Three Kingdoms: Heir of Wolong, my father-in-law is Guan Gong

Hefei.

In order to repel Zhuge Qiao, Sima Yi mobilized tens of thousands of troops from Shouchun.

Since Yingchuan cannot be saved, then defeat the culprit, Zhuge Qiao.

Zhuge Qiao, who had already discovered Sima Yi's army, did not withdraw the generals who were besieging Hefei.

Not only that.

Zhuge Qiao also moved his headquarters to the direction between Shouchun and Hefei.

He looked like "come and hit me".

Sima Yi did not dare to move rashly and only set up camp thirty miles away.

Wen Qin was puzzled: "General, Zhuge Qiao has besieged Hefei City with a large army and set up a general's tent on the road. This is a disrespect to you, General."

"If our army just charges over there, Zhuge Qiao will be defeated and thrown away. Why do we need to camp here?"

Sima Yi shook his head: "Zhuge Qiao is very good at using troops. If you can think of it, how can Zhuge Qiao not think of it?"

"If we charge rashly and fall into Zhuge Qiao's trap, not only will we not be able to save Hefei, but we will also lose Shouchun City."

"You must be cautious when deploying troops!"

Wen Qin was not convinced: "But I sent scouts to investigate carefully. There is no way there could be an ambush around Zhuge Qiao's camp."

"If the general is worried about being tricked, it would be better for me to lead the troops to attack, and you will lead the troops to support."

"In this way, there is no need to worry about Zhuge Qiao's tricks!"

Sima Yi shook his head again: "No!"

"Using troops is like playing chess. If you make a mistake in one move, all your moves will go wrong."

"It is safest to take each step carefully."

"Order all troops to march ten miles every day starting tomorrow and advance towards Hefei City!"

Seeing that Sima Yi was so cautious, Wen Qin stopped trying to persuade him.

Wen Qin could not change what Sima Yi had decided.

Upon discovering Sima Yi's strategy of advancing step by step, Zhuge Qiao took advantage of the situation and withdrew the troops that were besieging Hefei City.

At the same time, they retreated thirty miles and set up a camp with their backs to the water.

Sima Yi climbed up to see Zhuge Qiao's camp and saw that it was large but not chaotic. He suddenly became suspicious: "Does Zhuge Qiao really have an army of 100,000?"

"This is wrong!"

"With Zhuge Qiao's ability, if he really had an army of 100,000, why would he retreat to the riverside and set up camp?"

There are Zhuge Qiao's warships on the river.

For Zhuge Qiao, setting up camp with his back to the water means he can attack or retreat.

however.

Zhuge Qiao's camp, however, did not seem to be made up of a mob.

For a moment, Sima Yi could not judge the true combat effectiveness of Zhuge Qiao's "hundred thousand troops".

Man Chong came out of the city and exchanged information with Sima Yi.

"Most of Zhuge Qiao's troops are new recruits and most of them are farmers. I even saw teenagers among them."

"However, Zhuge Qiao used some unknown means to raise the morale of the soldiers and civilians."

"The exhaustion of days of siege has not made these soldiers and civilians tired. It is incredible!"

"If Zhongda doesn't come, I'm afraid I won't be able to defend Hefei."

Man Chong's face was solemn, and he told the truth about the intelligence he had received in recent days.

Wen Qin showed disdain: "Most of them are farmers. Among the 100,000 troops, at most 30,000 can fight."

"Why don't I lead the elite cavalry of Wei to raid the camp tonight? I don't believe that a group of farmers can stop the elite cavalry of Wei!"

The voice just fell.

Sima Yi and Man Chong both refuted it, saying “no”.

Wen Qin was unwilling to accept the decision: "If I cannot succeed, I will be punished by military law!"

Considering that Wen Qin was left behind by Cao Zhi, Sima Yi's tone was not too harsh: "General Wen, I know that you are the bravest among the three armies."

"However, Zhuge Qiao also has many brave men under his command."

"It is not easy to dispatch an army of 100,000, not to mention that most of them are farmers, which makes it even more difficult."

"But Zhuge Qiao only took one day to withdraw the 100,000 troops besieging Hefei City by 30 miles, and he was able to set up a battle array and set up a camp."

"Let me ask you, General Wen, can you do it?"

Wen Qin was suddenly choked with words.

At this moment, Wen Qin also realized that Zhuge Qiao was unusual.

Not to mention that most of the 100,000-man army are farmers, even if there were no farmers, Wen Qin would not be able to do it!
With such extraordinary dispatching capabilities, how could the camp be easily robbed?
"What if we can't raid the camp?" Wen Qin's tone was not as arrogant as before.

Sima Yi looked at Man Chong: "Bo Ning, what do you think?"

Man Chong hesitated for a moment, feeling heavy-hearted: "Zhongda, compared to Zhuge Qiao, I am more worried about Liu Bei in Yingchuan."

"Liu Bei resurrected and quietly transferred the troops from Guanzhong to Yingchuan."

"Liu Bei of Yingchuan is the one who truly controls the 100,000-strong army of the pseudo-Han!"

"I don't think Cao Xiu and Xiahou Ba can hold Yingchuan. Now Yanzhou is empty. If Liu Bei attacks Yanzhou, we will be unable to sleep or eat in peace in Huainan."

Sima Yi sighed softly: "Liu Bei's trick of faking his death was indeed clever."

"Now that we are in the middle of the situation, it is difficult for us to influence the wars in Yingchuan and Yanzhou. We can only place our hopes on Your Majesty."

"Your Majesty's political strategy and military tactics are not inferior to Emperor Wu, and with the help of Zhang He, Cao Zhen, Jiang Ji and others, it should not be difficult to stop Liu Bei."

"However."

"Even if Liu Bei is resurrected, he is still a veteran in his seventies."

"Even if Liu Bei wins by chance, Your Majesty, how long can he live?"

"Relatively speaking, Zhuge Qiao is the biggest worry for Wei!"

"I came from Shouchun to completely defeat Zhuge Qiao."

"As long as Zhuge Qiao is not dead, the Wei Dynasty will not be at peace!"

Man Chong said: "In this case, why not challenge me to a fight!"

Sima Yi nodded: "I have the same idea!"

Immediately.

Sima Yi sent an envoy to find Zhuge Qiao, and let Zhuge Qiao choose whether to fight as a general, or as a soldier, or as a formation.

In order to irritate Zhuge Qiao, Sima Yi asked the envoy to be extremely arrogant. Zhang Yi was so angry when he heard it that he wanted to chop the envoy of the Pseudo-Wei on the spot.

Generals Zhao Lei, Dong Hui, Xu Sheng, Ding Feng and others were also very angry.

Zhuge Qiao looked at the arrogant pseudo-Wei envoy and said slowly: "As the saying goes, when two armies are at war, envoys should not be killed."

"What's your name?"

The fake Wei envoy shouted proudly: "Lu Renjia, the envoy of the Great Wei, this is the name bestowed by the Great Wei General!"

Zhuge Qiao clapped his hands and said, "Yes, it is a good name that will go down in history. Drag him out, chop him off, and have the deputy envoy bring back his head!"

Lu Renjia shouted in fear: "When two armies are fighting, no messenger will be killed!"

Zhuge Qiao smiled warmly: "I have retreated thirty miles, so it doesn't count as a battle. Don't worry, your name will be recorded by the pseudo-Wei historians. It is an honor to die!"

"Die with dignity, don't cry, don't beg for mercy."

"That deputy envoy, what's your name?"

The deputy envoy knelt on the ground in fear, saying in a terrified tone: "You are a villain, you are a villain, you are a villain."

Zhuge Qiao waved his hand and said, "Forget it. The spineless ones are not worth keeping. Get out."

All the generals under Sima Yi were furious after being humiliated by Zhuge Qiao's execution.

Wen Qin could no longer hold back his anger: "General, I beg you to fight me!"

In the camp, there were also waves of calls for battle.

Sima Yi's eyes were cold, and he rejected all the generals who requested to fight: "Send another envoy to urge the battle!"

After beheading three pseudo-Wei envoys in a row, Zhuge Qiao still refused to go into battle.

Seeing Zhuge Qiao being humiliated in this way, Sima Yi, who had always been calm, could no longer keep his temper.

Sima Yi summoned his assassins as messengers and asked them to bring a box containing women's clothes to see Zhuge Qiao.

The assassin laughed even more arrogantly: "General Fujun said, if you, Zhuge Qiao, don't dare to fight, you should put on this woman's clothes and become a fool in the boudoir."

"I am a soldier under the command of General Fujun. I am not afraid even if you kill me."

“Haha, Zhuge Qiao, do you want to be a woman?”

Faced with the humiliation of the death soldiers, Zhang Yi and others were so angry that they drew their swords and were about to hack the death soldiers to death.

"No hurry!" Zhuge Qiao stopped the generals, took out the women's clothes from the box, looked at them carefully, and then called a woman.

"This is the clothes sent by the Pseudo-Wei. They say it's for women. What do you think of it?"

The woman took a glance and said with disdain, "Is this worthy of being called women's clothing?"

"Has the Pseudo-Wei become so poor?"

"It doesn't even have a jacquard pattern. It's a disgrace to women to use this kind of fabric to make women's clothes."

"Which idiot gave this to the general?"

"If the general's wife wore this kind of clothes, wouldn't it damage the general's dignity?"

"Once the workshop is established, I, a commoner, will be willing to weave patterns for the general's wife. I will never weave such stupid clothes."

"The fake Wei is really poor."

The assassins looked at the chattering woman in astonishment.

That pair of sharp mouths made the most disgusting noise the assassin had ever heard in his life!

Zhuge Qiao asked the woman to leave, and then looked at the assassins: "Go back and tell Sima Yi that he has successfully aroused my interest in fighting formations."

"For a pseudo-Wei that is so poor that it can't even make women's clothes, the combat effectiveness of its soldiers is probably also very backward."

"Look at you in this cold winter, you don't even have a decent warm clothing, how pitiful."

"Zhang Yi, give him a cotton coat."

Zhang Yi was shocked: "General, that cotton coat is more valuable than gold. Are you giving it to a soldier?"

Zhuge Qiao didn't care: "Zhang Yi, you need to have a vision!"

"The Silk Road brought me cotton seeds. From now on, I can have as much cotton as I want."

"I just want to tell Sima Yi that when you send clothes next time, don't send rags."

"By the way, the cotton coat should be given to women. Sima Yi has given women's clothes, so I can't give men's clothes."

When it comes to sarcasm, Zhuge Qiao is much better than Sima Yi.

When this women's cotton coat was delivered to Sima Yi, he was immediately embarrassed.

I wanted to try out this cotton-padded jacket I had never seen before to see how well it could keep me warm, but I couldn't wear it.

"Isn't it just a torn cotton coat?"

"What's the use of being able to keep out the cold?"

"Since Zhuge Qiao has agreed to the battle formation, the generals must not slack off tomorrow."

Sima Yi dispersed all the generals, as he could not suppress his curiosity about the cotton-padded jacket.

Taking advantage of the fact that no one was around, Sima Yi put on his cotton coat.

Feeling the warmth of the cotton-padded jacket, Sima Yi's expression changed drastically: "Did Zhuge Qiao really get cotton seeds from the Silk Road?"

"If all the pseudo-Han soldiers can wear cotton clothes, they will have a great advantage in winter battles in the future!"

Nowadays in Huainan, the cold winter wind is still bearable.

But north of the Yellow River, there is basically no war in winter.

it's too cold!
Even the soldiers couldn't bear it.

But wearing this cotton coat, elite soldiers can hide in the snow!

"Zhuge Qiao, are you demonstrating against me?" Sima Yi's eyes turned cold.

It was as if I could hear Zhuge Qiao's laughter, "So what if the north is cold?"

Sima Yi felt a chill in his heart.

If Zhuge Qiao is not killed, even if Wei stops fighting and takes care of the people, it will still not be able to defeat Zhuge Qiao!

The power of science and technology can make up for the gap in population and family background!

While he was thinking, someone reported that Man Chong had arrived.

Sima Yi quickly took off his cotton coat.

If Man Chong saw me wearing women's clothes, I would be so embarrassed.

The next day.

The two armies took up their battle formations.

Sima Yi appointed Wen Qin as the chief general, set up the Golden Lock Formation, and invited Zhuge Qiao to break it.

Wen Qin was showing off his might in front of the battle formation: "Zhuge Qiao, do you know the formation of the general of the Fujun Army? Do you dare to break the formation?"

The voice just fell.

Zhuge Qiao's formation gate was wide open, and a number of Wugang carts appeared, behind which were strong soldiers holding crossbows.

Wen Qin's scalp instantly went numb: "Zhuge Qiao, I asked you to break the formation, what are you doing?"

Zhuge Qiao had someone bring a chair to the stage, leaned back on it, and looked at Wen Qin with contempt: "What era is this? Who wants to play close combat with you?"

"Let these country bumpkins experience the power of the Han people's crossbows."

The Wugang chariot is equivalent to a small barrier and is specifically designed to resist cavalry.

With the Wugang cart blocking the way, the crossbowmen could shoot without any worries.

On the battlefield.

The distance difference of long-range weapons often determines the victory or defeat of a battle.

Looking at the crossbow arrows flying all over the sky, Wen Qin quickly ordered the shield bearers to defend.

however.

Although Wen Qin's Golden Lock Formation had the support of infantry and cavalry, it was insufficient in terms of defense.

As for the rush?
The biggest advantage of the crossbow is the short interval between firing.

Under the covering and saturation attack, Wen Qin can only defend himself!
Just as Wen Qin was trying to block the crossbow arrows and preparing to attack head-on, the Han soldiers returned to the formation.

Then, without even saying goodbye, he retreated back to the camp.

He even put up a flag: "No more fighting, it's time to eat."

At this point, both Wen Qin and Sima Yi and Man Chong understood Zhuge Qiao's intentions.

This is not a fighting formation at all, it's clearly just a joke.

If you want to fight, I will fight with you.

After the fight, they returned to the camp to eat.

"General, I can't bear it anymore, let's attack!" Wen Qin was so angry that his eyes widened like a devil.

Bai was hit by a barrage of crossbow arrows, but before he could fight back, the opponent ran away.

Wen Qin couldn't swallow this insult!

Sima Yi also tried hard to suppress his anger.

Sima Yi was very familiar with Zhuge Qiao's fighting style.

When Zhuge Qiao was in Guanzhong, he was like this: he would advance if he could, and retreat if he couldn't.

We must unwaveringly adhere to the sixteen-character policy of "when the enemy advances, we retreat; when the enemy camps, we harass; when the enemy is tired, we attack; when the enemy retreats, we pursue."

a long time.

Sima Yi finally issued the military order to attack Zhuge Qiao's camp!

Sima Yi could no longer tolerate this tone!

the other side.

Zhuge Qiao was sipping his hot tea carefully, as if he did not notice Sima Yi's attack on the camp, and the military orders he issued were also very simple.

"Just defend the camp, don't be afraid of wasting arrows."

"If we can avoid death, we will do it."

"I have plenty of time to waste with Sima Yi!"

Originally intended to tie down Sima Yi's troop movements, the longer Zhuge Qiao stayed on the Huainan battlefield, the more advantageous it would be for Liu Bei's frontal battlefield.

On the river.

The spy returned and brought information to Zhuge Qiao about Liu Bei's capture of Xuchang.

"Once we have Yingchuan, we can march straight to Chenliu."

"In the past, Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shu in Chenliu. This time, he is not so lucky!"

"Zhang Yi, spread the news."

"See how long Sima Yi dares to stay here with me!"

Zhuge Qiao was in a very peaceful mood.

After attacking more often, it is very relaxing to defend occasionally. (End of this chapter)