Three Kingdoms King of the North

"So that's the case." After Gao Lan listened, he bowed deeply to Han Zhan: "Gao Lan thanked you again, young master." After finishing speaking, he walked up to Zhang He with the letter, "Jun, how do you think about this matter?" ?”

When Zhang He and Gao Lan went to Guantao to take office, Yuan Shao sent Ma Yan to accompany them.In the past few months, Ma Yan has always been respectful to them. Even after reading the letter written by Yuan Shao, Zhang He still had doubts about it. , this general ordered you to send Marquis Zhangshuiting out of Dazhai, there must be no mistake!"

Hearing Zhang Yun's instructions to Gao Lan, Han Zhan's smile froze on his face. He didn't expect that Zhang Yun would be such a reckless master. Before he officially persuaded him to surrender, he issued an order to expel the guests.

At this moment, a hoarse voice suddenly came from the door of the tent: "Wait a minute!"

Han Zhan followed the prestige, and saw a school lieutenant with a helmet and armor standing at the door, followed by five or six strong soldiers.The captain led the soldiers into the tent with high heads, and said to Zhang He, "General Jun, since the traitor Han Zhan is here, why don't you take him down?"

"Lieutenant Ma," Zhang He said coldly while looking at the other party, "Don't forget, I have the final say in the army. It's not your turn to dictate how to deal with Marquis Zhangshuiting."

After learning that the person who came was Ma Yan, who was monitoring Zhang Yun and Gao Lan, Han Zhan's heart sank suddenly. He was worried that if Zhang Yun showed his heart to work for Yuan Shao, Ma Yan might take him down and send him off. Go to Yuan Shao to ask for credit and reward.

"The lord's command arrow is here!" Ma Yan pulled out a command arrow from his bosom, held it up high, and said loudly: "Zhang Yun, Gao Lan, take down the traitor Han Zhan immediately!"

Zhang He didn't expect that Yuan Shao's command arrow was hidden on Ma Yan's body, and a surprised expression appeared on his face.When Ma Yan saw Zhang Yun standing there in a daze, he ordered the soldiers following him: "Take down the traitor Han Zhan quickly!" The soldiers responded loudly, drawing their waist knives and going forward to capture Han Zhan.

"Stop!" Zhang Yun yelled, opened his arms to stop the soldiers, and said loudly, "Do you still have me as the coach in your eyes?"

Seeing that the soldiers under him stopped and looked at him for help, Ma Yan raised the command arrow in his hand to a high place, and said sharply: "My lord's command arrow is here. If Zhang He stops it again, he will be killed without hesitation." !"

As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his chest, instinctively looked down, and saw half of the sword point protruding from his chest.With difficulty, he turned his head and looked back, only to see that the one who stabbed him with a sword was not someone else, but Gao Lan who had been ignored by him all the time.He pointed at Gao Lan with his finger, and said with fire in his eyes, "Why do you want to kill me?"

However, Gao Lan didn't answer his question, but decisively withdrew the sword from his body, and pushed it casually. His body shook and fell to the ground hard.Seeing that their master was killed, the soldiers who followed Ma Yan hurriedly pointed their weapons at Zhang He and Gao Lan.

Seeing that Gao Lan had killed Ma Yan, Zhang Xi was shocked: "Why did you kill Ma Yan, and how should we deal with the aftermath now?"

"Come here!" Gao Lan didn't care about answering Zhang Yun's question, but calmly shouted to the outside: "Take down these rebels!"

With the shout, more than a dozen soldiers rushed in, two of them dealt with one, and easily arrested all of Ma Yan's subordinates who were still in a state of panic.

After all of Ma Yan's subordinates were taken out of the tent, Gao Lan replied: "Yuan Shao doesn't trust you and me at all. He actually sent someone to monitor us. Sooner or later, he will kill us. How can we just sit there and wait for death? It's better to surrender." Son."

Seeing Gao Lan kill Ma Yan, and hearing what he said, Zhang Yun couldn't help but feel a little moved.He hesitated for a moment, and said with great concern: "Even if I wait for you to defect to the son, but the strength of the son can't compete with Yuan's, you and I will still be unable to escape this murder sooner or later."

When Han Zhan saw that Gao Lan killed Ma Yan, he knew that he had the heart to contribute, but Zhang Xi was still worried, so he stood up and said, "Don't worry, General Jun. Half a year ago, the Marquis didn't even have a place to stand. He has controlled five cities; three months ago, the Marquis had no more than 2 soldiers, but now he has [-] troops."

After learning about Han Zhan's current strength, Zhang He didn't immediately agree to join him, but stood still without saying a word.Seeing his situation, Gao Lan guessed what he was worried about, and quickly said to Han Zhan: "Young Master, General Jun intended to serve you, but all his family members are in Jizhou City. If he serves you, I'm afraid it will hurt my family."

"General Jun, this is what you're worried about." Although Han Zhan hadn't received Zhao Yun's secret report yet, and he didn't know whether Zhang He's family members had received Guangping City, he still said carelessly: "Don't worry, I'll take care of you soon." So I sent someone to transfer your family to Quang Binh City, if you are willing to go to Quang Binh with me, you can reunite with your family."

Hearing that his family members had arrived in Guangping City, the boulder that Zhang Yun had chosen in his heart finally fell to the ground, and he immediately ordered Gao Lan: "Gao Lan, gather all the soldiers immediately!"

Rob, who was staying outside the stockade, saw that Han Zhan had entered the stockade and there was no news. He was very anxious. Hearing the horn sounded from the stockade, he thought that Zhang He was going to attack Han Zhan, so he rushed towards the stockade with a few cavalrymen. come over.When the soldiers in the village saw Luo Bu and others rushing towards them, they neither shot arrows nor stopped them, but they did not open the gate of the village and allowed Rob to shout outside.

Standing in front of the queue, Zhang Yun said loudly to his subordinates: "Yuan Shao is unkind, and tried to send someone to take the lives of me and the high school lieutenant. This general has now decided to join the son. Those who are willing to follow stay, and those who do not want to follow can leave immediately .This general will definitely not make things difficult for him.” He shouted three times in a row, but no one left.

After recruiting Zhang Yun's army, Han Zhan ordered to pull out the camp overnight and rush to join Dian Wei and Guo Jia.In order to avoid misunderstanding, Han Zhan also sent Luo Bu, who had just entered the village, to take a few cavalry back to inform Guo Jia that Zhang Xi had surrendered.

After Rob left, Zhang Xi asked Han Zhan for instructions: "My lord, there are still [-] soldiers and horses in Guantao. Do you need to send someone to transfer them here immediately?" The old department of the clan only obeys the orders of me and Gao Lan."

Han Zhan knew that Guantao was a medium-sized city, and it would be a pity to give up hastily, so he called Gao Lan and told him, "Lieutenant Gao Gao, hurry back to Guantao immediately and take charge of commanding the five thousand troops left behind. Before receiving my general order, not a single soldier should leave Guantao."

Chapter 0111 Koji Shoujie Bridge

Just as Han Zhan led Zhang Yun's army to join forces with Dian Wei and Guo Jia to march towards Guangping City, the 3000 cavalry led by Yan Gang finally arrived at Jieqiao.And the Koji Department that sticks here has only a mere [-] people.Hearing that Gongsun Zan's [-] cavalry were only twenty miles away from Jieqiao, Qu Yi's subordinates were thrown into a panic.

Thinking of using infantry to block ten times as many cavalry, as long as it is a normal person, it is impossible.Therefore, one of the military commanders in the tent came out and begged him: "General, we only have 3000 people, and we can't stop Gongsun Zan's cavalry at all. Let's withdraw quickly!"

After hearing this, Qu Yi asked Jun Sima expressionlessly, "Tell me, where should we retreat?"

"Guangzong City is just to the southwest, only five miles away." Army Sima hurriedly replied, "We can retreat there and defend the city. Gongsun Zan is all cavalry and cannot attack the city. Our army will be safe."

"We withdrew to Guangzong, and if we can't hold out, let Gongsun Zan's army go straight to Jizhou City?" Qu Yi glanced at every subordinate in the tent, and asked lightly: "Who has the same army?" idea?"

Seeing that Qu Yi did not reprimand the army Sima who asked to retreat, the rest of his subordinates came out one after another, expressing that they also agreed with the retreat. Although Guangzong City was dilapidated, Gongsun Zan was all cavalry, so it would not be easy to break through.

Qu Yi grinned, then drew out the saber from his waist, and chopped down the army Sima to the ground with one blow.Then he stepped forward with another sword strike, General Sima's head was chopped off, he held it up high, and said sharply: "If anyone says to retreat again, he will be your fate."

After finishing speaking, he threw his head on the ground and ordered the guards who received the money: "Hang his head on the flagpole for public display!"

The commander of the strong crossbowmen asked tremblingly, "May I ask the general, how do you plan to deal with Gongsun Zan's cavalry?"

"Set up an formation a hundred paces west of Jieqiao," Qu Yi pointed to the map hanging in the corner of the tent, and said to his subordinates, "The formation is in the shape of geese, with swords and shields in the front row and spearmen in the second row." , the third row of crossbowmen. After Gongsun Zan's cavalry came into range, the crossbowmen would raise their crossbows and shoot, killing and wounding their cavalry with their crossbow bolts. The sword and shield soldiers and pikemen were in charge of dealing with those who were staring at the crossbow arrows and rushed to Sporadic cavalry in front of our army."

"General, why did our army deploy to the west of the Jieqiao?" Another subordinate asked in puzzlement, "We can completely rely on the stone bridge to block Gongsun Zan's cavalry from the east of the bridge."

"The cavalry relies on impact. If we set up an formation on the east side of the bridge, their powerful cavalry can use their superiority in numbers and impact speed to crush our wild goose formation." Qu Yi saw his subordinates Not understanding his deployment, he quickly explained to them: "When Gongsun Zan's cavalry crossed the bridge, they had to slow down to prevent collisions. If the formation is arranged on the west side of the bridge, they can use their cavalry just to Leaving the bridge deck, before there is a favorable opportunity to speed up, fire the crossbow at them. At that time, no matter how many cavalry they have, they will still be a group of lambs waiting to be slaughtered in front of our wild goose formation."

"The general is wise." Just as Qu Yi finished speaking, flattering voices rang out from the tent: "In this way, we will surely defeat Gongsun Zan's cavalry."

Qu Yi's 3000 troops had just completed their deployment on the west bank of Jieqiao when [-] cavalry under the command of Yan Gang appeared in the distance.The scene of thousands of horses galloping still made Qu Yi's subordinates tremble with fear. If Qu Yi hadn't arranged a supervising team of more than a hundred people behind, many frightened soldiers would have turned around and fled.

Although the bridge deck of Jieqiao is spacious, there can only be six horses in parallel at most, so that after the cavalry approached the bridge, they had to slow down and file across the bridge deck.

Yan Gang, who was standing on the east bank of the river, saw that the army on the west bank was in full formation, and found that the number was only a few thousand at best. He couldn't help but sneered, and said to a subordinate next to him: "After crossing the bridge later, let the brothers hold your hands." Put all the weapons in there."

Hearing what Yan Gang said, his subordinates couldn't help being stunned, and asked puzzledly: "General, if the brothers put away their weapons, how can we fight?"

"Idiot, you idiot." Yan Gang pointed to his subordinates and asked: "Didn't you see that the opponent only has a few thousand infantry? Later, I will order all the cavalry to ride forward, even if they don't need weapons, they can still be defeated." They all turned into meat sauce."

The subordinate quickly flattered: "The general is still wise, I will pass on your general order immediately."

The cavalry who crossed the bridge couldn't help laughing when they saw the infantry in front of them. They thought that these people were like mantises, and they didn't care about waiting for the troops behind, so they rushed over with sabers and spears in their hands.

Seeing the cavalry who had crossed the bridge rushing towards him, Qu Yi raised his right hand high, and at the same time silently recited the distance between the cavalry and himself: "One hundred steps, eighty steps, sixty steps!" Waiting for the cavalry When he was only fifty steps away from the front army, he yelled extremely majesticly: "Strong crossbow, shoot!"

Following his order, a thousand strong crossbowmen raised their crossbows to shoot at the same time, and thousands of crossbow arrows fell into the cavalry ranks rushing like a swarm of locusts.The dozens of cavalrymen who rushed to the front were immediately hit by more than a dozen crossbow arrows, fell off their horses on their backs, and were immediately trampled under the hooves of the horses behind.

Then the second and third rounds of crossbow arrows were fired one after another. For a while, the battlefield was filled with the mournful cries of war horses and the screams of wounded soldiers.In just a few minutes, nearly a thousand cavalrymen were killed or injured.

Yan Gang, who was still on the east bank, was startled when he saw his subordinates fell in pieces under the opponent's crossbow arrows.However, he did not order the cavalry to temporarily withdraw and reorganize, but mistakenly issued an order to continue the attack.Following his orders, the cavalry behind rushed towards death one after another like moths to a flame.

Since the ground was full of dead horses and corpses of cavalry, the speed of the cavalry behind could not be raised at all, and they could only become the targets of Qu Yi's strong crossbowmen.Occasionally, a few cavalry rushed to the front of the formation, and the horse's legs were chopped off by the sword and shield soldiers. As soon as they fell off the horse's back, they were stabbed to death by the spearmen behind them.

Some people were terrified when they saw the tragic situation in Qiaoxi, and quickly asked Yan Gang: "General, first withdraw the soldiers and horses, and if the fighting continues like this, our people will soon die." Unable to listen, he not only ordered the troops to continue to rush towards the west of the bridge, but also rushed over with a team of troops himself.

Chapter 0112

Although they saw their own robes falling down in pieces from Yuan Jun's crossbow arrows, the cavalry who were crossing the bridge did not panic. At the impact speed, rush over and knock the Yuan Jun officers and soldiers on the opposite side into the air, trample to death, or use the weapon in your hand to hack the opponent to death with a knife or stab the heart with a spear.

It's a pity that under Yuan Jun's dense crossbow arrows, the running horses neighed and fell over, and fell to the ground together with their masters, and tripped the cavalry who followed closely behind.The cavalrymen who fell from their horses died soon, but many horses were injured and fell to the ground, but they wailed, breathing heavily from their nostrils, struggling desperately, trying to stand up again.

From the stone bridge to the open space in front of Yuan Jun's formation, the corpses of cavalry and war horses who were overturned by crossbow arrows and stabbed by spears piled up more and more.The blockage of the road ahead forced the cavalry crossing the bridge to slow down.Seeing that the ground cavalry and horse corpses prevented the cavalry from rushing into the effective range, which weakened the killing effect of the crossbow arrows, Qu Yi decisively issued an order: "The whole army moves forward ten steps!"

Following his order, the sword and shield fighters and spearmen immediately stepped forward ten steps, stepping on the corpses all over the ground.The strong crossbowmen who stayed where they were, waited for the sword and shield players and pikemen in front to take their positions, and then fired a round of crossbow arrows before striding forward.Once in position, they fired a second round of crossbow bolts just in time, knocking the cavalry on their feet.

In Gongsun Zan's army, Yan Gang, known for his bravery and skill in battle, personally led a group of cavalry towards the west of the bridge under such circumstances.He didn't realize that he made a tentative mistake. The bravery of cavalry must be achieved by the fast running of the horse. It can also be said that once the cavalry is hindered and slows down or even stops during the charge, their combat effectiveness is not as good as that of the infantry. It may even become a living target.