Decline

Wang Ping was born as a humble husband.

If you are less than ten literate, you will always be conceited in your heart but be upright in appearance.

And because he had served in the Wei army in his early years and was familiar with the tactics of fighting against the Wei army, Prime Minister Zhuge Liang sent him to Ma Su's army to learn more about Ma Su, who had never experienced war.

However, after he came to Ma Su's army, he was not taken seriously.

For example, regarding arrangements such as marching, setting up camp, and repairing fortifications, Ma Su did not consult him because he was illiterate in writing and spoke vulgarly.

After discussing with Li Sheng and others, they sent him to execute it.

There is a hint of disdain.

It is inevitable that Wang Ping's mind will be hard to calm down.

I feel contempt for Ma Su for not being prepared for battle and being arrogant.

Therefore, as soon as Ma Su's decision to send troops out of Xiaoguan was made, he stood up angrily and refuted it on the grounds that leaving Xiaoguan was against the Prime Minister's order.

It also made Ma Su angry.

But there was nothing we could do.

After all, Wang Ping regards the Prime Minister as his principle, and all his subordinates are banzhen barbarians.

If he seizes the military power on the grounds that Wang Ping does not respect the commander-in-chief, the barbarians will definitely rise up to resist and start internal strife.

The final result was that he insisted on doing it, and Wang Ping led his own troops to Zheng Pu's camp.

Well, although Wang Ping had little interaction with Zheng Pu, he left a good impression on him.

Because he and Ju Fuyin attacked Xicheng and hid in the Daba Mountains for several months, he learned about Zheng Pu's character and temperament from the mouths of Ju Fu and his subordinate Banzhen Man.

For example, when staying overnight in the Prime Minister's Mansion, he explained ancient and modern allusions to Banzhenman.

For example, following the custom of the Southern Barbarians, he made an alliance with the elder clan leader of the Rough People, who killed chickens and dogs and drank their blood to curse each other.

A general who sincerely recommends others will certainly not despise his own lack of literature and his status as a second minister.

Moreover, he still respected the Prime Minister's general order in his heart: stop the road and guard it.

And within a hundred miles, the only Han army he could find was Zheng Pu's tribe.

When Zheng Pu saw him arriving with his headquarters, he completely killed any trace of luck in his heart.

Of course!

He was still hoping that if Ma Di's troops left Xiao Pass, even if the battle was unfavorable, they would be able to hold on for a longer time. When the Prime Minister sent troops to help, he would retreat immediately and guard the Xiao Pass Road with him.

But now, the Banzhen barbarians, known as the "Magical Soldiers of Ba County" and good at mountain warfare, have returned. Can Ma Di still resist the Wei army?

Alas~~~

Things are going nowhere.

The facts are just as Zheng Pu concluded.

Ma Su, who insists on going his own way, is destined to not have good results.

Xiaoguan, which rebelled against the Wei Dynasty, had less than 200 soldiers stationed there.

It was not that the Wei army intended to surrender the pass, but that the generals who had stayed in Xiliang and Guanzhong had concluded that the Han army would not come to seize the pass.

After all, the decisive place for the battle between the two armies is the street pavilion.

If Bashu seizes this pass, it will be harmful rather than beneficial.

In other words, the defense of Xiaoguan against Wei was empty, and it was tempting the enemy to go deeper, hoping that the Han army would give up the geographical advantage to seize the pass.

Therefore, when Xiao Guan fell without a fight, Ma Su faced a nightmare.

Wei generals Dai Ling and Wei Ping heard about it and were very happy.

He then promised to conquer Yuezhi City, seize all the supplies from the rebel Yang Tiao tribe, and conscript the local Qiang and Hu tribes, with more than 2,000 soldiers. He then gave the soldiers from Anding County to his trusted generals.

, let them and the Qiang and Hu tribes continue to besiege Yuezhi City.

They don't need to be able to conquer the city, they just need to trap Yang Tiao without causing trouble.

Afterwards, the two men mobilized their entire army, with a combined force of about nine thousand, and drove towards Xiaoguan with light armor.

Ma Su led no more than 3,000 people.

And because he was less than a year old in command of the army, there were very few soldiers who were willing to die for him.

With no geographical advantage to rely on, as soon as they engaged in battle, the Wei army broke into the formation, leaving them in an uninhabited land.

In just two quarters of an hour, General Zhang Xiu was beheaded on the battlefield, and his troops suffered a massive collapse. This also caused a collapse in the morale of the other two sergeants.

The army was defeated like a mountain.

Xiao Guan changed hands again, which also caused Ma Di's ambition to collapse.

However, Dai Ling and Wei Ping, the generals against the Wei Dynasty, did not go on a mass killing spree. Instead, they ordered their soldiers to deliberately slow down their pace, hang on behind the defeated Han army, and pursue them.

It's not that they are kind-hearted, but that they have experienced wars for a long time and are well versed in the art of war.

His intention was to drive the defeated troops back and break through the other Han army camps on Xiaoguandao!

Naturally, that is Zheng Pu's headquarters.

He saw Ma Su's troops retreating from afar, and he couldn't help but curse.

Ma Di's troops were defeated so quickly that he also fell into crisis.

Originally, his camp was facing north.

Because Ma Su insisted on going his own way, he had to move his camp and set up camp again in order to take care of the attack from the east.

But in just a few days, the camp can accommodate four thousand troops, and the trivial arrangements such as food, baggage, and soldiers sleeping in military tents are the limit. As for the fortifications, repairs have barely begun!

For example, the trenches have not yet been dug, the roadblocks have not been set up, etc.

As soon as the Wei army arrives, they can rush into the formation with a long march, and directly drive the troops to fight in front of the battle!

There are only a few soldiers, and the camp is not strong, how can we resist!

In this situation, Zheng Pu became furious in an instant. What's so strange about it?

However, the matter has reached this point, and complaining cannot solve the problem.

"Array!!"

"Meet the enemy!!"

There was no need for Zheng Pu to issue an order. When they saw the defeated troops running from a distance, Jufu and others began to roar fiercely, each scolding his subordinates to prepare for the battle.

Well, in order to protect both the east and north directions, Zheng Pu's new camp was chosen at a fork in the road.

There is nothing to rely on, and there are gentle slopes on both sides that soldiers can rush up, which has great shortcomings.

Any general with a little war experience will be able to find flaws in battle.

If you can rely on the advantage of your troops, you can risk your life by charging into the formation at the front of the army, leaving Zheng Pu with no time to pay attention to the gentle slopes on both sides. Then, he will let other generals and soldiers rush up the gentle slope and use bows and arrows to suppress it, so that the Han army cannot concentrate on fighting.

With such a disadvantage, it is naturally not a good choice for Sedao Guard.

However, it was a blessing to find this place in such a hurry, and Zheng Pu could not demand too much.

His only choice was to minimize this disadvantage as much as possible, so as not to be suppressed by the counter-Wei forces who took advantage of the territory.

Therefore, the camp built was surrounded both inside and outside.

The outer perimeter was protected by Luzhai, Juma, etc., and the formation was formed in a ring with no entrance or exit gates, forcing the Wei army to fight on the front lines and climb obstacles.

In the inner circle, there are Wuhan Iron and Steel carts and carriages arranged in a semicircular and disorderly manner.

There are passages reserved on the left and right of the carriages, which may be wide or narrow, to allow soldiers to pass through; and there will be spaces in the front and rear, large or small, to allow soldiers to fight wantonly. If you look down from the sky, it will look like a mass of many people.

In the sea of ​​flowers with different flowering periods, the Wugang carts and carriages are like blooming flowers, intertwined and disorderly.

No matter whether we are enemy or friend, we cannot maintain our formation after entering the formation.

This also made the Wei army worry about accidentally injuring the robes even after occupying the gentle slopes on both sides of the mountain road, so they threw rat weapons and were unable to suppress them.

Therefore, when the defeated army of Ma Su's tribe rushed towards them, Zheng Pu's order was to kill anyone who dared to approach the perimeter, regardless of whether they were enemies or friends!

Quite cruel.

But he knows how to make the right decision when the opportunity arises.

Because those defeated troops came back to the main formation, they also became the "first to ascend first" when the Wei army charged into the formation in disguise.

"Boom!"

I saw more than ten Han soldiers in the front row, holding a stone bow and shooting upward.

The arrow drew a half arc in the sky and penetrated deeply into the soil. The red arrow tail trembled slightly.

The distance from the arrow tail to the outer Luzhai is the area known as the "death zone".

When approaching the battle, if the Wei army enters this area, they will be greeted by the crossbow arrows of the Han army.
To be continued...