Sometimes, you only know after trying hard that it doesn't help.
What's even more ironic is that the only thing that can prove if you work hard is that you are more miserable than you thought.
This was proved by General Wang Chang of Wei Zhengnan, who believed that he would be able to break through Zheng Pu's camp with absolute superiority in strength on a terrain that left no room for cunning tactics.
Because he did break the camp, but he also lost.
But he said that facing three times the Wei army, Zheng Pu dared to divide his troops and return with only more than 10,000 men to defend the not-so-strong camp. His original intention was not just to create a situation where the Han army would return to Guanzhong to garrison and force Sima Yi to launch a decisive battle as soon as possible.
He was already confident enough to defeat Wei's Jingzhou troops!
And there is no need to rely on the help of ambushes or other troops.
He used fire attacks!
Since ancient times, disasters have been more severe than water and fire, and the same is true for military conflicts.
Wang Chang, who was relied on by the Wei State to guard the Jingxiang front, was not short of generals and would naturally guard against fire and water. However, what he did not expect was that Zheng Pu would launch a fire attack at the expense of his own camp.
Of course!
In Zheng Pu's mind, there was never a passive tactic of defending the camp and waiting for the Wei army to be unable to attack for a long time and have no choice but to stop.
For him, offense is the best defense.
This is also the reason why in his letter to the prime minister, he vowed that "the decisive battle in Guanzhong was the moment when the troops of Jingzhou and Wei were defeated".
The actual operation is also very simple.
Before detaching his troops and returning to the West City, he asked his soldiers to build a small inner camp overnight - a small camp surrounded by wooden stakes. The entrance could only accommodate seven or eight people walking side by side.
This camp is also a passage, directly connected to the water-blocked valley that escapes into the Wudang Mountains.
Many rafts had already been prepared by the blocked water bank.
It is a very simple raft and cannot be used to transport supplies or ordnance.
But it was enough for the soldiers to temporarily camp and move down the river to the shore several miles away.
In other words, the Wei army, which had been eager to break through the camp, was destined to be attacked by fire at the very beginning of the attack!
If you want to take something, you must give it first.
Let me ask, Zheng Pu used the dawn of victory that the Wei army longed for as a strategy to defeat the enemy. Even if Wei Zhengnan's general Wang Chang had no shortage of generals, how could he have predicted it?
The development of the war went as planned by Zheng Pu.
When the main forces of the Wei State in Guanzhong were mobilized, Wang Chang, who had been attacking the Han army's camp for a long time, also began to attack first with his personal guard troops under the order of "must contain Ni Shu Scar Pu in the three eastern counties."
After Zheng Pu learned that Sima Yi had finally mobilized troops, he did what the Wei army wanted and had a "tacit understanding" to let the camp fall "as scheduled"
At that time, the Wei soldiers who occupied the low walls of the camp burst into cheers that shook the mountains and rivers.
Even Wang Chang, who was supervising the battle from behind, couldn't believe it.
The joy of breaking camp came too suddenly!
After all, he has been supervising the attack for more than a month, and the soldiers have suffered more than 5,000 casualties. But until today's attack on Yinshi, none of the Wei soldiers saw any hope of breaking the camp!
Who would have expected that just a quarter of an hour after the attack, the flag of Wei would be flying above the low walls of the camp?
Is it possible that Ni Shu Scar Pu learned that the decisive battle in Guanzhong was about to begin, so he quietly led his troops to escape last night, leaving only a few soldiers to guard the empty camp as a suspicious formation?
This was Wang Chang's first reaction when the Wei army soldiers burst into cheers.
But a moment later, when Sima, the frontline commander, sent someone to report and claimed that an inner camp had been built in the Nishu camp, he felt relieved.
Without him, the Wei army would have gained nothing by attacking for more than a month regardless of casualties.
For example, the Yuanrong crossbow and Dahuang crossbow in Nishu were damaged due to frequent use. The fences and low walls still made of stone and wood were also in dilapidated condition, making it difficult to protect the soldiers and continue to fight on them.
Since there is an inner camp that can continue to hold on, it is not surprising that Scar Pu gave up the outer defense.
However, Sima, who commanded the front line, sent another report, which made him suspicious again: Nishu was retreating hastily! The so-called inner camp had escaped into a water-blocked passage!
Was Scar Pu, who was dubbed "Wei's Great Trouble", defeated so easily?
For a moment, he was stunned.
But on the battlefield, opportunities are fleeting and there is no room for hesitation.
With disbelief, he would not miss the opportunity. He immediately sounded the drum and ordered the whole army to march forward to seize the camp and pursue the Shu soldiers.
No matter what, we can't let Bi Scarpu escape!
Otherwise, once he is allowed to escape to the southern foot of the Wudang Mountains through the Dushui Valley and retreat to Hanzhong, and then enter Guanzhong through the Baoxie Valley to reinforce, it will ruin the plan of Sima Yi, the governor of Yongliang!
It was also his dereliction of duty.
But it's okay.
Those Wei soldiers who had been promised generous rewards for breaking the camp before the war rushed into the camp to pursue him before the drums sounded to urge him to fight.
That's Bishu Pu!
If he is killed, the greatest credit goes to the general, but these soldiers will not be treated poorly by the emperor either.
Moreover, they were lucky enough to pursue Scar Pu without defeat, which was enough for them to brag about for the rest of their lives!
Therefore, when Wang Chang arrived at the open gate of the camp in person, he saw that the Han army was still fighting and retreating in a neat and strict formation, while the soldiers under his command had already been dazzled by the joy of breaking the camp.
, there is no formation left to speak of.
Such a situation also made his heart skip a beat.
He originally felt that the battle situation was unusual, but he found clues through the formations of the enemy and ourselves.
Outside the narrow passage that looks like an inner camp in Shushu, there are too many dead branches and firewood scattered everywhere!
And there is a faint smell of sulfur!
Even the rotting stench of countless corpses and the fishy stench of blood cannot cover it up.
How can Bi Scar Pu be defeated?
Clearly trying to lure the enemy!
"Ming Jin! Ming Jin!
"
With a horrified look on his face, he turned around and pulled away his guards, shouting at the soldiers behind him who were holding golden drums and horns, "Sing the gold quickly and have all the soldiers withdraw from the camp!"
This turn of events left all Wei soldiers stunned and puzzled.
After finally breaking through Ni Shu's camp, it was time to pursue the battle and expand the results. Why did Wang Chang pay for the gold and withdraw his troops?
However, they soon found out.
When Wang Chang discovered the clue and roared loudly, Zheng Pu, who had already retreated to the bank of the blocked water, also gave the order.
I saw countless Han soldiers holding strong bows, rounding their long bows, and shooting arrows tied with burning cloth, covering the entire camp with Zhu Rong's wrath.
The autumn air is crisp and the weather is dry.
The dead firewood mixed with grease and sulfur was ignited as scheduled.
The entire military camp burst into flames, and in a moment it connected with the outer fence, cutting off the return path of all the Wei troops who poured into the camp. What is even more desperate is that the only inner camp passage that was not on fire was the last Han soldier.
After entering, the soldiers guarding the passage cut off several ropes, causing the raft filled with sharp wood to suddenly bounce from the ground, blocking the Wei soldiers' hope of following the Han army to the waterside.
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