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Chapter 861 The Old Thief's Preset Battlefield

What is ultimate freedom?
After this battle, will you really be free?
The eagle was circling loudly in the sky, and directly below, countless troops were rolling forward, like a long dragon, drilling into the vast Taihang Mountains.

To be honest, if Wang Hou had the right to choose, he would definitely not choose to go north to Bingzhou to fight the old thief Sima. The most unparalleled combat power in Kansai is not cannons, but iron cavalry.

Just like the red-clothed cannons of the Ming Dynasty in later generations, they were still defeated by the Tartar cavalry.

There are more than 4 armored cavalry under Wang Hou's command, and there are even more light cavalry who can ride horses, nearly 10. After all, Kansai is close to the horse-producing area, and the trade with the grassland has gone away, and horses are also cheap. Just like buying cars in the later generations, Guanzhong can buy horses with a little bit of conditions. This time, Wang Hou has more than [-] army horses and civilian horses. If the emperor of the Song Dynasty saw this number, he would probably have to drool. down.

It's a pity that this time it's not up to him to challenge the field. Sima Yi is not stupid. He led the main force of Yecheng and Huala's Central Plains gentry family troops, carrying 40 troops. He entered Taihang Mountain directly from Handan, and set the battlefield at Between the Jinzhong Basin and the Dingxiang Basin, the second of the Wuqi Basin in Shanxi.

This chess move was actually really good, if Wang Hou didn't fight, and went down the Yellow River to hit him in Yecheng, Hebei, his huge army mainly composed of infantry would go south to attack Luoyang, and change home with Wang Hou.

But Yecheng was lost, and Sima Yi had little influence. After all, this is not the capital of the Han Dynasty in the traditional sense. He put the capital in Jinzhong, Quwo, Qufu or even Youzhou, but Luoyang was lost. Cao Pi’s mausoleum Taking it back into your hands means that you have gained orthodoxy, and you can get back all the political points Sima Yi lost just now.

And not only in politics, but also in the strategic situation. Although Wang Hou is making a lot of noise in Luoyang, in fact, there are still many Kanto gentry who support the old thief Sima, accounting for [-]% of the total, and the rest support Wang Hou. Thirty percent, most of them are Wang Yun's kind of grass that falls with the wind. If Luoyang is lost, Wang Hou's army will be trapped in the Central Plains. I'm afraid not even half of them will be able to return to Kansai or Liaodong alive.

Therefore, although the mountainous Shanxi is particularly unsuitable for the afterglow attack of a large cavalry force, Wang Hou had no choice but to fight Sima Yi here in Bingzhou.

However, the decisive battle in Bingzhou is not all bad. Although Wang Hou's hometown in Jinyang is a scumbag here, he doesn't expect to borrow much strength, but the Wang family's granary is also on this land. My own family", don't be "polite", just eat whatever you want.

Moreover, Jiuyuan Yunzhong is on the side, and Wang Hou's main force can re-open this line of communication nearby, supplying supplies from Liaodong trains directly to the army, and supporting the war for a longer period of time.

War waits for no one. Although the first and second months of the Spring Festival have just passed, the world is still quite cold, but since the Luoyang expedition, the huge 40 troops transported supplies and marched for a full month before arriving at the preset battlefield, Jinzhong basin.

The terrain of Bingzhou is introduced by a famous saying in later generations, that is, two mountains plus one corridor, Taihang Mountain on the right, Luliang Mountain on the left, and a series of plain corridors formed by the Fen River and Xin River in the middle, forming the five major rivers in a row. The bottom of the basin, together with the Changzhi and Jincheng basins in the mountains, constitute the seven major basin farming areas in Shanxi.

Wang Hou's "hometown" Jinyang, which later became Taiyuan, is now the base camp of the old thief Sima. The terrain here is also very special. It is a two-mountain corridor between the Dingxiang Basin and the Jinzhong Basin, and it faces east There is also a mountain road leading directly to Hebei, and it is from here that Sima Yi marched to the core of Bingzhou.

However, it is a little different from the war Wang Hou expected. He originally thought that Sima Yi would give him all the way from the Yuncheng Basin to the Jinzhong Basin.

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After all, in the plain basin, the Guanxi iron cavalry is still very fierce. Sima Yi has an army of 40, and his cavalry is less than [-]. He would not choose to spend his troops on the plain with Wang Houtu.

However, Wang Hou forgot the saying that war is the continuation of politics, so that when he approached Quwo, the old capital of the Jin Kingdom in the Spring and Autumn Period, he was caught off guard after encountering the first Eastern Wei army on the Great Plains. .

"Daxingtai!"

Now there are so many generals in Kansai that the vanguard Wang Hou doesn't even know him. Six young generals who don't know whether they graduated from Chang'an or Liaodong knelt on the ground in despair.

"We are guilty! Daxingtai please punish us!"

Looking at the past with binoculars, under the rammed earth wall of Quwo City built in the early Eastern Han Dynasty, more than [-] Western Wei troops fell in disorder, and on the top of the city, there were cheering soldiers from the Eastern Wei family everywhere. Chen, Li, Cui, Zhao and other banners.

It was indeed the negligence of a few vanguard generals, who didn't find out the enemy's situation, and sent cavalry to the base of the opponent's city wall in a daze, so that the crossbowmen could catch them.

But it’s no wonder that the Wang family of Jinyang was suspected and excluded in Yecheng because of Wang Hou’s relationship, and they all surrendered. On this road, basically all the county towns also surrendered. If there is no resistance, who would have thought that four people would be squatting here? [-] troops.

Moreover, Quwo is still some distance away from the nearest valley. It is a typical agricultural city with no terrain to rely on. Facing the main force of the Western Wei Dynasty with 10,000+ vanguards here, especially the [-] real Kansai and Liaodong cavalry, are you looking for death?

"Your crimes are unforgivable and justifiable, recorded in the book of merits and demerits, and punished after the war!"

Wang Hou didn’t learn from Chongzhen. He was fighting at one end, and at the other end he took down the general and cut him off. Except for defecting to the enemy, all merits and demerits are recorded in the small book, which will be counted after the war. If you kill the enemy bravely and establish a large enough meritorious deed, you will be rewarded for promotion, encouraging the three armies to kill the enemy bravely.

"Thank you, my lord!"

Although they already knew the result, but after hearing Wang Hou say it personally, the several pioneer captains were all grateful and kowtowed heavily.

Hearing the military order to settle accounts after Qiu Hou, the morale of the other vanguard soldiers who were not punished was all shaken, but before Wang Hou could say a few words of inspiration, the other side started to clamor.

Suddenly, a hundred or so cavalry rushed out from the corpses of the twenty or so Western Wei soldiers who had just fallen to their deaths. The young man wearing a leopard helmet and the brightest and most fancy engraved armor in Ma'anshan arrogantly pointed at Wang Hou's banner and yelled.

"Liao Thief King Tuqiu, if you see this knife, I, Xin Ze, will use it to take your head!"

Following him, a group of gorgeously dressed young Eastern Wei descendants who were riding horses also kept shouting obscenities.

"Dung soil thief!"

"Despicable Qin thief!"

"Grandpa and your leader!"

Seeing the arrogant appearance of these Kwantung gentry children, Wang Hou suddenly understood why Sima Yi sent such an army here to die.

(End of this chapter)