Chapter 866: Failure to Break Out
Previously, Wang Ling was afraid of Sima Yi like a snake and scorpion, since Sima Yi led the army to besiege the city, Wang Ling was trembling, like facing a great enemy, in addition to strictly guarding to the death, or to strictly defend to the death.
In the face of Sima Yi's long-term siege methods, Wang Jinhu, who was impatient and conceited brave, had repeatedly asked for battle, hoping to break the siege of Sima Jun, but Wang Ling knew that Sima Yi was powerful, and hung up the exemption card and did not let Wang Jinhu fight.
And this breakthrough operation, Wang Ling was forced to go to war, for this breakthrough, Wang Ling has always been particularly cautious, did not think that the breakthrough battle will be an easy move.
However, judging from the current process, the progress of the Huainan Army is very smooth, except for the cost of casualties when breaking through the outer trenches, but on the whole, the breakthrough operation has so far made Wang Feixiao more satisfied.
It seems that my father is indeed a little old and acts too timidly, if the Huainan Army had broken through the siege earlier and broken the blockade of Shouchun by the Sima Army, why would he have fallen to this step?
Now the leader is now leading the army is Wang Feixiao, he can finally fight this battle according to his own ideas and ideas, and now it is the best opportunity for the Huainan army to pursue the victory and break through the Sima army's defense line in one fell swoop.
Just when the Huainan army was marching all the way, Wang Feixiao suddenly received an urgent report from the front, and in Sima Jun's company camp, he actually found another trench, 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 a little confused, how could this be? Didn't the scouts of the Huainan Army investigate and understand in advance, the entire company camp of the Sima Army, only the outermost part of the entrenchment, and then the entire company camp was a flat river?
In fact, this is exactly the deceit of Sima Shi, the same trench, Sima Jun can dig more than one, but the outermost trench is placed there, anyone can see it, and the remaining trenches are hidden in the company camp.
On top of these trenches, Sima Jun was either covered with curtains or covered with straw curtains and covered with thin soil, and except for some fixed passages, no one was allowed to set foot in any other place.
Although the scouts of the Huainan Army disguised themselves as refugees and mixed into the camp of the Sima Army, what they wanted to see and hear was also deliberately arranged by the Sima Army, and as for those hidden things, many of them could not even be known to the soldiers of the Sima Army, let alone these scouts of the Huainan Army.
Therefore, the situation that Wang Feixiao has always grasped is that the Sima army only has one trench, and when it breaks through, the Huainan army only needs to devote all its strength to take this trench.
But now another trench suddenly appeared, and it is very likely that there is more than one, this news caught the unprepared Wang Feixiao off guard.
The process of filling in the trench was quite tragic, and the outermost trench alone cost the Huainan army a heavy price.
And this is the result of preparing a large number of sandbags in advance, those sandbags are either thrown into the first trench, or discarded by the Huainan army on the way, after breaking through the first trench, who will carry such a bulky thing?
And now another trench suddenly lay in front of the Huainan army, and the Huainan army, which was unprepared, was at a loss, and even some soldiers did not realize 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 that was determined to break through, Wang Feixiao couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart, it seemed that he really thought Sima Yi was too simple, and just based on the results of the scouts' reconnaissance, he arbitrarily thought that Sima Jun had only dug a trench.
If the trenches were the best fortifications to prevent the Huainan army from breaking through, then in this period of a year and a half, how could it be impossible for the Sima army to dig a few more roads and break through one with such difficulty, if these trenches were connected, the Huainan army's sudden hope was almost equal to zero.
Wang Feixiao, who was still full of enthusiasm and spirits, had a solemn face at the moment, not only the second trench made him extremely depressed, but also in the Sima army company camp where he couldn't see the end, who knew how many trenches were hidden.
Wang Feixiao was completely in despair.
It's just him, almost all the Huainan soldiers are stunned by this sudden situation, these trenches are wide and deep, behind the trenches, there are still heavily guarded Sima army archers, and now it is very difficult for them to approach the trenches, let alone fill the trenches.
Even if Sima Jun gave them the opportunity to fill in the trench, what materials could they use to fill it? The sandbags prepared before have already been exhausted, could it be that all of them are filled with corpses?
But such a deep trench, if you just throw the corpses, how much do you have to throw to fill it, and it is estimated that collecting all the corpses of the Huainan Army and Sima Jun is not enough to fill this trench.
What's more, no one knows how many trenches will be waiting for them next, if the Huainan army has spent a lot of money to break through the second trench, only to find that there are more trenches waiting for them, such a result is tantamount to catastrophic.
The reappearance of the trench had a fatal blow to the morale of the Huainan army, and they were originally full of hope that they could fight a bloody way, but they fought back and forth, but found that it was still a dead end, and in despair, the morale that had just been puffed up was like a deflated ball, deflated.
Wang Jinhu also led the army all the way straight in, and when he found the second trench of the Sima army, the attack naturally stopped abruptly, even if Wang Jinhu led the army to rush all the way, but if he wanted to break through the trench defense line of the Sima army, it was useless to rely on courage alone, and he could not find the materials that just wanted to fill the trench.
In desperation, Wang Jinhu could only move closer to Wang Feixiao's side, after seeing Wang Feixiao, the two brothers discussed it and decided to retreat first.
In this breakthrough, the Huainan army has already spent a lot of strength and lost a lot of soldiers and horses, but the difficulties encountered in front of them are no longer something that Wang Feixiao and Wang Jinhu can solve with their will alone, and they are also very clear that without finding out how many trenches and defense lines the Sima army still has, rashly marching into the army, even if the army is exhausted, it may not be able to achieve any good results.