In the face of Wu Guo's provocation, many ministers of the State of Wei could not sit still, and they said that they should take this opportunity to teach Wu Guo a good lesson. For the specific how to take the class and what content to teach, the Zhendong general Zhuge Zhi gave a detailed explanation.
To say that this Zhuge Birthday is not an outsider, he and Zhuge Ke and Zhuge Liang have a common ancestor Zhuge Feng. Zhuge Feng was a figure in the Western Han Dynasty, who served as a Guanglu doctor during the reign of Emperor Yuan of han, and after many generations, Zhuge Feng's descendants had a career, especially in the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Liang served the Shu Han, Zhuge Ke took power in the State of Wu, and Zhuge Shi became a general of Cao Wei.
Zhuge Shi proposed to the general Sima Shi that we should divide our troops into three routes to attack the State of Wu, of which wang Chang led the Western Route Army to attack Nan Commandery, and Wu Qiujian led the Middle Route Army to attack Wuchang, both of which were used as auxiliaries to attract the main forces of the Wu Army. Our main force was placed in the Eastern Route Army, under the command of Zhuge Zhi and Hu Zun, to attack Dongxing, that is, the levee and the two cities that Wu Guo had just built.
Sima Shi accepted Zhuge Shi's suggestion, and in December of the same year, the army attacked the State of Wu in three ways, the Western Road and the Middle Road were all based on Zhuge Zhi's suggestion, wang Chang and Wuqiu Jian led the troops to attack Nan Commandery and Wuchang respectively, and the Eastern Route Army had his younger brother Sima Zhao, the governor of the capital, command him to take the General Hu Zun of Zhengdong and the General Zhuge Zhi of Zhendong, leading a total of 70,000 infantry and cavalry to attack Dongxing.
Hearing that the wei army had been killed, Taifu Zhuge Ke did not dare to be sloppy, and he personally led 40,000 horses to aid Dongxing. Before the army set out, some people were still patting Zhuge Ke's ass, saying that we don't need to worry, Taifu you are all out of the horse yourself, Wei Jun heard that after hearing about it, they must have been terrified, and as soon as we came ashore, they would flee.
Listening to these people's fleshy words, I don't know how Zhuge Ke felt in his heart, anyway, the veteran general Ding Feng couldn't listen to it anymore. He told everyone that you thought of the opponent too simply, the Wei army mobilized a large number of troops this time, almost brought all the troops of Xuchang and Luoyang, must have made up plans and made up their minds before setting off, how can we retreat after fighting? We should not have this illusion in mind, but should be fully prepared so that we can defeat our opponents.
After the rescue troops of the Wu army arrived ashore, Zhuge Ke ordered Ding Feng and the generals Lü Zhao, Liu Zan, and Tang Zhi to be the vanguard and advance along the mountain road from the west side. The mountain road in that place was very rugged, and the speed of the army was very slow, at this time Ding Feng put forward his own opinion.
Ding Feng said: We are now walking too slowly on the mountain road, and if we delay time, and when the enemy occupies favorable terrain, we will fight with them again, it will be too passive, so let's continue to walk the mountain road, and I will take some people by boat to take the waterway and strive to reach Dongxing earlier.
In this way, Ding Feng himself went down the mountain with five thousand people and sat on the boat. Although it was said that the waterway was a bit of a detour, the wind direction at that time was more favorable, so it only took two days for Ding Feng's troops to rush to the front line and occupy a place called Xutang.
At this time, the vanguard of the Wei army led by Hu Zun had arrived, and he ordered the construction of a pontoon bridge to let the army go to the river, and then camped on the embankment, and then attacked the two cities on both sides of the levee in two ways, because when the city was first built, it was more comprehensive and the terrain was relatively high, so it could not be conquered for a while.
When Ding Feng arrived, it was snowing heavily, the Wei army was hiding in the camp, and the generals were drinking. Ding Feng observed that the Wei army had only come to the vanguard, the number was not particularly large, and there was not much defense, well, the opportunity came. Ding Feng told his soldiers, brothers, that when the time came to receive the reward for meritorious service, everyone took off their armor and helmets, and picked up the short guy and charged with me.
Soon, the Wei generals saw an interesting picture, in the cold winter of heavy snow, Wu Jun climbed up the embankment naked and wielding a short knife in his hand. This is really interesting, how can they southerners not be afraid of the cold, so rush for a while, without us to shoot, they will freeze to death. The generals of the Wei Army basically had this idea, and they all held the mood of watching the hilarity, and did not make any defensive preparations at all.
But after Wu Jun climbed the embankment, this situation was completely different, only to see this group of shirtless people rushing to the Wei army camp like crazy, and the Wei army could no longer laugh, one was defenseless, and the other really couldn't do this group of people who didn't want to die, and soon the camp was torn open. At this time, Lü Zhao and others also arrived with troops, and the momentum of the Wu army was even stronger, and they defeated the Wei army with a single blow.
The Wei army abandoned the camp and ran to the pontoon bridge to the other side, but the number of people who escaped was too large, the pontoon bridge was crushed because of overload, and many people fell into the water. These people who fell into the water, coupled with the fact that they trampled each other to death because of the chaos, the Wei army lost tens of thousands of people.