Wang Ping sent people to Chencang Road. On the one hand, he wanted to confirm his judgment. On the other hand, he also hoped that the garrison in the direction of Chencang Road could provide him with some military assistance. If he really couldn't send troops, he could send some supplies of food, grass and ordnance. OK.
After all, he only had four days of food left on him. If there was an accident, or if the defenders were cruel and burned down the granary when attacking the camp, Wang Ping would really have no place to cry.
As for the Wei army camp behind Sanguan, Wang Ping is really not in a hurry.
The main purpose of establishing Sanguan is to guard against the enemy troops in Longyou and to protect the pass.
Therefore, during construction, the side facing Longyou was the front of the pass, and the side facing Guanzhong was the back of the pass.
The front of the pass is naturally an open area, and not even half a tree can be seen in the area ten miles ahead.
But behind the pass, there is a small town responsible for providing supplies for the pass, and on the periphery of the town, there are some fortresses and fortresses responsible for defense.
Generally speaking, the main defense point of Sanguan is in front of Sanguan, not behind Sanguan.
Now Zhao Yun is leading the army to attack the pass before dispersing. Most of the Wei army's attention is in front of the pass. For a while, the defense behind the pass is not sufficient. There are only a hundred people guarding a camp at most.
Wang Ping led more than 2,000 people. Even if he divided his troops into two groups, it was not a big problem to conquer one or two camps.
As long as these two camps are conquered, Wang Ping will have access to the town. If everything goes well, it will not be a troublesome thing to plunder the supplies inside the town for his own use.
According to his own ideas, Wang Ping divided half of the troops to his captain and asked him to attack one camp, while Wang Ping personally led the troops to attack another camp.
There are indeed only a hundred soldiers in the camp, and they are definitely not Wang Ping's opponents. It only takes less than an hour to attack these camps.
But Wang Ping unexpectedly discovered that Wei Jun's reaction seemed a little different from what he thought.
According to Wang Ping's expectation, the Wei army in the camp should be surprised and panicked when faced with the sudden appearance of thousands of enemy troops.
In fact, the Wei army in the camp was panicked for a while because of the sudden appearance of Wang Ping's leader.
Wang Ping did take advantage of this moment to launch an attack in an attempt to capture the camp. But soon Wang Ping discovered something was wrong.
The soldiers in the camp, after a period of panic, started to set fire to their camp as if they had suddenly received a valid order. What does this mean? ! Don’t you plan to take over these camps? !
The next actions of the Wei army really proved this point. After the Wei army in the camp set fire to the camp, they had no intention of fighting Wang Ping's army and quickly evacuated the camp.
Yes, evacuation, not disintegration. This is an organized retreat.
Wang Ping felt it was strange, but Wang Ping had no intention of sending people to pursue him now. If he pursued them, it would be a trap or not, and the camp that was set ablaze would really not be able to be saved.
Wang Ping also hoped to rely on these camps to obtain some supplies of food, grass, ordnance, and to block the reinforcements sent by Sanguan.
In the end, Wang Ping decided to suspend the advance and use the entire army to put out the fire and rescue the food and grass that might be hoarded in the camp.
At this time, Zhu Zan, who was leading 5,000 Cao Wei imperial troops and was preparing to support Mei County, had also led his troops to the outskirts of the town.
It is only a day and a half's march from Sanguan to this town.
Zhu Zan led the army to set out yesterday morning and arrived here after a day and a half of march. He was about to enter the town to rest for a while and obtain supplies. However, he saw a fire in the defensive camp to the east of the town.
Although Zhu Zan did not have the strategy and vision of Sun Li, Zhu Zan knew the military commander of Sanguan very well during this period. After all, he was one of the generals guarding Sanguan.
After Sun Li learned of the changes on Chencang Road through his scouts, he issued a military order as a precaution - if there was a large-scale attack by enemy soldiers behind the pass, the camp defenders were not allowed to fight, and they immediately burned down the camp and retreated into the pass.
Therefore, as soon as Zhu Zan saw that the two camps on the east side of the town were on fire at the same time, he immediately ordered the entire army to be on alert and quickly entered the town to prepare for defensive operations.
If only one camp caught fire, it was possible that the fire was caused by the negligence of the garrison soldiers. If two camps caught fire at the same time, no need to ask, it must be the Shu army attacking.
After all, Chencang Road has changed. Although it is not known whether Chencang Road has been breached, it is not impossible for the Shu army to attack the towns behind Sanguan at this time.
However, Zhu Zan is still not sure whether this is because the Shu army has already broken through Chencang Road and is aggressively attacking Sanguan, or whether the Shu army's scouts are creating chaos.
Therefore, while Zhu Zan ordered to enter the town and defend it, he immediately sent out military scouts to investigate the situation.
In less than a quarter of an hour, Zhu Zan got the information he wanted.
It was indeed the Shu army attacking the camp, but the number was not large, only more than 2,000 people. At this time, only two of the Dongtou camps in the town had been lost, and the remaining four camps were still in their own hands.
When Zhu Zan heard this situation, he immediately felt more relieved.
On the one hand, Zhu Zan was also glad that he arrived in time enough that the Shu army's attack had not yet fully launched.
On the other hand, if there were more than two thousand Shu troops, if he had not come, the town might not be able to be saved, but now that he had come, it would be bad luck for the general of the Shu army on the opposite side.
He came with a total of five thousand Wei Central Forbidden Army.
The Central Forbidden Army of the Wei Dynasty was expanded from the Qingzhou Soldiers and the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry. Although it is not as strong as the previous combat effectiveness, as a rare elite soldier in the world, it is still no problem to fight against ordinary soldiers one against two.
But now, there are only 2,000 Shu soldiers on the opposite side. With such a huge advantage, if they don't beat him up, they won't be able to live up to the name of the Wei Imperial Army.
Zhu Zan was full of confidence, and so were the Central Guards of Wei Dynasty. And Wang Ping was also full of confidence.
At this time, Wang Ping also learned about the Wei army's reinforcements through his scouts.
Wang Ping was really surprised at the speed of the Wei army's reinforcements. He had just put out the fire in the camp and grabbed some food supplies, and the enemy's reinforcements had already arrived.
The speed of the arrival of reinforcements is really unexpected. Could it be that the town guard of Wei Jun is a capable person? !
But soon, Wang Ping learned from the information reported by the scouts that the Wei army came to the rescue with a total of 5,000 people. This was not a Wei army specifically coming to rescue the town. A small town could never accommodate an army of 5,000 people.
This should be the Wei army sent by Sanguan to support Mei County.
Wang Ping was immediately extremely happy that it was such a coincidence that he was blocked like this.
After all, the purpose of Wang Ping's trip was not to block this supporting army and prevent them from supporting Mei County.
It was really God's blessing. Wang Ping didn't dare to think about whether he would have let the support army go directly if he arrived behind Sanguan a day later. Then his trip would have been in vain.
As for the disadvantage of military strength, Wang Ping is not very worried.
What's so great about the Wei army? After the Northern Expedition in the past few years, the Wei army is just like this. The Han army is no worse than the Wei army.
What's more, Wang Ping himself was very confident in the Wudang Feijun he had trained.
On the flat ground, the Wudang Feijun's combat effectiveness was second only to the Baijie soldiers, and was a level higher than the average Dahan County soldiers.
In the mountains, even the white soldiers are no match for the flying army.
Now he has an unworthy flying army of 2,500 people, and his opponent is only 5,000 Wei troops guarding the pass. What are you afraid of? Just fight head-on.
In this way, the generals of both sides were extremely confident and led their troops to fight.
Wang Ping could only occupy two camps at a time, and less than half of the two camps were burned down, so the defense was insufficient, so Wang Ping chose to fight the enemy in the field.
Zhu Zan, on the other hand, had full confidence in the forbidden army he led. In addition, there were four camps and an entire town as his backyard, so Zhu Zan also chose to fight Wang Ping in the field.
Then. As soon as the two armies fought, the generals on both sides were shocked.
Is the combat effectiveness of the soldiers on the opposite side a bit illegal? !
In Wang Ping's view, the armor coverage rate of the Wei soldiers on the opposite side was too high. Almost every soldier had leather armor, and it was not the kind of small piece of leather armor that only protected the vital parts, but the one that protected the entire upper body. That kind of half-body leather armor, and even the hat had such an armor coverage rate, Wang Ping had only seen it on white soldiers.
In Zhu Zan's view, although the equipment of the Shu soldiers on the opposite side looked tattered and irregular, the vital parts that should be protected were also protected. The most important thing was that the opponent's attack rhythm was very fast, and the soldiers Extraordinarily brave.
The first collision between the two elite troops resulted in a lose-lose situation for both sides.
On the Wei army's side, the armor coverage rate is extremely high, and the soldiers are well trained, their combat effectiveness is quite strong, and they still have an advantage in numbers.
On the Han army's side, the armor coverage rate is a little worse, but the fighting style of the soldiers is brave, especially the team coordination ability is obviously better than that of the Wei army, and they are better at fighting in a small area. Most importantly, in terms of the durability and sharpness of the ordnance, , the Han army was one step ahead of the Wei army.
The two sides fought for a quarter of an hour, but Wang Ping and Zhu Zan never lowered their eyebrows.
In this short quarter of an hour, both sides suffered more than a hundred casualties. It would be of no benefit to anyone to continue fighting like this.
Zhu Zan can tolerate it a little, after all, there are many others, and he can still bear the casualties of more than a hundred people.
But Zhu Zan's main mission is not to fight a group of Shu troops who came out of nowhere. His mission is to reinforce Mei County. If there are too many casualties here, even if he goes to Mei County, it will not be enough. It's just to give people military exploits.
On Wang Ping's side, he was already heartbroken.
Within a quarter of an hour, more than a hundred casualties were reported. Ever since the Fei Army came into being, there had never been such serious casualties.
Last time at Jieting, Wudang's flying army of 3,000 people attacked Zhang He's 10,000-strong army. They fought for more than two hours and only suffered casualties of more than 500 people. According to today's casualty ratio, if it really had to last two hours, Wudang would have been defeated. When the flying army is over, it should be completely wiped out.
No, we absolutely cannot continue to fight like this.
After all, Wang Ping is an excellent general. In terms of command and response, he is much better than his opponent Zhu Zan.
After thinking for a while, Wang Ping ordered the entire army to retreat while fighting and lure the enemy into the mountains and forests.
As for Zhu Zan, watching the Wei army slowly take advantage of the battlefield and begin to suppress the Shu army, forcing the Shu army to retreat, Zhu Zan did not have much doubt.
First of all, in Zhu Zan's eyes, this is normal.
After all, he was leading the imperial army of the Wei Dynasty, and his combat effectiveness was originally the highest among the soldiers of the Wei Dynasty.
Although the enemy army relied on their bloody bravery to fight back and forth with the Forbidden Army for a while, it could not last long after all.
Secondly, in Zhu Zan's view, he has the superior force after all. If he continues to use up his troops like this, sooner or later the Shu army commander will be unable to hold on. It will only be a matter of time before he retreats slowly.
Therefore, Zhu Zan had no doubts at all and immediately ordered the entire army to follow up, suppress the Shu army, and pursue the Shu army.
In this way, Wang Ping fought and retreated on the road, and Zhu Zan fought and chased on the road. Gradually, the Wei army was led by the Shu army into the mountain road and forest.
Seeing that part of the vanguard of the Wei army had pursued them into the mountains and forests, Zhu Zan finally came to his senses at this time.
Don't enter the woods, this is the basic battlefield creed!
Although Zhu Zan was not a famous general, he was still a qualified general. At this time, he finally remembered this basic battlefield principle and quickly ordered the entire army to suspend the pursuit.
At this time, Wang Ping could only sigh. The enemy general was not an idiot after all! ! !
Just accept it when it's good. Eat as much as you can. No matter how greedy you are, I'm afraid there won't be anything left.
Wang Ping immediately ordered the entire army to form small teams and take advantage of the mountainous terrain to counterattack across the board!
It's hard to say that Wei Jun didn't enter the mountains and forests, but if he did, don't even think about getting out! ! !
(End of chapter)
