After the meal, the two armies chased and marched for more than ten miles. After nearly two hours of fierce fighting, the sky was already dark.
The snowflakes that want to dye all the mountains and rivers white are still flying persistently, making people's vision more limited.
Neither Han nor Wei were prepared for a night battle. If neither side could establish victory within half an hour, today's war would come to an end.
Therefore, Prime Minister Zhuge moved half of the central army to the left flank of the Wei army, hoping to defeat the Wei army's defense line from the flank.
And because of the Prime Minister's dispatch, Wei Da Sima Cao Zhen finally put the last of his troops forward.
He didn't want to miss such an opportunity.
Any qualified commander will not ignore the opportunity of the enemy's central army being weakly defended.
Although he didn't know why Prime Minister Zhuge, who was known for his cautiousness, was so bold in today's battle, Cao Zhen no longer wanted to speculate on the intention behind it.
The fighter plane is fleeting.
If he continues to wait, continues to hesitate, and waits until the Prime Minister's car also turns to the left, he will have no chance.
Perhaps this was Zhuge Liang's helpless move against Shu.
After all, when the Han army left the river valley, they gave up their geographical advantage. If they were unable to defeat the pursuing troops under his command, they would be faced with the fate of being attacked from both sides. And every day of delay would increase the danger.
Cao Zhen used this reason to convince himself.
He led the Jinshi advocate and the Chinese army's banner to move closer to the left wing to encourage morale. He also sent the last 5,000 elites and more than a thousand personal guards directly to the Han army's banner. Looking forward to these 6,000 elite troops. , before the collapse of the left-wing front caused the collapse of the entire army, the Han army's banner was captured!
Or maybe he chose a lose-lose approach.
Make sure that when your own banner is knocked down, the Han army's banner also falls into dust.
As long as the main force of the Han army can be crippled, whether both sides are injured here or return with a disastrous defeat, it will be a victory for the Wei State overall.
Because Wei Guo has enough foundation.
But Nishu didn’t!
There is no need to worry about whether he can escape if he is defeated.
It was getting dark, and Zhuge Liang had two thousand Qiang cavalry, but they could not find him accurately in the wind and snow.
Moreover, three days ago, when the leader of the army was sneaking away, he also sent people to Zuli County and once again dispatched 10,000 troops and horses from Xia Houru's command to assist in the battle.
Calculating the time, it should be a day's journey from here.
At that time, he could rely on the following 10,000 troops to gather the defeated troops and pursue them again, and catch the opportunity to attack the Han army with Fei Yao and Wei Ping.
There is no need to worry that after the troops are transferred from the ancestral calendar, Wei Yan will be high-spirited against Shu.
Xia Houru still has more than 20,000 soldiers.
This small amount of troops could no longer besiege Zuli City, but they could instead guard their own camp, which Wei Yan could not break.
To take a step back, if everything did not go as he wished, and the rear army could not catch up with the rescue force and was pursued by the Han army, the worst result would be that he died in the battle.
Even if you die in battle, you will have no regrets.
In the military life, it is a blessing to be wrapped in horse leather!
Anyway, he is no longer in his prime, has constant ailments, and his life is not long.
Not to mention, it was such an honor to die in a battle that witnessed the collapse of Bashu from then on!
So he was very decisive.
But Prime Minister Zhuge's reaction was more decisive than him.
When he saw the last mobile force of Wei Zhongjun coming towards his chariots and large banners, instead of calling for reinforcements from various units of the Chinese army, he instead urged them to speed up with thunderous trumpets and horns.
Seemingly arrogant, he planned to resist the 6,000 elite Wei army with only three schools of troops in front of his chariot.
Or they were very sure that before the 6,000 elite troops of the Wei army broke through his own formation, the Han army had already broken through the left wing of the Wei army and swept the entire battlefield, sealing the victory.
Cao Zhen didn't know where Prime Minister Zhuge's confidence came from.
But he dared to conclude that as long as these six thousand elites successfully arrived in front of Zhuge Liang's chariot, without the support of other Han troops, the Han army would either retreat hastily or be knocked down!
And the time is, at most, within half an hour!
This is not to disdain the combat power of the Han army, but to have confidence in these six thousand soldiers and horses.
Needless to say, among his more than a thousand bodyguards, no one is afraid of death if they break into the enemy's territory. And the five thousand elites are selected from hundreds of thousands of troops, all veterans of hundreds of battles. Today, they are nearly three times as many as
If the enemy could not be defeated within half an hour, then Wei would have lost the land of Yongliang long ago.
However, what he also didn't know was that at this moment, Prime Minister Zhuge finally breathed a sigh of relief.
He also stroked his beard with a smile and said with emotion, "Cao Zidan, who rebelled against Wei, has gone through hundreds of battles, but in the end he failed in his rigor!"
It is also!
The prime minister had been waiting, and Cao Zhen dispatched all mobile troops.
Because in the Prime Minister's mind, there is no suspense about the outcome of this battle.
When the strength of the troops is almost the same, various factors such as the morale, eliteness, and proficiency of the formations of the soldiers become the basis for victory or defeat. This main force was formed by the prime minister's personal martial arts training, and he is full of confidence. The reason for this
He took risks, even risking his own life and the Chinese army's banner as bait, just because he didn't want to cause too many casualties to his own soldiers.
Just as Cao Zhen hoped for the strategy of "Wei will win if both sides suffer", the Prime Minister also looked at the overall situation.
I want to try my best to avoid losing money with the Wei State and avoid falling into the helpless situation of "killing one thousand enemies and losing eight hundred to oneself".
He wanted to ensure that after this battle, the Han Dynasty would still have enough power to defeat the Wei armies such as Fei Yao, Wei Ping, Guo Huai and Xia Houru, and still have sufficient troops to recapture Hexi and suppress the ambitions of the Hexi Haoyou and Qianghu tribes.
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Similarly, the Prime Minister has never changed his cautious and considerate character.
Although this seemed to be an extremely aggressive and arrogant move, the Prime Minister did not make a desperate move.
The hope of defeating this battle was not entirely pinned on the defeat of the Wei army's left-wing front and the unpopularity of its warden Zhao Yan; nor was it believed that the troops and horses of the three schools in front of the chariot could ensure the safety of the Chinese army's general.
Because, defeating both the left and right wings of the Wei army is the prime minister's true intention!
Let Jufu and Wudang Feijun send out all the troops of the central army regardless of casualties, not only to break the Wei army's left wing, but also to lure out all its mobile troops! Let the Han army
When he suddenly launched an attack and captured the right wing, Cao Zhen was in a hurry and had no troops to send to save the battle.
Naturally, most of the Han army's forces were attacking the Wei army's left wing. It would be difficult for Meng Yan's tiger infantry and Zhuyi's two thousand Qiang cavalry to defeat the Wei army's right wing, which numbered more than 10,000 people.
At least it couldn't be done until the 6,000 elite troops of the Wei army attacked the large banner of our own central army.
Cao Zhen had anticipated this, so he ignored the abnormality of the battle on the right wing, and the Han Tiger Infantry's offensive was not intense, and sent out all the personal guards.
In fact, no one expected a miracle to happen.
Judging from the battle situation, if the tiger infantry and two thousand Qiang cavalry want to break through the right wing of the Wei army, unless an ambush suddenly intervenes and instantly breaks the balance between the two sides.
But does the Han have an ambush?
Cao Zhen’s answer is absolutely impossible.
It was impossible for him to be negligent in a war that was related to the fate of the country. He had been in the military for decades.
For example, he ordered his scouts to find out all the troops and horses of the Han army here, and he kept them under constant surveillance without neglecting them for a moment.
Now, all the troops of the Han army are here, where is the ambush?
The answers of the generals of the Han army were the same as Cao Zhen, except for the prime minister and the leader of the Tiger Infantry Army, Meng Yan.
