If Xu Sheng thinks it is right, then he would rather disobey orders and do it, just like he repeatedly resisted Sun Quan's orders in history.
Xu Sheng only recognized Zhou Yu, the governor. Therefore, Xu Sheng ultimately had no chance of becoming the governor, otherwise he would have been able to compete with Lu Meng.
Wen Chou had seniority in the Jizhou army. Who dared to be so presumptuous in front of them? He glared at Xu Sheng.
Raise your arms and take action. It just so happens that Xu Sheng is also a man who is not afraid of trouble. He is never afraid of fighting, even if he can't beat him.
"In the face of a powerful enemy, instead of killing the enemy, are the two generals going to attack their own people?" Sima Yi asked coldly.
Xu Sheng snorted and put his hand down. After Sima Yi said that, Wen Chou couldn't do anything again.
"Commander Sima, as Wen Xiang said, as long as we continue to pour water, Juancheng will not be difficult to defeat. In addition, your 30,000 Wuhuan soldiers are also coming. Why should we retreat?" Zhang He asked.
"I have said it just now. Water can be stopped but cannot be captured. As long as the general directs it properly, even if the water floods into the city, he can hold it for more than half a month. There are many such battles throughout history. And our army must win the battle quickly. Then follow The generals have gathered together, so I’m afraid it’s inappropriate to delay it like this.” Sima Yi explained.
"What do you think, Mr. Yi?" Zhang He asked.
"Retreat to advance!" Sima Yi looked towards the distant city.
On the city wall. Yu Jin inspected the city defense.
After a series of attacks and killings last night, the morale of the army has improved a bit. The sergeants also gained confidence in guarding Juancheng.
"This should be able to withstand it for a while longer." said a young literary official next to him.
Yu Jin turned around, nodded and said, "Thanks to Ziyu for your clever plan, otherwise Juancheng would have been in danger."
The young civil servant was only in his twenties. Although his appearance was not outstanding, he had a capable temperament. It was Liang Xi who was promoted by Cao Cao to the commander of Juancheng.
Liang Xi cupped his hands and said humbly: "I don't dare, it's just a temporary strategy to stop the enemy. Speaking of marching and fighting in the army, I still need to ask more advice from the general."
Yu Jin laughed and said with relief, "The reason why our army can hold on and retreat from the enemy is all thanks to you, Yucai. Don't be humble. It's not you who organized the people in the city to help defend the city. How could our army hold on? Cao Cao As expected, I did not hire the wrong person."
Liang Xi sighed and said worriedly, "Hey, it's still the villagers who are suffering in this war-torn land. They just want to keep their homes and fields."
"General, look! The Jizhou Army has pulled out of camp!" Before Yu Jin could reply, the general next to him shouted.
"The Jizhou army has pulled out its camp!" "The enemy soldiers have been repulsed!" There were cheers on the city walls for a while.
"Ziyu, the enemy soldiers have indeed retreated!" Yu Jin said happily.
"General, don't let your guard down. The enemy has many soldiers and enough food. They will leave and come back after replenishing their supplies." Then, Liang Xi reminded: "General, at the same time, we must be careful to prevent them from returning halfway."
Yu Jin nodded in agreement and said, "What do you think about sending a thousand elite soldiers to attack their baggage train through a detour?"
Liang Xi thought for a while, nodded and said: "If we can rob and kill the enemy again, Juancheng will be more stable. But we must be careful not to attack by force. The general will also send cavalry to monitor their rear army. If there is any sign of trouble, hurry up immediately." The horse returns the favor.”
"Well, that makes sense. I will personally send troops to intercept and kill the Jizhou army, and Juancheng will be entrusted to Ziyu." Yu Jin said.
Liang Xi agreed and retreated to organize the manpower.
The Jizhou army retreated very quickly. Except for the elite troops at the rear, including Xu Sheng's navy, they quickly retreated along the river towards Puyang.
Yu Jin ordered a thousand Yanzhou soldiers. He marched through the mountain trails to the east and drove for most of a day. Finally, he arrived in front of the Jizhou army's heavy camp and reached the small mountainous area leading to Puyang to lurk.
Yu Jin led his troops to lurk behind the mountain, and only sent a dozen scouts to climb to the top of the mountain to conduct reconnaissance. In this way, it would be difficult for the Jizhou Army's scouts to detect them.
After a group of soldiers passed by, the number of chariots and horses increased significantly. After the Yanzhou Army scouts determined the situation, they immediately ran to the back of the mountain to report.
"Hurry up and rob and kill!" Yu Jin ordered.
A thousand Yanzhou soldiers stood up, moved their numb hands and feet, and quickly climbed up the mountain.
"Kill!" Yanzhou soldiers shouted and rushed down using the high ground.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!" Soldiers in Jizhou where the grain was transported
Pushing the carriages and horses away, they quickly took out the powerful bows and crossbows on the carriages and fired at the mountain.
"Whoosh! Whoosh!" The Jizhou soldiers' archery skills were extremely accurate, almost hitting the target with every shot, and many arrows hit the Yanzhou soldiers' eyebrows.
Yu Jin took the shield handed over by his own soldiers. He was horrified and felt bad at the same time. This heavy baggage soldier of the Jizhou Army should not have such accurate archery skills.
As the drums beat, the soldiers from the front and back troops also moved closer, gradually forming an encirclement around the Yanzhou soldiers.
Yu Jin was startled, and he realized that he wanted to ambush others. But he was defeated instead.
Feather arrows continued to shoot towards the enemy, causing more than 300 casualties among the more than a thousand Yanzhou soldiers. Moreover, the soldiers no longer dared to rush forward, but looked for cover.
"Kill!" Jizhou soldiers on both sides of the hill surrounded him, putting more pressure on Yu Jin.
Standing beside the carriage and horses, Guo Huai waved his hand and took a few steps forward with the crossbowmen beside him to accurately shoot the enemy soldiers. They were all sharpshooters from the marksman battalion, just disguised as baggage soldiers.
Yu Jin broke out in a cold sweat. If his plan was discovered, the enemy would probably attack Juancheng again.
On second thought it seemed impossible. Because the rear troops of the Jizhou Army are under surveillance, Juancheng should be notified soon.
But Yu Jin could no longer care so much. The Jizhou army surrounded them, and Yu Jin could only order the remaining soldiers to flee back to the top of the mountain.
The night is dark and moonless, and Jishui still flows quietly. Torches were also lit on Juancheng to illuminate the surroundings.
Xu Sheng held the steel knife tightly, and he vowed to be the first to ascend the city later.
There were navy soldiers behind Xu Sheng. After boarding the boat, they landed from upstream and were responsible for carrying the ladder.
The navy soldiers stopped a hundred steps outside the east of the city. They squatted down and assembled the ladder. And wait for the commander's orders.
"Whoosh! Whoosh!" A hail of arrows shot towards the west of the city, and the guards who had no time to react were immediately shot into hedgehogs.
"Kill!" "Ugh!" Bamboo ladders and cloud ladders were set up to the north of the city, and black figures climbed up the ladders one after another.
"Hurry up and call someone!" the guards couldn't help shouting, and they sounded the golden drum at the same time as a warning.
The soldiers, generals and people in the city had already relaxed. When they heard the sound of the golden drum, they immediately became confused. The guards who rushed to the city wall also moved closer to the west of the city to resist the enemy's attack.
Since morning. Liang Xi felt vaguely uneasy in his heart. However, the scouts sent for reconnaissance and surveillance did not report the enemy's situation, and he could not mobilize the exhausted generals and civilians.
"The spearmen come forward!" Liang Xi ordered. Suddenly he noticed that the enemy soldiers climbing up the wall were very strange, so he ventured in to take a look. Only then did I realize that they were barbarians with tall noses and deep eyes!
Xu Sheng gave an order, and the navy soldiers set up the ladder to the east of the city. A dozen skilled soldiers climbed up the ladder with Xu Sheng. A man in front held a long halberd. They swung their halberds towards the city and rushed towards the city. Hook off the fishing net.
The nails on the city wall rattled, and the guards finally discovered them, but the soldiers who followed quickly jumped up to the top of the wall and slashed the guards with their swords.
Xu Sheng held a shield in one hand and a knife in the other. After climbing up the wall, he was like a dragon and a tiger, slashing and stabbing the Yanzhou soldiers. Not killing him happily would not be enough to quell the resentment in his heart.
Most of the Yanzhou soldiers were attracted to the west of the city. They didn't react until the east side of the city was quickly breached. For a while, the two sides started a hand-to-hand battle on the city wall.
After Xu Sheng succeeded, Wen Chou who was waiting below led the Wuhuan soldiers to climb up the city wall from the east of the city. With their reinforcements, the east wall was firmly occupied by the Jizhou army and expanded to the other three walls.
"You boy, do you dare to compete with me on who can kill more generals?" Wen Chou's rough voice reached Xu Sheng's ears.
Xu Sheng sneered and shouted: "Who wouldn't dare to kill more than a hundred generals!"
After saying that, the two men continued to slash and kill with their swords, and soon Wuhuan soldiers poured into the city from the stairway.
As the name suggests, Baima Mountain is located near Baima. It is the same distance from Yanjin and Baima. In history, Wen Chou, a fierce general from Hebei, died here.
Zhang Liao and Zhao Yun led four thousand cavalry to the mountains to lurk, and sent out scouts and rangers to conduct reconnaissance.
"Wen Yuan, do you think Cao Cao can personally lead his troops to rescue Baima?" Zhao Yun asked.
Zhang Liao shook his head and said, "Actually, the general cannot be sure whether Cao Cao is Cao Cao, but what the general means is to annihilate his troops and kill his generals, so that Baima and Wu Yuan
The morale of the defenders was depressed. "
"General, Yanzhou soldiers' scouts passed through the east aisle." the scout reported.
"To the east?" Zhang Liao said in surprise, "If we want to save Baima instead of going to Baima Mountain, it is also the fastest way to go to the west. Why do the Yanzhou soldiers want to go to the east?"
"Are you going to attack our infantry and baggage in the direction of Puyang?" Zhao Yun said.
"I'm afraid this is the idea, to use the cavalry to attack the infantry and baggage in the direction of Puyang, and then attract our army to retreat for rescue!" Zhang Liao sighed: "The general and the military advisor had the foresight to let us quickly occupy Baima Mountain and lurk."
"Now that we have detected the enemy's movements, it will be easy to handle. To prevent them from attacking our infantry and baggage, we must defeat them first!" Zhao Yun said.
"When Zilong attacks the enemy's head, I will attack the enemy's belly so that his head and tail cannot see each other!" Zhang Liao suggested.
The two discussed for a while and then asked the soldiers to saddle up and prepare to attack.
Smoke and dust billowed, and groups of cavalry passed through the east aisle of Baima Mountain.
"Stop!" As soon as they arrived near Baima Mountain, a general stopped by the road to observe the terrain, and hundreds of soldiers and followers also stopped and observed.
That general, wearing fine armor, was none other than the current prime minister, Cao Cao, Cao Mengde. Behind him were Cheng Yu, Xiahou Dun, and Shi Huan.
"Our army didn't pass through Baima Mountain in the last battle, right?" Cao Cao said.
"The terrain in the mountain is complicated. If infantry is walking, it will be a shortcut." Cheng Yu replied.
As he spoke, a horse chased him. It was Cao Ang, Cao Cao's son.
"Father, the cavalry from the rear have joined together and are coming up." Cao Ang reported.
Cao Cao nodded and asked, "Is he still polite to you?"
"It's quite respectful and polite. I followed my father's instructions and was polite and respectful to him." Cao Ang replied and asked: "Why don't our army directly attack the enemy soldiers in Baima? They just arrived in Baima not long ago and their foothold is not stable. Maybe one day Defeated immediately."
Cao Cao shook his head and sighed in his heart, his son was much worse than Yuan Xilai.
"My lord, now Wuyuan, Baima, Juancheng, and Puyang are in emergency. We have few soldiers, how can we save them?" Cheng Yu answered on his behalf, "Only in this way can we use attack instead of defense. If the enemy's army is weak, attack it and we will save it. Only then can we achieve the goal of retreating from the enemy."
"I see, but I heard that the Jizhou Army has incorporated Wuhuan cavalry. There must be a lot of cavalry. We should be careful." Cao Ang said.
Before Cao Ang could finish speaking, puffs of smoke and dust rose up from the direction of Baima Mountain, and the rapid sound of horse hooves came here.
"No, it's an enemy attack!" Cao Ang exclaimed, "The Jizhou army has arrived!"
"Don't panic, hold your ground, and let the troops in front come back for reinforcements!" Cao Cao ordered decisively.
"Kill!" "Kill Cao Cao!" Wuhuan Tuqi shouted one after another.
Zhang Liao was riding on a war horse. He saw Cao Cao and his men parked on the roadside from a distance. Three thousand Wuhuan cavalry attacked in several groups, surrounding the Yanzhou cavalry in the middle and killing them.
"Chi yo yo!" A cavalry team ran up from behind the Yanzhou Army. They guarded Cao Cao and others and surrounded them.
Zhang Liao led his troops to charge forward. When he saw the opponent a hundred steps away, he couldn't help being surprised.
I saw that the general of the cavalry protecting Cao Cao was a mighty young general, wearing a special fine armor.
His flaring eyebrows, unruly and cold eyes, the elegant red horse, and the halberd in his hand all showed his identity.
Lu Bu's cavalry surrounded Cao Cao and others, forming a confrontation with Zhang Liao.
Because his energy was frustrated, Zhang Liao had no choice but to ask his subordinates to stop their horses. The two men and horses in the middle section faced each other at a distance of less than a hundred steps.
"Zhang Liao!" Lu Bu said coldly.
"Hmph, it's rare that General Lu still remembers me!" Zhang Liao clasped his fists on the horse.
"Humph!" Lu Bu snorted coldly. When they were both under Ding Yuan's tent, he recruited Zhang Liao to join Dong Zhuo. However, because of Yuan Xi's relationship, Zhang Liao finally led his troops to join Yuan Shao, which made Lu Bu very angry.
"Wenyuan, do you still want to defeat me in a riding battle?" Lu Bu sneered.
"Haha! Marquis Lu Wen's cavalry battle is indeed unparalleled in the world, but my Wuhuan cavalry is also a famous cavalry in the world. If we really fight, we may not lose!" Zhang Liao said confidently.
"See the truth under my command!" Lu Bu said with murderous intent
said proudly.
Lu Bu and Zhang Liao each rode their horses and led their troops to a certain distance, and the soldiers on both sides changed to bows and arrows.
"Cheer!" The soldiers and horses of both sides ran at the same time, sprinting in opposite directions.
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!" Bingzhou Cavalry and Wuhuan Tuqi each fired a shower of arrows at each other.
After three rounds of detours in the open field, the cavalry of both sides were evenly matched. Because neither side dared to get too close, cavalry shooting alone could not cause much damage to the other side.
"Kill!" Lu Bu raised Fang Tian's painted halberd and led his cavalry towards Wuhuan's cavalry.
"Kill!" Zhang Liao also led his troops to charge forward.
The two groups of cavalry rushed together like two regiments of torrent. Because both of them were familiar with riding combat routines, and there was no terrain available around them. Therefore, fancy tactics cannot be used, and both sides fight with real swords and guns, fighting for strength and morale!
Zhao Yun's heroic cavalry attacked Cao Cao's army Qianqu from the mountainside. When they were within a hundred paces, the heroic cavalry fired a burst of fire without having to ask them to draw their bows.
The Yanzhou cavalry were not slow to react. They raised their shields and followed the general's horse to adjust their positions.
