Ten days to break through Xiangcheng, not to mention that Chen Tai didn't expect this, even Guo Huai himself didn't expect it.

You must know that from Xuchang to Xiangcheng, Guo Huai led the army for eight days, and the time really used to attack the city was only two days.

Breaking through a city in two days is impossible unless the defenders don't have the idea of holding it at all.

Obviously, the defenders of Xiangcheng just didn't mean to hold on to Xiangcheng, and Guo Huai almost broke it as soon as he attacked. If it's not a little greasy here, I won't believe it if I kill Guo Huai.

But the problem is that Guo Huai is not in the mood to care about the Shu thieves who took the initiative to abandon Xiangcheng, and he knows that if he does not lead the troops back to Shangcai to sit in the town, Zhu Ju of Eastern Wu may send troops immediately.

Therefore, after Guo Huai defeated Shangcai, he waited for Chen Tai and Jia Kui to converge, and after roughly describing the siege process, he insisted on leading the troops back to Shangcai.

Chen Tai is really not good to stay anymore.

Guo Huai is already interesting enough, not only helped you defend Xuchang, but also helped you capture Xiangcheng, almost recovered the entire territory of Yingchuan, and then you stopped people and did not let people go back to defend their own defense area, which is somewhat unreasonable.

Therefore, Chen Tai allocated a lot of money, grain, and wealth to Guo Huai, and personally sent Guo Huai out of the city and sent Guo Huai back to the army.

As for Guo Huai's warning to Chen Tai before leaving, Chen Tai also listened.

Captured Xiangcheng in two days, there is a problem no matter how you think about this matter, Guo Huai can not think about this problem, but Chen Tai can't ignore it.

Therefore, by doing this, are the Shu thieves luring themselves to continue to go deeper and march to Luyang or Kunyang? !

As long as you take the initiative to march in those two directions, is there a very large encirclement network waiting for you?!

It's not impossible.

Not only Chen Tai thinks so, but even Jia Kui also thinks that this is very possible.

After all, Xiangcheng was lost too quickly.

Therefore, Chen Tai had to send a large number of scouts to find out if there were any traces of large-scale military activities near Luyang or Kunyang.

However, to Chen Tai and Jia Kui's expectations, there was no trace of anything unusual.

The only trace that can be found of the army's actions is still the traces of the main force of the Shu thieves going north to Liang County and converging with Zhuge Liang and others to march into Luoyang.

This time, Chen Tai and Jia Kui were a little confused.

Is it simply because the Shu thieves have transferred too many troops to the north and do not have enough troops to garrison Xiangcheng, so they have to abandon it?!

If that's the case. Chen Tai once again sent scouts in the direction of Luyang and Kunyang.

In the end, I got information that in these two cities, there were 3,000 Shu thieves stationed in each, and the guards, one was called Zhang Wei and the other was Wang Ping.

Who these two people are, let alone Chen Tai, even Jia Kui doesn't know.

I really don't blame these two people, Chen Tai has been following his father all the year round, and now he really has no choice, so he stayed in Luoyang to lead the troops to help Sima Yi, and he only knows some famous generals in the world about the enemy generals.

For example, Zhang Xi, Zhuge Liang, Wei Yan, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Pang Tong and others, Chen Tai has not even heard of Deng Ai's reputation.

And Jia Kui is stationed in the east all the year round, if you want to say that there are any generals in Eastern Wu, Jia Kui may be like a few treasures, but for the Shu thief, Jia Kui really doesn't know much.

Therefore, the competence of these two men can only be analyzed through paper intelligence.

As a result, the information on paper told the two of them that these two were just miscellaneous generals.

The gold content of the miscellaneous generals of these years and months really means that they are not ranked in the army at all.

Back then, Guan Yu and Zhou Yu, two partial generals, could be famous all over the world, but now, even if it is a general and a general Lou Chuan, they are mostly mediocre.

General Miscellaneous, I really can't say anything.

And from the point of experience, a person has been stationed in Fancheng all the year round, and has not had any promotion experience, you can't say whether this person is good at defending the city or this person is really incapable.

The other is that the person was born in this year, and the military position on the foreign general depends largely on the number of his subordinates.

Some big tribal leaders can even get the title of general of the imperial court, but that title is an honorary thing, and it really doesn't prove anything.

Therefore, these two people, each with 3,000 soldiers and horses to guard the two places of Luyang and Kunyang, looked at the grain route of the Northern Expeditionary Army, at least from the strength of the paper, it seemed that they were very easy to bully.

Chen Tai was a little moved.

But Jia Kui is still more experienced than Chen Tai in the end, and he is also more serious.

Even if these two people are waste, Zhuge Liang is not a waste!

Well, even if Zhuge Liang is a civil servant, he doesn't understand military affairs, but Zhang Xi, Zhao Yun, Wu Yi, these people, they are not idiots, right!!

These people, who don't know the importance of the grain road to the army, will send two incompetent wastes to guard the grain road?!

So, it's better to be cautious, don't rush to attack, and observe for a while.

Chen Tai thought about it, as if what Jia Kui said was also right.

And in terms of battlefield experience, Jia Kui is indeed stronger than himself, and Chen Tai feels that he still has to obey his words.

Chen Tai is Chen Qun's son in the end, although there are some children of the family, but he is completely out of step with the children of the gentleman, what to listen to and what not to listen to, he still knows.

In this way, after Chen Tai occupied Xiangcheng, he temporarily stood still in Xiangcheng to observe the situation.

For a time, in the direction of Yingchuan, the war fell into calm again.

At the same time, Sima Yi, who was in Luoyang, could still calm down, but his partner Xin Bi, a seventy-year-old man, was even more composing than him, a middle-aged man who was only in his forties.

The main reason why Xin Bi couldn't hold his breath was that Zhuge Liang led his troops to leave Liang County, divided his troops into two routes, and occupied Yique Pass and Dagu Pass.

Those are the two levels in the south of the eight passes in Luoyang, and everyone has hit the doorstep.

And what's even worse is that Xin Bi suggested that Sima Yi send troops to guard the two passes, and not let the Shu thieves easily occupy the two passes, but Sima Yi didn't listen at all, he really didn't send any soldiers to Luoyang, just so calmly guarded Luoyang City.

What are the eight passes of Luoyang, in Sima Yi's eyes, these two unknown passes, except for being used to collect taxes, have no military significance at all.

What are you doing with the division of troops?

Anyway, Sima Yi is really not worried about the loss of the two levels at all, but Xin Bi is in a hurry.

Well, even if you don't worry about losing the two passes, but Mengjindu in the north, you should always have a little snack.

It is not only the communication channel between us and Hedong and Hanoi counties, but the two sons who came to your aid with all kinds of supplies are still fighting to the death over there.

If you really want the Shu thieves to break through Mengjin, let's not say that we will cut off the supply channel, let's just say that your two sons probably won't be able to come back!!

Don't say it, Sima Yi is indeed a little worried.

But the problem is that Sima Yi actually knows very well that the goal of the Shu thieves is to make themselves take the initiative from Luoyang as much as possible, whether it is to attack out of the city or to divide troops to rescue, it is the most desired thing for the Shu thieves.

Today's Luoyang, there are only 35,000 guards in total, and the Shu thieves in the south also have about 37,000 people, and Sima Yi is very big.

Of course, Sima Yi is not unconcerned about the life and death of his two sons, but the problem is that there is really no need to rush for a while.

Sima Shi and Sima Zhao, the two brothers, retreated to Mengjin Port with nearly 20,000 people, and on the side of the Shu thieves, there were only more than 20,000 people attacking. The ratio of troops is almost one to one, even if the Hedong soldiers brought by Sima Shi are a rabble, but the number is there, and it can last for a certain amount of time.

It's not that Sima Yi didn't save Meng Jin, but that the current Meng Jindu has not yet reached the point where he has to send reinforcements himself.

Guarding Luoyang, the most important thing now is to be more calm than anyone, once someone can't hold back, then it will really fall into a passive situation.

Sima Yi was very aware of the current situation, and he didn't feel that he couldn't control the situation, so he was still waiting.

Wait for Zhuge Liang to make a move.

Sima Yi believes that Zhuge Liang will not be consumed endlessly, and if he continues to consume like this, the damage to the Shu thieves will not be low. If you really want to fight a lose-lose battle with Dawei in Sili and let the Dongwu rats pick up the cheap, I believe this is not what Zhuge Liang wants to see.

Of course, Sima Yi didn't mean to say that he had to stick to it, he wasn't so cowardly, and Dawei's current strength was not enough for Sima Yi to take this kind of wretched style of play, but the attack needed to have a suitable fighter, and he couldn't send troops at will, and if he wanted to send troops, he must pursue victory with one blow.

This is what Sima Yi is planning now.

And Zhuge Liang, who is south of Luoyang, independently chose to divide his troops into two ways, all the way to occupy Yique Pass, all the way to occupy Dagu Pass, in Sima Yi's view, it is simply his behavior of weakening his own strength to attack the situation, why should he take the initiative to attack.

Just let them divide their troops like this, anyway, in terms of the number of troops, they still have an advantage.

The art of war is cloudy: multiple is divided, five is encircled, and ten is attacked, even if you count the Shu thieves who besieged Mengjin, the ratio of troops is less than two to one, what is Lao Tzu anxious about!!

(End of chapter)