Under the supervision of Cao Zhen, the Wei soldiers were also divided into multiple divisions, followed closely behind the Shu army, risking their lives to pursue. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Although Deng Zhi divided his troops into five teams and resisted step by step, under such a strong attack by the Wei army, he could only retreat step by step.

Fortunately, the Shu army is now on the defensive, and the cliffs and rivers on both sides of the plank road limit the enemy's attack surface, Deng Zhi observed the terrain in advance, and every time he demolished the plank road at the dangerous bend, urgently nailed it with horse nails, built a wooden wall fortification, and sent more crossbowmen and pikemen to fiercely counterattack the enemy army who forced the attack with only a few planks.

The fierce fighting continued all day, until it was dark, when Cao Zhen saw that the attack was blocked and the sergeants were heavily wounded, so he ordered the attack to be suspended and rested.

Deng Zhi let out a sigh of relief, and cursed secretly in his heart, this Cao Zhen is really a madman, at the end of the day, while he didn't come back to his senses, he actually forced him to retreat for more than ten miles.

However, if you are crazy, you are crazy, in fact, like this kind of valley plank road, you can only rely on assault operations, sneak attack success, if only by virtue of bravery, as long as the other side has an army to guard, there is a large army can not be used, it can only increase casualties.

He called his generals over and instructed him, "You first lead your army to hold on here to prevent the enemy from attacking again at night." I remember there was a terrain in the back, and the cliffs on both sides were not very high, so I could have let the sergeant climb up beforehand. I will go there first, and when the enemy will come after us, we will attack the enemy from a high place and from many directions, and we will surely inflict heavy casualties. ”

The general hurriedly replied: "Obey the order, the last general will definitely be ready for battle!" ”

Deng Zhi told again: "Let everyone not slack off, and at the same time be prepared, now you can take people to the front and continue to disassemble the plank road." Tomorrow morning, before dawn, he will lead his army to retreat. ”

At this time, Cao Zhen was also counting the casualties of the team, comforting the wounded soldiers, inspecting the ordnance, grain and grass of various departments, and having dinner with the sergeants.

Fei Yao was in a heavy mood, and although he fought down on this day, although he forced the enemy back for more than ten miles, he suffered heavy losses at home, which was really not cost-effective.

"General......" he wanted to speak, but stopped.

Cao Zhen raised his palm and stopped his words: "I understand what you mean, this kind of terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack." But, have you thought about it? This is the first day of battle between us and the enemy, the so-called first battle must be won, the first day of the battle, we must defeat the enemy, knock down their morale, and the rest of the battle will be easy to handle. ”

Oh, that means that from tomorrow onwards, there will be no need to storm so recklessly with casualties? Fei Yao opened his mouth to ask: "General......"

Cao Zhenbian shook his head again: "If the enemy doesn't retreat at night tonight, he will continue to attack tomorrow; If the enemy withdraws tonight, then we will continue to build the trestle tomorrow and approach step by step. ”

The enemy withdraws at night? Fei Yao hurriedly asked, "General, should we keep an eye on them tonight and then cover up while they retreat?" ”

"No, no, no!" Cao Zhen shook his head again and again, "If they leave at night, we will pretend not to know and let them go." ”

Fei Yao was really confused, this day we were demolished because of the plank road, temporarily attack and rest, you want us to continue to pursue, and now the enemy really wants to withdraw overnight, you don't want us to pursue, what do you mean?

"General......" He couldn't help but want to ask again.

Cao Zhen explained to him: "If the enemy withdraws overnight, it means that they are really scared and really want to flee as soon as possible, but if we attack so quickly during the day today, they will definitely arrange an ambush in advance." If we continue to pursue them, we will cause them to resist desperately, and it will only increase the casualties of our army. ”

What's the matter, I can't bear the life of the sergeant now? Fei Yao was completely confused by Cao Zhen, so he simply didn't interject.

Cao Zhen wanted to make it clear to him: "If the enemy withdraws safely, he will seize the time to retreat to Hanzhong." Wouldn't it be better for us to keep a certain distance from them and continue to march towards Hanzhong, so that in this valley, we don't have to die too many soldiers in vain, and go directly to Hanzhong to fight them? ”

Fei Yao thought to himself, it sounds good, maybe he got to Hanzhong, or was he ambushed by the enemy?

Cao Zhen turned his body to the side, and said to himself: "I don't know which way the enemy sent his troops from, if the three roads are all false, then we are approaching Hanzhong too quickly, and it is really possible to fall into their ambush." The enemy was defeated in one blow along the way, and there must be no doubt that there were only suspicious troops, but if the enemy's troops from other roads were also quickly withdrawn, it would be useless for us to reach Hanzhong. Now, I also need to wait for Wen Lie to give me news before I can really make a final decision. ”

It turned out that this was the case, and Fei Yao finally understood.

Cao Zhen was fighting and fighting on the Bao Slope Road, constantly sending fast horses to the rear to inquire about the news, while Cao Xiu led his army in Chang'an, and was also anxiously waiting to confirm the route of the enemy's main attack.

According to the intelligence, the enemy attacked from Bao Shu Road, Fu Luo Road and Chen Cang Road respectively this time.

Now, the news from Cao Zhen's side that on the Bao Slope Road, the enemy has walked for more than half a month, and he has not completed half of the valley road, and once the battle is engaged, he has retreated again and again, which is naturally the smoke released by the enemy, and there is no doubt that the suspicious soldiers are suspicious.

Then, it is one of the roads in Fu Luo Road and Chen Cang Road.

The enemy of Chencang Road advanced very quickly, and it was clear that the enemy troops on the slope were behind, but they quickly reached the vicinity of Sanguan, and it seemed that it was the enemy's main attacking team.

However, when the enemy reached the vicinity of Sanguan, they immediately slowed down their advance and did not launch an attack for a long time.

Will this be the enemy's main direction of attack? Once discovered by the other party, only a small number of troops can block their way forward, then they can only return from afar.

Now these guys have just stopped, what do you mean? Could it be that they already knew that we were prepared for it and thought of giving up?

If it's really the enemy's main attacking army, it's impossible to give up without trying to attack, doesn't it seem likely?

This journey should also be undoubtedly suspicious.

As for Fu Luo Dao, the news from the sentinel that the enemy there had not completed half of the journey and had stagnated.

Even without such information, Cao Xiu did not believe that the enemy's army would really march from Fu Luo Road, because that road was too difficult and dangerous, and it had been in disrepair for many years, and the army marched on that kind of road, and did not know how long the distance had to be stretched, and the grain and grass could not keep up in time.

So, which way should the enemy attack from? Could it still be Chen Cangdao?

Just when he was thinking left and right and couldn't understand, a courier came from Tianshui County that Ma Chao led the army and had arrived at Qishan and was moving rapidly upward.

Cao Xiu suddenly made a big mistake, no wonder the whereabouts of the enemy troops on these three roads were exposed so easily, it turned out that the place where they really wanted to send troops to attack was far away in Tianshui! (To be continued.) )