were hit by horses galloping from two directions, and their bones were broken and their tendons were broken, and they wailed. Some of the more calm Yuan soldiers could still make dodge movements, and then swing their weapons to slash at the cavalry passing by them, but most of the Yuan soldiers were blocked by their line of sight, or were blocked by their teammates who were sluggish in front of them, and were broken ribs and thighs by the galloping horses, and fell to the ground screaming.

As more and more of Yuan's army was knocked down by the cavalry under Lü Bu and Zhou Yu, Yuan Shaojun's formation became more sluggish. It wasn't until this moment that Yuan Shao realized that Feng Ji's words were not unreasonable, but now that the situation was chaotic, it was no longer so easy to retreat calmly. Yuan Shao, who was furious, called Feng Ji again and asked him about the next strategy and tactics. This time, Feng Ji has no choice, Yuan Shao's indecision has buried the best opportunity to retreat from the army, and now it is too late to talk about retreating, so he can only shrink his troops, form a small formation in the big formation, form a formation within a formation, and try to ensure that Yuan Shao is not damaged, and the rest of the men and horses are now no longer taken care of.

In the earth-shattering sound of killing, Lu Bu and Zhou Yu had already completed a chisel respectively, leaving two huge cracks in Yuan Jun's formation, breaking Yuan Jun's formation apart. Turning the horse's head, Lu Bu laughed loudly: "Happy! It's been a long time since I've killed so happily, Long Xiang belongs, kill back! The 20,000 Long Xiang army agreed in unison, turned their horses' heads at the same time, followed behind Lu Bu, and with an indomitable momentum, they once again entered the array of Yuan's army.

At the same time, Zhou Yu's 20,000 follow-up infantry troops had also arrived at the battlefield, and across the entire battlefield, Zhou Yu, who had completed the chiseling, ordered the 20,000 infantry troops through the flag, so that they could detour back to Yuan Shao's flank and rear and cut off Yuan Shao's retreat. After giving this order, Zhou Yu made slight adjustments to his subordinates, and then, like Lu Bu, led his troops into Yuan Shao's formation again.

The person in charge of commanding the 20,000 infantry army in Jiangdong was the general Pan Zhang. This is another famous warrior in history. In the romance, it was he who led his troops to form the most rear-end encirclement of the desperate Guan Yu, ending Guan Yu's famous life. After receiving Zhou Yu's banner order, Pan Zhang immediately made a deployment, and led 20,000 infantry troops to the flank and rear of Yuan Shao's army.

However, maybe it was God who favored Yuan Shao at this moment, maybe it was Yuan Shao's horse exploration that detected the unfavorable news of Yuan Shao's march, and Jiang Qi, the general who stayed in the Yuan army's tent, rushed over with 50,000 reinforcements, and these 50,000 Yuan troops are all cavalry, which will make up for Yuan Shao's current shortcomings and solve the dilemma of Yuan Shao's lack of cavalry and being restrained by Lu Bu and Zhou Yu. Jiang Qi didn't have much fame in history, and he wouldn't accurately analyze the situation of the enemy and us, the reason why he brought all the cavalry was just because he felt that the speed of the cavalry was faster than the infantry army, and he could come to help the battle more quickly. Jiang Qi's unintentional act of interfering in the willows can be regarded as saving Yuan Shao's net worth.

Seeing that Yuan's cavalry troops were coming to help, Pan Zhang immediately ordered the sergeant to stop the action, and after thinking for a while, he temporarily changed Zhou Yu's order, and instead took 20,000 infantry troops to besiege the siege troops entangled by Huang Zhong. Pan Zhang is not a fool, he knows that if he fights with 50,000 cavalry with 20,000 infantry troops, he will definitely die miserably, so it is better to besiege those siege troops and fight to eat that part of the Yuan army in one bite, in that case, it will be a big blow to Yuan Shao.

On the city wall, Zhuge Liang also saw Jiang Qi leading the army to help, and immediately asked Huang Zhong to stop the entanglement of the besieging Yuan army, and at the same time asked Huang Zhong to lead 10,000 tiger troops and 10,000 sword and shield men out of the city, and cooperate with Pan Zhang to attack the siege troops of the Yuan army, and told Huang Zhong that after leaving the city, immediately divide the troops, Huang Zhong himself led 10,000 tiger troops to encircle and suppress the siege troops of the Yuan army that had become an outcast, and let the other 10,000 sword and shield men line up the shield array in front of Hejian City, ready to receive Lu Bu and Zhou Yu at any time to enter the city.

Huang Zhong understood Zhuge Liang's intention, this was to completely eat the 50,000 vanguard troops sent by Yuan Shao, even if Yuan Shao could not be captured alive in this battle, it must be a powerful counterattack to Yuan Shao's arrogance. With a thumbs up to Zhuge Liang, Huang Zhong turned around and walked down the city, summoning the tiger warriors and sword and shield hands.

When Lu Bu and Zhou Yu completed the second chiseling, Jiang Qi also rushed to Yuan Shao's side with 50,000 cavalry, and set up a formation around Yuan Shao, forming a thick defensive layer against Yuan Shao. Lu Bu and Zhou Yu are not mediocre hands, as soon as they saw this situation, they knew that it was difficult for them to achieve any more results, so they gave up the tactics of continuing to chisel through, but joined forces to attack and harass on the periphery of Yuan Shao's large array, and at the same time, they also used their own and the body of the war horse to cover for Pan Zhang behind him, so that Yuan Shao could not see Pan Zhang's actions.

Under the cover of Lü Bu and Zhou Yu, Pan Zhang smoothly led 20,000 infantry troops to Hejian City and launched an attack on the 50,000 vanguard troops abandoned here by Yuan Shao. At the same time, the gate of Hejian City was opened again, and Huang Zhong, a veteran who had already turned a little gray, led his men and horses out of the city, and formed a front and back attack with Pan Zhang. When Huang Zhong led 10,000 tiger troops to kill the Yuan army, the 10,000 sword and shield men who followed the tiger army immediately set up a shield array three zhang away in front of the city gate of Hejian in accordance with the task arranged by Zhuge Liang in advance.

Passive resistance to the onslaught of the Yuan army for several days, but unable to go out of the city to fight, has already made Huang Zhong's heart extremely angry, so Huang Zhong is extremely excited at the moment, with endless killing intent on his face, the remnant sun red blood knife in his hand moves to kill, not long after a while, there are dozens of Yuan soldiers who died under his knife, making the red blood knife that was already as red as blood look even more demonic. Driven by Huang Zhong, they roared one after another, raised their swords, and slashed frantically at Yuan Jun in front of them.

The bravery of Huang Zhong and the Tiger Ben Army made Pan Zhang, who was encircling and suppressing the Yuan army with them on the other side, secretly frightened, especially for Huang Zhong, a veteran, Pan Zhang didn't expect that a veteran who looked like he was over fifty years old could burst out with such amazing combat effectiveness, it seemed that the years had only left due traces on Huang Zhong's physical characteristics, but they failed to have any impact on his peak state!

Listening to the shouts of killing and crying for help from behind Lu Bu and Zhou Yu, Yuan Shaozhi said that the 50,000 vanguard army he sent to Lu was going to be finished, and this time, he lost completely. With anger and unwillingness, Yuan Shao waved his hand and said, "Order, withdraw the troops." (To be continued......)