At the beginning of May 201 AD, Gongsun Bai led an army of 200,000 troops south from Yecheng, opening the prelude to the war between the two strongest princes of the late Han Dynasty.
Cao Cao, who got the news, on the one hand ordered Liyang's guard general Che Zhou to hold on to the city and position, delaying Gongsun Bai's southward pace, and on the other hand, arranging a defensive line along the Yellow River.
In order to prevent chaos in Guanzhong and Liangzhou in the west, Cao Cao sent an envoy to appoint Ma Teng of Liangzhou as the pastor of Liangzhou, worshiped the general of Zhenxi, and appeased Guanzhong.
Cao Cao stabilized Ma Teng on the flank, and began to dispatch troops to prepare for battle.
He ordered Xiahoudun to lead an army of 20,000 to hold the area of Dangyin and Chaoge in Hanoi County to prevent the Gongsun army from attacking Sili from the east, and at the same time pose a threat to Yecheng, the seat of Jizhou; ordered Xiahou Yuan and Li Tong to lead an army of 30,000 to defend Qingzhou Plain County and deter the defenders of Bohai County; Ling Yu Ban and Wei continued to guard Wuyuan, Le Jin and Song Xian guarded Yanjin, Liu Yan and Zhang Xiu guarded Baima, Man Chong and Li Dian guarded Aocang, Zangba and Cao Xiu guarded Puyang, Han Hao and Wei continued to guard Dunqiu, almost the entire city and ferry along the Yellow River were arranged with defenders, and the defense line was thousands of miles long, but they were all towns and key places.
And Cao Cao himself personally led Jia Xu, Cheng Yu, Xu Huang, Xu Chu, Dian Wei, Liu Ye, Cao Chun, Cao Hong, Cai Yang, Cao Ren and others to guard Guandu, and responded to various places at any time.
Gongsun Bai's military exploits are impressive, praised by the Han Emperor Liu Xie as a famous general who surpassed Wei Qing and Huo Quai, since his debut, he has not tasted a defeat, so how Cao Cao dare not be cautious, this time Cao Cao almost poured out of the nest, dispatched 300,000 troops, and left 100,000 troops in the land of Guandu alone, leaving only Cao Ang, Dong Zhao and Mao Jue and others with 30,000 people to stick to Xudu.
Such tactics can be said to be the cleverness of Cao Cao, Jia Xu, and Cheng Yu, and it also shows Cao Cao's weakness in his heart.
Gongsun Bai is only 200,000 troops, and Cao Cao has more than 300,000 troops, and even as long as Cao Cao is willing, he can gather 400,000 troops at any time, obviously outnumbered, but Cao Cao adopted defensive tactics, which can be said to be waiting for work, and placing the main battlefield in the south of the Yellow River has increased the convenience of grain and grass supply for himself, and at the same time has brought a lot of inconvenience to Gongsun Bai.
In the face of Cao Cao's thousand-mile defense line like an iron lock, Gongsun Bai, who had the initiative to attack, was much simpler, he ordered Fu Zhu and Tian Feng to lead an army of 10,000 to defend Yecheng, and at the same time divided troops to defend Jiuhou City and Wucheng, showing a horn trend, to prevent Xiahoudun in the east from taking the opportunity to sneak attack; ordered Tian Kai, Guan Jing and other old Youzhou generals to lead 20,000 people from the old Youzhou army to hold Bohai County to prevent Xiahou Yuan from going north; Then he led an army of 200,000 horses and feet to the south, directly taking Liyang, wanting to use Liyang as a base for Cao, and sit here to plan for Cao.
Liyang City originally belonged to the city of Jizhou, but because it was sandwiched in the middle of Sili and Yanzhou, Liyang City has been in the hands of Cao Cao since the time of Yuan Shao.
If you want to cross the Yellow River, go south to attack Yanzhou, and then attack Xudu, you must first take Liyang, so Liyang City has become the forefront of the battle between Gongsun Army and Cao Army.
In history, when Yuan Shao went south to attack Cao, the first stop of the attack was Liyang City.
At that time, Cao Cao had already prepared, gathered troops in Liyang City, and held the deep ditch fortress.
In fact, Cao Cao crossed the river at that time, there were not many soldiers and horses, and the follow-up grain and grass and troop transportation were many inconvenient, if Yuan Shao attacked with all his might, Cao Cao was afraid that he would not be able to eat and walk, and it was difficult to hold, but that battle was because of Yuan Shao's strategists, Xu Yu and trial and other people were not in harmony, and did not try to forge ahead, as a result, Yuan Shao came violently, but he was forced to hold Cao Cao for two months without fighting at eighty miles outside Liyang City, and in the end Cao Cao himself was bored, and the grain and grass could not be consumed, so he simply retreated first.
And now that Gongsun Bai is leading the army south, Cao Cao, in order to buy time for his own defense, gave the order to the chariot to hold on as long as he can, and never allow him to surrender without a fight.
In Liyang City, there are only 10,000 soldiers and horses, and this is Cao Cao's 5,000 additional troops.
The chariot piled up earth outside the city of Liyang, set up three lines of defense, held it with strong bows and crossbows, and piled up rolling stones, rolling wood and boiling oil and other defensive equipment on the top of the city.
Knowing that it was difficult to defend, in addition to arranging a heavy defense line under Liyang City, he also prepared hundreds of ships on the Yellow River behind Liyang City, and once the city was breached, he led the army to escape from the south gate, rushed to the ferry, and fled south across the river.
The dawn of May is the season of sunshine and flowers, the climate is pleasant, there is no cold air in spring and winter, and the heat of the summer season has not yet come, coupled with the Yellow River at its back, the river wind of hunting is to dilute the heat on the north bank of the Yellow River.
At the head of Liyang City, Cao Cao's henchman and general Che Xuan were wearing their whole body, with a sword hanging from their waists, frowning at the north place, and the fierce river wind blew on the river surface, blowing his clothes flying, but it could not blow away the melancholy in his heart. 10,000 against 200,000, it is tantamount to a mantis arm blocking the car, he didn't want to hold on at all, Cao Cao gave him seven days, as long as he held on for seven days, after seven days, he could lead the army to cross the river and retreat.
However, it is precisely because of this kind of formation that the defenders of the whole city have no morale, and the city is full of twilight, and before the battle, they began to think about how to escape so as not to be caught by the Gongsun army.
And the most mysterious thing is that this group of defenders who have no fighting spirit not only calculates how to run chic and coquettish, so as not to be weak and lose face like the first time they escaped, but also spread the Gongsun army to be miraculous, and even more, it is said that Gongsun is invulnerable to sabers and guns, and water and fire are invulnerable, and Gongsun Bai himself can call for wind and rain and scatter beans into soldiers.
The car who got the news couldn't help but be furious, and if he allowed the rumors to spread like this, it would be a hair, just cross the river and retreat.
In order to reverse this situation, Che Zhou personally beheaded several soldiers who "deceived the crowd with evil words", and personally gathered the army, held a mobilization meeting, and made an oath to fight against the water, which improved slightly.
What Che Xuan didn't expect was that because he made too much noise, so that the Black Panther Guard, who was responsible for collecting intelligence, completely grasped the state of the military in the city, and before Gongsun Bai's army arrived, the spy had already flown into Gongsun Bai's big tent.
What should come is to come.
In the early morning, the sky was just bright, and there was still a hazy patch in the distance, and the waning moon in the sky was still on the top of the distant mountain.
On the horizon far from the north gate of Liyang City, a dark cloud slowly surged, surging bigger and bigger, gradually covering the entire sky, and the dense cavalry of the Gongsun Army swept in like a tide.
The whole ground trembled, trembling, and there was no other sound between heaven and earth, only the deafening sound of horses' hooves.
The soldiers in the city even had an illusion, only to feel that one after another mountains and seas of torrents were rolling in front of them, and countless stormy waves rushed towards the city, standing on the city tower as if it were on an isolated island in the vast sea.
Thirty thousand iron horsemen rolled in, dusty and murderous filled the entire heaven and earth Woooooooo The sound of the trumpet rose to the sky, continuously, and the sound of warning was heard.
Hearing the news, the chariot led the crowd to climb the West Gate Tower.
Rao was prepared in his heart, and when he saw the scene in the distance under the city, Che Zhou still secretly gasped in his heart. 200,000 military horses stretched from the city of Liyang to the end of the field of vision, grounded to the sky, endless, and in front of them were all cavalry, the halberds were erected like a forest, and the heads of the horses were crowded like waves.
When they marched to the front of the first dirt mountain in Liyang City, Gongsun Jun slowly stopped.
Under the banner of the word "Gongsun", tens of thousands of swords and halberds converged into an endless golden forest, and the cold killing aura spread through the void and spread endlessly over Liyang City.
The formation flag was opened, and first a group of brave armor soldiers came out, lined up in two rows, and then a general wearing a bronze mask slowly drove out on a war horse as high as one zhang and covered with thick iron armor.
Immediately after the bronze masked general, a large number of monsters wrapped in iron armor and war horses poured out, especially the masks with all their green faces and fangs, which looked particularly hideous in the unfading twilight of the early morning, and made the defenders in front of the mound tremble.
"Oh my God, what is this, how can it be so scary" "Hey, my mother, these things can't be ghosts."
The defenders on the hill let out a cry of terror, but before they could calm down, something made them even more frightened.
Whoa The group of black ghostly goblins was the first to let out a ghostly wolf howl, followed by a terrible and neat howl of the 200,000 army behind them.
The sound of 200,000 people could be heard within a radius of more than ten miles, and only their strange and terrifying howls could be heard between the whole heaven and earth.
With those tall and strange cavalry in front of them, coupled with the fact that the twilight has not disappeared, in the eyes of the Cao army defenders, the vast and endless Gongsun army said that there are 200,000 ghost soldiers, which is shocking, coupled with this terrible and weird howling, it is even more shocking that the faces of the Cao army are colorless.
The howling sound continued, and many of the Cao army defenders during this period were scared into two trembling groups, if it weren't for some sober-minded Cao army generals to suppress them, maybe many people would have thrown down their weapons and fled.
Gongsun Bai, who was sitting on top of the sweaty and bloody horse, waited until the howling continued for three or four minutes, and then waved his hand to signal everyone to pause, and the howling that tore the world finally gradually stopped, and Gongsun Bai in the morning light was tightly surrounded by those ghost cavalry, like a ghost king, and became more and more terrifying.
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Gongsun Bai held a halberd in one hand and a sword in the other, looking up at the sky, muttering something, as if he was doing a ritual.
Immediately after, a strange sound sounded around him, and the sound became louder and louder, spreading and rippling like a wave, and then the entire heaven and earth were filled with this extremely strange sound.
"Woo Woo Wo La Ong Ra Bala Ula Ong Lah Wow" The voice was nowhere to be found, and there was no way to understand it, like a spell.
What's even more terrifying is that 200,000 people chanted this nonsensical incantation in unison, and soon formed a terrifying sound, like hundreds of thousands of flies and mosquitoes chirping in unison, drilling into the ears of all Cao soldiers, only to feel upset and irritable, and could no longer calm down, so they had to cover their ears tightly to prevent the sound from penetrating.
With the continuous incantation, the scene of completely defeating the Cao army defenders appeared, and I saw that the knight who was like a ghost king, while chanting the incantation, pointed to the front of a black shadow and pupils of the well in front of the earth mountain, like a black tower, towering into the sky.
The appearance of one after another wells made the defenders of the Cao army, who had seen this kind of scene for the first time, completely petrified.
"Demons, they are demons" A Cao Jun guard finally couldn't hold on anymore and let out a breakdown scream.
As soon as Cao Jun spoke, the panic instantly spread, and even those strong-willed generals became frightened.
Whew At this moment, the ghost cavalry on the opposite side let out a roar like a ghost crying wolf, and then surging forward, killing the earth mountain with great momentum.
Wow I don't know who it was under the first shout, countless soldiers on the mountain threw down their weapons one after another, scrambling to run away, only hating their father and mother for missing two legs, those Cao army generals were still scolding at first, and it didn't take long for them to take the lead in running.
"The demons are coming, the demons are coming" The first line of defense crossed and quickly spread to the second line of defense, and then the third, and all the soldiers rushed towards the city with screams and screams.
Seeing that the bad situation had just led the crowd out of the city, he was immediately shocked by the surging flow of people, he knew that the general trend had gone, and immediately turned his horse's head decisively, and took the lead in escaping into the city, fleeing to the Yellow River outside the south gate.
The 200,000 army is surging like Mount Tai overpowering, and now it is in chaos, even the gods have no power to return to the sky, and the only thing Che Xuan can do is to save his life.
There's no way, the description before the early war, I checked a lot of information, and I didn't catch up before twelve o'clock, so I had to continue today's three changes
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