079 Showing Weakness with Weakness
Tip: Enter the "Three Armies in Pengcheng Battle!"
The forces of both sides of the enemy: (Enemy) Tao Qian's army: 45,000. (Enemy) Sun Jian's army: 50,000. (Em) Cao Cao's army's vanguard force: 21,000.
General of the enemy and us: (Eneme) Tao Qian's army: Tao Qian. (Eneme) Sun Jian's army: Sun Jian. (Em) Cao Cao's army: Wu Fan.
The morale of the main generals and troops on both sides of the enemy and us:
Tao Qianjun - Tao Qian 100, Zang Ba 105, Chen Deng 100, Cha Rong 90, Mi Fang 90, Zhang Kai 85.
Sun Jianjun - Sun Jian125, Sun Ce125, Huang Gai120, Han Dang115, Cheng Pu115, Zhu Zhi115, Zu Mao110.
Cao Cao's army - Wu Fan 130, Hua Xiong 125, Xiahou Yuan 125, Cao Bao 65.
Victory conditions: Defeat ten thousand people, which will make the enemy retreat because of fear! Or defeat the general of the two armies!
Conditions for failure: the enemy defeats 10,000 people first. Or the general of our army will be defeated and fled.
Fighting time: 12 hours.
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Since most of the Yangtze River areas were empty cities, Sun Jian's army expanded extremely rapidly after the disbandment of the anti-Dong Zhuo alliance and led his troops back to Changsha. In "historical", Sun Jian indirectly died early because of his jade seal and hurriedly received a box lunch, so that the later Three Kingdoms competition became the same stage competition between his son and Cao Cao and Liu Bei.
Now, history has become different!
Now the territory of Sun Jian's army has expanded to five cities, Changsha, Chaisang, Lujiang, Jianye and Shouchun, and the cities ruled by them are the most among all the princes! Originally, Sun Jian should continue to march towards the southeastern empty cities such as Wu and Kuaiji, but the alien ethnic groups in Shanyue were very rampant in that area. Using the advantages of terrain such as high mountains and dense forests, Sun Jian's army suffered a lot. Because these alien ethnic groups often have soldiers, the soldiers can reach hundreds of thousands. Therefore, Sun Jian's army decided not to care about this barren land for the time being and marched towards Xuzhou, the granary of the Central Plains.
Sun Jian's Shouchun was only more than 200 miles away from Pengcheng. Before this, Sun Jian had been paying close attention to the trend of Cao Cao's army's attack on Xuzhou. When he learned that the vanguard troops led by Wu Fan had arrived at Zhaojiazhuang, the suburbs of Pengcheng, Sun Jian decided to attack overnight and occupy Pengcheng first, and use it as a strategic stronghold to march into Xuzhou!
Since Sun Jian's army was surrounded by only two weak forces, Liu Biao and Kong Yichang, was different from Cao Cao's situation when he was surrounded by enemies. Basically, Sun Jian could be said to have no worries. What's more, Sun Jian's army's territory was much larger than Cao Cao and his military strength was stronger than Cao Cao, so he naturally was not afraid of making grudges with Cao Cao.
While Wu Fan received the reply from the detective, Sun Jian also received the news of his reply. After hearing that the detective told Wu Fanjun about the situation, Sun Jian said:
"I didn't expect that the Cao army's vanguard Wu Fan would march so quickly. Pengcheng would fall into the hands of Cao's army one step later."
Then he turned around and said to the soldiers behind him:
"The soldiers obeyed the orders and rushed at full speed! We must seize Pengcheng before Cao's army!"
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Speaking of Wu Fan, after reading the prompt message, he thought to himself: Sun Jianjun actually used the trick of fishing in the water. As a result, the battle situation in Xuzhou became confusing.
Then, Wu Fan said to the messenger beside him:
"Order the troops rushing into the city to retreat to their own formation, and the speed should be fast!"
The commander ran away on his horse.
Xiahou Yuan beside him asked:
"Sir, what should we do?"
Wu Fan asked back:
"From my talent, is our army weak or strong in front of Sun Jian's army?"
Xiahou Yuandao:
"Our army's forces are surrounded by enemies, which are different from Sun Jian's army with almost no worries; now the military strength is very different, so we are naturally at a disadvantage."
Wu Fan said:
"Since that's the case, then retreat."
When Xiahou Yuan heard this, he said worriedly:
"Master Prefect, the lord is in a rage. This time he will raise his troops and swear to purge Xuzhou. If the lord retreats without fighting, I am afraid that the lord will blame him."
How could Wu Fan not understand what Xiahou Yuan said? In this battle, he could defeat and retreat, but he must not retreat without fighting. Otherwise, Cao Cao would definitely think that he was not the same as him. Seeing more than 40 people in his family being killed, not only did he not share the same hatred of the enemy, but he was indifferent.
Wu Fan patted Xiahou Yuan on the shoulder and said:
"We not only have to retreat, but also withdraw from a weak journey and look embarrassed after encountering a strong enemy. After Sun Jianjun and Tao Qianjun fought together without any scruples, we will detour to the rear of Sun Jianjun and stab him hard!"
When Xiahou Yuan heard Wu Fan say this, he immediately understood and suddenly said:
"So that's it! The prefect is a clever plan, but it's too late!"
Wu Fan shook his head and said in his heart: Sun Jian did not bring Zhou Yu this time, otherwise this simple plan would be difficult to guarantee that it would not be discovered.
Instead, Wu Fan said to Xiahou Yuan again:
"Miaocai, you and I were born and died among tens of thousands of enemy troops in Nanpi. I am no longer an outsider. Just call me Meng Xuan in the future, so you don't have to be too restrictive."
Xiahou Yuan bowed his hand, but he still seemed a little restrained.
At this time, the troops rushing into Pengcheng had retreated. Cao Bao came to Wu Fanma and said in confusion:
"General Wu, we are going to take Pengcheng, why do we retreat?"
Wu Fan said:
"The temporary military situation has changed, so you just follow the order!"
After saying that, he ordered the whole army to say:
"The whole army obeys the order! The rear army is the front army, and the front army is the rear army, so we quickly advance five miles! On the way, every ten flag bearers threw down a flag, and the follow-up troops stepped on the flag into the mud, so there must be no mistakes!"
After the order was issued, although most of the soldiers were puzzled by what this meant, they still threw down the flags according to Wu Fan's order, and the soldiers behind them stepped on them one after another and quickly retreated.
A few minutes later, Sun Jian's army, who were traveling all the way, came to the place where Wu Fan's army was originally stationed. A soldier picked up a blue flag of Cao's army covered with mud from the mud and handed it to Sun Jian.
Sun Jianyu immediately took a rough look and said with a smile:
"Cao army ran quite fast. In this way, Pengcheng is already the subject of our army!"
Zhu Zhice immediately stepped forward and said:
"Sir, the so-called soldiers are never tired of deceit, be careful of Cao's army's tricks."
Sun Jian disagreed and said:
"This is the vanguard of Cao's army, with only 20,000 troops. This time, I guess we will attack Pengcheng quickly. However, we did not expect that our army would come to Pengcheng with 50,000 people, and Tao Qian and more than 40,000 people. At this point, it is reasonable for Cao's army to panic and retreat."
As soon as he said this, the footsteps of a large army marched gradually came in front of him. Sun Jian knew that it must be Tao Qian's army, so he immediately ordered the whole army to say:
"The siege troops and transportation troops are behind, the cavalry and infantry are in front, and the archers are in the middle. The entire army obeys the orders, targets, Tao Qian's army in front, attack with all their might!"
With the order issued, Sun Jianjun immediately rushed towards Tao Qianjun like a wolf and a tiger!
Tip: Sun Jian’s Legion and Tao Qian’s Legion are in a state of war!
Tip: The morale of Zhang Kai's army in Tao Qian's army dropped by 5 points and became 80 points!
Tip: Sun Ce, the chief general of Sun Ce’s army of Sun Jian’s army, used the inspiration skills, and Sun Ce’s morale increased by 10 points and became 135 points!
Tip: Huang Gai, the chief general of the Sun Jian army, defeated 50 people! The morale of Huang Gai army increased by 5 points and became 125 points!
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At the same time, the 20,000 troops led by Wu Fan had completed the detour and arrived at the rear of Sun Jian's army.
After sending a messenger to inform Xiahou Dun to come quickly for assistance, Wu Fan flashed Long E in his hand and ordered the entire army to say:
"The Cao army soldiers have no weak brigades! The whole army obeys the order, targets, Sun Jian's army, attack fiercely!!"
Tip: Cao Cao's army and Sun Jian's army are in a state of war!
Chapter completed!