Shu Chen

Chapter 237
The days in winter are short.

After the meal, the two armies chased and marched for more than ten miles, and after nearly two hours of fierce fighting, the sky was already dark.

The snowflakes that want to dye the mountains and rivers white are still drifting persistently, making people's vision more limited.

Neither the Han nor the Wei were prepared for a night battle. If neither side could establish a victory within half an hour, today's battle would come to an end.

Therefore, Prime Minister Zhuge sent half of the troops of the central army to the left flank of the Wei army, hoping to defeat the Wei army's defense line from the flank.

And Cao Zhen, the great Sima of Wei, finally suppressed the last troops because of the prime minister's dispatch.

He didn't want to miss such an opportunity.

Any qualified commander will not ignore the opportunity of the enemy's central army's weak defense.

Although he didn't know why Prime Minister Zhuge, who was known for his prudence, was so bold in fighting today, Cao Zhen didn't want to speculate on the intention behind it.

The fighter jets are fleeting.

If he continued to wait and hesitate, and waited for the prime minister's car to turn to the left, he would have no chance.

Perhaps, this is Zhuge Liang's helpless move against Shu.

After all, when the Han army left the valley, they gave up their geographical advantage.If he could not defeat the pursuers under his supervision, he would face the fate of being flanked by front and back.And every day of delay is to accumulate one more point of danger.

Cao Zhen convinced himself with this reason.

He led the gold and stone advocacy and the large banner of the Chinese army to move closer to the left wing. While encouraging morale, he also rushed the last [-] elites and more than a thousand personal guards directly to the large banner of the Han army.I hope that these [-] elites will capture the Han army before the collapse of the left-wing front leads to the collapse of the entire army!
Or, he chose the way of losing both sides.

Make sure that when one's own big banner is knocked down, the Han army's big banner also falls to the dust.

As long as the main force of the Han army can be disabled, it doesn't matter if both sides are injured here, or they return after a disastrous defeat, it will be a victory for Wei's overall situation.

Because Wei Guo has enough background.

And Nishu didn't!

There is no need to worry about whether he can escape if he is defeated.

It was getting dark, Zhuge Liang had two thousand Qiang riders, and he couldn't find him accurately in the snow and wind.

And three days ago, when the leader of the army was approaching, he also sent people to Zuli County, and once again dispatched [-] soldiers from Xia Houru's command to help in the battle.

Calculating the time, it should be a day's journey from here.

At that time, he can rely on the follow-up [-] soldiers and horses to gather the defeated soldiers and chase them again, catching up with the opportunity to attack the Han army with Fei Yao and Wei Pingping.

There is no need to worry that after the transfer of troops from the ancestral calendar, Wei Yan will be high-spirited.

Xia Houru still has more than [-] soldiers.

This amount of troops can no longer besiege the Zuli city, but if they turn to guard their own camp, Bi Weiyan can't break through.

Taking a step back, if everything fails to meet his wishes, the rear army will not be able to catch up with the pursuit of the Han army, and the worst result will be that he dies here.

Death in battle has no regrets.

It is a blessing to be shrouded in horse leather all your life as a soldier and horse!

Anyway, he is not in his prime anymore, and he is suffering from frequent minor illnesses, so he is near the end of his life.

Not to mention that he died in the battle that witnessed Bashu's slump from then on, how honorable it is!

So he is very decisive.

But Prime Minister Zhuge's reaction was more decisive than his.

When he saw the last mobile force of the Wei Zhong Army coming towards his car and the banner, not only did he not call for reinforcements from the various parts of the Chinese Army, but instead he drummed his horns like thunder to urge them to speed up.

Seemingly very arrogant, he planned to use only three schools of soldiers and horses in front of the car to resist the six thousand elite of the Wei army.

Or they believed very firmly that before the six thousand elites of the Wei army broke through his own formation, the Han army had already broken through the left wing of the Wei army and swept across the entire battlefield, securing the victory.

Cao Zhen didn't know where Prime Minister Zhuge's confidence came from.

But he dared to conclude that as long as the [-] elites arrived in front of Zhuge Liang's car smoothly, if there was no support from other Han troops, the Han army would either retreat hastily or be knocked down!
And the time, at most within half an hour!

This is not to despise the combat power of the Han army, but to have confidence in the six thousand soldiers and horses.

Needless to say, among his more than a thousand personal guards, none of them were afraid of death; and the five thousand elite were selected from an army of tens of thousands, and they were all old soldiers who had survived a hundred battles.Today it is nearly three times as large as the enemy. If it can't be defeated in half an hour, Wei Guo will have lost the land of Yongliang long ago.

However, what he also didn't know was that Prime Minister Zhuge finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He also stroked his beard with a smile, and said with emotion, "Bi Ni Wei Cao Zidan, although he has experienced many battles, he has lost his rigor in the end!"

It is also!

The prime minister has been waiting, and Cao Zhen dispatched all the mobile forces.

Because in the mind of the prime minister, there is no suspense about the outcome of this battle.

When the strength of the troops is almost the same, various factors such as the morale, elite, and proficiency of the formation of the soldiers become the basis of the outcome.This main force was formed by the prime minister himself through martial arts exercises, so he is full of confidence.The reason why he took the risk, even at the expense of using his own life and the banner of the Chinese army as bait, was that he did not want to cause too many casualties to his own soldiers.

Just as Cao Zhen expected the strategy of "Wei Guosheng will win if both sides suffer", the prime minister also has his eyes on the overall situation.

He wanted to avoid fighting with Wei Guo as much as possible, and avoid falling into the helplessness of "killing one thousand enemies and losing eight hundred".

He wanted to ensure that after the battle, the great Han still had enough power to defeat the Wei army such as Fei Yao, Wei Ping, Guo Huai, and Xiahou Ru; he still had enough troops to retake Hexi and suppress the ambitions of Hexi Haoyou and Qianghu tribes .

Similarly, the prime minister has never changed his cautious and comprehensive character.

The prime minister did not put all his eggs in one basket for this seemingly aggressive and arrogant maneuver.

He did not pin his hopes of victory on the unpopularity of defeating the Wei army's left-wing front and its governor, Zhao Yan; nor did he think that the soldiers and horses of the three schools in front of the car could ensure the safety of the Chinese army.

Because it is the prime minister's real intention to break through the left and right wings of the Wei army!
Let the Jufubu and Wudang Flying Army disregard the casualties and send out all the troops of the Chinese army, not only to break through the left wing of the Wei army, but also to lure out all its mobile forces!When the Han army suddenly attacked and captured the right wing, Cao Zhen had no troops to save the battle in a hurry.

Naturally, most of the troops of the Han army were attacking the left flank of the Wei army. It would be very difficult for Meng Yan's tiger infantry and Zhu Yi's two thousand Qiang cavalry to defeat the ten thousand right wing of the Wei army.

At least it couldn't be done until the [-] elite of the Wei army attacked the big flag of the Chinese army.

Cao Zhen also expected this, so he ignored the abnormality of the right-wing battle and the lack of fierce offensive of the Han and Tiger infantry, and dispatched all the guards.

In fact, no one expected a miracle to happen.

Judging from the battle situation, if the tiger infantry army and two thousand Qiang cavalry wanted to break through the right wing of the Wei army, unless an ambush suddenly intervened, breaking the balance between the two sides in an instant.

But does the big man have an ambush?

Cao Zhen's answer is absolutely impossible.

It is impossible for him to be negligent in the war that is related to the fate of the country. He has been in the army for decades.

For example, all the soldiers and horses of the Han army here, he made the scouts inquire clearly, and he has been monitoring them all the time, without neglecting for a moment.

Now, all the troops of the Han army are here, so where did the ambush come from? !
The answers of the generals of the Han army were also the same as Cao Zhen, except for the prime minister and Meng Yan, the commander of the Tiger Army.

(End of this chapter)