Chapter 502: Strong Army
The Wei army has slowly retreated, the breath of blood type permeates the valley, the original team of less than three hundred people, now less than fifty people, even if the Wei army killed in this battle is several times the casualties of his own side, but Zhang Ren still feels heartache, these people, but they are the elite of the elite in the army, but they died in this meaningless war of attrition, no matter how much Cao Jun can't be replaced!
Coupled with the soldiers who were buried by wood and stone before, the number of casualties of the Han army in this battle may not be more than that of the Cao army, but in Zhang Ren's opinion, he still lost this battle.
Zhou Tong dragged his tired body back with a little unwillingness on his face, and dragged his tired body back with some disappointment, the armor on his body was damaged and could not be worn, and the dried blood made the armor lose its original appearance.
"General Zhou, are you okay?" Patting Zhou Tong's shoulder, Zhang Ren tried to calm down and said with relief.
"The end will be fine." Zhou Tong shook his head, looked at the direction of the Wei army's retreat, and suddenly frowned and said, "General, look over there, is it our army's beacon?" ”
When Zhang Ren heard this, he looked up in the direction of the Wei army's retreat, and saw several beacon smoke rising from a distance, this is the arrangement of the Han army's beacon smoke, and the Wei army should not know yet.
In this direction, it should be Zhang Fei's army, and his judgment is not wrong, but if Zhang He found Zhang Fei before, how could he have the heart to run to ambush him?
Zhang Ren was puzzled, but he didn't care too much, the army in the rear had not completely cleared the road, he hurriedly summoned a general and said, "Quickly send scouts to investigate!" Others, help clear the road and let the soldiers in the rear come out! ”
At the moment, there is definitely no way to pursue this little bit of soldiers and horses, and it is useless to catch up, and now Zhang Ren is a little worried, is this another trick of Zhang He, after all, Zhang He also used this to trick him just now.
Of course, in such a short period of time, it is unlikely that the other party wants to use the same method to trick himself twice, and no matter how open the terrain is, it will be difficult for the Wei army to succeed in ambushing him, but Zhang Ren has some shadows in his heart.
"General, the last general is invited to fight!" As soon as he heard that there was a battle, Zhou Tong's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly bowed down and said, the burning and eager gaze in his eyes was a little scary, he didn't care about merit or anything, he rarely took the initiative to grab merit, otherwise he would not be just a general these years, what he really longed for was the experience of life and death on the battlefield, in such a tense and exciting environment, which could make him forget all the troubles in his heart for a while.
"General Zhou is still wounded." Frowning, Zhang Ren didn't really want Zhou Tong to go to the battlefield again, with his current physical condition, going up again would be like looking for death.
"The injuries are fine!" Zhou Tong shook his head and said, if you don't let him go to the battlefield, it will make people crazy.
Zhang Ren shook his head and said, "Let's go find a military doctor to treat the wound first, and then change a set of armor." ”
The armor is almost scrapped, and even if it goes to the battlefield again, it will have to be replaced.
"Whoa!" Zhou Tong didn't say a word, turned around and went to the doctor to treat the wound, while Zhang Ren continued to send scouts to investigate the news from the Wei army.
Soon the news came back, sure enough, Zhang Fei's army arrived, saw that Wei Zhai was empty, and directly launched an attack, and Zhang He at that time, was in the rear of the surprise attack and retreated, luring Zhang Ren to attack, and when he got the news, he couldn't capture Zhang Ren here, who would have thought that the original strategy to attract Zhang Ren out of the camp really came true.
Zhang He also found out on the way back after seeing that he couldn't take Zhang Ren, and hurriedly rushed to the rescue camp, but where could he catch up, but he ran into Zhang Fei leading the troops.
In fact, Zhang Ren's reaction before made Zhang He suspicious, if he didn't know that there might be a Han army in his rear, Zhang Ren's caution, how could he go out of the camp to chase, and at this moment, when his rear was really served by Zhang Fei, Zhang He's mood was really mixed.
The soldiers of both sides met in the wilderness, but the imaginary fierce battle did not appear, the previous three hundred Han troops were not able to completely take, at this moment in the face of the attack of tens of thousands of Han troops led by Zhang Fei, how can the Wei army make the opponent, the battle array at the moment of contact between the two sides, the Wei army showed a defeat.
The Han army is not only well-equipped, but everyone is brave enough to be the first, on the other hand, the Wei army, although it is not considered a defeat just now, but its own morale and physical strength are consumed, although the Han army also consumes a lot of physical strength, but the morale is because of the breakthrough of the Wei army camp and the momentum is like a rainbow, coupled with the gap in equipment, the melee between the two sides after the encounter, almost all of them are the Han army pressing the Wei army to fight.
"Zhang He'er, don't surrender yet!?" Zhang Fei carried the Zhangba snake spear, behind the battle array, under the rough voice, even on the chaotic and noisy battlefield, it was still difficult to suppress his voice.
Zhang He killed a Han soldier with one shot, and looked in the direction of Zhang Fei from a distance when he heard the sound, and now Zhang Fei, who was already white-haired, looked extremely arrogant at the moment.
Are you so arrogant when you get old?
Zhang He looked at Zhang Fei's direction, unwillingly, when he was at the head of the Yang Bridge, Zhang Fei's deeds of retreating Cao Jun have now been spread all over the world, and the more they spread, the more exaggerated they are, but Zhang Fei at that time was indeed intimidating, but that does not mean that Zhang Fei, who is now old, still has this capital.
If he could, Zhang He really wanted to come forward and compete with that Zhang Fei and tell him that this era no longer belonged to him!
However, he didn't have a chance, the ferocity of the Han army far exceeded Zhang He's expectations, since the start of the war, it has always been pressing the Wei army to fight, if Zhang He really rushes up at this moment, I am afraid that before he gets close to Zhang Fei, he has been dismembered by the countless Han army.
Although Zhang He's martial arts are not bad, he is not the kind of person who can take the head of the army from it, seeing that the army is losing and retreating, and seeing that it is about to be defeated, Zhang He can only run.
There is still a Zhang Ren who may come at any time in the rear, if he is attacked by Zhang Fei and Zhang Ren back and forth, Zhang He will be unable to escape.
"Zhang Hexiu go, come and fight me for three hundred rounds!" Seeing that Zhang He began to withdraw his troops, Zhang Fei couldn't help laughing proudly, this time it was not only Zhang He who won this time, Zhang He's soldiers and horses completely collapsed, representing the stability of the main force of the Cao army in this area, and the entire Guanzhong land was like a girl who was stripped of her clothes, let herself gallop!
Ring-eyed thief!
Zhang He didn't look back, but scolded angrily in his heart, the 30,000 army was damaged one after another like this, and the camp was even more broken, how much is left now?
In this way, there may not be many troops that can be mobilized in the entire Guanzhong.
Now Zhang He is more worried about the situation in the entire Guanzhong, his defeat is equivalent to making Zhang Fei lose his restraints, and the soldiers and horses in Shuzhong can pour into Guanzhong in a big way, how can they defend it?
Zhang Fei took the soldiers and horses, chased and killed all the way for more than ten miles, and then led the crowd back and arranged for men and horses to clean up the battlefield, and at the same time, Zhang Ren also brought Zhou Tong to see Zhang Fei.
"The last general is ashamed, he fell for the thief's plan, please punish the general!" Zhang Ren saluted Zhang Fei and bowed his head and said bitterly.
"It doesn't have to be this way." Zhang Fei touched the steel needle-like beard under his chin, shook his head and smiled: "That Zhang He also has some skills, besides, he was right, if you hadn't dragged Zhang He's soldiers and horses, how could I break the village so easily?" ”
"Thank you, General!" Zhang Ren bowed.
"I want to lead the army to Chencang and fight a decisive battle with that Cao Zhen, but this rear cannot be lost, you send 15,000 soldiers and horses to continue to attack the city here, Anding, Jincheng, Longxi, you can fight as much as you can, and I will transfer the others!" Zhang Fei got up and said.
"The general is leaving?" Zhang Ren looked at Zhang Feidao in surprise.
"The soldiers are fast, taking advantage of the fact that the Wei army's reinforcements have not arrived, I should take Guanzhong as soon as possible, I have been delayed here for too long, I can't delay it any longer, it will change later!" Zhang Fei laughed.
There will be such a decision, not just because of this, but after leaving Sichuan this time, Zhang Fei gradually discovered the gap between the Han army and the Cao army, if it was six years ago, between the Han army and the Cao army, there could still be mutual attack and defense, equal, but this time after leaving Sichuan, Zhang Fei gradually found that with the continuous innovation of the Han army's equipment over the years, the combat effectiveness of the army has gradually opened up with the Cao army.
Take this time as an example, Zhang Fei's attack on the camp actually brought only 20,000 soldiers and horses, Pang Tong with the army is still in the rear, but the seemingly solid camp is vulnerable in front of the Han army, these six years, in his own home still does not feel anything, but now after six years to fight with the Wei army again, the gap in combat power has become quite obvious, that kind of crushing feeling, so that Zhang Fei has more confidence in this dispatch of troops in Guanzhong, when the three of their brothers chased the Cao army all over the world, it seems that it is not as strong as before.
Zhang Fei knows very well that this is not that the Cao army has become weaker, but that the Han army has been getting stronger in these years of recuperation, and in the early years, only the generals or elites in the army could wear the equipment, but now it has been eliminated and replaced by ordinary soldiers, and the equipment made by the Tiangongfang in recent years is obviously more than one grade higher than that year, Zhang Fei feels that with equipment alone, they can take down Guanzhong and even Luoyang.
Even in his heart, there was a feeling that even if he sent troops to attack the Central Plains at this time, he might not be invincible.
Of course, this is an illusion, not a problem of the war itself, the strength of the Han army is obvious to all, the most important thing is the lack of manpower and material resources, and now in Jingshu and Shu, there are only more than 200,000 troops that can be taken out.
Take Guanzhong, and even take Luoyang, these troops are naturally enough, and the logistics supplies can keep up, but after that, if you want to go further, the supply line will be lengthened, and the food will not be enough, which will limit the development of the Han army, so this battle will stop at Luoyang at most.
But there is no doubt that the Han army is now strong, and when the tracks have been laid in Guanzhong and Luoyang, and the transportation of materials is more convenient, it is the time to send troops to invade the world.
Zhang Ren naturally didn't know the abacus in Zhang Fei's heart, and after smiling and nodding in agreement, he returned to the camp and left Zhang Fei's 15,000 soldiers and horses to continue to guard the street pavilion, preparing to encroach on the land of Xiliang, and let the rest be taken to Zhang Fei, Guanzhong is the core of this battle!