Chapter 55: Breakout
"Knock knock!"
The dull sound of war drums, in the dark night, was heard far, far away.
Liu Yu, Wei Yan and others, who were discussing in the military, heard someone shouting that the Wei army was attacking, and hurriedly went out of the camp to check.
As a result, he had just climbed the wall, and with the help of the fire, he did not see a single enemy.
Liu Yu immediately reacted and reported to Wei Yanyu:
"General, this should be the way for the Wei army to exhaust the enemy."
"The drums of war are beating in the middle of the night just to disturb the rest of our army."
Wei Yan nodded, this kind of scoundrel play, Wei Yan naturally knows.
"Do you have a way to crack it?"
Liu Yu pondered for a moment and replied:
"I think that I can let people rest in turn, and if there is really an enemy attack, I can ring the gong."
"So as not to be disturbed by the enemy."
Wei Yan bowed his head, and he could only do this now.
Subsequently, after arranging the soldiers on duty at night, Wei Yan asked the other soldiers to rest first and wait for the breakthrough tomorrow.
It was night, and the war drums outside the camp sounded outside the Shu army camp every once in a while.
There were even a few times when someone really wanted to launch a surprise attack at night, and Liu Yu and the Shu army were exhausted.
This is Yang Mou, knowing that the other party is likely to be just a tired enemy's strategy, but he can't help but guard against it.
How many times in history have such cases of taking crises for granted, letting down their vigilance, and thus being taken advantage of by the enemy?
Liu Yu didn't dare to be careless, and Wei Yan didn't dare to be careless.
After half the night, Liu Yu couldn't sleep at all in bed, tossing and turning, either awakened by the war drums, or wondering if Jiang Wei was there?
But no matter where Jiang Wei is now, the Wuzhangyuan camp really can't hold it.
With Sima Yi's strategy of exhausting the enemy, without waiting for Jiang Wei, the camp may be broken by the Wei army tomorrow.
After sleeping in a daze for a while, he was called up by the guards, and in a blink of an eye, it was already the second watch.
The person in charge of keeping vigil for Liu Yu was his personal guard, Liu Yin.
Although last time, Liu Yin guessed wrongly, thinking that Wei Yan didn't want to save Jiang Wei at all, but in Liu Yu's heart, Liu Yin was still a talent.
After all, in the Wei and Jin dynasties, which were generally illiterate, Liu Yin had such insight, which already showed that Liu Yin was very talented.
Woken up by Liu Yin, Liu Yu immediately got up to wash, and then simply ate something, and then came to Wei Yan's big tent again.
By the time they entered the big tent, Wei Yan Ma Dai and Meng Yan had already arrived, waiting for Liu Yu.
It's just that the expressions of several people are a little ugly, and their faces can't hide their tiredness, and it looks like they didn't sleep well like Liu Yu last night.
When Wei Yan saw Liu Yu coming, he immediately spoke:
"Later, let's fight from the west, after breaking through the encirclement, go straight to the Baochuan crossing, and wait until we enter the plank road, we only need to burn the plank road, and we can get rid of the pursuit of the Wei army."
"Now the remaining brothers, there are more than 6,000 people, and each of them is exactly one horse."
"After you get out of the encirclement, don't be nostalgic, go all the way south, let's gather at the Baochuan crossing."
"Do you have any other questions?"
After Wei Yan finished arranging, his eyes swept towards everyone, as if he was asking for the opinions of others.
"General, I have something to say about my humble position."
Liu Yu pondered for a moment, and then admonished:
"I think that since it is a breakthrough, why doesn't our army disperse and break through?"
"It's early in the morning, if our army disperses and breaks through, the Wei army doesn't know the details of our army at all, and will never dare to scatter to pursue us."
"In this way, the chances of our army breaking through will be greatly increased."
"If you break through all the way, although the troops are concentrated, it will also give the Wei army a chance to encircle and intercept, please think twice."
Wei Yan seemed to be smiling on his face, and seeing that what Liu Yu said was reasonable, he then said:
"Since this is the case, Dexing will lead a thousand cavalry and break through from the south."
"Ma Dai led two thousand cavalry and broke through from the east."
"Meng Yan and I personally commanded 3,000 cavalry and broke through from the west."
"Break through on three sides, let's gather at the slope crossing."
Liu Yu was shocked in his heart, and broke through from the south, isn't that looking for death?
You must know that the main defense of the Wei army is placed in the south of the Wuzhangyuan camp.
Because if the Wuzhangyuan camp breaks through from the south, it only takes less than 20 miles to reach the Baochuan crossing.
And the road is full of plains, the march is very convenient, naturally became the focus of the Wei army's defense, and he attacked the south with a thousand people, but he was afraid that he would die.
Thinking of this, Liu Yu planned to open his mouth and hope to change direction.
But Wei Yan didn't give Liu Yu a chance to speak again, and directly ordered:
"The arrangement is over, you each go down to make arrangements, open the gate of the village in a quarter of an hour, and go all out to break through."
"I hope you can all return to Shuzhong alive, take care!"
After saying this, Wei Yan was the first to leave the big tent and walked to the camp, intending to start gathering his own soldiers and attacking the Wei army's defense line west of the Wuzhangyuan camp.
Wei Yan has been secretly observing in the camp for the past few days, and naturally knows where the defense is the most shallow.
In fact, the north of Wuzhang Plain is the weakest place for the Wei army's defense, because the north of Wuzhang Plain is the Wei River, even if the Wei army wants to build fortifications, it is very difficult.
If the Shu army suddenly attacked, under the condescending assault, coupled with the Wei army's backwater, it is very likely that the Shu army will be driven into the river to feed the fish.
However, the destination to the north of Wuzhangyuan is Guanzhong, which is contrary to Shuzhong, and it is not a route back to Shuzhong at all.
Even if you leave the camp from the north, if you want to return to Shuzhong, you will be surrounded and intercepted by the Wei army.
Except for the north, only the west was the most lax.
Because the west side was full of deep ditches, and digging fortifications was also difficult, these days, Wei Yan found that the west side had not even repaired the antlers.
Originally, Wei Yan planned to leave alive with Ma Dai and Liu Yu, but Liu Yu had to get along with him, so he could only send Ma Dai and Liu Yu on the road together.
After all, the fortifications in the south of Wuzhang Yuan were the most strong, with antlers everywhere and ravines dug to defend against cavalry attacks.
And the east side of Wuzhang Yuan is also the focus of the Wei army's defense, because from the east can directly take Sima Yi's base camp, and it is impossible for him to expose the base camp to the attack range of the Shu army.
Thinking about it, the only way to survive is the west.
Break out of the western encirclement and then turn to the south, you can escape.
Wei Yan did not stop, and let his son Wei Chang quickly gather cavalry and be ready to set off at any time.
Liu Yu also took his personal guards with a gloomy face, planning to take his 1,000 cavalry to break through the southern fortifications.
After Liu Yu told Liu Yin the direction of the impact, he originally thought that Liu Yin was discouraged, but he didn't expect Liu Yin to laugh:
"Hahaha, General, God help me."