After a day of defending the city, Sima Yi was already exhausted.

Today, the number of Jingzhou Shu thieves outside the south gate to attack the city wall is more than the previous ten days combined, if it were not for Sima Yi to visit the south gate tower, personally command the defense and boost morale, even if this day can be held, the casualties will not be small.

Even so, after a day of fierce fighting at the South City Gate, the casualties were as high as more than 500.

Obviously, the fire in the city has affected the morale of the defenders of the south gate to some extent, even if Sima Yi made response arrangements in the shortest possible time and sent people to extinguish more than 30 fires in the city, but the impact has been done, which is irreversible.

In addition, because the reserves in his hand were mobilized to extinguish the fire in the city, Sima Yi had no reserve troops to use, and Sima Yi had to use the method of going to the south gate to command the battle, and at the same time, there were no reinforcements available for the defense of the south gate, which was also one of the reasons for the greater casualties.

After finally holding out for a day, Sima Yi returned to his mansion and began to deal with the fire in the city.

Because Sima Yi sent a reserve team to extinguish the fire in time, the fire in the city did not spread, although a lot of houses were burned, but compared to a city as large as Wancheng, this loss was not large.

But the problem is that the fire extinguishing team sent by Sima Yi has another purpose, that is, to block and investigate the "fine work" that the Shu thieves sneaked into the city a few days ago, and the completion of this task is very low.

The "fine work" army of the Shu thieves seems to be very cautious, after they ignited the fire, they did not stay at the scene at all, nor did they ask to expand the fire, as long as the fire was lit, they began to retreat, so the number of "fine work" troops that could really be blocked was very small.

The 3,000 fire extinguishing team was divided into more than 30 roads to encircle, and finally blocked more than a dozen Shu thieves, and only five or six people were really caught.

This harvest really didn't satisfy Sima Yi, but it didn't disappoint Sima Yi too much.

Among these five or six people, there was a squad leader, and from the mouth of this squad leader, Sima Yi learned that the purpose of the Shu thieves' battle this time was to create chaos in the city and cooperate with the Jingzhou army to attack the city head-on.

The things that are done are really the same as the things that are done by the fine works, but this time there are too many fine works in the city of Wancheng, just from the number and scale of today's fires, there are probably hundreds of people in the city.

And from the mouth of this squad leader, Sima Yi also learned a very important thing, that is, there is a complete set of contact methods for the "Xizuo" army that infiltrated the city.

But the problem is that this set of contact methods is not static, and the team leader only knows the meaning of the contact method, but the decision on who gives instructions and what to do is not in the hands of the team leader.

He knew what to do when he saw a similar form of contact, but he didn't know what kind of means he would use to create chaos tomorrow.

In other words, Sima Yi still has a headache, and tomorrow these bastards will make trouble for themselves when they are defending the city.

However, it is better to know than not to know, and Sima Yi asked the squad leader to write down the content of the contact order he knew. Then the squad leader gave Sima Yi more than 20 different contact orders.

Sima Yi's head is big, what kind of person is this, he can come up with so many combat orders, and how do these soldiers remember these complex code words when they don't know a single big word?!

Anyway, Sima Yi really admired the commander and actual organizer of this army, and this kind of combat method really opened his eyes.

But fortunately, with the actual content of these code words, Sima Yi can also be regarded as a targeted arrangement.

For example, attacking grain, grass and ordnance hoarding points, attacking the city gate and other means, Sima Yi has already begun to arrange defenses, and walking in the city to spread rumors, or the order to assassinate the commander, Sima Yi is also prepared.

Among them, the most unacceptable thing for Sima Yi was that among these orders, there was actually a technique of poisoning the well and polluting the water source.

Although it is said that both sides of the war will do everything they can, but this kind of method is too much to corrupt character, right?!

The person who came up with such an idea is not afraid of the end?!

While cursing the person who gave such an order, Sima Yi immediately ordered the protection of the water source in the city, and no one was allowed to approach the water source in the city, even if the people in the city needed to get water, they had to rely on the chief to guarantee it.

It's just that in this way, Sima Yi is a little worried again.

There aren't enough troops.

The four gates are guarded, and it is necessary to arrange troops, especially the south gate, in the face of the attack of the main force of the Jingzhou army, at least 10,000 garrisons must be arranged over there.

And outside the West Gate, because of the threat of thousands of Shu thieves, Sima Yi did not dare to take it lightly, and three thousand standing troops were necessary.

As for the north gate and the east gate, although they are in their own direction, it is impossible not to arrange troops to garrison them, and it is also necessary for 2,000 soldiers to guard each gate.

After this calculation, 17,000 people have been divided, and Sima Yi must have at least 3,000 reserves in his hands in order to deal with emergencies.

Well, counting the battle losses in the past two days, all the soldiers and horses in Sima Yi's hands have been distributed, and there is even a negative amount.

But now, because hundreds of Shu thieves have infiltrated the city, Sima Yi must divide his troops to guard the grain, grass and armory, and at the same time arrange soldiers and horses to investigate the enemy in the city, and at the same time protect the water source. Without two or three thousand troops, so many things can't be arranged at all.

There was no way, Sima Yi could only find a way to dispatch defensive troops.

The guards at the south and west gates could not be removed, and there was a real threat there, so they had to send a thousand troops from each of the east and north gates, with 1,000 men to guard the granaries and arsenals, and 1,000 to protect the water sources in the city, while searching for lurking troops.

Sima Yi now understands the true role of this lurking Shu thief "meticulous" army.

Not only can it create all kinds of chaos, but it is only a small army of two or three hundred people to cooperate with a frontal attack, and it suddenly involves the deployment and mobilization of its own 2,000 troops, which is where the greatest value of this army lies.

This is only two or three hundred "fine" counties, and there is such a big threat to the outside of the West City Gate, but there are four thousand Shu thieves with the same combat ability.

But if the Shu thieves outside the gate of the West City are not stupid, he will not only send such a few people to infiltrate, these days, there should be a steady stream of these "fine" troops into the city, and once the number of these "fine" troops reaches the scale of 1,000 people, the consequences, Sima Yi dare not think.

This is a consequence that Sima Yi cannot bear.

But in today's situation, apart from the means of deploying troops to strengthen patrols and strictly investigating strangers in the city, Sima Yi really didn't have a good way for a while.

Because, compared with these so-called "meticulous" troops, Sima Yi has a greater threat - the Jingzhou army outside the southern city gate.

When the Jingzhou army pressed the border, Sima Yi simply did not have enough troops and not enough mind to target these annoying "rats".

Therefore, the current Sima Yi is extremely hopeful that the more than 20,000 reinforcements led by Cao Zhen can rush to Wancheng as soon as possible to deploy defenses.

For this reason, Sima Yi hurriedly wrote a letter to the Son of Heaven for help, and at the same time, he also wrote a letter to Cao Zhen, hoping that Cao Zhen would not toss so much along the way, Wancheng is really in a hurry now.

At this time, Cao Zhen had just walked to Henan County, and there were still seven or eight days of marching from Wancheng.

Even, if Cao Zhen's stop-and-go marching speed was followed, it might take ten days to reach Wancheng.

Of course, after receiving Sima Yi's urgent military report, Cao Zhen did want to speed up the march, but even if he slowly recovered his morale and morale in this stop-and-go way, in the end, he was going to fight in Wancheng, and the soldier's morale was really not high.

After all, he had just experienced a fiasco in Guanzhong, and it was fateful to be able to escape back, but in less than half a month, he was transferred to another battlefield. The soldiers must not be happy.

And it's . But what was transferred was the Wancheng battlefield.

In the Guanzhong battlefield, although the back road was cut off by people, and the grain and grass were urgent, but in terms of troops, the Wei army was actually still the dominant side, and although the Shu thieves attacked fiercely, there were many people, and they could still work together a little.

But on the battlefield of Wancheng, I heard that more than 100,000 Shu thieves are besieging 30,000 people, and now they can't hold it and want to support, but even if they go to support, plus more than 20,000 people, it is only more than 50,000 people, and they have to face twice or even three times the attack of Shu thieves.

In this kind of war, how can you raise the morale of this group of soldiers who have just escaped?!

Cao Zhen is also difficult, with such a group of soldiers who are uneven and have serious morale deficits to save Wancheng, he stops and stops all the way, it is really not completely deliberate, but if he doesn't do this, the morale of the army will be completely chaotic.

Therefore, Cao Zhen could only write a reply letter to Sima Yi, telling him his actual situation, on the one hand, hoping that Sima Yi would continue to hold out for a period of time, on the other hand, Cao Zhen was also trying his best to boost the morale of the army and increase the speed of the march as soon as possible.

But when he will be able to arrive in Wancheng, Cao Zhen can't guarantee Sima Yi.

Maybe it's only five or six days, but it can also be seven or eight days, and of course, no more than ten days at most. I also asked Sima Yi to try his best to hold on to these ten days!!

One thing to say, Cao Zhen's request is really not too much, after all, judging from the current battle situation, Sima Yi will not be unable to hold it for ten days.

But. Things don't always go the way people expect.

(End of chapter)