Outside the city of Luyang, 60,000 Han troops were waiting strongly, and inside the city of Luyang, 40,000 Wei troops were strictly defended.

Theoretically speaking, the disadvantage of the troops, and the depletion of the enemy's strength and morale by defending the city cannot be regarded as a wrong choice in any way.

But. There are always people who have different opinions.

The first person to have an opinion is Wang Ling.

"Doesn't the general hear that he will lose if he defends for a long time, why not go out of the city and fight with the Shu thieves to decide the winner?!" Wang Ling said dissatisfiedly.

You really can't blame Wang Ling for being dissatisfied, in the past few days, Wang Ling was beaten by Zhuge Liang's siege of the city, and he couldn't cope with it.

The so-called long-term defense will be lost, not the west gate where Sima Yi is stationed, but the south gate where he Wang Ling is stationed.

Of course, it doesn't mean that Lu Yang is about to be lost, after all, with Sima Yi's strategy, even if Wang Ling is pressed to the ground by Zhuge Liang and beaten wildly, Lu Yang will not be able to lose. But whoever is beaten knows that it hurts, and it is also a shame.

Okay, in the same city, Sima Yi of the West Gate and Zhang Xi, a famous general in the world, attack and defend each other, and no one can help anyone, and they can't hold each other down to the South Gate, so they are beaten by Zhuge Liang on the ground alone? !

Yes, Wang Ling knows that this is the reason why his command ability is not as good as Zhuge Liang. But the problem is, people in the world don't know.

Prior to this, Zhuge Liang had always been regarded by the world as a managerial talent like Xun Lingjun, who was good at sitting in the rear and managing government affairs as prime minister.

was beaten by such a person and had no power to fight back, and it was also necessary for Sima Yi to repeatedly send troops to support in order to turn the danger into a disaster, Wang Ling felt that it was not only a matter of damaging his reputation, but also a stepping stone for Zhuge Liang to become famous with soldiers.

In the battle of defending the city, Wang Ling couldn't fight anymore, but in the field, Wang Ling felt that he might not have no hope of winning.

Compared with the battle of defending the city, the rapid change of field warfare is too fast, the two armies are facing each other, and the hard fight of real swords and guns is not enough, and it is difficult to achieve perfect scheduling.

As for Zhuge Liang, judging from his command of the several sieges, the style of using soldiers is relatively square, and it is not surprising at a glance, it belongs to the style of using soldiers in a dignified manner.

Obviously, this is not a general who was killed on the battlefield, but a civilian general who reads military books and commands military formations in the way of military books.

In addition, Zhuge Liang himself does not have much experience in leading troops in combat, so it means that Zhuge Liang's experience in battle is not enough. Maybe this is a place where Wang Ling can take advantage of it.

In field warfare, the most fighting is the ability to adapt to the battle, perhaps in this regard, Zhuge Liang's weakness.

This is the real reason why Wang Ling asked for field warfare.

And for superficial reasons

"Luyang City is small, and it doesn't take more than 10,000 people to defend the city, but our army has 40,000 people, and we can't do what we can. And our army is 40,000, and the thief army is 60,000, although there is a difference, its momentum is not enough to fear, why are you trapped in a lonely city and refuse to fight, won't it fall into the spirit of our army?! ”

This is the official reason given by Wang Ling.

Luyang is not a strong city, no matter how you prepare in advance, the city wall is so high, so thick, and the city is so big, it can't accommodate 40,000 people to go up to the city wall to garrison it.

Each time, only 10,000 people fought, and the remaining 30,000 people watched the play, which was a waste of defensive resources.

And the comparison of the forces of the two sides is only 40,000 to 60,000, and it is not that there is no power to fight, and it is not good for morale to always shrink in the city and be beaten passively.

Therefore, Wang Ling asked to take the initiative to lead troops out of the city and stationed in the southwest corner of Luyang, forming a horn with Luyang to facilitate defense.

You have to say that Wang Ling's proposal is in line with the actual needs of the present, and it is not entirely for the sake of his own face, but Sima Yi also has Sima Yi's own concerns.

Since he stayed behind in Luoyang, Sima Yi must start from the entire Sili area to consider the problem.

The Shu thieves launched the Northern Expedition again after a year, Sima Yi did not believe that the grain and grass preparations of these Shu thieves could be so comprehensive, and between Yingchuan and Henan, there was no danger to defend at all, once the two avenues were lost, not only the Sili area, but also Yanzhou would be affected.

In this case, it can only be to block the two passages with the advantage of numbers, hold on until the supply of grain and grass to the Shu thieves is unfavorable, or wait for the change to wait for the reinforcements transferred from Hebei by the imperial court.

That's it.

This was one of Sima Yi's guiding ideologies for formulating this Yingchuan defensive battle.

Although this method is a bit stupid, it is the most secure, and in terms of effect, it is also the combat method that does the least damage to the Sili area.

The second northern expedition of the Shu thieves captured Guanzhong, and the people of Guanzhong were moved into the customs with full favors, although they brought a lot of floating population to Sili, but it was also a big burden on Sili's finances.

At that time, Cao Rong Ke was in Luoyang, and it was impossible for him to watch these people become homeless or recluses, and he would definitely have to pay money, grain, and land to resettle these Guanzhong people who migrated to Sili. This is the first infringement on the existing distribution of interests in the division, and it also increases the burden between the families and the people in the division.

The people will not pay attention to how much benefit the imperial court can get because of this, they only know that the people of Guanzhong come to Sili to make a living, which will inevitably affect their living space.

And the big families don't care how much benefit the court can get, what they care about is how much benefit they can get. But under Cao Ei's nose, they couldn't get too many benefits at all.

Cao Ei is much more difficult to fool than his father Cao Pi.

Therefore, what they can do is to pass on their losses to the people of Sili.

The third northern expedition of the Shu thieves not only emptied most of the county soldiers under the division, but also broke through Nanyang, directly putting Yingchuan County within the attack range of the thief army.

In this case, Sima Yi was appointed to stay in Luoyang, and he must restore the defense forces of Heluo and Yingchuan as soon as possible, and put all the money and food into the military.

But in this way, Sima Yi actually knows very well that it will also cause serious damage to the people in the Sili area.

This place is so important, not only because Luoyang is here, but more importantly, it is one of the most mature agricultural production areas developed by the entire Han Dynasty in an agricultural society, which is the foundation of the royal road.

Unless Sima Yi really made up his mind to completely destroy Si Li, otherwise, as long as Sima Yi still had the certainty of being able to hold Si Li, of course he had to choose the plan with the least loss to block the attack of the Shu thieves.

After all, Si Li is still the Si Li of Great Wei, and after repelling the Shu thieves, Great Wei will continue to rule.

Therefore, the garrison is stubborn, although it is stupid and passive, but at least it can reduce the losses, so that it will not be broken through the city by the Shu thieves and break into Yingchuan.

But if Wang Ling is divided into battles, although the horn momentum can effectively consolidate the defense, but in the same way, as far as Sima Yi himself knows, there are no less than five ways to break this horn momentum.

Once they were broken by the Shu thieves and weakened the number of defenders in Luyang, Sima Yizhen was not sure that he would be able to hold Luyang.

So. Sima Yi still chose to reject Wang Ling's proposal and continued to defend himself.

Wang Ling was very dissatisfied with this.

In fact, Wang Lingneng didn't know Sima Yi's concerns, he was also a general who could write and martial arts.

But there are some words, Wang Ling can't help but say, some attitudes, Wang Ling can't help but show that anyway, I proposed to take the initiative to fight, and it was you Sima Yi who didn't agree, so in the future, I can't say that I, Wang Ling, am afraid of the Shu thief.

Yes, although I was beaten very badly by Zhuge Liang, I at least have the courage to take the initiative, and the person who really has no courage is not my Wang Ling, that's the idea.

How much can I save my reputation.

This is purely based on his own interests, to make up for face, it is not right or wrong, he really wants to send troops, and Wang Ling is not the kind of person who is afraid of things.

Wang Ling's thoughts, in fact, Sima Yi also knew that they were all old foxes, and no one should be fooled.

But now that the situation is difficult, I can give you face from you, Wang Ling, as long as you don't sabotage my strategic deployment.

What really made Sima Yi feel embarrassed was the letter sent by Chen Tai from Kunyang.

The letter mentioned that the Yingchuan family was very dissatisfied with the Wei army's insistence, and was willing to contribute money and food, and even sent family private soldiers to the front line to help.

But there is only one condition, that is, to repel the Shu thieves as soon as possible and protect the territory and the people.

From the standpoint of the Yingchuan family, of course they didn't want to see Shu Han's army swaying back and forth at the gate of their house, fighting back and forth, all fighting on the Yingchuan territory.

Yes, now the two armies are facing each other on the front line in Kunyang and Luyang, but with the advent of the war, it is definitely not only these two counties that will be affected, but also the surrounding counties, where there will be people, displaced people, and even hidden households who have fled to escape the war.

When the landed people fled, these big families would not care, and they would even take the initiative to send people to take over the land left behind by these landed people after fleeing to expand their private land.

But the flight of the homeless and hidden households is a great loss for the family.

Now the entire western border of Yingchuan County has been affected by the war, and if this war lasts for half a year or even a year, the Yingchuan County family is really unwilling to accept this loss.

Don't forget, the southeast side of Yingchuan County is not very peaceful, and there are only three counties left in Runan County, such as Shangcai and others, which are still in the hands of Great Wei.

Therefore, the families of Yingchuan County, of course, hope to end the war in the west as soon as possible.

Moreover, the clans of Yingchuan County don't understand either, you Sima Yi obviously has 40,000 troops in his hands, plus Chen Tai's 10,000 soldiers stationed in Kunyang, there are also 50,000 people, and the total strength of his Shu thieves is only 70,000.

What can't be fought?!

Not enough money and food?!

It doesn't matter, we can still make up some of it.

Insufficient troops?!

We've gathered the guards and sent them to you, and you're only responsible for the ordnance and armor.

In this way, if you Sima Yi stay in Luyang again, then you really can't say anything.

This can be regarded as a threat to Sima Yi from the Yingchuan County family. If you Sima Yi can't break the attack of the Shu thieves in a short period of time, then if you Sima Yi still have something to ask for from the Yingchuan family, then it is difficult to say whether the Yingchuan family will continue to support you Sima Yi.

This is where Sima Yi is really troublesome.

Guarding Yingchuan, without the support of the Yingchuan family, it is impossible to defend it at all!!

And Chen Tai, his attitude, is also worth Sima Yi's fun.

In the letter, Chen Tai said that he understood Sima Yi's strategic deployment and believed that there was no problem in sticking to the strategy of waiting for change. But since you can understand my strategy, why can't you more effectively appease the Yingchuan family and let them choose to support themselves?!

What is Chen Tai's real purpose in writing this letter?!

(End of chapter)