The 5,000 Shangyong soldiers under Meng Da's department are the elite troops that Meng Da has carefully accumulated in the past ten years.

Although it is said that with Meng Da's official position and identity, the number of elite troops he can raise is only 300 people, but after all, Meng Da has been in the top of the ladder for a long time, and his connections and prestige are still not small, and he himself is not short of strategic means, and it is not difficult to rely on his ability and prestige in a county to sort out an army that is willing to obey his command.

In addition, the town guard general of the three eastern counties is Kou Feng.

Kou Feng is a person, he was born as a military general, and he has a big habit of doing things, he is guarding the three eastern counties, basically only focusing on the general direction, and the details are handed over to Dong Yun to deal with.

But Dong Yun still helps Kou Feng deal with government affairs more often, and Dong Yun has very little interference in military affairs, plus in the last five or six years, Dong Yun has been transferred back to the imperial court by Zhuge Liang, which gives Meng Da the opportunity to work in the three eastern counties.

However, because at this time, the Han Dynasty had already returned to the Heluo area, and the three eastern counties were all in the rear, and the situation was already quite stable, and Meng Da naturally could not jump sideways repeatedly as in history. At this time, if he repeatedly jumped sideways, even if he had 5,000 people in his hands, Kou Feng could easily destroy him.

Therefore, Meng Da's careful thinking was limited to gathering some soldiers who were willing to follow him, and gathered more than 5,000 people, while giving the best treatment to win people's hearts, while actively training the soldiers, waiting for the opportunity for him to rise again.

Strictly speaking, the 5,000 people under Meng Da's command are actually much stronger than ordinary county soldiers in terms of soldiers and organizational ability, and this is also the reason why Meng Da can lead these soldiers to rush from Nanyang to Yique Pass in seven days.

It's just that he arrived at it, but Meng Da still didn't dare to attack the Wei army head-on.

Along the way, Meng Da has been urging the soldiers to hurry, relying on his prestige and personal ability to command the army, he can barely maintain the shape of the marching army, but the physical fitness of the soldiers has basically reached the limit.

Originally, Meng Da's plan was to rush to Yique Pass at all costs, and then let the soldiers rest and recuperate at Yique Pass, waiting for the arrival of the large army, but as soon as he arrived at Yique Pass, he found that the Wei army was attacking.

In fact, Meng Da also knew that in this case, the correct approach should be to take advantage of the Wei army's defenselessness against the enemy in the rear and launch an attack directly.

5,000 people against 20,000 people, the two sides set up a one-on-one formation, then Meng Da is definitely not Sima Yi's opponent.

But 5,000 people suddenly appeared behind 20,000 people, taking advantage of the enemy's defenselessness to launch a sudden attack, even if the commander of the army was Sima Yi, he could not withstand the surprise attack of 5,000 people.

Therefore, in fact, when Sima Yi received a report from the scouts that a large number of Shu troops appeared thirty miles behind him, he was already considering whether to withdraw the troops directly.

If you don't retreat from the battle, you can't advance, and if the rear is broken by someone again, the consequences will be very serious.

Meng Da knew that this was a good opportunity for him to make a contribution, but Meng Da knew even more that the 5,000 people under his command could not do this at all.

The soldiers are exhausted, and if they forcibly attack, it is very likely that they will not be able to shake the defense of the Wei army's rear army at all.

Therefore, Meng Da, who was still quite sober-minded, thought about it for a while, and did not take the approach of directly attacking the rear flank of the Wei army, but chose to detour from the edge of the battlefield, striving to enter the Yique Pass first, and it was more secure to defend himself by relying on the pass.

And Meng Da's way of coping also shook Sima Yi.

Such a good opportunity, why didn't the main general of the Shu thieves seize it, but led the troops to make a detour to reinforce Yique Pass?!

Could it be said. Got a cat?!

Meng Da's strange response made Sima Yi instantly have two judgments.

One is that the Shu thieves marched long distances, exhausted, and had insufficient troops to launch an active attack.

The other is that the Shu thieves are deliberately luring themselves to intercept this forward force, causing them to retreat in time and being entangled by the army of Shu thieves who are following behind.

Sima Yi hesitated slightly, and quickly made a judgment - withdraw his troops immediately.

Without hesitation, even Meng Da, who had just entered Yique Pass, was a little stunned.

From Meng Da's point of view, he came to Yique Pass too quickly, and he was already a little out of touch with the large army, and the physical fitness of the soldiers had reached the limit. Sima Yi really wants to attack Yique Pass, but Meng Da is really not sure that he can defend it.

But from Sima Yi's point of view, he still thinks that the second possibility is more likely.

First of all, Sima Yi needs to take into account the reinforcements coming from Nanyang, and the style of his commander and leading generals.

Nanyang belongs to Jingzhou, and the reinforcements from Jingzhou, the commander is either Zhang Xi or Xu Shu, these two people are the type who are delicate and decisive with soldiers.

Since they sent reinforcements to Luoyang, no matter what the reason is, they can come so quickly, then behind this reinforcement, it is very likely that the main army will arrive overnight.

Sima Yi couldn't afford to wait that much time.

And the leading general of this support army, according to the scout's report, wrote the word "Meng" on the flag.

The general from Jingzhou, surnamed Meng, is qualified to lead an army alone, and probably only the mediocre Meng Da.

Meng Da is also famous, although he is not as famous as Fazheng, Li Yan and others, but whether it is in the three eastern counties or in Shudi, there are expressions in the detailed intelligence, saying that this person's ability is not under Fazheng and Li Yan.

Sima Yi didn't believe that such a person would be the kind of person who looked ahead and didn't care about the future.

Therefore, in Sima Yi's view, Meng Da did not choose to take the initiative to attack his rear flank, but put on a posture of rushing into the pass, which is very likely, that is, to use himself as bait to lure himself to continue to fight in Yique Pass, so as to buy time for the main army of Jingzhou to arrive and annihilate himself.

Secondly, Sima Yi also needs to take into account his own actual situation.

Taking a step back, even if the soldiers brought by Meng Da were exhausted and unable to attack, giving him the opportunity to break through Meng Da's department, but Meng Dadu had already arrived, then the main army of Jingzhou would inevitably be behind him.

It's just a matter of prioritization.

Before Sima Yi's counterattack on Luoyang this time, what he was most worried about was not whether he could conquer Luoyang, but that the Shu thieves had also prepared a military plan for nearly half a year.

Now the speed of Jingzhou's main army to aid Luoyang is too fast, so fast that Sima Yi suspects that in fact, when he attacked Luoyang, Jingzhou's main army had already set off from Nanyang.

If you think about it from this point of view, it is very likely that the Jingzhou legion of the Shu thieves did not come to support Luoyang, but they should have appeared in Luoyang at this time.

In other words, while the Shu thieves launched their own attack on Luoyang, they also made military preparations and began to prepare to attack Heluo and Yanzhou.

In this case, Sima Yi did not think that he still needed to continue to fight under Luoyang City, and should gather his troops as soon as possible, preserve his strength, and prepare to fight the next defensive battle of Heluo and Yanzhou.

In the Hedong region, Sima Yi is not too worried, after all, he is only responsible for the feint attack, and there are many troops, once he finds that the situation is not right, he will inevitably choose to shrink and defend his son Even if he does not have this ability, Sima Yi still believes that Xiahou Ba has this ability.

In the direction of Gongxian, Sima Yi doesn't have to worry, with Jia Kui's experience and ability, even if he can't defeat Wei Yan, he can still do it if he stalemates with Wei Yan for a while.

So now the only thing Sima Yi has to worry about is his 20,000 soldiers, if he continues to march under Luoyang City, it is very likely that he will be surrounded by the Jingzhou Army if he can't capture Luoyang.

Based on the above two considerations, Sima Yi still decided to withdraw the army as soon as possible, return to Gongxian first, and then decide the next step of the army plan according to the actual situation.

In this way, Meng Da, who led the troops to Yique Pass, escaped and picked up a great credit in vain.

In the same way, Sima Yi, who retreated in time, rushed here with 5,000 people in the front of the Southern Army shortly after he had just led his troops to withdraw from Dagu Pass.

Wen Qin actually brought the advance of the Southern Army to reinforce the defense of Dagu Pass, but Sima Yi didn't know.

In Sima Yi's opinion, if he stayed in Yique Pass for two more days, I am afraid that his back road would have been cut off by the Shu thieves now, and the 20,000 soldiers he led would probably be trapped between Yique Pass and Dagu Pass and unable to move, and would be surrounded and beaten by the main force of the Shu army.

Therefore, Sima Yi, who received the report of the rear army's reconnaissance cavalry, was also afraid for a while, and then hurriedly continued to lead the troops to retreat, not even needing Guixian, and retreated directly to Gongxian to join Jia Kui.

In this way, a danger in the south of Luoyang was resolved in such a situation.

Sima Yi was glad that he had retreated fast enough, and Zhang Xi. After Zhang Xi learned about the reports of the two front-line strikers, he was also afraid and annoyed for a while.

What I was afraid of was that Sima Yi really led his troops to make a detour and launched a sneak attack from the south of Luoyang. If Sima Yi really wants to be smoothly approached by Sima Yi's troops in the city, Zhang Xi doesn't dare to think about the consequences.

If you don't know if Prime Minister Zhuge really has to play a song on the head of Luoyang City, but whether Sima Yi can be fooled or not, only God knows.

And the remorse is. This is really a good opportunity to capture Sima Yi in a fight.

If Jiang Wei can reach Dagu Pass a little faster, or if the main army led by himself can keep up with Meng Da's advance in time, I am afraid that Sima Yi will not even have a place to escape now.

And once Sima Yi can be captured alive in one battle, the entire Heluo and Yanzhou regions, the Wei army will inevitably have no heart to fight, and it will not be easy to fight.

It's a pity, a good opportunity, just missed.

(End of chapter)