The house leak happened to rain overnight, which is Sima Yi's current state.

In front of Xin Bi, Sima Yi naturally didn't want to directly say that Cao Rong was a faint king. It's not about loyalty or not, it's a matter of decency.

In this year, the degree of centralization of power is not deep, and it is common for courtiers to privately evaluate the behavior of the monarch, but in public, everyone still has to give the monarch a respect.

After all, the sovereign is the sovereign, and the courtier is still the courtier in the end Unless you want to seek a dynasty and usurp the throne, even if you are a powerful minister, you can't be disrespectful to the sovereign on the surface.

But now Sima Yi's life is really not good, he is really not sure that he can survive a month.

In fact, Xin Bi also agrees with this, but the problem is that he has nothing to do except sigh.

Sima Yi ordered Sima Shi and Sima Zhao to abandon Mengjindu, but these two brothers really. It's unreliable.

It's not that the two brothers Sima will not listen to their father's dispatch, but the problem is that their opponents are not in vain.

After Sima Shi received Sima Yi's order, he immediately discussed with his younger brother how to arrange a breakthrough.

In fact, at this time, Meng Jindu temporarily entered a state of truce.

Sima Shi had nearly 20,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, while his opponents Wei Yan, Zhang Fei and others had 25,000 soldiers and horses, of which about 15,000 were elite northern troops, and the remaining 10,000 were recruits temporarily recruited from Hongnong County, and they did not have much combat effectiveness.

In the face of such an enemy, just like Sima Yi thought, as long as he didn't wave, he could still break through.

However, the opponent is not easy to mess with, especially the black-faced and white-bearded evil god, who is about to become a legend of Meng Jindu, and finding a way to avoid the pursuit of this evil god and retreat safely is the most important thing Sima Shi needs to do now.

To this end, Sima Shi developed a retreat plan.

First of all, there was a plan to arrange for the Hedong soldiers to go out of Mengjindu and take the initiative to challenge the frontal Shu thieves. However, he lost three times in a row to be proud.

Then, the fourth time sent the remaining 8,000 Hedong soldiers to attack the Shu thief camp head-on to attract the attention of the Shu thief, while the two brothers Sima Shi and Sima Zhao led the army to break through from the east of Mengjindu, go around a big circle, and strive to withdraw to Luoyang from the east gate of Luoyang.

Sima Shi didn't dare to retreat directly from the north gate of Luoyang, after all, in that direction, as long as it was a Shu thief general with a normal brain, after finding that he and the others were retreating, he would definitely pursue in the direction of the north gate of Luoyang.

Therefore, Sima Shi did not hesitate to give up the 8,000 Hedong soldiers and retreated from the east gate of Luoyang in a big circle, just to be able to safely withdraw the remaining 12,000 Luoyang soldiers into Luoyang safely.

It can be said that Sima Shi thought of everything he could think of.

However, when the retreat plan was really implemented, he had just left Mengjindu and walked less than twenty miles to the east, when the 12,000 Luoyang soldiers led by Sima Shi and Sima Zhao encountered interception by Shu thieves.

The first general is the black-faced and white-bearded god.

In fact, Sima Shi's retreat plan did deceive Zhang Fei and Wei Yan, and the two of them really thought that Meng Jindu's Wei army had lost the ability to take the initiative to attack under the successive defeats.

If Sima Shi's opponent was just these two people, then he could really achieve his goal and rescue Luoyang with 12,000 people.

But the problem is that in Zhang Feijun, there is also a Mr. Feng Xiao.

Pang Tong didn't feel right. If the opponent loses, it will inevitably be a little too easy.

Yes, the Wei thieves of Mengjindu have been suppressed by the Han army in the battle some time ago, and they can only be trapped in the ferry. But after having 10,000 reinforcements, Meng Jindu's Wei army had stabilized its position, otherwise he and the others would not have suspended the attack.

Therefore, this three defeats in a row is somewhat strange.

In addition, the recent military report from Zhuge Liang shows that Zhuge Liang broke the Luoyang defenders attacked by Sima Yi in Liang County, and is now marching towards Luoyang.

From this, Pang Tong came to a conclusion - the Wei army of Meng Jindu was in the old camp and wanted to withdraw from Luoyang.

Thinking along this line of thought, Pang Tong once again came to the judgment that the defenders of Mengjindu were unlikely to break through directly to the north gate of Luoyang, and should choose to withdraw their troops by detouring to the east gate.

It's not hard to guess.

Now the main force of the Han army is stationed in the southwest of Mengjindu, and the Wei army will break through to the west or south, and will directly confront the main force of the Han army. The strength of the two sides is equal, and if they really want to fight a field battle, even if the Wei army can break through, the losses will not be small.

This is not in line with the fundamental purpose of rescuing Luoyang.

Therefore, Pang Tong believed that the three provocations of the Wei army were just a bluff and created the illusion of breaking through from the southwest, and the real direction of the breakthrough should be in the east.

When Meng Jindu sent troops again, Pang Tong immediately asked Zhang Fei and Wei Yan to lead the troops together to intercept the Wei army in the east.

After cleaning up the main force of the Wei army that is about to break through, it is too late to come back and clean up this rabble.

In this way, the withdrawal plan of Sima Shi and Sima Zhao died directly in a place only twenty miles away from Mengjindu.

The two brothers did not think about it, and after being discovered their intentions, they rushed hard and forcibly broke through the enemy's interception.

But the problem is that what Wei Yan brought was 15,000 elites of the Northern Army, and what Sima Shi had in his hands was 12,000 Luoyang County soldiers. Not to mention the small number of troops, the combat effectiveness is not as good as that of the other side.

In addition, Zhang Fei's black-faced god poked at the battlefield, and before the fight started, the morale of his own soldiers weakened by three points. How can this be fought?

In desperation, Sima Shi could only order the whole army to withdraw to Mengjindu again, and then think of other ways to break through.

And when Sima Shi led the troops to withdraw to Mengjindu, another thing happened that made Sima Shi cry and laugh, and the 8,000 Hedong soldiers who fought head-on actually broke through the interception of the frontal Shu thieves in one fell swoop.

They actually rushed out!!

What the hell is this called?!

Those who should have broken out did not break out, and those who had been given up in advance broke through the encirclement. Sima Shi was depressed.

Also depressed is Pang Tong. Pang Tong also didn't expect that 10,000 people intercepted 8,000 people, and they could still let people rush out.

It's a shame.

And the most important thing is that the most critical reason for the failure of the interception was Pang Tong's misjudgment of the situation.

Pang Tong not only underestimated the determination of the enemy soldiers to break through the siege to survive, but also overestimated the combat effectiveness of his newly recruited Hongnong soldiers.

According to Pang Tong's understanding, the soldiers in his hands are indeed recruits just recruited from Hongnong, and their combat effectiveness is low, but the Hedong soldiers of the Wei army who fought on the opposite side are actually similar in nature to Hongnong's soldiers, and they have just been recruited.

There should be little difference in the combat strength of the two sides, and their own forces still have an advantage, and the other side has not sent a general to preside over the breakthrough, so theoretically their side should not lose.

Based on this consideration, Pang Tong only left a general-level general in the army to be in charge, and he himself followed Zhang Fei and Wei Yan to intercept the main force of the Wei army.

After all, in Pang Tong's view, the battlefield over there is the most important, and if life changes, he can also respond in time, adjust his strategy, and provide reference for Zhang Fei and Wei Yan.

As for the frontal battlefield, Pang Tong thought that it was just a matter of dragging down the Hedong soldiers, who were also weak in combat effectiveness, and the problem would not be too big.

However, Pang Tong forgot that Cao Wei's group of Hedong soldiers had also experienced several battles, from 15,000 to 8,000 Hedong soldiers.

The soldiers who can survive so many battles are not to mention how elite they are, but at least, they are not at the same level as the recruits who have never been on the battlefield.

These 8,000 soldiers, in front of the well-trained and experienced Northern Army of the Han Dynasty, they are indeed still poor, but compared with the Hongnong soldiers who were temporarily recruited, their combat effectiveness is much stronger.

Never go toe-to-toe with a bunch of soldiers desperate to escape, even if they're just a rabble. Poor people don't chase after it, that's the truth.

Neither side had an outstanding general command, and there was no tactical arrangement at all, and the two sides were in a chaotic battle from the very beginning.

After entering the chaotic battle, the Hedong soldiers, who had relatively rich combat experience, had the upper hand.

Although it is not possible to break through the encirclement as a whole, it is also common for small forces to drill out of the encirclement from time to time.

By the time Wei Yan, Zhang Fei, Pang Tong and others led the army back to the main battlefield and returned to the main battlefield, under this melee, there were less than 2,000 Hedong soldiers left in the battlefield.

Including those who lie on the ground and cannot move.

In other words, a breakthrough allowed 6,000 Hedong soldiers to run out.

Sima Shi was depressed, he had known that if he broke through to the southwest, he might be able to lead a large army to rescue Luoyang now.

Pang Tong was also depressed, he knew that this was the result, and he should have left Wei Yan to command and intercept, but he really couldn't stay by himself, and he wouldn't let so many Wei troops run out.

But, things are already like this, and there is no practical point in dwelling on them. It's still optimistic about the more than 10,000 Wei troops who withdrew to Mengjindu, and these people must not be allowed to run anymore.

And the Hedong soldiers who ran out, except for a part of the rout, most of them still remember their mission, that is, to go to Luoyang to support, in fact, these Hedong soldiers can't go to Luoyang, the west has been completely controlled by the Han Dynasty, and fleeing to the west is just throwing themselves into the net, only to go to Luoyang in the south, they still have a chance of life.

In this way, by mistake, Sima Yi received the support of 5,000 Hedong soldiers in Luoyang one after another, and the Luoyang soldiers he had high hopes for were now blocked in Mengjindu by Wei Yan and others again, and they couldn't get out at all.

Sima Yi received support, but how much difference was there between the support of the 5,000 Hedong soldiers and the none.

Don't look at the current strength of the defenders in Sima Yi's hands has risen to 14,000 people, but in terms of combat effectiveness, 5,000 Hedong soldiers really can't help much.

Now, Sima Yi can only pray that the Soochow side can work a little harder. Zhou Gongjin is a famous general in the world, so he can't even beat a Jiangling County, right?!

(End of chapter)