"Now that the plan has been made, why haven't you done it yet?" [Zuo Zhuan·Aigong Sixth Year]
On the other side, those who stayed to monitor the movements of the infantry camp were Changshui Colonel Pang De's partner and Tun Cavalry Colonel Jiang Xuan. Jiang Xuan's cavalry were all wearing heavy armor and it was inconvenient to run back and forth. They were not as suitable as the brisk Changshui Cavalry for setting up ambushes.
. So Jiang Xuan took the initiative to take on the task of surveillance. He was born in the Tianshui Jiang family and had witnessed Dong Zhuo's rebellion. Finally, he keenly turned to the emperor when the emperor and Wang Yun were fighting. After many twists and turns, he reached his current position.
Nowadays, in addition to him, the Jiang family also has nephews Jiang Xu, who is the Yulin Lang in front of the palace, and Jiang Ji, who is the Hanyang County official. These are the leaders of the younger generation of the Jiang family. How far they can go in the future will mostly depend on Jiang Xuanneng.
They worked hard for great achievements. The burden of revitalizing the family was heavy on Jiang Xuan's shoulders. He was not a flexible person, and was even a bit unsociable. His popularity in the military was average, and even the emperor had no special impression of him.
As his former colleagues Zhang Liao, Xu Huang, Ju Jun and others were promoted one after another, and he was still in the Northern Army, Jiang Xuan was inevitably a little anxious. This exercise must have some results, otherwise, even a backward guy like Zhao Yun
They all compare!
"There seemed to be something strange in the wind just now." Jiang Xuan pricked up his ears and looked downwind attentively: "Send a scout to check, Zhao Zilong is not a peaceful person!"
At this time, it had been more than an hour since Pang De left. Just as Jiang Xuan was anxiously waiting for the outcome of the battle, before the scouts came back in time, he heard a sudden loud noise in the direction of Zhao Yun and Yan Yan's camp.
"They broke through? How brave!" After Jiang Xuan heard this, he immediately turned from surprise to joy. Zhao Yun and Yan Yan built the camp so tightly that it was impenetrable. If they wanted to defeat it, they would have to suffer huge losses. This was what Jiang Xuan and Pang De said.
Unwilling to bear it.
At this moment, Zhao Yun and others chose to leave the camp and ran out of the camp. Where did they want to go? Did they think that running to a nearby hillside would be better than staying in the camp on the ground, so that it would be inconvenient for their cavalry to pursue them? Or did they find out?
Pound would ambush the reinforcements and rush to support them?
No matter which one it is, in Jiang Xuan's opinion, it's all a fool's errand.
"Get on your horse and stop them at the foot of the mountain!" With that, Jiang Xuan mounted his horse in heavy armor with the help of others. The camp was not as long as Changshui. The more he rode, he needed a long run-up to speed up before attacking.
, when he changed from extremely slow to extremely fast, the Tunqi was like a galloping steel giant, smashing through all obstacles! This is why Jiang Xuan did not choose the place closest to Zhao Yun's camp, but separated it for a while.
Because of distance.
It was precisely for this reason that the cavalry battalion was unable to react in time and rushed to the camp. They saw Zhao Yun and others running up the hillside with the infantry battalion.
"Hey!" Jiang Xuan raised his whip angrily, urging the riders to slow down. He looked at the figure escaping in the mountains and forests, and said to himself: "It's too late after all!"
"General, they are holding on here, they don't have enough food and grass, and they are escaping rashly. Could it be a fraud?" A military commander on the side looked at the empty camp and whispered.
"Could it be that you want to lure me to pursue you up the mountain?" Jiang Xuan felt funny when he thought of this, and immediately gave up this ridiculous idea. But it was not without reason that Zhao Yun abandoned the camp and left. What did he do for?
At this time, the army Sima said again: "General, why should you think too much? The infantry, the second battalion of Shesheng is short of food and grass, and it is an infantry. Even if it goes to rush for reinforcements, it may not be the opponent of Changshui Camp. As long as we occupy the camp, we can send another
The troops and horses go forward to support, but the infantry battalion and the Shesheng battalion cannot fight the long water forward, and there is no way back, so how can we be invincible?"
"Yes." Jiang Xuan nodded heavily, stroking his beard and said: "No matter what, let's occupy the camp first and cut off the enemy's retreat!"
Just as he had come up with an idea, Jiang Xuan suddenly became cautious again and sent the active military commander to lead more than 200 cavalry into the camp alone. If everything was quiet, he would lead most of the troops into the camp.
The Army Sima received the military order and immediately ordered a group of heavy cavalry to follow him into the camp. Although this camp was built for exercises, it was fully furnished with antlers, fences, and arrow towers. This was originally a strong camp, and it once allowed Pang Pang to
De, Jiang Xuan and others did not dare to attack easily, but now there was not a single person in sight. Only the curtain of the tent was blown by the breeze, revealing a dark corner.
"It should be Wu..." Army Sima turned around and was about to say something when he heard the sound of a string and a cold arrow suddenly flew out from the corner and hit Army Sima's throat. His whole body was tightly protected by iron armor.
, the soft throat is no exception. Although the iron plate under the pocket easily blocked the hidden arrow, the strong impact still made Army Sima choke suddenly and almost lose his breath.
The red powder spread in the throat, but the army commander had no consciousness of his fate. It was like a well-protected cavalry camp. The criteria for determining "death in action" were different from others. One of the main conditions for their "death in action" was to "fall down"
.
"There's an ambush!" Tunqi shouted loudly when he came back to his senses. He saw people emerging from all corners of the originally empty camp. They were holding bows and crossbows, or squatting in the corner, or
Lying on the haystacks of the baggage trains, or hiding in the high archery towers, they kept shooting arrows at the campers, and hundreds of auxiliary soldiers ran out of the camp, holding wooden sticks in their hands.
, ropes and other objects, working in groups of three to five, they pulled many of the heavily armored soldiers off their horses.
Jiang Xuan, who was outside the camp, saw this movement and knew something was wrong, but now they couldn't speed up, and their biggest advantage turned into a disadvantage. He was extremely anxious, especially when he saw a middle-aged man with broad shoulders and a strong body.
On the archery tower, while laughing heartily and shooting bows and arrows from a distance, I couldn't help but shout out: "Yan Yan!"
"How?" Yan Yan retracted her bow for a moment, turned back to Jiang Xuan and replied: "You are just staring at Zhao Zilong, and you have completely forgotten that I, She Sheng Ying Yan Yan, are there!"
Because of Yan Yan's meritorious service in participating in the recovery of Yizhou, the emperor specially transferred Captain Shesheng from the Yizhou Army to escort Liu Yan to Guanzhong. He served as the emperor's personal escort, Yulin Lang, and participated in large and small operations with the former infantry captain Xu Huang.
Compared with Zhao Yun, who was promoted during the war, Yan Yan, who was originally unknown in Shu, was even more neglected. But the emperor naturally had a unique vision in selecting his generals, and now Yan Yan is standing high-spirited
On top of the archery tower, he commanded the more than 3,000 archers in the camp calmly and condescendingly. He quickly eliminated the hundreds of soldiers who entered the camp first, and even tended to reorganize and leave the camp.
"Dismount the whole army!" Since the heavy cavalry had lost its speed advantage, Jiang Xuan made a decisive decision and simply changed the heavy cavalry into heavy troops, and maybe he could still gain a chance to survive.