Chapter 624: A Great Victory?
Yuan Shu's army and Liu, Cao, and LΓΌ's armies refused to Yinling, and both sides did not dare to act rashly when they saw that the other party's troops were strong. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Zhang Xun, the general of Yuan Shu, had already heard of the prestige of Liu Bei, Cao Cao, and Lu Bu, and knew that these three were not easy to provoke, so after the two sides met, Zhang Xun did not take the initiative to attack with the number of people, but also set up a tall camp in situ like the three armies opposite, digging fortifications, traps and trenches on the flat ground, and it seemed that he planned to hold on and fight a war of attrition with Liu Bei's army.
"This Zhang Xun really deserves to be the number one general under Yuan Shu." When Cao Cao was discussing with Liu Bei and Lu Bu in the camp, he analyzed: "The area around Yinling is hundreds of miles away from our logistics base in Xuzhou, but it is only less than a hundred miles away from Shouchun City, so it is very easy to supply. If we delay with the enemy here for a long time, the form will not be in our favor! β
"Then we must lure the enemy out of the camp and fight us in the field, why don't I send someone to insult the enemy before going into battle?" Lu Bu said.
Cao Cao waved his hand and said: "This method of agitation is effective against reckless and unwise generals, but against generals like Zhang Xun, this method is ineffective." We need to find another way. β
"Then Mengde, what can you do?" Although Liu Bei didn't really want Cao Cao, he still had full recognition of his intelligence, and stepped forward to ask.
Cao Cao nodded and said, "There is naturally a way, but this requires a little help from everyone......."
Three days later, it rained heavily in the sky, and the majestic rain hit the ground violently, and the entire land around Yinling became muddy under the heavy rain.
Under such circumstances, the soldiers in Yuan Shujun's camp were a little tired. When Zhang Xun, the commander of Yuan Shujun's army, was inspecting the defense of the camp in a raincoat at night, he found that the generals who were supposed to patrol now were resting in their respective rooms.
Zhang Xun was furious and asked these generals why they didn't go out on patrol according to the military order.
The generals bowed their heads and said, "Now that the rain is pouring down, we think that the enemy will definitely not choose this time to attack, so ......."
"How can it be!" Without saying a word, Zhang Xun ordered the guards on the left and right to take these generals out, execute them, and hang their heads all over the camp, warning all the generals and soldiers: Anyone who slacks off the enemy and leaves his post without permission will end up the same as these people.
After disposing of these people, Zhang Xun returned to the camp and pondered carefully, the current weather is logically very unsuitable for combat. But Cao Cao, who he had been in contact with when he was in Kuangting before, was treacherous and made good use of strange soldiers, the more unexpected things were, the more Cao Cao liked to do it.
Such weather is not conducive to marching and fighting, according to Cao Cao's character, maybe.......
Thinking of this, Zhang Xun hurriedly summoned the guards from the left and right and several other senior generals in the army, and began the secret arrangement.
Late at night, during the third watch, the camp of Yuan Shujun was silent, and there were very few soldiers on duty, it seemed that because of the heavy rain, the entire Yuan army camp was in a very lax state.
Outside the camp of Yuan Shu's army, with the sound of noisy rain, a large army had already touched the front of Yuan Shujun's camp.
"The enemy army is on loose alert, and it can move!"
A scout spoke to the commander of the force.
"Kill!" After a short and powerful order, the large group of men and horses who were lying in ambush behind the heavy rain and dense forest suddenly straightened up, brandished the weapons in their hands, and the soft ladder and cloud ladder, and rushed forward to kill.
Yuan Shujun seemed to be frightened by this sudden attack, and the soldiers outside the camp were killed by these sudden enemy troops before they could react.
Almost effortlessly, this group of troops killed under the camp, and against the counterattack of the sparse archers of the Yuan Shujun army above their heads, they climbed over the outer wall of the wooden village of the Yuan army's camp and opened the gate of the camp!
"Kill!"
In the rainy night, no one could see clearly how many people there were, and they could only hear their loud shouts of killing, echoing throughout the Yuan army camp.
"Ahead is Yuan Shujun's big tent of the Chinese army! Kill me in! Capture Zhang Xun alive, and the official will be promoted to the second level! One of the generals in this unit said excitedly, and led all his troops to fight towards the enemy's camp!
As soon as their footsteps approached the enemy's Chinese camp, countless arrows suddenly shot out from the surrounding camps, instantly knocking down a large group of enemy troops who were excitedly rushing forward!
"Brush, brush!"
In an instant, countless archers and crossbowmen walked out of the camp with sharp arrows in their hands, aiming their crossbow arrows at the group of enemy soldiers who rushed into the camp!
There was another sound of footsteps of cowhide boots stepping on the heavy rain-infested soil, and these enemy soldiers looked back, and countless heavily armed Yuan Shujun foot soldiers surrounded them from behind!
"I've been waiting for a long time! Since you're here, don't go. "In the camp of Yuan Shujun, a personal soldier opened the tent of the camp, and the generals of Yuan Shujun all came out of the big tent of the Chinese army, and the person who led it was Zhang Xun.
"The general is really a clever plan! We're ashamed of ourselves! Liu Xun said proudly.
"Kill them! Don't let any of them go! Zhang Xun was noncommittal to Liu Xun's words, but said lightly to all the ambush soldiers.
"Run!"
The general at the head of the raiding army shouted, turned around and tried to escape, but almost instantly, he was pierced by countless bows and crossbows, and fell straight to the ground.
Another mass of corpses lay on the ground, blood mixed with rain flowing everywhere.
These troops, who had just rushed into the camp excitedly, regarded the camp as hell at this time, and desperately wanted to escape from here.
In the end, very few escaped from the camp.
"General! The enemy sent a large army to attack us, and the camp must be defenseless. We might as well follow the enemy's rout into their camp and wipe them out in one piece! Liu Xun took the initiative to suggest at this time.
"Well, that's a good idea." Zhang Xun stroked his short beard and nodded in agreement.
Yuan Shujun's army poured out like a flood and rushed towards the camp of the three allied forces of Cao, Liu, and Lu!
The battle went very smoothly, and Yuan Shu's army blended into the coalition camp very smoothly, and once again defeated the three coalition forces that fled back to the camp.
By dawn, Yuan Shu's army captured almost all the enemy's baggage and weapons in the coalition camp, and won a complete victory!