It has been less than a month since the start of the war, and the bad news for Sima Yi has been one after another, and it is simply impossible to count them.

Most of the land in Shanxi fell and surrendered to the enemy, and the information of the general Cao Zhen is unknown.

There are rumors that Cao Zhen surrendered the city, there are also rumors that Cao Zhen was coerced by the officials to surrender, and there are even military intelligence that Cao Zhen died tragically at the hands of the rebels when suppressing the mutiny of the defenders.

Shanxi's military situation has changed from dense to sparse, and in the past five days, no military intelligence report has been received from Shanxi.

There is not only the effect of the enemy's blockade of the Taihang Eight Paths, but also the reason why most of the Shanxi side has fallen and no one has taken the initiative to send military information.

Of course, the enemy generals Zhao Yun and Xiahou Lan divided their troops to surround Yedu, and blocking the internal and external exchanges of Yedu was also an important factor.

Yedu Zhangshui is divided into two cities in the north and south, Xiahoulan's deputy general Deng Zhi blockaded in the north, Xiahoulan personally supervised the troops to attack the old land of Zhao, and the Wei army operated as the fortress stronghold of the northern barrier of Yedu was only a fortified city Handan, and the rest was more than the wind and surrendered.

The township party and relatives surrendered, and were organized by Xiahoulan to Handan to shout to the defenders of Handan to call out to their relatives, and Handan could fall in a mutiny at any time.

Zhao Yun nailed to the southern suburbs of Yedu, so that Deng Ai divided his troops to the east to attack Quliang, which was an important bridge stronghold between Yecheng and Guangzong City. The loss of Quliang is very likely to destroy the last insistence of the Handan defenders.

Most of the family members of the Handan defenders were detained in Yedu, but if the sky was going to fall, they couldn't take care of it so much. What is more important is the fighting spirit of the defenders, and when the defenders complete the tandem and the unification of opinions, there is a possibility of mutiny.

If Quliang and Handan fall one after another, then a series of strongholds near Yedu will surrender and become the labor force of the enemy army, and with the organizational strength of the enemy army, it is enough for the surrendered army to pile up dirt mountains outside Yecheng and attack the city in the most stupid way.

At the same time, the Han army would obtain a large amount of supplies and baggage on the spot, so that the Han army could put more county soldiers into battle instead of maintaining the grain routes.

On the other hand, Zhangshui passes through the capital of Ye, and there are too many articles that can be done.

If Ma Chao was the main general in the attack on Yedu, he built a dam in the upper reaches of Zhangshui, and then dug a dam after the autumn rain to flood Yedu, then facing subsidence, Yedu is very likely to collapse from the bottom up under pressure.

Therefore, Sima Yi's pressure was so great that it was difficult to sleep. The originally strong and tall body has quickly lost weight in the past half a month, and the face appears to be long, and the skin is loose and lacks luster.

The Great Wei was destroyed, as if it was in an instant.

He can't be trapped in Guangzong City anymore, he must take the initiative to open up the situation!

However, the Han Prime Minister Zhuge Liang had already commanded four famous field divisions of the government army to cross the boundary bridge on the Qingshui River and move westward along the gallop road step by step.

In the west, Deng Ai, the lieutenant general of the Left Guards Division of Beifu, was besieging Quliang, which was sixty miles away from Guangzong, and Chidao, Qingshui, and Zhangshui were connected to each other.

Sixty miles away, Han Prime Minister Zhuge Liang pushed five miles west every day, built roads, fences, and trenches, and repaired fortifications without leakage, and Sima Yi himself had a headache when he looked at it.

There was no opportunity to steal the camp and attack, although the cavalry of the six towns of Youyun in the north was mobilized one after another and gathered towards Guangzong City one after another. Counting the army in his hand, there are about 80,000 foot cavalry.

No matter how many armies there are, they are also made up of people.

No one wants to fill the trenches dug by the enemy with their own corpses, so a rash decisive battle is bound to end in a bad battle in the absence of reliable fighters.

If the battle is in a bad battle, the remaining sharp spirit of the army will be dispersed, and then it can only be slaughtered by others.

But Zhuge Liang was too cautious, and as soon as he saw that the cavalry troops of the Wei army had made a move, he immediately recalled the construction sergeants and laborers back to the camp and fortified the camp to defend itself.

Wei Qi could only stare at it, and there were visible trenches, antlers, wooden thorns, corridors, and fences in his sight; There are also invisible traps, thistles, and tripping horses.

The Wei cavalry could only wander away, frightening from a distance, in order to interfere with the tactics of the opposing infantry.

It is not difficult to imagine how pessimistic the defenders of Quliang City will be when the main force of the Han army moves to the sight of the defenders of Quliang City little by little.

Sima Yi personally went out of the city to inspect the Han army barracks, trying to find loopholes to break through the barracks.

He was just in vain, only to see that the Han army camp was lined with walls and banners, and many officials were standing across the wall, and strong crossbows and strong bows were standing in the front row, alert to the invasion and sneak attack of the Wei army.

As long as the camp was repaired little by little, and the fences, passages, and wooden tracks were repaired to Quliang City, then this decisive battle would end in the victory of the Han army.

Therefore, one is eager to break the situation but does not dare to act rashly, and one victory is in sight and is even more cautious.

It's like a hungry lone wolf in a dense forest, with a hunter with a strong crossbow...... Hunters are the least patient. But the hunter of the Han army did not have a cavalry of sufficient size, and if it was torn through the parry, the surging Wei cavalry would bite the hunter's throat in one bite.

As in the past, the prime minister was pushed by two strong tigers in a wheelchair to the temporary wooden tracks, which showed that there were already assembled carriages on multiple parallel wooden rail lines.

Some carriages have been loaded with wooden oxen and flowing horses transported by the Left Guards Division, except for the carved heads of oxen, horses and shells, the others are made of copper and iron.

The Left Guards Division is the third group of troops mobilized for the war, and there will be no fourth group of troops in the short term. Unless the Wei army is allowed to turn the tables, there will be no fourth army to cross the river.

Even if there is, it is a veteran of Beifu from the direction of Guanlong.

The front-line army is insufficient, and the county soldiers who are mainly lightly armed and medium-armed will be reloaded...... When it is necessary to reload the soldiers of the county, there will naturally be no shortage of reloaded armor.

The conscription of labor at the front line was always equipped with simple self-defense weapons, lacking a mature team of military officers and important armor.

No armor is not an army.

The prime minister inspected these wooden oxen and horses, and as a small half of the designer, he naturally knew how to use these things.

Once Sima Yi launched a full-line assault in a desperate gamble, then these wooden cattle and flowing horses were members of the general reserve, specializing in cracking the main force of Wei Qi!

No matter how fierce and elite the heavily armed Wei cavalry is, it can't break through the assault team composed of wooden oxen and flowing horses.

As for the small traps such as horse traps, tripping ropes, and thistles excavated outside the barracks, they are not effective against wooden oxen and flowing horses.

"Prime Minister, Sima Zhongda sent another envoy to fight."

Yang Yi came in stride, wearing a fine linen crimson robe often worn by middle- and lower-level military officials, and a simple iron armor with a waistcoat, and the whole person also looked much more energetic.

Unlike many pieces of armor, Yang Yi's armor pieces are finely forged steel pieces.

This is a homogeneous steel armor forged by steam power, and its protective power is not the same as that of the armor in the early years.

In the past, ordinary iron armor also used high-quality armor pieces for an important part, and most of the parts were pig iron and wrought iron armor. Therefore, the heavy armor will not definitely have good protection because of the use of more iron.

On the contrary, it is the plate armor that appeared in the later period, because the whole body is made of steel, although it is light, it can be better than the armor in terms of material.

When it comes to the armor structure, it is naturally difficult to distinguish between the superior and the inferior.

Yang Yi now cherishes his life very much, and he dresses up like an ordinary military officer in the army, with a slightly excited tone: "His army is becoming more and more impatient, and it is not far from breaking the enemy." ”

Zhuge Liang smiled slightly when he heard this, picked up the feather fan and shook it gently: "Since Wei Gong is so sure, would you like to make a bet with someone?" ”

"Uh......"

Yang Yi restrained her expression and asked suspiciously: "Could it be that Sima Zhongda still has a plan?" ”

Zhuge Liang shook the fan and smiled without saying a word, the two tiger ben of the cart turned around, Yang Yi frowned and thought about it, and always felt that the prime minister was fooling himself, where is Sima Yi's room for maneuver now?

Four or five miles outside the barracks, Sima Yi also wore the armor and robes of ordinary low-level officers of the Wei army, and took a team of more than a dozen staff and military officials to watch from the horse.

"In four days, Zhuge Kongming's army will appear ten miles away from Quliang. At that time, it was connected by a road, a rail car, and a barracks, and it would become a snake in Changshan. The Pixi army and Deng Shizai joined forces to attack Quliang, and I rescued from fifty miles away, and after Zhuge Kongming's eastern army attacked me, it was difficult for me to take care of each other. ”

Sima Yi's horse whip gently slapped his palm, and his voice was hoarse to analyze the desperate situation at the moment: "If our army stays in Guangzong and does not move, Quliang will fall in three days." At this point, the general trend has passed, and we will be reduced to prisoners, and life and death will be in the hands of others. ”

Most of the military officials were silent, they followed Sima Yi to fight in the south and the north, and naturally participated in the slaughter of Liaodong.

On the one hand, it was forced by Sima Yi's military order, and on the other hand, Liaodong was really rich.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, the people who took refuge in Liaodong brought with them advanced culture, as well as all kinds of valuable utensils and jade. slaughtered 8,000 households, and the soldiers of the six towns of Youyun robbed women and children, but they grabbed a lot of gold, silver, and precious jade.

When it comes to getting rich, it is the right thing to do, and now that the Han army is advancing, the knife has been in the heart, so it is natural to find a way to deal with and resolve it.

Sima Yi saw that the surrounding military officials had already made a decisive decision, so the old god said with certainty: "I have a strategy to break the enemy, and after the kings return to the camp, they will destroy the enemy within three days." ”

"Yes."

A dozen horsemen turned around and headed north, their hooves trampling and raising dust.

On the arrow tower of the camp they were facing each other, Wei Yan squinted his left eye and his right eye was in front of the telescope to observe carefully.

A telescope that can already be made at a higher magnification is no longer suitable for hand-holding, and any slight shaking will cause loss of vision or dizziness, so now Wei Yan's telescope ...... The birding goggles have a sturdy triangular mount.

Seeing a group of Wei military scouts suspected of Sima Yi leaving, Wei Yan was still puzzled, and personally removed the precious abnormal lens barrel and asked the guards to return to his barracks with a tripod.

The sturdy barracks were relatively open in timber, with maps and sketches hanging on the walls covered with a layer of cloth.

Among them is the portrait of Sima Yi, Wei Yan glanced at it a few more times, raised his hand and touched the steel beard on his chin and fell into doubt.

Sima Yi in the sketch portrait is a blessed man with a full face, but what he sees today is a person with a long face and an eagle nose, which should just look like eyebrows.

After Sima Yi returned to the city, he immediately wrote a war letter and sent someone to send it to the Han army camp, but Zhuge Liang deducted it and did not answer.

The next day, the war book was distributed again, but Zhuge Liang still did not answer.

On the second day, the officials on both sides could make preparations for the final decisive battle, Sima Yi's battle letter arrived as scheduled, and Zhuge Liang still suppressed the generals who were eager to fight, and chose to brake quietly.

The third time Zhuge Liang did not reply to the letter, this kind of war-avoidance behavior was certainly annoying, but it also greatly facilitated the propaganda work of the Wei army, so that the morale and fighting spirit of the Wei army officers and soldiers were further increased.

It's very simple, the other party avoided the battle, and it was a second-rate side army that was limited by the size of the cavalry in the Beifu, and it would definitely not dare to face it head-on.

This means that after breaking through the protection of the camp and removing this layer of turtle shells, you can arbitrarily clean up this large-scale, but lack the courage to fight!

So Sima Yi responded to the call of the military officials and found a set of bright red and gorgeous women's clothes from the city and sent them to the Han army camp.

In the big camp, Wei Yan, He Jing, Feng Xi, Zhang Nan, Gao Xiang, Chen Shi and others looked at the bright red women's clothes on the table, and their eyes were red. If it weren't for the overall situation, he would have gone out to fight a decisive battle with Sima Yi a long time ago, so why endure it all the time?

Zhuge Liang had women's clothes in front of him, which seemed to be freshly peeled off, and he could still smell the faint fragrance of flowers.

Zhuge Liang smiled, a little proud: "His skills are poor." ”

As he spoke, he turned his head and glanced at the new master book Li Feng, Li Feng took out a page of military information from the box and handed it over, Zhuge Liang took it and handed it to Wei Yan, and the military information was passed on in the big tent.

This is Guan Ping's Liao army to arrive at Juyong Pass with 10,000 cavalry, and has formed a military alliance with Jiang Wei of Zhongshan Lake. This mobile force is ready to make the next round of operations according to the situation of the battle.

It can cooperate with Zhao Yun's Middle Route Army and Zhuge Liang's East Route Army to encircle and annihilate the main force of Wei, and the center is around Yecheng; You can also march to Zhuo County and Ji County, defeat Chen Qun, or block the assembly point of the follow-up Youyun Six Towns.

The soldiers of the six towns, who mainly lived a nomadic life, could return to Yuyang, Youbeiping, and Zhuojun for the winter in September and October, which was also the time when they gathered into an army.

Therefore, there is no need to worry about the follow-up reinforcements of the Six Towns at present, at least within a month and a half, the Six Towns of Youyun will not be able to gather a large-scale cavalry army to go south to help in the battle.

Therefore, Jiang Wei, Guan Ping, and Wang Ping, a mixed infantry and cavalry-based army, may adopt more radical and bold tactics. For example, the division of troops to harass Jixian County interfered with Chen Qun's remote control and coordination of the six towns of Youyun; At the same time, the main force went south, cooperating with Xiahoulan to quickly pacify the old land of Zhao State, and firmly blocking the road to Yedu from the north.

The military information was passed back to Zhuge Liang's hands, and he looked around at everyone: "It is not difficult for Sima Yi to detect the soldiers and horses of the Marquis of Qi, I think Sima Yi is definitely not a man waiting to be killed." Today, we will carry out a plan to attack the east from the west. ”

Wei Yanho got up and arched his hand: "The last general will ask for battle!" ”

The generals stood up one after another, vying for a chance to fight head-on.

At this time, Li Feng had already spread the maps of Guangzong and Quliang on the table, and took out the war games representing each army from the wooden box.

Zhuge Liang grabbed the chess pieces of Gao Xiang's department who was good at guarding and placed them in the east of the defense line near the boundary bridge, glanced at Gao Xiang, and instructed: "In the past, Chen Gong and Wei fought Wankou and set up a hundred miles of Yongdao, but they were worn by the enemy because of the small number of troops. Now stick to the camp and let the Wei army destroy the road. ”

Gao Xiang replied loudly: "Obey!" ”

Zhuge Liang picked up the chess pieces representing Wei Yan and put them at the mouth of the west line, near the seventeen or eighteen miles of Quliang City: "The camera of the Wen Chang Department moved. I expect that Sima Yi will have the intention of attacking the west and attacking the west, and he will raid Deng Shizai. After the chief of the text moved to the defense, he informed Deng Shizai that how to attack and defend, and the chief of the text and Deng Shizai agreed. ”

Seeing that he had delegated power, Wei Yan grinned and grinned: "I will not make Sima a traitor feel good!" ”

Zhuge Liang just smiled and instructed Yang Yi: "If the coke is burned, if the Wei army attacks one place with all its might, it will use the wooden ox and the flowing horse as the forerunner to impact its large array." The rest of the armies formed eight formations, and went out of the camp with the wooden oxen and horses to meet the enemy, and when their armies were in chaos, the armies fought together. ”

The eight formations are a kind of compatible formation of marching and arranging formations composed of infantry relying on vehicles.

To put it simply, when the infantry cart marches, when encountering a battle situation, it can quickly change the formation and form a formation of a camp with the cart as a battalion.

To put it more simply, it is a kind of mathematical grouping of infantry and vehicles.

The imaginary enemy is the enemy who is dominated by cavalry.