Chapter 178: The Battle of Wu is Over
Outside the city of Xiangyang, the Wei army, which had failed in another siege, retreated like a tide.
"How many waves are this repelling?" Liu Yin threw away the broken sword in his hand and asked the lieutenant general with a pant.
"In the seventh wave, Wei Jun seems to be desperate."
Liu Yin's previous lieutenant general had already died in battle, and the current lieutenant was a young general of the Yicheng Ma clan. He was also covered in blood at the moment, and obviously followed Liu Yin in hand-to-hand combat a few times.
"Okay, as long as we can keep one more day, Prime Minister Zhuge and General Youchang can have less pressure on their side. Under the advantages of one and the other, does the pseudo-Wei An have the reason to be undefeated? ”
Although he was not lightly injured, Liu Yin was very satisfied.
Previously, he was only a lieutenant of the Overseer Army, responsible for the garrison of Chengdu, and had almost no contact with the battlefield.
Since being pulled by Ma Tan, Liu Yin has entered the circle of the Shu Han military world. followed Van Wu all the way, he can be regarded as having seen and experienced it, and Liu Yin is very satisfied with it.
Especially now, he has been holding Xiangyang City like a miracle for more than a few months. Even if he dies here, his name will be left in the history books.
Leave a name in history, what man doesn't want such treatment.
"But Captain Liu, the troops we have at hand are estimated to be unable to withstand the next Wei army's attack." Liu Yin's lieutenant groaned for a moment and said cautiously to Liu Yin.
"The Wei army has been besieging the city for several months, and the losses of its soldiers are very large. At present, there are only more than 1,000 capable fighters in various departments, and it is estimated that they will not be able to hold it for long. ”
"How long can you keep it! Guarding a little more is also a victory. Liu Yin said with a smile, not afraid of death at all.
"For the sake of supporting the great cause of the Han family, even General Fenwei is not afraid of death, what are we afraid of?"
Liu Yin's words did not arouse the approval of the lieutenant general, but he also did not object to anything.
He is a son of the Ma clan, and his interests are shared with the Ma clan. Now that Yicheng's own family has made a decision to tie up with Ma Jian to join Shu Han, he has no objection.
Keep it up!
However, when Liu Yin was ready to die in Xiangyang, he saw that the Wei army, which had retreated in an orderly manner, was in chaos. Not long after, a large number of red Shu army banners were suddenly mixed in the black Cao Wei banner!
"I am the Han general Chen Shiye!" The Han generals took the lead and led the Han army out of the flank of the Wei army.
At this time, the Wei army had just finished the siege and had not yet returned to the camp in time. Chen Shi led the troops from Dangyang to march in a hurry, and the Wei army was killed by Chen Shi before they had time to reorganize the army.
The besieging Wei army was in chaos for a while, and they scattered in all directions.
After killing and dispersing the Wei army, Chen Shi did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, but came to the city of Xiangyang. Seeing this, Liu Yin hurriedly opened the city to greet him and welcomed Chen Shi into the city.
"Captain Liu! Staying in Xiangyang for so long, thank you for your hard work! Although Chen Shi is a general, he is very polite to Liu Yin, a lieutenant, and holds his hand.
"The last general has seen General Chen!" Liu Yin hurriedly saluted and thanked Chen Shi for coming to help.
"You don't have to thank me, Captain Liu defended Xiangyang for the country, so that the prime minister could capture Nanxiang County, which is a great achievement. The Han Dynasty has always been rewarded for meritorious service, and An can let the meritorious man die in battle? Chen Shi waved his hand and said to Liu Yin.
"However, I still suggest that Captain Liu return to Yidao first to avoid a wave of limelight for the time being."
"Sheltered from the limelight? What to avoid from the limelight? Liu Yin hesitated a little and asked subconsciously.
"Of course, it's to avoid the limelight of General Chang." Chen Shi shook his head helplessly and said to Liu Yin.
"Originally, General Ma planned to personally bring troops to rescue him, but unfortunately the prime minister didn't worry about him. Before I left, General Youchang repeatedly told me to hurry up, if I could see you, I would slap you in the face to show that I would be punished for not obeying military orders. ”
The corners of Liu Yin's mouth twitched, and he suddenly felt that his future was in jeopardy.
Why don't you go to Nanzhong to avoid the limelight, and then go back to Chengdu when General Ma's anger is gone?
"But before that, we have to evacuate Xiangyang first, according to the Malay report, Cao Wei's main force of tens of thousands of people has arrived in Caiyang. The prime minister has an order, all the troops and horses are withdrawn from Nanyang County, and the war is coming to an end! ”
"Yui!" Liu Yin's heart was also cold, and he took the order.
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Chen Shi was ordered by the prime minister to lead more than 10,000 troops to rescue Xiangyang, and successfully dragged out the Liu Yin Department that was finally stationed in Xiangyang.
Since then, the Shu army has been fully evacuated from the Nanyang battlefield, leaving only some soldiers and horses to garrison Wudang and Nanxiang. When the main force of the Wei army came back from thousands of miles away, the Shu army had already gone to the empty building.
So far, from the beginning of the year when Zhuge Liang led the army to attack Ziguiyiling, to the evacuation of Nanyang, the battle of Wu, which lasted nearly a year, ended.
The Shu army almost became the biggest winner in this battle, winning almost everything with low losses.
Although the territory of this battle did not expand much, the symbolic significance for Shu Han was far greater than that of the first Northern Expedition.
The first is to avenge the soldiers of Shu and correct the name of the first emperor. Then he knocked on Soochow and occupied the Yangtze River Pass, and Soochow will be more honest for a long time to come.
However, it remains to be discussed how long it will be honest.
The most important of these is that the Jingzhou faction headed by Jiang Wanfei Yi has been filled with talents.
While Ma Tan was constantly harassing Nanyang, he dug up Cao Wei's blockade of Jingbei. Many people from Jingbei took the opportunity to go south to Shu Han, and many of them were local talents but were depressed because of the Jiupin Zhongzheng system.
Among them, several later became the pillars of Shu Han.
And Ma Tan is the same, Yicheng's own family almost moved south when Ma Tan went north this time, and all of them followed the Shu army into Yizhou. The Jingzhou faction has achieved an inflow of talents in a short period of time, and will become the main force for Zhuge Liang to stabilize the political situation in the future.
In the end, it was Shu Han who successfully maintained his own destiny. That Wu Lao Er surrendered to Shu Han and invited himself to lead Wu Hou to his emperor.
This is undoubtedly a shot in the arm, allowing the Shu Han officials to see the hope of the revival of the Han Dynasty's destiny.
However, although Shu Han won the hemp, Cao Wei was not too much of a loss.
Although Nanxiang County was lost, the entire Nanyang lost its troops. But for Cao Wei, the losses were all made up for in Soochow.
In the past, Cao Pi fought for a long time, but when Lu Xun was tripped by Zhuge Liang, he was successfully beaten down by Cao Xiu. Wu general Lu Fan was shot by a stray arrow when he was defeated and fled, and he was seriously injured and left.
When the Wei army in Wuchang was evacuating, it was pursued by Sun Quan's personal expedition. Then Wei General Wen Ping led the troops to shoot back and broke the Wu soldiers by the river.
This series of records was superimposed, and Cao Wei found that he didn't seem to be too much of a loss.
However, if there is a win, there will naturally be a loss, Shu Han did not lose, and Cao Wei did not lose.
So who loses?
(End of chapter)