"The encounter between heroes in the world is always so unexpected."
This was Wang Yu's sigh when he met Lu Bu on a narrow road when he was chasing beauty alone on the bank of the river. As Wang Yu's reputation rose, the fight between the dragon and the tiger attracted widespread attention, and this sentence was also circulated through various channels.
Kailai is widely known to people all over the world.
When the morning sun rose and the fiery red and brilliant light reflected from the sea of flags on Phoenix Mountain came into view, Xi Zhicai could not help but narrow his eyes and let out the same sigh.
It stands to reason that as the military advisor that Cao Cao relied on most in terms of strategy, Xi Zhicai should not regard the person under the "Xu" general as his opponent. His counterpart in the Qingzhou army was Jia Xu, who was known as a poisonous soldier.
But Jia Xu is too low-key, and he has never been able to seek the limelight and get jobs. If not for the Battle of Yangren, Lieutenant Li Yifeng sent by Zhang Miao witnessed his actions and planned to drive him away.
After the fact that the people rushed into battle was exposed, I am afraid that few people knew that there was such a character hidden in Wang Yu's strange military tactics.
Although the intelligence work in charge of Xi Zhicai also operates in the dark, he often visits the front line in person, grasping the latest intelligence while commanding and dispatching as quickly as possible. Unlike Jia Xu, who is always hidden in the king's eyes.
In the shadow of Yu, people are secretive.
If the other party is used as an opponent, Xi Zhicai cannot even determine whether a head-on contest will take place, whether it has happened before, and what the final outcome will be. These are extremely simple questions.
Even though he is a counselor, the repression in the first half of his life still makes Xi Zhicai always hold a fire in his chest. Only when he encounters a strong enemy and wins the battle can he vent it out without hurting himself.
Xu Shu, Xu Yuanzhi!
It's the opponent he's been waiting for!
When he first heard the name, Xi Zhicai didn't take it seriously at all. A scout who competes with the general for credit as a scout, even if he is a little clever, is nothing worthy of attention.
When the Hebei War started and Xi Zhicai entered Xuzhou, he was surprised to find that Wang Yu actually sent this unqualified scout to deal with him! How ignorant and contemptuous of himself!
When Xi Zhi first heard the news, all he felt was deep anger.
This contempt did not make him underestimate the enemy, but made him more energetic. The enemy's negligence is God's favor for him. This is the motto that Xi Zhicai has always believed in. He plans to give Wang Yu a big blow in Xuzhou
The surprise completely reversed the imbalance of strength between the two armies.
Taking advantage of the advance layout, Xi Zhicai built a large network in Xuzhou.
If the opponent uses conventional methods to untie the net, he will be caught in the net unknowingly; if he uses unconventional means, he will wait for these intertwined contradictions to detonate together and turn Xuzhou upside down.
The safest thing is to wait and see for changes, but that is also waiting for death. When the separatist forces such as Zuo Rong and Xue Li gain a firm foothold, Tao Qian, the Xuzhou Mu, will become the Prime Minister of the East China Sea.
Xi Zhicai was very confident at that time. He believed that even if Jia Xu came in person, as long as he did not bring Qingzhou's army, he would not be able to break the situation. It would be great to be able to maintain the status quo.
At the beginning, Xu Shu also showed that he was helpless, but that was just an illusion.
When Xu Shu showed his true and unreasonable attitude, the whole of Xuzhou and everyone who paid attention to the situation in Xuzhou, including Xi Zhicai, were shocked. The crazy assassination directly scared away Xue Li, who was born in a wealthy family, and forced him to retreat.
, but ambitious Zuo Rong, the haze hanging over Xuzhou disappeared almost instantly.
Before the fish died, the big net Xi Zhicai had worked so hard to weave was broken.
At that time, Xi Zhicai had a clear understanding and knew that he had lost the secret battle, and all his subsequent efforts were just out of the need to save face. Therefore, when he found out that Sun Ce was sending his army north, Xi Zhicai left very quickly.
Simply, without any sloppiness, he easily and deftly avoided Wang Yu's strategy of driving away wolves and devouring tigers.
But Xi Zhicai would not be proud of this. When he left Pengcheng, his heart was full of frustration.
This time he guided Zang Ba and drove away wolves and devoured tigers. This was the second contest between him and Xu Shu. He had the upper hand from the beginning and saw through Xu Shu's schemes several times in a row, causing him to suffer unprecedented heavy losses.
In the all-out assassination operation in Xuzhou, Xu Shu lost less than ten men, and in the series of ambushes against the Taishan bandits, the special force lost nearly a hundred men!
Of course, Xi Zhicai would not be complacent about this, nor would he underestimate his enemy. He knew that his young fellow countryman and opponent would not give up easily, and he was always waiting for the opponent's counterattack.
Despite being fully prepared, Xi Zhicai was still shocked when Xu Shu's counterattack officially launched. This method was so beyond his expectation...
Xu Shu actually led the crowd to attack!
According to the original plan, Zang Bajun should have arrived at Yuanshan last night, but as evening approached, the scouts in front reported that they had discovered enemy traces. Knowing that Xu Shu was a resourceful man and that the Qingzhou Army had a tradition of conducting night raids, it was a joke.
Of course Zhicai did not dare to take the risk of marching at night.
Originally, he thought that this was just Xu Shu's harassment method. Who would have thought that when he entered the army today, he suddenly discovered that Xu Shu was ready to fight!
If he hadn't known that the Hebei War would not end so quickly, and even if it ended, Wang Yu would not be able to lead his army back in time, Xi Zhicai would really have thought that he had run into the Qingzhou Army's pocket formation without checking. Otherwise, it would have been very difficult.
It is difficult to explain how Xu Shu managed to raise such a large army.
The number of soldiers and horses arrayed on the gentle slope at the southern foot of Phoenix Mountain was not large. There were only about 10,000 people. The number was only slightly more than one-third of Zang Ba's army. But they were neatly arranged in a front line.
It has a sharp front, steep wings, and a long back line, which is square and neat, and looks quite impressive.
"It's not the Qingzhou army, it's the people's strength!" Xi Zhicai was resourceful, but he had few opportunities to actually see the battle formation in person, and he didn't have much actual military experience. In this regard, Zang Ba's vision was more accurate.
"Minzhuang?" Xi Zhicai was full of doubts and murmured: "What does Xu Yuanzhi want to do? Bluff? Delay time? Or..."
He was not familiar with the details of military affairs, but he was familiar with military tactics. Xu Shu set up a forward formation, which was better at attacking than changing. Once the attack failed, it would be difficult for the general to retreat unscathed.
A group of civilians positioned themselves to attack. Was Xu Shu looking for death?
"Who cares what he does? Go up and capture that boy Xu alive, and you will know as soon as you ask him!" Sun Guan looked at the general's flag on the hillside fiercely, his eyes full of murderous intent.
There was a band of cloth wrapped around his forehead, and blood was still oozing from it, which was one of the signs of the special operations team's hard work.
The soldiers in the special operations team who were personally trained by Wang Yu are not very strong. Although the bandits are also very good at mountain warfare and have made preparations in advance, they are still not as good as before. They can only rely on their numerical advantage to pile up. That flying weapon
The knife almost pierced Sun Guan's eye, and it went in along the eye, killing him even if he didn't.
Regarding this, he was still frightened and hated it with gnashing of teeth. He wished he could cut Xu Shu into pieces right now!
"Don't be impulsive, there might be a scam, cough cough..." Xi Zhicai turned to look at Chang Xi, and before he could speak, he broke out into a fit of juliè coughing.
"Mr. Xi, Xu He has already sent a letter. He said that he would abide by his neutrality... The person who sent the letter was Lu Shan's confidant. Before he came, Xu He still stood still. Even if there was a problem, those on the mountain were definitely not his soldiers.
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Chang Xi's face is also very pale, but it is not the kind of weak green white, but the kind of eerie white. Even among the Taishan bandits, Chang Xi is considered an outlier. Most of the others are from wealthy families, and they gather in front of each other to talk to each other.
They all have some friendship, but Chang Xi is originally a bandit, and he is known for his ruthlessness and cunning.
Cunning also means careful thinking, so before Xi Zhicai could finish asking the questions, he answered all the details.
Xi Zhicai's face turned pale and he was about to say something more, but Xu Shu didn't give him any chance to think.
"Woooo..." The long and shrill horn sound sounded again, and the color of the world changed.
The sun suddenly dimmed, dark clouds covered the sky, and the snow that had been intermittent since yesterday began to fall again. The snowflakes fell with the arrows, blooming into colorful purple and red.
The Qingzhou militia actually launched the attack first!
Of course Zang Bajun refused to show weakness and launched a counterattack with curses and curses. The dark clouds in the sky became thicker and denser.
The archers on both sides fired three rounds, but the results were mediocre.
Xu Shu led Minzhuang, not the Shesheng camp. It would be good if he could draw the bow and shoot the arrows. I am afraid that he himself would not expect such a brilliant result from such an attack.
The bandits of Zang Bajun are very good at robbing homes and houses, and they are very good at digging pits and setting trip wires in the mountains, but they don't use many bows and arrows. Although there are some bandits who are hunters, hunting bows and military bows are completely different things. What's more, they don't use bows and arrows very much.
, Bows and arrows are very expensive, how could Zang Ba be willing to give too many equipment to his minions.
Taken together, there were no more than a hundred people injured by bows and arrows, and fell in a pool of blood. However, after seeing the blood, the morale and fighting spirit of both sides increased.
"Kill the thieves, kill the thieves! Defend your homeland!" With loud shouts, huge arrows on the hillside rushed down the mountain at high speed, as if they were coming off a string.
"Enter Qingzhou! Big bowls of wine, big bowls of meat, eat whatever you want, take whatever you want!" The leaders loudly announced the purpose and highest ideal of the trip, and the bandits' eyes suddenly turned from black to red, and they were covered with a thick layer of
Thick blood color.
As soon as you charge, you can see the difference.
They had only reached half the distance, and the previously neat formation of the sharp arrows had turned into two hazy and disconnected sections; when they reached two-thirds of the distance, even the two wings of the sharp arrows had become twisted.
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However, the momentum of this army was extremely strong. They did not stop to form a team or show any fear. They just took advantage of the mountain and rushed down in an indomitable manner. They were all like elite soldiers who have fought a hundred battles.
"Boom!" In the end, the two sides collided without any tricks, blood suddenly burst out, and at the foot of Phoenix Mountain, a huge red flower bloomed proudly. (To be continued...)