Chapter 866 Breakthrough Failure
Previously, Wang Ling was afraid of Sima Yi like a snake or a scorpion. Since Sima Yi led his army to siege the city, Wang Ling was trembling and was as if facing a great enemy. In addition to strictly guarding the death, he was also strictly guarding the death.
Faced with Sima Yi's long-term siege, Wang Jinhu, who was impatient and arrogant, had sought battles many times, hoping to break the siege of Sima's army, but Wang Ling knew Sima Yi's power well and halted the battle-free card to prevent Wang Jinhu from going out.
This breakout was also because Wang Ling couldn't force himself to go out. Wang Ling had always been very cautious about this breakout and did not think that breakout would be an easy move.
However, judging from the current process, the Huainan Army's progress was very smooth. In addition to paying a considerable price of casualties when breaking through the outer trenches, in general, this breakthrough operation has still satisfied Wang Feixiao so far.
It seems that my father is indeed a little old and is too timid. If the Huainan Army had conducted a breakthrough earlier and broke the Sima Army's blockade of Shouchun, why would he have fallen to this point today?
Now the leader is Wang Feixiao. He can finally fight this battle according to his own ideas and ideas. Now it is the best opportunity for the Huainan Army to take advantage of the victory and break through the Sima Army's defense line in one fell swoop. Success or failure is here. Wang Feixiao ordered the Huainan Army not to relax and continue to advance in depth, and never give up until it breaks through the Sima Army's last defense line.
Just as the Huainan army was advancing all the way, Wang Feixiao suddenly received an emergency report from the front. Another trench was found in the Sima army's battalion, and in terms of depth and width, it was not inferior to the outer trench they had just broken through before.
Wang Feixiao couldn't help but be confused. How could this happen? Didn't the scouts of the Huainan Army understand in advance? There was only a trench in the outermost periphery of the Sima Army. Is the entire Sima Army's battalion flat?
In fact, this is exactly the deceitfulness of Sima Shi. Sima's army dug more than one trench in the same trench, but the outermost trench was placed there and anyone could see it. The remaining trenches were hidden in the camp.
Sima's army either covered these trenches with curtains or covered them with straw curtains and covered them with thin soil. Except for some fixed passages, no one was allowed to step on other places.
Although the scouts of the Huainan Army disguised themselves as refugees and mixed into the Sima Army's camp, what they wanted to see and hear were deliberately arranged by the Sima Army. As for the hidden things, many of the soldiers of the Sima Army could not know, let alone these scouts of the Huainan Army.
Therefore, what Wang Feixiao has always grasped is that Sima's army only has one trench. When breaking through, the Huainan army only needs to devote all its efforts to take down the trench.
But now another trench suddenly appeared, and there is probably more than one. This news caught the unprepared Wang Feixiao off guard.
The process of filling the trench was quite tragic, and the trench on the outermost side only cost the Huainan army.
And this was the result of preparing a large number of sandbags in advance. Those sandbags were either thrown into the first trench or were discarded by the Huainan army halfway. After breaking through the first trench, who would carry such a bulky thing?
Now another trench suddenly lies in front of the Huainan Army. The Huainan Army, who had no preparation, was confused. Some soldiers even discovered the existence of this trench until they stepped on the straw mat and fell into the trench.
This was a fatal blow to the Huainan Army, who was determined to break through. Wang Feixiao couldn't help but feel a chill. It seemed that he really thought Sima Yi too simply. Just by the result of the scouts returning from reconnaissance, he arbitrarily believed that Sima Army had only dug a trench.
If the trenches were the best fortification to prevent the Huainan Army from breaking through, then how could the Sima Army not have dug a few more in this year and a half? It would be so difficult to break through one. If these trenches were connected, the sudden hope of the Huainan Army was almost zero.
Wang Feixiao, who was already passionate and full of energy, looked solemn at this moment. Not only did the second trench make him extremely frustrated, but he also knew how many trenches were hidden in the Sima Army camp that could not see the end.
Wang Feixiao was completely in despair.
However, it was him that almost all the Huainan soldiers were confused about this sudden situation. The trenches were wide and deep, and behind the trenches were still heavily guarded Sima Army archers. It was very difficult for them to get close to the trenches, let alone fill them.
Even if Sima Jun gave them the opportunity to fill the trench, what materials could they use to fill it? The sandbags prepared before had been consumed. Could it be that they would use corpses to fill it all?
But if you throw away the trench so deep, how many things will you have to throw away to fill it? I guess all the bodies of the Huainan Army and Sima Army are still not enough to fill it.
What's more, no one knows how many trenches will be waiting for them next. If the Huainan army spent more money to break through the second trenches, they found that there were more trenches waiting for them. This result would be disastrous.
The trenches that appeared again had a fatal blow to the morale of the Huainan army. They could have fought with hope, but after fighting, they found that they were still dead. In despair, the morale that had just been bulging was like a deflated ball, deflated.
Wang Jinhu also led the army to march straight in. When he discovered the second trench of Sima's army, the attack naturally came to an abrupt end. Even if Wang Jinhu led the army to rush, it would be useless to break through the Sima's army's trench defense line alone. The materials to fill the trench alone could not be found.
At the end of his life, Wang Jinhu could only approach Wang Feixiao. After seeing Wang Feixiao, the two brothers discussed and decided to retreat first. If the battle has been fought until now, it will be meaningless. If it is just a matter of attacking, it will only increase casualties.
The Huainan Army had already spent a lot of effort and lost a lot of troops in this breakthrough, but the difficulties encountered in front of us were no longer solved by Wang Feixiao and Wang Jinhu with their will. They were also very clear that without finding out how many trench defense lines Sima Army still had, even if they fought all the troops, they might not have any good results.
Chapter completed!