On the battlefield, it is dangerous and abnormal, although in the final analysis, the war is a contest of strength, but in a certain part, it is also very normal for the phenomenon of turning the tables around. The soldiers are not tired of deceit, and the generals on both sides have their own schemes, fraud and anti-fraud, concealment and anti-concealment, and do not compete with the wisdom of both sides at all times.

Show it to be weak, multiply it by being strong, show it to nothing, and show it to have, this is the highest state of not tired of deceit. Wei Ba has eight hundred soldiers, which can be called the strongest liliang in the Shu Han army of Wuguan Dao, but he has been hiding behind the scenes, even when the offensive and defensive battles of Wuguan are the most difficult, he has not made a move. This gave Sima Shi an illusion that Wei Ba had so many people and limited strength, so as long as he left a thousand cavalry, he didn't dare to challenge during the day, he could only play some unelegant attacks at night.

If it weren't for the eight hundred soldiers, Wei Ba really wouldn't dare. If it weren't for the help of the stirrups, Wei Ba wouldn't have dared. However, now that he had two sharp weapons in his hands that Sima Shi didn't know, he was confident enough to attack this thousand Wei knights, who were already physically and psychologically exhausted.

This is Wei Ba's real strength, these strengths are only known to Wei Ba himself, even Deng Zhi does not know all of them, and as for Sima Shi, he knows nothing. It was precisely because Wei Ba knew the power of some strength that he dared to change his plan halfway and trick Sima Shi into dividing his troops.

In this round of fraud and anti-fraud, Wei Ba won.

A thousand cavalry that had lost their speed quickly lost their combat effectiveness under the siege of the Wei family's military guards and more than a thousand Guanzhongqu. About three hundred people were killed in battle, and the rest knelt in surrender.

Compared with these soldiers, Wei Ba was happier with nearly seven hundred war horses.

Shu Han lacks high-quality war horses, war horses have always been the most popular trophies in the Shu Han army, giving a good horse, and sending a luxury car in later generations is almost the same, strictly speaking. This is a great gift. Wei Ba's previous ambushes were just trophies of a dozen or twenty horses. This time, he got more than 700 war horses at once, which really made him happy.

In this way, he has captured 800 war horses from the Wei army before and after, which is even greater than the harvest in the last battle of Anqiaosai.

It seems that he wants to win more war horses. You have to rob the cavalry.

Wei Ba called Ma Cao and the others to him, pointing out that nearly a hundred horses were injured and could not ride for the time being. The war horses that needed to be healed said to them: "You have made a meritorious contribution to this battle, and these trophies should have your share. But I urgently need cavalry to pursue Sima Shi now, so I took all these Haode war horses with me, and these more than 100 horses, although they were somewhat wounded. But it's not a big deal, after healing, it doesn't affect the ride, and it will be distributed to you, and the rest of the trophies. I will compensate you accordingly. How is it? ”

Ma Cao and the others are also greedy for these war horses, but they also know that the biggest credit for today's battle is Wei Ba's, look at his eight hundred soldiers, and then look at these parts around him, compared with others, the gap is big. Wei Ba was able to distribute more than a hundred lightly injured war horses to them, which was already considered generous, not to mention that other trophies would be replenished. Therefore, they thanked each other repeatedly, and there was nothing else to say.

Wei Ba then asked Ma Cao and Geng Ping to stay in Shang County, and Jin Quan escorted the prisoners to the west. He himself personally led the Wei family soldiers who had changed to war horses to pursue westward, looking for an opportunity to break Sima Shi again. Although he blocked all the Wei troops in the camp as much as possible, he had no way to control the scouts outside the camp, and within half a day, Sima Shi would definitely receive a battle report.

Without further ado, Wei Ba took more than 800 Wei family soldiers to the road immediately and chased all the way to the west. When he was in Wuguan, he processed a large number of stirrups, and the soldiers each had a pair, and whoever grabbed the war horse would be replaced first. Although the stability of the Takahashi saddle is still lacking, compared to these soldiers who are used to not using stirrups, only stirrups can greatly improve combat effectiveness and reduce the fatigue of riding horses.

Riding on a horse does not mean that they are horsemen, at best they are horse-mounted foot soldiers, and they need hard training and time to fight on horses skillfully. Fortunately, these martial artists have been practicing martial arts since childhood, and they are flexible and not afraid of hardships, and they are much faster than ordinary people in training.

Now, however, Wei Ba's self-confidence had not swelled to the point of immediately using them as pawns. It's one thing to attack those thousand cavalry, it's another thing to go head-to-head with Cao Wei's elite cavalry, and it's not something that can be done in a short time. He was reluctant to send these future elite cavalry over for slaughter.

However, it was more than enough to use war horses to speed up the march. At the same time, it allows them to practice riding, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

With the war horse, Wei Ba's marching speed immediately increased a lot. The Wei family's warriors are known as the strongest foot soldiers, fully armed, and can run fifty miles in half a day, but compared with war horses, after all, they are still war horses. Running fifty miles in half a day is a piece of cake. With the war horses, these Wei family soldiers can still maintain their physical strength, and their combat effectiveness can be further exerted.

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It only took more than an hour for Sima Shi to easily catch up with Deng Zhi.

Deng Zhi had been marching for more than three hours at this time, rushing nearly a hundred miles, and there were still more than forty miles away from Shangluo, and the soldiers were exhausted. Now that Sima Shi has chased after him, it is unrealistic to run away, no matter how fast he runs on two legs, it is impossible to be faster than a horse. Once they escape, it is easy to form a rout, more than 2,000 people will die here, and the people accompanying them will also suffer heavy casualties, and the happiest should be those prisoners, who can return to the arms of the Wei army.

Deng Zhi didn't run away, he set up a formation, ready to fight with Sima Shi. He has his confidence, firstly, his position is a zigzag and coiled mountain, where Danshui has made several continuous bends along the terrain, like a zigzag ribbon, forming several highlands at the water's edge, which is suitable for blocking. Second, behind him, the reinforcements from the Shangluo direction were coming, and behind Sima Shi, there were more than 2,000 people from Wei Ba.

Although Deng Zhi knew that Wei Ba was interested in taking back the military power, Deng Zhi believed that Wei Ba would not bury all his 2,000 men in the hands of Sima Shi for the sake of power struggle. Not only because these people were originally Zhao Yun's subordinates, but also related to Deng Zhi's understanding of Wei Ba. Deng Zhi could see that Wei Ba was not the kind of person who would do anything for the sake of the end, he was new to officialdom and had a lot of scheming, but his ruthlessness was far from enough. It is precisely because of this that Deng Zhi dared to show his respect for Zhuge Liang in front of Wei Ba.

He wanted to do his best to bridge the rift between Zhuge Liang and Wei Ba. He didn't know what the contradictions were between them, though. But Zhuge Liang asked the Wei family father and son to guard the pass, but he led the main force to send troops to Longyou, while buying time for himself. The purpose of taking the opportunity to consume Wei Yan's strength is self-evident. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that after this battle is over, the Wei family's military soldiers have suffered too much losses, even if Zhuge Liang gives him more parts. In a short period of time, Wei Yan could not be allowed to recover.

Wei Yan has no strength, which can be said to be not only a good thing for Zhuge Liang. It's a good thing for the whole of Shu Han. Because everyone knows that Wei Yan's temper is destined that he will not be an obedient subordinate.

As a Jingxiang person, Deng Zhi did not want to see Wei Ba and Zhuge Liang become opponents, which was not only a harm to the Shu Han regime, but also a harm to the Jingxiang interest group. He wanted to use his special identity to match them, at least to exercise restraint.

He set his goal on Wei Ba because he believed that Wei Ba would not ignore the overall situation. After all, he is a young man who has just entered the career, and he still has a rare kindness. When he is immersed in officialdom for a few more years, Deng Zhi will definitely not say this, and of course he does not dare to pin his hopes of victory on Wei Ba.

Deng Zhi ordered to push the baggage cart to the front of the formation, and set up three lines of defense between the hillside and Fanshui. Behind each line of defense, a hundred sword and shield men, spearmen and a hundred crossbowmen were arranged. Behind the defensive line, he lined up a dozen ballista trucks, ready to fire at any moment.

In order to increase the strength of the defense, Deng Zhi selected more than 200 people from the people accompanying him and asked them to help with the arrows. Even the arrows of the ballista are placed in advance, and they need to be put on the shelves in time. There are no jishu requirements for this job, and these people are fully competent.

In order to prevent the captives from taking advantage of the opportunity to make trouble, Deng Zhi showed his cruel side, brought those who were not very obedient along the way to the front of the battle, poked a hole in their palms with a knife, and then threaded them with a rope, strung them together, and lined up in front of the formation as a cover. If the Wei army charges, then they will step through their flesh. If they want to escape, then the arrows of the Shu Han army behind will shoot them down mercilessly.

More than 50 captives screamed and wept bitterly, holding bloody hands, kneeling on the river beach in front of the battle, screaming and cursing. Deng Zhi didn't care about the generations of ancestors they scolded him, he wiped the blood on the sword with the sole of his boot, and said coldly to the prisoners who remained: "If you want to live, stay here honestly, otherwise Lao Tzu won't mind sending you home." Killing one is killing, killing a hundred is also killing, and any of you who wants to try the knife can stand up. ”

He sneered again, and continued, "I know, you don't like me. To be honest, I don't like you either. I originally wanted to kill you all and save you from wasting food, but it was Wei Senjun who took pity on you and interceded for you, so that you were spared. Speaking of which, you are much luckier than Sima Shi, because you survived after all. But they ......"

He pointed to Sima Shi, who was slowly approaching from the east, and said loudly, "Not necessarily. Do you think we can't beat him, we run away? Wrong. We deliberately brought Master Sima here. Lure the enemy deeper, do you understand? Sima Yi's army was still two hundred miles away, and his cub dared to chase after him with thousands of cavalry, wouldn't he be asking for his own death. To tell you the truth, we have already dug a pit and are waiting to bury Sima Shi's little shaft. If you want to die with him, I don't mind digging a bigger hole. ”

The captives were so frightened by Deng Zhi that they turned pale. They didn't understand those schemes, they only knew that they were pitted by Deng Zhi in Wuguan, and they became prisoners in a daze, and even the general Hu Zun was caught. However, they hadn't seen Hu Zun for several days, and they didn't know if Hu Zun was dead or alive. Now that Sima Shi is coming with 3,000 cavalry, who knows if he will be pitted by Deng Zhi like Hu Zun?

The captives were coaxed and frightened by Deng Zhi, and honestly squatted behind, no one dared to move. Deng Zhi suppressed the captives, then returned to the front of the formation, looked murderously at the Wei knights who were preparing for the charge in the distance, sneered, stood on the dirt slope on the side, raised his arms and shouted:

"Soldiers, prepare for battle—"

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By the next day, the time had come for the bayonets to be red. Although Lao Zhuang has not fought so hard for a monthly pass before, he has seen a lot of tragedies of capsizing boats in the gutter. In order to avoid this result, Lao Zhuang did not dare to relax in any way, hoping that this time he would desperately have a satisfactory result.

Ask for a commuter pass! Vote for the monthly ticket of Laozhuang and realize a dream! (To be continued.) )