In this battle, the trapped camp lost a total of 806 people, while the Euphorbia soldiers lost a total of 791 people.
The losses on both sides were serious. Although the Euphorbias only sent a thousand men to fight this time, their total number was 3,000. Therefore, the loss of nearly 800 men was not a fatal blow. However, it was a fatal blow to the trapped camp.
, but it really needs to be rebuilt.
Although judging from the number of casualties, the Trap camp ultimately lost more than a dozen people than the Euphorbia soldiers, from the battle situation, anyone can see that the Trap camp lost first and then won, and was indeed the side that won in the end.
What's more, Zhang He's withdrawal of troops in the name of gold can be regarded as a gesture of admitting defeat.
After this battle, the morale of Cao's army rose sharply, while the morale of Yuan's army slumped.
If it were an easy victory, although the morale of Cao's army would increase, it would not necessarily increase as fast as it does now. Precisely because this victory was hard-won, it was even more precious. The trapped camp was initially
The Euphorbia soldiers fought hard and were on the verge of defeat, but in the end they fought tooth and nail and turned defeat into victory. The thrilling process made the onlookers' blood boil and they couldn't help themselves. Therefore, after seeing the process of the trapped camp,
After such a fierce battle, the morale of Cao's army increased extremely greatly.
As for Yuan Jun, seeing a victory that he had achieved but ultimately losing, the sense of loss was unbearable. In addition, Yuan Shao actually wanted to kill general Zhang He because of the defeat in the first battle, although in the end because of the generals
The remonstrance was unsuccessful, but this kind of behavior that was easily chilling ultimately caused some damage to the morale of the military.
The battle formation ended in failure, and Yuan Shao stopped talking nonsense and allowed the entire army to attack. Facing Yuan Jun's mighty offensive, Cao Cao naturally led his army to resist to the death. Because Yuan Jun's morale was low and he had no intention of fighting, the number of Cao's troops was reduced.
Although they were far inferior to each other, they fought equally well. In the end, after each side suffered thousands of casualties, they stopped at the same time with a tacit understanding and withdrew their troops to set up camp.
The subsequent war trend was similar to the original historical development. Although Yuan Shao's army was strong, Cao Cao had no choice but to hold on to the camp. Yuan's army attacked for a long time and could not defeat it. Yuan Shao then followed the advice of the review and selected strong soldiers from each camp to come to Cao Cao.
At the edge of the stronghold, they built mountains with earth shovels. At the same time, Shen Pei personally led the archers to guard the choke points to prevent Cao's army from coming to destroy the construction. After fifty earth mountains were built, Yuan Shao ordered his soldiers to build bows and oars on the earth mountains.
, and ordered the crossbowmen to continuously fire arrows at the Cao camp below, causing great damage to the soldiers in the Cao camp.
Facing the enemy's fierce bow and arrow offensive, Cao Cao's counselor Liu Ye rushed to build several catapults overnight. When Yuan Jun's archers were shooting arrows, Liu Ye ordered his soldiers to throw huge rocks at them. As a result, Yuan Jun's archers were killed and wounded so many that no one dared to attack them again.
Shoot arrows from the earth mountain toward Cao Ying below.
Seeing that the earth-mountain method was ineffective, Shen Pei proposed a plan to dig a tunnel. However, Cao Cao also observed the digging process, and in the end this plan still came to nothing.
The two armies faced off in Guandu, and more than ten days passed in the blink of an eye. Although Yuan Jun maintained an overall advantage over Cao Jun in the past ten days, despite the efforts of Cao Cao and his men, they were still unable to gain victory.
What a glorious victory.
Although the battle situation is not very favorable to our own side, it is not easy to fight to this level in the face of such a disparity in power, so the atmosphere in Cao's camp is not so solemn.
However, just half a month after the war between the two sides, a letter asking for help came from Xuchang, which suddenly froze the atmosphere in Cao Camp to freezing point.
The content of the letter was very simple, only a few sentences in total, but it caused a huge stir in Cao Ying.
"Sun Jian sent troops from Jiangxia with more than 70,000 troops. He has captured Wancheng and is approaching Xuchang. We hope for reinforcements as soon as possible!"
Sun Jian made a move! At this critical moment of the confrontation between Cao and Yuan, Sun Jian actually raised his troops and marched north.
As early as in the original history, the little overlord Sun Ce intended to intervene in the dispute between Yuan and Cao and sent troops to attack Xuchang. Unfortunately, before Sun Ce could raise his troops, he was killed by three of Xu Gong's disciples during a hunting trip.
He was ambushed by a stranger and was seriously injured, and died soon after.
However, the current master of Jiangdong is Sun Jian rather than Sun Ce. Although Sun Jian's character is as strong as Sun Ce, he is not as frivolous and irritable as Sun Ce. In the process of unifying the Jiangdong clan, Sun Jian used both kindness and power, rather than just relying on killing.
Mainly. Although most of the Jiangdong gentry are not loyal to Sun Jian, an outsider, and still adopt an attitude of subordination and defiance towards him, it is obvious that there are not many people who oppose Sun Jian, let alone who will send assassins to assassinate Sun Jian.
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Even if an assassin wanted to assassinate Sun Jian, it would be a very difficult task. After all, Sun Jian was surrounded by many protections, so it would be difficult for him to have a chance to kill him. Sun Jian himself would not be like Sun Ce, who would not take anyone with him when hunting and go somewhere alone.
A remote place gives assassins a chance to take action.
Although Jiangdong has not yet been completely pacified, it is generally under Sun Jian's control. The only bigger problem is the rebellion of the Shanyue people. However, the two heroes in the north are fighting, and this is the best opportunity for Sun Jian.
He didn't want to miss the opportunity to conquer the world because of the Shanyue incident. So after leaving some troops and horses under the command of General He Qi to resist Shanyue, Sun Jian personally took command, with his eldest son Sun Ce, Zhonglang general Zhou Yu as his deputy, and Cheng Pu
, Han Dang, Huang Gai, Tai Shi Ci, Zhou Tai and others were the generals, and they raised 70,000 troops. They set out from Jiangxia, which they captured last year, and marched north to attack Cao Cao.
Under the fierce attack of Jiangdong's army, Wancheng, the southern barrier of Cao's army, was quickly captured. After capturing Wancheng, Jiangdong's army still had 60,000 troops. Without stopping, it immediately headed straight for Xuchang.
At this time, Xuchang's guarding generals were Cao Ren, Xu Rong, and Li Dian, with Yu Jin as deputy, Xun Yu, and Jia Xu as counselors. However, although Cao Ren could be regarded as the top five important generals under Cao Cao's account, Xu Rong, and Li Dian
, Yu Jin are all good generals in the world, Xun Yu and Jia Xu are excellent advisers, but they can't hold back Xuchang's defenders, who only have less than 20,000 in total! Besides, among the enemy troops are Sun Jian, Sun Ce, Zhou Yu, Taishi Ci, Zhou Tai, etc.
Which one of us is less famous than the civil servants and generals in Xuchang City?
Although Xuchang City is the current capital of the Han Dynasty, it was not originally a big city. It was gradually repaired and expanded after welcoming the emperor. At this time, although Xuchang City had been built to a large scale, it can be said that the city was very solid.
, compared with other fortified cities in the world, it is still far behind.
Therefore, with 20,000 people versus 60,000 people, it is really difficult to defend Xuchang, and the situation is precarious!
At this time, Cao Cao was confronting Yuan Shao, and the original situation was not much better. Now that Sun Jian has intervened again, it will be even worse. If Xuchang City is unfortunately captured by Sun Jian, all Cao Cao's hard work and efforts over the past few years will be in vain.