Three Kingdoms

Chapter 48 Jiang Wei sent troops to attack Wei
Jiang Wei asked the later master Liu Chan to send troops to the north to attack Wei, and the later master Liu Chan approved Jiang Wei to lead the army.

Jiang Wei ordered the generals Ju An and Li Xin to lead [-] troops to guard the main roads of Yongzhou.

General Guo Huai of the Wei Army immediately led his deputy Chen Tai to lead [-] troops to attack the Shu army camp.Ju An and Li Xin were defeated and trapped on the top of the mountain.

Guo Huai cut off the water source of the Shu army, and the Shu army was in chaos, and was finally defeated by Guo Huai.

Jiang Wei and Xiahouba led troops to attack Yongzhou, but they were ambushed by the Wei army general Chen Tai, and the Shu army was defeated again.Jiang Wei alone led the army to cover the retreat of the army.At this time, Sima Division also led [-] troops to attack the Shu army.Jiang Wei hurriedly ordered the archers to use the continuous crossbow arrow method handed down by Zhuge Liang to shoot back the Wei army.Sima Shi almost got hit by an arrow, and fled in a hurry.

Jiang Wei's improper command resulted in the loss of troops and generals, resulting in heavy losses and tens of thousands of casualties.Jiang Wei had no choice but to retreat to Hanzhong and wait for the opportunity to attack the Wei army.Sima Shi returned to Luoyang.

Soochow Sun Quan established the third son Sun Liang as the crown prince.At this time, both Lu Xun and Zhuge Jin had passed away, and Zhuge Ke, Zhuge Jin's son, was in charge of all affairs of Soochow.

In the second year of Taiyuan of the Eastern Wu Dynasty, Sun Quan died of illness at the age of 71.

When Sima Shi heard the news of Sun Quan's death, he was about to lead troops to attack Soochow.Sima Zhao also agreed to attack Soochow.So Wang Chang led [-] troops to attack Nanjun, Hu Zun led [-] troops to attack Dongxing, and Guanqiu Jian led [-] troops to attack Wuchang.Sima Zhao was the commander-in-chief of the three armies.

Ding Feng, the general of Zhenbei in the Eastern Wu Dynasty, took advantage of Hu Zun, the general of the Wei army, to lead [-] death squad fighters to the camp of the Wei army with short knives, and killed the Wei army by surprise. The Wei army was defeated. The military power is greatly boosted.

When Sima Zhao heard that Hu Zun was defeated in Dongxing, he hurriedly withdrew his troops and retreated.

Zhuge Ke wrote a letter to Jiang Wei requesting Shu to send troops to attack Wei in the north.Then he ordered the army to take advantage of the victory to chase and kill the Wei army.

The Soochow army went to Xincheng and besieged it for several months without taking it.At this time, Zhang Te, the prefect of Xincheng, deceived Zhuge Ke by delaying troops, and the Soochow army did not guard against the Wei army.Zhang Te led his troops to kill Zhuge Ke by surprise.The Soochow army was defeated and returned.

Zhuge Ke returned to Soochow and was killed by Sun Jun.Sun Jun commanded the military power of Soochow.

In the autumn of the 16th year of Yanxi in the Shu Han Dynasty, Jiang Wei led an army of 20, ordered Liao Hua and Zhang Yi to be the vanguard generals, Xia Houba was the staff officer, and Zhang Ni was the grain transport envoy to attack the Wei State from Yangping Pass.

Jiang Wei followed Xiahouba's suggestion and united with the Qiang king, who sent troops to help the Shu army.

General Guo Huai of the Wei army returned to the Luoyang court.Sima Shi hurriedly ordered Sima Zhao to be the governor, and Xu Zhi was the vanguard to lead the troops to attack the Shu army in Longxi.

General Xu Zhi of the Wei Army was very brave.Neither Liao Hua nor Zhang Yi is Xu Zhi's opponent.

Jiang Wei asked Xia Houba: "How can we defeat Xu Zhi?"

Xia Houba said: "Tell General Liao to pretend to be defeated and kill Xu Zhi with an ambush!"

Jiang Wei said: "Sima Zhao is Sima Yi's son. Why doesn't he know about such a strategy? If he finds out that the terrain is dangerous, he will definitely not let Xu Zhi chase after him. The Wei army has repeatedly defeated our army by cutting off our army's food road. Today I will also use this method to take revenge!"

Jiang Wei ordered Liao Hua and Zhang Ni to follow his plan and march, and they led the way.On the one hand, he ordered the army to hold out, and on the other hand, he led the soldiers to dig deep trenches and build high positions.Create a false appearance for the Wei army, and deceive Sima Zhao and the Shu army to stick to it.

Xu Zhi challenged in front of the Shu army camp for several days, but the Shu army could not hold out.The front-line sentry reported to Sima Zhao: "The Shu army used wooden oxen and horses to carry food and grass behind Iron Cage Mountain. It has a long-term plan to fight a protracted war with our army. The Shu army has also been waiting for the help of the Qiang soldiers."

Sima Zhao hurriedly asked Xu Zhi to enter the barracks to discuss strategies.Sima Zhao said: "Our army was able to defeat the Shu army back then because our army cut off the food roads of the Shu army. Now the Shu army is escorting food and grass behind Tielong Mountain. This is another great opportunity. You can lead five thousand soldiers immediately. Go to the back of Iron Cage Mountain and cut off the Shu army's food road, the Shu army will naturally retreat without food and grass."

Xu Zhi took the order and set off with [-] soldiers.At the beginning of the night, when Xu Zhi saw that the Shu army was carrying grain and grass with wooden oxen and horses, he couldn't help being secretly happy.

Xu Zhi yelled, and led his troops to charge towards them. The Shu army fled in a hurry. Xu Zhi grabbed the grain and grass, left half of his troops to escort the grain and grass back to the Wei army's camp, and led the remaining half of his troops to chase and kill the Shu army.

After chasing for ten miles, Xu Zhi ordered the cavalry to get off their horses and clean the road when they saw a broken car and rotten wheels blocking the road ahead.Suddenly, both sides of the avenue were on fire, and there were big fires in front of and behind the avenue. Xu Zhi panicked, and desperately escaped from the encirclement of the fire. He took the road and fled, but unexpectedly bumped into Jiang Wei's horse. Jiang Wei unceremoniously stabbed Xu Zhi's thigh with his spear. Xu Zhi was injured and fell off the horse. Hacking, chopping Xu Zhi into meat sauce.The Wei army was killed by the Shu army, only a few escaped, and the rest were all wiped out.

Jiang Wei ordered the Shu army to take off the battle armor and armor, immediately put on the Wei army battle uniform and armor, dressed as the Wei army, and ran back to the Wei army camp quickly from the small road under the banner of Xu Zhi.Seeing that it was his own army, the Wei army immediately opened the door and let them in. The Shu army immediately rushed to kill the Wei army's camp.The Wei army was in chaos, and it is not known how many Shu troops were lurking in the Wei army.

Sima Zhao turned pale with fright, and hurriedly got on his horse and fled. At this time, Liao Hua came fiercely from the front. Sima Zhao didn't dare to run any further, so he had to retreat.

There is only one road on Iron Cage Mountain, and the terrain is very steep.There is also an ancient spring on the mountain, but it is only enough for a hundred people to drink.There were six to seven thousand soldiers under Sima Zhao. Jiang Wei cut off the water source and cut off the escape route. At this time, the ancient spring suddenly dried up.

The chief secretary Wang Tao said to Sima Zhao: "Geng Gong was also besieged by the enemy back then, and he got the water source only by praying to the ancient well. The general can also learn from Geng Gong!"

Sima Zhao followed Wang Tao's advice, and immediately went to the top of the mountain to pay homage to the ancient well. While worshiping, he said: "Sima Zhao was ordered by the emperor to attack the Shu army. If Sima Zhao should die, the sweet spring will no longer flow out; if Sima Zhao doesn't Damn it here, may God give our army Ganquan to save our lives!" After Sima Zhao worshiped, the spring gushed out, and he couldn't drink it all, and Wei Jun was saved.

Jiang Wei was very happy to besiege Sima Zhao at the foot of the mountain, so he said to his generals: "When the prime minister trapped Sima Yi in the upper valley and let Sima Yi escape, I have always regretted it. Now Sima Zhao is trapped by me in Iron Cage Mountain , I must catch him myself.”

General Guo Huai of the Wei Army heard that Sima Zhao was trapped in Iron Cage Mountain by Jiang Wei, so he hurriedly led troops to rescue him.General Chen Tai advised Guo Huai to defeat the Qiang soldiers stationed behind the mountain first.Guo Huai approved.

Chen Tai pretended to surrender to the Qiang camp.King Qiang believed it and accepted Chen Tai's surrender.In the middle of the night, Guo Huai led the army to attack, and Chen Tai responded internally. After a fierce battle, the Qiang soldiers were defeated. Guo Huai captured the Qiang king. Chen Tai suggested not to kill the Qiang king. King Rao Qiang did not die.The Qiang king hastily surrendered to the Wei army.

Guo Huai ordered the Qiang king to take them to attack Jiang Wei.The Qiang king hid Guo Huai's troops among the Qiang soldiers.The Shu army opened the gate and let the Qiang soldiers enter the camp. Before the Qiang king could speak, Guo Huai ordered the Wei army who was hiding among the Qiang soldiers to kill the enemy.The Shu army was in chaos and panicked.Jiang Wei was also shocked, and hurriedly got on his horse and walked out the door.Wei Jun and Qiang soldiers pursued closely, and the Shu soldiers were torn apart and defeated like a mountain.

Jiang Wei walked in such a hurry that he forgot to take his weapons and galloped on horseback. All the arrows in the quiver fell out, leaving only a bow and arrow.Seeing that Jiang Wei was unarmed, Guo Huai felt relieved and pursued Jiang Wei.

Seeing that he was about to catch up with Jiang Wei, Jiang Wei suddenly returned to the horse-drawn bow and fired arrows. Even after pulling it more than ten times, no arrow was shot.Guo Huai dodged from left to right, and knew that Jiang Wei had no arrows. He was overjoyed and drew the bow and arrow, aiming at Jiang Wei's back and shooting.As soon as Jiang Wei turned around, he grabbed the arrow that Guo Huai had shot. Jiang Wei was worried that he had no arrows in his hand, so he quickly drew the bow and loaded the arrow, aimed at Guo Huai and shot.Guo Huai was shot through the head by Jiang Wei with an arrow, and Guo Huai fell off the horse.Jiang Wei took the opportunity to fight back, when Wei Jun came to rescue Guo Huai.Jiang Wei snatched the spear from Guo Huai's hand and left.Wei Jun also stopped chasing.Take away the seriously injured Guo Huai.Guo Huai returned to the barracks, bleeding profusely, and died soon after.

Sima Zhao ordered the army to chase after the Shu army, and after halfway, he ordered the troops to withdraw and return to the camp.Xia Houba and Jiang Wei led the remnants of the defeated generals, not daring to stop along the way, and were defeated back to Hanzhong.Although he failed, Jiang Wei killed Xu Zhi and Guo Huai, two generals of the Wei army in a row, which frustrated the Wei army's military prestige and made amends.

Sima Zhao returned to Luoyang after a great victory, and managed the government together with Sima Shi.None of the Korean and Chinese military officials dared to oppose the Sima brothers.Cao Fang, the emperor of Wei State, trembled and panicked every time he saw Sima Shi enter the court.

One day, Master Sima entered the court with a sword, and Cao Fang hurriedly stepped down from the throne to meet Master Sima.

Sima Shi smiled and said to Cao Fang: "Where is the reason for the emperor to welcome his subjects? Please don't do this, Your Majesty."

After a while, civil and military officials entered the court to perform important events.Sima Shi stood in front of Cao Fang, in front of all the officials, and reviewed all kinds of submitted documents by himself, without reporting to Cao Fang.Not long after retreating, Sima Shi proudly stepped down from the main hall, and returned to his mansion in a luxurious cart.Thousands of people supported him in a cart.

Cao Fang retreated from the court and secretly summoned Taichang Xia Houxuan, Zhongshu Ling Li Feng, and Guanglu doctor Zhang Ji to discuss ways to eliminate Sima Shi and Sima Zhao.

Unexpectedly, Sima Shi rushed back to the palace again, and happened to meet Xia Houxuan and the three of them leaving the palace.Sima Shi saw that the three of them were acting very surreptitiously, and he was very suspicious, so he ordered his warriors to arrest the three of them.Sima Shi personally searched for confidential documents on them.Cao Fang's blood book on Xia Houxuan's body was found by Master Sima.

Master Sima was furious after reading the blood book, and ordered to kill Xia Houxuan and his family.

Sima Shi rushed into the harem with a sword, and aggressively questioned the emperor Cao Fang.Cao Fang was so frightened that she didn't know what to do.

Sima Shi deposed Cao Fang without waiting for Cao Fang to speak, and made Cao Mao emperor.

From then on, Sima Shi and Sima Zhao became even more defiant, and brought their swords into the court.Entering the court without worshiping the emperor, reviewing state affairs and not reporting the Ming emperor, the authority is prominent, and the people all over the world know that the Sima brothers want to seize the throne.

At this time, Wei Jun generals Guanqiu Jian and Wen Qin raised troops in Yangzhou and Xiangyang to attack the Sima brothers.

After Sima Shi learned about it, he personally led an army to pacify Guanqiu Jian and Wen Qin.

Wenqin's son, Wen Yang, was brave and invincible, and when he entered Sima Shi's barracks, none of Sima Shi's generals dared to fight him.Sima Shi's eye injury was frightened by Wen Yang, and even his eyeballs burst.

Sima Shi used tricks to eliminate Guanqiu Jian.Wenqin was defeated, desperate, and surrendered to Soochow.

Sima Shi's squad returned to the court, and just arrived in Xuchang, Sima Shi died of an eye injury.From then on, Sima Zhao monopolized the power in the court.

(End of this chapter)