Chapter 874: Sima Zhao's Misjudgment
Duyo didn't plan to attack the granary, really, he wasn't stupid.
Wang Ping, although he doesn't know a single big character, fights all by experience and his own natural understanding. But Wang Ping has always been very concerned about the cultivation of the next generation.
Today's Wang Ping is not the humble military general in history who was still a general until the first Northern Expedition, he was a pro-army general valued by His Majesty Emperor Zhaolie ten years ago, leading the Wudang Fei Army, one of the only two special combat forces in the Han Dynasty.
After the death of Emperor Zhaolie, the Bai Yu soldiers were incorporated into the Northern Army of the Han Dynasty, but the Wudang Fei Army was retained by Zhuge Liang, and Wang Ping was also promoted to the general of the Emperor.
This is a miscellaneous general, yes, but for a man, this already represents Wang Ping's entry into the ruling class of the Han people.
Therefore, Wang Ping is more concerned about the education of his children.
In Wang Ping's eyes, Du Yo is actually similar to Wang Xun, so Wang Xun's teacher, that is, Du Yo's teacher, the two of them took classes together.
Otherwise, how would Duyo have read the "Historical Records"?
Wang Ping did not have any selfish intentions for Du You's cultivation, not only let people teach knowledge, but also often gave the two small ones a small stove and taught them some battle formation experience.
After all, Wang Ping is a family business that has been built by relying on martial arts, and future generations can not use it, but they can't understand the way of the military formation.
Therefore, Duyo is still somewhat strategic, and it is impossible to make the most basic mistakes.
Now that the Wei army has strengthened patrols in the city and closely searched for the Wudangfei soldiers who lurked into the city, there are a few places that must be heavily defended.
The granary is certainly one of them.
The soldiers and horses have not moved, and the grain and grass go first, Du Yo still understands.
And the reason why he chose to assemble near the granary, Duyo also had his own ideas.
First of all, although the granary is in the northwest corner of Wancheng, this place is actually closer to the west gate.
Here, it is the place where the Wudang Feijun crossed the city wall and entered Wancheng, and at the same time, it is also the place where the Wudang Feijun lurks the most, after all, it is lurking, and it is not easy to move the place for large-scale action, so the closer to the West Gate, the more Wudang Feijun is lurking.
It's more convenient to assemble here.
Secondly, although the tower of the West Gate City is strictly inspected, the main direction of defense is the Wudang Feijun camp outside the city, and the main observation is whether there is a city wall from outside the city, and the vigilance of the inner city is not so strict.
It's dark under the lights, and it's not so easy to spot if you assemble here.
Third, the granary is indeed here.
Duyo doesn't plan to attack the granary, but that doesn't mean he won't do anything about it.
After gathering about 200 Wudang Fei's army, seeing that the sky had begun to slowly brighten and was about to usher in the early hours of the morning, Du Yo decided that he couldn't wait any longer.
Once the two hundred people are gathered together until dawn, the fool will not notice.
There may be other non-commissioned soldiers in the city who have not received the assembly order, or who have received the assembly order and have not yet arrived, but now, time is running out, and Du Yo must act immediately.
Duyo ordered a hundred men to start setting fire to the northwest corner to create unrest and at the same time begin to advance in the direction of the granary.
Along the way, the speed of the attack was not required, but only the maximum momentum, the expansion of the arson area, and the illusion of a large-scale attack on the granary to attract the attention of the Wei army.
And Du Yo himself led the remaining 100 people to sneak near the inner gate of the West City.
After the granary in the northwest corner attracted the attention of the Wei army and increased troops there, Du Yo would lead the hundred men to raid the inner gate of the West City, strive to kill the guards here, open the city gate, and welcome Wang Ping into the city.
This strategy belongs to the kind of combat strategy that is directly killed in front of Zhang Xi and scolded in front of Wang Ping.
Let's not talk about whether only a hundred people can seize the west gate of Wancheng, and under the counterattack of the enemy army, they insisted until Wang Ping led the troops into the city, and said that the hundred Wudang Fei troops who went to set fire to the granary and feinted to attack the granary were surrounded by the superior forces of the Wei army, and there was only one end: death in battle.
In other words, Duyo ruthlessly abandoned the life and death of half of the soldiers, and then took the other half of the soldiers to carry out a mission that could wipe out the entire army if something went wrong.
But. Duyo didn't have a choice.
Just like he said, "Wait for death, the country will die", they will die sooner or later anyway, it is better to fight big.
If it doesn't succeed, it's death, but if it succeeds, if Wang Ping can lead the troops into the city in time to help, maybe some of them still have hope of surviving.
Besides, most of the work done by the Wudang Flying Army is such a job, and from the first day on the battlefield, the Wudang Flying Army should have such an awareness.
To a certain extent, Duyo's decisiveness is quite outstanding, and he is ruthless when he should be ruthless, and he already has the basic qualities of a general.
And from the perspective of the effect of the action, it is actually a bit crooked, which just makes Sima Zhao, who is guarding the west gate of Wancheng, have some misjudgments.
The time point of the strategy was still before the early hours of the morning.
Although after experiencing a night attack, Sima Yi repeatedly stressed the need to be vigilant and strengthen precautions in the early hours of the morning, but people's physiology cannot be changed by one or two words of command.
In these years, there is no three-shift duty system, the soldiers on duty at night are already very hard, and the biological clock is not something that can be adjusted in a day or two, and it is already very tired when it barely lasts until the early hours of the morning, so it is natural to relax their vigilance, and it is useless to emphasize it.
Therefore, when the defenders on the west tower and the patrol soldiers in the city noticed that the houses near the granary in the northwest corner were on fire, the fire on the northwest side already showed signs of spreading.
At this time, Sima Yi had been woken up, standing in the mansion, listening to the report of his subordinates, and Sima Zhao, who was guarding the west city gate, was also woken up at this time, standing on the city tower, thinking about something.
The question Sima Zhao was thinking about was whether to send the guards of the West City Gate to go down to the city tower to put out the fire.
Originally, this problem did not need to be considered, the place where the fire broke out was in the direction of the granary, in addition to the defenders of the granary, his side was the closest rescue team to the granary, and the importance of keeping the granary, Sima Zhao could not have known.
However, this fire, it started, is too strange.
How could it be so coincidental that in the wee hours of the morning, there was such a big fire under his nose?!
Could it be that someone is deliberately creating chaos and wants to let himself lead his troops to put out the fire, so as to relax the defense of the West Gate?!
I have to say that all this point, Sima Zhao's analysis and judgment are correct, this is Du Yo's plan to attack the west.
But then, Sima Zhao's judgment turned a corner and made a mistake.
Sima Zhao didn't expect Du Yo to take advantage of the chaos to attack the inner gate of the West City, and his judgment was that the Shu thieves in the city took the initiative to create chaos in order to respond to the attack of the Shu thieves outside the city.
In other words, this is a signal, maybe it won't be long before the Shu thieves outside the West City Gate will take the initiative to attack the city.
Therefore, Sima Zhao immediately ordered the whole army to be on guard, and no one was allowed to go down to the city wall to put out the fire.
The granary has strengthened its defensive forces, and there is also a dispatch in the father's play, and there is not much difference between going and not going by himself.
The most important thing for me now is to make full preparations to deal with the possible attack of the Shu thief.
After all, the Shu thieves outside the West City Gate, but there was a lesson from the early morning siege, and now the sky is not completely bright, the vision and visibility are very poor, and the bow and arrow can be of little use, and in the end, it is not good to use hand-to-hand combat to block the siege of the Shu thieves.
Under Sima Zhao's brain, Wang Ping should have completed the whole team at this time and began to march towards the Xicheng city wall.
But in fact, Wang Ping, who was at this time, had just been woken up by his subordinates, looking at the fire coming out of the northwest corner of Wancheng, thinking calmly.
Wang Ping had not been stationed at Ximen for a long time, and the fine work in Wancheng had not yet had time to find a way to send Wang Ping the information he needed to deploy defense in the city, so Wang Ping did not know that the northwest direction was actually where the Wei army's grain was located.
But Wang Ping must know one thing - such a big fire, it is definitely not that Wei Jun is bored to defend the city and let it go by himself.
This must be the chaos created by the Wudang Flying Army who infiltrated Wancheng City.
But the problem is that the chaotic time occurred around the wee hours of the morning, and judging from the size of the fire, this is not like a movement that a small-scale Wudang Flying Army can do, someone must have gathered a part of the Wudang Flying Army and took the initiative to create a momentum.
This seems to be different from the strategy that he had arranged before, scattering and creating chaos, and cooperating with the Jingzhou army at the south gate to attack the city.
Obviously, there must have been something in the city that they didn't know about, which caused some of the soldiers of the Wudang Fei Army to take the risk and assemble and set fire to attack.
One thing to say, although Wang Ping himself has not read a book, let alone any art of war, his sense of smell and on-the-spot decisiveness on the battlefield are indeed at the top.
Otherwise, it would be impossible to mix into the current position in the Han army as a person.
Soon, Wang Ping made his own decision.
Wake up the whole army, organize your armaments, and be ready for battle at any time.
And Wang Ping thought about it for a while, and felt that it was not very safe to do so, so he decided to personally take the three hundred Wudang Fei Army, taking advantage of the cover of night, as close as possible to the city wall of the West Gate to observe.
And with a large number of sounds coming from the camp of the Wudang Feijun outside the city, such a reaction also confirmed Sima Zhao's judgment on himself - the Shu thieves were really going to attack the city in the early morning.
Sima Zhao also relieved his mind at this time, and asked the soldiers to raise their vigilance and stick to their positions, but the target was Wang Pingjun outside the city.
At this time, the gambling contract and the hundred Wudang Flying Army, which had been lurking near the inner gate of Xicheng for a long time, finally took action.
Without hesitation, he killed the inner gate of the west city and took advantage of the situation to seize the west gate!!
(End of chapter)