Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 477 Outflanking and anti-outflanking
"Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang!"

The thick arrow of the bed crossbow hit the wooden board of the wooden mantle, and sawdust flew horizontally in an instant, splashing continuously.

The thick wooden planks were directly pierced by crossbow arrows, penetrating three points into the wood.

The soldiers of Cao's army hid behind the wooden curtains and moved forward in a huddled manner, but there were always people who would show up to lay wooden bridges to make way for the rear army.

As a result, a crossbow arrow passed through, and even the person and the wooden plank were directly nailed through, and the wailing could not be uttered.

A single crossbow shot continuously, but hundreds of bed crossbows shot at most a few thousand crossbows, most of which were blocked by the wooden curtain, and did not cause too much damage.

Soon Cao Jun crossed the first outer trench under the cover of the wooden mantle, followed by the second trench, and the third trench, slowly advancing towards the Han army camp.

The sound of "bang bang bang" crossbow arrows shooting through the wooden mantle kept coming, and the unlucky Cao Jun kept falling. As they got closer to the Han army camp, the casualties naturally increased, and many people were shot through their bodies. , fragmented.

"The enemy advances a hundred steps!"

With the cries of watchmen above the high oars inside the Han army camps one after another, the Han army archers who were originally huddled under the fence raised their heads one after another, and began to build the bows and crossbows in their hands.

After a while, less than three minutes later, the watchman roared again: "The enemy has advanced eighty steps!"

"shoot!"

Immediately afterwards, the generals of the camps let out a roar that shook the sky.

In an instant, the world was darkened.

I saw thousands of feathered arrows flying high into the sky, drawing countless gorgeous arcs in midair, and then falling into Cao Jun's formation one after another.

In front of Cao Jun is the wooden mantle, followed by Chongche and Yunlou. The main pawns are slightly behind, but this is basically the area covered by thrown arrows. Dense clusters of arrows descended from the sky and attacked Cao Jun.

"Raise your shield!"

Cao Jun's officers responded almost immediately.

The soldiers held up their shields at the same time.

"Ding ding ding ding ding!"

It was like opening an umbrella during a rainstorm, and the metal arrows fell on the shield, making a tinkling sound.

Then came the second wave of arrow rain, the third wave of arrow rain, and the fourth wave of arrow rain followed one after another.

In normal field battles, shooting three waves is already the limit, because the range of arrows is generally within a hundred steps. After two or three crossbow shots, the two sides have already rushed to the front and engaged in close combat.

But the rain of arrows in this defensive battle will not stop, and neither side will stop. When Cao Jun's Yunlou approaches, they will also start to fight back against the camp.

Their cloud building is three stories high, and it looks like an arrow tower. It is crowded with archers, and they start shooting arrows like raindrops.

But the bed crossbows of the Han army are not for dry food. They aim at the enemy's Yunlou and fire in bursts. The front is still as fragile as thin paper.

Many of Cao Jun's archers were shot directly from the cloud tower by the bed crossbow and fell into the crowd, and even a few cloud towers were shot down by the dense bed crossbow, collapsing and killing many Cao soldiers.

Immediately afterwards, the bows and arrows of the Han army shot out, covering the sky and the sun, almost suppressing the archers on Cao Jun's dozens of cloud towers, unable to raise their heads, and there was no room for resistance at all.

"strangeness."

Shen Chen, who was watching all this from the high oar in the distance, felt a little puzzled.

Cao Jun's offensive is already relatively hasty, because the number of Yunlou is too small, and there are only more than 1000 archers on the top, which is not at the same level as the Han army.

It was an exaggeration when Yuan Shao beat Cao Cao back then. Hundreds of cloud towers surrounded Cao Ying, and nearly ten thousand archers shot arrows into Cao Ying.

Almost none of Cao Cao's soldiers dared to walk in the camp. Even when they traveled, they had to wear shields, and they were suppressed to the extreme.

If it weren't for the catapult, Cao Cao probably wouldn't be able to survive the surprise attack on Wuchao.

At the beginning, after Yuan Shao's army of more than [-] troops entered Henan, he first prepared for half a year in Yangwu and built a large number of siege equipment, and then surrounded Cao Ying for more than four months and built a lot of equipment again. fight.

Cao Zhen and Shen Chen had only confronted each other for more than a month, less than two months, and they didn't have that much time to build large-scale equipment, so their siege equipment was far from enough, and they could not threaten the Han army at all.

But why does he want to attack by force?
Dou Mao, a general at the side, asked, "Governor, what's so strange?"

Shen Chen said: "It's impossible for Cao Zhen to try to shake our army's camp with these equipment. He should not be that stupid. He should attack by force when he is not prepared."

Dou Mao said with a smile: "Didn't the governor say that once Xu Huang is destroyed and there is no one to defend Bingzhou, Cao Jun will be threatened by us in Luoyang and Hebei? He must be worried that Xu Huang will not last long."

"Ah."

Shen Chen nodded slightly, and said: "But you can't take it lightly, be careful."

Just as he was speaking, the situation below quickly began to change.

Cao Jun forcibly crossed the first few trench bridges, and finally came outside the camp. A large number of rushing vehicles were pushed over and began to hit the fence.

The crossbowmen on the fence kept shooting arrows, and at the same time, some people threw out ceramic bottles wrapped with sackcloth that was lit, and the inside was filled with fish paste and grease. They threw them on the ram, and the flames burst into flames.

For a time, the entire periphery of the Han army camp was in chaos, with flames soaring into the sky and billowing flames. Many vehicles and cloud towers were burned, which made Cao Jun's already short of supplies even worse.

Afterwards, the other party wanted to set up a wooden ladder to forcibly board the camp. All kinds of rolling stones and trees in the Han army camp were thrown out as if they didn’t need money. , it doesn't take much time.

The battle lasted until noon. After Cao Jun had suffered huge casualties, the sound of Mingjin sounded. They hurriedly left two or three thousand corpses, carrying countless wounded and a large number of equipment, and left in embarrassment.

And Shen Chen had been standing on the high oar and watching, seeing Cao Jun receding like a tide, he ordered the battalions to clean up the battlefield, and then called several important generals back to his headquarters for a meeting.

At the end of the afternoon feeding time, Shen Chen had already returned to his camp, and Deng Ai, Jiang Wei, Yan Zhi, Dou Mao and several other generals came over one after another.

After everyone had arrived, Shen Chen looked around and said, "Cao Jun had a strange battle today. The scouts came to investigate recently. Sun Li originally wanted to rush to help Zhu Ling, but Zhu Ling had already been defeated by General Pang at that time, so he retreated halfway. I went back, and now I have gone to Cao Zhen's camp."

"Xu Huang also sent his cavalry away before. It seems that there should be [-] to [-] cavalry on Cao Zhen's side, but there is no trace of them today, which shows that the cavalry has another role."

Deng Ai quickly thought of the key point.

"good."

Shen Chen nodded and said: "I think so too, and there are only two places they can go, one is Puban, to rescue Xu Huang."

"The other one is ours"

Jiang Wei immediately took up the conversation.

This is something that is easy to think of, because one of the enemy's troops has disappeared directly. As an excellent general with a keen sense of smell on the battlefield, it is impossible not to notice this.

So Shen Chen immediately thought about why Cao Zhen dared to attack without siege equipment, and what did their cavalry do?

Cao Zhen was also considered an excellent general in history. Although he basically achieved success in Soochow, and suppressed the Xiliang rebellion in the early days, it is undeniable that he is indeed a second-generation Cao family with a level.

Even an ordinary general should not make such a low-level mistake, why did Cao Zhen do this?
The obvious answer is to contain them.

Then the next thing to consider is where does the opponent's cavalry want to attack?

Everywhere is possible.

Cao Zhen took the initiative to attack, maybe to prevent Shen Chen from sending people back to help Puban, or maybe to restrain their main force so that Cao cavalry can attack their rear camp.

These are all conceivable things.

Deng Ai thought for a while and said: "The governor, it shouldn't be Puban. Puban has 2 troops, and General Pang is still in Xie County. Xu Huang has more than 4 people, even if Cao Jun cavalry [-] People, less than [-], how can you be an enemy of General Zhao?"

"But the enemy doesn't know that we secretly replaced General Zhao to Puban. Maybe they think we don't have a general in Puban, so they can launch a surprise attack, leaving us leaderless and defeating our main force?"

Jiang Wei said.

"It's possible."

Shen Chen nodded, looked around and said, "Cao really wanted to attack our rear, and we also wanted to attack his rear. Now it's a confrontation, and it depends on who can win. I didn't expect Cao's army to attack today. Send orders to Ma Dai and Pang De to prepare to cross the river!"

All the soldiers were immediately refreshed, and the plan of three-sided encirclement was about to be implemented.

However, Yan Zhi was still a little worried and said: "If General Pang's side is transferred away, wouldn't General Zhao's side just be there. What if Cao Wei's cavalry is targeting General Zhao, then..."

"Sometimes, you should trust your general."

Shen Chen looked at the crowd seriously and said: "General Zhao is also a veteran for many years. I believe that even if Cao Jun raided Puban, he would still be able to hold on, and he would not let Xu Huang go back to Bingzhou. Pass the order."

"only!"

Immediately there were messengers out of the camp, and each of them split up to convey the order.

Ma Dai was in Huayin, he could cross the Weishui River directly to Fenglingdu, and then attack from the rear of Cao's army, while Pang De could go directly south by boat from the Yellow River west of Puban to attack Cao's left flank.

The three-sided plagiarism is Shen Chen's method of dealing with Cao Zhen.

Soon on the next day, Cao Zhen attacked the Han camp again, and the two sides fought fiercely, and the fight was fierce.

On the morning of April [-]th, this was the fifth day of the battle between the two sides. Cao Jun suffered heavy losses in the five days. Few people.

Just after the morning meal, the soldiers of the Cao Army and the Han Army who had eaten breakfast were ready, and the dark crowd began to attack the Han Army camp like sea water.

Various voices rang out again from the Han army camp, making the entire battlefield noisy, and buzzing arrows kept coming.

By noon, the battle became intense.

A large number of Han troops rushed to the wall of the village to fight the Cao army. Cao Zhen also gave the order to let the soldiers break through against the rain of arrows.

At this time, a melodious sound of a horn came from a distance, and the rolling vibration seemed to make the whole earth tremble.

A few miles away, the ground could be felt shaking.

Cao Zhen was about a mile away from the Han camp. Standing on a high oar and looking down, he saw that the rear of the Han camp in the distance suddenly became extremely chaotic, with billowing dust and smoke, as if thousands of troops and horses were galloping towards them.

Then he laughed and said to the left and right: "My cavalry is here, and now the Han soldiers are all fighting us in the southern periphery, and the rear camp is unguarded. Sun Li and the others will definitely be able to defeat the thieves!"

At this time, the Han army in the rear did exactly what he said, with a loud shout, "The camp is broken!", the world seemed to be completely silent for an instant, and the sound of horseshoes in the distance was heard in the distance.

Cao Jun called in? !
This is the thought that resounded in the hearts of all the Han soldiers fighting on the front line.

Many people almost subconsciously looked in the direction of the main business.

I saw Gao Lu standing on the top of the main camp as steady as Mount Tai, and the big banner with the word "Shen" on the Gao Lu fluttering in the wind, like a needle that fixes the sea.

Seeing this scene, everyone stabilized their minds. They firmly believed that under the leadership of that person, they would never lose.

At least the former Jingzhou Army God has now become the Great Han Army God.

Even though Guan Yu was above him, in many people's minds, Shen Chen was still the invincible God of War, and they believed that he would not be defeated here.

"Yan Zhi, take Liangqu people there and guard the middle camp."

Shen Chen said lightly.

"Yes."

Yan Zhi took orders and left.

At this moment, the rear battalion was in chaos, and Cao Jun who had rushed in set fires everywhere, igniting their supplies and supplies, trying to shake the morale of the soldiers fighting in the front battalion of the Han army.

But they obviously thought too much. The soldiers of the Han army not only fought desperately on the front line, but also separated some people to station in the middle camp.

Soon when Cao Jun continued to attack the middle camp, he encountered resistance. Thousands of Han troops bravely fought with them, dragged down Sun Li and others, and stopped them outside the middle camp.

Time passed minute by minute, and about an hour later, Cao Zhenjian was still unable to take down the Han army camp, so he was furious and decided to attack with the whole army, pressing everyone up.

It's all-or-nothing.

He felt that if the Han army was more tenacious, Puban's Han army might come to their rescue, so he had already bet everything.

And at this moment, the sound of rolling thunder shook the whole field again.

Cao Zhen was shocked and said, "Where did the cavalry come from?"

He hastily turned his head to look.

Because he discovered that the voice of the cavalry this time actually came from the rear of his camp.

At the same time, on the surface of the Yellow River, without knowing when, countless boats floated slowly, slowly approaching the shore.

Flags were planted above those ships, some with "Han" written on them, and some with "Pang" written on them!
Pound's army actually appeared here!

(End of this chapter)