Chapter 256: retreat

When the two thousand people left the city, they finally came back alive, less than a hundred. Although they won a lot, they still lost.
Wei Yan leaned against the closed city gate, panting violently, the feeling of escaping from the dead, a bit complicated, distressed the death of the soldiers, regretting his recklessness, in fact, when Ma Chao Mingjin, Wei Yan should retreat, It was just that he wanted to expand the results of the battle and further hit the Xiliang Army. Fang You was later killed by Ma Chao.
The person who can chase Cao Cao's beard away from his robe is really extraordinary!
After breathing heavily, Wei Yan gritted his teeth. Although he didn't want to admit it, there were enough reasons and excuses, but when he faced Ma Chao just now, he did feel timid.
"General, are you OK?" The lieutenant took the man down the city and looked at Wei Yan's one-way street.
"That Ma Chao retired?" Wei Yan shook his head and stood up and asked.
"Already retreat!" The lieutenant nodded.
"Good Ma Mengqi." Wei Yan snarled his teeth, but at this moment he found that his arm was painted with color. Before, his heart was filled with fear, and there was no feeling, but at this moment, he relaxed and blood began to infiltrate. Whoever cut a knife, the thief hurts.
The lieutenant general ordered people to come and ask Wei Yan to bandage the wound and help Wei Yan smile bitterly: "That Ma Chao has been fighting with his father since childhood, and he has won the name of bravery and won the northwest. The general came first. First name, in the land of the Qiang people in the northwest, can stop children from crying at night. "
The Qiang people are different from the Han people. The most important warrior, Ma Chao ’s prestige, was mostly killed by the Qiang people. On the contrary, the Qiang people were quite respectful of Ma Chao.
Wei Yan nodded. In the past, he did not believe that someone could rely on the momentum alone to reinvigorate a broken army on the battlefield. Now that he believes, I am afraid that even Guan Yu and Zhang Fei do not have this ability. This is not just It's a matter of prestige, but the fear and admiration of Ma Chao in the bones of the Xiliang Army has overcome the fear of defeat. That was killed. For a Han army, Ma Chao may not be able to do this.
"Unfortunately, two thousand soldiers were folded in vain, this is my fault too!" Wei Yan sighed. This was indeed caused by his command mistake. If he grasped and fought firmly, he would close it when he saw it. It ’s a small victory, but now it ’s just two thousand people.
It is also because Yangping has enough guards, and there are 8,000 defenders. Otherwise, the casualties of these two thousand people will directly make Yangping Guan hurt his muscles and fall into a complete disadvantage in the following battles.
"This battle, don't blame the general." The lieutenant said quickly.
Wei Yan glanced at the lieutenant general, hey laughed, and walked back while laughing: "But seeing the power of breaking the crossbow, that Ma Chao is enough for Na Ma Chao to be scrupulous!"
The first time the Broken Crossbow showed its might on the battlefield, the effect was indeed amazing. Even Wei Yan and others did not think that the Broken Crossbow was so powerful. After three rounds, three hundred people were taken away.
Do n’t look at the fierce fighting of Yangping Pass, but because of the terrain, there are not many troops put into the battlefield every day. The casualties of these three hundred people are not small, and the three waves of broken military crossbows bring the enemy ’s defensive loopholes. The casualties brought by the ordinary arrow clusters are even greater, plus the normal losses of the front and back of the battle between the two sides and the casualties killed by Wei Yan with the rush of horses and horses. Ma Chao ’s losses in this battle have been at least 3,000 or even 4,000.
However, there was nothing to be proud of in the battle of defending the city. In general, Wei Yan still felt that he was losing money, and almost even lost his own life.
On the other side, although the Xiliang Army finally returned to a city under Ma Chao's strong counter-attack, the Shu army defeated failed, but after receiving the troops and returning to the camp, the atmosphere was not very high among the Chinese army.
Ma Chao sat sullenly behind the handsome case. Pound and several other generals were separated. The power of Yangpingguan's fortress was really amazing. Even if these were used to killing, even if they played against Cao Jun, Xiliang was absolutely worthwhile. There is a sense of powerlessness in the army. The powerful crossbow is one aspect. The most important thing is that in the narrow area of ​​Yangpingguan, the power of the crossbow is too great.
"How many casualties did this battle?" For a long time, Ma Chao opened his eyes, looked at the generals, and asked.
"In this battle, our army damaged more than 4,000 people. The former army was defeated, fighting with the latter army, causing our army to lose a lot." The general responsible for recording military merits came out and bowed to Ma Chao.
It was also that Wei Yan was too insidious. If the equipment for defending the city was revealed to the convenience at the beginning, it would not cause such a large number of casualties. Wei Yan chose to use the crossbow when the Xiliang Army had the strongest offensive. The crowd It was the most dense time. At that moment, three rounds of arrows came down, and there was a lot of direct losses. But what was worse was that the formation was broken up and a large number of shields died in battle, directly exposing the troops in the back row without shield protection to The casualties under the opponent's archer are more horrible than those caused by the crossbow.
Ma Chao did not speak, plus the loss of the previous siege, the 20,000 horses brought by him had already lost more than 6,000 people, and now it seems that there is no hope for breaking through the Yangping Pass. The ten crossbows alone are like a rift.
"Princess." Pound stepped forward and bowed: "It seems that Yangpingguan cannot be attacked by force now."
According to today's situation, even if the Xiliang Army will be exhausted, it may not be able to win the Yangping Pass. The attack is obviously not desirable, and only other methods can be thought of to break the city.
Ma Chao nodded silently, Pound did not say, he did not dare to attack again, today he reversed the situation and saved some disadvantages, but Ma Chao can not guarantee this effect every time, not to mention that Wei Yan suffered a defeat, Dare to leave the city easily?
How long did it take?
Ma Chao was a little bit distressed, but he didn't have many people in his family. Now he has lost half of his life in Yangping Pass. Even if he breaks through Yangping Pass, will he still have the power to attack other cities in Hanzhong?
In my heart, I couldn't help but give up a little bit of resignation, but Ma Chao did not speak out. Now let's go, this trip to Hanzhong becomes a joke, and Ma Chao's prestige will also drop greatly.
In the next few days, Ma Chao sent people to call for battle at the gate, but he did not force the city to attack. Wei Yan had seen Ma Chao ’s horror, and he would not easily go out of the city. He just kept guarding the city every day, and went up to watch from time to time. Ma Chao barracks, just in case Ma Chao thinks about any moth again.
However, Ma Chao did not completely give up. In the past few days, he has continuously sent people around to find out if there is a road that can bypass this Yangping Pass, or directly detour, and directly into Hanzhong from other places.
However, this kind of road is not easy to find, and Hanzhong is also bordered with the Qiang people, but the road that needs to be bypassed is too long, and the logistics cannot be supplied at all. As for the small road, which is unfamiliar, the Xiliang Army has searched for half a month and failed to find it. .
Ma Chao's intention to retreat was even worse, and he began to call Pound and others to discuss the matter of retreating.
"Princess, General Yang said that I don't have to worry about grain and grass. Withdrawing from the army in this way may make people laugh!" A general frowned.
Shame?
Ma Chao shook his head tiredly, and what about humiliation, Yangping couldn't break through the offense, did he run out of food here every day? Besides, in the three counties of Longyou, Ma Chao knows more than anyone. It has been a month since the army traveled. The hoarded grain and grass have almost bottomed out. If he does n’t leave, Ma Chao is afraid that he will cut off the grain directly. .
"Pass my military order, withdraw!" Ma Chao stood up and waved his hand, asserting that his mind was decided and no one could change it.
"Hello!" The generals heard the words and responded to their orders one by one, starting to pack and prepare to evacuate.
Wei Yan always pays attention to the movement of Ma Chaojun. Ma Chao began to pull out of the camp and Wei Yan discovered it naturally.
"General, did you take the opportunity to attack?" The deputy general saw Ma Chaojun pulling the camp and looked at Wei Yan with some excitement.
If it were in the past, Wei Yan would definitely not let Ma Chao go away as easily, but with the last experience of chasing, this time, Wei Yan did n’t dare to ask him, and after hesitating for a moment, Wei Yan shook his head: "I wait to be ordered The gatekeeper is that after Na Machao withdrew his troops, he sent many scouts to investigate the surrounding movements. "
Although Ma Chao was gone, Wei Yan was very clear that the crisis in Hanzhong did not end there. I am really coveted by Han Zhong, I am afraid that there is more than one Ma Chao, the real enemy, has not yet appeared.
Compared with Cao Cao, Ma Chao is really not a big deal.
but……
Wei Yan suddenly thought of a problem. If Cao Cao wanted to attack Hanzhong, Ma Chao's three counties in Longyou were behind Cao Cao. If he was Cao Cao, he would have to flatten Long You first and relieve his worries before coming to attack Hanzhong.
But why did Cao Cao have no intention of attacking Ma Chao behind for so long?
"You immediately send someone to catch up with that Ma Chao ~ EbookFREE.me ~ and send me a letter in the past!" Wei Yan suddenly looked at the lieutenant general and said in a calm voice.
"Ah?" The lieutenant general did not respond a bit. This was still fighting yesterday. Now that Ma Chao is retiring, why should he send a letter? Could it be to insult that Ma Chao? Subconsciously asked: "General, if this matter angers Na Machao, he would return to the army to attack, wouldn't it be too much trouble?"
"It's not to humiliate him, but to save him!" Wei Yan shook his head and said: "Zi Jungu has found traces of Cao Jun, apparently Cao Jun is also plotting Han, but if Cao Jun wants to attack, he must first ping Longyou three counties In order to eliminate the troubles, but since Ma Chao has been here for 20 days, the supply of food and grass in Xiliang Army is constant, I am afraid that Cao Jun wants Ma Chao to attack first, at this time Ma Chao retires, Yu Caojun is worthless, I am afraid that Cao Jun has already ambushed halfway . "
"That's the case, why should the general remind that Ma Chao?" The lieutenant said with a puzzled expression. What does Ma Chao's life and death have to do with them?
"If Ma Chao could stabilize in Longyou, Cao Jun wouldn't dare to rush into it, this is also a cold death!" Wei Yan shook his head and said, in terms of the overall situation, Wei Yan was the top kind of generals under Liu Bei's generals In this respect, I am afraid that Guan Yu and Zhang Fei can't compare.
"Well!" The lieutenant heard the words and promised quickly, and turned to arrange for someone to report.