Sima Yi's jealousy of Deng Ai is actually not low at all.

In Sima Yi's opinion, Deng Ai's own ability to command troops is not low, coupled with the experience in Xiangyang over the years. To put it mildly, his two sons combined are not necessarily opponents of others.

Don't look at his son's reputation now, but the reputation of these two boys is blown out by the family, and a large part of it is a specially designed plan for the Shu thief, which cannot be taken seriously.

Perhaps, his two sons are really good, but they did not accept military training early like Deng Ai, and they are still in a situation where they know what is true and why they are in the army, and the experience gap between the two sides is too big.

Ten years later, maybe his two sons may not be worse than Deng Ai now, but now, Sima Yi doesn't think that his son can be Deng Ai's opponent.

Even, Sima Yi faintly felt that if Deng Ai was given another ten years to exercise, let him be alone. If you really want to meet again on the battlefield in the future, you may not be able to stop this kid.

The afterlife is indeed terrifying.

Just like now, Sima Yi can't understand it, Deng Ai chose to go deep alone and lead 10,000 troops to march to Wancheng, what is the real purpose.

Not to mention that Deng Ai came to attack Wancheng, such a thing that violated military common sense, Sima Yi didn't believe that Deng Ai could do it.

Therefore, this little fox must have another purpose.

But even so, although Sima Yi couldn't see through Deng Ai's true purpose, Sima Yi's military talent was there, and he didn't need to be taught by others, and he knew how to "focus on me".

It doesn't matter what your purpose is, anyway, I don't believe you dare to attack Wancheng with 10,000 men. In that case, I can do things according to my original strategic arrangement.

Sima Yi decided to respond to all changes with the same, and wait for Deng Ai to actually make a move, and then it is not too late to respond.

Sima Yi is Sima Yi in the end, he was calm, and he just let Deng Ai march to Wancheng, and he still stood still in Wancheng.

And in this way, Deng Ai led the army to rush forward, and the more he went in the direction of Wancheng, the more empty his heart became.

He has already walked slowly enough, marching in two days, and only marching about twenty miles a day on average, but even so, now Deng Ai is only forty or fifty miles away from Wancheng.

Go further, but it is really a soldier coming to Wancheng.

Sima Yi still didn't react at all, except for knowing Deng Ai's marching route and speed through the scouts, there was no other response. Is it really to let yourself attack Wancheng?!

He Sima Yi dared to let go, Deng Ai didn't dare to go forward!

10,000 people attacked the 30,000-strong garrison of the fortified city of Wancheng, where is this to attack, this is to send death.

Deng Ai had to suspend the march and send scouts to investigate the Wei army's defensive arrangements within forty miles.

Then, Deng Ai probably understood why Sima Yi dared to be so relieved and bold and let himself in.

To the south of Wancheng, from southwest to southeast, Sima Yi set up a total of five camps, which showed an inverted U-shaped distribution on the whole, and the distance between each camp was less than 20 miles, so it was very convenient to support each other.

In each camp, there were 1,000 to 2,000 soldiers, and the five camps added up to about seven or eight thousand men and horses.

Obviously, these camps were auxiliary defense facilities that Sima Yi distributed around Wancheng and used to deal with the defense line of Wancheng.

Sima Yi did not fortify Deng County a hundred miles from the front of Wancheng like Zhang Liao, but adopted the method of shrinking the defense and closing the outer defense line within less than forty miles from Wancheng.

In Sima Yi's view, Zhang Liao's three-line defense line is set up in order to keep the enemy from the outside, and the advantage is not to directly threaten the security of Wancheng, but the disadvantage is that once it is besieged by the enemy, it is very difficult for Wancheng to rescue in a short time.

It was just three lines of defense, and there was a possibility that the enemy would break through one by one.

Sima Yi's current defense setup is centered on Wancheng, with various camps scattered around, shortening the rescue distance between each other and forming a whole defense system.

Such a defense system is not a new trick, but it is indeed useful.

If the Shu army wants to attack Wancheng, it must first solve the threat of the outer camps, and to solve the threat of these camps, it must concentrate superior forces and storm a camp in a short time.

Once one of the camps cannot be conquered in a short time, then the other camps and even the Wei army in Wancheng City will come out of the city to help, and the Shu thieves will also face the dilemma of fighting on both sides.

If there are fewer troops, they can't fight, and if there are more troops, they can't afford to consume five camps in turn.

According to Sima Yi's calculations, if you want to completely break through your own peripheral camp fortifications, then you must find a way to break through at least three of them, and what is the price that the Shu thieves need to pay.

And even if the Shu thieves really uprooted the camps outside the city one by one and began to officially attack Wancheng with Wancheng's strong city defense, how much food do Shu thieves need to waste and how many soldiers will be lost in order to really threaten the safety of Wancheng?!

By that time, probably the reinforcements from the imperial court had already arrived in Wancheng.

This is where Sima Yi dared to let Deng Ai get close to Wancheng.

Not to mention Deng Ai's 10,000 people, even the remaining 30,000 people approached Wancheng together, and Sima Yi was not afraid.

At that time, Cao Ren was in Jiangling, relying only on two camps outside the city, and he used more than 10,000 defeated soldiers who had just retreated from Chibi to hold Zhou Yu's attack of 40,000 or 50,000 people for nine months.

In today's Wancheng, Sima Yi has a total of 30,000 troops, and there are five camps outside the city, and there is no one behind him who can cut off the North Road. Sima Yi is confident that even if the imperial court does not send reinforcements for a year or two, as long as there is enough grain and grass to support it, this Wancheng will not be lost.

In the face of such a defense system, Deng Ai is indeed a little numb. His own 10,000 people can't afford to fight such a hedgehog shell.

And at this time, Deng Ai probably guessed Sima Yi's true purpose.

The old fox has become an old hedgehog, or even an old tortoise, and the idea of fighting is that he can't stick to it.

In this way, the initiative in the war is no longer in the hands of Guan Ping.

Originally, with 40,000 people fighting 30,000 people, 30,000 people were still defending the city, and there were enough fortifications and city walls as cover, and it would definitely not be possible to defeat it if it was fought hard.

In this case, the conventional siege method is to find a way to force the main general to lead the troops out of the city and consume the enemy's forces in the field battle, so that it is possible to break the offensive and defensive situation and capture the local city.

But. The old turtle is obviously not the kind of stunned green that will be provoked to fight. This old turtle is very bad.

After Deng Ai figured out Sima Yi's defensive strategy, he first chose to retreat ten miles back to ensure that he was more than fifty miles away from Wancheng, so that he would not be raided by Sima Yi's army in Wancheng out of the city, set up camp, and then immediately sent someone to inform Guan Ping, who was less than forty miles behind him, to quickly lead the army to converge.

The old fox doesn't have any special schemes, there are no traps, but this old fox is now promoted to an old turtle, and he has made up his mind that the turtle can't shrink, and with this little force in our hands, there is no way to really take this old fox.

Guan Ping and Guan Xing, who received Deng Ai's war report, were also a little overwhelmed by the prospect of the war described by Deng Ai, but fortunately, it was necessary to lead the troops to meet Deng Ai in advance, so Guan Ping and Guan Xing decided to lead the troops to set off, and after meeting with Deng Ai, they would discuss the specific battle strategy.

This time it really stumped the three children.

After Guan Ping led the troops to meet Deng Ai, the three of them arrived at the south side of Wancheng forty miles away for a field trip, and Guan Ping's brows were not relaxed.

"So the camp is distributed. Sima Yiguo is talented!! Guan Ping said with a sigh.

Although it doesn't feel very acceptable, in fact, Sima Yi is actually only seven years older than Guan Ping, and the two of them are barely the same generation.

However, Guan Ping admitted that if he was asked to defend this Wancheng, he might not make such a defensive arrangement, and even if he thought about it, the distribution and troop arrangement of this camp would not be as appropriate as Sima Yi's.

The distance between each camp is not far or close, covering a large defensive area from southwest to southeast of Wancheng to the greatest extent, and it can also connect with each other and support each other in a short time.

When the enemy attacks a camp, it will encounter a joint attack from the city and the other two camps in a short time, and under the echo of each other, there is no siege of more than 10,000 troops, and it is really impossible to pose a threat to any camp.

If you really want to capture a camp, I am afraid that the enemy's loss of troops will not be a few.

The troops in Guan Ping's hands are not that they can't fight, but after the fight, how many troops can be left to pose a threat to Wancheng, this Guan Ping can't guarantee that when the time comes, Sima Yi will launch a counterattack with all his strength and completely defeat the tens of thousands of Xiangyang soldiers he brought, right? !

Guan Ping really can't think of any good way, and Deng Ai is also at a loss. As far as Guan Xing is concerned, he is still relatively optimistic.

It's not that Guan Xing can't see the situation in front of him clearly, Guan Xing still has this eyesight.

However, Guan Xing's thinking is somewhat of a civilian's thinking - although this defensive measure looks very good, but what is the actual situation, you don't have to fight to find out!

Besides, it's all under the city of Wancheng, if you don't even fight, just look at it like this, and confront Sima Yi in Wancheng, isn't that what Sima Yi wants? !

Since it's what the enemy wants, then we definitely can't let him get his wish. Fight first, maybe you will find out if you do, but in fact, the enemy is not so difficult?!

When Guan Ping heard this, he faintly felt that there was still some reason. If you don't fight, how do you know how the enemy's defense is?!

No matter how well the defense system is designed, if there is no corresponding combat ability of the soldiers, it is just a showcase.

Deng Ai also felt that it was not an unacceptable thing to fight.

Therefore, Guan Ping decided to let Deng Ai lead 10,000 soldiers the next day to tentatively attack a camp on the southwesternmost side.

And then bar. Deng Ai used the cost of more than 1,000 casualties to prove that the defense system built by Sima Yi was really useful.

Now, I'm in trouble!

(End of chapter)