Weeds.
Loess mound.
Three-colored cavalry flag.
The soldiers on duty on the high ground looked around with vigilant eyes.
On the shallows of the river bank next to the road, soldiers were helping the war horses wash the war horses. The war horses stood obediently in the water, only occasionally touching the master with their long necks, not knowing whether they were urging or showing intimacy.
At dawn the next day, Sima Yi caught up with Sima Fu, who was defeated and fled, and immediately gathered the remaining troops and retreated slowly. He did not stay until he joined Xu Ju's troops.
Sima Yi did not build a camp, but built a three-circle defense system in the wild like nomads. The external cruising troops, the inner circle rest area, the core area and the baggage area.
Xu Ju's infantry camp fell behind Sima.
The advantage of setting up a camp like Sima is that you can go anywhere at any time, but the disadvantage is that you can't be very comfortable and you don't have a good rest.
War is a choice, and different choices ultimately determine different directions.
Obviously, Sima Fu's choice is not a good direction.
Sima Fu escaped to Sima Yi's place. Sima Yi was neither angry nor scolded, but was left with peace. Sima Fu's defeat this time was even more miserable than when he was in the Northern Qun, and at the same time he felt even more depressed. He almost lost all his energy and spirit, like a walking corpse, and had no reaction to the outside world for a long time. It was not until the next day when the sunset was about to be considered as having barely recovered his consciousness.
Sima Fu's injuries had not healed at first, but now they are getting heavier and heavier. The wound bursts out twice. The doctor finally managed to stop the bleeding, but he was also destined to be unable to continue riding the horse and could not follow and continue fighting.
This almost means that Sima Fu will end with an extremely disgraceful end in this Hedong Battle.
Xu Ji took a look and said nothing.
Xu Ju is a smart person. He knew that this matter was still necessary for the Sima family to deal with it first.
The two soldiers took Sima Fu to the riverside. Sima Yi was sitting on a big rock, as if thinking about something. The battle robe outside the armor was swaying in the cold wind.
"Brother..." Sima Fu bent down and stood respectfully, with some blood on his face and body, and his voice hoarse, as if he had swallowed burning charcoal. He was younger than Sima Yi, but now he looked at least teenage years older than Sima Yi.
Sima Fu lost too much blood, and his lips were all white, as if he was blown by the wind and would fall to the ground.
Sima Yi's expression was very calm.
The calmness made Sima Fu a little scared.
"In the spring of ten years, Qi army attacked and the generals fought." Sima Yi's calm voice sounded, as if he had not been affected by Sima Fu's defeat at all. "You must have read this article..."
Sima Fu was stunned for a moment.
『Remember it?" Sima Yi's faint voice sounded in the wind, 『The meat eater despised and failed to plan far-reachingly.
"Brother, do you mean I'm stupid?" Sima Fu said.
Sima Yi's voice was calm, "If you can't even understand this... you should die... Do you know, I'll kill one Cao family, that's enough. Now you... are forcing me to kill the second one..."
Defeat, defeat, and kill, the difficulty is rising one by one. If you want to kill enemy generals, you must not only have the right time, place, people, but also have luck. Even if you escape with blood in the game, there are many people.
Sima Fu's body was slightly stiff.
The meat eater is not meant to be vegetarian, but refers to the ruler being divorced from reality. Rulers who are divorced from reality often show the situation of not eating meat. This is not an intellectual problem. On the contrary, if the ruler shows the intelligence and talents that the ruler shows in order to safeguard his right to eat meat will far exceed that of ordinary people, just like Cao Gui himself, and is also one of the meat eaters.
As for the past dynasties, there are always some emperors who are low-energy, but these low-energy children also appear in other vegetarians or poor families and are not representative. Even among the poor people at the grassroots level, the probability of low-energy children appearing due to malnutrition is even higher than that of meat eaters.
So simply saying that eating meat will make you stupid, or that the rulers are all fools, then you are really stupid...
Sima Yi's meaning is of course that Sima Fu took it for granted in this war.
Why is prey always prey?
I chased and killed all the way, but never thought I would be hunted on the other side?
Arrogant, relax your guard, do you have the will to fight to the death...
"Did you figure it out?" Sima Yi asked.
Sima Fu lowered his head: "I understand. A gentleman should be the main thing... and the foundation is established, and the Tao will be born..."
He was greedy and forgot about "Book".
Sima Yi exhaled, "Okay, then do you know what you should do now?"
"I..." Sima Fu said a word, and then paused and fell silent.
"What do you say when you come in and see the king?" Sima Yi asked.
Sima Fu was silent for a moment and said, "The Duke said that food and clothing, sacrifices cannot be fought, only Si Zhu... can only fight."
Sima Yi closed his eyes and sighed: "Of course."
Sima Fu's bent waist was like a broken flag, with a sad tone, "Brother..."
"Go." Sima Yi sighed.
Sima Fu opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything.
Sima Yi exhaled, "I will do my best to kill Xiahou..."
Sima Fu long bowed, "Thank you...brother..."
Sima Fu did not say that he was seriously injured, and Sima Yi did not ask.
Several guards came forward and said a little sorry to Sima Fu. They beat Sima Fu's head crown, removed his seal, and then escorted Sima Fu into the prison car and went all the way.
From beginning to end, Sima Yi did not look back.
Although he led the army in Hedong, he was still the Minister of Dali Temple and did not step down.
Xu Ju walked from a distance and watched Sima Fu being escorted away, raised his eyebrows, and said nothing pleaded for mercy. He was not familiar with Sima Yi, and came here just because he received the order from Xun Chen to support him.
On the surface, there are only two mobile troops in Hedong.
One was a cavalry led by Sima, and the other was an infantry commanded by Xu Ju. The cavalry unit was now defeated by Sima Fu, with only more than 200 remaining 500 people and fled back, resulting in the number of Sima Yi's troops being reduced to less than 700. The infantry unit was somewhat damaged after the Fenglingdu Cao army was wiped out. In addition, two thousand garrisons were left in Fenglingdu. Therefore, the number of infantry commanded by Xu Ju is also only half of the original, with more than 2,000 people.
"What are you going to do?" Xu Ju stood beside the stone and looked into the distance like Sima Yi.
That side is the direction of Pingyang.
'Cao army will definitely go to attack Pingyang.' Sima Yi said, 'He is going around in circles, but in fact his target is only Pingyang.'
『This is true," Xu Ji nodded and said, 『But if we were stationed in Pingyang, wouldn't we let Cao's army rag on Hedong?"
『So I want to follow.』 Sima Yi said calmly, 『Follow him, bite him, and hold his foot... until he turns his head and hit us...and...』
Sima Yi's eyes turned to the river not far away.
Xu Ju pondered for a while, then looked around and said, "Where is it? Here? This is not a good place."
ambush.
The most common strategy.
The terrain here is not dangerous, and there are no strong and steep stone walls around it. On one side are some not-high mounds, and on the other side are rivers with more mudflats exposed due to the dry season.
Overall, it is definitely not as good as canyons, gullies, dense forests and other places.
Sima Yi nodded and stood up, "Only in this way can he be arrested. If it is a dangerous place, Cao's army will definitely flee far away. If it is a dangerous place, it will be difficult to gather and annihilate it."
Sima Yi turned around and bowed to Xu Ju, "The success or failure of this battle depends on Captain Xu!"
Xu Ju hurriedly replied with his greeting, his eyes slightly moved, "This... Dali Qing is so polite... Since Dali Qing has an order, Xu has followed..."
Sima Yi nodded, "Thank you, Captain Xu."
"I dare not, I dare not." Xu Ju was also very polite, "I would like to ask Dali to give an order."
The two stood up straight and smiled.
It seems very eager, but it reveals distantness in the bones.
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Xiahou Yuan’s highlights did not last long.
If Sima Fu is a rookie, then Sima Yi, who has been trained in the Northern Region, is not as cunning as the later period of history, but he is also an absolute fox.
Cunning fox.
A battle often brings some imprints and changes, just like since the North Qu Camp, Sima Yi began to shift to the heavy-mounted archers. Sima Yi felt that this kind of fighting pattern was a devastating blow for most infantrymen and gave way to the infringers' inability to resist.
And it is obvious that when the archers face the lancers, they suffer a little.
The Hu people nomads were originally light-fitted or naked-fitted archers, but when they faced the lancers of the Han Dynasty, they were numb. Shooting arrows while the war horses were running is not that simple, and it is impossible to have automatic cruise and automatic guided arrows like in the game, and they must have the ability to hit the target.
For archers, if you want to increase the probability of a single arrow hitting a target, you either set a stationary shooting or shorten the shooting distance. These two methods are very dangerous when fighting against the Lancers.
Most of the cavalry of Cao's army are now lancers.
In other words, it has not yet fully moved to the branch and has not yet refined multi-functional cavalry.
Multifunctionality naturally has many adaptability, but it also means that it is definitely inferior to some special proficiency.
However, for Sima Yi, who was just about to take the route of specializing in armored archers, the cavalry of Cao's army was still difficult to deal with.
If you are far away, you will be at risk of loss when you are close. Especially Xiahou Yuan's force is naturally superior to Sima Yi. It is not cost-effective to fight head-on, so Sima Yi came up with a solution...
Shooting a horse.
Compared with riders who are smaller in area and who can linger from east to west, block with shields, etc. to avoid arrows and crossbows, a silly and silly war horse that can only run is undoubtedly a more easy target to hit.
After Sima Yi formulated the overall tactics, Xiahou Yuan's good days were over.
Sima Yi's tactical thoughts and combat modes are not something that can be brought out from the womb, or learned in military books, and can be up to level as soon as he appears. When he was in the Northern Region, he was basically engaged in logistics and civil affairs, and beside Zhao Yun and others, it was not Sima Yi's turn to charge with a sword.
Now in Hedong, Sima Yi’s own training place, opening the sharp blade.
Sima Yi had told Sima Fu before that he would be able to fight for consumption. For Cao's army, consuming its soldiers is the best, but consuming its war horses is also a fatal blow, because Cao's army could not replenish war horses in Hedong in time.
If the number of bows and arrows and crossbows can effectively kill the Cao army's armored units within fifty steps, then at a distance of 100 steps, the Cao army's war horses will easily be shot and injured...
Although the war horse is indeed thicker than the one who is better than humans, and being shot a few arrows may not be killed on the spot, no life can stand the continuous bloodletting.
Sima Yi was like a locust, flew over, chewed it, and then flew away huh, never confronting Xiahou Yuan and others head-on, and once it stuck, it would not be able to get rid of it.
When Cao's army wanted to fight Sima Yi, Sima Yi ran away.
Cao's army stopped, Sima Yi and others also stopped, and then found an opportunity to take another bite.
The biggest reliance of the upgraded version of H&R is not people, but horses.
When he was truly in the battlefield and was dancing on the tip of the knife all the time, Sima Yi truly realized why Fei Qian, a cavalry, had to accumulate war horses so hard and control the number of soldiers as much as possible...
It's very simple, it's easy to get up, but what about war horses? A farmer just takes a long spear and is a spearman, just like a herder riding a horse or a cavalry. Such soldiers do not have much advantage in addition to the number of soldiers, but instead consume the potential of war. After all, the effect of a war horse being used by an elite soldier who has been trained for a long time is far greater than that of equating a war horse to an ordinary herder.
Just like now.
The reason why Sima Yi was able to fly kites was not that he had many people, but that he had more reserves of war horses than Cao's army.
Xiahou Yuan was about to be mad by the rogue tactics like Sima Yi.
Don't ask for murder, but ask for hurting the horse.
And now the horse is obviously the lifeblood of Xiahou Yuan. Not to mention breaking the root, even if you pull a hole, it will be very painful.
So Xiahou Yuan realized that unless he completely killed the cavalry led by Sima, he would not want to take the next move. Even if he barely attacked, the groove behind his butt would probably be poked.
For the sake of chrysanthemums and war horses... Well, it seems a bit weird to say this, but it is indeed Xiahou Yuan’s current concern. He had to focus on it and arrest Sima Yi who was following behind.
Unfortunately, Sima Yi has strengthened training in the Northern Region. He is different from Sima Fu, who needs to camp to sleep. Sima Yi can even make someone tie him to sleep on the back of a horse...
Xiahou Yuan was not sure what was different about Sima who was holding the same Sima flag. Before he knew it, he was led to Xu Ju when he was chasing Sima Yi in reverse.
Xu Ju was obviously more reliable than Sima Fu. Without Sima Yi's special instructions, he laid a lot of horses in the main road. The horses were very simple, but their effectiveness was not bad. The sawn trees blocked the road in a row, leaving only two narrow corridors in the middle to pass through. Sima Yi and others entered one after another. If Cao's army, who came to Sima Yi, wanted to follow in, they would have to withstand the attack on both sides of the horses.
Seeing this posture from afar, Xiahou Yuan's face turned green.
The trunks of the branches and forked trees formed a line, blocking the road tightly. On the mound on the other side of the road was a chariot built by more than a dozen supplies.
Now Xiahou Yuan finally understood what Sima Yi’s logistics was going on. Why can there be supplies and why there is a replacement for war horses? It turned out that an infantry camp was followed behind!
However, after unraveling a mystery, Xiahou Yuan did not feel relaxed, but became even more angry and anxious.
It’s such a simple question, why can’t I figure it out before?!
If you don’t solve this Sima who has been shaking behind her butt, how can you hit Pingyang?
After resisting the horse, Sima Yi, who had blood on both hips, shook his legs and insisted on standing, looking at Xiahou Yuan in the distance.
Seeing that Sima Yi was so hard, Xu Ju also put away his slight contempt before. Those who dared to be cruel to others must be cruel enough to others. If he could not offend him, try not to offend him. So he asked someone to treat Sima's injuries with a little enthusiasm, and asked: "Dali Qing, what should he do if this Cao army retreated like this?"
Sima Yi smiled, lowered his head and looked at his hips, and then said, "They are also humans..."
Cao's army also consumes manpower and horsepower. If nothing is gained, they just retreat like this. No matter how morale changes, the war horses will not be able to stand it first. Cao's army did not have an infantry rear battalion like Sima Yi, who came to take care of the war horses and restore the physical strength of the war horses. If Cao's army retreated like this, Sima Yi, who had been slowing down for a while, would replace the full-body war horses to attack. At that time, Cao's army was exhausted and would definitely lose a lot!
Therefore, Cao's army now has to fight.
There is still a chance of winning in the battle, but if you withdraw, there is really no chance of victory.
Xu Ju suddenly realized and immediately got ready to go, "That's great! Dali Qing will make some adjustments, let's see how I will make one or two!"
Sima Yi smiled, although his face was a little pale due to fatigue, he seemed happy. "Person Xu, be careful that Cao's army still has the means..."
Xu Ju was stunned and asked quickly: "Da Liqing, what other means does Cao's army have?"
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『Must fight!』
As Sima Yi expected, Xiahou Yuan rejected the proposal to retreat.
Xiahou Yuan took the water bag handed over by the guard, took a few sips, and then found that there was not much water in the water bag. He shook it for a while and handed it to the guard, "Look, that's it... If we don't kill the annoying bugs following behind, we will even have trouble filling water!"
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"Sima, hum, I can defeat him once, and I can defeat him the second time!" Xiahou Yuan gritted his teeth, "Do these cowards think they can block me if they have resisted horses?"
Xiahou Yuan looked at the position set up by Xu Ju, stared at the car formation on the hills, and at the horse-rejected horse-rejected horse-rejected trunks and branches in the road. Then he looked at the mudflat exposed by the dry water, and suddenly smiled, "Since it's not easy to move, then don't move!"
"Ah?" Xiahou Yuan's confidant couldn't understand.
"I remember we brought some tincture oil?" Xiahou Yuan asked.
My confidant understood a little, "The general means... burn?"
Xiahou Yuan nodded and said, "No matter how many horses are, it is wood. Sprinkle oil and burn him! When these insects are forced to come out of the shell, we will go around them through the river beach and kill them all! Snatch their supplies and war horses, and this Hedong will be allowed to surround us!"
Chapter completed!