Chapter 554: Time Difference
As soon as Liu Feng waved his hand, a Jingzhou general had already come out of the battle, obviously to engage the Wei generals.
This time, apart from Xu Huang and Li Dian, there were no other famous generals in Sima Yi's formation, so Sima Yi saw that Liu Feng sent a little-known general, so he also sent a partial general in the formation to oppose him.
But what Sima Yi didn't expect was that the partial generals of Wei and the generals sent by Liu Feng fought for less than ten rounds, and they were picked off the horse by the generals sent by Liu Feng. The general sent by Liu Feng who was not too old still couldn't have the upper hand, and the two fought for dozens of rounds, Liu Feng directly recalled the general back into the formation and led the army to cover the past.
Seeing that Liu Feng was menacing, Sima Yi naturally did not dare to support him, and did not lead the army to fight directly with Liu Feng's army, but withdrew to the city.
This battle made Sima Yi see Liu Feng's determination clearly, and he had to think about it in the long run, and began to formulate how to resist Liu Feng and Zhao Yun temporarily, and then look for an opportunity to take Xicheng County back from Liu Feng's hands, after all, Xicheng County is the county seat of Weixing County, if it cannot be recaptured for a long time, it will not satisfy Cao Zhi.
Sima Yi withdrew from the city, Liu Feng did not attack, and after returning to the camp, Liu Feng called the young general who had fought before to him and praised him.
This young general is Zhang Fei's son Zhang Bao, he was left with Guan Ping and Guan Xing to Liu Feng's side, this time Liu Feng decided to take Wei State, Guan Ping and Guan Xing had been sent by Liu Feng to Yangping Pass, and Zhang Bao stayed by Zhao Yun's side to assist.
Zhang Bao undoubtedly inherited his father's characteristics of fighting bravely, he was just about twenty years old, and he was already very skilled in using a spear, Liu Feng had personally tested Zhang Bao's martial arts in these months, otherwise he would not have sent him to fight in front of the battle at this time.
Zhang Bao did not disappoint Liu Feng, this time he left Zhao Yun in Weixing County to contain Sima Yi, Liu Feng knew that it was extremely difficult for Zhao Yun, and Zhang Bao was one of the few helpers on Zhao Yun's side.
Liu Feng knew that when the routine of attacking Xixian County was figured out by Sima Yi, he would definitely launch a counteroffensive, Liu Feng had agreed with Zhao Yun before, if it was impossible to do anything, he would give up the Xicheng County that he had captured before, so as to hook Sima Yi's interest, as long as Sima Yi was not allowed to attack Shangyong, Zhao Yun's task would be completed.
This task does not sound difficult, but when facing Sima Yi, it is undoubtedly very difficult, not to mention that in order to enrich the troops in Yangping Pass and ensure the safety of Liu Feng on the way from Shangyong to Yangping Pass, Liu Feng will take 10,000 of the most elite people from this 50,000 army. Although there were still tens of thousands of defenders in Shangyong City and Meng Da and others to respond, it was undoubtedly a difficult task to fight Sima Yi in Weixing County plus 80,000 Wei troops with 40,000 people.
After Sima Yi saw his people and his determination this time, it was naturally time for Liu Feng to leave, and after telling Zhao Yun and Zhang Bao and others, he followed his own plan and led 10,000 people to the west in the night, accompanied by Li Chuang and the shadow guards who had been protecting Liu Feng.
In order to make Sima Yi think that Liu Feng was still in the army, Zhao Yun raided the city gate and city wall of Xixian County with a large number of catapults in the previous way before the sky was dark, and this attack killed many Wei troops on the city wall, and Sima Yi was undoubtedly the first time to see such a number and size of catapults, how to deal with these catapults, became the first problem for Sima Yi to come to Weixing County, in this case, He naturally didn't know that Liu Feng had already led his army to a place that he and Cao Zhi hadn't thought of, that is, Yangping Pass, which was quite far away from Yecheng.
Yangping Pass is located in Hanzhong, is the gateway of Yizhou, since ancient times the people who led the troops knew that if they wanted to capture Yizhou to the west, Yangping Pass and Hanzhong were the places that must be taken, except for Liu Feng, no one could think of taking Jiaozhou and Nanzhong, attacking Yizhou behind the back.
But for Liu Feng from 2,000 years later, since it is the land of the gateway, there is naturally no reason to be able to defend and not attack, he wants to start his first step in conquering Wei with the Yangping Pass, which was heavily defended by the people of Hanzhong before this, but almost did not go out of the pass to attack the east.
The reason why he chose Yangping Pass to send troops is that Liu Feng studied the more than half a year before he came to the conclusion, before Ma Chao led the army from Hanzhong to attack Liangzhou through Yangping Pass, for the terrain here, Liu Feng's forces are obviously more thorough than the generals of Wei.
Moreover, adjacent to the land of Yangping Pass are Liangzhou and Yongzhou of Wei, Liangzhou is not an important place, and there are not many garrisons, and even after Yang Xiu captured Liangzhou in order to accumulate war power for himself, Liu Feng did not send troops to recapture it, which shows the degree of chicken ribs in this state.
But Yongzhou is different, Yongzhou is the only way for Wei to advance westward or to the north to resist the barbarians next to Liangzhou, and has always had a strong garrison. But Yongzhou also has a complete disadvantage for Wei, that is, it is a little far away from Yecheng, the capital of Wei at this time, if it was really according to Cao Zhi's ideas, accepted Liu Xie's concession, and moved his capital from Yecheng to Luoyang, there would be no such problem, and now, because of Liu Feng's rapid and strong rise, Cao Zhi did not have time to move the capital.
According to Liu Feng's investigation, this time Liu Feng issued a document announcing that he was about to start a full-scale war against Wei, and the defenders of Yongzhou did not change much, which shows that in Cao Zhi's heart, Liu Feng will most not march from Yizhou, which is relatively far away from the Central Plains, and also shows Cao Zhi's confidence in the Yongzhou guards, he thinks that if Liu Feng really dares to use Yongzhou to open a breakthrough, the defenders of Yongzhou will definitely make him pay a heavy price.
But Liu Feng is such a person who does not play cards according to common sense, he naturally knows that Yangping Pass is a little far away from his center Xiangyang, but he used his long-term preparation and his confusion about Sima Yi to successfully play a time difference, and this time difference and the distance between Yongzhou and Yecheng will undoubtedly play an important role in the battle.