Killing system of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 338 Xia Houyuan Intercepts Wei Rui

Xia Houyuan led [-] cavalry and approached Huaili, intercepting all Zhang Jun who wanted to rush over.

Wei Rui led [-] infantry to meet Gao Changgong, and encountered Xia Houyuan's cavalry on the way.Xia Houyuan was overjoyed when he saw the enemy's uniform infantry, and he was about to lead his men to rush over immediately.

"Wait a minute, general!" Zhonglang General Hao Zhao came from the side at this time and said to Xia Houyuan: "The general has led the troops out, the enemy must have known it. Knowing that the general led tens of thousands of cavalry, but still brought infantry to meet him, there must be some of them." fraud."

Xia Houyuan thought about it, and felt that what Hao Zhao said was quite reasonable.Although he is reckless, he is not stupid. After thinking about it carefully, he discovered the irrationality. No matter how elite Zhang Yijun's infantry were, they could not fight against a large number of cavalry in the field. Moreover, the opponent did not have a few carriages. Can't do it.

If it is not that the enemy general is stupid, then there is fraud in it!Zhang Yi has always been good at employing people, and none of the leading generals he used was simple, even a small Cai Ling left a deep memory on Xia Houyuan.

Take a look at Zhang Yi's staff. Di Qing was selected from the prison, Master Shang and Wei Wentong were civilians, Fu Youde came from the army, Xue Rengui was just a county lieutenant at the beginning. He was selected and became the main force among Zhang Yi's generals.

Now Di Qing, Fu Youde, and Xue Rengui have all become generals in the capital.Di Qing and Fu Youde didn't say anything, but Xue Rengui didn't frighten millions of Qiang people in the northwest.

It took Ma Chao more than ten years, coupled with the reputation of his ancestors, to get the title of General Shenweitian.But Xue Rengui was revered as the god of arrows by the Qiang people in less than a year, how can he be easy?
With Xue Rengui's reputation, it shouldn't be difficult to recruit one hundred and eighty thousand Qiang cavalry, but why isn't there even a single cavalry among the enemy's reinforcements?

Xia Houyuan was afraid of falling into the enemy's plan, so he said to Hao Zhao: "Let the whole army retreat ten miles back to find a favorable terrain, and send more scouts to see if there are other enemy troops around."

"No!" Hao Zhao quickly accepted the order and quickly went to make arrangements.

Xia Houyuan found a gentle slope on Wei Rui's only way, let all the cavalry go up the gentle slope, and waited for the arrival of Wei Rui's army.As long as Wei Rui dared to go down the slope, he would dare to go down the slope and beat the enemy.

Wei Rui couldn't help laughing when he saw Xia Houyuan withdrawing his troops: "It seems that the enemy has become cautious."

"That's true. Originally, I wanted to experiment with new weapons, but it seems that I have to wait for a while." The scribe in white behind Wei Rui said regretfully.

Wei Rui turned his head, smiled at the scribes and said, "Kong Ming, it's really ingenious that you made this inverted horse nail. If you can't see it, the enemy cavalry will suffer heavy losses."

That scribe was Zhuge Liang.After Zhuge Liang escorted grain and grass to Ji County at the beginning of the year, he didn't go back, but stayed to join the military plane.He made a batch of inverted horse nails in Jixian County (that is, iron terrestris, which was invented to damage horse hoofs, so they are called inverted horse nails), and sent them to Huaili, but because there was no war, they were not needed.

When Xue Rengui regained Anding and Beidi, he also brought a lot.It's a pity that Xue Rengui always goes to attack others, and when he has no defense, it is useless.

When Wei Rui saw this weapon, he was immediately amazed. He also wanted to see the power of this weapon, so he dispatched the whole infantry.

It's a pity that Xia Houyuan chose to withdraw his troops very carefully, otherwise he could have experimented on Xia Houyuan just now.

Now that Xia Houyuan had withdrawn his troops, Wei Rui would naturally move forward.After walking seven or eight miles, the scouts reported that Xia Houyuan had already occupied favorable terrain in front and guarded the intersection.

Wei Rui and Zhuge Liang looked at each other after hearing the scout's description, "It seems that everyone who has become famous should not be underestimated!"

"Xia Houyuan is a powerful general in Cao's army. He is good at running long distances and is known as the magical general. If his ability was mediocre, he would have been defeated long ago." Zhuge Liang said: "The enemy blocked the intersection and it was impossible for us to pass. The enemy rode up the slope. Rushing down, we don't have time to turn the horse upside down, so we should take a detour!"

Wei Rui nodded, and then ordered: "Order the whole army to go south and bypass here."

The so-called only way is the inevitable choice when you don't want to pay the price.

But there are very few absolute roads that must be passed. The plank roads leading to Wu County, Hanzhong, or Sichuan are absolute, because other than these roads, you have nowhere to go.

The reason why Deng Ai is known as a famous general is that his Yinping sneak attack broke the absolute only way through the ages and bypassed the first pass in the world, Jianmen Pass.

The main road guarded by Xia Houyuan is only connecting Huaili and Lantian.But from Huaili and Lantian, there is definitely more than this intersection, at most it is a detour of thirty or forty miles.

Wei Rui agreed in time to make a detour and not use the infantry to test the power of the cavalry, Xia Houyuan had nothing to do with him.

Xia Houyuan couldn't help feeling a headache watching Wei Rui circle the city, the enemy was too cunning.

At this time, Zhang Yun led the defeated army to join Xia Houyuan.Seeing that Zhang He was seriously injured, Xia Houyuan didn't admit to criticizing him, but only asked about the battle.

After listening to Zhang Yun, Xia Houyuan said in a very understanding way: "There is nothing wrong with Junyi's handling, but the enemy is too cunning. It is strange to enter the world with a set fire cloth."

Xia Houyuan did not doubt that Zhang He was lying. Zhang He was not such a person.Moreover, such unreliable lies will definitely be exposed, and Zhang He cannot do this.

Zhang He said: "Now Gao Changgong has come to the general's troops, the general should have made preparations earlier."

Xia Houyuan nodded, "Just now I forced Wei Rui to take a detour to the south, and now we are camping on the high slopes on both sides of the road, waiting for Gao Changgong to arrive. If he dares to pass by the road, I will attack from both sides. If we take a detour, we will take advantage of its retreat to launch a pursuit."

When Zhang He heard this, he nodded. Xia Houyuan's method was what he thought, and he felt relieved.

"Junyi is at ease to heal his wounds, I am enough here." Xia Houyuan ordered Zhang He to be sent back to Chang'an.

Hao Zhao also took people to finish building the camp and started to light a fire to cook.

The next day, Gao Changgong brought his soldiers and horses to the vicinity of Cao Ying. When he saw Cao Jun on the high slope, he immediately ordered to move forward and turned to defend on the spot.

Xia Houyuan saw that Gao Changgong was so cautious and did not let the cavalry attack. Zhang He's lessons made him cautious.

However, at noon, Xia Houyuan was dumbfounded, because another army came from the south and joined Gao Changgong. It was Wei Rui's troops who went south yesterday.

(End of this chapter)