The battle of Niu Pi ended not two days ago. Tai Shi Ci received accurate information, and he expressed deep self-reproach for Fazheng's breakthrough and Wang Lujun's heavy losses, and blamed the main reason for the defeat of the war on his own command and dispatch mistakes.

Although it did not achieve the expected complete victory, the attacking southern route army still exceeded the task. After all, the combat mission given to Tai Shici by the Crouching Tiger Command was to advance into the Chengdu Plain, not to intercept the Yizhou East Road army led by Zhang Ren. Now that Zhang Ren has been captured, the 120,000 people of the Eastern Route Army have only fled back to Chengdu about 30,000, and even if they enter the city of Chengdu, it is useless, and it is difficult to reverse the fate of the destruction of the Sima family.

Tai Shi Ci sent a messenger to let him go down the river, cross the Yufu City garrisoned by the 20,000 Yizhou Army, and directly contact Zhao Gang and Huang Zhong in the direction of Jingzhou, hoping that the Tianyi Army and Huang Zhong's Army would advance westward in time, and attack Yufu City with a force sent by Tai Shi Ci, and take the opportunity to open the passage between Yizhou and Jingzhou, so as to prepare for the Central Plains War after the Yizhou army pacified Yizhou.

In the end, Tai Shici, the awareness of the overall situation has always been so strong, even if he knew that Fa Zheng led 30,000 Yizhou elites back to Chengdu, he still did not rush to send troops to deploy according to his own deployment, and did not interfere with the enemy's actions at all.

In Tai Shici's view, the first task now is not to lead the army to attack Chengdu, but to station the Tianyi army and Huang Zhongbu in Yufu City, instead of attacking the South Route Army to block the exit of Sima's family fleeing eastward. As for attacking the South Route Army, it was to immediately wave its division to the south and hold Wuyang City, so as to prevent the Sima family from quickly escaping south when the main force of the South Route Army was transferred to the east of Chengdu.

Although there are now 30,000 troops stationed in the south of Yizhou, the Sima family now has the 30,000 elites of Fazheng, and the available soldiers in their hands are abundant.

Tai Shi Ci thought of it and did it. He first sent Gan Ning to lead 20,000 Yizhou soldiers in the city of Yuxian to clear the remnants of less than 10,000 troops of the Yonghong Department who failed to attack the county.

Let Gan Ning take the Yizhou soldiers to Yufu, which can not only shake the morale of the Yizhou army defending Yufu City, but also allow these Yizhou soldiers to go out of Shu to support the war in the direction of Jingzhou as soon as possible. The 20,000 people had been in the northern part of Yizhou before, and they did not participate in the battle against Yiling, so both the Jingzhou soldiers and the people of Jingzhou were psychologically more acceptable.

When Gan Ning left, he also took Wu Yi, who had already been captured, with him. Let Wu Yi lead the way in front, and the army will not only move faster, but as long as Wu Yi is allowed to go to the next stop of Yufu City and shout a few words to the Yizhou defenders at the head of the city, the effect is absolutely extraordinary.

When the Gan Ning army, the Tianyi army, and Huang Zhong's army successfully joined forces in Yufu City, the Tianyi army would continue to march westward, all the way to Chengdu. At that time, the Northern Route Army should also break through the Mianzhu Pass and appear in the north of Chengdu.

The reason why Tai Shici was so sure that the Northern Route Army of Attacking Yi would be able to break through Mianzhu Pass by that time was because Zhang Song, who had just been subdued, would guide and secretly lead Zhang Jaw's Army and Xu Rongjun to cross Mianzhu Pass smoothly from another road.

Zhang Song, in historical materials and romances, appears as a treacherous villain, and the most famous thing he did was to secretly collude with Liu Bei, present the "topographic map of Xishu", and betray his master Liu Zhang. In this time and space, Zhang Song was still the same obscene, he not only helped the Jin troops to persuade the Yizhou soldiers to surrender in front of the battle, but also identified Wu Yi who was mixed in with the soldiers.

After meeting Tai Shi Ci, Zhang Song claimed to Tai Shi Ci and Li Ru that he knew the thousands of roads in Shuzhong and knew a road that could be successfully reached in the Chengdu Plain without passing through Mianzhu Pass. Although Tai Shici is very ashamed of Zhang Song's soft bones, as long as he can help the Northern Route Army quickly get rid of the problem of Mianzhu Pass, he might as well use this Zhang Song.

Seeing off the Gan Ning army, Tai Shici took 10,000 elite soldiers of the Marine Brigade and escorted the prisoners who were captured by Gan Ning and Guan Ping respectively, totaling 40,000 people, and marched towards Wuyang. Before this, Guan Ping had already taken 20,000 Qinghuai soldiers two days in advance to escort the remnants of Wang Lu, who had suffered heavy losses, to Wuyang City.

It turned out that Tai Shici's deployment was not redundant at all.

On the third day when Guan Ping urgently led his army to occupy Wuyang City again, that is, on the day Tai Shici set out from Yu County, Sima Yi actually sent a force of about 30,000 people from Chengdu City to attack Wuyang. Of course, these 30,000 people were not the 30,000 tired and scarred Yizhou East Route Army that they were bringing back, but the original Zhang Ren's troops who had withdrawn all the way from the north of Yizhou to Chengdu.

If there were no 30,000 elite troops brought back by Fa Zheng, where would Sima Yi have the confidence to dare to divide his troops from Chengdu City and march south at this time? Sima Yi's thinking has indeed changed somewhat, and his intention in sending this force is to try to recapture Wuyang City, block the East Route Army led by Tai Shici in the area of Yuxian and Niupi, and open up the most valuable passage for the Sima family to escape in the future.

Although the southern part of Yizhou is now suffering from the calamity of Tai Shici's army, Sima Yi has the confidence and confidence to regain the initiative and control the situation in the southern part of Yizhou. After all, the Sima family has been operating in Yizhou for ten years, and they have left forces loyal to themselves in all counties of Yizhou, and once the Sima family arrives in the south of Yizhou to call for it, they will definitely get the help and follow-up of the local forces.

In Sima Yi's view, the way to the north has long been cut off, and the east is now hopeless, and to the west to hide in the snowy plateau area controlled by the Tang and Qiang people is the choice of nine deaths and a lifetime, and only escaping to the south is the best choice. When Sima Yi heard that it was the regular troops of the Jin State led by Tai Shici in the south of Yizhou, he really felt a chill in his heart and became at a loss.

It's a pity that when Wang Ping led 30,000 elite troops to Wuyang urgently, he ran headlong into Guan Ping's 20,000 Qinghuai troops who were waiting for work. Guan Ping, who was anxious because Wang Lu was still unconscious, saw that the Sima family really dared to act against the sky, so he carried a big knife to split Wang Ping at that time, and almost didn't scare Wang Ping.

Wang Ping's order was to take advantage of the situation to take Wuyang City, not to storm Wuyang City. Now seeing that the defenders of the city are in a strong fighting spirit, the "little Guan Ye" who suddenly rushed out of the city is brave and good at fighting, so he hurriedly led the army to retreat, but Guan Ping, who was about to fight hard, was depressed.

Guan Ping vs. Wang Ping, this thing is quite interesting to say. Since Wang Ping led the army to withdraw to Chengdu, then when besieging Chengdu in the future, Guan Ping still has a chance to clean up this Wang Ping.