"I regret not listening to Zhongquan's words."

finally escaped back to Mengjindu, and Sima Shi immediately apologized to Xiahou Ba and expressed such feelings.

I can't help it, I'm fooled. That Wang Chang used the withdrawal of troops as a bait to lure Sima Shi to send troops to pursue, and then the Shu thieves set up an ambush halfway and killed Sima Shi by surprise.

Of course, if it was just to chase Zhongfu, Sima Shi would not have said such a thing to Xiahou Ba, but this time the loss was a bit too miserable, and it was unbearable.

These two people, one led 10,000 soldiers, one pursued, and the other responded, but none of them could escape, and they all fell into the ambush trap.

The soldiers who followed out 20,000 people and finally fled back to Mengjindu did not even return with 5,000 people.

Therefore, in this matter, it is really necessary for Sima Shi to apologize to Xiahou Ba.

On the one hand, Xiahou Ba did not recommend attacking earlier, because Sima Shi himself couldn't help it and had to pursue it, which resulted in this fiasco.

On the other hand, if it weren't for Xiahouba's timely response this time, I'm afraid Sima Shi would not have returned with a fiasco, but the entire army would have been wiped out.

Sima Shi's apology was sincere, but Xiahouba really couldn't accept Sima Shi's apology. Because he is not much better than Sima Shi, he is also the one who was ambushed.

As it was said at the beginning, Sima Shi led the troops to pursue, and Xiahou Ba was slightly behind a distance of about ten miles to respond, but not long after the pursuit, the scout in front came back and ordered that Sima Shi had pursued Wang Chang's withdrawal team.

This is not an accident, after all, Sima Shi's attack is still very decisive and fast, and it is very normal to be able to quickly catch up with the Shu thief.

After that, according to the news from the scouts in front, it was said that after Shu General Wang Chang led his troops, he intercepted Sima Shi's pursuers.

This is not an accident, in terms of Wang Chang's ability, since he chose to withdraw the army, he will definitely arrange to break the queen, and it is impossible to be easily chased and intercepted by Sima Shi.

In this case, Xiahouba has two options.

One is to take the initiative to attack, cooperate with Sima Shi to break Wang Chang's broken back foot, and then chase and kill the Shu thieves who have no guard protection.

The other is to temporarily stand still, once there is an accident on the battlefield, Xiahou Ba can also respond to Sima Shi in time.

Obviously, with Xiahou Ba's character, he must have chosen the second way to deal with it.

However, this did not last long, but after half an hour's effort, Sima Shi sent someone to the rear to give an order, asking Xiahou Ba to follow as soon as possible and encircle and annihilate the Shu thieves together.

The reason is very simple, Wang Chang did arrange the troops after the break, but Wang Chang only led 5,000 people to break the queen, and the remaining nearly 20,000 people were retreating rapidly under the leadership of Zhang Yi.

And Sima Shi is leading 10,000 people to pursue and attack, Wang Chang's troops are insufficient, so he can only retreat while fighting, and he will not be able to stop Sima Shi.

In this case, Sima Shi must have hoped that Xiahou Ba would hurry up and defeat Wang Chang's troops as soon as possible, and then join forces to pursue the Shu thieves and retreat together.

If the troops are too small, the results will not be too great, and the main force of this group of Shu thieves will be easily withdrawn.

Again, now the situation is already like this, the rear wing of the Shu thief has been broken off by nearly a thousand casualties, and there is no ambush of the Shu thief, so it can be seen that the Shu thief should have no ambush at all.

If you don't chase after it, you'll really miss the opportunity.

Sima Shi sent someone to give an order and explained the situation ahead, and in the face of such a situation, even Xiahou Ba couldn't think of any reason not to pursue.

Then Xiahou Ba led the army to chase after him.

At the beginning, the pursuit was very smooth, and Wang Chang couldn't stop the joint attack of Xiahou Ba and Sima Shi at all.

But after chasing, chasing to a place thirty miles south of Mengjindu, things are not right.

After Wang Chang and Zhang Yi led the army to retreat over a hillside, from behind this hillside, a large group of Shu troops suddenly appeared.

It is said that it is a large Shu army, but in fact, the strength is not much, it adds up to about two or three thousand people, and most of them are crossbowmen, and only more than a thousand Miao Dao soldiers are guarding in front of these crossbowmen.

As far as the strength and military configuration are concerned, if you want to say that it is an ambush, it is okay, but with such a small number of ambushes, not to mention that Sima Shi doesn't care, even Xiahou Ba doesn't care too much.

This bit of troops, they are all crossbowmen who can't fight in close combat, and wanting to ambush nearly 20,000 Wei troops is basically tantamount to a fool's dream and even Sima Shi suspects that this is an abandoned son thrown out by Wang Chang in a hurry, just to hinder the pursuers for a while, so as to facilitate their escape.

Therefore, Sima Shi did not hesitate at all, and continued to command the soldiers to take the lead in the pursuit.

Crossbowmen, the lethality of the bow is there, but as long as you approach quickly and shorten the distance, the rest is just a one-sided slaughter, and there is no big threat.

Can. Sima Shi quickly saw a dark cloud pressed by the black, and covered his front army with extremely fast speed.

It was a rain of arrows, and the two thousand crossbowmen on the hillside of the mountain covered the sky and the sun, and they shot out a group of bows and arrows that 10,000 crossbowmen should have.

By the time Sima Shi reacted, there were more than 500 people in his front army, and few of them could stand.

What's even worse is that the second batch of arrows of the Shu thieves came very quickly, and there was almost no interval.

In the face of such a bow shooting speed and coverage, even if Sima Shi wanted to attack by exchanging his life for distance, I am afraid that there would be no chance of close quarters at all.

How could the crossbowmen of the Shu thieves shoot such a large range of arrows, and how could they attack continuously in such a short interval?!

Sima Shi doesn't understand this question, and now is not the time to figure it out. The attack will definitely not be able to attack, or even go again, as the crossbowmen of the Shu thieves press forward, the main force of their own Chinese army will be covered by the range of the crossbowmen of this group of Shu thieves.

It is necessary to retreat as soon as possible.

And just when Sima Shi ordered the retreat, he found that two troops suddenly appeared on his two flanks, with a strength of about 10,000 people, and they were quickly outflanking from both flanks.

The banner of one unit is "Meng", and the banner of the other is "Liu." Sima Shi did not need to consider who the chief generals represented by these two banners were, he only needed to know that there were no leading generals with these two surnames in the Hongnong County soldiers led by Wang Chang.

Obviously, these two troops are not Hongnong soldiers at all.

From this, Sima Shi came to a simple and clear judgment - the plan was successful.

After Sima Shi realized that he had been schemed, he immediately ordered to return to the army, and as soon as possible to get closer to Xiahouba's receiving troops, and the two families worked together to break through the siege as soon as possible before the enemy army completed the encirclement.

But at this time, Wang Chang would not easily let Sima Shi retreat, he had already led his Hongnong County soldiers, and reflexively killed back.

And for Sima Shi, what is even worse is that he has just informed Xiahou Ba of the front foot to move forward and converge, and the back foot has been tricked by himself, and now Xiahou Ba is also under the transfer of Sima Shi and has fallen into the encirclement.

When he saw the Shu army appear on the two wings of the Sima Division of the former army, he immediately ordered the rear army to stop advancing, 5,000 people fortified on the spot, and 5,000 people followed him to meet Sima Shi, which retained a glimmer of life for Sima Shi and Xiahouba.

But to get out is to get out, and of the 20,000 soldiers he brought with him, less than 5,000 came back, and the rest of the soldiers were all trapped in the encirclement network.

There is no way, the Shu thieves have too many troops, and they are almost using 50,000 soldiers to surround and beat 20,000 Wei troops.

After the Wei army was surrounded, it fell into chaos completely, and the morale of the entire army was completely lost, except for the 5,000 soldiers left by Xiahouba to defend on the spot because they were fighting on the edge of the battlefield, and they could barely guarantee some will to fight, the remaining Wei soldiers were completely chaotic.

In addition, this way to withdraw to Mengjindu, the Wei army was chased by Shu thieves all the way, and less than 5,000 soldiers could withdraw to Mengjindu, which was already the result of Xiahouba's timely response.

For this reason, Sima Shi had to apologize to Xiahou Ba as soon as he came back. This time, he was really too prodigal, and he lost more than 10,000 soldiers.

But Xiahouba is actually not much better.

If Sima Shi jumped into the pit by himself, he Xiahouba also stepped on one foot in the pit, but he barely got out of it with Sima Shi's previous experience, and he returned in a fiasco.

This matter is here in Sima Shi, it was Xiahou Ba who saved Sima Shi's life, but in Cao Wei's son of heaven Cao Rong, these two goods are the same, both of them are defeated generals.

On top of that, more than 15,000 people were lost in the First World War, and the morale of the army was greatly demoralized. What should be done next, these two people are also a little bottomless.

After all, the two of them have now figured it out, this time, it was the Shu thieves who came to help, and the leading general was Zhang Xi, a famous general in the world who was supposed to be guarding Jingzhou.

Zhang Xidu has already appeared in Mengjindu, so what is going to be fought next is probably not a simple Luoyang offensive and defensive battle.

Shu thief, I'm afraid it's going to be a big move!!

(End of chapter)