Three Kingdoms: I am not Cao Rui

"Enemy attack!" The officer beside Fei Yao reined in his horse and shouted at Fei Yao, "General, it's an enemy attack!"

Fei Yao glanced at the man coldly and said, "I have seen it, so you don't need to tell me. Now, you ride your horse and report this to the guards, and ask them to move their troops forward immediately!"

"I obey your orders!" The officer hesitated for a few moments, then looked at Fei Yao and asked, "Over at the South Camp..."

"I will make my own assignments!" Fei Yao gave the order with a stern face, then drew his sword from his waist, stood on the stirrups and looked around, shouting, "The enemy is in the south, all troops, quickly march to the southern camp, and run!"

Although he looked calm and composed, Fei Yao's left hand holding the reins had begun to tremble slightly uncontrollably.

It shouldn’t be!

The South Camp was established to guard a narrow valley formed by a stream. After being stationed here for so long, Fei Yao himself had followed the scouts to walk 20 or 30 miles inland, thinking that he was safe. However, it was all dense forests and rocks, not a place suitable for marching at all! There was no way to go!

The horn sounded just now indicated that the enemy had already approached within a mile of the camp.

Just a moment ago, Wei Yan's troops had just reached the outskirts of the South Camp.

"Pass the order!" Wei Yan spat, then pulled out two short halberds from his warhorse with a fierce smile: "After enduring three days of hardship, I will lead the charge today! Let Wu Banju follow behind me and attack the stronghold together!"

Fei Yi nodded solemnly and said, "Okay, I will go to Wu Ban's camp first. Take care, Wen Chang."

It must be said that although the Wei army discovered the attacking Shu army of Wei Yan from a distance of one mile, it was unexpected after all. In addition, there were no heavy troops stationed in the camp, so everyone from the Sima who was in charge of guarding the camp to others were panicked.

This is the effect of being attacked by surprise.

Both Fei Yao and Wei Yan were heading towards the South Camp at full speed from a distance of one mile.

The order that the soldiers of the South Camp received today was to wait for an opportunity to get reinforcements from the west. They were not prepared to defend the camp. They were quite hasty in responding to the attacking Shu army. They didn't even have time to organize the archery team and immediately sent people to defend the camp wall.

Once, twice, three times...

The intensity of the Shu army's attack became stronger and stronger, and the troops behind the front line seemed to be pouring in. After fighting for more than an hour, even Fei Yao himself led his most elite guards to block the gap in the village wall.

"Where are the guard cavalry troops?" Fei Yao, holding a ring-handled sword in his hand, personally organized the defense of the village wall, and at the same time shouted loudly to the soldiers who hurried over from the rear.

"The cavalry guards ask the general to hold the southern camp for another hour. Wang Zhenxi's troops are retreating southward to the main camp!" The military officer wiped the sweat from his forehead and shouted in Fei Yao's ear, "General, I heard that Wang Zhenxi could not withstand the attack of the Shu army and retreated. The cavalry guards said that the general must hold the camp for another hour and not let the two Shu armies merge! The cavalry guards will send someone to support the general later!"

Fei Yao's face became uglier. He waved his hand and dismissed the soldiers, muttering to himself: "General Zhenxi, who was also a governor of a region, is so incompetent! I'm afraid he will be tricked by Wang Wenshu today."

Fei Yao finally drew out his knife, pointed it at the sky, and shouted to those around him: "Today I will fight you to the death!"

After saying that, Fei Yao actually took the remaining forty or so soldiers around him to block a gap that had just been opened by the Shu army.

Fei Yao thought he was being dragged down by Wang Chang, but Wang Chang himself was also extremely speechless.

According to the original battle plan, Wang Chang wanted to retreat layer by layer using the defensive fortifications and induce Zhuge Liang's troops to attack the well-defended Wei army camp. However, after the two armies engaged in battle, Wang Chang realized that this was not a good thing.

For some reason, the Shu army on the opposite side acted like they had encountered an enemy who had killed their father, and they were closely following their own troops. If they retreated as quickly as expected, Wang Chang would probably not be retreating, but would most likely face a rout.

Wang Chang was depressed, Fei Yao was also complaining, and Wei Zhen was also quite anxious at this time. Although this matter has not yet affected the overall situation, it is not good news anyway! Wei Zhen, who was sitting in the camp, even had the idea of ​​how to submit a petition to Shouchun to apologize.

If Cao Rui knew the complicated emotions of Wang Chang, Fei Yao, and Wei Zhen at this moment, he would have comforted them instead of blaming them. Wei Zhen's arrangement was correct, but the person on the other side was Zhuge Liang, not some mediocre general. General Wang Chang, who could remain calm under Zhuge Liang's fierce attack regardless of casualties, was already considered a famous general.

The more than 10,000 soldiers led by Wei Yan, Gao Xiang, and Chen Shi were the most elite troops that the court of the Han Dynasty had squeezed out all means to create, not to mention that the commander was Zhuge Liang. Although it was still inferior to the most elite Zhongjun Wuwei and Xiaowei armies of the Wei Dynasty, at this moment in Guanxi and Longnan, this sharp blade of assault was extremely difficult to resist.

After Wang Chang fought and retreated, and moved his troops back to the main camp, Fei Yao's troops no longer wanted to fight. The original 1,000 soldiers and 3,000 reinforcements finally abandoned the South Camp after Wei Yan's 10,000 men attacked for an hour and a half. When they retreated to the main camp, they counted the number of people and found that only 1,500 people were left, more than half of them were killed. "Where is Wang Zhenxi?" As soon as Fei Yao entered the camp, he threw off his helmet and slammed it to the ground, sweat steaming in the winter: "Where is Wang Zhenxi? I ​​want to find him, General Fei Yao wants to find him!"

"General, please calm down for now." A captain who was familiar with Fei Yao came to persuade him, but Fei Yao pushed him away mercilessly: "Two of my nephews died today, how can I calm down! Don't stop me!"

Fei Yao walked angrily towards the central military tent, and was finally stopped by Wei Zhen himself outside the tent.

"Where is Wang Zhenxi?" Fei Yao was still furious. "With 10,000 men and so many fortifications, why did they retreat so quickly? Can they really not hold on at all? He took the responsibility himself!"

"Gongwei!" Wei Zhen hurriedly advised: "This is wartime, don't cause trouble. Wenshu did nothing wrong today, I will take responsibility for everything!"

"No need, Lord Wei." Wang Chang walked out of the tent, his heart full of anger: "General Fei, I, Wang Wenshu, do not need to report to you how I will use the troops today. Lord Wei will be the judge. If you are not satisfied, you can submit a memorial to His Majesty and ask His Majesty to make a decision!"

Regardless of the endless quarrel between Wang Chang and Fei Yao, the two armies of Zhuge Liang and Wei Yan, who had joined forces in the west, also had gloomy faces when they got together, without any sign of joy.

They used the abandoned camp of the Wei army to temporarily defend themselves. In the center of the army formation, Zhuge Liang and all the generals were there.

"Prime Minister, the enemy troops are defending their stronghold tenaciously, and it is difficult for me to break through for the time being. I hope that the Prime Minister will punish me!" Wei Yan said with a bow.

"Don't blame Wen Chang." Zhuge Liang shook his head slightly, a look of regret on his face: "Today, not only Wen Chang was slow, but I was also much slower. I thought we could reach the enemy camp at 5 p.m., but now it's the end of 5 p.m., and the sun will set in more than half an hour."

"Prime Minister." Wei Yan raised his head in surprise, "If it weren't for the Prime Minister's attack, it would probably take me another half an hour to capture this camp."

"It's only half an hour, a matter of time. Wen Chang's true ability is clear to everyone." Zhuge Liang said slowly, "According to the captives, the man facing us today is Wang Chang, also known as Wang Wenshu, who succeeded Zhang He and Lu Xun. He once served as a privy councilor in the central government of Wei and also served as the governor of Liaodong."

"How many talents are there in Wei!" Zhuge Liang sighed again: "Pass on my order to burn down the camps, deer horns and fortifications along the way, clean up the battlefield, and return to the army for repairs!"

The generals bowed in response, but there was some sadness on their faces.

Today is December 29th. After a day of fighting, we have only just managed to reach the edge of the Wei army camp. Although we have captured thousands of people, there has been no progress in the overall situation! The Wei army is still on the west side of the West Han River, and if we want to attack the Wei army camp, it will be even more difficult...

Until the New Year, Wei and Shu were still confronting each other with a distance of fifteen miles between them. Apart from sending small-scale troops to harass them every day to prevent them from continuing to build fortifications along the way, there were no other major battles.

In mid-January, Guo Huai from Hanzhong sent a message saying that he had received a military order from the Privy Council in Shouchun. Guo Huai had led 12,000 troops southward, heading towards Yang'an Pass. By the time Wei Zhen received the letter, Guo Huai had already led his troops to the outside of Yang'an Pass and launched the first feint attack.

Wei and Shu were testing each other almost every day until February, when the weather began to warm up. In the meantime, they organized two field battles with a scale of 8,000 to 10,000 people, but in the end, both sides withdrew their troops.

With the emperor's decree, the Wei army could sit and guard the place calmly. After all, the emperor had already spoken and temporarily ignored the remaining 3,000 soldiers of Cao Ping, so Wei Zhen and others had no psychological burden to sit and guard.

But the Shu army could no longer sit still.

Zhuge Liang valued his troops and did not want to attack the camp again when the main force of the Wei army did not come out, so as to avoid more casualties. During the confrontation between the two sides, Zhuge Liang could not withdraw his troops to the rear. However, the biggest problem facing Zhuge Liang and the Shu army was not with Zhuge Liang, but with Wu Yi.

To the surprise of everyone on both the Wei and Shu sides, even Cao Rui who was far away in Shouchun did not expect that General Cao Ping, who had lost more than a thousand soldiers in the battle outside the city, was still holding on in Wujie City!
On the one hand, Wujie City was indeed well built, the city was strong, and the food and material reserves inside were sufficient, providing the material conditions for long-term defense.

On the other hand is Cao Ping himself.

As the nephew of General Cao Zhen, Cao Ping himself was also a distant relative of the imperial family. During the more than 100 days that Cao Ping defended Wujie City, he truly led the troops and went to the front in every battle. He was treated the same as the soldiers and was active on the city walls like an iron man at every defense.

For matters like defending a city, it is better to have someone of the same surname as Cao. Surrender is out of the question.

On February 18, Jiang Wan came to Zhuge Liang again from Wu Yi's place. Only Wei Yan, Yang Yi, and Fei Yi were with Jiang Wan to discuss matters in Zhuge Liang's central army tent. (End of this chapter)