Chapter 432 A great reversal in the Battle of Tongguan
Just when Wang Ji was about to completely surround Ma Su outside the city, a problem suddenly occurred in the rear of the Wei army.
The problem lay in Cao Wei's newly arrived reinforcements from Guandong. Thousands of Wei troops who came for reinforcements from Hongnong County suddenly launched an attack on the Wei army's rear. He didn't expect that Pao Ze would raise a gun against him, and the Wei army's rear army was caught off guard.
In the middle of the rebel army, a young general was concentrating on directing the rebels to attack in all directions... It is not entirely correct to say that they were rebels, because most of the soldiers and horses in this group were members of the Han army.
Yes, this general is none other than Deng Fan!
Deng Fan met representatives of the Hongnong Yang family in Hebei County and informed Deng Fan of the Yang family's plans.
Hongnong County, where their Yang family is located, is the most likely main battlefield for the future battles between Guanzhong and Guandong. Among Cao Wei and Shu Han, Shu Han was chosen.
There is no way, you, Cao Wei, have said that Shuhan is a small country and is nothing to worry about since the founding of the country. After more than ten years of worrying about it, the result was that the northwest half was completely lost, and the Shu Han army had already reached Tongguan City.
Of course, the Yang family still made two preparations, and most of the troops who came to support were Deng Fan's troops. Moreover, the commander-in-chief Yang Wu was nominally held hostage by Deng Fan on the way. The Yang family would not make any statement before the Shu army arrived at Hongnong County.
"General! Something happened to the rear army!"
"What happened to the rear army? I didn't see the enemy at all. Why was there such a big commotion?" Wang Ji turned his head and looked a little ugly.
He was about to kill Ma Su, but something happened at this time. And it's such a big fuss, isn't this causing trouble for him?
"General, the reinforcements that came from Hongnong two days ago suddenly attacked us." The deputy general who came from the rear army quickly dismounted and reported nervously,
"We don't know why they attacked us, but... we were unprepared!"
"Hongnong County's reinforcements rebelled? What on earth is Yang Wu doing!!"
A few days ago, a large number of Kwantung reinforcements had arrived in Tongguan one after another. Among them were reinforcements from Hongnong County near Tongguan, totaling several thousand people, led by Yang Wu, the largest member of the Yang family in Hongnong.
It was precisely because of the gathering of these reinforcements that Wang Ji and Xin Pi had the courage to ambush Ma Su.
However, in order to create a time lag, Wang Ji did not complete the reorganization of the reinforcements. Instead, after hastily gathering, they quickly went to war and together with Xinpi besieged Ma Su, who only had a thousand people.
Normally, this is not a big deal, they are all members of the family, and if the reorganization is not completed, it will be a little confusing at best. But Wang Ji never thought that there were bad guys in the Kwantung reinforcements?
Especially since this is still the Hongnong Yang family or a celebrity in the world, they can still make mistakes!
"Damn it! If you are causing trouble at this time, you are most likely under the instructions of Xi Shu!"
Wang Ji shook his head slightly, but he was not too nervous yet. The troops from Hongnong were only two to three thousand, and the rebellion with this small number of troops would not be able to cause any big disturbance!
"Let the Wei army on the left wing go to the rear to support the rear army and help the rear army to eliminate the rebels! But that boy from the Yang family must not move, he must..."
"General! There's a fire in Tongguan!" Before Wang Ji could finish speaking, a soldier suddenly ran over in panic and shouted.
As soon as these words came out, all the generals of the Wei army, including Wang Ji, were shocked.
"What!"
Wang Ji suddenly turned around and saw flames rising from the top of Tongguan City. There were a large number of figures fighting faintly at the top of the city. It was obvious that the battle was extremely tense.
Wang Ji couldn't calm down anymore. Tongguan was the most important strategic pointer in Guanzhong, in a sense, it was more important than Pubanjin.
Especially now that Weibei and Nanyang have been occupied by the Shu army, the road from Pubanjin to support Guanzhong is basically blocked. At this moment, the only contact between the Wei army in Chang'an and Guandong is Tongguan.
If this place is captured by the Shu army, all Cao Wei's forces in Guanzhong will be completely lost. At that time, Sima Yi's side would really become isolated and helpless in a literal sense.
What if Sima Yi sees that the situation is not good and leads the entire Guanzhong Army to surrender to Xi Shu...
"Retreat the whole army! Don't worry about Ma Su anymore! Guard Tongguan first!" Wang Ji glanced in Ma Su's direction again, sighed unwillingly, and finally ordered through gritted teeth.
In Ma Su's current state, it would probably take an hour or two to completely grind him to death. But Wang Ji ran out of time. There were rebels inside and Tongguan was attacked by the rebels. He had to give up the idea of continuing to besiege Ma Su and gather his troops to return to Tongguan to aid.
The Wei army moved very quickly. Wang Ji quickly gathered his troops and divided his troops to contain Deng Fan's rebels. At the same time, he led most of the troops in an emergency retreat to rescue Tongguan.
At the same time, Ma Di also noticed that the Wei army's encirclement was beginning to loosen. Wang Ji's handsome flag began to move backwards, and he immediately noticed something was wrong.
"What's going on? Why didn't Wei Jun continue the encirclement!" Ma Di squinted his eyes and looked at Wei Jun, but he soon discovered the problem.
"There's a fire in Tongguan? Could it be that... Shizai's sneak attack was successful?"
Thinking of this, Ma Su suddenly became energetic again.
He had been wondering since he was ambushed. Deng Fan had indeed gone to attack Pubanjin. Why could Xinpi ignore Pubanjin and ambush him. Originally, Ma Di thought that Deng Ai had encountered an accident and failed to successfully attack Pubanjin.
But now it seems... there is a high probability that the Wei army did not notice that Pubanjin was attacked at all.
In this case...
"Guys, everyone cheer up, our reinforcements have appeared!" Ma Su turned his head and encouraged the less than 200 soldiers left behind him,
"Everyone, follow me and catch up! Kill the enemy generals in formation! Climb and capture the flag first!"
But at this moment, everyone in the audience felt that the ground began to tremble. As the ground trembled, dust suddenly began to rise on the road to the west.
"Hiss...it looks like I've been tricked by God again." Ma Di looked helpless and turned his head slightly to look.
"It seems like I have to think about how to fool... how to explain to the Prime Minister."
I saw that countless Han cavalry had already fought their way out of the dust, chasing the Wei army with high morale.
The outcome is decided!
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The Battle of Tongguan did not last long, but when it comes to the reversal of the war situation, I am afraid that no one can beat them in terms of fighting spirit. In just a few hours, the Wei army changed from hunters to prey, and was eventually ambushed by the Han army, which had far fewer troops than itself.
When Tongguan was on fire and their morale was unstable, Deng Fan followed and Zhang Yi attacked from both sides. The morale of the Wei army quickly collapsed.
In the end, Wang Ji himself led the remaining soldiers and fled back to Tongguan after defeating tens of thousands of people. The remaining nearly 20,000 Wei troops were almost completely wiped out by the Han troops outside Tongguan.
After this battle, the Wei Army's Guandong reinforcements that had just been assembled were directly disabled!