Zhang Ren led his army out of the city and tentatively attacked Xu Sheng's camp, but easily captured Xu Sheng's camp.
But soon, Zhang Ren discovered that the number of Jiangdong Army in front of him was seriously mismatched, and he immediately knew that this must be Jiangdong Army's design.
Therefore, Zhang Ren quickly ordered the entire army to withdraw from the camp and wait outside the camp for the purpose of probing the attack. Zhang Ren naturally considered the possibility of this being a trap and had already thought of countermeasures.
But Zhang Ren didn't expect Xu Sheng's reaction to be so quick.
Before Zhang Ren could lead his soldiers to completely exit the camp, the camp in front of him suddenly burst into flames. Three teams of men and horses came out from three directions outside the camp gate, each with a thousand people.
As Jiangdong Army's ambush appeared, Zhang Ren suddenly understood that Jiangdong Army's strategy was not complicated. It was just to set a trap and ambush the soldiers he brought out of the city.
For this reason, Zhang Ren immediately responded and ordered the soldiers to readjust the direction of the queue and prepare to meet the enemy.
Of course, it is not about being tough. In this situation where it is clear that he is being surrounded, even if Zhang Ren wants to be tough, the soldiers may not be willing to fight to the death.
Therefore, retreat is necessary.
But there are ways to retreat. You cannot order a retreat as soon as the enemy is surrounded. This will completely destroy the morale of the entire team, and no one will be able to escape.
Therefore, Zhang Ren's decision was to reorganize his team and lead his soldiers to attack the enemy in one direction, trying to carve out a passage in the melee and lead everyone to escape.
And this also has the advantage that it can give Wenpin in the city a clear response direction, and Wenpin can focus on the response out of the city. This is the best way to deal with the retreat when being surrounded.
After making a good response, Zhang Ren personally led the troops forward and took the initiative to kill the army on the left.
Not because of anything else, but because the character "Xu" is written on the flag of the left-wing army.
That should be the army led by Jiangdong general Xu Sheng himself.
As long as this army is defeated, Jiangdong Army can be plunged into chaos and escape.
And Zhang Ren also has enough confidence. The name of Zhang Ren, the famous general in Sichuan, is not for nothing.
Although Zhang Ren was born into a poor family and was not treated favorably by his family since he was a child, due to his martial prowess and his military exploits after joining the army, he was regarded as a confidant by Liu Zhang.
After that, he helped Liu Zhang command the army, trained his soldiers, and gained a great reputation in central Sichuan.
It's a pity that this reputation was completely destroyed after Zhang Ren led his army to fight against Liu Bei in Fucheng.
Zhang Ren really didn't know that there was such a big gap in combat power between the Jingzhou Army and the Yizhou Army. He initially arranged his troops to fight against the Jingzhou Army at a similar level of combat power as the Yizhou Army.
Who knows the outcome, but after a battle, he lost a huge battle, completely ruining his reputation as a famous general in Sichuan.
Later, Zhang Ren took the initiative to seek death but failed, and accompanied his lord to live in the public security city. At the lord's strong request, he became an official for Liu Bei. Only now did he have the opportunity to lead a thousand men into battle again.
Therefore, Zhang Ren has to prove himself again.
The defeat of Zhang Ren, who commanded the Yizhou troops, was just an accident, and he was still a famous general in central Sichuan.
Zhang Ren quickly adjusted the formation of his soldiers and rushed towards the army led by Xu Sheng, wanting to use Xu Sheng as a stepping stone to regain his reputation.
But Xu Sheng. Xu Sheng is not someone to be bullied.
Xu Sheng joined the army since he was a child. When Sun Ce died and Sun Quan succeeded to the throne as a young man, Xu Sheng became Chai Sangling. With 200 men, he defeated the many with less. He defeated Huang She, the son of Huang Zu, who wanted to fish in troubled waters, and guarded it. Chaisang.
Since then, Xu Sheng has been in the army and experienced countless battles, large and small. In the blink of an eye, Xu Sheng has been in the army for more than ten years.
Xu Sheng can be regarded as one of the few people in the Jiangdong Army who can take charge of his own affairs. Otherwise, Lu Meng would not have allowed Xu Sheng to lead the troops alone to besiege the public security forces. He could go north to Jiangling with peace of mind.
Therefore, when Xu Sheng saw Zhang Ren attacking him, he immediately understood Zhang Ren's intention, sneered, and made adjustments without hesitation at all.
Xu Sheng first ordered the remaining two teams to quickly circle back and strive to quickly surround all Zhang Ren's troops and form a siege on Zhang Ren.
Then Xu Sheng also began to adjust the deployment of the military formation, changing from the front formation to the circular formation to defend on the spot.
Zhang Ren wanted to break through Xu Sheng's troops and gain a way out, so Xu Sheng formed a circular formation and defended to buy time, allowing three groups of troops to surround Zhang Ren.
Now it's a matter of fighting, whether Zhang Ren can break through Xu Sheng's military formation and fight out, or Xu Sheng can block Zhang Ren's attack and surround and annihilate Zhang Ren.
The two men faced each other head-on.
Although this made people's blood boil, the Wenpin in the city was extremely anxious.
Wenpin really didn't know whether or how he should go out of the city to meet him.
Visually speaking, Xu Sheng only dispatched 3,000 men. Even including the soldiers guarding the camp, there were definitely less than 5,000 men. If there were really 3,000 ambushes, then once Wenpin went out of the city to meet Zhang Ren, the police would probably be Jiangdong Army made a sneak attack.
But if he didn't rescue Zhang Ren and just sit back and watch Zhang Ren besieged to death, Wenpin couldn't do it.
Originally, Wenpin came up with the idea of going out of the city to test, and it was Zhang Ren who went out of the city to test on Wenpin's behalf. Now that he is surrounded but not rescued, this is unjustifiable.
Wenpin thought about it and felt that as the commander-in-chief of an army, he had something to do and something not to do. If he didn't save Zhang Ren this time, who of the remaining soldiers would be willing to stick with him? !
Therefore, Wenpin immediately gathered his troops and prepared to go out of the city for rescue.
But at this moment, directly opposite Xu Sheng's army, in the mountains and forests outside the Public Security City, many flags of Liu Bei's army suddenly appeared.
The appearance of these flags not only confused Xu Sheng, but also Wenpin.
what's the situation? !
Where did the reinforcements come from? !
Could it be that reinforcements from Wuling have arrived? !
Wenpin was more cautious. He didn't quite believe that the thousands of people who happened to appear were really reinforcements. After all, according to Wenpin's information, there should be 3,000 people in Xu Sheng whose whereabouts are unknown. Wenpin decided to hold his troops for the time being. Let’s take a closer look.
But at this moment in the forest, Xu Shu was also wondering. Wen Zhongye is a good general. He doesn't know how to seize such a good opportunity? !
You quickly lead the troops out of the city and block the retreat of these Jiangdong troops. Do you still plan to let these Jiangdong troops escape? !
Originally Xu Shu was still wondering why there were so few Jiangdong troops at the foot of the mountain and where Lu Meng's army had gone. He hesitated to suspend the march and sent out Xizuo and Tanma to investigate.
As a result, I spent a day exploring everywhere, and the surrounding scouting reports did not find any extra Jiangdong soldiers.
Therefore, the soldiers who besieged the police should be just like this.
Isn’t this looking down on people? ! !
Xu Shu was thinking about how to eat these Jiangdong soldiers in one go, but early in the morning he saw the defenders in the public security city sending people out of the city to test the trap, and they were about to be surrounded.
Although, this was not something Xu Shu had planned, but such an obvious opportunity was in front of him. If Xu Shu didn't take advantage of it, it would be a shame for his brain.
Xu Shu immediately asked his soldiers to organize the army and go down the mountain to surround the Jiangdong army.
However, due to the location, Xu Shu could only surround Jiangdong Army from three sides. The remaining side, which was behind Jiangdong Army, was towards the Public Security City.
This will test the reaction ability of the public security city guard Wen Pin.
But in Xu Shu's opinion, this shouldn't be a big problem.
Wenpin is a famous general in Jingzhou, and he is also a veteran. There is no way he would not see such a good opportunity, nor would he not be able to seize such a good opportunity.
But Xu Shu happened to find that Wenpin hesitated. He didn't lead his troops out of the city immediately, but was waiting and hesitating.
Xu Shu was so anxious that he almost jumped up.
It was Xi Hong who reacted a little faster and asked everyone to raise Xu Shu's flag first.
In order to conceal their march, Xu Shu's army kept the flags hidden and never opened them, except for the necessary flags to identify themselves.
This really can't be blamed on Wenpin.
Originally, Wenpin was worried about where Xu Sheng's remaining 3,000 men had gone. Now, suddenly, 3,4,000 soldiers came out, under the banner of Liu Beijun, but not a single shot under the banner of the general. God knows whose family it is. People? !
Although the soldiers' uniforms and flags these days are all different, is it difficult for Jiangdong Army to collect or imitate thousands of Liu Beijun's military uniforms and flags? !
Wenpin was really afraid that if he went out of the city to attack, these so-called "reinforcements" would turn towards him. Not only would Zhang Ren not be able to be rescued, but the Public Security City would also have to pay for it.
That's why Wenpin hesitated and didn't send troops immediately.
It wasn't until Xu Shu's general raised the banner that Wenpin realized that this was really the arrival of reinforcements from Wuling.
Flags and military uniforms can be collected and copied, but the general's flag cannot be imitated unless you capture the general.
Wenpin immediately led his troops out of the city and surrounded Jiangdong's army.
But Xu Sheng is not a fool, he is also a wise and courageous person.
Xu Sheng knew how many men he had in his hands. He had no more soldiers to send. Those who came must be Liu Bei's army.
On the one hand, Xu Sheng was shocked that Liu Bei's group had arrived with reinforcements so quickly. On the other hand, he was also thinking about what to do next.
We absolutely cannot fight to the death here.
Even if you are sure of defeating these people, you cannot choose to fight to the death here.
The only place where Liu Beijun could come to rescue the police so quickly was in Wuling.
And once Wu Ling frees up his hands to attack Jiangdong Army's rear route, it will directly threaten the grain road on the river.
Therefore, Xu Sheng made a very quick judgment. He immediately let go of the siege of Zhang Renjun, quickly gathered his soldiers, and tried to retreat quickly before Wenpin in the public security city could react.
At least retreat to the public security ferry to ensure the safety of the ferry.
If the public security ferry is not lost, the grain route on the Yangtze River will not be threatened. Otherwise, even if the public security does not have a naval force, it can still be done by gathering a few small sampans to sneak attack on the grain transport ship.
Originally, Governor Lu was short of food. If the food route was threatened again, the morale of the army would be completely shattered.
Therefore, Xu Sheng decided to at least retreat to the ferry to hold on, and at the same time quickly informed Governor Lu Meng to ask him to send troops for reinforcements, or make other plans.
At this time, Zhang Ren naturally saw the reinforcements around him, but he didn't think as much as Wenpin did.
Since there are reinforcements on the periphery, what Zhang Ren has to do now is to command his soldiers to bite Xu Sheng's army and prevent him from easily organizing a retreat.
Therefore, Zhang Ren took the lead in attacking Xu Sheng's army, and even tore through Xu Sheng's front army defense line for a time, forcing Xu Sheng to face the enemy head-on, slowing down Xu Sheng's ability to organize his soldiers to merge and retreat.
But Xu Sheng was not a mediocre general after all, and Wenpin did hesitate for too long. By the time Wenpin led his troops and rushed out of the police station, Xu Sheng had already assembled his troops and formed a formation.
Immediately afterwards, Xu Sheng personally broke off the rear and repelled Zhang Ren's attack. Then he led his soldiers to jump out of the encirclement before Wenpin's encirclement was in place and retreated towards the Gongan Ferry.
Wenpin knew that he had missed the opportunity due to his hesitation, so he chased after Xu Shengjun halfway, and finally caught up with Xu Shengjun's tail and took a hard bite, but Xu Sheng immediately reacted and asked half of the soldiers to quickly Xing Xing occupied the ferry, while he led the remaining half of the soldiers to fight and retreat.
As soon as Wenpin saw Xu Sheng's response, he knew that even if he chased Xu Sheng to the ferry, it would be impossible to capture the ferry, so he simply gave up when he saw the situation was good. He retreated his troops first to ensure the safety of the public security, and then made contingency plans after joining Xu Shu.
At this time, Xu Shu had already joined Zhang Ren, surrendered some Jiangdong soldiers who were too late to evacuate, and was waiting in Gong'an City for Wenpin to return to the army.
(End of chapter)
