Han Dao world

Chapter 596
Enraged, Yuan Shao gave up his plan to rest in Changyi, commanded the army, and rushed to Pengcheng.

In order to avoid repeating the mistake of Chunyu Qiong being killed last time, Yuan Shao ordered the generals Zhang He and Gao Lan to be the forwards, led [-] horsemen, and went straight to Peixian County. He personally led the main force and followed closely behind.

At the same time, he ordered Yanzhou pastor to judge and match.He asked the judge to leave some people to guard Suiyang, and the rest rushed to Pengcheng to restrain Liu Bei, prevent him from having the opportunity to reinforce Pei County, and prevent Chen Deng from going north.

After receiving the order, Shenpei left [-] people to guard Suiyang, and personally led [-] cavalry to rush to Pengcheng.

Almost at the same time, a Yuan army of about [-] people launched an attack from the direction of Qingzhou, aiming at Langya.

When Zang Ba heard the news, he sent brothers Sun Guan and Sun Kang to Zhucheng to guard against danger, while he gathered his troops to garrison Kaiyang.

For a time, scouts and cavalry came out everywhere, alarms were sent frequently, and the atmosphere in northern Xuzhou became extremely tense.

Zhang Fei, who was stationed in Pei County, received the news that Zhang Yun and Gao Lan were leading his troops, so he immediately summoned Cao Bao and Xu Dan to discuss the battle.

Cao Bao and Xu Dan were both from Danyang and Tao Qian's township party. They came to Xuzhou with Tao Qian and led the Danyang army.The [-] Danyang soldiers that Tao Qian gifted to Liu Bei came from their subordinates, and they are still the most important force under Liu Bei's command.

The atmosphere was originally quite harmonious.

Zhang Fei decided to lead [-] elite troops out of the city to set up an ambush, annihilate Yuan Shao's vanguard, hit Yuan's army's morale, and then defend the city.In order to be safe, Zhang Fei decided to take Xu Dan out of the city to fight, and Cao Bao defended the city.

There was nothing wrong with the decision.Although there are no mountains in Peixian County, there are many waters and reeds.It is now the end of summer and the beginning of autumn. For Zhang Fei who is familiar with the terrain, it is not difficult to find an ambush point.

Zhang Fei has experience in fighting Yuan Jun.He knew that according to the custom, Zhang Yun and Gao Lan would arrange one to two thousand people as the vanguard, firstly to inquire about news, pave roads and build bridges, secondly, to collect food and grass, force the people to serve, and gather them to the city to cut wood and make weapons.

For the convenience of movement, these forwards have a relatively high proportion of cavalry, and there may be three to five hundred cavalry.

If this cavalry can be defeated and its horses captured, it will not only damage the morale of Yuan Jun, but also enhance the strength of one's own cavalry and replace a batch of horses.

After cutting off the source of war horses, the war horses of more than a thousand miscellaneous horses brought by Liu Bei from Youzhou were seriously aging and needed to be replaced urgently.

But a proposal by Cao Bao caused a difference between the two parties.

Cao Bao hoped that Tao Ying would be in charge of defending the city, and he would cooperate with Tao Ying.When necessary, he can also lead his troops out of the city to meet Zhang Fei.

Zhang Fei became angry when he heard this, and severely reprimanded Cao Bao.

Tao Ying is the eldest son of Tao Qian and has a younger brother, Tao Shang.Tao Qian did not become an official when he was alive. After Liu Bei took over as Xuzhou Mu, he provided them with sufficient supplies, but he never let them hold any positions.For this reason, Cao Bao, Xu Dan and others couldn't stand it anymore, and proposed to let Tao Ying and Tao merchants take up official positions many times, but Liu Bei rejected them for various reasons.

This time when Yuan Shao came to attack, Liu Bei handed over the main force to Zhang Fei and asked him to defend Pei County. The Danyang soldiers were the absolute main force.Cao Bao thought he could take this opportunity to win a chance for Tao Ying, but he hit a wall and was scolded by Zhang Fei, which made him very annoyed.

He wanted to argue with Zhang Fei, but was stopped by Xu Dan.

Xu Dan said, General Zhang has undue courage, while Zhang He and Gao Lan are insignificant, let alone just one of their vanguards.Just guard the city, prepare wine and meat, and celebrate General Zhang. There is no need to be so nervous.

Cao Bao swallowed his humiliation and agreed.

Zhang Fei was very satisfied with Xu Dan's reaction, and ordered all ministries to prepare.

After leaving the tent of the Chinese army, Cao Bao couldn't help but ask Xu Dan what he meant.

Xu Dan said, Liu Bei was ungrateful and took Xuzhou from Tao Shijun, but he was so mean to Tao Shijun's son and rude to you and me. Is it tolerable?

But it's useless to argue, you and I are not Zhang Fei's opponents, if he kills him for disobeying the military order, there will be no room for injustice.Can't help but wait, let me accompany him out of the city to fight, you wait in the city and prepare food and wine.

Zhang Fei is fond of wine, and when he comes back from victory, he will definitely drink to celebrate. When the time comes, we will get him drunk and send him to Yuan Shao along with Pei County as a promotion step. Are you worried that Yuan Shao will not treat me well?
Cao Bao was overjoyed, and then asked again, why not offer the city while he was out of the city?

Xu Dan chuckled.

Zhang Fei is brave, even if he is defeated by Zhang Xi, he still has a chance to escape back to Pengcheng.If we only donated Pei County, how could Yuan Shao value us?Only by capturing Zhang Fei alive can the credit be great enough.

Liu Bei has limited talents, and Zhang Fei is the only general.If he is captured alive, Liu Bei will have no one to use. How can he defend Xuzhou?Therefore, we sent not only Zhang Fei, but also Xuzhou.

Cao Bao suddenly realized, raised his thumb, and admired Xu Dan.

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Zhang Fei led his troops out of the city and set up an ambush near Peize.

Soon, a cavalry of about two or three hundred people appeared nearby.Although there were not many of them, their attire and weapons caught Zhang Fei's attention.

These cavalry are not only neatly armored, but also use uniformly shaped halberds.

This reminded Zhang Fei of Zhang He's euphorbia warrior.

The Euphorbia soldiers were Zhang He's private soldiers, who once served as Yuan Shao's personal guard camp, and were well-known in Hebei.

Since the euphorbia warrior appeared here, Zhang Yun himself was probably among them.

If Zhang Xi can be killed, the effect will be better than that of the striker.

Zhang Fei ordered Xu Dan to lead the Danyang infantry to stand by and prepare to respond, and he himself led [-] cavalry to rush out.

Most of these [-] cavalry were sudden cavalry composed of Wuhuan people and Xianbei people from Youzhou. They had fought with Liu Bei for many years and had rich combat experience.They were divided into two teams, one team was led by Zhang Fei himself, and went straight to Zhang He himself to attract Zhang He's attention.The first team circled back behind Zhang He, preparing for a surprise attack while preventing Zhang He from escaping.

Tactics are good tactics, but unfortunately their opponent is Zhang Xi.

Zhang Yun had traveled south with Yuan Shao and had seen the terrain of the Central Plains and even Huainan, so he knew that this place was different from Jizhou, so he had to be more careful.In order to avoid the negligence of the forward generals, he led the euphorbia soldiers, acting as a forward, to explore the terrain.

Seeing more than two hundred cavalry rushing out of the reeds, he realized that these cavalry were by no means ordinary scouts.

The cavalry under Liu Bei's command is limited, and the only cavalry must be in the hands of the general.Even if some act as scouts and scouts, they will not be on such a scale.

Therefore, there is a high probability that the general who rushed to the front was Zhang Fei from Shoupei County.

Zhang Fei wanted to capture him alive, and he also wanted to capture Zhang Fei alive.While ordering his subordinates to prepare for the battle, he ordered them to rush back to the camp for help.

His reaction was quick, and several euphorbi soldiers rushed out before the devious cavalry arrived.

Zhang He raised his halberd and jumped on his horse, heading straight for Zhang Fei.

Zhang Fei was overjoyed to see that Zhang He didn't run away but came up to meet him.He kicked his horse and swung his spear, and commanded his subordinates to flank Zhang He, preparing to kill Zhang He before Zhang He's reinforcements arrived.

The two had the same idea, they both wanted to kill each other, they didn't hold back from the beginning, and went all out.

(End of this chapter)