Chapter 270: Soldiers Enter Qianghu
In the first battle of Pingyangqiu, Sima Yi's family foundation that had been painstakingly tuntian for many years was cleaned.
Not only that, but the strong combat effectiveness of the Shu army made Sima Yi dare not return to Wuwei at all. Sima Yi of the entire Liangzhou just gave up directly, and planned to flee to Guanzhong with the remnants of the defeated army.
Although Sima Yi's original plan was to abandon Liangzhou, he did not complete the planned plan to destroy Liangzhou because of the haste of escaping. Sima Yi had nothing to do about it, but could only lament that Great Wei's luck was not good.
Then Sima Yi led the remnants of the army to defeat only 9,000 people, and fled to Yiwei in the east of Wuwei in embarrassment. From this county to the east, it is not the territory of the Great Wei, but the territory of the Qianghu people.
Taking the conventional road, Sima Yi will definitely not be able to return to Guanzhong. However, fortunately, the Qianghu people were still subservient to Cao Wei, so Sima Yi could also return to Guanzhong in the streets of Qianghu.
However, when he arrived in Yiwei, Sima Yi was pleasantly surprised to find that General Fei Yao had arrived.
Although Fei Yao was defeated by Ma Yan, all the losses were the Qianghu tribes. Fei Yao's 5,000 headquarters soldiers and horses suffered slight losses, and they were all brought back by Fei Yao in their original form.
After getting Fei Yao's 5,000 fresh troops, Sima Yi was a little relieved. At this moment, his strength was only more than 14,000 people, and the loss of soldiers and horses exceeded seventy percent.
"These Shu people are really evil, if it weren't for a certain fast, I'm afraid that the father and son would all be captives of the Shu people!!" After re-appeasing the soldiers and horses of the various units and stabilizing the morale of the army, Sima Yi took a long breath and slowly put his mind at ease.
However, thinking of his losses in this battle and the huge suppressive force of the Shu army, Sima Yi still had palpitations.
It's only been a few years, and the infantry that Great Wei is proud of has been crushed by the Shu army. This is the result of years of recuperation and months of preparation.
If the 60,000 Shu army was allowed to go north to Liangzhou at the same time, Sima Yi would not dare to think how badly he would lose.
In the final analysis, it was Cao Wei's lack of attention to the Shu Han regime.
Even if the Shu Han soldiers went out of Longyou and beat Eastern Wu, Cao Wei still thought that "Shu, a small country". Although Sima Yi attached great importance to them, he didn't think too much about it, and he didn't find that the Shu army, which could not stop Cao's army by relying on Dingjun Mountain, had such earth-shaking changes in just a few years.
After this battle, Sima Yi completely understood the truth in the future.
Don't fight with the crazy people in Xishu, their army is stronger than the Wei army.
"Father!" At this time, Sima Shi walked in and saluted Sima Yi calmly.
"It has been counted, and there are more than 14,500 soldiers and soldiers left, of which more than 2,000 are wounded. The armor was all discarded, and most of the soldiers were gone, and they were basically unable to continue fighting. ”
"The grain that was stationed here before is still there, and it can support the consumption of the army for three months. However, the local people are scarce, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to take them all away. ”
"If you can't take it away, burn it all, Liangzhou is completely lost." Sima Yi looked at his eldest son's tired face, shook his head slightly, and then ordered.
"Now the main force of the Shu army should have begun to move westward, ready to receive the counties of Liangzhou. We rested for a few days, immediately set out of camp, and returned to Guanzhong by means of Qianghu. ”
"Yui!" Sima Shi nodded and gave the order.
"But Brother Zhao seems to be frightened, and he hasn't slept well for the past few days......"
"Zhao has always been like this, you can go and comfort yourself......" Sima Yi sighed and waved his hand.
This battle is really embarrassing.
Under Sima Yi's retraction, the defeated generals of more than 10,000 remnants rested in Yiwei County for three days. After the army's morale stabilized a little, Sima Yi ordered the camp to set off.
Next, they had to cross a large area of Qianghu territory, marching all the way through Xiaoguan and returning to Guanzhong.
The last remnants of the Wei army were defeated and only after burning the baggage that could not be taken away, did they begin to slowly embark on the return journey.
Two days after the Wei army left the border of Liangzhou, Ma Tan arrived late with 5,000 cavalry.
It's not that he wants to be so late, it's mainly that Zhuge Liang is not at ease. I had to wait until the doctors in the army examined him many times and made sure that Ma Yan's injuries did not affect the battle before letting him go.
Ma Jian brought 5,000 Han cavalry, plus Ma Dai and Jiang Wei.
When he arrived in Yiwei, Ma Jian could only see an empty city. Sima Yi destroyed it very cleanly, and not a grain of rice was left for the Shu army.
"It seems that Sima Yi has been walking for a while, and he is still walking very easily." Ma Tan jumped off his horse, took a closer look at the traces in the city, and then came to a conclusion.
The charcoal in the stove in the city is cold, which means that the Wei army has gone away. Moreover, the grain baggage was completely destroyed, which means that they were not too nervous, and they only went on the road after slowly destroying the baggage.
Taken together, the Wei army has gone far, but now there is no defense against the pursuit of the Shu army.
Coming to the following conclusion, Ma Jian immediately stood up again, clapped his hands and ordered.
"The soldiers of all departments rested for half a day, and then all of them got on their horses and marched with me to continue the chase!"
"Huh?" Ma Yan's order surprised both Jiang Wei and Ma Dai, and Ma Dai hurriedly spoke.
"General, after this place, it is not the territory of Liangzhou, it is the territory of the Qianghu people. They are still in hostile relations with the Great Han, and they rashly went to ......"
"What are you talking about, the whole world is not Han land. What's more, this piece of Beidi County, which used to be our Han Dynasty, how did it become a Qianghu person. Ma Jian waved his hand and immediately corrected the mistakes of the two people.
"And don't say that this is the territory of my Han Dynasty, even if this is the Yin Mountain of the Huns, my Ma Jian can break through. These are just a group of defeated men of my former heroes, and they still have the guts to stop us? ”
"So Hugh has to say more, the whole army is reorganized, rest for a while and continue to catch up with me and stab Sima Yi in the eye! If the Qianghu people dare to stop it, even they will smoke it together! ”
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The Qianghu people in the north are actually the descendants of the Huns.
Since the Eastern Han Dynasty, a large number of Hu people of all kinds have been entrenched here, and the number of people began to exceed that of Han people. Because the local Hu people are larger than the Han people, coupled with the geographical influence, the local Han people began to gradually become Hu.
When the culture began to be humiliated, the sense of belonging of the local people to the central government became weaker.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, after the Bingzhou army was pulled away by Dong Zhuo, the Bingzhou army began to be empty. The war, which lacked an army to defend it, began to disintegrate, and countless Hu armed groups began to divide their territories.
The final outcome was that when Cao Wei annexed the state, the only ones who could get it back were Taiyuan and Shangdang.
The rest of the country was the territory of the Qianghu people, and they formed a huge alliance of the Hu people. Any Han Chinese troops that were not allowed to pass would be besieged by the Hu iron cavalry.
However, it seems that this can't scare Ma Yan, the general of the Han Auxiliary State, and he is even looking forward to the attack of the Hu people.
So the 5,000 Han cavalry rested for only half a day, and under the leadership of Ma Tan, they set foot on the territory of the Qianghu Alliance.
Sima Yi probably couldn't figure out what kind of grudge he wanted to die, what kind of grudge made Ma Jian take such a big risk to hunt him down.
(End of chapter)