Sima Yi would not wait until Pang De led the troops to counterattack and enter Chenliu County before retreating in a hurry. After Cao Zhao was defeated by Pang De in Peiguo, Sima Yi learned the news and immediately realized how passive the next situation would be.

Sima Yi immediately ordered Chen Tai to abandon the Yanling first, retreat slowly, and lead his troops to cut off the rear for him, and then ordered Guo Huai to go to Fugou County, where the commander had previously assigned to assist the 20,000 soldiers who defended Fugou County to retreat eastward and retreat into Jiyin County to support Jia Kui.

After Sima Yi led the troops to retreat to Yongqiu County in Chenliu County, he chose to lead 40,000 soldiers to be stationed on the spot, and the remaining 20,000 soldiers were handed over to Chen Tai, so that he could rush to Suojube as soon as possible, on the one hand, to assist in defending the flank of Hujiao Pass in Henan County, and on the other hand, to watch the Yanjin Ferry near Suojube, and retain the last passage for the army to withdraw north to Hebei.

In this way, Sima Yi adjusted his strategic deployment in a very short period of time, forming a defensive circle that stretched from Chenliu County in the south, Jiyin County in the east, and Dongjun in the north.

As for the southern counties of Yanzhou, there is no way, Sima Yi said that he is not capable of holding it, who has the ability to beep, Sima Yi can divide 10,000 troops to him and let him guard there Well, as soon as he said this, Cao Shuang shut up directly.

Cao Shuang is not really a second fool, even if Sima Yi really dares to divide troops to him, he doesn't dare to really go.

In fact, being on the front line of Yanling's main force, Cao Shuang can still receive more information, and he has enough understanding of the battle situation, even if he is limited by his ability to see it thoroughly, but the impact of Cao Zhao's defeat, even if Cao Shuang can't understand it at the first time, he can understand it after pondering for two more days.

Therefore, in fact, although Cao Shuang beeped all the way, he was more likely to vent some emotions and express his dissatisfaction with Cao Zhao, a fool, and Sima Yi's retreat to Yongqiu County, in fact, Cao Shuang could still understand it.

If you don't withdraw, I'm afraid you will really be blocked in the southwest of Yanzhou.

But there is one thing that Cao Shuang doesn't understand.

Yes, he Cao Shuang is indeed fine, often making trouble for Sima Yi and declaring his sense of existence. But one thing to say, even if it is Cao Shuang, he is just too selfish, which does not mean that he really has no judgment at all.

Actually, Cao Shuang can also understand that Sima Yi's ability is still very strong. So he really couldn't understand why this battle of Yanzhou would be such a virtue with Sima Yi's ability.

The whole process is passive, and there is no chance to turn the situation around.

If the previous attack on Luoyang can be said to be inviolable. The battle in Yanzhou was all under the full command of his Sima Yi, how could it still be fought like this.

Moreover, one of the things that Cao Shuang couldn't understand the most was that since the cavalry troops commanded by Cao Zhao were so important, why didn't Sima Yi even pass a warning to Cao Zhao?!

Just let Cao Zhao go to face Pang De head-on, resulting in Cao Zhao having to abandon the southern part of Yanzhou with his whole army after the defeat, and he could only establish a defensive line in the four northeastern counties of Yanzhou?!

Cao Shuang didn't suspect that Sima Yi had two hearts, but now Cao Shuang seriously doubted whether Sima Yi was selfish.

Well, double-mindedness and selfishness are different in nature.

Cao Shuang still recognized Sima Yi's personality, and didn't believe that he would betray Dawei and switch to Shu thieves. If he wanted to vote, he would have voted a long time ago, and he could have been sent to Yanzhou by the way if he voted a year earlier.

Such a big gift, when it comes to the Shu thief, it is at least the treatment of a third duke, why do you stay in Yanzhou until now?!

So, Cao Shuang didn't believe that Sima Yi would betray Great Wei.

But whether Sima Yi, the old boy, is selfish, it's hard to say.

After all, Cao Zhao's kid is Cao Xiu's son, and the relationship between Cao Xiu and Sima Yi is probably known to all Great Wei, and the relationship between the two is extremely poor.

In the early years, Cao Xiu's impeachment of Sima Yi continued almost every year. If it weren't for the fact that Cao Pi and Cao Rong's two generations of monarchs didn't like Cao Xiu very much, and Cao Xiu himself had lost his popularity, Sima Yi would still be impeached by a clan general? !

Therefore, Cao Shuang had to wonder if Sima Yi did not emphasize the importance of cavalry combat to Cao Zhao this time, whether he was communiquing his personal vendetta, or deliberately targeting Cao Zhao.

After all, Sima Yi, as the commander of one side, must not be able to do everything himself, and Cao Zhao, as the actual commander of the cavalry corps, has direct decision-making and command power over the march and battle of the cavalry corps. In this defeat, even if the responsibility is investigated, Sima Yi should not be held primarily responsible, and Cao Zhao must be held accountable first.

And what Sima Yi did was not to remind Cao Zhao of his importance, and in fact, Sima Yi can remind him of this matter, and no one can accuse him of anything if he does not remind him.

Again, Sima Yi did not agree to launch a counteroffensive against Luoyang from the beginning, but wanted to strengthen the defense of the current situation in Chenliu County, just as Sima Yi had predicted a year ago, to concentrate his forces and deploy the four northeastern counties of Yanzhou.

So, can it be interpreted that Sima Yi deliberately sent the cavalry troops to confront the cavalry corps of the Shu thieves.

If he wins, the credit is not only Cao Zhao's, but also his Sima Yi's.

Defeated, the responsibility is Cao Zhao's, and Sima Yi can use this to shrink his forces and deploy defenses to achieve the strategic results he wants? !

Really, the more Cao Shuang thinks about it now, the more he feels that this thing is not impossible.

And the reason that supports Cao Shuang's opinion is that if he were in Sima Yi's position, he would definitely do it.

Really, that is, Cao Shuang was just suspicious in his heart and did not question Sima Yi, otherwise Sima Yi could spray Cao Shuang to death with spittle.

How can anyone in the world take the initiative to bury the commander of 20,000 cavalry troops for personal revenge?!

If you can do such a heartless thing, can Sima Yi still be Sima Yi?!

The reason why the Yanzhou operation did not go well this time was because from the beginning to the end, Sima Yi did not grasp the initiative on the battlefield for any quarter of an hour.

From the beginning, he opposed the attack on Luoyang, believing that he should be deployed on the spot to prevent the Shu thieves from launching another northern expedition.

But the Son of Heaven didn't listen to him, and forced him to launch the Northern Expedition first, causing all of Sima Yi's strategic ideas to revolve around how to attack Luoyang.

As a result, Sima Yi's strategic arrangement was not successful, resulting in the loss of the first move.

Then, Yingchuan County surrendered a little too quickly, causing Sima Yi to retreat all the way, and he almost failed to block the 150,000 Xu Shu army in Yanling. It's a blessing to be able to catch up, and Sima Yi is just starting to think about how to defend the layout.

Then, considering the weakness of Dongjun's defense, Sima Yi had just sent Jia Kui to plug this loophole, but within two days, Wei Yan landed in Dongjun, and the news of attacking Puyang came.

Sima Yi is one step slow, one step at a time, completely in a state of exhaustion.

He not only had to face the army of Xu Shu, which had nearly twice as many troops as him, but also couldn't quickly contact the county troops in Hedong, and he couldn't make quick adjustments to the war in Hedong, and finally withdrew to Yanzhou, and he had to find a way to clean up the mess behind him There are so many troublesome things for Sima Yi to consider, how can he have time to tell a Cao Zhao to be careful?!

Besides, Cao Zhao, as a general of the clan, is in charge of 20,000 Jizhou cavalry, and is a powerful general, even if Sima Yi reminds Cao Zhao, can Cao Zhao really listen to it?!

After all, everyone knows that Cao Zhao's father has a bad relationship with Sima Yi, and Sima Yi specifically told Cao Zhao to be careful about dealing with Pang De, is it possible to arouse Cao Zhao's rebellious psychology and think that Sima Yi is looking down on him?!

Therefore, Sima Yi believes that in this matter of Cao Zhao, it is better to be still than to be still, and it is a good thing not to give special advice.

But Sima Yi really didn't expect that Cao Zhao would lose so badly.

In Sima Yi's opinion, Cao Zhao, even if he does not have Cao Xiu's ability, is at least okay with the world, not as impatient as his father, and as far as the current clan generals are concerned, Cao Zhao is relatively capable.

At least it's much stronger than his own protector general.

In addition, the Jizhou cavalry is also Cao Wei's elite cavalry, and the overall combat effectiveness is not bad over the years, and he also made great contributions when he followed General Cao Zhen to quell the Gongsun Yuan rebellion five years ago, even if Cao Zhao is not Pang De's opponent, as long as Cao Zhao is not wavering and calmly responding, in terms of overall combat strength, the 20,000 Liangzhou cavalry that dragged Pang De should still be able to do it.

Can. Who knew that Cao Zhao actually chose to face Pang De head-on, and he actually lost so badly, only 4,000 of the 20,000 cavalry returned to Dingtao, and almost the entire army was wiped out.

At this time, Sima Yi has other plans, he is completely forced to helpless, and can only keep the four northeastern counties of Yanzhou as much as possible, and at the same time guard his own back road.

Even so, Sima Yi was still not very relieved, because in the direction of Dongjun, there was only one Xiahou He guarding Puyang, and the number of troops was only 12,000.

At this time, Wei Yan, after Pang De, who had 45,000 elite forbidden troops under his command, broke Cao Zhao, Wei Yan did not need to think about being surrounded and suppressed by cavalry, he could break Zhencheng first, and then turn around and attack Puyang, and finally the troops came to the first line of Yanjin to cut off the retreat of the Wei army in Yanzhou.

Therefore, Sima Yi had to give an order to Sima Shi and Xiahou Ba of Hanoi County, asking them to give up the encirclement and suppression of the Shu thieves who entered Hedong first, and come to support Yanzhou first.

However, considering that the communication between the two places is really inconvenient, in case the military order is not delivered in time, Sima Shi and Xiahouba cannot come to the aid of Sima Yi immediately, out of prudence, he still wrote to the imperial court, explaining the current predicament of Yanzhou, hoping that the imperial court can send reinforcements in time to aid Yanzhou.

Well, I'll admit, I'm lazy. Recently, I was addicted to a TV series called "I Have a Friend", and I couldn't extricate myself from watching it. By the way, Amway.

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