Sima Yi was ultimately unable to capture Xiangcheng.

On the one hand, it was Wu Yi, Jiang Wei and others who used various methods to hold on and delay for a while.

On the other hand, Zhuge Liang on the Luoyang side also began to start.

Since Sima Yi can give up the siege and divide his troops to the south, Zhuge Liang will naturally not still be trapped in Luoyang and have no contingencies.

Before Sima Yi led 30,000 soldiers to the south, he made some corresponding adjustments.

Sima Yi's main attack on the east gate, because of a battle with Zhuge Liang, lost more than 7,000 people, plus Jia Kui had to take 10,000 people back to rescue Yanzhou, therefore, Sima Yi, who originally had 40,000 soldiers and horses, only had 23,000 troops at this time.

With this amount of troops, it is impossible to complete the two things of going south to relieve the siege of Yingchuan and containing the Luoyang Shu thieves at the same time.

Therefore, Sima Yi had to transfer 10,000 people from Sima Shi and Sima Zhao's brothers at the north gate, and then one from Wang Ling at the south gate to gather enough troops to go south.

Then, Sima Yi left Xiahou Ba to lead 13,000 soldiers at the east gate to bluff, and he led the 30,000 troops he gathered to quickly go south, striving to break the Yingchuan Shu thieves and relieve the siege of Yingchuan before Zhuge Liang saw through his containment strategy.

In this way, in fact, the situation near Luoyang has become that the Wei army, with 33,000 troops, wants to contain the 35,000-strong defenders of Luoyang and buy time for Sima Yi to relieve the siege of Yingchuan.

In fact, Sima Yi also knew that this was very risky, with Zhuge Liang's strategic vision, his bluff plan could be concealed for a while, but he couldn't hide it for too long This way south, Sima Yi is in a hurry, except for a little time when he set up an ambush in Yingshui, at other times, Sima Yi did show his superb tactical command ability, and he fought to destroy the withering and decaying.

However, the only thing Sima Yi didn't calculate was his little strategy, and he couldn't even hide Zhuge Liang for a while.

Xiahou Ba does have the qualifications of a famous general, but he is still too young now, and the most important thing is that he is seriously inexperienced in leading troops, and he doesn't know the difference between leading 10,000 people and leading 40,000 people.

You ask him to use 10,000 troops to create a momentum of 40,000 troops, and he really can't do it.

Zhuge Liang only took one day to find out that the Wei army outside the East City Gate was tired, and the next day he asked Deng Ai to send troops to test it, and immediately understood that Sima Yi was leading his troops to leave the East Gate.

As for going to the entire Heluo battlefield, there is only one Yingchuan County that is worthy of Sima Yi leading the army to rescue.

To be honest, Zhuge Liang was not in a hurry at this time, because on the side of Yingchuan County, there were not only Wu Yi's 20,000 Hanzhong soldiers, but also Wang Ping's 10,000 Wudang Fei Army and Jiang Wei, Wen Qin's 10,000 Hannan Army. The strength of the troops is not at a disadvantage, and the combat power should be said to be higher than that of the ordinary Cao Wei soldiers, and there is no big problem.

Well, yes, Zhuge Liang didn't expect that Sima Yi would fight so fast and so ruthlessly, and Wu Yi's response completely lost the level that a famous general in Sichuan should have.

At this moment, Zhuge Liang was pondering, taking advantage of the gap when Sima Yi led the troops to leave, and solved the siege of Luoyang at one time.

After a little thought, Zhuge Liang made his own decision.

Wei Yan led 20,000 men to take the initiative to attack Wang Ling's headquarters outside the south gate, striving to quickly defeat Wang Ling in a short time.

Deng Ai led 10,000 soldiers out of the east gate, pinned down the Wei army outside the east gate, delayed time, waited for Wei Yan to break through Wang Ling, and then attacked Wei Yan in two ways, and after defeating the Wei army at the east gate, he counterattacked Gongxian if possible, and saw if there was a chance to directly capture the Tiger Pass.

If you can directly capture the Tiger Prison Pass, then this battle to defend Luoyang will be considered a complete success.

As for Zhuge Liang himself, he led 5,000 soldiers to guard the north gate to prevent the two Sima brothers at the north gate from taking the opportunity to make trouble.

In this way, Zhuge Liang formulated his own battle plan, and the implementation was also very smooth.

Although Wang Ling is also very capable, let him face Wei Yan, he still can't bear it with 10,000 soldiers against the 20,000 Han Northern Army led by Wei Yan.

At the beginning, seeing that Wei Yan took the initiative to lead the troops out of the city, in order not to expose the reality of the troops at the South Gate, Wang Ling still took the initiative to attack and put on a formation, trying to make Wei Yan's troops have some scruples.

But soon, Wang Ling discovered that Wei Yan was not going out of the city to attack tentatively, that is, he was coming to completely defeat him, and his troops were twice as large as his own.

Wang Ling, who was very aware of the current affairs, immediately retreated, retreated to the camp to defend, and immediately sent a military envoy to Sima Yi to send a letter, asking Sima Yi to return for help as soon as possible.

Before Sima Yi returned to help, Wang Ling stuck to the camp and delayed the time until Sima Yi could rush back to rescue.

Wang Ling's response is not a problem, but the problem is that compared with the troops, the combat strength of the soldiers, and the morale of the two sides, Wang Ling does not have an advantage, but commands the battle. It's not that he looks down on Wang Ling, he really isn't Wei Yan's opponent.

Wang Ling tried his best, he relied on the defense of the camp, which dragged on for a full twenty days, and was finally broken through by Wei Yan.

Wang Ling could only take less than 4,000 defeated soldiers, flee all the way, and go to the east gate to join Xiahou Ba.

And Xiahouba, now is actually not having a good time.

If it takes a little time for Wei Yan to attack Wang Ling, Deng Ai's side to contain Xiahou Ba is simply a one-sided bully.

Deng Aina has been in the army for more than ten years, and Xiahou Ba has only really been fighting on the battlefield since last year, and the difference in the experience of the battle formation between the two sides is not half a star.

Of course, just because this is Xiahouba, he still has his own ability, at least his psychological quality is quite good, and Deng Ai was only ordered to contain it, and he did not attack with all his strength, which made Xiahouba barely hold on for these twenty days.

But even so, Xiahou Ba had exhausted all his mental strength to deal with Deng Ai's containment, even if he knew that Wang Ling on the south gate was in a hurry to be attacked by Wei Yan, he didn't dare to go to the south gate to rescue.

Relying on the camp outside the east gate, Xiahou Ba guarded very hard, if he went to rescue Wang Ling, he would not die fast enough.

Therefore, during this period of time, in addition to guarding the camp, Xiahou Ba only did one thing - to send a letter to Sima Yi and ask Sima Yi to return to help quickly.

Although the military formation is inexperienced, Xiahou Ba's brain and strategy are not problematic, he knows very well that once Wang Ling of the South Gate can't hold it, causing the Shu thieves at the South Gate to attack him, even if he can retreat with his whole body, the Gong County behind him, and even the Tiger Prison Pass, will encounter a direct threat from the Shu thieves.

It doesn't matter if Gongxian loses it, but if the Tiger Prison Pass is lost, then it will be a big problem.

Therefore, Xiahou Ba could only ask Sima Yi to come back immediately in the name of the protectors. Whether or not Yingchuan can be relieved is secondary, and the passage of the Yanzhou gateway is really not lost.

But what Xiahou Ba didn't expect was that in just twenty days, and only twenty days, the Shu thieves broke through the 10,000 restrained soldiers and horses led by Wang Ling outside the south gate.

What's even worse is that Wang Ling of the South Gate was defeated and retreated to the East Gate, followed by about 15,000 Shu thieves led by Wei Yan.

At the same time, Deng Ai, who was facing Xiahouba, also suddenly exerted his strength and launched a fierce attack on the Dongmen camp presided over by Xiahouba.

After the two armies of the Shu thieves converged, in the face of the strong attack of 25,000 Shu thieves, Xiahou Ba only held out for three days, and the Dongmen camp was broken by the Shu thieves.

In desperation, Xiahou Ba had to join Wang Ling and lead about 8,000 remnants of the army to retreat all the way back to Gongxian.

Gongxian must be defended, otherwise, the Tiger Prison Pass will be in danger.

And after Wei Yan and Deng Ai joined forces, in fact, at the beginning, they did launch an attack on Gongxian.

After the merging of the two armies, there were more than 20,000 troops, and the morale was high under the successive victories, while the enemy army only had 8,000 defeated soldiers, and the soldiers were low, and Gongxian was not a fortified fortress, and it was not impossible to capture it if it was really to besiege it.

But the two only stayed in Gongxian for less than five days before they received an order from Zhuge Liang and quickly withdrew to Luoyang.

Sima Yi returned to the army, and the speed was very fast In order to prevent Sima Yi from being ruthless, regardless of the life or death of Xiahou Ba and Wang Ling, he directly attacked Luoyang, Zhuge Liang decided to consider it safely, and let Wei Yan and Deng Ai return to the army first.

With the return of Sima Yi, the situation in the Luoyang area once again entered a state of confrontation and calm.

Near Luoyang, Sima Yi did not besiege Luoyang again, but returned to Gongxian and joined Xiahouba and Wang Ling, with a total strength of about 35,000 people.

The two Sima brothers at the north gate of Luoyang, with only 10,000 soldiers in their hands, continued to stay at the north gate and could be surrounded by the defenders of Luoyang at any time, so they also retreated all the way to Mengjindu to defend it.

As for Cao Zhen of Shaanxi County, Hongnong County, after learning that Luoyang had withdrawn from the siege, he was even considering the possibility of abandoning the defense of Shaanxi County and withdrawing to Hedong County.

Finally, there is Yingchuan.

Sima Yi and Guo Huai, Chen Tai's coalition army finally failed to capture Xiangcheng, and as Sima Yi led the troops back to help, Chen Tai and Guo Huai discussed with each other and felt that there was no point in continuing to besiege the city.

Therefore, the two also chose to withdraw their troops, and after retreating from Yingshui, Chen Tai gave Guo Huai 5,000 troops to garrison Yingyin, as a barrier to Xuchang, and he led the last 10,000 Yingchuan soldiers to defend Xuchang.

In this way, the war situation seems to have returned to before the two sides went to war.

(End of chapter)