Battle of the Boundary Bridge
Although Wei Xuan immediately praised Sun Jian as the assassin of Yuzhou after being put on the table by the Yuan Shao brothers, the two were obviously unwilling. When Sun Jian sent troops to clear out the bandits in Runan, Yuan Shao took the opportunity to appoint Zhou Ang as the assassin of Yuzhou, and sent troops across Yanzhou to attack the border of Peiguo. This is also the attachment of the princes of Yanzhou to him, otherwise this would not have been possible.
At that time, Gongsun Yue, the younger brother of Gongsun Zhan, came to contact Yuan Shu and wanted to form an alliance with Yushu to fight against Yuan Shao. In order to put pressure on Yuan Shao and win over Sun Jian, Yuan Shu sent Gongsun Zhan's younger brother to assist Sun Jian in rescuing him. Sun Jian also asked Liu Bei and Guan Yu for help.
Yuan Shao was originally based on having dates and no dates, which was similar to the original praise of Xu You as the Taishou of Yingchuan, and he didn't expect Zhou Ang to occupy the evil fruit. As long as Zhou Ang appeared in the universe, he could shake the foundation of Sun Jian's rule.
Officially, Zhou Ang was not resolute, and the speed of the march was not fast, in Yuan Shu's opinion, as long as Gongsun Yue appeared on the battlefield to show Zhou Ang his identity and attitude, Zhou Ang would vomit back, which not only achieved the purpose of deterring Yuan Shao, but also sold Sun Jian. It's a pity that maybe the sky is not beautiful, or ???????????????? Xu was careless by Zhou Ang's subordinates, and Gongsun Yue was shot and killed by a stray arrow without giving a speech during the battle.
Since it is a war, people will naturally die, and in the eyes of Yuan Shu and Sun Jian, although they are very sorry, they are just sorry. However, Gongsun Chan didn't see it that way, at that time, Gongsun Zhan, who was suppressing the Yellow Turban in Qingzhou, could be described as victorious, and he was about to form an alliance with Tao Qian and Indoctrination, and the whole of Hebei seemed to be within reach.
Hearing the news, Gongsun Chan said angrily: "My brother's death was provoked by Yuan Shao, and I want to avenge him!" ”
In fact, Gongsun Zhan has also coveted Jizhou for a long time, and when he cooperated with Yuan Shao, he first wanted to benefit by supporting Liu Yu, but he failed, and then Chen Bing's border deterrence Han Fu, this time it succeeded, but Yuan Shao stole all the fruits of victory! In addition, when he learned the results of Wei Xuan and Yuan Shao's battle on the Western Front, his heart was already itching, and he felt that Yuan Shao was a waste who couldn't fight like a fierce woman, and now that he had such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, of course he would not let it go.
So Gongsun Zhan stopped fighting the Yellow Turban, and instead raised troops to attack Yuan Shao. Although Yuan Shao suffered Wei Xuan's loss in Hanoi and then began to explode troops crazily, after all, they were all new soldiers, and Gongsun Zhan's subordinates were all battlefield veterans, especially Baima Yicong, who fought with the Wuhuan people all the year round, and Gongsun We himself was also extremely brave, so at the beginning, the offensive was fierce and shocked Hebei. For a time, Jizhou counties and counties have surrendered.
Yuan Shao was shocked, he had just been knocked down by Wei Xuan from the high position of the Fourth World and the Third Duke and the leader of the coalition army, seeing this kind of posture, he inevitably remembered Wei Xuan again! felt that Gongsun Chan was also invincible, so he could only seek peace.
In order to ease the situation and please Gongsun Zhan, ease the situation, and strive for a truce between the two sides, Yuan Shao promoted Gongsun Zhan's younger brother Sun Fan to Bohai Taishou, this Bohai is Yuan Shao's base camp before he obtained Jizhou, which is much more sincere than compensating Wei Xuan for some grain. It is estimated that someone gave Yuan Shao a big move like exchanging space for time!
But Gongsun Fan didn't appreciate it at all, and immediately defected as soon as he arrived in Bohai, not giving Yuan Shao any face or any buffer time, but instead lost more territory and people's hearts, and the morale of the army plummeted.
Yuan Shao had no choice but to personally lead the troops to meet Gongsun Zhan, and Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Zhang He, Gao Ran and other generals all followed. In addition to leaving 10,000 people to guard against Zhang Yan and other troops of the Montenegrin Army, more than 20,000 infantry were dispatched to meet the battle, and at the same time sent people to carry a large amount of money to the Liyi military camp and asked him to send troops to help, and the two armies clashed twenty miles south of the boundary bridge.
Gongsun Chan was lined up in a phalanx with 30,000 infantry, and each wing was equipped with more than 5,000 cavalry. This is the style of play of a veteran who has been on the battlefield for a long time.
When he saw the cavalry Yuan Shao, he remembered Wei Xuan, and the white horse Yi was frightened when he saw it, and he thought about whether the economic house could hold out until Chun Yuqiong rushed over from Yecheng. And will Wei Xuan and Zhang Yan take advantage of the situation!
Yuan Shao first sent people to Gongsun Zhan to sue for peace, hoping to exchange some of the grain for Gongsun Zhan's truce. However, Gongsun Zan was bent on taking the opportunity to annex Jizhou, so he was willing to give up. Not only that, Gongsun also continued to appoint the long history of the places he occupied, and more quickly appointed Yan Gang as Jizhou Mu, Tian Kai as Qingzhou Mu, and Shan Jing as Yanzhou Mu, Dayou completely eliminated Yuan Shao's group in World War I to occupy Hebei and Yanzhou, leaving Yuzhou to his allies Yuan Shu and Tao Qian.
Yuan Shao had no choice but to break off the idea of seeking peace???????????????? Preparing for war, this time he learned smartly, although he was diligent in government, but he handed over the command to Fu Zhi, so that this supervising army lived up to its name.
Fu ordered Lu Yi to lead 800 elite soldiers as the vanguard, with a strong crossbow and 1,000 zhang as a cover, and Yan Liang, Wen Chou and other generals led 20,000 infantry behind. Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Zhang He and others who were present at that time were all sweating, because this was a pure infantry versus infantry and cavalry mixed phalanx, and the number of soldiers on their own side was not as good as that of the other party. If Koyi was broken head-on, the entire infantry phalanx of Yuan Shao's army would be in danger of reversing.
Seeing that Yuan Shao had few soldiers, Gongsun Zhan still lipped and didn't take Yuan Shao seriously at all, and ordered the cavalry to charge, trample on the enemy formation, and prepared to defeat Yuan Shao in one fell swoop.
The soldiers of Lu Yi were also elite, and in the face of the galloping enemy cavalry, they calmly prostrated themselves under the shield, and when Gongsun Zhan's cavalry rushed to a place only a few dozen paces away, they jumped up together and slashed over; At the same time, thousands of strong crossbows fired in unison and shot at Gongsun Zhan's cavalry. Gongsun Zhan's army was hit by an unexpected blow, and the whole army fell into chaos, with cavalry and infantry rushing for their lives.
The army of Liyi became more and more courageous, and killed Gongsun Zhan's Jizhou assassin Shi Yan Gang, won the first 1,000 people, and chased to the boundary bridge by victory. Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Zhang He and others in the back were also encouraged, and their combat strength soared, charging at the front of the infantry.
Gongsun Chan attempted to hold the boundary bridge, but was defeated again. Lu Yi pursued all the way to Gongsun Zhan's camp.
Yuan Shao ordered the troops to pursue the enemy, and he advanced slowly, carrying only dozens of strong crossbows and more than 100 halberd guards. More than ten miles away from the boundary bridge, when he heard that he had won ahead, he dismounted and unsaddled and rested for a while. At this time, more than 2,000 cavalry members of Gongsun Zhan's army gradually gathered and suddenly appeared, surrounded Yuan Shao heavily, and arrows rained down. Don't drive Tian Feng to help Yuan Shao and ask him to retreat into a low wall, Yuan Shao was also stubborn, and slammed his helmet on the ground, saying: "The eldest husband would rather rush forward and die and hide behind the wall, can he live!" He commanded strong crossbowmen to respond to the battle, killing and wounding many of Gongsun Zhan's cavalry, and Gongsun Zhan's troops did not recognize Yuan Shao, and gradually retreated to chase the main general Gongsun Zhan. After a while, Lu Yi led the troops to meet Yuan Shao, and Gongsun Zhan's cavalry withdrew. A decisive battle that decided the dominance of Jizhou ended hastily! Gongsun Chan is so that Montenegro Zhang Yan has a connection, the leader of the Montenegrin army Zhang Yan learned of the movement in the east to send Du Chang and others to help Gongsun Zhan, but Yuan Shao had left a man in Gaoyi, after Gongsun Chan was defeated and retreated, Yuan Shao's army was like a rainbow, Du Chang was also defeated by Yuan Shao, and the Montenegrin army and Yuan began to grudge.
However, Yuan Shao was very glad to reconcile with Wei Xuan before, and Wei Xuan also took advantage of the situation this time, otherwise it is really hard to say who Jizhou is.
The end of this battle did not cause major losses to both sides, and Gongsun Zhan had the ability to launch the Battle of Longcuo and 30,000 people to participate in the Battle of Rejection of Ma Shui in the following year.
However, this was a contact between the two military groups, and it was also the largest tearing operation after the disbandment of the Eighteenth Route Alliance, Yuan Shao successfully stopped Gongsun Zhan's southern invasion in this battle, greatly frustrated his spirit, kept Jizhou, and maintained the contact between Jizhou and Yanzhou.
Under the stalemate of the southward expansion, Gongsun Zhan was anxious to find another way out, which led to the later killing of the very famous Liu Yu and lost the hearts of the people. The situation changed from a justifiable crusade against Yuan Shao, who was known as the "Ten Crimes", to a murder that ranked as the third prince in the imperial court???????????????? The sinner of Liu Yu, who made foreigners submit, suddenly became the target of public criticism.
Yuan Shao in turn used Liu Yu's son Liu He to unite Wuhuan and Liu Yu's old troops to besiege Gongsun Zan under the banner of justice. Gongsun Chan finally died under the great injury of vitality, this is a later story, it is estimated that no one except Wei Xuan would have thought that this station was so crucial.
This battle is a classic example of infantry and crossbowmen defeating cavalry, and it is also a model of winning more with less and defeating the strong with the weak. Yuan Shaofang's evaluation of this battle was, "When the time comes, the morale of the troops is shaking, and the horses are electrified; The servant and the apprentice are together, the machinery is not strict, the strength and weakness are different, the people are outnumbered, the help of the false heaven, the small battle is big, and the tomb is running back, because of the base pavilion valley".
The slightly drunk who got the news had to sigh at the strong inertia of history, Yuan Shao won and gained a foothold, changed the military pattern of Gongsun strong and Yuan weak, broke Yuan Shao's embattled passive situation, and the two sides began to form a balance of power as a whole, which was the key battle for Yuan Shao to dominate Hebei, he curbed Gongsun Zhan's ambition to go south and made him take a defensive position in front of Yuan Shao, forcing him to develop his power in Youzhou. Soon he defeated and killed his boss Liu Yu and took control of Youzhou alone. This behavior caused public outrage, and Gongsun Chan became more and more unpopular. However, Yuan Shao consolidated his power in Jizhou because of this battle, and soon relied on Liu He to appease Liu Yu's former officials who were dissatisfied with Gongsun Zhan to create chaos within Gongsun Zhan. After that, Yuan Shao stabilized the land of Jizhou, expanded to the four directions, and finally defeated Gongsun Zan and other Hebei princes.
Gongsun Zhan's loss was mainly due to the annihilation of Bai Ma Yicong's entire army, his strength was greatly weakened, his spirit was frustrated, and Gongsun Zhan's ambition was greatly reduced.
Although it was related, Cao Cao, who did not have time to directly participate in the war, was actually a beneficiary, he avoided being attacked by Yuan Shu, Tao Qian, and Gongsun Zhan, and at the same time, because of the existence of Yuan Shao's strong reinforcement, he could safely conquer the princes of Yanzhou. According to the inertia of history, Wei Xuan knew that it was time for Boss Cao to be brilliant, and of course, before that, there was the strange thing that Bao Xin and Liu Dai died in the Yellow Turban.
For Yuan Shu, the strength of the Yuan Tao Gongsun Alliance was weakened, and Gongsun Zan was unable to get through Qingzhou, which would inevitably lead to Yuan Shu and Tao Qian being broken by Cao Cao or other princes, and it was also the first major blow to Yuan Shu's desire to become emperor.