Three hundred and fourteenth chapter three strong men
Yuan Shang and Guo Tu thought they had seen through Cao Cao's plan, so they ordered to discard the excess food and grass, and took only three days' rations with them, and marched lightly, intending to reach Yecheng before Cao's army occupied Yangping County and completely blockaded Wei County.
Passing through Guangping County, Yuan Shang received some reinforcements along the way and also replaced many weak and wounded soldiers.
Afterwards, he led his army straight to Yecheng. Since Zhao Yun's cavalry had already left, Yuan Shang's army came to the north of Wei County and marched without any hindrance.
Five days later, Yuan Shang arrived ten miles north of Yecheng, preparing to attack Cao Jun from behind at night.
After nightfall, Yuan Shang ordered his soldiers to eat up the last bit of food he had left, rest for half an hour, and prepare for the next battle.
After everything was ready, Yuan Shang ordered Su You, Zhang Wei, and Li Fu to follow 10,000 soldiers and sneak towards Cao Jun's camp, which was uncertain in the light of fire. Yuan Shang himself led the remaining 17,000 troops to press back.
Also serves as a support.
In ancient times, when besieging a city, it was impossible to surround the city wall with people at night. Camps were usually set up about two miles away from the city. If you did not want people from the city to come out, you would usually build various fortifications such as trenches and horse barriers.
Supplemented by the following soldiers to observe the situation, the army was enough to deal with the enemy troops who wanted to leave the city. The ancient Romans in ancient times did even better. When they attacked the city, they often built another wall outside the enemy city, let alone the people.
, not even the mice can escape...
Cao's army has always been loose on the outside and tight on the inside, and has never stopped conducting open and covert sentinels.
When Yuan Shang's army was still about a mile away from the camp outside the city, the tranquility of the night was suddenly broken by a loud shout.
"Who!"
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"
Seeing that their side had been exposed, the three leading generals decisively ordered: "Soldiers, follow me and charge!"
"kill!"
"kill!!"
"Eh?"
When Su You, Zhang Wei, and Li Fu's army rushed into the camp, they found that the Cao Army's camp was actually empty!
"There's an ambush!!!"
"No! I've fallen into a trap!" Li Fu was the first to react and shouted.
"Get out, get out quickly!" Su You turned the horse's head and shouted.
...
Just when Yuan Jun was in chaos and wanted to exit Cao Jun's camp, countless torches suddenly lit up around the camp.
"Hahaha! Yuan Shang, your third grandfather has been waiting for you for many days!" Zhang Fei rode a black horse and held a snake spear of eight feet, blocking the retreat of Yuan Shang and others. At the same time, countless crossbowmen in the camp emerged from the corners.
When he came out, he fired at Yuan Jun indiscriminately.
Zhang Wei was still calm and immediately shouted to the soldiers around him: "Don't be afraid, my lord is outside, follow me and rush out!"
Yuan Shang raised an army to suppress the enemy in order to guard against an ambush by Cao Jun.
At this moment, seeing that Cao's army was indeed ambushed, he ordered a rush to the camp and rescued Su You and others' troops.
Zhang Fei knew that he was outmatched, so he got out of the way after coping for a while.
"Charge to the west!" After leading out the ambushed soldiers, Yuan Shang commanded the army to change direction and go to the west.
After walking a few miles, an army suddenly stood in front of them.
I saw the person holding the Green Dragon Sword in his right hand, a three-foot-long beard in his left hand, and a shadowy horse under his crotch. He looked majestic and majestic!
"Guan Yu is here, why don't the children of the Yuan family kneel down and beg for surrender?"
Cao Cao and others discussed and agreed that the north was the most likely direction to be attacked by Yuan Shang, so they placed the three most capable soldiers in the army north of Yecheng.
"There are enemy troops here too, retreat, retreat quickly!"
Yuan Shang was obviously in a panic and did not dare to attack Guan Yu's position.
Turning around again, Yuan Shang tried to take a detour to the east and return to the north gate of Yecheng.
After running for another three to five miles, unexpectedly another person riding a Dawan horse rushed out with a group of soldiers and blocked them in the middle of the road, "Yuan Shang! Huang has been waiting for you for a long time!"
"Guan Yu! Zhang Fei! Huang Zhong!"
Yuan Shang secretly complained in his heart that he had escaped Zhao Zilong, but he could not escape the other three fierce generals under Lu Yan's command!
Just when Yuan Shang was at a loss, Li Fu came to Yuan Shang and suggested: "My lord, don't panic, the enemy troops must be scattered in small numbers. Our top priority is to find a direction and charge out with all our strength!"
Yuan Shang had no idea. He could only ask instinctively: "Where should we charge?"
"Go south!" Li Fu gritted his teeth and said, "Once Supervisor Shen discovers the fighting below the city, he will definitely send troops out to lead it!"
"But..."
"We have 27,000 troops, and it is impossible for Cao's army to stop us in a hurry. As long as we join up with Supervisor Shen's army before Cao's army from the other gates comes to support, we can successfully break into the city!"
"Okay! Just follow what the general said!" Yuan Shang finally made up his mind and led the army straight towards the city gate.
Cao Cao's army at the north gate actually only had more than 20,000 soldiers. Zhang Fei and Guan Yu were divided into three groups. On average, they only had about 8,000 soldiers in each group.
Before Guan Yu and Huang Zhong had time to support him, Zhang Fei could only face Yuan Shang's 27,000 troops alone!
"Come on! Come and have a good fight!!!" Seeing that the enemy army was finally charging towards his defense line, Zhang Fei's voice like thunder on dry land rang out in the dark night.
"Kill!" Although Yuan Jun was startled by Zhang Fei's voice, he still charged at Zhang Fei and the army behind him!
The soldiers on guard on the city wall of Yecheng immediately noticed the movement outside the city.
They saw Yuan Jun and Cao Jun fighting together, and even saw Yuan Shang wearing bright light armor, so they quickly reported the situation outside the city to Shen Pei.
At this time, the judge was still reviewing official documents. After receiving the news, he immediately mobilized all the soldiers in the city who could be removed, opened the city gate immediately, and prepared to leave the city to receive reinforcements!
"Lord! Shen Pei is here!!" The gates of Yecheng were wide open, and Shen Pei's leader came out to help with torches held high!
After leaving the city, the Shenpai army waded through the ditch, climbed over the enemy's horses, and then attacked Cao's army from behind Zhang Fei.
Facing the enemy attack from behind, Zhang Fei did not panic, but shouted loudly: "Stop Yuan Shang with all your strength, don't worry about what is behind you, brothers will take care of them!"
Zhang Fei had absolute trust in Guan Yu and Huang Zhong.
Sure enough, when the review army was still a hundred steps away from Zhang Fei's position, Guan Yu and Huang Zhong arrived with their troops.
Regarding Yuan Shang's army and the defenders of Yecheng, Guan Yu and Huang Zhong were undoubtedly more inclined to kill and injure the defenders of Yecheng.
They each separated two thousand soldiers into Zhang Fei's formation, and then led their respective teams to charge towards the army of judges, one on the left and the other on the right!
"Kill for me! Kill for me! Kill through Cao's army!" Yuan Shang's eyes were red from the killing. Less than three hundred steps ahead was Shen's army, but these three hundred steps seemed to be a gap that could never be crossed!
The eight-foot-long snake spear in Zhang Fei's hand danced in the air, and the surrounding Yuan troops were injured and killed upon contact. It was extremely terrifying.
However, Yuan's army was more than twice as large as Cao's army, and they still had a numerical advantage.
Zhang Fei saw that his own battle line was constantly moving back. He looked up in desperation and saw Yuan Shao, who was shining like a revolving lantern under the firelight.
With a bite of his steel teeth, Zhang Fei carried the deputy general and said: "You come and command the army, I will go and take the head of Yuan Shang's son!"
After saying that, regardless of the deputy general's shouts, Zhang Fei held up the eight-foot-long snake spear, urged the black horse under his crotch, and rushed in the direction of Yuan Shang!