Chapter 202: Sima Yi's personal expedition

As mentioned last time, Sima Yi made an appointment to fight Liu Hou, and both sides hurriedly prepared for this battle overnight, and the next day (7 o'clock in the morning), the south gate of Xiangyang City was opened, and the Wei army began to rush out of the city.

Sima Yi dressed in military uniform, riding on a tall horse, slowly walked out of the city gate surrounded by soldiers, the prince also got up early today, personally sent Sima Yi out of the city gate, and told him in a verbose manner that he must kill the enemy well, be loyal to His Majesty, and serve the Wei State.

It's just that this prince doesn't understand military affairs at all, he doesn't understand the difference between a marshal and a general, and Sima Yi is not a general, so what does the fight on the battlefield have to do with him? And he didn't know that Sima Yi had never gone out of the city in previous battles, and had always been far away from the battlefield, strategizing behind him.

He only knew that whenever there were soldiers going out to fight, the emperor would send them out of the city, of course, Xuchang City, and now that the emperor is not here, it is natural that he should be the red man who holds the secret decree and the emperor is around.

He felt that he had done a good job today, sending the soldiers out of the city on behalf of the emperor, which fully reflected the imperial court and the emperor's attention to the soldiers who went on the expedition, and when this battle was won, after returning to the palace, His Majesty would definitely reward himself.

Ignoring the eunuch's heart, Sima Yi said goodbye to the prince and took away more than 50,000 horses in the city, leaving only a few thousand for him to guard the city. The prince of military idiocy did not know what was wrong with the movement of these troops, and in his opinion, it was enough to have a few thousand men to guard the city of Xiangyang.

As soon as the Wei army left the city, it was known by the Shu army, and even before they left the city, they had already been detected by the hot air balloons in the sky, a war with completely asymmetric information, and the result was already doomed.

The monarchs and ministers of Shu held a meeting to discuss until midnight, and after only sleeping for two or three hours, they hurriedly got up to meet the battle with a pair of panda eyes. But in fact, there is no need to be too anxious, when the 50,000 troops of Wei State get out of the city gate and come to the Shu army camp to line up the array, the time has come to the end of the day, the sun has risen very high, the sky is shining, and the temperature has also risen, making people feel hot and dry.

However, the soldiers on both sides were well-trained men, even though they wore thick armor and held heavy shields and weapons, standing still as immobile as a mountain under the scorching sun, and nearly 100,000 horses on both sides were silent, looking down from the hot air balloons in the sky, the two armies, one yellow and one green, were silently facing each other like two rocks.

Liu Hou took the loudspeaker and asked the soldiers to send out a dragon of people who were ready to be the microphone, according to the usual practice, he was going to say a few words to Sima Yi before starting the fight, aren't the plots of those battles in film and television dramas like this? Even if it is a fight in the underworld, they will first say some cruel words to each other, point their fingers at each other and scold each other viciously for a while, and finally start to cut people.

However, before the people and dragons on the Shu army's side were set up, the war drums on the Wei army's side sounded, and Sima Yi actually started fighting without saying a word. I don't know if the Wei army has lost all the fire # guns in the last war, this time I didn't see a musketeer in front of the formation, not only did not have musketeers, not even archers, the Wei army came up with dense pikemen, and then followed by sword and shield soldiers.

This made the Shu army feel very confused, that there was a war on the short hand, but where the regular army fights, it is generally suppressed with long-range weapons first, from far to near, often first use bed crossbows, trebuchets to hit the enemy who is still far away, when the two sides are closer, and then use individual crossbow machine to shoot, and then bow and arrow salvo to further kill and injure the enemy.

So, in the end, by the time the two sides really go hand-to-hand, a large number of enemies have already been eliminated by these long-range fire, and the number of enemies that are dealt depends on the intensity of the long-range firepower of both sides and the performance of the soldier's personal protective equipment. If the disparity between these conditions between the two sides is too great, it is not impossible for the weaker side to collapse directly under these long-range fire strikes.

This is, of course, the regular army with a strong family background, except for the peasant rebels who are so poor that they can't afford even bows and arrows. The Shu army paid special attention to long-range strikes, and the fire # guns and fire # guns were extreme examples of long-range strikes, and the Hong army relied almost entirely on long-range strikes to achieve victory.

But today's Wei army is very wrong, even if they don't have firearms such as fire # guns and fire # cannons, and they don't have large equipment such as bed crossbows and stone throwers, they still have bows and arrows and crossbow arrows. After so many days of fighting with the Wei army, Liu Hou knew that the Wei army still had a lot of archers, and the su zhì was also very high.

Then why didn't Sima Yi shoot a round with archers first, but wanted to fight each other in a short battle as soon as he came up? Isn't this sending your own soldiers to death? Liu Hou was very worried that Sima Yi was cheating, this guy was too insidious, and he had to be vigilant against any unusual moves.

Liu Hou hurriedly asked the three stinkers around him, but Guo Youzhi and the three of them also frowned, unable to say why. At this time, two heralds had already come to the front and reported: "The Ketyusha/Angry Birds force is ready, please instruct?" ”

The enemy has already pressed up, and there is not much time for Liu Hou to think, although he is worried that Sima Yi is cheating, but he can only react according to the current situation. Fortunately, Liu Hou also arranged men and horses in the four directions, guarding the Wei army surrounded on all sides, believing that even if the rest of the Wei army launched an attack on the Shu army together, they would be able to resist, so Liu Hou had to issue an order to attack first:

"The Keqiu Killing Force will attack first, and when it is in range, the Angry Birds troops will attack again, be careful, ensure that the enemy is completely in range and do not waste ammunition."

After receiving the order, the herald ran away, and soon the Keqiu killing rocket artillery swished out, and the rockets flew towards the Wei camp like a flock of tired birds throwing into the forest.

Due to the need to guard against Wei troops from other directions, only one battalion of 81 rocket artillery pieces was deployed in this frontal battlefield. This is also something that can't be helped, after all, there are still 200,000 Wei troops around, and if these Wei troops come to attack together, the pressure from other directions will definitely not be small.

And sufficient long-range firepower is the source of confidence for the Shu army. Fortunately, with the Angry Birds supplementing the medium-range firepower on this expedition, there is no need to fear the enemy's charge to break through the defenses.

The 81 rocket launchers were extra few in the formation of tens of thousands of troops, and the rockets flying into the sky were sparse, without the dense and desperate feeling that they had when they were used intensively before. 81 rockets exploded in the Wei army's excessively large charging camp, causing a large bloody hole in the yellow torrent.

However, the yellow torrent rolled forward, and the torrent behind it quickly filled in and erased the 81 blood-colored holes. After two rounds of rocket launches, the yellow torrent finally came within 50 meters, which is the range of the Angry Birds.