Chapter 687 The Yellow River bursts
The wounded soldier was right. Ma Su did not make it to the battlefield and did not even have a sip of soup.
General Zhenbei Jiang Wei, with the buff of the last battle and Guanqiu Jian's own cowardice, counterattacked and defeated the Wei army. After being chased for a hundred miles, the Han army began to turn around and chase the Wei army.
I will chase you, I will catch up with you...
The Wei army was already exhausted and their fighting spirit was gradually waning. Facing the Han army that suddenly got buffed, they were immediately beaten and could not resist.
Fortunately, Guanqiu Jian was also a famous general, and he stabilized his position in time at this time. After being defeated and retreated for more than ten miles by the Han army's counterattack, he regrouped some of his troops.
If he fought and retreated at this time, theoretically there would still be a chance to save the situation. After all, Jiang Wei did not learn Ma Su's tactics completely, and it was difficult to completely defeat the Wei army in one battle.
However, at this critical moment, smoke and dust suddenly rose in the west of the Wei army! From the direction of the skyline, a large-scale cavalry came at lightning speed!
The leader was Shu Ji, the general of the Han Dynasty who had been working with Jiang Wei for several years!
Shu Ji was originally stationed in Puyang, leading the reserve team to support both ends. After Jiang Wei faced the counterattack of the main force of the Wei army, he immediately concluded that this partner would not defend honestly and would definitely try to counterattack.
So he did not hesitate to throw Zhuge Liang's deployment aside, abandon the baggage, and personally led 5,000 cavalry to help.
So, after galloping all the way and entering Qingzhou along the narrow road of the Yellow River with difficulty, the 5,000 cavalry finally arrived at the battlefield at this critical moment. The appearance of the Han cavalry finally sounded the final death knell for Guanqiu Jian!
In just one round, the Wei army, which had already been demoralized, was overwhelmed by the Han light cavalry. A large number of soldiers died directly under the hooves of the Han cavalry, and many people were trampled into meat.
As a veteran cavalry general, Shu Ji was extremely good at cavalry charging. While running through the Wei army formation, he also continuously divided his troops to diagonally insert them to both sides of the formation, tearing the Wei army formation apart layer by layer like peeling skin.
When the battle reached this point, Guanqiu Jian knew that everything was over. So he started the old routine again, directly throwing away all his troops, and fleeing north with only a few people.
This scene was so familiar. The last time he did this was when he was facing Ma Su himself. As a result, Ma Su didn't show up now, and only two confidants beat him like this...
Is it that the Han army has become stronger, or that the Wei army has become weaker? Guanqiu Jian no longer has time to think about this. At this moment, he just wants to escape back to Hebei as soon as possible.
When he left, the remaining Wei army collapsed completely. In just half an hour, the Han army completely wiped out a full 40,000 Wei troops before Ma Su arrived at the battlefield, raising the record to Ma Su's level.
As for Ma Su himself... when he arrived at the battlefield, there was no one who could still resist. There were Han soldiers cleaning the battlefield everywhere, and they didn't even give him any soup.
"Is it too late for me to turn around and rush to Huainan now?" Ma Su said with a bit of despair, his face was so ugly.
He even fled despite the prime minister's warning. Didn't he just come out to fight a battle? As a result, I ran all the way here, and you told me that the battle was over?
Then I left?
However, this was not the end. Before Ma Su lamented his bad luck, he was discovered by Shu Ji and Jiang Wei. The two little brothers were overjoyed to see Ma Su, who was supposed to be recuperating, appear here, and came to report the victory.
"General, you came all the way from Xu County to lead us to the Northern Expedition to Hebei?" Jiang Wei ran to Ma Su happily and saluted respectfully.
"The main force of the Wei army here has been defeated by Shu Ji and me, and the pseudo-Wei army has suffered a great loss! Now we just need to take advantage of the situation to attack Hebei, and the entire Jizhou will surrender!"
"At that time, the general only needs to sit in the army, and the great achievement of destroying Wei will be achieved!" Shu Ji also nodded, and spared no effort to help Ma Su.
These few short sentences of victory news turned into a sharp knife, piercing Ma Su's fragile heart.
TMD, it's better to live in Xu County honestly, at least it won't be a waste of time... No, it's not a waste, at least Zhuge Liang will beat him up afterwards.
It's a good thing...
"Is there any war in Qingzhou now? Or, are there any Wei troops south of the Yellow River?" Ma Su couldn't help asking with his last hope.
"Absolutely no more! General! Believe in our ability! Jiang Wei patted his chest and promised."
"Okay, then you guys continue to fight, I'll go to Huainan to see." Ma Su waved his hand and said helplessly.
In fact, he should have known that it was a wrong decision to come to the north first. The entire Yellow River defense line was basically his confidants. These generals who were used to charging into battle with him obviously could not follow Zhuge Liang's safe tactics.
He should go to the south, at least after being beaten, there would be a little chance to go to the battlefield, right?
However, just when Ma Su was extremely disappointed and was about to turn around and run to Huainan, something went wrong suddenly.
Without any signs, the ground suddenly began to tremble. Not only Ma Su noticed something strange, but even Shu Ji found something wrong.
"Wait, this is... No, this degree of trembling is definitely not east of the cavalry." Shu Ji noticed it and suddenly said.
When his five thousand cavalry moved, the ground would not tremble to this extent.
Ma Su, on the other hand, frowned and thought for a moment before his movements froze. Then his face suddenly turned extremely pale, and he suddenly shouted,
"No! Run!"
Ma Su had only experienced this level of ground shaking once, and that was when the Seventh Army was flooded in Runan...
That is to say...
"Run!" Ma Su immediately mounted the horse and shouted at everyone.
"Run quickly, soldiers! The Wei thieves dug up the Yellow River!"
As soon as this statement came out, everyone was stunned. After coming back to their senses, everyone threw down their things and joined the great escape movement.
"Let's go! Tell everyone to stop cleaning the battlefield and run west!"
However, it was obviously too late, because the sky full of Yellow River water had already appeared in sight! Many soldiers were caught off guard and were knocked to the ground by the muddy water, and then swept away!
"Go quickly! Run to the higher ground to the west!" Ma Di roared, instructing the panicked Han soldiers. Inadvertently commanding the soldiers, Ma Di looked back and suddenly froze.
As if in the blink of an eye, the large land on the south bank of the Yellow River has turned into a marshland...