Chapter 297 Battle of Cangting(1/2)
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In fact, the Gentlemen Army had a full hope of arriving at the Cangting battlefield one day in advance. However, before crossing the Huzi River, the Xuzhou infantry team, Yin Li, who was responsible for assisting the Gentlemen Army in crossing the Wenshui and Huzi Rivers, was guarded by neighboring Fan County when building the floating bridge.
The army's harassment and destruction took a lot of effort to defeat the Fan County defenders and build a floating bridge to cross the river to cover the Gentleman's army across the river.
However, after the Gentlemen crossed the river across the entire line, they saw the notorious military flags of the Gentlemen, and heard the even more interesting military songs of the Gentlemen. The Fan County defenders who were originally planning to ask Che Zhou for help and fight again were immediately immediately
He gave up the idea of going out of the city to fight, hid honestly in Fan County, watching the Gentleman Army bypass Fan County, singing the beginning of the Book of Songs and heading towards the warehouse pavilion where there was no longer a large river, by chance
The time when the Gentleman Army arrived at the Cangting battlefield was stuck at the most deadly critical moment for Boss Cao.
Whether it is a coincidence or luck, the time when the Gentleman Army arrived at the Cangting battlefield was too critical and too appropriate. Just when the boss Cao's bluff had already succeeded, it had completely damaged the morale of Yuan Shao's army and greatly boosted the morale of Cao's army.
Also when Boss Cao could win a complete victory as long as he ordered an attack, the Gentleman Army suddenly appeared on the south bank of the Yellow River and sang a neatly evil military song representing his own identity. The entire battlefield situation was completely reversed, not only the Xuzhou army
The lie of a crushing defeat was self-defeating, and the morale of the Cao army suddenly fell to the bottom. Yuan Shao's morale, which was already close to collapse, was resurrected in full blood, and suddenly reached a state of explosive power, and its combat effectiveness increased exponentially.
If it weren't for the fact that Cao had ambushed four ambushed soldiers on both sides of the camp in advance and rushed out in time to share the frontal pressure, if it weren't for the elite soldiers of the Cao army who had excellent combat effectiveness and strong cohesion to fight to the death, then Cao army's camp would have been in a state of fanaticism.
Yuan Shaojun kicked him, and Boss Cao would not even have the chance to save some of the teams and retreat to the Yellow River. But even if he barely blocked Yuan Shaojun's crazy attack, Cao's army paid a very heavy price for this.
Afterwards, more than 10,000 main soldiers of the Cao army were buried on the battlefield. Xiahou Yuan, Zhang He, Dian Wei and Li Dian were all injured by arrows, and Boss Cao himself was shot into the helmet by a branch of a scattered arrow. He almost penetrated his head.
The cruel fierce battle lasted from noon until it was dark. The Sangong of Yuan originally planned to continue the night battle, but Ju Su and Cui Yan and other strategists found that their own strength had dropped seriously. The Cao army fought desperately with the fortifications of the camp, and then continued to attack.
It is difficult to break, and the casualties will be huge. So I suggested that the three Dukes of Yuan call the gold to withdraw their troops, let the soldiers return to the camp to rest, recover their strength, and launch a surprise attack when the Cao army crosses the river. This can achieve twice the result with half the effort. The Duke of Yuan, who is eager to take revenge, is eager to take revenge.
The three duke didn't want to listen, and Cui Yan pointed out that the morale of the Cao army is now depressed. The longer the time is delayed, the more unfavorable it is for the Cao army and the more beneficial it is for the Jizhou army. The three duke of Yuan reluctantly ordered the withdrawal of the troops and retreated for ten miles to camp and rest. The ground was left.
The corpse was covered with blood, the flag was broken, and the gun was broken, and the terrified Cao army hid behind the fortifications in the camp and gasped heavily, and had no courage to go out to pursue the camp.
Although he finally survived the fierce attack of Yuan Shao's army for more than five hours, the Cao army knew very well that the greatest danger of the self-army had not yet passed. Before crossing the Yellow River, the situation of the self-army was still as dangerous as it could be destroyed at any time. Therefore,
After Yuan Shao's army retreated, in addition to ordering the rescue of the wounded soldiers as much as possible and prioritizing the transfer of wounded soldiers across the river, Cao also summoned several capable generals to the Central Army's tent to discuss matters, and said straight to the point: "The situation is critical, I
It is necessary to take a warrior who can sacrifice for the main force to lead a team behind the palace to cover the main force's retreat. Who is willing to take this risk?"
"The last general is willing to stay behind the palace!" Li Tong, a famous general of Runan, stood up without hesitation, and rushed to say: "The last general is willing to lead the army behind the palace. Even if he fights his life, he will cover the main force to retreat across the Yellow River.
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Boss Cao stared at Li Tong, and saw that Li Tong looked serious and his eyes were firm, then he said slowly: "Wenda, you have to think about it. By then, you will face the desperate attack of Yuan Shao's 200,000 troops, but our main force
Because the Yellow River is blocked, there is no way to provide you with aid even if you are a soldier. Once the floating bridge is destroyed, you and your team will find it difficult to return to Yanzhou. Are you ready?"
Li Tong knelt down to the boss Cao, folded his fists and said solemnly: "Since following the Prime Minister, he has been greatly favored by the Prime Minister, but has no reward for his achievements. The situation is critical this time. I am willing to give up this body and fight to the death as the back of the main palace.
, protect the Prime Minister and lead the army across the river. Even though he is crushed to pieces, he has no regrets!"
Boss Cao stopped talking, but just helped Li Tong up with both hands, held Li Tong's hands and choked and cried. After a long time, he choked and said, "Since that's the case, then please let the general."
At the fourth update of the night, Cao's army, who had no choice, began to cross the river and retreat. Li Dian and Le Jin led their troops to protect the wounded soldiers and food first retreated from the floating bridge across the Yellow River, and lined up on the south bank of the Yellow River to protect the wounded soldiers and food.
In order to prevent the elusive Gentleman Army from suddenly attacking. The scout of Jizhou reported the news to the Sangong of Dayuan. The Sangong of Dayuan followed the advice of the counselors and did not immediately launch a pursuit. He only asked the new force to continue to protect the main combat troops and let the main combat soldiers rest with peace of mind.
He recovered his strength until the next day, when the three-president of Yuan Sangong led the main team with a full meal to go south again to attack the Cao army who was crossing the river.
At three o'clock in the morning, another cruel and tragic bloody battle began in front of Cao's camp. In order to buy time for the main team to cross the river, Cao's general Li Tong led 6,000 Cao's warriors to reach the main force of Jizhou Army, which was more than 60,000 yuan, and took turns to attack.
Simple camp fortifications resisted the impact of Jizhou army. The trenches had been filled with the bodies of soldiers on both sides who died on the first day. The antlers and horses had been destroyed. However, Li Tong's team miraculously repelled the front of Jizhou army again and again.
The attack was so angry that the Sangong of Yuan, the three generals who were ineffective in fighting, were forced to divide his troops to attack the Cao army ferry from both wings, and fought fiercely with the Cao army team waiting to cross the river on the Yellow River embankment.
During the bloody battle, Li Tong was hit by three arrows, but he still fought to the death and killed many generals in Jizhou. He also cut off his younger brother Li Wei, who persuaded him to retreat. He shouted that the person who retreated was the same as my brother, and encouraged him to volunteer to stay behind the palace.
The Cao army warriors fought to kill the enemy and repelled the Jizhou army's charge against the Zhaizha defense line seven times. It was not until the new force led by Yuan Xi arrived at the battlefield. With the advantage of the number of people, Li Tong was forced to give up the Zhaizha defense line and led the
The army retreated to the camp to continue the street fighting with the Jizhou army. The fire in the Cao army camp was soaring into the sky, the smoke rolled, and the shouts of killing were shaking the earth. Although Yuan Shao's army attacked fiercely, it could not quickly rush up to the Yellow River embankment at the ferry and hit it there.
The Cao army crossing the river.
In order to withdraw the combat troops across the Yellow River as soon as possible, in addition to the necessary food and grass for withdrawal, Cao resolutely gave up all the supplies and pushed them to the periphery of the ferry, ready to ignite the interception and pursue the pursuit. At the same time, Cao Cao led the troops personally.
The supervision team is guarding the bridgehead of the floating bridge. Once someone does not retreat in order, no matter who it is, Cao Boss pointed his hand. The supervision team composed of Cao Boss' personal soldiers will immediately rush forward and kill those who violate the order.
The pedestal is suspended at the top of the pontoon bridge to warn future generations to ensure that the huge team can cross the river through the narrow pontoon bridge in an orderly manner.
When noon was approaching, most of the more than 50,000 Cao's army had retreated. Yuan Shao's army had already reached a position where they were within reach. Even the ferocious smiles on the faces of Yuan Shao's soldiers could be clearly seen, and countless Cao's soldiers were
He begged Mr. Cao to cross the river immediately, but Mr. Cao said slowly: "What's the hurry? In addition to Li Tong's team, more than 10,000 troops have not retreated. He asked Mr. Cao to cross the river now, but the Prime Minister of the Han Dynasty did not allow it."
After saying this sentence lightly, in addition to ordering the ignition of the outer baggage vehicles, Cao ordered a group of civil servants and advisers to cross the river immediately. Guo Jia and others refused to obey, and cried and demanded to advance and retreat with Cao. As a result,
However, he was whipped by the boss Cao and whipped onto the pontoon bridge and ferry, and ordered the soldiers to force these counselors to cross the river. Boss Cao himself continued to stay on the north bank of the Yellow River and commanded the remaining troops to cross the river in an orderly manner.
There is no way for Boss Cao to cross the river. Although Boss Cao himself can ensure safety, the more than 10,000 teams that have not crossed the river on the north bank and Li Tong’s team will definitely be finished. Without Boss Cao staying on the north bank to stabilize the morale and boost morale. Yuan Shaojun
Like a group of wolves and lambs, they quickly rush over the Cao army that had lost command and order, and then launched a cruel massacre to wash away the shame of Guandu a year ago. Therefore, Cao Boss could only stay and protect the seeds of the army as much as possible.
, leave last hope for a comeback in the future.
After withdrawing some of the exhausted offensive teams, another group of Yuan Shao's new troops entered the battlefield. More than 50,000 Yuan Shao's army rushed around the Cangting Ferry, and even the prisoners refused to take in. Almost every fallen Cao's soldier.
They were all cut into pieces by random knives. Although the palace rear guard team led by Li Tong was still fighting to the death, they were already divided into two groups by a large number of Yuan Shao's army. More Yuan Shao's soldiers began to form groups.
The Cao army, which had not crossed the river, was forced to fight fiercely with Yuan Shao's army in the raging fire. More and more Cao army soldiers fell, but Yuan Shao's army was still coming in endlessly.
The situation was extremely critical. The Cao army generals who had never crossed the river rushed to the front of Cao again, and knelt down with tears in their eyes and begged Cao to retreat immediately. When Cao's face was slight and whipped the generals with a horse whip, countless screams came from the upstream of the ferry.
With excitement, it turned out that a Yuan Shao army rushed to a pontoon bridge in chaos and cut off several hard wooden stakes connecting iron chains with an axe. The pontoon bridge, which had been overwhelmed, broke with a terrible sound of shattering.
After the remaining wooden stakes at this corner, the floating bridge suddenly turned over. The dense Cao army soldiers on the bridge deck screamed and fell into the Yellow River, and disappeared into the depths of the waves.
Seeing this, the lieutenant of the boss Cao's tent, Dian Wei could no longer bear it, and suddenly rushed up, tore off the war horse, resisted on his shoulder and strode on the bridge, and rushed to the other side of the Yellow River regardless of everything. Cao was furious.
While shouting that Dian Wei would put down himself, he slapped Dian Wei with the handle of the horse whip. However, even though he was beaten to death by Boss Cao, Dian Wei still refused to let him go, and just kept strode towards the other side of the Yellow River.
The Cao army soldiers on the floating bridge took the initiative to avoid it. Occasionally, a few soldiers who refused to avoid it or could not dodge it were also knocked down to the Yellow River by Dian Wei with one arm.
"Dian Wei, let go of me, let go of me! I order you to let go of me! I order you..." As he shouted wildly, Boss Cao suddenly burst into tears, crying loudly while regretting and cursing, "Six years
Before, am I blinded or lard so that I was confused? How could I let that traitor go? Without that traitor, how could I have today? How could I have today?!"
Without Cao personally commanding at the ferry, the order of Cao's crossing the river was inevitably in chaos. Although Li Tong's team was still fighting to the death, Yu Jin, the general of Cao's army who had not retreated to the south bank, resolutely stood up and took over the command of Cao's army.
The command power of the army continued to command the Cao army to retreat in order. However, the Cao army still began to panic and collapse. The greedy and fearful deceased took the opportunity to make a fuss and rushed to the floating bridge in order to escape. This caused the psychological panic of the Cao army to intensify, and more
The Cao army soldiers rushed to the bridge and boarded the boat first, and they pushed me into a mess. The Cao army's supervisor team could not achieve any effect. In the end, even the supervisor team was dispersed by the chaos, and several soldiers in the supervision team were still there.
It was also pushed into the Yellow River.
The Cao army's crossing the river was completely in chaos, in order to survive. Countless Cao army generals and soldiers rushed forward, squeezing the entrances of the four remaining floating bridges to the point of being scattered. Countless Cao army soldiers were overthrown by their companions, and then countless soles of the shoe
After stepping on it, he stepped on these fallen companions so that they would never have a chance to stand up again. Some of the soldiers of Cao army raised their swords and guns to their companions, and they fought for a narrow and crowded road. There was already a slightest on the bridge deck.
There was no place where there was a cone. Countless Cao soldiers climbed on the slings of the floating bridge and climbed hard on the south bank. More Cao soldiers were squeezed down the Yellow River by their companions, screaming and shouting for help, drifting with the flow until they disappeared into the depths of the yellow water. The scene was so chaotic.
It is so miserable that people are outrageous that they are unbearable to read.
The Cao army soldiers who were swimming and ferrying were everywhere on the river. The seriously loaded ferry boats were difficult to move forward on the Yellow River. In order to prevent the ferry from sinking, the Cao army soldiers began to slash their own houses on the edge of the boat.
Companions, Cao Jun soldiers climbing on the edge of the boat refused to let go, crying and begging their companions to show mercy, but their companions ruthlessly waved their swords and slashed their fingers, and their fingers were very bloody.
The boat was almost over, trembling and twitching in the pool of blood, and the owner of his finger cried and fell into the water, rolling and struggling on the water to call for help. Even so, several ferries full of soldiers were still overwhelmed and slowed down on the way to cross the river.
It slowly sank, and the soldiers and sailors on the boat cried and cried, but there was no way to go to heaven and no way to the ground.
Seeing this scene, the Jizhou army, which had already attacked the embankment, was of course cheering like thunder, laughing wildly, and gloating. On the embankment on the south bank, Cao Laoda and Cao's civil and military officials were heartbroken, and there were many people crying.
Dian Wei even knelt in front of Boss Cao and apologized, but Boss Cao no longer cared about punishing Dian Wei for forcibly holding him over the river. He just secretly prayed that God would bless him so that his team could be withdrawn more.
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Since the emergence of the Gentleman Army of the Disaster Star, God worshipped by Cao Boss obviously has not gone to work anymore. Under the crazy squeeze and trampling of countless defeated Cao soldiers, the other two temporary floating bridges quickly collapsed on their own, and almost all the soldiers on the bridge fell into the water.
When Cao's army wanted to cross the river south, they only had two narrow floating bridges built and reinforced before, as well as civilian cargo ships with pitiful carrying capacity. Yuan Shao's army, whose morale was getting stronger, took the opportunity to rush to kill, chop melons and vegetables.
The same crazy killing of Cao's soldiers who had never crossed the river. The casualties of Cao's army quickly expanded, and more soldiers desperately squeezed onto the last two floating bridges, which made the soldiers on the bridge unable to cross the river quickly.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Yu Jin also gave up his useless efforts to maintain order and led the commander-in-chief team to force a ferry from his own soldiers, and then cut down the defeated soldiers who were trying to get on the boat and then desperately fled to the south bank.
At this moment, a large number of Jizhou archers who had climbed the embankment also began to cover the river with bows and arrows, killing countless Cao soldiers on the ship. One of them was still dead and hit Yu Jinsan.
He cried and fell into the cabin, not knowing whether he could live or not. At the same time, two powerful generals from Jizhou, Wen Chou and the senior officials, also began to lead their troops to attack the last two floating bridges of Cao's army, preparing to cut off the last way back of Cao's army.
At the same time, on the battlefield behind the palace, only thirty or forty Cao's soldiers were left beside Li Tong, who was seriously injured. Ma Yan, the general of Jizhou who was responsible for encircling and annihilation of Li Tong's team, also gave Li Tong a chance and first ordered a temporary stop.
Attacked, then went out to war and shouted: "Runan Li Tong, I have heard of your name. For your courage, if you surrender, I will try my best to protect you from death in front of your lord!"
"Bah!" This was the only answer given by Li Tong, who had only a layer of skin connected to his shoulders in his right hand. Ma Yan shook his head helplessly, and then waved his hand. The soldiers in Jizhou immediately surged like a tide and were flooded in an instant.
The last team beside Li Tong, Li Tong's head was soon regarded as an important spoil by Ma Yan, and sent people to quickly send them to the Grand Duke of Yuan who was supervising the battle in the distance.
"Okay, okay." Seeing Li Tong's head, the Sangong of Yuan, who was always in an excited state, couldn't stop smiling. He also cursed with hatred: "A common man! If this man hadn't fought hard for the palace, he would have been for Cao.
The thief resisted stubbornly, and our army's victory today will have to increase at least 10,000!"
"Lord, there are many stubborn people like Cao thief." Ju Su reminded calmly: "So although our army has defeated Cao thief, there are still many hard battles to fight in the future. I hope the lord will be cautious
It is important to do so, don’t take it lightly because of today’s victory.”
The Grand Duke of Yuan didn't like Ju Su's unpleasant words, but he was too lazy to pursue them. He just nodded and smiled, "Young and the words are reasonable. I can't take Cao Zhe's remnants lightly, but it doesn't matter much, as long as
Our army crossed the Yellow River and met with Ying'er's Xuzhou team in Yanzhou, so it became easier to deal with Cao's thieves."
To be continued...