Guan Yu killed the general and captured the flag, and then Zhang Chong led the 500 cavalry brought by Tian Jun and charged towards Cao Cao's cavalry in the opposite direction. The Han army was no longer able to form an army, so Cao Cao secretly took off his cloak and hid in the rout.
, fled towards the south.
The encounter in the field of Nagashe is over, but the fighting is still going on.
At that time, Cao Cao's Cavalry Commander's Division still had 800 cavalrymen. However, the Taishan Army's sudden cavalry cut off the return route. When they were about to escape elsewhere, the left and right formations of the Taishan Army did not know when they had outflanked them.
Keep closing the circle.
In this way, Cao Cao and others were surrounded by Taishan's army without realizing it.
At this time, the Han army was in danger, and Cao Cao decisively ordered his troops to disperse and break out of the encirclement. It was during the breakout process that he realized how powerful these Taishan troops were.
Who is that thief general who can lift a horse? Who is the one who misses all his shots and kills three of his guards? There are so many warriors in the world? But why do they all surrender to the Taishan thief?
It was with this mixed emotion of fear and envy that he slipped out through the gap in the southwest corner. The price was that half of the fifty elite guardsmen were lost.
But the successful breakout was only the beginning. The subsequent pursuit made Cao Cao understand that the battlefield is really a place of life and death. Along the way, several thieves had chased him within a few steps of him, and once a thieves had even caught him.
Sleeves, had Cao Cao not cut off the cuffs decisively, and the yellow gelding he sat on was a rare-to-buy BMW, he would have escaped and ascended to heaven.
But the majestic horse under his crotch also exposed his identity.
The person who could ride such a horse must be a high-ranking military officer of the Han army. Therefore, Cao Cao was like a magnet attracting the nearby Taishan army's rangers who were pursuing death and chasing north.
Only five of his guards were left chasing him along the way, but they were all close confidants of the Cao family. Later, a guard volunteered to switch to Cao Cao's BMW and attracted the pursuers away. Cao Cao himself took two
The man crouched in the grass and watched the pursuers go away.
Although Cao Cao was a son of the public clan and had to endure hardships, this wave of escape still left him with lingering fears. Three days later, when he trembled and rushed back to Huangfusong's camp with two companions in embarrassment, everyone was shocked.
Jump.
Is this still the young gentleman from Kyoto who originally looked after Zixiong?
His clothes were in rags, his military bean was all gone, his hair was disheveled, and his previously well-groomed beard was gathering like weeds, but what remained unchanged was his eyes, which were still so calm and composed.
In Huangfusong's tent, Cao Cao told the old commander without reservation the success or failure of the Battle of Changshe. He believed that the old commander had his own judgment.
Originally, a man like Cao Cao who lost his army and defeated his army would have no chance to appeal. The best situation is that he will be sent to the Beijing Office of Administrative Affairs, and the worst situation is that he will be directly engaged in military law.
But who gave Cao Cao a big background, even a veteran commander like Huangfu Song had to be careful and give him a chance. Sure enough, when Cao Cao finished telling the story of this battle, Huangfu Song pondered.
Huangfu Song was also surprised. He had already taken the Taishan thieves very seriously, but unexpectedly, he still underestimated them. Two thousand elite men rode in the wilderness to fight with the thieves, and actually lost.
Moreover, the commanders of many Han generals in this battle were also remarkable, and there was no arrogance or arrogance. On the contrary, Cao Cao, Fifth Commander, and Geng Zhi all did a good job in their battle strategies.
For example, Cao Cao, who was in battle for the first time, took the lead, had an insight into the fighting opportunities, and was good at listening to the tactics of his subordinates. He did not have the arrogance and arrogance of a son of a public minister. He was a talented general. And the strategy proposed by the fifth commander was also very good. This strategy was very good in the past. It was also used at that time. At that time, when the country first became a great treasure, Yang Xuan, the Marquis of Xinyang Township, was pacifying Cangwu and Guiyang was in chaos. There were many thieves and Yang Xuan was weak. The Marquis of Xinyang Township specially made dozens of carriages to carry bags. He put lime on the cart and then fought with the thieves. The Xinyang Township Marquis blew up the ashes in the wind, and the thieves couldn't look at him. Then the cavalry rushed into the thieves' formation and defeated the thieves. Therefore, the strategy proposed by the Fifth Jun is a good one.
Even Geng Zhi, the victor who led to the defeat of this battle, was highly rated by Huangfu Song. He was indeed the first-class general in the country. He was fearless, aware of opportunities and decisive in this battle. From then on, he only led six The fact that hundreds of cavalrymen dared to climb up the slope at the edge of the battlefield showed their fearlessness. Then they realized that the key to the success or failure of this battle was the thieves' thousands of troops. They dared to charge downhill, which shows that they knew the opportunity. They even knew that something must be done and returned immediately. Even after the cavalry was cut off, they could still continue to implement their forward strategy, which can be described as decisive.
But the more generals like Cao Cao did nothing wrong and did well, the more Huangfu Song became afraid of the Taishan generals. You must know that Geng Zhi just made a mistake on the battlefield that was not a mistake, and was caught by the thieves. , and then decisively attacked to reverse the situation. When Cao Cao charged, the rogue generals were not panicked, but they could still find countermeasures, and even bravely broke into the formation, beheaded the generals and captured the flag.
The more Huangfusong thought about it, the more frightened he became. He stood up immediately and was about to order an army to intercept and kill his troops. After a long military journey, Huangfusong already had an intuition on the battlefield, and his intuition told him that this group of soldiers was the The biggest variables in the battle must be eliminated.
But at this moment, there was a sudden loud sound of drums in the sky and the earth. A guard opened the tent and knelt down to report:
"Commander, the Runan Yellow Turbans on the opposite side are out in full force. They have set up a large formation in the wilderness and are pressing towards us."
Huangfu Song was startled and no longer cared about the Taishan bandits. He hurried out of his tent and went up to the watchtower to observe the formation.
Sure enough, Runan's Taiping Road really came out in full force. In the wilderness, the sun was golden, shining on yellow clothes and yellow flags, and the whole was a sea of yellow.
They lined up in seven large formations, densely packed into the field of vision. Among them, the one holding a six-section battle with an apricot-yellow flag was the most eye-catching. There were no less than ten thousand of them, and they lined up neatly towards the Han army camp group. Come. Among them there are warriors holding high yellow flags, as many as five or six hundred, with scriptures from the Taiping Sutra painted on them. These people are chanting scriptures as they walk, and the whole world is solemn and solemn.
Then came the three formations on the left. They marched side by side with the center formation with the apricot-yellow flag in the middle, holding the flags of the three generals "Wu", "Gong" and "He", and thousands of prayer flags. They also recited scriptures:
"The Taiping Jinque Emperor, the Holy Emperor, the King, the Master, and the Assistants track down the years, the calmness comes and goes, the signs are waiting for the sages, the meritorious deeds cultivate the people, and the foundation of the law is established."
The direction of the left wing was obviously the several fortresses on the edge of Yingshui River. They followed the apricot-yellow banner, and then queues continued to branch out and stationed in the bridge villages on the east bank of Yingshui River. The intention was obvious, that is to block the east bank. Zhu Jun's reinforcements. It seems that Peng Tuo of Runan is about to fight Huangfu Song to the death.
Huangfu Song stood on the watchtower thoughtfully, and then continued to look at the right wing of the bandit formation. There were about 20,000 flags in this part, and their commanders were "Liu", "Huang", and "He". Once the number of people exceeds 10,000, the sky is boundless.
Without delay, the dust stirred up by tens of thousands of people made the sky and the earth darken. They formed a long and wide formation from the southwest, obviously hoping to outflank the Han army's position from behind with their numerical advantage from further away.
There was no need for orders from Huangfu Song of the Chinese Army, and all the lieutenants under his command had the right to take advantage. After the initial panic, they quickly organized a tentative attack.
Rangers from each camp of the Han army came out in all directions, constantly harassing the approaching Yellow Turban Army. At the beginning, the Yellow Turban Army and cavalry rushed out from behind to drive these people away.
But the Yellow Turbans in Runan are people from the hinterland, and people from the border areas are not good at riding. Now most of the riders of the Yellow Turban Army are the grassroots Tang newspapers, sentries, and riding slaves of the original Han Dynasty. They can ride horses, but you have to
It is delusional to say that he can fight against the knights of Kyoto.
Therefore, the Yellow Turban cavalry who fled quickly were strangled by the Han army, and the remaining ones did not dare to attack. In the end, the Yellow Turban cavalry who were lining up simply stopped driving away, and only asked the soldiers to hold up their shields on the periphery to block the scattered soldiers.
With arrows fired, the large army was still approaching the Han army.
The knights of the Han army really had nothing to do with these large formations. When these moth thieves marched to only 300 steps away from the many camps of the Han army, they stopped, began to organize their troops one after another, and formed a strong formation again.
At this time, the situation was very unoptimistic for the Han army. Due to the sudden attack of the moth thieves, even with the harassment of the rangers, the Han army still did not have enough time to organize the army. Even because the moth thieves were approaching, the Han army could not reach it.
At three hundred paces, the Han army did not have enough space to form an array outside the camp.
Under this situation, Huangfu Song decisively ordered the tents in the camp to be dismantled and formed an array inside the camp. Then when the troops were ready, he dismantled the front wall of the camp and attacked directly.
Huangfu Song has already understood that this battle is the decisive battle that he has been waiting for for many days, and the opportunity cannot be missed.
Indeed, Huangfu Song's vision was very accurate. This time Runan's Qukui Pengtuo was not a probing attack or a bluff. He really wanted to fight Huangfu Song to the death.
This was not what Peng Tuo wanted, but he had to do it. It was just because the Yellow Turban Allied Forces in Yingyang began to run out of supplies. It had been several days since Runan and Chen had not sent military food from the rear.
At present, Peng Tuo's camp only has enough millet to feed the army for ten days. Excluding the maximum seven days of food, there is only three days of redundancy. In other words, Peng Tuo's troops must fight the Han army in these days.
After that, no matter whether you win or lose, you need to move to another place to fight.
In fact, Peng Tuo was opposed to Ma Yuanyi's strategy from the beginning, which was to gather 150,000 hedgehogs in the small area of Yingyang.
What is the concept of gathering 150,000 horses and hedgehogs in one place? You must know that Kyoto only has a population of a few hundred thousand, so it needs to be transported and supported from all over the world. Now they have 150,000 people to feed horses and hedgehogs, and they need to be transported to the rear. To be honest
, Runan, Chen Guo's rear can persist until now, which is already very rare.
Moreover, the old brothers who stayed in Runan also sent Peng Tuo the latest information on the situation in Runan.
Recently, the Han army has a governor of Yuzhou, who has been constantly liaising with the powerful families in Runan. Not to mention those who have become mortal enemies with Taiping Dao, but also those who still do not conflict with Taiping Dao, they have all raised troops in the rear and continue to attack Taiping. Attack and harass strongholds all over the road.
It is already the seventh month of summer, and the Yellow Turban troops who have stabilized in various parts of Runan are busy farming near their strongholds. Now these resurgent powerful tribes are constantly burning the fields and intercepting Taiping Road outside, causing the situation in Runan to change. An earth-shaking reversal.
The main force of the Yellow Turbans from Runan went north, but there were not many who stayed there, and they had to shoulder heavy transportation work, which was very difficult.
Peng Tuo regretted deeply. If he had stayed in Runan, how could he have allowed these old brothers to die miserably. But it was useless to regret. At this time, for him, the most important thing was to defeat the Han army on the opposite side before the food ran out. of.
At this time, on the battlefield on the west bank of Yingshui River, due to Huangfu Song's military order, the Han army filled up the wells, pulled down the walls of the stronghold, and began to march into the battlefield in neat formations.
Huangfu Song's regiment has 20,000 soldiers and is divided into five divisions. Among them, the left military commander Bao Hong, the former military commander Feng Fang, the right military commander Chunyu Qiong, the middle army Sima Zhao Rong, and the rear army Sima Xia Mou.
These five lieutenants were either from the military or had been transferred to the imperial court to advise the officials, but they all believed in Huangfu Song's military strategy and were ready to fight the bandits to the death. At that time, the lieutenants of the Central Military Academy Zhao Rongzheng and Huangfu Song were in the watchtower. After all, they were still missing. He held back and asked Huangfu Song:
"Commander, you are so impatient. Didn't you want to keep them calm before and wait for their food and grass to be cut off before striking with thunder? Now the armies are unprepared and have rushed out. The outcome is still uncertain."
After hearing this, Huangfusong thought of the conversation he had just had with Cao Cao in the tent, and thought of the Taishan bandits who would arrive on the battlefield at some point. The urgency in his heart could not be understood by outsiders.
He hesitates about one thing now.
That is whether we should continue to send troops north to intercept the Taishan bandits. If we really want to think about this issue, we must first think about how many troops should be sent. Previously, Cao Cao, the cavalry captain, led two thousand cavalry to fight against the bandits, but the battle could not last more than a morning. He was defeated. But now if he wants to stop his army, he must at least go to the captain's headquarters.
But in this way, Yingyang's troops are weak. Peng Tuo's troops on the opposite side actually have 70,000 troops. If he only has four Xiaowei troops, he is afraid that he will not be able to withstand them. As for Zhu Jun's troops on the east coast, he still has 15,000 troops. There were thousands of soldiers, but Huangfu Song didn't have the confidence to expect them to come to support him.
And if the Yingyang battlefield side loses, what is the use of successfully intercepting the Taishan bandits?
Therefore, his rationality told him that instead of adding fuel to the Taishan bandits coming from the north and defeating them one by one, it would be better to concentrate his forces for a decisive battle here and take advantage of the Runan Yellow Turbans to come out in force and defeat them in one fell swoop.
But if you are not afraid of ten thousand, you are afraid of the worst. What Huangfusong is most worried about is that when the battle with Peng Tuo reaches a critical point, the Taishan Army will come out from behind. He has been in the army for half his life, and he knows that what he worries about most will often happen. Therefore, even a veteran commander like Huangfu Song would inevitably hesitate on this matter.
To gamble or not to gamble?
In the end, Huangfu Song finally called for the guard Huangfu Li, who was his nephew. Huangfu Song whispered to his nephew, who was wearing a basin collar armor and was not heavy at all. He walked down the watchtower vigorously and led Huangfu Song's bodyguard. let's go.
Huangfusong was still worried after all, so he had to compromise and let his 200 soldiers go north to block the attack. He didn't want to be able to resist the Taishan bandits from going south, as long as he could send the information in time.
He will use the Central Military Academy Lieutenant Department here as the final preparation to deal with the Taishan bandits at any time.
With everything ready, Huangfu Song focused all his attention on the battlefield in front of him.
Here, there is still a tough battle waiting for him.