Chapter 400 Countermeasures

Under the night, after Zhang He drove away the last personal guard, he silently got on his horse, raised his spear, and faced the Guanzhong Army that was surrounding him.

"Zhang He, since you know there is no chance of survival, why bother to resist!?" Hua Xiong led his troops to surround Zhang He and shouted with a frown.

"Today's defeat is due to my incompetence!" Zhang He looked at Hua Xiong and gritted his teeth.

"So what?" Hua Xiong asked confused. No one said you were incompetent. What does this have to do with whether you surrender or not?

"How?" Zhang He laughed loudly: "After all, I have no face to face my lord again. My lord has been as kind to me as a mountain. If I am defeated and surrender now, how will I be different from an animal?"

Hua Xiong nodded and said: "It makes sense, in that case...kill!"

Following Hua Xiong's order, in an instant, crossbow arrows were fired at Zhang He. Zhang He also launched the final charge. In the rain of arrows, both men and horses fell to the ground only a dozen steps away from Hua Xiong.

"Go away!" Hua Xiong saluted Zhang He's body and asked someone to collect his body and send it to Yecheng if possible.

With the sound of the white horse, the 100,000 Jizhou army was wiped out, except for the cavalry who had followed Tian Feng before the White Horse city was broken. Nearly 30,000 people surrendered alone. Including the prisoners who surrendered in the previous battle, the total number of surrendered troops was 100,000. Hua Xiong has collected nearly 50,000 troops.

"Yuan Zhi, what should we do with these prisoners?" After arranging Zhang He's funeral, Hua Xiong summoned Xu Shu and said with some concern that the number of prisoners in the army was more than four times that of his troops. If he was not careful, there might be a riot. Hua Xiong It feels like I am stuck in the muzzle of a Vulcan cannon.

And even if nothing happens, with so many surrendered troops, just looking at them is already very labor-intensive. What else can he do to keep moving forward?

"After this battle, Yuan Shao's 100,000-strong army was nearly wiped out. General Zhang will soon send a group of troops to take over these surrendered troops. The general only needs to go straight to Ye City and do his best to destroy the main force of Jizhou. "Xu Shu naturally understood what Hua Xiong meant and did not want to keep these prisoners.

If the two sides are really in a stalemate, the surrender of these prisoners will indeed be troublesome, but in Xu Shu's view, this battle is not a stalemate. Lu Bu has enough ability to swallow up Jizhou in one go. If Yuan Shao is destroyed, then these surrenders will Naturally, the army no longer needs to worry too much.

Of course, the premise of all this is that Yuan Shao is defeated quickly enough. Just like now, 100,000 Yuan's troops were defeated in less than half a month. If such a battle were to happen three times, Yuan Shao would have no chance to come back.

Hua Xiong was relieved when he heard this.

Early the next morning, Hua Xiong sent someone to send a message to Lu Bu. The white horse had dismounted, and he hoped that Lu Bu would come as soon as possible to accept the surrender. He had to continue to fight.

I can't stop feeling like this Vulcan Cannon is attacking the city!

Lu Bu had already crossed the river to Hanoi, but did not come to the front line. Ma Jun had already started construction here. Lu Bu was planning to build a railway track directly to Quanzhou while fighting. He had planned the route. He heard that 50,000 troops had surrendered. Lu Bu ordered people to bring the 50,000 surrendered troops and take charge of building the railway tracks.

Hua Xiong finally set out again. This time, he led an army of 20,000 people and headed straight for Yecheng.

On Lu Bu's side, he did logistics work, which was not considered logistics. He mainly directed the surrendering troops to build railways. He divided the surrendering troops into hundreds of teams, each with fifty people, but they did not build it by driving away prisoners of war. They eat and drink enough every day and do not mainly beat or scold them. Basically, except for being a little tired, they will not suffer insults, just like in the Jizhou Army. It is also true that these surrendered Jizhou Army did not have too many riot.

Lu Bu was engaged in construction here, while on the other side, Hua Xiong rested in Baima for three days and then set out again to take Yecheng.

When Tian Feng returned to Yecheng with the news of the fall of Baima, it was undoubtedly a shock to the entire Yuan family's civil and military forces.

How long has it been? The 100,000-strong army is gone?

Yuan Shao couldn't accept this fact, not only he couldn't accept it, but no one in the civil service could accept it.

"Brother Yuan Hao, a hundred thousand troops were destroyed in less than half a month. Can Brother Yuan Hao believe such a ridiculous thing? In my opinion, maybe it is more credible that you and Zhang He betrayed the enemy!" Guo Tu looked at Tian Feng, his eyes were filled with anger.

"I hope we lose because of this!" Tian Feng sighed. Now he hopes that what Guo Tu said is true. In that case, Yuan Shao will at least have a chance to make a comeback. What is disappointing is that the seemingly absurd reason That's the truth!

Guo Tu frowned slightly. He was confused by Tian Feng's words and didn't know how to answer. Yuan Shao frowned and looked at Tian Feng and said, "How do you say this?"

"Lord, Lu Bu has not only built Tai Chi chariots in the past ten years. In this battle, our army first encountered Hua Xiong's 10,000 troops outside Ji County with 50,000 troops. We thought we would win, but there was a crossbow in his army with a range of It's extremely far away, and it's like thunder when it hits the ground, with infinite power. More importantly, there seem to be a lot of these things in the bandit army, and our army was defeated by those thunder arrows!"

Seeing everyone's disbelief, Tian Feng continued: "In addition, the enemy seems to have palm thunder, which is hidden in a bamboo tube. Kill three or five people.”

"Absurd!" Guo Tu sneered. If he can control thunder, then Lu Bu's subordinates are all gods, right?

"There is another thing, which is the thing that destroyed Baima City. It shot stone bullets a mile away. The power of the stone bullets was amazing. The wall of Baima City was almost destroyed by this thing!" Tian Feng said and looked at the people who looked in disbelief. He said: "I know you don't believe it, but the defeat of this battle is all because of this. Jun Yi withdrew to protect me. I am afraid he has been killed at this moment. All the officers and men in the army can testify, and it won't take long for you to see it with your own eyes."

Guo Tu wanted to refute, but the words were stuck in his throat. Although they had always been in different factions, Guo Tu believed in Tian Feng as a person. He was not a person who would talk nonsense in order to survive, and if it was true Even if you want to talk nonsense, you can't make up such a nonsense reason.

For a moment, Guo Tu believed it.

Not only him, but everyone including Yuan Shao looked at Tian Feng's appearance and began to believe it. After all, Tian Feng's character was trustworthy, but this was too much.

"Go and check quickly!" After a long time, Yuan Shao asked the judge to check with the generals.

But one day, the interrogator brought news, and the description of the military lieutenant... was even more exaggerated than what Tian Feng said. It was basically certain that Tian Feng was not lying.

But this thing... is ridiculous. If Lu Bu really had these magical weapons, how would they fight?

"No wonder Lu Bu dared to send troops brazenly!" In the general's palace, all the counselors looked at each other in silence. After a long time, Xu You broke the silence first, looked at Tian Feng and asked: "Brother Yuan Hao, since you have fought against the thief Lu, how can you The solution?"

"Don't confront them head-on." Tian Feng has been thinking of ways to defeat the enemy for the past two days. Hearing this, he said what he thought: "Use a small force to harass its logistics, mainly surprise attacks and ambushes. If you can snatch It would be best to have some enemy baggage."

Anyway, we can't confront the enemy head-on. A hundred thousand troops still focus on defense. They can't defeat 10,000 people. A head-on confrontation is basically asking for death. Now Tian Feng can only think of guerrillas and raids behind enemy lines. Make it difficult for them to transport their baggage and trap them to death.

This is a good idea, or the only one that can deal with the opponent. However, Yuan Shaojun used to use force to suppress others, but now he uses the methods of mountain bandits and grass bandits to fight against the enemy. If I remember correctly, the Black Mountain Bandit Zhang Yan used this method to fight them, but now he wants them to use this method to fight Lu Bu, which makes everyone feel like they have fallen into a trap.

But in order to win, I don’t care about that much.

The next day, Yuan Shao received news that Hua Xiong's army was heading north to capture Yecheng. By this time, there was no need to say too much.

At that moment, Yuan Shao gathered all the generals he could muster, mainly ten generals: Qian Zhao, Han Meng, Chun Yuqiong, Sui Yuanjin, Jiang Qi, Ma Yan, Jiao Chu, Lu Weihuang, Zhu Ling, and Jiang Yiqu, each commanding 5,000 troops. During the expedition, this time he did not engage in direct combat with the enemy, but mainly focused on disturbing his food routes. As for how to fight, Yuan Shao had no hard and fast rules. Everyone responded accordingly, and in short, they wanted to destroy Hua Xiong's men.

Yuan Shao was personally responsible for presiding over this battle, with Tian Feng, Ju Shou, Xu You, Guo Tu, and Feng Ji serving as military advisors. He wanted to see if the artifact Tian Feng said was so powerful.

Among the ten generals, Jiang Yiqu obviously did not believe that the enemy army was really that powerful. After learning that the enemy army only numbered 10,000 people, he led his troops to Chaoge and prepared to use Chaoge City to block Hua Xiong.

Needless to say the ending. Under the firing of thousands of cannons, Jiang Yiqu was much worse than Zhang He. He couldn't even fight back. Hua Xiong broke through the city gate without firing an arrow. When he fled in a hurry, he was chased by the cavalry. More than ten miles away.

If Tian Feng's words still made the generals doubtful, but after this battle, no one had any doubts about it. While shocked by Hua Xiong's strength, Jiang Yiqu did not dare to fight with him again because of his previous experience. According to Tian Feng's strategy, he mainly focused on sneak attacks, ambushes, and harassing his retreat.

"Blow me up, don't feel sorry for the thunderous thunder, blow up every forest, and fire a few cannons for me every mountain!" After being attacked several times in succession and losing a lot of men, Hua Xiong was also angry. These Jizhou generals No real man knows how to sneak attack.

Thanks to the continuous strengthening of military discipline by the Guanzhong Army over the years, if they were ordinary soldiers, they would have collapsed long ago after being harassed like this.

Under the harassment of the Jizhou Army, Hua Xiong could only march twenty or thirty miles a day. Although Hua Xiong was angry, he had no choice but to make matters worse. Yuan Shao began to send people to harass his grain roads in order to facilitate transportation. , the water channel used by Yuan Shao to transport grain and grass to Baima. Although it can save a lot of manpower, the shortcomings are also obvious. The other party does not need to search carefully to find it. After being robbed of grain and grass, Hua Xiong Zhang Ren had to lead the cavalry to protect the grain road.

After several days of fighting, Hua Xiong suffered many casualties, more than Zhang He's 100,000-strong army. If this continues, his 10,000-strong army may have been reduced by half before reaching Yecheng. No wonder Hua Xiong was furious. .

After Xu Shu heard the news, he quickly sent a Yuan army to Hua Xiong, and at the same time, he designed to lure the enemy with grain and grass. Unknown to him, Jiao Chu was annihilated by Xu Shu in one battle, but it also made others more vigilant. The war situation began to fall into place here. The deadlock was reached, but just as the two sides were entangled in this area... Yecheng was broken!