It is said that the high-ranking generals of the army of the South Road of Attack Yi unified their thinking in a very short period of time. No longer going straight to Chengdu, but made a detour from the direction of Wuyang to the east, preparing to intercept the westward retreating army led by Zhang Ren near the county of 郪 (qī).

So, how accurate is Li Ru's judgment? The answer is 10%!

Just three days after Tai Shici led an army of 80,000 troops into Yu County, the vanguard of the Yizhou Army that retreated west appeared thirty miles away from Yu County. After Zhang Ren commanded the army to retreat from Yiling, he hurried frantically at the speed of a dead horse, and even eliminated 20,000 weak soldiers along the way, and finally rushed back at the moment when Sima's family was about to perish.

The vanguard generals Zhang Yi and Zhang Wei led 20,000 Yizhou elites to approach Yuxian and cautiously sent outposts to reconnoitre, only to find news that surprised them. The sentry reported that "there are many banners at the head of the city of Yuxian County, and the largest banner among them has the words 'Marshal Taishi of the Southern Army', and there are also banners such as 'Qinghuai Army', 'Marine Brigade King', and 'Dragon Formation Army Gan' next to it, and I don't know how many soldiers and horses there are in the city, but there must be a lot of people!"

Zhang Yi and Zhang Wei were puzzled in their hearts, so they quietly approached Yuxian to observe in the morning and evening, and sure enough, they found that there was a large army stationed not far ahead, and they were immediately scared into a cold sweat. If this unknown force quietly lies in ambush, they will run into it indiscriminately with 20,000 troops, but I am afraid that there will be no return.

The two hurriedly led their troops to turn around on the spot and moved closer to the Chinese army in the rear. In Zhang Yi and Zhang Wei's view, instead of letting the troops blocking the road be divided and annihilated, it is better to gather the troops and launch a decisive charge. Although this may have delayed for a few days, it also protected the Chinese army and reduced unnecessary casualties.

In fact, just before Zhang Yi and Zhang Wei led their troops to approach Yuxian, the South Route Army, which had more sophisticated reconnaissance methods, had already discovered their traces. Tai Shici saw that Zhang Yi and Zhang Wei had come over and left again, why didn't he design an ambush on the outskirts of Yuxian? With the current strength and means of attacking the southern route army, without waiting for Zhang Ren's middle route army to rush to Yuxian, he was afraid that the 20,000 troops at the front station had already been spit out by the wolf-like three armies of Gan Ning, Wang Lu, and Guan Ping, and it was estimated that there would not be even a single scum left.

The reason why Tai Shici did not ambush Zhang Yi and Zhang Wei was because he was going to have a few tricks with Zhang Ren, known as the first general in Shuzhong, in Yuxian County to see if the combination of Zhang Ren and Fa Zheng was strong, or the Southern Route Army led by him was more courageous.

The attacking South Route Army originally had 80,000 troops when it entered Shu, and later Gan Ning left 10,000 to guard several barbarian tribes in Buwei in Yongchang County, Guan Ping's army left 10,000 to guard Dianchi and Jianling, and Wang Lu left 10,000 to guard the Kunze area. Yan Yan was captured, and the 60,000 troops he brought with him were wiped out by nearly 20,000, and there were more than 40,000 left. After some selection and testing, Tai Shici selected 30,000 people from the more than 40,000 Yizhou soldiers to supplement the three armies, and made up the number of 80,000.

Don't look at the individual combat strength of the 30,000 Yizhou Army that was selected is lower than that of the Jin Dynasty's descendants, but these soldiers are also from Yan Yan's years of training, and they don't have anything to say in terms of military discipline and hardship, and the key is that they are all Han people.

As long as they are Han Chinese, they are easily transformed and influenced, after all, everyone speaks the same language and has the same cultural traditions. In the process of attacking the Yinan Route Army all the way to the north, these Yizhou soldiers played the role of propaganda teams and task forces, eliminating a lot of unnecessary troubles for the army, so that the Sima family's desire to incite and bewitch the people to rise up against the Jin troops was finally frustrated.

This time, Tai Shici wanted to take these 30,000 local soldiers in Yizhou, plus 50,000 elite divisions, to fight against the 140,000 Yizhou army led by Zhang Ren in Yuxian County, and let Zhang Ren watch the Sima family kill themselves in Chengdu, but in the end they were unable to go to the rescue!

Along the way, Tai Shici pondered Zhang Renqi repeatedly, although he felt that it was a rare quality for him to maintain enough loyalty as a military general, but Zhang Ren's approach was almost foolish, which was tantamount to fulfilling his own reputation, but ruined the lives of countless soldiers. As far as the Sima family, a valve that can do everything for the benefit of the family, in Tai Shici's opinion, should be completely exterminated by King Pingxi, otherwise when will there be a peaceful day in the world?

Everyone wants to be an emperor, so you must first have the responsibility and ability to have the world in mind. If the Sima family continues to develop and grow in Yizhou, it may not bring much harm to the surrounding people in the future!

Considering that Zhang Ren is also Zhao Xing's nominal senior brother, Tai Shici feels that only by defeating Zhang Ren on the frontal battlefield and letting him reflect on it well, maybe it will be possible to be subdued. Otherwise, with the character of not eating soft and hard goods, and not getting a drop of water, he can really do stupid things like fish dead and broken nets, and jade is broken.

Therefore, Tai Shi Ci let go of Zhang Yi and Zhang Wei in a bright way, and asked them to report to Zhang Ren, in fact, he issued a silent challenge to Zhang Ren - I haven't taken a fancy to you yet, and if you have the ability, you will take the army and let me come!

Zhang Ren, who led the main force to walk in the position of the Chinese army, saw Zhang Yi and Zhang Wei leading the army to turn around, so he guessed that there was a change in the front, so he asked the second general: "I ordered you to wait in front to open the way, but now you are leading the army to turn around, why?"

Zhang Yi replied: "Forty miles ahead is Yu County, there is a large army stationed in the city, and the banner is not the Yizhou army, but the regular army of the Jin State." ”

Zhang Ren asked again: "See which generals have clearly blocked the way of our army?"

Zhang Wei stepped forward and replied: "According to the name on the banner, it is speculated that the main general will be Tai Shici, and among the deputy generals, there are the surnames Guan, Wang and Gan, but I don't know who it is. ”

Zhang Ren thought for a moment, and then said: "No matter who is in front of the army, since we are going back to Chengdu, we can't say that we have to fight a tough battle and break through the obstacles on the road!"

Subsequently, Zhang Ren commanded the army to move closer to each other, and then came all the way to Yunxian.

When he arrived at the bottom of Yuxian County, Zhang Ren rode Shi Ran to the bottom of the city gate and shouted to the city head: "I am Zhang Ren, the marshal of the soldiers and horses on the East Road of Yizhou, I don't know who blocked our army in the city?

As soon as Zhang Ren's words landed, a heroic general rode out from the cave of the city gate that had never been closed in Yuxian.

"I am Marshal Tai Shi Ci of the Soldiers and Horses of the South Route Army, I am fortunate to be able to meet Marshal Zhang here today, but I am fortunate to have three lives!" Tai Shi Ci said in an equally powerful voice.

"It turned out that it was Donglai Taishi who came to Yizhou, but I didn't know that Brother Ziyi led an army to attack my Yizhou from thousands of miles, what kind of intentions did Ande have?" Zhang Ren saw Tai Shici, his face was also fearless, and he asked.

Tai Shi Ci smiled indifferently and replied solemnly: "Back then, the king of Pingxi once swore that if Yizhou dared to invade the Liang country again, he would send a large army to Pingzhou and exterminate the first evil Sima clan! Last year, the plague broke out in Xiliang, and it has been found that Sima Yi secretly instructed his subordinates to do it, and such inhumane and despicable and shameless means still make the people of the world despise! I am the former general of the king of Pingxi, and I am entrusted by the lord to exterminate the Sima clan!"