Sima Yi finally completed his plan to withdraw his troops.

Together with the two groups of soldiers who were the first to withdraw to the north bank of the Yellow River, Sima Yi withdrew a total of more than 87,000 soldiers from Yanzhou.

And the price paid, in addition to the casualties of more than 18,000 people in the withdrawal, there are also Chen Tai, the son of the late Sikong Chen Qun, and the old general Guo Huai, who is not known for life or death.

Chen Tai, in fact, everyone knows in their hearts, with Chen Tai's identity and the influence of the Yingchuan family in this era, as long as Chen Tai does not seek death by himself, then there is a high probability that he will not be able to die, even if he is captured, the Shu thief will not kill him.

Ke Guo Huai. Unless there is a miracle that Guo Huai can escape on such a chaotic battlefield, otherwise, whether he is killed on the spot or captured by Shu thieves, he will be dead.

Guo Huai will not descend, Cao Rong still has this cognition.

Therefore, a month after Sima Yi completed the withdrawal of the army, Cao Rong searched for many ways and found no trace of Guo Huai, so he had to issue an edict to posthumously present Guo Huai as a general, nicknamed "Zhen".

And then bar. Guo Huai came back.

It's embarrassing to Cao Rong.

I have been looking for a month before, but there is no news at all, and even Guo Huai's son Guo Tong has already accepted the ending of his father's death on the battlefield. As a result, less than half a month after the edict was issued, Guo Huai appeared in Jizhou.

However, embarrassment is embarrassing, Guo Huai can come back, which still makes Cao Ei very happy. There are not many reliable generals who can be used, Cao Rong didn't care much about Guo Huai before, but now, Cao Rong can't care less.

Immediately issued an edict, renamed Guo Huai as the general of the chariot cavalry, the marquis of the township, and ordered Guo Huai to enter Yecheng immediately, and Cao Rong wanted to talk to Guo Huai privately.

There are many things, Cao Rong has to ask Guo Huai well, the most important of which is to ask Guo Huai, how the battle of Yanzhou can be like this.

However, because Guo Huai died nine times on the battlefield, he barely picked up a life and came back, and for a month and a half before, Guo Huai hid in the mountains to recuperate from his injuries, and it was a blessing that he did not die of serious injuries. For a while, I really couldn't go to Yecheng immediately.

Therefore, Cao Rong did not meet Guo Huai until the end of November, and the two had a secret conversation for a long time in the palace.

And Guo Huai left the palace on the front foot, and on the back foot, Cao Rong issued an order to relieve Sima Yi of his military power, let him hand over the military power to Cao Shuang, and he immediately returned to Yecheng to take up his post.

And when Sima Yi rushed back to Yecheng and saw Cao Ei, he was left in Yecheng by Cao Ei.

This disposal is very intriguing. At least Sima Zhao, who had stayed in Yecheng in the last war, was very incomprehensible.

"Father, what does the Son of Heaven mean by what he has done?!" Sima Zhao asked his father in private.

And Sima Yi just sighed slightly, then shook his head slightly, and said to Sima Zhao, "Don't ask, the meaning of the Son of Heaven is not for you and me." ”

confused Sima Zhao.

Sima Zhao was confused, and there were no big and small families and ministers inside and outside Yecheng who were not confused.

This Yanzhou war, no matter how it was washed, lost the entire Yanzhou, no matter how you look at it, it was a humiliating defeat, therefore, many people think that even if Sima Yi withdrew so many soldiers this time and saved the main force of the Great Wei, a punishment was inevitable.

Even if you don't get jailed for your crimes, at least you have to be demoted, stripped of your knighthood and so on.

But now Sima Yi's punishment is only to remove the military power, not only still retains the title, but also does not even deprive the official position of the general of Zhengxi.

So. Great Wei Tianzi, does he still value Sima Yi, or does he have other purposes?!

Moreover, after summoning Guo Huai, the emperor of Great Wei immediately recalled Sima Yi and deprived Sima Yi of his military power, is there a certain implication in this? !

Whether it is the DPRK or the family, there are also many discussions about this matter. The difference in attitude towards Guo Huai and Sima Yi is very likely to determine Cao Rong's attitude towards courtiers and the big families, and it cannot be ignored.

But no matter how they knocked on the side, whether it was Guo Huai or Sima Yi, both of them took the same countermeasure - closed doors.

It's all old foxes, there are some things, they know, the Son of Heaven knows, it's okay, the rest of the things have nothing to do with themselves.

In fact, it is impossible for Cao Rong not to be angry about the loss of Yanzhou, this matter is too big, not only the loss of the city and the loss of land, but also the political influence is more troublesome than the loss of the land of a state.

Even Cao Rong did think about it for a while, and threw the pot to Sima Yi to carry, after all, he was the actual commander of the entire Yanzhou Campaign, and if the battle was fought like that, he didn't take responsibility, who would bear it?!

At that time, Sima Yi had just led the troops back to Hebei, and he was still needed to calm the army's morale, and he couldn't move for the time being, otherwise, Cao Rong would have dumped the pot a long time ago.

And Cao Rong summoned Guo Huai, on the one hand, he really hoped to appease Guo Huai and prepare for the reuse of Guo Huai in the future to replace Sima Yi, on the other hand, Cao Rong also wanted to know whether Sima Yi was derelict in his duties and afraid of the enemy's cowardice in the battle of Yanzhou.

But after a careful conversation with Guo Huai, Cao Rong learned that in this battle of Yanzhou, Sima Yi's strategy formulation and command of the operation, although it was a bit conservative, it was really not a dereliction of duty and fear of the enemy.

Guo Huai is a person, the pattern is still very high, although he really hates Sima Yi, but from the standpoint of the overall situation of the country, he will say what he should say, and he will not change his mind because of other factors.

Therefore, Guo Huai told Cao Rong that Sima Yi's biggest problem in the Battle of Yanzhou was that after falling into strategic passivity, he did not have any idea of trying to reverse this strategic passivity, but only passively defended in the situation at that time, and the purpose of changing the strategy was also to save his own retreat and withdraw from Hebei, rather than thinking of breaking the enemy army.

This was Guo Huai's biggest dissatisfaction with Sima Yi in the Battle of Yanzhou.

But in the same way, Guo Huai also admitted to Cao Rong in person that with the passive situation at that time, Guo Huai did not think that there was any reliable way to reverse the strategic passivity. At least I can't think of it myself.

To a certain extent, from the perspective of strategic arrangement, Sima Yi does tend to be conservative and dare not take risks, but it is not to the extent of "fear of the enemy and cowardice".

As for why Sima Yi adopted such a conservative response strategy, this Guo Huai did not say much.

On the one hand, he is not Sima Yi himself, he is just a bystander, maybe Sima Yi has other concerns that he did not tell Guo Huaiming, and Guo Huai is not good at judging Sima Yi's intentions rashly.

On the other hand, Guo Huai does not necessarily know the reasons why Sima Yi adopted a conservative response strategy in the middle and late stages of Yanzhou, but Guo Huai still knows the reasons why he adopted a conservative response in the early days.

After all, it was the Ming edict that Cao Rong issued at the beginning, allowing Sima Yi to attack Luoyang, and the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty knew about it.

This matter, as long as Guo Huai is not stupid, he will not take the initiative to bring it up in front of Cao Rong. And even if he doesn't mention it, Cao Ei may not know.

Therefore, Cao Rong was on Guo Huai's side, and what he got was a positive evaluation for Sima Yi.

Maybe Sima Yi was a little conservative in the command of the battle of Yanzhou, but most of them were forced by the situation, and it was not strange that Sima Yi, as the commander of the army of more than 100,000 troops, tended to be a more conservative style of using troops.

After figuring out these things, Cao Rong issued another edict, first relieved Sima Yi of his military power, and then recalled him back to Yecheng.

The dismissal of military power is not to clean up Sima Yi, but Cao Rong must give an explanation to the outside world. You Sima Yi commanded an army of more than 100,000 to fight, and finally lost an entire state, there must be an explanation.

It is impossible to let Sima Yi continue to hold the military power, otherwise there will be a lot of discussion within the court.

And recruiting Sima Yi to return to Yecheng was that Cao Yi wanted to ask Sima Yi face to face what he thought in the battle of Yanzhou.

After all, Cao Shuang impeached Sima Yi in the past, and Guo Huai helped Sima Yi speak, and in the end, Cao Yi himself had to judge the truth or falsehood.

Only after asking Sima Yi in person can Cao Yi finally decide what kind of punishment Sima Yi should be.

And after this private conversation, Cao Rong's final decision was like this - to deprive Sima Yi of his military power and stay in Yecheng to listen to it.

It's also difficult.

It's not that he doesn't want to hold Sima Yi responsible, it's not that he doesn't want Sima Yi to take the blame, but he can't do it.

In the first conversation with Sima Yi, Cao Yi could hear that Sima Yi did not mean to shirk his responsibility, on the contrary, Sima Yi took the initiative to take responsibility and asked Cao Yi for his guilt.

At least in terms of attitude, Cao Ei is very satisfied.

And continued to have an in-depth conversation, Cao Ei asked questions one by one, and after Sima Yi answered them one by one, Cao Ei knew that there were some things that he really couldn't delve too deep into.

If Sima Yi is to be held accountable for his unfavorable strategy, it is okay, but if Cao Rong really did this, it would be somewhat disadvantageous to ignore Sima Yi's strategy of requesting to defend on the spot, and it was Cao Rong who had to let Sima Yi take the initiative to attack Luoyang.

Of course, when he is the emperor, his heart is black, Cao Rong can completely pull down his face and not admit it, and Sima Yi himself will obediently take the blame. But the edict was issued by himself, and Sima Yi is not the only one who has a clear eye in these years, if Sima Yi is blamed for this kind of crime, people of insight within the court and the world will not be convinced.

If Great Wei is still strong, then Cao Rong can completely ignore this black pot, and in the future, he will compensate for the Sima family, even if the world's discerning people see it, they will not say anything.

But today's Dawei is no longer the Dawei that occupies two-thirds of the world. Now the Great Wei has been forced to withdraw from the Central Plains and retreat to the area north of the Yellow River, which is not what it used to be.

If Sima Yi is forcibly put on the blame, causing dissatisfaction within the court and the family and other ideas, that is the most troublesome thing.

The position of the Yingchuan family in this battle of Yanzhou has changed, but there are some things in front of him, Cao Rong must think about it in front of him, do things, and not be too ugly, he has to have a bottom line.

Therefore, in terms of strategy, Cao Rong cannot let Sima Yi take the blame.

And if you want to hold Sima Yi accountable for his improper command in the middle of the strategy, resulting in the loss of the city and land, if you want to pursue it like this, you must first investigate what Cao Zhao is guilty of.

Cao Zhao is the son of Cao Xiu, and he is a clan general, especially now that the Cao clan generals are withering, if Cao Rong wants to maintain the balance of the court, the clan power cannot be weakened too much.

For political reasons, even if Cao Zhao beats the same shit this time, Cao Yi can't be held accountable, and he must find a way to downplay his responsibility for defeat, so in the same way, Sima Yi's responsibility in this regard can't be too deep.

But neither Sima Yi can be held accountable for the strategic arrangement, nor can Sima Yi's tactical command be investigated, then in this battle of Yanzhou, Sima Yi, as the commander, will not be responsible.

Then who will bear the responsibility for this loss of Yanzhou?!

It can't be me, the son of Great Wei, right!!

Therefore, Cao Rong can only deal with this matter first, leaving Sima Yi idle without rising or descending.

As for the person who took the blame, in fact, Cao Ei already had an idea, but this needed an opportunity.

And soon, this opportunity came.

(End of chapter)