Three Kingdoms Eschatology

When Liu Bei saw Lu Bu, he cupped his hands and said, "Thank you, Marquis Wen, for leading the troops to rescue."

Lu Bu immediately replied, "Brother Xuande, you and I work together and protect Xuzhou together, so there is no need to be so polite!"

"Then please Marquis Wen lead his troops to quickly follow someone into Pengcheng!"

"Brother Xuande, it's better for someone to stay on the outskirts of Pengcheng, so that they can support each other inside and outside. Today, Yuan Jun didn't take precautions. They didn't even set up roadblocks between their camps, so someone took advantage of the loophole to break in. If someone If you are stationed in Pengcheng with you, I am afraid that you will be surrounded by Yuan Jun again. Then, we can only defend the city and fight Yuan Jun."

After Liu Bei heard this, it made sense to think about it carefully, so he cupped his hands and said, "After Yuan Jun is defeated in the future, I will drink three cups with Marquis Wen." OK.

At this time, Yuan's camp was in chaos. Future and organized troops to intercept Lu Bu, and they broke through the siege.

On the second day, Yuan Jun abnormally did not attack the city, which surprised Liu Bei.He thought to himself: "Lv Bu brought one or two thousand Bingzhou cavalry to support him outside, so he can have such a great deterrent force? Impossible!"

After noon, the defenders of Pengcheng discovered that Yuan Jun had begun to pull out his camp one after another, retreating to the southwest in an orderly manner.This surprised Liu Bei even more.

"Brother, let's take this opportunity to meet Lu Bu on the periphery and attack Yuan Jun's tail!" Guan Yu suggested to Liu Bei.

Liu Bei categorically denied it and said: "No, Yuan Jun said that he has tens of thousands of troops, and he can set up traps for us at any place. Xuzhou's troops are not much left, so we must be careful."

Lu Bu Langqi stationed on the outskirts of Pengcheng did not dare to act rashly, and only harassed the retreating Yuan Jun a few times.Then, just now came to join Liu Bei.Neither of them believed that Yuan Jun's retreat was only because of Lu Bu's assistance.

"Report! Report to Liu Lingjun, and Tao Shijun sent an urgent letter from Tancheng. It said that the other two armies of Yuan Jun had begun to withdraw from Xuzhou, probably because the chariot general Feng Yu and Wucheng Marquis Sun Ce had invaded Jiujiang County. If Yuan Jun in Pengcheng retreated, so our troops followed Yuan Jun and took the opportunity to attack Yuan Jun!" At this time, Liu Bei and Lu Bu suddenly realized.

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In September of the first year of Jian'an, it was late autumn.In the golden countryside of Hefei City, there are ocher military tents and camps everywhere.The Han army led by Feng Yu has already approached the city.At the same time, Sun Ce's army also arrived at the city of Shu County, seventy miles south of Hefei.

After Feng Yu and Sun Ce invaded Jiujiang County, Yuan Shu finally adopted a shrinking strategy, abandoning many insignificant cities, shrinking his troops to a few points, and doing key defenses.Hefei and Shuxian formed the last line of defense west of Shouchun.

Chapter 151

Although Hefei and Shu County are not guarding the traffic hubs, Feng Yu and Sun Ce can bypass them and attack Shouchun directly.

But at this time, Feng Yu was already far away from Wuyang, the base camp in the rear. If Hefei was not conquered, it would be difficult to ensure the smooth flow and safety of logistics supplies.

Danyang County, Lujiang County, and Yuzhang County controlled by Sun Ce are all close to Shouchun.However, both Lujiang and Yuzhang were territories that had just been conquered, and there was no way to digest them in the future. In these two counties, it was impossible to organize a logistics supply of food and grass.

Although Danyang County has been managed by Sun Ce for a long time, it is across the river from Shouchun.Sun Ce had just broken away from Yuan Shu's camp, and his navy had not yet formed, and could not rival Yuan Shu's Jiujiang navy.If it is directly in the Shouchun River section, crossing the river to replenish food and grass is also dangerous.

Therefore, Feng Yu and Sun Ce must capture Hefei and Shu County before they can continue to attack Yuan Shu's capital Shouchun.

The generals of Yuan Shujun obviously learned the experience and lessons of the battle in Runan, and made corresponding arrangements according to Feng Yujun's characteristics and tactics.

Hefei and the two cities of Shuxian County not only had Yuan Shu's six or seven thousand soldiers in each station, but also built various fortifications and roadblocks in the city.

Even if the Han army breaks through the city and enters.It will also be because the streets in the city are full of antlers to resist horses, and it is impossible to rely on iron cavalry to crush the defenders and end the battle quickly.The infantry could only fight the defenders block by block.

After Yuan Shujun learned how powerful Feng Yu's counterweight heavy trebuchet was.Correspondingly, they expelled a large number of civilian laborers, dug trenches outside the city walls, and built low barriers like camps, instead of relying solely on the city walls for defense.

For the trebuchet, this low barrier itself is like a dead pig not afraid of boiling water.Even if it was smashed with a trebuchet, it was still the low mound.What's more, there are trenches behind it as fortifications to block the attacker's pace.

At this time, on the front line in Hefei, Feng Yu was squinting and observing the battlefield.In the distance, a section of the rammed-earth city wall of Hefei City has been completely demolished, leaving only the ruins standing tall.However, when the Han army attacked after the collapse of the city wall, it was blocked in front of the trench.

Jingzhou Army, Yizhou Army, Jiaozhou Army, Feng Yu's reclamation soldiers, and Zhao Yun's infantry battalion tried to attack in turn.They were all stopped by Feng Yu due to excessive casualties, and returned without success.

For this reason, the Han army even lost two war elephants and a giant ape heavy armored soldier.The war elephant was shot to death by a strong crossbow, and the giant ape heavy armored soldier was stabbed to death from the crotch by more than a dozen Yuan Jun spearmen crouching in the trench when they crossed the barrier.

When Feng Yu was thinking about the way to defeat the enemy, a commanding voice sounded in his ears:

"Report to General Cheqi, General Wucheng Hou Sunce is visiting!"

"Oh, he is here, please quickly enter the account."

soon.Feng Yu and Sun Ce met in the big tent of the Chinese army and exchanged some pleasantries. Sun Ce asked about the recent situation of Zhuyang's family, and then changed the topic to the current battle situation.

According to Sun Ce, the situation in Shu County is similar to that in Hefei City.Regarding this, Sun Ce was also full of worries and had nothing to do.Finally, Sun Ce said worriedly:

"General Cheqi, it's not an option for us to continue the stalemate with Yuan Jun. According to the news from Xuzhou, General Yuan Shu Ji Ling is returning to Jiujiang with the three-way army that attacked Xu. The three-way army is called 5 troops. In fact, there are at least [-] horses. If we can’t conquer Shu County in Hefei before they return to Jiujiang County, the situation will be dangerous. At least this attack will come back in vain.”

"Don't disturb Bofu, I have a plan to defeat the enemy, but I still need to wait for a few more days. And I still need God's blessing."

"Oh, the general has a plan to defeat the enemy?" Sun Ce asked in disbelief.

"Exactly, it's also a method that someone just thought of when you came here." Feng Yu told Sun Ce exactly how he defeated the enemy.

After listening to this, Sun Ce nodded and said, "This method can be tried." Then, Sun Ce said, "Have you thought about it, General? If we break through Shu County in Hefei, the troops will arrive in Shouchun. Ji Ling's army returns. Even if Xuzhou has With [-] troops coming to aid, the comparison between the enemy and our troops is still two-to-one. In this comparison, although I still have the confidence to defeat Yuan thief, our side will also suffer huge losses. So..."

Feng Yu saw that Sun Ce was hesitating, so he finished the sentence for him: "Bo Fu wants to suggest that someone ask Cao Cao for help and ask him to send troops south to support the Jiujiang battlefield in Huainan?"

"Exactly!"

Feng Yu shook his head and said: "It's not that I don't want to ask Cao Cao for support, but now, Cao Cao may be more stressed than us. It's good that he can withstand Yuan Shao's southern attack with his own strength. It is impossible for him to divide his troops to support us. .”

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The autumn wind whipped up a lot of dust on the Huanghuai Plain, causing Cao Cao's eyes to narrow unconsciously.But his eyes were still staring at the battlefield ahead without blinking, paying attention to the changes in the battle situation.

This is Baimadu, and Cao Jun is fighting with Yuan Shao's former army crossing the river.Unlike in the history of the original world, Yuan Shao went straight to Xuchang and was blocked at Guandu.

At present, Yuan Shao's [-] troops are divided into three groups, crossing the Yellow River from Puyang, Baimadu, and Yanjin respectively.Invaded the hinterland of Yuyan.But Cao Cao didn't know such a military situation at first.

Under the advice of Xun Yu and Guo Jia, Cao Cao still adopted the tactics of shrinking troops, focusing on defense, and clearing the field.Except for a few cities along the Yellow River that were selected as key points of defense, the population within [-] miles along the southeast bank of the Yellow River was completely evacuated and became a completely uninhabited area.

When Yuan Shaojun was crossing the river at Baima, Cao Cao tried to use the method of attacking the west to attract Yuan Jun's successor troops to Yanjin, but he failed.Because Yuan Jun originally had a group of soldiers and horses gathering in Yanjin, preparing to cross the Yellow River here.

Cao Cao had no choice but to take advantage of Yuan Shao's army not yet fully crossing the Yellow River, and at Baimadu, he fought quickly with Yuan Shao's army who had crossed the river earlier.

At this time, Cao Cao's three thousand tiger and leopard riders all threw themselves into the white horse battlefield, and under the leadership of Le Jin and Li Dian, they rushed into Yuan Jun's formation.Yuan Shaojun, who crossed the Yellow River earlier, was also a cavalry unit with more than [-] troops. Under the leadership of Yan Liang himself, they launched a confrontation with Cao Jun's tiger and leopard cavalry.

The two sides rode their horses to chase and kill each other on the mud and sand plain.From time to time, war horses that lost their masters could be seen fleeing outside the battlefield.

Yan Liang pulled out the horse from the skull of a tiger and leopard horse. The owner of the horse had been trampled into a pile of meat under the hooves.Unexpectedly, a long spear stabbed fiercely from the right, Yan Liang did not rush, swung the horse spear in his hand, and swung the opponent's long spear away.The future will be Lejin.

Two of Yan Liang's guards had swung their knives at Le Jin, Le Jin swayed from side to side and easily dodged, but suddenly his eyes went dark, his head went numb and he fell off the horse.Yan Liang pierced his head with a gun.

"Dang, clang, clang" came the sound of the gong of withdrawing troops from behind Cao Jun.In this battle, although Cao Jun lost Le Jin, Yan Liang also lost a large number of war cavalry under the charge of tiger and leopard cavalry.

Chapter 152

For a week in a row, the weather in Huainan was sunny and fine.Feng Yu squatted on the ground, observing a large pit dug ten days ago.After looking at it for a while, he jumped to the bottom of the pit again, and pressed the ground at the bottom of the pit with his hands to check the looseness and water content of the soil.

"My lord, the batch of supplies from Zhuyang has arrived." The voice of the guards reported from outside the pit.In the distance, in the camp of the Han army, hundreds of carts of supplies were busy unloading.They are all pots and pans.

Feng Yu immediately crawled out of the pit and ordered: "Pass on my military order, and immediately launch a general attack on Hefei!"

Almost at the same time, Feng Yu put away the task panel of the system.What's on that panel is:

[Mission: Capture Hefei, mission content: Break through the trenches and barriers of Hefei City, annihilate the enemy defending the city, and capture the entire city.Mission reward: ten thousand people shelter card x5]

After a while, the sound of drums and horns of the whole army in formation sounded in the camp.Under the shouting and command of their respective generals, the various Han armies quickly assembled.In the distance, Yuan Jun's guards in the trench became vigilant and nervous when they heard the sound of drums and horns.They knew that the Han army's attack, which had been suspended for many days, was about to resume.

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Under the rain of arrows all over the sky, all Feng Yujun's elite spear-throwing and shield soldiers used their unique large shields to form a tight shield wall and advanced steadily.It's just that this army formation is thinner and wider than the turtle shell phalanx they usually practice.It is only four rows deep, but it is as wide as more than a hundred battles.

And except for the first and second rows of soldiers, the last two rows are not gun shield soldiers.They did not hold weapons in their hands, but each carried a large basket full of jars.The jar is also wrapped with dry straw and other fibrous combustibles.Presumably there must be a liquid with a low flash point in the jar.Obviously Feng Yu tried to use fire to attack the outer barriers of Hefei City.

The second row of spear and shield soldiers raised their large shields to the height of their heads, forming a projectile blind area together with the first row of shield walls, which was enough to protect the two rows of soldiers behind them from arrow attacks.Although this will cause your sight to be blocked, just follow the first row of soldiers.

Just like that, the arrows shot on the shield wall that was getting closer and closer, and the Yuan Jun soldiers in the trench crouched behind the barrier, holding their spears and knives a little tighter.They have had several battles against these Han gun and shield soldiers.

As long as the Han army climbed the barrier, a forest of guns would emerge from the slope like a bamboo forest.Even if they were riddled with holes, even a large shield would have no effect.

The javelins of these spear and shield soldiers are separated by barriers and trenches.The throwing blind spot makes the javelin useless at all.When they mounted the ramparts and were about to throw their javelins straight down, it was too late.

It's just that Yuan Bing in the trench couldn't see the people carrying jars behind the shield wall. When the Han army approached, on the crumbling tower in the distance, a Yuan Jun general who was watching found the clue from a height.

When he vaguely saw these, a terrible thought came to his mind. "No, hurry up and inform the defenders below the city, they are going to attack with fire!" He yelled loudly, but it was already too late.

The shield wall of the Han army had pressed down to a few feet in front of the barrier, the shield wall of the second row fell, and the soldiers of the Han army in the last two rows threw the lit clay pots to the rear of the barrier one after another.

These clay pots are all specially made thin-walled pots. After falling from a high altitude, they hit the ground and immediately shattered into several pieces.The high-strength wine in the altar is full of flames, flowing everywhere.The combustibles wrapped in the clay pot also burned rapidly.

Amidst the crackling sound of crockpots shattering, a trench that was more than a hundred battles long suddenly formed a wall of fire, followed by screams, and many Yuan Jun's "fire men" struggled to climb out of the trench and fled backwards. In two steps, he fell to the ground.Not long after, billowing black smoke billowed from the flames, and the scene was filled with the smell of burnt protein.

After the fire passed, the gun shield soldiers quickly crossed the hot trench and rushed towards the ruins of the collapsed city wall behind.Following far behind, the infantry of the Han army mainly composed of soldiers from Jingzhou and Yizhou rushed into the trench in large numbers, and followed the trench to kill on both sides where there was no fire.In the ruins of the city wall and the trenches, the sound of fighting broke out in an instant.

Numerous spear-blade spearheads protruded from behind the shield wall, intensively stabbing Yuan Jun's defenders who had just boarded the top of the ruined city.The latter, like the captured cities in the past, could not stop the attack of the spear and shield soldiers at all.The spear and shield soldiers quickly captured the top of the ruined city wall.

The defenders were still resisting, and the crossbowmen in the city drew their bows and fired arrows one after another, and hundreds of arrows shot intensively at the gap in the city wall, which was about dozens of battles wide.The spear and shield soldiers on the top of the ruins held up their shields full of arrows to resist the rain of arrows, and at the same time threw their javelins and flying spears.

[-] spears flew up together, densely blocking the sunlight.Amidst the splashing blood and screams, half of Yuan Jun's soldiers who had assembled here fell down in half.

Two rounds, three rounds.The spearmen didn't pull out the short knives around their waists until they had thrown all their spears, and rushed towards the ruins.Quickly beheaded the few remaining Yuan soldiers behind the ruins of the city wall.

Then they held up their big shields, a few people, a dozen or so people, shuttled, searched, and fought on the streets full of roadblocks such as horses and antlers.Behind them, all kinds of Han soldiers continued to pour into the city.The entire city of Hefei suddenly turned into a Shura battlefield.

In a three-city pavilion next to the street, a Yuan Jun crossbowman pointed his heavy crossbow out the window, and then pulled the hanging knife.With a powerful sound of piercing through the air, the arrow shot towards the back of a spear and shield soldier.

With a crisp sound of jumping, a rolled metal crack appeared on the opponent's ring armor, and the arrow had already pierced through the armor.But it didn't seem to penetrate very deep, only half of the arrow clusters were submerged in the body, and most of the arrow shafts were still exposed.

Sure enough, the Han soldier who was hit by the arrow didn't fall to the ground, but just let out a painful grunt, and then immediately turned the shield around, and several companions around him also cooperated to put the shield together.

Yuan Jun's crossbowman cursed secretly, and he wanted to pull the string and put down an arrow.Unexpectedly, a sharp blade had stretched out from behind to the front of his neck, and under the horror, he felt a chill in his throat, and saw a bloody arrow spurting out.His eyes were dark and he fell down.

On another narrow street, more than a dozen spear and shield soldiers moved away from their horses and continued to move forward.Thirty or forty Yuan soldiers armed with spears or halberds suddenly poured out from the side alley.

Their spears and halberds came to besiege the spear and shield soldiers in a dense manner, and a dozen large shields immediately gathered together to form a miniature circular formation.There was a thumping sound when the tip of the spear and the blade of the spear pierced the large shield, and some even pierced through the large shield.

At the critical moment, with a few low growls of dogs, five or six mountain hunting dogs rushed up from behind Yuan Bing.Several Yuan Jun soldiers fell to the ground, and some even bit off their necks.

There was a gap in the dense forest of guns, and the gun shield soldiers with large shields and short blades took the opportunity to step forward and slaughtered one by one.These Yuan soldiers with long pole weapons dispersed immediately.But more than a dozen arrows suddenly struck, shooting them to the ground one after another.

Not far from them, several giant ape warriors were slashing and killing...

Chapter 153 Xun Yu's Visit

From the battle in the morning to dusk, the sound of fighting in the city of Hefei gradually subsided.The Han army has basically controlled the whole city.The streets in the city were full of the corpses of both the enemy and us, and the roadblocks such as horse antlers were all cleared to the side of the street and piled up like a mountain.

Not long after Feng Yu conquered Hefei, Sun Ce also conquered Shu County with the help of Feng Yu.The two armies, one from the south and the other from the north, totaling more than 2 people, marched side by side to kill Shouchun.

But at this time, tens of thousands of Yuan Shu's army led by Ji Ling had returned from Xuzhou.Yuan Shu claimed that these troops were 7, but in fact they were soldiers and strong men recruited with the army, totaling [-].Among them, there are more than [-] soldiers who can really march in formation.

Ji Ling's army was originally planning to rush to help Hefei and Shu County, but it is a pity that the second city had already been breached just after he returned to Jiujiang County.For this reason, he had to temporarily garrison troops in the wilderness around Shouchun and several small cities, build camps, set up defense areas, and defend Shouchun.

Liu Bei's army, which followed him, had [-] troops.He also took the opportunity to seize two almost undefended cities in Jiujiang County.And built a big camp along the lower reaches of the Yangtze River northeast of Shouchun.It echoes with Feng Yu and Sun Jian, forming a tendency to encircle Shouchun from east to west.

The total strength of Shouchun Yuan's army, not counting the labor of the civilians, added up to nearly 6 at this time.Feng Yu, Sun Jian, and Liu Bei add up to 3 people.But the Han army was full of elite soldiers, so Ji Ling naturally didn't dare to attack the opponent's camp rashly, and even dared not respond behind closed doors when the opponent invited them to fight in the wild.

Conversely, although the Han army conquered Hefei and Shu counties, they also paid a lot of casualties.Neither Feng Yu nor Sun Ce hoped to knock down Yuan Jun's camps one by one in this form of strong attack.As for Liu Bei, let alone.

At the same time, although Yuan Shujun did not dare to confront Feng Yu and Sun Cejun in the field, he sent small groups of troops from time to time to harass the Han army's rear from the waterway by relying on the water advantage of the Yangtze River Navy.This forced Feng Yu and Sun Ce to allocate more troops to patrol and guard the grain road in the rear.

As a result, the two camps and the Quartet entered the stage of confrontation.Feng Yu was not anxious because of this, but instead comforted Sun Ce and Liu Bei with letters from time to time.He told the latter in a firm tone that over time, Yuan Shu would surely lose.

The reason is that Yuan Shu has lost a lot of land and population.The remaining population and territory simply cannot support his army of [-] to [-].Protracted confrontation is bound to bring this contradiction to the fore.It is predicted that Yuan Shu will be in chaos without a fight.

At this time, it was not that no one in Yuan Shu's camp knew this point. People with a bit of a brain knew that this time should be resolved quickly, and they all spoke to Yuan Shu about it.However, Yuan Shu chose the ostrich strategy that can be delayed for a day.

At the stage of the confrontation between the two sides, Feng Yu was not idle, and organized manpower to relocate some refugees in Runan and Jiujiang Second Counties.Although there were only three counties under Yuan Shu's rule, it was the most densely populated place in the world before the war.This is due to the continuous influx of migrant populations from several states in the Central Plains.It is also the reason why Yuan Shu can have an army of [-].

At present, many people will be transferred to the "Nanyang Yin" or Zhuyang Hou State directly under the jurisdiction of the imperial court.

Feng Yu saw that the battle in Huainan had stabilized, and there would not be any major changes in a short time.So he took Zhao Yun as the commander-in-chief, and after handing over the command of the front line to him, he went back to Zhuyang by himself.

The purpose of coming back this time is not only to visit his wives and concubines, but more importantly, to resettle the migrated population.Zhuyang City has added another [-] system population.

Although because of Yuan Shu's pre-war conscription, the proportion of strong men in these populations is relatively low.But it still brought a lot of soldiers to Zhuyang.

Feng Yu added two more reorganized legions, one of which was handed over to Dian Qing to command, and the other appointed Gao Shun as its commander.Dianqing's eldest brother, Dianwei, is not appointed as the commander of the army. He has replaced Gao Shun as the battalion captain of the independent camp.

Feng Yu believes that Dian Wei is still a brave general with outstanding martial arts, but he is not as capable as a general who can stand on his own like Zhang Liao.Therefore, it is necessary for Dian Wei to practice in the position that is most suitable for him before he can become the commander of the army.

The ballista workshop has been erected in Zhuyang City, but it will take some time to train qualified ballista players.The ballista is different from the bed crossbow, and it requires some skills and know-how to use it in order to take advantage of the accuracy of its ballistics blessing.

In the past year or so, dozens of warships have been launched into the dock in Zhuyang.These warships unique to the Zhuyang Kingdom are not suitable for large-scale troop transport.Each ship can only carry dozens of additional infantry.

But they are specially built for water warfare, and the hulls are small and flexible, and they can easily turn around even in narrow rivers.Feng Yu also assigned them to inland sailors.

This day is the third day of the first lunar month in the second year of Jian'an, and Feng Yu, who is busy with various affairs, spends the Spring Festival with his family with his family.He was going back to the Huainan front line the next day, and he had to personally comfort the frontline soldiers before the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Xun You came to ask for an interview at this time, of course not for New Year's greetings, because all these etiquettes have been passed on the first day of the new year.He brought someone to meet Feng Yu, none other than his young uncle Xun Yu.

"Wen Ruo, we haven't seen each other for many years!" Feng Yu shouted heartily when he saw Xun Yu.

However, Xun Yu bowed to Feng Yu cautiously and said, "I have seen General Chariot and Cavalry here. The general sent out soldiers to relieve the danger of our Xun family. I am grateful for your disrespect."

"Hey, Brother Wen Ruo. I know that you are now serving Cao Cao. I met Cao Cao's swordsmen before, but I also saved Cao Cao, and now I and Cao Cao are working for the Han Dynasty to seek thieves. So Wen Ruo Don't be so cautious, bro."

The two exchanged a few more words of greeting, and then the conversation started.Xun Yu was not as cautious as before.He quickly turned to the topic and said to Feng Yu:

"To tell you the truth about the chariot general, my lord Cao Cao resisted the Han thief Yuan Shao with his own strength. Now it is difficult to support him alone. I hope the general will give some support to ease the pressure on my lord."