Chapter 168 When I look at this person, there will be an arrow in the knee
Chapter 168 If I look at this person, I will definitely get an arrow in the knee.
There are only eight short words in the military order: Have sufficient equipment and attack Liang on a certain day.
After Ma Su read the military order, he was silent.
The current situation in Yongliang Prefecture is not optimistic.
After Cao Pi came to power, he restored Jiuzhou to fourteen states. At that time, Yongzhou had twelve counties under its jurisdiction. After Wudu and Yinping were taken away by the Shu Han, only Fengyi on the left, Fufeng, Jingzhao, Xinping, Beidi, Longxi, and Longxi were left in Yongzhou.
Nan'an, Tianshui, Anding, Guangwei ten counties.
The last five counties are all located on the right side of Longxi, adjacent to Wudu County of Shuhan, and are the frontline positions of the two countries.
Liangzhou has eight counties under its jurisdiction: Zhangye, Jiuquan, Dunhuang, Xihai, Xijun, Xiping, Jincheng and Wuwei.
Moreover, because the five counties to the west of Liangzhou are desolate, have various forces, and have a sparse population, the main force of the Wei army is currently stationed in the three counties to the east of Liangzhou.
Xu Miao, the governor of Liangzhou, led 3,000 soldiers and horses in Wuwei, Guo Huai, the guard Qiang captain, led 3,000 soldiers and horses in Jincheng, and General Fei Yao led 3,000 soldiers and horses in Xiping.
These three people are also Ma Su's main opponents. Of course, there are two groups of troops that cannot be ignored, namely Zhang He's 20,000 troops stationed in Tianshui County, and the 3,000 troops of Longxi Prefect You Chu.
In other words, once a fight breaks out, you must be mentally prepared to fight one against five.
Regardless of the quantity or quality of his troops, Ma Di did not have the upper hand.
Coupled with the hasty army, the situation is very serious.
But Ma Di has never been a person who gives up when faced with difficulties. Now he has grown to the point where he can confront the Wei army head-on without simulating battle situations.
The confidence comes from talent and the newly formed 30,000 cavalry.
Therefore, as soon as he received the order, Ma Su mobilized 10,000 elite Qiang cavalry from the Shenlang Qiang and joined Zhao Yun's 20,000 elite cavalry to attack Jincheng.
Zhang Xiu, Hezhi Shimeng, A Da brothers and others all joined the army. Now the eight brothers are proud of themselves, each in charge of a thousand Qiang soldiers.
In August of the eighth year of Jianxing (230), Ma Su led 30,000 cavalry roaring down from the plateau and surrounded Jincheng.
At the same time, Ma Di ordered Wu Yi, who was stationed in Xixian County, to move his army north to attack Tianshui. He also sent a letter to Ke Bineng, the leader of Zhongxianbei, inviting him to raise troops to Shicheng, look at Longyou, respond to the Shu army, and carve up Wei.
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After hearing the news, Cao Rui ordered Cao Shuang's 30,000 troops to step up the attack on Hanzhong; he ordered Sima Yi's 80,000 troops to guard Guanzhong to contain Zhuge Liang; he also appointed Zhang He as the governor of Yongliang and sent an additional 30,000 troops to lead Fei Yao and Dai.
Ling, You Chu, Guo Huai and others resisted Ma Di.
At the same time, he ordered Yu Fuluo, the leader of Western Xianbei, and Wang Meng, the governor of Youzhou, to go together to seize Kebineng's tribe.
At this point, Wei and Shu were at full-scale war on four fronts.
As soon as Sun Quan saw that Wei had deployed more than 200,000 troops on the western front and was fighting a bloody battle with the Shu Han, he personally led an army of 100,000 to attack Hefei, and ordered Lu Xun to wait for an opportunity to attack Xiangyang. Zhuge Jin recovered Jiangxia County in the north of the Yangtze River.
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While Cao Rui ordered the generals of Xiangyang and Jiangxia to defend the city, he personally led his army to Hefei to fight against Sun Quan.
Longyou battlefield.
Zhang He ordered Dai Ling to lead 4,000 elite troops to garrison Shanggui, while he led 40,000 troops to advance westward to rescue Jincheng.
After several years of preparation, Ma Su was waiting for the decisive battle on this day. Even though A Xiu Tong's 5,000 men continued to besiege the city, he and Zhao Yun personally led 25,000 fine cavalry to face Zhang He.
To the east of Jincheng, on the Longxi Di Road, the two parties arrived as scheduled and set up their formations.
Zhang He was well aware that the Shu army was a mixture of Han and Qiang and had different arrangements, so he planned to overwhelm Ma Su's motley army with one or a few charges, and then win a hearty victory and wash away the shame of the previous losing streak.
But when I walked to the end of the field and took a look, I suddenly took over a hundred breaths of cold air.
On the Longxi Di Road, which is a flat river, there is an earthen city three feet high and several miles in diameter standing every few miles. These earthen cities are not high and not strong, but they can easily stop the Wei cavalry from charging.
At the same time, the scouts who went to Jincheng to inquire about the battle reported back: Outside the four gates of Jincheng, an earthen city stood on each side, blocking the way out of the city for the Wei soldiers in the city.
Seeing that Ma Su was holding on despite the danger and refused to fight, Zhang He was helpless.
After more than 30 years in the army, this was the second time he saw this shameless fighting style.
The first time was also Ma Su's. During the Battle of Weixian, the Tucheng that rose out of thin air left him helpless.
Originally, Jincheng had four gates: east, west, north and south. The soldiers and civilians in the city could go wherever they wanted.
But now the four gates were forcibly blocked by the four earthen cities built by Ma Su, and the Wei army in the city suddenly became a turtle in the urn.
Zhang He originally thought that with the cavalry, the Shu army would become wilder and more aggressive, daring to confront him, the king of field battles in the world.
I didn't expect to stay in the city and be a turtle.
How to fight this?
There's no way to fight this!
Zhang He did not stay where he was for long, so he withdrew his army twenty miles, dug a trench around the camp, and confronted the Shu army, without fighting for the time being.
The main reason is that there is no way to fight.
The Shu army only besieged Jincheng but did not attack it. They all huddled in the earth city, like hedgehogs, with nowhere to attack.
Zhang He believed that the Shu army had traveled far from the Qiang region, and "the army alone had little food and could not last long." He must want to win a quick victory. Therefore, he should station the army here, personally lead his troops to contain Ma Su, and then separate out several groups of surprise troops.
, outflank the Shu army's rear route and cut off its food route.
It stands to reason that this strategy captures the essence of cavalry field warfare and cannot be described as imperfect.
However, after Zhang He divided his troops and left, he suffered successive defeats.
The small groups of troops sent out were wiped out time after time.
The Shu army seemed to be able to count, and every time the Wei cavalry ran out not far away, a group of Shu cavalry would smell the smell and chase after them, killing them with all their might.
The Shu general Zhao Yun, the partial general Zhang Xiu, and the Qiang king Axiu took turns to lead the troops and defeated the Wei army.
After several battles, more than a thousand low-ranking officers of the Wei army were beheaded, and the trophies obtained included five thousand war horses, five thousand mysterious armors, and more than three thousand horned crossbows.
The 40,000 Wei soldiers lost thousands without realizing it.
Zhang He was shocked and never dared to send small groups of soldiers to fight easily. Except for Dai Ling, the other generals of the Wei army asked Zhang He to attack the city several times, but Zhang He refused. The generals were very dissatisfied and ridiculed him: "The public fears Shu like a tiger.
Make the world laugh!"
Even so, Zhang He still withstood the pressure and held a stalemate with Ma Su in the east of Jincheng.
In September, Fei Yao, the prefect and general of the rear of Xiping, led 3,000 soldiers and horses to come to the rescue. As soon as he left the city, he was massacred by the 5,000 Shu troops who had been waiting for a long time.
Seeing this, Xu Miao, the prefect of Wuwei who wanted to send troops to attack Ma Su, immediately chose to defend the city and hold his troops still.
In mid-September, seeing that the siege of Jincheng was still there and that the food and grass in the city were at the bottom, the guard general Guo Huai kept sending out distress signals. Zhang He and the other two generals decided to send troops at the same time to attack the Shu army from the east, north and west.
But before the three parties could coordinate their troops, they received news that Ma Di was leading the army to retreat.
The four Wei generals gathered in Jincheng, demolished the Tucheng, and discussed whether to pursue Ma Su.
Although they did not understand Ma Su's intention of sending troops to besiege Jincheng for a month without attacking the city once, they knew that if the Shu army retreated and did not pursue it, they would miss a good opportunity!
Guo Huai, Fei Yao, and Xu Miao all suggested pursuing the enemy. The reason was that the Shu soldiers would have to run out of food and retreat. If they pursued at this time, they could win a complete victory.
Dai Ling lowered his head and hid behind him without saying a word.
Zhang He believed that "the troops must be surrounded when they are surrounded, and they must not be stopped when they return" and did not want to pursue the Shu army, especially the Shu army led by Ma Di.
The reason is that in the last battle of Chencang, Wang Shuang's army was wiped out because of his pursuit of Ma Su. Ma Su was cunning and insidious, and he was very evil in his military tactics, so he should not act rashly.
However, all the generals persuaded Zhang He to pursue him, and they showed their bad temper. Especially Guo Huai, the captain of the Qiang Protector School, was particularly excited.
He was unreasonably blocked in the city by Ma Su for more than a month. He didn't even get a sip of clean water, and he was so frustrated that he had nowhere to vent his frustration.
Seeing that it was difficult to disobey the public opinion, Zhang He had no choice but to lead four generals and 30,000 cavalry to pursue the Shu army.
But after chasing for hundreds of miles, not even a single Shu soldier was seen.
When the generals were wondering, scouts from the rear came to report that Jincheng County had been captured by the Shu army. The Shu army was looting the treasury in the city, arresting the gentry, and dividing the property and food equally.
Fei Yao was shocked when he heard this and urged Zhang He to return to rescue Jincheng.
Helpless, Zhang He had no choice but to turn around and fight to Jincheng.
However, the Shu army had already left the city empty.
The scouts came again to report that Wuwei City had been breached.
Zhang He had to leave 3,000 men behind to help Guo Huai garrison Jincheng, and led two others to rescue him.
Under Wuwei City.
Ma Di ordered his soldiers to loot Wuwei City, distribute all the gold, silver, jewelry, and food in the treasury to the people, and told them that as long as they took these belongings and fled to Qiang land or Xi County, they could live a good life.
By the time Zhang He led his army to Wuwei City, the city was in a mess and the people were scattered in all directions.
Xu Miao was annoyed and lowered his head in shame.
Zhang He didn't blame him much. He left only 3,000 troops and took his lieutenants Dai Ling and Fei Yao to rush to Xiping County without stopping.
There was no way, when he came to rescue Wuwei, Xiping County also fell.
After this guerrilla battle was over, Zhang He's inner anger could hardly be suppressed.
I think he was the most powerful general in the Wei Dynasty. He had been fighting for a lifetime, but when he got old, he was defeated and played by a young junior again and again.
It is tolerable, but what is intolerable!
When the army arrived at Xiping County, Zhang He once again left three thousand soldiers and horses to help Fei Yao defend the city, and then rode away.
At this time, Fei Yao, who had realized Ma Su's power, was shocked. He quickly stopped in front of Zhang He's horse and advised him: "General, think twice. There are less than 30,000 soldiers and horses under your command now. You must not pursue him!"
Seeing this, Zhang He stared straight at Fei Yao without saying a word, and the atmosphere almost solidified.
Among those who initially encouraged the pursuit, Fei Yao was the one who jumped the most. Now the Wei State has suffered such a big loss, with countless property losses and countless people fleeing.
You actually said forget it?
That’s not true!
Fei Yao was so ashamed by Zhang He that he had to get out of the way and watched Zhang He lead his army to pursue south.
On a gentle slope a hundred miles away from Shaodangqiang, Ma Su glanced at the 30,000 fine horsemen behind him, looked at the generals on his left and right, and sneered.
This ten-mile-long gentle slope was the burial place he chose for Zhang He.
"Old General Zhao, when Zhang He's troops arrive later, use this bow to shoot at his knees!!"
"Only shoot the knee?" Zhang Yun was startled.
"Youchang, you probably don't know that within a hundred steps of Zhao, there are no false starts. He will hit wherever he points!"
The implication is that he can directly shoot Zhang He's vitals without the trouble of shooting his knee.
Zhang Xiu patted his chest and stood up: "General, what about me? I shot him in the knee too?!"
Ma Di shook his head: "Zhang He is quite powerful, so it is not safe to shoot other parts."
There was one more sentence that Ma Di couldn't help but say.
Zhang He has a magical knee with the ability to absorb arrows.
It's almost time to send him off.
Zhao Yun and Zhang Xiu looked at each other, each thinking.
Thanks to: Qi Feilan for the 1300 coin reward.
Thanks to: Baoqing Fisherman for the 1500 coin reward.
