Jiang Wei gave Wei Yan a wake-up call - instead of being entangled in speculating about the strategic intentions of the Wei army, it is better to think about our current practical problems.

Time, for Wei Yan and the other three, is not very friendly.

Wei Yan reacted after Jiang Wei's reminder.

The information at hand is insufficient, no matter how much you speculate on the success or failure of the war on Xu Shu's side, based on reality, is what Wei Yan should do the most now.

Obviously, now that the Wei army has occupied Puyang, if Jiang Ji on the Yanjin side takes the initiative to send troops to Suojube, it can be basically determined, and there will definitely be a Wei army coming over from Fengqiu.

This is an encirclement network against the Han Forbidden Army led by Wei Yan.

Now what Wei Yan needs to consider is how to withdraw his troops.

Of course, Wei Yan can also choose to attack the sour jujube before Jiang Ji of Yanjin leads his troops to support the sour jujube, and defend it after capturing the sour jujube. But the stakes are too high.

First, Yanjin is too close to Sujuju, and it is only two or three days away to lead troops to help, even if the combat effectiveness of the Han Forbidden Army is strong, it is impossible to attack the city on the one hand, and completely block the reinforcements brought by Jiang Ji on the other.

As long as Jiang Ji is asked to find a way to send 5,000 people into Sujube City, with Guo Huai's ability, it will not be a problem for him to stay for another ten days and half a month.

And if Sima Yi really led the troops to Fengqiu, it would not take ten days to outflank and encircle from Fengqiu.

In other words, as long as Wei Yan can't break through the sour jujube within three days, then what awaits him is the end of being surrounded by the Wei army.

Second, the reality of the situation does not allow Wei Yan to gamble on this tactic.

If it is said that the battle on Xu Shu's side was going smoothly and forced Sima Yi to retreat to Dongjun, then Wei Yan adopted the strategy of attacking the sour jujube and defending it, and it can also be said that it was a tactic of flowering in the center, cooperating with Xu Shu's pursuing army to encircle and annihilate Sima Yi together.

But if Xu Shu's side was because the war was not going well, he had already been repelled by Sima Yi. That Wei Yan attacked the sour jujube, or trapped on the spot, but it was just a turtle in the urn, and there was nowhere to escape.

It was impossible for Wei Yan to gamble on this half-to-half possibility, but the price was that he and his 30,000 soldiers were all wiped out.

Therefore, Wei Yan had to give up the plan of holding on to the spot or attacking the sour jujube, and could only choose the plan of breaking through.

After all, relatively speaking, although the breakthrough may lead to the defeat of this lone deep operation, it can at least preserve its own strength, and the risk of total annihilation is lower.

It's just that the direction of the breakthrough, where is it more appropriate to choose?!

The simplest and most direct way is naturally where to come from, and where to retreat in the direction of the White Horse Ferry.

But the problem is that the Baima Ferry is just northwest of Puyang, and after the Wei army succeeds in counterattacking Puyang, it may not march to the Baima Ferry and occupy this place.

At the White Horse Ferry, Huang Quan's sailors only had more than 3,000 soldiers, and there were only 40 warships, not to mention whether Huang Quan could hold the White Horse Ferry, even if he could hold it, with the current capacity of the Huang Quan Navy, it would take at least ten days to transport 30,000 people back to the Mengjin Ferry.

When he came, Sima Yi's main army was in the southwest of Yanzhou, and Wei Yan had enough time to wait for Huang Quan to slowly transport people over and assemble, but now when he retreated, it would take ten days, and he would die.

With Sima Yi and Jia Kui's ability to use troops, they would not give Wei Yan so much time.

Therefore, unless there is really no way, Wei Yan will not choose to retreat to Baima Ferry.

The retreat route that Wei Yan fancied was to go east from Suojube, withdraw to Changyuan County in Chenliu County, and then go south from Changyuan County to enter Jiyin County, and then make a detour from Jiyin County and withdraw to Yingchuan.

No matter who won the battle of Chenliu, Wei Yan's retreat route could perfectly avoid most of Chenliujun's control area. It's a bit of a detour, but at least it's safe.

In terms of grain and grass supply, it is not easy to say whether Changyuan County can get enough grain and grass supply, but as long as it enters Jiyin County, especially Jiyin County, there must be a large amount of grain and grass supply.

Dingtao This place was the place where Jia Kui's troops were stationed before, and it was also an important node to block Hu Zun and others from invading Jiyin County.

Now that Jia Kui is going north to attack Puyang, it is impossible to empty all the grain and grass for a while, and as Jia Kui leads his troops north, Dingtao's garrison force will inevitably be empty, and this place can be attacked by surprise.

As long as you occupy Dingtao and get enough supplies, you can reach Liang all the way. At that time, Wei Yan estimated that he would be able to get a specific battle report and know the specific location of the Han army.

In this way, it can be regarded as a complete escape from the encirclement network of the Wei army.

This is the withdrawal plan that Wei Yan thought of. Ke Wenqin euphemistically raised an objection.

Retreating to Jiyin County is indeed a good move, but let's . Wen Qin felt that the place in Changyuan was not necessarily a good direction for retreat.

It is true that, judging from the available intelligence, Changyuan County does not have much of the strength of the Wei army, but Wen Qin believes that because of this, this road is the most dangerous.

Sima Yi is a veteran and very good at empathy. If he considered it from the perspective of the commander of the Han army, his first reaction would definitely be to withdraw his troops from Changyuan County.

Therefore, Sima Yi will inevitably lead the army to intercept Changyuan County. Therefore, Wen Qin's suggestion was to immediately go south to Fengqiu, seize Fengqiu before the Wei army divided the troops, and then continue south, whether it was to go south along Chenliu County, or to detour from Jiyang County to Jiyin County halfway, and take Wei Yan's old road, in fact, it was okay.

Such a withdrawal, in Wen Qin's view, is more secure.

Wei Yan's suggestion to Wen Qin. It's a bit unprecise.

To tell the truth, Wen Qin's statement is reasonable, but only reasonable.

Because Wen Qin's suggestion was based on Sima Yi's prediction that Wei Yan would go to Changyuan County, if Sima Yi did not predict it in this way, but marched in a regular manner and appeared directly in Fengqiu with the main force of the Wei army, then the Han forbidden army marching according to Wen Qin's suggestion may be just throwing itself into the net.

The only difference is whether it is surrounded under the sour jujube city or under the Fengqiu city.

But Wei Yan also has to admit that Sima Yi is really not easy to mess with, and if he withdraws according to his own plan, the possibility of being blocked by Sima Yi in Changyuan is also very high.

Even, Sima Yi didn't need to break the enemy head-on, he only needed to delay the confrontation to create time for Jiang Ji, Guo Huai and others to encircle him, or simply drag it until the Han Forbidden Army ran out of food, and he could easily win.

So be it. Both withdrawal routes were risky, and Wei Yan had to choose one of the two withdrawal routes.

Wei Yan didn't want to choose this, so he looked at Jiang Wei.

After this light attack, Wei Yan also had to admit that although this kid was not very old, he did have a lot of ideas and could be called resourceful. Maybe he can find a way to break the game.

And Jiang Wei, Jiang Wei really has a withdrawal plan that is different from the previous two, but this plan is a bit dangerous.

Originally, Jiang Wei didn't want to say much, after all, if his withdrawal method was done well, not only could he withdraw his troops safely, but it was even possible to open up the offensive against Cao Wei again. But if it doesn't work out, I'm afraid it will be the result of the annihilation of the entire army.

The risk is so great that it is higher than the main force of the Wei army led by Sima Yi.

Jiang Wei really didn't want to say it, but he couldn't stand Wei Yan and couldn't make a decision, so he asked himself. Jiang Wei pondered, let's say what I think.

This is like mixing a bad idea with two good ideas, but it will insist that Wei Yan choose one of the two good ideas to execute, and will not continue to hesitate.

Therefore, Jiang Wei said.

His method of withdrawing troops was to directly abandon the sour jujube and advance westward into the eastern part of Henan County, and the ultimate goal was to attack the Tiger Pass.

Once you can break through the Tiger Prison Pass and connect Henan County into one, then you will be able to obtain a direct passage into Yanzhou, even if the Northern Expedition is unfavorable this time and you have to retreat to Yingchuan, but the next Northern Expedition, you can directly send troops from the Tiger Prison Pass.

And the Tiger Prison Pass is now only guarded by 5,000 people, and Wei Yan's subordinates still have 30,000 people attacking the Tiger Prison Pass, which is not without a chance of victory.

Again, Cao Wei's encirclement network has cut off the back road from the east, and there are two ways to attack from the north and south. But Henan County in the west does not have many troops to defend now, and only Guo Huai, who is sour and jujube, is in front of him.

Now if Wei Yan leads his troops north, do you guess whether Guo Huai will lead his troops to take the initiative to intercept Wei Yan's retreat? !

Unless he doesn't want to live anymore!!

This is Jiang Wei's idea, to tell the truth, when he first heard this plan, in fact, Wei Yan and Wen Qin's eyes lit up.

But this plan really can't be thought about, and the more you think about it, the more you will find that this plan is really not very reliable.

First of all, from sour jujube to Tiger Prison Pass, there are basically few county towns on this road, and whether there are enough 30,000 soldiers to support the grain and grass for a while in these few counties, Wei Yan does not dare to gamble.

In case there is not enough food and grass to support, even if the west enters the Tiger Prison, it will not last for a few days.

Secondly, the Tiger Prison Pass is a Xiongguan Pass, even if the number of troops is reduced now, but relying on the high city walls and defense facilities, it can still be done by delaying for a while.

Although Wei Yan has enough troops, the dilemma caused by unstable logistics is that he can't fight for a long time, and he doesn't have the siege equipment that he can carry with the army to attack the Tiger Pass, there is not enough food, grass and ordnance support, and there are not enough siege equipment, how can he fight? !

You can't climb the wall seven or eight feet high even if you take human lives!!

So. Wei Yan looked at Jiang Wei, his eyes full of doubts.

No matter how you think about this, it's all a self-defeating approach, with Jiang Wei's resourcefulness, it is impossible to come up with such a bad idea, right?!

Jiang Wei hurriedly explained that this plan was just a little risky, and it was not purely for people to die, and there was still a possibility of success.

For this plan to succeed, the key is to conquer the Tiger Pass, and the Han Forbidden Army led by Wei Yan does not have the conditions to conquer the Tiger Pass in a short period of time, but it can still be done to attract the attention of the defenders of the Tiger Pass and distract the defensive pressure of the Tiger Pass.

The killer weapon to really conquer the Tiger Prison Pass is the 10,000 county soldiers personally led by Zhuge Liang in front of the Tiger Prison Pass.

Yes, the Han army led by Wei Yan did not have enough grain and grass in their hands, nor did they have enough siege equipment. But Zhuge Liang has it in his hand!!

For Jiang Wei, the only drawback of this combat plan, and the biggest risk, is how to communicate with Zhuge Liang in a timely manner and respond to each other's offensive tiger fortress.

After all, in terms of time, it is very unfavorable to Wei Yan and others.

(End of chapter)