Chapter 454 Only chase Sima Yi!
"The most powerful pass in the world is indeed well-deserved. I almost didn't climb up... It's just a wish."
At the top of Tongguan City, countless unworthy soldiers were full of morale and defeated the Wei army steadily. After killing several people with his own hands and carving out a position for the vanguard soldiers, Panchuan General Meng Guo retreated, holding on to the city wall and taking a look at this majestic pass.
As a former Han Chinese in Nanzhong, Meng Guo had mixed with the barbarians in Nanzhong since he was a child. It was engraved in his bones to climb mountains and ridges, climb cities and walls. However, the steepest mountain and the highest city he climbed before were only small hills compared to Tongguan.
Meng Guo, who has always been a climber, almost fell out of strength while climbing Tongguan.
Fortunately, they finally climbed up, but the morale of the Wei army was low and they collapsed at the first touch, allowing Wudang Feijun to successfully capture this place.
"Thanks to the Crown Prince. I only mentioned this wish in Longxi County before, but I didn't expect that he would remember it until now."
Looking at the basically defeated Wei army, Meng Guo shook his head gently, threw away the curled blade, and ordered loudly,
"Quick victory! Plant the flag in the most conspicuous place in Tongguan as soon as possible! Let the Wei army know that they have no retreat. If they don't surrender, they will have no choice but to swim in the Yellow River!"
As Wudang Feijun quickly captured the entire city and compressed Cao Wei's defeated troops inside the city tower, a red Jihan flag flew over Tongguan.
This red flag looked so bright under the thick smoke that the Wei army in front, who was struggling to resist the Han army's offensive, couldn't help but pay attention.
"Tongguan fell!"
"We're surrounded! We're doomed!"
"Our army is defeated! The Governor is dead, everyone, run away!"
There was Ma Su in front, and Tongguan was lost behind. Tens of thousands of Wei soldiers were panic-stricken. The members of the Yang family hiding in the army quickly shuttled back and forth and began to make various shouts to disturb the morale of the army.
However, when some members of the Yang family were shouting, they found that there were soldiers who shouted more diligently than them!
Under such circumstances, the already low morale of the Wei army became even lower, and some soldiers already threw away their weapons and armor and began to flee.
The most terrible thing is that at this juncture, the Wei army's tens of thousands of fresh troops in Hebei were unable to cross the river in a short time because of the sudden thaw of the Yellow River. Under such a disadvantage, even Sima Yi felt that there was little hope.
"Zhao, take people to protect the division and break out to the south and find a path to escape to Guandong!" Sima Yi thought very quickly and made a new decision in a very short time.
"Father, then you..."
"Don't worry! Even in Ma Su's mouth, I am a person who will live a hundred years and will not die." Sima Yi waved his hand and mounted the horse himself, with a serious look on his face.
"Instruct Guo Huai, Sun Li, Hu Zun, Fei Yao and others to follow my deployment and divide their forces to break out!"
"The Chinese army is going to fight with me. Ma Su's target is me! I will lure Ma Su away myself!"
Sima Yi changed his deployment and asked various units of the Wei army to quickly divide their troops to break out.
Guo Huai, Sun Li and others led the front army no longer to besiege the Han army, but to seize the road eastward. The rear army covered the Sima Zhao brothers as they headed south and found a path through the mountains and forests to evacuate. The Chinese army, flying Sima Yi's own flag high, retreated westward.
The Wei army suddenly divided into three groups and broke out from three directions at the same time, completely avoiding any entanglement with the Han army. The action was so decisive that Ma Su was a little stunned. After being stunned for a moment, Ma Su couldn't help laughing.
"As expected of the old thief Sima! His response is so quick!"
There were only 5,000 infantry in Ma Su's army, and he hardly carried any cavalry. The Wei army suddenly fled in multiple directions, which made it easy for Ma Su to let go of most of the Wei army.
But in this regard, Ma Su did not hesitate at all. He directly gathered all his troops and chased after the old thief Sima's flag.
Sima Yi's understanding of people's hearts and attention to details are sometimes even better than Zhuge Liang's. He saw from a lot of rumors that Ma Su compiled for him how much Ma Su hated him.
Although Ma Su's ability to fabricate and spread rumors is obvious to all, only Sima Yi's rumors are the most detailed. Coupled with the look and tone of Ma Su's conversation with him, Sima Yi could feel the bone-cutting hatred.
Although he didn't know when he provoked this southerner, Sima Yi also used his anger to attract him at this moment.
"Old thief Sima! Where are you going!" Ma Su chased him all the way, even though Sima Yi himself was chasing him.
At this moment, they both felt an extremely familiar sense of déjà vu.
We haven’t seen each other for three years, but we caught up again soon after we met.
For a time, the two sides were galloping along the official road, and the Han army was pursuing this shameless old Sima thief with murderous intent.
As you chased me, the soldiers around Sima Yi began to become separated and captured. Sima Yi saw that there were fewer and fewer soldiers around him and couldn't help but shook his head.
"It seems that Ma Su's hatred for me...is greater than I imagined."
"Captain! If we continue like this, we will be overtaken sooner or later, and we will all become prisoners by then!" Sima Yi's lieutenant general was extremely nervous and quickly asked Sima Yi for instructions,
"It doesn't matter, I already have a plan. The whole army will run south into the mountains and forests." Sima Yi nodded, suddenly looked at his deputy general and said,
"And you, change your armor with me!"
"ah?"
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Soon, the Wei army suddenly turned around and plunged into the mountain road south of Hongnong County. While the Han army captured the scattered Wei soldiers, they continued to pursue Sima Yi.
But entering the mountain forest, the road became much narrower and more difficult to navigate, and the distance between the two sides was greatly extended. After turning several corners, the Wei army suddenly split into two groups and fled along two forked roads.
"Huh?" Ma Su narrowed his eyes and immediately guessed what Sima Yi wanted to do. The soldiers were divided into two groups, and I hid in one of them so that he could easily be thrown away.
"General! I saw that the old thief Sima went to the left!" At this time, Deng Fan pointed to the left and reported to Ma Su.
"No, since the old thief Sima did this, he will definitely hide himself. What you see is most likely a stand-in!" Ma Su shook his head, then waved his whip and said,
"Sima Yi is indeed cunning, but if I are on both sides, how will you respond?"
"Shi Zai, you lead a troop to chase the left side, and I'll chase the right side! No matter what, I must catch the old thief Sima!"
The Han army quickly divided into two groups, and the whole army pursued them with all their strength, whizzing past, chasing and killing the two groups of Wei troops.
However, just after the Han army left, the bushes next to the fork in the road moved, and a figure crawled out of it in embarrassment.
"As I said, Zhuge Liang has no plans, but you, Ma Di, are so smart! If you want to chase me, you will have to work hard for another two years." Sima Yi patted the falling snow on his body and shook his head as he watched the Han army leave.
After all, the commander of an army is not so easy to catch. Even if he didn't come up with this bad strategy, Sima Yi still had ten thousand ways to escape from the rebel army.
"Mountains and rivers meet, Ma Di and we meet in Guandong!" With that, Sima Yi turned around and planned to leave. Then……
Just met a wolf's eyes!
"Fuck me!"