A fierce battle between the Tianyi army and the southbound Cao army outside Xiangyang City. may be a very big battle in the eyes of Liu Biao and others, but in the eyes of the Crouching Tiger Command, it is just a warm-up game.

If it weren't for Zhao Gang's resolute request to the Crouching Tiger Command to lead the army to Jingzhou to train his troops, Zhao Xing would not have planned to put the Tianyi army on the frontal battlefield so early. The 30,000 men and horses of the Liaodong Army of the Northeast Army have arrived in the Changshan area of Jizhou, and Zhao Xing can dispatch the Dingyuan Army to Liangguo to take over the task of defending Liangguo to replace the Blue Wolf Army, and then send the Blue Wolf Army out of Yumen Pass to replace the Pingxi Army into the pass.

The combat effectiveness of the 40,000 Ping Western Army is basically the same as that of the Kunlun Army, and once it joins the war group in the north of Yizhou, the vanguard army can be completely replaced, and whether it is to support Xiangyang or besiege Chang'an, it will be easy to do so.

Of course, the Tianyi army was only a feint at the beginning, and did not undertake the task of the main attack, but now it has opened up the situation in Jingzhou, but it has also made the siege of Yizhou more thorough and meticulous. If today, the Yi army went to Yiling to defend the exit of Sima's family to the east, and Zhao Xing no longer had to worry about letting Sima Yi take advantage of the loophole again and get his life out.

Yiling is a sad and soulless place for the Yizhou army, but for Lu Xun, it is a blessed land in the past and present life. Although Zhao Gang was seriously injured and couldn't ask questions, as long as Lu Xun was in charge of the overall situation in Yiling, the Yizhou army would not want to play any tricks with him.

The two-way attack on the northern route army under the command of Zhang He and Xu Rong respectively has basically destroyed the defense facilities built by the Sima family in the north. The 40,000 elites of the vanguard army have now captured the important town of Zitong, 300 miles north of Chengdu, and the front of the army is directed at Fushui Pass. The Kunlun Army crossed the mountains and mountains from Gangdi Road and penetrated directly between Fushui Pass and Mianzhu Pass, directly threatening the Yizhou Army stationed at Fushui Pass.

Tai Shici has arrived in the Nan'an area with the South Route Army, which is only two hundred miles away from Chengdu. Along the way, the Southern Route Army encountered almost no decent resistance, and it was as easy as traveling at public expense. Except for the occasional resistance when passing through some cities, the southern part of Yizhou is really unable to draw decent troops to block Tai Shici's troops.

For Sima Yi, who is now in Chengdu City, the sudden appearance of Tai Shici's troops in the south of Yizhou is really like a sharp knife inserted into the back of the heart, which has completely disrupted Sima Yi's plan and deployment.

At the beginning, the Yizhou Fourth Route Army guarded the North Road, East Road, West Road and South Road respectively, which can be said to be the perfect and strict defense of Chengdu. Since Sima Yi began to fight the idea of Jingzhou Liu Biao, everything has changed irreversibly.

First, Wu Yi's army, which was defending the southern part of Yizhou, was transferred to Yiling, but was blocked by Huang Zhong at the foot of Jingmen Mountain and could not advance; then Sima Yi transferred Jia Long's army, which was originally defending the western part of Yizhou, to Yiling to support Wu Yi, but when he was about to break through the defense line of Huya Mountain, Li Yanjun, who was rushed from Jiangling to support Huang Zhong, was beaten back to its original form, and still looked at the mountain across the Yangtze River and sighed.

The Yizhou East Route Army, which attacked Jingzhou, was blocked by Huang Zhong and Li Yan from advancing at Yiling, completely disrupting Sima Yi's plan to annex Jingzhou and find a way out to the east. So Sima Yi sent Zhang Ren to the eastern front to supervise the war, and he personally sat on the northern front of Yizhou to guard against the attack of the Liang State. Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, and suddenly news of a barbarian riot in the south of Yizhou came. At that time, Zhang Ren had already made progress in Yiling, and the imperial court had also begun to move towards Jingzhou, which led Sima Yi to take the risk and urgently transfer Yan Yan's army, which had been defending the northern line of Yizhou, to the south to quell the rebellion.

Sima Yi, who had realized that the defense of the northern front of Yizhou was somewhat weak, urgently recruited 100,000 new soldiers to enlist, but did not put them into the northern front, but let Fa Zheng take them to Yiling, hoping to go down to Huya Mountain in a battle, quickly capture Nanjun and Wuling County, and then transfer Zhang Renjun back to the northern line and let the new army of Yizhou garrison Jingzhou.

Sima Yi's idea was actually to make a time difference, and strive to take the southwest of Jingzhou before the Liang State launched a large-scale attack on Yizhou, so as to find a way out for himself, but he did not expect that Zhao Xing had already begun to launch a truly deadly attack on Yizhou.

What led to the final demise of the Sima family was Yan Yan's defeat and capture in southern Yizhou. If Yan Yan's army was not told to quell the rebellion when he went south, but to have a duel with the regular troops of the Jin State, then Yan Yan would not have advanced so lightly, and was easily calculated by Tai Shici and Li Ru in Lagu, Nanshan. And if Yan Yanjun was still fighting with Tai Shici in the south of Yizhou now, the Sima family would not face the dilemma of being outflanked in the north and south, blocked in the east, and difficult to enter in the west.

At this time, the only thing the Sima family could hope for was that Zhang Ren could lead more than 100,000 main forces to return to Chengdu in time as soon as possible. Before that, Sima Yi could only rely on the remaining 80,000 troops to hold on to Chengdu within 200 miles of support. Once Zhang Renjun could not rush back before Chengdu was captured, then the Sima family would not be able to escape the fate of destruction.

Although it has reached the point of exhaustion, Sima Yi still has not thought of giving up. He still didn't know the news that Wei Yan had led 20,000 mountain troops from the snowy plateau to approach Qionglai Mountain, so he still thought that if Chengdu fell, he would flee westward into the sphere of influence of the Qiang tribe, and under any circumstances, he would not fall into the hands of Zhao Xing's army.

From the very beginning of working against Zhao Xing, the Sima family embarked on a path of no return. Either Zhao Xing will be completely wiped out, and the Sima family will be divided into the southwest to stand on its own, or Zhao Xing will be completely wiped out, and there will be no more Hedong Sima clan in the world.

Although the situation on the outskirts of Chengdu has now become more severe, the Sima family still seized the last bit of time to vigorously mobilize the wealthy clans around Chengdu, so that these local wealthy families and clans could form a civil resistance force, and delay the march of the Jin and Liang armies, so as to buy some time for Zhang Ren's reinforcements.

The leaflets distributed by the Sima family to various places free of charge were full of untruths about the negative news of the Jin and Liang armies, and they frightened the people that once the armies of the Jin and Liang kingdoms attacked, they not only burned and plundered, but also ate human flesh and human skins, which was simply inferior to poultry meat. In the social environment at that time, basically what the government said, the people believed it, otherwise there would not have been a news of the outbreak of the plague that made Zhao Xing abduct millions of people from the Guanzhong area.

When the common people around Chengdu heard that the armies of the Liang and Jin kingdoms were so cruel and inhumane, they were naturally frightened, some crowded into the city of Chengdu, and some hid in the surrounding mountains, which made the villages and towns around Chengdu chaotic for a while, and the people were panicked.

Zhang He and Xu Rong who went south, Tai Shici who went north, and Wei Yan who went east, how would they deal with this chaotic situation after they encountered it?

PS: Today's 4th shift, thank you for the long-term support of the frog, and I still owe the cat a change, and the south province will strive to continue to break out tomorrow......