Shu Chen

Chapter 216
The intensifying flames of the Shuyin Fortress tore apart the night sky and illuminated the mountains of Quwu behind.

However, Wei Ping and Zheng Pu's troops, both camped on the east side of Hanping River, more than [-] li away from Shuyin Fortress, could not detect this change with naked eyes.

Wei Ping is fine, Xu Zhi's trilogy supervisor sent someone to ask for help.

The reason why Zheng Pu was not half a minute slower than Wei Ping when he learned the news was because of the previous dispatch.

At the beginning, after he led the army to camp here, he had many discussions with Guan Xing and Zhang Bao on how to deal with Jiang Wei's attack.

Many people who frequently send troops to pretend to attack and harass are all brainstorming and everyone has their own opinions.

But regarding the timing of Jiang Wei's attack on Yuyin Fortress, the three of them saw the same thing: at night.

After all, if Jiang Wei launched an attack during the day, he would not be able to hide his whereabouts, turning a surprise attack into death.

Therefore, for more than two months, Zhang Bao's two hundred armored cavalry were regarded as light cavalry, and together with Liang Yuanbi's more than a hundred clansmen, they took turns to monitor the movement of Yuyinsai.

When the cries of killing and the flames of the city were blazing, the rangers who were watching quickly drove their horses back to report.

The time of news transmission was actually earlier than that of Wei Jun.

And the time for reorganizing the army is also very fast.

Thanks to sending troops every day to confuse and rebel against Wei, the soldiers of the Han Dynasty did not take off their armor, and their horses did not rest their saddles.

In particular, Zhoutai and Liuyin sent out troops day after day so that the generals and soldiers had a tacit understanding. When Zheng Pu got the news, they had already started to line up.

The only delays were Zhang Bao's armored cavalry and Liu Lin's heavy infantry.

The heavy armor they wear is made of high-quality materials and expensive, and it is hung on the frame and carefully maintained when it is not in war.

However, as the final battle force when they are in battle, they have never acted as pioneer soldiers, and if they are slower, they will not delay the time to send troops.

Another reason is that the WISCO carts and luggage carts in the military camp did not interfere with the gathering of soldiers.

During the daytime, Zheng Pu had already ordered the soldiers to pack up all the luggage.Because in the plan, the Han army will cook at the fourth watch tomorrow and return to Longyou at the fifth watch
Jiang Wei was in time, and the last day of Zheng Pu's retreat had arrived.

In other words, Zheng Pu couldn't believe that his plan would kill Jiang Wei, so he waited in Hanpingchuan for a few more days, hoping for a miracle to come.

It was not overdue, and Jiang Wei went deep into the army alone.
This imminent inference destroyed everyone's luck and had to accept the facts.

On the fifth day when he was overdue, Zhuge Liang, the prime minister in Anding County, began to retreat.

Eight days after the deadline, Wei Yan, the former general stationed in Zuli County, not only sent people to inform him that no more grain and fodder would come over, but also stopped repairing the city and surrounding the city.

After all, if the Han army fails to capture Yuyinsai, the strategic significance of Zuli County, which is an isolated city, will also disappear.

Continuing to occupy it will only cause greater losses to the Han army.

For example, if Cao Zhen's army against the Wei Dynasty goes out of the Wushui River Valley, it will inevitably trap Zuli County without attacking it, encircle the points and send reinforcements, leaving the big man in a dilemma where it is useless to save them, and he will lose the hearts of the soldiers if he does not save them.

That being the case, it is better to give up first and guard all the troops in Longyou.

In order to lengthen the supply line for the attack against the Wei Dynasty, and increase the complaints of the Zhongli Shu being conscripted into corvee.

Therefore, I have to say that Jiang Wei was really lucky.

Twelve days overdue, there are still friendly troops waiting to respond, the main reason is Zheng Pu's reluctance.

Zheng Pu was also lucky.

Jiang Wei's not giving up allowed him to eliminate the confusion in his heart.

In his heart, he never thought that his plan would send the most outstanding generals and more than ten thousand soldiers of the younger generation of the Han Dynasty to the point of no return!
In these years of military struggles, he has gone too smoothly.

Every time there is a plan, it is almost exhaustive, and all achievements are made.

It also made him more and more daring, more and more slanted, and turned into an extreme who wanted to win a battle and achieve success, similar to Wei Yan's "success or benevolence" extreme!

And don't know it!

Completely forget, whoever is a soldier is a murderer and you should be careful, what is a good fighter has no great achievements!

During the period when Jiang Wei was not overdue, he forced himself to be calm, and vowed to emphasize to Guan Xing and Zhang Bao the various reasons why Jiang Wei would not fail.

But when he was alone in private, he couldn't help but fell into self-doubt.

After nearly ten years of conquest, he felt at a loss and panicked for the first time, and he also had a thorough introspection.

Although, this plan was approved by the prime minister, and Jiang Wei generously accepted the order.

Even if he failed, many generals would not accuse him of planning mistakes, nor would he face the situation where Li Yan was demoted after killing more than [-] elites in the past.

But this has nothing to do with official career, but with the heart.

If the surprise attack fails, it will inevitably startle the snake.

No matter how dull Ni Wei is, he will have insight into the strategic intentions of the big man this time, and then make up for it.

In the future, if the big Han wants to attack Liangzhou again, the only way to hope to break the situation is to pile up the corpses of soldiers as high as the city wall under the dangerous passes such as Siwang Gorge or Sangyuan Gorge.

Moreover, the embankment of a thousand miles collapsed in an ant nest.

With Li Yan's defeat already, if Jiang Wei's entire army is annihilated again, how long will the big man have to lie dormant before he recovers?
With the background of the war against Wei and Cao Zhen's general strategy, will the big man be allowed time to slowly recover?
The answer must be no.

Perhaps, once Jiang Wei fails, in the days to come, Ni Wei will spare no effort to use his strong national power to drag the big man into the quagmire of war, and make the big man poor in the continuous flames of war!weak!
In the end, under the pressure of powerful foreign aggression, we ushered in internal troubles!

Today, the unity of all forces in the land of Bashu is based on the hope that the great man can conquer the Central Plains!
Once this hope is shattered, people's hearts will disperse.

The vast majority of people will think of the closed Anran in Bashu, and then lose the vigor of the Northern Expedition; most of the powerful families will yearn to go against the nine-rank official system of Wei, and then people will have different ideas, and the positive will obey the negative.

Fortunately, things ushered in a turning point.

When the rangers who were watching the night came to report the news, even Zheng Pu, who had experienced life and death, almost couldn't help wanting to raise his arms and scream to vent his emotions.

Immediately, beat drums and gather troops.

More than a hundred light cavalry led by Liang Yuanbi rushed to Quyinsai immediately.

The task is not to support Jiang Wei, but to make noise in front of the Shuyin Fortress, to let Jiang Wei's soldiers, mainly the Qianghu tribe, know that they are not fighting alone!Even if they had been overdue for many days, the big man still did not abandon them, and there would still be soldiers and horses to meet them!

And Zhoutai and Liu Yin, who formed the army very quickly, were appointed by him as the vanguard, and immediately led the army to the camp against Wei Wei.

They don't need to take down the Niwei camp, they just need to delay the time and block Wei Ping's reinforcements from going to rescue Shuyinsai, so that the main force of the Han army can arrive.

However, the balance of victory and defeat in this battle is no longer within the Shuyin Fortress.

It's time for the two armies to send troops outside Hanpingchuan!

On this point, Zheng Pu could reach a conclusion without discussing with Guan Xing and others—after Jiang Wei led the army to attack hundreds of miles, he was still able to successfully enter the Shuyin Fort, which was enough to conclude that the Shuyin Fort would inevitably change hands.

As far as the Han army is concerned, as long as Wei Pingbu is held back and he is not allowed to rush to the rescue of Yuyinsai, the battle is sure to win.

After all, even if the two sides fought evenly, Zheng Pu could still send someone to find Wei Yan to divide his troops to help!

And Wei Ping, how can there be reinforcements?

There is no hope for the Hexi Corridor.

As for Cao Zhen, who was stationed in Anding County, he was too far away. When he heard the news and arrived, the war would have ended long ago.

Wei Ping, who has been on the battlefield for a long time, is also aware of this.

His only chance to turn the situation around is to enter the Shuyin Fort before the arrival of the Han army, destroy Jiang Wei's tribe, and then rely on the fortress to defend.

Therefore, after learning that Xu Zhi's trilogy supervisor had sent an envoy to ask for help, he beat drums and gathered troops without delay.

However, it's a pity.

Missing an inch is a thousand miles wrong.

Like the garrison soldiers in Shuyinsai, these days his subordinates are all nestled in the camp, sitting bored and watching the Han army do nothing for fun.

With no fear, how can the soldiers who have been slack for a long time quickly form an army?

When the generals at all levels finally scolded the sleepy-eyed soldiers to go out of the army camp, Wei Ping was helpless to find that the Han army, who had fallen ten miles away, had already arrived in front of his own camp, and the drums were loudly ringing and waiting in full force.
He also finally knew the real intention of Ba Pu, General of Nishu Pingbei, who has been stationed in Hanpingchuan.

At first, he thought that the purpose of Ni Shu's attack was to capture Anding County, and that Ba Pu led the army here to stop the troops from the four Hexi counties from harassing Longyou.

It turned out that the purpose of Nishu was actually the fortress of Shuyin, which was the least likely to be breached.

It's just where did the soldiers and horses who attacked Shuyinsai come from?

Could it be that Haoyou or the Qianghu tribe in the four counties of Hexi rebelled?
But the governor Yang Fu and the general Jia Xu led the army to guard Wuwei Guzang, how could the rebellious Haoyou or Qianghu tribe come here without making a sound! ?

Wei Ping was full of confusion, but he didn't get too entangled.

There is no need for an answer to this situation.

His only thought was to break through the obstruction of the Han army and rescue Shuyinsai.

Or in other words, self-help.

If the soldiers and horses under his supervision cannot enter the Shuyin Fortress, they will be isolated and helpless, and will be consumed by the follow-up Han army.

Nishu has captured Zuli County, and it is not far to march from there to Hanpingchuan.

It's time, four o'clock at night.

Wei Ping came out in full force and personally beat the drums to supervise the battle.

And Zheng Pu also led the rear army to arrive, and the two sides started a field battle outside the Wei barracks.

In real field battles, there are no WISCO vehicles to rely on each other, and there is no time to deploy strong crossbow arrays or strong bow arrays to suppress them; there are no obstacles such as trenches, barbed wire, and antlers; they all suddenly gather troops to fight, and only rely on blood and morale to fight .

The Han army had more than [-] horsemen, and against the Wei army's [-] cavalry, they did not give an inch.

The Wei army does not count casualties, advances but never retreats, and offenders will be killed!

On the one hand, the elite troops that the Wei State relied on to guard the Hexi Corridor, and on the other, the tiger and wolf warriors that the Great Han relied on to restore the Central Plains, collided fiercely.

All of a sudden, the two sides fought inextricably and evenly.

However, after fighting for a quarter of an hour, the two sides, who did not give an inch, actually killed five more than 600 soldiers in the battle, and the scene was extremely tragic.

The corpses of the dead soldiers slowly piled up on the battlefield, forming an obstacle for each other to attack.

But the two sides are still fighting drums like thunder, and the sound is urging, shaking the world.

The corpses kept piling up, the soldiers beating the drums changed wave after wave, and the battle was still in full swing.

"kill!"

"kill!"

It's five o'clock, and the sky is gradually breaking.

The light blue sky is inlaid with a few residual stars, and the earth is hazy, like a silver-gray veil.

From the direction of the Fortress of Yuyin, a banner slowly floated up from the ground, heading towards the place where the two armies were fighting.

Let Wei Ping and Zheng Pu look away at the same time.

After a while, Wei Ping closed his eyes and raised his head.

He recognized that the banner was embroidered with the Chinese character "Han".

(End of this chapter)