Under Sima Yi's dispatch, the battle line near Dongjun was finally barely stabilized.

On the eastern front, Chen Tai in Fengqiu and Guo Huai in Suozao echoed each other, held the city, and temporarily blocked the attack of 40,000 troops and 20,000 cavalry led by Zhuge Liang with nearly 50,000 troops.

Guo Huai is a veteran celebrity in the end, although he has been aggrieved all these years, the ability at hand has not fallen at all.

Especially this time, Guo Huai's flank is Chen Tai who is in charge of protection, and under his command are generals like Xiahou He, Cao Yu, and Du Shu.

Chen Tai's ability is undoubted, he can be literate and martial, and it is impossible to make low-level mistakes easily.

Xiahou He, Cao Yu is a very self-aware person, especially Cao Yu, theoretically speaking, Cao Yu is the person with the highest official position among everyone, and he should be the defense commander of the Eastern Front.

But Cao Yu knew that he had a few catties and taels, so he was very open-minded and directly delegated power to Guo Huai, and let Guo Huai be responsible for commanding the defensive battle on the eastern front, avoiding unnecessary internal friction.

As for Du Shu, although he may not be good at leading troops to fight, but it is okay to give advice Jiang Ji is gone, Du Shu has assumed the responsibility of Jiang Ji, but he has cooperated with Guo Huai quite well.

Really, the days of guarding sour jujube are almost the most comfortable and smoothest period of time since Guo Huai led his troops to face the Shu thieves. Even Guo Huai himself was a little emotional, the days without pig teammates by his side were really wonderful.

And once Guo Huai has a reliable helper to help, even if the opponent is Zhuge Liang, Guo Huai is not false at all.

In addition, Guo Huai fought a defensive battle on the Eastern Front, as long as he did not take the initiative to send troops to seek a field battle, the cavalry led by Pang De would be of little use. The actual comparison of offensive and defensive forces should be four to five, and the infantry led by Zhuge Liang is still slightly insufficient.

And Zhuge Liang's side, there is indeed no good way to take Guo Huai.

The cavalry led by Pang De could not be used to attack the city, but could only cruise back and forth on the passage between Fengqiu and Sujuju, cutting off the connection between the two cities as much as possible.

Zhuge Liang had 40,000 soldiers in his hands, of which 30,000 were the Han Forbidden Army and 10,000 were Luoyang County soldiers, but unfortunately, in the siege battle, the combat effectiveness advantage of the Han Forbidden Army was difficult to play.

Coupled with Guo Huai's own scheduling and adaptability, for a while, Zhuge Liang really didn't have a problem with Guo Huai.

But fortunately, now that the Tiger Prison Pass has been broken, and the passage from Zhuge Liang's front line to Luoyang has been opened, Zhuge Liang no longer has to worry about any logistical supply problems, he can set up camp with peace of mind, replenish the siege equipment lost during the attack on the Tiger Prison Pass, and then attack the city after making complete preparations.

After a long confrontation, Zhuge Liang believed that he would definitely win, but in a short period of time. The sour jujube is easy to attack.

On the Western Front, Jia Kui received support from Sima Yi, and his strength increased from 20,000 to 30,000, and Jia Kui immediately sent his son to lead the troops to attack Baima Ferry.

According to the detailed work of Jiyin County and the scout report sent by Jia Kui, after Hu Zun led the troops to conquer Dingtao, he did not choose to go north at the first time, but stayed in Dingtao for about ten days. Jia Kui didn't know what the reason for Hu Zun's halt and did not advance, but Jia Kui knew that he must seize this gap and recover the Baima Ferry, otherwise, when Hu Zun led the troops north, I am afraid there would be no chance.

As long as you can recover Baimadu before Hu Zun's troops go north, and then quickly return to the army. Puyang, which is guarded by 30,000 soldiers, is not so easy for the Shu thieves to break through.

The war on the Western Front has basically stabilized.

The most uncertain place now is actually Sima Yi in the middle line against Deng Ai.

Changyuan is not a strong city, it is just an ordinary small county town, the height of the city wall is only five zhang, and the size can not accommodate 40,000 troops, therefore, Sima Yi can only divide the army, 30,000 troops are outside the city, and 10,000 troops are guarding the city.

On Sima Yi's side, the biggest advantage is Sima Yi himself.

It is undeniable that purely in terms of military ability, Sima Yi is a famous general in the world, with old soldiers, quick changes, and outstanding strategy.

And the Han army on the opposite side, the coach is Deng Ai, and the two deputy generals are Kou Feng and Guan Ping, any one of whom is more than a step worse than Sima Yi, but the three of them add up, if they work together, in fact, Sima Yi is also quite a headache.

In addition, now Sima Yi actually has a very big disadvantage, that is, there are no generals at hand to use Cao Shuang and Gao Tanglong, neither of whom dares to let Sima Yi use it with confidence.

Therefore, Sima Yi could only personally lead the army to camp outside the city, leaving Cao Shuang and Gao Tanglong to garrison inside the city.

It is relatively safe to put it in the city to guard, after all, it is protected by the city wall.

It's just that, even so, Sima Yi is still very worried, afraid that these two goods will not be able to hold Changyuan County.

After all, the strength of the Shu thieves is really large.

In this, Sima Yi also has to admit that his judgment has been wrong.

As the news of Wei Yan's breakthrough from the direction of Tiger Prison Pass reached Chenliu County, Guan Ping and Deng Ai, who were originally divided into two ways to meet Wei Yan, had lost their targets, so Deng Ai simply joined forces with Guan Ping and marched to Changyuan together, with a total of 70,000 troops.

And Sima Yi's original judgment was that there would probably be 50,000 Shu thieves chasing after Changyuan, so he was really sure that he would use 30,000 soldiers and horses to contain most of the Shu thieves and ensure the safety of Changyuan County.

But the problem is that Sima Yi's judgment was wrong, and now the Shu thieves have 70,000 troops, not the 50,000 that Sima Yi originally expected. The extra 20,000 people to attack the 10,000-person guarded Changyuan County are more than enough.

If Cao Shuang and Gao Tanglong can't hold on, then Sima Yi will be useless no matter how well he fights outside the city.

This is what Sima Yi worries the most.

But. After actually beating down, Sima Yi realized that he seemed to have really underestimated Cao Shuang.

For a long time, because of Cao Shuang's demons, he always made some discordant sounds, and these discordant voices sounded so "wise".

With the aura of the son of a famous general, he is actually a child of a clan who does not learn or know.

But in fact, although Cao Shuang is indeed a bit eye-catching, at least he is not the kind of thing that Xiahou Nan really can't do anything. No matter how high Cao Shuang's eyes are, he still has at least something in his hand.

At least, Cao Shuang still understands the routine of defending the city.

Moreover, the current situation is already like this, no matter how Cao Shuang fights with Sima Yi, it will be no good. Although Cao Shuang was also afraid of death, he did not choose to escape like Xiahou Nan after all.

On the one hand, Cao Shuang is still somewhat stronger than Xiahou Nan, and he still has this bit of energy.

On the other hand, after Xiahou Nan escaped from the battle, although he left a life under the protection of Cao Pi, the future of Xiahou Nan's line in the Great Wei was also completely ruined.

Now that Xiahou Nan's life is worse than that of ordinary clan disciples, it is basically impossible to have a chance to turn over.

Xiahou Nan's fate, Cao Shuang saw it in his eyes, of course he didn't want to repeat Xiahou Nan's mistakes and, when today's son is Cao Rong, what is Cao Rong's attitude towards Xiahou Nan, can Cao Shuang, as the son of Cao Zhen, know? !

Even if he wants to learn from Xiahou Nan, Cao Rong will not learn from his father Cao Pi. Cao Shuang dared to escape, Cao Rong really dared to cut off Cao Shuang's head.

Therefore, Cao Shuang has no choice but to be afraid of death, but he also knows that at this time, he can only have a glimmer of life if he desperately guards Changyuan.

Forced into desperation, Cao Shuang took out all what he had learned all his life, and this time, Cao Shuang was not as arrogant as before, and he could even listen to Gao Tanglong's suggestions.

As for Gao Tang Long, as long as you don't let him personally command the defense of the city, in fact, he still has some role.

Although in terms of military strategic command, Gao Tanglong is indeed a half-hanger, but Gao Tanglong has also defended the city twice, once because the opponent is too vegetable, and once because the opponent is too strong and suffers heavy losses. But there is some experience in defending the city.

Cao Shuang's lifelong learning, coupled with Gao Tanglong's experience, coupled with the fact that the gap in strength is not too large, also made them barely able to hold Changyuan County. It's just that the ratio of troop losses is slightly larger.

But as long as he can hold on, Sima Yi is already very satisfied, and for the rest, Sima Yi will not even be demanding.

In this way, the war in the middle lane can be regarded as barely stable.

The Han army marched in three ways, and the three roads were blocked. Deng Ai couldn't sit still.

On the one hand, Deng Ai needed to find a way to break the current stalemate, and on the other hand, Deng Ai also sent a battle report to Yongqiu in the rear, informing Xu Shu of the situation on the front line and seeking Xu Shu's next order.

At this time, Xu Shu actually knew that the three-way offensive on the front line was blocked.

At this time, the easiest way to deal with it was for Xu Shu to take the remaining 20,000 soldiers in Yongqiu to the north to support Deng Ai and others, and open a gap from Changyuan County, so that he could break through the middle of the Wei army's defense line and cut and encircle the Wei army.

But Xu Shu couldn't go north.

The reason is very simple, Soochow, sent troops.

Zhuge Dan led 20,000 soldiers to send troops from Xiapi County and easily stationed in Shanyang County, causing Hu Zun to temporarily stay in Dingtao to prevent the Eastern Wu Army from attacking Jiyin County.

And Lu Xun in Peiguo, after Hu Zun led his troops into Jiyin County, led his troops out of Dangshan and re-entered Liang State, and now he is confronting 10,000 soldiers led by Biqiu Jian near Dangshan County.

The rest, such as Zhu Ju in Runan and Sun Shao in Huainan, all sent their own troops, one to threaten Chen Guo, and the other to march into Qianjun.

Obviously, Soochow took the initiative to get involved in this Yanzhou War.

In order to ensure the safety of the back road, Xu Shu did not dare to go north easily.

(End of chapter)