A ditch five or six feet deep became an insurmountable obstacle, and the 60,000 people who ran through the ditch became fish in an urn to be slaughtered.

The two armies on the plain are facing each other, and there is no geographical advantage to rely on, who would have thought that Sima Hongyan would create a geographical advantage out of thin air! The Dongning army had fought against countless enemies before, and it was the first time that they had encountered such an ingenious opponent as Yan Ling, and it was undeniable that the Feng Lord of Yan Ling was really a unique and unusual character.

As soon as King Hong returned to his tent, he could no longer bear to vomit a mouthful of blood. In the decades since he commanded the army, he had never suffered such a big blow. There were many spies sent out to monitor Yanling's army, but no one knew when Yanling dug this deep ditch. King Hong couldn't figure out how Sima Hongyan managed to hide such a big project.

All the strategies are not complicated after the mystery is revealed, and it is just a matter of sending soldiers to dig a big hole, but such a simple strategy makes people unable to guard against it and powerless to resist. And its effect is magical, and it is a great blow to the confidence of King Hong's army.

Today's morale was frustrated, King Hong calmed down and asked the whole army to stay on alert, tonight it is likely that the Yanling army will take advantage of the new defeat in Dongning to attack at night, this opportunity King Hong guessed that Sima Hongyan would not let go.

As a result, King Hong miscalculated again, and the whole army stayed up all night trembling, but nothing happened, and not even a single Yanling figure appeared overnight.

King Hong began to doubt himself, could it be that he was old and his mind was declining, why did he always guess everything that was expected? It seems that the contest with Sima Hongyan cannot be judged by common sense, Sima Hongyan is simply a person who is completely incomprehensible. Often she doesn't do what you think she will do, and she still wants to do what you think she can't do, which is really hard to grasp.

And such an enemy is the most terrible!

King Hong had no choice but to find Shen Caijie, the military advisor he had snubbed, to discuss countermeasures, and King Hong found that he had nothing to do with Sima Hongyan.

Shen Caijie was also very shocked when he heard the news of Dongning's defeat, the first time the invincible King Hong confronted Sima Hongyan head-on, he suffered such a fiasco, it seems that Sima Hongyan must not be treated as a girl in her twenties. And he also realized that King Hong would definitely come to him.

Seeing King Hong, Shen Caijie found that King Hong, who had not been seen for a few days, seemed to be much older, and his black hair, which was originally pampered, turned white on his temples.

Seeing Shen Caijie, King Hong's first sentence was to ask him if he had a way to break the enemy.

Shen Caijie had already learned that the emperor had summoned King Hong back to Beijing, and King Hong had delayed not going back on the grounds of military urgency. However, this fiasco was very unfavorable to King Hong, and if the emperor recalled the will again, if King Hong still resisted and did not obey the will, it would be considered a blatant rebellion.

If King Hong falls, his hope of Shen Caijie flying Huang Tengda will be gone. Therefore, Shen Caijie had to find a way to help King Hong get through this difficulty no matter what.

Before coming to see King Hong, Shen Caijie had already made a plan, and he said to King Hong: "Lord Hong! Sima Hongyan acted strangely and unpredictable, and the normal tactics and tactics were no longer very effective, so his subordinates still suggested that the prince should think of another way. ”

King Hong said: "Do you have any way?" ”

Shen Caijie nodded and said, "My subordinates have a plan, which may make our army win back a game." Then he leaned forward and whispered in King Hong's ear.

In a victory, Sima Hongyan let the whole army rest overnight, and before dawn the next day, he suddenly ordered the army to march and attack King Hong.

After yesterday's battle, the morale of the Yanling army was high, and they already had absolute trust in the Phoenix Lord. After receiving the order, although the sky was as dark as ink, no one complained, and the army immediately set off towards the camp of King Hong.

In order to achieve the speed of the soldiers, Sima Hongyan asked Nan Guying to lead the cavalry to take the lead, and the archers and infantry also ran fast, so they must arrive at the Hongwang military camp before dawn.

Twenty miles away is not far, Nan Guying arrived first, and from a distance, the Dongning army was setting off from the camp in reverse, not knowing where to go.

Nan Guying thought about it for a while, and then understood why Sima Hongyan sent troops to attack before dawn, thinking that Sima Hongyan knew that King Hong was going to make a move.

King Hong didn't care when he heard the news that the Yanling army was coming, and only urged the army to set off quickly. Nan Guying didn't know what King Hong wanted, and his own forces were limited, so he just lined up the formation and didn't attack rashly. At the same time, he sent someone to report the situation of the Dongning Army to Sima Hongyan immediately.

Seeing that the direction of the Dongning army was to go to the capital, Nan Guying secretly wondered if King Hong was going to withdraw his troops and return to Beijing.

Not long after, Sima Hongyan arrived with the female army, and Nan Guying recounted what he saw to Sima Hongyan again.

Looking at the dust in the distance, the Dongning army was heading towards the direction of the capital. Sima Hongyan said: "Therefore, it seems that they are going to attack our Yanning Pass!" ”

Nan Guying exclaimed: "How do you know? ”

Sima Hongyan said: "The time we set off this morning is the most unsuitable for marching, but as soon as you arrive here, you can see that their army is marching, which can only mean that they deliberately made the appearance of leaving for us to see." Originally, I wanted to come to the surprise attack in the early hours of the morning, but I didn't expect them to set up suspicious soldiers for us. This is a critical moment in the battle, and King Hong will never return to Beijing with his troops, so I guess they are trying to bypass us and attack Yanning Pass. ”

Nan Guying suddenly said: "This is a clever move, one to avoid the edge of our big victory just now." Second, the defenders of Yanning Pass are now limited, so they can take advantage of the weakness to enter. Even if we can't take it for a while, we can take the opportunity to cut off our food supply. At that time, the border will be tight, and we will have to withdraw our troops. ”

Sima Hongyan nodded and said: "That's what it means, I'm afraid this strategy is from Shen Caijie's hand again." ”

Nan Guying saw that Sima Hongyan didn't look a little anxious, so he smiled and asked, "Then what are we going to do next?" ”

Sima Hongyan said: "Since King Hong wants to go to Yanning Pass, let him go." We went to pursue this group of suspicious soldiers, didn't they go to the capital, so we followed them to Dongning Kyoto. ”

Since she said that she was chasing the suspicious soldiers, Nan Guying immediately ordered the cavalry to approach.

Dongning, who was responsible for attracting and pinning down the Yanling army, was also a cavalry army, and when he saw the Yanling army coming up from behind, he immediately stepped up his speed and rushed forward.

Sima Hongyan personally led the army to follow, but the speed of the pursuit was sometimes fast and sometimes slow, after all, people are not as fast as horses. And every time at this time, the Dongning cavalry will deliberately slow down, and it will not be until the Yanling army catches up before the distance is opened again.

You chased me for a hundred and ten miles, and the Dongning cavalry suddenly turned north. Sima Hongyan smiled at Nan Guying and said, "They are planning to take us around in circles. The game of cat and mouse was almost played, and we left them alone and ordered the army to march directly to the capital. ”

The Dongning cavalry walked a short distance to the north, and suddenly found that the Yanling army that followed behind was gone, and hurriedly sent people back to investigate, only to find that the Yanling people had abandoned them and went directly to the capital. The Dongning cavalry was shocked, feeling as if they had been fooled again.

Sima Hongyan had already stockpiled enough grain and grass for the army for a month, enough to go to the capital of Dongning, and had already sent someone to inform the transportation team to stop transporting grain, so there was no worries at all now.

As a suspicious soldier, the Dongning cavalry found that the Yanling army had seen through their strategy, and hurriedly sent people to send letters to King Hong and the capital respectively, saying that the Yanling army had approached Kyoto.

On the way to the capital, Sima Hongyan passed all the way, and the passes along the way could not stop the pace of Yanling Xiongshi, and he saw that he was getting closer and closer to the capital.

Lan Shengwen was shocked when he heard that the people of Yanling were coming to the capital like a bamboo. I also heard that King Hong had let Sima Hongyan's army attack Yanning Pass, and he was even more furious. He suspected that King Hong had deliberately led Sima Hongyan to the capital, but he took the opportunity to rob Yanling, which was clearly to support the army and abandon Dongning.

However, this time Lan Shengwen really wronged King Hong, King Hong's original purpose was to attack the enemy to save himself, and he didn't expect Sima Hongyan to go directly to Dongning Capital regardless of it. King Hong thought that as long as Sima Hongyan learned that there was a change in the border pass of Yanling, he would have to return to the army to save him, otherwise even if he defeated Dongning and lost Yanling, it would be more than worth the loss.

Shen Caijie's strategy was indeed very ingenious, but when they were about to arrive at Yanning Pass, they found that Yanning Pass had already been prepared.

King Hong's army is about 300,000 people, and there is no suspense in attacking Yanning Pass with such a force, and it is only a matter of time before the city is broken. And when they were still some distance away from Yanling Pass, they suddenly encountered obstacles.

King Hong heard a report from the vanguard army that an army was blocking the road to Yanning Pass.

The elite of Yanling is exhausted, and they are all gathered in Dongning at this time, how can there be an army in the way? King Hong didn't believe it very much, so he personally took someone out to check.

I saw countless camps stationed on the main road for several miles, and looking at this formation, there were at least more than 100,000 troops stationed here. King Hong was puzzled, he hadn't heard that there were so many soldiers and horses hidden in Yanling!

Believe it or not, the facts are in front of you. King Hong was furious and called Shen Caijie to ask what was going on. Shen Caijie was also inexplicable, he hurriedly sent someone to check to see where this army came from.

After investigation, it was learned that the army stationed outside Yanning Pass turned out to be the original soldiers of Western Vietnam, that is, the army of the current Western Capital of Yanling.

King Hong was so angry that he trembled all over, and scolded Shen Caijie all the time, he didn't know anything about such an important matter before. Shen Caijie was ashamed, this was indeed his negligence, he didn't expect Sima Hongyan to transfer the soldiers and horses of Xiyue to Dongning.

It was the 120,000 elite cavalry of the western capital of Yanling that blocked King Hong's army, and the person who led the troops was Xiahou Shuojie, the king of Yanxi. He didn't come temporarily, but after Sima Hongyan sent troops out of Yanning Pass to crusade against Dongning, he led his army to garrison here.

It turned out that before Sima Hongyan sent troops, he discussed with Xiahou Shuojie that as long as Yanling declared war on Dongning, Dongning would inevitably come to attack Yanning Pass, in order to prevent danger in the rear, Sima Hongyan handed over the responsibility of guarding Yanning Pass to Xiahou Shuojie.

Xiahou Shuojie admired Sima Hongyan very much, so he naturally obeyed his orders, and immediately ordered the elite soldiers of Qi Xidu to come to assist. When Sima Hongyan set off, he waited until Xiahou Shuojie arrived with his troops, and with Xiahou Shuojie's army in the rear, Sima Hongyan naturally would not worry about King Hong's sneak attack.