Follow General Cao to mix the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 719: Hide and Seek

The fall of Nanshan does not mean that Wang Hou is stable. During the battle of Zhuge Liang's Jieting, this was the territory of Wei State. Although the Tianshui Di people rebelled, there were still many Wei troops controlling the road and providing support. Zhang Yun's [-] cavalry could directly After killing Zhuge Liang's Hou Kongming near Longxi City, Wang Hou didn't take a single piece of territory in Longshang.

Did he pay the price for abandoning the Weishui River, or he still had to move step by step like a kowtowing bug among the rugged loess hills to Yicheng, the capital of Liangzhou.

And this is also Ma Chao's opportunity!
In fact, the Loess Plateau is really not like the sky full of loess in the impression of later generations. It is desolate and barren. On the dry land, wrinkled old farmers are working hard to cultivate a few acres of wasteland, especially when it has not been over-developed at this time. , the loess slope is covered with green straw shrubs, which are as tall as half a person, and there are wild rabbits jumping in it from time to time.

But the peaceful and melodious atmosphere of nature, the Liaodong Army below could not feel it, the herds of cattle in the middle were carrying food, and the Goguryeo and Buyeo people escorting on both sides watched vigilantly with their spears left and right, each of them was tense. Tight as hell.

But even if he was so vigilant, he still didn't get rid of the crookedness!Suddenly, in the grass on the mountain, a javelin was thrown out with a whistling wind, and while watching from left and right, the Liaodong infantry, who looked like a meerkat, uttered a desperate scream in time. In the tragic sound of puffing, the whole person was pierced by the long and hard thing, and the blood of Liaodong was splashed on the dry land.

"Di people attack!"

With shrill shouts and desolate bugle horns, the surviving conscripted civilian light infantry immediately raised the wooden shields hanging on the horses, and tremblingly pointed their spears outward, while the long food transport team quickly followed the guards. The Xianbei rider slammed the reins and galloped over, and the steel-headed arrows rained down on the bushes where the attack was made.

It's really unlucky for people and animals. In the dense rain of arrows, a rabbit escaped in a panic, but within a few meters, amidst the sound of flesh and blood bursting, the rabbit that was hit in the head by the arrow was struck by the tail of the arrow. It was nailed to the ground, and not far away, the Di people who were attacking also ran away, but how could people run past the arrows, and in the crackling rain, the Di people behind ran on their bare thighs? An arrow shaft came out of the ground, and his legs and feet softened, and the man fell directly to the ground.

Full of fear, the man who was hit by the arrows desperately stretched out his hand to his companions, but the rain of arrows that followed had already nailed him cracklingly, nailing his whole body cracklingly from feet to head, like a Like a stuffed insect with tacks on it, it was brutally nailed to the ground, and it remained in this posture of falling to the ground and reaching out forever.

However, the Di people's attack was still successful. Just as the food transportation team was all attracted and focused their attention on the head, more than a dozen people suddenly appeared from behind the originally silent roadside bushes.

Baba, who was still in a daze, watched the excitement, and suddenly, the infantry who was driving the Qiang herd on this side whimpered and was strangled from behind, and the sharp stone blades slashed across, waiting for the large troops guarding the food to come again. When I looked back, I only saw the backs of a few conscripts who were still alive and clutching their bloody throats, and the backs of the Di people who had snatched the food bags and rushed into the mountains.

People are not machines, and the fear of dying on the spot anytime, anywhere made the entire team tremble. It took the officer in charge of supervision more than ten minutes to stabilize the army and continue to transport the food and grass.

On this road, there were four more attacks. The transportation team could be considered to have successfully transported the grain and grass to the front line, went out of the street pavilion, and went deep into the 110-mile forward camp in Longshang.

As soon as they entered the earthen wall built with loess to seal the mountain roads in the camp, every conscript who transported food breathed a long sigh of relief, and arrived here alive, and this one was picked up from the hands of death again. A little life comes.

These food transportation teams were not the only ones who breathed a sigh of relief. In the southwest, a large number of grassland light cavalry recruited came back to the barracks exhausted with a sigh of relief. The arrow javelin was shot, and he returned with a bloody wound, which was particularly terrifying.

This was washed out by running water, and the rugged loess and high slopes in Longzhong are really not their home field!In one day, patrolling within dozens of miles, looking for the enemy's decisive battle cavalry, I don't know how many ambushes, towering slopes, low-lying terraces, no one knows where they can be attacked, even if they are fierce and aggressive on weekdays The Xianbei people, in this piecemeal ambush and anti-ambush battle, still looked tense as if they were about to collapse.

For the Chinese army, on a map, densely packed with contour lines and red crosses of various sizes, but a series of red arrows, the main force of Ma Chao's Xiliang cavalry still appears on Wang Hou's map all the time.

"So, this Ma Chao has retreated another twenty miles to the west, and has withdrawn to Lueyang!"

Listening to the report from the general of the Xianbei tribe who was still in shock, Wang Hou calmly moved the red arrow of the main force of the Xiliang army to the west with a red pen.

But at this time, the curtain of the tent was suddenly thrown open, his face was full of anger, Cao Zhang looked impatient again, bared his teeth and barged in from outside.

"Brother-in-law! How long are we going to hang out with Xiliang bandits in these loess slopes?"

"More than 400 people escaped from this big camp again! Chengji is in the west and Xingguo is in the south. Our army is several times larger than Ma Chao's. If we don't go south quickly to capture the important land in Longnan, we are wasting time here with the bandits. Isn't he falling into the trap of horse thieves? For many years, can't you see clearly?"

Needless to say, what Cao Zhang said this time is not wrong at all. Ma Chao has few soldiers, so he has no strength to confront Wang Hou head-on, so his main way of fighting is to harass along the way, destroy Wang Hou's army food road, and prevent him from marching. The slower the Liaodong army marched, the better it was for him. Once the food was exhausted, Wang Hou had no choice but to retreat, and it fell into Ma Chao's pursuit time again.

But this time Wang Hou really felt like his head was kicked by a donkey. He only marched forty miles a day to set up a battalion. It took him two days to build the marching camp. Liang Jun is playing hide and seek.

In the rear, the grain from Jingyuan was transported to the military camps one by one like checkers. Along the way, a huge amount of grain was wasted on road transportation. The time of each day can really be counted in gold Seeing that Cao Zhang, the deputy general who has no soldiers in his hand, is very anxious!
However, the emperor was really not in a hurry and the eunuchs were in a hurry. Cao Zhang was so anxious that his mouth was blistered, but Wang Hou still looked unpredictable and waved his hand indifferently.

"The general has his own plans, General Cao can just take care of his own affairs!"

"you!"

Seeing Wang Hou turning his head back to the map, ignoring himself, the corners of his mouth twitching, Cao Zhang slammed his sleeve angrily, turned around and left the tent again in a dull manner.

But at this time, in the evening light, a huge firework exploded splendidly more than ten miles away. At this time, the sky was already dark, and the entire barracks could be seen clearly.

Unable to get angry again, Cao Zhang got back into the tent of the Chinese army again, and then bared his teeth and yelled there.

"The military situation is so urgent, you still have the mind to set off fireworks? And set off a horse! You are hopeless!"

"Fireworks? Are you going to explode?"

Who knew that Wang Hou was shocked when he heard this, he didn't even care about the map report, he hurriedly pushed Cao Zhang away, and rushed out of the tent.

It's a pity that he couldn't see it anymore, the sky was still silent, but there were soldiers whispering there everywhere.

Just as Cao Zhang came out following a bewildered man, he saw that Wang Hou was already pulling the collar of the soldier beside him like a lunatic, grinning his teeth and roaring excitedly.

"Beat the drum! Gather! March overnight!"

(End of this chapter)