Chapter 136: Sima Yi's Crisis

The horse crossbow changed the arrow box twice, and even changed the arrow box only once in some places, and the remaining 6,000 Wei troops were almost wiped out. Except for the first time when the arrow box was changed, the Wei army's charge brought some pressure and also caused a small number of casualties of the Shu army, the rest of the time it was almost a one-sided massacre.

Those shooters were like playing a shooting game, just aim at the Wei soldiers who rushed over one by one, as for their own safety, they didn't have to think about it at all, they trusted their teammates very much, and there was no problem at all in handing over their safety to the others in the new Mandarin Duck Butterfly Formation.

Similarly, after the three arrow magazines were fired, the Shu army did not check the results of the battle, let alone clean up the battlefield, they quickly turned around and ran away under the command of the officer. The Chinese army of the Wei army had already appeared at the end of the road, and it could be seen that they were speeding up, and it was better to wait for this time if they did not go.

When the Wei army heard the explosion, they knew that something must have happened to the front army, so the main general urged the army to rush at full speed. Unfortunately, this unit was not a mighty tiger and leopard cavalry, but an infantry unit, and even if they advanced at full speed, they could only run on two feet.

When they ran to the scene of the incident out of breath, they first saw corpses with short crossbow arrows stuck in the ground, then large pits and scattered bloody human fragments, and then large pits, in which there were still warm corpses, or wounded soldiers who were still wailing and moaning, and who were pierced with bamboo and wood thorns.

And the enemy didn't see half a shadow, not that they didn't run fast, not that they were far away from the front army, it was really that the ambush implemented by the Shu army was too fast, every step was carefully planned, once launched, it was a thunderous blow, and the enemy was completely wiped out in a very short time.

When the leader of the army was horrified when he saw the tragic destruction of the previous army, he could hardly believe his eyes. He never thought that 15,000 people would be wiped out in such a short period of time, and it would be so completely and cruelly. This is so unbelievable that it is simply beyond his understanding.

According to his understanding, 15,000 people, even if they are surrounded by 100,000 enemies, as long as they shrink their formation, hold on to one place, not to mention hold on for a day and a night, at least it is no problem to defend until they come to the rescue. But this 15,000 former army was annihilated in such a short period of time, so how many people did the other side come?

Although they are now equipped with a small number of firearms, they are still too short in contact with firearms, and they have not yet had a deep sense of the super lethality rate of firearms, and they do not know that some things can kill people ten or even a hundred times more efficiently than traditional means.

Since he had miscalculated the enemy's strength, he did not dare to order a pursuit, but instead ordered to camp in place, arrange fortifications, and send someone to inform the other three armies to come and join them as much as possible, and then set off together, and he no longer dared to lead a large army to march alone.

This made many of the arrangements made by Buqi for fear of being pursued completely useless, and in the end, Buqi and Ehuan both retreated to Maicheng safely. The most depressed thing is the vulture, originally he followed the expedition, just looking forward to a happy battle. Although he is not the main general, he thinks that without Liu Hou's control, he can kill happily and don't care so much.

Who knows, this time he also didn't have a chance to fight, not only did he not have a chance to fight, but he didn't even have a chance to play. Bu Qi ordered him to lead the vine armor army to evacuate first before launching a sneak attack, and he didn't get a little bit of his Mao Zhan Gong, so depressed that he waved his huge mace all the way back and smashed it around, I don't know how many flowers and plants were smashed.

This expedition, although the 15,000 Wei troops were eliminated, they did not meet the requirements of the predetermined plan, and according to the previous plan of the three stinkers, they wanted to destroy at least 50,000 Wei troops. It's a pity that Sima Yi used a trick to crack the intention of the Shu army, and it seems that the confrontation between the three stinkers and Sima Yi was defeated again.

Fortunately, there are still 15,000 gains, so that this operation will not be too ugly. Of course, this is from the perspective of Liu Hou and his three stinker staff. From Wei's point of view, it was a completely different matter.

The current Wei court has already quarreled with the sky, and many ministers have impeached Sima Yi, saying that he lost his teacher and humiliated the country, and lost 50,000 people in the previous translation, and this time he lost 15,000 people, which is simply incompetent. You must know that 65,000 people is not a small number, and the population of a county town in this era may not be so much.

In the Battle of Chibi that year, Sun Wu was only 30,000 people, and Liu Bei was only 20,000 people, and the two together did not have more people and horses than Sima Yi lost this time, and Sima Yi's loss of men and horses this time was comparable to the total number of troops of a small country, how could this not shock the government and the opposition of Wei State?

The ministers impeached Sima Yi one after another, and Zhong Xuan, who recommended Sima Yi to lead the troops, couldn't sit still, although he also hated Sima Yi in his heart, not long after he set out on the expedition, he made such a tricky thing and made himself a big shame.

However, after all, he was the first to mention that Sima Yi led the troops, and if Sima Yi fell because of this incident, he himself was afraid that he would also be implicated, and he would be disgraced if he was not careful, so no matter how unwilling he was in his heart, he still had to help Sima Yi say good things.

"Qi Yu Majesty, the minister has this music." Zhong Xuan came out of the queue and bowed to Cao Pi.

Cao Pi, who was being noisy, saw that Zhong Miao was about to speak, so he hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Zhong Aiqing, please speak." Regardless of whether Zhong Miao wanted to impeach Sima Yi or protect Sima Yi, he was one of the three dukes and had a pivotal position in the imperial court, so Cao Pi was still very polite to him. Similarly, when the ministers heard Zhong Xuan, one of the Three Princes, come out to speak, they all stopped arguing and calmed down and prepared to listen to his high opinions.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that Xiang Xianghou not only did not pass, but also had merit." As soon as he said this, "Hum! The ministers, who had just quieted down, began to make noise again, and it was obvious that many people did not agree with his words.

"Oh? What's the explanation? Cao Pi was also stunned, when the ministers attacked Sima Yi one-sidedly, he suddenly heard that someone supported him and was really a little unaccustomed, and this person was equivalent to Zhong Xuan, the Minister of National Defense, and the weight of his words was heavy enough.

"Your Majesty, although Xiang Xianghou lost tens of thousands of horses, but he defeated the army of the Emperor of Shu in person, not only thwarted their intention to invade Wei, but also chased and killed all the way, and drove it to Maicheng, so that the army of Shu has been nested in the small Maicheng in vain. Isn't that a credit?

As for the loss of tens of thousands of horses and horses, how can there ever be a war without dying, let alone this kind of national war, what is the benefit of tens of thousands of people dying? ”

"Captain Zhong's words are wrong." Seeing that someone was protecting Sima Yi, Wang Lang came out to make trouble, before sending out the army, he angrily reprimanded Sima Yi, and in the end he was squeezed by Sima Yi and couldn't get off the stage.

Just now, the younger brothers below were arguing, and now that Zhong Miao is out of the horse, it means that this war of words has developed to a higher level, and now it is their turn to play the "three princes".

"Kind of Taiwei, do you know that the tens of thousands of people in your mouth are equivalent to the population of a county, do you know that during the battle of Guandu, Emperor Taizu conquered more than 100,000 Yuan Shao's army, but only led 20,000 troops. In less than a month, Xiang Xianghou lost three times the strength of Taizu when he fought Yuan Shao. is so incompetent, do you dare to say that he has no merit? Wang Lang said.

"Wang Sikong, do you know, the Hong army of the little emperor of Shu is not an ordinary army, it swept from Nanzhong to Lingnan, and then went north to Jingzhou, where it passed, it was invincible. Meng Huo, Wutu Gu and other barbarians in the south are not to mention, Bu Qi and Lu Xun are all famous generals of Eastern Wu, especially Lu Xun, who is a rising star of Eastern Wu, and it is said that his wisdom is not inferior to that of Zhou Yu and Zhou Gong of that year.

But one of them was in Lingnan and the other was in Changsha, and they fought with hundreds of thousands of troops against the little emperor of Shu, and in the end they were all wiped out by the little emperor of Shu. It can be seen that this little emperor is indeed not an ordinary person.

I believe that the power of firearms is also clear to His Majesty, the Hong army of Shu is equipped with this kind of firearms, and its number is far more than our Thor troops, in this case, how can our troops have no losses?

On the contrary, Xiang Xianghou was not only able to keep most of the 300,000 horses undamaged, but also expelled the Shu army from the country, trying to ensure that our country did not lose an inch of land, which is enough to show that Xiang Xianghou is far more clever than Buqi and Lu Xun and others. Therefore, the minister asked His Majesty to reward the townsman to show that His Majesty is a person with clear rewards and punishments. ”

"Captain Zhong, Xiang Xianghou coerced 300,000 troops, set up an encirclement to ambush 50,000 horses of the Shu army, it was the lion fighting the rabbit, in the end, the rabbit had no loss, almost unharmed jumped out of the encirclement, but the lion lost a mouthful of teeth, sacrificing 50,000 people in vain. What is this not incompetence? You must know that it is 300,000 horses, if you give the old man 300,000 people, the old man can fill up the East China Sea and move Mount Tai away, how can he still be helpless with a mere 50,000 Shu troops? ”

Wang Lang said as he waved his arm, looking like I was very powerful. Zhong Xuan looked at his weak old appearance, and couldn't wait to kick him to the ground, just your old bones, still move mountains, reclaim the sea, and help the Shu army, I think you can't even get on the horse, you better go home and move Mrs. Zun's mountain, fill Mrs. Zun's sea.

"Wang Sikong, fighting a war is not only based on the number of people, but also on equipment, logistics, strategy, time, location, training process of soldiers, morale, command level of generals and other factors. Wang Sikong has never led troops to fight, so it is understandable that he doesn't know this. ”

Zhong Xuan began to attack Wang Lang for not being familiar with military affairs, and he shouldn't come out to question military matters. Wang Lang was naturally not to be outdone, and only listened to him: "Captain Zhong is in charge of the soldiers and horses in the world, and he really loves the Xiangxiang Marquis who leads the troops outside." ”

If you say that I don't understand military affairs, I will say that you protect your subordinates, and that you and Sima Yi are both in charge of the military, of course, they are people who wear a pair of underwear, and of course they breathe out from the same nostrils.