Chapter 313: Preparing for a Breakout
Cao Ren, who was stationed in Wugong, felt bad after hearing the news of Cao Zhen's defeat, and he began to shrink the city defense of Wugong, and made up his mind to be a turtle with a shrunken head, so that Ding Feng, who had fewer troops, really had nothing to do with him for a while.
In order to mobilize Cao Ren to fight out of the city, Ding Fengzhen divided his troops and began to attack Huaili and Chang'an downstream, which stirred up the wind in Weishui for a while.
But Cao Ren understood that Ding Feng's actions were just feints, and as long as the martial arts were still in his hands, he must not risk the grain route being cut off and marching eastward.
He has time to accompany Ding Feng to entangle.
But he never expected that Ding Feng really had the guts.
His combat goal is Chang'an, not a small martial arts, his water war has an absolute advantage, as long as he occupies Weishui, Cao Ren's 50,000 elite soldiers will be difficult to effectively support Chang'an,
One less strength, one more chance of breaking through Chang'an,
Cao Ren's tactics were still stuck in ten years ago, but he didn't know that he was already far behind the times.
Ding Feng dug a large number of fortifications under the city of Wugong, divided 5,000 soldiers to erect a large number of banners, and then continuously divided troops to create pressure on Chang'an downstream.
The Wei army around Chang'an soon discovered Ding Feng's traces, and felt that Ding Feng was about to launch a general attack on Chang'an, and Zhong Xuan, who was in charge of Chang'an's defense, hurriedly sent a letter to Cao Ren, asking him not to continue to entangle with Ding Feng in Wugong.
"Hey, Zhong Yuanchang actually dares to talk to me in such a tone!"
Cao Ren, who finally received the letter, disdained Zhong Xuan's warning, he was the founder of Cao Wei, the first general of the clan, and his opponents were Zhou Yu and Guan Yu back then, but now he has just replaced Ding Feng, an unknown junior,
Zhong Xuan is just a civil official, he has only fought a few battles, and he actually commanded his own head.
Cao Ren blew his nose with Zhong Xuan's letter in his hand, and then threw himself into the attention of the city defense.
Cao Ren killed and did not believe that Ding Feng would directly attack Chang'an without conquering the martial arts, but Ding Feng gave him this surprise, and soon after Zhong Xuan's messenger entered the city, Ding Feng immediately sent people to block the entire Wei River waterway, vowing to trap the Wei army here.
After cutting off the connection between the martial arts defenders and Chang'an, Ding Feng forcibly broke through the Huaili waterway and launched the first surprise attack on Chang'an!
The Wei army in Chang'an was still waiting for reinforcements to arrive, and the Han army, which had just come ashore from the Weishui River, began to line up, and soon swept away the Wei soldiers who were caught off guard on the periphery of Chang'an.
Although the capture was not large, but the impact was unprecedented, the entire defenders of Chang'an saw that the Han army broke through the city defense so quickly, and they laid down their weapons in shock, and even took the initiative to help the Han army find the defensive loopholes of Chang'an City.
If it weren't for the fact that there were too few people in Ding Feng's first wave of attacks, it was possible that his feint attack would have been able to attack Chang'an City first.
Seeing that Ding Feng was showing off his might under the city, Cao Pi, who had climbed the city tower in person, was so angry that he almost vomited blood.
He finally understood why Sima Yi had to transfer another 200,000 reinforcements before he dared to start a war with the Han army, it was really because Guanlong's Wei army had been beaten into a frightened bird by the Han army, and it was unbearable to fight again.
In addition, the reputation of the Han army is far better than that of the Wei army, and there is no such thing as national hatred and family hatred, a large number of Wei troops even began to faintly hope that the Han army could enter Chang'an as soon as possible, so that they could incarnate as Shunmin and eat pot pulp to meet Wang Shi!
"Hmph, it's still me Ding Feng who is the first to hit Chang'an City."
Looking at the towering city wall, Ding Feng's eyes flashed with self-evident fanaticism, and he clenched his fists tightly,
"General, the city defense of Chang'an is very strong, we are in the siege, if Huaili and the Wei army of martial arts are killed, I am afraid that we will be surrounded here."
Ding Feng was served as a deputy general by Hao Zhao's previous subordinate Lu Pan, although this product is very average in martial arts and military strategy, but he has a lot of experience as a deputy general for so many years, and he can just make up for Ding Feng's shortcomings in terms of checking and filling in the gaps.
Moreover, he surrendered voluntarily, which is very much in line with the current policy propaganda direction.
As a leading party, Lu Pan was afraid that something would go wrong with the Han army and force him to jump left and right again, so seeing Ding Feng's arrogant appearance, he quickly jumped out and poured cold water.
"Don't worry about this, my old Ding has been fighting for so many years, and he can still make this kind of mistake." Ding Feng smiled very proudly.
The more he faced the big scene, the more cautious Ding Feng became, according to Zhao Hao's arrangement, he had already sent the fifth column in advance during the siege of the city, ready to explore the details of Chang'an City first.
In addition, he also sent someone to the rear to inform Wei Yan, who was hanging up in Hanzhong, and asked Wei Yan to hurry up and send troops so that he could join him in the grand event and continue to disgust Cao Pi, who was now very high.
Probably seeing that the Han army really crossed his own station to attack Chang'an, Cao Ren, who couldn't hold his face, finally didn't plan to continue to learn to shrink the turtle and began to dispatch troops.
It's just that he didn't go to Chang'an to encircle Ding Feng, but copied Ding Feng's tactics, simply abandoned the rear team, and prepared to attack Wuzhangyuan upstream!
As soon as this idea came out, everyone hurriedly objected, and the deputy general Wang Shuang was even more frightened, and said tremblingly: "Da Sima, you have to be calm, the thief army is strong, if our army goes to attack Wuzhangyuan and is cut off by the thieves, I am afraid that the whole army will be wiped out like Cao Zhen's house!" ”
Cao Ren, as a great Sima, has a high status, of course, he is not willing to be transferred by Ding Feng at will, he said confidently: "Shu Kou has always been cunning with soldiers, they have the courage to fight Chang'an, and they must be prepared to deal with us to support."
Our water war is far inferior to theirs, it is better to directly advance west along Weishui and directly attack the base camp of the Shu army in Wuzhangyuan, so as to completely block them on this Weishui. ”
Wang Shuang said with difficulty: "But since Wuzhangyuan is the base camp of the thief army, there must be their elite garrison, let's go to sneak attack, if we are surrounded by enemy troops, what can we do?" ”
Cao Ren said coldly: "Now that the state affairs are rotten, it is not an ordinary means to resolve it, if you have no courage, you will not move in martial arts, and I will go myself." ”
Of course, Wang Shuang didn't want to go, but he was afraid that he would be killed by Cao Ren as soon as he exited, so he had to smile bitterly and said: "The last general is loyal to Da Sima, so he naturally obeys his orders!" ”
Cao Ren's face softened a little at this time, and said: "Don't worry, when Zhou Yu surrounded Niu Jin, I killed him in the enemy formation and rescued him, and Zhang Fei was in Zhou Yu's army at that time, and there was nothing I could do about it.
I received the news, now Zhao Hao's house went to Yongxian County to buy people's hearts, and the one stationed in Wuzhangyuan was just Jiang Wei's rebel general, a nobody, and when he saw the banner of this general, that kid will definitely be scattered, and he will surrender! ”
"Original...... I see. ”
Hearing that Zhao Hao himself was not in Wuzhangyuan, Wang Shuang finally had a little more confidence, they had been frightened by Zhao Hao, if they saw Zhao Hao's banner in Wuzhangyuan, they were afraid that his army would immediately scatter and they would not be able to fight.
"Wait a minute, I will only leave 10,000 people to defend the city this time, and 40,000 people will march with me by land and water, first break through the Northern Plains, cut off the return route of Shu Kou in Yongxian County, and then storm Wuzhangyuan, I will be able to easily kill Jiang Wei.
At that time, Ding Feng will be frightened, and he will not dare to besiege Chang'an again, Chang'an will be protected, and Guanlong will be shaken, so Zhao Hao will not want to fight again within a year! ”
Wang Shuang is just a fierce general, hearing that this army is a little good, and he also applauded excitedly, he said in his heart that the total strength of the Cao army in the Guandu War was a little more than 40,000, and now the days are generous, and he can dispatch 40,000 at will.
As long as Cao Ren commands properly and fights bloodily, he will not repeat Cao Zhen's mistakes.
But......
"Da Sima, if it is unfavorable to attack the northern plains, should our army hurry up and retreat......
Cao Ren glanced at him, and said in his heart, why is this product so unproductive, but it is the time to employ people, and he does not blame too much, just snorts and says:.
"If we can't defeat the North Plains, our army will naturally have to retreat, otherwise we will be cut off by the thief army, do you think I don't understand this?"
"That's fine, that's fine." Wang Shuang's chicks pecked at the rice and nodded again and again.