Chapter two hundred and eighteen strong crossbow attacking the camp
It was the war in Yi Xin and the category of the righteous war in the Spring and Autumn Period. The two sides agreed on a time and place to fight hard. This type of person was not uncommon in the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms era, and was often regarded as the right way. However, the war in Cheng Yu's heart was to use any means to win. No wonder it was very consistent with Cao Cao, who liked deceitfulness.
Although He Bai's character and military governance are also the right way on the surface, he also knows the dark side of politics and does not reject the tricks when using military forces. As soon as Cheng Yu said that, He Bai immediately realized it and bowed to Cheng Yu: "I'll ask Mr. Cheng for today's battle."
Cheng Yu was surprised to see He Bai's ability to accept quickly. However, he did not change his face and nodded and stroking his beard without saying a word. He Bai turned his head and saw that Shi Yi and others were confused, and couldn't help but smile: "Mr. Cheng was skillful in the method of trying to win the greatest victory at the lowest price. It was very consistent with the "difficulty in knowing it is as dark as yin, and moving like thunder and shocking" in the military battle chapter of "Sun Tzu". Although we are well-read military books, we are not as good as Mr. Cheng in practical use. We should ask Mr. Cheng for advice more."
He also said to Shiyi: "Ziyu's plan is in line with the right way, but it can only be used when the troops are twice as strong as the enemy. When the troops are too small or the difference is almost the same, you should win by surprise. Otherwise, if there are few enemies and many enemies, you will only damage the troops in vain and cannot continue to fight."
Cui Juye and the generals of the army, including Feng Ji, Guo Tu, Jiang Qi, Han Juzi, Lu Weihuang, Zhao Rui, etc., sent 20,000 troops, and sent troops at Mao hour, and arrived at He Junzhai three miles away from the front of the camp.
Cui Juye did not see He Bai sending troops to fight, and immediately smiled proudly: "He Bai's son also knows my reputation. When he heard that I led the troops to come, he dared not fight. People come to He Camp to establish a letter of war. If they dare not fight, they will surrender quickly. Otherwise, they will break the camp and kill all their troops."
After the envoy went there, he returned soon and bowed to Cui Juye: "Reported that the enemy general He Baiyan said that the general failed to issue a letter of war in advance, and he marched too quickly. His army was tired yesterday and stood up late. He could not cook enough food and had no room for food. His belly was empty and could not fight. Please wait a while and allow He Jun to make food."
Cui Juye was stunned and saw smoke rising in Heying, as if what He Bai said was reasonable. Because they did not make a letter of war in advance and set a time, He Jun did not eat and prepare for the war in advance. Because he was tired of marching yesterday, he stood up a little late and did not start cooking until Chen.
Cui Juye turned to everyone and smiled and said, "Our army is eager to make contributions, and it is also a bad thing to advance too quickly."
Guo Tu shook his head and smiled, "He Bai is brave and dares to fight against our army in the field. We need to know that our army comes with victory and is in a strong morale, and we will definitely defeat the enemy in one battle. But if He army is allowed to eat, then we will have more strength to escape. This is really not a good thing. Why not, our army will not wait for He army to eat, and directly attack the camp without waiting for He army to eat?"
Feng Ji smiled and said, "Miaomiao, this strategy has the effect of attacking the enemy without any preparation. You can quickly send troops to attack it."
Cui Juye turned around and looked around and said to the captain Zhao Rui: "Captain Zhao, please lead the 5,000 infantrymen in the headquarters to clear the barriers such as deer forts and horses, open the way for our army, and test the defense power of which camp? How?"
"Look. The general was the last one to take the order." Zhao Rui bowed his hand and responded, immediately stepped out of the lineup and walked away.
Zhao Rui was from the Zhao family of Zhao, and was also from a famous family. He was highly valued by Yuan Shao. Although his subordinates were 5,000 new soldiers, there were 200 soldiers of the Zhao family who helped command, and with all kinds of weapons and armor, they had good combat power.
Zhao Rui ordered five thousand soldiers to rush out of the army, and ordered two thousand infantry to divide them into two parts, breaking down various defenses of Luzhai with a width of 200 steps in front of Heying, resisting horses, and landing pits of various sizes to level the battlefield. Then two thousand powerful crossbowmen followed closely, firing crossbow arrows at Heying, and escorting the landfill infantry. He led one thousand halberd spearmen to set up formations before Heying's village gate to prevent He's cavalry from protruding and intercepting.
For a moment, the arrows in He camp were as rained, and the soldiers of the He army almost dared not to emerge, let alone attack. They could only use shields and thick wooden boards to guard against each other, and even dared to go up to the arrow tower to counterattack. Cui Juye and others laughed endlessly.
In order to prevent the Yellow Turbans and Heishan, Jizhou transferred 3,000 yellow crossbows and 30,000 strong crossbows. After Han Fu arrived, he ordered Pan Feng, Cheng Huan, Zhao Fu, Li Li and other generals to rule them, forcing Yuan Shao to salivate against Jizhou and dare not act rashly. Nowadays, most of the powerful crossbows were obtained by Yuan Shao's army and distributed to each army for use. It was indeed extremely sharp. Both Gongsun Zan's army and He Bai's army had no resistance to strong crossbows.
"Take your head, shrank your head, don't look around. With the protection of a large shield, don't move around, the enemy's strong crossbow can't shoot you. If you have the strength to look around, it's better to keep more energy to prepare for the fight."
Some of the Qingzhou soldiers and auxiliary soldiers were shot by the stray arrow and screamed sternly, but they were soon stunned by the Qingzhou soldiers and were dragged away to cure the wounds. There were experienced soldiers everywhere to comfort them. Although the Qingzhou soldiers were panicked, they were not in chaos.
Zhang Fei, who was suppressed by a powerful crossbow in the camp, was furious and furious. He put on heavy armor and lifted up his snake spear, and wanted to lead his troops out of the camp to clash. Guan Yu hurriedly grabbed Zhang Fei and asked, "Our army was suppressed like this, which would have a great blow to morale. I wonder what tricks the lord can do to break it."
He Bai touched his nose and smiled, "Although the Six-Stone Strong Crossbow is strong, it cannot break the shield of our army. Hiding is only temporary, so don't be impatient. When the army enters within a hundred steps, it will be our army's one-arm crossbow and strong bow counterattack. Wait, let's talk about it, not long after Duke Zhongde and Wang Fang's troops moved out of the back camp. When they detoured behind the enemy, our army will show its power again. Guan Zheng, Liu Xun, let your two troops carry crossbows into the trenches to prepare, Lu Ping and Yu Hua, let your two troops carry bows and arrows in the camp."
From two hundred steps away from Heying, he started to break the antlers, and until within seventy steps, he did not see He's counterattack. Zhao Rui couldn't help but be very satisfied with the deterrent power of the army's powerful crossbow. He thought that He's army had already been scared, and he immediately led his troops slowly and advanced with pride, without any preparation for the defense.
Just as he was thinking of continuing to push forward and breaking the remaining antlers in one fell swoop, a sharp iron whistle suddenly sounded, and countless heads suddenly appeared in the trench in front of Heying Village. Everyone was aiming at Yuan Junjing on both sides of the left and right wings of Zhao Rui's troops.
Zhao Rui's troops did not find the head in the trench for a moment. Another sharp iron whistle sounded, and in an instant, thousands of crossbows were fired at the Yuan army like locusts. There were countless arrows in the sky like dark clouds covering the sun, and instantly turned into a heavy rain in the air, shooting towards the thousand halberd spearmen in the middle.
Zhao Rui, who was riding on the war horse, was shocked and hurriedly jumped off his horse and blocked the arrow with his horse. However, the soldiers in Zhao Rui's troops had no choice. Most of Zhao Rui's troops were new soldiers, because the crossbows of the army were strong, spears and halberds, and the number of swords and shields was not large. Moreover, the battle was not prepared to attack the camp at the beginning, and the defense was not sufficient. At this time, they could only look at the death arrows that were coming towards them with pale faces.
“Ahhhh…”
Screams rang out loud, clusters of blood bloomed all over the earth, and just a wave of volleys made thousands of people fall to the ground by Zhao Rui's troops. Zhao Rui pushed away the dead war horse, turned over, and shouted in horror: "Why are you still stunned? Withdraw the troops, and send troops..."
As soon as he finished speaking, another iron whistle sounded, and countless arrows roared in the sky again. Zhao Rui also looked at the arrows with a dead face. Without horses, his legs were not as fast as the arrows.
"Honest of the family, please go." Zhao Rui's ten tribe guards hurriedly pulled him, surrounded him and turned around and ran away, using his sword back to block the arrows.
"Swoosh swish swish..."
The arrow fell down while roaring. Zhao Rui immediately heard several muffled groans and the sound of falling down behind him. He knew that this was the call of the tribe guards being injured by arrows and death. He couldn't help but feel ache. He didn't know how many people there are in the army after this battle? How many people there are still in the tribe guards?
The soldiers of Zhao Rui's army also turned around and fled to death, but He Jun's crossbow arrows followed him like shadows, looking at Zhao Rui's army's back. After Zhao Rui's army escaped 150 steps, the blow of death stopped.
At this time, Zhao Rui found miserably that there were less than 2,000 troops in the army, and more than a thousand people were still in the death zone and screaming and screaming. The sounds of help were endless, and the sounds made Zhao Rui feel like a knife.
Jiang Qi, who was about to forcibly attack the camp, hurried to rescue Zhao Rui, but He Jun took the opportunity to go out to fight, so he had to protect Zhao Rui's army and retreat. Zhao Rui was weak and said to Cui Juye: "Our army was defeated, and the last general came to apologize."
Cui Juye's face was flushed with anger. Just by breaking down the antlers and clearing the obstacles, Zhao Rui almost wiped out the entire army. What's the point of such a useless general? Just when he was about to order the general to behead him, he accidentally saw Guo Tu and Feng Ji and the other ones with a playful look on his face.
Cui Juye suddenly realized that the commander of the army was Qu Yi, and he was just the deputy general. Although Zhao Rui was defeated, Yuan Shao might not be willing to kill him in the name of Zhao clan of Zhao, so it was even more impossible for him. Moreover, the power of this battle was obtained by force by himself to force the commander of Qu Yi. Whether it was to continue fighting or retreat to the camp, Zhao Rui and other actual military generals were required to provide their efforts. It is impossible to kill Zhao Rui without authorization.
Cui Juye coughed lightly and said with a heart: "Victory and defeat are common in military affairs. This battle is the treacherous crime of He Bai's child, not a crime of war. I will help you tell me, and Captain Zhao doesn't have to care so much."
"Thank you, Deputy General Cui." Zhao Rui bowed his hand to express his gratitude and retreated to the side.
Cui Juye turned around and asked, "Our army is coming for field battle today. We are not prepared enough for offensive and defensive things. I wonder if you think it is a battle or a retreat now?"
Feng Ji Fuxu said, "If you retreat, you will lose more than 3,000 people, but you have never been killed at the first level. I am afraid you will not be able to explain it when you go back..."
Guo Tu also frowned and said, "But if you don't retreat, aren't you afraid of being defeated by He Bai's slow enemy strategy?"
Chapter completed!