"Retreat quickly! Pull it away, don't fight with Guan Yu head-on!" Seeing the fierce setback of his cavalry, Zhang Liao felt distressed. He quickly commanded his beloved Bingzhou cavalry at the top of his lungs to immediately pull away before the losses continued to expand.

As for how his move to retreat in a mess, Zhang Liao could interpret it by the infantry team in the battalion that was barely struggling to maintain the front line and how much impact it would have on the morale of the infantry in the central army.

Cavalry is many times more precious than infantry. The reason why the Bingzhou Army is considered a strong army in the world is that it is not because of the tens of thousands of elite cavalry supporting the field.

Guan Yu seized the opportunity and went into battle personally. Taking advantage of the loosening of the enemy's infantry front, he led the two battalions of soldiers who were like crab claws and penetrated directly into the flag formation of the enemy's chief infantry general Hao Meng.

Less than half a stick of incense, the entire Bingzhou army's infantry began to retreat. Hao Meng stood on the left and right, but was cut off by Guan Yu's clamp attack.

Hao Meng also wanted to break through with more than a thousand of the most elite soldiers around him, but he cut down a few Han army's iron armored soldiers and ran into Guan Yu head-on.

Hao Meng also knew that there was advancement and no retreat in today's battle. Regardless of whether he had a chance to win against Guan Yu, he gritted his teeth and rushed forward, and then there was nothing.

"Bang" Guan Yu threw Hao Meng's head to the ground, wiped the blood from the Qinglong sword with the lining of the opponent's shoulder armor, and continued to cover up the infantry of Zhang Liao's army.

Zhang Liao himself had temporarily retreated with his cavalry team. By selling his infantry, his cavalry had won enough time difference to leave the battlefield.

After calming down a little, Zhang Liao couldn't help but feel secretly hated: I have been holding Guan Yu for so long! And he immediately sent a messenger to Tuo Yi to report the emergency. Why didn't Tuo Yi come to reinforce him yet? He covered Guan Yu's sideways!

Today's battle seems to be simple to describe, but in fact, the bloody battle between them is not short, and each stage is as little as half an hour, and the ground meat is extremely tragic.

After Zhang Liao retreated, he slightly cleaned up the remaining troops and found that the cavalry troops were not damaged much, and they were basically saved. The loss was the time when they first collided in.

However, the infantry troops suffered heavy losses and were almost completely dispersed. Even if they could still gather the remaining soldiers who had defeated and fled to break through, Zhang Liao probably would not have more than two or three thousand.

In other words, about seven or eight thousand troops were annihilated or surrounded by Guan Yu and forced to subdue. In fact, at the beginning of the stalemate stage, there were less than three thousand injured in the formation and fighting, and then the morale was shaken. After the front line collapsed, it was chased and killed and chased north, and the back stabbed expanded its results.

In contrast, in today's battle, Guan Yu's losses should be just over a thousand people. Zhang Liao's estimate is quite accurate, because the total casualties and losses recorded by Guan Yu after the war were only more than 1,300, of which more than 400 died in the battle. After that, Hao Meng was killed, and Zhang Liao's infantry troops collapsed and the battle went smoothly. No one died in the pursuit stage.

Zhang Liao finally retreated dozens of miles with his cavalry. Before the afternoon of that day, Shen Zhijie met with Wen Chou, who was reinforced by the reinforcements from behind, and finally he completely established his position.

Tuo Yi was slow to come, and he planted deep resentment in Zhang Liao and Wen Chou's hearts.

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Of course, Que Yi didn't want to betray Yuan Shao's conscience, at least at this moment, he really didn't want to betray Yuan Shao.

There is obviously another reason why he did not come to rescue.

Half past Chen in the morning, he was in a dilemma just when he received an urgent messenger from Zhang Liao. On the one hand, the other party informed him in advance that he would hit Zhang Liao without hitting him. He did not believe it immediately and prevented Zhang Liao's attack. If he was exposed in the future, the trouble would definitely not be small.

On the other hand, Zhang Liao's courier said the situation was very critical. In order to make Kuo Yi have more snacks, Zhang Liao was more anxious during rescue and invested more troops, so he must exaggerate the strength of Guan Yu's attack camp.

For example, Guan Yu obviously concentrated 20,000 troops to attack, but when Zhang Liao said that it would be exaggerated to at least 25,000, or even close to 30,000. If it weren't for knowing that Guan Yu's direct troops had only 30,000 people in total, there would be losses in several small battles in the previous stage, and Zhang Liao might have reported a number of more than 30,000 people.

When encountering crisis and possible defeat, it is the nature of all generals to say that the enemy is stronger.

Haven't you seen the ugly civil war in later generations, and the generals of Yang Ji's army were defeated one after another. Every time they brag to the commander that "the Southern Army is more than three times that of ours", so the commander was furious and said seriously at the press conference, "It seems that the Southern Army has 4 million people! Because the federal army has 1.2 million!"

Zhang Liao's false reports were understandable, but they were eager to make meritorious contributions to prove themselves, forming a new misleading.

At that time, Que Yi quickly thought: "Run directly to support Zhang Liao, the straight line marching distance is nearly forty miles, although he will definitely arrive within two hours.

But Zhang Liao said the situation was so critical. Perhaps two hours later, he felt unable to support himself and had chosen to cut off his tail to survive. He left a part of the rear, and the main force retreated north. If so, I would have the chance to be defeated by Guan Yu one by one.

Moreover, if I want to save Zhang Liao, it is impossible for me to really march in a straight line. I have to cross the Danshui westward at the location close to Zhang Liao's camp. If Guan Yu was close to him, he would be attacked halfway.

Therefore, no matter what, our army has to take a marching route to rescue Zhang Liao. First, go west more and cross Danshui in advance, and then go north to attack Guan Yu along the west bank of Danshui to rescue Zhang Liao.

Since this is the case, I don’t care if I walk a little more than five or six miles. Let’s go straight to the west, and go straight to the camp between Yewangcheng and Guan Yu at the corner of Dan and Qiner River. Then I will attack an empty place at the right time.

Zhang Liao said that the scale of Guan Yu's attack on him was almost equivalent to Guan Yu's full outing. Then, Guan Yu's defensive forces must be insufficient. The wild king has the protection of the city and may not be able to capture it in two hours, but the camp that guards the throat at the Jiahekou may be taken down.

As long as we break through the village where Guan Yu attacks, we can also achieve the effect of surrounding Wei and saving Zhao, and we can also try our best to preserve the vitality of our direct troops, so that the hard battles of casualties will be thrown to Zhang Liao to fight, and the blow to Guan Yu will be even greater. At that time, we will be more rewarded in front of the general, so we will not be afraid of anyone slandering and instigating suspicion."

Based on this idea, Queyi, who was eager to make a great contribution to prove his innocence and reliability, decisively chose to surround Wei and save Zhao.

He brought more than 10,000 people and chose this line of marching route, first going west and then to north. This seemed to be about ten miles away than directly rescued Zhang Liao (the sum of the two sides of the triangle is greater than the third oblique edge), but it was the most profitable.

Twenty miles away in a forced marching state, it doesn’t take an hour. After all, the troops don’t need to bring baggage, they just come back after a battle. They are lighter and can only bring some dry food for noon.

At the beginning of the Si period, Que Yi's troops had already been between Yewang City and Dan and Qinshui Village. Que Yi first observed a distance and found that the flags on the Yewang City were lodged, and the golden drums were not heard, and even the patrol soldiers could not see them. However, the flags on the water camp outside the city were still there, and the rigorous and tidy.

Tuo Yi didn't want to guess randomly, so he first sent cavalry to the city to test and shot arrows at the cavalry on the top of the city. As a result, drums sounded everywhere at the top of the city, and crossbowmen came out together, crossing and shooting at the city, killing more than ten cavalry in a moment.

Tuo Yi quickly arranged troops to detour, gave up testing the Yewang City, and prepared to attack Dan and Qinshui Village. At the same time, he thought to himself: "Guan Yu still knew that the army would bluff out lightly, which is the way of military strategy.

In this way, he also knew that the Yewang city was important, and the camp could be re-established at any time. The troops stationed in the city were as weak as they were, and thousands of elite troops were left to garrison but not to be public. The troops stationed outside the city were as solid as they were, and there were not many soldiers and flags standing everywhere."

Coach Yi focused on attacking the water village in the north of the city.

Guan Yu is in the water village in the north of the city. There is a Qinshui block on the south side and cannot be directly attacked. There is a Danshui block on the northeast sides that just winds here, so only the west side can be attacked.

Tuo Yi spent some time detouring and shaped his troops on the west side of the camp, and then made noises and intimidation. While attacking fiercely, he also let the scolding team concentrate and shout to attack the morale of the defenders and let them surrender quickly to avoid death.

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"Zhuge Changshi is really a vain. There are only more than a thousand crossbowmen in Yewang City. He dares to put the tempted enemy troops until the nearest, so he calmly shoots and shoots, which makes Kuo Yi think that there are many soldiers in the city and the water camp becomes more and more empty. This is a waste of time to send us to the door and make contributions."

Xu Huang guarded the water camp and paired a thousand divine arm crossbowmen with dozens of Zhuge crossbows far and near, and deployed them behind the raised wall of the Tutai Village and above the archer tower. In addition, countless ordinary crossbowmen, archers and melee soldiers also defended step by step, with rigorous rules.

Compared with Zhang Liao's camp, the biggest advantage of Guan Yu's camp is that the front that can be attacked is very narrow. Even if only 5,000 people are left to guard the camp, it can easily leave enough reserve teams, rotate in batches, firmly guarding the front.

In the entire village wall on the east side, hundreds of people can stand on the front line, leaving 1,500 people, enough to stand in three rows, and the long-range soldiers have a clear level of melee combat.

Tuo Yi is also a master of crossbow soldiers. His first-row camp was originally a powerful soldier in the world. In recent years, with the capture of Zhuge crossbows on the battlefield and the spread of technology, the first-row camp even had a small amount of Zhuge crossbows, which was used in defensive battles with the chariot formation, and specialized in riding and shooting charges of light cavalry.

But today we took the initiative to attack the camp. The carriages were bulky and the continuous crossbows were inconvenient to deploy. The first ones used to board the camp were ordinary crossbows, but they were also equipped with long shield hands to assist in defense, and they were steadily attacked and defended rigorously.

However, shortly after the war started, Kuo Yi realized that something was wrong.

The sound of the "buzzing" feather arrows breaking through the air is endless. The sound of the arrows whistling with the wind is sharper than what you have seen on the battlefield in the past. There are even wide shields of the long shield hands in the front row, which are more than one person tall, being shot through, killing the people behind the shield.

These shields are made of thick and hard rattan or made of split thick bamboo nails. Although the material is not as tough as hardwood or even iron sheet, the thickness is definitely enough. The thickness of the rattan is more than an inch and the thickness of the bamboo.

But Que Yi's surprise was not only the lethality of the Han army's crossbow, but his discovery that the Han army could actually cover an enemy that was 300 steps away.

It can be seen that the guards were deliberately putting the enemy closer at the beginning. The defenders at the Yewang City just now seemed to be equipped with crossbows with such a long range. Guan Yu deliberately concentrated the new weapons to guard this water camp.

Obviously, Guan Yu was sure that "even if Kuo Yi wanted to surround Wei and save Zhao, he knew that the city was difficult to attack but the village was easy to attack, so he would give priority to attacking the water camp." After a little guidance, he would have the current situation.

Zhuge Liang first attracted hatred in moderation. While sucking down Tuo Yi's morale, he also stuck to Tuo Yi's troops in the front row. After consuming it for a while, people shouted:

"Tu Yi, you have fallen into a trap! My Grand Marshal had long expected that you would surround Wei and save Zhao! Listen to Tuo Yi's soldiers, your general was deliberately defeated, and there was an excuse not to rescue Zhang Liao! Don't fight too hard, it would be worth it to sacrifice his life for the general to act!"

Que Yi was so angry that he was full of his chest and attacked for a while with impulse, but in the end he was only crossed firepower of the divine arm crossbow and the rigorous camp defense, and he relied on the geographical advantage to kill and kill. Xu Huang and Zhuge Liang's guard camp were not as unexpected as Zhang Liao was attacked in the morning. Everything was well prepared.

Tuo Yi had to endure the price of a heavy morale decline. He wasted more than half an hour, reorganized the team, and went north along the Dan River to support Zhang Liao.

But because he took more than ten miles of detour and wasted by Zhuge Liang for half an hour, he completely retreated before he arrived at Zhang Liao. Kuo Yi was afraid of being defeated by Guan Yu, so when the vanguard scout found out the situation, he hurriedly stopped and returned to the eastward Danshui to retreat to the starting position.

Then, there was a very fierce fight that night. Zhang Liaowen and Chou Que Tuo Yi attacked each other. One blamed the other party for exaggerating the enemy's situation and misled him to surround Wei and save Zhao, and the other blamed the other party for not appearing all day and did not rescue friendly troops. This shirk was finally arguing with Yuan Shao himself, which caused a headache for the senior management of Yuan's army.
Chapter completed!