The Jagged Cavalry of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 309 Chapter 308
In Pingming, Yuan Jun's last army withdrew from the south bank of the Yellow River, and Yuan Jun returned in defeat. Although Yuan Shao died, his strength was not damaged much.

Yuan Jun was able to save so many people by relying on his tricks.However, Zhang Yan hated Jushou to the core. If it wasn't for him, he might have defeated all these remnants.

When Jushou led the last batch of Yuan troops to evacuate from the south bank of the Yellow River, Zhang Yan led the cavalry to the bank and watched Jushou and others leave helplessly.

It's no wonder Zhang Yan, but Yuan Jun's arrow array is too powerful. The army led by Jushou is all crossbowmen. Each of them has a crossbow machine in their hands and can shoot three arrows at a time. An army of 3 people.

Moreover, this kind of crossbow machine loads arrows very quickly, and the operation is also very simple. In addition, under the command of Jushou, the crossbowmen shoot very regularly, and there is no chance for people to be idle. Here, the arrows are loaded after shooting. At that time, the other side made up for this time gap, cooperated with each other, and the arrows rained like rain, which caused Zhang Yan to suffer a lot.

It is strange to say that such an army composed of crossbowmen was not included in the position of elite soldiers, and it was not used by Yuan Shao, which shows Yuan Shao's mediocrity.

However, this also allowed Zhang Yan to see a message. It seemed that Jushou was deliberately passing it on to him through this match, telling him that the army in Hebei is very strong, don't cross the border, otherwise, you will have no return.

Jushou's fleet was getting further and further away. Zhang Yan waited until the army had completely disappeared before leaving Baima, leaving Li Dian to garrison here, and the rest returned to Puyang.

In this battle, Zhang Yan firmly maintained his position as the overlord of the Central Plains, and formed an evenly matched situation with the Yuan family in Hebei. At least at this stage, Zhang Yan could not destroy the Yuan family, and the Yuan family could not destroy himself.

But in Zhang Yan's heart, if he wanted to eliminate the Yuan family in Hebei, he didn't need to do it at all.Yuan Shao died and did not leave any last words at all when he was dying, so who will take over Yuan Shao's position has become the target of competition among Yuan Shao's sons.

Zhang Yan is familiar with history, Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang are bound to fight each other for power, and in the end they will fight each other. He just needs to wait for the good news on the south bank of the Yellow River.

At that time, Zhang Yan will lead his iron-blooded cavalry to sweep Hebei, and it will be easy.But at this stage, he doesn't have to do anything, he only needs to defend the line of defense and consolidate the interior of the ruling territory.

In Puyang City, Zhang Yan did not hold a celebration banquet, because in his view, although Yuan Shao's main force was defeated, the danger still existed. At least, Xiahou Dun still occupied Hanoi, Zhang Yan was still entrenched in the Montenegro area, Qingzhou's The defense is still weak.

Therefore, Zhang Yan sent Xu Chu to lead the fourth army to Qingzhou to assist Zang Ba in defending Qingzhou.

The most troublesome thing for Zhang Yan is Zhang Yan, a black mountain bandit of the rebel army in Hei Shan, Hanoi. Unstable factors may harm Zhang Yan even more in the future.

Just at this moment, Zhang Yan's elite troops were gathered in Puyang, and he was going to lead the army into Hanoi, attack Xiahou Dun first, and then destroy Zhang Yan.

As for the credit for this battle, he was recorded in the credit book, and after he completely wiped out Zhang Yan and returned to Pengcheng, he would give another reward.

Therefore, Zhang Yan left Yu Jin and the original soldiers and horses to garrison Puyang, and he led the four armies of Tai Shici, Xu Huang, Zhang Liao, and Gao Shun, together with his own bodyguards, a total of five armies. Suanzao crossed north and headed for Hanoi.

On that day, Zhang Yan rested in Puyang for a day. Although it is said that the strength of the five armies, but in the battle with Yuan Shao, except for the bodyguards, the strength of the other four armies was damaged to varying degrees. Shun's army suffered the most casualties. Currently, there are only more than 4000 people in the army, and the remaining nearly [-] people were all killed in the melee.

In addition, Zhang Liao's army lost more than 500 people, and Tai Shici and Xu Huang joined the battle late, so there were not many losses.However, they came this time with cavalry, a total of [-] cavalry, and now there are more than [-] cavalry left.The infantry stayed in the Henan area to defend the pass.

In general, the combined strength of the five armies is only 5000, which has shrunk by almost half.

However, for the convenience of command, the ministries still maintain the original unchanged organization, and are commanded by four generals, Tai Shici, Xu Huang, Zhang Liao, and Gao Shun.

However, Zhang Yan transferred Gan Ning under Zhang Liao's tent and Lu Meng under Gao Shun's tent to serve as officers in his own bodyguard army, making Gan Ning the general of Zhonglang, and Lu Meng as Gan Ning's deputy and general. .

Both Gan Ning and Lv Meng had been promoted step by step through these several battles. Zhang Yan's bodyguards lacked capable generals, so Gan Ning and Lv Meng were transferred here, and they were easy to use.

Gan Ning is brave and good at fighting, and his force is not inferior to the existing five tiger generals, but because he joined the army late, he can only be wronged temporarily.And Lv Meng started from the grassroots step by step. When he followed Gao Shun, he made many military exploits, and his wisdom won Gao Shun's love, and he recommended Lv Meng to Zhang Yan many times, saying that he would be a generation of Famous generals.

Zhang Yan naturally knew that Lu Meng would be a famous general. However, Lu Meng was still too young and needed some training. He learned how to use soldiers from Gao Shun.

Gao Shun is a famous general who has been neglected in history. He is not only brave and good at fighting, but also very good at using troops. In official history, he is also the number one general under Lu Bu's account. His power to trap the camp was also revealed for a while.

However, Lv Bu was not very good at employing people. Although Gao Shun was capable, he couldn't be properly appointed. Moreover, Lv Bu liked to listen to slander, so Gao Shun was a man of inferior talent.

Originally, Zhang Yan had considered Gao Shun when he decided on the Five Tiger Generals, but he may have been influenced by the classic literature masterpiece Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and he wanted to leave the position of the last Tiger General to Zhao Yun, so he didn't let Gao Shun be the Tiger General.But Gao Shun didn't complain either, he looked like a willing ox, led his troops rigorously, and fought bravely. After this war, Zhang Yan even considered promoting Gao Shun's official position.However, this is something to talk about later.

The next day, after a night of rest, Zhang Yan personally led the five-way army, a total of 5000 people, with dry food from Puyang City, for a total of seven days, taking advantage of the victory of the army, and officially embarked on the journey.

Zhang Yan led the army and crossed north from Yan County to Ji County in Hanoi County. It was only eighty miles away from Chaoge and Dangyin counties where Zhang Yan and other black bandits were entrenched, and Huaicheng, the county seat of Hanoi County where Xiahou Dun was located. , about two hundred miles away.

The reason why Zhang Yan chose to land from this place was to cut off the connection between Xiahou Dun and Zhang Yan. He left Gao Shun's army to garrison Ji County and block off the main roads from east to west, but he led the rest of the troops to Huaihe in a hurry. city.

Before Zhang Yan arrived in Hanoi, the scouts had already started to operate, sneaking into Hanoi from all over Henan to inquire about news.

The news of Yuan Shao's death and the disastrous defeat of the army has not yet reached Hanoi, so Hanoi is still a scene of calm. In ancient times, news was blocked, which is a common problem.

If Zhang Yan's army can have the advanced information transmission technology of the 21st century, then Zhang Yan may become the king of war, the eternal undefeated emperor of war.

It's a pity that he is not an inventor, and he doesn't know how to invent those high-tech things, such as satellites, computers, mobile phones and so on.He is just an ordinary guy who can invent something he knows, but he is almost illiterate when it comes to information transfer technology.

In this era, scouts have become the best way to transmit information.

The scout sent by Zhang Yan arrived in Hanoi the day before. Zhang Yan was advancing rapidly towards Huaicheng. By noon, he had already arrived at the boundary of Huojia County.

Not long after entering the border of Huojia County, a scout rushed over from a distance. Zhang Yan let the soldiers rest for a while, met the scout, and asked, "What's the news from the direction of Huaicheng?"

"My lord, Xiahou Dun, who was stationed in Huaicheng, withdrew his troops yesterday and entered Shangdang through Tianjingguan."

"Retreat? Xiahou Dun is gone?" Zhang Yan was a little surprised when he heard the news, and asked immediately.

The scout said: "Xiahoudun has indeed left Hanoi with his army, and he left in a hurry. I don't know why."

Zhang Yan pondered for a moment, then immediately said: "Okay, I understand. Pass on the order, and all the scouts under your command should immediately go to the Shangdang area to inquire about the news. I want to know the movements of Xiahou Dun and Cao Cao."

"Here!"

Xiahoudun suddenly retreated, so there was no need for him to go to Huaicheng.Now that Hanoi does not have the strength of Cao Jun, he can wholeheartedly deal with the Black Mountain bandits.

However, there was one thing that confused Zhang Yan. In the two days of fighting Yuan Shao, he only saw Xia Houyuan and Cao Hong, but not Cao Cao.Cao Cao's whereabouts have become a mystery.

Zhang Yan asked the soldiers to rest at the same place, and after lunch, they returned the same way, and then sent someone to inform Jia Kui who was in Jiguan, and asked him to lead Hao Zhao and others to attack Tianjing Pass. Only in this way can the Shangdang main road leading to Hanoi be strangled.

After lunch, Zhang Yan led the army back the same way, joined forces with Gao Shun in Ji County, and then went to Chaoge together.

Yuan Shao was defeated in the war with Zhang Yan, and even himself died in the Central Plains. No one can shake Zhang Yan's dominance in the Central Plains.

But Zhang Yan, who was paying close attention to this battle, suddenly became frowning.

Zhang Yan never dreamed that Zhang Yan would win more with less, defeating Yuan Shao who had an army of 35 in the Southern Expedition, and even Yuan Shao himself died on the battlefield.

Suddenly, a message came that the regent Zhang Yan, leading the five-way army, had arrived in Ji County, Hanoi, and was rushing towards Chaoge, threatening to flatten the Black Mountain and capture Zhang Yan alive!

Upon hearing the news, Zhang Yan felt trembling all over. Although he had tens of thousands of troops and hundreds of thousands of civilians attached to him, compared to Zhang Yan's elite, he was simply vulnerable. Zhang Yan even had Yuan Shao's 35 The army is defeated, let alone these shrimp soldiers and crab generals of his own?

Suddenly, Zhang Yan was a little annoyed and remorseful, feeling that she had listened to Cao Cao's slander and betrayed Zhang Yan.I thought Yuan Shao would defeat Zhang Yan, but I didn't expect Yuan Shao to be defeated by Zhang Yan, and now I have become the target of Zhang Yan's Bingfeng.

what to do?To fight, or to surrender?
(End of this chapter)