Although Guan Yu was slightly injured, the complete collapse of his army was doomed from the moment Liu Xun abandoned his army and fled.
Guan Yu was so resolute that even when he was hit by a crossbow arrow, his internal organs were not damaged and his arteries were not punctured because of the protection of his heavy armor.
So he only asked his confidant Xiao Xiao to simply pull out the arrow and bandage it, and then continued to pretend to be fine and command the battle.
He was also very talented and came up with a tactic to improvise, and asked his soldiers to shout in unison to publicize the news of Liu Xun's death.
Didn't Liu Xun change into a bronze helmet and a rag cloak and run away? The bronze helmet he threw away happened to be particularly conspicuous in the burned-down Chinese army tent.
Guan Yu had someone pick up the head of a middle-level general of Yuan's army that he had chopped off, cut his face into pieces, put Liu Xun's helmet up, and before charging to kill, he picked up the head of a middle-level general of Yuan's army and shouted, "Liu Xun's head!" The rest of the army was completely morally shattered.
And Chen Lan, who like Lei Bo was a tyrant in Huoshan, was originally taking his hundreds of horses to put out fires and plug leaks. However, when he saw the head of "Fu Jun", he directly chose to save his strength and left behind. The suffering infantry brothers ran away.
After another tea break, the main force of 5,000 infantrymen from the rear army under Liu Bei finally arrived at the battlefield south of the city on two legs.
They were already facing a completely collapsed Liu Xun camp, and the sky was starting to lighten up slightly. There was no need to worry about the troops rushing into the formation and trampling on each other.
About four thousand people were divided into two wings, playing the role of hammers all the way, rushing into the camp and attacking fiercely, and playing the role of anvils all the way, detouring back to the south of the camp to intercept the shouts, drive away and annihilate the stubborn enemy.
Under this pincer attack, more than thousands of Liu Xun's troops were killed, wounded and captured, and the rest fled like headless flies. Anyone who chose to flee south was killed by Liu Bei's army.
When Guan Yu saw Liu Bei arriving, the battle situation was already certain. After holding on for a long time, he finally breathed a sigh of relief and left the follow-up task of expanding the results to his elder brother.
As soon as the two brothers met, Guan Yu gasped for air and complained: "Why is it coming so slowly? It took me a long time to kill a stick of incense before the rear army arrived."
Liu Bei first casually expressed concern about Guan Yu's injury, and then pointed to the south and said: "This is not about perfection, but about encircling and annihilating more enemy troops. It is not enough to defeat Liu Xun. If the remaining enemies flee south, we will chase them when the time comes. If they failed, they returned to Guangling County to regroup, and they went through a lot of trouble.
Therefore, I first asked half of the troops to go around to the south of the camp to set up an ambush, and the rest entered the camp to charge. As long as Liu Xun's troops flee to the west, they will only pursue their tail and never intercept them. It is best to lead them to the northwest.
And if there are die-hard thieves fleeing south, we will use all our strength to kill them, surround them and capture them. In just a short period of time, thousands of soldiers fleeing south have been intercepted and killed, and even more captured. They are all thieves loyal to Yuan Shu. "
Liu Bei's deployment was based on Zhuge Jin's thinking before, and he regarded the Battle of Huaiyin and the subsequent Battle of Guangling as a whole to deploy.
I would rather suffer now than to be relaxed later, and never let one more enemy escape back to Guangling County.
After hearing this, Guan Yu felt a little relieved and quickly confirmed: "The remaining half of the troops were ambush on the way to Ji Ling's reinforcements as planned?"
Liu Bei patted him on the shoulder: "Don't worry, wasn't this planned before the war? There is an uncle on the left, a state minister on the right, Ji Ling hastily came to help, panic, there must be an opportunity to take advantage of. We have finished cleaning up here After that, hurry up and reinforce them.”
The two generals mentioned by Liu Bei are still not well-known today.
His uncle was Chen Dao, who had just come to serve more than a year after Liu Bei was appointed as the governor of Yuzhou. He came from a relatively humble background. He gradually accumulated merit and promotion through his martial arts and courage. He had to lead two to three thousand troops at a time. In fact, it was still He is not very qualified. Now it is the first time for him to lead so many troops. Liu Bei is really in a dilemma and has no more options.
The state minister was Tian Yu. Historically, Tian Yu had defected to Liu Bei very early. However, after Liu Bei defeated Xuzhou and became a shepherd in Yuzhou, Tian Yu returned to his hometown on the grounds that his mother was old and went to find Gongsun Zan again.
Because these two people are currently at a relatively low level, Zhuge Jin never saw them during the short two days he was in Huaiyin, and he didn't even know that they were now under Liu Bei. These deployments were all made by Liu Bei himself.
Now history has changed, Liu Bei's army has not collapsed, and Tian Yu has not returned home yet. Both he and Chen Dao were drawn into this battle that had changed its appearance. They rushed into the battle and got a chance to show off.
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Another quarter of an hour later, the sky got a little brighter again, but it was not completely bright. It would only be around 5:30 in the morning in future generations.
Towards the southwest corner of Huaiyin City, a large group of Yuan Shu's soldiers ran wildly from northwest to southeast. It was obviously Ji Ling's army stationed in the east of the city. After receiving the news that Liu Xun's camp was defeated, they hastily formed a team and rushed to reinforce it.
Liu Bei was very stable and did not choose to divide his troops to rob two enemy camps at the same time, because he knew that it was difficult to ensure complete simultaneousness in time.
In this era, there were no accurate timing tools that were easy to carry in the field. At night, we could only estimate the time by looking at the angle of the moonlight, and the error was really too big. Once you choose to rob Ji Ling and Liu Xun's camp at the same time, the final result is likely to be that one side takes action first, and when the other side takes action hastily, the enemy will already be slightly alert, and the suddenness will not be so good.
In this case, it is better to play it safe, rob one side, and then ambush halfway when reinforcements come from the other side.
The simpler the tactics, the higher the error tolerance rate. This is natural.
Ji Ling's and Liu Xun's camps were only a dozen miles apart, so when Liu Xun's camp caught fire in the dark night, Ji Ling saw the flames and took the initiative to send troops to reinforce before Liu Xun came to ask for help.
But Ji Ling didn't know how many enemies there were and whether they were deceitful. He didn't dare to abandon his camp, so he only dared to divide his troops and go in the dark to help. This will undoubtedly weaken the combat effectiveness, but there is nothing we can do about it.
Time did not allow Ji Ling to slowly gather more people.
There are not many terrains where ambush can be set up outside Huaiyin City. Who makes the North Jiangsu Plain too flat? There are no mountains or hills.
The only ambush location can only be found in the small woods beside the field ridges.
It's impossible to hide in such terrain in broad daylight as the visibility is too good, but at 5:30 in the morning in autumn, there is no problem at all.
When Ji Lingbu hurriedly passed by two forests in the southeast of the city, Chen Dao and Tian Yu were waiting for him on both sides.
Chen Dao was very nervous. When he saw Ji Ling arriving, his soldiers almost lost their composure and were about to rush out.
But the lord's earnest instructions to him before departure made Chen Dao hold back. He suppressed military discipline in a low voice and sternly, preventing his subordinates from being reckless.
"If Ji Ling is ambushed later, he must not rush out recklessly. He must wait until more than half of his troops are present before intercepting him. Unless Ji Ling is the first to discover our army's ambush, he will be forced to counterattack."
This was the order Liu Bei gave him, to ensure that Ji Ling was hit as hard as possible instead of just repelled.
Chen Dao didn't understand it at first, but at the last quarter of an hour before the war started, Liu Bei chose to confide in him and told him part of the truth.
Tell Chen Dao, "Our army has only one chance. If Ji Ling is defeated and does not retreat, and continues to besiege the city after being defeated, our army will have no fighting spirit after this battle, so we must destroy the enemy with one blow."
Liu Bei knew very well that even if he didn't say this now, after this battle, as the siege of Huaiyin dispersed and the food in the city was exhausted, the soldiers would know it sooner or later.
Telling the general half an hour in advance but not the soldiers is also a kind of trust in the general.
At least according to Liu Bei's knowledge of people and emotional intelligence, and based on his observations, Chen Dao can be trusted in this regard.
Liu Bei did not misjudge the person. As expected, Chen Dao was moved by this kind of trust. He felt quite pressured in his heart and silently made up his mind:
You must hold back, you must not be hasty, you must not rush out immediately to frighten off the enemy, and you must strictly carry out the Lord's orders...
