Chapter 19: Wei Ziliang's soldiers were divided into two roads, and Xiahou Ba in Hulu Valley suffered a fire robbery

"Hurry up! Push hard, Wei Dog! A man with a horsewhip in his hand slammed the back of the Wei soldiers.

The Wei soldier staggered, but he didn't dare to resist at all, but just pushed the ox cart forward hard.

This kind of situation abounds on the way to transport grain.

It turned out that after Wei Yuan and his entourage attacked Xiahou Kuang's camp at night, due to the small number of troops of the Shu army, the number of Wei soldiers who were actually killed was not too much, and the vast majority of Wei soldiers fled at night. However, some Wei soldiers became prisoners of the Shu army, and in the end, after counting, about 310 Wei soldiers were captured.

After dawn, the captured Wei army found that in fact, the strength of the Shu army was not as large as the captured Wei soldiers, and they all regretted it one by one. But at this time, the captives were all disarmed, and Wei Yuan selected strong people from among the people to act as supervisors with weapons in their hands, so it was too late for the captives to cry out one by one.

At this time, Wei Yuan was riding a horse and walking in the middle of the team, and Han Cheng rushed to his side and said, "Liao Dubo, many Wei soldiers escaped on horses last night, and the Wei soldiers who escaped will inform Xiahou Ba overnight." Now our army is marching with grain, and the march is slow, if the Wei army chases after it on fast horses, our army is in danger. I don't know if Liao Dubo has a good plan? ”

At this time, Guangrui on the side interjected: "I am also worried. Although I have sent my brother Jin Shang to ask the general for help, I am afraid that the enemy will come first because the road is quite long. ”

Wei Yuan said: "In this case, why don't we divide the troops into two routes, one way to select the best soldiers to ride the horses and break off, and the other way to hurry up, and strive to meet with the reinforcements as soon as possible." ”

Feng Bi exclaimed: "By all means, our army is already under-strengthened, and the prisoners of the Wei army are already overstretched, if another team is divided to break the rear, if the prisoners in the camp take the opportunity to mutiny, our army will be in danger!" ”

A cold light flashed in the corner of Guangrui's eyes, and he said: "In this case, why don't I kill all these Wei dogs first, and then divide the troops into two ways." ”

Wei Yuan said: "No, it's ominous to kill prisoners." I watched the prisoners in the army, and the fighting spirit has been lost. We can select as many strong people as we can put into the ranks of the army, and make them armed supervisors during the day, and make them strong guards in our army at night, and they will not dare to make trouble. Then I personally led a hundred good horsemen in the army, and after the horses were broken, if the pursuers came, I would disturb the cavalry, so that they would not dare to chase with all their might, and we would be expected to transport grain and grass to the camp. ”

Han Cheng said: "In this case, I am willing to break off with Ziliang, and I hope not to give up." ”

Guangrui also said: "Brother Han is fighting with me, and I am willing to go after the break." ”

Feng Bi said: "I am not good at riding and shooting, I am willing to supervise the grain and return." ”

Wei Yuan said: "After the break, I and Brother Han can do it, and Brother Guang can supervise the grain with Brother Feng and return." ”

Before Guangrui could say something, Wei Yuan preemptively said: "Brother Guang, Brother Feng, one of you can take food during the day and the other be on duty at night, so as to prevent the prisoners in the army from mutiny." ”

Guangrui sighed: "In this case, I will take food with Brother Feng, and the two of you need to take care of this trip." ”

After the four of them discussed, Wei Yuan and Han Cheng selected soldiers from the army, and Guangrui and Feng Bi led the army to continue to rush to Shanxian County.

After Xiahou Ba led the cavalry out of the city overnight, he hurried to Dingyuan Slope. Along the way, Xiahou Ba was anxious and urged the soldiers to hurry up overnight. As a result, there have been a number of accidents on the road where horses have lost their hooves. Later, Xiahou Ba had to order the three armies to slow down.

At noon on the second day, Xiahou Ba was on the march, and he heard that there was a defeated army of Xiahou Kuang in front of him, and he asked him urgently, and the defeated sergeant soldier Xiahou Kuang was attacked and killed, Xiahou Ba couldn't help but be shocked, and asked: "Who is the general of Shu State, who is so proficient in the art of war?" ”

A soldier replied: "It is Liao Huaye, the vanguard general of the Shu Kingdom." ”

Xiahou Ba was furious when he heard this, and said, "Nonsense! That Liao Hua this person is using it as a wing, and he fought with me several times yesterday and a day, and An can appear on Dingyuan Slope? ”

At this time, the defeated soldiers of the Wei army replied one after another: The night attack on Xiahou Kuang was not the Shu army Liao Hua, and one by one they would rather be engaged in military law, and they were determined to be committed by Liao Hua.

Xiahou said domineeringly: "There must be something strange about this matter, let me ask you, even if Liao Hua led the troops to attack the camp, do you know how many people attacked the camp at night?" ”

At this time, Yidu Bo replied: "In the middle of the night, there is no way to know the strength of the Shu army, and when it is discovered, there are shouts of killing in the camp, and there are about five or six thousand people. ”

Xiahou Ba said angrily: "The entire vanguard army of the Shu army is only three or four thousand people, how can you say that there are five or six thousand people?" ”

Natub replied, "There are still two or three thousand." ”

Xiahou Ba said angrily: "I have already fought with that Liao Yuanjian several times, why did he come to attack my brother with two or three thousand horses, and I dragged this guy down and beheaded him." ”

Nadu Boshi knelt down and said: "General, in the middle of the night, the number of Shu troops can not be distinguished, we only saw Liao Huazhi's general flag attacking the camp by the light of the fire, and the number is really unknown." ”

Xiahou Ba was noncommittal, and then ordered Nadubo to be beheaded for public display. Then all the defeated soldiers were collected, and a total of more than 300 soldiers were obtained. Chen then ordered the three armies to step up their marches.

At this time, an adjutant general persuaded: "General, since General Xiahou Kuang has been defeated, why don't I return to Weiyi immediately, I am afraid that something will change." ”

Xiahou Ba said abruptly: "The Shu general attacked the camp late at night, and the general flag of Liao Hua had already been erected when he entered the camp, so I can conclude that the strength of this Shu army must be insufficient, at most no more than five hundred, or even less."

The adjutant general suddenly realized and said: "In this case, then we can speed up the march or catch up with the Shu army, and take revenge on General Xiahou Kuang."

Xiahou said domineeringly: "No, the more greedy the son is, the more he is greedy, the more he will die." There are three reasons for us to speed up the march, one is to hear the defeat of the army said that our army still has more than 300 cavalry captured by the Wei army, and it is not easy to train cavalry in the army. Second, after this battle, the Shu army must have already captured the war horses in our army, and the plains fought with horsepower, so we accelerated the pursuit to recapture the war horses. ”

The deputy general said: "Three is to take the opportunity to cut off the grain route of the Shu army?" ”

Xiahou said domineeringly: "Yes." ”

The adjutant general replied: "In this case, the last general will immediately take charge of the front army and speed up the advance." Then he drove his horse forward and scolded loudly, and the Wei soldiers were afraid, and the speed of the march suddenly increased by three points.

Approaching dusk, there were already many rutted traces of the Shu army's grain carts on the official road, and the adjutant general in front reined in his horses and shouted: "Stop advancing!" ”

Then the whole team five stopped, and Xiahou Ba drove his horse forward and asked, "Why did you stop?" ”

The adjutant general arched his hand and said, "General, there is a fork in the road ahead, which road should we take?" ”

"What's the difference?" Xiahou Ba asked.

"The official road can lead directly to the lion forest outside Shanxian County, and the small road is nearly fifty miles."

"That's it, I'll set off from the small road and go around to the front of the Shu army." Xiahou Ba commanded.

Immediately, more than 800 people turned to the path, and Xiahou Ba personally opened the way. As the sun sets, the path narrows and finally disappears into the jungle.

Xiahou Ba stopped and asked, "Where is the front?" ”

Suddenly, a guide replied: "General, the gourd valley ahead." ”

Xiahou Ba looked at the dark col in front of him and sighed, "I can't imagine that there is such a dangerous place. If the Shu army sets up an ambush here, we will wipe out the whole army. ”

The deputy general said with a smile: "Don't worry, general, if you think that the Shu army has robbed the grain and grass, how can you not take the opportunity to escape, how can you set up an ambush to ambush us?" ”

Xiahou said domineeringly: "I don't know why, I suddenly feel frightened when I see this terrain, and I can't help but guard against it." ”

The adjutant general said: "The general is a very man, even so, I will take 200 people across this canyon first, and after I cross the valley, it will not be too late for the general to take the whole army across the valley." ”

Xiahou Ba nodded and agreed, so the deputy general rushed into the valley with more than 200 horses, and Xiahou Ba brought his own army to wait at the mouth of the valley.

For a long time, there was no news from the adjutant general, and at this time, a lieutenant said: "General, General Wang Yi has entered this valley, and there has been no news for a long time, I don't know what happened?" ”

Xiahou Ba said with a smile: "I have received the best news, such as the encounter with the Shu army ahead, the sound of the battle has already been transmitted, since there is no news back, it must have passed the valley safely." ”

Everyone was amazed. But at this moment, suddenly there was a loud cheer in the canyon ahead, only to see a series of fires lit up from the mountainside, and then the entire valley was ignited, the flames rose to the sky, and the sound of fighting was endless.

"Not good! There is an ambush in the Shu army! Xiahou Ba was shocked and shouted: "The whole army is on alert!" ”

At this time, there was a captain Du Bo shouting to lead the army forward to rescue Wang Yi and others, but he was stopped by Xiahou Ba. Xiahou said domineeringly: "At this time, our front army has fallen into the fire, and I will wait." Isn't it just in the arms of the Shu army? Then he ordered the whole army to seize all the dangerous places in the valley, in order to respond to Wang Yi.

Half an hour later, Wang Yi led the army to withdraw from the valley, and only fifty or sixty people remained. Each of them was blackened by the fire, and their armor was crooked.

"How's that ahead?" Xiahou Ba asked.

"General, I was ambushed by the Shu army when I went out of the valley, the Shu army threw a boulder from the top of the mountain to block the road, and then the fire broke out, the Shu army took the opportunity to shoot our army with cold arrows, the last general was incompetent, only desperately led the army back, and asked the general to punish."

"You have found the ambush of the Shu army for our army, what is the crime?" Xiahou said domineeringly: "Do you know the number of Shu troops?" ”

Wang Yi said: "The Shu army has not fought with our army, and its number is unknown. ”

Xiahou Ba said with a smile: "As expected, the Shu army is insufficient, otherwise you and the others will only be able to return with more than 200 people?" They set up an ambush, but they really did not dare to engage our army. The whole army was ordered to make a detour. ”

Immediately, the whole Wei army turned around and went straight to the official road.

It turned out that Wei Yuan expected that the Wei army would pursue them from the path, so he set up an ambush with Han Cheng in Hulu Valley. I don't want the Wei army to arrive at the valley after the whole army marched through the valley in two ways, Wei Yuan was afraid that the Shu army was attacked by the Wei army after the front army, and the only way to launch an ambush was to launch an ambush, but due to the lack of strength of the Shu army, Wang Yi finally escaped.

Xiahou Ba led the army around the official road, and after the soldiers traveled more than ten miles, Xiahou Ba suddenly ordered the whole army to stop, and then returned the same way.

Wang Yi was shocked and asked why.

Xiahou said domineeringly: "The Shu army is here, it is really to harass our army's march, I expect that the thief will have run to the official road at this time, in order to delay the journey of our army, if we return the same way again, it will not be prepared." ”

Wang Yi praised the goodness, and then the whole Wei army went straight to the gourd valley again.