Overlord!

Chapter 355 Pang De bravely wins the three armies

Yang Qiu's defense not only failed to calm Ma Chao's anger, but instead added fuel to the fire, making Ma Chao's eyes bloodshot and furious.

"It's hard to take the lead, and you will be defeated by the wind? You have done something rebellious, don't you know that you should fight to the death? The Song army is so powerful that it will never give up until it plows the court and clears holes. Where can you flee if you are defeated?"

Facing Ma Chao, who was roaring like a lion, Yang Qiu only felt trembling and trembling, as if he were walking on thin ice. The generals behind him immediately moved nervously to Yang Qiu's side to prevent Ma Chao from killing someone.

With the protection of his subordinates, Yang Qiu finally felt a little confident in his heart and said: "Have we stabilized the battle line now? Victory or defeat is a common thing for soldiers. We can just join forces and fight the Song army again."

"Stabilize the front?" Ma Chao yelled angrily: "Don't you know how much we have to pay to stabilize the front here? Our army withdrew overnight to help. Xu Huang has already crossed the Yellow River and taken the land of Xihe!"

This means that the Guanzhong army's plan to defend the enemy from outside has been defeated without attacking.

Before the war, Ma Chao simply could not imagine that the mountains, rivers and natural dangers on which he relied could be so easily broken through by the Song army.

And all this, the Song army didn't even put much thought into it. Just the pressure of the army forced the Kansai generals to focus on one thing and the other. The huge military power made the entire Kansai feel suffocated.

Thirty thousand Song troops broke through the Xihe River and garrisoned north of the Wei River. On the contrary, they occupied the right time and place. Then these 30,000 troops crossed the Wei River to form a stronghold. The enemy could not get out, and the Kansai army was helpless.

They simply did not have the strength to transport a large army across the Wei River and seize the Song army's fortified camp. However, the Song army was able to threaten the rule and food routes of their Guanzhong generals in the north at any time and anywhere in Weibei.

When the time comes, how can his mere 20,000 troops withstand the siege of hundreds of thousands of elite Song troops?

Therefore, Ma Chao could only intimidate everyone and said: "We are planning to surrender just a month later, but the imperial court will take it lightly. Even if we send envoys to ask for surrender, the imperial court will not allow us to cut off the land of Xihe River."

Pang Tong replied: "The thieves are asking to cede the territory and surrender, but our army does not hold back, so they will not be safe but prepare themselves. If they are prepared, they will increase their troops and gather more people."

Ma Chao thought well, but little did he know that all his plans fell into Zhou Yu's expectations.

Zhou Yu raised his eyebrows angrily and asked, "What you said is contrary to common sense. Why is it so?"

Isn't the problem now that the current size of the Guanxi Army cannot stop the Song Army? Then increase the number of troops, and at least raise the army to a level comparable to that of the Song Army. This will be able to block the Song Army's offensive and force the Song Army to negotiate.

This is actually hard to imagine. The situation is somewhat similar to that. When Sun Ce was attacking Jiangdong, it would be fine if he couldn't defeat Liu Yao's generals. As a result, he retreated to Wuxian County and rested for two years. However, he was defeated by the powerful local coalition forces in Wuxian County. He retreated hastily and defected to the command of Wang Lang, the prefect of Kuaiji County.

Ma Chao is not really a famous general. He can't defeat Xia Houyuan in a majestic formation. The fierce fighting in the separatist regime was even worse than that of the righteous heroes Yang Fu, Zhao Ang and others in Jicheng. In the battle of Longnan, they were expelled from the Longyou area by the local powerful in Liangzhou and defected to the command of Zhang Lu, a prince who only had Hanzhong County.

So Yang Qiu asked: "In military affairs, if you can fight, fight; if you can't fight, defend; if you can't defend, leave; the other two things are to surrender and die. Now that the general cannot fight the enemy and refuses to surrender, what should he do? "

After the army advanced to the vicinity of Lantian, Pang Tong offered advice to Zhou Yu and said: "General, at this moment, the rebels are advancing and retreating at an inappropriate pace. I must warn them that they will sweep away the Huchen and restore Liangzhou so that they have no choice but to do so." war."

Faced with the violent shouting, Yang Qiu couldn't help but weaken, and asked: "What should I do? How about asking the emperor to surrender?"

Therefore, these fleeing princes gathered here and tried to resist again, hoping to win a victory, defeat the imperial court's edge, and force the imperial court to compromise.

The reason why Ma Chao is so angry is because this is what he fears most.

Ma Chao immediately said: "Gather the Qiang and Hu soldiers together in the pass, and use the Hu soldiers to block the front of the Song army."

As he was forced to resist the Song army on the southern front, would Han Sui surrender to the Song army behind his back on the northern front?

Once Han Sui surrenders, Ma Chao will die without a burial place.

Ma Chao really guessed this right.

Zhou Yu directly ordered that he either disbanded his armor and tied up the camp gates, or he was turned into a fan by the imperial court. As in the past, there was absolutely no possibility that he could continue to defend himself and segregate the army for personal gain.

Ma Chao's eyes were blood red with anger and were covered with bloodshot eyes. He drew out his sword angrily and shouted: "Those who dare to say surrender will die! This is a big plan. I want to save the people in Guanzhong with justice. When We must defeat the enemy's three armies and command the world. When encountering a small enemy, we must kneel down and surrender. Those who follow the righteous will be disintegrated in one day. If we still defend a corner of Liangzhou, we are the ears of thieves. How can we protect ourselves?"

He doesn't know how to win over people's hearts, and he has no grand political plan. As a result, he can only intimidate people and forcefully fight against the general trend, resulting in no choice but to advance or retreat.

All this is obviously related to Ma Chao's bravery and lack of strategy. This lack of strategy is not related to military strategy. Military strategy should be classified as a general's loyalty and bravery. His lack of strategy is reflected in his political vision.

In Zhou Yu's court, there were a large number of advisers who advised him. In addition to his Sima Pangtong, there were also many Central Plains scholars such as Jia Xu, Fazheng, Xun You, and Sima Yi.

Yang Qiu and others secretly asked the court to surrender, but the court refused at all.

"The thieves in Guanzhong, who are facing the enemy, depend on the long distance in Guanzhong, and the imperial court cannot decide whether to attack them in one or two years. Therefore, they are arrogant and domineering and do not follow the rules. The imperial court has no choice but to tolerate them because the treasury is empty."

"Today, my imperial court is raising troops and mobilizing people. All we need to do is show our determination to conquer, so that they can see the food and grass and the carts, and they will not stop on the road. Even if it takes a year or two, we will still plow the court and sweep the holes."

"Then the thieves will be afraid and will not dare to disperse. If they all come to gather, even if there are many of them, they will not surrender to each other. The army will have no suitable leader and can be destroyed in one fell swoop. Every time the thieves arrive, it is a conquest for our imperial court. It’s a fee!”

Zhou Yu nodded slightly, and the situation was now slightly clearer.

Once the imperial court is determined to regain Guanzhong and Liangzhou, the ministers in the imperial court must be prepared to fight bloody battles for two years.

And a two-year war, even in the southwest, the court could tolerate. What's more, we are still in the hinterland of Guanzhong.

During the Great Chaos in the Central Plains, it was very common for wars between princes to last for two years.

But once this kind of war is inflicted on the Qiang and Hu, they won't be able to bear it!

In the past, their biggest reliance on being able to confront the imperial court was Guanzhong Longyuan. Even if the imperial court sent tens of thousands of elite soldiers, they could still hold off if they couldn't win.

Anyway, if they win, the ants will gather, if they lose, the birds will scatter. If they are defeated, they can retreat to a far-reaching and dangerous place to defend themselves, waiting for the imperial court to retreat.

But this time, Song Ting would not give up and must wipe out the rebels one by one. Once they retreated and the court divided their forces to pursue them, they would no longer be able to fight back.

With Song Ting's ruthlessness and his anger and hatred for Xiliang's continuous rebellion for so many years, he would definitely kill the Qiang and Hu.

The extermination of one’s race and species is by no means an empty statement.

The more the imperial court refused their request to surrender, the more uneasy they became and did not dare to disperse.

If we gather together, we still have the strength to fight, but if we disperse, we can only be slaughtered by others.

Zhou Yu then looked at the people in the tent and asked, "If you think that the Qiang and Hu are all gathered in the clouds and are willing to fight to the death, can you be in danger?"

Sima Yi, who had just been recruited into the army, took the initiative to speak at this time and said: "I don't think there is anything to worry about. Not to mention what Sima said, although there are many people, they will not surrender to each other. The army has no suitable leader. Only the great martial virtue of our army, It's just that the enemy didn't dare to look up. In the previous battle, the general lined up five thousand cavalry in ten layers, shining brightly in the sun, and all the thieves were frightened."

"Today, the eight hundred miles of Qinchuan in Guanzhong are all flat land, which is where my cavalry runs. There is nothing he can do." Sima Yi, who joined the army and was in charge of the army's Chinese documents and logistics, really knew the situation of each army very well. .

It has been four years since the imperial court was founded, and war horses in the army are no longer scarce as in the past.

In particular, Bingzhou and Youzhou have all been conquered. Previously, Zhuge Liang's army even broke through the Wuhuan royal court and collected all its cattle and horses before returning.

The imperial servants in the court had more than 200,000 horses, and more than 100,000 horses were brought out for this battle.

Among the 120,000 elite infantry and cavalry, there are more than 50,000 cavalry, and 4,000 of them are equipped with armor and cavalry!

This number is a terrifying existence that Ma Chao cannot compare to.

Fifty thousand elite cavalrymen with two horses or even three horses pressed forward. On this flat 800-mile Qinchuan River, the Song army could easily crush the rebel Qiang and Hu herdsmen as long as the general was not a loser.

In this situation, unless the army is led by an emperor like Zhu Yunwen, Zhu Qizhen, and Yang Guang, who is both naive and loves to command blindly, they will be crushed and the rebels will become fans.

Why could the Song army cross the Yellow River so easily and march into the Wei River?

It has nothing to do with any conspiracy or anything like that. It's just that the Song Army's advantage is simply too great.

Good fighters have no illustrious feats.

With such a huge advantage, even if it is an ordinary advance, it does not require any ingenuity to make the opponent unable to parry.

Of course, the role of famous generals and counselors cannot be ignored. The Song Army gathered so many civil servants and generals in this battle, heroes in troubled times. They wanted to end the war faster, and they would definitely not just build a stronghold and fight in vain.

So after Sima Yi spoke, Jia Xu also admonished him: "If the enemy soldiers are not united, they can be interrupted. When they are suspicious of each other and each of them is conserving their strength, our army will use all its strength to attack it, and the enemy will be defeated ten times." A crowd of ten thousand can be defeated in one battle."

Zhou Yu looked at the map and asked, "You mean Han Sui and Ma Chao?"

Everyone looked at the map. Even without detailed description, everyone could see that the rebels were divided into two groups.

Ma Chao and some of the generals in Guanzhong allied forces at Lantian, south of Chang'an, to block the main force of the Song army.

Han Sui led a part of the rebels to block the front line of Mount Taihua, relying on Tongguan to block the enemy.

The two departments are nearly a hundred miles apart, making communication inconvenient.

These thieves are strong and dishonest, and they only work together for profit. It is too easy to alienate them.

There is no need for any despicable means. They are at odds with each other and do not want to save each other. They only need to feign attack on one part and attack the other violently, and the results will be achieved.

So Jia Xu said: "The thieves in Guanzhong made Han Sui the governor, and then marched eastward, gathered at Weihe River and Tongguan, and built camps. And Ma Chao relied on his power, how could he be under Han Sui? Our army only needs to attack Ma Chao fiercely, and fight with Han Sui Then they confront each other, and Ma Chao will be suspicious of Han Sui. One can separate the two people, and the other can make Ma Chao forcefully mobilize the troops. If Han Sui agrees, then his force will be weak, the two tigers will fight, and the bandit army will be in chaos. If Han Sui does not If you agree, a rift will arise between the two of you, which can be broken."

This is an unsolvable conspiracy. If the Song army attacks Ma Chao, Ma Chao will definitely ask Han Sui for reinforcements.

This kind of thing is a dilemma. No matter which choice you make, the situation will get worse.

People like Han Sui and Ma Chao understood each other's virtues better than Song Ting. Ma Chao said: "Now Chao has abandoned his father and regards the general as his father. The general should also abandon his son and regard Chao as his son."

If this kind of filial son is given the opportunity, he will definitely take the head of his adoptive father and annex them all.

Both of them knew that now the two powers couldn't help each other, so they just compromised and depended on each other.

Once one party is weak, the other party will definitely take advantage of it and eat it up.

Zhou Yu decided on the strategy here, and the army immediately began to implement it.

Facts have proved that the pressure from the Song Army was much more intense than everyone on both sides expected.

After Zhou Yu ordered the army to attack Ma Chao's headquarters, Zhu Huan, Zhang Fei, Zhou Tai, Wei Yan, Huang Zhong, Yu Jin and other generals led their troops to attack for three days. The armies fought hard and broke through Lantian Valley in one fell swoop, capturing more than ten fortresses. Heavy, the soldiers surrounded Lantian City!

Especially Zhou Tai, who once led his army to attack Ma Chao's camp in one fell swoop, seized the big banner and danced. As a result, the morale of the three armies was high, and the army took advantage of the situation to attack hard, beating Ma Chao in one fell swoop.

This battle really made Ma Chao shocked and angry. He had never expected that the fierce generals of the Song army would be so brave. He only led more than 30 soldiers, wearing heavy armor, to dare to climb the gate to seize the big banner.

He was so angry that he gritted his teeth and led his army to fight, hoping to seize the banner that the Song army had snatched.

As a result, the morale of the Song army was like a rainbow, and the drums were beating like thunder. Tens of thousands of Song troops launched a fierce attack, and the shouts of killing shook the sky. The soldiers around Ma Chao fled in panic, leaving only a dozen Qiang dead soldiers around him.

Ma Chao also lived up to his reputation as a warrior. Even if there were only a dozen personal guards left, he would grind his teeth to suck blood and rush to the camp gate.

He firmly believed that with his bravery, he would be able to frighten the Song army and make it run away.

As a result, the general of the Song Army saw him and immediately ordered his soldiers to attack with powerful crossbows. More than a dozen arrows were shot at him, causing him to be hit in the forehead!

If he hadn't been wearing an iron jacket and had good protection, this arrow would have almost killed him.

But the dead soldiers around him dragged him away from the battlefield, making the fortress completely undefendable.

Tens of thousands of elite Song troops captured the Kansai Army fortress with more than 3,000 garrisoned troops in one fell swoop. He, Ma Chao, followed the defeated troops and fled toward the city in a panic. Fortunately, with the help of Pang De, he was able to block the pursuing Song troops.

The two sides fought bloody battles for ten days, but Pound's reputation as a brave and courageous champion of the three armies was well known to both sides.

When the generals of the Song Army saw this silent, resolute and unstoppable white-horse general, they often retreated from his front, unwilling to die.

But even so, Pang De was still wearing several weapons, and there were too many strong generals in the Song army. Ordinary generals would retreat when they saw Pound, but there were many fierce generals who, instead of retreating when they saw Pound, rushed forward excitedly and wanted to kill him to prove their bravery.

In this fierce battle, Pound was inevitably wounded by the enemy's fierce generals.

(End of this chapter)