Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 749 Development of Two Battlefields

Chapter 749 Development of Two Battlefields

War has always been a complex and ever-changing complex.

In addition to the fighting on the front line and the mutual consumption of logistics background, in many cases, an ingenious strategy can also change the situation.

Just like the Battle of Guandu in the original history, it was Cao Cao's desperate robbing of food in Wuchao that completely reversed the situation. Otherwise, the final result of the Battle of Guandu is likely to be Yuan Shao's victory and Cao Cao's defeat.

Now the armies of both sides are reviewing the gains and losses of today's first battle, as a reference for the next battle. After all, this war may not end in a short time, and the armies of both sides need to have long-term plans.

Of course, both the military advisors on Yuan Shao's side and those on Zhu Wei's side hope to find some strategy that can inflict heavy losses on the other side, thereby affecting the outcome of the overall war.

But in fact, it is precisely because there are resourceful people on both sides that many loopholes have already been prepared for. It is not easy to use any strategy to make the other party suffer.

The method Yuan Shao can use is to find other places to smuggle across the Yellow River, and then directly go around to attack Luoyang, or go around to the other side of the Yellow River to attack Zhu Weijun's rear camp, which may force Zhu Weijun to retreat to Luoyang.

However, Zhu Weijun had already thought of this possibility and deployed many beacon towers along the Yellow River. Once signs of Yuan Shao's illegal crossing were found, they could naturally detect them early and send troops to rob and kill them.

As for Zhu Wei's method, it is natural to send troops to attack Yuan Shao's camp at night, or mobilize other troops to attack Yuan Shao's reserve.

However, Yuan Shaojun's early warning measures in the camp are also very strict. Although Zhu Weijun sent scouts to investigate, they failed to find any flaws. As for the mobilization of other troops, the only troops that can be mobilized now are Wei Yan's Jingnan Camp and the Xiu and Zhang Liao's Tiger Wing Battalions were launched, but they were restrained because of the use of troops by high officials in Bingzhou and the Huns.

Therefore, the two sides couldn't think of any tricks for a while, so they could only fight head-to-head.

On the second day, Yuan Shaojun still dispatched tens of thousands of troops to attack. Of course, with the experience of the previous day, he also deliberately arranged the offensive front line outside the attack range of Zhu Weijun's stone chariots, but also aimed at Zhu Weijun's possible counterattack. With the means of suppression.

So this day's battle began again fiercely.

However, Zhu Weijun reduced the useless counterattacks of the stone carts. As long as Yuan Shaojun was not approaching intensively, the stone carts would just throw some gravel to fight back, but there was no waste of time-consuming kerosene.

At the same time, although the rocks thrown by the stone chariot are powerful, they are not accurate after all. Therefore, it is not easy to use the stone chariot to stop Yuan Shaojun from protecting the cave chariot that the soldiers are charging.

In this way, Zhu Weijun can only watch Yuan Shaojun gradually fill up the trenches outside the army camp, and it is impossible to dig again at night.

Although Yuan Shaojun stopped his offensive after dark, Yuan Shaojun still left a wall of swords, tigers, chariots, mobile arrow towers and nearly [-] troops in front of Zhu Weijun's stronghold. Naturally, Yuan Shaojun would not let the victory achieved with great difficulty during the day , Let Zhu Weijun eliminate it at night.

As a result, the fighting on the second day seemed to have eased up a little.

Zhu Weijun mainly took advantage of the cracks in the walls of the camp to directly shoot and kill Yuan Shao's soldiers hiding in the bridal carts with crossbows and arrows, but he had no intention of destroying the bridal carts.

After all, this kind of cave car is relatively easy to build. Even if it has no wheels, it can be carried by a group of people, and it can also play the role of a mobile fortress. In fact, it is just a mobile house made of wood that can hide soldiers.

In this way, even if a cave car is destroyed, Yuan Shaojun can easily rebuild it, so it is more practical than just killing Yuan Shaojun's soldiers hiding inside.

If it was originally a city wall, the defenders on the city wall really couldn't attack the enemy hiding in the cave car, but now it's just the camp wall of the camp, and the defenders can still see through the gaps between the wooden pillars of the camp wall. Seeing Yuan Shao's soldiers hiding in the cave car, they can naturally attack them.

In this way, even if the soldiers of Yuan Shao's army used large shields and small shields to block the arrows, they could still prevent them from filling up the trenches and look for opportunities to shoot them.

In any case, even if Yuan Shaojun fills up the trenches outside the camp wall, when Yuan Shaojun launches a general offensive, Zhu Weijun will still have the defensive advantage of the camp wall. It's lethal.

Taking a step back, the camp wall was pushed by Yuan Shaojun. In fact, Zhu Weijun could also retreat to the newly built camp behind. With the help of such layered defense tactics, Yuan Shaojun's troops could be consumed as much as possible.

Anyway, before Yuan Shaojun could come up with any means to quickly break through Zhu Weijun's defense, the two sides could only carry out such a life-intensive assault tactic, or consume each other's logistics. Retreat first.

So on the north bank of the Yellow River, the battle between Zhu Weijun and Yuan Shaojun was in a stalemate, and it would take some time for the offensive and defensive battles between the two sides to achieve any results.

At least before Yuan Shaojun officially launched the raid, the daily consumption of troops on both sides is now less than a thousand people.

At the same time, Cao Cao also returned to the army outside Hulao Pass, commanding the army to launch an offensive against Zhu Weijun's stronghold stationed by Pang Yan and Zhuge Liang, but Cao Jun also encountered Zhu Weijun's extremely lethal defensive counterattack tactics.

Cao Cao is not as confident as Yuan Shao, who has more than [-] troops. Although he brought [-] elite main forces and [-] to [-] auxiliary civilians this time, if he is like Yuan Shao's army, he consumes thousands of troops in offensive battles every day. , I'm afraid it won't take long for his troops to die.

Therefore, after two days of strong attack, Cao Cao found that the loss of troops was too great, but he also changed an offensive tactic.

Cao Cao built some mounds with a height of three or four stories within the range of the bow and arrow outside Zhu Weijun's stronghold. This method allowed Zhu Weijun to break through the military stronghold outside Hulao Pass without attacking.

It has to be said that Cao Cao's military capabilities are indeed stronger than Yuan Shao's. Although his method is a bit time-consuming and labor-intensive, it minimizes the loss of his own troops.

Facing Cao Cao's offensive tactics, although Zhu Weijun had a defensive weapon such as a stone chariot, after all, there was a distance limit, and there was no way to counter Cao's attack.

Unless Zhu Weijun took the initiative to rush out, but that would lose the defensive advantage, and he could only fight head-to-head with Cao Jun outside Hulao Pass. Pang Yan had some ideas about this, but Zhuge Liang didn't agree...

(End of this chapter)

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