Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 88 Defeat (three more, please subscribe)
"Hurry up!"

Gan Ning was riding on horseback, watching the fierce battle in full swing in the distance, and kept urging the soldiers to move forward.

But people are not made of iron. They had just marched for more than 20 miles. A fierce battle at the bridgehead north of Nieyang wiped out half of Yujin's troops.

So they actually rested for a while. After all, Cao Cao thought that Yu Jin would come over, so they were wasting their time, buying both the enemy and us some time.

It happened that when Gan Ning came back, the war between the two sides had already started, but because he was located on the endless plain, he was discovered several kilometers away, and it would be too late to rush to the battlefield as soon as possible, so he could only urge the soldiers to hurry up.

At this moment, Cao Cao and Zhang Xiu have been fighting for almost an hour, and the battle between the two sides is fierce. In this small-scale battle of about 2 people, Zhang Xiu occupies the geographical advantage, and Cao Cao occupies the harmony.

This refers to the people except Cao Jun who fought bravely and cooperated closely.The most important thing is that Cao Cao's own tactics are extremely appropriate, and he has already disrupted the enemy's formation.

Now Zhang Xiujun's left and right wings are all tight, and the formation has become disordered.Cao Cao ordered the whole army to attack again, putting huge pressure on Zhang Xiu from the front, causing Zhang Xiu's troops in the front to faintly lose their support.

If it weren't for the two thousand archers on the top of the mountain who were still shooting arrows down to put pressure on Cao Jun, the Xiliang Army would have collapsed by now.

The only good news is that Gan Ning is coming soon.

As long as Gan Ning launches an attack on Cao Jun from the flank, then everything will be fine.

After Shen Chen cooperated with Deng Zhao to repel Han Hao, the rebel army noticed that Zhang Xiu's left front line was in chaos due to Shi Huan's attack, so they stepped up and continued to support.

However, what he never expected was that he was finally allowed to defend the sidewalk, but Zhang Xiu, who was at the front, lost his chain.

Both the left and right flanks were attacked, and the army formation was already in chaos. Zhang Xiu himself fought fiercely with Cao Hong, but couldn't hold on, was repelled by Cao Hong, and had to retreat.

It's fine if he doesn't withdraw, the army in front of the main general Dazhu can barely support it, once he withdraws, it will directly cause the army in front to follow him.

The originally spread out formation of the Chinese army instantly gathered and retreated, directly selling off the left and right wings.

If Shen Chen is still on the top of the mountain, he will definitely scold Zhang Xiuzhu's teammates.

But the others were not there and did not notice the movement of the front army. They were gathering Huangmenting soldiers and horses to attack Shi Huan's troops. In the middle of the fierce battle, suddenly it was as if the army was defeated. The left and right wings of Zhang Xiu's front army collapsed in chaos.

"The general has retreated."

"Quickly, quickly, retreat."

"Oops, the enemy is catching up."

"Run."

For a time, the entire battlefield turned into a rout.

Shen Chen was stupid at the time, he didn't know how he was defeated, he thought he had succeeded in putting out the fire and repairing the hole, but in the blink of an eye, Zhang Xiu's former army fled.

But this is not the time to find out what the problem is. Seeing Zhang Xiujun fleeing, he immediately realized that something was wrong, and shouted: "Withdraw!"

"withdraw!"

Deng Zhao, Shen Zhen and others around immediately blew their whistles.

The sharp whistle resounded throughout the battlefield, and the soldiers of Huangmenting moved closer to this side one after another, heading north under Shen Chen's command.

The reason why they went north was to get closer to Gan Ning, because Gan Ning was about to arrive at the battlefield.

At this time, the situation on the battlefield reversed almost instantaneously. Just like that sentence, the battlefield is changing rapidly. No one knows whether an advantage in the last second will become a disadvantage in the next second.

Zhang Xiujun was completely defeated and retreated in a swarm.Cao Jun chased and killed all the way, and beat the Xiliang army to the ground, extremely embarrassed.

On the river bank in the distance, watching the army's victory, Cao Cao let out a long sigh of relief. While the soldiers on the left and right were not paying attention, he wiped the sweat from his forehead, and then returned to his calm appearance just now.

In fact, he also fought very hard in this battle. Zhang Xiu took advantage of the location and seized the hillside on the left bank of the bridge, so he could shoot arrows down from high altitude.

Although they have a numerical advantage, if they continue to drag on, this advantage will soon disappear.

For the enemy's reinforcements are coming.

Therefore, how to use this advantage to defeat the Xiliang army before the arrival of enemy reinforcements has become Cao Cao's top priority.

Time is tight, the task is arduous, a slight mistake, or too long a delay will cause him a big defeat.

Therefore, for Cao Cao, finding a breakthrough in a short period of time is very critical.

Fortunately he succeeded.

First, taking advantage of the short-term chaos of the enemy's left rear wing, Han Hao was sent to make a precise breakthrough.

Shi Huanlai was also asked to startle the enemy with a move, and storm the enemy's left flank, which caused problems in the formation of the entire Xiliang army.

You must know that Zhang Xiu has 4000 soldiers deployed on the mountain, so at the moment he has only more than [-] soldiers on the frontal battlefield, a total of less than [-] troops.

Cao Cao's troops were nearly [-] more than him, so there was naturally much more room for manipulation.

It's just that Shen Chen still has more than 1000 people, which cannot be ignored.

Therefore, if it were a mediocre general, or a commander who didn't perfectly capture that loophole, it would be very likely that Shen Chen's more than 1000 people would cover up the weaknesses exposed by Zhang Xiujun.

Fortunately, Cao Cao successfully seized this opportunity.

He saw that the situation on the battlefield turned instantly, Zhang Xiu's troops fled on a large scale, and his own soldiers and horses chased after them. After running for about half a mile, Cao Cao issued an order: "Ming Jin!"

"only!"

At this time, even the stupidest people around Cao Cao would not question this order.

Because Gan Ning's army was less than two miles away from them.

There was a tinkling sound.

Cao Jun's soldiers were also well-trained, and instead of continuing to pursue and expand the results of the battle, they quickly gathered back.

In this battle, Cao Jun suffered more than 1000 casualties, Zhang Xiujun also suffered more than 1000 casualties, and Huangmenting's soldiers suffered dozens of casualties. Corpses were everywhere on the bridgehead battlefield, hills, and plains.

It seems that everyone's casualties are about the same, but don't forget that at least half of Cao's army attacked against the rain of arrows, so if Zhang Xiu didn't occupy the left bank hilltop, Cao's casualties might even be reduced by half.

From here, we can see how strong Cao Cao's command on the battlefield is.

Although Shen Chen tried his best, he lacked experience, almost no experience in commanding tens of thousands of people in battle.

Secondly, and most importantly, he actually did not have command over Zhang Xiujun, only the Gan Ning army and Huangmenting soldiers.

However, Gan Ning was not here, and he had few troops at hand, so he was led by the nose by Cao Cao, tearing down the west wall to make up for the east wall, but in the end it still didn't save the Xiliang army's fate of defeat.

Fortunately, Gan Ning arrived in time and did not give Cao Cao a chance to expand his victories.Otherwise, if he came an hour late, Zhang Xiu's army would lose at least 1000 people.

When Gan Ning arrived on the battlefield, Cao Cao had already assembled his soldiers, and the quality of his soldiers was still very high, at least countless times better than the junior high school students of later generations.

When he was studying, Shen Chen remembered that during the school’s usual morning meeting on the playground on Monday, the school’s 5000 teachers and students had to wait for more than 20 minutes to line up, and then line up according to the order of each class.

After the sound of Cao Cao's Mingjin sounded, Cao Jun on the front line had already rushed back.The Cao army behind, under the command of officers at all levels, quickly formed a defensive formation towards the north.

When Gan Ning was less than a mile away from them, less than 10 minutes after Kankan, they were already in their respective positions, and their spear arrays were aligned with Gan Ning's army.

The two sides quickly fell into a confrontation.

Shen Chen led the Huangmenting soldiers to approach the Gan Ning army.

After the two sides met, Gan Ning came over and said, "Ah Chen, how is it?"

"unsatisfactory."

Shen Chen shook his head and said, "I underestimated Cao Cao's ability and overestimated my own."

"How to say?"

"I thought I could fight him, but unfortunately I can't command Zhang Xiu's team, otherwise I should be able to hold on for a little longer."

"Is Zhang Xiu so unbearable?"

Gan Ning frowned, how did he defeat Liu Biao's army back then?
But thinking about seeing Liu Biao's so-called military strength in Liu Biao's army, it was really not good enough, so he was relieved.

Shen Chen said: "It's not that Zhang Xiu is unbearable, his Xiliang army is still very brave, it's just that Cao Cao's adaptability is far superior to Zhang Xiu's, and he is not as good as him in the way of using troops."

This cannot but be admitted. As the top strategist in the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Han Dynasty, Cao Cao was really good at using troops.

Especially in this small-scale war of 2 people, Cao Cao's command level can be called art, and his sense of smell is extremely keen, and he will be at least the level of a marshal in future generations.

Zhang Xiu's Xiliang army is even higher than Cao's army in terms of individual combat capability.But in terms of cooperation, personal quality, and the command level of Zhang Xiu and Cao Cao, the two sides are not at the same level at all.

In just over an hour before Gan Ning arrived, he found an opportunity to beat Zhang Xiu's Xiliang army around. Even if Shen Chen couldn't mend the hole, it was indeed admirable.

However, Shen Chen gained a lot from this battle. Although he was not as good as Cao Cao in commanding on the spot, at least he succeeded tactically.

Moreover, seeing Cao Cao's beautiful command in front of the battle also inspired him deeply. At least in the future, he will be able to benefit from it for a long time, and use it as a learning motivation to continue to study hard.

of course.

Although he achieved a certain tactical victory this time, Shen Chen also understood that the reason for his tactical victory was his foresight, and Cao Cao did not know that Gan Ning had intervened in this war.

The war between Cao Cao and Zhang Xiu has only been less than half a month now. He didn't believe that Liu Biao would react so quickly, but he didn't know that Shen Chen had been involved from the very beginning.

So fundamentally speaking, Shen Chen actually took the lead and had a very large information advantage.

If he and Cao Cao were placed on the same level of information, the battle would probably not be a half-battle like it is now, but a complete defeat for Shen Chen.

Therefore, he was not at all happy because he defeated Cao Renle. Only when he faced Cao Cao in person could he feel his strength.

(End of this chapter)