Wei Ba's sixteen words have two contents, one is strategy and the other is power and tricks, but there is no tactics involved. The reason is very simple. He knows very well what kind of person his father Wei Yan is, and he was taught a lesson by his son - no matter what his son
How outstanding it is - it is an unbearable thing. If he talks too much, he will have a rebellious mentality. More importantly, he knows that his father is no worse than anyone in tactics and does not need his reminder at all.
The purpose of sending Fa Miaolai was to help him guard against his own people, which was what Wei Yan lacked the most.
Wei Yan did not express any opinions and acquiesced to Fa Miao's follow. After he led his army to cross the Yellow River from Longmen Mountain, he quickly entered Pingyang County, Sizhou. Both sides prepared for so long and maintained a high level of vigilance. The Wei army was in Longmen Mountain.
The alert force was also arranged, but facing the sudden attack of 15,000 Shu Han elite cavalry, more than 3,000 Wei army infantry cavalry had no power to stop them, so they could only retreat to Pi City. Seeing Wei Yan and Wu Yi disappeared in the north
The sky.
The news was delivered to Qin Lang, Xiahou Ba. Xiahou Ba did not dare to neglect and immediately led 10,000 cavalry to pursue him. He was not afraid of Wei Yan and Wu Yi plundering some property or attacking Hedong in reverse. Most of Bingzhou has now become Hu people.
There is basically no property for them to plunder in the pastoral areas, and there are also heavy troops to defend in the Shangdang area. It is difficult to pose any threat with Wei Yan's strength alone. What he is worried about is that Wei Yan goes north along the Great Wall and shakes the Wei army in Bingzhou and Youzhou.
Control and take away the last horse-raising land of Wei. Without Liangzhou, Wei's cavalry advantage was almost over. If he lost control of Bingzhou and Youzhou, the national destiny of Wei would almost end.
Xiahou Ba chased him closely. Wei Yan and Wu Yi were advancing all the way. The two sides were always a day or two apart, and they rushed into Jiuyuan, Yanmen, and Yunzhong one after another.
Xiahou Ba complained. He couldn't figure out what Wei Yan wanted to do, whether he wanted to fight or escape? He had not fought a war, and ran for half a month in one go, running thousands of miles. What was he going to do, raiding Jizhou for a long distance?
As time goes by, Xiahou Ba is getting farther and farther away from the main force. He is in a dilemma. It is not to retreat, but he cannot catch up. He must be careful. The difference between the forces between the two sides is not big. There is no main force to cover it. The roles of hunters and hunters
It may be exchanged at any time. What makes Xiahou Ba even more trouble is that when he chased him out, he never expected that this would be the result. The food and supplies were limited, and the longer the time, the more dangerous it was for him.
But retreating is not enough. Wei Yan has come here. If he doesn't restrain himself, no one knows what he will do next.
The north wind was getting tighter and the cold air was pressing, and Xiahou Ba felt a little cold. He felt that things were a little out of control.
When Xiahou Ba began to pursue Wei Yan, Zhuge Liang led the main force out of Tongguan, and Jiang Wei was the vanguard. He fought with the main force of the Wei army led by Cao Zhen for three days in Fenglingdu. Cao Zhen was overworked and fell ill again. The Wei army, who lost Cao Zhen's command, finally supported it.
Unable to stop, he had to retreat and abandon the Henan position.
Jiang Wei crossed the Yellow River and broke into Hedong County. Qin Lang led more than 10,000 infantry and cavalry to support and took over Cao Zhen's troops. The two sides fought another battle, and the stalemate was still in stalemate. Zhuge Liang led the main force to arrive, defeating the Wei army again, beheading more than 10,000 people, and forcing them to force them.
Shan County. Jiang Wei led the vanguard into Hangu and advanced all the way to Hangu Pass.
The news reached Luoyang, and Luoyang was shocked, and the proposal to move the capital was once again riotous. After consulting several important officials, Cao Rui flatly ordered that those who dared to move the capital beheaded. At the same time, he sent Xinpi as an envoy and held a letter of justice.
Gu Pass, ordered Cao Zhen to return to Luoyang to recuperate, handed over all the troops to Qin Lang's command, and ordered Tian Yu to lead an army of 20,000 to defend Xin'an. Qin Lang led an army of 30,000 to defend Hangu Pass, ready to support Tian Yu at any time.
Tian Yu and Qin Lang dared not be negligent and quickly strengthened the city defenses of Xin'an and Hangu Pass, preparing to fight the Shu Han army to death here. Hangu Pass is one of the eight passes of Luoyang. Once the Shu Han army breaks through Hangu Pass, Luoyang will
It's like opening the door to them.
After Jiang Wei arrived in Xin'an, he was not in a hurry to attack the city. He set up a camp to prevent the Wei army from counterattacking. At the same time, he was ready to attack the city and waited for Zhuge Liang to lead the army to arrive before launching an attack.
When Zhuge Liang's flag was victorious and he was moving forward quickly, Sun Quan also launched an attack on Shouchun. Lu Xun commanded a 50,000 army to surround Shouchun. More than 800 thunderbolt chariots were lined up on the earth slope outside the city, and stone bombs were like hail.
He usually rushed towards Shouchun City. Man Chong fought back and built more than 600 thunderbolt chariots on the inner city wall, attacking the Wu army through the outer city.
Both sides were evenly matched, with thick smoke rolling on the position, poisonous gas choking, and equipment and corpses shattered by stone bombs everywhere. Although the Wei army had a large number of thunderbolt chariots, the reserves of stone bombs and fire bombs were not as sufficient as those of the Wu army. After a day and a night,
In the attack, the Wei army's stone bullets were exhausted and the fire bullets were also consumed. They could no longer resist the attacks of the Wu army. Pan Zhang and Zhu Ran attacked Shouchun's city walls one after another.
Man Chong had no choice but to abandon the city and break through.
Lu Xun commanded the army to chase and push the front line to the Great Gou area.
The rapid breakthrough of Shouchun allowed Sun Quan to see the power of the new tactics, and also brought him great confidence, and also brought him new difficulties: the fire bombs were consumed too quickly, and the first batch of purchased ones were purchased.
There are only more than 100,000 fire bombs left, which is not enough to cope with the next attack.
Sun Quan originally wanted to wait before talking, but unexpectedly, in the next battle in Chen County, he immediately suffered. The Wei army successfully suppressed the Wu army's attack with more fire bombs, and counterattacked when the Wu army was caught off guard, although Lu Xun
The command was properly blocked the Wei army's counterattack, but a large number of thunderbolt chariots were also poured on oil by the Wei army, and the fire was burned out. The civilians and soldiers who operated the thunderbolt chariots suffered heavy casualties.
Only then did Sun Quan realize that Wei State bought more fire bombs from Wei Ba, the total number of the two batches reached 800,000. After learning that Shouchun was lost, Cao Rui urgently allocated 200,000 to Chen County, that is,
In order to teach Wu Jun a lesson.
The battle between the two sides is no longer just about the sufficient supply of important materials such as fire bombs. It has become a factor that cannot be ignored.
However, the warlocks invited by Lu Xun were still unable to solve the technical problems of the natural flocs of the fire bomb. Spontaneous combustion is not a problem, but how to make that floc and how to make the flocs burn quickly, they are still helpless.
Once those pottery bullets are broken, the floc will burn quickly and turn into a ball of ashes in the time visible to the inner eye. They can judge the composition of bone meal based on the smell during burning, but how do they make them
It became a weapon, but it was impossible to find a way for a while.
In desperation, Sun Quan had to raise funds and buy 300,000 fire bombs from Wei Ba again for backup.
Fortunately, the number of fire bombs in the Wei army was limited, and not every city could be equipped. Even after Chen County successfully counterattacked, the fire bombs were quickly exhausted, and the two sides returned to balance and fought with their existing weapons.
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In this regard, the Wu army, who had the stone bomb production technology, had obvious advantages. Lu Xun once again destroyed the defense of Chen County with dense stone bombs, took another game, and pushed the front line into Yingchuan County.
At the same time, Sun Shao also advanced all the way on the eastern front, defeating Wang Ling twice in succession, entering Yanzhou, and capturing Pei County.
At this point, the entire Yuzhou and most of Xuzhou were taken into account by Wu Jun.
The Wu army came from the east, and the Shu Han army came from the west, and the situation in Wei State was unprecedentedly tense. Cao Rui felt that the battle in Luoyang was inevitable. While he sent people to make stone bombs for backup, he sent people to inform Cao Fu and took the lead in Wei.
Ba ordered another million fire bombs.
In mid-November, Wei Yan met Xiahou Ba in Yanmen for the first time. More than 20,000 cavalry attacked outside Yanmen Pass. The two sides fought for a day and a night. Just when the two sides were in a difficult situation, Wei Yan led three thousand Wei family soldiers to form.
The cavalry broke through the defense of the Wei army and attacked Xiahou Ba's central army. Xiahou Ba was defeated and had to retreat voluntarily. Wei Yan led his army to pursue and beheaded more than 3,000 levels. However, the Wei army had strong combat power, and even though it was defeated, the Shu Han army also paid for it.
The cost of nearly 2,000 casualties was caused.
Xiahou Ba led the remnants to retreat into Yanmen Pass, Wei Yan regrouped, turned south, and entered Taiyuan County again. The Huns stationed in Taiyuan County were shocked by the rapid offensive of the Shu Han army and did not dare to face the enemy head-on with the Shu Han army. Wei Yan was so kind and favored.
Plus, the road is unobstructed and enter Shangdang County.
Xiahou Ba led the remnants of the army to follow. After Qin Lang received the news, he sent Hao Zhao to lead 5,000 troops to strengthen the defense of Huguan and blocked Wei Yan in Shangdang County to prevent him from breaking into Hedong or Jizhou.
In November, Zhuge Liang led the main force to Xin'an. Facing Xin'an with strict defense, Zhuge Liang used a trick to lure the enemy, sent a majority of his troops to take turns to attack, luring Tian Yu to counterattack fiercely, and when Tian Yu's stone bomb and fire bomb
When it was consumed, Zhuge Liang ordered the use of fire bombs to attack.
Within an hour, nearly a thousand thunderbolt chariots were roaring, and 200,000 fire bombs and countless stone bombs were thrown. Half of Xin'an City smoke rolled, and five fingers were missing. While the Wei army was stunned,
Jiang Wei led his troops to charge and took down Xin'an City in one go. Seeing that the situation was hopeless, Tian Yu led his troops to break through and retreated into Hangu Pass with Qin Lang's support.
Two days later, Jiang Wei led an army of 20,000 vanguards to reach Hangu Pass. Five days later, Zhuge Liang led the main force to arrive.
From Zhuge Liang's oath to attack, in one and a half months, Zhuge Liang attacked the periphery of Luoyang, thirty miles away from Luoyang City. The progress was fast and the offensive was fierce. The morale of the Shu Han army was high and ready to conquer Luoyang in one fell swoop and capture him alive.
Cao Rui.
Zhuge Liang was not in a hurry to attack. He rushed to Chengdu with 600 miles.
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Li Yan was very surprised when he received Zhuge Liang's battle report. He was silent for a long time and sent someone to invite Ma Su, put the battle report in front of him, with some uneasiness in his voice.
"Youchang, look... is the Prime Minister's progress too fast?"
Ma Su hesitated for a while without saying a word when he looked at the battle report. Zhuge Liang's attack speed was not only fast, but it was simply incredible. The Wei army was simply vulnerable in front of him. At this speed, wouldn't it take a few days to Zhuge Liang to do it?
Besieged Luoyang?
This is great news for Shu Han, but for Li Yan and him, it is an ominous signal.