West of Jujube City, twenty miles, within the Han army camp.

During this time, Zhuge Liang received a lot of front-line battle reports, and by analyzing these battle reports, Zhuge Liang could basically determine what Sima Yi's real strategic purpose was.

On the Puyang side, Jia Chong led the superior forces to recapture the Baima Ferry, while on the Changyuan side, Sima Yi chose to abandon Changyuan and withdraw troops in the direction of Sujube If Zhuge Liang can't see it, then really don't mix.

Sima Yi, an old boy, is planning to abandon Yanzhou.

It's still the same sentence, it's all a thousand-year-old fox on the mountain, and no one should play and talk to anyone.

But the problem is that Zhuge Liang can see it, but he really doesn't seem to have any good way to stop Sima Yi from withdrawing his troops now.

Before Wang Chang did not lead troops to help, Zhuge Liang could only use less than 40,000 infantry to attack the sour jujube city garrisoned by more than 30,000 people, and the biggest role of the Pang De cavalry under his command was to cut the connection between the sour jujube garrisoned by Guo Huai and the Fengqiu garrisoned by Chen Tai. It is possible to fight, but there is no time for a month or two, and even Zhuge Liang can't make a breakthrough.

And one or two months is enough for Sima Yi to withdraw most of Cao Wei's soldiers from the sour jujube, and at that time, it is not a question of whether Zhuge Liang can break through the sour jujube, but when Cao Wei will abandon the sour jujube and withdraw from Yanzhou.

As for Xu Shu of Chen Liu, and Hu Zun of Jiyin, they were temporarily restrained by Eastern Wu, and they could not go north in the short term.

The only thing that can be counted on is the 70,000 people of Deng Ai and Guan Ping's allied army, but their opponent is Sima Yi himself.

How difficult Sima Yi is, Zhuge Liang already has an understanding, and Deng Ai and Guan Ping Deng Ai may be better, with his strategy and command ability, he may not be able to pose too much frontal threat to Sima Yi, but it is not so easy for Sima Yi to clean up Deng Ai.

Guan Ping almost got it.

Now Zhuge Liang's biggest worry is that Deng Ai and Guan Ping cannot work together, and if the two of them divide their forces, they are likely to be used by Sima Yi.

If anything happens to the two people on the middle line, relying only on Zhuge Liang to attack on the eastern front, I am afraid that they can only sit back and watch Cao Wei withdraw from Hebei.

For this reason, Zhuge Liang had to write a letter in person, sending Pang De's cavalry envoy to Xu Shu in Yongqiu, and then Xu Shu forwarded it to Deng Ai and Guan Ping's camp, reminding the two not to divide their troops.

This road is too detouring, whether he can catch up, Zhuge Liang himself doesn't know.

But fortunately, Guan Ping and Deng Ai, along the way, there really didn't have any contradictions.

After all, it's a brother-in-law and an uncle, and the relationship between the two has always been good.

No matter how Sima Yi lured the troops when they withdrew, Guan Ping and Deng Ai did not make any moves to divide their troops.

In fact, during this period, the two did not have differences of opinion, especially when Sima Yi chose to evacuate with Cao Shuang after leaving Changyuan, Guan Ping once proposed whether to divide troops to pursue Cao Shuang's department.

However, Deng Ai always felt that there was something strange about this.

Of course, Deng Ai couldn't know about the dirt and greasy relationship between Sima Yi and Cao Shuang, but when Sima Yi and Cao Shuang were guarding Changyuan County, one guarding the city and the other guarding the outside of the city, this kind of defensive tactics that echoed each other, if the two did not have a tacit understanding to rescue each other, it would be impossible to put it out.

And the facts have also proved that when they were in Changyuan County, Sima Yi and Cao Shuang's cooperation was still good, and the two held the defense line together.

It doesn't make sense that when they are in Changyuan County, the two can respond to each other and support each other, but instead they go their own ways when choosing the route of withdrawal, right? !

In addition, Deng Ai and Guan Ping don't know much about Cao Shuang's ability, but Sima Yi, whether it is Zhuge Liang, Zhang Xi, or Guan Yu, who was still alive in his early years, has a very high evaluation of him.

Such a resourceful man and the commander of an army, how could he not be able to control the army, and when he withdrew the army, he would suddenly divide the troops into two ways and withdraw their troops separately?!

Therefore, Deng Ai artificially said that this may be Sima Yi's plan to lure the snake out of the hole, pretending to divide the troops as bait, luring the Han army to also divide the troops to pursue, and then turn around in the middle to set up an ambush to break the enemy in a battle.

Therefore, after Deng Ai explained his concerns to Guan Ping, Guan Ping finally chose to follow Deng Ai's advice, and the two decided that no matter where he Cao Shuang led the troops, his own side would not divide the troops anyway, and followed Sima Yi's army all the way.

The commander of the Wei army must be Sima Yi, staring at this old boy, you can't go wrong!!

Who provoked Sima Yi's angry Lao Tzu, why did these two things stare at me and let go?!

Sima Yi and Cao Shuang divided their troops and retreated, and it was really Sima Yi's idea, and he could at most push the boat along the river, but it was actually Cao Shuang's idea.

After sticking to Changyuan County for more than half a month, Cao Shuang was really scared, but in the same way, he felt that he could do it again!

It's actually a very ambivalent state of mind.

I'm afraid, after defending the city for more than half a month, and seeing with my own eyes the soldiers who constantly defended the city and died, Cao Shuang sincerely felt that it was a good thing to be alive.

He was more desperate than before.

And I felt that I could do it again, it was in the face of Guan Ping's onslaught, Cao Shuang finally held on to Changyuan County, and waited until Sima Yi ordered the withdrawal of the army Cao Shuang suddenly found that his ability didn't seem to be so bad, and it was still quite okay.

Cao Shuang's biggest problem is that he can't see where his true ability is, and he is very susceptible to external influences.

Cao Shuang is not incapable, at least, his ability is not so bad.

If he really didn't have any ability at all, it would be impossible for Cao Shuang in history to completely suppress Sima Yi and monopolize power in the early days.

As for Cao Shuang's series of brain-dead behaviors in the later period, that is, Cao Shuang's second problem was touted for a few words, and he really couldn't see how many catties and taels he had.

Just like now, it's all the same.

Since Sima Yi retired from Yongqiu, Cao Shuang has not said a word, mainly because he is afraid that he will say something that annoys Sima Yi and adds unnecessary risks to himself.

At this time, Cao Shuang really felt that if he wanted to withdraw to Hebei safely, then he could not offend Sima Yi.

But now, Cao Shuang feels that his ability should be okay. He felt that he could get up again, even if he didn't rely on Sima Yi, he wouldn't die in Yanzhou.

Well, being able to hold Changyuan County is proof of this.

Therefore, when Sima Yi achieved his tactical goal and planned to evacuate Changyuan County. Cao Shuang took the initiative to find Sima Yi and put forward his own ideas.

Divide the troops and evacuate.

On the one hand, the division of troops and the evacuation can lure the Shu thieves to divide the troops, resulting in the weakness of the pursuers, and the pursuit pressure faced by each other will be reduced, and the success rate of evacuation will be greater.

On the other hand, if the Shu thieves chase one side, the other side can also get rid of the entanglement of the Shu thieves and go to the road in advance to set up an ambush, maybe they can defeat the Shu thieves in a battle.

Sima Yi, the old fox, thought about it carefully, and suddenly found that it seemed that what Cao Shuang said also made a little sense.

Of course, the most important thing is that Sima Yi thought about it from another position, if he was Deng Ai and faced the enemy's division of troops, he would either divide his troops to pursue in the same way, or he would concentrate his forces and pick up an enemy that was easier to deal with.

Obviously, Sima Yi thinks that he is still more difficult to deal with than Cao Shuang.

Therefore, Sima Yi really agreed to Cao Shuang's suggestion, and each led 20,000 people to evacuate Changyuan County.

But what Sima Yi didn't expect was. Deng Ai didn't divide his troops, he actually took 70,000 troops and followed his 20,000 troops to pursue.

No, the soft persimmon next door, a pinching of a quasi-thing, aren't you going to clean it up?!

And the second thing that Sima Yi didn't expect was. It is obviously a strategy proposed by Cao Shuang, if one side is pursued by the main force of the enemy, the other side will have to go to the necessary road in advance to ambush.

But Sima Yi retreated all the way, and he didn't receive any news about where Cao Shuang was ambushing, and he didn't even cover it up at all, leaving Sima Yi's army behind all the way, and he didn't even go to the sour dates, he retreated directly in the direction of Yanjin.

said that it was to divide the troops and evacuate, but in the actual operation, it became Sima Yi leading 20,000 soldiers to "break the rear" and "cover" Cao Shuang leading the troops to retreat to Yanjin.

Don't give Sima Yi an anger. He was a wise man, but he was actually cheated by a second fool!!

However, Sima Yi is still Sima Yi in the end, and his ability to lead the troops is still quite outstanding.

Along the way, although Sima Yi walked very slowly and paid the price of more than 3,000 casualties, he still did not give Deng Ai a chance to break through with heavy troops after all.

Sima Yi stubbornly relied on the 20,000 people in his hand, faced with the pursuit of 70,000 soldiers, fought and retreated all the way, and actually took more than 16,000 people to the east of Suzao City safely, and under Guo Huai's response, he set up camp on the east side of Suzao City and protected the flank of Suo Zao City.

Next, it is the question of how to arrange the candidates for the post-mortem and withdraw the troops in an orderly manner.

(End of chapter)