Chapter 195: Sima Yi's Tactics

As mentioned last time, Guo Changsheng led the special forces to infiltrate Xuchang and completed the task brilliantly, bringing Sima Yi's family back, Liu Houlong Yan Dayue, and named him the head of the main fire # gun regiment.

However, because the commanders of the previous regiments of the fire # gun unit have already been selected, and now that the leaders are outside, it is not easy to change generals in battle, so Guo Changsheng, the regiment commander, is not to replace the original regiment commander, but to set up a new regiment for him to command.

As for the soldiers, there is not one at present, and it is up to them to recruit them or select them from the reserve units and baggage units in the future. However, Liu Hou granted permission to allocate to him the twenty-nine special forces who followed him this time, so that they could be used as the skeleton of the officers in this new regiment.

Liu Hou didn't decide how to arrange the number of the newly established regiment for a while, so he first temporarily named it an independent regiment, and did not incorporate it into that brigade, but let him be directly responsible to himself, anyway, he had always had experience in leading troops before.

This made Guo Changsheng especially happy and proud, directly responsible to the emperor, doesn't this mean that his troops are the emperor's personal guards? Who doesn't want the title of the Son of Heaven's pro-army? Guo Changsheng is happy, but Mi Zhao, the agent Yulin General, is not happy, isn't this here to rob his job?

But he can't help it if he's unhappy, the emperor's decision is where he, a small battalion commander, can put his beak, don't say that the emperor's cousin has not officially appointed Guo Changsheng as the emperor's pro-army, even if it is, it is something that no one has anything to say.

After all, what the emperor needs most is balance, so that officials and generals will check and balance each other This practice is the most basic kind of imperial psychology, how can the emperor completely entrust his safety to the hands of one person?

It is normal for him to get a few guards out to contain each other, compete with each other, and check and balance each other, and only a fool would raise objections to the emperor's decision.

Let's talk about Liu Hou's depression during this time, Liu Hou led the army to confront Sima Yi during this time, and he was indeed very depressed. Sima Yi is a top-level old fox, oh, or a top-notch strategist, it is not an easy task to fight against him, even if the Shu army has overwhelming superior firearms, even if the Shu army still has invulnerable rattan armor soldiers. But under Sima Yi's endless intrigues, Liu Hou was still tired of running for his life.

Sima Yi sent people to steal the camp and harass him almost every night, and frequently launched feints during the day, as if he knew that the Shu army could reconnoiter from the air, Sima Yi arranged for the frequent movement and transfer of various troops, so that even if the Shu army knew about the movement of the Wei army, it was difficult to guess their intentions from such complicated movements.

Sneak attacks on the grain road are even more commonplace, if it weren't for the vine armor soldiers with vulture bones behind to protect the grain road, Liu Hou estimated that he would have followed in Yuan Shao's footsteps and had a new version of the battle of Wuchao.

Now the Shu army has sufficient ammunition, and the frontal battle is not afraid of Sima Yi's 200,000 army, but now the Wei army is blindly playing scoundrels, and when the Shu army attacks, they run faster than rabbits, and the Shu army stops to rest, and they harass endlessly, especially at night, and the frequent harassment makes the soldiers of the Shu army sleepless all night.

The entire Shu army, including the emperor Liu Hou, and the ordinary soldiers, were exhausted during this time. Fortunately, the soldiers of the Shu army had good military qualities and a reasonable shift system, so they were not collapsed by Sima Yi's rogue tactics.

Although the Shu army has been attacked and harassed by the Wei army these days, the casualties are not large, and the total number of casualties is only a few hundred, most of whom are injured and have few sacrifices. The rogue tactics of the Wei army are indeed very powerful, and they would have collapsed long ago if they had replaced other armies, but for the Shu army, it was more of a mental torture.

The firearms of the Shu army were extremely sharp, and the defense had rattan armor and various strong shields, and it was difficult for the Wei army's sneak attack to cause substantial damage to the Shu army. The casualties of the Shu army were not large, but the Wei army suffered heavy casualties, and in this short period of time, the Wei army lost tens of thousands of people. After all, harassment and sneak attacks also come at a price.

The firepower of the Shu army is very fierce, in addition to muskets, there are countless crossbow arrows suitable for long-range strikes, so, except for the first few times, the personnel involved in the sneak attack and harassment of the Wei army are basically gone and have no return.

Later, the Wei army only sent a small number of men and horses every time they attacked and harassed, and it was useless to go with more people, and it was impossible to break through the defense line of the Shu army anyway, so it didn't matter if there were many people who went, as long as someone went. The purpose of the Wei army is to disgust the Shu army, go to a few people, make the Shu army nervous, and make them sleep badly.

But even so, in the continuous bloodletting in these days, the Wei army also lost more than 10,000 people, which made Sima Yi's heart ache, and at the same time made the Wei army scared to death. Everyone knows that there is life and death to carry out those tasks, and who wants to go?

As a result, the various units of the Wei army pushed back and forth, but no one refused to go, and in the end, they had to adopt the method of drawing lots at various levels to decide who would carry out the sneak attack and harassment mission. The people who drew the lot were naturally scared half to death, but the military order was like a mountain, and they had to go.

Therefore, one by one, they will arrange the later things before they carry out the task. It is conceivable that in this case, how low the morale of the Wei army will be, this war, it is difficult to say who wins and who loses, judging from the number of dead and wounded, the Shu army is undoubtedly a big victory, but from the perspective of strategic purposes, the Shu army is a failure.

At least, in Sima Yi's opinion, he thought that he had successfully dragged the Shu army under Xiangyang City without an inch, and it also made the Shu army mentally tired and could collapse at any time. Compared with the more than 10,000 casualties, he thinks it is worth it.

Under the constant harassment and sneak attacks of the Wei army, the morale of the Shu army was indeed hit, but what Sima Yi did not expect was that the morale of the Shu army was far from collapse. On the contrary, the Wei army, because of those mortal tasks, the whole army did not know that it would be their turn to die that day, so the whole army was permeated with a state of pessimism and despair, and the morale did not know how many times lower than that of the Shu army.

Liu Hou's previous depression can finally be swept away, and it is not in vain that he has endured it for so long. In fact, Liu Hou almost couldn't help it several times, and wanted to order the "Angry Birds" troops and the "Keqiu Kill" troops to bomb Xiangyang City to pieces, and then slipped Sima Yiti out and slapped him a few times, so that he could listen to his words well in the future. Work for yourself.

With the current amount of ammunition of the Shu army, if it goes all out to deal with the Wei army, the Wei army will definitely not only have more than 10,000 casualties, but even Xiangyang City may not be able to defend it.

Now that the action of "coercing relatives to order Sima" is finally halfway completed, you can let go of your hands and feet and do a big job, thinking of this, Liu Hou couldn't help but feel a little excited.