Three Kingdoms.

  Chapter 1409 Ye City Chaos

  The vicinity of Yecheng was originally an open land with a flat surface, which was most suitable for horse racing. When Tai Shici led a large number of cavalry to charge, the rushing front was overwhelming.

  The culling of Yuan soldiers stationed in Yanjin not only disturbed Chun Yuqiong, but also obtained a batch of Yuan Jun's costumes and flags, and these things played a very important role in the process of Tai Shici's attack on Yecheng. No one could have imagined that someone would pretend to be Yuan Jun's soldiers, and even some people had some doubts and quickly dispelled themselves. After all, Yuan Shao is in full swing, and Yecheng is Yuan Shao's stronghold, who has the guts to pretend to be?

   Even some villages and manors in some places believed that this was a cavalry column that Yuan Shao transferred from Yanzhou or somewhere else. In order to ensure that these guys would not disturb the local area, they even offered some military supplies to Tai Shici...

  Of course, thanks to Tai Shici, he looks decent in appearance, and there are no flaws in his speech. Speaking of which, Tai Shici also started by "lying". In this regard, Tai Shici has no pressure to act.

   Right now, all the pressure has been transferred to Lu Kuang.

The large camp, as the name suggests, stores all the materials prepared to supply Yuan Shao's march. It manages tens of thousands of civilians and more than 2,000 soldiers. The huge camp is divided into several areas. There are also some small fences used to separate them. The main camp of soldiers and Lu Kuang is in the middle, and the camps of civilian husbands are all around.

The guarding soldiers on the outskirts of the supply camp only fired one or two rounds of arrows on the sentry tower, and were completely covered by Tai Shici's counterattack. After screaming and falling from the sentry tower, It is tantamount to completely losing the only ability to strike against Tai Shici's troops.

After all, the guards on these sentry towers were not aimed at troops like Tai Shici, but at the civilians in the camp. Therefore, when facing Tai Shici, this little defensive power is like The clothes on the helpless girl's body are either present or not.

Braving sporadic arrows, Tai Shici roared with his troops, increasing the speed of the horses to the limit. The horses of the Northland Gaojun seemed to be galloping with all four hooves in the air, and crashed into the camp, and rushed to the outermost The folk camp!

At this moment, Lu Kuang had already abandoned the outlying civilian camps in despair. He just wanted to quickly gather some swordsmen and spearmen, and set up a defensive formation in the central army stronghold, at least to ensure that before the defenders of Yecheng came to rescue , can't completely collapse!

  As for the peripheral supplies and supplies, at this moment, Lu Kuang has completely ignored it...

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   "This commander must be a lunatic..." Gao Lan also stood on the watchtower at the recruit camp in the northeast of Yecheng, looking at the large camp with fireworks billowing in the south.

  The new barracks needed a large school yard and the convenience of getting water, so it was set up on the left side of a small forest in the northeast of Yecheng, at a bend in the river, connected to the south bank by three suspension bridges.

  At this moment, listening to the sound of fighting, screams, and the sound of horseshoes coming from afar in the large supply camp, the faces of the soldiers in the recruit camp all turned pale.

  Gao Lan murmured in a low voice: "The supply battalion is over... Now let's see how long Captain Lu can stay..."

  The guards around Gao Lan were a little dazed, and couldn't help saying: "There...there are tens of thousands of people in this supply camp...how come..."

"Tens of thousands...hehe..." Gao Lan shook his head slightly, sighed and said, "...a mob is not as good as a thousand soldiers who are good at fighting...I can't stop it, just see how this lunatic Zhengxi chooses. If he chooses to disperse and burn These supplies may give Colonel Lu a chance to breathe and reorganize... and..."

  Gao Lan turned his eyes to the gate tower of Yecheng, vaguely saw some figures shaking on the gate tower, and swallowed the rest of the words in his stomach.

   Right now, it’s not just how the generals of Zhengxi are selected, but also how Yuan Shang in Yecheng chooses...

  Do you want to preserve the luggage, or use these luggage as a lure to encircle and annihilate the invading enemy?

  The smoke and dust in the distance rose higher and higher. Finally, the first cluster of huge flames began to rise. There is no doubt that this is the cavalry army that conquered the west. It has broken through the outer defenses, started to disperse the civilians, and set fire to the supplies!

   Immediately after the large camp, fireworks rose one after another. Obviously, there was more than one place, but more supplies joined the ranks of being burned, and the clumps of black smoke covered half of the sky!

   At this time, it is only about half an hour before the start of the war! This army of General Zhengxi is fierce in attack, strong in destructive power, and determined in will, which can be seen!

  Gao Lan didn't continue to say anything, but just watched with a sullen face, but the guards around him and the recruits couldn't help but make some mixed sounds of panic!

At this moment, suddenly there was a flag shaking above the gate tower of Yecheng City, and the sound of drums came faintly at random. Sighed: "The big thing is gone!"

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  The watchtower of the city gate of Yecheng.

   At this distance, Yuan Shang heard the specific screams and shouts in the supply camp, mixed together, noisy, and his face turned pale. Although the huge fireworks in the baggage camp were hotter than the nearby torches, there were still beads of sweat rolling down the faces of Yuan Shao and Guo Tu.

  Yuan Shang slapped the battlements, and said angrily: "Military sentry! No one in the military sentry found out where this expeditionary force came from!? Damn it! Damn it!"

Standing behind Yuan Shang, the Captain of Yecheng looked ashamed, and saluted: "...My young master, we are not enough cavalry... The night sentries did not find anything, presumably these Zhengxi cavalry drove here at night...Hiding in the side, suddenly attack..."

Guo Tu glanced at the captain, rolled his eyes, and decided to give the captain a round. It wasn't that Guo Tu fell in love with the captain, and it didn't have any special relationship. Now it must be seriously damaged. If Yuan Shao gets angry in the future, he will have a head to make Yuan Shao angry, but Yuan Shang can't cut off his head now, otherwise wouldn't he have to carry it by himself?

Therefore, Guo Tu said slowly: "This matter is understandable... After all, the cavalrymen who conquered the west traveled thousands of miles across the northern lands, came and went like the wind, and were fierce and unparalleled... The man who conquered the west used his troops with secrets and swiftness. His ability, looking at it now, is really well-deserved... Now is not the time to pursue crimes, we still have to think about how to retreat..."

The captain of Yecheng let out a long breath when he heard the words, and bowed his hands to thank Guo Tu. Although the crisis may not be completely eliminated, but at least there is no need for people to fall to the ground, so he hurriedly said: "I have ordered the soldiers and horses in the city to be summoned. You can send aid to the supply camp at any time!"

  Yuan Shao turned his head, looked at Guo Tu, and asked, "Gongze, what do you think?"

  Guo Tu squinted his eyes slightly, his mind was turning a thousand times.

Don't look at the Zhengxi cavalry coming and going in the large supply camp outside the city, it seems that the momentum is huge, but Guo Tu knows that these Zhengxi cavalry did not carry any siege equipment, so Yecheng is naturally as safe as Mount Tai, without any siege. There is no danger, and if there are only these numbers of Zhengxi cavalry, Guo Tu can even use the large supply camp to hold back the pace of these Zhengxi cavalry, and then mobilize troops to outflank the left and right, and then under the city of Ye, it is possible to encircle and annihilate them This group of levy cavalry!

  But at the next moment, Guo Tu gave up this battle plan again.

  Adopting this plan means using the large baggage camp as a bait to completely slow down the cavalry of General Zhengxi, and who is in charge of transferring supplies and transporting the baggage?

  It is Yuan Shang in name, but it is Guo Tu in fact!

  Even if this group of cavalrymen who conquered the west were all wiped out, but they had set up a large supply camp here, Yuan Shao would have no money and food supplies on the front line in the future.

   Maybe Yuan Shang was responsible for encircling and annihilating the Western Cavalry, but the responsibility for destroying the supply camp and losing supplies fell on Guo Tu...

After all, Guo Tu is not a saint, he is also one of the representatives of the Yuzhou faction, he must first consider the survival of his own gang, if he is caught and suppressed by the Jizhou faction, then he will be blamed for the defeat of the entire battle Blame it here, it will undoubtedly be a heavy blow to the development of the Yuzhou faction!

The best choice at the moment is undoubtedly to throw out the characters of the Jizhou faction and save the supplies as much as possible. As for the cavalry unit of General Zhengxi, as long as the city is well protected, there are no pure cavalry carrying siege equipment , What can Yecheng do?

  Maybe there are other opportunities to annihilate, so why rush?

  Besides, if these cavalrymen are led to the manor of those Jizhou guys, um...

Therefore, Guo Tu said in a low voice: "The young master is a man of gold, how can the soldiers in the city be easily dispatched? If the door is seized by the opportunity, wouldn't it be a big mistake? The current strategy can make the general Gao of the camp in the north of the city quickly lead the troops to rescue , marching from north to south! In this way, the enemy soldiers will definitely go north, and we can look for opportunities to attack from the side, and we will surely win a big victory!"

After all, Yuan Shang was a young man and had no experience on the battlefield, so he didn't have many ideas. After listening to Guo Tu's suggestion, he thought about it for a while and found it very reasonable, so he ordered the bannerman on the city gate to , passed an order to Gao Lan of the North Camp, ordering him to lead the troops to meet...

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   "Close to the fire but take far away water!" Seeing the banner above Yecheng, Gao Lan angrily thumped on the wall of the camp.

It's not that Gao Lan is cowardly, but that Yecheng is closer to the supply camp than the recruit camp. Of course, rescue is more convenient than Gao Lan's place. The suspension bridge in Yecheng hangs high, the gates of the city are closed, and they just sit and watch!

   And there is another very important point, the city of Ye is full of county soldiers, no matter how bad it is, there are three thousand soldiers! As for Gao Lan, it is not wrong to have 8,000 soldiers. Although the number is large, the problem is that these are recruits who have just been recruited. They have been trained for less than a month, and they can't even remember the golden drum clearly. !

In the line of sight, Zhengxi's cavalry formation is being divided into four parts, three are fighting in the camp, and the other is guarding outside the camp, pulling out a long and sparse front, roaring and circling outside the camp. , Throwing some arrows from time to time, disturbing the civilians and soldiers in the camp.

As for the Zhengxi cavalry in the baggage camp, Gao Lan couldn't see them because of his sight, but according to Gao Lan's thinking, the current Zhengxi cavalry must be circling and driving in a small area, and the panicked civilians will continue to rush Pressing in depth, let these peasants approach the Lu Kuang camp in the center, break down the barriers of the deer village in front of the camp, and finally destroy the entire baggage camp...

At this time, even if Yecheng does not send troops, as long as it pretends to send troops, it can disrupt the overall steps of the Western Cavalry, forcing the Western Cavalry to separate more soldiers to defend the periphery, and reduce the burden on the west. The pressure on Lu Kuang in the large camp, but the problem is, how could Yuan Shang, who is located in Yecheng, listen to Gao Lan's idea!

These expeditionary cavalry, each skilled in riding skills, although only a quarter of the number, that is, a few hundred people, they spread out widely, firmly controlled the battlefield, and even forced them to the city of Yecheng Land of Arrows! Obviously, it has a certain threatening ability to the city gate of Yecheng, but on the other hand, it means that the cavalry of Zhengxi is worried that the soldiers of Yecheng will come out!

  It's a pity that Yuan Shang in Yecheng, seeing such a situation, didn't choose to attack to rescue the plight of the supply camp at the first time, but chose to stick to the city and ordered Gao Lan to go out of the camp and cross the river to rescue!

Gao Lan's eyes fluctuated, and he wanted to send people to Yecheng several times to tell Yuan Shang on the gate tower of Yecheng his judgment, so that Yuan Shang changed his mind and sent troops quickly, but he only saw the gate tower The flag on the board became more and more urgent, and the drum beat became more and more impatient. I couldn't help but take a long breath, closed my eyes, waved my arms, and ordered: "Send the order! The whole team! Go out!"

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  The change in the camp of recruits in the north of Ye City quickly attracted the attention of Zhengxi cavalry cruising on the battlefield to control the field, and then quickly reported it to Tai Shici.

Tai Shici took back the **** halberd, dismounted from his horse, and climbed up to the sentry tower on the side of the camp. After looking at it for a while, he immediately turned around and came down, and shouted in a deep voice: "These Yuan Jun must not be allowed to cross the river to line up! They must be burned first. Floating bridge! You guys, bring fuel oil, summon your subordinates, come along!"

In the large camp, although the number of civilians is several times that of Tai Shici and others, as the great man of later generations said, the power of the people is infinite, and the organized people are an orderly and powerful force, while the unorganized The people are left with the power of disorderly destruction.

  The huge civilians ran around in panic and panic, not daring to resist at all. Ren Taishici and others pushed and drove them all the way, almost like entering a land of no one...

  Thus, although the supply camp has not been completely destroyed, the pressure is not too great. The middle camp was hit by their own civilians, and it will be a matter of time before the array collapses. And the change of the camp in the north of Yecheng is the most dangerous threat to Tai Shici at the moment. If the soldiers of Yecheng attack from both sides, it may be dangerous.

The Suspension Bridge in Yecheng has not been put down, and it seems that he is still worried about the possibility of being robbed of the city, but Tai Shici knows well that for a city as huge as Yecheng, if three thousand cavalry are really thrown into the street fighting in the city, it may not be possible. How much advantage is taken, and more importantly, Tai Shici has no support from the rear army, so the posture of looking for opportunities to grab the city is just a bluff...

  But if the soldiers in the north of the city continue to advance, there is no guarantee that the defenders of Yecheng will not take the opportunity to come out!

   This dangerous sign must be suppressed first!

Although the river to the north of Yecheng is not a natural moat, and it is not just these three pontoon bridges connecting the two banks. There is also a stone bridge at the north gate of Yecheng, but these three pontoon bridges are undoubtedly the shortest way. With these three pontoon bridges, the soldiers from the northern battalion of Ye City had to take a long detour, and when these people really came this long way, the large supply camp would probably have been burnt to pieces...

   Therefore, the three pontoon bridges have become the focus of the current battlefield!

  (end of this chapter)