Seeing that Zhuge Ke was about to be captured in hefei New City, Zhang Tering, the Wei general who was defending the city, made a move and played a small trick, and he sent someone to send a letter of request to Zhuge Ke, hoping to give himself a little time to prepare before surrendering. After Zhuge Ke received the letter, he was naturally very happy, and since the other side wanted to surrender, there was no need to continue the attack.
But Zhang Te disappointed Zhuge Ke, he took advantage of the suspension of the Wu army to attack, just that night, the weak points of the city were repaired, and when it was dawn, a strong new city of Hefei reappeared in front of Zhuge Ke, and Zhang Te naturally surrendered without going out of the city as promised.
After such a long period of tossing and turning, it was hard to see hope, and now another basin of cold water was poured over, and the combat effectiveness of the Wu Army could no longer be lifted, coupled with the fact that the weather was getting hot day by day at that time, many problems also came, because of the local water source, many Wu Jun suffered from diarrhea and athlete's foot disease, and the number was really quite large, almost more than half of it!
With the progress of time day by day, the Wu army began to have large-scale non-combat casualties, according to the custom, each military camp will report the number of casualties to Zhuge Ke every day, but at this time Zhuge Ke has been a little red-eyed, he feels that this is the performance of everyone cowering in battle, in order to withdraw the army to lie about the number of casualties, and even threatened to kill those who lie. This time it was good, the war was not fatal, telling the truth would lose its head, and no one dared to report the casualties anymore.
Although he was happy to deceive himself for a while, Zhuge Ke also knew in his heart that this attack on the State of Wei was indeed a mistake, and the small city in front of him could not be taken for a long time, and he was more and more annoyed in his heart, and he hung his emotions on his face every day, and the generals under his opponents had no patience at all.
Once, General Zhu Yi made some suggestions, because it was a little different from Zhuge Ke's thinking, he was furious and deprived Zhu Yi of his military power. The capital lieutenant Cai Lin offered advice to Zhuge Ke several times, but none of them were adopted, and Cai Lin simply surrendered to the State of Wei in a fit of anger, and also made a perfect report on the actual situation of the Wu army to Sima Shi. Sima Shi nodded, and the time I was waiting for had already appeared. He immediately ordered Sima Fu and Wen Qin to immediately lead a large army to attack the Wu army together with the Wei army in Hefei New City.
This was really finished, Wu Jun, who originally did not have much fighting spirit, was sandwiched by wei jun, zhuge Ke was reluctant in his heart, and he could not close his eyes and wait for Wei jun to catch him, so he had to order the withdrawal of his troops. However, the Wei army was prepared this time, and they launched a crazy pursuit and killing of the Wu army, and there were more than 10,000 Wu troops who were killed and captured.
The Wu army suffered heavy casualties, but Zhuge Ke did not seem to be affected at all, and he took the Wu army to retreat to the Jiangzhu area, where he lived for a month. In this month's time, Zhuge Ke should have sorted out his thoughts. I don't know if he was strong enough to not be defeated by this defeat, or if he was hit too hard and wanted to win back a round immediately, because he made a decision, that is, to lead the troops to Xunyang Tuntian.
Zhuge Ke thought very well, but Wu Guo did not think so internally, since the news of Zhuge Ke's defeat and retirement came, the Wu lord Sun Liang was a little unable to sit still, and the ministers who remained in the imperial court were also talking about it. Later, when he heard that Zhuge Ke was going to go out of Tuntian, Sun Liang really couldn't wait, so he issued one edict after another, summoning Zhuge Ke back. Zhuge Ke really couldn't do anything, so he slowly led the soldiers back.
The eyes of the masses are shining, the hearts of the masses are also very realistic, before Zhuge Ke had unlimited scenery, everyone rushed to see the real face, and now Zhuge Ke let Wu Guo suffer a fiasco and humiliate people, and the opinions of the people on him also grew, and gradually the people's hearts were a little out of his place.
At this time, Zhuge Ke still couldn't take care of these things, in August of this year, he returned to the capital City Jianye, after arriving in the capital, he summoned Zhongshu Ling Sun Hey, as soon as he saw Sun Hey, Zhuge Ke was a stinky scolding with his head split and covered his face, what are you eating, how dare you arbitrarily issue edicts? Seeing Zhuge Keqi like this, Sun Hey's frightened legs and stomach were soft, and he didn't dare to defend himself, but he just lowered his head and didn't dare to speak. After surviving this period of time, Sun Hey immediately resigned his official position and went home on the grounds that he was physically ill.
You see, at this time, zhuge Ke still had a certain degree of power over the state of Wu, because after that, he did another thing that could only be done by a powerful minister.
What happened, it turned out that after Zhuge Ke led the troops out on the expedition, there were some personnel changes within the State of Wu, and some officials were appointed and dismissed without Zhuge Ke's participation, and now that Zhuge Ke had returned, he still came back with anger, so he ordered that all the officials who had not been appointed without his permission be dismissed from their posts, and then a group of people were reappointed according to his own standards.