In order to take Shangguo City, although Sima Yi made the besieging soldiers wear rattan armor, he still paid nearly 10,000 casualties before finally knocking on the gate of Shangguo City.

After the Yizhou army was stationed in Shangguo, Sima Yi immediately ordered his subordinates Zhang Wei, Yang Ren, Yang Ang, Tian Xu, Hu Lie and others to lead soldiers to search the whole city, focusing on finding various secret passage organs and incorporating them for inspection, so as to prevent the vanguard soldiers from leaving any hidden dangers in the city.

After repeated inspections and found nothing unusual, Sima Yi cautiously entered the city, and secretly set up the place where he lived in the courtyard of an ordinary people's house. Of course, in order to confuse the enemy, the courtyard in the city, which originally belonged to Cao Xing's residence, still lived in a "Sima Yi" who saw the beginning and the end.

Soon after entering Shangguo City, Sima Yi received an urgent report from the scattered outposts, saying that Jia Xu had led 10,000 soldiers to settle in Yixian.

For Jia Xu, an old opponent, Sima Yi has already learned many times openly and secretly, so he can't help but feel a pang in his heart, and seriously ponder the next action.

Sima Yi's original plan was to divide the troops from Wudu Waiwai Dao according to the east and west routes, seize some of the cities of Hanyang and Longxi that were close to Wudu County, and then move closer to the vicinity of Didao and Xixian County, so that Wudu County could be completely cut off from Liangguo. Subsequently, with the defense line formed by the four cities of Lintao, Didao, Xixian and Shangguo, the rescue from Liangguo was blocked, and then the barbarian troops were mobilized from the Nanban region to go north to Hanzhong, and from the direction of Fuxian County, the 15,000 vanguard troops stationed in Wudu launched a final attack, so as to completely occupy Wudu.

Once Wudu County is lost, Sima Yi can calmly encroach on the territory of Longxi and Hanyang, further compressing the living space of Liangguo. After taking the three counties of Liangguo, Yizhou's strength will be greatly increased, and the scarce war horses will also be strongly replenished.

When the land of these three counties is completely digested, Sima Yi will lead the army to attack Jincheng County, followed by Wuwei County, how can this also be taken by him, and the Liang Kingdom will only be left with Beidi County and Anding County, which are close to the Jin State. As for the isolated counties of Zhangye, Jiuquan, and Dunhuang, it will not be long before they will fall to Yizhou because they have no support and supplements.

The most important thing is that in this way, Zhao Xing's road to the east can be completely cut off, even if he is playing some conspiracy or tricks, he is really taken out of the customs by the Hu people, and in the future, he is afraid that he will live in the Western Regions and fight to death with the Hu people.

Sima Yi's strategic vision is undoubtedly very far-reaching and unique, if everything can be implemented smoothly according to the plan, it is equivalent to removing the spine of the Jin Kingdom, so that Zhao Xing's carefully designed, and now it has been running smoothly for many years, the pattern of one body and two wings has broken off the left wing. On the contrary, Yizhou has won the upper turf of the hinterland of Liangzhou, and since then it has formed a favorable situation of "double dragon playing pearls" in which Yizhou and Liangzhou are connected to the north and south of Chang'an.

Although Sima Yi's plan was good, it was now confusing because of Jia Xu's sudden increase in troops in Yixian. Because the distance between Yixian and the three cities of Shangguo, Xixian and Didao is almost the same, and it happens to be in the middle of the three-star moon circle, it can pose a great threat to the Yizhou army.

If Sima Yi still sent troops to attack Xixian next, he would have to consider the threat of the enemy on his back, after all, the 15,000 vanguard troops stationed in Wudu were not easy to provoke.

For the sake of safety, Sima Yi finally decided to temporarily garrison Shangguo and wait for the progress of the Yizhou army to attack Yanyan in Longxi from the direction of Minshan, and then decide on the next move.

Sima Yi was thinking about Jia Xu, and Jia Xu, who was stationed in Yixian County, was also thinking about Sima Yi. The loss of Shangguo City was already expected by him, but he didn't expect Cao Xing to be so strong, just let a thousand soldiers evacuate Shangguo, but he and the remaining 4,000 vanguard soldiers chose to die in the city.

Cao Xing had people bring back a hundred "swarm" launch tubes in their entirety, ensuring that the latest firearms of the Jin State were not obtained by the extremely dangerous Sima family; he also asked his own soldiers to escort back the flag of the First Light Infantry Division of the Vanguard Army, which means that although the First Light Division suffered heavy casualties, the formation is still there, and in the future, as long as the source of troops is replenished, it will still be a tiger division under the establishment of the Vanguard Army.

This veteran who once blinded Gongsun Chan in one eye under the Huguan finally realized the oath of the Jin soldiers to sacrifice their lives on the battlefield, and also bought precious time for the next actions of the vanguard army.

Jia Xu is a person who does not hold grudges easily, but once he is worried about the people he remembers, it will not end well. The heavy damage suffered by the First Division of Light Infantry and Cao Xing's sacrifice made the chief military advisor of the Jin Kingdom very angry, so he once again made a decision that hurt Tianhe.

Jia Xu was ready to abandon Yixian, but he wanted to leave enough souvenirs for Sima Yi in Yixian. Jia Xu ordered the soldiers to move all the gunpowder stored in Gaoping City over the years to Yixian, and then buried it under various important buildings and streets in Yixian. These gunpowders were originally the reserves of the entire Liangzhou Legion for the next three years, but they were buried in Yixian at one time, which shows how huge the amount will be.

Jia Xu said to Hanyang Taishou Guoyuan: "The First Light Division has already paid heavy casualties, and the rattan armor soldiers are really powerful, I don't want the soldiers of the vanguard army to die in hand-to-hand combat with the rattan armor soldiers of Yizhou, so I have to use this Yixian county town to accompany the Yizhou army to bury." The decision to bomb the city will be made by me alone, and if there is any disposition from the headquarters in the future, I will bear it alone!"

Guo Yuan nodded and said, "I support the decision of the Great Army Division, as long as the people in the city are safely transferred to other places, even if this city is blown up, we will build a more magnificent city in the future!"

Jia Xu's plan was: When the shocking news came from the northwest that the Hu cavalry broke into Yumen Pass and hit Wuwei Guzang all the way as if they were in a no-man's land, he hurriedly led a division of 5,000 people back to Gaoping, so that there were only 5,000 defenders left in Yixian County. After Sima Yi learned of this news, he would inevitably repeat his old tricks and take the opportunity to attack Yixian. At that time, the officers and soldiers defending Yixian pretended to be defeated, retreated without a fight, retreated to Xiangwu County in Longxi, and abandoned an empty city to Sima Yi.

As long as Sima Yi led the army into Yixian County, the Zhishu of Hanyang County, the Shadow Soldiers hiding outside the city would light the waterproof fire rope that was drawn from the city in advance, and finally detonate the huge amount of gunpowder buried under the soil of Yixian County, giving Sima Yi a big surprise!

Just when the attackers and defenders were in full swing of preparations, in a dark room three feet deep under the blue brick floor of the mansion where Cao Xing originally lived in Shangguo City, several shadow team members were using dim oil lamps to clean the wounds of a brother who was covered in wounds, apply gold sore powder, and change bandages and gauze to stop bleeding.

One of the Shadow Warriors whispered, "General Cao, you really didn't even want your life in order to take a complete rattan armor with your own hands this time! Fortunately, the first-aid medicine specially prepared by Doctor Hua for our Shadow works, otherwise we would really have to send you back to the Crouching Tiger Martyr's Garden." ”

The brother who was lying on the wooden bed, wrapped in gauze, said a little weakly: "This time, thanks to the brothers who risked their lives to save me, I just can't stand the brother who rushed out in my place." In a few days, when Sima Yi leads his troops to attack elsewhere, you must find a way to take advantage of the situation to return to Crouching Tiger City with this rattan armor and hand him over to the Crouching Tiger Equipment Research Institute. ”

The person who spoke, although he was a little weak, could be identified from his voice, but it was definitely Cao Xing, the division commander of the First Light Division!

"General Cao won't go with us?" asked one of the team members, a little confused.

"No, I still have things to do while I stay. I have to ask Sima Yi for the four thousand brothers who died!" Cao Xuan said with some determination.