Chapter 119 Another showdown in fate

Cao Shuang obviously ignored one thing. Although the speed of the Wei army was not slow, the speed was almost the same at most. In addition, the cavalry under Ma Qiu committed crimes, they would burn the village after three incense sticks, which did not give Cao army cavalry time to react. The Cao army cavalry did not have a good effect.

In May, Guan Ping temporarily replaced Xu Shu and went to the front line to Hebei military camp, while Xu Shu returned to Luoyang to meet A Dou.

Guan Ping followed Guan Yu for many years. Although he was not as capable as Guan Yu in leading troops, he was more than enough to guard a Hebei camp.

Luoyang.

"Teacher, these are fresh fruits and melons that have just been paid tribute from the Western Regions. Please try it." A Dou picked up a piece of watermelon.

In the 2000th BC, watermelons were planted in Egypt, and later passed through the Mediterranean to the Middle East and the Western Regions. However, in the Han Dynasty, watermelons were only planted in the Western Regions, and watermelons were not yet the Central Plains.

"Trade was from the Western Regions?" Xu Shu picked up a piece of watermelon, looked at the red melon meat, and then said, "It was rumored that when Shennong tasted hundreds of herbs, he once found a melon with a lot of water and sparse meat. It was called 'sparse melon', but this thing?"

"Oh, it turns out that the name watermelon was called in the Three Kingdoms era." A Dou nodded secretly, it was obvious that "sparse melon" sounded like watermelon.

"Teacher, it's been more than a year now, and the people, horses, food and grass are consumed a lot. When will we attack?" A Dou asked.

"Your Majesty, don't worry, it's not too late yet." Xu Shu put down the watermelon in his hand and then asked: "Your Majesty, if the two fight each other, they will compete with martial arts, physical strength, and endurance; when the two armies fight, they will compete with whether the commander commands in the front line are appropriate, and whether the soldiers use their lives; when the two countries fight, they will fight with money, food and people! In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, all the strong countries are strong in money, food and taxation. With money, they can recruit soldiers and horses, and they can fight thousands of miles, but if they don't have enough money, they will be unable to fight."

Xu Shu paused and continued: "There are two ways to destroy a country. One is to drive the army straight up, capture the city and territory, capture the enemy's people, capture the enemy's soldiers, recruit the enemy's officials, destroy the enemy's capital, and capture the enemy's kings. In this way, one can destroy a country. As for the second method, it is to use strategy, either to alienate, provoke, induce, or torture, or torture, or torture, and to surrender without fighting. Although the Wei State has only one state left, it is still very powerful and attacks with its troops, and the losses are huge, so it is best to use strategy to attack it!"

"Now Jizhou has only one state, but it has to support a large army of 400,000! So what we have to do is to cut off its money, grain and taxes. If there is no money, what will Cao Rui use to support this 400,000 army! Send cavalry to attack and destroy its fields. When the next autumn harvest is harvested, the Wei State's grain and taxes will inevitably be greatly reduced. In the long run, only two or three years will the Wei State's national strength decline. By then, the people will not be able to fill their stomachs, the clothes will not be covered, the army will have no money to purchase equipment, and the court will have no money to pay salaries to officials. At that time, officials, soldiers and people will be disloyal, and the Wei State will collapse without fighting."

"This is a fresh method. This is the first time I have heard of it. If you think about it carefully, it makes sense." Adou nodded and said.

"Your Majesty, this method is not only applicable to Jizhou. If Your Majesty wants to attack Jiangdong in the future, in addition to the navy, you can also use this method to lead the Eastern Wu to disintegrate it inside." Xu Shu continued.

At this moment, Zhang Yi ran in from outside in panic.

"Zhang Yi, why are you panic?" A Dou asked.

"Your Majesty, I just received the news that Gongsun Yuan ordered Deng Ai to be the commander and lead 300,000 troops to attack our Youzhou!" Zhang Yi said.

"Hmph, this Gongsun Yuan finally couldn't sit still." Adou shook his head slightly, and then said, "Deng Ai's ability is probably no less than that of Jiang Wei and Zhang Yi. He immediately sent an order to order Guan Xing and Zhang Bao to lead 50,000 troops to support Youzhou, and ordered the two of them to obey Jiang Wei's orders in everything."

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Youzhou.

Deng Ai led 300,000 troops and hundreds of generals. He sent troops to Jicheng. The one who greeted Deng Ai was his old enemy Jiang Wei.

Perhaps because of fate, Deng Ai and Jiang Wei had the urge to kill each other as soon as they met. The two of them didn't say much nonsense, and they started fighting after meeting.

The swords and guns intersected, and the two horses slammed and kicked. Jiang Wei quickly turned the horse's head and prepared to turn around and kill him.

From morning to now, the two have killed more than 300 rounds, and it is still difficult to decide the outcome.

The two of them have similar martial arts skills, and they are both very superb. They look wonderful when fighting and look very good. However, none of the soldiers in the two armies have the intention to appreciate their martial arts.

You know, both of them are coaches.

Although it was very popular to fight one-on-one by military generals during the Three Kingdoms period, it was rare for the coach to fight one-on-one by one. What's more, Jiang Wei and Deng Ai had more than 10,000 or 20,000 people under him. The two of them combined had an army of hundreds of thousands and nearly a thousand. In this case, the coach would have gone too far to fight one-on-one.

For either side, if the coach makes mistakes, even a little mistake will have a huge blow to the morale of the army. Originally, all the soldiers persuaded the two not to fight, but when these two enemies met, they both chose to fight and could not persuade them.

At this time, Deng Ai and Jiang Wei were fighting on the battlefield happily, but the soldiers on both sides were all hanging high, and even the soldiers who were beating the drum were three more nervous than usual.

Finally, at dusk, both sides stopped at the same time, not because they didn't want to fight, nor because they were dark, but because the horses were tired and could no longer hold on.

Both of them rode a good horse. Jiang Wei's war horse was one of the five sweat-blooded horses brought by Ma Qiu from the Western Regions. It was originally a tribute to A Dou, the best of the few sweat-blooded horses. Later, A Dou rewarded Jiang Wei. After Deng Ai defected to Gongsun Yuan, Gongsun Yuan even invested a lot of money to win over Deng Ai, including the best war horse. The war horse that Gongsun Yuan gave to Deng Ai was originally ridden by the Great Khan of Wuwan, and was the best war horse on the grassland.

The physical strength of the BMW is far greater than that of ordinary war horses. Even this high-tempo confrontation has been supported for a whole day, but at dusk, these two best war horses still can't hold on.

Both of them were extremely caring about their war horses. When they saw that the horse could not hold on, they stopped at the same time.

"Jiang Wei, your horse can no longer hold on. I, Deng Ai, don't want to take advantage of you. Go back quickly and change the horse and fight again!" Deng Ai shouted.

"Hmph, I think your horse can't hold on anymore. I want to find this excuse to go back and change the horse. Forget it, I, Jiang Wei, will help you!" Jiang Wei said with a loss and refused to eat.

The two of them returned to the camp, changed horses, then drank water, ate something, replenished their energy, and then went to fight again. At this time, it was already dark.

"Jiang Wei, do you dare to fight with me at night?"

"Why don't you dare? I, Jiang Wei, are still afraid that you will not succeed!" Jiang Wei said arrogantly.

The soldiers on both sides immediately lit torches. The soldiers on both sides seemed to be competing, and the torches also compared. In a blink of an eye, countless torches were erected, and the battlefield was illuminated like daylight.

The silver spear in Jiang Wei's hand shone with dazzling light under the fire, while the big knife in Deng Ai's hand was also very dazzling. At this time, the Mars produced by the collision of the two weapons became less conspicuous.

The two continued to fight, but gradually Jiang Wei found that Deng Ai's rhythm seemed to slow down a lot, and he no longer maintained a fast pace like he did at the beginning.

"Are Deng Ai already tired?" Jiang Wei thought to himself.

Deng Ai is only a few years older than Jiang Wei, and both sides are in their prime, and their physical strength is almost the same. Although Jiang Wei also felt tired at this time, he was far from being unable to keep up with this fast pace.

Jiang Wei judged others by himself and soon discovered the problem.

"Is there a fraud?" This thought flashed through Jiang Wei's mind.

At this moment, a black shadow suddenly came out from Deng Ai opposite and rushed towards Jiang Wei.

"Not good!" Jiang Wei screamed in surprise, and then used all his strength to dodge. However, he was one step late. Black was the best cover for this black hidden weapon. In the dark night, when Jiang Wei found that the hidden weapon was attacking, it was too late.

"Puchi!" Although Jiang Wei avoided the vital points, he was still hit.

"Deng Ai, you are so despicable! No wonder you want to fight at night, you actually have this kind of idea."

"Despicable? Hahaha, you, Jiang Wei, are you a long-time general on the battlefield, won't you be fooled by the soldiers?" Deng Ai said, and immediately rushed towards the injured Jiang Wei.

Jiang Wei was not a fool either, and he would not wait for Deng Ai to come and chop him down. Jiang Wei suddenly pulled his horse and turned around and ran back.

"Jiang Wei don't go! Rush me and capture Jiang Wei!" Deng Ai shouted immediately, and the deep red Liaodong soldiers rushed up immediately.

Although the injuries suffered by Jiang Wei were not fatal, his defeat as the head coach was extremely affecting morale. Although the Han generals tried their best to stabilize their positions, they still suffered great losses. Fortunately, it was just at night, which was not conducive to soldiers' combat, so Deng Ai's attack was only a brief attempt, and then he summoned the troops.

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Jicheng, Han army camp.

The medical officer walked out of Jiang Wei's tent, and the soldiers immediately surrounded him.

"Please rest assured that the generals' injuries are not serious. They just need to take a few days of rest. I'm afraid that they will not be able to go to the battlefield in the past month." The medical officer said.

"Hu..." Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, but then frowned. Now that the battle is imminent, the enemy is right in front of them. How can Jiang Wei, as the head coach, go to rest?

"By the way, generals, generals, please come in." The medical officer continued.

"Okay, everyone go in and visit Jiang Shuai." The soldiers walked into the tent one after another.

At this time, Jiang Wei was lying on the bed, looking very good, but her face was a little pale.

"Jiang Shuai, are you okay?"

"Hahaha, don't worry, I'm fine, I'm just a minor injury, so why bother. I just didn't expect that Deng Ai would use this despicable measure." Jiang Wei said.

"Shuai Jiang, now you are injured. Deng Ai will definitely take this opportunity to attack in a large scale tomorrow. What should we do?"
Chapter completed!