Contrary to the main force of the Han army with infinite scenery, after the battle of Pingyin Ferry, the Han army led by Uncle Zhou showed a sharp decline, not only did it no longer have the majesty of the sneak attack on Yiguan and the Pingyin crossing, but also was blocked by the Henan army in front of the gate of Yiguan and repeatedly beaten, and was beaten so that it only had the ability to parry, and there was no power to fight back.

Of course, this can not blame the Han army division commander Zhou Shu incompetent, the main reason is that the disparity in strength is too large, the total strength of the Han army's partial division rushed to the Hanoi battlefield is only more than 22,000 points, and the loss of more than 4,000 people in the Pingyin battlefield, the strength has been weakened quite a lot, but the opponent is the main force of the Henan army led by Sima Wei himself, the strength is full of 60,000 people, the supply is sufficient, well-equipped and there are many elites, and later there are Hanoi county soldiers from Huai County to help, the overall strength is far above the Han army's partial division, Of course, the Han army's partial division will not be very good.

Another point is also very crucial, in order to cover the main force of the Han army to break through the Kuihan Road, forge the illusion that the Han army is attacking Hanoi, after withdrawing from Pingyin to Yiguan, the Han army's partial division did not withdraw to the relatively safe Yiguan to rest, and chose to set up a camp outside the east gate of Yiguan, pretending to protect the road of the main force of the Han army eastward into Hanoi, and further luring the main force of the Henan army to attack Yiguan in the north. After the Henan army was defeated, although it was successfully lured into the Hanoi battlefield by the Han army's partial division, it launched two large-scale attacks on the Han army's partial division within three days, causing huge pressure and casualties to the Han army's partial division.

These two battles of the Han army division are relying on the tenacious will to withstand the crazy attack of the Henan army, at the critical moment, Uncle Zhou also personally put on the battle, with the Han army reserves around to fight the fire and fill the leakage, in the second war, if it is not for the bronze armor to block it, the stray arrow almost shot directly into Uncle Zhou's chest, the Han army general Worm Da also hung in the fierce battle, just a thousand generals died before and after five people, five hundred lords and hundreds of generals and other grassroots generals sacrificed more than 30 people, heavy losses, Even the Han army during the period of the young marshal army has never been seen.

During this period, there were also several Han generals who took the lead and suggested that Uncle Zhou lead the army to withdraw through the Yiguan Pass and take advantage of the geographical advantage to compete with the Henan army, but Uncle Zhou categorically refused every time, saying: "Can't withdraw!" As soon as we withdraw, we will lose all our efforts, and Sima Wei will immediately understand that we are only making a feint attack in Hanoi, and if he immediately retreats to Sanchuan with the main force of the thief army to set up defenses, the soldiers we sacrificed before will die in vain. ”

After the wind and rain was the rainbow, and after the blood was finally blocked by the two crazy attacks of the main force of the Henan army, the news that the main force of the Han army marched eastward from Hangu Pass was finally confirmed by the Henan army division in Cuihan Dao, and was sent to Sima Wei with a fast horse. As a result, Sima Wei roared in disbelief again, "How is it possible? Xiang Kang Xiaoer personally led the main force of the Han thieves to the east to send a letter to Guguan? What is Uncle Pifu doing so hard in Yiguan that day? Why didn't he just withdraw from the pass, and still hold the camp so stubbornly? ”

"King, we have fallen for the evil of Uncle Zhou's husband." Li Zuoche almost groaned in pain, and said: "He calculated our thoughts, knowing that as long as he doesn't withdraw from the pass, we will definitely think that he is protecting the road for Xiang Kang Xiao'er, so he will garrison outside the pass at any cost and lure us to storm his camp!" ”

With a bang, the case in front of Sima Wei flew into the air, jumped up and blushed and only thought for a moment, Sima Wei quickly shouted: "Pass the order, the whole army immediately pull out the camp and raise troops, withdraw across the Yellow River and return to Sanchuan!" ”

"Slow down, king!" Li Zuoche hurriedly stopped and said: "King, at this time, we can't retreat in a hurry, Uncle Zhou's vitality is still alive, and there is still the strength of a battle, seeing that we withdraw our troops to the south, he will definitely lead the army to pursue, and take advantage of the opportunity for us to cross the river to the south and attack halfway, when the time comes, it will be difficult for us not to suffer losses!" ”

"What then?" Sima Wei asked angrily.

"Yiguan is far away from Cuihan Dao, Uncle Zhou has difficulty communicating with Xiang Kang Xiao'er, and he definitely doesn't know Xiang Kang'er's specific situation now, in order to cover Xiang Kang'er to break through Kui Han Dao, he will definitely continue to defend the camp." Li Zuoche quickly pointed out Uncle Zhou's tactical choice, and said: "So we must seize the opportunity to quickly launch a full-scale attack on Uncle Zhou's camp again, first severely damage the Han thief division, so that Uncle Zhou's puppet has no spare strength to pursue us, and then calmly go south to help Sanchuan." ”

After saying that, Li Zuoche hurriedly added: "Also, we have to keep the news tightly sealed, not only can't let the Han thief know that Xiang Kang Xiao'er has sent a letter to Guguan, but also can't let our soldiers know, so as not to affect morale and shake the morale of the army." ”

The difficult choice was once again placed in front of Sima Wei, and he wanted to adopt Li Zuoche's suggestion, but he was afraid of wasting time, so he gave the main force of the Han army the opportunity to quickly break through the Cuihan Road, and did not listen to Li Zuoche, if Uncle Zhou took the opportunity to launch a pursuit, and took advantage of the fire to rob when the Henan army crossed the river, the Henan army was likely to turn victory and defeat, and was severely damaged by the Han army's partial division, in a dilemma, and Sima Wei really didn't know how to choose for a while.

Seeing that Sima Wei was worried that he was not sure to quickly take the camp of the Han army's partial division, Cheng, who had previously made a big mistake in being friendly to the Han army, hurriedly spoke up and said: "Great King, if you are worried that we will not be able to quickly take the camp of the thief army, or continue to attack and suffer heavy casualties, then it is better to leave an army to contain the Han thief division, so that our main force can calmly cross the river ......." ”

"Fart!" Sima Wei scolded angrily: "Don't talk if you don't know how to fight, leave an army to contain the division?" Leaving less is equivalent to giving the Han thief a partial division in vain, and leaving too much, how can this king go all out to meet the main force of the Han thief? ”

Cheng Lian hurriedly shut up, but Du Wanda, the chief strategist before Sima Wei next to him, rolled his eyes, suddenly thought about it, and hurriedly said: "King, there is a plan, you will definitely be able to break the Han thief's bias, and you will not delay our army to cross the river to help Sanchuan." ”

"Tell me, what's the idea?" Sima Wei hurriedly asked.

"King, we can arrange it like this." Du Wanda said: "The king might as well immediately lead the main force of our army to cross the river in the south, leaving only Deng Huai, the county guard of Hanoi, to lead the men and horses of his headquarters to confront the Han thief division at Yiguan, and when he went south, he secretly ambushed an army in the dense forest of Nanshan. When Deng Huai was defeated and left, he lured Zhou Shupifu into the hinterland of Hanoi, and our army ambushed the soldiers to suddenly kill, rushed to seize the pass, and cut off the connection between Zhou Shupifu and the rear of Hedong. ”

"Brilliant plan!" When Sima Wei heard this, he applauded and said: "Good idea, when Uncle Zhou sees the main force of our army crossing the river in the south, he will definitely be fooled and attack our lure army with all his might!" ”

"Don't take any chances!" Li Zuoche hurriedly objected: "Uncle Zhou is very human, if he sees through our strategy and sets a trap for us to drill, we will definitely suffer a big loss." ”

Du Wanda, who was robbed of the position of chief strategist by Li Zuoche, did not speak, just waited for Sima Wei's reaction, and the result was just like Du Wanda, Sima Wei, who was only respectful to Li Zuoche and not completely obedient, immediately waved his hand and said: "Why does Guangwujun want to grow the ambition of others and destroy his own prestige? Du Shaofu's plan is very good, this king expects that Uncle Zhou will never be able to see through it, so he will do it and act according to the plan immediately! ”

In this way, after categorically rejecting Li Zuoche's kind intention to block him, Sima Wei immediately acted in accordance with Du Wanda's suggestion, while organizing the main force of the Henan Army to pull out the camp and withdraw to Pingyin to cross the river, while ordering Deng Huai, the county guard of Hanoi, to lead the army to stay in Yiguan and take on the heavy task of containing the Han army's partial division alone, and ordered Deng Huai to deceive and leave when the Han army's partial division launched a counterattack, and lured the Han army's partial division to the direction of Yewang. Finally, when the main force of the Henan army went south, Sima Wei ordered Sun Yin, the general of the Henan army, to lead 10,000 troops and secretly ambush in the dense forests of Nanshan, only waiting for the Han army to be lured to the hinterland of Hanoi by Deng Huai, and suddenly attacked Yiguan.

Strictly speaking, Du Wanda's plan to divert the tiger from the mountain is definitely not on paper, if it encounters other opponents, it is likely to have a miraculous effect and help the Henan Army make great achievements. But it's a pity that Han Xin, who is known as a soldier immortal, has only respected one person in this era and has only been vigilant in terms of using soldiers, and Han Xinjing's person is Li Zuoche, who opposes the Henan Army, and the vigilant person happens to be Uncle Zhou. So......

So just after roughly figuring out the movements of the Henan army, and before the Henan army could arrange the ambush in place that night, Uncle Zhou had already laughed out loud, and said with a smile: "I bet that Sima Wei's puppet must not have been Li Zuoche's idea to do this, and that old fox would never be so risky, arranging such a trick that is like playing with fire to divert the tiger from the mountain, and use Deng Huai such an obvious bait to lure us into the bait." ”

"The general suspects that Sima Wei left Deng Huaipifu to contain us is a decoy?" Li Bi asked curiously.

"Not a doubt, it's a certainty." Uncle Zhou smiled and said: "Although there are more than 10,000 soldiers and horses under the command of Deng Huai Pifu, they are all rabble that he hastily put together from various counties in Hanoi, and the combat effectiveness is not as good as the main force of Sima Huai Pifu, and the equipment is even worse than that of Sima Wei, staying to contain us is equivalent to sending us to death in vain, Sima Wei obviously knows this, and deliberately arranges it like this, isn't it what is Deng Huai Pifu using as bait?" ”

"So what should we do?" Li Bi hurriedly asked again.

"Hurry up and make dry food immediately, not too much, 10,000 troops will be enough for two days, so as not to add a burden to our soldiers." Uncle Zhou instructed......

In order to make the Henan army believe that he was deceived, it was still at noon the next day, Zhou Shucai personally led 8,000 Han troops out of the camp and launched an attack on the Henan army Deng Huai's headquarters stationed eight miles east of Yiguan. Uncle Zhou was very careful to send the army to repeatedly test and find the weak point of the Henan army's battle array, and then decisively sent troops to launch a strong attack.

Neither is the opponent of the Han army, but also bears the heavy responsibility of luring the enemy, Deng Huaijun of course quickly defeated and fled, with the rear army directly abandoned the camp to retreat in the direction of Yewang, Zhou Shu did not hesitate to lead the army to pursue, the two thousand Han troops who stayed in the camp also quickly carried dry food and baggage to the east to respond, pretending to chase and kill the Henan army defeated with all their might, Henan Xizuo, who was lurking near the battlefield, saw the great joy, and immediately went south to report the news to Sun Yin, the general of the Henan army who commanded the ambush, Sun Yin was overjoyed when he heard it, immediately led the ambush soldiers north to attack Yiguan, and kept shouting on the road, "Hurry! Fast! Before the Han thief army reacts, you must take the pass for me and cut off the connection between the Han thief army and the rear! ”

Uncle Zhou gave Sun Yin a chance to take revenge, and in the evening, just after seeing the ambush of the Henan army suddenly killed, the hundreds of Han soldiers who stayed in the camp immediately abandoned the camp and fled, and fled back to Yiguan with a crawl, giving Sun Yin the Han army camp that the Henan army could not attack for a long time. It's a pity that in the next battle, Sun Yin failed to seize the opportunity to quickly take the Yiguan, on the contrary, the well-prepared Han army insect Da Department also relied on the dangerous terrain and strong fortress to meet the Henan army's surprise attack team that did not have many offensive weapons, and killed the Sun Yin soldiers who forcibly attacked on their backs, and the corpses were piled up.

Or after the fierce battle until the third watch in the middle of the night, Sun Yin vaguely found that the situation was wrong, and quickly ordered the withdrawal of the army to regroup, but Sun Yin made this decision was too late, and before all his troops were withdrawn from the front line, Uncle Zhou, who was supposed to pursue Deng Huai, had already led the Han army to kill back to the vicinity of Yiguan with a cruel smile, Sun Yin hurriedly led the army to meet the battle, and Worm Da led the army to kill from Yiguan, helping Uncle Zhou to attack Sun Yin's army before and after, the Henan army suffered from the enemy on its back, and after a long-distance attack and forced attack, his physical strength decreased seriously, It was not the opponent of the Han army, and was defeated by the Han army and fled, and the soldiers of the Han army pursued and killed with all their might, and wiped out most of Sun Yin's army.

At dawn, Sun Yin's defeated army fled south to the Pingyin ferry, but unfortunately the main force of the Henan army had crossed the Yellow River, and also brought most of the ships to the south bank of the Yellow River, and the well-prepared Han army Xuanji chased it, and also took advantage of the opportunity of Sun Yin's army to snatch the remaining ferry boats to escape, and defeated Sun Yin again, and finally Sun Yin barely escaped the Yellow River with only a few hundred soldiers, and the remaining defeated soldiers were either killed or captured, and the 10,000 troops were almost wiped out.

After the victory, there was continuous cheering in the ranks of the Han army's partial divisions, but Uncle Zhou only took a short rest, and soon instructed the generals of the Han army who came to congratulate him: "Hurry up and clean up the battlefield, collect the prisoners, rest for a day, and then immediately march east to Huaixian." ”

"What about Pingyin here?" Worm Da asked: "If you don't leave troops to garrison, what if Sima Wei sends an army to cross the Yellow River north?" ”

"With our main force on the south bank, we will not dare to divide our troops to counterattack Hanoi with a hundred courages." Uncle Zhou replied confidently, and said: "We hurry up and enter Huai County, we can not give Deng Huai Pifu too much time to prepare for the war, and then as long as we can quickly take Huai County, we can immediately form a huge threat to Sima Weipifu's Ao Cang, so that even if he wants to hold on to Luoyang for a long time, he does not have the courage to strategically fall into the overall disadvantage, and let our main force take the initiative." ”

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The distance is not very far, of course, the news of Sun Yin's army defeat was quickly reported to Sima Wei, and at the same time, the news that the three cities of Xin'an, Mianchi and Shaanxi County were quickly captured by the main force of the Han army also happened to be sent.

Out of duty, Li Zuoche could only try to appease Sima Wei, and then said: "King, things have come to this point, we must not risk a decisive battle with the Han thief army again, Henan City is short of grain, and we can't station so many soldiers and horses, the best way is to take advantage of the main force of the Han thieves is still on the way east, quickly take the initiative to give up, and then divide our army into two, one will stick to our capital Luoyang, and the other will retreat to Aocang, waiting for our reinforcements to arrive and then launch a counteroffensive." ”

"Directly retreat to Luoyang and Aocang?" Sima Wei was a little suspicious that his ears had heard it wrong, and said angrily: "Then what about our other cities?" All for Xiang Kang's children? ”

"The king, the good fighter, never cares about the gains and losses of a city or a place." Li Zuoche spoke bitterly and persuaded: "The main force of the Han thieves is menacing, and they are determined to win our Sanchuan County, and Uncle Zhou has no opponent in Hanoi, so he will definitely quickly march into Huai County, coerce Ao Cang, and force us into a comprehensive passivity, so for now, it is best for us to take a comprehensive defensive position, delay the time of the strong wall and clear the field, wait for our rescuers to arrive, and then it is not too late to recapture the occupied territory." ”

Sima Wei turned around in a circle with his hands behind his back, and after thinking for a long time, Sima Wei suddenly said loudly: "You can't divide the troops and defend it!" There are many Han thieves, and if we divide our troops and defend them, it will only give Xiang Kang Xiao'er a chance to break us all, and only by concentrating our forces to hold the throat of Henan, can we be sure to block the main force of the Han thieves led by Xiang Kang Xiao'er personally! ”

"But the king, are we sure that we can hold Henan?" Li Zuoche reminded.

"Why aren't you sure?" Sima Wei said proudly: "We still have 60,000 troops, even if we are not sure of a head-on battle, it is definitely more than enough for the deep ditch and high fortress to hold the throat of Henan, I don't believe that Xiang Kang Xiao'er really has the ability to penetrate the sky and the earth, and can storm and take our main camp." ”

Li Zuoche sighed softly, and knew that he had no way to persuade Sima Wei, who was stubborn and self-serving, so he could only say helplessly: "King, if you must stick to Henan, your subordinates will not object." But Your Majesty must remind you that after Xiang Kang'er arrives, no matter what happens, our army must not take risks to fight, and please don't listen to the words of Xiang Kang's envoy, that little vertical son is too good at treachery through the envoy. ”

"Thank you Guangwujun for your advice, the widow remembers." Sima Wei said impatiently: "If Xiang Kang Xiao'er sends an envoy to the camp, the widow doesn't even see him, and directly drives his envoy away, this will not be fooled by him, right?" ”

The main force of the Han army came very fast, only a day later, the front team of the main force of the Han army, Long and the department, arrived at the deserted Grain City in the war, only ten miles away from the Henan army camp that was being built, Sima Wei kept in mind Li Zuoche's advice, resisted the temptation that the main force of the Han army had not yet arrived, did not take the initiative to send troops to meet the Han army forward, and allowed the Han army to show off its might outside the barracks, insulting and fighting.

It turned out that Sima Wei was right to do this, and in the evening of the same day, Xiang Kang personally led the main force of the Han army to arrive at the city, and immediately set up a camp on the ruins of the city. Then, as it happened, at this time, the area around Sanchuan and Hanoi was suddenly overcast, the wind was fierce, and the lightning and thunder continued, and it was very rare to see a torrential rain in the late autumn season.

At the same time, a hundred miles away in Wen County, Hanoi County, a mediocre-looking girl was alarmed by the thunder, opened the window to look at the sky, when she saw the direction of Henan County in the southwest, the girl's face changed, and blurted out: "Strange thing! What kind of person is there to change the world? ”

After closing her eyes and thinking for a while, the girl suddenly remembered the news that a certain thief sent a letter to Guguan, and suddenly, the girl couldn't help but be even more curious, and said secretly: "If you have the opportunity, you must see his face with your own eyes." ”