Chaos of the Three Kingdoms Summons

Chapter 2293 Murong Chui surrounded the enemy and attacked the reinforcements. Chen Ping used Wei Shu

Murong Ke and Kublai Khan invaded Xizhou with an army of 150,000. However, of the 150,000, only 50,000 were from the Yuanmeng army. The remaining 100,000 were composed of the countries in the Western Regions that had been annexed by the Yuanmeng. Servant army.

However, although only one-third of the people were Yuan Meng’s main troops, it had to be admitted that Su Lie only had 80,000 troops.

The proportion of cavalry in Xizhou is very high, and it is organized according to the ratio of three cavalry and five infantry. Although there are only 80,000 soldiers and horses, 30,000 of them are cavalry, which is almost half of the total.

However, under the command of Murong Ke and Kublai Khan, the 50,000 troops of the Yuan Mongolian headquarters were all cavalry.

After all, although the Jin army had the strength to fight against the Yuan and Mongolian cavalry, that was after all the cavalry of the Jin army in various states were combined. Moreover, this was also the strength to fight, which did not mean that pure cavalry could surpass others in number.

Murong Chui also had 30,000 Mongolian troops and 50,000 vassal troops in his hands to guard against the Kushans.

However, although the Kushans retreated, even if Murong Chui could withdraw some troops to fight against Su Dingfang at this time, it was impossible for him to leave no soldiers behind.

Therefore, he left 50,000 vassal troops to Murong Ping and Murong Long for command, while he only led 30,000 Mongolian troops directly to the battlefield of Xizhou, relying on pure cavalry troops to maintain his speed advantage as much as possible.

From this point of view, it was right for him to leave behind 50,000 vassal troops. Otherwise, these 50,000 vassal troops would have become a burden to him.

Murong Ke and Kublai Khan led their troops to attack separately, and headed straight for Xizhou with the force of a dark cloud pressing down on a city, threatening to destroy it.

Su Dingfang's military strength was already stretched to the limit, and facing Murong Chui's attack at this time, although he tried every possible means, he transferred out 8,000 troops and sent the general Wei Shu to resist Murong Chui.

Su Dingfang never expected victory from Wei Shu. He was able to recognize the gap in strength between his own side. All he asked for was that Wei Shu could stop Murong Chui's troops and prevent Murong Chui's 30,000 troops from directly attacking their backs.

However, facing Murong Chui, who was led entirely by cavalry, Wei Shu could only be restricted everywhere.

Moreover, he could only passively defend and dare not attack easily. Otherwise, with his 8,000 troops against Murong Chui's 30,000 cavalry, he would be like a meat bun hitting a dog, with no return.

Murong Chui did not care about Wei Shu, the obstacle, at all. Instead, he divided his troops and advanced rapidly, intending to take advantage of the opportunity when Su Dingfang's main force was fighting against Murong Ke and Kublai Khan on the front line, and to send heavy troops directly to the area east of Xizhou, and even to Yumen Pass, intending to cooperate with Temujin's troops in Liangzhou to break through Yumen Pass and open up the connection between Xizhou and Liangzhou.

To this end, Murong Chui rushed his troops and divided his 30,000-strong army into several groups, advancing simultaneously in an attempt to disrupt the eastern part of Xizhou in the shortest possible time.

Wei Shu did not dare to let Murong Chui's 30,000 troops disrupt the eastern part of Xizhou and threaten Yumen Pass.

Once Yumen Pass was breached, there would be no chance of winning this war. At that time, the Yuan-Mongol troops in Liangzhou could split up and attack Wei Qing and Meng Tian while pouring into Xizhou from Yumen Pass. Su Dingfang would not be able to survive under the attack from all sides.

Furthermore, Murong Chui's approach of dividing his troops also gave Wei Shu an opportunity.

War is nothing more than using the strong to defeat the weak.

Although in general, the troops under Wei Shu's control were at a disadvantage compared to those under Murong Chui's control, but if he faced a certain group of troops under Murong Chui's command, it would not be impossible to fight, and there would not necessarily be no chance of winning.

Therefore, Wei Shu attacked decisively, cherishing this opportunity in his opinion. However, when he was halfway through, Wei Shu noticed the unusual movements of other troops from Yuan Meng. At this time, Wei Shu finally realized that he had fallen into Murong Chui's trap and wanted to withdraw immediately.

But even though he noticed that Murong Chui's encirclement was not completed in time, it was not so easy to withdraw at this time.

Faced with Murong Chui's roundabout encirclement, Wei Shu fought and retreated, and was defeated three times in a row along the way.

Eventually, they were completely surrounded by Murong Chui's 30,000 troops in the former territory of Shache Kingdom.

By this time, after a series of defeats, only half of Wei Shu's 8,000-strong army remained.

Of the remaining half, two thousand were killed or wounded by Murong Chui in several battles, and the remaining two thousand were captured by the Mongols.

Su Dingfang's Western Province troops were also a mixture of Han people and people from the Western Regions. Murong Chui was not afraid of recruiting a large number of captives, as he could just throw them into the rear as slaves.

Faced with Wei Shu's troops who were now trapped in a corner, Murong Chui did not rush to launch a final attack. Instead, he simply surrounded Wei Shu. He did not try to completely destroy them, but did not allow them to break out either.

Everyone knows Murong Chui's cruel mind.

This indeed left Su Dingfang with a big problem.

Emotionally speaking, he naturally wanted to rescue them, but from a rational and overall perspective, it was impossible for him to send troops to rescue them.

Once he mobilized troops for rescue, the pressure on the front line would be unbearable. After all, Murong Chui had 30,000 cavalrymen in his hands. If they really wanted to rescue, how many troops would they send out? If the number of people was too small, it would be like sending food to others!

By that time, it would likely give Murong Ke and Kublai Khan a chance to break through.

Murong Chui's current attitude clearly shows that he wants to rescue the enemy when attacking. Even if they send out troops, what is waiting for them ahead must be a trap carefully designed by Murong Chui.

Even if troops were really sent to rescue, the probability of success would be only 30% at most.

Moreover, if Su Dingfang was unable to rescue rationally but still wanted to send troops emotionally, then Chen Ping's plan was to completely abandon Wei Shu's army and make full use of his last value.

In Chen Ping's opinion, it is absolutely impossible for them to send troops. Once they do, there will be no hope for the war in Xizhou.

Moreover, if they did not send out troops for a long time, Murong Chui would definitely know that his strategy of besieging the point and attacking the reinforcements had failed. At that time, he would definitely launch a final general attack on Wei Shu's troops.

And after destroying Wei Shu's troops, what would Murong Chui do?

There are only two paths!