Optimization System of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 43
Hou Cheng took the horses and went straight to the camp. It wasn't that he was afraid of death, but that he went to rescue the soldiers. Although the soldiers had a great advantage on their side, they couldn't resist the fierceness of the generals. As the saying goes, it is easy to get a thousand soldiers, but hard to find a general. It doesn't matter if a hundred or 80 people die, just don't kill a few of their generals.

Seeing Hou Cheng ran away, the remaining few lost their fighting spirit and wanted to withdraw their troops one after another, but Xiahou Dun was unwilling, Ang, that's good, open your hearts, I'm here, and I haven't waited to make a move yet you ran away?Then who will play with me!
But at the moment when Ding Yuan arrived, the soldiers who had already fled around turned around and killed them.

Tiger and Leopard Cavalry are indeed extremely powerful, but after all, there is too much difference in number, and after the previous battle, they are already a little tired.

Seeing Ding Yuan approaching, Zhao Yun reluctantly called out to retreat.

The Bingzhou army is all light cavalry. Originally, tiger and leopard cavalry had some absolute equipment to suppress them in battle, but at this time they did not charge, but retreated. This also turned the original advantage of heavy armor into a disadvantage.

Fortunately, war horses are hard to come by. Although Ding Yuan has a lot of cavalry, there are only 5000 cavalry brought out by Hou Cheng and Song Xian at the beginning. It's heavy cavalry.

Therefore, the Bingzhou Army only retreated after a symbolic chase for a while. Even so, the tiger and leopard cavalry lost a full 3000 troops after passing through this station.

Ding Yuan sent his troops back and counted the troops. Since there were 8000 casualties, he felt a little fearful, especially fearing that there would be another mistake, so he ordered the troops to retreat for [-] li and set up camp.

Zhao Yun returned to Guanshang again, but he was not blamed by Xu Rong, but instead showed Xu Rong's magnanimous side.

"Victory or defeat is a common matter in military affairs, and General Zhao does not have to worry about it." As soon as these words came out, Zhao Yun, who was immediately defeated and returned, had a good impression of him.

Even so, Zhao Yun still felt ashamed and sighed softly in his heart, "Hey, it's all because of my eagerness to make contributions. The brothers who led the tiger and leopard riders suffered more than 3000 casualties. How can I face the lord?"

Just as the words were finished, one of Xu Rong's generals walked in quickly and whispered something in Xu Rong's ear. A look of horror appeared on Xu Rong's face, but he regained his composure in an instant.

He smiled and said to Zhao Yun, "Why should General Zhao blame himself, not to mention that this battle is not considered a defeat."

"What do you mean by that?" Zhao Yun immediately regained his energy after hearing his words, and his eyes revealed the light of expectation.

"Although General Zhao's Tiger and Leopard Battalion lost 3000 men and horses, the Bingzhou Army lost even more. A full 8000 men and horses died under the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry. In this way, we won the victory."

Zhao Yun, who had been looking forward to it, suddenly fell down again, "This tiger and leopard cavalry is formed by the lord who selects the elite from each team. Each person is originally a very long position. If the tiger and leopard cavalry loses 3000 troops, and The Bingzhou Army only lost 8000 troops, so it can only be regarded as a loss for our army.”

Xu Rong was slightly taken aback. He knew that Zhang Lan was going to form the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, but he didn't know that the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry was formed in this way. Ordinary soldiers are all elites, so it would take a lot of money. what.

"If that's the case, it's really not a win."

Hearing Xu Rong's affirmation of his words, Zhao Yun felt even more uncomfortable, got up and said goodbye and went back to the barracks.

Let’s say that after Lv Bu was defeated and returned, Ding Yuan was a little surprised when he saw his adopted son was injured. After asking about the situation, he arranged for Lv Bu to go down to recuperate. Fortunately, Lv Bu avoided most of the force, and the injury was not serious. Before Lv Bu retreated , I heard the spies come to report that Zhao Yun led the soldiers to kill, and Lu Bu wanted to call for battle again, but Ding Yuan stopped him. Instead, he let Hou Cheng and Song Xian lead the cavalry to fight, and then what happened later.

After counting, Ding Yuan felt a little bit withdrawn at this time. He had seen the bravery of Zhang Lan's soldiers when he was in Hulao Pass. The all cavalry is even more brave, and more importantly, this is just a vanguard.

The most fearful thing about doing things is to lose confidence. Ding Yuan has no confidence now, the more he thinks about it, the more he fears Zhang Lan's arrival, so he immediately called all the generals to discuss.

"The vanguard of the thief Zhang Lan has arrived, and the army is set behind. I want to go to ambush. What do you want?"

"Zhang Lan's army is excellent, so you can't confront the enemy head-on, this plan is feasible," said a man in a long robe.

This man is a counselor under Ding Yuan's command, named Xu Yi and his style is Bo Ying. Ding Yuan trusts him very much. People think that he is a general, his small eyes look extraordinarily wretched, although his body is strong, but there is a trace of sickness on his face, if there is someone with good medical skills here, it can be seen at a glance that this person is overindulgent and physically ill. Deficiency, if you don't restrain your desire to heal it, you will die soon.

Ding Yuan's eyes lit up and he asked, "Does Boying have a clever plan?"

"There is a forest fifty miles south of the Shimen Gate. It is located on the east side of the road leading to Shimen Pass. The west side of the road is a thorn bush. If there are many flammable plants here to attack with fire, Zhang Lan will die here."

Xu Yi squinted his small eyes that were almost gone, and expressed his thoughts in a gloomy manner.

As soon as his words fell, all the generals present cheered in unison, which was enough to see that he had a very high status in the Bingzhou Army, even more respected than Ding Yuan, but such an obvious thing, as the governor, Ding Yuan did not discover this.

After a night of rest, Ding Yuanliu Hou Cheng, Song Xian, Cao Xing, Mu Shun and others stayed in place, setting up banners and patrolling the camp all day long.

He took [-] pawns to the place Xu Yi said yesterday.

The path was extremely difficult, mostly made of mud and rocks, and the road was narrow. Cavalry would not be able to pass through it. Ding Yuan secretly sighed at Xu Yi's brilliance, and only asked him to bring his infantry.

It was already dark when they arrived, and Ding Yuan was afraid that when Zhang Lan arrived, he would not dare to set up camp, so he could only order everyone to set up shelter from the wind and sleep on the ground. Fortunately, it was almost summer and the weather had begun to warm up, but Even so, in the middle of the night, the cold wind was biting, so there was a situation where a group of big men hugged each other.

There was light in the sky, Ding Yuan immediately sent spies out to investigate the situation, and ordered people to dig more deep pits as traps, and set up bridle ropes to block the way forward.While storing flammable objects in hidden places on both sides of the road, they used fire attacks at the same time, only waiting for Zhang Lan's army to arrive and wipe them all out.

I don't know whether Ding Yuan's luck is good or bad. He just finished arranging everything, and the spies came to report that Zhang Lan's army was not far away, but Zhang Lan's army was only a short distance away, and then disappeared. movement.

(End of this chapter)