Seeing that it was close to noon, Cao Liang did not dare to delay, so he said goodbye to Deng Ai and returned to the Chinese army.

At this time, all the soldiers of the Southern Army had already rested, full of spirit, and high morale, and the troops of each battalion and department had been assembled, just waiting for Xiahou Xuan's final order.

Cao Wei's Chinese army was not a pampered aristocratic army, but a true elite of the empire, and they participated in many battles against Wu and Shu, each time entering the battlefield at the most urgent and critical time, turning the tide.

In the battle of Jieting that year, the Wei army was under the leadership of Zhang He, marched for a long time, killed the Shu army by surprise with lightning speed, and took advantage of the camping mistake of the Shu general Ma Tan to conquer the Jieting fortress in one fell swoop, so that Zhuge Liang, who came to take advantage of the prosperity, was defeated and returned, and the Northern Expedition that Shu had carefully prepared for several years turned into nothing.

Cao Wei's Chinese army is like the mainstay, every time the battle situation is the most critical, there will always be a figure of the Chinese army, they are like firefighting heroes, the eastern front is on fire to save the eastern front, the western front is on fire to save the western front, invincible.

At this time, Cao Wei's Chinese army arrived on the battlefield in Huainan, many soldiers have participated in the battle against Shu and Wu, and they can be regarded as veterans.

Recruits who have never been to the battlefield will inevitably have some nervousness, but under the mobilization of this emotion, the sense of fear is quickly lost, and it is replaced by an inexplicable excitement and a desire for the upcoming battle.

Cao Liang on the way back, you can feel this strong atmosphere, the closer to the war, the more intense this atmosphere becomes, the momentum of the whole army is in a state of elevation, the ancients said that a drum, even if the Wei army is not inspired by the drum at the moment, it is also high-spirited, morale is like a rainbow.

Returning to the Chinese army, Cao Liang saw that Xiahou Xuan was saying something to Ren Lan, probably the last deployment, in the later charge operation, the long history of the Chinese army and the people who joined the army will not participate in the attack, but many logistics affairs still need to be handled by them, obviously Xiahou Xuan is in charge of logistics affairs.

Seeing Cao Liang coming back, Xiahou Xuan greeted him with a smile, everything was ready, just waiting for the signal from Sima Yi's side.

"Ziming, where have you been?"

Cao Liang replied: "I looked everywhere, the Wu army is several miles away, and there must be a lot of troops stationed, and this battle must be a vicious battle." ”

Xiahou Xuan laughed and said: "That's not necessarily, as long as our army should be attacked from inside and outside, the Wu army is bound to be in chaos, and if you want to organize effective resistance, I'm afraid it will be difficult." ”

Xiahou Xuan is determined to win this battle, and he is quite confident in his words and deeds.

Cao Liang didn't say anything more, Xiahou Xuan was on the rise at the moment, and Cao Liang didn't want to ruin his interest, not to mention, Cao Liang couldn't determine the direction of the battle, and it was too early to say anything.

In fact, the key to this battle lies in Sima Yi, if Sima Yi can rush across the Huai River and drag the main force of the Wu army, and Xiahou Xuan inserts the Wu army from behind, I am afraid that this battle will end soon.

Ren took a wooden stick and stuck it in the ground to determine the time.

People in this era do not have an accurate concept of time, most of the timekeeping is to watch the sun, sunrise and make, sunset and rest, auxiliary tools have sunrise and missing moments, accuracy is not to talk about, but can roughly calculate the time.

Fortunately, the sun is shining today, and you can judge the time according to the length of the shadow of the stick by inserting a stick, and when the shadow of the stick reaches the shortest, it is noon.

The camp of the Wu army in front faintly heard the sound of the army gathering, and occasionally the dust could be seen, obviously the Wu army had also entered a state of imminent battle, but the news on the other side of the Huai River had not been transmitted for a long time, which made Xiahou Xuan's mood inexplicably become irritable.

According to the agreement between him and Sima Yi in advance, the two sides raised the wolf smoke as a signal, as long as Xiahou Xuan saw the wolf smoke rising in the direction of An Fengdu, the Zhengnan army could launch an attack.

But the shadow of the wooden stick became shorter and shorter, but there was no movement on the other side of the Huai River, and Xiahou Xuan's face began to become gloomy.

If there was no response from the army led by Sima Yi, Xiahou Xuan's army would be completely alone, facing the army of more than 100,000 troops of the Wu army with 30,000 people.

In fact, all of Xiahou Xuan's battle plans revolved around the main force of the Wei army, and as long as the main force of the Wei army crossing the river attracted the attention of most of the Wu army, Xiahou Xuan could have a chance of success.

But now there is no news from Sima Yi's side, which undoubtedly makes Xiahou Xuan step into a dilemma, neither advance nor retreat, and I don't know what to do for a while.

The shadow of the sticks had completely changed to the shortest, and noon had come, but there was still only a blue sky and white clouds in the northeast sky, and there was no shadow of wolf smoke in sight.

Xiahou Xuan's brows were tightly locked, his hands were clenched tightly into fists, his face was gloomy to the extreme, he stared intently at the sky in the northeast direction, and even the muscles on his face were slightly distorted.

This is probably the scene that Xiahou Xuan doesn't want to see the most, the entire Zhengnan Army is now just waiting for his order, but he can't give this order.

Ren Lan comforted Xiahou Xuan and said: "General Xiahou, don't be anxious, maybe there is something delayed on the side of Governor Sima, I believe there will be results later." ”

Xiahou Xuan shook his head gently, only he knew the situation of Sima Yi's army, the Wu army was in ambush in Huainan at the moment, and on the north bank of Huaishui, the Wu army had not set foot at all, so Sima Yi would not be hindered in any way before he arrived at Anfengdu.

Could it be that Sima Yi really tried to declare a personal vendetta and put himself to death?

As soon as he thought of this, Xiahou Xuan shuddered, Sima Yi was reasonable to deal with himself, but pulling 30,000 Wei soldiers to accompany him to the funeral, is this method too vicious?

Xiahou Xuan never believed that Sima Yi would do this before, even if Cao Liang persuaded him at that time, he turned a deaf ear, thinking that Sima Yi is not the kind of person who pretends to be a public servant and abolishes the public for private purposes, and the grudge between them is a personal vendetta, and everything he is doing at the moment is a major national event, even if Sima Yi has any plans, he shouldn't take the lives of 30,000 Wei soldiers in vain, right?

But in the face of the facts, all the discrimination is pale and weak, and Sima Yi has not yet refused to send troops, which is enough to prove that he is taking revenge and taking the lives of 30,000 Wei soldiers to accompany the funeral.