Actually, Wang Ping really didn't have this idea. It was entirely Sima Yi who thought too much.
The Wudang Feijun outside the west gate has remained stationary for the past two days because of the Wudang Feijun's own combat methods.
The Wudang Feijun has never been a force used to attack the city head-on. After the Wudang Feijun experienced its first battle as an army and suffered heavy losses, both Zhang Xi and Zhuge Liang had to fight against Wang Ping more than once. The commander of Wudang Feijun emphasized.
What the Wudang Fei Army should do is to infiltrate, raid, and take things by surprise. Wang Ping must take this issue into consideration at all times when formulating the Wudang Fei Army's combat plan.
Using the Wudang Feijun to attack the city is the worst choice, and with the current combat power of the Wudang Feijun, there is nothing that can be done against Wancheng in front of them.
Wang Ping actually had his own battle ideas. However, due to the failure of the sneak attack two days ago, Wang Ping had been waiting for the Wei army on the upper floor of the West City to slowly relax their vigilance before he could implement Wang Ping's next tactical arrangements. .
They had just been attacked by someone. Needless to say, in the past two or three days, the Wei army would definitely not leave any loopholes for Wudang Feijun to exploit. Therefore, Wang Ping, out of this consideration, stood still and followed what Sima Yi predicted. "The strategy of exhausting troops" has nothing to do with it.
As for the extra thousand soldiers sent out of the camp, they were actually sent by Wang Ping to the direction of Li County to guard against the Wei army coming from the direction of Li County and attacking their own retreat.
In a short period of time, Wang Ping did not want to take action against Wancheng. He was waiting for the opportunity for Wei Jun to relax his defense vigilance.
There is no expectation that the Wei army will completely relax their vigilance. After all, they are now at the gate of the city. No matter how relaxed they are, they cannot turn a blind eye to the enemy troops outside the city.
Wang Ping only needed the Wei army's patrol frequency to drop slightly before he could launch the next battle plan.
Infiltration operations.
This time, Wang Ping did not plan to continue the night attack and siege. Instead, he asked the Wudang Feijun to form a group of five people. They chose the period between the Wei army's inspections to use their claws to climb the city wall and lurk inside Wancheng. Can.
You don't need too many troops, just two to three hundred people are enough.
The next step is to wait until the time is right to create chaos in the city, affect the morale of the defenders, and cooperate with the frontal attack of the Jingzhou Army to attack the city.
This is the way to fight to maximize the combat effectiveness of the Wudang Fei Army.
From Sima Yi's perspective, he really didn't understand what the Shu thieves outside the west gate were doing.
Since the failure of the night attack on the first day, the defenders outside the west gate have been stationed on the spot and stationary. This made Sima Yi very uneasy.
With such an elite fighting force doing nothing right under your nose, no one can completely relax.
In order to prevent this from being a tactic of exhausting the enemy's troops, Sima Yi not only had his second son Sima Zhao stationed at the west gate as the commander, but also arranged for two thousand defenders of the west gate to rest in shifts and to guard against the enemy for twelve hours. Possible sneak attack.
But the Shu thieves outside the west gate were stunned and there was no movement at all.
It also means that Sima Yi is seriously short of troops and defending the city is hard work. He really doesn't have the energy to go out of the city to fight. Otherwise, Sima Yi will lead his troops out of the city to test what the Shu thieves want to do outside the west gate.
A few days passed like this. During the day, Sima Yi had to face a strong attack from the Jingzhou Army outside the South City Gate and needed to take charge of the defense of Wancheng. At night, he had to count the ordnance in the city and patrol the defenders to boost morale. He was really busy.
At this time, Sima Zhao, who was stationed at the west gate, brought some bad news to Sima Yi.
The Shu thieves outside the west gate finally took action.
But it was not a large-scale operation. The main force of the Shu thieves outside the west gate was still in the camp and did not come out. They just sent out some...well, even Sima Zhao didn't know how to describe it as a "small force".
The scale was too small, with only five people in a group. Sima Zhao was embarrassed to say that these were serious infantry soldiers.
In the past two days, the city defenders gradually discovered that the Shu thieves outside the west gate took advantage of the cover of night to climb up the city wall with a small number of troops. They quickly fled into the inner city and disappeared before the defenders arrived to encircle and suppress them.
After Sima Zhao received the report from the defenders, he did not be careless. Instead, he thought calmly and personally led his troops to set up an ambush. Situating on the city wall actually allowed Sima Yi to block a group of useless flying troops who tried to cross the city wall and lurk into Wancheng. internal.
After a moderately fierce battle, there were five members of this Wudang Flying Army. Three were dead and two were injured. There was nothing they could do. The two injured Shu thieves were rescued by Sima Zhao and tortured for information.
Anyway, Sima Zhao couldn't understand the purpose of this five-man team sneaking into the city.
And not all of the Wudangfei soldiers who were captured were men who regarded death as home. In these days, having enough to eat and drink was the greatest luxury. As for the emperor's desire to revive the Han Dynasty, it really had little to do with the soldiers at the bottom. .
Therefore, since he was captured, the soldier told everything he knew in order to survive.
But the problem is that most of the soldiers of the Wudang Feijun are selected from the foreign races in Nanzhong. These people have excellent physical fitness, but most of their brains are not very good. In addition, when the Wudang Feijun formed an army, they Already aware of this, for ordinary soldiers, you only need to tell them what to do, there is no need to tell them why to do it.
Therefore, the soldier only knew that he was ordered to climb over the city wall and enter the city to lurk, but he did not know the details of what he was going to do. The squad leader who really knew the details had already died on the tower.
Seeing that Sima Zhao couldn't find any valuable information, he had no choice but to report to Sima Yi first to see if his father could guess the purpose of the Shu thieves.
Even though Sima Zhao was half-hearted, he still admired his father's strategic wisdom from the bottom of his heart. If his father couldn't guess it, I'm afraid no one else would be able to guess it that day.
Then... Sima Yi was also worried.
He can't understand it either.
According to Sima Zhao, the Shu thieves outside the west gate used a group of five people to sneak into the city in batches this time. This method is more like a detailed arrangement than an army battle.
It was too scattered and not large-scale. It was even very likely that the soldiers would lose contact with each other after entering the city.
Sima Yi couldn't figure out what big role these soldiers who had sneaked into the city could play. Since ancient times, the role of Xizuo was to convey information. It was of great use, but of no use.
What on earth do the Shu thieves want to do? !
In this era, it is not that there is no precedent for infiltration operations, but most of the previous infiltration operations involved sending small groups of elite troops to penetrate behind the enemy's rear. For example, during the Battle of Guandu, Cao Cao personally led the elite troops to sneak attack Wuchao, or they disguised themselves as enemy troops. To carry out key strikes against the enemy, for example, during the founding of the Later Han Dynasty, Jiehou Feng Yi led his troops to defeat the Red Eyebrow Army. No matter which infiltration operation case it was, it was an organized operation, with a troop strength of more than a thousand people.
Just a few hundred people were forced to death. They climbed the city wall and infiltrated into the city, then hid themselves. It was difficult to communicate with each other. What kind of combat method was this? !
Once the troops are dispersed, is it so easy to gather them again? !
There was no command from the general, and it all relied on the soldiers to act on their own initiative. From the beginning, the infiltration was carried out in teams of five. It was not large-scale at all. No matter how much he thought about it, Sima Yi couldn't figure out how such an infiltration could be carried out other than a detailed operation. significance.
Sima Yi couldn't figure it out, but Sima Yi knew very well that since this was done deliberately by the Shu thieves outside the city, it must be a confident act.
Now he couldn't guess what the enemy's purpose was, but within Wancheng, there were only a few points that needed to be defended.
The first is the four city gates. Sima Yi ordered that patrols and guards must be strengthened day and night to prevent small groups of Shu thieves from raiding the city. They should cooperate with the Shu thieves outside the city to open the city gates.
Secondly, it is a storage point for military supplies and weapons. Sima Yi also began to order to strengthen the garrison to prevent Shu thieves from burning food, grass and weapons.
Third, strengthening patrols was a bit too passive. Sima Yi believed that he still needed to take the initiative, so he ordered more patrols and inspections in the city, encouraged the people in the city to report unfamiliar faces, and offered a reward of ten gold for catching a Shu thief. .
After taking these countermeasures, Sima Yi felt a little more at ease.
After repeatedly asking Sima Zhao to continue to guard the west city gate and not to slack off, Sima Yi returned his mind to the deployment of defense operations on the frontal battlefield.
This is the current top priority of Wancheng's defense.
Immediately afterwards, the next day, the Jingzhou Army outside the city, led by Guan Ping, launched another attack on Wancheng.
For nearly a month, the Jingzhou Army used this ant attack method almost every day to attack Wancheng by exchanging injuries for injuries.
Although very efficient, this is the only offensive method that the Jingzhou Army can use to pose a real threat to Wancheng.
In the past, battles were basically fought around city walls. Regardless of who led the attack, whether it was a fierce general like Guan Ping or Kou Feng, or a wise general like Wang Ji or Deng Ai, the actual effect of the attack was not Great.
After a month of offensive, the Wei army defending the city probably suffered nearly 10,000 casualties, but the Jingzhou army attacking the city had also suffered more than 26,000 casualties.
There is no way. In the battle to defend the city, the losses of the attacking side are definitely greater than those of the defending side. The ratio of nearly one to three is already considered a very low battle loss ratio.
But today's battle. Guan Ping suddenly found that it seemed to be easier to fight.
Although Guan Ping was not sure about the reason, it must have something to do with the many plumes of thick smoke that suddenly appeared in the city.
At this time, in Wancheng City, Sima Yi had already begun to jump anxiously.
More than 30 places in Wancheng caught fire at almost the same time. If you say that this matter has nothing to do with the Shu thieves, you won't believe it even if you kill Sima Yi.
The siege was going on outside the city, and more than 30 places inside the city were on fire at the same time. Although the losses might not necessarily be huge, the impact on the morale of the soldiers was very large.
Some soldiers who were a little unsteady, seeing the fire in the city, might have thought that the other city gates had been lost and the Shu thieves had already invaded the city.
Therefore, Sima Yi immediately dispatched his reserve team. On the one hand, he rushed to put out more than 30 fires in the city to prevent the fire from spreading and shake the morale of the army. On the other hand, Sima Yi also ordered that strict inspections must be carried out along the way, and Shu could not be allowed to The thieves continue to be so rampant.
Good guy, more than 30 places were on fire at the same time, and the coverage even affected most of the inner city of Wan City. Now Sima Yi understood, how effective were these "detailed operations" sent by the Shu thieves outside the west gate to the city two days ago? It worked.
How can you still play like this? !
(End of chapter)
