Wei Ba's sixteen characters have two contents, one is strategy, the other is power, but it does not involve tactics. The reason is very simple, he knows very well what kind of person his father Wei Yan is, being taught by his son - no matter how outstanding this son is - is an unbearable thing, if he talks too much, he will have a rebellious mentality, and more importantly, he knows that his father is no worse than anyone else in terms of tactics, and he doesn't need to be reminded at all.

The purpose of sending Fa Miao was more to help him guard against his own people, which was what Wei Yan lacked the most.

Wei Yan rarely expressed any opinion, and acquiesced to Fa Miao's following. After leading his army to cross the Yellow River from Longmen Mountain, he quickly entered Pingyang County, Sizhou. Both sides have been preparing for so long, and they have maintained a high degree of vigilance, and the Wei army has also arranged a guard in Longmen Mountain, but in the face of the 15,000 Shu Han elite cavalry that suddenly came out, and the more than 3,000 Wei army infantry cavalry did not stop Liliang head-on, they could only retreat to Pishi City, watching Wei Yan and Wu Yi disappear into the northern sky.

The news was sent to Qin Lang and Xiahou Ba, and Xiahou Ba did not dare to slack off, and immediately led 10,000 horsemen to pursue. He was not afraid that Wei Yan and Wu Yi would plunder any property, or reverse attack Hedong, and most of Bingzhou was now reduced to the pastoral area of the Hu people, basically there was no property for them to plunder, and there were also heavy troops in the Shangdang area, and it was difficult to pose any threat to Wei Yan's Liliang alone, what he was worried about was that Wei Yan went north along the Great Wall, shaking the control of the Wei army in Bingzhou and Youzhou, and taking away a horse breeding land in Wei State. Without Liangzhou, Wei's cavalry advantage is gone, and if it loses control over Bingzhou and Youzhou, Wei's national fortunes will almost be over.

Xiahou Ba chased after him. Wei Yan and Wu Yi are advancing all the way, and the two sides are always one or two days apart, one after the other into Jiuyuan, Yanmen, and Yunzhong.

Xiahou Ba complained bitterly, he couldn't figure out what Wei Yan wanted to do, was this going to fight or escape? I didn't fight a battle, I ran for half a month in one breath, and ran thousands of miles, what is this for, a long-distance attack on Jizhou?

As time passed, Xiahou Ba became farther and farther away from the main force. He was in a dilemma. It is not to retreat, and it is impossible to catch up with it, and we must be careful to be vigilant, and now there is not much difference between the forces of the two sides. None of them were covered by the main forces. The roles of the Hunter and the Orion may be reversed at any time. What made Xiahou Ba even more headache was. When he chased it out, he didn't expect this result at all, the food and baggage were limited, and the longer it was, the longer it was. The more dangerous it is for him.

But retreat can't do it, Wei Yan is here, if he is not contained, no one knows what he will do next.

The north wind is getting tighter, the cold is pressing, and Xiahouba's heart is also cold. He felt that things were getting a little out of control.

When Xiahou Ba began to pursue Wei Yan, Zhuge Liang led the main force out of Tongguan, Jiang Wei was the forward, and the main force of the Wei army led by Cao Zhen fought viciously for three days in Fenglingdu, Cao Zhen was overworked and fell ill again, and the Wei army that lost Cao Zhen's command finally could not support it, so he had to retreat back and give up the Henan position.

Jiang Wei crossed the Yellow River and broke into Hedong County. Qin Lang led more than 10,000 cavalry to rush to support, took over Cao Zhen's department, the two sides fought again, stalemate, Zhuge Liang led the main force to arrive, defeated the Wei army again, beheaded more than 10,000, and forced Shaanxi County. Jiang Wei led the striker into Hangu and advanced all the way to Hangu Pass.

When the news reached Luoyang, Luoyang was shaken, and the discussion of moving the capital was noisy again. After consulting with several important ministers, Cao Rui categorically ordered that those who dared to move the capital should be beheaded. At the same time, he sent Xin Bi as an envoy to Hangu Pass, ordered Cao Zhen to return to Luoyang to recuperate, handed over all the army to Qin Lang's command, and ordered Tian Yu to lead an army of 20,000 to defend Xin'an, and Qin Lang to lead an army of 30,000 to hold Hangu Pass, ready to respond to Tian Yu at any time.

Tian Yu and Qin Lang did not dare to be negligent in the slightest, and quickly strengthened the city defenses of Xin'an and Hangu Pass, preparing to fight to the death with the Shu Han army here. Hangu Pass is one of the eight passes in Luoyang, and once the Shu Han army breaks through Hangu Pass, Luoyang will open its door to them.

After Jiang Wei arrived in Xin'an, he was not in a hurry to attack the city, he set up a camp to prevent the Wei army from counterattacking, and at the same time prepared to attack the city, waiting for Zhuge Liang to lead the army to arrive before attacking.

When Zhuge Liangqi opened victoriously and advanced rapidly, Sun Quan also launched an attack on Shouchun. Lu Xun commanded an army of 50,000 to surround Shouchun, and more than 800 thunderbolt cars lined up on the dirt slope outside the city, and stone bullets rushed towards Shouchun City like hail. Man Chong fought back, erected more than 600 thunderbolts on the inner city wall, and attacked the Wu army across the outer city.

The two sides were evenly matched, the positions were filled with smoke and poison gas, and there were instruments and corpses shattered by stone bullets everywhere. Although the Wei army had a large number of thunderbolts, but the reserves of stone bullets and fire bombs were not as sufficient as the Wu army, after a day and a night of attack, the Wei army ran out of stone bullets, and the fire bombs were also exhausted, and they could no longer resist the attack of the Wu army, Pan Zhang and Zhu Ran successively attacked the city wall of Shouchun.

Full of favors and helplessness, he had to abandon the city and break through.

Lu Xun commanded the army to pursue fiercely and advanced the battle line to the chasm.

The rapid attack on Shouchun made Sun Quan see the power of the new tactics, and also brought him great confidence, but also brought him new difficulties: the fire bombs were consumed too quickly, and only more than 100,000 of the 300,000 fire bombs purchased in the first batch were left, which was simply not enough to cope with the next attack.

Sun Quan originally wanted to wait and say, but in the next battle of Chen County, he immediately tasted the bitterness, the Wei army successfully suppressed the attack of the Wu army with more fire bombs, and took advantage of the Wu army to be caught off guard to counterattack, although Lu Xun commanded properly and blocked the counterattack of the Wei army, but a large number of thunderbolt cars were also poured oil on the Wei army, and the fire burned to the core, and the people and soldiers who operated the thunderbolt vehicles suffered heavy casualties.

Sun Quan only knew at this time that Wei bought more fire bombs from Wei Ba, and the total number of the two batches reached 800,000, and after learning that Shouchun was lost, Cao Rui urgently allocated 200,000 bombs to Chen County, just to teach Wu Jun a lesson.

The contest between the two sides is no longer just about the strength of troops, but also whether the supply of important materials such as fire bombs is sufficient, has become a factor that cannot be ignored.

However, the warlocks invited by Lu Xun still couldn't solve the jishu problem of the natural flocculent of the fire bomb. Spontaneous combustion is not a problem, but they are still helpless on how to make that flocculent and how to make it burn quickly. Once those clay bombs are broken, the flocculent will soon burn and turn into a cloud of ashes for a short time visible to the inner eye. They could tell the bone meal by the smell of the burning, but they couldn't figure out how to make them into weapons for a while.

In desperation, Sun Quan had no choice but to raise funds and buy 300,000 fire bombs from Wei Ba again.

Fortunately, the Wei army also had a limited number of fire bombs, not every city could be equipped with them, and even after Chen County's successful counterattack, the fire bombs were quickly exhausted, and the two sides returned to balance and fought with their existing weapons.

In this regard, Wu Jun, who had a stone bullet to make jishu, had a clear advantage. Lu Xun once again destroyed the defense of Chen County with dense stone bullets, and then went to the next city to advance the battle line to Yingchuan County.

At the same time, Sun Shao also advanced all the way on the eastern front, defeating Wang Ling twice in succession, entering Yanzhou, and capturing Peixian.

So far, the entire Yuzhou and most of Xuzhou have been pocketed by the Wu army.

The Wu army came from the east, the Shu Han army came from the west, and the situation in Wei was unprecedentedly tense. Cao Rui had a premonition that the battle of Luoyang was inevitable, so he sent people to step up the production of stone bullets for backup, and at the same time sent people to inform Cao Fu to order another million fire bombs from Wei Ba first.

In mid-November, Wei Yan and Xiahouba met head-on for the first time in Yanmen, more than 20,000 cavalry attacked outside Yanmen Pass, the two sides fought for a day and a night, just when the two sides were inseparable, Wei Yan led 3,000 Wei soldiers to break through the defense of the Wei army and attack Xiahouba's Chinese army. Xiahou Ba was invincible, so he had to take the initiative to retreat, and Wei Yan led the army to pursue and beheaded more than 3,000 people. However, the Wei army was strong, and although it was defeated, the Shu Han army also paid the price of nearly 2,000 casualties.

Xiahou Ba led the remnants to retreat into Yanmen Pass, and Wei Yan regrouped, turned around and went all the way south, and once again entered Taiyuan County. The Huns stationed in Taiyuan County were deterred by the rapid offensive of the Shu Han army, and did not dare to confront the Shu Han army head-on.

After receiving the news, Qin Lang sent Hao Zhao to lead 5,000 men and horses to strengthen the defense of Huguan and block Wei Yan in Shangdang County, so as to prevent him from breaking into Hedong or Jizhou.

In November, Zhuge Liang led the main force to Xin'an, in the face of the heavily defended Xin'an, Zhuge Liang resorted to a plan to lure the enemy, sent most of the men and horses, took turns to feint, and induced Tian Yu to counterattack fiercely.

Within an hour, nearly 1,000 thunderbolts fired in unison, throwing 200,000 fire bombs and countless stone bullets, and smoke billowed from half of Sin'an City, and you couldn't see your fingers. Taking advantage of the stunned Wei army, Jiang Wei led his troops to charge and took Xin'an City in one go. Seeing that the general trend had gone, Tian Yu led his troops to break through and retreated into Hangu Pass under Qin Lang's response.

Two days later, Jiang Wei led an army of 20,000 to Hangu Pass, and five days later, Zhuge Liang led the main force to arrive.

Counting from Zhuge Liang's oath to attack, in a month and a half, Zhuge Liang attacked the periphery of Luoyang, thirty miles away from Luoyang City, the progress is not fast, and the offensive is not unsharp. The morale of the Shu Han army was high, and they were gearing up to conquer Luoyang in one fell swoop and capture Cao Rui alive.

Zhuge Liang was not in a hurry to attack, he hurried with six hundred miles to send the war report to Chengdu.

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After receiving Zhuge Liang's battle report, Li Yan was very surprised. He was silent for a long time, and then sent someone to invite Ma Jian to put the battle report in front of him, and there was some uneasiness in his voice.

"Look, you see...... Is the prime minister's progress too fast? ”

Ma Jian looked at the battle report, and hesitated for a long time without speaking, Zhuge Liang's attack speed was not only fast, it was simply incredible, and the Wei army was simply vulnerable in front of him. At this rate, wouldn't it take a few days for Zhuge Liang to besiege Luoyang?

For Shu Han, this is great news, but for Li Yan and him, it is an ominous signal...... (To be continued......)

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