Chapter 377 Total Victory
Under a series of ambushes by the Han army, the Wei army was quickly defeated. Cao Rui couldn't resist, so he was forced to mount a horse and escape on a small road under the protection of his close ministers.
However, even if he escaped from the battlefield, Cao Rui could not be said to be out of danger. Because when he escaped back to the main camp under the protection of his close ministers, he suddenly saw a raging fire burning in his own camp.
At the same time, countless Han soldiers were fighting in the camp with the Wei army's remaining troops.
"Even the main camp was attacked by the Shu army?" Cao Ruilian's face was pale, and she was panic-stricken. She quickly led her relatives and continued running eastward.
Along the way, there were sounds of fires and fighting by the Han army everywhere, and Cao Rui was so frightened that he did not dare to stay. The howling of the cold wind and the chirping of birds sounded to Cao Rui in fear, as if the Han army was rushing towards them, so they fled faster and faster.
They ran until dawn when suddenly a close official stepped forward and grabbed Cao Rui's horse, stopping Cao Rui from continuing to run.
"His Majesty……"
"Is my head here?"
"Your Majesty! The Shu army has retreated and we are safe!"
With the comfort of his close ministers, Cao Rui slowly recovered from his panic. However, Cao Rui, who had already been frightened by the ambush of the Shu army, was exhausted.
"Withdraw! The entire army withdraws to Xudu! We can no longer fight Ma Di!"
Cao Rui, who was relieved, quickly issued an order to withdraw his troops and ordered all Wei troops to retreat across the board. Ma Su is really terrible. I'd better go back and sit in the central government and leave military achievements to capable ministers.
Thousands of Wei soldiers died in this battle, and countless others were trampled on each other and disappeared.
However, the highest commander of this battle was not Ma Su, but Liu Yin, whom Ma Su left behind. The white-robed general that day was played by Ma Dai in disguise.
If Ma Di was really present, Cao Rui probably wouldn't be able to escape even if he ran on the trail.
After the battle, Cao Rui fled all the way. Under the mixture of fear and panic, his body weakened rapidly. After returning to Xudu, he became seriously ill, and finally had to be sent back to Luoyang for treatment.
Cao Rui's first personal military expedition in his life ended in an anticlimactic manner.
As soon as Cao Rui left, the Wei army in Yingchuan began to enter a defensive state across the board. Especially after hearing that Lu Xun in the south had been defeated and returned, and Sun Li in Wancheng was ambushed by Wei Yan at night, causing countless casualties. Sikong Chenqun, who took over, therefore ordered the Wei army to build deep ditches and high bases, insisting on executing the plan and avoiding fighting.
At the same time, after Liu Yin defeated Cao Rui once, he led the main force of the Han army back to Kunyang. After all, he still has few troops, otherwise he might be able to conquer the entire territory of Yingchuan by taking advantage of the situation and counterattacking at this time.
However, even if Yingchuan could not be captured, it would be an excellent result just to have the Wei army completely give up their counterattack on Nanyang.
After Liu Yin led the main force back to Nanyang, Sun Li and Guo Huai led the Guanzhong army back to Wuguan. Zhu Ran, who was surrounded by Xiang Chong Wu Ban Zhang He and others in Danshui, surrendered very smoothly without any hesitation.
His retreat was cut off, he had few soldiers and little food, and there was no possibility of a breakout. In addition, it was not the first time that Zhu Ran had surrendered, and he was not under so much psychological pressure, so he clicked it very smoothly.
Since then, Ma Su led 50,000 troops out of Wudang at the beginning of the 11th year of Jianxing and started the fourth Northern Expedition. The fighting has continued until now. Hundreds of thousands of troops have been fighting in Nanyang and Huainan for a year. In the end, the Han army occupied the entire Nanyang and the Wei army retreated to Yingchuan.
The war in Nanyang is basically over.
However, the war in Nanyang is over, but the Yiling front line is not over yet.
After Ma Su burned Xiaoting on fire and Sun Huan committed suicide, the army successfully captured Xiaoting. At the same time, Fei Yi from Zigui also got the news and led his army to attack Yiling.
With Ma Su in front and Fei Yi behind, the remaining Wu troops in Yiling City fell into a leaderless situation. Zhu Ji, who was in custody, had no choice but to stand up at this time and gather his military morale to try to hold on.
He was still somewhat loyal to Soochow, and even so he still did not surrender to Ma Di.
But there are some things that don’t just mean you don’t want to. This thing is just like high math, no matter how urgent it is, it’s useless, if it doesn’t work, it just won’t work.
Yiling City was besieged for ten days, Zhu Ji ran out of food, and the Wu army was disorganized and had no intention of fighting. With no hope at all, Zhu Ji made a three-part agreement with the Han army in despair, and then asked Ma Su to surrender.
After asking for surrender, Zhu Ji planned to kill himself to apologize to Sun Quan, but Ma Su persuaded him to do so. Your father has already surrendered, and your Zhu family doesn't owe Sun Quan anything. What kind of situation are you in here?
In the direction of Wuling, Wu general Wei Wen heard about the successive defeats of Lu Xun and Sun Huan, and immediately led his troops to retreat to Changsha. Since then, Soochow's 100,000 troops, except for the 30,000 troops in Jingnan, have been spared, and the rest of the army has been almost wiped out!
At this point, the war in Jingzhou has basically calmed down. Ma Di relied on his unparalleled fighting style to snatch Nanyang away from the attack of Wei and Wu!
"Go and tell the Prime Minister the good news. Nanyang has returned! As long as there is enough food next year, the Northern Expedition to Guanzhong will be able to go smoothly!" Ma Su was very satisfied with this. Although he failed in his attempt to die, he was very happy to capture Nanyang after a year of bloody fighting. of.
The only thing that frightened Ma Su was that this time he attempted suicide quite frequently. And the most important thing is that he did not succeed in trying to die. What he needs to face now is how to explain to the prime minister.
Before the expedition, Prime Minister Zhuge warned him that if he took any more risks, he would be beaten...
But after a year of fighting, the Prime Minister must have forgotten those words.
perhaps……
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When Ma Su basically ended the war in Nanyang and began to divide his troops to consolidate various passes in Nanyang, the war in Guanzhong also underwent tremendous changes.
When Ma Di was attacking Yingchuan and the situation seemed to be the most difficult, Zhuge Liang took Chen Shi as the vanguard and suddenly forced his way across the Wei River and camped against the water. Sima Yi was frightened by this incident and quickly transferred Sima Division back from Wuguan, and assigned the main force to surround the Han army, intending to drive away the Han army in a quick battle.
However, Sima Yi obviously underestimated Zhuge Liang's defensive level. As a famous military formation master in the late Three Kingdoms, if Zhuge Liang wanted to hold on, it would be useless even if Ma Di came.
Thirty thousand Han troops set up camp with their backs on the Wei River. Sima Yi led an army of 100,000 troops to besiege him on all sides for several days, but the Han troops remained unmoved.
In the north, the cavalry of Jiang Wei, Shu Ji, Zhang Yi and other troops were restrained, so that Chen Tai did not dare to threaten the Han army's food route to the west. This also allowed Zhuge Liang to rest assured and set up camp with his back on the Weishui River, but Sima Yi was helpless.
The two sides were in a stalemate for more than a hundred days. Sima Yi continued to send people to provoke the Shu army, hoping to lure Zhuge Liang into battle. Otherwise, Zhuge Liang would have been standing there, and Sima Yi would have been unable to continue supporting Nanyang.
However, it is obvious that all of Sima Yi's provocations fell into disgrace on Zhuge Liang's side, and he could no longer read them back. Sima Yi, motionless as a mountain, felt for the first time the feelings of a prime minister in history.
How can this person be so calm and angry?
Just when Sima Yi and Zhuge Liang were confronting each other like this, the final result came back from Nanyang. Nanyang's surname was Liu.