Chapter Forty-Nine: Assault
Sure enough, three days later, Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi each led their men and horses to Jiameng Pass. A small Jiameng Pass gathers 300,000 horses, and the mountains are full of people. Sima Yi's army was stationed on the left side of the pass, and Zhuge Liang was stationed on the right side of the pass. But the place was too small, and there were a large number of people living together.
Li Hui led the generals to see it on the wall. Wen Chou smiled: "It's 'quite' spectacular!" You say that they 'pee' every day and 'pee' out of a lake, right? Hahaha......" Everyone stared at Wen Chou with disdain for a long time.
Li Hui instructed: "Send someone to deliver the letter, just say that I want to meet Sima Yi and Zhuge Liang!" ”
The meeting was scheduled for the afternoon. Li Hui took Zhao Yun and Wen Chou to stand in front of the pass. Sima Yi rode a horse, Zhuge Liang sat in a car, the two talked and laughed, and came to the meeting place with a large group of people.
Sima Yi glanced at Li Hui: "General Li is not harmed?" I advise you to leave Hanzhong as soon as possible, so as not to lose your reputation as an undefeated general! ”
Li Hui smiled: "Mr. Sima doesn't want to know what happened to your two sons now?" ”
"You! Despicable and shameless! Sima Yi sent two sons to deliver the letter, but none of them returned, so it was already expected that something was wrong. From Yangping Pass to Hanzhong, which would not have passed through the territory of Jiameng Pass, Sima Yi dared to send his two sons. But there was no news of him this time, and there was no trace of the five hundred 'elite' soldiers. After many inquiries, I learned that I was arrested by Li Hui.
Li Hui said with a smile: "Mr. Sima, don't worry, the two sons are doing well with me!" Beckoning back, someone on the wall pushed Sima Shi and Sima Zhao out.
"What the hell do you want?" Sima Yi asked.
Zhuge Liang said: "Mr. Sima, rest assured, General Li is a righteous man and a gentleman, and he will never do anything that is 'forced', right?" ”
Li Hui shook his head: "Hahaha, I'm not a decent gentleman, and I will do something out of the ordinary when I have to, but I heard that Cao Rui has arrested Sima Lang's family and Mr. Sima's family, if something happens to the two sons, the Sima family will be doomed!" ”
Sima Yi didn't speak, Zhuge Liang looked at Li Hui: "General Li, we'll talk about these things later, or let's talk about what you want to do first?" ”
"Good! Readily! Li Hui nodded: "Although your soldiers are pressing the border, but I also have a dangerous pass, and you may not be able to capture Jiameng Pass in ten days and a half months, I have a proposal, why don't you withdraw the troops, and I will also tear off the soldiers and horses besieging Yizhou and Liangzhou?" ”
"The prime minister can't listen to his nonsense!" Sima Yi hurriedly said: "Li Hui is determined to be in the world, even if we withdraw our troops, we will make a comeback one day, this is a delaying strategy!" ”
Zhuge Liang smiled: "Does General Li think it's possible?" ”
"It depends on what the two gentlemen mean!" Li Hui said.
In this conversation, Li Hui did not intend to really persuade Sima Yi and Zhuge Liang to withdraw from the army, but only gave them a hint to disrupt the judgment of the two. Zhuge Liang will definitely think about Li Hui's words for the sake of Yizhou, and Sima Yi has to have scruples for the sake of his two sons. The coach hesitated, and the morale of the three armies would inevitably weaken, and even if they attacked, they would be unable to follow.
Back in Guanzhong, Li Hui immediately ordered Ma Zhong's 'shooting' battalion and Gao Shun's trapping camp to set up a wall to guard against a sneak attack. The Flying Tiger Battalion, which ordered Chen Dao, secretly went out of the customs and waited for an opportunity to attack Sima Yi. For Zhuge Liang, you don't attack, I don't beat you, and everything is fine.
Sima Fu hurriedly came to see Sima Yi: "Second brother! What did Li Hui say? ”
Sima Yi told Sima Fu about his son. Sima Fu nodded: "Our Sima family is almost all 'door' extinction for big things, I have heard some rumors in the army recently, Chen Qun and Cao Xiu also know that Cao Rui asked us to withdraw from the army, and the matter that was concealed by the second brother is extremely detrimental to us if it is delayed any longer!" ”
Sima Yi nodded: "Yes, we must not delay any longer, I will go to Zhuge Liang and discuss the attack on Jiameng Pass!" ”
The 300,000 army lined up in the military array, and the Cao army was in front of the Shu army, and went to Jiameng Pass. Everyone on the wall is in high spirits, and everyone knows that this is a bitter battle. Jiang Wei, Ma Zhong, and Gao Shun patrolled back and forth, preparing for defense. Li Hui looked at the neat queue below, and nodded in his heart in acquiescence: "Sima Yi and Zhuge Liang are both masters of military training, such a formation is rare in a hundred years!" Tell your brother to be careful! ”
Under Zhuge Liang's life's order, Cao Jun began to move. The soldiers shouted and rushed down the city with ladders and other engineering equipment. The shield soldier in front held his shield high to protect the top of his head against Li Huijun's bow and arrows.
"Gollum ......" a giant cart was pushed out and slowly moved towards the closed door. Ma Zhong gave an order, and the locusts flew like rain, and thousands of arrows were fired on the wall. Although protected by shield soldiers, the "archers" of the "shooting" battalion 'shooted' bows and arrows into the crowd through the gaps in the shields. Screams were heard, and soldiers fell to the ground one by one.
The soldier in front died, and the soldier in the back picked up the shield of the soldier in front and continued to move forward. Seeing that the enemy army was getting closer and closer, the brigade behind was boundless. “***!” Ma Zhong scolded: "Brothers, carry the crossbow!" Give them a look! ”
One by one, the crossbows were closed on the platform, and the angle was adjusted. With the sound of the bowstring, rows of arm-thick arrows flew towards Cao Jun. The rattan shield was completely ineffective in protecting itself from the attack of such bows and arrows, and each arrow was covered with a long list of corpses. The fist-sized 'hole' appeared on Cao Jun's body.
Thousands of soldiers fell in pools of blood, but Sima Yi still did not give the order to retreat. The warlord's swords oversee each of them. "Protect the rush! Keep attacking! Sima Yi said to the Ling standard-bearer. The red flag is waving and shaking. The soldiers quickly gathered around the rushing car. Use your own flesh and blood to resist the arrows falling from the sky, and protect the rushing car as it approaches the 'door' little by little.
"Order Zhang Xiu to attack! Smash their rush car! "Li Hui gave an order, and the gate suddenly opened, and a large group of cavalry suddenly rushed out of the pass and rushed into Cao's army. The powerful impact force knocked many Cao Jun into the air. The four hooves of the war horse trampled on the soldier's body, making all sorts of strange noises.
"Shoot the arrows! Shoot the arrows! 'Shoot' their cavalry! Fast! Sima Fu shouted. Cao Jun's archers were stunned, they couldn't help but have Li Hui's cavalry in front of them, as well as their own footsteps, and it was very likely that they would 'shoot' their own people when they saw it.
"Shoot the arrows!" Sima Fu was annoyed and angry, and slashed down a school captain with a knife. The rest of the men each fired their arrows. Arrows flew, and bows and arrows set down from the wall formed a 'cross' firepower, enveloping Zhang Xiu's cavalry and Cao's foot soldiers. Zhang Xiu's cavalry is Li Hui's 'elite' sharp, with the protection of Houkai all over his body, and the war horse also has a battle armor, which can be regarded as a heavy cavalry. Ordinary arrows are slow to hurt them. Cao's foot soldiers were different, their equipment was backward, and the arrows on both sides were like talismans, harvesting their lives.
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