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Chapter 90 Li Heng: The enemy is your Sima Yi’s cavalry!

The last time I saw the battlefield up close was the last time.

That was the time when Xiahou Ba and his men rushed to Jiang Wei like crazy more than a month ago.

But this time it was closer.

Li Heng rode on the horse and followed Wei Yan.

Looking at Wei Yan from the back, he looks like a tiger riding on a horse.

The surrounding Han soldiers began to assemble under the command of their commanders.

Wei Yan led the people and passed between them.

Wei Yan looked very domineering. Wherever he passed, soldiers immediately lined up and officers saluted him.

"Military advisor, look at us having soldiers like this. Are you still afraid?" Wei Chang laughed.

As soon as he said this, the other soldiers couldn't help laughing.

"Afraid!" Li Heng said confidently, but cold sweat was still breaking out on his forehead.

The soldiers were stunned for a moment, then laughed out loud again, feeling that this young man wearing a long silk coat was out of place on the battlefield.

"Although I'm afraid, I have to come. If you die in the battle, I will pick up this knife to kill the enemy and die next to you." Li Heng pointed at a soldier and said.

"A true hero is not one who is not afraid, but one who is afraid and dares to stand up and draw a sword against the enemy!"

Now the soldiers were stunned, and Wei Chang was also completely stunned.

The soldiers immediately stood in awe of Li Heng.

"Commander, Sima Yi is right on the opposite side." Wei Yan said while inspecting the soldiers, "Instead of talking empty words here, what's your clever plan?"

"General, I have some opinions."

"It doesn't matter if you say so." Wei Yan glanced at Li Heng.

"The Prime Minister sent Zhang Yi to support, and Sima Yi used Xiahouba to trap Jiang Boyue." Li Heng said, "In the past two days, our army's scouts detected a large number of enemy cavalry. In the current situation, Sima Yi will definitely seek a quick victory! So, next time The officer believes that he will use cavalry to attack the two flanks of our army at all costs."

"Yeah." Wei Yan snorted, as if to say that everything Li Heng said was correct nonsense. I, Wei Yan, have been fighting for so many years. I wonder if Sima Yi will use cavalry to deal with the two wings of our army?

Li Heng whispered a few words in Wei Yan's ear. Wei Yan was suddenly stunned for a moment and looked at Li Heng with an incredible look.

"What?" Li Heng asked doubtfully, "General, doesn't he agree?"

"Who taught you this tactic?" Wei Yan became serious.

"Grandson."

"Grandson?" Wei Yan was slightly surprised, but then he reacted.

Li Heng said: "Match the infantry and crossbows, and combine the virtual and the real. When the enemy retreats, we advance, and when the enemy advances, we defend."

Wei Yan pondered for a moment, but did not reply to Li Heng. After inspecting the army, he began to arrange the formation of the army.

At this time, Li Heng stepped onto the general stage and could clearly see the Han army's military formation.

The right wing of the Han army was arrayed on the bank of the Wei River, with a total of one thousand infantry and one thousand crossbowmen.

There will be more on the left wing, with two thousand infantry and one thousand crossbowmen.

The Chinese army is the most elite forward.

Li Heng was a little surprised that Wei Yan actually adopted the tactics he told him.

Of course, as a businessman in the 21st century, I have never commanded thousands of troops before, but I have still read a lot of history books.

This tactic was the coordinated infantry and crossbow tactic used by Li Guangbi to defeat Shi Siming's tens of thousands of Youzhou cavalry in Changshan during the Anshi Rebellion.

Li Guangbi defeated tens of thousands of Shi Siming's cavalry with thousands of men and made him doubt his life.

You must know that the combat effectiveness of the Youzhou cavalry of the Tang Dynasty was much stronger than that of the Cao Wei cavalry at this time.The characteristics of Li Guangbi's military use are extremely obvious: treacherous and changeable.

Li Heng looked at the Wei army's formation opposite.

The undulating flags were fluttering in the wind, and there was no end in sight.

The morning sunlight penetrated through the layers of clouds, forming countless beams of light that dropped to the banks of the Wei River, reflecting the cold light flowing from the Wei army's armor, like an endless ocean of steel.

Although Li Heng knew that the Wei army's armor could not be that high, this shocking scene still gave people such an illusion that it was suffocating.

But then I thought about it, wasn't the scene in front of me exactly what I and the Prime Minister had always wanted?
Fighting in the field with the Wei army, the elite troops came out of Longyou, captured five counties and overlooked Guanzhong, forming a force to suppress Chang'an!

Then why did the Wei army fight in the field last year, but the Han army avoided it?
Everything the Han army did last year was only to accomplish two things:

[-]. Open more fields to ensure food and grass for the forward positions.

[-]. Prepare for building a city on the north bank of the Wei River.

These two things have been completed by now.

The Han army had no worries about facing the Wei army in a head-on field battle.

Sima Yi used all his strength, why did Xinpi persuade him again and again?

Because the northern city was already established, it was completely sustainable for the Han army to reinforce and reserve grain, grass and ordnance from the south bank of the Wei River.

This greatly increased the coordination capabilities of the Han army's mobility operations.

Right now, Wei Yan is advancing westward, and all he needs is a decisive battle!
This decisive battle cannot be avoided by any strategy!

what?
Li Heng made a new weapon that shocked Sima Yi's jaw, making him lie on the ground and cry with his head in his arms, shedding tears of regret?

New weapons require an industrial chain, which cannot be created with bare hands.

The opponent is none other than Sima Yi, a top figure in strategy and military management of this era.

Being able to push him to this point shows that the entire Wei State is already in an extremely tight state on the Western Front.

The war is not just about the frontline charge, the war is about the resources in the rear, and it is also about the politics of the court!
You know, Sima Yi buried the elite of the Wei army here this time, and he must have faced an unprecedented political suppression after he returned.

But if Sima Yi watched the Han army advance westward and Longyou fell into the hands of the Han army, the responsibility would still be Sima Yi's, and his consequences might be even worse.

In short, this time Sima Yi was roasted directly on the fire.

It’s Sima Yi who deserves the pain!

At this time, Wei Yan mounted his war horse and stepped forward wearing armor.

The elite forwards of the Han army put on their armor before the battle. They all stood upright with solemn expressions and no trace of panic.

"Everyone, Sima Yi is here again!" Wei Yan's voice was strong and powerful in the empty field.

He is riding on a war horse, like a tiger patrolling the beasts.

The sun fell on his armor, reflecting a cold light.

The well-made armor weighed forty kilograms.

If Wei Yan took his sword again, the weight might be more than fifty kilograms.

"Last time we defeated the old thief Sima, he lost his armor. Should we capture the old thief Sima alive this time?"

After he finished speaking, Wei Chang next to him immediately shouted: "Capture the old thief Sima alive!"

The Han army immediately shouted: "Capture the old thief Sima alive!"

The voice reached the other side, but Sima Yi was not angry. He commanded calmly: "Order the cavalry to attack on both wings, and quickly break through the Shu army's defense lines on both wings at all costs!"

"Yes!" The messenger ordered Sima Yi's token and flew away.

(End of this chapter)