Chapter Seventy-Eight: Yushui is difficult to cross

Gongsun Xu just wanted to go a little faster, he was fed up with the chasing army from Youzhou behind!

"Damn Yan Zhongqing, he was not frightened by Zhuo County, and dared to come after him!" Gongsun Xu, who was beating horses, scolded and scolded along the way, urging the ordinary people to hurry as soon as possible, but these hundreds of thousands of people gathered together and dragged on the official road for twenty miles, where he said that he could get up quickly, "General Yan, can you hurry up!" ”

Since Gongsun Chan snatched Jizhou, he has not looked down on the official position of General Fenwu, some time ago, Yuan Shu of Nanyang took the scepter of the imperial court Ma Riyan, so he sent people to Jizhou, and named Gongsun Chan as the general of Zhengdong, and there was no other meaning, that is, he simply wanted to form an alliance with him to attack Yuan Shao. Gongsun Zhan received the official position and asked his subordinate Guan Jing to write an essay to the effect that he was ordered by the imperial court to crusade against Yuan Shao...... In fact, it's all nonsense, and now everyone says that they respect the court, but who is the court?

I'm afraid that these princes who keep saying that they respect the court don't know either.

After receiving the false name of General Zhengdong, Gongsun Zhan rewarded his subordinates in a big way, such as General Yan Gang, General Zou Dan, Lieutenant Gongsun Xu, Zhongshan Xiangwangmen, and Changshan Xiangfan Fang...... And so on, there are countless of them, and they almost didn't get rid of the position of Jizhou Mu Hanfu.

"Major General, now that the water is very deep, the army and the people should not pass quickly, it is better to lead a group of soldiers and horses to fight with the pursuing enemy army, which can solve the urgent need." Yan Gang really felt that he had been chased by the enemy for several days, and he had not stopped from Fangcheng to Yushui, so he asked for his life: "The old man Guanzhi pursues the enemy cavalry only thousands, and every time he pursues, he retreats at the touch of a button, and he does not seek to hurt people, so that the Yushui soldiers will be attacked if they are not strong enough!" ”

For several days, since there was this group of pursuers behind them, they could not eat or sleep in peace. The enemy army is all archers, and it stands to reason that playing with cavalry and archery in front of the white horse righteous servants can be described as a class axe, but the enemy army has superb archery skills, and only the most elite righteous servants can crush them...... But the truly elite White Horse Righteous Servants, their tens of thousands of people are only less than 2,000, scattered all over the army are long and upright, where can they gather in one place to fight the enemy to the death?

These enemy archers were scattered in small groups, and came out of nowhere, and when they saw the right time to bury the pot or make food, or in the dead of night, they rushed away, and a cold arrow flew away, and it only killed and wounded a hundred of them for three days, and they themselves had half a hundred casualties, but they could not pose any threat to them. But they can't stand the panic of the people, and now their subordinates have to gather in groups of three or five to protect themselves when they eat, and they have to take turns to garrison when they sleep.

It is true that the losses in each battle are not large, but even if only a dozen people die, no one wants a cold arrow to be shot into their neck, right?

If it goes on like this, you don't have to wait for the enemy to attack, and the heart of the Yushui army will be scattered!

"General Yan, don't panic, don't go, don't go!" Seeing Yan Gang's request for battle, Gongsun Xu secretly said in his heart that he was going to suffer, even Yan Gang couldn't hold his breath, let alone his subordinates. I'm afraid that now the whole army is being chased by enemy cavalry, and this is not good. Gongsun Xu hurriedly said: "General Yan, the reason why we and others withdrew west to cover Zhuo County is that it cannot be defended, this is decided by the elders of Jizhou, and the general wants to move the people of Zhuo County to Zhongshan to enrich the population...... But it's not for the general to win the battle with the Youzhou army! If half of these more than 100,000 people can pass the Wuruan Pass, even if we don't fight, we will win. ”

Yan Gang didn't speak, and turned his head to look at the crowded Yushui River a few miles away. The young general's young spirit is much higher than ordinary people, and he somehow fought a battle between Guangyang and Yanbei, but he knows the severity.

If the young general can always be so steady, even if the defeat of Zhuojun this time is worth it, at least there is a successor to the lord.

Gongsun continued to see Yan Gang's thoughts, and said with a smile: "The general is wondering why his nephew is not in a hurry to fight?" really underestimated the heroes of the world, when he was in Jizhou, he always heard the army talk about how brave Yan Liangwen and Chou were under the command of General Yuan, and the little nephew also wanted to make immortal contributions for his father, and raided and killed Yanbei, how did he expect his soldiers to be fierce...... There are so many capable people under the command of the Yan thief, not inferior to my father and General Yuan, I heard that there is one of the enemy generals who is pursuing to make the halberd shooting accurate, and the strong bow will be opened and one person will die? ”

Gongsun continued to say Tai Shi Ci, Yan Gang had watched Tai Shi Ci from a distance when he led the troops some time ago, so he nodded cautiously and said: "Yes, that person's name is Tai Shi Ci, he is a native of Qingzhou, and in his early years, he was only a long history of Yan Zhongqing's subordinates, so he forced away Hua Xiong, the fierce general of the Liangzhou army, under Xingyang City, which should not be underestimated. ”

"Not to be underestimated, yes! So this battle is still left to the father to fight against him...... What's going on? Just as the two were talking, suddenly there was a commotion in the rear army, and the rider rushed to the two and shouted to the two: "Major General, the enemy is attacking again, this time in the northeast!" ”

Gongsun Xu and Yan Gang glanced at each other, and they both saw the tiredness of the other party, this was the fourth attack today. Gongsun continued to shake his head, wouldn't that Tai Shi Ci feel tired? In the past few days, he has been harassed five or six times at a time, and sometimes he has not fired a single arrow, but he has only led his troops to wait from a distance for a while and then withdraw, but he seems to be tired of it.

"What about the casualties?"

"There were no casualties, the enemy army appeared, and it was far from our army, about a hundred and ten horsemen."

The messenger cavalry did not dismount, and replied on horseback, which was not disrespectful to the major general, but since Gongsun Zhan, he ordered that the sergeants and soldiers of the army were all brothers, and there was no need to bow and bow, and the military situation was urgent, and the vulgar etiquette was not allowed to be delayed, as long as it was handed over immediately.

"Well, you're doing a great job." Even though the messenger had reported the same news four times in one day, Gongsun Xu still praised the soldier without impatience, and then said as usual: "Go back and tell the Zuoqu soldiers of the rear colonel's department, let them deal with it carefully, and if the enemy army does not attack, do not draw a bow to shoot them, waste arrows...... These cowards! ”

"No!"

The soldier on the horse clenched his fists and promised, and then the flying horse galloped away, and when the soldier walked away, Gongsun Xu kicked over the toilet bowl on the ground fiercely, and the muddy water splashed everywhere, and then he gasped for breath twice, and looked at the figures of those civilian leaders everywhere on the left and right of the army, and became more and more irritable. After a long time, he said to Yan Gang in a dark and unkind manner: "General Yan, I don't think we can cross the Yushui, the soldiers have been tired recently, and the enemy army will raid our army sooner or later...... I don't think it's better to drive 20,000 people in their direction, and while they put the people in order, at least it can be delayed until tomorrow, and in one day, nearly half of the people will be crossed. ”

"This ......" Yan Gang was silent, this kind of poisonous plan is too damaging, and in the future, Gongsun will be scolded by someone in the back, he didn't dare to answer such a question, and suddenly there was a huge commotion sound from the rear, and the two of them hurriedly turned their heads to look over, "This, this...... Not a feint! ”

This time, Tai Shi Ci did not make a feint, and more than 3,000 cavalry entered the back of the Gongsun army in three parts, penetrating the perimeter defenses, and wantonly killing the Gongsun soldiers who did not have much vigilance. Hundreds of people were horrified in the battle, as if they had encountered a flock of flocks of fire, and hid in the overwhelming array of soldiers and horses of the Gongsun clan...... The entire east bank of Yushui is like a pot of hot oil poured into cold water and exploded!