Chapter 55 The tiger and leopard ride into battle
Zhuge Liang is in the middle of the army
"Ahh This time it was Yang Yi's turn to be shocked, and Yang Yi, who had been following Zhuge Liang all the year round, instantly understood the danger and why Zhuge Liang lost his temper. Today's situation is probably the real biggest crisis in Shu Han.
"That'...... That...... Prime Minister, let's let the generals return to the army to rescue! Yang Yi stammered nervously, after all, it was a matter of life and death.
"No, if the generals move, the entire battle formation will be chaotic, and it will be easier to be broken by the Wei army." Zhuge Liang calmly analyzed, "Besides, it's too late, you see, tens of thousands of Wei troops are already rushing over." Yang Yi looked in the direction Zhuge Liang pointed out, and sure enough, he found that several Wei troops were rushing to the front. Among them was the elite infantry of Cao Wei led by the governor of the Chinese army.
"This ...... What can I do, I can't save it, and I can't stop it. Yang Yi was in a hurry.
"Don't worry, the prime minister, our subordinates are all elites, and they will definitely be able to protect the prime minister!" Wang Ping, the general of Zhengbei, said firmly.
"Yes, we are willing to fight to the death, and we will never let the Wei army get closer!" General Zuo said that Meng Yan, the tiger step supervisor, also looked like he was at home, and asked for war one after another.
"Okay", Zhuge Liang nodded thoughtfully, his heart was quite moved, the so-called adversity sees the truth, and there is a group of loyal subordinates to support him at the moment when his life is at stake, life is like this, what more can a husband ask for?
Zhuge Liang stared closely into the distance, Cao Rui was not far from the outside of the formation, I am afraid that he is already triumphant at this moment. Zhuge Liang suddenly remembered something, thought for a moment, turned around abruptly and said, "Let all the troops hold their positions and block the enemy in place." Then he ordered Jiang Wei to leave some soldiers and horses to guard the Wei army's surrender to prevent it from surrendering and rebelling, and Cao Ruili should join forces with the outside, and the rest of the cavalry all went into battle, repeatedly impacting the Wei army, the more violent the impact, the better! ”
"No, I'll go to the flag bearer and give an order for Jiang Wei to come to the rescue!" Yang Yi turned around and left.
"It's not for Jiang Wei to come to the rescue, you listen to the order clearly, it's for Jiang Wei to lead the cavalry to attack the Wei army, the more violent the impact, the better!" Zhuge Liang hurriedly shouted.
"Yes!" Yang Yi was ordered to retreat, and he actually wondered a little in his heart, what is the difference between this, isn't the impact of the Wei army just to delay the attack of the Wei army, isn't it to rescue? Time was pressing, Yang Yi didn't think about it, and hurried to give the order.
Jiang Wei in the formation was also shocked when he received the order, and instantly understood the danger of the situation, and immediately left Guan Suo to guard the Wei army, leading Ma Dai, Zhao Guang, Zhao Tong, and Fu Jian to rush towards the Wei army. The Xiliang cavalry is a heavy cavalry, and the impact force generated is often able to knock several people away at the same time, and the Wei army, which is moving forward, rushes to this impact, and it is indeed slowed down, and it has to be divided to resist.
All this was seen by Cao Rui, Man Chong and others outside the formation, and they were about to break through to Zhuge Liang, how could they give up easily? However, Cao Rui has staked the whole army, and there is really no remaining force to stop Jiang Wei at the moment. Cao Rui looked left and right, and saw Cao Shuang, the general of the military guard, who was guarding on the side. That's right, there are 10,000 armed guards, and there are tigers and leopards to ride!
"Cao Shuang, I ordered you to lead the Wuwei Army to attack Jiang Wei!" As soon as these words came out, everyone was shocked. The Wuwei Army is indeed Cao Wei's most trusted elite Su Guard forbidden soldiers, with a total of 10,000 troops, all of whom are brave and good at fighting, one in a hundred, and well-equipped, including 5,000 world-famous tiger and leopard cavalry and 5,000 famous tiger guard infantry. However, since Cao Pi merged the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry and the Tiger Guard Infantry to create the Wuwei Army, he has always served as the emperor's side guard, and has never taken the initiative to kill the enemy in a war.
"This ......" Cao Shuang looked at Cao Rui with a puzzled expression, he was a guard general, how did he suddenly become a general?
"What, you're scared? As a general, this is the time to make a contribution! Cao Rui said quite dissatisfied.
"This ...... It's not that the minister is afraid of death, but the minister's duty is to protect His Majesty's safety. Besides, if Your Majesty sends your ministers to battle, who will protect Your Majesty? What Cao Shuang said is reasonable.
"Your Majesty, what General Cao said is reasonable. The Wuwei Army is His Majesty's pro-army, and it cannot be easily mobilized! "Most of the Metropolitan Governors did not agree to send Cao Shuang into battle.
"Oh, it looks like it's about to successfully assault Zhuge Liang, regardless of whether it's pro-army or not. If this battle is defeated, what is the use of having ten times the armed guards! Cao Rui was really anxious.
"Your Majesty, the minister is willing to only lead the tiger and leopard into battle, and General Cao can still lead the tiger guard infantry to protect His Majesty." Xiahou Ba, the protector of Shu, stood up. Xiahou Ba is the second son of Cao Wei's general Xiahou Yuan, Xiahou Yuan was beheaded by Shu Han general Huang Zhong in the battle between Dingjun Mountain and the Shu Han army. Cao Rui strengthened his ambition and was promoted to the protector of Shu. He once accompanied the great Sima Cao Zhen to crusade against Shu Han. In this Eastern Crusade, Cao Rui only arranged the Xiahou Ba brothers in the Chinese army. Although it is to protect the relatives of the Xiahou family, it does lack the opportunity to make meritorious contributions. So Xiahou Ba saw that there was an opportunity, and immediately jumped out to ask for his life.
"Okay, okay, just send the tiger and leopard to ride into battle, leaving five thousand tiger guards to guard, this is always okay, right?" Cao Rui hurriedly agreed.
Everyone was speechless for a while, Cao Rui struck while the iron was hot and shouted at Xiahouba, "Go quickly!" Xiahou Ba then led five thousand tigers and leopards to rush into the battle formation and fight with Jiang Wei. I have to say that the tiger and leopard cavalry is worthy of Cao Wei's absolute trump card, although there are few people, all of them are hundreds, and they are also heavy armored cavalry, and the Xiliang iron cavalry led by Jiang Wei has gradually fallen behind.
Taking advantage of Jiang Wei's entanglement, the Wei army led by Sun Li quickly rushed to the front of Zhuge Liang's army and began to besiege on all sides.
"Don't mess around, resist me, release the arrows quickly!" Although the arrows rained down in the battle, Wang Ping, the general of the expedition to the north, still calmly held his sword and supervised the battle back and forth in the battle. Inspired by Wang Ping, the soldiers of the Shu army fought bravely.
The Chinese army of Shu is divided into four layers, the outermost is the Wudang Fei Army, which is good at defense, and the soldiers are all wearing iron armor, holding shields, steel knives, and wearing fangs and masks to deter the enemy. It is good at using crossbows and poisoned arrows, and the wound of those it hits boils, making it the best choice for defense.
The middle level of the defense circle was the Tuchen soldiers led by General Zuo Jufu. Zhuge Liang is very good at dealing with the relationship between ethnic minorities, after the southern expedition recruited a lot of ethnic minority soldiers, the composition of the Wudang Fei Army is Qingqiang, and the composition of the general is the people, the famous Ban Yuman in history. Ban Yu Man, is the Tujia family, during the Zhou Dynasty, because of the help of the Wu King, the use of wooden planks as a card, so it is called the Ban Dun Man and received preferential treatment by the Zhou Dynasty, and later helped the Han King Liu Bang to pacify the three Qin. The barbarian folk style is fierce, advocating force, the folk county Yi A party, fighting and suing must die, fighting is extremely brave and strong, all dynasties are the source of elite soldiers in the world, even the general Wang Ping of the expedition to the north, the general of the left Jufu, the general of the expedition to the south Ma Zhong, the general of Zhennan Zhang Wei and so on are all born in the barbarian. If the Wudang Flying Army is good at defending, then the Assault Chen soldiers composed of Ban Yu Barbarians are definitely good at charging into battle. Tu Chen's soldiers did not have scimitars at their waists, held spears, and cooperated with the Wudang Fei Army to constantly stab the Wei troops on the periphery. When a small number of Wei troops broke through, they threw down their spears and fought each other in hand, looking like they were not going to die, and they would not give up until they cut and kill the enemy.
On the third layer of the defense circle is the crossbowmen led by Yang Yi, that is, the armor soldiers equipped with the Zhuge repeater, which has not been able to equip the Shu Han army in large quantities because of the complexity of the materials and processes required. In addition to the previous battle of Pujin Pass, it was mainly equipped with Zhuge Liang's three thousand strong soldiers recruited in Fuling County, Bazhong, and these strong soldiers were also Ban Yuman, who was strong and good at shooting, and after being equipped with Zhuge Liang's "Yuan Rong crossbow", he was even more invincible, known as "crossbowmen". After the Wudang Fei Army and the Tuchen Army, they used dense crossbow arrows to hit the enemy continuously, which was the biggest killing weapon of Zhuge Liang's Chinese army, shooting a large number of Wei troops.
And at the end of the defense circle, it is Zhuge Liang himself and the 3,000 tiger infantry led by Meng Yan, the tiger step supervisor, Meng Yan is the clansman of the Southern Barbarian King Meng Shu, extremely brave, and Sima Yi's troops fought fiercely in Wuzhangyuan, and the tiger infantry led by him is the most elite Han army in Shu Han, which is Zhuge Liang's last line of defense.
Although the Shu army of the Chinese army is the elite of the elite, but after all, the Wei army has a lot of people, tens of thousands of troops surrounded and attacked in all directions, no matter how strong the battle formation is, it is difficult to last, not to mention anything else, the arrows of Zhuge Repeater will soon be shot out. The troops in front were still resisting with all their might, but Zhuge Liang stared closely into the distance, as if the battle situation in front of him had not happened.
"It's now!" Zhuge Liang suddenly shouted, and the herald understood and fired the arrow into the sky, which exploded in the air, making a "bang" sound, accompanied by colored smoke dispersed in the air.
Everyone was attracted by the sound and smoke in the air, what the hell is this signal?
"What's going on, report it quickly!" Cao Rui was a little panicked, he was too nervous, at this moment of life and death, any deviation could fall short.
Everyone looked around calmly, but did not find anything abnormal, and Cao Rui gradually calmed down. Probably just Zhuge Liang's suspicious tactics, at this time, he is still engaged in this kind of trick of gods and ghosts, I am not afraid, continue to attack!
Cao Rui was thinking about how to send the remaining Tiger Guards to the battlefield as well, when he suddenly felt that the ground seemed to shake, rumble, rumble! Could it be an earthquake?! Cao Rui was in confusion, when suddenly a personal soldier pointed to the rear and shouted, "Look, what is that?" ”
When everyone heard the sound, they saw dust flying in the distance, and a group of behemoths suddenly ran out and were rapidly moving towards this side. The movement is so big, the earth is shaking, and the earthquake just now was actually caused by them!
"Elephant!" The well-informed Liu Ye couldn't help but blurt out, he couldn't believe his eyes, this is the Central Plains Plain, how can there be such a mountain and jungle thing?
"What is an elephant?" Cao Rui, who was born in the court since he was a child, had certainly never seen such a creature, and had not even heard of it.
Liu Ye respectfully bowed and replied: "Your Majesty, the minister has seen this kind of animal in a book, the elephant is two zhang long, one zhang high, the limbs are thick and strong, the skin is thick and wrinkled, and there are long tusks that can be used as a defensive weapon. It is produced in the southern barbarians, likes mountains and jungles, and feeds on plants and trees. It's just that I don't know why it's in this plain land. ”
"Oh, such a huge thing, it's terrifying, why is it here?" Cao Rui was also confused, could it be that the battle here angered the mountain god, and he released a fierce beast to punish everyone?
When the elephant gradually approached, Liu Ye seemed to see someone on top of the elephant from a distance, suddenly woke up, and shouted, "Oh no, Your Majesty, this is not an elephant, but a war elephant!" Look, there is someone behind it, there must be some control, I'm afraid it's coming for us! ”
Cao Rui followed Liu Ye's point, and sure enough, he found that there were four or five people sitting on the back of the elephant. The first person is Meng Huo, the king of the Southern Barbarians. It turned out that there were 500 war elephants and more than 2,000 elephants who went north with Meng Huo. Zhuge Liang didn't want people to know the truth and reality, so he kept people hiding the war elephant in the forest outside the city, and agreed with Meng to get a signal, and when he saw colored smoke in the sky, he led the army to kill.
"I see!" Liu Ye patted his head and suddenly said, "I understand!" This is Zhuge Liang's war elephant, and the sound and smoke just now are the signal for help! The minister once heard that Zhuge Liang went south to conquer Nanzhong, obtained a lot of Nanban materials, and recruited a large number of barbarian soldiers, and promoted many Nanban wealthy families to enter the Shu Han court to hold important positions. The Southern Barbarians are prolific war elephants, and this thing must have also been supplemented into the Shu army formation along with the barbarian soldiers! ”
Cao Rui was shocked, "Then why didn't I see him participate in the war just now!" ”
Liu Ye said hatefully, "This must be Zhuge Liang's reserved move, he saw that our army was attacking him with all his might, so he planned to induce our army to invest all its combat strength, until His Majesty transferred the Wuwei army around him......"
"Treat him in the way of others", Cao Rui read silently. Zhuge Liang is really treacherous, he expects that I will join the Armed Guards in a hurry, and when I am the weakest, I will throw a fatal blow! It's over, it's over...... The great cause of the Wei State...... There was a "buzz" sound in Cao Rui's head, and he began to go blank, and he fainted to the ground all of a sudden.