Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 324 Victory in the first battle and a smooth start

"It's too crazy."

In the early morning of September [-]th, outside Cao Jun's camp, it was full of heat.

Cao Hong looked at Shen Chenjun over there from a distance and just used a simple fence to surround the outside without digging a trench, and he was furious.

Because he found that Shen Chen didn't seem to take him seriously at all, and actually didn't build fortifications at all.

On the other hand, he was facing a big enemy. The soldiers were so tired that they were busy like dogs in the whole camp, digging trenches, building towers, and no one rested except the soldiers on guard.

It seemed that he had lost momentum, which made Cao Hong very angry, and said to the left and right: "Command, let Xia Houcun lead 5000 troops and charge me to the enemy camp."

"No general."

Zhao Yan, the prefect of Runan who was beside Cao Hong, hurriedly dissuaded him: "Shen Chen's actions this time, there are only two possibilities. One is to be sure that the general will not dare to attack, and the other is to set up an ambush. With Shen Chen's wisdom, he will definitely not be defenseless. There may be an ambush."

"General!"

Xiao general Xiahou Cun stepped forward and said: "This scholar said, don't you hear that "the water is covered with soil, and the soldiers will welcome you?" "Our army waits for work with leisure, and can win by itself. How can we just defend and not attack?"

"Ah."

Cao Hong thought so, nodded and said, "Shan, you go to battle."

"only."

Xia Houcun immediately led the troops to fight.

Zhao Yan wanted to persuade him, but Cao Hong was angry that Shen Chen underestimated him, so he didn't listen.So Zhao Yan changed his mind, let Xia Houcun test the truth, so he stopped persuading him.

It was early in the morning, and the two sides arrived yesterday, and each other had only set up camp, and had not yet built any fortifications.

It's just that Cao Hong's side was already busy, but there was no movement in Shen Chen's camp. Cao Hong also wanted to know what Shen Chen was going to do, so he sent Xia Houcun to take a look.

Xia Houcun led 5000 soldiers and horses, and slowly approached Shen Chen's barracks. The gate of the camp was closed tightly. After a while, the gate of the camp opened wide. Gan Ning rushed out first, and shouted: "Gan Xingba in Bajun is here, who dares to fight .”

"kill!"

Seeing that the opponent's soldiers had not yet come out of the gate of the village, Xia Houcun gave the order to attack without hesitation.

He was not worried that the enemy would suddenly shoot arrows from the fence.

Because if the fence wants to stop the enemy, it must be built very high, often more than one foot.

And if a person wants to shoot an arrow behind a fence that is one foot high, he must at least build a body to lean out. Just standing on the ground, you have to be one foot five feet high, which is [-] meters high.

Of course, it is impossible for a person to be [-] meters long.

Therefore, the well-fortified camps at that time usually built a five-six-foot wooden platform behind the fence, and the bottom was supported by pillars. People stood on the wooden platform and shot arrows out.

Of course, you can use a ladder, but the ladder can only allow one person to go up. There are thousands of archers in a large-scale legion war, and it is even more impossible to build thousands of ladders at the same time. Even with ordnance, you can’t bring so many. .

Therefore, Xia Houcun felt that Shen Chen had only arrived at the pavilion yesterday, and it was impossible to build so many fortifications, so he boldly ordered to charge.

However, what he never expected was that almost when Cao Jun rushed to less than 50 meters from the camp, countless heads popped up behind the fence, and a round of bows and arrows shot at Cao Jun. In an instant, Cao Jun turned his back on his back. Thousands of people were killed or injured.

"Withdraw, withdraw!"

"Ahhh, I've been hit by an arrow, please help me."

"Run!"

Cao Jun was caught off guard and retreated one after another.

At this time, Gan Ning gathered more than a thousand soldiers. Seeing the enemy's defeat, he immediately shouted: "Kill!"

"kill!"

Thousands of soldiers rushed away, hacking and killing among Cao's troops, and the situation was in chaos.

Seeing this situation in the distance, Cao Hong quickly ordered his generals Niu Jin and Liu He to lead the troops to rescue.

The distance between the camps of the two sides was two miles, and by the time the two of them arrived, Cao's army had already been defeated.

The scene of thousands of unorganized routs is extremely chaotic. Once people get chaotic and run around like headless chickens, they don't care what's in front of them.

Therefore, Niu Jin and Liu He didn't dare to intercept the rout soldiers head-on, they could only outflank the left and right, trying to encircle and kill the Gan Ning army.

But Gan Ning beheaded the enemy general Xia Houcun in the midst of the rebellious army. He was fighting vigorously when he heard the sound of Jin Ming from behind and hurriedly retreated.

Compared with Cao Jun who was shot by bows and arrows and defeated after the death of the main general, Gan Ning's more than 1000 people were much more organized.

Not only did they cooperate with each other in a five-person team as usual, and they continued to kill the enemy under the leadership of the corps leader and Shichang, but they also kept paying attention to the rear orders.

Almost as soon as they heard the sound of Ming Jin coming from behind, all Shen Chen's troops instinctively stopped their pursuit and began to retreat.

Soon both sides broke away from the battle, and Shen Chen's army retreated into the camp like a tide, leaving only a thousand corpses of Cao's army in place.

When Niu Jin and Liu He came over, Shen Chen's army had already withdrawn more than 20 steps, about 40 meters away, and rescued a lonely man, so he had to order to gather up the rout, yelling to stop and so on. After two quarters of an hour of chaos, he returned to the camp and go.

"Hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!"

Seeing the victory in the first battle, Shen Chen's army was in full swing, and the archers who came out shouted one after another.

As soon as they shouted, the soldiers who carried them below knew the victory, and became excited and shouted loudly.

For a while, many people below were emotional, and they failed to support the archers above so that many soldiers fell.

It turned out that the method Shen Chen adopted was not to build wooden platforms and ladders, but to simply use human ladders.

Three people support an archer. As soon as the enemy arrives, the archer is immediately lifted out, and half of his body emerges from the fence to shoot.

This tactic obviously made Cao Jun completely unexpected.

Because this is the routine of our army in later generations, with the concerted efforts of three people, they can even climb over walls that are four or five meters high, let alone fences that are only two meters high and one foot high.

As a result, Cao Jun thought it was impossible to help in the camp, so he easily killed him outside the camp gate, but was defeated by bows and arrows.

When Cao Hong saw Xia Houcun being beheaded by Gan Ning in the distance, only 3000 of the [-] soldiers he sent out fled back in embarrassment.

This guy is over 50 years old, and his temper has actually improved a lot in history, far less impulsive than when he was young.

But resourcefulness is far inferior to Cao Ren.

For example, in the same 23rd year of Jian'an, in the battle between Liu Bei and Cao Cao, Cao Cao sent Cao Hong as the main general to attack Wu Lan, and Cao Xiu joined the army as the captain of cavalry.

However, Cao Cao told Cao Xiu privately that you are called to join the army, but you are actually the chief general of the army.

After Cao Hong learned of this, he no longer intervened in military affairs, and handed over all military affairs to Cao Xiu. He also obeyed Cao Xiu's command, defeated Wu Lan, beheaded his general Ren Kui, and forced Zhang Fei and Ma Chao to retreat.

From this, we can know that Cao Hong's late period is not the kind of strong character.

But he was more than obedient but not resourceful. Cao Cao let Zhao Yan be here, maybe he asked Zhao Yan to help him.

Seeing the army's defeat at this moment, Zhao Yan took the opportunity to persuade him: "General, Shen Chen is full of tricks. He didn't build fortifications just to ambush us. This has already ruined Xia Houcun."

"What can we do then?"

Cao Hong said angrily: "Are we just watching like this? They are all calling."

"Don't panic, general. Shen Chen is also going deep alone this time, and is surrounded by us from the north, south, and east. We can surround them, and then send Qingqi straight to Ye County to cut off their food roads."

Zhao Yan thought for a while and said: "What's more, even if he doesn't defend outside, he will build fortifications and set up ambushes inside. But it is often heard that there is only a thousand days to be a thief, and there is no reason to defend against a thief for a thousand days, so we will confront him first and wait for him If you loosen up or cut off the supply chain, the army will inevitably be defeated, and then troops will be sent to break it."

"good."

Cao Hong thought so, so he ordered: "Continue to build the fortifications, and stick to the camp."

At present, Cao Hong is overhauling the fortifications.

The position Shen Chen occupies is the exit of Nanyang into Henan, but this is not a mountain trail, only a few people are allowed to walk side by side, but a wide official road, with a distance of more than ten miles from north to south, it is impossible to block it.

So in the next few days, Cao Hong sent Qingqi out to cruise the road between Ye County and Taiting, trying to catch Shen Chen's grain transport team.

However, Shen Chen's army brought food and grass for several months this time, and Ye County did not send anyone to transport the food at this time, so even if Cao Hong wanted to cut off the food road, he basically lost his loneliness.

That is to say, his cavalry and the Huangmen soldiers, who Liu Bei called the leader of the world's elite, were sent out to attack Runan County as a partial division. Don't worry about running out of food at all.

After Shen Chen killed Cao Hong, he did not build any fortifications.

Because he wouldn't stay here for long at all, once the news of Chen Du's attack spread, Cao Hong would be in chaos and send troops to Chenliu to help.

At that time, Shen Chen will take the initiative to attack, so why spend so much time digging a useless defensive camp?
So in the following time, apart from the guards, patrols and soldiers on duty, Shen Chen ordered half of the soldiers in the army to train in the camp in the morning and take a good rest in the afternoon to maintain their strength and prepare for the next big battle.

Cao Hong over there saw that Shen Chen hadn't moved much these days, so he also calmed down and continued to build fortifications.

But three days later, on September 3000, he got the news that Langling was surrounded by nearly ten thousand people. Although the two sides did not fight, the guard Zhai Yuan had only [-] troops under his command. Come for help.

Naturally, Cao Hong's [-] troops were not gathered together, but scattered in various surrounding cities.

Among them, the main defensive points are in the area of ​​Dingling, Kunyang, Wuyang, and Yan County, which are the front line of Cao Jun's defense, with a total strength of [-] to [-].

The defensive forces in Langling, Yang'an, Beiyichun, and Ancheng in the Dabie Mountains in the rear are slightly weak, with only 2 to [-] people stationed, and the strength of each city is basically around [-] to [-].

The reason for this defense is that those places are the areas closest to the Dabie Mountains in Runan, far from the hinterland of Henan, and there are several large rivers such as Huai River, Ru River, Li River, and Ying River in the middle. Even if Langling is broken, Chen Liu could not be threatened in a short time.

Therefore, even if these places were besieged by Shen Chen's army, as long as they could resist for a few days, Cao Hong could immediately send people to rescue them, and he could even attack Nanyang and take Wancheng directly when Shen Chen's main army was dispatched to attack these remote places.

So since it is far away from the center, it is of course impossible for the main force to divide their forces.Both sides are sending partial divisions, one sends partial divisions to defend, and the other sends partial divisions to attack.The king is against the king, the general is against the commander, and the soldier is against the soldier.

Cao Hong knew that Langling was being attacked. Although he was not afraid, the main force was dragged to the front line of Nanyang. If Langling and other places were breached and the hinterland was unguarded, his [-] partial divisions could stir up storms in the rear.

So he sent Dong Chao and 5000 people to rescue him.

Then on September 21, Cao Hong heard the news that he was in cardiopulmonary arrest.

Two days ago, on September [-]th, the imperial physician Ling Jiben, Shaofu Geng Ji, Si Zhi Wei Huang and others launched a rebellion, killed Wan Qian, and were attacking the palace gate.

(End of this chapter)