"Zhang Nan was besieged for three months, Yuan Tan's reinforcements suddenly arrived, and the scouts came to report, the enemy army was only thirty miles away from the city, how to retreat from the enemy?"

South of Nanpi City, in the Chinese army tent of Cao's army camp.

Cao Hong took the scout's urgent report, shook it in front of Zhang He Gaolan and others, and asked everyone unceremoniously.

Before the Battle of Guandu, Cao Hong worshiped "General Li Feng", but he was just a miscellaneous general temporarily added by Cao Cao. Guandu and Cangting have accumulated meritorious service in battles and have been reappointed as the general of the capital protection.

In terms of military position, Cao Hong is relatively low among Cao Jun's miscellaneous generals.

When Cao Cao conferred the title of general, the priority of those who had returned from afar was often higher than that of his own people with the same military merits, so as to win people's hearts. For example, Zhang Xiu and Xian Yufu, whose merits were similar to Cao Hong's when they were in Guandu, were able to get military titles such as Huqiang/Duliao.

But in the Cao army, no one dared to underestimate Cao Ren, Cao Hong, or Xiahou Yuan because of their positions. Everyone knows very well that these people are low and powerful, and they have a lot of weight in front of Cao Gong, and the three princes of the court are not easy to compare with the cousins of the Cao family.

Zhang He Gaolan has already betrayed his lord once, and there is a "conversion fanaticism" that needs to show loyalty in front of the new master.

"General rest assured! Yuan Tan came here, I heard that the size of the fleet is not small, but the follow-up is all grain ships, and the combat power is not enough! It should be that there are many people in Nanpi City, and there is not enough food and grass for the winter, so they want to take advantage of the Zhanghe River before it freezes, and finally transport a batch of supplies over.

All we have to do is intercept its vanguard and strike a hard blow, and the rear flotilla will retreat. If we retreat slowly, maybe we can outflank and intercept with light horses, and even bring food and smile! ”

As soon as Cao Hong finished asking, Zhang He took the initiative to ask for battle, and he also analyzed the truth, and did not dare to slack off at all.

Even though they had just lost two or three thousand men and horses in the battle last month, their morale was a little low.

Cao Hong has a perverse temperament, has always been greedy and arrogant, and when he heard this, he just touched his bearded chin: "Our army has no naval army, how can we cut off the enemy's way back by relying only on cavalry?" Can you still let the cavalry cut off the Zhanghe?

According to the scout's report, the warships used by Yuan Tan's reinforcements were very different from the usual grain ships, which could carry more than 100 people and had strong gunwales. It wouldn't be that Yuan Tan has always traded with Liu Bei, exchanged with each other, and got Liu Bei's ships to fight. ”

Zhang He was about to answer, but Gao Ran on the side also hurriedly grabbed the conversation and explained: "Don't worry, general! In the battle in Hebei, most of the rivers are not wide, and the ships are only used to transport military rations and baggage, and there is no navy, and it is not impossible to rely on our army's grain ships to temporarily carry people to collide and fight with the enemy!

The width of the Zhanghe River is only dozens of zhang, only three or four percent of the Yellow River, and the water is dry in winter, and the depth is not more than two zhang. If it is delayed for some more time, it may be frozen at any time when it enters the wax moon. In such a place, even if you have to fight on the river, the key is to see the number of soldiers and the courage of the fight.

What's more, our army is still going downstream, and the enemy has nowhere to move. As long as they rush straight up, take the side and slash and kill, no matter what kind of boat they can't use, you don't have to shoot at them!

In my opinion, the surface of the river was a little frozen a few days ago, but it has warmed up a little in the last two days, and the enemy troops suddenly arrived, and they must have wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of easing the ice floe in the Zhanghe River. If we intercept and hold off the enemy army, wait a few more days, drag it to Layue, and the weather turns cold again, maybe they can freeze directly on the river! ”

Cao Hong listened to Zhang He's words and felt that it was really reasonable.

According to the scout's report, these enemy ships are different from the civilian ships commonly used in the north, but they are not the giant warships with tall ships in the south, at most they are equivalent to the large ships in the south.

When transporting troops, there are one or two hundred people squeezed into the house, and when it comes to water warfare, there may be less than a hundred. Because there is no shipbuilding, there is no condescending advantage in close combat, and the broadside is stronger, and the sidewall has a professional shooting hole that can put down the cover, which is only used for long-range shooting, and it is not helpful for docking combat.

Looking at the size of the reinforcement fleet and the number of people there, as long as Cao Hong rushes up to fight the broadside battle, it is a competition between the two sides in martial arts and ruthlessness, and winning with more has nothing to do with water and warships.

This is also considered to play to the strengths and avoid the weaknesses.

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Two hours later, in the morning.

Tai Shici's fleet finally traveled the last thirty miles against the current and arrived at the section of the Zhanghe River outside Nanpi City.

Cao Hong took Zhang He, Gao Lan and other generals to make all preparations and meet the attack as planned.

Zhang Nan, who was at the head of Nanpi City, also rushed to the west gate from the south gate, and prepared a reserve, once he found that friendly reinforcements had the advantage, or at least entangled the enemy, he planned to open the city to meet the friendly army.

Zhang Nan also had 15,000 soldiers under his command, and in terms of the scale of troops, he was the most among the three men of Yuan Tan. Since the eldest prince sent someone to save him, how could he sit back and watch behind closed doors?

Of course, until this moment, Zhang Nan didn't know who the friendly generals who came to help, and Cao Hong on the other side didn't know. Tai Shi Ci did not play his own banner, but still played the banner of the management system and the royal gate.

Tai Shici rushed straight to the section of the river not far from the Nanpi West Gate under Zhang Nan's distant attention.

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Cao Hong did not immediately let Zhang He Gaolan meet the attack, but first let Lu Weihuang and Zhao Rong rely on the siege camps along both sides of the Zhanghe River to contain and shoot at Tai Shi Ci.

All of a sudden, on the surface of the Zhanghe River, as well as between the earthen barriers along the river on both banks, there were arrows and stones breaking through the air, dense as rain.

The Zhanghe River is in the west section of Nanpi City, the width of the river is only thirty or forty zhang, as long as it is not too inferior to the bow and crossbow, it can shoot arrows to the opposite bank in a full state. It was easier to stand on the shore and shoot a warship in the middle of the river.

Cao's army besieged the city for several months, and the earthen fortresses along the river were already tightly repaired, stretching for more than ten miles. At this moment, Lu Weihuang guarded the east bank, Zhao Rong guarded the west bank, and the two generals each led 3,000 archers, and a number of reserves and auxiliaries, and shot wildly at the Tai Shi Ci fleet in the middle of the river.

They did not have many elite melee troops left under their command, because Cao Hong also expected that our enemies were outnumbered, and the enemy generals would definitely not dare to abandon the ship and land for battle, so it was a waste to leave elite melee soldiers in the earthen fortresses on the east and west banks.

It is better to allocate it to Zhang He Gaolan as much as possible, and the cavalry will harass after a while, and cooperate with the grain boat directly on the water to rush down the river and engage in hand-to-hand combat.

On Tai Shi Ci's side, Tai Shi Ci himself did not rush to the first front.

In this battle, due to the restrictions of the river terrain, the Taishi Cibu had to drag a long snake formation, and the fleet stretched for several miles, with a total of more than 80 warships and 6,000 soldiers.

In order to prevent the fleet from dragging on too long and having no time to deal with accidents, Tai Shici himself sat in the Chinese army, and let Chen Zhi, who was known for his courage and courage, be the vanguard, and Tian Yu, who was steady and tenacious, broke off.

There are more than 1,000 people in Chen Zhibu, all of whom are the best equipped, and the iron armor rate is very high, even if they are crossbowmen, at least the upper body must be armored, and equipped with steel helmets.

It's just that the shooting hole is relatively narrow, which is not suitable for bow and arrow throwing, so the output on the outermost broadside is a crossbowman with direct aim. The archers leaned inward, firing blindly into the sky to form an echelon of fire.

Most of Cao Jun's arrows were shot on the side of the ship, and several fast keels of Chen Zhi's most vanguard were on the side of the ship, and the two sides were soon like reeds, filled with white grass, and the tail feathers shook when the river breeze blew, which was magnificent.

It's a pity that this kind of output has little effect, and even if an arrow is occasionally thrown onto the ship or drilled into a shooting hole, most of them are blocked by Chen Zhibu's armor.

On Cao Jun's side, Cao Hong also knew that it was useless to deal with this kind of ship and shoot flat, so he matched Lu Weihuang and Zhao Rong with archers, and there were very few strong crossbowmen. And even if the foot bow is equipped with an armor-piercing cone's arrow cluster, the kinetic energy is not enough to break through the steel-filled armor.

In contrast, the troops of Lu Weihuang and Zhao Rong gradually increased casualties in the continuous fire.

Especially as Tai Shici's Chinese army also crowded up, squeezing the position on the east bank of the Zhanghe River with all his strength, aiming and shooting at close range, the archers of Lu Weihuang behind the earthen fortress on the shore, as long as they dared to take the lead, they would be attacked head-on in an instant.

And Tai Shici is also worthy of being a famous general, his battlefield observation is very keen, and after shooting at close range for a while, he quickly discovered a clue.

"It seems that Cao Hong didn't have many elite heavy infantry for Zhao Rong and Lu Weihuang, so I got so close to the shore, and he only dared to shoot at me, and didn't do anything else. In this case, why didn't our army put on the posture of landing and rushing, and crushing Lu Weihuang with Zhang Nan, and forcing out Cao Hong's rear army reserves?

Cao Hong must have prepared elite soldiers and took a grain ship to fight with me. The delay in releasing it at this moment must be because the situation is not critical enough, and our army is in full swing, and he expects the archers behind the besieged camps on both sides of the strait to consume our physical strength and morale. ”

Since Cao Hong has reserves and does not take them out, he has to wait for "one blow, then decline, and three exhaustions", then Tai Shici will definitely not let him get his wish, and the situation that the enemy wants to see most is what our army wants to avoid.

At that moment, Tai Shi Ci immediately made a decision, and divided twenty ships to venture to the shallow water on the east bank of the river, and several ships were even about to run aground, all relying on the skillful sailors of the penny, always relying on the penny to test the depth of the water and support the hull to prevent the bottom of the boat from hitting the shallows.

And those ships also began to beat drums and shout, putting on a posture of landing and rushing. There were even a few ships that tentatively sent heavy armor soldiers to wade through the water with springboards.

Cao Hong in the distance, looking at the commanding heights in the Cao army's siege camp, looked at the overall progress of the battlefield. From a distance, I was also shocked to see that Yuan Tanjun, who was obviously the vanguard of only a few thousand people, dared to directly suppress Lu Weihuang's shooting, and then put on a landing appearance against the beachhead firepower.

The camp of Lu Weihuang's department is very weak, just two earthen ramparts and trenches, the west is the Zhanghe River, and the east is the city wall of Nanpi City.

Cao Hong was shocked in his heart: "When did Yuan Tan have such a brave general?" Although Lu Weihuang only has a few thousand soldiers under his tent, the total number of our troops is no less than 40,000, even if they are deployed on both sides of the Zhanghe River, they will not dare to land and attack us with five or six thousand people, right? Zhang He Gaolan, can't wait, attack immediately! Gather all the grain ships and go down the river to cover up and kill Yuan Tan! ”

At this time, I don't care whether the enemy is full of morale and physical strength, even if it is hard, I can only fight. Otherwise, let the enemy cut off Lu Weihuang first, and the overall morale of your own side will only be even lower.

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ps: There will be four or five thousand words and a big chapter in the next two days......

The main thing is that my mother was knocked down and bedridden last week, and there are already a lot of housework at home. In recent days, the flu in Hangzhou has been so rampant that there is no need to take leave at all, but the number of people recruited at home is increasing, and they are too busy.

So, reduce the number of dots a little bit every day, and it will still be updated. Aim to get better within two days.

When it comes to the chapters of war strategy, the brain is dizzy and hard to think of strange tricks, and it is easy to fall into clichés.

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