Farmers of Shu Han

Chapter 1199 Sima Yi is here

Hearing what Cao Shuang said, Ding Mi couldn't help laughing and said:
"Why do you need to worry about the general? If Sima Yi takes it seriously, he will deceive the emperor, cut himself off from the court, and be despised by the world."

Cao Shuang is still a little hesitant:

"What I'm thinking about is that Sima Yi has the name of auxiliary government. If the war in the southwest is unfavorable, he can lead the army to the south in the name of protecting the emperor. When Xuchang is empty, why should he be?"

In Cao Shuang's eyes, Sima Yi, who was stationed heavily in Luoyang, was even more of a threat than the Western thieves.

After all, Xuchang did not have a border with the Western Thieves.

Therefore, Cao Shuang usually thinks day and night, most of which is Sima Yi in the northwest.

As the saying goes, a fool has a thousand worries, and he has something to gain.

Ding Mi and others were startled when they heard Cao Shuang's words.

They patronized and thought that Sima Yi would not dare to risk the world, but they did not think of this level.

Ding Mi nodded and agreed:

"What the general said is very reasonable, but we have not considered it carefully."

"On the Jingzhou side, Lu Xun and Feng Yong are both life-and-death enemies of the Great Wei, and should not be taken lightly."

When He Yan heard this, he quickly asked:

"Then what should I do?"

Taichung's three dogs, Ding Mi is the best at planning.

It's just that he is sparse outside and has many taboos inside, and he has no one in his eyes. Although he is on the same level as He Yan and Deng Yang, he rarely interacts with them, and only tends to be Cao Shuang.

At this time, seeing He Yan's appearance like this, Ding Mi felt a little despised in her heart.

He didn't look directly at He Yan, but after a little thought, he suggested to Cao Shuang:

"What the general is worried about is that the forbidden army is transferred to the west, Xuchang is empty, for fear that Sima Yi has a trick."

"Now that the Jianghuai war is over, why don't the generals go west with some of the Jianghuai elite troops to make up for the lack of the forbidden army."

"At the same time, General Wang can be ordered. If Sun Quan attacks again, he should be guarded and not attack at will."

When Deng Yang heard these words, a look of praise appeared on his face:

"What Yanjing said is very true! In this Jianghuai war, it was Wang Yanyun (ie Wang Ling) who was greedy for merit, and this gave Wu Kou an opportunity."

"If you can stick to Shouchun and other places, the thieves will have nothing to do!"

If the soldiers of Jianghuai want to go south to cut thieves, it is definitely not enough.

But it is more than enough to say that relying on Hefei Lu'an Zhucheng to defend.

He Yan heard this and understood, and continued:

"Exactly. Sun Quan used to commit crimes in the winter and spring, so he was afraid of the great Wei Jingqi."

"It's summer now, and it's time for elite cavalry to play a role. Even if some elite soldiers are dispatched, you don't have to worry too much about it."

Ding Mi couldn't help feeling a little proud when she saw that both of them were agreeing with her.

However, Cao Shuang still has concerns:

"Now Jingzhou is in a hurry. If you wait for the Jianghuai army to arrive, you may miss the west."

Ding Mi said confidently:
"This matter is easy to hear. Didn't Sima Yi himself say that he would lead the army to cross the imperial thief in the upper Hebei? The general could use his power to guide him, and send an envoy, with the emperor's edict, to go to praise him."

"If Sima Yi is as he said, why should the general be worried?"

When Cao Shuang heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up, and then he asked thoughtfully:

"If Sima Yi is deceiving the emperor, what will happen to us?"

Ding Mi laughed:
"If Sima Yi has deceived something, and the army is still in Luoyang, how can he deceive the messenger?"

"The general dispatches elite troops from the Jianghuai to Xuchang, and he can make them travel the same way. The forbidden army sent to Jingzhou can first order them to travel slowly, or twenty miles a day, or thirty miles."

"In this way, it is only a delay of four or five days to rescue Jingzhou, but it can cover everything."

"Xiangyang City is high and deep, and it's no big deal if you want to come four or five days late."

Hearing this, Cao Shuang sighed:

"That's a great word."

So do it.

Just when Wei State was dispatching troops, far below the Gaodu City of Shangdang, the offense and defense between Han and Wei had entered a fever pitch.

Gaoducheng is adjacent to the Taihang Mountains in the south, overlooking the flat land to the north.

With the city as the center, the Wei army set up various docks of various sizes on the surrounding hills, forming a trend of stars holding the moon.

In the past few months, Wei Yan had sent people to scout countless times, but he couldn't find a mountain path that would bypass Gaodu and make a viable army.

If you want to attack the city, you must not only face Gaodu City, but also be careful of the surrounding hills.

In the past two months, the Han army had already filled in the moat of Gaoducheng under the cover of stone cannons.

At the same time, together with the periphery of the mountain, they were all destroyed by the continuous blows of the stone cannons.

And the city wall of Gaodu City is also fragmented.

On the second day when Wei Yan launched the siege, the Wei army had no choice but to give up all the flat ground in the city and retreat to the stone fort on the mountain.

Wei Yan's troops were divided into three routes, with wings on both sides to guard against the hills on both sides.

And in the middle, is the main siege force.

Leaning on the top of the mountain, Wei Jun in Gaodu had already prepared countless rolling stones.

The sharp ox horn pierced through the top of the mountain, the only remaining city top of Gaodu and the top of the connected mountain, countless arrows, with dense sharp-horned rocks sandwiched between them, rushed towards the Han army like a storm.

A rock that is as hard as fine iron and gleaming with sharp edges, and is extremely lethal.

Even more, he rolled down from the mountain, and the momentum was astonishing.

The Han army, who could only attack from their backs, held a shield in front of the roaring rocks. Whenever they were hit, they were all smashed to pieces.

Even wearing fine armor, although it can block swords, guns and arrows, it is no different from thin paper in the face of huge kinetic energy.

Not to mention climbing a mountain and attacking, the physical exertion is much greater than running on the flat ground.

Many soldiers only wore light leather armor in order to save their physical strength and at the same time to make their actions more flexible and avoid the mountains and rocks in time.

"boom"!
A soldier of the Han army who was climbing up, glanced up and took two steps to the side, trying to find a path that was as free of rolling stones as possible.

Then he lowered his head and quickly climbed a few steps. When he raised his head again and looked up, his eyes suddenly widened, and his face was full of horror.

A piercing cry came out of his mouth:

"do not want!"

The rocks in his pupils were getting bigger and bigger, and he subconsciously raised the shield in his hand, trying to weaken the force of rushing from top to bottom.

But the power of the individual, in this case, is almost negligible.

The moment the shield was smashed, the soldier's arm was also shattered and fractured at the same moment.

But he no longer felt the pain.

Because then, his whole person was crushed by the rocks...

Red, white, dyed with mountain grass.

At the same time, in the woods on the top of the hill connected to the Arrow Tower, the Wei army archers shot stealthily and long-rangely. Taking advantage of the height, they continued to shoot at the Han army who were trying to avoid the rolling stones.

The soldiers who attacked the city, even if they were lucky enough to escape the rolling stones, were often shot by the Wei army's crossbowmen and fell to the ground screaming constantly.

The most unlucky ones were the soldiers of the Han army who lost their ability to move after being shot by arrows.

They stared helplessly at the Bomu Mountain stones rolling down from the mountain, desperately trying to avoid it, but they couldn't move.

Some of them screamed wildly, trying to vent the fear in their hearts.

Some face as gray as death, but open their mouths but make no sound.

……

But without exception, the final result of meeting them is the coming of death.

Rao is the Han army soldier and brave and good at fighting, but under the shroud of this despair, his morale still can't stop getting low.

Before reaching the middle of the mountain, the follower was already weak.

Wei Yan, who was holding the binoculars, saw that the last Qu Chang, who was rushing in the front, was hit in the head by a bark. The soldiers couldn't hold it any longer, and began to turn around and run down the mountain.

He was so angry that he almost dropped the telescope in his hand - if it wasn't for the fact that the thing in his hand was too rare and too valuable.

"Come on, go, bring me the first person to escape!"

Wei Yan put down the telescope and gritted his teeth, "Also, call Wen Shi from the engineering camp!"

The first soldier to turn around and escape was quickly brought over.

"Speak! Why are you running!"

Wei Yan pulled out the saber he was carrying, and asked angrily:
"Do you know the crime of turning around and running away without hearing Ming Jin?"

"General spare your life, general spare your life!"

The soldiers slumped to the ground and kowtowed again and again, "It's not that the villain wants to run away on purpose, the villain will never dare again!"

"General, the villain's team, there are only one villain left in ten people, please forgive the villain, General!"

Wei Yan didn't listen to the call of the other party at all, and cursed angrily:
"Everyone else died in battle, but you are the only one who is greedy for life, what's the use of you!"

Saying that, he raised his sword and fell.

The soldiers' begging for mercy came to an abrupt end like a duck pinched by the neck.

He clutched his neck, opened his mouth, and fell to the ground.

A line of blood stuck at the feet of Wen Shi, who just arrived.

"Take this person's head and send the order to the army, and let all the soldiers know that they dare not obey the order!"

Wei Yan returned the sword to the sheath, and ordered coldly.

No one next to him dared to give an opinion: "Here!"

The two guards stood up and dragged the corpse down.

Wen Shi saw Wei Yan's gaze fell on him, and felt a chill all over his body, and hurriedly saluted:
"I will meet the hussar general at the end. I don't know if the hussar general calls the villain over, what is the important thing?"

Wei Yan was not polite to him, but pointed to the top of the mountain and asked:
"Is there any way for the engineering battalion to smash those ants on the mountain with stone cannons?"

Wen Shi followed Wei Yan's fingers, his heart sank slightly, and he answered bravely:
"General Hussar, it's too far and too high. The stone cannon doesn't have such a big angle, so it's difficult."

"Is it okay to move the stone cannon to the foot of the mountain?"

Wei Yan asked reluctantly.

illiteracy!

Simply illiterate!
If it was someone else, Wen Shi would scold him for being ignorant.

Do you know what an elevation angle is?
Do you know what a parabola is?

If you don't know anything, you just know how to command blindly!

Although he felt that Wei Yan's eyes were about to eat people, Wen Shi still withstood the pressure:

"General Hussar, this stone cannon is not omnipotent. If the target is too high, it needs not to be close, but to be farther away from it."

"And the distance of the stone cannon is limited. If it is too far away, it will not be able to hit again."

Wei Yan waved his hand impatiently:

"I don't understand these things, so I'll ask you, is there any way?"

"Return to Hussar General, no!"

Although it was not the first time to lead the engineering battalion to fight with Wei Yan, Wen Shi still felt that it was really too difficult to work under Wei Yan's hands.

Compared with following Zhongduhu, you can freely display your professionalism. Following Wei Yan is simply torture.

The outer city of Gaoducheng has been in ruins, do you still want to count on the engineering camp to blow the mountain down?
Hearing Wen Shi's words, Wei Yan groaned.

He took a few steps back and forth in great irritability.

As a veteran in the army, he has an intuition that the reason why the opposite Wei Jun is so tenacious and clings to the last high ground must be some reason he doesn't know.

In other words, reinforcements from the Wei army may be coming?

As if confirming his thoughts, Wei Chang trotted over in a hurry:
"Big... hussar general!"

Wei Yan stopped and looked at Wei Chang:
"What's the panic?"

In the summer, Wei Chang was wearing fine armor and sweating profusely when he ran.

But he didn't even have time to wipe off his sweat:

"Reporting to the hussar general, Sima Yi! I will report in detail, Sima Yi has led the army to cross the river, and now the forward has reached the Tianjing Pass of Taihangxing!"

"What did you say? Sima Yi! Are you really Sima Yi? Sima Yi left Luoyang?"

Hearing this, Wei Yan was taken aback, took two quick steps, forced him to face Wei Chang, and shouted loudly.

"This is the news that Xiao Zuo risked his life to send back. The bandit army who came to help is extremely powerful."

Wei Chang took a breath and continued:
"Someone saw the Sima banner in the army, the Hussar general, even if it wasn't Sima Yi, we must prepare as soon as possible."

Wei Yan clenched the hilt at his waist!

"Get the map!"

Soon a guard spread out the map.

There are three most commonly used in Taihang Baxing.

From west to east are Luguanxing, Taihangxing and Baixing.

Chuguanxing connects Hedong and Hanoi, Taihangxing and Baixing, both of which connect Shangdang and Hanoi.

It is precisely because these three borders are connected to Hanoi, one of the hinterlands of the Central Plains, that they are still important.

Even if Gaodu City is captured, it is only the northern starting point of Taihangxing.

The most important place in Taihangxing is still at Tianjing Pass. (Map at the end of this chapter)
But for Wei Yan, if he didn't win Gaodu, Shangdang would be like a deep nail being struck by Wei State, making him sleepless.

Wei Yan smashed the map with his fist, directly smashing the map through a big hole.

He could only hear him scolding angrily:
"Feng Yongshuzi, it will be a mistake!"

If it wasn't for this son who transferred the defenders of Tongguan and forced himself to send troops to make up for it, resulting in a shortage of troops here, why hasn't Gaodu been captured yet?
It's just that now, no matter how much you scold it, it's useless, you can only find him to settle accounts after the war.

Wei Yan turned around and ordered:
"Immediately dispatch a fast horse to inform the soldiers who came from Shangdang, and let them come faster!"

"Here!"

"General Hussar, this Sima Yi's support speed is too fast, is there any fraud?"

"If it were someone else, there would be no fraud, but Sima Yi..."

When Wei Yan said this, he paused for a while, and then continued:

"It's not surprising, Sima Yi should not be underestimated!"

"When Meng Da wanted to return to the Han Dynasty, Sima Yi led his army to travel [-] li in eight days. Meng Da was terrified, and finally the city was destroyed and died."

Thinking of the soldiers in his hands, and then looking at Gaodu City, which was almost captured.

Wei Yan gritted his teeth:
"Send another person to Shangdang, and inform Guo Xun, let him recruit more county soldiers and guard the important land of Shangdang!"

Shangdang war map: Since ancient times, the first floor is not simple.

(End of this chapter)