Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 197 Yuan Shao's Madness

This is Yuan Jun who was ordered to raid the left camp of Cao Jun.

All of them wore riding boots and straw sandals on the outside. They walked in the mud one deep and one shallow, moving forward slowly.

Mud is as slippery as snow, but straw sandals are not.

A crescent moon in the night sky was hidden behind dark clouds, and the cool moonlight came out from the edge of the clouds, illuminating a small piece of blue-white sky, and even the edge of the dark clouds was stained with a touch of hoarfrost.

It was dark on the ground, except for the flames at the gates of several camps outside Cao Jun's left camp, there were dark and hazy shadows everywhere.

Many sentry posts were set up around Cao Ying, but they were wiped out one by one by Yuan Jun's scouts who were several times larger than them.

Whether it was a clear whistle or a dark whistle, there was no time to issue a warning.

Outside a camp on the west side, more than 300 people quietly hid at the side door of Cao Jun's camp. Because there was no order, they did not dare to move rashly. They all hid among the bushes and trees, peeping from a distance.

Jiang Yiqu, the leading general of the Yuan Army, came closer to observe, and saw that there were only three or two clusters of torches on the wall of the village, and a few sentries could be seen faintly.

There is almost no Cao Jun patrolling around, because it is all mud, and a thick layer of mud has accumulated on the shoes after a few steps, so basically even if there are guard posts, they are just squatting on the walls of the village or in the watchtower. There are not many people on the hill.

Jiang Yiqu took a look at the scene on the wall and was thinking about it. A lieutenant beside him had already suggested in a low voice: "General, Cao Jun's defense is not tight. They must not expect us to come back—we might as well let the soldiers spread out and join us." The ladder climbed over the wall of the village, and took the gate of the village."

"Let all the archers come forward and surround the gate of the village from both sides, and the teams disperse to both sides to ambush to make way."

Jiang Yiqu didn't listen to his words at all. He pursed his lips and squinted his eyes, looking at the quiet camp dozens of steps away, just pondering, and then said suddenly: "All follow my orders! Everyone is ready to fight!"

He pointed to the left and right lieutenants and said, "When you strike, you must be ruthless, fast, and regardless of the cost!"

This order was issued without thinking, the lieutenant general who came up with the idea was stunned, and was about to speak, when the colleague next to him suddenly said: "Hush, the gate of the village is open!"

When I turned my head to look, there was only a slight creaking sound of door shaft friction, and the side door of Cao Jun's camp had already opened.

The deputy general stared at a large group of enemy soldiers rushing out of the camp, opened his mouth, but didn't say anything, swallowed his saliva, turned around and greeted his soldiers.

The right side of Cao Ying was suddenly attacked. Even Xiahou Dun, as the main general, had already gone to support. There were not many people left behind in the left camp, but they were also a vital force. They were afraid that Yuan Jun would raid the main camp, so the main camp issued an order , Let 3000 people be mobilized to the camp near the main camp.

The camps are scattered, and now the left camp is empty. Naturally, they did not put their troops in the inner camp, but in the outer camp. At this time, they temporarily mobilized 3000 troops to move closer to the right side of the left camp. Although they were still in the left camp, But there is also a certain distance.

The most important thing is that the interior of the camp is connected, but Cao Jun dug a large number of ditches to divert water, which made it very inconvenient to pass through the interior.Some boards were laid, some boards were washed away, and the camp gate had to be opened and closed constantly, so it was simply planned to come out from the west camp gate, and then move north from the front of the camp to the east.

Seeing this scene, Jiang Yiqu was overjoyed, and said softly: "Sure enough, as the military adviser expected, Cao Jun's right battalion was attacked, and the people from the left battalion will definitely mobilize some people to move closer to the direction of the central army. Now their left battalion is empty again. a bit."

"General, now is a good opportunity to enter the camp."

A lieutenant-general looked on and said in a low voice: "Now they have divided dozens of people from each battalion to go south. They must want to bypass the front battalion. After they leave, we will directly attack."

However, Jiang Yiqu thought for a while, shook his head and said: "No, attack directly, call the soldiers from the rear to come over, let's seize that camp first."

As he spoke, he pointed to the camp that was directly in front of them, less than 200 meters away from them.

Just at this time, the soldiers who came out of the camp were stepping on the yellow mud and gathered towards the north with great difficulty. They were not actually going to support the right camp, but were transferred from the west of the left camp to the east of the left camp. If there is an attack over there, they can provide support nearby.

However, Yuan Jun crossed the yellow mud swamp area that was many kilometers long with his straw sandals, and suddenly came to the front, which even Guo Jia, Dong Zhao, Mao Jie and the others did not expect.

Who would have known that one month before Cao Ying was flooded, Tian Feng had already ordered the soldiers to prepare straw sandals.

While Jiang Yiqu asked people to mobilize the rear troops to approach, he himself led dozens of guards to hide behind a thick clump of basil by the roadside, observing the enemy's movements almost face to face.

This place is only a few dozen steps away from Cao Jun. Cao Jun arrived in a blink of an eye. He held his breath and watched the enemy pass thirty or forty rows. Then he saw a military flag with a rolled flag coming from the queue. He glanced to the left and right and found it immediately. A general in armor and a leather helmet.

It is said that he is a general, but he is probably a middle-level and lower-level officer like Qu Junhou or even a village chief.

But now Cao Jun Zuoying has turned into a swamp, and there are not many people left behind. Such people are now considered senior officers among these people.

It's him!
Jiang Yiqu straightened his back and rushed out, before he stood up straight, the steel knife in his hand was swung up, and he drew a half circle from the side to the front of his body, rushing towards the officer's head with the whine of the wind...

The general who led the team was fully focused on the situation in the right camp. He never thought that he would encounter an ambush at the gate of his camp. He suddenly caught a glimpse of a black shadow emerging from the side of the road out of the corner of his eyes. When I dodged, before I had time, I felt a pain in my forehead and suffocation, and I lost consciousness in an instant.

For fear of accidentally slipping and slipping on the muddy ground, Cao Jun in the front and rear concentrated their attention on their feet. When they heard a muffled "poof" and went to look again, they were shocked.

He saw the head of his own official flying up into the sky, his neck was sprayed with blood ten feet high, and his body fell limply. In the blink of an eye, he saw a tall and big General Yuan Jun standing in the queue holding a big knife. They all shook their lips and were stunned, not understanding what happened.

"kill!"

Following this sound of spring thunder, Cao Jun around heard a series of dense and urgent bow strings and crossbow arm trembling sounds from far and near, and dozens of arrows and crossbows smashed their heads and covered their faces.Immediately afterwards, countless Yuan Jun jumped out of the gully in the grass under the shadow of the trees on both sides of the road, shouting and stalking them, shooting arrows, knives and spears, and Cao Jun fell to the ground in the blink of an eye.

Dozens of Cao Jun were beheaded in a ignorance, and then he thought of forming a resistance. Several small officers shouted desperately to gather the team, but there were enemies everywhere, so where would they leave a chance?
But at this time, their chief general had already lost his life, and the army flag was also snatched away by the other party in the chaos. In the dark, they didn't know how many people Yuan Jun had come, but they could only hear the shouts of killing from the front and back, and the shadows of swords and guns on the left and right. , I don’t know who screamed in despair, and immediately blew up the camp.

For a while, there were shouts of killing, scolding, greetings, screams, and the sound of iron weapons when weapons intersected on the road of a hundred and ten steps in length. Cao Jun in black military uniforms was everywhere along the road, with cloth leather hats Roll around on the ground.

"woo woo woo woo!"

The horn began to sound for a long time, and tens of thousands of Yuan troops immediately launched an attack, but the attack was very messy.

The west and northwest of Zuoying were originally covered with a vast ocean. Later, Yuan Jun cut off the canal used to discharge water upstream. After a few hours, most of the water was released by Cao Jun's diversion canal.

The ground is still wet at the moment, and it is very easy to slip when stepping on it. It is better to wear straw sandals. Once you run, even wearing straw sandals will fall down.

However, the generals at all levels were barely able to maintain this mess, and soon the overwhelming Yuan Jun came to the edge of Cao Ying.

Jiang Yiqu had already rushed into one of Cao Jun's camps. In fact, there were not many people left in the camp. Just now, everyone was still going out. Before the camp gate could be closed in time, he led 300 people and killed them.

After rushing for a while, they snatched the gate of the village, and then began to rush deeper through other camp gates inside the camps. Cao Ying's defense facilities are still very complete, not only earth hills, watchtowers, walled villages, and even School grounds and plenty of open space buffers.

But at this time, the school grounds and the open space were flooded with water, and there were countless diversion canals dug in here and there.Yuan Jun almost dug two rivers to irrigate Cao Ying, and Cao Ying almost dug hundreds of canals to divert water.

So after Yuan Jun rushed in, he was unexpectedly blocked from attacking because of these canals.

However, the number of Cao Jun in the village was still too small to organize effective resistance. Therefore, under Yuan Jun's offensive, they retreated steadily. The fighting lasted from the beginning of the night to the third quarter of Pingdan. camp.

During the period, there were even generals of Cao Jun who wanted to counterattack, but were repelled by Jiang Yiqu.Until the end of Pingdan, near dawn, Yuan Jun finally occupied the entire left camp of Cao Ying.

At this time, the battle in the camp on the right was still going on, with flames soaring into the sky, and all kinds of arrows, charging carts, nest carts, catapults and even ladders were pushed over.

Yuan Shao simply set up a tent not far from Cao Ying, and never thought about confrontation.

There is no other way but to attack.

His time is running out. It has already taken a year from preparing for the battle in June last year to June this year, and he can't afford to wait.

If you don't take Cao Ying down while Cao Cao is away, when will you have to wait?
It was just getting brighter.

Yuan Shao personally brought the last 2 troops to the front line.

Under his order, only 5000 people were left around for protection, and the rest of them pressed the border again. They must completely annihilate Cao Jun today.

At this time, Cao Jun was facing a simultaneous attack from 5000 troops from both sides, and the newly joined [-] people suddenly began to storm Cao Jun's main camp, which made the already chaotic situation even more chaotic.

Such a large-scale legion battle is very difficult to command temporarily.

Yuan Shao had no command, his health was too weak and he could only wait and see from the rear, and the front line basically relied on the generals to make impromptu decisions.

It's just that although Yuan Jun didn't command, neither did Cao Jun.

Cao Cao was not here, and Xiahou Dun's command ability was far inferior to Cao Cao's. As a result, the battles between the two sides were actually very chaotic, and they often relied on melee.

And melee is what Yuan Jun is good at, because they have a lot of people.

Soon at three quarters of sunrise, the sky was bright, the sun rose slowly, and a huge orange disc appeared in the east.

At this moment, to the west of Pushui, there are more than a thousand Qingqi galloping towards Pushui.

Cao Cao was riding on horseback, unable to hide the tiredness in his eyes.

After disintegrating the Guanzhong Allied Forces, he immediately led the Forbidden Army to rush towards the front line. Before nightfall last night, they finally arrived at Suanzao.

As they approached the front line, fearing that the soldiers would not get a rest, they rushed to join the battle, so Cao Cao asked Yu Jin to lead the soldiers to rest for the night first.

And he himself only took a short rest for two hours, and rushed to Kuang City with a thousand Qingqi, hoping to return to the camp to direct the battle as soon as possible.

But when he approached Kuangcheng, what he saw was a swamp country with a radius of tens of miles. A huge river channel with a width of seven to eight feet was dug out on the southwest bank of Pushui River. At this moment, the river channel was refilled, and there were thousands of Yuan Jun soldiers.

"Cao Jun!"

These Yuan Jun were actually auxiliary soldiers used to block the river. At this moment, when Cao Jun suddenly appeared on the other side of the river, they were all taken aback.

When Cao Cao saw this scene, his heart sank, he raised his right hand and made a fist, and waved his palm towards the upper reaches of the Pu River.

Pushui is a tributary of the Yellow River. It first flows to the southeast, and then shifts to the northeast. The location of Kuangcheng is in the northeast of Pushui, so going upstream to Pushui is actually going to the southwest. After crossing the river, you can go around to the southwest of Kuang City.

What Cao Cao didn't expect was that the bridge across the river to the south had been occupied by Yuan Jun at this time, which made him feel very bad, so he stood on the north bank of the bridge and waited quietly for the arrival of the imperial army from behind.

Yuan Jun on the other side did not destroy the bridge, and the two sides maintained a confrontation like this.

Time passed by, and at noon, Yu Jin's army finally arrived, but at this time, a large number of Yuan's troops also swarmed across the river.

Tens of thousands of Yuan Jun began to gather.

A huge luxury carriage came slowly and stopped on the other side of the river, facing Cao Cao across the river tens of feet away.

The curtain of the carriage door was lifted, and Yuan Shao walked out slowly with difficulty leaning on a cane.

There was a rare tinge of blood on his face, and a smile appeared in his eyes as he looked at Cao Cao on horseback across the river.

"Benchu, long time no see!"

Cao Cao looked at Yuan Shao on the other side, no matter how dark his face was, he was the first to speak out: "I heard that you have been ill recently, how is your daily life?"

"Cough cough cough."

After Yuan Shao got out of the carriage, he felt a little cold when the wind blew him away. He shrank his body, barely supported his body and responded: "Lao Mengde is worried, and his daily life is okay."

Cao Cao pointed to the canal in the distance and said, "Brother Benchu ​​must have dug the river and flooded my camp."

"Yes."

Yuan Shao supported his crutches with both hands, and said with a smile: "Last night I took the opportunity to attack your camp, and now your left camp has been captured by me, and the middle and right camps will be destroyed. It will be a matter of time."

Cao Cao gently waved his hand to the back, signaling Yu Jin to continue to detour to the south to support the main village, and at the same time calmly said: "That means it has not been broken, I still have tens of thousands of troops, after I cross the river, I will immediately fight with Brother Benchu." Ask for a lesson."

"Ha ha."

Yuan Shao smiled, waved his hand and said, "Your army of tens of thousands will be destroyed in an instant, just come."

Cao Cao nodded: "In that case, please wait for me, Brother Benchu!"

As he spoke, he reined in his horse and turned to leave.

"Report!"

At this moment, a scout from Yuan's army came to the front of the formation on a flying horse, knelt down on one knee and said, "Last night, Cao's army was defeated in a chaotic attack on Cao's camp. Tens of thousands were killed and captured, and the remnants retreated to Pingqiu."

"Hahahahaha!"

Yuan Shao raised his head and let out a maniacal laugh, his whole face was full of excitement and joy.

On the other side, Cao Cao's expression changed suddenly, and a trace of panic flickered in his eyes.

"Hahahahaha."

Yuan Shao only felt elated, his spirit tended to be excited, and he laughed wildly: "Meng De, did you hear that, did you hear that!

He hit the carriage with a cane and shouted hoarsely: "I won! I won!"

In the past few years, Guandu suffered a disastrous defeat.

Cangting suffered a disastrous defeat.

Appearing in front of his eyes all the time.

But this moment.

It was as if all unwillingness and failure had turned into ashes.

He just laughed like this, laughing maniacally.

It seemed that the whole world seemed to be echoing his laughter!

Cao Mengde, Cao Mengde!
I can lose to you many times.

but I.

Just one win is enough!
In this battle, in the end, I am the winner.

Hahahahaha!
puff!

A flush suddenly appeared on Yuan Shao's pale face.

The corner of the mouth was actually overflowing with blood.
(End of this chapter)