The Jiangling and Xiangyang fronts fought fiercely, and relatively speaking, the battle of Han and Wei in the Heluo area was somewhat thunderous and rainy.

Sima Yi led his troops out of the Tiger Prison Pass, and 30,000 people besieged Gong County, but at the first time, they were blocked by Deng Ai.

Deng Ai only has 10,000 people in his hands, but these 10,000 people are all the Northern Army of the Han Dynasty, and after four Northern Expeditions, they have been fully exercised and their combat effectiveness is at the peak.

And Deng Ai's own ability is not bad. Regardless of political acumen, if he only talks about military ability, Sima Yi's use of this dignified and upright way of using troops is not enough to break through the defense of Gongxian County under Deng Ai.

In addition, Wang Ping led the Wudang Fei Army to retreat, Zhuge Liang did not ask Wang Ping to withdraw directly to Luoyang to set up defenses, but let Wang Ping take the initiative to advance eastward, to the flank of Gongxian, on the one hand, to expand the defensive front to prevent Sima Yi from making a detour to attack Luoyang, and on the other hand, it can also effectively cover the flank of Gongxian County and assist Deng Ai in defending.

In fact, Sima Yi is now using 30,000 troops to fight against Deng Ai, and Wang Ping's 20,000 troops.

The initiative of the battlefield situation is indeed still in Sima Yi's hands, but if he wants to cause a breakthrough near Gongxian, Sima Yi has not found a suitable way for a while.

In Yingchuan County on the southern front, Chen Tai immediately retracted to Xuchang and continued to maintain a defensive posture since he took the initiative to attack and tried to intercept Wang Ping's retreat unsuccessfully.

On the one hand, there were insufficient troops to support Sima Yi in the north, and on the other hand, Chen Tai's actual needs were just to ensure that Yingchuan County was not lost.

Therefore, although the Eastern Wu army in Huainan is slowly retreating, as long as Zhu Ju on the south side of Runan does not withdraw his troops from Ruyin County for a day, then Chen Tai will not recruit Guo Huai's army to go north for a day.

I am afraid that after Guo Huai goes north, Eastern Wu will take advantage of the chaos to occupy Runan, so that Yingchuan County will face the situation that there are enemies on three sides and only one way to retreat on the east side.

Obviously, whether it is Chen Tai or the families of Yingchuan County, they don't want to see this.

But this also caused the fierce fighting in the eastern part of Heluo, but in the southern part of Heluo, it is now calm and calm, and there is no movement at all.

Sima Yi also wrote a letter urging Chen Tai to gather troops to the north as soon as possible, directly threatened Luoyang, forced the Shu thieves to withdraw for self-protection, and reduced the pressure on his side, but Chen Tai always replied with a sincere attitude, but he always shirked the lack of troops, and the armament, grain and grass were not complete, so he did not dare to send troops easily.

What can Sima Yi do?!

is also from a big family, Sima Yi can not know what these Yingchuan guys are thinking because Sima Yi knows everything, so he has nothing to say.

The Yingchuan faction not only has bigwigs like Chen Qun in the DPRK, but also many officials from Yingchuan in the middle and lower levels, these people want to defend their hometowns and safeguard their core interests, what's the problem?!

If it weren't for the Shu thieves occupying Luoyang and Mengjindu, they could cross the river at any time and threaten the two counties of Hedong and Hanoi.

This kind of thing, impeachment is useless, it can only be based on persuasion, and at the same time wait for the situation to change, as long as Great Wei has the ability to find a breakthrough near Luoyang, then there is no need to urge himself, Chen Tai will naturally take the initiative to send troops north.

But now, Sima Yi's side has no choice for the time being, at least before Jia Kui leads the Yanzhou soldiers to help, Sima Yi has no better way to break through Deng Ai and Wang Ping's defense.

Therefore, Sima Yi could only hope that Cao Zhen, who was on the battlefield in the north of Heluo, could make a breakthrough in Mengjindu.

At this time, in Mengjindu on the north side of Luoyang, Cao Zhen and the two brothers of the Sima family were also trying to cross the river and attack.

However, limited by the restrictions of the Yellow River naval army under Huang Quan's department, it was never possible to cross the Yellow River in a short period of time, and after a small number of Wei soldiers crossed the river, they could only maintain the landing point with difficulty in the face of the attack of Xiang Chong's leading troops, and could not advance in the direction of Mengjindu at all.

Huang Quan, a famous general in Sichuan, finally showed his ability that has been underestimated.

In the case of both land and water warfare, Huang Quan did not choose to defend at Mengjindu, but chose to take the initiative to attack, directly blocking the possible landing port of the Wei army, and not giving the Wei army time and space to cross the river.

And the two brothers Cao Zhen and Sima Jia, in terms of land warfare ability, are indeed not necessarily worse than Huang Quan, but in terms of water warfare, the level of these two is really half a catty and eight taels, and they are all close to the level of ignorance.

The three of them together, in the water war, there is no way to take Huang Quan.

The ferry boat was not comparable to the warship, and Cao Zhen and the three of them had almost no experience in water warfare command, and each time they sent more than 100 ferries to carry soldiers across the river, but each time they would be attacked and even cut by the 4,000 sailors led by Huang Quan, and the casualties were always not small.

As a result, although Cao Zhen could cross the Yellow River and establish some landing points, his troops were always insufficient, and most of the landing points would be lost if he was rushed by Xiang Chong's troops.

Now that he can keep a landing point, Cao Zhen is now a little suspicious, whether the Shu thieves really can't attack it, or the Shu thieves deliberately keep it to lure Cao Zhen to continue to transport troops across the river near Mengjindu.

After fighting for more than half a month, Cao Zhen now understands that he wants to rely on a group of ferries to lead his troops across the Yellow River under the harassment and threat of Huang Quan, a professional naval general. It's a bit of a fool's dream.

Therefore, Cao Zhen is now pondering how to avoid Huang Quan's department and find another place to cross the river.

After all, Huang Quan has 4,000 sailors in his hands, and what he can defend is a piece of water near Mengjindu, as long as he avoids this water area and crosses the river, he doesn't have to face passivity like now.

For this reason, Cao Zhen set his sights on the next door to Henan County, Hongnong County.

Yes, Cao Zhen knew that with Zhuge Liang's ability, it was impossible for him not to notice the danger of Hongnong County when he was deploying, and he would definitely garrison troops here to defend it.

But. Isn't this a water army without Huang Quan.

Another one, today's Hongnong County Taishou, or that Wang Chang. The old subordinates are !!

As long as Wang Chang can be persuaded to surrender again, then Hongnong County may be able to go down without a fight, what a good thing.

Therefore, Cao Zhen called Sima Shi and Sima Zhao, two brothers, and asked them to continue to confront Huang Quan in Mengjindu, and from time to time to cross the river to attract Huang Quan's attention.

As for himself, he left Hanoi County with 30,000 soldiers from Bingzhou County and returned to Hedong County, seeking the possibility of crossing the river in Hedong County and directly entering Hongnong County.

The transfer of troops is not a big problem, the real problem is two.

One is how to collect enough ferries to cross the Yellow River.

After all, Huang Quan has a naval army in hand, and he can inspect the defense on both sides of the Yellow River at any time, and if he finds that the ferry is transferred on a large scale, it will directly arouse the vigilance of the Shu thieves.

Therefore, after Cao Zhen returned to Hedong County, he could only ask the Hedong family again to provide him with enough ferries in the shortest possible time.

Everyone in the Hedong family wanted to scold their mother, but on the surface, they didn't dare to reveal that this was Cao Zhen, not Qin Lang's foolish master.

Therefore, while the Hedong family was privately slandering, they were trying to find a way to mobilize a ferry for Cao Zhen again, but it would take time, and Cao Zhen also knew, so it was not too tight in this regard.

It just so happened that he could also take advantage of this time to send someone across the river to send a letter to Wang Chang, trying to persuade Wang Chang to surrender again.

And this is the second problem that Cao Zhen has to face.

In the letter, Cao Zhen first expressed sympathy for Wang Chang's plight, and also expressed his understanding for his helplessness to surrender to the enemy, and then earnestly hoped that he would abandon the darkness and return to the embrace of Great Wei.

In the battle when Wang Chang had no choice but to surrender, the person guarding Luoyang was not Cao Zhen, and the person who caused Wang Chang to be isolated in Tongguan was not Cao Zhen, which was Sima Yi's problem.

Therefore, Cao Zhen believes that with the relationship between him and Wang Chang, as long as he can make a promise and forgive Wang Chang for his helplessness to surrender to the enemy, then Wang Chang, who has no worries, will inevitably return to the arms of Great Wei.

Soon, Wang Chang's reply came.

In his reply, Wang Chang first reviewed the friendship with Cao Zhen back then, and also thanked Cao Zhen for his kindness all the time.

But if Wang Chang is willing to surrender, there is no need to say such nonsense, isn't it more practical to directly agree with Cao Zhen on the surrender plan?!

Sure enough, then Wang Chang told Cao Zhen in the letter that although he was forced to surrender helplessly, but in the end, he surrendered to Shu Han, and if he disregarded his faith and responsibility, it was so capricious to surrender back to Great Wei, which was not in line with his Wang Chang's consistent principles of life.

If the battlefield is defeated, then Wang Chang naturally has nothing to say, but now that he is allowed to surrender without a fight, he can only thank the general for his kindness, but he has to refuse.

After reading this letter, Cao Zhen didn't know what to say for a while.

Indeed, from the perspective of character and affairs, Cao Zhen also has to sigh with emotion, Wang Wenshu is a believer.

But considering this matter from the standpoint of Da Wei, Cao Zhen felt uncomfortable no matter how he thought about it.

Your Wang Chang became an official and made contributions to the army, all of which were the opportunities given to you by Dawei, and they were also promoted by me Cao Zhen. When you surrendered to Shu Han, why didn't you think about the Day of Righteous Death?!

Good guy, surrender to the past, you are so particular about right and wrong. What do you mean?!

But no matter what, Wang Chang had clearly replied to the letter, rejecting Cao Zhen's persuasion to surrender, and at the same time, Cao Zhen's intention to cross the river to attack Hongnong County was also exposed.

The tactical plan has been decided, and the soldiers of the state and county have also been transferred back to Hedong from Hanoi, and the family is also reraising the ferry, and the war is about to break out, and it is impossible for Cao Zhen not to fight because he Wang Chang does not surrender.

On the contrary, now Cao Zhen must urge the Hedong family to prepare the ferry as soon as possible, and immediately launch an attack and storm Hongnong County before Wang Chang is fully prepared.

I still don't believe it, without you Wang Wenshu, my dignified Wei general Cao Zhen can't take a Hongnong County.

(End of chapter)