Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

"No matter what, you must bite Li Ji's front army!"

Yuan Shu kept giving orders, and the flags commanding the front army were almost waving.

At this moment, Yuan Shu deeply realized that if he failed to hold on to the Yangzhou army, Li Ji would have a chance to reorganize his army.

Then, the combat effectiveness of those new recruits under Li Ji, who originally behaved well under orders, would be even more difficult to display after experiencing real fighting.

How could Yuan Shu tolerate his army of more than 100,000 being reduced to sparring partners for Li Ji's training, and even facing the possibility of the war situation being reversed as a result?

Kill Li Ji's vanguard army. Even if the Yangzhou army can escape, at least they must be severely damaged, and even kill them all the way to the end!

Moreover, no matter how amazing Li Ji's temporary command level was, Yuan Shu did not believe that he would not make mistakes under the continuous pressure.

Just one mistake would be enough to destroy the Yangzhou army's vanguard.

In order to keep putting heavy pressure on the Yangzhou Army and force it to make mistakes in such a complicated situation, Yuan Shu not only ordered the front army to hold on to the Yangzhou Army, but also ordered the central and rear armies to keep pressing forward.

He also ordered the troops led by Chen Lan and Lei Bo to speed up and catch up with the Yangzhou army, and try to bypass the front army of Yangzhou to threaten the flank of Yangzhou.

For a moment, the huge force of the Yuzhou Army in the bird's-eye view constructed in Li Ji's mind looked like a trident of one large and two small ones, constantly pressing forward.

On the one hand, they held on to the Yangzhou Army and delayed its retreat;

On the other hand, they continued to try to have the troops led by Chen Lan and Lei Bo bypass the flank to form a pincer attack and encirclement of the Yangzhou army.

However, the troops led by Chen Lan and Lei Bo were also infantrymen, and their marching speed was faster than that of the Yangzhou army, which was slowly and staggered to cover the retreat, but the speed was still limited.

This situation is very similar to the math problems that Li Ji learned in his childhood.

Student A runs forward, and student B starts chasing him at a certain distance from A. Question: How long will it take for B to catch up with A?

Unfortunately, reality is not a pure math problem, and the battlefield is not a track and field event, but... a prop competition.

Among Li Ji's frequent orders to the various units of the front army, there were suddenly several orders regarding archers.

The archers of the Yangzhou army, who had not taken action until now, were not deployed near the center of the army as usual, but were deployed by Li Ji on the flanks of the army.

As soon as Li Ji's military order came out, the archers on both wings launched arrows towards Chen Lan and Lei Bo who were crossing the front army and trying to directly threaten the flanks.

Large rains of arrows rose into the sky...

How could Chen Lan and Lei Bo's troops, who were marching quickly under Yuan Shu's orders, have expected that Li Ji would actually deploy the archers on the flank in an unusual position?
In addition, in order to speed up the march, Chen Lan and Lei Bo's troops did not carry shields at all.

This caused a large amount of blood to splash when the rain of arrows fell.

There is nowhere to hide, no way to avoid it!
Even though Yuan Shu was wealthy and his soldiers were at least wearing leather armor, the area covered by the rain of arrows was impossible to withstand unless they were heavily armored soldiers covered fully in armor.

This also slowed down the marching speed of Chen Lan and Lei Bo's troops.

"How dare someone deploy archers on both wings?"

Chen Lan looked in disbelief at the hundreds of soldiers being stabbed like hedgehogs on the spot. He was shocked and angry.

The two wings have always been the weakest points of the Han army. In addition to being heavily guarded, they are often also required to have cavalry cover to prevent the flanks from being attacked and causing chaos in the entire army.

Chen Lan had never heard of Li Ji's practice of deploying the most vulnerable archers on the weak flank.

Immediately, Chen Lan wanted to give orders to the 1,000 cavalrymen mobilized by Yuan Shu, intending to order them to use the speed of their horses to defeat the group of archers.

Archers without shields and spears for protection would be crushed by the cavalry's iron hooves in just a moment's contact.

However, when Chen Lan noticed Zhang Fei leading 3,000 cavalrymen on the flank of the Yangzhou Army, she calmed down almost compulsively and instantly gave up the idea of ​​sending 1,000 cavalrymen to rush over and kill them for nothing. Lei Bo on the other side was also in a similar predicament to Chen Lan.

With the protection of the two thousand white horse volunteers led by Tian Yu, Lei Bo did not dare to let only one thousand cavalrymen launch a surprise attack on the seemingly vulnerable archers.

The shortage of cavalry, coupled with the fact that the Yangzhou army occasionally fired rain of arrows to block the attack.

If the Yangzhou army remained in formation, Chen Lan and Lei Bo were confident that they could lead their troops into the archers even at the risk of casualties.

But the Yangzhou Army was also retreating slowly, which made Chen Lan and Lei Bo suddenly realize that they seemed unable to reach the flank of the Yangzhou Army at all.

Li Ji just glanced at this expected result and no longer paid attention to it.

The restraint between different types of troops is never absolute.

The key is to adapt to local conditions.

In this struggle of advance and retreat, the archers' restraint was enough to ensure that the Yuzhou army could not catch up and threaten the flank.

The Yuzhou Army's equally lacking cavalry made it impossible for them to deal with the archers who seemed to be in danger.

Now, Li Ji's energy is almost entirely focused on commanding the various units of the front army to provide staggered cover, and this is an area where there is no room for any mistakes in command.

Li Ji not only needs to synchronize the ever-changing "chess game" in his mind, but also needs to issue various instructions almost every breath.

In order to be able to command the vanguard to this extent, there were eight command flags commanding the various units of the vanguard.

And it was not just Li Ji who kept giving orders quickly and kept talking until his mouth was dry and he could not stop. The flag bearer who was in charge of the vanguard army's flag was extremely tired, and the flag was almost waving to produce sparks.

If these flag bearers were not strong men selected from the entire army, with arms circumference larger than Li Xiang's head, they would have collapsed from exhaustion long ago.

However, Li Ji did not dare to slack off for a moment. Even when the sweat on his forehead and the sweat that flowed through the corners of his eyes was quite uncomfortable, he did not dare to wipe it off.

His eyes were fixed on the battle situation ahead, afraid of missing any changes, and his brain was constantly working at high speed to calculate the battle situation.

The battle of chase and escape seemed to have fallen into a brief stalemate again.

At this moment, Li Ji continued to persist and wait...

Yuan Shu continued to exert pressure, forcing Li Ji to reveal flaws or make mistakes, completely determining the outcome of the battle.

The "spectators" around the battlefield were even more frightened by this unreasonable battle situation. While slowly following the battlefield on the periphery, most of them did not dare to blink for fear of missing anything.

As the two armies continued to fight, the battlefield continued to shift southward, and before they knew it, the Yangzhou army had retreated a full two miles.

However, Yuan Shu continued to issue orders to keep a close eye on the Yangzhou army and was not worried at all about the possibility of an ambush.

Not to mention two miles, the terrain within ten miles had already been explored clearly by Yuan Shu, and there were no conditions for setting an ambush.

"It's just a dying struggle, what's the point of persisting?!"

Standing on the battlefield, Yuan Shu drank a mouthful of honey water to moisten his throat while looking in the direction of the Yangzhou army's center which had been being bitten.

Unconsciously, Yuan Shu felt that he could vaguely see where Li Ji's chariot was, and vaguely saw Li Ji's sweaty and embarrassed appearance.

When Li Ji raised his eyes, he vaguely noticed where Yuan Shu's chariot was.

The constant high-intensity calculations and commands did make Li Ji sweat profusely, but he did not look embarrassed. Instead, a smile appeared on his face.

"It's almost time." (End of this chapter)