At this time, Sima Yi did not command the battle from the tower of the South Gate.

It's not that Sima Yi doesn't want to go, but something happened halfway.

In the middle of Sima Yi's assembling of his 3,000 reserves and rushing to the south gate to command the battle, he suddenly received information that the west gate was lost.

Yes, Sima Zhao failed to recapture the West City Gate in a quarter of an hour after all, and was supported by Wang Ping to his main force.

Three thousand five hundred Wudang Fei troops attacked one thousand Wei army ordinary county soldiers. Not to mention that Sima Zhao came to command, or Sima Yi himself came, there was no second choice except to retreat.

Therefore, after Sima Zhao saw that the enemy army was strong, he had to make a simple judgment and temporarily retreat in the direction of the northwest granary, and even the 1,000 soldiers left behind on the city wall did not have time to greet him.

In fact, there is no need for Sima Zhao to greet them, the thousand soldiers will definitely not continue to stay on the city wall to find death when they see the city gate under the city being lost, and they will definitely retreat along the city wall to other city gates.

But in this way, as soon as Sima Zhao withdrew, as soon as the defenders on the city wall withdrew, the West Gate was completely lost.

But Sima Yi was beaten by this stuffy stick, and he didn't slow down for a long time, and hurriedly asked the scout who came to report the news, how Ximen was lost.

When Sima Yi learned that the Shu army captured the Xicheng Gate through a sneak attack, and at the same time caused the West Gate to be lost due to internal and external attacks, he almost didn't scold on the spot.

In the end, I couldn't help it, the Simon guard, that was his own son.

How can you say that?! You can't teach your own son to teach such a bastard thing?!

Is this the time to talk about this?!

Moreover, Sima Yi also couldn't figure it out, with Zhao'er's ability, coupled with the various precautionary arrangements he made in advance, how could he still let the Shu thieves sneak attack the city gate?!

Didn't I repeatedly ask that I must strengthen the defense of the city gate hole to prevent the Shu thieves lurking in the city from "meticulously" sneak attacking?!

It's a pity that the scouts who came to report the news can't give Sima Yi a reply now, on the contrary, the messenger gave Sima Yi an even worse news - Sima Zhao failed to intercept the Shu thieves, and the main force of the Shu thieves rushed to the northwest of Wancheng.

Well, when he first heard the news, Sima Yi really had the intention to "cut his parents and children with tears", but unfortunately, Sima Yi was not so selfless, and finally gave up this idea.

But at the same time, Sima Yi is also seriously thinking about whether he is overestimating his second son.

In fact, Sima Yi also knows that don't look at the family members who have been touting their two sons, but many of them are Shu thieves who are fueling the troubles, and they can't be taken seriously.

However, his son, Sima Yi still knows something, and he is indeed a very good general, much better than other families who only know how to talk about it.

His two sons, Sima Shi are better at military strategy, and the second son Sima Zhao is better at political strategy and people's hearts. But Sima Yi didn't expect that Sima Zhao's first command of the operation would be able to pull his hips like this.

Now Sima Yi really began to wonder if his two sons really had the kind of talent they thought they were. Don't pretend to be in front of your eyes, you can't do it when you get to real combat, right?!

Now that the war situation is urgent, Sima Yi can't think too much, but when this war is over, Sima Yi feels that he still has to seriously test the abilities of his two sons.

In this troubled era, the heir of the family with a high eye and a low hand is not a good thing for a family.

But that's all for later. Now, Sima Yi's priority is what he should do now.

Whether to continue to go to the south gate to command the battle and block the attack of the main force of the Jingzhou army, or to quickly lead the troops to save the granary and prevent the Shu thieves from breaking through the granary defenders and burning the granary ordnance.

Soon, Sima Yi made his choice.

The main force of the Shu thieves marched to the northwest, no need to ask, it must have been to attack the granary, and once the granary and armory were lost, even if Sima Yi finally guarded the south gate and blocked the main force of the Shu thieves from entering the city. Without the support of grain and grass, Sima Yi couldn't hold out for a few days.

Yes, if you search carefully in the city, you can still find some food, but in this year, the people who can still hoard grain and grass during the war must be the Nanyang family.

If Sima Yi forcibly expropriated these people's food and property. What will happen later, Sima Yi himself is not easy to say.

He himself is a family, can he still know the virtues of the family?!

And the most important thing is that Sima Yi doesn't know when Cao Zhen will be able to lead the reinforcements to arrive, maybe five or six days, maybe seven or eight days, or it will take more than ten days to arrive.

If there are not enough reinforcements to come to deter the families living in the city, Sima Yi may not have to wait for his own soldiers to mutiny, and the family members in the city can take the initiative to create turmoil.

"Eat pot pulp to welcome the king", and there is no shame.

Although it sounds a little incredible, the Wancheng family has to turn against the Great Wei court for a little grain and grass Indeed, in other places, such as Yingchuan or Hedong, this kind of thing is unlikely to happen, but in Wancheng, it is absolutely possible.

Wancheng family, one counts as one, who has no revenge for killing his father and son with Cao Ren, who has no revenge for killing his father and son, slaughtered Wancheng, it was only eleven years ago.

A generation has passed.

When Guan Yu attacked Xiangfan, the Wancheng family was able to "eat pot pulp to welcome the king's division", and now Guan Yu is in the city, and the Wancheng family can be divided until now, which is already the consequence of being deterred by Cao Ren's slaughter.

When it really came to the possibility of Wancheng being lost, Sima Yi absolutely did not believe that these Wancheng families would choose to live and die with Great Wei.

So, Sima Yi thought about it, but he still felt that the grain, grass and ordnance were the focus, as for the south gate, as long as he rescued quickly, repelled the Shu thieves as soon as possible, and then rushed to the south gate to calm the army's morale and unify the command, it should not be a big problem.

The guards of the entire Wancheng are not only Sima Yi, there are also guards at the south gate, and Chen Ying, a general from the Yingchuan Chen family, is responsible for guarding the south gate.

Although this person's ability is very average, as long as he doesn't waste it, he sticks to it according to his predetermined defense strategy and persists for half a day, right?!

Compared with the urgency of defending the northwest granary, the south gate guard is not so important at this time.

Therefore, Sima Yi only weighed the pros and cons a little, and it was useless for even a minute, and immediately ordered the whole army to turn around and rescue the granary in the northwest corner.

In this way, Sima Yi did not go to the south gate to rescue the commander and calm the army, which led to Deng Ai finding that the Wei army's guards were very weak during the attack.

What's even worse is that Wang Ping, who broke through the West Gate, did not lead his troops to storm the Wei army's granary at this time, but handed over the main force to Du You's command and feinted to attack the granary, and he took about 500 Wudang Fei troops, preparing to copy Du Yo's tactics and sneak attack the south gate.

I have to say that Wang Ping is not short of adventurous ideas.

In fact, Wang Ping also knew that as long as he led the Wudang Fei Army to break through the Wei army's granary and burn the grain and grass, the Wei army would definitely be in turmoil, and even if he didn't attack the city at that time and withdrew from Wancheng, this Wancheng would not be able to hold it for too long.

At first, Wang Ping really wanted to lead his troops straight to the granary, but Wang Ping asked Du Yo why he was so risky to attack the city gate in the early morning, and then dispelled this idea.

According to Du Yo's description, the commander of Wancheng's defense was a strategic, extremely difficult guy, who forced the Wudang Flying Army lurking in the city to no longer be able to hide their whereabouts and had to take a risk.

How could such a person not strengthen his precautions against such an important position as the granary and the armory?!

Even Du Yo could think of a problem, Wang Ping could not have imagined.

And if Wang Ping led his troops to attack the granary, then it was very likely that he would face a situation - not only to deal with the defenders of the granary, but also to encounter the Wei army that came to help.

Once the granary cannot be conquered and the granary is burned, then the success of Duyo's adventure and sneak attack will be ruined, and Wang Ping has to lead the team to break out from the West Gate again.

Therefore, Wang Ping thought about it carefully and decided to follow Duyo's strategy.

Wang Ping asked Du Yo to attack the granary with 3,000 Wudang Fei troops, to create as much momentum as possible, and lure the Wei army to send reinforcements to the northwest granary.

And he himself, with five hundred Wudang flying troops, took advantage of the chaos in the city to get as close to the south gate of Wancheng as possible, open the city gate, and welcome Guan Yu into the city.

This matter is an adventure, and the most important thing is that in order not to be discovered by the Wei army in the city as much as possible, Wang Ping can't bring too many soldiers and horses over, and five hundred people is already the limit.

In fact, the scale of five hundred men is not small, and an army of five hundred men marches through the city, and if the city is in order, it can be discovered at a glance.

But fortunately, at this time, the vicinity of the West Gate was completely chaotic, in addition to the panicked patrol Wei troops nearby, there were also many people who fled to escape the war. With the cover of these people, there is still a probability that Wang Ping will take advantage of the chaos to approach the south gate.

Although it is impossible to go undetected all the time, the later it is discovered, the better.

In this way, Wang Ping also made his own choice and prepared to divide his troops to attack the south gate.

(End of chapter)