When Cao Wei was defeated in Yongzhou and Jingzhou, Sima Yi, who led the army into Liaodong, advanced all the way smoothly, and the army attacked the city all the way to the Liaohe River in mid-March.

As Sima Yi's deputy general, Biqiu Jian once again led the army to Liaohe, the place where his army was defeated, and couldn't help but sigh very much, he asked Sima Yi for advice:

"What strategy does Taiwei think Gongsun Yuan will use to meet the battle?"

Sima Yi looked at Biqiu Jian like a torch, and said without anger:

"For Gongsun Yuan, abandoning the city and fleeing is the best policy, refusing to defend Liaodong is the middle policy, and defending Xiangping is the next policy."

After hearing this, Biqiu Jian nodded silently: "Then what does the Taiwei think Gongsun Yuan will use?"

Sima Yi silently looked at the Liao River and said:

"Gongsun Yuan thinks that our army is a lone expedition and cannot last. Therefore, he must first resist at the Liao River, and then retreat to Xiangping. ”

"So Taiwei thinks Gongsun Yuan will adopt a middle strategy?"

Sima Yi smiled but said nothing.

Under the order of Sima Yi, the army camped west of the Liao River, and last time, Biqiu Jian also chose to camp here, but was defeated by Gongsun Yuan with water, and he didn't understand why Sima Yi chose to camp here.

Sima Yi said to Biqiu Jian with an expression of a bamboo in his chest: "I expect that Gongsun Yuan will inevitably garrison heavy troops on the west bank of the Liao River, hoard a large amount of grain and grass, and then force our army to be unable to pass through the Liao River. ”

Biqiu Jian was a little puzzled: "Since the Taiwei has calculated Gongsun Yuan's plan, why do you want to lead the army here?" ”

Sima Yi smiled lightly: "Gongsun Yuan plans to drag us down on the front line of the Liao River, this is Gongsun Yuan's treacherous plan, our army naturally wants to give Gongsun Yuan a few thin noodles, so that Gongsun Yuan thinks that our army has been tricked." On the contrary, Gongsun Yuan's main force and grain and grass are here, and the old nest Xiangping must be empty. We attacked Xiangping directly. ”

Biqiu Jian's eyes suddenly lit up, and he sighed in his heart: "Sima Yi really deserves to be a powerful person who can be on a par with Zhuge Liang, and he actually cracked Gongsun Yuan's strategy so easily. ”

So he smiled excitedly: "The captain really uses soldiers like a god, what a trick to hide from the sky and the sea!" ”

Sima Yi said quite smugly: "Gongsun Yuan Xiaoer, some little tricks, how can you hide from the old man's eyes. When the old man and Zhuge Liang played against each other in Yongzhou, it was a period of exhaustion, enthusiasm, and unforgettable time! It's a pity that Zhuge Kongming has passed away, it's a pity, it's a pity! ”

Biqiu Jian knew that Sima Yi still respected Zhuge Liang very much. Sometimes, respecting an opponent does not mean showing weakness, but rather representing a person's mind. In Biqiu Jian's view, Sima Yi's respect for Zhuge Liang shows that Sima Yi is a big husband.

When Sima Yi and Zhuge Liang confronted each other, Zhuge Liang once sent Sima Yi a woman's clothes, mocking Sima Yi for not daring to fight.

Humiliating Sima Yi in public, this can be regarded as a great shame in ancient times, such humiliation, Sima Yi still endured it, and the grievances of the soldiers under his command, Sima Yi also swallowed it, and in the end, Sima Yi's strategy of not changing to all changes worked, Zhuge Liang died and died in Wuzhangyuan.

"Those who are human beings have generosity to become great!" This is a sentence that Sima Yi once said, and Biqiu Jian felt that Sima Yi did not only say but also did it, and couldn't help but have an inexplicable awe of Sima Yi.

After scouting and investigating, sure enough, to the east of the Liao River, Gongsun Yuan sent almost all his main forces, and hoarded all the 35,000 elites in Liaodong here, led by the generals Bei Yan and Yang Zuo. He also hoarded a large amount of grain and grass, and dug a long ravine twenty miles long to block the Wei army from advancing further into Liaodong.

Everything was as Sima Yi expected, and the main forces in Liaodong were all in the Liaodong area.

So Sima Yi sent Hu Zun, led a cavalry of 5,000 people, and brought 5,000 military flags to gallop back and forth on the south side of the Liao River, making a situation where the battle flags were densely packed, and the main force was going to attack from the south of the Liao River.

The Liaodong generals Bei Yan and Yang Zuo thought that Sima Yi's main force had killed the Liao River, and hurriedly moved the army to the south of the Liao River to defend against Hu Zun's attack.

Hu Zun led 5,000 cavalry to rush and kill, crossed the trench that Gongsun Yuan had painstakingly dug, broke through the layers of entrenchment, and made a posture of a decisive battle with Bei Yan and Yang Zuo.

Bei Yan and other Liaodong generals saw a large number of cavalry of the Wei army running over the trenches, and saw the military flags all over the mountains, thinking that all the main forces of Sima Yi were attacking the south of the Liao River, and wanted to open the passage to fight a decisive battle with themselves.

Sima Yi has nearly 100,000 troops under his command, and he only has 35,000 troops, if he does not use all his strength, he will definitely not be able to stop Sima Yi's army, so Bei Yan and Yang Zuo led 35,000 main forces to the south, to resist Sima Yi's main force by virtue of their geographical advantages.

Seeing that Bei Yan and others were plotting, Sima Yi immediately ordered the whole army to go north, cross the Liao River, and go straight to Xiangping.

Bei Yan and Yang Zuo repelled Hu Zun's attacks again and again, and found more and more that the combat effectiveness of the Wei army did not seem to be as strong as expected, and it seemed that there were not as many troops as previously expected.

The two led the army to fight with the Wei army for a day and a night, during which Beiyan even used witchcraft to congratulate his own troops in order to improve their own combat effectiveness.

Later, I found out that although the Wei army seemed to be attacking very strongly, the number of troops invested was actually very limited, as if it was fighting back and forth, and the troops that were actually put into the battlefield were only two or three thousand, and most of the rest were just waving their flags and shouting in the back.

By the next day, Beiyan had received a report from a scout that Sima Yi and Biqiu Jian had crossed the Liao River in the north of the Liao River and went straight to Xiangping.

When Beiyan heard this, his heart suddenly cooled.

"Oops, Xiangping has less than 5,000 troops at this time, where can he withstand the siege of Sima Yi's main force?"

So he immediately ordered the whole army to retreat, abandon the Liaohe defense line, and hurry up to rescue Xiangping.

However, Sima Yi's and Beiyan's armies were all mixed with infantry and cavalry, and the speed of the march was actually about the same, but Sima Yi's army was a day's faster than Beiyan and Yang Zuo's army, and Beiyan and Yang Zuo's army always had to bite Hu Zun's 5,000 cavalry behind, which caused the marching speed to slow down again and again.

Yang Zuo proposed to let the Liaodong Iron Cavalry take the lead in rushing back to the rescue, but this proposal was categorically rejected by Beiyan, if the infantry lost the protection of the cavalry, it was easy to be defeated by the Wei army, so Beiyan would rather sacrifice the speed of the march than easily let the infantry lose the protection of the cavalry.

Compared with the slow march of Liaodong soldiers and horses of Beiyan and other tribes, Sima Yi's army of 80,000 barely encountered any resistance or harassment, and it took only three days to kill Xiangping City and surround Xiangping City.

An army of 80,000 appeared under Xiangping City like a divine soldier descending from the sky, and Gongsun Yuan in the city was suddenly stunned.

In his opinion, Sima Yi's army was able to appear under Xiangping City, which showed that his 35,000 elite main force had been wiped out. At this moment, there are only 5,000 defenders in Xiangping City, and the most important thing is that the military rations are not very abundant, because the main military rations have been hoarded to the front.

The food in Xiangping City is only enough to last for a month.

This time, Gongsun Yuan was completely desperate, and an endless coolness kept coming out from behind.

"It's over! The Liaodong foundation that my grandson's family has run for several generations is about to be lost in my hands! ”