A successful assault on the battlefield determines the outcome of a battle, and then affects the outcome of a war, and sets the tone for an era... Throughout the ages, this kind of thing has been too common:

Just like the Battle of Issus, Alexander the Great's life-saving cavalry assault at a critical moment defeated the Persians who had the upper hand in the entire battle and made few mistakes, and directly destroyed the Persian empire that had lasted for hundreds of years;

Another example is the Battle of Julu, where Xiang Yu, who had just won military power, wasted no time, and the whole army was defeated by one against ten. The victory directly declared the end of the Qin Empire;

Just like Li Jing's battle to destroy the Turks, Su Dingfang led two hundred cavalry to rush to Jieli Khan's tent, and actually caused the destruction of the Eastern Turks who had threatened Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty a few years ago!

Incredible?

Not so. Behind the Battle of Issus was the accumulation of Mediterranean civilization and the decline of Persian civilization; behind the Battle of Julu was the general trend against Qin in the world. Zhang Han and Wang Li obviously had strong armies but were unable to save the day; Su Dingfang's magic

Not to mention behind the assault, the rapid rise of the Tang Dynasty was the complete recovery of Chinese civilization after hundreds of years of decline, and the Turks were the real mantis.

To put it bluntly, only when the balance between the old and the new forces and the differences between different routes have reached a critical point, and then both sides unanimously choose to use war to solve the problem, the most critical point on the battlefield will be

Only a tremor is qualified to open a new chapter for the times.

From this perspective, Xu Rong's charge is enough to go down in history, but it seems to lack some meaning.

"Your Majesty, will the world be peaceful after this battle?" Seeing the overwhelming force of hundreds of thousands of people pressing southward, Yuan Shao and his army simply fled. The accompanying general Wei's cronies, Ju Zong, flushed.

He couldn't help reining in his horse and followed Gongsun Xun excitedly and asked.

"Good morning!" Faced with such a huge victory, Gongsun Xun, who was riding on a white horse and following the army slowly forward, actually had a good time. "If this battle can really determine the future of five hundred years, when Yuan and Chen put out the bait just at the beginning

, I would not care about life or death, regardless of risks, and directly lead the crowd to attack in person, why would I let Uncle Xu come in? Why would I wait calmly and wait for the other party to mess up their position first?"

Juzong couldn't help twirling his beard and laughing, but he still couldn't hide his excitement: "Even if it's not enough to determine the future of five hundred years, this battle is enough to determine the situation in Hebei, right?"

"It depends on how many results we can get today." Gongsun Xun still didn't care, but he led his staff and military officials to temporarily stand on a high ground on the battlefield to watch. "This battle will be even more exciting.

It's like I set up a trick and artificially promoted it, which is a little bit less interesting, and the timing is too early, which is quite troublesome."

At this point, Gongsun Xun looked at the completely overturned battlefield in his field of vision, paused for a moment, and then continued: "Yuan Benchu ​​thought that he and I were destined enemies, and thought that this battle was Manifest Destiny, a battle to divide the battlefield.

, so he desperately wanted to fight me. But he didn’t know that I was just using his family background and incompetence to get the upper hand in a real battle, but I never regarded him as a real opponent! So!

Although it is gratifying to win this battle, it is only gratifying, and it is not enough to determine the fate of the world! Please don't express special congratulations!"

All the staff looked at each other with their own thoughts, and Juzong no longer dared to say anything more.

On the other hand, Guo Jia, who had been following Guan Yu before, was still young and at the peak of his strength. At this time, the generals were personally supervising the army forward. He was able to stay by Gongsun Xun's side, but he couldn't help but ask questions.

: "General, although Yuan Benchu ​​is a splendid straw bag, he has some merits, especially his great power. Needless to say... even if the world is a chessboard, there will always be a place for him, and if

He is not even his opponent, so who is the general playing chess with?"

Gongsun Xun looked back at young Guo Fengxiao and did not answer. He just smiled slightly and then raised his finger.

Guo Jia looked up and saw that it was late autumn, in the afternoon, the clouds were high, the wind was clear, and the sun was shining, but it was just a clear blue sky... Then, like many thoughtful people around him, he felt a slight movement in his heart, but then gave up.

, and then shifted his mind to the battlefield in front of him.

In other words, with the merger of Xu Rong and Han Dang, and the withdrawal of Yuan Shao, the outcome of this battle has actually been decided... However, the fact that the outcome has been decided does not mean that the battle itself will end. In a sense,

It makes sense to say that this is just the beginning, because as Gongsun Xun just said, the real effectiveness of this battle depends on the results, and the results can often only be obtained after the victory or defeat has been decided.

For example, the most direct indicator of battle results is battlefield troop casualties... Believe it or not, they fought for most of the afternoon, for more than an hour, and the casualties incurred by the two armies may not be as high as those caused by the broken troops trampling on each other just after the battle situation collapsed.

How many are produced?

As for the capture and execution of generals and important ministers, there is no need to mention them. But if Yuan Shao can be captured, that is another matter.

But to be fair, Gongsun Xun doesn't have much extra hope in this, because ten people are outstanding, a hundred people are proud, a thousand people are heroes, ten thousand people are heroes, a hundred thousand people, there will definitely be no shortage of heroes among them, plus life and death

The space between them can inspire people's strength the most, so even though they were defeated, Yuan Jun might not have nothing to do... And the most important point is that the battlefield is located between two cities, and Liang Qi City is more than ten miles away.

In fact, Yuan Shao was able to take such a risk, in addition to the sense of historical mission, destiny, or simply self-righteousness that he had been holding back for a long time, he also felt that once he won, he would break Gongsun Xun's undefeated streak.

With a golden body, he can divide the world in one battle, and if he loses, he can easily return to Liang Qi and do it slowly.

However, before the war, no one on Yuan Shao's side could have imagined that Xu Rong's cavalry had such strong penetrating power that it could penetrate a large formation of 100,000 people in one breath and cut off the return route.

"Master Guo, please relax. Cutting off the return route is not a desperate situation." Facing the chaotic battlefield that had just been swept by a flood, Yu Jin said helplessly to the panicked Guo Tuyan. "Our army has too many people.

And Liang Qicheng is too close, and the 20,000 horsemen of that generation can't intercept it all..."

"I know!" Guo Tu grabbed Yu Wenze's burqa and said with all his strength. "I'm asking you, if the situation is like this, why do you have to raise the flag to collect the defeated troops while retreating? We still have a dozen horses, leading us

Isn’t it easy to take your personal guards, throw down the flag, and only a dozen elites escape back?”

"You are all from Taishan, and you entrust your life to me." Yu Jin was startled for a moment and immediately shook his head. "Now that we can't win, it's okay to lose. How can we give up?"

"General Yu, what are you talking about? Do you think I persuade you to abandon your soldiers because of fear of death?" Guo Tu grabbed the opponent's robe and became furious. "You might as well take a good look at this situation... In this situation, if you abandon your soldiers,

flag, everyone scattered, then as you said, although there is a possibility of being hit by the cavalry, captured and killed, it is more likely to escape to the city. The so-called life and death are determined by fate; but if you gather a large number of troops and try to

Preservation, but it is easy to attract the attention of the enemy. If the enemy intercepts it specifically for this purpose, then every one of your Taishan countrymen and soldiers in the army will be harmed by you!"

Yu Jin was stunned for a moment, but then became solemn and silent.

Guo Tugang was about to scold again, but unexpectedly, as if echoing his words, further east, facing Guan Yunchang, Xu Gongming's strong advance, where Li Jin and Li retreated, actually knocked down the flag directly.

, his followers also headed south with a bang... Li Jin's core followers were all descendants of the Li family, and they had stronger centripetal force. If they wanted to maintain order, they would be able to do so, but at this time they took the initiative to disperse and flee!

"Did you see this?!" Guo Tu was already anxious. "How wise is Li Tuizhi? Would he deliberately let his own people die? It is just right to disperse and flee at this time!"

"That's not the case." Yu Jin came back to his senses and shook his head sadly. "Li Tui's tribe is different from mine..."

"What's the difference?!" Guo Tu continued to ask angrily. "The two of you are leading young soldiers, both are veteran generals in the army, and your families are all on the south side of the river, so you don't dare to surrender..."

At this point, Guo Tu was suddenly stunned, but suddenly let go of the other party's burqa, and then shook his head: "You mean to surrender if there is any trouble... right? Why is this! Your family

They are all in Yecheng, and all their clans are in Yanzhou!"

Yu Jin became increasingly sad: "Master Guo is not a leader, and he doesn't understand that people like us are ordinary people. In fact, if Li Tuizhi's clan is not too large, I really don't dare to bet on Yuan Cheqi's magnanimity. I'm afraid he will try."

I have gathered a crowd to protect...a dozen horses and a dozen soldiers. I will hand them all over to Master Guo. Let's go first! I will continue to recruit soldiers here and retreat slowly. If I can succeed, everything will be fine.

If you can't do it, please ask the chief registrar, for the sake of today's face, to let Yuan Cheqi only blame me and not to implicate him."

Guo Tu sighed, turned around and grabbed the reins of the horse from the attendant. Before he was about to mount the horse, he finally couldn't help but turn around and said: "General, if there is an emergency, I should still be useful, and I

You should also try your best to protect your family!"

Yu Jin leaned over and bowed his hands in a salute: "Master, please go away now. I'll leave behind the master."

Guo Tu said no more, and directly led more than a dozen horsemen to fight south and fled in a hurry.

As soon as the opponent left, Yu Jin did not hesitate and continued to order the entire army to maintain their formation. While raising the flag to collect the defeated troops, he slowly withdrew southward.

In other words, facing the defeat of their own side and the enemy's general attack, the three generals on the right wing of Yuan's army and their troops each made their own choices.

Ju Yi, who was on the outermost side, made an immediate decision after Han Dang succeeded in bypassing him from the outside. He seized the best opportunity to escape. He immediately abandoned most of the auxiliary troops and only took the core elite of more than a thousand people to lead the troops eastward.

Li Jin was the first to bear the brunt, facing Xu Huang, but it was extremely difficult. Therefore, after Gongsun Xun ordered a general attack and Guan Yu's flags appeared on the front line, he also made a prompt decision and divided the entire army into pieces, divided into groups.

The units dispersed to the south and fled for their lives. Anyway, his soldiers and horses were all clan soldiers, and they were not afraid of not being able to gather after being separated. As for Yu Jin, he was located in the middle and was the most difficult to escape. Moreover, his troops were attacked by the previous cavalry.

The casualties were the heaviest, but at the critical moment, on a battlefield full of broken limbs and broken arms, in a situation full of collapses, this person actually still maintained his organization and maintained the banner to gather the defeated troops, and the effect was excellent.

So he quickly became the focus of the battlefield.

On the forward line, Guan Yu, Xu Huang, Cheng Pu, Gao Shun, Zhao Yun, and Tian Yu, almost everyone noticed that there were enemy troops here who were organizing themselves and trying to restore order on the battlefield, so the generals almost unanimously mobilized their troops.

Come here.

Those who go against the current are of course conspicuous.

This was the case when Zhao Yun's cavalry discovered Chen Gong.

"Regulate his clothes, restrain his appearance and bury him." Gongsun Xun didn't have much emotion when he saw Chen Gong's body being carried away. He just saw that the other person was going to die with his face covered with hair. He knew that the other person was a person who did not evade responsibility, so he stopped for the time being.

, and showed due respect, and then continued to move forward, asking as he went, "I heard that he was captured, is it a ritual? He said that he was captured, not surrendered?"

"Yes! Do you want to see me, Lord?"

"If he doesn't use it for the time being, wouldn't he be forced to die? He's just a scholar, why is he doing this?"

"..."

"Look at the flag, is it Yu Jin who is gathering a crowd to resist?" Gongsun Xun suddenly stopped again.

"The person reporting back to you is none other than Yu Wenze!" Someone next to him naturally replied.

"Tell Yun Chang to send people to persuade you to surrender. If you don't respond, attack immediately." Gongsun Xun rarely sneered. "It's a pity that Ling Ming is not here, otherwise he would have been allowed to go."

People around him didn't know Gongsun Xun's cold joke, but they had some opinions on Jin's counter-current move.

"This Yu Wenze may not surrender." After the rear army arrived, they found that the overall situation had been decided, and then simply followed Shen Pei who was beside Gongsun Xun and frowned slightly.

"Why?" Gongsun Xun was slightly puzzled.

"Please look at it, sir," Shen Pei said with emotion, pointing to the battlefield ahead. "After our army pressed forward, Yuan's army was completely defeated, and all the generals were gone. In such a situation, if our front army can move forward vigorously,

, Cooperating with the cavalry in the front, it will definitely lead to a large number of surrenders, but now that Yu Jin is so desperate to block it from the front, our army's forward is likely to be blocked, so Yuan Jun's rear will only have 20,000 cavalry... a hundred thousand people.

, ten miles of ground, let 20,000 cavalry capture them, how many will they surrender and capture?"

"Zheng Nan is saying that he is a loyal minister and this is his best effort under desperate circumstances?" Gongsun Xun was slightly startled. "Same as Wen Chou before?"

"That's exactly what I mean." The judge replied seriously.

"That's not necessarily the case, right?" Dong Zhao smiled, but he was a little disapproving. "Look at other places and you will know that if the generals of Yuan's army are not surrounded by our army, there will be very few surrenders. Is this...
To be continued...