Chapter 16 The so-called good generals
The moonlight is vast, and the ground is full of frost. I don't know when, on the snow hundreds of miles away from the street pavilion, there were suddenly countless horseshoe prints. The sky shook, the earth shook, and the dark blue robes danced with the cold wind, turning into the sea to cover the entire snow, galloping between heaven and earth.
Different from the heavily armed Central Plains Iron Cavalry, these cavalrymen were all dressed in cloth armor, wearing iron black unsheathed scimitars at their waists, holding a rhino skin round shield in their left hand and a bright silver spear in their right hand.
Whether in the Central Plains or in the north, this cavalry has a resounding name, wolf. When Lu Bu rode into the Central Plains with five thousand wolves, the princes of all walks of life were envious and jealous, and the sharpness of the military edge was extremely headache even for a generation of heroes Cao Cao. In Saibei, they dominate the fate of all foreign tribes, and wherever the wolves go, they turn prosperity into depression, prosperity into decline, and magnificence into ruins.
The position of the head wolf has changed hands several times, and now the leader of the wolf pack is a slender white-haired old man, with a gray beard, sunken eye sockets, and curved nasolabial folds, giving people a sense of indescribable vicissitudes. Beside him was a sturdy middle-aged man, only to hear the man sigh with emotion: "Another ten years have passed in the snap of a finger, and the general's elegance is still as majestic as it was back then, and now the saint has crowned you as the general of Zhenxi, which can be described as a god's favor and enviable." ”
Lao Suo stroked his long white beard and said: "I thought that I could only retire in Jizhou, but I didn't expect that this old bone could still exude some residual heat and continue to serve the country." Ten years ago, Xiahou Miao was killed in this vast northwest land, and now it's time to retaliate. Guo Huai ordered the whole army to speed up, and be sure to rush to Jieting within three days.
"Nuo" Guo Huai asked: "Does the general know who will guard the street pavilion?" Zhang Helang laughed loudly: "I heard that he is a scholar who has never fought a war, and Zhuge Liang is unknown and let "Zhao Kuo" guard the military important place. I have heard that this person did not listen to the persuasion of his subordinates, and actually stationed a large army on the lonely mountain, which is really foolish. Guo Huai's expression was serious, and he said: "The general only knows one but doesn't know the other, Wang Ping, the deputy general of the Shu army, has experienced a hundred battles and was once a member of my Great Wei. Even more noteworthy is a young man named Jiang Wei. ”
Zhang He asked with interest, "Jiang Wei?" The spies came to report that he was at odds with Ma Yan, and that he had led his army to flee the battlefield overnight, and such a willful person needed not be taken seriously. Guo Huai hurriedly said: "The general must not be careless, don't fall for the enemy's tricks." The last general and Jiang Wei had a deep friendship and were each other's confidants. Jiang Wei is loyal and courageous, and has a clear distinction between public and private. It is also a brave and resourceful general, before Tianshui was too guarded to abandon the city and fled, Jiang Wei led two thousand iron cavalry to defeat the vanguard of the Shu army, but also escaped the ambush of Wei Yan and others, and almost captured Zhuge Kongming. ”
Zhang He thought for a moment and said, "You mean, Jiang Wei's troops did not escape, but just hid in the shadows and waited for the time to come. It's not simple, if our army dares to surround Ma Yan, he will appear from the rear to flank our army, and then our army will be in a dilemma, and it will inevitably be defeated. Thanks to Bo Ji's reminder, otherwise he would have really fallen for Jiang Wei. ”
Guo Huai sighed: "Jiang Weijun's talent is not inferior to you and me, but it's a pity that Ma Zun is a villain, causing me to lose a pillar of talent." Zhang He sneered and said: "When did you kid speak in a twist and turn, are you afraid that I will embarrass Jiang Wei after I capture him?" Rest assured, Jiang Weiben had no intention of surrendering Shu. If he wants, he can still come to my Wei State as an official. ”
Three days later, the 30,000 wolf riders finally arrived at Longshan, and the street pavilion was on the left side of the Longshan valley. The scout in front came to report that the street pavilion was heavily guarded, with an army of about 20,000. Zhang He changed into light armor and led more than 100 horsemen to the foot of the mountain to reconnoitre. That night, the sky was sunny and the moon was clear, and Zhang He patrolled the left and right sentry and found that it was just as the spy said. Wang Ping led 3,000 people to camp in the west of Gushan, and Ma Jian led the remaining main force to garrison the mountain.
Ma Jian thought that Zhang He was the vanguard, and he despised the combat strength of the Wei army even more in his heart, so he even sent an old man to take the lead. Then he said to the left and right: "If the Wei army surrounds the mountain tomorrow, you will rush down from all sides, capture the Wei general, reward 100 gold, and seal the goalkeeper." The Shu soldiers on the mountain did not know that the catastrophe was coming, so they patted their chests with their hands and said: "Tomorrow, we will teach these Wei thieves to see how powerful we are." Ma Tan smiled proudly, turned around and went back to the camp to sleep, and said in his heart: If I can kill the Wei army, the prime minister will grant me the right to fight, and then Jiang Wei will have to be inferior to me.
After Zhang He reconnoitred the topography of the street pavilion, he immediately fell into deep thought.
The so-called good general does not lie in bravery, nor in how many military books he has read, and it is always better to be diligent in thinking than rote memorization. If Jiang Wei's existence is excluded, he can send Deng Xian to lead 5,000 troops to block Wang Ping, and personally lead the army to surround the Shu army on the mountain, and victory is within reach. But if Jiang Wei's instability factor is added, the outcome is unpredictable. Zhang He couldn't make up his mind for a while, so he had to let the army set up camp at the mouth of the valley, and ordered Guo Huai to transport grain from Anding County, and at the same time sent people to inquire about Jiang Wei's whereabouts and wait and see what happened.
After Jiang Wei learned that Zhang He was not moving, his frustration was overflowing, but he didn't expect Zhang He to be so cautious, which was really unexpected for him. But he was relieved. Now that Cao Allah is pinned down on the left and right wings, the Chen Cang camp is empty, and the rest can only be left to Zhuge Liang.
However, Zhang He is a person who does nothing, and the old fox is still cunning, let alone the veteran? The two armies confronted each other for dozens of days, and the number of flags in Zhang He's camp was decreasing day by day, Ma Tan laughed loudly when he saw this: "It seems that the prime minister's army has approached Chen Cang, and Cao Zhen's enemy just asked Zhang He to come back to help, and our army will definitely gain something by pursuing the victory at this time."
Ma Tan then ordered the army Sima Li Sheng, Huang Xiu and others to lead the whole army down the mountain to attack Zhang He's camp. The Shu army went down to the mountain and rushed to the Wei camp, they saw the Wei soldiers drinking wine and eating meat at the foot of the mountain more than once, and they stayed on the mountain every day with clear water and white buns, how could they not make people upset.
Several Shu soldiers kicked open the gate of the village, and when they found that there was no one in it, they shouted loudly: "General, the Wei army has run away." Huang Xiu saw that there was no sound in the camp, so he ordered the whole army to rush into the Wei army. A few young men who walked in front tore open the big tent with knives and found a note on the wooden case inside the tent.
Pioneer Li Sheng spread out one, looked at it fixedly, and suddenly moved a cool air slowly rising from behind him.
The note reads...... Today, thousands of Shu troops died in the valley
Zhang He stood on the cliff, overlooking the entire camp, slowly pulled out his sword and shouted: "Archers prepare, release." ”