Chapter 519: Cao Zhang's Mistake
Almost all of their attention was focused on the Wei soldiers on the thunderbolt cart stuck in the mud, how could they have imagined that this place, which was only more than twenty miles away from their camp, would be attacked so strongly.
In their hearts, Liu Feng's army was either trapped in Shangyong City by them and fighting the trapped beasts, or they were already like frightened birds in other parts of Jingzhou, and they should not appear here to ambush them anyway, not to mention that it was a top secret thing for them to follow Cao Zhang to Weixing County to carry these thunderbolts, and even the 10,000 troops didn't know what they were going to do when they just set off, and the enemy army could know about it, wouldn't that be like divine help?
What they didn't know was that Liu Feng's foresight, Ying Wei's keen observation and judgment, and Zhou Yu's wisdom and determination all caused their attack this time, this is the core force of Jingzhou and Yizhou that Liu Feng has spent several years cultivating, in addition to the fact that the strength is not advantageous compared with Wei, Liu Feng has been ahead of Cao Zhi in all aspects, what Cao Zhi doesn't know is that once the only remaining advantage is also wiped out, Wei is not far from the danger of destroying the country.
At this time, Cao Zhang's 10,000 headquarters had already fallen hundreds of people with arrows before they knew what was happening, and with the subsequent arrows, the number of people who fell to the ground was still increasing.
"Enemy attack! Lie down and dodge the arrows! Cao Zhang, who was already a little hesitant in his heart, was the first to react, shouting while dismounting and running to the side of one of his lieutenants.
"The number of enemy troops is more than our army, and our army has been suddenly attacked, and it has been chaotic, and it is impossible to think about it here, I will temporarily lead the army to resist here for a while, you quickly lead some men and horses to break through and rush back to the camp, inform Sima Yi of the matter here, and let his rapid army rush to support!"
According to the arrows fired from the opposite side, Cao Zhang had already judged that the number of enemy troops must be more than his 10,000 horses, and he had already thought that the thunderbolt car trapped in the mud must be a trap set by the enemy, and the identity of this enemy army was also about to come out, that is, the army led by Zhao Yun and Ma Chao who drove him away from Wancheng, so although Cao Zhang was very angry in his heart, he was not worried, because Zhao Yun and Ma Chao had forty or fifty thousand people under their command, even if they arrived here, It is also very difficult to have any decisive impact on their capture of Shangyong, as for why Zhao Yun and Ma Chao were able to directly touch where he was, Cao Zhang did not think about it, all he thought about was to drag these enemy troops first, and then annihilate them when Sima Yi's army arrived, and solve the matter once and for all.
However, no matter how beautiful Cao Zhang's idea is, how can Zhou Yu, who has long been arranged here, not know what will happen to him, the deputy general sent by Cao Zhang led dozens of cavalry to just walk less than five miles, and was tripped to the ground by the stumbling horses that the shadow guards had already laid out, Li Chuang led a hundred shadow guards to wait here for a long time, with the ability of Li Chuang and the shadow guards, how could dozens of Wei soldiers pass here, and in a short time, the dozens of Wei soldiers all fell to the ground and lost their lives.
The defenders of Jingzhou, who had fired several rounds of arrows, rushed out from the flank and rear of the Wei army under the command of Zhao Yun and Ma Chao, all holding long weapons in their hands, and rushed straight towards the Wei army, which had been scattered.
Cao Zhang, because this time he sent troops only to carry those bulky thunderbolts, he did not let the sergeants under his command carry those more bulky long weapons, and Zhou Yu had already learned the news from the mouth of the shadow guard, with his intelligence, how could he not make some fuss about this matter, so this time he used rows of spears to fight against the Wei army with short knives, and the Jingzhou sergeant took a lot of advantage in weapons.
The result of this comparison was that the sergeants under Cao Zhang's command, whose combat effectiveness was not weak, had almost no resistance in front of the Jingzhou sergeants, and they fell under the spears of the Jingzhou defenders one by one.
Under the attack from both sides, the casualties of the Wei army were very fast, and the other side was a high mountain, leaving Cao Zhang with no other way to retreat.
"Sima Yi, why hasn't there been any movement yet!"
After leading the army to resist desperately for nearly half an hour, Cao Zhang found that more than half of the 10,000 sergeants under his command had been lost, and Sima Yi in the south still did not move, which made him feel a bad premonition.
gritted his teeth and persisted for a long time, but because of the problem of his own men and weapons and the disadvantage of his numbers, Cao Zhang never succeeded in breaking through in the direction where Sima Yi's camp was located in the south, and the number of sergeants following him was getting smaller and smaller.
After hitting the wall several times, Cao Zhang finally had to admit that the purpose of Zhao Yun leading the army to do this was to make him unable to contact Sima Yi's belonging, if he did not retreat north to Weixing County, within an hour Cao Zhang's 10,000 horses would be killed or wounded, and even whether he could get out under the joint attack of Zhao Yun and Ma Chao was uncertain.
Now, there seems to be only one way left in front of Cao Zhang, that is, to lead the army to temporarily retreat to Weixing County to save his life, and after trying to break through several times, he also gritted his teeth and did so, but before doing so, he gave an order, that is, to damage all the ten thunderbolts, obviously, he has realized that even if he retreats to Weixing County, most of these horses will not have any major impact on the attack on Shangyong, but in case these ten thunderbolts fall into the hands of Zhao Yun and others, The consequences were unimaginable.
However, when the Wei army turned around and wanted to destroy those thunderbolts, they found that someone had already been one step ahead of them, except for the one that was deep in the mud, the rest of the thunderbolts had all been transferred behind their army by Ma Chao's army, and it was obviously impossible to destroy them.
"If you don't take revenge, you swear not to be a man!" Cao Zhang, who had almost gritted his steel teeth, said such words, and finally left in a hurry after destroying the thunderbolt that was deep in the mud, he knew that he had made the biggest mistake in this battle, this mistake would almost destroy the good situation they had achieved now, but between the mistake and his own life, Cao Zhang still did not hesitate to choose the latter.
In the end, after some careful and orderly arrangement, Zhou Yu finally achieved the results he wanted, only one of the ten thunderbolts was damaged by Cao Zhang, and nine of them fell into his hands, in addition, among the captured Wei army, several people in different clothes also attracted Zhao Yun's attention.