Dongping country, Liangshan North Road, the two armies met in a narrow way.

is different from Yan Zhi's ambush of Cao Renjun in Puyang, it is intentional and unintentional. And in the North Yangsan Road, both armies marched with a spirit of 12 points, because they both knew that the enemy was on this road.

Zhang Liao knew that Cao Jun was in the north of Liangshan because of the expectation of the military advisor Chen Gong; Xiahou Yuan knew that Zhang Liao was here because of the judgment of the previous battle situation. But in the end, they were only able to guess the general direction of each other, but they didn't know the exact location, let alone that they would meet in a narrow way during the rapid march.

Neither of them discovered the other first, and the scouts of the two armies discovered each other almost simultaneously, and both sides invariably chose to stay behind to kill the enemy scouts, and send another team back to the reporting army.

The battle of Yancao Liangshan kicked off at this time.

Liangshan North Road is a wide official road in the whole Yanzhou, because in the past Liangshan is the hunting ground of Liang State, so it can be used for four horses in parallel, but its terrain is dangerous, there are Quqiu Mountain in the north and Daliang Mountain in the south, 100 hectares of woodland in the middle, 1000 hectares of hills, sparsely populated, the closest city is the north 50 miles of Yang Valley and the south 40 miles of Shouzhang, it is an excellent choice to set up an ambush and block it. It's just that neither side has any consideration of setting up an ambush here, and if you can make sure that the enemy does not know what we are attacking, let alone what to defend, they are all in a hurry, but they crash into one place.

The scouts on both sides were only a team of dozens of people at first, even if they were in the official road, it was also to see who was quick and fast, the scouts of the Cao army were about to open the strings with a hard bow, and the scouts under Zhang Liao had already strangled the reins, and the three scouts spread out in the left, middle and right sides of the official road, and raised their hands to shoot out the crossbow with a good string of more than 40 steps.

Such an attack has been rehearsed countless times, and it has long seeped into the marrow of the scouts and become a reflection of instinct. The hand crossbow with Zilong's pressed piece makes their crossbow arrows will not be shaken off in the gallop of the horse, and a series of actions of the arrow string and the bow and arrow are self-evident which is superior or inferior to raising the hand crossbow and pulling the trigger, and the accuracy of the hand crossbow within fifty steps is nine out of ten, and fifteen crossbow arrows are shot out vigorously, and the scout on the opposite side who has not yet drawn the bow is naturally falling in response.

However, this is only the beginning, as the scouts of the Sanwu Yan Army rushed up, the Cao Army scouts who were a little slower to reflect on the opposite side also raised troops to usher in it, and the two sides changed from sudden encounters to chaotic battles, and rushed to join the battle group with their own scouts when they heard the news, and hundreds of scouts on both sides formed a melee without command on the official road. All the middle and lower-level officers are as proficient in this way as Yan Bei was when he was young, and in this level of battle, the armor and tactics are not very important, and the competition is who is fast, who is ruthless, and whose luck is good.

The scout's brief fight did not reach the point of competing for luck, and after a moment of fighting and clash between the two sides, the Yan scouts, who had just gained the upper hand, withdrew. Unable to allow them not to retreat, the vanguard of Cao's army came much faster than their vanguard, and when there was no movement on the official road behind them, the sound of a large army marching between the two mountains that bypassed the official road was heard.

And judging from the fact that enemy reinforcements came faster, the Yan scouts had little luck today.

Because the general of the Cao army is Xiahou Yuan, he is not only the commander of the Cao army, but also the vanguard of this army. At the beginning, the vanguard should be Yu Ban, but during the march, the Yu Ban Taishan army, which was mixed with foot and horse, was left behind by Xiahou Yuan's soldiers and horses, and assumed the responsibility of bringing the fallen soldiers, so that the situation was that the formation was the vanguard and the army was the rear formation.

Xiahou Yuan's style is fierce, although he is good at forcibly marching, but forced marching is not a good thing at some times, although the art of war in the noble god speed has been rotten, but the art of war also said: roll the armor and tend, day and night, double the road, a hundred miles and fight for profit, then capture the three generals, the strong first, the tired later, the law eleven comes; Fifty miles and fight for profit, then the general will be on the top, and his law will be half to; Thirty miles and for profit, two-thirds to.

Xiahou Yuan's soldiers and horses often faced such a situation, raised 5,000 troops from Liqiu, surpassed the mixed Taishan army in Shouzhang, and then galloped to the north of Liangshan, and counted the soldiers and horses when they received the news of the scouts, and there were still 2,070 men left.

The rest of the people were not lost, but there were 2,000 more of the Taishan soldiers who marched thirty miles later, and they were all carried by him.

The melee lasted nearly half an hour, Zhang Liao's full scout camp had two songs, and now they were all put into the melee and only withdrew more than 900 people, although they heard the sound of marching from the other side of the mountain and wanted to flee the battlefield to find friendly troops, but most of them were entangled by the Cao army scouts and couldn't get away, only more than 300 people wandered outside the battlefield, that is, they did not dare to give up their robes and escape, nor did they dare to stay in place and be killed by most of the enemy, so they could only continue to wind the crossbow every hundred and ten steps, and put it for a while when the time came.

Not to mention the power of the scout's crossbow, this kind of weapon that allows the cavalry to shoot through the leather armor of the hostile light cavalry and the surface of the horse in the charge on horseback is no more than half a stone, and when hit on the leather armor from a hundred paces away, it can probably scare the enemy.

After being startled, he danced and screamed.

This is far less than the hard bow issued by Cao Jun's scouts, that thing has a real range of 80 steps, even if it is thrown 100 steps, once it hits the leather armor, it can't be stopped, and if you bite it, you will see blood.

Therefore, it is not so much that the Yan scouts wandering outside are waiting around and often hitting the enemy's morale with crossbow arrows, but rather that they are intimidating their own robes and enemy scouts who are trapped in the formation, and constantly praying to the heavens that their generals will arrive on the battlefield as soon as possible.

Just praying, Xiahou Yuan swept the black and suppressed soldiers and horses to cover up and kill...... Without any tactics at all, the brigade of soldiers and horses was spread out and swept across the battlefield like locusts, and the scouts of Zhang Liao's army were gone.

Some lay on the ground and could not get up again, while those on the periphery were scattered in the face of the enemy's huge force.

"Zhang Wenyuan's soldiers?"

Xiahou Yuan is not a Xiahou Yuan who has not fought a few battles, he has followed Cao Cao since he started the army, and has participated in several major battles, whether it is to fight Dong, Ping Yellow Turban or attack Yuzhou, he has participated in the war, in the final analysis, he is the general in Cao's army.

After defeating the Yan army scouts, the soldiers forced them to ask if this was Zhang Liao's soldiers, which surprised Xiahou Yuan inexplicably...... Zhang Wenyuan, shouldn't he be in Fan County?

Cao Ren went to Puyang, he came to Liangshan to the north and went to Yanggu, Li Dian and Lejin attacked Fan County, and Cao Cao sat in the Chinese army and prepared to wave his army north.

The strategic purpose of all this is to form an encirclement of Zhang Liao's army in Fan County, how can Zhang Liao appear in Liangshan North Road now!

What does this mean?

Xiahou Yuan's face turned pale, and he summoned the rider and said: "Go to Xiaqiu and inform Meng De that Cao Zixiao failed to lure the enemy, and Zhang Liao saw through our strategy." ”