The elite did not migrate south

Chapter 311 Remember my name!

Sima Zhao was carried onto a carriage by several armored soldiers.

He was still trembling when he was driven into the carriage.

He didn't react at all. What on earth was happening?

He still remembered that his personal soldiers were fighting against Yin Damu's rebels. The two sides were in a stalemate. His confidants escorted him to break through Yin Damu's encirclement and wanted to join the Hebei camps.

At that moment, cavalrymen came galloping from a distance, but their faces could not be seen clearly in the darkness.

He saw the man waving the lance in his hand, and all the people who stood in front of him were sent flying, with blood and flesh flying everywhere. He was crushed all the way, and in a moment he rushed in front of him. The lance was flying everywhere, and Sima Zhao saw that the heads of the two personal soldiers who stood in front of him exploded, and blood splattered all over Sima Zhao.

Sima Zhao wanted to roar, but lost his strength in an instant.

He couldn't scream no matter what he did. His legs went limp and he fell to the ground in fright. His legs felt like they weighed a thousand pounds and he couldn't move them at all.

In this panic, the man attacked again. Sima Zhao was ready to die, but he felt his body lighten. When he opened his eyes again, he found himself being held under the armpit in an extremely humiliating posture. He rushed out of the layers of encirclement like this, and no one dared to stop him.

Then he was thrown in front of Cheng Shi.

At this moment, he understood that Cheng Chen had also betrayed him, but Sima Zhao no longer had the energy to insult the traitor in front of him.

He was frightened by Wen Yang's charge.

Wen Yang stared at Cheng Shi angrily, still waiting for him to give an explanation.

Cheng was sweating profusely.

He was really caught?
Killing a general in a crowd of ten thousand people was already outrageous, and you captured him alive? ?

What kind of monster is this?

"General Wenwenwen, I was just cursing this blind deputy general!"

Cheng pointed at the deputy general standing beside him and said, "He actually said he would send troops to rescue you. With General Wen's prestige, why would he need to send troops to support you? This man is ruining your plan!"

The deputy general was stunned. He wanted to argue, but after looking at his old boss, he had no choice but to accept it.

Yes, yes, yes, it’s all my fault.

Wen Yang then looked towards Sima Zhao's carriage and said, "Send someone to take him to Wen County. I think these people are planning a counterattack. I have to go back."

Cheng Li hurriedly shouted, "No! General!!"

Wen Yang tilted his head and looked at him, "You still don't trust my Tiger and Leopard Cavalry?!"

"That's not the case. We can't kill them anymore! They are our own people. Your Majesty wants to subjugate them! We can't kill them anymore!"

Of course, Cheng Xian was not worried that anything might happen to Wen Yang. He was afraid that this man would kill all these people. They were all soldiers of the Wei Dynasty.

Wen Yang finally gave up the idea of charging forward. "Well, let me hold the line here. If they attack on their own, it's not my fault."

"That is, that is."

Cheng Ji hurriedly sent people to escort Sima Zhao to Wen County, and just in the distance, another wave of cavalry came galloping towards them.

Seeing Wen Yang about to rush out, Cheng Shi hurriedly called out to him, "General! We are one of them! We are one of them!"

The person who came was Yin Damu, who also looked confused at the moment.

He was even more confused than Sima Zhao.

He was fighting with Sima Zhao's personal soldiers, and the Hebei Camp outside also began to join the battle. Just when the pressure was building, he saw a cavalry rushing into the battlefield.

Yin Damu had prepared a retreat plan for Sima Zhao in advance, so he knew more about the situation in various parts of the military camp than Sima Zhao.

He saw this group of people rushing into the Hebei camp and then starting to push forward. The one leading the group rushed forward recklessly, and almost no one could stop him for a moment. He chopped down people like melons and vegetables, killing them in droves.

The combat effectiveness of the Hebei camps was not high to begin with, and when they suddenly learned of the changes, their morale was shaken. After being attacked by this person, their outer defense line collapsed directly.

This line of knights was like a cone, which directly pierced through the "barrel formation" camp. Generally speaking, charging into a formation requires taking advantage of the mobility of the cavalry to find loopholes, bypass the opponent's main force, and take advantage of the opponent's inability to catch up to kill all the way in and destroy the opponent's formation. Anyway, Yin Damu had never seen such a brutal way of breaking the formation!
His mobility was entirely for the purpose of killing faster. He did not take a detour, but rushed straight ahead. Yin Damu was frightened and quickly asked the soldiers to make way. Then he saw that man rushed into Sima Zhao's personal soldiers, like a millstone, crushing the personal soldiers all the way, directly taking down Sima Zhao, and then running away.

Yin Damu didn't even catch up with him and ran behind him for a long time.

At this moment, he looked at Cheng Chen breathlessly, "Where is Sima Zhao?"

"He has been taken to Wen County."

"This general is"

Cheng Ji hurriedly explained, "It's Captain Wenjun of the Tiger Cavalry, commanding the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry. He was sent by Your Majesty to provide support."

"Oh, it's Tiger Leopard. Huh?"

Didn’t the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry disappear a long time ago?
Your Majesty, where did you find these Tiger and Leopard Cavalry?
Yin Damu had many questions he wanted to ask, but he didn't ask them. He immediately said, "We can arrange the follow-up matters. I will go and appease the troops here. Please go to His Majesty."

"General Wen, please be in charge of guarding this place and prevent the chaotic troops from rushing towards Wen County. Is that alright?"

Yin Damu originally wanted to give a direct order, but remembering the man's behavior just now, he used a negotiating tone.

Wen Yang naturally wouldn't refuse. The three of them had a clear division of labor and immediately began to act.

At this moment, Wen County was already controlled by the armies of Ma Long and Yang Hu.

Cao Mao was sitting in the county government office, and many officials in the city were kneeling on both sides, trembling.

When Ma Long appeared here, they were not too scared, but when the emperor appeared here, they became nervous.

What does this mean? Is the emperor going to take action against the Sima family?

Cao Mao had a calm expression as he drank his tea and didn't seem to be in a hurry at all.

If everything goes well, Yin Damu and others will escort Sima Zhao here. If things don't go well, the two sides will have a fierce battle near the prefectures and counties. Sima Zhao's troops are stationed in many different places. At the moment, he has only more than 40,000 people around him, and there are traitors among them.

Although Cao Mao's army was small in number, it had generals such as Ma Long, Wen Yang, and Yang Hu.

Moreover, the morale of the central army is high and their fighting spirit is high. I can come forward to motivate them. In this case, Cao Mao will not be afraid even if he meets Jiang Wei.

Many times, the army fights with morale and belief, which can even make up for the gap in weapons and equipment and quantity to a certain extent.

Especially the difference in numbers. When the two sides start fighting, they don't use numbers to defeat each other. If they find the right tactics and have excellent generals to lead, they can create a situation where they have more people defeating fewer people in a local area.

Cao Mao still had great trust in the generals under his command.

Sima Zhao had fought in wars in the past, but he mostly served as a guard and deputy. Don't be fooled by the praise he received in the Book of Jin, which almost made him a natural-born general, saying that he advised Xiahou Xuan, persuaded Jiang Wei to retreat, and defeated the Hu Lu.

In fact, he was Xiahou Xuan's deputy when attacking Shu Kingdom, and later he was Guo Huai's deputy when fighting against Jiang Wei, and he was Sima Yi's deputy when fighting Wang Ling. Later, Sima Shi came to power and decided to let his younger brother command the army himself.

So, in the fourth year of Jiaping, Sima Shi appointed his younger brother Sima Zhao, who had served as his deputy for a long time, as the governor. In order to prevent his younger brother from failing, he assigned the most experienced Hu Zun and Zhuge Dan to his younger brother, letting them directly accept his younger brother's jurisdiction. The central army was given to Guanqiu Jian, and the western army was given to Wang Chang, asking them to be responsible for cooperating with their younger brother.

This was Sima Zhao's first time as commander-in-chief. Afterwards, the State of Wei suffered its biggest defeat against the State of Wu, known in history as the Battle of Dongxing.

The Wei army suffered heavy blood loss after being defeated by Zhuge Ke. Han Zong, the commander of the Wei army's front line, Huan Jia, the prefect of Le'an, and others sank into the water, and tens of thousands of people died.

Guanqiu Jian and Wang Chang, who had not yet had the chance to start fighting, learned that the eastern army had been defeated, and had no choice but to retreat, unable to fight anymore.

After the defeat, Sima Zhao shamelessly asked everyone: "Who is responsible for this defeat?"

Wang Yi, the military commander, told him, "The responsibility lies with the commander."

Sima Zhao was furious. "Are you trying to put the blame on me?"

Then he ordered the execution of the military commander Wang Yi.

Then everyone said that it was because of Hu Zun, Zhuge Dan, Guanqiu Jian, Wang Chang and others.

The ministers immediately reported to Sima Shi, requesting the dismissal of the generals who participated in the war.

Sima Shi replied: The responsibility for the defeat was mine, and the generals could not be punished. So he pardoned all the defeated and promoted the generals, but only punished his younger brother Sima Zhao and dismissed all Sima Zhao's titles.
The author of the Book of Jin can fool people, but the military achievements will not lie.

The time he actually served as the commander-in-chief and defeated his opponent was during the third rebellion in Huainan, that is, the battle against Zhuge Dan. This time he adopted Zhong Hui's strategy and made good use of Chen Tai, Wang Ji and others, achieving a good record.

Therefore, Cao Mao was not afraid of a head-on battle with Sima Zhao.

At this moment, a scout rushed in from a distance.

"His Majesty!!"

"It's done! Sima Zhao has been captured alive!"

"He is currently being escorted here by Captain Cheng!"

When these words were spoken, everyone was overjoyed, but Cao Mao remained calm.

"Are there any casualties among the generals?"

"What are the casualties among the soldiers?"

The scout was stunned for a moment, then replied, "The generals suffered no casualties, but the Hebei camps suffered heavy casualties."

Cao Mao nodded, then looked at Zhang Hua beside him, "The merits of the soldiers must be recorded truthfully. No one is allowed to embezzle military merits or lie about their achievements!"

Zhang Hua hurriedly bowed and said yes.

At this moment, Sima Zhao's carriage finally stopped at the city gate, and Ma Long's army was stationed outside the city to carry out the handover.

Sima Zhao was pulled out of the carriage. Someone held his hand tightly, his eyes full of rudeness.

Sima Zhao raised his head in shock, looked at the familiar person in front of him, and did not dare to speak.

The person who pulled him out of the carriage stared at him coldly.

"General Wei!! Do you still remember me?!"

"You, you are successful."

"Remember this time!! My name is Cheng Ji!! I am a fierce general under His Majesty's command!!"

(End of this chapter)