Overlord!

Jiangdong's 7000 troops faced Cao's army of more than [-] troops. In fact, there is almost no difference in scale.

When there are thousands of people, there is no limit to the shore.The spectacular scale of both sides depends entirely on how the two sides arrange their formations.

Sun Ce was very confident in his troops, so he adopted a horizontal formation, that is, a large three-level formation, with five people in a group all lined up horizontally, and the formation was spread out in sequence, which was extremely wide on the left and right but slightly thin on the front and rear.

But even so, Cao Jun could not detect the strength of Jiangdong's army.

Because Jiangdong's three armies are an elite army that is completely combined with infantry and cavalry. Before the foot soldiers are the rangers, arranged in a flying geese formation.

Since ancient times, the steps should be straight and the riding should be loose.

The cavalry is arranged in a flying formation, and the front and rear width is as high as three or four miles. This width is also because when fighting the enemy, the rangers maintain contact with the enemy first, delay the enemy's movement and prevent the enemy from sudden attack, so as to cover the deployment and completion of the main force. Attack preparation.

Three or four miles away, Cao Ren couldn't see clearly how thick Jiangdong's main army was. He could only see the heavily armored cavalry in front, the flags of the army in the rear, and the towering phalanx, which stretched for nearly ten miles and was boundless.

From this situation, it seems that Jiangdong's army is not empty, it seems that the size of the army is larger than Cao's army!
So Cao Ren roared angrily: "Who is willing to fight for me and go in and out of the enemy's rear to test the strength of the enemy?"

Niu Jin immediately stepped forward, held his spear and clasped his fists, and shouted: "The final general is willing to go!"

Niu Jin was an absolutely brave and proficient general under Cao Ren. During the Battle of Xia Cai, when Cao Ren and Zhou Yu fought, Niu Jin personally took the lead and entered the formation unexpectedly. He once defeated Zhou Yu's soldiers into chaos.

It was not until Zhou Yu's general Zhu Huan used three thousand strong crossbowmen to defend him that he was able to withstand Niu Jin's counterattack.

Later, Cao's army collapsed, and Niu Jin fought tooth and nail among the rebellious army, and finally managed to return home.

This is a fierce general in Cao's army who has been in battle for a long time and fought countless bloody battles with Jiangdong.

Cao Ren strengthened his spirit and shouted: "Good! You bravely conquer the three armies, and you will definitely beat the enemy's sharp edge! When you return in triumph, I will personally show you the first meritorious service!"

Encouraged by Cao Ren, Niu Jin was so courageous that he immediately led more than [-] cavalry and rode towards Jiangdong.

He was fierce and indomitable. Faced with the sluggishness of Jiangdong's knights, he did not hesitate to rush into the formation, intending to break through the blockade of the knights in front, and then approached the flank of Jiangdong's formation to see how thick it was. , false and true.

Cavalry battles are particularly valiant. After all, cavalry formations are always relatively dispersed.

Niu Jin's group of more than [-] men stormed a place, and their numbers even had an advantage.

He killed three of the Koto Rangers in a row, while the other Rangers could only shoot and retreat. It seemed difficult to block his attack.

Seeing this, Han Dang, the commander of the cavalry, became furious and his beard and hair stood out.

After all, Wu Hou was personally present in this battle, and Wu Hou was watching from a few miles behind!

If the Marquis of Wu witnessed with his own eyes that Han Dang's troops were surrounded by enemy generals, and were invincible, as if they were in a deserted territory, how would Han Dang be able to lead heavy troops in the future?
Before Niu Jin could act, Han Dang immediately led more than 50 of his bodyguards and cavalry, armed with bows and spears, towards his front.

Han Dang was from western Liaoning. He was a fierce frontier general in the absolute sense and an excellent candidate for Youzhou's sudden cavalry. He was good at bowing and horseback and had physical strength. In terms of commanding ability, he might be slightly inferior to Dong Zhuo and Gongsun Zan, who were from good families in the same border counties. However, In terms of martial prowess, they are by no means weaker than these two men. Since the beginning of the campaign, they have been in danger many times and have been captured by the enemy.

Carrying bows and spears to compete between the two formations, bravely defeating three armies, and overwhelming tens of thousands of men, these are his strengths.

He led more than [-] cavalrymen and collided with Niu Jin's troops head-on. If they were the first, they would all be killed immediately!

And just before the three armies, countless people could see clearly that Cao's cavalry was no match for Jiangdong's elite assault cavalry.

In terms of the ability to carry spears with both hands and charge with horses, Jiangdong was far superior to the enemy. As soon as the two sides fought, six or seven of Cao's soldiers fell off their horses. At least half of them were not stabbed, but knocked off their horses by the impact!

Cao's army only had more than [-] cavalry in total, six or seven of them fell off their horses, and three or four were assassinated. Soon, more than half of them were killed or injured, and they were heavily surrounded by Han Dang's troops.

Seeing this scene, Sun Ce nodded with satisfaction. This is a truly powerful cavalry.

If a cavalry can only roam and cannot attack, then the cavalry can only serve as an auxiliary arm on the battlefield.

To win a cold weapon war, in the final analysis, you still need the courage to fight hand-to-hand.

Niu Jin's counterattack was obviously directly blocked by the Jiangdong cavalry. The unit was deeply surrounded by the enemy and was heavily besieged. It was only a matter of time before it was destroyed.

However, in front of everyone's eyes, Cao Ren, the general of Cao's army, roared out. He led his light cavalry to break through the encirclement, galloping left and right, invincible, pulling out the bullion and gold in the encirclement. When the infantry arrived, the Jiangdong cavalry could not stop him.

Zhang Hong followed Sun Ce and praised: "Cao Ren is indeed brave enough to fight. Among the Cao family, he is the only one who is worthy of the important task. I think we should take advantage of this opportunity to kill him in the formation to avoid future troubles."

Sun Ce was noncommittal about this.

Cao Ren, a general of the Cao family, was touted to be relatively powerful.

What Cao Tianren, Cao Ying's No. 1 general.What 22 games and 60.00 wins.This is just like the Song Army's winning rate of over [-]%. The victories are all small victories, and the losses are all big defeats that shake the foundation. Even many victories are just small victories in big defeats.

The battles he served as commander-in-chief all ended in defeat, and they all started with an attack and were forced to fight to defend the city.

In the Battle of Nanjun, he forgot to defend Yi Dao, and Gan Ning captured this important military town in one fell swoop. Then he sent troops to attack, but was defeated by Zhou Yu, suffering heavy casualties, and finally had to defend Jiangling.This defeat was simply unbelievable. As the commander-in-chief of Nanjun, he could forget about guarding Yi Dao, a battleground for military strategists.It wasn't until he was easily captured by a fighting general named Gan Ning that he finally realized the importance of Yidao City.Compared with Cai Mao, his talents may be far behind. At least in order to defend Yi Dao, Cai Mao and Jiang Dong fought bloody battles.

In the Battle of Xiangfan, he was ordered to attack Guan Yu.As a result, he was not prepared enough and forced the people to rebel. After fighting, he ended up defending Fancheng.

As for the defeat of Ruxu, there is no need to say more. He led the march alone. When Zhu Huan heard that he was coming, he bluntly said what a waste. When two armies faced off, victory or defeat depended on the ability of the generals, not the soldiers. How much.How do you think Cao Ren's ability compares to that of Zhu Huan?Therefore, even though Cao Ren leads a large army, with such a commander in chief, he will definitely be defeated by me.As expected, Cao Ren was defeated by Zhu Huan and suffered countless losses.This time, he didn't even have time to defend the city before he died suddenly.

To sum up, from Sun Ce's point of view, Cao Ren is a brave and foolhardy Cao clan member.

It's okay for him to defend the city and show off his bravery, but if he really wants to lead an attack, he is no match for those generals in the world who really know how to fight. He will be defeated by various generals who are good at conquering and fighting.

Therefore, Sun Ce said: "Cao Rentu is appointed as a relative. Although he is considered a good person among the Cao family, he is far from the real heroes in the world! Now that he encounters my enemy, he does not want to escape far away. To show off your courage and fight for victory is to give up the victory to Cai Ru, causing Cai Ru's situation to overturn in one fell swoop! With a good general in charge of the army and a sharp soldier in charge, it is bound to be defeated! Killing him in formation will shake the morale of Cao's army. Even if he is lucky enough to escape, with His talent is nothing more than continuing to harm the Cao family."

If Cao Cao is really forced to lead the army with good generals and talents on behalf of Cao Ren, it may be even more difficult.

Therefore, Sun Ce was full of energy and waved his whip forward: "Drum beat! The whole army attacks!"

As the high-spirited drums of Jiangdong's army sounded, the rangers quickly broke away from contact with the enemy. At this time, Jiangdong's main army was already deployed.

At the forefront are more than two thousand crossbowmen, whose array is neat and orderly, like a forest.

Until they were fifty steps away from Cao's army, under the command, his bows and arrows fired wildly!Cao Jun immediately suffered heavy casualties on the front line, and his military morale was shaken.

Later generations either laughed at the Western tactic of queuing to kill, or worshiped the Western tactic of queuing to shoot.

But fundamentally, this is how wars are fought, regardless of whether it is the East or the West.

Ever since the Central Plains had the art of war and formations, the army would often advance with bows and crossbows, approaching like a forest and firing volleys at close range.

The crossbowmen and battle vanguards used firepower and arrows to kill the enemy, and then the jumping team used the firepower to charge the enemy.

The art of war is as follows: In Kaiyuan style, when facing the enemy in battle, the vanguard advances forward before the arrows are delivered, and the enemy is trapped in a fortress and breaks through the masses. The thieves are defeated as a result, and they are called Tiao Dang.Therefore, in the Tiaodang formation, those who rush to kill from the left and right are called the Tiaodang formation, and their sharp soldiers are called Tiaodang.

It’s just that the art of war in the Central Plains is obviously more complete. Not only are the crossbowmen lining up to shoot like a forest, the jumping team after shooting, but also the rangers who line up in front of the crossbowmen to block the enemy to guard against enemy raids, and the garrisoned troops. The duty of the garrison behind the battle team is to strengthen the assault force from the front or implement a roundabout encirclement from the enemy's flank and attack the enemy from behind, depending on the situation.

Things like the art of war are completely interlinked. The situations of war between the East and the West are almost exactly the same. It's just that it was not until the time of queuing up to be shot that the West probably caught up with the East's thousand-year-old art of war.

Jiangdong's three-talented formation also used arrows and stones as its first priority when confronting the invaders. Two thousand well-trained crossbowmen fired arrows and stones at random, making Cao's army invincible in the array.

The sophisticated armor of Cao's army was far inferior to that of Jiangdong's elite. The fifty-step shooting of two thousand crossbowmen caused Cao's army to suffer heavy losses in an instant.

Cao Jun only felt that the opponent's dense arrows kept coming with a whistling sound. Cao Jun's men who shot the sound were completely defeated!

When Sun Ce had only a thousand men under his command, when he organized elite archers, he required six arrows to hit three times at a distance of thirty paces.

Now the requirements of Jiangdong's elite warriors have finally caught up with the level of the Southern Song Dynasty. Only six shots from a distance of sixty steps and twelve shots are qualified.

Now at a distance of fifty steps, Cao Jun would face at least twelve arrows from Jiangdong's two thousand crossbowmen!

After a moment of shooting, Cao's army began to collapse. The crossbowmen on the front line could not bear the casualties and turned around and fled, leaving the army in chaos.

Seeing this opportunity, Cheng Pu, the general of the Tiaodang team in the rear, immediately led his troops to advance quickly, thinning the enemy and setting up a chaotic place.

Cao Ren's army, more than ten square meters in formation, was defeated!
If nothing unexpected happens, Cheng Pu and his army will take advantage of the situation to break it, causing the enemy's front to completely collapse and the array of flags to fall apart.

But now we can see the role of brave generals on the battlefield.

Cao Ren personally led more than [-] elite soldiers and galloped down the slope. His bravery was unparalleled. The more than [-] elite soldiers were not afraid of death and moved forward in an indomitable way. They actually broke through Cheng Pu's army and cut off its formation!

If Cao's army is full of fierce generals at this moment, there will be countless heroes and fierce generals, all leading the troops to attack, and the armies will fight hard, and they may even defeat the Jiangdong army, causing the soldiers to abandon their sticks and run away.

Due to his heroic feats, Cao Ren was able to defeat the enemy and conquer the enemy. He would be able to shock the world with his bravery.

But alas, this is just a hypothesis.Cao Cao refused to trust foreign generals gullibly, and there were not many heroes in the partial army who could take on this responsibility.

On the contrary, Sun Ce was furious. He immediately led a dragon and bird to ride out. He rode his horse straight towards Cao Ren's rear army formation. Sun Ce's fierce generals Zhao Yun and Chen Wu Linrong faced the invaders, raised their flags and beheaded the generals. They were all full of ambition and had no direction. forward.

Sun Ce used more than a thousand of his most elite dragons and birds to ride into the formation, and he was immediately invincible. The already chaotic Cao army's formation completely collapsed at this moment!In particular, the thousands of soldiers among them had never experienced such a majestic scene.

All they saw was that the local cavalry was so vast that no one could match it. When they charged forward with their horses, their own side was invincible and fell apart.

This scene is not something that a mob can fight against. In fact, the cavalry does not directly hit every military formation head-on. The cavalry should disperse. Many cavalry also ride directly through the phalanx.But when the mighty iron cavalry poured in, even if the square formation was not broken up, looking up, there were enemy cavalry in front, left, and rear, with flags and armor in all directions. Among the other figures in the formation, it seemed that only one of them had to face the siege from all directions by this huge cavalry.Many soldiers immediately collapsed in fear.

The collapse of thousands of people completely demonstrated what it means to be defeated like a mountain.

There is simply no way to prevent a collapse of this magnitude.

Cao Ren fought bravely in the front, but the army behind him was defeated, and he was unable to follow up. There was no possibility of turning defeat into victory.

In the battle at Ruyin, Sun Ce's personal enemy Cao Ren was defeated by thousands of levels!After capturing more than [-] Cao's troops, Cao Ren and his remaining troops fled, abandoned the city and fled.

Cao Ren's [-] elite soldiers were almost all killed and wounded before they could protect him from the encirclement.

All the people in this unit are fighting for their lives, no matter how hard one man fights for his life, ten men are invincible, and a hundred men fighting for their lives cannot be stopped by a thousand people.But even so, Cao Ren could not save the situation.

Following his defeat in Ruyin, Sun Ce's troops marched into Cai's territory, directly targeting Cao's army's last line of defense in Runan, and managed to pacify the situation.Between Huaisi and Si, heroes fought to escape to justice.Sun Ce adopted Zhang Hong's plan and opened Cao's army's palaces and granaries to provide relief to the poor, gathered bandits to stabilize the country, and gathered refugees to consolidate Xu and Henan.

By the time Sun Ce's army gathered on the front line of Pingyu, there were nearly 7 people in total, and their momentum was so great that it shocked the Central Plains!

Under this momentum, Cao Ren was completely frightened and wanted to abandon the land of Runan and retreat to the Yingchuan line, relying on the Yingchuan garrison and troops to make the final resistance.

He did not dare to take the responsibility of retreating alone, so he approached Manchong and asked: "Now that Sun Ce has not encircled the enemy, I want to take advantage of the fact that the outside and inside are not cut off to lead the army to break through the encirclement and go to the Yingchuan line to lead the garrison troops to defend it. What do you think? There are more than [-] people in the field in Yingchuan, and there are no less than [-] soldiers in the field. They can give me strong support, especially support."

"If Sun Ce leads his army to the city, it will be heavily surrounded, cut off from the inside and outside, food will be exhausted, and reinforcements will not arrive. We will just wait to die."

Cao Ren's words are also half true and half false.

It is true that there is no food in Pingyu. Even if Cao Jun is stationed in the fields, it is impossible for every city to have tens of thousands of dan of food!

If a large county can have a reserve of 1 shi, it is considered a great county!
Even in Wu County, the most prestigious county in Jiangdong, there is no way to achieve this level.

Pingyu was not an important frontline area before, and Cao Jun's grain and grass were mainly stored in the Ruyin area.

Cao Ren abandoned the city and led his remaining troops to retreat to Pingyu. There was not enough food and grass here. Moreover, even if there were more than [-] shi of food, it would only last the army more than ten days.

A city can be supported by more than ten days of food supply even if it is under siege. This is thanks to Man Chong's good management.

So there is no food in Pingyu. This is a fact.

But it is wishful thinking to say that we can retreat to Yingchuan and continue to hold on with the help of more than ten thousand soldiers!

Where does Cao Jun still have more than ten thousand troops stationed in Yingchuan?The soldiers of the real military garrison have long been recruited to the front line, and the remaining people are just young and strong people controlled by Cao Jun's military establishment.

In Xuchang's camp, due to the Yellow Turban Rebellion, all the people were exiled and there were many deserters in the wild. Therefore, Cao Jun forced the people to work in the fields in a military organization.

The farming system at this time was very rough. The people were worried that there would be no benefits and were worried about being restricted by the military establishment, so they often fled.

The settlements were established to supply military supplies, and when necessary, the labor force participating in the civilian settlements was also needed to fight against the enemy.The difference is that the landowners are mainly engaged in agricultural production, while the sergeants are mainly engaged in offense and defense.

It was not until Yuan Huan wrote a letter proposing to improve the farming that the farming was strictly differentiated, from forced farming to recruiting people to farm.

It's just that Yuan Huan is still serving as the governor of Lujiang in Jiangdong, so the current farmland of Cao Jun is a group of common people restrained by coercive means.

At this time, if Cao Ren retreats and the soldiers of Yingchuan cannot be reorganized, they will suddenly attack the Jiangdong army. I am afraid that Yingchuan will also collapse!

Therefore, Man Chong spoke generously and solemnly said: "Sun Ce came unexpectedly, hoping that he would take advantage of the provocation and go straight in. I heard that Sun Ce had sent other generals to join Ying Ru, and the people south of Xu were harassing him. So he did not dare to go in. He is afraid that our army will hit him behind the ears. If he escapes now, the south of Yanzhou will not belong to the restored country. You should treat him."

Man Chong just wanted to yell at him and scold him, so he was running away at this time?
Where else can you escape?
Even if you escape to Yingchuan and defend Xu County, what's the use?

If the Jiangdong army enters Xu County and sets up a heavy siege, the food in Xu County cannot be transported out, and the supplies to the front line of Hebei are cut off, it will be a real disaster!By then tens of thousands of the main force of Cao's army were destroyed, and even if they fled to Yanzhou, they would just linger and wait to be killed.

Under the nest, how can there be any eggs?
Man Chong further wrote to Xun Yu, saying: "Runan is the throat of Xu County. It has a chance of survival. If it were not for Runan, there would be no Yuzhou. This would be a disaster for the family. In today's affairs, men should fight and women should luck. , why do you doubt sending troops?"

At this time, don't worry about the future. Hold the front line of Pingyu at all costs, quickly rectify the garrison, make the most of Xu County's young people, and help Cao Ren defend the south is the basis of life and death!

It is now May, and the war in Hebei has been going on for almost half a year. As long as Cao Cao can defeat Yuan Shao and send troops to return reinforcements, the world will be in control. (End of chapter)