Chapter 968: Luring and Destroying Ma Tan
Lu Meng was lying in his cloth pocket, looking at the warm battlefield under the mountain, his heart was full of pride, Ma Yan, one of the most outstanding generals under Zhuge Liang, the guy who was the best at figuring out the enemy's psychology, but he was caught by his repeated strategies, playing the same means with such an opponent, and being able to achieve victory, this is very rewarding.
The 7,000 Han troops under the mountain have been killed and wounded innumerable, but the dense rain of arrows is still endlessly pounced, and the flying stones are smashed down like a waterfall, and the two armies have not clashed at all, but their own side has taken advantage of the steepness of the mountain, completely gaining the upper hand, and the enemy has no power to fight back at all.
Ma Jian regretted it, but he couldn't sit back and wait for death, so he commanded his most elite men to carry out a decisive attack on the retreating mountain pass.
Of course, this section of the retreat route is also the key defense place of the Wu army, and the Han army, which wants to escape from the road, tried its best to attack, but the result was very effective.
Ma Tan hid behind a big tree, coldly watching the tragic progress of the battle in front of him, but his face was expressionless.
At this time, the general ran over with a rolling belt: "General, the back road is blocked too tightly, we have no hope of rushing out, it seems that we are going to die here today." ”
As a result, Ma Jian smiled indifferently: "When did I say that I would rush out from the place where I retreated?" ”
At that time, the general was stunned: "If we don't rush out from there, where will we rush out from?" ”
Ma Jian smiled: "This is people's inherent thinking, people who are surrounded, subconsciously the first choice is to retreat from the direction from which they came, and when the enemy absolutely designs this pocket formation, he will put a lot of force on the way to come, but today I want to go the other way, you increase the attack on the retreat, and then we are ready to continue to attack forward, rushing out in the direction of the childish." ”
The general's eyes lit up: "Since we have decided to go the opposite way, why do we still have to carry out a decisive attack on the coming road?" ”
Ma Tan said confidently: "Because I want to give the enemy an illusion, that is, I want to rush out from the way I came, so as to mobilize more of their troops and block my retreat, and then when we turn around and charge again, we will encounter a relatively weak front line, and we will have greater confidence to rush out." ”
This kind of judgment and analysis really makes this five-body body that is admired by the general fall to the ground, so what else to say? Rush for a while and prepare for a breakout in the future.
The Han army, which had entered a desperate situation, broke out the greatest ability in their potential, and the defense line blocking their retreat was already crumbling and precarious, Lu Meng saw such a battle situation, and thought that Ma Jian was breaking through and retreating at all costs, and ordered the general Chen Yuan to take a thousand soldiers to reinforce the blocking line, no matter what, Ma Jian must be annihilated here.
So, Chen Yuan shouted the order and led a thousand dead soldiers to the battlefield, and the battle on the battlefield became fierce again.
Ma Tan saw that the heat was almost over, flew on the horse, and did not notify the soldiers who fought to the death in front of him, and took hundreds of his own guards to turn over and kill directly.
Wu Jun fell into inertial thinking, and tried his best to block it on the back road, but he didn't want Ma Jian to give everyone a retreat instead of retreating, and he was at a loss for a while, but when Lu Meng reacted, Ma Jian had already killed the few enemy troops in front of him and rushed out directly.
When Lü Meng regretted jumping to his feet, there was still good news that at the end of the battle, his side annihilated more than 6,000 Han troops at the cost of 1,000 casualties, and only Ma Jian fled with less than 300 personal soldiers, so he achieved an almost perfect victory.
This victory greatly boosted the morale of the Wu army, especially greatly improved Lü Meng's prestige, especially seeing Lü Meng, who became better because of the victory, everyone was even more convinced that Lü Meng's illness was cured, and he could lead everyone to fight again, so Lü Meng struck while the iron was hot, and led the victorious army directly to the street pavilion guarded by Wang Ping.
Wang Ping's guard of the street pavilion, in fact, is now also in a bitter battle, after Ma Jian took away seven thousand, Wang Ping with three thousand soldiers behind closed doors, as a result of Ma Tan just left, the mountains suddenly rushed out of countless Wu army, Wang Ping's street pavilion camp launched a decisive attack, wave after wave of attacks endless, just fight, on the last batch, down a group, and then a group, four sides of the attack simply let Wang Ping take care of himself.
At this time, when Wang Ping was resentful of Ma Tan, he also hoped that Ma Tan could quickly return to the army and join him, but when the result was not long, another Wu army appeared from the road pursued by Ma Tan.
Seeing such a situation, Wang Ping's heart was completely cool, and if an enemy army could appear on that road, it could only mean that Ma Jian was defeated, and it was absolutely annihilated.
For such an ending, Wang Ping wanted to cry without tears, and Ma Yan's greed and recklessness completely buried his 10,000 horses. And that's not all, now Dongwu is attacking himself with all his might, it is definitely not as simple as annihilating his own 10,000 people, their most fundamental purpose is to seize this node street pavilion, and then station a force of men and horses here.
If a group of men and horses are stationed here, and it is only thirty miles away from the camp of the prime minister's army, and the light cavalry is only a blink of an eye, then the camp of the prime minister's army will be threatened at any time, and the prime minister will not be able to attack Ling Tong with all his strength, which is the most terrifying.
Losing a move and being completely passive is the most serious consequence of the loss of the street pavilion.
But it's useless to say anything now, breaking through, saving your own life, and saving the remaining thousands of brothers is the key.
Therefore, Wang Ping decisively ordered to abandon the camp, the whole army went north, opened a way of life, returned to the prime minister's camp, and reported the defeat here to the prime minister, please make a decision.
With Wang Ping's order, he personally lit the fire in the camp, and then led the team to break through to the north.
"Poor Kou Mo chase, let's put out the fire." Lu Meng, who was already quite satisfied with the current results, gave the order to stop the pursuit and began to put out the fire.
Using the enemy's existing strongholds to reinforce it, and then sending an army to hold it here, is the most important thing now.
Facing Mao Wen, Lu Meng instructed: "In order to give you 10,000 horses to hold here, the enemy will attack, and if the enemy retreats, look for opportunities to attack appropriately, remember, the battlefield situation is ever-changing, you should have the right to have the right of inspiration, but a bottom line, that is, to save yourself, harass the enemy, so that Zhuge Liang has to divide his troops to guard against you, so that the villagers can't attack Ling Tong with all their might, and let Kong Ming know that we still have the ability to cut off his back road, so that he can't divide his troops to attack Jingzhou, this is your great achievement." ”
Mao Wen nodded: "Don't worry, between this kind of Zhang Chi, I must grasp it well, I just don't bite Zhuge Liang, I also want to be disgusted to death Zhuge Liang." ”
Lu Meng slapped his hands: "I just want to disgust him to death." ”