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.
But now, it was Ma Su's defeated troops who were the first to receive the crossbow arrows.
Many soldiers who fled in a hurry rushed in without paying any attention to the flags in Zheng Pu's army that signaled them to march along the gentle slopes on both sides.
"put!"
The commander of Jufu, who was leading the line on the east side, immediately roared like thunder.
Nearly a hundred crossbow bolts broke free from the crossbow strings, and with a sharp sound of breaking through the air, they quickly penetrated into the body of Pao Ze. The defeated soldiers fleeing in the front row were like waves of wheat swept by a strong wind, and they fell to the ground in an instant. If you can't afford it, mourning will be everywhere.
The defeated soldiers who were lucky enough to escape the disaster suddenly stood up and stopped abruptly.
His eyes were full of fear, and his face was full of disbelief.
They could not imagine that Paoze, who had not died under the sword of the Ni Wei Dynasty, was actually killed by the Han army.
Immediately, some people's eyes began to become bloodshot.
There were pursuers behind them, and friendly troops in front of them ruthlessly blocked the way. They felt that there was no way to survive, and the violence in their hearts burned their rationality crazily.
They were defeated.
Now it has been abandoned again.
This thought turned into indignation and a look of determination.
"kill!"
Raising the sharp blades in their hands, they moved forward bravely, rushing towards Zheng Pu's military formation without fear of death.
Perhaps they felt that compared to the killings by the Wei army, the intolerance of their own army was even more unforgivable.
However, the neat sound of crossbow strings sounded again in the Han army's formation, making their outcome without exception.
Fortunately, two consecutive waves of ruthlessly killing crossbow bolts allowed more people to see clearly, and Zheng Pu's army flags signaled them to rush up the gentle slope and return to camp.
"Up the mountain!"
"Uphill!"
Finally, the scolding voices of generals and subordinates at all levels in Ma Su's army came belatedly.
More than a thousand defeated troops were in a mess, like a piece of bamboo split open by a bamboo pole, flowing into the gentle slopes on both sides, and followed the Wei army further away, and all of them appeared.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
Seeing that the attempt to drive the defeated troops back was ineffective, thunderous war drums sounded in the Wei formation.
They only formed a slight formation, but they were not willing to delay for a moment. Under the leadership of their respective uncles, they charged into the formation with all their might.
The timing is just right.
Because the crossbow bolt is much slower than the bow and arrow.
The defeated troops of Ma Su's tribe helped them resist two waves of crossbow bolts in disguise.
Therefore, after they rushed into the half-arrowed place, the neat sound of crossbow strings sounded again in the Han army's formation.
There was no surprise. Just like the defeat of Ma Su's troops just now, the Wei troops who were rushing in the front row fell to the ground in front of powerful crossbows that could penetrate armor.
However, their corpses were trampled by countless big feet.
The entire Wei army charged forward, rushing forward like an earth dragon, only for Zheng Pu's army to fire another wave of crossbow bolts, which then slammed into the outer Luzhai.
"Spear front!"
"Spear front!"
The generals at all levels of the Han army were shouting loudly.
The crossbowmen quickly retreated to the inner perimeter and reorganized their formation to guard the area, while the spearmen protruded forward, with nearly ten feet of spears resting on the edge of the shields of the armored men with large oars at the front, as lush as a forest.
But the Wei army who rushed to the front showed no fear at all on their faces.
They are all under the command of General Wei Ping.
Having been stationed in Anding County for a long time, which is turbulent and has strong folk customs, I have long been accustomed to seeing life and death, and I have long ignored life and death.
"kill!"
"Kill! Kill!!"
They roared and roared.
Using the shield as protection, the flesh and blood body turned into a chariot and slammed into the Han army's oar.
Some people were so unwilling that they drank in hatred under the sharp spears.
But more people, with high morale, broke through the obstacles of the big oar warriors, and the hand-to-hand combat officially started.
Thanks to the defeat of his own troops, Zheng Pu set up camp and set up a strong crossbow formation, but he did not hold out for a quarter of an hour, and fell into the outcome that the Han army least wanted to see.
The Han army has too few troops!
He couldn't stand it at all, and he fought hard with the Wei army and suffered losses.
Zheng Pu, who was supervising the battle from the rear, had eyes that were about to spit fire.
There was blood oozing out from the hand holding the flag.
It was because of excessive force that the fingernails pierced the palms of the hands.
"Zijin, me."
With a very weak call, Ma Su appeared in front of Zheng Pu with his face full of guilt and embarrassment.
Of course.
He did not escape alone.
Instead, they followed the defeated troops and entered the back of the camp along the gentle slopes on both sides.
I also came to look for Zheng Pu and wanted to express my guilt.
However, before he could finish his narration, he was interrupted by Zheng Pu who raised his hand rudely, "Ma Shenjun will quickly take your troops away from this place!"
Without waiting for Ma Su's answer, he turned his head and scolded Qi Yacuo, the subordinate who served as the commander of the tribe, "Within a quarter of an hour, all those defeated troops who do not leave the camp will be killed!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he strode forward by himself, leaving only his horse's red face floating around, and his eyes full of shame.
In fact, Zheng Pu was not humiliating him.
But the war situation was critical and the defeated troops under his command could not be allowed to remain in the camp.
Because they are already panic-stricken dogs, and they have just been killed twice more by Zheng Punu. If they stay here, they will not be able to fight side by side, and it will also shake the morale of the army.
It's harmful and useless, so it's better to drive him out as soon as possible.
Furthermore, regardless of whether he needed to supervise the battle at any time or not, he was in no mood to talk to Ma Su.
At least not yet.
"Fight to the death!"
Jufu, who was on the front line, fought hard and roared with the help of his bodyguards.
However, even though he was extremely brave and stood firm in the formation, he was still unable to stop him. As Wei troops continued to come in, his formation was riddled with holes.
The troops were fighting hand to hand, but within two quarters of an hour, the Jufu Department was in a state of collapse.
The soldiers who lost their neat formation and relied on each other had no choice but to gather around the commander, team leader and other junior colonels, and fight on their own.
Just like a small boat in the ocean, it is constantly being hit by rough waves.
Some ride the wind and waves and stand proudly.
But many more were destroyed by the endless waves, and became lonely ghosts who could not return to their hometown under the sword of the Wei army.
In other words, if the Jufu tribe does not retreat within a quarter of an hour, they will be completely surrounded and strangled in the vast sea of Wei troops.
Zheng Pu, who was watching the battle from behind, had both eyes red.
No longer hesitating, he turned to Wang Ping and ordered, "Zijun, speed headquarters, go and cover Xiaoxing's retreat to the inner perimeter!"
