Faced with the current situation, Cao Zhi quickly understood Xun You's suggestion, so he immediately adopted Xun You's suggestion without hesitation, and personally led 10,000 troops to pretend to attack the back of Yuan Shao's army, and pounced on Yan Yan with great fanfare.
In the direction of Tianjin, he ordered Zhang Liao, who had just arrived, to lead five thousand elite cavalry, Xu Chu, Zhao Yun and Tai Shici recruited from Yangzhou to quickly attack Yan Liang's army outside Baima City.
A few days later, Yuan Shao was indeed fooled. As soon as he received the news that Cao Zhi was leading his troops to Yanjin, he immediately turned his main force to the west to prepare for the battle.
Because he planned to defend, Yuan Shao's reinforcements that participated in the attack on Baima began to become scarce. As a result, Yan Liang's army was developing into an isolated and helpless situation. But at this time, Yan Liang was in ignorance.
So far as he is concerned, he is still capable of conquering the white horse.
In this way, the two sides formed their first head-to-head confrontation. In terms of military strength, although they were both outposts, there was an absolute disparity between Liu Yan and Yan Liang. But just like the characteristics of the cold weapon era, relying on the solid city walls, Liu Yanjun could still parry for a while, but
The delay of these few days has put Yan Liang in a dangerous situation.
At this time, Zhang Liao, Xu Chu, Zhao Yun, Tai Shi Ci and others who were sent as reinforcements finally met Yan Liang.
"Kill~~!"
Before Zhang Liao's arrival, the defense of Baima City was already extremely chaotic. In the small terrain, thousands of Yuan's soldiers were crowded, and they were locked in a melee with hordes of Cao Fang's defenders at higher altitudes.
All soldiers of Yuan Jun and Cao Jun, regardless of whether they were injured before, were already on the front line at this time. Yuan Jun fought hard to attack the city defenses and launched the most ferocious general attack on the stone city wall in recent days.
Under the anxious leadership of the wounded Liu Yan, a group of hundreds of Cao soldiers had just arrived at the Xicheng defense. More enemy soldiers outside the city were pouring into the city with various siege equipment. Arrows and crows filled the sky.
Iron javelins, as well as various rolling stones, logs, giant crossbows and other murderous weapons, crisscrossed in the air, making countless flesh-piercing explosions. What followed was the numbing screams, cries, and
There were scenes of death. Among them were those from Cao Jun and even those from Yuan Jun.
Yan Liang, who acted too hastily, did not control the rhythm of his attack because of Guan Yu's reminder and departure. Whether that person was dead or alive did not concern Yan Liang at all. At this time, Yan Liang was almost certain that Guan Yu was dead.
In the battle report sent back to Liyang, Yuan Shao's base camp on the other side of the river, he downplayed the report saying that Guan Yu died in battle.
Naturally, it is impossible to have a famous battle like the legend in history, which said that after Guan Yu saw Yan Liang's flag, he rushed into Yan Liang's army, killed Yan Liang in an instant, and brought back Yan Liang's head.
Yan Liang, without the fateful battle in history, has not started to have good luck. According to the news from the rear base camp, Yan Liang got bad news today. Some people are saying bad things about him because his battle in Baima has not yet seen results.
, someone took the opportunity to slander Yuan Shao, saying that Yan Liang had an impulsive personality and was not suitable for independently commanding tens of thousands of forward troops. He should be replaced, or should be replaced by deputy generals and military counselors.
This made Yan Liang extremely angry, and the person who said these words was Jushou, who had always been at odds with them, the generals who were direct descendants of Yuan Shao. As a former military supervisor this time, Jushou was actually Yan Liang’s direct superior. For military purposes and overall considerations, Jushou
It is normal to make appropriate suggestions to Yuan Shao.
But Yan Liang and Wen Chou, the direct descendants of Yuan Shao's family generals, have long been spoiled by Yuan Shao. They are hedgehogs that cannot be messed with in Yuan's army. Usually, military generals other than Yuan Shao will jump up if they say a few words to them. What's more,
Jushu, who was born as a civil servant, in their eyes should be a decoration, rather than dictating to them.
"You still want to replace me, but you are such a frustrated old man. I will definitely take down the white horse and show it to you! Hmph..."
Yan Liang, with this urgent thought in mind, became more and more unable to attack the White Horse City in front of him the more anxious he became.
His personal guards were also sent up by him at this time, and they were attacking the west gate of Baima with all their strength. The ladders and watchtowers were trying to get close to the Baima city defense, destroying all the arrow stacks and giant crossbows there. Starting from breaking through the city defense, they attacked by force.
Enter the city.
In fact, they had not had no chance in the past few days, and they had even attacked the city several times. However, relying on the favorable terrain and excellent combat effectiveness, the defenders still repelled Yuan Jun's attack with absolute bravery.
The men and horses broke through, or set foot on the White Horse City.
Yan Liang hopes that the stalemate situation will be broken today. His most elite personal guards who have been responsible for maintenance, most of the members who have been supervising the battle team in the past few days, have been sent out by him today. Yan Liang
I hope that under the leadership of these best warriors around us, the Baima city defense can be broken through by them today.
"Woo~~~~"
At this moment, there was a sound of horns on the official road on the left side of Baima City. Then within the sight of Yan Liang and others, black spots formed quickly like ants, slowly gathering and emerging, and then came in a raging torrent.
Lang Tao, overwhelming, roaring and boiling, rushed towards the garrison at Yan Liang's west gate.
"It's the enemy's reinforcements that have arrived!" As soon as Yan Liang heard the horn sound, he understood whose troops these were. At this moment, he was no longer anxious. On the contrary, he glanced at the direction in which Cao Jun was coming from a distance, surprisingly calmly.
, curled his lips and said: "I don't know which General Cao is here, don't you know that we have reinforcements arriving every day? Look at this posture, just with these thousands of troops, do you still want to surround my entire legion? Hum!
Wishful thinking... Come here, send the order, all our cavalry will immediately divide their troops to meet them, and before they get close to the city, block them and entangle them..."
"yes!"
"Take your orders!"
Amidst the successive orders, the cavalry in front of Yan Liang who had not yet gone into battle began to gather together, preparing for a fierce battle with the invading Cao soldiers. Before the battle to seize the white horse began, Yuan Jun started to
They have all experienced that they will encounter reinforcements from Cao's army. This is normal when the two sides have just started fighting. Moreover, the reinforcements from Cao's army are not only a few days late, but the number of them is even more dismissive of these proud soldiers.
There seemed to be only two or three thousand people.
So among the idle crowd of Yuan Jun, a very ugly general jumped back and forth a few times, shouted several times, and made a sharp and weird whistle. Then there were five thousand Yuan Jun cavalry under the leadership of the commander.
, clamped the horse's belly tightly, and with arrogant roars, they all rushed out, waving their silver swords and wildly attacking the Cao army's camp, which was also formed. The extremely ugly commander, himself
It was Yan Liang. He believed that with the small amount of troops he had temporarily mobilized, he could not only stop Cao Jun's reinforcements, but also destroy them.
Facing the menacing large group of Yuan Jun's cavalry, Zhang Liao, who looked indifferent, immediately raised his family's heavy halberd, pointed to the sky and shouted: "Brothers, charge me!" Then he urged his horse towards the same tide.
Charged towards Yuan Jun's cavalry.
Before the torrent of steel from both sides collided and fell into chaos, the buzzing of the horse bowstrings from both sides first sounded on the battlefield.
"Whoosh..." From time to time in the sound, knights from both sides were killed and fell from their horses. Occasionally some were not killed by javelins and arrows, and then shining spears, halberds, and spears pierced the protective armor and pierced the flesh.
, destroyed the body that had grown for decades, and fell among the horses. Even several high-ranking generals fell one after another under this round of heavy impact. When the cavalry of the two armies interacted, they groaned.
, screams, blood, and mutilated limbs combine to create a gorgeous picture.
In a real battle, there is actually no distinction between high and low, and there is no distinction between rank and rank. What exists is who has the most solid kung fu among your subordinates.
Under the first round of cavalry attack from both sides, the number of casualties was incalculable. Before the Cao Army soldiers in the city could celebrate the arrival of their reinforcements, there were a large group of Yuan Army soldiers, like ants, rushing towards the arrow stacks one after another without thinking about their own safety.
The gap between them surged up. In order to kill the people on the city, they did not care about their own casualties, and even killed a Cao soldier standing on the city at the cost of the lives of two or three soldiers. They just wanted to cooperate.
The cavalry outside the city intercepted and captured the Baima city defense as soon as possible.
The battle truly entered a crazy and tragic level, and everyone on two different battlefields inside and outside the city also had an obvious consensus that the moment of the final decisive battle had arrived.
The battle to siege Baima City is still fierce, and the cavalry duel on the plain battlefield in the southwest has also become intense. Almost every knight of Cao's army is fighting at least one or two cavalry of Yuan's army at the same time.
It was extremely fierce, with thousands of cavalry fighting together in a melee, scattered across a small official road and fields. The grand scene could not be described in words.
At this time, Yan Liang, who was still calmly on a slope northwest of Baima, was still the core of the entire battlefield. Although he had sent out all the cavalry, most of his personal guards were already among the attackers.
.But Yan Liang still did not dare to be careless about his command position as the hub of the Chinese army. It was obviously not enough to rely on a remaining bodyguard of a hundred or ten people, so after sending out all the cavalry, in order to prevent a surprise attack by Cao's army
At the headquarters of his command, five hundred infantry were mobilized from the attacking infantry in front to block the southwest side of the cavalry confrontation. They were carefully guarded within a few feet of him, strengthening the whole body's defense to prevent cold arrows and arrows.
Cao's cavalry made a breakthrough and launched a sneak attack on him.
"Whoosh!"
Just when Yan Liang felt that he was infallible, a cold feather arrow shot towards the back of his head. The noisy sounds on the chaotic battlefield did not block all of Yan Liang's feelings. Yan Liang, as usual, was watching all directions and listening in all directions.
, raised the halberd in his hand, made a "ding" sound, and used his proper reaction to easily block the cold arrow.