Chapter 362 Soldiers Enter Yingchuan
Wang Sheng realized something was wrong when he saw Ma Su running all the way, and the dispersed front army was not enough to stop Ma Su.
Although I don't know how Ma Di did it, the fact is that the former army has collapsed. A large number of soldiers trampled on each other and scattered, and Ma Di himself came to kill him.
What does this mean? It means it’s time for him to moisturize!
He is just a general, and he has no core interests to play with. Wang Sheng said nothing. After hearing that Wang Chang had run away, he also turned around and ran away with his guards.
The front army of the Wei army was defeated, but the Chinese army still maintained its formation. Ma Di's attempt to break through was met with certain obstacles. Such a short period of time was enough for Wang Sheng to escape.
By the time Ma Su broke through the eighth defense line of the Wei army without stopping and rushed all the way to the central army, Wang Sheng had already disappeared. There was nothing there except a handsome flag flying.
"These Wei people are running really fast!" Ma Su was speechless and could only cut down the commander's flag casually, then led the cavalry to turn around and begin to attack the military formation.
After the front army was defeated and fled in all directions, the commander fled and the commander's flag was cut down, the Wei army was defeated again. Thirty thousand Wei troops trampled on each other and retreated all the way to Dingling. The Han army gained a lot.
The only shortcoming was that Ma Su only suffered superficial injuries and did not feel the slightest threat of death.
You can't blame Wang Sheng. He is not a famous general. He just rushed to the top. He has worked hard to be able to play like this.
However, Ma Su, who was dissatisfied with this, quickly led his troops to fight at the foot of Dingling City after escorting the subsequent Han army to successfully cross the Ji River. After all, he is a famous figure in Guandong, with an army of tens of thousands, please give him some strength!
As a result, Ma Su was rejected at Dingling City, and Wang Chang simply refused to see you. He even pretended not to hear Ma Di's shouting and concentrated on hiding in the city and pretending to be dead.
So, after three days of shouting at the foot of Dingling City, Ma Di, who was thirsty and thirsty, finally came to a conclusion.
"It seems that the opponent is determined to be a coward and would rather die inside than go out of the city to fight."
"General, what should we do? Attack the city?" Ma Di's personal guard subconsciously asked, but Ma Di gave him a speechless look.
"In your eyes, do I have ghosts and gods to help me? There are tens of thousands of troops in the city opposite, and we only have more than 20,000 at full strength. How can we defeat them under such circumstances?"
Ma Su's personal guard scratched his head, pondered for a while, and replied firmly,
"With the general here, we believe it is absolutely possible!"
Ma Su: "..."
No, you have to stay away from this group of people. In a few years, won’t they start using me as a prophet to create a religion?
How appalling!
But in general, Ma Di didn't care about Wang Chang being a coward. He even acted like a turtle and saved Ma Su a lot of trouble.
Taking the initiative to attack Yingchuan this time was not a decision made by Ma Su with a slap on his forehead. In fact, he had already had this intention. The most critical point is Cao Wei's large number of farmers in Yingchuan County.
The farming system was pioneered by Boss Cao in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. It can be said to be a system ahead of its time. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Cao used a single state to conquer the north, in which the farming system was indispensable.
Cao Cao's earliest farming location was Yingchuan County, his old base.
Until now, there are still more than 200,000 people working in the fields in Yingchuan County, which is under the direct jurisdiction of the central government. It is an extremely important grain-producing area in the southeast of Cao Wei.
For such a county, there is no problem in supporting 70,000 to 80,000 people when fighting locally. Coupled with the large number of people detained here, Ma Su has long been dissatisfied with this place.
Therefore, when the water flooded the three armies and shocked China, and when he noticed the collective panic of the Yingchuan Wei army, Ma Di made a bold decision to take the initiative to attack. There is only one core purpose, which is to try every means to destroy Cao Wei's farm estates in Yingchuan.
Since you Wang Chang acted like a coward and took the initiative to give me the outside of the city, then I, Ma Su, will not be polite.
"Send an order to Liu Yin and ask him to lead a part of the Han army to set up camp with his back on Jishui and watch over the Wei army in Xiangcheng and Dingling. No matter what, we cannot let the Wei army in Dingling cut off our army's retreat and ensure the safety of the food road! "
Ma Su made a quick decision and turned around to issue the order.
"I personally led 10,000 soldiers and horses across Dingling, marched eastward first to attack Yingyang Fanchang, and destroyed the Wei army's farming villages there! During this period, many people from the farming villages needed to be evacuated, which required Xiu Ran to ensure the safety of the rear. unobstructed."
"If the troops are not enough, ask for help from behind. No matter what, our army's road back to Kunyang must be clear!"
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Soon, Ma Di asked Liu Yin to lead 10,000 troops and station them between Xiangcheng and Dingling. At the same time, Ma Su's flag was widely erected as a suspicious soldier, in order to intimidate Wang Chang's tribe and ensure that the follow-up food road retreat would be smooth.
Ma Su then led 10,000 Han troops to bypass Dingling and continue his eastward attack on the Yingchuan lands. One of the basic principles was to follow the principle of not attacking when passing through the city, but only attacking the farmland manors outside the city.
Soon, Ma Di's army suddenly arrived near Yingyang, and then marched with great fanfare, fearing that the Wei army would not know.
This caused the local Wei army to panic, and all the field soldiers and garrison troops outside the city rushed back into the city, intending to hold on to the city.
Ma Di divided his army of five thousand to guard the city, and spread rumors everywhere that I, Ma Di, was here in person, and you were going to be doomed. Later, when the Wei army in the city was in panic and focused all its attention on fortification, he personally led thousands of people to raid and sweep the tuntianzhuang near Yingyang.
Yingyang is not far from Xu, and tens of thousands of acres of fields nearby are all farm estates. Among them are tens of thousands of people who are detained in the village all year round and are in charge of the village.
Most of these people are the descendants of the Yellow Turbans, the Yellow Turban captives left behind when Cao Cao was recruiting people all over the world. Of course, there are also many people from good families who were forcibly relocated from Jingzhou, and their treatment is no different from that of Yellow Turban prisoners.
This big-money man has basically lost his personal freedom since he was forced to work here. Eighty percent of the harvest over the years has been confiscated by the court, and the remaining grain in hand is only enough to survive.
Therefore, for these farmers, they had no sense of belonging to Cao Wei, only resentment.
When Ma Di led his troops to raid Tuntian Village and defeated the Tuntian soldiers stationed here, the people of Tuntian Village quickly welcomed the king's army.
"Finally someone came to rescue us!"
"Is Wei finally going to die? Can we be free?"
"Has Liu Shijun's Han army returned? We were separated for more than twenty years. I wonder if Shijun still remembers it?"
Countless people in the villages cheered after the villages were broken. This means that there are new forces to liberate them, and they no longer have to bear Cao Wei's huge corvee.
Especially according to neighbors from Jingzhou, this group of soldiers was a part of the kind leader Liu Bei. They come to the rescue, and no matter how bad the future life is, it will not be worse than being a guest of Cao Wei's farm.
However, the Han army soon gave them two choices, which made most of them calm down again and consider the pros and cons.
"According to what our general said, the Han army in Yingchuan County does not have the strength to occupy Yingchuan County for the time being. If you are willing, you need to follow the Han army back to Nanyang. At that time, the Han Dynasty will distribute the land free of charge, and the land tax will be 1 in 5. All those who can go to Nanyang will receive policy subsidies. "