Chapter 1025 Gongsun Zan's Defeat

After escaping back to the camp in embarrassment, Gongsun Zan took inventory and found that his 20,000 white horse Yi followers had less than 7,000 left, including 3,000 elites around him, and only 2,000 of the 10,000 ordinary cavalry. Of the 20,000 infantry, only less than a thousand fled back in embarrassment, and the rest of the army was nowhere to be seen. At this time, the sky was slowly getting dark, and Yuan Shaojun's 20,000 cavalry had already chased them outside the camp. The pawn is already rushing towards this side quickly.

Fifty thousand troops went out to conquer Jizhou, but now only 20% of the troops were left after the battle. The rest were either killed and captured, or fled without a trace.

At this time, Gongsun Zan didn't know that he had fallen into Yuan Shaojun's trick. How could the arrogant General Baima bear it? He almost fainted from anger. Fortunately, he finally restrained himself and thought about it. Gongsun Zan decided to evacuate overnight, taking advantage of the fact that the enemy's main force had not yet arrived, and there was still a chance to evacuate.

After all, he was a war-experienced hero. Once he decided to evacuate, Gongsun Zan immediately ordered to prepare quickly. Because the cavalry is basically one person with two horses, or even one person with three horses, so there are thousands of people in the camp. The horses remained in the camp, enough for the army to evacuate.

However, Gongsun Zan knew that if they did not repel the 20,000 cavalry who followed, they would have no chance of evacuating safely.

"Come here, order the soldiers to eat quickly, change their horses, and prepare to go into battle with me. If we don't drive away these flies, we will never return to Youzhou!"

The general showed the courage of the soldiers. After recovering, Gongsun Zan finally calmed down the panicked soldiers. The soldiers in the camp followed the general's arrangements in an orderly manner, eating quietly, and then fed their horses with water, fodder, Heidou, after taking care of the war horse, silently prepared his weapons and prepared for the final battle.

Almost half an hour later, Ma Yan and Han Meng's 20,000 cavalry slowly gathered outside the camp. At this time, Gongsun Zan's army was also ready to attack.

In the camp, Gongsun Zan gathered all the soldiers together, making preparations for the final battle, and drove his horses in front of the military formation. Gongsun Zan did not say too many words, but only a few words improved the morale of the soldiers. Lifted up.

"Soldiers, the bandit Yuan Shao wants to keep us all in Jizhou, will you agree?"

"Never agree!"

"Kill out and return to Youzhou!"

. . .

"There are many, as expected of the soldiers brought out by XX. Now, XX will take you to kill all the dogs and thieves of Yuan Shao's army outside the camp, and then we will return to Youzhou!" Gongsun Zan laughed loudly and took the lead towards the camp. Yuan Shaojun's cavalry outside the door killed him.

Behind him were three thousand of the most elite white-horse righteous followers, followed by ordinary white-horse righteous followers and ordinary cavalry. Finally, there were infantry on war horses and thousands of craftsmen and civilians tied to their horses in the camp, as well as thousands of Spare horses.

Gongsun Zan's counterattack caught Yuan Shao's cavalry led by Ma Yan and Han Meng off guard. Coupled with the powerful combat power of three thousand white horse Yi Cong elites, the formation of 20,000 Yuan Shao's cavalry only lasted for a quarter of an hour before being overthrown by Gongsun Zan. Zan passed through, and General Ma Yan was beheaded by Gongsun Zan on the spot. Yuan Shao's cavalry was instantly in chaos.

Immediately afterwards, a large group of soldiers and horses broke out under the protection of thousands of cavalry, and then turned and headed north. However, Gongsun Zan led 3,000 elite troops to charge back and forth several times, killing Yuan Shaojun's cavalry to a rout. After that, he chased the army in front.

By the time Yuan Shao's infantry army arrived at Gongsunzan's camp, Gongsunzan's army had disappeared. Seeing that he was finally defeated, Yuan Shao couldn't help but look livid. Fortunately, although Gongsun Zan's army was not completely wiped out, Baima Yi suffered most of his casualties. Only a few thousand of Gongsun Zan's 50,000-strong army fled in panic. Although he also lost one general, he also lost one of his generals. Yuan Shao breathed a sigh of relief. Gongsun Zan, who was seriously injured, would not dare to go south to Hebei for at least a few years.

Just as Gongsun Zan was leading his army to retreat north to the main camp, fifty miles south of the boundary bridge, Zhao Yun's 15,000 Eastern Expeditionary Army cavalry had also arrived outside the battlefield.

Seeing Yuan Shao's 30,000-strong army waiting in front,

Zhao Yun knew that the war in the north must have started, otherwise Yuan Shao would not be able to send heavy troops to guard here. The purpose of these 30,000 troops was to hold back any reinforcements that he might arrive.

After thinking about it for a while, Zhao Yun ordered: "General Hua Xiong, you lead the Xiliang cavalry into the formation, followed by five thousand ordinary cavalry, and leave 10,000 Yuan Shaojun's cavalry to me!"

"The last general takes the order!" Hua Xiong accepted the order excitedly. You must know that the quasi-heavy cavalry level of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry is suitable for fighting this kind of battle against the infantry phalanx, and Hua Xiong is a fierce general, most importantly I like this kind of war, but since I joined Huangfu Chaobo, I thought that I would have no chance to participate in this kind of war. Now when I hear Zhao Yun's order, how can I not be excited?

A moment later, five thousand armored iron cavalry rushed straight towards the phalanx of 20,000 infantry in front, led by none other than Hua Xiong. He was seen wearing black armor, holding a ghost-headed sword in his hand, dismounting a pure black horse from the cavalry, leading the way, roaring towards the infantry square in front.

Behind him, five thousand Xiliang cavalry were like a black wave, rushing towards Yuan Shaojun in front.

Five thousand cavalry quickly reached a distance of eighty paces.

"Get ready to throw the spear!" Hua Xiong shouted, then handed the Ghost Head Sword to his left hand, and with his right hand he pulled out a four-foot-long short spear from the horse bag beside the horse, holding the front third of the spear. But the man stood up on the horse, leaned back slightly, pointed the tip of his gun diagonally toward the sky, and was ready to fire.

Sixty steps!

"cast!"

Following his order, five thousand throwing spears flew towards Yuan Shaojun in front like sharp arrows that came off their strings.

"puff!"

"puff!!"

"puff!!!"

"Well!"

"ah..."

In an instant, screams one after another rang out in Yuan Shao's military formation. In a moment, hundreds of Yuan Shao's soldiers died tragically under the spears, and more people were nailed to the ground alive by the spears. They could not move, but they could only scream out from their mouths. A shrill scream.

"Get ready for the second round of shooting!"

"cast!"

"The third round of shooting!"

"cast!"

After the first round of spears was fired, Jiang Yiqu, who was in the military formation, knew that Xi had to take action, otherwise he would be in disaster, so he immediately ordered his deputy general Zhu Han to lead 10,000 cavalry into battle.

After receiving the order, Zhu Han quickly led 10,000 cavalry out of the formation and rushed towards the cavalry of the Eastern Expeditionary Army. Before he could approach Hua Xiong's Xiliang cavalry, Zhao Yun had already led 5,000 white horse Yi Cong to stop them. Cutting his way, the two cavalry quickly fought together.