Chapter 35 Unwilling to attack Wei Ying again, he cleverly designed to burn Shu
After two victories over Kong Ming, Li Yong and Zhang He's vanguard troops set up camp in an open area surrounded by mountains and rivers, and formed a confrontation with the Shu army stationed in front, waiting for the arrival of Cao Ren's brigade.
Due to the defeat in both wars, Kong Ming was very anxious, so he immediately convened a pre-war meeting to find out the reasons for the defeat and how to deal with it. At the meeting, he first said: "Since Cao Wei's allied army set out, he has captured most of the land of Eastern Wu and my Western Shu in Jingzhou County all the way, causing heavy casualties and no fighting spirit among our soldiers; The prime minister led troops to set up ambushes in the first two places, trying to destroy its forwards, but I didn't expect that the future people would be so powerful, and they continued to thwart our attempts, and now they have to retreat and camp here to confront them, what is the best way for the generals to break the enemy? ”
Wei Yan took a step forward and said, "Prime Minister, it's not that our soldiers are not brave, it's because the weapons of the future people are so good!" No matter how strong our martial arts are, they don't fight with me in close quarters, but only hear the continuous sound of their weapons, and my attacking soldiers or even hundreds of steps away have fallen to the ground and died, so there are people who are not afraid? There is also the future human car, which walks on land like flying, and can also pass through water, and its shell is so strong that the arrows we shoot cannot shake it; This time, the prime minister designed him to fall into the trap and not move, but he didn't expect it to absorb water and float and escape. Judging from the last general, the prime minister led his troops to meet the Cao Wei coalition army this time, and there was no chance of victory. ”
After hearing what Wei Yan said, the other generals all looked at each other, and they echoed one after another: "What Senior Brother Wen (Wei Yan, the character Wen Chang) said is that the things used by people in the future are really powerful!" It not only has weapons and magic cars, but also flying killing weapons, if it hadn't been for the people who flew to my catapult position last time and injured my command and operation, they would have killed all the future people who fell into the trap. This future man has such a miraculous thing, how can we win it? ”
For a while, the meeting room was silent again, and everyone was talking in private, all showing fear.
At this time, Ma Chao stood up and said loudly: "Since we can't defeat the Cao Wei coalition army here, let's confront it here in a stalemate and block its westward offensive." It is reported that the defenders of the Wei army are 100,000 soldiers and horses led by Xiahou Yuan and Sima Yi, and there is no future people to assist in the defense, as long as the Wei army breaks through the defense line of the Wei army, and then threatens the safety of Xudu, Cao Cao may let Cao Ren withdraw his troops back to defend Xudu, so that the Cao Wei coalition army can be relieved of the attempt to invade Xichuan from the east. ”
After hearing this, Kong Ming nodded approvingly and said: "Ma Chao's plan is feasible, but Benxiang has already sent someone to deliver the letter and Zilong quickly, and it is estimated that it will be delivered tomorrow; As long as Zilong leads his troops to attack north, he will definitely allow Cao Cao to redeploy his forces to deal with it. Everyone praised Kong Ming for his wisdom.
After Zhang Fei saw Kong Ming praising Ma Chao, he also wanted to show it, so he said: "Prime Minister: Yide has a strategy that can break the future!" Thinking that Cao Wei's coalition army has never missed a battle all the way, he will be arrogant and complacent, and at the end of tonight, he is willing to lead 3,000 soldiers and horses to steal the camp and rob the village, and take advantage of its chaos to destroy all the people in the future! ”
After hearing this, Kong Ming immediately applauded and said: "The prime minister has already had this plan, so he waited for Yide to propose it himself, and now it coincides with me; The more than 20,000 people in the forward of the Cao Wei coalition army have been driven by Cao Ren because of the rapid advance, and now the lone army has been drawn away by the brigade led by Cao Ren; In this future, people will be arrogant and complacent if they win consecutive battles, and tonight is the best time to steal camps and rob villages. ”
Hearing that the prime minister had also agreed to Zhang Fei's sneak attack plan, everyone agreed, and in this way, the meticulous plan of the Shu army to sneak attack Cao Wei's coalition army was planned by Kong Ming and everyone to be implemented that night.
After breaking the Shu army led by Zhuge Liang in a row, it was true that Zhang He led the soldiers of the Wei army to help him, and the defeat of the Shu army was decided, so many people were inevitably relaxed.
On the afternoon of the day after setting up camp, Li Yong and Zhang He led a team of men and horses around the camp to carefully inspect the terrain and landforms, and arrange relevant patrol and security work.
Li Yong said to Zhang He: "Kong Ming is resourceful and good at using soldiers, we should not be taken lightly; In addition, our army attacked too fast, and the brigade led by General Yu Cao was too far away, and we waited for only 20,000 horses, while Kong Ming had an army of 150,000 here, although he lost two battles in a row, but it did not hurt his vitality, so I must not be careless. ”
Zhang He also agreed with Li Yong's point of view, so he replied: "What my brother said is that he defeated his army twice before, Kong Ming will not give up, and he also thinks that he will find a chance to take revenge, according to my intuition, Kong Ming may come here tonight to steal the camp and rob the village, we must be extremely vigilant." ”
Li Yong praised and said: "Heroes see the same thing! Tonight, we must strengthen our defense against the sneak attack of the Shu army, and we will also plan when we come to the scene, so that the sneak attackers will not come back. ”
So Li Yong asked Chen Tao and Wei Hong to carry night vision devices after dark, and picked up a light machine gun, several boxes of bullets and several grenades, and with the cooperation of the personnel assigned by Zhang He, they climbed on the two tall wooden towers built on the left and right sides in front of the camp gate and set up machine guns to prepare for battle.
He also asked Zhang He to arrange heavy troops to guard the important grain, grass and baggage behind the camp to prevent the Shu army from sneaking attack. For the sake of safety, he also had the iron bars he brought along the perimeter of the grain and grass stored and connected to the power supply of the "Crossing" vehicle to form a simple power grid; Then he discussed with Zhang He and decided to send 5,000 men and horses, led by the deputy general Liu Chuang, to make a detour to ambush on a hillside in front of the left side of the camp, and told him that if there was a battle here, when it was critical here, he would lead troops with torches (in order to confuse the enemy, each person held two torches) to kill them from the mountain and disrupt the offensive action of the Shu army.
After arranging all the work, Li Yong went to the car to check the images taken by the satellite that day, and after careful analysis and research, he found Kong Ming's convoy of grain and grass and the final storage location.
So he decided that if Kong Ming sent someone to attack here, he would use the incendiary bombs carried by the drone to set fire to the granary of the Shu army, burning their grain, grass and baggage. In order to prevent the Shu army guarding the grain and grass from going to fight the fire, he preset the mortar position, moved the mortar and shells out of the car and placed them there, and accurately calculated the shooting Zhuyuan, and then arranged a number of Wei guards to fire several mortars to the ignited Shu army granary, disrupting the Shu army's firefighting operation. As long as they burn their food and grass, they can be forced to retreat.
At midnight (3 to 5 a.m.), Zhang Fei and Ma Chao each led 30,000 horses to attack them from the front and back of Zhang He's camp.
Ma Chao led a sneak attack all the way, and quietly came to Zhang He's camp and stopped to observe; Zhang Fei led a group of men and horses from another part of the mountain to bypass and enter the attack preparations from the rear of his camp.
After Zhang Fei and the others were in place, they first sent a small team of capable personnel to quietly kill the patrol personnel arranged by Zhang He, and immediately led the troops to rush over from the rear of the Wei camp, and at the same time sent a signal for Ma Chao to kill the Wei army's camp from the front gate of Zhang He's camp, so they attacked the Wei camp from front to back.
When the Shu army's sneak attackers sent out the signal to attack at the same time from the front and rear respectively, groups of Shu troops smashed open the gate of the Wei army's camp and rushed in shouting. For a while, the war horses neighed, the sound of killing shook the sky, and there were torches and flying rockets everywhere.
The team led by Ma Chao rushed over from the main gate, and then they heard "Boom! There were several explosions, and it was the grenades that Chen Tao and Wei Hong threw from the wooden towers on the left and right, respectively, and then there was a sound of "Da Da Da!" The machine guns sounded, and the Shu troops who rushed forward fell one after another, crying and shouting.
The Shu army behind continued to rush forward regardless of life and death, but they were greeted by a rain of arrows shot by the archers of the Wei army, which turned around and fled one after another when the Shu army in front of them cried wolf, but they were driven back by the supervisors behind and rushed forward.
Zhang Fei led a large number of men and horses from the back camp to kill, because Zhang He they used the main force in front of the camp gate, the number of troops left behind the defense was relatively small, after several times of killing, it finally broke through the camp gate, and a large number of Shu troops rushed over from behind.
At this moment, there were only two vehicles parked behind the Wei army's camp, Li Yong and Wang Yan, and after seeing the Wei troops fleeing one after another, they couldn't help but be surprised, Li Yong immediately used a vehicle-mounted machine gun to strafe them, and Wang Yan also used a Type 95 assault rifle to shoot at the Shu troops rushing outside the car through the shooting hole in the car.
With the sound of stormy gunshots, the Shu troops who rushed to the front were shot and fell, but the people behind still rushed forward one after another, and the situation was extremely critical.
Those Shu troops rushed forward desperately, knocked down batch after batch and then rushed over, and they shot here with bows and arrows and rockets with fire as they went. Li Yong's vehicles "clanged" for a while, and many camp tents were also ignited, and the blazing fire illuminated the entire Wei army camp as if it were day.
Many Shu troops broke through the rain of bullets fired by Li Yong and them, and wanted to break into the Wei army's grain and grass camp, but they were blocked by electrified iron bars, and some people were shocked and screamed; Some of them lay on the iron bars like burnt roast chickens, emitting an unpleasant stench of burning.
As people continued to rush over, there were more and more people lying on the iron bar, and finally they couldn't stand the weight of so many people lying on the iron bar, the iron bar was broken and the power grid was useless, and the Shu army broke through the last barrier to the Wei army's grain and grass camp.
The Wei army, which was left in the grain and grass position to guard the grain and grass position, had no way to retreat, and tried their best to resist, and it was about to be wiped out by the Shu army, at this moment Zhang He led three thousand elite soldiers who came from the front gate to reinforce and rushed over, these people were the elite Wei soldiers who Chen Tao helped train and were very good at archery. After they rushed over, they immediately used a rain of accurate arrows to shoot down the Shu troops who rushed from the side of the "Crossing Ship", so as to stabilize the defensive position.
Zhang Fei was also injured by Li Yong and them in the previous charge, and when he fell, he was dragged aside by the soldiers around him and bandaged, but he resolutely did not leave the battlefield, and continued to command his soldiers and horses to rush forward, seeing that he was about to break through the last line of defense of the Wei army, but he did not expect Zhang He to bring reinforcements in time and repelled the Shu army that rushed into the Wei camp.
Due to the huge casualties, the Shu army behind was a little timid, just when everyone hesitated whether to rush or retreat, suddenly attacked the rear of the Shu army from the front door of the Wei camp, and countless torches were lit up and accompanied by loud shouts of killing, and then look at those countless torches divided into several roads and are quickly outflanking the attacking Shu army.
When Ma Chao saw these torches rushing towards him, he immediately shouted, "Not good! We are surrounded by the Wei army in ambush, retreat! So he immediately ordered a retreat, and withdrew with his attackers to his camp.
After seeing Ma Chao who attacked from the front camp gate withdrew, the Wei army defending in front immediately rushed to the rear camp gate to come to reinforcements, Zhang Fei saw that Ma Chao had withdrawn his troops, and felt that the general trend had gone, so he let people carry himself and lead his men and horses to withdraw to his camp after detouring the mountain.
After Li Yong saw that Zhang Fei and they had withdrawn, he immediately opened the back door of the car and walked out of the vehicle, he looked around the body, only to see a mountain of corpses in front of the car, and the body was also full of Shu soldiers who had been killed and wounded, and those who were not dead also let out painful moans. He didn't think much about it, so he quickly took out the special drone from the car and hung five special incendiary bombs, checked it and immediately released it, and then he personally remotely operated the drone to fly to the place where the grain and grass were stored in the Shu military camp tent that had been located in advance.
He stared at the display in the car, steadily controlling the joystick. At this time, the sky was already slightly bright, he didn't use the lights on the drone to illuminate, with the help of this faint light, he soon flew silently to the granary of the Shu army and dropped an incendiary bomb in several places in the southeast, northwest and northwest.
With a few muffled sounds, the granary of the Shu army was on fire, and the Shu soldiers who were guarding around the granary didn't know what was going on, so they saw that the place where the granary and baggage were stored was on fire, so everyone shouted and hurriedly ran over to extinguish the fire.
After Li Yong threw all the incendiary bombs on the drone accurately, he immediately called Wang Yan to come over and control the drone to return, and he himself quickly ran to the position where the mortar was placed outside the car in advance, and after recalibrating the shooting Zhu Yuan, he picked up a shell and sent it from the muzzle.
When the panicked Shu army was extinguishing the burning granary, they heard a strange whistle from the sky in the direction of the Wei army, and then "Boom! Just when everyone didn't know what was going on, there was a loud bang, and a group of people were put down, so a few times, the Shu army who tried to extinguish the fire scared the fart, and fled the fire scene.
Kong Ming was at the height of the camp at the moment to observe Zhang Fei and Ma Chao they sneak attack the Wei camp, when he saw the front and back of the Wei camp sounded shouting and killing, he thought that he had an absolute advantage of the force can completely defeat the forward troops of the Cao Wei coalition army, but they did not expect that they actually ambushed an elite army in advance on the mountain behind my sneak attack on the attacking army, and when Ma Chao led the team to attack the Wei army, the ambush soldiers of the Cao Wei coalition army who were ambushed behind Ma Chao rushed down from the mountain to attack them front and back, forcing Ma Chao to retreat, Then Zhang Fei and their attack was unfavorable and they had to withdraw their troops, Kong Ming thought that this sneak attack failed again.
Just as he was thinking hard and reluctant, a fire suddenly broke out from the place where his camp had stored grain and grass. Not good! His granary caught fire, so he hurriedly ordered someone to go to put out the fire, but he didn't expect that before the fire could be extinguished, he heard several huge explosions, and those who tried to extinguish the fire were blown up to death, and they could only see the fire burning their granaries and baggage.
Kong Ming once again looked up to the sky and sighed: "This battle is over!" The grain and grass of the army were burned by the people of the future, and the defeat of this expedition has been decided! Liang is ashamed of the lord! After saying this, he hid his face and wept, and finally he ordered to retreat a hundred miles to the city of Tangqu (in the area of present-day Guang'an, Sichuan), and in this way he lost all three battles, ending his plan to advance eastward to resist the Cao Wei coalition army.
This is exactly what it is: both battles were lost and unconvinced Kong Ming once again set up the plan
Unexpectedly, the coalition forces were prepared to steal the camp and lose the grain and grass