The battlefield is extremely dangerous. Although war is ultimately a contest of strength, it is normal for a comeback to occur in a certain area. The generals on both sides use their own strategies, deception and counter-deception, concealment and counter-concealment.
Don't always compete with each other's wisdom.
To show one's weakness, to take advantage of one's strength, to show one's weakness, and to show one's presence, this is the highest level of war that never tires of deceit. Wei Ba holds 800 soldiers, which can be said to be the strongest among the Shu and Han armies in Wuguan Road.
A force, but it has been hidden behind the scenes. Even when the Wuguan offensive and defensive battle was at its most difficult, he did not take action. This gave Sima Shi an illusion. Wei Ba only had so many people and his strength was limited, so as long as he stayed
He did not dare to challenge a thousand cavalrymen during the day, so he could only engage in some indecent harassment at night.
If it weren't for the eight hundred soldiers, Wei Ba would not dare. If it weren't for the help of stirrups, Wei Ba wouldn't dare either. However, now that he has two sharp weapons unknown to Sima Shi, he has enough confidence to attack
These thousand Wei army knights were exhausted both physically and mentally.
This is Wei Ba's true strength. Only Wei Ba himself knows these strengths. Even Deng Zhi does not understand them all. As for Sima Shi, he knows nothing about them. It is precisely because Wei Ba knows the power of some strengths that he
Only then did he dare to change his plan midway and trick Sima Division into dividing his troops.
In this round of fraud and counter-fraud, Wei Ba won.
A thousand cavalrymen who had lost their speed quickly lost their combat effectiveness under the siege of the Wei family soldiers and more than a thousand Guanzhong Qu. About three hundred people died in the battle, and the others knelt down and surrendered.
Compared with these reduced soldiers, Wei Ba was even happier with the nearly 700 war horses.
The Shu Han lacks high-quality war horses. War horses have always been the most popular trophy among the Shu Han army. Giving a good horse to someone is similar to giving a luxury car to later generations. Strictly speaking, it is a heavy gift. Wei Ba had ambushed several times before.
It was only a dozen or twenty horses as trophies, but this time he got more than 700 war horses, which really made him happy.
In this way, he had captured 800 horses from the Wei army one after another, which was greater than the harvest in the last battle of Anqiao Fortress.
It seems that if you want to capture more war horses, you have to rob the cavalry.
Wei Ba called Ma Cao and others to him, pointed to the nearly one hundred horses that were injured and could not be ridden temporarily and needed medical treatment, and said to them: "You have done meritorious service in this battle. You should have all these trophies."
But I am in urgent need of cavalry to pursue the Sima Division, so I took all these intact horses away. Although these more than 100 horses suffered some injuries, they were not serious. After being cured, they will not affect riding.
, I will distribute the other spoils to you, and I will give you corresponding compensation. How about that?"
Ma Cao and others were also covetous of these war horses, but they also knew that the biggest contribution in today's battle was Wei Ba's. Look at his eight hundred soldiers, and then look at the tribes around them, and others.
After a comparison, the gap was huge. Wei Ba was generous enough to distribute more than a hundred lightly injured horses to them, not to mention the other trophies would be replenished. So they thanked them continuously without saying anything.
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Wei Ba immediately asked Ma Cao and Geng Ping to stay in Shang County, and Jin Quan escorted the prisoners and headed west. He personally led the Wei soldiers who had changed their horses to pursue westward, looking for an opportunity to defeat Sima Division again. Although he tried his best to defeat the Wei army
They were all blocked in the camp, but he had no way to control the scouts outside the camp. Within half a day, Sima Division would definitely receive the battle report.
The soldiers were quick and without further ado, Wei Ba immediately set off on the road with more than 800 Wei family soldiers, chasing all the way west. When he was in Wuguan, he processed a large number of stirrups, and the soldiers each had one. Whoever grabbed the war horse
, whoever puts it on first. Although it is still short of a high-bridge saddle and the stability is still insufficient, compared to these soldiers who are accustomed to not using stirrups, only stirrups can greatly improve combat effectiveness and reduce the fatigue of riding a horse.
Riding a horse does not mean that they are cavalry. At best, they are infantry walking on horses. If they want to be proficient in fighting on horses, they still need hard training and time. Fortunately, these warriors have practiced martial arts since childhood, are flexible and are not afraid of hardship.
, training is much faster than ordinary people.
However, now, Wei Ba has not yet become confident enough to immediately use them as cavalry. It is one thing to attack those thousand cavalry, but it is another thing to compete head-on with Cao Wei's elite cavalry. This will not happen in a short period of time.
He couldn't bear to send these future elite cavalry to be slaughtered.
However, it is more than enough to use war horses to speed up the march. At the same time, it can also allow them to practice riding skills, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.
With the war horses, Wei Ba's marching speed immediately increased a lot. The Wei family's soldiers are known as the strongest infantry. They are fully armed and can run fifty miles in half a day. However, compared with war horses, war horses are still faster after all. Running fifty miles in half a day is just a piece of cake.
One dish. With war horses to travel around, these Wei family soldiers can still maintain their physical strength and their combat effectiveness can be further developed.
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Master Sima easily caught up with Deng Zhi in just over an hour.
Deng Zhi had been marching for more than three hours, covering nearly a hundred miles, and was still more than forty miles away from Shangluo. His soldiers were exhausted. Since Sima Division was already behind him, it was unrealistic to escape again.
No matter how fast your legs run, you can't run faster than a horse. Once you escape, it will easily lead to a rout. More than two thousand people will die here, and the accompanying people will also suffer heavy casualties. The happiest people should be the captives, they can
Returned to the arms of the Wei army.
Deng Zhi didn't run away anymore. He set up a formation and prepared for a fierce battle with Sima Shi. He had his confidence. First, he was in a winding mountainous area, and Danshui followed the terrain and circled several times.
The bend is like a zigzag ribbon, forming several highlands near the water, which is suitable for blocking. Secondly, behind him, reinforcements from the direction of Shangluo are coming, and behind the Sima Division, there are
Wei Ba's more than two thousand people.
Although Deng Zhi knew that Wei Ba was determined to regain military power, Deng Zhi believed that Wei Ba would not bury all two thousand of his men in the hands of Sima Division just for the sake of power struggle. Not only because these people were originally Zhao Yun's subordinates.
, and it is also related to Deng Zhi's understanding of Wei Ba. Deng Zhi could see that Wei Ba was not the kind of person who would do whatever it took to achieve his goals. He was new to officialdom and was full of tricks, but ruthlessness was far from enough.
It is precisely because of this that Deng Zhi dared to show his respect for Zhuge Liang in front of Wei Ba.
He wanted to do his best to bridge the rift between Zhuge Liang and Wei Ba. Although he didn't know what the conflict was between them, Zhuge Liang asked the Wei family and his son to guard Guanzhong, while he led the main force to send troops to Longyou to buy time for himself.
, the purpose of taking the opportunity to consume Wei Yan's strength is self-evident. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that after this battle is over, the losses of the Wei family's soldiers are too great. Even if Zhuge Liang gives him more troops, he will not be able to let him go in a short period of time.
Wei Yan regained his strength.
It can be said that Wei Yan's loss of strength is a good thing not only for Zhuge Liang, but also for the entire Shu Han Dynasty. Because everyone knows that Wei Yan's temper is destined to not be an obedient subordinate.
As a Jingxiang native, Deng Zhi did not want to see Wei Ba and Zhuge Liang become rivals. This would not only harm the Shu Han regime, but also harm the Jingxiang interest groups. He wanted to use his special status to help them connect, at least to maintain
restraint.
He set his target on Wei Ba because he believed that Wei Ba would not ignore the overall situation. After all, he was a young man who had just entered the official career and had a rare kindness. After he had been immersed in the officialdom for a few more years, Deng Zhi
I definitely wouldn't say that, and of course I wouldn't dare to pin my hopes of victory on Wei Ba.
Deng Zhi ordered the baggage carts to be pushed to the front of the formation, and three lines of defense were set up between the hillside and Fanshui. Behind each line of defense were a hundred sword and shield bearers, spearmen and a hundred crossbowmen. Behind the defense line
After that, he lined up more than a dozen continuous ballista vehicles, ready to launch at any time.
In order to increase his defensive strength, Deng Zhi selected more than 200 people from the accompanying people and asked them to help load the arrows. Even the arrows on the ballista were pre-arranged and needed people to load them in time. There were no technical requirements for this job.
, these civil servants are fully qualified.
In order to prevent the prisoners from taking the opportunity to cause trouble, Deng Zhi showed his cruel side. He brought the prisoners who were not very obedient along the way to the front of the formation, poked a hole in their palms with a knife, and then passed them through with a rope.
They formed a string and lined up in front of the formation as a bunker. If the Wei army launched a charge, they would trample over their bodies. If they tried to escape, the arrows of the Shu Han army behind them would shoot them down mercilessly.
More than fifty prisoners screamed and cried bitterly. They held their bloody hands and knelt on the river beach in front of the battle, shouting and cursing. Deng Zhi didn't care at all that they scolded his ancestors, and he wiped them with the soles of his boots.
Looking at the blood on the sword, he said coldly to the remaining prisoners: "If you want to survive, just stay here honestly, otherwise I won't mind sending you home. Kill one, kill a hundred."
Everyone is killed, and whoever wants to try the sword can come forward."
He sneered again and continued: "I know you don't like me. To be honest, I don't like you either. I originally wanted to kill you all to avoid wasting food. It was Wei Shenjun who took pity on you and interceded for you.
This saves you a life. Speaking of which, you are much luckier than Master Sima, because you survived after all. But they..."
He pointed at Sima Division, who was slowly approaching from the east, and said loudly: "That's not necessarily the case. Do you think we can't defeat him and are running away? Wrong. We deliberately led Sima Division here to lure the enemy deeper.
, do you understand? Sima Yi's army is still two hundred miles away. If his son dares to chase here with thousands of cavalry, wouldn't he be asking for death? To tell you the truth, we have already dug a hole.
I'm burying Master Sima's little boy. If you want to die with him, I don't mind digging a bigger hole."
The prisoners were so frightened by Deng Zhi that their faces turned pale. They didn't understand the tactics. They only knew that they were tricked by Deng Zhi in Wuguan and became prisoners in a daze. Even the general Hu Zun was captured. But they were already fine.
I haven’t seen Hu Zun for a few days, and I don’t know whether Hu Zun is dead or alive. Now Sima Division has arrived with three thousand cavalry. Who knows whether he will be tricked by Deng Zhi like Hu Zun?
The prisoners were coaxed and frightened by Deng Zhi, and they squatted in the back, no one dared to move. Deng Zhi calmed the prisoners, and then returned to the front of the formation, looking at the charge in the distance with a murderous look. The knights of the Wei army who were preparing in advance sneered, stood on the slope beside them, raised their arms and shouted:
"Soldiers, prepare to fight——"
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