After several days of enduring humiliation and heavy burdens, Cao Jun
Finally, after Yuan Shao showed off his siege equipment, he destroyed all his siege equipment in one fell swoop.
Not only that, the catapults also smashed them all to pieces along with those annoying earthen mountains and high platforms.
Cao Jun finally vented his anger.
Moreover, now that there is the threat of trebuchets, Yuan Jun no longer dares to build high earthen platforms.
The two sides fell into a stalemate for a while.
However, although the battle in Guandu was temporarily in a stalemate, the battlefields in other places gradually began to become exciting.
Yuan's army diverted troops from Han Meng and was ordered to detour to the rear of Cao's army and harass Cao's army's food route.
When Han Meng and his party came to Jiluo Mountain, their experience in many battles immediately told Han Meng that this was an excellent place for an ambush!
Jiluo Mountain is surrounded by dangers and there is only one road through the mountain.
Han Meng determined that this road was the only way for Cao's army to transport food, so he sent scouts to investigate in the mountains to find the best place to ambush.
An hour later, the scout who went to survey the terrain came back and reported: "Report! General, there is a forest under the mountain road ahead, and troops can be hidden in the woods; on the other side of the mountain road is a slightly steep mountain wall, and you can also hide on the mountain.
An ambush among the rocks on the wall."
After Han Meng heard this, he immediately sent down the order and divided his troops into two groups to ambush among the woods and rocks on the mountain wall.
After everyone laid an ambush, they waited for Cao's army to escort the heavy food and baggage team. As long as they passed here, Han Meng's army would come up and down, and Cao's army would definitely be unable to guard against it.
When Han Meng's 10,000 troops were stationed and set up an ambush in Jiluo Mountain, Wei Yan and Chen Dao happened to return from Runan. After passing through Xuchang for supplies, they planned to go north to Guandu to support Cao Cao.
When Wei Yan led his army not far into Jiluo Mountain, he suddenly raised his hand and ordered the army behind him to stop.
Chen Dao didn't know what Wei Yan meant.
He came to Wei Yan's side and saw that Wei Yan seemed to be concentrating on something, so he asked doubtfully: "General, why don't you move on?"
Wei Yan did not answer Chen Dao's doubts immediately.
Instead, he first carefully observed the mountains and woods, then listened attentively, and then replied: "Uncle Zhi, didn't you notice that there is something more and something missing in front of you?"
When Chen Dao heard this, he observed carefully.
After more than ten breaths, he looked at Wei Yan with blank eyes and asked: "General, I really don't see what is too much and what is missing. Why don't you just say it..."
Wei Yan didn't have the appetite to tease Chen Duo any more. He replied: "There are occasional gravel falls on the mountain wall ahead, but there are no chirping of insects and birds in the forest..."
Chen Dao was stunned for a moment when he heard this, then suddenly realized, lowered his voice and said: "There is an ambush!"
Wei Yan saw that Chen could get through at one o'clock, so Fu Xu smiled and said: "It's a material that can be made!"
"Then what should I do?" Chen Dao continued to ask.
"We are still some distance away from the enemy's ambush circle, and they probably haven't discovered our traces yet."
Having said this, Wei Yan looked at Chen Dao and said, "Uncle Zhi, I have a plan to defeat the enemy, but I don't know if you have the guts to carry it out?"
When Chen Dao was young and bold, after hearing what Wei Yan said, he immediately slapped his chest and said, "Why don't you dare? General, just say it clearly!"
"Okay!" Wei Yan admired Chen Dao's enterprising spirit, which was somewhat similar to him when he was young.
After calming down his thoughts for a while, Wei Yan said to Chen Dao: "Lead your brothers a mile or so forward later, and then shoot rockets into the woods at the foot of the mountain. Regardless of whether there are enemies rushing out of the woods, you just have to
Just return it.”
Although Chen Dao knew that he was going to be used as bait, he still agreed without hesitation, "I'll take your orders!"
Wei Yan nodded and ordered the soldiers to hand over all the rockets in their hands to Chen Dao's men.
After watching Chen Dao leave, Wei Yan ordered his men to ambush on the mountain wall and in the woods, waiting for possible ambush.
Let's say that Han Meng's army was divided into two groups, one was ambush among the rocks on the mountain wall, and the other was ambush in the mountains and forests, waiting for Cao's army's grain team to pass by, and then both armies came out to kill them without leaving a single piece of armor behind.
Sure enough, after waiting for too long, the secret sentry in the front came back and reported: "General, there is a Cao army team of several hundred people coming here from the front. But there are no grain trucks behind them, so they should not be an army transporting grain."
"Hundreds of people?" Han Meng was stunned and muttered to himself: "What is the purpose of a team of several hundred people?"
Just when Han Meng was hesitating whether to appear and swallow this small group of Cao's troops,
Chen Dao suddenly gave an order, and the soldiers behind him all took off the bows and arrows on their backs, lit the rockets, and shot out into the mountains and forests!
The rockets fell into the woods and were inserted into the ground. The dry leaves on the ground immediately burned! Some rockets were also inserted into the trunks of trees and ignited the trees.
The fire spread quickly, and Han Meng realized that he had been discovered by Cao Jun at some point!
The fire began to spread rapidly. Seeing that the situation was not good, Han Meng quickly shouted: "Quick, get out!"
Chen Dao saw that a group of people rushed out of the woods. Regardless of his admiration for Wei Yan's keen observation, he shouted: "Keep shooting arrows at the crowds on the road! Shoot them, don't stop!"
Chen Dao gave an order,
The soldiers behind him turned around and started firing arrows at the crowd. The rockets shot into the crowd and set some people on fire. Han Meng's soldiers were suddenly in chaos again.
The ambush soldiers on the mountain wall saw thick smoke rising from below, and there were constant shouts and screams. They knew that there must be a problem below, so they hurried down the mountain under the leadership of the deputy general.
However, although this mountain wall is not very steep, there are many people ambushing on the mountain, and it is easy to go up the mountain but difficult to go down. For a while, the descent of the mountain was not smooth.
Some people even fell off the mountain wall because they were in too much haste. They fell unconscious and almost lost their lives.
When Chen Dao saw Yuan Jun soldiers rushing down the mountain, he finally stopped fighting and shouted: "There are too many enemies, brothers, retreat!"
Han Meng's army was in a state of panic due to being burned and smoked in the woods. After finally breaking out of the woods, they were hit by a burst of rockets.
Feeling extremely aggrieved, when he saw Chen Dao's small group of people trying to run away, he immediately led his army to chase Chen Dao!
Han Meng was highly skilled in martial arts and extremely brave, but like Yan Liang and Wen Chou, he had the habit of underestimating the enemy's aggressive advances due to his bravery.
Perhaps due to too many downwind attacks, Yuan Shao's generals more or less underestimated the enemy.
Han Meng led thousands of soldiers into a long snake formation and followed Chen Dao behind him.
After Chen Dao and others successfully led Han Meng into Wei Yan's ambush location,
Then he suddenly turned back, formed a spear formation, and came back to kill Han Meng and others!
Han Meng underestimated the enemy and advanced rashly, but he was not a fool.
As soon as he saw Cao Jun turning around and attacking, he immediately understood that he might have fallen into the enemy's plot to lure them into an ambush.
With a thrill in his heart, Han Meng immediately turned his horse's head and shouted loudly: "Back off! Get out quickly! There is an ambush!"
However, before Yuan Jun could react, shouts of killing could be heard from the mountains and the forest at the same time!
"kill!"
"Kill!"
"Wei Yan, the powerful general of the Han Dynasty, is here. The enemy general will be captured before he dismounts quickly!"