Chapter 435 The Truth of the Qingzhou Battlefield
The retreat military order issued by Cao Cao was transmitted to the two battlefields of Jiankang City and the south of Qingzhou: Cao Junzhu, who was responsible for the battlefield of Jiankang City, would be banned and Lejin, and Cao Ren, Ju Yi and other generals who were responsible for the southern battlefield of Qingzhou. At first, they were resistant and broke their heads. They couldn't figure it: Cao Cao himself led 300,000. The soldiers and horses were actually defeated by the Sun and Liu coalition of less than 100,000?!
However, due to the strict military discipline, they could only lead their soldiers to withdraw their troops overnight. First, because of a hurry, and second, for the purpose of cover, they did not even demolish the camp and retreated easily.
In terms of the Jiangdong Army, Lv Meng, the general in charge of the defense of Jiankang City, also observed the enemy situation in the early morning. He found that there were birds flying in and out of Cao's camp. From this, he judged that there was no one in Cao's camp, otherwise, ordinary birds would not dare to approach the camp full of killing.
It was at this time that a news that excited Lv Meng came from the Chibi Ferry: Sun Liu's allied forces had launched a sneak attack on Cao's camp last night and won. At the same time, the scouts from the Chibi Ferry also brought Zhou Yu's oracle to Lv Meng: Zhou Yu ordered Lv Meng to stick to Jiankang City, and never lead troops out of the city to chase the retreating Cao army! Because Jiankang City is the heart city of Jiangdong Group, in order to prevent Cao's sudden counterattack, Zhou Yu ordered Lv Meng not to take advantage of the moment and delay the fighter!
In this way, Cao Jun of Jiankang City retreated smoothly. A day later, Cao Cao's withdrawal order was conveyed to the southern battlefield of Qingzhou. Cao Ren and Ju Yi, the chief generals of Cao's army who besieged Cixi County, also led 100,000 Cao troops to retreat. Gan Ning, the main general of the Jiangdong Army guarding the city, also observed the situation of the enemy in the early morning and found the abnormality of Cao's camp a few miles away: flocks of all kinds of birds rose and fell in Cao's camp, and at the same time, Cao's camp did not practice the drums of soldiers and horses...
Gan Ning did not think too much, so he gathered troops and horses to rush out of the city and galloped to the Cao army camp. More than 10,000 soldiers, most of whom are Sun Hao's direct troops. This army rushed halfway. Sun Liang, Sun Hao's nephew, stopped Gan Ning in time and said, "Gan Taishou, I think we can't continue to attack Cao's army for the time being. In case Cao's army is a way to lure the enemy, I'm afraid we are in danger of the destruction of the whole army..."
Sun Liang didn't know anything. Through special channels, Gan Ning learned last night that at the Chibi Ferry, Sun Liu's allied forces had defeated Cao's army with less than many... Gan Ning didn't expect that the besieged Cao's army would get the military information of the Chibi battlefield so quickly. He retreated overnight and didn't even want the camp!
Gan Ning slanted at Sun Liang and said angrily, "General Sun, are you too bold?! Can't you see that Cao Jun's camp is empty at this time? Ten thousand steps back and say: What about even if it is Cao's army's strategy to lure the enemy? As far as Ben Taishou knows, the Cao army here has been out of food for three days, right? ..."
Sun Liang was speechless when he heard Gan Ning's rebuttal. Sun Liang knew that the Cao army here was originally blocked on the other side of the tributary of the Yangtze River. Later, a mysterious army interfered with the Cao army's grain transportation team. Therefore, Gan Ning waited for the opportunity to give up the strategy of relying on the river to fight against the Cao army, and extremely generously let the Cao army cross the river bank.
After that, no matter how the Cao army called the array, Gan Ning turned a deaf ear and did not get out of the city. No matter how fierce the Cao army attacked the city, it was repelled by Gan Ning's command troops... When Cao's ** retreated and quiet, Gan Ning seized the opportunity to lead the water-savous soldiers to sneak to the river behind Cao's army and rob Cao's grain and fodder. In this way, Cao Jun's food and fodder could not be supplied in time.
Food and grass are the lifeline of the long-distance troops. Without sufficient supply of food and grass, Cao Jun's high morale gradually declined.
Sun Liang knew that in this case, if his cousin Sun Shangxiang was also by Gan Ning's side, the two would definitely go out of the city to call Cao Jun. Unfortunately, because Sun Shangxiang was tired of the fight between his uncle Sun Hao and his brother Sun Quan, Sun Shangxiang had taken his child away from home and disappeared. ( What about it actually? Sun Shangxiang is also in Yunwu Palace in Huiji County at this time...).
Sun Liang looked at Gan Ning, who rushed to the front of the team, and shook his head helplessly. In fact, according to his inner thoughts: he is willing to give up the city to Cao Jun. In this way, Cao Jun can open a gap in the southern battlefield of Qingzhou...
When Sun Liang rushed into the Cao army camp along the great stream, he found that the Cao army camp, which stretched for several miles, was really empty, and there was only the sound of iron hooves galloping by their own cavalry in the quiet camp. Finally, Gan Ning ordered some of the men and horses to collect the trophies in Cao's camp, and all the cavalry continued to chase the retreating Cao's army.
At this time, the army belonging to Sun Hao is a uniform cavalry. Although they are unwilling to pursue Cao's army, due to the situation, they have no reasonable reason to refuse. They can only brace themselves, and 100,000 people are unwilling to follow Gan Ning to pursue Cao's army.
Two hours later, they finally saw Cao Jun crossing the river on the south bank of the Cixi River, a tributary of the Yangtze River. Originally, according to the normal situation, 100,000 Cao troops had enough time to cross the river. However, due to Gan Ning's troubles, Zhao Yun led the harassment of the Wudang Flying Army, and there were few ferries left near the Cixi River.
Cao Ren, who was commanding to cross the river, suddenly became angry when he saw the pursuers behind him. Juyi, who had crossed the river, also saw the Jiangdong cavalry in the distance, so he led nearly a thousand "first dead men" to return by boat...
Gan Ning looked at Cao's army thousands away. He shouted and ordered the cavalry behind him, "Generals and soldiers, it's time for you to get combat achievements... Kill ten enemies, reward thousands of money, kill the enemy's 1,000 officials and upgrade to three levels... Children, rush with Ben generals..."
How could the Jiangdong cavalry be in the mood to attack Cao's army? However, in the shouts of hundreds of confidants in Ganning, they could only rush forward.
At this time, Cao Ren, the angry commander of Cao Jun, also rushed to the army after Cao's break. In the face of nearly 10,000 cavalry led by Gan Ning, he calmly deployed the formation to meet the enemy: four thousand tigers and leopards of the second battalions separated from the two wings and bypassed the back road of Gan Ning's army; four battalions of 8,000 Qingzhou iron gunmen face the enemy; the rest of the troops Continue to cross the river.
Seeing that Cao's army's camp was still retreating in an orderly way, Gan Ning pretended to be angry and shouted "wow". In the wind and lightning, when he was about to meet Cao Ren, the general of Cao Jun, the four Yanyun bodyguards behind him suddenly accelerated and drove the green horse to replace Gan Ning against Cao Ren. Originally, with the power of four people, it was impossible to fight against Cao Ren, who was both intelligent and brave, but after they used the "splashing wind knife array", the four suddenly extended willow blades were sprinkled with cyan knives, which could also block Cao Renlin's knife momentum.
When Sun Liang and others saw that Gan Ning's four personal bodyguards could fight against Cao Ren with a magical knife array, their courage instantly increased. Sun Liang and others saw that Cao Ren's personal bodyguard was not the enemy of Gan Ning's move at all. Gan Ning waved the Tianlong Ba Feng knife more than ten meters apart and split the oncoming Cao cavalry with a knife. When Gan Ning rushed Cao's neat cavalry out of a gap, Gan Ning's war horse's speed was still unabated.
Cao Ren, who was entangled by Yan Yun's bodyguards, could only watch the Jiangdong cavalry flash past him like a tide; he could only listen to the tragic cry of Cao's army before his death behind him... Many people are powerful, and many ants can also gnaw elephants, and hundreds of Cao cavalrymen were instantly Jiangdong cavalry was destroyed.
In the first attack, they won a small victory, and the Jiangdong cavalry, who had no intention to fight, also entered the combat state in an instant: they felt that Cao's army was unbearable, and their attack power was not low... As they followed Gan Ning and continued to charge, they watched Gan Ning shoot the Cao's iron gunmen a hundred meters away with a shadowless arrow.
Even if Cao's iron gunmen fell under Gan Ning's arrows, the surviving iron gunmen continued to charge fearlessly. In the face of the incoming enemy, Gan Ning took back his bow and rushed into the enemy's dense formation like lightning with a dragon and phoenix knife.
Even if hundreds of Cao's iron gunmen fell under Gan Ning's sharp attack, the rest of the iron gunmen still shouted neatly and rushed past Gan Ning's side with the same frequency.
When the Jiangdong cavalry rushed to the iron gun soldier formation, it seemed that a huge wave several meters high hit the reef. Although the waves were high, the momentum of their rapid charge stopped abruptly. Because the iron gun soldiers were born to restrain the cavalry, under the restraint of this irreversible arms, an iron cavalry can fight against a cavalry...
However, the fighting method of the iron spearmen trained by Cao Cao is very special: even if the number of people is not as large as the other party, the iron spearmen still deliberately divide and surround the enemy according to the special tactics... Under some adjustment, the fierce battle between the two sides was divided into dozens of regiments: one hundred iron spearmen resisted nearly a thousand enemy cavalry, nearly a thousand The iron soldiers besieged hundreds of cavalry! In this way, the Iron Cavalry only paid a very small price, and they helped their companions kill the enemy as fast as possible!
This kind of combat method is better than one-to-one effect, and more efficient than the killing effect of 100 to 100! Gan Ning was also secretly surprised to see the way Cao's iron gunmen killed the enemy. He had to admit that Cao Mengde really has a way to train soldiers. It's really unintentional!
As Cao's army gradually gained the upper hand and gained an overwhelming advantage, the tiger and leopard cavalry with two wings also joined the battle group, and the Yanyun bodyguard who fought against Cao Ren was cleverly fighting and retreating. At this time, Gan Ning saw that Ju Yi, another general of Cao's army, also led nearly a thousand "first dead men" to rush from the river bank, and he led hundreds of his confidry cavalry back and rushed to death.
In the melee, hundreds of people in Gan Ning and his party moved to the vicinity of the site of the battle between Yanyun's bodyguard and Cao Ren like spirit snakes, and circled with the besieged tiger and leopards. Finally, when Juyi led the dead under his command also joined the battle, Gan Ning led hundreds of confidants to rush out a bloody road into the dense encirclement of Cao's army. An However, he retreated. When Cao Ren wanted to chase Gan Ning, who was retreating, he was scared off by Gan Ning's several shadowless arrows...
Cao Ren, who was unwilling, returned and madly slaughtered the surrounded Jiangdong cavalry. Even if the Jiangdong cavalry surrendered, they could not escape the vicious attack of Cao's soldiers. In less than an hour, nearly ten thousand Jiangdong cavalry were slaughtered by Cao's soldiers, leaving no one alive!
With such a process and result, Gan Ning was still righteous and awe-inspiring. He personally came to Fuchun County to find Sun Hao and blamed Sun Hao face to face...