Zhang Fei's troops were obviously coming from Jingxingkou, Zhending County, Changshan, along the Hutuo River.

In theory, we should have walked along the river all the way, and finally wet along the Hutuo River into Baiyangdian, Yishui, and attacked Yijing and Zhuojun.

But why do you deliberately lean against the north bank of the Hutuo River when you walk between Zhending County and Wuji County of Zhongshan County, and even divide your troops to land on the north bank, deliberately creating an opportunity for the enemy on the north bank to "half-cross attack"?

If all this is done, it would seem too deliberate. Even if Jiao Chu is mentally retarded, he would not be as superficial as a plan.

Therefore, Zhang Fei's troops had to tentatively lean on the north shore and divide the troops, so naturally there was a reason for military tactics.

If a spectator who does not know the soldiers opens the perspective of God and looks at the map, you will understand.

The Hutuo River is in Zhending, and the lower section of Wuji is the boundary river between Changshan County, Julu County and Zhongshan County. However, about eighty miles north of Wuji County, that is, the location of Anxi County, there is another river Hengshui, which flows parallel to the Hutuo River from Anxi-Wuji.

After that, the Hutuo River turned north, and Hengshui turned north, and finally poured into Baiyangdian in parallel. The distance between the two rivers gradually narrowed from 80 miles to forty or fifty miles.

Zhang Fei's troops came from the Hutuo River. Of course, all his ships could only sail in the Hutuo River and could not fly to the parallel Hengshui River, unless they arrived in Baiyangdian and then circled back from another river.

However, because Hengshui and Hutuo River are too close to each other, there are more than 200 miles of parallel roads. Zhang Fei wanted to advance along the Hutuo River. If he did not take down several counties along the Hengshui coast next to the north, Jiao Tuo continued to station troops in the counties along the Hengshui coast.

After Zhang Fei's main force passed, Yuan Jun could come out of the stronghold at any time and harass Zhang Fei's logistics food road by land. Anyway, the food would be cut off after walking 60 miles, and it was not far away, so there was no danger. If you were discovered, you could retract at any time.

Therefore, in order to protect the safety of the food channels, the small counties along the Hengshui coast with poor city defense were also beaten and rabbits, and the advancement and removal were carried out, which could also be regarded as solving Zhang Fei's flanking hidden dangers.

But to do this, Zhang Fei has to bear some adverse effects in his specific playing style:

First of all, as mentioned earlier, most of Zhang Fei's military rations are transported by ship, so they can only be placed in the Hutuo River. As a result, Zhang Fei attacked the troops of the counties along the Hengshui coast, he had to fight 60 to 80 miles away from his own grain road, and he could carry dry food with him for a few days at most. After eating, he had to rely on the grain fleet to replenish it.

Secondly, since the grain fleet remains in the Hutuo River, Zhang Fei must keep his troops to protect the grain, right? Otherwise, he would be robbed by Yuan's army and burned all of them and Zhang Fei would be defeated.

This time he traveled to the Hutuo River at Jingxingkou, leaving at least more than 10,000 people to protect him, so half of the troops used to clear the flanks by land.

If this half of the people were still hit by the Jiao Tu Army while being attacked by half, the Jiao Tu Army's confidence in actively seeking a decisive battle will be even more enlarged.

This is the decisive battle strategy designed by Pang Tong for Zhang Fei to show weakness and lure the enemy. In fact, it is not very clever, but who made the opponent Jiao Tu?

Jiao Chu came excitedly to "attack Zhang Fei halfway" and thought he had caught a weak opportunity of "Zhang Fei had to separate his troops along the Hutuo River and Hengshui":

First, annihilate the troops that were preparing to attack Anxi in Hengshui, and half of the firmly established ashore; then annihilate the other half who was still in the landing process without firmness; finally annihilate the troops that Zhang Fei stayed in the Hutuo River.

Step by step, warm up and burst, it’s stable!

Zhang Fei's seemingly combat-capable army was divided into three bites and was not afraid that each bite would choke too much. It was so wonderful!

When Pang Tong left Jingxing this time, he was equivalent to treating Lu Xiang at Jingxingkou, he used half of Han Xin's ambush troops to steal the family's plan to modify the opposite way, and then used it to trick Lu Xiang's guarded troops.

When he reached Zhending, Wuji also adjusted the strategy of Han Xin's intentional weakness in the "back-to-water formation" strategy, and then deceived the enemy.

However, they are all defeated and not powerful, so who makes the generals on the other side generally have low intelligence?

Lu Xiang Jiao Chu is like two high school students. Not to mention that they have experienced the tactic of a sea of ​​questions, but at least they have done some simulation questions. At least they have seen the simulation questions Han Xin had dealt with Chen Yu back then.

But when it was time for the college entrance examination, the question-setting teacher Pang Tong changed the question slightly, but they no longer knew each other. They clearly told them what knowledge points to take in advance, but they still failed the subject.

Of course, the variant of Pang Tong's proposition teacher is still quite insidious.

Similar to some jokes on Douyin in later generations: Before the exam, I gave four icons to the candidates, namely, Alipay and Taobao, and asked which one was the WeChat icon. Candidates think this is too simple, and they can't be seen at a glance?

When I went to the exam room, I saw four real questions, which looked like WeChat icons, but two had large circles on the left, and the other two had large circles on the right. The two were the left circles on the left, and the two were the left circles on the left. The two were the right circles on the front of the right circles, and the two were the right circles on the left.

Then, candidates who usually remember their characteristics are dumbfounded and will be stunned.

If you fail the exam, you still have a chance to make up for your life.

If you don’t see through the art of war, you will die.

fair enough.

...

Mutual fraud requires a lot of twists and turns, and the purpose is nothing more than to lure the enemy into a field and decisive battle.

When it comes to a final shot, the scene will be boring because the time is always outside the court.

As long as Jiao Tuo led thousands of cavalry and more than ten thousand infantry behind him, he rushed up to take Zhang Fei with his destiny, and how to kill was not important.

When Jiao Chu arrived, Zhang Fei seemed to have only the 5,000 pioneers landed in the array, and his foothold was stable, and the subsequent large troops had not yet arrived.

But Zhang Fei knew that he knew that he would have more than enough to strengthen the five thousand people in front of him, plus the small number of cavalry roaming on both wings.

Although the troops on the ship behind could not directly support the battlefield, they at least lowered the anchor stone in advance to stabilize the ship, and then arranged shields on the side of the ship to let the god-arm crossbowmen line up to prepare for output.

The ship Zhang Fei used this time was not of great quality. After all, the one that came from the upper reaches of the Hutuo River was the rags left by Lu Bu's army when he surrendered. Liu Bei's camp had no time to build a good ship on the Hutuo River and Sanggan River.

Therefore, these ships themselves cannot show any combat effectiveness. They do not have wooden slab protection, nor do they have cabin shooting holes for fighting ships. They only rely on shields on the deck to provide long-range defense.

This led to Jiao Tun's contempt for Zhang Fei. Moreover, Jiao Tun had not experienced the bloody battles of the Central Plains for a long time, so he had never seen a new weapon like a magic arm crossbow with a range and power far exceeding the traditional crossbows of the old era in actual combat.

Zhang Fei seems to be in an array of 5,000 people, but in fact, the number of people who can output firepower is more than 5,000.

"Kill!!!" The Youzhou Army led by Jiao Chu still had morale and courage. When the two armies met, they immediately rushed in line with spears and halberds, and shot the crossbow behind them.

One or two thousand people attacked in ladders, and looked like a rainbow. The Hebei army rarely used swords and shields, most of which were long spears and halberds. They also had shields when defending to stabilize the position, and did not carry shields when attacking, and they had both hands flattened the spear and sprinted violently.

Jiao Chu saw the somewhat shaky iron-armored elite soldiers in the front row of Zhang Feijun. He probably deployed a camp, but he was still not afraid.

Because iron armor has strong defense against weapons such as swords and crossbows, but two-handed weapons such as spears and heavy halberds have full weight and inertia, and stabbing them with all their strength, it is difficult to defend against iron armor. After all, the physical momentum is there.

At most, the gun spearhead will collapse when it is stabbed, but it can definitely stab the soldier on the other side.

However, Zhang Feijun opposite them was terriblely quiet, but he could not see any wavering. He always responded calmly when facing the enemy who was four times more clamoring and sprinting like this.

Most of them were equipped with long spears, supplemented by a small number of two-handed swords. The length of Zhang Feijun's spear was no less than that of the other party, and at worst it was just a fair life exchange.

More importantly, Zhang Feijun has iron armor and large shields in the front row, which can be immune to at least 70% or 80% of the damage covered by crossbows before the enemy's battle.

Jiao Chu's soldiers had almost zero defense against long-range damage during this charge.

"Buzz" the trembling sound of the divine arm crossbow strings turned into a roar of death and harvest, and thousands of powerful arrows shot through the air.

The front row of soldiers of Jiaotu Army were shot into pieces, and hundreds of casualties were killed or injured before they could catch the enemy. What's more important is that the momentum of the entire army was suffocated.

Jiao Chu was also quite surprised. Zhang Fei's troops started shooting arrows so far away, and there were also those who shot arrows from the ship behind the formation. Before entering the hand-to-hand combat, Jiao Chu's troops were far beyond their usual expectations and were shot for five rounds. Although Jiao Chu's side also shot three rounds, the opponent did not suffer any losses.

In the five rounds of arrow rain, nearly a thousand dead and more injured people. The key is that a lot of momentum was knocked out, and the charge formation became less strict. The front row was in a mess, and there were first and then later to catch the enemy, which led to the worsening of the situation.

The sound of the spear-like halberds entering the flesh is endless, and it is also mixed with the sound of tooth-acid friction of metal iron armor being torn, and the terrifying sound of the blade breaking down.

The two armies were like sophisticated murder machines, and they held each other hard and stabbed each other. After the front row was killed, the back row was soon consumed by each other.

"Sprint with all your might! Repel Zhang Fei's front! Wrap both wings over! Encircle Zhang Fei on three sides!" Jiao Chu loudly urged the reserve team to join in the bloody battle.

As the two sides fell into a melee, Zhang Fei's divine arm crossbow output environment became worse and worse. To avoid the front of the two armies, the only way is to be the back row of the "Xu Jin barrage" shooting the focus touch.

Jiao Tu obviously discovered this problem, so he also had to dilute the depth of the formation and try to stick it up to fight. Taking advantage of the advantages of his own multi-format, the front width of Zhang Fei was widened on three sides. This would also make it more difficult for Zhang Fei's divine arm crossbow to output, for fear that the enemy and us would accidentally hurt his own people.

It has to be admitted that Jiao Chu was able to take over Youzhou border defense for more than ten years with Tao Qian, Liu Yu and Yuan Xi, and his basic tactical skills are still solid, but the strategic IQ at a higher level is really not satisfactory.

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"This Jiao Teng is really ignorant of the high and strong world. He just started to fight, and dared to hold on to his own feet and extend to his wings? He felt that we were unable to launch a counterattack, would the central government break through?"

Zhang Fei, who had been in charge of the battle behind the formation, saw that the Jiao Touch on the opposite side was hit by the deep shooting of the God-arm Crossbow and turned the formation into a crane wing formation and couldn't help but sneer.

The change of the formation of the tsunami can indeed prevent the rear row from being too deep and being shot by the divine arm crossbow and being killed and injured too much. However, the weaknesses caused by not leaving enough reserve teams and blindly pursuing the front width are also very obvious:

If the enemy launches a counterattack and the center breaks through, and the formation is not thick enough, it is easy to be penetrated.

Jiao Chu was sure that he felt that he was the attacking side, and he didn't be wary of Zhang Fei's remaining strength to rely on this point of the current force, at least at one point to launch a key breakthrough and turn defense into offense.

Since that's the case, how could Zhang Fei miss such an opportunity? Of course, he had to let Jiao Tu see clearly, and he still had enough energy!

"Assemble all the cavalry and let the central army retaliate on the left side of Wang Ping, and strive to tear a hole in the frontal enemy, and all the cavalry rushed out of the gap and expand the results of the battle!"

Zhang Fei decisively ordered that the Han army immediately followed the command and ordered the command to execute.

After Jiao Chu's troops became thinner, they did have many loopholes. Wang Ping sent a deadly sect to launch a counter-push spear and beryllium gun, and soon made a hole.

Jiao Chu was shocked when he saw this. He did not leave enough infantry reserves, nor was he wary of Zhang Fei's defensive counterattack. He had always thought about how to reduce the proportion of being killed by crossbows in a protracted war of attrition.

After all, he had 20,000 people against the opposite side. Who would have thought that 5,000 people would dare to fight back? Even if it was just a local counterattack at a certain point, rather than a full-line counterattack on the entire front.

There is no way. When the war reaches this point, Zhang Fei will definitely not tear the gap wider and wider.

Jiaotu's reserve team was not enough, and the cavalry did not allow them to continue to look for opportunities on both wings. They directly took thousands of Youzhou cavalry in the army to block the entrance, and at the same time boosted morale and urged the soldiers on both wings of the gap to fight to the death.

"Zhang Feigou thieves should not be rampant! Youzhou general Jiao Chu is here!" Jiao Chu waved his big sword, led the cavalry team to sprint and kill wildly, blocking the gap.

As the snow blade flew, Jiao Chu also successfully killed more than a dozen Han soldiers. He was invincible and brave. He even killed a Han army Sima and two Qujunhous.

However, after personally rushing to block the mouth for half a cup of tea, Jiao Tu inevitably put Zhang Fei in the chaos.

Of course, Jiao Chu has a pretty impression of Zhang Fei's appearance. After all, when Jiao Chu and Zhang Nan and Liu Bei were both county magistrates twelve years ago, they both followed Liu Yu to pacify the Zhang Chun Rebellion, so Jiao Chu is very familiar with Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun.

As the saying goes, the enemy is extremely jealous when they meet. Although the Jiao Touched sword is less than 80 kilograms than Guan Yu's Qinglong sword, it is still a heavy, thick-backed, broad-blade weapon of 48 kilograms. It is directly poured into the Pegasus with all its strength and slashed towards Zhang Fei.

Zhang Fei was also not fancy at all. He was excited with his arms and penetrated the snake spear. The eight-foot-high black horse under his crotch was also running wildly, adding inertia to the most fiercely, and his team cooperated very skillfully.

"Jiao Tu is dead! Drink!" When the two were less than three meters apart, Zhang Fei began to roar like a thunderclap, and at the same time, the snake spear was thrust out.

Jiao Tu could only feel the bells and drums in his mind ringing, as if a temple of water and land was opened. Although he was mentally prepared, his arms instinctively continued to slash his sword, but he was one step slower after all.

Jiao Tun was stabbed directly with an arm, and the snake spear penetrated from the back and the heart, and the back was exposed, stabbing the shoulder blades away. Jiao Tun's arm was broken, and the fatal knife that originally cut off Zhang Fei's forehead was naturally interrupted, and the big knife fell to the ground directly.

Jiao Tu was picked up by Zhang Fei's snake spear, and was thrown out of the horse's back by a huge force. Zhang Fei tried hard to shake the spear blade horizontally, cutting off the muscle of Jiao Tu's shoulder blade to the clavicle, and also cut off the clavicle. Jiao Tu's body fell heavily under the action of gravity.
Chapter completed!