Chapter 1410 Yuan Shaozhong's jaw suffered
The injustice sentence is about 100 miles away from Ji's, Changyi is 60 miles away from Chengwu, Dingtao is 50 miles away from Chengwu, and it is 110 miles away from Ji's.
Now Yuan Shao has found out that Cao Cao has transferred away from the defenders of his own clan and Chengwu, the defenders of the two city fortresses are only 10,000 each, and the rest are people and the like, and the total number is less than 30,000, this is a good time to sneak attack his own clan and Chengwu, if he can succeed smoothly, Cao's army has no logistics, and the morale of the army will inevitably be greatly hit, and he will use his superior forces to surround him, and he will definitely be able to take Cao Cao in one fell swoop.
At that time, Cao Cao's mobile forces will be wiped out, let alone attack, whether he can hold Liangxian and Peiguo is a problem.
After repeatedly checking the information, calculating the troops, distance, and time again and again, Yuan Shao finally made up his mind to fight and raid his own clan! At the same time, Wenchou of Changyi raided Chengwu to contain Cao's army from coming back.
Time was pressing, and after Yuan Shao made up his mind, he no longer hesitated, and immediately ordered the troops to set off overnight, a distance of more than 100 miles, just enough to reach Jishi tomorrow morning. The cavalry set out first, blocked the road and cleared the stragglers of the opposing army, and the infantry followed suit, and dispatched a lot of foothills to push the remnants of the Tartar Naiyi. p> In the early hours of the morning, Wen Chou, who had calculated the time, took the lead in launching an attack on Chengwu, but Wen Chou's troops were only containment, so there were only cavalry and no infantry, and the siege was relatively weak, so in the face of the 20,000 or 30,000 stubbornly resisting defenders and people, Wen Chou actually had no way for a while.
At dawn, Yuan Shao's large army reached the periphery of his clan. At this time, Yuan Shao's entire arrangement has been exposed, and the battle situation has taken shape.
Along. Yuan Shao continued to receive all kinds of information and battle reports, and on the whole, there was no problem with the information obtained before, and the Inhuman troops around his clan were really vulnerable.
"My lord, General Zhang Jaw reported that the cavalry of the Cao army, numbering 20,000, has been heading towards Chengwu support. Cao's army has already drawn its camp to the south, and the target is likely to be Ji's, and General Zhang Jaw asked whether to pursue and contain 1
"After ordering Zhang Jaw to confirm that Cao's army had indeed withdrawn, he then pursued and pinned down, and must slow down Cao's southward movement1
"No1
"Report to the lord, news came from the Yongyang Detective that 20,000 Yongyang defenders left the city. Moving north. In addition, the infantry coming to help from Qian County is speeding up the march towards Yongyang. ”
"Well, good! It seems that the Yak clan is indeed very empty1
Yuan Shao said with a slight smile, his eyes were already full of desire for victory, and he frowned and thought, judging from the current situation on the entire battlefield. It seems that all the tricks of both sides have been revealed.
Cao Cao was obviously making amends, but from the perspective of time, Yuan Shao's army had already occupied a favorable position, as long as he took the Ji clan, which did not have many defenders in one day, then the situation on the battlefield would be frozen. Next, Yuan Shao could choose to go south first and eat 20,000 reinforcements. You can also wait for work to prepare to defeat the main force of the Cao army, no matter what, the food and materials of the Cao army must be gone, and the next results depend on how Yuan Shao fights.
Thinking about it, I really couldn't think of any other means for Cao Cao to turn the tables, and the brows of the trial gradually relaxed.
After a while, the head of the city of Ji was already in sight!
Yuan Shao raised his horsewhip and pointed to his own city and said: "Zhengnan, this official will give you half a day to take your own 1."
"No1
Yuan Shao's army arrived at Jishi, repaired it slightly, and after eating dry food, he immediately launched an attack on Jishi's city, the Jishi wall of the first-class town was not high or thick enough, but the will of the defenders was quite tenacious, and the battle soon fell into a white-hot battle for the city's head.
What surprised the trial was that these Cao troops were actually heavy infantry, but the proportion of Cao army's heavy infantry was very high, and the trial did not feel particularly strange, although the Cao army was very tenacious, but the gap in number could not be smoothed, plus the large equipment of the trial began to be put into the battlefield more and more, and the Ji clan was already in danger.
"Oh! Wansheng! Wansheng 1
Yuan Shao sat on the war horse with a smile and watched, and when he heard the cheers, he smiled and said to Xu You beside him: "The city is broken 1."
"Report to the lord, our army has captured the city gate, but"
"But what?"
"But there were still walls behind the walls, and the enemy only retreated some distance and then continued to resist1
"Humph! Increase the troops, continue the attack, the official falls, how many walls can this small city have1
"No1
Just as the flesh and blood were flying in the city, suddenly, there was a muffled thunder from the northeast, and Yuan Shao frowned.
"Report to the lord that there is an enemy heavy cavalry in the northeast, numbering 20,000, and is coming towards his own clan, ten miles away1
"What? Heavy cavalry? Where did it come from? Did it fall from the sky? ”
Yuan Shao was furious, how could a heavy cavalry suddenly appear on the battlefield, this is impossible!
"I don't know if it's a small one, but judging from the direction from which the enemy is coming, it's likely that they came from the Single Father City, which was originally a deserted city, and maybe they had been hiding there before1
"Bastard! Now there is still a fart, the order, immediately no, step up the siege, the rear team is in formation, ready to hold off the enemy's heavy cavalry 1
"No1
"Originally" Xu You just spoke, Yuan Shao raised his hand to stop his words, Yuan Shao knew that Xu You, who had never been much of an advocate of going to war, must now want Yuan Shao to withdraw his troops immediately, judging from the current situation, this Ji clan is likely to be a trap!
"Ziyuan, as long as we take down the Ji clan, we can rely on the Ji clan to fight against Cao Cao, with some holding on to no holding, they are in the field, there is no logistics, and we are in the city, and there are still in the city"
"It can't be, originally, if it's a trap, there won't be anything in the city, what's more, Cao Cao's purpose is not us1
"What? Not us? ”
"Yes, Cao Cao's purpose is to open his jaw and Wen Chou, I'm afraid it is also a trap in Chengwu, if the Chengwu defenders deliberately let General Wen Chou enter the city, and then block it in the back, General Wen Chou is caught in the city, and the power of the cavalry cannot be exerted, I'm afraid it will be worse 1
"That, that jaw"
"Cao Cao will definitely pretend to be in a hurry on the road, deliberately expose flaws, and induce Zhang Jaw to pursue, and then he can use the method of gradual dispatch to send out the ambush troops in batches, and find an opportunity to surround Zhang Jaw and annihilate it."
"This"
"If these two forces of our army are lost, Changyi and Dingtao will be in danger, I think, the grain and grass of the Cao army must be in Chengwu now, even if our army is now full of strength to capture Ji's, as long as the grain and grass of Chengwu can support a few days, the Cao army will definitely be able to break through Changyi and obtain grain and grass supplies. As for Dingtao, it is difficult to say whether it can be held in the absence of guards, and he did not dare to ignore Dingtao at the beginning, and Cao Cao would attack him, and he would inevitably return to the army to support, and Cao Cao could also choose to intercept Benchu again in the field, and when the time came, the balance of strength between the two sides would be reversed, and our army would be afraid"
Xu You's analysis made Yuan Shao's back sweat drip, and he didn't expect Cao Cao to use such a deep plan to deceive Yuan Shao out of all his efforts, in fact, to eat the two containment troops of Zhang Jaw and Wen Chou, and then turn back to clean up Yuan Shao.
If this is the case, then this heavy cavalry that suddenly appeared in the Ji clan must only contain itself, as long as you look at the practices of this cavalry, you can know a rough idea.
Once things go bad, then things always go in the worst direction!
After the heavy cavalry of the Cao army appeared, they were not in a hurry to attack, but slowly adjusted their position, looking for loopholes in Yuan Shao's rear team, and when they saw that there was no opportunity, they were not in a hurry to attack, but watched Yuan Shao's army attack the city for a long time, and seemed to care about the life and death of their comrades in the city.
Yuan Shao's heart was completely cold, he looked at the worried Xu You, and opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say!
"Ziyuan now, what should I do?"
"Withdraw, withdraw Dingtao as soon as possible, hold Dingtao first, then there is still a chance of redemption in the overall situation."
"However, what if Cao Jun turns to attack Jiyang and Chen Liu?"
"Then we can only rely on them, we can only defend passively, and buy time to restore the strength of the front line1
"But how can Cao Cao give us time to catch our breath? 1
Xu You smiled bitterly: "Otherwise, what else?" ”
Yuan Shao was embarrassed in his heart, his face was black, losing to Cao Cao really made him very uncomfortable, especially when he was already looking for victory, but suddenly found himself falling into a trap carefully arranged by Cao Cao, which was really uncomfortable.
"Then then withdraw, come, give the order to be judged, and withdraw the army1
Yuan Shao gave an order in an astringent voice, and the whole person looked a little decadent, and even his straight waist shrank down.
Yuan Shaojun's neat retreat made Cao Jun very angry, the original plan was delayed for a day, who would have thought that it was only half a day, Yuan Shao ran away, Cao Chun, who led the heavy cavalry, was very unconvinced, and tried to charge the battle and harass several times, but they were all cautiously repulsed.
It didn't go far before bad news came one after another.
Wen Chou really attacked Chengwu City, who knew that the city had already prepared, the Cao army defending the city used the barricade buildings to drag Wen Chou, and then rushed to support not 20,000 cavalry, but 40,000 infantry on horses, these infantry blocked Wen Chou's back road in the back, as a result, Wen Chou's troops were completely annihilated in the streets and alleys of the city, and Wen Chou was also killed by Cao Ang's army.
The same is true for Zhang Jaw, just like Xu You's speculation, Cao Cao used this simple method to easily lure Zhang Jaw into an ambush circle, and then surrounded Zhang Jaw with heavy troops, fought for half a day, and wiped out Zhang Jaw at a great price.
As soon as Yuan Shao's two mobile combat forces were destroyed, the battle situation immediately became passive, Cao Cao failed to block Yuan Shao on the road in time, so he had to return to Dingtao, and at the same time let Cao Ang turn to attack Changyi, Cao Cao attacked Dingtao while waiting for Yuan Shao to throw himself into the net.
Yuan Shao was lucky to return to the injustice safely, watching Cao Cao turn around and storm Dingtao, who lacked defenders, Yuan Shao was entangled, and now Dingtao is really dangerous.
On the third day, Changyi fell, Cao Ang turned to Dingtao with the power of victory, and the city of Dingtao seemed to be just around the corner, and the battle situation in Yanzhou was extremely unfavorable to Yuan Shao, and Yuan Shao's battle line was fragmented and had fallen into the verge of total collapse. To be continued...