The Wei army soon occupied Hulu Valley.

After a while, a soldier came to tell him.

"Report to the governor of the capital and find the grain and grass of the Shu army."

"Oh! Take me to see it! ”

Sima Yi made such a big move for the sake of the Shu army's food and grass.

If a fire burns these grains and grasses, the Shu army will retreat without a fight.

The crisis of the Northern Expedition was lifted in an instant.

Sima Yi suppressed the bad premonition that kept pouring out in his heart, followed this soldier, and soon came to the place where the Shu army was hiding grain.

Countless rice bags are piled together, looking from the outside to the inside, densely packed, almost no less than tens of thousands of loads of grain.

"Father, the Shu army really put grain and grass here, and we didn't come in vain this time."

Sima Zhao followed excitedly.

Sima Yi quickly calmed down.

"No, these grains look like a lot, but they are not enough for the consumption of the Shu army for a month, come here, open the rice bags below one by one, and quickly check them."

"Yes!"

Ginger is still old and spicy.

Sima Yi always felt that something was wrong.

Soon, the results came in.

They turned over the outermost rice bags one by one, dragged a few bags of rice out from the bottom, and inserted them with their swords, revealing not grain and grass, but sand and gravel.

"How can this be, it shouldn't be!"

Sima Zhao was in chaos first, and he ordered all the soldiers to check every bag of rice inside.

It turned out that only a small handful of grain and grass were contained in the outermost handful, and there were only a few hundred quintals at most.

Sima Zhao was furious, and ordered the soldiers to set fire to these hundreds of loads of grain and grass.

A fire burns out.

In the end, he went outside to find Sima Yi.

Sima Yi came to the open space in the valley with his hands behind his back alone.

He always felt that something was wrong.

This time, it went too well.

If this is where the Shu army's grain is located, why didn't they send heavy troops to guard it?

Then Cao Jun clearly inspected here, why didn't he see him?

When the rice bags filled with sand and gravel were discovered, the doubts in Sima Yi's heart eased a little.

He stood alone in the middle of the clearing.

All around were busy Wei soldiers, and no one dared to disturb him.

Sima Yi looked up at the surrounding hillside.

I saw dense trees, deep-rooted old vines climbing on top of each other on the stone wall, weaving this place into a secret garden.

"Such a dangerous place, the Shu army is used as a suspicious soldier, it's a pity!"

This time it was not nothing.

At the very least, a reserve grain storage place for the Shu army was destroyed.

It's just that Xu Huang is there, I don't know how the battle is going.

Sima Yi settled down and was about to order the Wei army to retreat.

Suddenly, his nose wrinkled, and he smelled the smell of fire oil in the air around him.

I don't know if it's an illusion.

The valley was densely wooded, and it was supposed to be cool, but he felt a heat in the air.

"Zhao'er... Zhao'er... Do you feel anything unusual? ”

"Father, it turns out that you are here, and your son is asking people to burn those hundreds of loads of grain and grass, so as not to leave a single cent for the Shu army."

After Sima Yi found Sima Zhao, the doubts in his heart became heavier.

He sniffed hard in the air with his nose.

The smell of fire oil, which was still absent before, is getting stronger and stronger now.

Sima Yi was still in doubt, when suddenly Wei Shu in the valley shouted, "Oh no, the canyon ground is on fire." ”

"Hugh is panicked......"

"How can the ground catch fire?"

Sima Zhao was still in a daze, but Sima Yi's face changed, and he was the first to be alert.

"It's not good, Zhao'er, quickly quit the valley with me, and fell into Cao Jun's trap."

That Sima Yi used to look like a drooping old man, but now he is walking like a young man.

He took Sima Zhao's arm and ran to the nearest open-air stable.

The war horse was originally tied to a wooden stake, leisurely gnawing on the grass nearby.

At the moment, he screamed desperately like crazy.

The front hooves kept rising, and the hind hooves kept kicking the stake again and again, trying to untie the shackles and run for their lives.

Everything has a spirit!

The horse's irritability was abnormal, and it became more and more certain of the uneasiness in Sima Yi's heart.

He ran desperately to a war horse, hurriedly untied the horse's leash, and wanted to step on the horse's back.

After the war horse suddenly lost the restraint of the stake, he directly raised his hind hooves, gave Sima Yi a blow, kicked Sima Yi to the ground, and then neighed and ran away desperately.

"Father! Where did you fall? ”

Sima Zhao was a few steps behind Sima Yi, and he also ran over panting.

Sima Yi seemed to be panicked, and urged desperately: "Hurry, get on the war horse, otherwise, you and I will die without a place to be buried!" ”

Sima Zhao saw that his father was serious, and he didn't dare to hesitate.

He directly pulled out the saber at his waist, cut the horse rope, and stepped onto the war horse with a rub.

Although the war horse was constantly struggling, it was still unable to throw Sima Zhao off.

"Father... Get on board! ”

After Sima Zhao controlled the war horse, he beckoned to Sima Yi again and again.

Who knew that Sima Yi stood in place, as if he was stupid, just staring at the panicked Wei army in the valley and was silent.

Just a moment.

On the flat ground of the canyon, there seemed to be a layer of fog, making the figures not far away also become hazy.

How can there be fog on the flat ground?

This is a crematorium!

The temperature around us is also slowly rising, and it is almost breathless.

Sima Zhao also gradually discovered the abnormality, he controlled the war horse, and when he ran past Sima Yi, he pulled Sima Yi onto the horse.

"Father, sit tight, let's get out!"

The war horse was already frightened, and at this time, he supported the two of them at once, and became even more irritable.

It slanted towards the mouth of the canyon.

The closer they got to the mouth of the canyon, the more soldiers fled for their lives, and the originally limited space was already densely packed with Wei soldiers who were fleeing for their lives, and after an exclamation from time to time, a frightened war horse rushed over from the side and almost knocked Sima Zhao to the ground.

"Get out of the way...... I am Sima Zhao! ”

Is Sima Zhao a pedantic person?

He directly drew his saber and swung it twice in the air, trying to drive away the Wei pawn who was blocking the way in front of him.

Unexpectedly, two Wei pawns suddenly pounced fiercely behind the side, knocking Sima Zhao's father and son to the ground, and after one of the Wei pawns grabbed the war horse, he neighed and desperately hit the horse and rushed towards the crowd in front of him, and soon disappeared into the crowd.

The mouth of the canyon is more chaotic than the canyon.

There were Wei soldiers fleeing for their lives everywhere, and the shouting crowd had long been soldiers who did not know the generals and would not know the soldiers.

After all, Sima Yi is an old man in his 60s, he was kicked by the hind hooves of the war horse before, and now he was thrown under the horse again, and he kept struggling several times, but he still couldn't get up.

"Father's ......"

At the critical moment, it was still Sima Zhao.

He lifted the soldier blocking the road in front of him, ran over to help Sima Yi up, and comforted: "Father, don't panic, we will definitely be able to escape." ”

It's just a short moment.

The flat ground in the canyon seemed to be a furnace, and the gray-brown soil was toasted into pieces by the rising temperature below.

From time to time, red flames suddenly emerged from the cracked earth, directly turning the mouth of the gourd into a hell on earth.

The Wei soldiers who did not have time to escape to the mouth of the canyon were either suffocated to death in the rear.

Either they fled, and suddenly caught fire on their bodies, and then drowned in flames.

The smell of barbecue soon filled the air.

This makes the crowd at the mouth of the canyon more competitive.

Everyone doesn't want to die, they all want to get out early.

The order is long gone.

Someone blocked the way, just slashed it with a knife, and then stepped on the corpse of the robe and continued to squeeze forward.

The love of robes, military discipline and military rules, driven by the instinct to survive, have long become fragile.

At this point, why doesn't Sima Yi understand?

That Cao Jun is really vicious and abnormal.

He actually hollowed out the entire canyon ground and buried fire oil and flammable materials underneath in advance, in an attempt to wipe out Sima Yi's 50,000 troops.

Could it be that my father and son are going to die here today?

Sima Yi looked up at the sky in despair, if a shower fell at this moment, there might be hope of being alive.

It's just that...... Is it possible?

The sky above the mouth of the canyon was still cloudless, but it was a rare good weather.

Sima Yi's heart gradually sank to the bottom.

At this time, the survival instinct in his heart also exploded.

Because he has been protected by Sima Zhao behind him, he is a bystander.

Not far from here, there is a huge protruding rock, and if you can seize it, you may be able to find an exit from the rock to climb out.

"Zhao'er, come quickly, this road is not passable, find another place."

After Sima Zhao heard his old father's call, he turned around and looked, and saw that Sima Yi kept stretching out his hand to point to a huge rock not far away, where did he not understand?

After slashing over a few soldiers blocking the way, he and Sima Yi supported each other, and climbed to the top of the rock with difficulty through the shed on one side.

Unbeknownst to me, this rock is actually a lonely rock.

There is no access to the outside.

Even so, the top of the rock, which is less than 50 square meters, has long been crowded with more than 20 Wei soldiers.

With the blockage of this rock, you may be able to survive the flames.

Sima Zhao is obviously not the only one who has this kind of thought.

Those more than 20 soldiers have already divided the small space on the rock, where can they endure Sima Yi's father and son.

"One step further, kill or kill!"

The soldiers guarding the edge of the rock fiercely raised their knives and kept gesturing.

Sima Zhao didn't want to let go of this last hope, he replied loudly: "I am Sima Zhao, the son of the Grand Governor......"

However, before he finished speaking, he was greeted by a fast and ruthless knife from the other party.