Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 363 Yanhou (Eleventh)

more than a year later

Summer of the 16th year of Xingping (208)
For more than a year, Yuan Shao has been digesting the newly surrendered Yanzhou and Xuzhou areas to prevent these areas from returning to Cao Cao, and it is only now that he set off again to continue attacking Cao Cao.

Yuan Shao adopted Wang Jue's suggestion, and Yuan Shao personally led the [-] main force from Dongjun to attack Guandu, Xuchang and its surrounding areas, holding back the [-] main force of Cao's army.

In order to prevent the grain and grass from being burned, Yuan Shao sent 3 people to guard the granary this time, and only took 5 people to fight against Cao Cao's 2 people.

Wang Jue took four thousand tiger and leopard cavalry and continued to recruit and surrender Lu, Liang, Pei, Chen, and Runan counties, reducing Cao Cao's ruling area and reducing Cao Cao's strategic depth.

now
Hefei
"Now that Sun Quan's [-] troops are coming to attack, I don't know when the tiger and leopard cavalry of the governor will arrive?"

Chen Deng asked Zhang Liao beside him, he was very anxious.

A month ago, the Xiapi Chen family considered for a long time, and finally chose to surrender to Yuan Shao. Zhang Liao was sent by Wang Jue to negotiate terms with Chen Deng.

Now that Zhang Liao was about to return to Dongjun, Sun Quan was eager to invade Hefei, wanting to take advantage of the opportunity of Yuan Cao's battle to seize Hefei, and even go north to capture Xuzhou.

"The governor is attacking Yuzhou." Zhang Liao replied.

The chief governor refers to Wang Jue.

Half a year ago, Wang Jue was granted the title of hereditary Marquis of Puyang by the imperial court, with [-] households in the city, the general of the great Sima Hussars, the governor of Yanzhou, the founder of the mansion, the envoy and festival, the governors of Yan, Xu, Yu, Si, Yang, Jing, Yi, Liang, hand over to the military forces of Kyushu.

At the same time, Yuan Shao himself conferred the titles of Grand Sima General, Zhao Gong, Kaifu Yitong Sansi, Zhao Gongguo, and the entire Jizhou, plus Taiyuan County and Shangdang County in Bingzhou.

The eldest son Yuan Tan was Situ, the second son Yuan Xi was Sikong, and the youngest son Yuan Shang was Taiwei.

Wang Yi was the governor of Youzhou, Wang Xiao was the governor of Qingzhou, Wang Kuan was the governor of Xuzhou, Guo Tu was the governor of Bingzhou, he was appointed as the governor of Jizhou, Gao Gan was the governor of Sili, Pang Ji was the governor of Yuzhou, and Simpi was the governor of Liangzhou. As the governor of Yangzhou, Xin Ping was the governor of Yangzhou, Xun Chen was the governor of Jingzhou, Jiang Yiqu was the governor of Yizhou, and Han Meng was the governor of Jiaozhou.

"There are only 2000 defenders in Hefei, how can we resist Sun Quan's [-] troops?" Chen Deng was very distressed. He had repelled Sun Quan's attacks several times before, but at that time Sun Quan had only a few thousand troops, so it was not a big problem.

"Report! The enemy army has arrived!" A soldier came to report the news.

outside the city
Boom boom boom!
Sun Quan was very confident. It wasn't until the spring of this year that he suppressed the last Jiangdong rebel army and finally completely controlled the entire Jiangdong. So after a few months of training, he couldn't wait to gather an army of [-] for the Northern Expedition to Hefei.

After all, Jiangdong is not the Central Plains, and its population is much smaller. Although many Central Plains people have migrated south due to wars these years, even so, the population of Jiangdong is still far smaller than that of Central Plains. I really did my best.

There are only [-] troops in the entire Jiangdong, [-] are reserved for home defense, [-] are guarding against Liu Biao, and [-] are attacking Shanyue, so [-] troops are all Sun Quan can attack Hefei.

In the past few years, Sun Quan has been suffering from internal and external troubles. The internal power ministers have always wanted to puppet him, and the external rebels kept rebelling. It took eight years to get rid of the Jiangdong Sun family's rule. , Extinguish the rebels from outside, and finally become the veritable Lord of Jiangdong.

These methods of his reached Yuan Shao's ears, and after Yuan Shao heard about it, he couldn't help sighing: "Being a son is like Sun Zhongmou!"

If only his youngest son, Yuan Shang, could have the same tactics as Sun Quan.

Twenty thousand beats two thousand, the advantage is mine!

The consecutive victories made Sun Quan flustered. He seemed to have forgotten that the Central Plains was not Shanyue after all, nor was it the Jiangdong gentry who had never fought much.

The Central Plains has been like a hell on earth for decades. It has fought wars for decades, and has trained many elite soldiers by relying on wars.

Regardless of the special circumstances of the water battle, it is not difficult for a soldier from the Central Plains to fight three or four Jiangdong soldiers. This is the elite honed in hell!

Don't look at Sun Quan's [-] army, if you encounter Cao Cao's elite, and it is on land, only [-] Cao soldiers are needed, and Cao Jun can beat Sun Quan's [-] army without finding the north.

However, Sun Quan couldn't think about these things. He lived in Jiangdong since he was a child, and the most powerful enemy he had ever met was Liu Biao from Jingzhou. His elder brother Sun Ce took him to abuse vegetables in Jiangdong, and abused the Jiangdong gentry and Shanyue over and over again. , making him full of self-confidence.

Standing at the forefront of the army, he wantonly laughed at the Hefei defenders who dared not leave the city.

Jiangdong soldiers either fought mountain battles with Shanyue, or fought water battles with Liu Biao in Jingzhou. They had never fought cavalry on the Great Plains, especially armored cavalry.

Therefore, Jiangdong soldiers are invincible in water warfare, and mountain warfare is okay, but their combat capabilities on the plains are almost at the bottom, and they have no power to fight back against cavalry on the Great Plains.

They have never fought with cavalry regiments before, so they don't know how to deal with them. In the past, it was not necessary to form an army formation when fighting in mountains. They were all hills, and there was no way to form an army formation on uneven mountains. To attack, there is also no need to form an army.

Therefore, Jiangdong soldiers are not familiar with how to form an infantry formation to defend against cavalry on the Great Plains.

Therefore, what kind of army formation is Sun Quan's [-] army at this moment?

The answer is... there is no army formation!
2 people crowded together chaotically, just like the Yellow Turban Army, or a group of high-end Yellow Turban Army with better weapons and equipment.

Seeing that Sun Quan dared to stand at the forefront, and the tens of thousands of troops behind him were still crowded together like the mobs of the Yellow Turban Army, Zhang Liao laughed, and he joked to Chen Deng: "The coaches in the Central Plains are trying to get the elite to kiss each other." It is the first time I have seen a commander like Sun Quan who actively exposes his position and prevents the elite soldiers from protecting him from being beheaded by generals like Guan Yu.”

After all, Zhang Liao said to himself: "In order to defend, we must attack, in order to advance, we must retreat, in order to survive, we must sacrifice our lives, and in order to defend the city, we must leave the city. This is the way the governor taught me to use troops!"

"Soldiers who, deception also!"

"Let the enemy not expect it, and you can achieve amazing results."

"He thinks that we are afraid to go out of the city, so we have to go out of the city."

After all, Zhang Liao ignored Chen Deng's dumbstruck, and rushed out of the city alone with [-] tiger and leopard cavalry.

Sun Quan, who was laughing at the defenders under the city wall for their shrinking heads, suddenly saw the gate of Hefei City open.

squeak-

He was a little confused, what's going on?
You people dare to open the city gate and fight?Certainly not, that is... Xiancheng surrender?
Sun Quan felt that Zhang Liao should have come to surrender, because he did not believe that such a small number of people would dare to come out and fight his [-] troops.

Tatata!
"kill!"

Zhang Liao charged directly at Sun Quan with eight hundred tiger and leopard cavalry, and a thief came to capture the king first.

Although Sun Quan had [-] troops, they were all behind him, far away from him, and the [-] troops crowded into a chaotic group, it was difficult to command, and it was difficult to support Sun Quan for a while.

"My lord! Run!" Gan Ning shouted, leading Sun Quan to run quickly.

At this moment, Sun Quan only had a few generals and dozens of small soldiers around him, so it was impossible for him to be the opponent of Zhang Liao's eight hundred tiger and leopard cavalry.

"Anyone who violates Jiangdong's territory will be destroyed by Sheng!" Xu Sheng rushed towards Zhang Liao with an ancient ingot knife.

clang--

Xu Sheng's ancient ingot knife was beaten to the ground.

Fortunately, Zhang Liao's target was Sun Quan, and he had no time to hunt down Xu Sheng, so Xu Sheng, who was knocked down, was able to escape from another direction to the crowd of [-] Jiangdong troops.

The coach Sun Quan was hunted down, and Jiangdong's [-] troops suddenly became chaotic. They ran around like headless chickens.

Zhang Liao chased him all the way to Xiaoyaojin. Sun Quan wanted to cross the river on horseback, but the water was too deep. Fortunately, he could swim and didn't wear armor, so he could swim across directly.

The Tiger and Leopard Knights were wearing armor and couldn't swim across because they would sink to the bottom once they entered the river. Zhang Liao could only watch helplessly as Sun Quan swam and fled to the other side of the river in a panic.

At the same time, Sun Quan's [-] troops also had a stampede in the chaos just now. Thousands of Jiangdong soldiers were trampled to death by their comrades amidst the noise and chaos.

Seeing how things turned out like this, Sun Quan wanted to continue to fight Hefei, but Gan Ning persuaded him: "Our morale has collapsed, we have to go back to Jiangdong to regroup, if we continue to fight, the [-] army will collapse directly!"

Sun Quan had no choice but to return to Jiangdong with the remaining 1 people in despair.

(End of this chapter)