Chapter 897: Anxious Pei Xiu

After the Battle of Shimen Pass began, Sima Jun did not use troops unilaterally, and on the side of Wei Ze Pass, Lu Zhao's army still continued the previous offensive method, but the offensive was more fierce than last year.

Obviously, Lü Zhao's army was cooperating with Sima Yi's army, and wanted to put a lot of pressure on the flanks of the Bingzhou army, so as to contain the two armies of the left guard battalion and the right guard battalion of the Bingzhou army, so that they could not reinforce to the south.

Lü Zhao fought very thief, and at the same time faced the enemy of Weize Pass and Leping, although he had more troops than the other party, but Lü Zhao did not fight on two fronts, while attacking Weize Pass with all his might, he always adopted a defensive position against the enemy of Leping, fighting and defending, and simplifying the battle as much as possible.

Lu Zhao also has his own plans to do this, the last time Sima Yi's three-way army attacked Shangdang, Cao Liang seized the opportunity, broke through, and lost two people, Lu Zhao was worried that Cao Liang would also do the same, gather heavy troops to outflank him, so when attacking Wei Ze Pass, Lu Zhao still kept an extra eye, strengthened the defense of the flank, and ensured the smooth retreat, once the situation was unfavorable, he would take the initiative to withdraw to Jingcheng Pass.

The terrain in this area of Weize Pass is dangerous, although Lu Zhao attacked Weize Pass quite hard, and he was unable to overcome it repeatedly, but if the Bingzhou army wanted to counterattack, it was not easy, except for Leping in the south, there was basically no other way to outflank from behind.

Therefore, when Lu Zhao attacked Weize Pass, he never attacked Leping, so as to avoid being seized by the Bingzhou army because of the division of troops and annihilated by the state, which shows that Lu Zhao fought very cautiously, and did not lose his defense at any time after the onslaught.

For such a cautious opponent, Cao Liang did not concentrate his forces to encircle and suppress him, after all, with the terrain near Weize Pass, even if Cao Liang sent more soldiers and horses, he would not be able to outflank him, so Cao Liang recklessly only held Weize Pass, and had no intention of counterattacking.

The most important thing is that Cao Liang knew that Lu Zhao's attack was just a smokescreen played by Sima Yi, and if he really had to concentrate his forces to deal with him, he would fall for Sima Yi's plan.

As for the Yanmen Pass, it has always been unfazed, although the Youzhou soldiers have also launched several attacks on Yanmen, but such an offensive strength is completely painless for the impregnable Yanmen Pass, such an offensive and defensive battle, it seems to be very "tacit understanding".

Cao Liang once sent a secret letter to Biqiu Jian, in which Cao Liang mentioned that he hoped to join forces with Biqiu Jian to defeat Sima Yi and jointly revive Cao Wei Sheji, but Biqiu Jian did not reply, obviously he was still waiting.

In fact, Biqiu Jian was not optimistic about Cao Liang, with Cao Liang's qualifications, it was indeed not enough to convince Biqiu Jian, even if Cao Liang now held the edict of the first emperor in his hands, but Biqiu Jian could not easily fall to Cao Liang's side.

However, although Biqiu Jian did not reply to him, judging from his offensive performance, his attitude was extremely warm, at least Biqiu Jian did not attack desperately like Lu Zhao, so although the men and horses sent by the Jizhou soldiers and Youzhou soldiers were roughly the same, the response on the side of Yanmen Pass was much easier than that on the side of Weize Pass.

Yanmen Pass is also the most reassuring place for Cao Liang, and he doesn't even have to make any strategic considerations, just leave it to Du Pre to deal with.

Now Cao Liang's attention is all on the side of Shangdang County and Hedong County, but unlike the other three directions, the war is raging, but the side of Pingyang County of Hedong County is calm as usual, and there is not even any movement.

Cao Liang couldn't help but be puzzled, if something went wrong, it was a demon, if the target of Sima Yi's attack was indeed Shangdang, then Hedong would at least have to deal with the troops, Chen Qian and Hu Fen had been holding their troops still, there must be some article in this.

Therefore, Cao Liang concluded that the direction of Sima Yi's main attack was still in Hedong, and the reason why he made a series of big moves at Shimen Pass was just to set up a maze and want to attract the main force of the Bingzhou army to come to the rescue.

After confirming the key points of defense, Cao Liang ordered all armies to remain unchanged according to the previous strategy, and each army was stationed in place and on call at any time.

In fact, Cao Liang is also under great pressure, judging from the attack launched by the Sima army on Shimen Pass, it is really not as simple as a feint, the battle of Shimen Pass is extremely tragic, although it occupies the advantage of the terrain, the number of enemies killed is several times that of its own casualties, but Sima Jun simply cares about the losses of the attacking army, the casualties in the front, and the troops in the back continue to rise to the top, so in the attack, the strength of the Sima army shows no signs of decreasing.

But the Changshui battalion is different, because there is no reinforcement of reinforcements, every time they lose a person, it is equivalent to a lack of a person on the position, maybe at the beginning it showed that it did not show this kind of drawback, but after a long time, the number of casualties in the Changshui battalion increased, and the situation became not optimistic.

In this regard, Wang Jun did not give up easily, he still led his troops to stick to Shimen Pass, fought bloodily, swore to block Sima Yi from the pass, and never let him easily set foot in Shangdang County for half a step.

But Pei Xiu and others are very anxious, now the battle report of Shimen Pass is almost updated every three hours, and the latest battle report is constantly coming back from the party, judging from the current form of battle, Shimen Pass is already in danger, if it were not for Wang Jun's vow to stick to it, Shimen Pass would have been lost long ago.

But even so, if there were no reinforcements to rescue, Wang Jun would not be able to hold out for long, and Shimen Pass could be lost at any time.

"Lord, the situation over there is a critical situation at Shimen Pass, if you don't send reinforcements, I'm afraid Shimen Pass will be lost." Pei Xiu took the battle report that had just been delivered and eagerly came to report it to Cao Liang.

Pei Xiu, as a member of the army, felt that he had an obligation to remind Cao Liang that although Cao Liang repeatedly insisted on his own views, the battle situation on the battlefield was changing rapidly, even if Sima Yi did not list Shangdang as the first choice at the beginning, but if he found out that Shimen Pass could be easily taken, maybe Sima Yi had already changed his mind at this time.

Cao Liang took the battle report, glanced at it, and said with a faint smile: "Don't worry, Wang Shizhi is not as unbearable as you think, Sima Yi wants to take Shimen Pass, it is by no means an easy task, and if Shimen Pass holds on for ten days and a half months, it is not a big problem." ”

Pei Xiu was a little anxious, and said: "But my lord, although General Wang is brave, but his two fists are difficult to defeat with four hands, and now the Sima army is attacking like a tide, constantly rotating, and the Changshui battalion is fighting continuously, extremely tired, if it goes on like this, Shimen Pass may not be able to hold it for ten days and a half months." ”