"Humph!" Sima Yi couldn't help but snort contemptuously, and then realized that his gaffe would provoke public anger, and immediately changed to a bitter look, "You say, can I not be in a hurry?" Although I think about it this way, the enemy is too bold, but I have to guard against it. The vertex update is the fastest, oh, by the way, what about the person who just sent a message saying that Tongguan and Huaili were lost? Come here, come here, tell us, how did it all get captured by the enemy? ”

In fact, he was also a little anxious, and it was two people who reported that Tongguan and Huaili were lost just now.

The person who reported the loss of Tongguan was Zhang Shun who first sent someone to Chang'an to spread the news, and then Xiahou Ru urgently sent to Chencang. As for how Tongguan was lost, he couldn't say clearly. Because Zhang Shun was only because he met the returning Ma Chaobu in Zheng County, according to his estimates, since the enemy returned in a big way, it should be that Tongguan was lost.

"Oh?" Sima Yi didn't know the twists and turns over there, as soon as he heard that Xiahou Ru sent three thousand from the 10,000 defenders of Chang'an to save Tongguan, in a blink of an eye, the three thousand were basically gone, and Chang'an was even more dangerous, and judging from the Ma Chao troops described in the messenger's mouth, he still had four or five thousand cavalry, that is, he had almost no battle damage?

No, isn't there still Ma Dai? If Ma Dai brings another one or two thousand, then Ma Chao's cavalry will not be almost, but there will definitely be no battle damage.

By the way, didn't you just say that Ma Dai and Deng Zhi took Huaili? He hurriedly called another messenger: "Come, come, tell me, what's going on over there in Huaili?" ”

"Ma Dai led the cavalry, pretending to be the reinforcements we sent from Chang'an, deceived Fufeng Taishou, and drove directly into Huaili City." The messenger actually took advantage of the chaotic period when the Shu army entered Huaili, and he escaped from Huaili, and he couldn't tell what the specific situation was.

Sima Yi figured it out, he first asked the messenger from Chang'an: "Then you said that General Zhang Shun was a cavalryman who suddenly encountered Ma Chao, and he didn't have time to resist at all, so he was completely defeated, right?" ”

The messenger replied, "I guess so." ”

Sima Yi didn't plan to ask carefully, and it was estimated that this was the case, so he asked the people from Huaili again: "Then you said that the enemy was deceived into the city by pretending to be our people, which means that the enemy did not attack the city at all, and almost entered Huaili without blood, right?" ”

"I guess so." The person who came could only answer like this, and after he escaped at that time, he didn't look back at all.

"Do you understand?" Sima Yi didn't ask about the details, but was anxious to show Guo Huai and them his judgment: "We don't know how Tongguan was taken by the enemy now, but for places like Chang'an and Huaili, the enemy can deceive if he can, and if he can't deceive, he will scare people by surprise." In short, there has never been a head-on battle. In other words, although the enemy entered the pass in a big way, occupied Huaili, and captured the Tong Pass, until now, they may have almost never died! ”

Guo Huai agreed, anyway, the enemy had already passed through several groups outside Chencang City, and there really had never been a single attack on the city.

Xiahou Ba also nodded involuntarily, he was defeated by Ma Chao that time, and even if he took advantage of the chaos to pursue, he didn't kill many of his subordinates.

Sima Yi asked, "So, why did the enemy do this?" ”

Everyone tilted their heads and thought for a while, and then you look at me and I look at you, they all shook their heads, and they all focused their eyes on Sima Yi, which meant to remind him that the matter was so urgent, at this time, don't sell it, hurry up and say it.

Sima Yi actually didn't mean to sell Guanzi, he just wanted to emphasize it, and quickly replied himself: "This shows that the enemy is still preserving strength, and they don't plan to fight us in Guanzhong for the time being." They preserve their forces, and it is likely that there is a larger conspiracy to hide. ”

What kind of conspiracy is that, you say, why are you still selling off? Everyone stared at Sima Yi and was in a hurry.

"As for what the conspiracy is, I'm not sure yet." Sima Yi told everyone truthfully, "I just said, perhaps, their purpose is to preserve their strength, abandon us, and go straight to Luoyang!" ”

What he said is indeed very reasonable, Guo Huai and everyone are deep in thought, if this is really the case, if they don't go back to the division to save Tongguan as soon as possible, the consequences are really unbearable.

When Sima Yi said this, he threw a sentence at Guo Huai: "So, I have to go back quickly, this Chen Cang depends on you Guo Tingshi." ”

"Me? That...... This ......" Guo Huai didn't know what to do, "but my lord, you have also seen it, I have only 10,000 people here, which is much less than the enemy, and I can't distinguish people and horses to guard the Weishui narrow road, no matter how urgent it is, I can't ignore the tens of thousands of horses of General Xi, right?" ”

Although Xiahou Ba knew that the consequences were serious, he could not ignore Cao Zhen, and also said: "Let's wait for the report to General Zhengxi to make a decision." ”

Sima Yi asked rhetorically: "Didn't General Zhengxi ask me to go back to Guanzhong to pursue Ma Chao in front of you?" ”

"That'...... However, now that the situation has changed again, it must be up to General Zhengxi to decide. Xiahou Ba argued.

"Okay then." Sima Yi also made concessions, after all, if he really completely ignored Cao Zhen, he would also be looking for death, "General Xiahou, then you will lead 5,000 men and horses to stay and help Guo Tingshi defend the exit of the Weishui narrow road, and at the same time report to General Zhengxi, saying that I will go to rescue Tongguan first, please General Zhengxi speed up the withdrawal of troops, hurry back to recapture Tongguan, and defend the capital." ”

After the arrangements were completed, Sima Yi led the remaining more than 20,000 people and horses to Chang'an urgently.

Xiahouba stayed, stay and stay, anyway, he has no confidence in him, Sima Yi changed Wei Ping as the pioneer to open the way, and told him to be careful all the way, now Guanzhong is no longer the Guanzhong when he left not long ago, everything is in chaos.

Wei Ping led the army to march cautiously in front, and only after walking out of the half-day journey, he met Ma Chaozhong, who had just come from the west of the city.

Ma Chaozhong had just arrived at the city, and he was excited, and he rushed directly to kill him with a loud shout.

Fortunately, Wei Ping remembered the lesson of Xiahou Ba, and the army had always marched in formation, and after being charged and killed for a while, they were still able to maintain their formation, and constantly released random arrows to fight back.

Ma Chao rushed to kill for a while, and saw that it was difficult to get cheap again, so he took it when he saw it, gathered the crowd to turn north, avoided the front of Sima Yi's army, and continued to advance westward by detour.

Sima Yi really didn't expect to meet Ma Chao again here, and secretly glad that he had taken precautions and didn't suffer a big loss.

When they arrived at the county, they heard news that it had been occupied by the Ma Dai army.

Occupy it, occupy it, Sima Yi didn't bother to take care of it, and continued to move forward.

After arriving in Huaili, he didn't bother to care, he still walked around the city and went straight to Chang'an.

After entering Chang'an City, he breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly found Xiahou Ru to ask about the latest situation.

The situation was very bad, Xiahou Ru told him that according to the report of the sentry, Deng Zhi was originally going to ambush you Sima Yi in Huaili, but then he was urgently called away by Wei Yan, you have a good life and escaped the catastrophe.

Where did the good fortune come from, Sima Yi asked anxiously: "You mean that Wei Yan came back and called Deng Zhi's army away?" So where did they go? ”

Xiahou Ru sighed: "It seems that they moved all the grain and grass equipment in Huaili City to Tongguan in horse carts. ”

"Tongguan?" Sima Yi took a big breath of cold air, and sure enough, he guessed correctly, and he asked angrily: "They are still going to Tongguan with supplies, you, why don't you stop the interception?" ”

Xiahou Ru also had nowhere to complain: "How else can I intercept it?" In order to rescue Tongguan, I sent Zhang Shun to lead 3,000 people, but only more than 1,000 escaped. Now in Chang'an City, there are less than 10,000 people, which is less than the people of Deng Zhi and Wei Yan, plus there is a horse like a wandering ghost, coming and going without a trace, swaying in Guanzhong, if a tragedy like Zhang Shun happens again, or if someone takes advantage of the chaos to attack Chang'an City, then don't you come back and have no place to stay? ”

Sima Yi hated: "In this level, the enemy has been rampant to such a point, our own people dare not go out, and the enemy is dangling here, just like in our own back garden!" ”

Xiahou Ru felt the same way, and added some material to these words: "Your Excellency, you may not know that the news you just got is that now in this pass, there are already officials in several counties who have begun to rebel and occupy the county seat, saying that they will wait for the Shu army to come. ”

Sima Yi didn't care much about these civilian rebellions, so he just asked: "Then Wei Yan and Deng Zhi combined, how many people are there now?" ”

Xiahou Ru replied: "It is rumored that they are now combined, and there are definitely no less than 10,000 people. This does not include Ma Chao's cavalry. ”

Sima Yi stretched out his hand to hold his head, it seemed that he was really right, this enemy gathered more than 10,000 horses, even gave up the ambush on the Huaili Road, and transported all the materials there into Tongguan, not caring about the Wei army in the pass, this is not to go straight to Luoyang, what else can you want to do? (To be continued.) )