Return to the Three Kingdoms with the Empire System

Chapter 416 Fighting wits and courage
Under Guo Jia's order, soldiers of the Yizhou Army escorted Ma Chao to quickly retreat towards the rear.

But in the same place, there were five hundred old and weak people left. Although they were trembling with fear, they still formed a defensive formation extremely firmly.

Ye Mo and others on the wall of Tongguan Pass did not open the door to pursue after seeing the retreat of the Yizhou Army.After all, there are thousands of Yizhou soldiers under the wall.

If the door is opened rashly, the Yizhou army can only be put into the pass. Even if the imperial court's army can wipe out these Yizhou army soldiers, the price paid will be much higher.

"My lord, look, the Yizhou army has withdrawn!" Ye Mo was able to calm down when he saw the Yizhou army withdrawing, but Dian Wei was not as calm as Ye Mo. He pointed directly at the retreating Yizhou army and shouted loudly shouted.

When Dian Wei yelled, those soldiers who were about to rush up the wall and fight the imperial army naturally ignored it.However, Dian Wei's voice is indeed loud, even on this battlefield, those Yizhou soldiers who climbed the ladder but have not yet reached the wall have heard Dian Wei's words.

Those people lay on the ladder, just waiting for the soldiers in front of them to rush up the wall or fall off the ladder, and then went up by themselves.

After hearing Dian Wei's words, although they didn't believe it, they unconsciously looked in the direction of Ma Chao behind them.

At a glance, it turned out that, as Dian Wei said, the large army in the rear was retreating in embarrassment, but there were hundreds of panicked soldiers left behind.

That's right, looking at it now, the [-] soldiers who were ordered by Guo Jia to stay were indeed very flustered.

The 500 soldiers left by the Yizhou Army were only hurriedly named by their chief officers.Knowing that these [-] people were just dying, how could those generals keep the few elites in their hands?
On the ladder, those Yizhou soldiers who had discovered Ma Chao's retreat were stunned, which immediately caused a fault in the attack on Tongguan.And because of the abnormality of these people, the Yizhou soldiers under Tongguan also gradually discovered the abnormality behind them.

"The general has escaped!" Someone suddenly yelled.

Although the person who made the sound was quickly chopped to the ground by the officer next to him, in this way, the Yizhou soldiers who knew that Ma Chao had retreated slowly spread from a small area to Thousands of Yizhou soldiers were attacking Tongguan.

Why Ma Chao retreated, these people did not know the reason.However, Ma Chao's retreat has become an established fact.

Soon, those Yizhou soldiers who were attacking also began to hesitate.Should we continue to attack Tongguan, or retreat directly like the troops in the rear?

Among them, some generals and Du Bos had a little guess that something was going to happen, and Ma Chao would suddenly retreat.Therefore, these people also ordered their soldiers to continue to attack Tongguan.

However, there are many more people who don't think about why Ma Chao retreated, but just take it for granted that Ma Chao treats them as abandoned children.Although, this is the fact, from the moment they received the order to attack Tongguan, they had been regarded as abandoned.

As a result, some Yizhou soldiers continued to attack Tongguan.But more Yizhou soldiers turned around and started to escape.

But all this has been planned by Guo Jia for a long time. Guo Jia wouldn't bear it if 7000 people were used as bait.Even if Ma Chao is not injured, Guo Jia will find a reason to retreat.At that time, as long as the Yizhou soldiers attacking Tongguan see it, some people will naturally choose to retreat.

The Yizhou army is like this, and the pressure on the defenders of Tongguan has indeed increased.

In the past, although there were more Yizhou troops attacking Tongguan, there were only so many ladders, and the defenders had to face only Yizhou soldiers who climbed up from the ladders.

But now, there are still so many ladders. Although there are fewer people attacking, the soldiers of the Yizhou Army are all determined to die, and their explosive fighting power immediately increases geometrically.

Of course, even if the soldiers of the Yizhou Army have the will to die, so what?Didn't the previous Tongguan defenders fail to show their full combat effectiveness?
At this time, as long as the Tongguan defenders hold on to the Yizhou Army's first wave of attack, after that...the remaining Yizhou soldiers can also launch a wave of attack.

"My lord, when will we start chasing the enemy general?" Qu Yi saw that the attacking Yizhou army had started to flee, so he immediately approached Ye Mo and asked.

Qu Yi's first camp was full of elites, but they were not arranged on the city wall of Tongguan, but were lined up behind the closed gate.Anyone who sees this can see that Ye Mo has the idea of ​​letting the camp go out first to pursue the Yizhou army.

However, at this time Ye Mo glanced at Qu Yi, but there was a self-consciously bright smile on his face. "Qu Yi, when I just defended the city, I saw you killed the enemy bravely, so you must be a little tired at this time..."

"Lord, don't worry, I'm not tired." When Qu Yi heard Ye Mo praising himself, his face suddenly smiled like a flower, and he kept saying that he was "not tired."

However, when Ye Mo said this, he naturally had his own plans. "Qu Yi's words are wrong. A tired general will inevitably make some small mistakes. It would be bad if the soldiers suffer losses because of this. Therefore, I decided to let Xu Rong lead the camp temporarily. , to pursue the enemy general."

When Ye Mo said this, the smile on Qu Yi's face suddenly became as ugly as a chrysanthemum.It's just that Qu Yi also understands Ye Mo, since he said so, it means that Ye Mo already thought so.

As for Ye Mo doing this, he really had this idea a long time ago.Although Qu Yi was trained to go to the camp first, Qu Yi always fought fiercely when fighting, and this also created a heroic tradition of "being the first to go to the camp" and "death without heels".

But Xu Rong is different. Xu Rong fights fiercely, but more importantly, Xu Rong is good at using his brain.

Ye Mo has already guessed that the military advisor of the Yizhou Army is Guo Jia. In fact, there is no need to guess too much. There is no more powerful strategist than Guo Jia around Ma Chao at this time.Of course, except for Xu Shu, Xu Shu has not turned to Ma Chao yet.

Ma Chao's move this time was obviously intended to lure the defenders in Tongguan to fight.

Although Xu Rong is not Guo Jia's opponent, at least Xu Rong is a little more reliable than Qu Yi.What's more, there are only a few people left at the time of boarding the camp first. Even if Ye Mo personally took these people to chase, if he fell into Guo Jia's trick, he would die.

However, Ye Mo would not really push Xu Rong to a dead end.

Since the Yizhou army was able to throw out a bait, Ye Mo would naturally need to pay back one in order to "return the bait".

The Tongguan battlefield has become the venue for Ye Mo and Guo Jia to compete.The two sides are fighting wits and courage, but they don't know who will be the wiser in the end.

(End of this chapter)