Shu Chen

Chapter 119
Wang Ping, this humble husband was born.

Literacy is less than ten, and he is often self-deprecating in his heart, but correct in appearance.

And because he had been in the Wei army in the early years and was familiar with the tactics of fighting against the Wei army, Prime Minister Zhuge Liang sent him to Ma Di's army to give a detailed account of Ma Di who had never experienced war.

However, after he came to Ma Di's army, he was not taken seriously.

For example, Ma Di never asked him about dispatches such as marching, camping, and repairing fortifications, because he was illiterate, and his words were vulgar.

After discussing with Li Sheng and others, he was sent to execute it.

There is a hint of disdain.

Inevitably, Wang Ping's mind was hard to appease.

I feel contemptuous of Ma Di's self-importance because he never stepped into battle.

Therefore, when Ma Di's decision to send troops out of Xiaoguan came to an end, he stood up in a rage, and refuted it on the grounds that sending troops out of Xiaoguan was in violation of the prime minister's order.

It also made Ma Su furious.

But also helpless.

After all, Wang Ping took the prime minister as his reason, and all of his subordinates were barbarians.

If he seized the military power on the grounds that Wang Ping didn't respect dispatch, those banyan barbarians would definitely rise up to resist and cause internal strife.

The final result was that he insisted on doing it, and Wang Ping led his headquarters to Zheng Pu's camp.

Well, although Wang Ping and Zheng Pu met very little, they had a good impression.

Gein, he and Ju Fuyin attacked the western city and lay down in the Daba Mountains for several months, so he learned about Zheng Pu's character and nature from Ju Fu and his subordinate Ban Chuman.

For example, when staying overnight in the Prime Minister's Mansion, he explained ancient and modern allusions to the Banchu Man.

For example, following the customs of the Southern Man, I once made an alliance with the elder patriarch of the Liao people by killing chickens and dogs and drinking blood.

Such a general who recommends people with sincerity will certainly not despise his own ignorance and his status as a second minister.

Moreover, he still respects the prime minister's general order in his heart: curb the road and guard.

And within a hundred miles, the only Han army he could find was Zheng Pu's troops.

When Zheng Pu saw him leading the headquarters, he completely killed the trace of luck in his heart.

Of course!

He still hoped in his heart that if Ma Di's troops leave Xiaoguan, even if the battle is unfavorable, he can hold on for a while longer, wait until the prime minister sends troops to help, then retreat completely, and then guard Xiaoguan road together with him.

But now, the Banchu Man known as the "Bajun God Soldier" who is good at fighting in the mountains has returned. Can Ma Su resist the Wei army?
oh~~~
Things are going nowhere.

The facts are just as Zheng Pu concluded.

Ma Di, who is determined to go his own way, is doomed to not usher in a good result.

Xiaoguan, who rebelled against Wei, had fewer than 200 people garrisoning it.

It's not that the Wei army deliberately handed over the pass, but the anti-Wei generals who stayed in Xiliang and Guanzhong all concluded that the Han army would not come to seize the pass.

After all, the decisive place for the two armies to compete is Jieting.

It is harmful but not beneficial for Bashu to seize this pass.

In other words, Niwei Xiaoguan's defenses were empty, and the enemy was lured deep into it, hoping that the Han army would give up its geographical advantage to seize the pass.

Therefore, when Xiao Guan went down without a fight, Ma Di ushered in a nightmare.

Generals Wei Dai Ling and Wei Ping were overjoyed when they heard about it.

Nai Xu undertook to attack Yuezhi City, took the rebel Yangtiao tribe's luggage and enlisted the local Qianghu tribe, and gained more than [-] soldiers.Then the county soldiers of Anding County were given to the confidant generals, and let them and the Qianghu tribe continue to besiege Yuezhi City.

Don't ask them to break through the city, just trap Yang Tiao so that there is no trouble.

Afterwards, the two of them mobilized their entire army, about [-] soldiers, and drove to Xiaoguan with light clothes.

Ma Su led only more than [-] people.

And because he was less than one year old in command of the army, there were very few soldiers who were willing to die for him.

With no land to rely on, as soon as he fought, he was rushed into the formation by the Wei army, and he was still in the land of no one.

In less than a quarter of an hour, General Zhang Xiu was killed in front of the battle, and his troops collapsed.It also caused the morale of the remaining two sergeants to collapse.

The army was defeated like a mountain.

Xiao Guan changed hands again, and Ma Su's ambitions were shattered.

However, Dai Ling and Wei Ping, the generals against the Wei Dynasty, did not wantonly kill, but ordered the soldiers under their command to deliberately slow down, hang behind the rout of the Han army, and came in pursuit.

It's not that they are benevolent, but they are well-versed in the art of war after many battles.

His intention was to drive the defeated soldiers back and break through the other Han camps on Xiaoguan Road!
Naturally, that was Zheng Pu's headquarters.

When he saw the broken soldiers of Ma Su's troops fleeing from a distance, he couldn't help yelling.

Ma Di's defeat was too fast, and he was also in crisis.

Originally, his camp was facing north.

Because Ma Di insisted on going his own way, in order to take care of the attack from the east, he had to move the camp and settle down again.

But in just a few days, the camp that can accommodate [-] troops is the limit.As for the fortifications, almost no repairs have begun!
For example, the trench has not yet been dug, and the barricades have not yet begun to be set up, etc.

As soon as Wei Jun arrives, he can rush forward in a long drive, and directly drive his troops to meet short-handed before the battle!

There are few soldiers, but the camp is not strong, how can we resist!

In this situation, why is it so strange for Zheng Pu to be furious in an instant?
However, this is the end of the matter, and complaining will not solve the problem.

"Array!!"

"Meet the enemy!!"

Without needing Zheng Pu's order, Ju Fu and the others began to roar sharply when they saw the rout soldiers approaching from afar, yelling at their subordinates to prepare for the battle.

Well, in order to defend both the east and the north, Zheng Pu's new camp chose a fork in the road.

There is no back to rely on, and there are gentle slopes on both sides that soldiers can rush up, which has great shortcomings.

Any general with a little combat experience can find a flaw when he is in battle.

If you can rely on the superiority of your troops, you can risk your life in the front with a large army, so that Zheng Pu has no time to take care of the gentle slopes on both sides.Immediately, he asked the other generals to rush up the gentle slope and suppress them with bows and arrows, so that the Han army could not concentrate on fighting.

With such a disadvantage, it is naturally not a good choice for Saidao to guard.

However, it was a blessing to be able to find this place in a hurry, and Zheng Pu couldn't demand too much.

His only choice is to minimize this disadvantage as much as possible, so as not to be suppressed by the rebellious Wei.

Therefore, the built camp is surrounded by inside and outside.

The surrounding area is surrounded by Luzhai, Juma, etc. as barriers, and forms a circular formation without leaving the gate of the village, forcing the Wei army to fight on the front and climb obstacles.

In the inner circle, there are WISCO carts and luggage carts, presenting a semicircular messy shelving.

There are passages reserved on the left and right of the car bodies, which can be wide or narrow, allowing soldiers to walk in; while there are reserved spaces in the front and rear, which can be large or small, allowing soldiers to fight wantonly.If you look down from the sky, it looks like a sea of ​​flowers mixed with many different flowering periods, while the WISCO carts and luggage carts are like blooming flowers, intertwined and disorderly.

Regardless of whether it is the enemy or the enemy, it is impossible to maintain the formation after entering the formation.

It also made Wei Jun even after occupying the gentle slopes on both sides of the mountain road, he was worried about accidentally injuring his robes and throwing rats, unable to shoot and suppress.

Therefore, when the defeated army of Ma Su's troops came rushing in, Zheng Pu's order was to kill anyone who dared to approach the periphery, no matter the enemy or us!
Quite cruel.

But he is well versed in the right and wrong decision.

Because those defeated troops came back from the main formation, they also became the "dare to die first" of the Wei army in disguise.

"Boom!"

I saw more than a dozen soldiers of the Han army in the front row, holding a stone bow and shooting upwards.

The arrow drew a half-arc in the sky, pierced deeply into the soil, and the red tail trembled slightly.

The distance from the arrow tail to the surrounding deer village is the so-called "death zone".

When going into battle, if the Wei army stepped into this area, they would welcome the crossbow arrows of the Han army.

But now, Ma Di's defeated troops were the first to meet the crossbow arrows.

Many soldiers who fled in a hurry, ignored the flags in Zheng Pu's army and signaled them to walk along the gentle slopes on both sides, and rushed in dully.
"put!"

Ju Fu, who supervised the front line on the east side, immediately roared like thunder.

Also let nearly a hundred crossbow bolts break free from the crossbow strings, and with a sharp sound of piercing through the air, they quickly penetrated into the body of Pao Ze.The defeated soldiers fleeing in the front row, like wheat waves swept by a strong wind, fell to the ground in an instant, and mourned everywhere.

The rout soldiers who were lucky enough to escape the catastrophe suddenly stood up and stopped their bodies abruptly.

His eyes were terrified, and his face was full of disbelief.

They couldn't imagine that Paoze, who hadn't died under the sword against Wei, was killed by the Han army.

Immediately, some people began to have bloodshot eyes.

There are chasing soldiers behind, and friendly troops in front of them ruthlessly blocking the way. They feel that there is no way out, and the violence in their hearts is burning with reason.

They were defeated.

Now abandoned again.

This thought turned into indignation and determination.

"kill!"

Raising the sharp blades in their hands, they bravely moved forward, rushing towards Zheng Pu's army without fear of death.

Perhaps they felt that compared with the killing of the Wei army, the intolerance of their own army was even more unforgivable.

However, the neat sound of crossbow strings sounded again in the Han army formation, making their ending without exception.

Fortunately, the two successive waves of ruthless killing let more people see clearly the banner in Zheng Pu's army signaling them to rush up the gentle slope and return to the camp.

"Go up the mountain!"

"Uphill!"

Finally, the voices of reprimands from the generals at all levels in Ma Su's army came long overdue.

The chaotic thousands of defeated troops, like a piece of bamboo broken by a bamboo knife, diverted to both sides and poured into the gentle slope, leading to the Wei army farther away, all of them appeared.

"Boom!"

"Dong Dong!!"

Seeing that the move to drive the defeated soldiers back was not effective, thunderous war drums sounded in the anti-Wei formation.

They just arranged their formation slightly, and they didn't want to delay for a moment. Under the leadership of their respective uncles, they rushed forward desperately.

The timing is just right.

Because the crossbow is wound much slower than the bow and arrow.

And the defeated soldiers of Ma Su's tribe helped them withstand two waves of crossbow arrows in a disguised form.

Therefore, after they rushed into the place of half arrows, the neat sound of crossbow strings sounded again from inside the Han army formation.

Not surprisingly, just like the rout of Ma Di's troops just now, those Wei soldiers who rushed in the front row fell to the ground in front of the powerful crossbow that could penetrate through armor.

However, their corpses were also trampled by countless big feet.

The whole army of Wei's army rushed forward, like an earth dragon galloping forward, only to let Zheng Pu's army shoot another wave of crossbow arrows, and hit the outer deer village fiercely.

"Before the spear!"

"Before the spear!"

The generals at all levels of the Han army made continuous and sharp voices.

The crossbowmen quickly retreated to the inner circle and regrouped to hold the line, while the spearmen protruded forward, with nearly ten feet of spears resting on the edge of the shield of the frontmost scull warrior, flourishing like a forest.

But Wei Jun, who rushed to the front, showed no trace of fear on his face.

They are all under the command of General Wei Ping.

Having been stationed in the turbulent and tough Anding County for a long time, he has long been used to seeing life and death, and has long ignored life and death.

"kill!"

"Kill! Kill!!"

They roared and roared.

Protected by a shield, the flesh and blood turned into a chariot, and slammed into the big oar of the Han army.

Some people are full of unwillingness, and drink their hatred under the sharp spear.

But more people, with morale like a rainbow, broke through the obstacles of the big scull warriors, and officially staged hand-to-hand combat.

Thanks to the defeat of his own troops, Zheng Pu's camp and the strong crossbow array he stepped down did not last for a quarter of an hour, and he fell into the result that the Han army least wanted to see.

The Han army has too few troops!
He couldn't bear it at all, and he was killed in the battle with the Wei army like glue.

Zheng Pu, who was supervising the battle at the rear, had eyes that were about to breathe fire.

The hand holding the command flag also faintly oozes blood.

It was because of excessive force that the fingernails pierced the palm.

"Zijin, I."

Accompanied by a very faint call, Ma Su, who was full of guilt and embarrassed, appeared in front of Zheng Pu.

Of course also.

He did not escape alone.

Instead, following the rout of the soldiers, they entered the back of the camp along the gentle slopes on both sides.

Also came to look for Zheng Pu, wanting to express his guilt.

However, before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Zheng Pu's rude raise of his hand, "Ma Canjun quickly take your troops away from this place!"

Before Ma Di could answer, he turned his head to Qi Yacuo, the subordinate who acted as the governor of the trilogy, and yelled, "Within a quarter of an hour, those who have not left the camp will be killed!"

As soon as the words fell, he strode forward in a big way, leaving Ma Su with a red face, full of embarrassment.

In fact, Zheng Pu was not humiliating him.

But the battle situation is critical, and the defeated soldiers under his command cannot be allowed to stay in the camp.

Because they are already panicked bereaved dogs, and they were killed twice by Zheng Punu just now, they will not be able to fight side by side if they stay here, and will shake the morale of the army.

Harmful rather than beneficial, it is better to expel it as soon as possible.

Furthermore, no matter whether he needs to supervise the battle at any time or not, he is not in the mood to talk to Ma Di.

At least not today.

"Fight to the death!"

Gou Fu, who came to the front line in person, relied on his trilogy guards, fought hard and roared.

But even though he was extremely brave and held his ground firmly, he was still unstoppable. As the Wei army continued to pour in, his formations were riddled with holes.

Fighting hand to hand, within two quarters of an hour, the Jufu Department showed signs of collapse.

The soldiers who lost their orderly formation and mutual support had to gather around the low-level commanders such as Shichang and team leader, and fight on their own.

Like a small boat in the vast ocean, it is constantly being pounded by the stormy waves.

Some ride the wind and waves and stand proudly.

But more were wiped out in the endless waves, and became lonely ghosts who could not return to their hometown under the blade of Wei Jun.

That is to say, if the Jufu Ministry does not retreat within a quarter of an hour, they will be completely besieged and strangled in the vast ocean of Wei Jun with a large number of people.

Zheng Pu, who was watching the battle from behind, had red eyes.

No more hesitation, he turned his head to Wang Ping and ordered, "Zijun, speed headquarters, go to cover Xiaoxing and retreat back to the inner circle!"

(End of this chapter)