A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 412: The thunder is loud but the raindrops are small, so it is so easy to attack and defend

February 18

The reinforcements sent by Chunyu Qiong arrived at the gate of Xipingchang, but they were only a forward force of 3,000 men, led by the school captain Chun Yuxian.

On the 16th, Chunyu Qiong had received a letter asking for help from Yuan Xi.

However, he did not send reinforcements immediately. Instead, he sent a forward team of 3,000 people on the 17th. Perhaps the remaining 8,000 people will start setting off today.

Looking at Xi Pingchang in front of him, who was shining brightly under the sunlight, Chunyu Xian just felt that he had nowhere to start.

"Fight, you have to fight!" Chun Yuxian thought in his heart.

Two hours later, Yuan Jun began to attack Xipingchang with simple siege equipment.

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"Ding ding ding..." "Withdraw, withdraw, withdraw quickly..."

Chun Yuxian looked at the retreating soldiers in front of him with an ugly expression.

Not only did the siege ladder go up, it would be easy for the enemy to push it down because of the ice on the wall, but even if they successfully avoided the rocks and rolling wood and climbed to the top of the city, the enemy also sprinkled some water on the top of the city, and suddenly Once you jump down, you will easily trip over the ice and lose your balance.

Moreover, he even saw a bed crossbow in the enemy's city defense.

Mo Yan spent two days building this bed crossbow.

Knowing that he could not capture Xipingchang with his own strength, Chun Yuxian had no choice but to order a camp to be set up on the spot and build camps and equipment for the subsequent arrival of the army.

February 29
Bai Xingzheng was nervously preparing for the attack of most of Yuan's army, but from sunrise to sunset, he did not see a single shadow of Yuan's army.

March 2
Yuan Jun's follow-up eight thousand talents arrived belatedly.

Just as Yuan Jun was preparing to launch an attack, densely packed warships appeared on the river south of Xipingchang, with the "Zhou" flag on them waving in the cold wind.

The arrivals were the reinforcements sent by Guan Yu, 30,000 Qingzhou soldiers led by General Pi Zhou Cang.

General Yuan Jun saw that the reinforcements of the Qingzhou Army had arrived and there were a steady stream of troop transport ships on the river. He knew that the army was coming, so he decisively retreated ten miles back without any hesitation, leaving only an empty camp on the ground.

It happened that the city of Xipingchang was small and could not accommodate tens of thousands of troops, so the Qingzhou Army moved directly into the camp where Yuan Army retreated, avoiding the pain of logging.

On the other side of the plain, Chun Yuqiong, who was nervously watching the Qingzhou military troop transport ships wandering back and forth on the river, as if looking for the login position, received a military report from his subordinates.

"What? What does Yan Ge do for food? In three days, even if he crawls, he can reach Xipingchang. How can he let the Qingzhou Army's reinforcements arrive first?"

Although I was very angry, I also knew that nothing could be done.

"Send an order to him and ask him to withdraw. I only have these 30,000 people in my hands. Don't let the Qingzhou Army capture him again."

"It's the general."

March rd
In order to place the reinforcements arriving in Xipingchang, Bai Xing attacked Ban County in the north of Xipingchang with ten thousand people who had arrived earlier. Yuan Xi once again led his men and fled to the plains.

March 5
Leling and Yanci in the east of Pingyuan County were captured by the Qingzhou Army. Today, only the three cities of Pingyuan, Ande and Liguo in the west are still in the hands of Yuan's army.

In order to prevent the Qingzhou Army from attacking, Chunyu Qiong placed 5,000 men each in Ande and Li.

March

All 30,000 Qingzhou troops have completed crossing the river, and subsequent supplies and armaments are also being unloaded continuously through the ferry.

In Guan Yu's plan, before Pingyuan was captured, Xipingchang would become the Qingzhou Army's most important city on the north bank of the Yellow River.

Therefore, in order to enable Xipingchang to withstand the upcoming war, Guan Yu ordered the craftsmen of the Dudu Mansion to start expanding Xipingchang with tens of thousands of soldiers to accommodate at least 50,000 troops.

While the temperature still hasn't risen, Xipingchang has become a huge construction site.

In order to completely build it into a military city, Bai Xing ordered most of the more than 10,000 people in Pingchang in the west to be moved to Yanci in the east.

March 25
Guan Yu came to Xipingchang from Gaotang. At this time, the number of Qingzhou troops on the north bank of the Yellow River had reached 50,000.

After Guan Yu's deployment, he garrisoned 30,000 people in Pingchang in the west, and Banxian and Leling in the north each garrisoned 10,000 people.

Ban County will serve as the corner city between Leling and Xipingchang, and Leling will serve as a defense against Yuan's army's pressure from the direction of Bohai County.

April
Although Yuan Shao was very angry after receiving the news that the Qingzhou army had crossed the river, it did not dispel his determination to fight Liu Bei.

Therefore, a steady stream of grain, grass, equipment, and soldiers began to be transported to Pingyuan City and Yimu County in Qinghe County.

April 5th
The number of Yuan's troops stationed in the plain has reached 60,000.

April 10
The Xuzhou advance force, 30,000 men led by Huwei General Zhang Fei, arrived at Gaotang on the other side of the Yellow River. Guan Yu left Gaotang to Zhang Fei to garrison, and transferred all the Qingzhou Army originally stationed in Gaotang to Xipingchang.

April 12

The number of Qingzhou troops in Xipingchang reached 50,000, which was already the limit of the number of people the city could accommodate.

April 13

With Liu Bei's consent, Guan Yu prepared to lead the Qingzhou Army to fight Yuan's army first. In order to concentrate more power to win this battle, Guan Yu asked Zhang Fei to lead 10,000 people across the river, leaving only one person who would cross the river from Gaotang to contain the plains defenders.

Because the pressure of crossing the river was too great, the Donglai Navy's two thousand men and hundreds of large and small boats could no longer meet the needs of the Qingzhou Army.

April 15th

After receiving the order from General Zuo's Mansion, Guangling's 3,000-strong naval force, with ten sterns, dozens of small boats, and more than a hundred large ships for transporting troops, began to move north along the coast and listened to orders in front of Guan Yu's tent.

Now there are two naval forces under Liu Bei. One is the Donglai Navy, led by Bai Bo, the captain of Pinghe. It has 2,000 people and has more than a dozen ships, 30 fighting ships, and more than 300 large ships. It can be transported at one time There are more than 3,000 soldiers.

The other one is the Guangling Navy located along the Yangtze River. It is led by Pingjiang Captain Chen Jie and has 3,000 men. It has more than 30 ships, more than 50 fighting ships, and more than 200 large ships.

However, Yuan Shao emphasized cavalry and despised the navy. He did not have any navy under his command. He only had more than a thousand Han navy sailors left over from the period of Emperor Ling. However, due to their age and disrepair, most of the ships were leaking, and only a hundred large ships were usable.

Therefore, in order to transport troops, Yuan Shao mostly recruited civilian ships, rarely using his own navy, or none at all.

April 20

While Yuan Shao's 100,000 troops were on the way, Liu Bei's 50,000 troops had already arrived in Qingzhou and would reach the bank of the Yellow River in a few days.

After all preparations were completed, Guan Yu led Zhang Fei, Bai Xing and other generals and led 50,000 troops to attack Ande County, hoping to break through it in one fell swoop and then march to the plains.

Threatened by the 20,000 Xuzhou Army in Gaotang, Chunyu Qiong had to lead 40,000 people to fight against Guan Yu's army at the foot of Anling City, leaving 10,000 people behind to prevent the Xuzhou Army on the other side from crossing the river.

At this time, Chunyu Qiong was not alone. Yuan Shao sent Gao Lan to assist him. Therefore, he and Gao Lan each led 20,000 people and relied on Anling to fight against Guan Yu.

Both sides began to line up their troops.

Guan Yu arranged his 50,000-strong army in a roughly inverted shape, and ordered Bai Xing to lead 10,000 troops for the left army, Zhang Fei to prepare 10,000 troops for the right army, Guan Hai to prepare 10,000 troops for the left army, Pei Yuanshao to prepare 10,000 troops for the right army, and Zhou Cang to prepare 10,000 troops for the right army. and Zang Ba each led five thousand rear troops as general reserves.

Yuan Jun did not have any formation to speak of, but Chunyu Qiong and Gao Lan each commanded 20,000 troops, divided into left and right groups.

Since the Qingzhou Army was personally trained by Guan Yu, it was more disciplined than Yuan's Army, which was mobilized from various places.

Not long after the confrontation between the two armies began, Yuan's army became somewhat commotion, while Guan Yu's army, on the other hand, did not move at all.

Chunyu Qiong and Gao Lan knew that if they did not launch an attack, their own side would be dispersed first.

"Woo!" As the charge horn sounded, Yuan Jun slowly began to advance.

After a hail of arrows, Yuan's army finally came into contact with Guan Yu's army, and the two sides began to engage in a fierce battle.

The 20th, the 21st, the 23rd...

The two sides fought intermittently for five days on the land ten miles east of Leling. The original color of the soil began to turn black.

"Failed!"

Guan Yu's army was not only more numerous, but also had a new batch of fresh troops fighting against Yuan's army every day because they had enough generals.

On the other hand, Yuan Jun, except Chunyu Qiong and Gao Lan, had no independent generals at all. The two of them could only go into battle in person.

But people are still human after all, and they cannot rest day and night. Exhausted, they finally made a mistake and were caught by Guan Yu, who then personally led people into the battle.

It was an honest failure, without too much skill.

Chunyu Qiong and his two men returned to the plain with more than 30,000 remaining soldiers and stood firm, waiting for Yuan Shao's army to arrive.

Guan Yu did not continue the attack. After capturing Anling, he began to build Anling's city defense.

If Anling had not been captured before, it would have been Yuan Shao's army attacking Pingchang in the west of Liu Bei's army. But now that Anling has been captured, the pattern of attack and defense has changed, and it has become the plain where Liu Bei's army is attacking Yuan Shao's army.

April
Liu Bei's 50,000-strong army arrived in Gaotang and began to cross the river under the protection of Donglai and Guangling naval forces.

May 3rd
Thirty thousand vanguards of Yuan Shao's army arrived in the plain, and the number of Yuan's troops in the plain soared to 70,000.

Since Pingyuan is a large city, it can temporarily accommodate 70,000 people. But if the subsequent army arrives, it will be necessary to build a camp outside the city.

May th
Liu Bei led Lu Bu, Chen Gong and others to Anling. The number of Liu Bei's troops in Anling reached 100,000, 20,000 were stationed in Gaotang, and 30,000 were stationed in Xipingchang.

May th
Yuan Shao led the subsequent 70,000 troops and successfully reached the plains. This brought Yuan's army in the plain to 140,000.

If a war breaks out between the two sides, it will be Liu Bei's army of 100,000 versus Yuan Shao's army of 140,000.

This has to be said about Guan Yu's important role.

If it weren't for Guan Yu's many efforts in the early stage, the current situation should be that Liu Bei led an army of 150,000 to garrison Gaotang, looking for an opportunity to cross the river and attack Yuan Shao's 200,000 army on the north bank of the Yellow River.

Not to mention the disadvantage in terms of military strength, it is almost impossible to attack across the river. The final result can only be that the two sides quarreled on both sides of the Yellow River for two or three months, and then each retreated.

Because of Guan Yu's actions, Yuan Shao's army on the other side not only lost 50,000 soldiers, but also lost the natural danger of the Yellow River. It can be said that all advantages were lost.

If the natural danger of the Yellow River is still there, Yuan Shao can attack Gaotang at will, advance or attack, retreat or defend.

(End of this chapter)