Shu Han Confucian General of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 153

For a long time, the judges felt that Yuan Shang, who was smart, had a better future than Yuan Tan, who was brave and ruthless. As for Yuan Xi, who was weak and incompetent, that was even more incomparable.It's just that the trial match never expected that sometimes it is not a good thing for young people to be too smart.Especially young people like Yuan Shang, who grew up with praise, can easily become arrogant.

Hongmen Banquet destroyed Cao Cao?It sounds beautiful, but Cao Cao is so easy to destroy.Now that Yuan Shang said such words, it is really ignorant and fearless.

Not to mention that Shen Pei was upset, Yuan Shang asked at this time: "Mr. Zhengnan, why do you think Prime Minister Cao waited for Bingzhou soldiers? Could it be that he has some elite soldiers in Bingzhou?"

The judge frowned and thought for a while, and finally said with some uncertainty: "Bingzhou has produced horses. Cao Cao has occupied Bingzhou for more than a year. It must be that he has trained some powerful cavalry in Bingzhou." Yuan Shang nodded after hearing this, I will not ask any more.

A few days later, Yuan Tan, who was stationed at the base of the city, was in a dilemma when he heard scouts report that soldiers and horses from Sizhou had violated the border.

"Sizhou?" Yuan Tan asked in surprise.I just beat Man Chong all over the place in Sizhou looking for teeth, why is he jumping around and breaking the border now?

"Exactly, there are about [-] infantry and more than [-] cavalry. They can reach Yecheng within two days." The scout replied.

"That's good, Bandit Cao has been silent for so long, it would be nice to have an opponent to fight with!" Yuan Tan, who was already depressed to the point of pain, finally felt a little better when he heard that the enemy was coming.Ju Shou on the side frowned and said: "Cao Cao's sudden mobilization of troops is probably because he wants to cooperate with the defenders of Ye City."

"It doesn't matter whether he cooperates with the outside, we've been stuck here for so long, and it's good to fight a battle. There are only 10,000 to [-] troops from Sizhou, and I have an army of [-]+ here, and we can defeat them in one fell swoop!" Yuan Tan laughed.Ju Shou is silent, indeed the morale is getting lower and lower now, and if there is nothing to do, something will happen to the morale of the army.At that moment, Yuan Tan ordered all the troops to prepare for battle, preparing to fight to the death with the enemy from Sizhou.

The intelligence of the scouts was in place. Two days later, a black line slowly appeared on the horizon west of Yuan Tan's camp. Then the black line became thicker and closer, and there were bursts of roaring sounds on the ground.Yuan Tan knew that this was the sound of the arrival of the army.As the distance got closer, Yuan Tan gradually saw clearly that this was an infantry phalanx, and it seemed that there should be about 2 people.

Looking at the slowly advancing enemy army formation, Yuan Tan pulled out the long knife at his waist, made a false cut in the air and said sharply: "Soldiers, these days Cao Cao only hides in the city to bully the old and the weak. Let’s kill his troops first, and then attack Yecheng and take back Hebei! Anyone who wants to make a contribution, follow me to kill!” After shouting this sentence, Yuan Tan took the lead and rushed forward, and the guards around him followed immediately. On the next day, Yuan Tan's army rushed straight to Cao Cao's infantry phalanx.

At this moment, a sudden change occurred in the infantry phalanx, and the entire phalanx suddenly split from the middle, and the infantry ran to both sides one after another.Although the speed is not slow, the pace of the feet is not chaotic.At the same time, a neatly arranged cavalry phalanx was revealed in the center of the split phalanx.

"Hmph, what can I do with such a small skill?" Yuan Tan, who was running, felt quite disdainful when he saw that Cao Jun used such a clumsy method to hide the cavalry.But as the distance got closer, after seeing the face of this cavalry clearly, Yuan Tan's heart suddenly sank for no reason.There is no other reason. Yuan Tan knew at a glance that this cavalry was a rare elite cavalry in the world.There are good horses from Bingzhou under the crotch, and the cavalrymen hold a one-foot-long war gun in their hands, a saber and a long bow at their waist, and two full quiveres on the horse.What's even more amazing is that all the cavalry in this phalanx are wearing iron armor, they are simply a group of iron-shelled tortoises.

"Be careful, my lord!" Just as General Yuan Tan walked within the range of the bows and arrows of the group of cavalry, the ten thousand cavalry suddenly began to draw their bows and arrows at the same time. The speed was dizzying. Head on.Yuan Tan was terrified, several guards around him hurriedly stepped forward with their shields to block the arrows for him, finally escaped the catastrophe.The rest of the soldiers were not so lucky. This first round of arrow rain took the lives of more than a thousand Yuan Jun soldiers.

After the four rounds of arrow rain, Yuan Tan's army formation was no more than a hundred steps away from this Cao army's cavalry formation.At this time, the cavalry put down their longbows one after another, raised their war guns and advanced at full speed.Yuan Tan knew that head-to-head confrontation would probably not pay off, but now the only way to meet on the plain was head-to-head. At most, he hoped that his army would have an advantage with a large number of soldiers, and then he gritted his teeth and ordered his army horses to charge forward.

The sound of fierce fighting followed, and the Hebei army found sadly that their opponent was too tough.Stabbing from a distance, slashing with a knife close by, this cavalry is extremely skilled in killing people.Even sometimes soldiers of the Hebei Army collided head-on with them, and they were directly knocked into the air, and then trampled to death by tens of thousands of feet.

In just one back and forth, the Hebei army's formation was overwhelmed by this cavalry. After the two sides charged too far, they reorganized their formation. Yuan Tan's eyes almost fell out: thousands of corpses lying on the ground, his own family actually Accounted for ninety percent.Before he could react, the enemy's attack started again.

"Zihe's tiger and leopard cavalry are really powerful. In the past, Lu Bu and Ding Yuan's Bingzhou iron cavalry was already the best in the world, but compared with the tiger and leopard cavalry, they are far behind!" Cao Cao said with emotion.

"General Zihe is the best among the children of the prime minister's clan. How can the masters of military training in this world be compared to Lu Bu's generation." Hua Xian on the side said jokingly.It should be said that although Hua Xian is a famous person in the world, his greatest ability is not his talent and learning, but his ability to flatter and flatter horses.With the appearance of Cao Cao's generation of traitorous heroes, he was coaxed into joy by his just right flattery.

"Send the order, the whole army is dispatched, and two sides attack to break Yuan Tan!" Cao Cao is Cao Cao after all, and after being intoxicated for a while, he realizes that he has more important things to do.Under his mobilization, the defenders in the city, led by generals from all walks of life, rushed out and went straight to Yuan Tan's rear army.Now that Yuan Tan was under the enemy's back, he was even more passive.

"Euphorbis, protect the lord!" Seeing how many defeats there were today, Zhang Ja hurriedly ordered his ace infantry, the Euphorbis, to step forward.This euphorbia soldier is a elite soldier trained by Zhang Jaw. After Ju Yi's death, the first climbed dead soldier was wiped out. The combat effectiveness of this euphorbia soldier is the leader of the Hebei army.But there is a saying that pulls out the general in the scorpion, the euphorbia warriors were unable to deal with the white horse righteousness in the past, and today they also seem a little powerless when facing the tiger and leopard cavalry.

But for Zhang Jaw, he didn't expect to defeat Cao Cao by relying on the euphorbia soldiers. He only wanted Yuan Tan and himself to escape from the battlefield smoothly so that they could run away.With his efforts, Yuan Tan finally escaped with tens of thousands of remnant soldiers together with Jushou, Guo Tu and others, and ran all the way north.But this time Cao Cao was trying his best to beat the dog in the water, and he personally led the tigers and leopards to chase after him.Yuan Tan and others were almost bitten by Cao Jun several times. If it hadn't been for Shangdang's Qian Shao who led the army south to support in time, Yuan Tan and others might have been reduced to prisoners.However, the southward movement of Yanshao meant that the Yuan family had completely given up control of Bingzhou.Yuan Tan collected the defeated army, but there were still 4 to [-] people, so he could only retreat to Hejian and stick to it, waiting for the right time.So far, the power of the Yuan family in Hebei has been greatly reduced.Of the original four states, only Hejian, Zhangwu, and Zhongshan counties in Youzhou and Jizhou remained.However, the land in these places is barren, and they are also backed by alien races in northern Xinjiang. There will always be foreign enemies invading them, which is really not the foundation of their careers.While guarding Hejian, Yuan Tan sent someone to inform Yuan Xi in Youzhou that he was going to stick to the last land.

"Master!" In Yecheng, Cao Cao, who was intoxicated by the prosperity of Hebei, suddenly heard a familiar voice behind him. Looking back, it was Guo Jia who was staying behind in Xuchang to recuperate. Jia Xu.

"Why didn't Feng Xiao recuperate in Xuchang, but came to Hebei to have a blast?" Cao Cao said with some distress.The counselor Xi Zhicai when he made his fortune is dead, and now Guo Jia is not in good health, which makes Cao Cao quite worried.

"Jia's health is fine for the time being, congratulations, my lord, for securing Hebei after the first battle!" Guo Jia laughed.

"Sima Zhongda's strategy of the six armies marching together, Feng Xiao also knows about it?" Cao Cao suddenly changed the subject.

"I have heard that Sima Zhongda has such a strategy at such a young age. His future is really limitless! But he is too conceited. It is not easy to defeat a hero like Liu Bei in one battle." Guo Jia smiled.

"Zhongda is young after all, so he is not as sophisticated as Fengxiao and you guys. By the way, I heard that kid Sun Quan is making trouble again?" Cao Cao suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly asked Jia Xu, who was in charge of intelligence.

"Exactly, Sun Quan used Liu Bei's army to go northward. When Jiangdong was empty, he suddenly sent troops to occupy Kuaiji, Wujun and Luling. Sun's old minister Tai Shici offered Poyang again. In the past, there were seven counties in Jiangdong, but only ten months later, four counties returned. Under the rule of Sun Quan." Jia Xu said rather unexpectedly.No matter how poisonous Jia Wenhe predicted the enemy's opportunities, he never thought that Sun Quan had already stationed an army in Yizhou. Lu Meng, who was in Yizhou, contacted Pan Zhang and Sun Jiao himself, and then Lu Meng raised his troops to attack Kuaiji with lightning speed. Tai Shici and Pan Zhang launched an attack and let them accomplish this great event.Lu Fan also told Lu Meng that Gong Zhi, the prefect of Nanhai, was impatient. As a result, Lu Meng immediately decided to send Ding Feng to challenge and kill him, so that Nanhai was easily taken.If it weren't for the hoarding of heavy troops in the three counties of Yuzhang
"What do you think of the situation in Jiangdong?" Although Cao Cao didn't quite understand how Sun Quan dispatched troops so quickly, what was more important now was how he could maximize his interests in this chaotic situation.Jia Xu and Guo Jia glanced at each other and made eye contact.It is strange to say that Jia Xu is gloomy and reticent, and Guo Jia is unrestrained, and the two are inseparable. Even Cao Cao is amazed, and can only lament that wise men have a common language.

"The Sun family has been away from Jiangdong for more than three years, and it is difficult to start troubles when they return to Jiangdong now. Moreover, the three counties of Lujiang and Danyang Yuzhang are still in the hands of Liu Bei, so it is not easy for Sun Quan to protect himself." Jia Xu said first.

"Although my lord has already captured Jizhou, the severe winter is approaching now, and the war has lost too much. Right now, at most, after capturing all of Jizhou, I need to rest and recuperate until the next year. Therefore, it may be difficult to intervene in the matter between Liu Bei and Sun Quan." Guo Jia. added.

"Me too." Cao Cao nodded.At this time, someone came to report that Liu Bei ordered Zhang Fei and Zhao Feng to lead an army to conquer Sun Quan. "Sun Zhongmou is sure to lose!" Cao Cao sighed.In this way, Liu Bei will have no worries at all, but on his side, Yuan Tan, who is still alive, and the alien races in northern Xinjiang are still there.

Wait, aliens?Cao Cao thought of this, and suddenly had an idea.Immediately smiled and said: "Come here, prepare your pen and ink quickly, I just want to write a letter to Liu Taiwei!"

(End of this chapter)