Chapter 524: The Last Taunt
Let's say that after Sima Yi and others led the army to withdraw from the territory of Shangyong, they sent a few people to stay in the original camp place and wait for Cao Zhang, who was put back, while slowly moving towards the direction of Weixing County, the defeated army just moved forward silently, obviously both the generals and the soldiers were very dissatisfied with this attack, they could have done better, but I don't know if it was luck or providence, in short, they did not gnaw even a little bit of booty from Jingzhou, but lost half of the sergeants.
Under Sima Yi's inventory, there were less than 120,000 soldiers left with him, and there were thousands of wounded soldiers, which was almost the most depressing battle he had fought since his debut.
He knew that this defeat made Wei lose the best opportunity to exterminate Liu Feng, although he also made Liu Feng pay the price of losing at least 50,000 soldiers, but Liu Feng still did not break his bones, and keeping all the cities in Jingzhou was Liu Feng's biggest victory, so that Liu Feng's momentum among the people of Jingzhou would reach a higher level, which was definitely not a good thing for Cao Zhi, who originally wanted to be the emperor in Wei.
More importantly, Sima Yi, who was widely believed by the Wei courtiers, including Cao Zhi, to be able to reverse the negative results brought about by Yang Xiu's previous battles, did not achieve anything more commendable than Yang Xiu, although the process was not as passive as Yang Xiu, but the results were very dismal.
Sima Yi knew that such a result would make him unable to return to the position above 10,000 people in the court of Wei before he was demoted, as for what results were waiting for him, it could only depend on Cao Zhi's meaning, and the key to this should be on Cao Zhang, who was rescued by himself, Sima Yi was ready to have an in-depth conversation with Cao Zhang after he was rescued, and even if possible, reach a certain alliance, in order to be able to deal with the impact of this defeat on the two.
Sima Yi was thinking about it, when suddenly the sergeant in the front came to report that he had found a small group of sergeants not far ahead, because the night was dark, and he couldn't see who led it for the time being.
It was almost in the middle of Weixing County, and Sima Yi never believed that the soldiers of Jingzhou would dare to come here in the middle of the night, so he ordered the army to just move in the direction from which the soldiers came.
Finally, after a short time, the sergeant in front came to report that they had seen the banner of that group of sergeants, and to Sima Yi's great surprise, it turned out to be Cao Zhang's banner, and the number was only less than 5,000.
And the oncoming sergeant obviously saw the banner of Sima Yi's army clearly, and a small group of horsemen in front of him quickly greeted Sima Yi's army, but as the small group of men and horses gradually approached him, Sima Yi saw the leader of the leader a little bit under the moonlight, but his breathing became very rapid.
The person who was the leader, in Sima Yi's eyes, looked more and more like Cao Zhang, who had been caught by Liu Feng in his heart, and when he really arrived in front of him, Sima Yi's heart was completely cold, this is not Cao Zhang, although he was a little embarrassed, he lost the battle at a glance, but he was intact, and he didn't even suffer a little injury.
"Why did Zhongda withdraw so quickly, could it be that the Jingzhou sergeant really took the thunderbolt and used it on our army?"
When he got closer and saw that it was Sima Yi who came forward, Cao Zhang asked with a trembling voice first, what he was most afraid of was that Zhao Yun hijacked his thunderbolt car and directly used it to deal with Sima Yi, but now it seems that his idea is likely to have become a reality.
But to Cao Zhang's surprise, Sima Yi's first sentence when he saw him was not to answer his question, but to ask in a deep voice: "General Ziwen was not captured by Liu Feng's subordinates?" ”
Cao Zhang, who asked this question, was a little confused, stunned for a moment, and then sighed and said: "The matter has come to this, Zhong Da should not be sarcastic about me anymore, if I hadn't given up those thunderbolts when I saw that things were not good, not only would the thunderbolts not be able to keep them at this time, but indeed even I would become a prisoner of the mediocre ranks, if Zhong Da counted me as an escape, Zhang would have nothing to say!" ”
Seeing that Cao Zhang would be wrong, Sima Yi waved his hand again and again, and then told Cao Zhang about the letter he received from Liu Feng from Shangyong City, Cao Zhang's listen, and he didn't say anything for a long time, I have to say that because of the previous Xu Chu and Yu Ban as a comparison, Liu Feng's letter is very easy to believe, not to mention that the thunderbolt car that Cao Zhang is responsible for transporting has appeared in Zhao Yun's hands, Cao Zhang knows that even if he is himself, he will never dare to take risks at will.
"Liu Feng, this guy is not a benevolent and righteous person, and he actually used such means to defraud Zhongda, which makes us defenseless!" At this point, Cao Zhang can only put all the responsibility on Liu Feng's body, it was he who lost the thunderbolt, and it was he who made Zhao Yun's subordinates drive to the territory of Weixing County and did not dare to return to the camp for a while, it can be said that this defeat, at least half of the responsibility should be counted on Cao Zhang's loss of the thunderbolt car but failed to send the news to Sima Yi's camp in the first time, so Cao Zhang was also cautious when he spoke.
But just as the two of them sighed, the people sent by Sima Yi to pick up Cao Zhang also came back in a hurry, but they did not return empty-handed as Sima Yi and Cao Zhang expected, but did bring someone back, this person was naturally Xu Huang, but Xu Huang's appearance here was something that Cao Zhang and Sima Yi did not expect.
"How did General Komeito appear here? Could it be that he is the middle ...... of Jiangxia County"
Sima Yi stopped after asking halfway, since it was Xu Huang who was released back from Shangyong City, how could the 30,000 troops he sent to Jiangxia have a second result in addition to being defeated, Xu Huang was captured, and he naturally couldn't mention it when he met.
Sure enough, after hearing this, Xu Huang directly dismounted and knelt down to Sima Yi, and said with tears in his eyes: "Huang has lost the trust of General Zhongda, and was defeated by Zhou Yu and Ma Chao of my Jiangxia army, and was captured by Ma Chao in front of the battle, and now he has dragged General Zhongda and General Ziwen back, and Huang deserves death!" ”
After seeing Xu Huang's performance, Xu Chu, Yu Ban, Cao Zhang and others could only smile bitterly, if Xu Huang was already guilty of deserving of death, then which of them was not guilty of deserving of death?