Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 497
Yuan Xi had studied Cao Cao's tactics with Guo Jiajushou before, and everyone commented on him with one word, fast.

What Cao Cao's army is good at is to encircle the enemy's city or troops first, and then attack and intercept the rescue troops.

This method of warfare has become familiar to all parties after a few times, but just like this, Lu Bu's army still fell for it many times, and was defeated and lost.

Later, when Yuan Xi and his counselors reviewed these battles, it took a lot of time to understand the mystery.

This kind of tactics, to put it bluntly, is to attack the enemy and save them, so that the opponent can only adopt a rescue strategy, and then ambush the enemy.

To achieve these two points, one is to predict the local marching route, and the other is to appear in places where the enemy does not expect it.

Regarding the first point, Lu Bu’s troops mainly consisted of cavalry. In fact, the marching route is very predictable. Because horses cannot run on rough mountain roads, they often choose flat roads. The areas outside the roads are often either swamps or forests. March quickly.

Moreover, war horses need to have sufficient water sources, so their marching route is not only close to the main road, but also has rivers. Based on this, it is easy to estimate the marching route.

Then there is the second most critical point, how to surprise the opponent by surprise.

The strategy of Cao Cao's army is to march in a hurry.

They rushed to ambush ahead of time on the enemy's only way. Although the soldiers would be very tired, the enemy was almost defenseless when marching, and their performance was even worse when they were attacked by surprise. That's why Cao's army succeeded repeatedly.

After researching and understanding Cao Jun's tactics, Yuan Xi also had to marvel at the fact that Cao Cao's army, from counselors to generals, cooperated properly, and each showed their strengths. It also benefited from Cao Cao's strategies and trade-offs, which allowed Cao Jun's generals to continue fighting in battle after battle. growing up.

To deal with such an enemy, Yuan Xi can only play all the cards in his hand without reservation and fight the opponent with all his strength, otherwise he will only seek death.

He said: "If I don't go out, how can I tempt Cao's army to attack with the main force?"

"Besides, I'm leading the troops there now. Cao's army has not yet fully assembled. At this time, our army is not at a disadvantage. If all his troops are here, won't it be more difficult for me to win?"

Lu Xun also had to admit that Yuan Xi was right, so he could only say, "Please be careful."

Not long after, Cao Ying's spies got the news that the Youzhou army divided into three groups and went straight to the place besieged by Cao's army. The total number of troops was nearly [-]!

At this time, Liu Bei's family was besieged by Cao Jun's front army. Xia Houyuan, the leader of the army, had already begun to gather troops, but Cao Ren from the middle army and Cao Cao from the rear army had not yet arrived. It seemed that it would take several hours.

Xia Houyuan didn't expect the Youzhou Army to be so decisive. He knew that this was a critical moment. He was at a slight disadvantage in terms of strength at this time, but if he retreated without a fight, all plans would come to nothing!
Thinking of this, he called Cao Chunle Jin and the others who had already arrived, and said, "You two each lead an army and cut off their retreat!"

"I'll stop here!"

Cao Chunlejin knew how powerful it was, and immediately shouted: "Take orders!"

Xia Houyuan led the two men away, knowing that the few thousand men he had left could not stop the Youzhou army. He rolled his eyes and shouted: "Go and arrest the people of Xuzhou and let them stand in front!"

Half an hour later, Yuan Xi held the binoculars and watched Cao Jun drive the common people to stand in front, while stragglers continued to hack, kill and loot behind.

Yuan Xi's face was gloomy, and the other party was really disgusted. He understood that Yuan Xi, as the Xuzhou Shepherd's Society, would be a weapon for rats, so he took the people of Xuzhou as hostages!

This is the disadvantage of fighting on your own territory, but on the battlefield, if you are soft-hearted at this time, and wait for the opponent to encircle you, your entire army may be wiped out!

Thinking of this, he said: "The cavalry attack the opponent's flank, and the infantry advance!"

Seeing the Youzhou Army beating the attack drums without hesitation, Xia Houyuan sneered in his heart, treating people with benevolence and righteousness is all fake in the face of life and death in war.

The cruel facts will expose the skin of these hypocrites, and let the world understand that everyone is the same!

Not long after, the Youzhou Army cavalry began to shoot arrows. The front infantry advanced with their shields in hand. Someone in the middle shouted, "Those who hold the people hostage will be killed without mercy!"

"Let go of the people and surrender immediately. There is still a way to survive!"

There was a Qingzhou soldier from Cao Ying who was capable of killing. He cut down the people in front of him with a backhand knife, and said with a big laugh, "what can I do if I kill it?"

The next moment, with a puff, a feathered arrow pierced through his chest, shooting him to death on the spot.

At this moment, everyone else was silent and quickly hid behind the people.

Lu Lingqi withdrew her bow and arrow and glanced at Yuan Xi proudly, but Yuan Xi shouted to the front: "Old man of Xuzhou, I am Yuan Xi, Xuzhou shepherd!"

"The thieves are using you to block their arrows. In order to save you, there will inevitably be casualties!"

"I swear here that I will never let anyone who holds you hostage go. I will properly arrange those who survive!"

"If there is any guilt, it's all on me!"

When the people of Xuzhou heard this, they all became commotion. Some people shouted: "Zhou Mu is here to save us. If we block the arrows of these thieves and harm Zhou Mu in vain, we might as well fight with them!"

When everyone heard this, they shouted one after another. Cao Jun's soldiers slashed at the neck of the shouting man, hacking him to the ground, trying to prevent the situation from getting out of control, but it was too late, and many people turned around and started fighting with Cao Jun's soldiers.

Seeing the opportunity, Yuan Xi shouted: "The whole army presses down, wipe out the bandit army!"

The Youzhou army roared and charged forward. As soon as they engaged, Cao's army, unable to see each other, fell into a disadvantage.

Xia Houyuan, who was supervising the formation at the back, was extremely pleasantly surprised, and was finally transferred to Big Fish!
Compared with this, what are some people dead!
He hastily dispatched spies to inform the other two armies of Yuan Xi's whereabouts, and at the same time raised his knife and shouted: "Kill this man, and make him Marquis of Qianhu!"

"Follow me!"

Cao Ying's soldiers listened, their eyes lit up, and they rushed towards Xia Houyuan with a roar.

In the Han River, warships were sailing northward at high speed, Tai Shici was standing at the bow with a big bow on his back, very anxious.

After Yuan Shu's army breached Xiapi, they took advantage of the opportunity to spy on Guangling. Tai Shici and Chen Deng organized an army to defend, but they received Yuan Xi's order to dispatch troops. Tai Shici immediately led his troops northward, but it took at least two days to reach the vicinity of Haixi.

It’s best if nothing happens during these two days!
The Youzhou Army and Cao Cao Army had been fighting from noon to night, and there were many casualties on both sides. Although the Youzhou Army had an advantage, the Qingzhou Army, under Xia Houyuan's command, was not afraid of death and never collapsed.

Yuan Xi saw the Qingzhou soldiers several times waving their crude weapons and rushing forward desperately for Huang Tian, ​​screaming. After Lu Lingqi and Sun Li chopped them down to the ground, those soldiers still had to work hard to get up. .

Looking at the crazy appearance of these people, Yuan Xi thought to himself that these people are really a waste. If it was under his command, he could have hung a bamboo tube and rushed to the enemy's formation.

Huang Tian or something, it seems that these people really think that Cao Cao has inherited the way of peace.

Thinking of this, he became more and more disgusted, and shouted: "Kill them all!"

For him, these Qingzhou soldiers in front of him are already used as fanatical tools, and they have no meaning of existence.

In this case, it would be better to kill them all.

However, the other party obviously wanted to drag him here. Calculating the time, Yuan Xi had to withdraw his troops at night, otherwise he would not be able to escape when Cao Cao's main force arrived!
He was a little regretful, Liu Bei's officials found a few, but there was still no news of the others, and many people ran away, so why don't we just leave now?

At this moment, a spy came to report that a woman from the noble family was suspected to have been found a few miles to the south.

Yuan Xi heard this, and said to everyone: "Kill it!"

Everyone covered them all the way, and finally came to several collapsed earthen houses when it was getting dark.

Yuan Xi saw a faint figure beside a dry well. He jumped off his horse and walked over with a knife.

The figures over there shrank suddenly, trying to pick up the bricks on the ground to defend themselves, and one of the figures of a woman wanted to throw himself into the well.

Yuan Xi walked up a few steps, grabbed the woman who was about to throw herself into the well, and said, "I am not Cao Jun."

The woman's hair was disheveled and she was extremely frightened when she was pulled by Yuan Xi. When she heard Yuan Xi's voice, she was surprised and said: "Young Master?"

Yuan Xi took the torch, took a photo on the woman's face, and said in surprise, "Why is it you?"

It turned out to be Mi Zhen!
He thought he might meet Liu Bei's family, but he didn't expect it to be Mi Zhen. Shouldn't the other party be north of Tancheng?

When Mi Zhen saw that it was Yuan Xi, she was almost exhausted. She regained her composure and said hurriedly: "Young master, don't worry about me, my wife is seriously injured!"

When Yuan Xi heard this, he looked on the ground and saw a woman holding a girl in her arms. Her face was quite familiar. He realized that this was not the wife and daughter of Liu Bei whom he had seen before.
But Mrs. Liu Bei's complexion was very bad at this time. She had several stab wounds on her body, her face was pale, and she was already dying.

He said to Mi Zhen: "What's going on, what about the others?"

Mi Zhen gradually explained a few words, and Yuan Xi finally understood that Mi Zhen escaped with Mi Fang, but met Liu Bei's wife and daughter and Mrs. Gan, and they fled all the way east, and finally they were caught up by Cao Jun.

Although there were many servants around Mi Fang, they were no match for her. They were about to suffer all casualties. Mi Fang was the only horse on the field, but Mrs. Liu Bei was seriously injured and did not want to leave.

But in the end, Mi Fang escaped with Mrs. Gan!
Mi Zhen stayed voluntarily and insisted on staying with Mrs. Liu Bei. Mi Fang saw Mi Zhen's resolute attitude and had to leave first.

Yuan Xi knew that there must be some secrets in it, but at this time, women are indeed a burden, and Mi Fang can't be said to be too harsh for protecting herself.

But Mrs. Liu Bei was seriously injured and dying, so it was really not easy to take away. Why did Mi Fang take Mrs. Gan away?
Logically, if only one person was taken away, how could Liu Bei's daughter be ranked ahead of Mrs. Gan?

According to Mi Zhen, Mrs. Gan and Mrs. Liu Bei whispered something, and Mrs. Liu Bei asked Mi Fang to take Mrs. Gan away!
Yuan Xi shook his head, thinking that he couldn't take care of this kind of thing now, and the most urgent thing was to go back and join the big army.

He said to the soldiers on both sides: "Take them away."

At this time, the trumpets sounded from all directions at the same time, and someone shouted: "They have been tricked!"

"Let's go together, kill them all!"

Immediately, there were Yingying Tongtong in all directions, and countless Qingzhou soldiers rushed forward!

Yuan Xi's face darkened, Qingzhou soldiers came much faster than expected!
It shouldn't have been so fast!

He shouted: "Array, block them!"

Not long after, thousands of Qingzhou soldiers surrounded the area. Lu Lingqi waved her halberds, Sun Li waved his sword, and killed the incoming soldiers one by one. However, he saw several generals rushing out of the dark shadows on the opposite side, facing the two soldiers. People were forced over.

As soon as the two sides fought, Yuan Xi saw that something was wrong, the enemy who attacked was definitely not a mediocre player, but a general of Cao Ying!

He guessed right, it was Xia Houyuan, Li Dian and others who came!
(End of this chapter)