Chapter 538: Swaying

June 30th of the first year of the Han Tianyou year.

Since June 20th, there have been several battles near the Hebei Army camp on the south bank of the Jishui River. The number of casualties of the two armies every day is at least 2,000, most of which are the casualties of the Hebei Army.

In terms of individual combat capabilities, the Hebei Army has been continuously attacking in recent years and has been closely engaged in daily training. The Hebei Han is in good health and is not inferior to the Jiangdong Army.

In terms of equipment, the Hebei Army was better than the Jiangdong Army. Because of the Ji River, logistics supplies and arrows needed to be transported from the floating bridge. They were often attacked by the Jiangdong Army's catapults. Heavy offensive and defense equipment were difficult to transport, so the gap in this area was huge. Before each attack, the Jiangdong Army attacked the camp with a large number of catapults. When countless stones of millstone size fell from the sky, although they were not accurate enough, they still covered the Hebei Army's camps. In the camps, there was a scene of flesh and blood flying and wailing.

After the catapult attack was completed, waves of arrows poured down. The Jiangdong Army's feather arrows seemed to be endless, and they always came to the Hebei military camp without hesitation. The range was long and the accuracy was accurate. They entered the flesh three points, and even had a body penetration, which shot in the front chest and protruded from the back.

Although the Hebei Army was also preparing, all kinds of wooden boards, cowhides, and large shields were used, but stone throwing and feather arrows also injured at least a thousand soldiers every day. At this time, the Hebei Army may not even see the faces of the soldiers of the Jiangdong Army.

In this way, the superiority and inferiority will be immediately seen.

Even if a Hebei hero like Zhang He and Jiang Qi dared to lead an elite light cavalry out of the camp to counterattack, and to disrupt the formation of the Jiangdong Army and force him to give up throwing stones and shooting arrows, he was often blocked by the light cavalry sent by the Jiangdong Army and returned in disgrace.

As the number of casualties in the Hebei army increased, the military doctors could not be treated in time. Often, some wounded soldiers died on the floating bridge as soon as they left the camp gate, and their bodies could not be delivered to the north of the Ji River. They only had a trace of their souls slowly heading north and returned to their hometown.

After ten days, even if the generals who will boost morale will not be able to stop the sharp decline in the Hebei army's morale. War requires victory and requires dyeing their military flag red with the blood of the enemy. In this way, morale will be high. On the contrary, it will only continue to slide down until it collapses.

Even the main general like Zhang He had a belief that he would win began to shake. He sent it to Yuan Shao's central army's war reports every day, and the words were even more pessimistic.

Yuan Shao would not sit idly by. The front was in a tight situation and the casualties were heavy, so he continued to send troops from the central army and the two wings to support the south bank. Even so, the Hebei army was still in a passive situation of being beaten. In the past ten days, Yuan Shao sent more than 20,000 reinforcements, but there were still only more than 10,000 soldiers to fight in Zhang He's camp. The wounded soldiers were full of the camp.

During the past ten days, various units of the Jiangdong Army took turns to attack Zhang He's camp, and the auxiliary attack Jiang Qi's camp. Under this tide-like attack, Jiang Qi's camp was better. Zhang He's camp was already full of holes, and the wooden fences around him were scattered. The towers and arrow towers were destroyed. Even the ground in the camp was bumpy and it was difficult to find a large flat area.

In addition to organizing troops to defend the camp and attacking the camp every day, Zhang He also had to constantly inspect the camp and appease the wounded, and his eyes had long been red. On the surface, he was calm, but Zhang He was very regretful. If he had known this, he would rather urge the lord to gather the army and attack with all his might, so as not to suffer such cowardly!

During the fierce battle, Zhang He found that the Jiangdong Army was a little strange. At the most tragic time, his camp was unable to defend in some directions, so he could send troops to break in and capture the camp. However, the Jiangdong Army suddenly pulled away and retreated in an orderly manner. Zhang He anxiously sent people to strengthen the camp, but he couldn't figure it out.

What exactly does the Jiangdong Army want to do? Could it be that its intention is to consume our army's strength in this way? If so, it would be better to attack with all your strength!

For this reason, Zhang He wrote several secret letters and sent his confidant to the Yuan Shao case. His intention was to persuade Yuan Shao to make up his mind to lead the army to cross the Ji River and fight with the Jiangdong Army with all his might! If it delays, one will be in danger of being unable to provide support for food and grass, and the other will continue to increase troops to the south bank in this way, which only provides the opportunity to be consumed by the Jiangdong Army.

Zhang He's secret letter did not blame Yuan Shao for sending troops to highlight the south bank of the Jishui River as a failure, but Yuan Shao felt very unhappy. As the commander of the army, he unified the various departments and planned the situation. How could the responsibilities on his shoulders be understood by you, a mere military general?

Despite this, Zhang He's opinion still attracted Yuan Shao's attention. After all, the Hebei Army lost more than 20,000 troops these days, and the Jiangdong Army seemed to have less than half of the losses. The number of war losses can be said. In any case, the Hebei Army suffered a considerable loss these days.

Yuan Shao's determination began to shake.

If this continues, it seems that it is not a solution. The Jiangdong Army has a advantage in territory, with hundreds of catapults and endless feather arrows, which only increases the casualties of the Hebei Army.

But if we have hastily launched a large army to attack the Jiangdong Army camp, what is the chance of winning against the camp that Zhou Yu had already set up a defense?

A strange feeling suddenly emerged from Yuan Shao's heart. Perhaps... this battle to the south, a battle to the death with Zhou Yu was a wrong decision?

This is a feeling that Yuan Shao has never felt before. Since Luoyang ran out and the prefect of Bohai was appointed as the prefect, he formed the Kanto coalition forces to attack Dong Zhuo, annex Han Fu's Jizhou, and the northern expedition to Gongsun Zan to take down Youzhou, and then conquered Bingzhou and Qingzhou. Along the way, Yuan Shao was full of confidence and felt like he was holding the world in his hands. Even when facing a ruthless character like Cao Cao, under the power of "held the emperor", Yuan Shao had never felt this way. This time it seemed that God was reminding him in the dark that you did something wrong! You will definitely lose this battle!

Yuan Shao, who was a little upset, hurriedly summoned all the advisers under the tent to discuss the matter. This time, Guo Tu, Xin Ping and others' attitudes were unprecedentedly consistent. It seems that these tactics of adding fuel are not good strategies. The Jiangdong Army has the advantage of geographical advantage and various units attack in order to consume the strength of our Hebei army. For the current plan, we should make up our minds and launch an attack with all our strength!

Under the advice of everyone, Yuan Shao finally made up his mind to no longer send more military forces to the south bank of Jishui. He immediately summoned the generals of various departments to speed up the preparations for the tough attack. In three days, he would launch a full-strength attack!

Just as everyone was discussing the matter was about to end, a Yuan Shao's personal guard suddenly looked anxious and hurried into the tent, knelt on one knee, and replied in a deep voice: "Report to General! Xu You~~ Xu You ran away!"

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Chapter completed!