"Your Majesty, Your Majesty."

Chen Lan ran outside Yuan Shu's tent in a panic, but was stopped by the guards guarding the door.

The look of panic on his face couldn't be concealed, Chen Lan hurriedly said to those guards: "I'm tired of helping to report it, just say that I have an emergency military situation." ”

These Yuan Shu's personal guards also knew that Chen Lan was keeping vigil outside Xuanyuan Pass, so they didn't dare to slack off, and went to wake up Yuan Shu, who was sleeping.

Yuan Shu thought that something was wrong, so he hurriedly put on his clothes and summoned Chen Lan into the account.

"Your Majesty!"

As soon as Chen Lan saw Yuan Shu, she hurriedly knelt on the ground, lying on her face, not daring to raise her head.

"Why are you so flustered? But Chen Xu led the army out of the city? ”

Chen Lan said in a panic: "Chen Jun didn't leave the city, it's just that it's just ......."

Yuan Shu had always been worried that Chen Jun would go out of the city to clean up the sand, and now he was relieved to learn that there was no such thing.

Looking at Chen Lan's frightened look, Yuan Shu immediately said unhappily: "You are also a general in the army, don't you know that you must not be afraid of danger and not be surprised by changes?" What kind of system is it that is panicked? ”

Chen Lang immediately kowtowed and said: "Your Majesty, the last general found that the city wall of Xuanyuan Pass was covered with dense black shadows, thinking that they were Chen soldiers, so he asked the archers to keep releasing arrows. ”

"But I don't want to, those are dummies made of firewood and grass, and the thieves want to use this method to deceive our arrows."

"In the middle of the night, hundreds of thousands of arrows were fired by our army. The defenders of Xuanyuan Pass also collected at least 100,000 arrows. ”

When Yuan Shu heard this, he was shocked, and immediately said in disbelief: "What did you say? Didn't you get the order to fire the arrows without scouting it? ”

After finally running out of arrows in the city, Yuan Jun was able to go and dump the sand and gravel with impunity. Although boiling water can stop Yuan Jun's progress, it can't be put on the table.

Now that he suddenly learned that his subordinates had given Chen Jun more than 100,000 arrows for nothing, Yuan Shu suddenly felt that his eyes were dark, and he almost fainted.

Chen Lan said ashamedly: "The moon is dark and the wind is high tonight, and the sky is too dark. Except for the dense black shadows on the city wall, everything else is completely unclear. ”

Yuan Shu stepped forward and kicked Chen Lan over, and roared loudly: "You won't send someone to get close to investigate first?" ”

Chen Lan got up, knelt down beside Yuan Shu again, and said: "Most of our army are archers, and at that time, the last general was afraid that the thief army would come down from the city wall and rush into our army's formation, so he didn't let people come forward to investigate carefully. ”

"In addition, although there are not many arrows in the thief army, there are still some left. The last general also sent some men, but as soon as they approached the walls, they were shot dead by the archers of the city. ”

"Later, when the general found that something was wrong, he sent a large number of scouts to investigate, and only then did some of the soldiers come back alive, and they found that the black shadows on the city wall were all dummies."

At this time, Yuan Shu's anger had calmed down a bit, and he asked with some doubts: "Isn't it pitch black outside, why can Chen Xujun shoot them easily, those scouts sent by you?" ”

Chen Lan replied: "Your Majesty also knows the terrain in front of Xuanyuan Pass, where there are steep peaks on both sides, only there is a path in the middle, and there are no other obstacles. ”

"If you want the scouts to scout and see if there is a real person on the wall. Even if it was dark, it would not be possible to hide from the archers on the city walls. ”

"That's why the scouts were all shot."

Although Yuan Shu is not a peerless general, since the beginning of the crusade against Dong Zhuo, he has led troops to conquer everywhere. After so many years of hearing and seeing, I also have some experience in marching and fighting.

He thought about it for a while, and felt that Chen Lan's words also made some sense.

After all, when they stood under the city, they could faintly see the dark shadow above the city wall. What's more, Chen Jun is on the city wall, occupying a wide field of vision?

Even if they can't, they can see their shadows completely clearly.

What's more, if the Yuan army scouts want to come forward to investigate, the Yuan army archers must stop firing arrows. In this way, it will undoubtedly make the defenders of the city more vigilant.

Thinking of this, Yuan Shu glanced at Chen Lan, snorted coldly, and said, "Don't hurry up yet!" ”

When Chen Lan heard this, she knew that Yuan Shu had forgiven him, and she was immediately overjoyed, and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your innocence." ”

Yuan Shu didn't pay any attention to him, and called a few guards and asked them to go and inform Yan Xiang and Yang Hong to come to discuss the matter.

The two came to Yuan Shu's tent, and after learning the cause and effect of the incident, their faces immediately became extremely ugly.

Yan Xiang said: "Your Majesty, Chen Jun has obtained so many arrows, there is absolutely no way for us to break through Xuanyuan Pass within three days. And my efforts for some time have become useless. ”

"The minister suggested that it would be better to withdraw as soon as possible."

Yang Hong also frowned, and after he heard Yan Xiang's words, he immediately retorted: "Although the Chen army has received more than 100,000 arrows, the defenders in the city have also suffered more than 10,000 casualties, and their strength is not as good as before. ”

"As long as our army continues to consume the arrows in the city as before, and then pave the slopes with sand. In this way, within a few days, it will be easy to break through the Xuanyuan Pass. ”

"What's more, if you retreat at this time, won't Lord Yan be afraid of Chen's rank and tail pursuit?"

Yan Xiang shook his head and said, "This time, that time!" Because of the winter thunder before, all the soldiers were panicked, and the morale of the army was fluctuating. ”

"However, after the last refutation of the rumors and the continuous siege of the city in the past few days, the soldiers have forgotten about that incident a little."

"If you withdraw your troops at this time, as long as you send elite soldiers to break off, you won't be afraid of Chen's pursuit after you break down."

What's more, when Chen Wenzhao seized Guanzhong, a large amount of military supplies were still hoarded in Bingzhou. The previous time I persuaded His Majesty to storm Xuanyuan Pass, it was also expected that the road would be long, and it would take a lot of time to transport arrows from Bingzhou. “

"However, with more than 100,000 arrows as support, Chen Wenzhao can send people to calmly clean up the sand under the city wall."

"As long as it drags on for a period of time, after the military supplies from the state are delivered, it will be difficult to break through the Xuanyuan Pass."

Yuan Shu and Yang Hong heard this, but they were silent.

Just when the two of them were struggling in their hearts, suddenly a shout of killing came from far and near, and they saw Lei Bo panicked and rushed in with blood.

"Your Majesty, flee quickly, Chen Wenzhao has already led the defenders in the city into the camp and set fire everywhere!"

Yuan Shu Huoran got up and said angrily: "Isn't the gate of Xuanyuan Pass blocked yet? What's more, our army is ten times larger than the enemy, even if it is attacked, why should it be afraid? ”

Lei Bo's words later made Yuan Shu panic.

It turned out that after Chen Lan found that the city wall was full of straw men, she ordered to stop firing arrows. He himself came to Yuan Shu's camp to report the military situation to Yuan Shu.

Then, there was a black shadow on the city wall that kept shaking, and the deputy general of Yuan Jun, who stayed outside Xuanyuan Pass, thought that it was still a straw man, so he didn't pay attention.

But he didn't want to, and eight hundred soldiers who fell into the camp suddenly entered the archer formation of the Yuan army. The archers of the Yuan army, who were not good at close combat, did not have the slightest power to fight back.

At the same time, the gates of Xuanyuan Gate were wide open.

Although the city gate of Xuanyuan Pass has been blocked by a small part of the sand and gravel outside. However, Chen Jun erected wooden planks on top of the sand mound to create a passable slope.

Then, the whole team rushed out of the city.

Tens of thousands of Yuan army archers did not stop the advance of Chen's army at all. After Chen Jun killed the archers of the Yuan army, he directly attacked the Yuan army camp and killed the Yuan army by surprise.

There were many battlefield generals in the Yuan army, and even if they were caught off guard by Chen's army at first, they still worked hard to organize their manpower, hoping to defeat the invading enemy with their superiority in strength.

But I didn't want to, when the soldiers attacked the city during the day, although not many people were burned. But almost all of Yuan Jun's clothes were soaked with cold water.

It was freezing now, and the siege sergeants had been moving during the day, and even though it felt cold, there was no major problem.

However, after returning to the camp, Yuan Jun, who did not change his clothes, only wore wet clothes, shivering from the cold, and could not sleep.

Fortunately, there were still quilts in the army, so almost all the soldiers stripped off their clothes and hid in bed to keep warm.

Rao is like this, in the cold winter, Yuan Jun, who wore wet clothes for most of the day, still had one-fifth of the soldiers who could not afford to be sick. Hundreds of people even died because of the high fever that did not go away.

The Chen army entered the camp, and the generals of the Yuan army called the soldiers, only to find that they were not wearing clothes. And there are many people, all of whom are weak and have no way to resist the attack of Chen Jun.

In this way, the Chen army, under the leadership of several fierce generals, rushed left and right in the camp of Yuan's army, and set fire everywhere. As long as you are a discerning person, you can see that the camp can no longer be held.

"Kill!"

"Capture Yuan Shu alive!"

The sound of shouting and killing came into Yuan Shu's ears, and his face suddenly became extremely pale.

"Your Majesty, let's go, if you don't retreat, I'm afraid you won't be able to leave."

At this time, Ji Ling was also covered in blood and rushed over with thousands of people. After he broke into Yuan Shu's camp, he shouted loudly.

Ji Ling's roar completely woke up Yuan Shu.

He came back to his senses and hurriedly said, "Yes, retreat, all Aiqing quickly protect me to retreat!" ”

Ji Ling's injuries have not yet healed, so the generals who rushed to the forefront were Chen Lan and Lei Bo. Taking advantage of the chaos, Ji Ling and the others protected Yuan Shu to break through, gathered soldiers and horses, and actually escaped from Yuan's army camp.

Fortunately, Chen Xu had too few soldiers and horses, and the army that raided Yuan's camp this time only had 9,000 cavalry, plus 10,000 foot soldiers.

Even if the fire in the camp was soaring and Sergeant Yuan was running away, there were not too many people killed by Chen Xujun in such a short period of time.

In addition, Chen Xu had already issued a death order, and the first thing Zhao Yun and the others did to attack the camp was to control the grain and grass of the Yuan army, and not to let the Yuan army set fire to it.

It is precisely because of this that Ji Ling and the others did not encounter much resistance in the process of breaking through, nor did they suffer from Chen Xujun's pursuit.

Ignoring the fleeing Yuan Jun, Zhao Yun and others, after letting the infantry protect the grain and grass in the camp, they led the cavalry to rush and kill.

Yuan's army, which had no generals to command, scattered and fled. There were also some sick soldiers of the Yuan Army, who couldn't run at all, and many people died directly in Huangquan.

Seeing that Yuan Shu abandoned the village and fled, the vast majority of Yuan troops also fled in a hurry, and the overall situation of the entire battlefield was decided.

Zhao Yun remembered Wen Zhao's explanation, don't make more killings. Only then did he become angry, raised the spear in his hand and shouted: "Squat on the ground and surrender without killing!" ”

Because of illness, the soldiers of Yuan Jun, who had no way to escape, were all unarmed and unclothed.

They looked at Chen Jun, who was like a wolf and a tiger, and they all felt the fear of death and panicked. Especially when they saw one robe after another fall under the butcher's knife, they felt a deep despair.

The rest of the soldiers led by Zhao Yun also shouted when they heard the shouts of the main general: "Squat on the ground and surrender with your head in your hands!" Squat on the ground and hold your head and surrender without killing! ”

These sounds, like the sound of heaven, echoed in the Yuan army camp.

"Whoa!"

The panicked soldiers of Yuan squatted on the ground with their heads in their hands, not daring to speak. It didn't take long for them to be brought together.

After the battle situation was completely stabilized, Wen Zhaocai led Dian Wei, as well as Lu Bu, who had not recovered from his injuries, and some personal soldiers, to the Yuan army camp where the fire had not yet been extinguished.

He looked at the soldiers of Yuan who were driven together, all of them were unclothed, shivering from the cold, and couldn't help but feel pity.

It can be said that Chen Xu's strategy is very poisonous.

When he saw that his soldiers had not changed their clothes, and that they had a high fever and were unconscious because they were wearing wet clothes, he thought of a strategy of using cold water to break the enemy.

Wen Zhao believed that Yuan Jun's treatment could not be better than that of the soldiers under his command.

If all their clothes were wet, they would have fallen ill and lost their combat effectiveness because they wore wet clothes in the cold winter.

Jia Xu and Tian Feng, in order to prevent Yan Xiang from seeing through this strategy, even asked people to set up an iron pot on the city wall to hide people's eyes and ears.

Otherwise, if Yuan Jun had been watered with cold water from the beginning, Yan Xiang would have been suspicious.

Instead, boiling water is used, then cold water, and finally lukewarm water.

This will give Yuan Shu an illusion, that is, the boiling water supply in the city is not available, and Chen Jun is a little poor in donkey skills, using cold water and warm water to scare people.

In this way, they would not think of Wen Zhao's poisonous plan.

Needless to say, the ploy was very successful.

Until the soldiers returned to the camp, Yuan Shu and the others did not pay attention to the soldiers whose clothes were all wet.

This led to the fact that when Zhao Yun led the troops and unexpectedly attacked Yuan's army camp. One-fifth of those sick Yuan troops completely lost their combat effectiveness.

And there are more Yuan troops, but they are also without a piece of armor, and there is no way to form an effective resistance.

Otherwise, even if Yuan Shu didn't expect that Wen Zhao's corporal would raid Dazhai. However, with the absolute superiority of troops, it is not necessarily impossible to defeat the army.

It can be said that first, the inconspicuous cold water was used to wet Yuan Jun's clothes and weaken Yuan Jun's combat effectiveness; then took advantage of the darkness of the night to use the straw man to borrow arrows; After the Yuan army under the city lost its vigilance, the trapped camp suddenly killed out of the city; Even later, the army attacked Yuan's camp.

These strategies, proposed by Wen Zhao and perfected by Jia Xu and Tian Feng, can really be described as one link after another, which is difficult to prevent.