Chapter 46 Return to Youzhou
After the heavy cavalry destroyed the camp, they ran into Dong Zhuo's Xiliang infantry without stopping. As soon as they joined the battle, a sudden change occurred. The 8,000 cavalry led by Li Jue and Guo Si were from the left, and 8,000 cavalry led by Zhang Ji and Fan Chou from the right, almost at the same time, attacked Yan Bin's Youzhou cavalry horizontally at the same time. When the cavalry charged, they could only advance and could not turn immediately. Unless there was a large area to circulate. After being intercepted by Dong Zhuo's 16,000 cavalry, a large number of casualties of the Youzhou cavalry appeared, especially the horse infantry in Bingzhou.
Yan Bin immediately knew that something was wrong when Dong Zhuo's cavalry appeared. He hurriedly said to Zhang Fei: "Brother, please lead the heavy cavalry to help Wenyuan block Li Jue and Guo Si." He said to Zhao Yun: "Second brother, you and Ziyi, Master Wang Yue block Zhang Ji, Fan Chou. Don't worry about infantry."
After Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun led the cavalry to disperse to both sides. In order to fear that Dong Zhuo's more than 20,000 infantry would become a mess of his cavalry, Yan Bin had to bite the bullet and lead Dian Wei and his personal guards to harasse the harasses on Dong Zhuo's infantry. Faced with the huge gap in power, Yan Bin did not dare to lead his personal guards into the neatly arranged formation of the infantry. He just wandered around the infantry array and took the opportunity to harvest some infantry's lives like peeling fruits, so as to force Dong Zhuo's infantry to not act rashly. But this would not be done.
There is no price. Because the Youzhou cavalry was constantly moving, Dong Zhuo's infantry could not use bows and arrows to volley the small cavalry. However, the sporadic arrows still caused considerable casualties among the personal guards. Yan Bin was so heartbroken that although these personal guards were small, they were really the elite ones in a hundred. The money spent on training, equipment, treatment and food for each person was no less than the salary of a county magistrate. But in order not to affect the cavalry fighting head-on, Yan Bin could only grit his teeth and persevere.
A cavalry war was not over until dark. After Yan Bin took back his troops and returned to the camp, he counted it. The original 8,500 people on his side were less than half of the original number, and many were injured. Fortunately, the wounded were all slightly injured and did not affect his actions. As for those seriously injured, they had no way to survive such cavalry battles. As long as they fell to the ground, they would be trampled to death by war horses. The biggest loss was Zhang Fei's heavy cavalry. In order to take care of the horse-riding infantry in Bingzhou, the heavy cavalry almost fought against 8,000 Dong Zhuo cavalry alone. So now there are less than 600 heavy cavalry preserved.
Yan Bin thought that Dong Zhuo's cavalry was raiding in front, and although his cavalry had stubbornly resisted, he probably killed thousands of them. However, the number of Dong Zhuo's cavalry should be more than 10,000, plus more than 20,000 infantry. Among his cavalry in his early 4,000 cavalry, there were 1,500 horse-riding infantrymen. From the perspective of strength comparison, he could not beat Dong Zhuo no matter what. Helpless Yan Bin invited five teachers, Cai Yong, Lu Zhi, Zheng Xuan, Zhang Wen, Ma Rizhao, and Zhou Yi to the Central Army.
The account explained the situation in the past few days to them in detail, and at the end, it was better to go to Youzhou with me first. Lu Zhi, who was proficient in military affairs, repeatedly calculated the situation between the two sides in his heart, and nodded with a deep pain. Seeing that Lu Zhi nodded for a while, the other people didn't say anything else. Yan Bin asked Xu Shu and Zhou Yu to arrange the retreat specifically, but he sighed in the camp for the inevitable chaos in the world, and was very depressed.
The next day, the Youzhou cavalry and more than 2,000 infantrymen protected the families of Cai Yong, Lu Zhi, Zheng Xuan, Zhang Wen, Ma Riyi and Zhou Yi slowly evacuated to Guandu. Dong Zhuo, who had been afraid of being killed by Yan Bin, dared to pursue him. With Yan Bin's army's away little by little, Dong Zhuo's heart that had been holding was relaxed little by little. A few days later, he arrived at the bank of the Yellow River in Guandu and contacted the Ganning Navy, who had long been ambushed in the Yellow River fork.
The wounded and the families of various families sent the warships back to Youzhou by water. Cai Yong, Lu Zhi, Zheng Xuan, Zhang Wen, Ma Riyi and Zhou Yi were shocked by the giant ships in front of him. Such warships had far surpassed the people's understanding of ships at that time. They were simply fortresses moving on the water. The remaining horse and infantry were handed over to Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun and Zhang Liao, and then crossed the Yellow River and returned to Youzhou by land. Yan Bin led Zhou Yu and Xu Shu also boarded the Ganning warship.
As the Yellow River flowed down, the fleet arrived at the Yellow Sea three days later. On that day, Yan Bin, Zhou Yu, Xu Shu, and Gan Ning stood on the deck of Gan Ning flagship and looked at the sea view of the same color as the water and sky. Yan Bin, who was in a good mood, pointed to the east of the sea and faced Gan Ning and said, "Xingba, there are Japanese islands in the sea east of Youzhou, Daliuqiu Island in the sea east of Yangzhou, and Java Island in the sea southeast of Jiaozhou. We must conquer these islands, so your navy must also set up a land force to open up the sea for the Han Dynasty and make this sea the inner sea of the Han Dynasty." Gan Ning nodded repeatedly.
Zhou Yu, who was standing next to Yan Bin, had long been fascinated by the vast sea in front of him. He asked Yan Bin: "Third brother, I don't want to be the chief minister anymore. I want to join the navy and gallop on top of the sea."
Chapter completed!