Chapter 19 Yuan Cao formed an alliance, and the bloody battle of the bridge!
When Zhao Yun and Le Jin's cavalry appeared on the right side of the Black Mountain Yellow Turban,
Yu Du knew that he had failed!
He could no longer care about the Yellow Turban soldiers who were fighting to a stalemate. With the defeat determined, Yu Du could only take a few of his men and flee in panic towards Dongwuyang.
Looking at the smoke rising from Cao Jun's camp, Yu Du fled for his life in a panic. Even now, he still can't figure it out.
How could Cao Cao abandon the camp so decisively and wipe out the entire army?
"Sui Gu must have succeeded in destroying Cao's camp.
The weather is so cold,
I want to see how Cao Cao continues to be stationed in Dunqiu after losing his camp and supplies!"
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Just when Cao Cao and the Black Mountain Yellow Turbans were fighting fiercely in Dongjun,
Gongsun Zan wrote to the court, listed Yuan Shao's ten major crimes, and then boldly sent troops to attack Jizhou.
Now Gongsun Zan led 30,000 infantry, 7,000 Youzhou cavalry and 3,000 white-horse retinue, and came towards Yuan Shao in a mighty manner, all the way to Jieqiao, intending to question Yuan Shaoxing's division.
As for whether the ten crimes listed by Gongsun Zan are bluffing or true, it actually doesn't matter.
Yuan Shao saw that Gongsun Zan had mobilized all his elite troops to attack him. Not long after he had newly conquered Jizhou, Yuan Shao, who was in urgent need of stabilizing all parties, said it was impossible not to be afraid.
At this time of internal and external troubles, Yuan Shao happened to receive a letter from Cao Cao.
Seeing Cao Cao, a good brother, extending an olive branch at the critical moment,
Yuan Shao then happily submitted a letter to the court, declaring that Cao Cao was the governor of Dongjun.
The relationship between Yuan and Cao became closer, and the rear became much more stable, so Yuan Shao decided to personally lead the troops and come to Jieqiao to fight Gongsun Zan!
But compared to Gongsun Zan’s luxurious equipment of infantry and cavalry, as well as the white-horse Yi Cong who frightened foreigners,
Yuan Shao only had more than 20,000 infantrymen. Not only was his total force inferior to Gongsun Zan, but he also only had infantry units, which made his configuration very simple.
But it’s not that Yuan Shao didn’t have elite soldiers.
The biggest reason why he dared to come was,
They are the general Qu Yi from Liangzhou, the Xian Deng Shishi under Qu Yi's command, and the heavy infantry Euphorbia soldiers led by Zhang He!
Both of these are powerful weapons against cavalry.
Twenty miles south of Jieqiao,
Yuan Shao ordered Qu Yi to lead eight hundred heavily-armed soldiers to the front to serve as the vanguard, and a thousand soldiers armed with crossbows to provide cover at the rear.
He himself commanded all the infantry to hold down the formation in the rear in order to get the dead soldiers first.
Gongsun Zan had just suppressed the Yellow Turban Army in Qingxu Prefecture not long ago, and now his prestige and military power are at their peak.
In this battle of Jieqiao, he saw that Yuan Shao had few soldiers and all of them were infantry, so he felt very disdain for Yuan Shao.
"Since I got that bottle of elixir, my martial arts have improved by leaps and bounds, and my aura has been lasting forever.
Today you, Yuan Shao, don’t know whether to live or die, and you dare to attack our army with only twenty to thirty thousand infantrymen.
Then I will show you today what real killing is!"
Gongsun Zan saw that Yuan Shao's infantry was still advancing, so he no longer hesitated and directly ordered the cavalry to charge from the front, intending to attack Yuan Shao's middle army!
After all, in Gongsun Zan's opinion, his ten thousand Youzhou cavalrymen faced a mere eighteen hundred infantrymen.
Isn’t that overwhelming and invincible?
However, the reality is not as simple as Gongsun Zan thought.
Qu Yi's soldiers were all dead soldiers brought from Liangzhou. They were battle-hardened and fearless of death.
Bai Mayi's arrows fired from his cavalry could not penetrate the shields and armor of the hoplites.
When facing the melee charge launched by Gongsun Zan's cavalry,
Not only did the dead soldiers who climbed up first not take even a step back, there were even some dead soldiers without armor who leaped high into the air without fear of death and slashed at the cavalry!
I have never seen the cavalry under Gongsun Zan so desperate.
Under the crazy entanglement of the opponent who relied on his strong armor to only attack but not defend, the cavalry's offensive came to a halt.
Just such a meal,
Gongsun Zan's cavalry gave the soldiers armed with powerful crossbows the best chance to die first!
Thousands of powerful crossbows fired in unison,
There was a crisp sound of "Boom!", followed by a sharp sound of breaking through the air, and crossbow arrows suddenly shot towards Gongsun Zan's cavalry like a rainstorm!
Gongsun Zan's cavalry were all light cavalry.
At this moment, he was attacked by powerful crossbows like raindrops. In an instant, he fell down in pieces like wheat being harvested!
The sudden crossbow arrows knocked Gongsun Zan's Youzhou cavalry and Baima Yi Cong off their feet, causing heavy losses.
The cavalrymen, who had never suffered such fierce "fire", collapsed almost instantly.
They just focused on running for their lives towards the main formation,
He actually disrupted his own infantry formation...
Yuan Shao saw that Xian Deng had accomplished extraordinary feats, so he took the opportunity to mobilize his entire army to cover up the attack.
In this battle, Yuan Shao's soldiers not only killed Yan Gang, Gongsun Zan's number one general, but
I still chased him across the boundary bridge,
They pursued Gongsun Zan all the way to his camp.
Gongsun Zan, who fled back to the camp in panic,
I just feel that I was unjustly defeated and that my defeat was inexplicable.
But before he had time to think more, Yuan Shao's general Wen Chou led his army to kill him!
But on the other side,
Gongsun Zan's son Gongsun Xu reunited two thousand elite cavalry after Yan Gang's death.
Just when Yuan Shao thought the overall situation was settled and relaxed,
Gongsun Xu led his cavalry to charge from the flank!
"kill!"
Gongsun Xu took the lead and greatly boosted the morale of the army.
The young master is brave, but he can be timid!
So the cavalry behind Gongsun Xu swept away the decline of the recent defeat,
One by one, they bravely took the lead and were about to break through Yuan Shao's military formation and kill Yuan Shao!
Yuan Shao looked at Gongsun Zan's somewhat unstoppable cavalry in stunned silence, and couldn't help but regretted: "Is there such a person under Gongsun Zan? It seems that I still underestimate Gongsun Zan too much!"
At this moment, Tian Feng, the counselor beside Yuan Shao, said to him: "General, it's better to avoid the enemy's attack for the time being!"
"Hide?" When Yuan Shao heard this, he suddenly became angry and went straight to his forehead!
He yanked off his helmet and slammed it to the ground.
His tone was high-spirited, and he loudly said to Tian Feng and the soldiers around him:
"A real man!
I would rather die in battle than live behind a wall!!!"
I have to say that Yuan Shao's occasional flashes of inspiration still have a bit of a heroic aura!
When he drank, Tian Feng fell to the ground in admiration, and even looked at Yuan Shao with a star-studded look in his eyes...
Tian Feng understood what Yuan Shao meant, "My lord is wise! In that case, why not raise the banner to boost the morale of our army!"
Yuan Shao was stunned for a moment when he heard this, then his heart suddenly changed and he made a decision immediately: "Okay! Pass my order and put up the banner!
Soldiers of the three armies, fight to the death and never retreat!!"
Yuan Shaojun gave an order, and Yuan Jun's big banner was erected again.
This tells Gongsun Xu that I, Yuan Shao, am here, come here!
On the other hand, I also told other Yuan Jun soldiers to hurry up and come over for reinforcements!
Gongsun Xu charged and killed again for a while,
However, the morale of Yuan Jun's soldiers was greatly boosted by the encouragement of Yuan Shao and Yuan Jun Dajun.
Gongsun Xu saw Yuan Shao who was very close, but he could no longer kill him.
Moreover, the surrounding reinforcements were also arriving quickly. In desperation, he had no choice but to retreat with less than a thousand cavalry remaining.
Yuan Shao's crisis has been resolved, but Gongsun Zan is still in danger!
Wen Chou led the army into Gongsun Zan's camp.
Gongsun Zan had no choice but to lead the remaining soldiers to confront Wen Chou.
Although Gongsun Zan had taken Dali Pills and put on some equipment that slightly increased his military power (obtained by Lu Yan when he exchanged them for Baima Yicong)
But facing Wen Chou, who was at the top of his game, he was still a little powerless.
Seeing that there were fewer and fewer soldiers around him, Gongsun Zan felt a little panicked.
In this chaos, a flaw appeared in his hand, and Wen Chou, who keenly seized the opportunity, knocked his spear away!
Gongsun Zan stared at the increasingly larger tip of the spear and thought to himself: "My life is at stake!"
At the moment when Gongsun Zan's life was hanging by a thread,
Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei are here!
"Don't hurt my brother! Liu Bei is here!"
"Hey! That ugly man! How dare you fight your Grandpa Zhang for three hundred rounds!"