In the direction of Yanjin, there is a variable. Great Wei Yan Wang, Cao Yu.

Cao Yu is Cao Cao's son, and in terms of seniority, he is Cao Rong's uncle.

However, Cao Yu is actually about the same age as Cao Ei, when Cao Ei was young, the two often played and studied together, and the two were childhood playmates, and the relationship has always been good.

Therefore, when the generals of the Great Wei clan withered, Cao Rong did not hesitate to take the risk to recruit Cao Yu into the court, give him military power, and let him lead the troops to the battle.

In fact, Cao Rong took a big risk in doing this.

After all, Cao Yu is the son of Emperor Taizu Wu of the Great Wei Dynasty, and he is much closer to Cao Zhen and Cao Xiu in blood.

Cao Rong handed over the 30,000 people of the Great Wei Forbidden Army to Cao Yu, if Cao Yu himself was ambitious, or someone had a heart to provoke him, I am afraid that before Cao Yu left Yecheng, a mutiny would break out to force the palace.

But Cao Ei still did it, for the simple reason that Cao Ei believed in Cao Yu.

And Cao Yu did not live up to Cao Ei's trust.

In fact, Cao Yu's ability is not strong, as Cao Cao's son born after pacifying the north, Cao Yu was not personally cultivated by Cao Cao, nor did he follow Cao Cao to the battlefield. At that time, there was no need for this, Cao Pi was already the prince of Wei.

So, Cao Yu actually lived the life of an idle prince.

However, Cao Yu's personality and temper are not bad, he is relatively low-key, and he is humble, willing to listen to people's words to be his supervisor, and when Du Shu, who is also the minister of the Yan Kingdom, reminded him that "the soldiers are noble and fast", he immediately accepted this suggestion modestly.

And let's talk about Du Shu. To be honest, although Du Shu's political achievements are also good, he is really not famous in history, at least not comparable to his father and son.

There is no way, who made his father call Du Ji, who was a scholar and servant in the period of Emperor Wen, and even presided over the government for a time, and his son was called Du Pre. One of the commanders of Wu Destroyer, the first talent in history to enter the Wenwu Temple at the same time.

However, this does not mean that Du Shu is incapable. can teach Du Shu a son who is an all-round man in civil and military affairs, and Du Shu can't not understand military strategy at all.

Today's situation in Yanzhou is very critical, and the most critical place is undoubtedly the line from sour dates to Mengjin. This place is the lifeline of Cao Wei's army, and it must not be lost.

Therefore, when Cao Yu accepted Cao Rong's appointment and commanded 30,000 forbidden troops to support Yanzhou as a former general, Du Shu immediately suggested to Cao Yu that he should first select 5,000 soldiers to set off and gallop to aid Yanjin, and the rest of the soldiers would be led by himself to follow slowly.

And Cao Yu also happily followed the advice of his national minister.

In this way, Cao Yu led the vanguard of the 5,000 Great Wei Forbidden Army, rushed all the way, rushed across the Yellow River, and at the most critical moment, rushed into the Yanjin ferry to help Jiang Ji, who was already in danger, stabilize the defensive line.

This is really an unexpected support army. Not only did it surprise Guo Huai, but it also surprised Jiang Wei.

Jiang Wei also thought that it would take at least five days or so for Cao Wei's reinforcements to arrive, but he didn't expect it to come so quickly.

As for Guo Huai, he didn't have any other thoughts at this time, but he just felt that God bless the Great Wei, the Great Wei clan still has a successor after all, this Cao Yu, judging from this rapid rush to help, his attainments in military strategy should not be bad.

Guo Huai is temporarily relieved.

As long as Yanjin is saved, then Guo Huai can continue to shrink in the sour date, and wait for all the follow-up reinforcements of Great Wei to come to help, and the situation here will suddenly become clearer.

But Jiang Wei's side, after the reinforcements led by Cao Yu arrived in Yanjin, he also ordered to temporarily stop the attack and began to think about countermeasures.

Jiang Wei didn't know how many reinforcements the Wei army had, but judging from the increase in the number of defensive forces in Yanjin, there were at least 5,000 people, and with the arrival of this batch of reinforcements, follow-up reinforcements would definitely come one after another.

In a short period of time, it is impossible to conquer the Yanjin Ferry.

For this reason, Jiang Wei made a decision after some thought.

First of all, Jiang Wei divided 10,000 troops, led by his subordinate general Yan Zhi, returned to Sour Zao, and joined Wei Yan.

Secondly, Jiang Wei asked for help in the direction of Puyang, hoping that Wen Qin could lead his troops to help in the battle while ensuring the safety of Puyang.

And Jiang Wei's plan, to put it bluntly, is actually still Wei Yan's set - encircling points to send reinforcements.

It's just that Wei Yan's encirclement and reinforcements were surrounded by Yanjin and sour jujubes, but now Jiang Wei has made a change to surround sour jujubes, but it is Yanjin's reinforcements.

Jiang Wei predicted that as the strength of the Wei army in Yanjin increased, it was inevitable to find a way to re-communicate the connection between Suojube and Yanjin to ensure the smooth flow of this channel. In this case, the Wei army in Yanjin will inevitably choose to take the initiative.

What Jiang Wei has to do is to block the route of the Wei army here, so that the Wei army cannot attack with all its strength, and cooperate with Guo Huai of the sour date to flank Wei Yan's troops before and after.

And the division of troops to Wei Yan, so that Wei Yan's army increased to more than 20,000 people, and besieged Suozao, which would force the Wei army in Yanjin to find a way to break through Jiang Wei's interception and go to Suozao to stabilize the situation.

In this dilemma, either the Wei army concentrated its forces to fight Jiang Wei in the field, first broke Jiang Wei's department, and then went south to Suojube, or it was to divide the troops to attack, some people entangled Jiang Wei's department, and the other part led the troops to support Suojube.

In Jiang Wei's view, the possibility of Wei Jun choosing the second option will be higher than the first.

Even if Jiang Wei divided 10,000 troops to Wei Yan, he still had eight or nine thousand troops in his hands, plus Wen Qin came to help in time, he could still ensure that there were more than 10,000 available soldiers.

With his own command ability and strategy, and with the combat effectiveness of the Han Forbidden Army, if he does not seek a big victory, but only seeks to contain the enemy, Jiang Wei is still confident that he can do it.

Therefore, Cao Wei's side, as long as he did not gather more than 30,000 troops in Yanjin, he would not be able to break through his own interception and support Suojube.

Therefore, for the Yanjin guards, the most economical way is to also send people to contain themselves, and then divide the troops to support the sour dates.

And since it is a division of troops to support the sour date, the number of troops will inevitably not be too much, at most about 10,000 people. Wei Yan had more than 20,000 soldiers in his hands, and he ambushed 10,000 Wei reinforcements in the field battle, and he still had a relatively large grasp.

In this way, there will be room for a new round of encirclement and reinforcement.

And as long as it is under such encirclement and reinforcement, a part of the Wei army's strength will be consumed. At best, you can regain the battlefield advantage, and then divide Yanjin and sour dates. At worst, at least it can maintain the current strategic balance and continue to put pressure on Sima Yi's back road in Yanzhou.

This is the best contingency that Jiang Wei can think of now.

And as Jiang Wei began to adapt, the adjustment of the Han army's strength was also progressing smoothly.

On Cao Wei's side, the first person to find out that the situation was wrong was, of course, Jiang Ji from Yanjin Ferry. The enemy in front of his own house was suddenly reduced by half, how could Jiang Ji not notice it.

Jiang Ji's strategic thinking, coupled with the direction in which Jiang Wei divided his troops, after a little thought, Jiang Ji probably guessed what Jiang Wei was thinking.

At this time, in fact, it was Jiang Ji's best moment to break the situation, taking advantage of the emptiness of Jiang Wei's troops after the division of troops, he took the initiative to attack and defeat Jiang Wei in one fell swoop, so the whole battle situation was completely reversed.

But the problem is that Jiang Ji can't do it.

Cao Yu only brought 5,000 soldiers over, even if the remaining defenders of Yanjin Ferry were added, the total strength was almost as rash as Jiang Wei's, and with the combat effectiveness shown by the Shu thieves before, it seemed that there was no chance of victory.

Therefore, Jiang Ji could only hold his temper and wait patiently until the remaining forbidden army led by Du Shu could arrive as soon as possible.

Obviously, Jiang Ji still has no intuitive understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Han Forbidden Army, in his opinion, with the same strength, the soldiers of the Great Wei can indeed not kill the Shu thieves, but as long as there are enough troops, they can also pile up Jiang Wei.

Therefore, when the remaining 25,000 soldiers led by Du Shu arrived at the Yanjin ferry three days later, Jiang Ji immediately offered a plan, hoping that Cao Yu would personally lead the troops into battle and defeat the enemy in front of him.

Cao Yu happily accepted it again, there is no way, Cao Yu really doesn't understand this, but since it is Jiang Ji's suggestion, and his own minister Du Shu also expressed his approval, then it should be no problem to do it himself.

When they got together, they only saw the advantage that their own troops were more than three times that of the Shu thieves outside the city, and they didn't think at all that none of the three people were good at commanding military formations.

In other words, Jiang Ji thought about it, but Jiang Ji didn't take it too seriously.

More than three times the troops, even if the command of his own side is a little worse, he can kill the opposite side with his troops. This is Jiang Ji's most realistic idea.

Then, Cao Yu officially led 30,000 soldiers to battle, and he led 10,000 soldiers to guard the middle army, 10,000 soldiers of the left army were handed over to Jiang Ji to command, and 10,000 soldiers of the right army were handed over to Du Shu to command.

And Jiang Wei is here. Jiang Wei looked at this array and wanted to laugh a little.

What kind of military formation idiot is this, actually putting on such a formation to fight?!

It seems that things are much easier than I imagined!!

(End of chapter)