Chapter 132: The Battle of Zhangshui
Just when the official army was just preparing to retreat, the Yellow Turban Army in the city discovered the movement outside the city, but they did not doubt the motive of the official army to retreat, because in their opinion, with the current strength of the official army, let alone attacking the city, even holding the camp could not be guaranteed, and it was normal to choose to retreat in this case.
Seeing that the officers and troops were preparing to retreat, the defenders of Guangzong ordered the attack on the camp to be stopped, so that those officers and troops could concentrate on retreating without worry. He did not intend to let these officers and soldiers go, but to wait until the officers and soldiers left the camp and lost the protection of the camp before pursuing them, so that the orderly retreat of the officers and soldiers would turn into a chaotic escape, and their Yellow Turban Army could take the opportunity to achieve the greatest results at the minimum cost.
However, to the disappointment of the Yellow Turban Army in the city, it took these officers and soldiers a full three days to prepare for retreat! This made them feel very depressed: if you say nice things, you are retreating, and if you say bad words, you are running for your life, okay? You've been preparing for three days! Do you think you're moving? And take everything with you?
Of course, no matter how anxious the Yellow Turban Army waited, on the afternoon of the third day, the official army finally began to retreat in the northwest direction of Guangzong City, and after the official army basically withdrew from the camp, the Yellow Turban Army in the city finally came out to pursue the official army.
However, when they attacked the barracks in the direction of the retreat of the officers and soldiers, they found that there were still officers and soldiers in it to counterattack them, and they immediately understood that these must be the troops responsible for the cut off of the officers and soldiers, but it doesn't matter, the troops in this barracks don't seem to be very many, and they only have hundreds of thousands of people who survive, and the strength they show is only at the level of seventh-level soldiers, and this strength is completely vulnerable to them.
Therefore, the pursuing Yellow Turban generals did not think much about it at all, and ordered a surprise attack on the whole line, intending to use absolute strength to quickly crush these broken officers and troops, and catch up with the main force of the officers and soldiers as soon as possible. And in order to be able to break the enemy's morale, this Yellow Turban guard even personally stood up to persuade him to surrender: "I am the general Zhang Liang, I personally led hundreds of millions of troops to come, your little strength is just a mantis arm in front of me, if you are willing to surrender and make way, I can promise not to pursue your previous mistakes!" ”
It turned out that Zhang Liang personally brought people out to pursue! However, the Yun Ze army opposite them directly ignored their surrender, and still attacked their attacking troops on their own.
Zhang Liang was annoyed in his heart and ordered to step up the attack! To Zhang Liang's slight surprise, the will to resist of these officers and soldiers did not seem to be as tenacious as imagined, and the attack on their side was only a little more violent, and they gave up the defense of the camp and retreated. Seeing that the camp was broken, Zhang Liang was overjoyed and immediately commanded the army to rush in and eliminate those officers and soldiers who had lost the protection of the camp!
However, when the Yellow Turbans poured into the camp, they found that there was not a single enemy in the camp! The officers and soldiers who were fighting with them just now seemed to have suddenly disappeared out of thin air, and then they found that their companions around them were all gone, and the entire camp became empty, as if they were the only ones left.
The Yellow Turban Army, who were still outside, did not feel anything strange inside the camp, and in their opinion, these friends of war were all searching for traces of the enemy in the enemy barracks, so they still rushed into the camp without any scruples.
When the number of Yellow Turban soldiers entering the camp reached millions, the Yellow Turban Army outside suddenly found that some Yellow Turban soldiers in the camp had fallen in a miserable scream for no reason; What's even more terrifying is that at the same time, some of the Yellow Turban soldiers seemed to suddenly see the enemy of life and death, shouting while waving the weapons in their hands and slashing wildly at their comrades.
As a result, the originally silent Yunze Army camp seemed to be boiling suddenly, and the millions of Yellow Turban Army troops inside were fighting each other in chaos, as if they suddenly didn't know each other at all, and the original robe became a mortal enemy in a blink of an eye! In just a few minutes, at least 100,000 Yellow Turban soldiers died in this inexplicable cannibalism.
Zhang Liang, who was standing outside, saw this scene and exclaimed in disbelief: "Formation? There are still people in the official army who are proficient in formations? "Zhang Liang has been with his eldest brother Zhang Jiao for a long time, so when he has time, he will also participate in the "Taiping Technique" with Zhang Jiao, and he also has a little understanding of the way of the formation, so when he saw the scene in this military camp, he immediately understood that there were masters in the military camp who arranged the formation! Moreover, the power of this formation is also very powerful, not only can it trap millions of troops, but it can also allow the people trapped inside to kill each other without distinguishing between enemies and enemies. He thought to himself that even if his eldest brother Zhang Jiao came in person, this kind of big array might not be able to be cracked in a short time, so it was almost impossible to pursue the officers and soldiers through here, so he immediately decided to ignore the friendly troops trapped in the big camp first, and everyone bypassed this big camp and quickly pursued the officers and soldiers from other places!
Since they didn't know if the official army had arranged formations in other military camps, when they went around to the military camp next to Yun Zejun, they first sent a small number of people to go in to test it, and after half an hour, they finally determined that there was no problem with this military camp, and Zhang Liang ordered the army to go through this military camp to pursue the official army.
However, in this way, they had already wasted at least nearly an hour, and the Yun Ze army had already retreated after those Yellow Turban troops fell into the formation, and as for the large army of the official army, they had already retreated dozens of miles away.
When the large army of the official army retreated to more than 100 kilometers northwest of Guangzong City, they encountered a river -- Zhangshui. As early as three days ago, when Wenmin decided on a plan, he sent Guo Jia and Xu Shu to come here with a part of the Yunze army to build pontoon bridges to prepare for the retreat of the army, and now they have built hundreds of pontoon bridges, which are enough for the army to pass quickly. Of course, in the past few days, Guo Jia and the others have done two things in addition to building a pontoon bridge.
By the time the Yellow Turban Army chased it to the Zhangshui River, it was already evening, and most of the main force of the official army had already retreated to the opposite bank through the pontoon bridge, and only the Yunze Army and a small part of the Han army were left on the riverbank. After Zhang Liang saw that most of the officers and troops had already crossed the river, he immediately knew that it was impossible to inflict heavy losses on the officers and soldiers, and as long as they destroyed the pontoon bridge, he would have no choice but to watch them slip away under his nose.
Thinking of this, he now gritted his teeth with hatred for the officers and soldiers in charge of the broken army in front of him, if it weren't for the formation they arranged, how could he have wasted half an hour's time, causing these officers and soldiers to escape from his hands in vain. "Since you can't annihilate the main force of the official army, let's vent your anger!" Zhang Liang thought so in his heart, and immediately ordered the army to attack, and he must leave all this group of officers and soldiers who had ruined his plan here!
Yun Zejun was not afraid of the surging Yellow Turban Army, although most of them only had a level 7 rank, but their strength was not weak at all compared to the Yellow Turban Warriors of level 9, so they methodically covered the remaining officers and troops to slowly retreat.
When Yun Ze's army retreated not far from the river bank, Zhang Liang was angry to find that the vanguard troops he had just sent out had fallen into that kind of formation again! Is it tolerable or unbearable! These officers and soldiers are too much, and there is no end? Is it fun to use the same trick all the time? These are all things that Zhang Liang wanted to say to Yun Zejun very much at this time.
But the Yun Ze army didn't have time to pay attention to them now, and after seeing the pursuing Yellow Turban Army fall into the formation again, they immediately broke away from the battle, withdrew to the pontoon bridge, and went to join the large army of the official army.
When all the Yunze troops withdrew to the west bank of the river, the official army immediately destroyed all the pontoon bridges, and then camped on the west bank of the river!
Zhang Liang saw that these officers and soldiers were camping on the other side of the river like this, and he was immediately furious: What are these officers and soldiers doing here if they don't run for their lives at this time? Don't you want to find a chance to fight back? Do you really think that this Zhangshui will be able to stop your army?
So Zhang Liang immediately ordered the army to camp on the east bank of He, and at the same time prepare to build a pontoon bridge, and search for ships along the coast, and then asked people to go back to Guangzong to ask Zhang Jiao to send some shipbuilders to come here to build ferries, which he obviously intended to chase to the other side.
The officers and troops on the west bank of the river are also under the order of the civil people, and are wantonly making boats and rafts, and at this time it is already dark, because the two armies are now separated by a river, it is very difficult to cross the river in the dark night to sneak attack, so the night of the two armies is peaceful.
By the next day, after a night of intense preparation, the officers and soldiers had set up enough rafts, and the Yellow Turban Army had also searched for a lot of boats, and also collected enough timber to build a pontoon bridge, and the battle between the two armies was about to break out!
First of all, the Yellow Turban Army left the camp first and began to build pontoon bridges on the river to prepare for crossing the river, while although the officers and soldiers on this side also walked out of the camp, they did not make any other moves, as if they were just waiting for the Yellow Turban Army to attack.
Until the pontoon bridges of the Yellow Turban Army were all built, there was still no other action on the side of the official army, Zhang Liang was a little puzzled at first why the official army would do this, but soon he thought of a reason for the official army: they planned to wait until the Yellow Turban Army was crossing the river to have a "half-crossing attack"! Thinking of this, Zhang Liang couldn't help but sneer in his heart: Since you have such naïve thoughts, then you are welcome, and when I send my most elite troops first, see if you can block their attack!
Then Zhang Liang sent out his most elite personal guard, and the strength of his personal guard was similar to Zhang Bao's, which was composed of 100,000 soldiers above the yellow level! If such a force can really reach the other side of Zhangshui, I believe that no matter how the officers and troops counterattack, there will be no problem in gaining a firm foothold, and when the time comes, their follow-up troops will continue to keep up, and victory is just around the corner!
But just as Zhang Liang's personal guards were about to arrive on the other side, a roar suddenly came to their ears, and the sound became louder and louder, as if thousands of troops and horses were galloping towards them. Then, the Yellow Turbans, who were on the pontoon bridge, were horrified to find a wall of water several feet high in the upper reaches of Zhangshui, roaring towards them.
At this time, Wen Min rode a dragon horse and flew Guo Jia to the river downstream of the pontoon bridge built by the Yellow Turban Army, and then Guo Jia showed his skill to "change the heavens and the earth", and then saw a dam rise out of thin air in the center of Zhangshui to intercept the river. Then Wenmin immediately put Guo Jia back, and once again carried Xu Shu to the place where the Yellow Turban Army built the pontoon bridge, and then let Xu Shu perform "change the heavens and the earth", as the saying goes, it is easy to build but difficult to destroy, with Guo Jia's god-level intelligence, it is a little difficult to raise a dam, but Xu Shu has destroyed the dam dozens of miles long on the east bank of Zhangshui.
In this way, when the flood peak rushed over, because the river channel of Zhangshui was blocked by Guo Jia, all the river water rushed out along the section of the embankment destroyed by Xu Shu, and the Yellow Turban Army camp on the east bank of Zhangshui was immediately washed away by the flood, and those Zhang Liang's personal guards who were on the pontoon bridge were the first to bear the brunt, and they were instantly washed away by the turbulent river.
When Zhang Liang saw the river rushing down from the upper reaches of Zhangshui, he immediately felt cold hands and feet, and then saw that there were two people in the official and military camp who were able to display the "change the heavens and the earth" skills that only his eldest brother would do, and successfully introduced the flood into the east bank of Zhangshui, he already knew that he had won the plan! These officers and soldiers must have planned a few days ago to lure themselves here, and then use the power of the flood to annihilate their entire army!
At this time, Zhang Liang had endless regrets in his heart: he regretted that he shouldn't have chased after him, he shouldn't have thought about continuing to attack them when he saw the official army camping on the opposite bank, if he had retreated last night, nothing like this would have happened today, and hundreds of millions of Yellow Turban troops would not have been swallowed up by the flood like this. At the same time, his heart was still full of worry and guilt, he didn't know how many of the Yellow Turban Army that followed him out this time would survive after the flood, he was worried about how heartache the eldest brother would be if he knew the defeat on his side, and he was also worried that if the eldest brother lost these troops, would he be able to resist the suppression of the official army? If you bury your eldest brother's ambition because of your carelessness, then what face do you have to go down to see your second brother? …… (To be continued.) )