Long before Jin Jun received Lin Haotian's order, Sima Changren had already received an order from Muwang Liu Ji to ask him to return to the capital, and the wording in the order was harsh, not giving Sima Changren room to maneuver at all, as if if he deliberately refused to return to the capital, Liu Ji would be able to swallow him alive.

Sima Changren's heart was extremely unhappy with such a tone, and the war has been fought so far, how can he go if he wants to? The Red Army is not wood, once he leaves the north and goes north, won't the Red Army chase and kill him later?

The cavalry of the Red Kingdom has always been brave and good at fighting, and the tactics are changeable and strange, unpredictable. If you give up the dangerous city defense, your own army is tantamount to asking for a dead end, Liu Ji's order is completely a stupid joke in the eyes of Sima Changren.

After Sima Changren received the order, he almost refused on the spot, but after thinking about it calmly, he still forgot it, if he refused, he would refute the king's face too much, and he would not listen to it.

Therefore, Liu Ji's appointment came before Lin Haotian's order, and Sima Changren did not act according to the order.

In fact, as long as Liu Ji explained the current precarious situation in the capital in the order, even if the words were a little anxious and bad, Sima Changren could understand it, and he would rush back as soon as possible, even if all the soldiers under his command were dead, and he was the only one left, he had to rush back to the capital to rescue. But Liu Ji didn't write these things in the order, it's very simple, this is out of the face of the monarch, he is the king, his order is the royal order, Sima Changren, as a courtier of the Mu Kingdom, must be unconditionally obeyed, and he doesn't need to make too many explanations and elaborations to his courtiers.

Liu Ji is not wrong in doing this, and Sima Changren's approach cannot be said to be wrong, what is wrong is the long-standing distrust and various contradictions between the two of them.

When Sima Changren found that the First Army and the Second Army were converging and heading north, they went around behind him. He also understood that the Jin army was afraid that he would return to the capital, so he went north first to block himself. Since the First and Second Legions were stationed far away from the Moon Gate, they did not cut off the supply of the Moon Gate, but only cut off their way back to the capital.

Regarding Jin Jun's approach, Sima Changren was very puzzled. Why did the Jin army block themselves from going north, were they so confident that they could join forces with the Red Army to completely annihilate these hundreds of thousands of soldiers under their command?

Now, Sima Changren still doesn't know the news of the fiasco of Wangfeng County, in that era, the spread of news is also very slow, if it is not for a special person to inform, with the distance between Wangfeng County and Jiashang County, even if the news is passed on every other year and a half.

The order was sent to Yuemen Pass, but Sima Changren was slow to move. Liu Ji is in a hurry, if Sima Changren doesn't come back to rescue, even if You and Yan are willing to send troops to attack Jin, I'm afraid Xiang Yang won't be able to save it.

Liu Ji gave Sima Changren three orders in a row, ordering him to evacuate Yuemen Pass no matter what, and lead the army back to the capital.

When he was only fighting with the Red Army, Sima Changren couldn't go, and now the Jin Army has cut off the way back. It can't be reversed, but I received three appointments in succession. Liu Ji's urgency could also be felt from it, and it was not until this time that Sima Changren realized if there was some critical change in the capital.

He hurriedly wrote a reply letter, detailing his current difficulties, and then asked Liu Ji what the current situation in the capital was.

His reply was delivered directly to the capital. Within two days, the carrier pigeon returned, and Sima Changren knew that Wangfeng County had been lost, and the Jin army had entered Ziling County, and was advancing in the direction of Xiangyang.

It's just that at this time, it was too late for Sima Changren to learn about this. Now he really can't withdraw if he wants to, there are hundreds of thousands of Red Army in front, and there are more than 100,000 elite Jin Army in the back, it is reported that Ling Wuya's banner is also seen in the Jin Army camp, and he knows that Ling Wuya must have arrived in the Jin Army camp.

There were strong enemies in front and behind, so how did he retreat? But the capital could not help but be saved, and in the end, Sima Changren, who was at a loss, simply resorted to danger, and took only 3,000 cavalry to quietly go north, hoping to get through the eyes of the Jin army.

However, his move was already expected by Ding Feng and Bi Wu, the latter had set up an ambush in advance, and when Sima Changren was about to take advantage of the darkness to bypass the Jin army camp, there were ambushes around him, and Ling Wuya rushed out first, not looking for others, and after seeing Sima Changren, he went straight to him with a knife.

As soon as the two of them met each other, the battle was not long, but the intensity was much greater than the last battle between Sima Changren and Xuanyuan Fang.

Ling Wuya and Sima Changren did not fight two rounds, they both performed the martial arts stunt, one of the two took the fierce route, the other took the fast attack route, the battle to one place, the two of them have been seen on the field, only to see the flying sand and stones, covering the sky and the moon, the momentum of the horizontal flight will draw a crack on the ground, the grass and trees within more than ten meters around, the stones are all crushed, for the soldiers of the two armies, this is not a human battle at all, but the killing of gods and ghosts.

The Underworld Martial Arts stunt was too consuming to last too long, Ling Wuya and Zhang Bufan fought viciously for more than ten rounds, and the two of them fought for half a catty, and with the martial arts and cultivation of the two of them, it was impossible to distinguish the winner in more than a dozen rounds. However, Sima Changren saw that there were too many ambushes in the Jin Kingdom around him, and he was afraid that he would be surrounded by the other party if he continued to fight, so he took the lead in abandoning the battle and leaving.

Sima Changren came out with 3,000 light horsemen, and when he returned, there were less than 1,000 people left, and the other 2,000 people were killed in the encirclement of the Jin army.

It didn't work sneaky, and then Sima Changren launched another hard attack by a large army.

The Jin army did not face the battle, but stubbornly defended the camp and stubbornly resisted the enemy.

The wooden army did not attack for too long and retreated hastily, not because of too many casualties, but because the Red Army learned that a large number of wooden troops had left the pass, and took the opportunity to launch a fierce attack on the Yuemen Pass, Sima Changren was worried that the Jin camp did not rush down, and the Yuemen Pass was taken away by the Red Army, so his own situation was extremely passive, and he had no choice but to retreat first, and then make plans after stabilizing the Yuemen Pass.

After a few days, Sima Changren thought of all the methods he could think of, and his head was about to be hollowed out, but whether it was an open attack or a secret attack, he couldn't pass through the interception of the Jin army, and hundreds of thousands of wooden troops led by Sima Changren were dragged by the Jinmo coalition army in the Yuemen Pass.

Sima Changren could not return to Xiangyang, but the Jin army on Lin Haotian's side never stopped advancing westward, and on the tenth day of entering Ziling County, more than 200,000 Jin troops finally arrived in Xiangyang.

Xiangyang is the capital of the wood country, and it is also the largest city in the wood country, covering a vast area, the city has a large population, and the city defense of Xiangyang is also very perfect, not only the city wall is high and thick, outside the city, there is a moat that is several zhang wide.

Because the army of the Jin State pressed the border, the four gates of Xiangyang were closed early, and the four walls were almost full of the central army of the Mu Kingdom. A piece of armor is neat and bright, the knife is out of the sheath, and the arrow is wound, as if facing a great enemy, and the aura of slaughter is naturally revealed.

The Jin army was stationed five miles east of Xiangyang, and Lin Haotian deliberately took the generals of the whole army out of the camp and approached Xiangyang to check.

Seeing such a huge wooden capital, the generals were secretly frightened, and then gathered their eyes to take a closer look, Xiangyang's city defense has been very complete, even if there are not many defenders, it is very difficult to defeat it, not to mention, the central army in Xiangyang is not less than 200,000 people.

Three times the enemy, can attack the city, this is the final conclusion in the book of war, and with the city defense of Xiangyang, I am afraid that it will have to be four or five times the enemy to have the possibility of capturing, and the own side wants to attack the enemy with 200,000, is it possible to take Xiangyang?

Before the battle, just looking at the city defense of Xiangyang, the generals were a little discouraged.

Lin Haotian also knew that Xiangyang was difficult to fight, but on the surface, he was much calmer than the other generals, and he sighed with a smile: "We finally hit Xiangyang!"

After a pause, he smiled again: "Xiangyang is worthy of being a wooden capital, it is full of palaces and pavilions, gold, silver, jewelry, beautiful women and wine, and after Xiangyang is defeated, everything in it will be ours, haha......"

Seeing Lin Haotian smiling happily, all the generals also laughed along, but they laughed very bitterly, can it be so simple to lay down Xiangyang?

Everyone looked at each other, and then asked, "Could it be that your lord has already thought of a way to break the city?"

"En!" Lin Haotian nodded solemnly.

Everyone's spirits were shocked, their eyes lit up, and they asked in unison, "What method?"

Since the last battle of Crouching Tiger Pass, the generals have more confidence in Lin Haotian. (To be continued......)