Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 830 Beware of the pit!

After Yuan Shang built a strategic defense on Liyang's side, he naturally would not forcefully attack the defense line built by Pang Yan and Zhuge Liang in Chaoge.

Therefore, Yuan Shang only left a partial army to garrison Dangyin to prevent Pang Yan's Zhu Weijun from attacking Yecheng, and then marched the main force to Liyang to garrison.

In the end, Yuan Shang assembled about [-] elite troops in the Yuan army in Liyang, and the number of other auxiliary troops recruited from various places and young and strong civilians also numbered roughly [-] to [-].

At the same time, Yuan Shang arranged his garrison camp all the way to the north bank of the Yellow River based on Liyang County as the core base camp on the north bank of the Yellow River.

Of course, Zhu Weijun may not necessarily need to cross the Yellow River where Li Yang is located, so Yuan Shangjun put up such a defensive posture, in fact, he also relied on the natural danger of the Yellow River as his back to avoid being flanked by Zhu Weijun.

Although Zhu Weijun's Ganning Jiangjiao Battalion now controls the waterway of the Yellow River, it is still not easy for Zhu Weijun to cross the Yellow River basin where Liyang is located. On the contrary, Yuan Shang built a Yellow River water village on Liyang's side, allowing Yuan Shang to send troops across the river to threaten Puyang at any time. .

At the same time, Yuan Shang can also forcefully cross the Yellow River to avoid Zhu Weijun's pursuit when the battle ahead is unfavorable, which can be regarded as leaving a way for Yuan Shang to retreat.

Of course, by this time, Yuan Shang's military intentions had already been clearly understood by Zhu Wei.

Originally, when Zhu Wei received the urgent report from Pang Yan and Zhuge Liang, and then checked Yuan Jun's movements through the game map of the Three Kingdoms, he was also a little confused. Now that Yuan Shang has made such a strategic decision, several people on Zhu Wei's side After research and discussion by military advisers, they also came up with corresponding countermeasures.

Jia Xu even set a clear strategy for Zhu Wei's Northern Expedition. Since Yuan Shang was going to start a decisive battle with Zhu Wei's army in Liyang, he could satisfy his wishes. Yuan Jun is the main force.

So in the face of Yuan Shang's military arrangements in Liyang, after Zhu Weijun formally held the ceremony for the Northern Expedition in Puyang City, the army was also in the Yellow River Basin to the north of Puyang. Crossed the Yellow River.

Then Zhu Wei sent Gan Ning's Jiangjiao camp water army back to the Yellow River basin on Liyang's side, and blocked Yuan Shang's water camp on the north bank of the Yellow River, which also cut off Yuan Shang's retreat across the Yellow River.

But next, Zhu Weijun did march to Liyang first.

On October 199, 24 AD, Zhu Weijun's Northern Expeditionary Army came to Liyang, and the final decisive battle between Zhu Weijun and Yuan Shaojun finally kicked off.

Following Zhu Weijun's forward troops, after defending Liyang Yuan Shangjun to a certain extent at the front, the main army behind also began to build camps about five miles away from Yuan Shangjun.

So there was nothing on the first day, and on the second day Zhu Wei personally led the main force of the army, and arrived in front of Yuan Shang's camp about three miles away from Liyang.

As Zhu Wei's army stabilized its position, Zhu Wei dispatched a loud messenger to ask Yuan Shang to speak. The two sides were going to have a pre-war conversation according to the usual practice.

However, Yuan Shang obviously had no intention of talking to each other, so the messengers sent by Zhu Wei shouted several times, only to get a cold arrow in response.

It was also thanks to the commanding soldier's command that he lay back quickly with quick eyesight and hands, dodging the feather arrows coming towards his eyebrows, and then turned around and fled back into the army formation.

Seeing this, Zhu Wei was naturally furious, and immediately ordered the army to go out to attack Yuan Shangjun's outlying military stronghold. For a while, Zhu Wei's Tai Shici's Divine Arrow Battalion pushed various equipment towards Yuan Shangjun's military stronghold. approached the past.

"Dong dong dong, dong dong dong..."

The ear-splitting drums sounded in Zhu Weijun, and each drum seemed to be accompanied by the advancing footsteps of Zhu Weijun's soldiers, and the ground of the entire battlefield seemed to vibrate slightly with the footsteps.

However, there was still no movement in Yuan Shangjun's army camp. You could only see Yuan Jun's soldiers on the wall of the army camp watching Zhu Weijun advance coldly, and you could also see Yuan Jun's archers bending over the arrow tower behind the camp wall. The bow is set on the arrow, ready to shoot the feather arrow outward.

Obviously, Yuan Shangjun did not have such equipment as a catapult, so the defensive weapons that Yuan Shangjun can use up to now are mainly feather arrows and crossbow arrows.

It's just that the formation Yuan Shangjun put on has a bit of a weird taste. Zhu Wei frowned slightly on the commanding platform of the army behind, and asked Jia Xu who was standing beside him, "Wen Hegong, what kind of plan is this Yuan Shang planning, it seems a bit off-putting!"

"Maybe there are tricks in front of the camp, my lord, we need to beware of traps!"

Jia Xu was also a little puzzled at the beginning. Yuan Shangjun's posture was really weird. Suddenly, he looked at the seemingly flat ground in front of Yuan Shangjun's camp, without obstacles such as wooden pillars and antlers. See something in the vibration of the dust.

Zhu Wei hurriedly heard the news and asked the whole army to shout three times to remind Tai Shici who was fighting ahead, so the tens of thousands of soldiers who stayed behind immediately shouted together, "Be careful of the trap! Be careful of the trap! The front army be careful of the trap!"

The shouts surged forward like a wave, and naturally Tai Shici, the commanding general ahead of the battle, heard it, so Tai Shici also rushed forward, slowing down the charge speed of the troops ahead.

Not long after, the orderly rushed to the vanguard army pushing the tiger cart knife wall at the forefront, "The general has an order, be careful of the trap, and let someone come forward to investigate!"

"promise!"

The vanguard at the forefront was Bao Long, General of the Shenjian Battalion. At this moment, he immediately dispatched more than a thousand saber shields, rushed forward quickly, held the shield in his hand at the forefront, and stepped on the ground carefully with his feet. Detect possible pitfalls.

As a result, about [-] steps away from the wall of Yuan Shangjun's camp, a long row of traps and gaps were found, covered with wooden frames and bark, and then sprinkled with sand to cover them up.

In fact, this is the defensive gap dug by Yuan Shangjun, which almost runs across the front of the camp.

No wonder Yuan Shang refused to come out and talk to Zhu Wei before the battle. If he came out, he would have to build a drawbridge over the chasm trap, and the trap would be completely meaningless.

Originally, Yuan Shang thought that after Zhu Weijun's forward fell into the trap, it would inevitably cause chaos in the front army. So he opened the camp gate, lowered the drawbridge, and sent out a burst of cavalry to attack, which would naturally defeat Zhu Weijun's first attack.

Yuan Shang can win the first battle between the two sides, which can greatly improve the morale of his own side and weaken the morale of Zhu Weijun.

It's just that Yuan Shang didn't expect such a weird reaction from his side, which made Zhu Wei suspicious. He actually saw through the gap in the trap he placed in front of the army camp, so Zhu Weijun would naturally not fall into the gap and cause chaos in the army... …

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