"Both." Li Yan looked at Wei Yan and Deng Ai in front of him, his expression was indifferent, and he didn't have any intention of getting close or wooing, he knew very well in his heart that he couldn't pull it, Wei Yan was a talent recommended by Liu Yi, and he had been taken care of by Liu Yi over the years, and Liu Yi had been absent from the court for a long time, whenever something happened to Liu Yi, Wei Yan was definitely one of the people he paid the most attention to, not to mention Deng Ai, Liu Yi looked at growing up, he was half of Liu Yi's disciple and son, and with the current official positions of the two, it was difficult for him to pay anything, So it's a business-like attitude.

"I may have some misunderstandings with Sikong, but as Sikong said, this time, we are going to fight for Wei and fight for the recovery of my Han, not personal grudges, I hope that the two generals can put aside their prejudices against Li and fight for my Han."

Wei Yan said lightly: "Don't worry, the general has already instructed the governor before leaving, let the two of us do our best to help you." ”

Of course, it is the time when it is impossible to do it, to save life first, Li Yan's life and death can be ignored, this is the second half of Liu Yi's sentence to them, Wei Yan and Deng Ai naturally will not say it.

"It couldn't be better." Seeing that Deng Ai also nodded, Li Yan didn't understand what Liu Yi meant in his heart? It doesn't seem to be a gesture.

Since he couldn't figure it out, he didn't want to, Li Yan looked at the two of them and said: "I need the detailed process of Sikong's battle with the Wei army, as well as the soldiers, grain, grass, equipment, and information of the Wei army in our army, the detailed information of Sima Yi and the generals around him, and the approximate strength of the Wei army, Sikong should have a sand table in this area, right?" I want to see. ”

Knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent, winning all battles, although Li Yan has confidence in himself, he also believes that there are not many opponents who can make Liu Yi so cautious, and Lu Meng, the governor of Jiangdong back then, was captured by Liu Yisheng.

Although he didn't look down on Liu Yi's method of using troops, Li Yan still chose to learn more about the details, compare himself and Sima Yi, and see the advantages and disadvantages of both sides before making the next step.

"Whoa!" Wei Yan and Jiang Wei agreed, hugged their fists to Li Yan, and bowed away.

In the next few days, Li Yan was quite active, inspecting the barracks every day, counting supplies, understanding the surrounding landforms, probing the enemy's situation, and repelling the waiting.

"Sima Yi's army is about 200,000, stationed in Yanjin, Yanxian, and Chaoge, but why does he have to clear the wilderness these days?" Li Yan was a little confused about Sima Yi's move, at least from Li Yan's point of view, the defense of these three counties was quite important in terms of strategy, and Sima Yi was now directly emptying the rear, which was absolutely not beneficial to his grain route.

"This ......" Wei Yan shook his head, Liu Yi had been speculating about what Sima Yi meant by this move before?

"I heard that Wen Chang is good at surprise attacks, can you lead a group of men and horses to attack behind enemy lines and attack their grain routes?" Li Yan asked.

"The governor has also tried before, and Sima Yi is very close to the rear." Wei Yan shook his head, feeling that Li Yan was doing useless work, and really thought that Liu Yi was simply shrinking? If there is a chance, Liu Yi will still find the enemy's weakness, but Sima Yi is also good at guarding, especially in the grain road, Sima Yi is cautious and cautious, false and real, sometimes robbed, but it is fake, and there are ambushes, if Wei Yan saw that the situation was not good, he immediately retreated, I am afraid that he would be surrounded by Sima Yi.

"If this is the case, then tomorrow I will personally lead the main force to attack Yanjin, and the two of you will each lead 5,000 soldiers and horses to ambush the reinforcements of Chaoge and Yanxian respectively, if you can deceive the reinforcements from the two places, then destroy the two battalions, if the second battalion does not send troops, then you two will lead the army to join forces with me to see if you can break through Yanjin." Li Yan thought for a while and looked at the two of them and said, "What do you two think?" ”

The prestige of the two in the army is not low, and they are outstanding, Li Yan must take into account the opinions of the two.

"Maybe you can give it a try." Wei Yan thought for a moment, and was a little moved.

Liu Yi does not advocate attacking, but Wei Yan's character does advocate attacking, and respecting Liu Yi is one thing, but Liu Yi's way is somewhat inconsistent with Wei Yan, and Liu Yi also said that he fully supports Li Yan.

Yanjin, as Sima Yi's main protection object, has 100,000 defenders, according to the art of war, not to mention that Li Yan does not have as many soldiers and horses as the other party, even if there are 100,000 troops, rash attack is definitely the next policy.

But now the Han weapons have gradually distanced themselves from Cao Wei, the range of bows and arrows is extremely long, and they can be suppressed by distance, imitating the pre-Qin arrow array, forcing the Wei army out of the city to face the battle, and in close combat, it can be done with the strength of the Han soldiers' armor and one enemy two.

Of course, if Sima Yi should not fight, then he has been throwing arrows into the city, the Han army not only has a long range of bows and arrows, but also has a longer range of stone throwers.

The plan was decided, and early the next morning, Wei Yan and Deng Ai each led a group of soldiers and horses to set up an ambush, while Li Yan led the main army of 50,000 to the outside of Yanjin City and began to suppress the opponent with an arrow array, and at the same time the trebuchet also began to drop stone projectiles on the Wei army.

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"Siege?" When Sima Yi heard the news, he showed a little smile on his face, and said to Sima Shi and Guo Huai: "Let's go, go to the city and have a look!" ”

"Whoa!" Sima Shi and Guo Huai agreed, accompanied Sima Yi to the city wall, at this moment the Han army's arrow clusters fell in the direction of the city wall as if they didn't want money, and a large number of Wei troops hid behind the female wall, and they didn't dare to come forward if they were suppressed.

"Captain, the last general is willing to lead his troops into battle!" Seeing this, Guo Huai looked at Sima Yi with some anxiety, the opponent's bow and arrow had a long range, and his own bow and arrow could not reach it, so he could only lead the army out of the city to fight hard with the enemy.

"Okay, Berje must be careful, if you can't do anything, withdraw your troops immediately!" Sima Yi held a shield on his head, and poked out half of his head from behind the female wall battlement a little obscenely to observe the formation of the Han army, and nodded at Guo Huai.

Guo Huai agreed, immediately went down to the city, ordered 20,000 elite soldiers to go out from the south gate, bypassed the city, and led the army to attack the Han army.

On the other side, Li Yan was obviously prepared, and seeing the enemy cavalry rushing up, he immediately ordered the spearmen who had already been prepared to come out and protect them in front of the archers.

Guo Huai commanded the army formation to collide at any cost, quickly breaking into a gap, but the archers had already turned around and fired a volley towards the Wei army, and at the same time, a soldier with a large shield stepped forward and quickly formed a shield formation to block the Wei army's attack.

Guo Huai fought for a while, failed to break the formation, but lost a lot of soldiers and horses, can only indignantly collect the troops back to the city, Li Yan took the opportunity to follow up and snatch the city gate, but was repelled by the Wei army at the head of the city with an arrow array, can only continue to return the color with the arrow array, suppress the Wei army not cold.

"Captain, the last general is incompetent!" Guo Huai returned to the city to recover his life and said bitterly.

The equipment of the Han army was too strong, and the formation and morale were not weak, and the Wei army could not penetrate at all when occupying a defensive position.

"No, well done!" Sima Yi came down from the city wall, his face was a little pale, after all, the city wall was too dangerous, and if he was not careful, the possibility of hitting the arrow by mistake was extremely high.

"Huh?" Guo Huai looked at Sima Yi blankly.

"The commander of the Han army has changed." Sima Yi breathed a sigh of relief slightly, and said with a smile: "Looking at the posture, I want to forcibly attack the city, with Liu Yi's character, I will choose a more conservative way of playing, such as building a few arrow towers here, he has tried it before, and was driven away by us, but the Han army in front of him is quite enterprising, this is not Liu Yi's style, and our people who went to Chang'an have not come back yet?" ”

Although it is basically certain that the opponent's coach has been replaced, Sima Yi is cautious by nature and still wants to wait for Chang'an's news to come back before it will be safer.

"If there is really news, the letter should be sent back in these days." Sima Shi on the side thought for a while.

"Then wait a few more days!" Sima Yi said with a smile.

"Father, it's not easy to keep these days!" Sima Shi smiled a little bitterly, Sima Yi asked Ma Jun to dismantle a lot of things in Yanjin, all with those old things, how to fight against the Han army equipped with powerful weapons?

"In this way, it will seem more real!" Sima Yi shook his head and smiled: "If this plan can be successful, the day of the defeat of the Han army on this road is not far away!" ”

When Sima Shi heard this, he could only smile and nod bitterly.

Li Yan naturally wouldn't really attack the city, at least not for now, and after Wei Yan and Deng Ai returned to attack temporarily, they withdrew their troops.

"General, I don't know when we can attack the city?" Wei Yan looked at Li Yan and asked.

"Wait a few more days." Li Yan said with a smile: "Now the Yanjin Wei army still has fighting spirit, after all, our army has few soldiers, if it is forcibly attacked the city, I am afraid it will not be able to attack it at this moment." ”

Wei Yan nodded, although this Li Yan is a bit annoying, he is a person who knows soldiers, and he is still quite disciplined in fighting.

In the next few days, Li Yan waved his army every day to throw arrow clusters into the city, at first it was far away, but as the Wei army in the city tried to raid several times and was frustrated, Li Yan's courage became bigger and bigger, and he continued to push the battle line forward, and the city wall of Yanjin had become full of holes under the continuous bombardment of trebuchets, and even a large number of cracks had appeared, and it seemed as if they were about to collapse.

In Yanjin City, Sima Shi walked quickly to Sima Yi, bowed to Sima Yi and said: "Father, Chang'an has sent back news that Li Yan has replaced Liu Yi a few days ago and presided over the battle here. ”

"Good!" Sima Yi stroked his palms and smiled: "Inform the defenders of Yan County to retreat according to the route set before, but you can't retreat too quickly." ”

"Tai Lieutenant, do you really want to give up this city?" Guo Huai was a little uncomfortable.

"How about giving him an empty city? I want the lives of this 100,000-strong army of puppets! Sima Yi stood up, patted Guo Huai's shoulder and said: "After the Han army is destroyed, these cities can be taken back, and Boji should look at the overall situation!" ”

"Whoa!"