Ji Ling was shocked. He never expected that Yang Hong would suddenly stand up and allow the enemy troops to cross the Huaihe River and land on the south bank.
When he was about to object, Sun Ce pointed his gun and said proudly: "Go back and tell your lord that I will retreat a hundred steps and let him cross the river if he dares. I, Sun Ce, will take his head!"
When Yuan Fang's soldiers saw this, they turned around and walked away without saying a word.
Ji Ling became angry now. After all, he was also one of the commanders of the vanguard army. Who would have thought that Yang Hong and Sun Ce would directly agree to Yuan Fang without giving him any face or asking his opinion? requirements.
"What do you two mean? Is there any reason to let the enemy cross the river easily?" Ji Ling asked angrily.
Yang Hong stroked his beard and said with a smile: "General Ji, don't be anxious. Don't you hear the Art of War saying, 'strike the enemy halfway across the river'? I asked that boy Yuan Fang to cross the river, just to wait until his army is halfway across the river and loses its footing." Kill him by surprise."
Attack it halfway across? Caught off guard?
Ji Ling's figure suddenly shook, as if he understood something.
Sun Ce said: "General Ji, what Yang Changshi means is that he pretended to agree to retreat a hundred steps to induce Yuan Fang to send troops ashore. When there are not many troops ashore and the foothold is not stable, we suddenly launch an attack and we will surely kill him." He left nothing behind."
Sun Ce's intelligence and military strategy were obviously better than Ji Ling's. He understood Yang Hong's intentions before him, so he followed Yang Hong.
Ji Ling suddenly realized this, but he didn't want to appear weaker than Sun Ce, so he snorted coldly: "You don't need to explain, how can I not know such a simple truth? Come here, order the whole army to retreat a hundred steps, let Yuan Fang Crossing the river together."
After saying that, the record horse turned around and walked away.
Sun Ce¡¯s eyebrows darkened. Without saying anything, he had no choice but to order his troops to retreat.
So, the 20,000 Huainan Army following on the south bank of the Huai River slowly retreated a hundred steps, and indeed gave up a buffer zone for landing.
On the North Shore. In Yuan Fang's far-sighted eyes, he could clearly see the enemy retreating, and an unexpected smile could not help but appear on the young man's handsome face.
"Master, the Huainan Army really withdrew, really withdrew!"
Zhuge Liang was pleasantly surprised. He said to Yuan Fangqi: "Master, why did they retreat when you asked them to retreat? This is amazing, as if Master, your words cast a spell, forcing them to obey."
"Children are talking nonsense, some kind of spell. Do you think my teacher is a witch who pretends to be a magician?" Yuan Fang raised his hand and patted his helmet.
Zhuge Liang was shocked, but he was still surprised and couldn't figure out the reason.
Guo Jia said with a smile: "The Huainan Army is coming with great momentum and must be eager to make achievements. Sun Ce is quite strategic, and Yang Hong is also quite resourceful. The reason why they retreated is to lure us across the river and wait for me to gain a foothold." When they were not yet stable, they suddenly attacked us halfway across the river, so as to defeat our army. This is why they readily agreed to retreat and fight decisively. "
Zhuge Liang suddenly realized this, and his admiration for Yuan Fang increased even more.
From Yuan Fang, he learned another trick, that is, insight into the human heart.
"The art of military use turns out to be so rich and colorful. Master, my disciple has learned a lesson this time." Zhuge Liang sighed with emotion.
Yuan Fang smiled, touched his head and said: "As the saying goes, live and learn. Ah Liang, you still have a lot to learn. Study hard. In the future, you will be the teacher who will lead the way."
"Yes, my disciple, please remember your master's teachings." Zhuge Liang nodded heavily.
Guo Jia, who was drinking wine next to him, couldn't help but said: "My lord, now is not the time to teach disciples. People have already moved out of the way and are waiting to lure us ashore. We can't keep people waiting for a long time." "
Yuan Fang laughed, and then he collected his disciples and sent an order to Ju Yi, ordering him to lead a thousand dead men first and cross the river according to the original plan.
When the order was given, Ju Yi, who had been waiting for his order, immediately led a thousand people to board the raft and flew towards the south bank.
Yuan Fang then ordered the generals to lead the remaining troops to assemble on the beach. As soon as Ju Yi established a foothold on the south bank, he led 20,000 troops to cross to the south bank.
It is now the end of autumn, the water potential of the Huaihe River has dropped, and the water surface is calm.
Dozens of boats and rafts were flying across the river like the wind, and in a blink of an eye they had washed up on the river beach on the south bank.
Before the boat stopped, Ju Yi jumped into the water, waved his pistol and shouted: "All the troops get off the boat, quickly form a formation behind me and prepare to meet the enemy!"
Thousands of elite warriors, carrying large shields, sophisticated crossbows, and hundreds of arrows, quickly climbed onto the river beach and formed a semicircular defense with the Huai River on their backs. formation.
Ju Yi hid all his crossbowmen in the semicircular formation, and his big flag with the character "Ju" was not displayed either.?, try to hide his identity as the first to enter the camp.
From a distance, Yuan Fang¡¯s army that landed on the shore looked like just an ordinary infantry.
This is what Yuan Fang wants.
"Master, although the soldiers who boarded the dead first are powerful, there are only more than a thousand people in the end, and no one is covering their rear. If the enemy attacks at this time, it may be disadvantageous." Little Zhuge Liang had new concerns.
Yuan Fang smiled faintly, pointed the skull-crushing stick at the other side and said, "The most important thing in using military force is to be adaptable to changes. Ah Liang, please watch carefully."
Zhuge Liang was very curious, so he stared suspiciously, wanting to see how his master could hold back the river beach landing site with only a single force to attack the camp first, and without cover from the side or rear.
The sound of murderous horns floated from the south bank, and the Huainan Army took the opportunity to launch an attack.
The soldiers on the north bank could only stare wide-eyed and look uneasily from a distance.
However, Yuan Fang has opened his telescope again and clearly observed the situation on the other side. In his field of vision, a large flag with the word "Ji" was already charging towards Ju Yi's troops who had just formed an array.
"Ju Yi, it's up to you. Let the Huainan people see how powerful our Northern Army is." Yuan Fang's eyebrows were deeply condensed, and his heroic face was as murderous as a blade.
On the south bank, Ji Ling had already commanded an army of 10,000, rushing towards Ju Yi's troops using the tactic of breaking through the center.
"Ji Ling, he is trying to take credit from me!"
Sun Ce glared at Ji Ling, who did not respond to the call and led his troops to rush out. He couldn't help but look annoyed, but he had no choice but to hold on to his murderous intent. He led the remaining troops to suppress the formation and watched Ji Ling snatch the credit he had gained.
Ji Ling, who was galloping on horseback, had a hint of pride on his lips, and sneered in his heart: "Sun Ce, you are too popular. How can I let you take away the first victory in the Northern Campaign? Just watch me defeat Yuan Fang. ,hey-hey¡¡"
Ji Ling, who was eager to achieve success, galloped on the charge. He thought that the Qingzhou soldiers numbered only a thousand. The prey that was brought to his mouth had no ability to resist, so he could only let him tear it into pieces and achieve the first victory.
The more than 10,000 Huainan sergeants were all as excited as animals and couldn¡¯t wait to harvest the heads. Take credit immediately.
They are completely unaware that the eyes of the God of Death have been deeply locked on them.
In the blink of an eye, the surging enemy tide had rushed within two hundred steps.
Ju Yi's bloodshot eyes suddenly showed ferocious murderous intent, and he shouted sharply: "Four-stone crossbow. Shoot for me -"
Amidst the roaring and roaring sounds, the two hundred and four stone crossbowmen in the front row of the shield array pulled the trigger without hesitation.
Two hundred powerful arrows came out of the string and roared towards the enemy tide.
Puff puff!
Sharp arrows came like rain, and the enemy soldiers at the forefront were shot down in large numbers in an instant, and screams were heard like howling wolves.
The speed, strength, and accuracy have all reached an almost perfect level, even if the enemy is equipped with a round shield the size of a pot lid. How can it block the precise shooting of the dead soldiers first?
A round of fierce attacks, the first blow, Ji Ling and his soldiers were all surprised.
"It turns out that there are crossbowmen hidden in the enemy formation!"
Ji Ling frowned. But he was still disdainful and shouted: "Just a few crossbows, trying to block my thousands of troops, is simply a delusion, charge me, keep charging!"
The Huainan Army did not receive a fatal blow. The soldiers who were eager to perform meritorious service continued to rush forward crazily, stepping on the corpses of their comrades in the front row.
Yuan Fang, who was watching the enemy on the north bank, sneered in his heart: "Come on, keep charging for me, your nightmare has just begun."
In the military formation on the south bank, Ju Yi was like Yuan Fang's messenger, issuing orders for rounds of firing one after another.
The six hundred crossbowmen who were the first to board the crossbows were constantly firing in turns, as precise as machines, and endless enemies shot life-threatening arrows.
These thousand soldiers who were first to die gathered together the most skilled shooters in Yuan Fang's army. They were like a sniper unit, and their long-range strike capabilities were unparalleled in the world.
Ten rounds of arrow attacks!
The Huainan Army, which had no cavalry, charged at a slow speed, giving enough time for the dead soldiers to fire ten rounds of arrows.
Then, their military morale collapsed.
Faced with such a terrifying arrow fire, the Huainan Army, which suffered heavy casualties, stopped at 30 steps from the first camp and did not dare to advance even half a step further.
These frightened soldiers could only huddle together as hard as they could, raising their shields high in the air, fearfully avoiding the rain of arrows, and retreating step by step.
Log in firstThe soldiers' life-killing arrows could seize every opening they had and hit their exposed arms and legs mercilessly.
The Huainan Army, which was crowded and retreating, screamed and howled like ghosts crying and wolves howling, extremely tragic.
And all this change took less than a quarter of an hour.
Ji Ling was completely stunned. He never expected that the enemy army in front of him, which seemed to only have a thousand people, would possess such terrifying arrow shooting ability. Only a few hundred crossbows could block him thousands of times. Human charge.
"What's going on? What's going on?"
When Ji Ling was frightened and confused, an arrow shot through the air and hit his horse in the crotch.
The war horse neighed and fell to the ground. Ji Lingnuo's big body was also thrown to the ground.
Ji Ling, who fell to the ground, was so frightened that he changed his expression and hurriedly rolled and crawled back into his own army, fearing that he would be shot by the sharp arrows of the Qingzhou soldiers.
Sun Ce and Yang Hong, who were raiding the formation from behind, couldn't help but look shocked when they saw that they were frustrated.
"I have never seen an army with such powerful crossbow shooting. Could it be said that these thousand enemy soldiers are the legendary soldiers who died first in Yuan Fang's army?" Sun Ce suddenly thought of something and was shocked.
Yang Hong, whose expression changed with shock, shouted hurriedly: "Sun Bofu, General Ji's frontal breakthrough has been frustrated. What are you waiting for? Why don't you quickly lead your troops to attack the flank of the enemy's formation."
Hearing Yang Hong's commanding tone, Sun Ce's eyebrows could not help but frown deeply, and a trace of disgust flashed across his eyes.