As the sky grew dark, and the more than 10,000 Han soldiers who were still resting got up from their beds, they found that the war was over.

The soldiers attacked the city yesterday, some were injured, some were extremely tired, and their combat effectiveness was not high, so Shen Chen did not let them participate in the battle, but let them rest well, and wake them up when the situation was not right, which was considered a reserve.

These people were told at the beginning that Wei Jun was doing a trick to harass the enemy, so no matter how lively it was outside, they all relaxed their hearts and slept like dead pigs, without the slightest worry.

As a result, when they got up the next morning, and were ready to continue the battle, they realized that something was wrong, and when they left the camp, they saw a surprising scene.

A large number of Han troops escorted countless prisoners into the city and imprisoned, and the reservists who had not fought were cleaning up the battlefield and cleaning up the corpses. The officers in charge of the records took pen and paper in their hands, counted the list of comrades who had died in battle, and carried away the corpses of the enemy.

It was only at this time that those Han soldiers who had fought for a day yesterday knew that last night, when they were sleeping, the Wei army was finished.

The Wei army also had no way, the Wei soldiers outside the west city of Gaodu County were copied by the four breads, the Huns in the north, the Han cavalry in the south, and the main force of the Han army in the west, completely surrounded.

When they finally ran to the city, they realized that they didn't know when the city had been occupied by the enemy.

There is no way to heaven and no door to the earth. Countless Wei soldiers threw down their weapons in their hands and chose to lie on their stomachs and kneel on the ground and shout surrender in the midst of the tsunami of "surrender and avoid death".

After a morning's count, there were about 2,000 Han soldiers killed in the battle, and as many as 5,000 or 6,000 were wounded, and the number of casualties was still not small.

And what about Wei Jun?

An army of 50,000 was wiped out!

The main general Biqiu Jian was killed, several generals died in the chaos, Liang Xi, Wang Xiu and others surrendered, and Shangdang County changed hands instantly.

And the fall of Shangdang County also caused the fall of the entire annexed state.

Because Cao Wei no longer had troops in Bingzhou, Taiyuan County, Yanmen County, Leping County, Xinxing County and other places in the north could almost be spread without any obstacles.

The only problem is that the former Han Dynasty Dingxiang County, Yunzhong County, and Wuyuan County to the north of Yanmen County, as well as Xihe County, Shang County, Shuofang County and other places in the west, have now been occupied by Xianbei and Qianghu and divided among foreign races.

These places are the northern part of Yan'an in later generations to Yulin, Ordos, Hohhot and other large areas of Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Inner Mongolia, and now the territory of the Xianbei leader Budugen. To the north of Youzhou, the Inner Mongolia region north of Zhangjiakou in later generations was under Kirbyneng's control.

Today's Cao Wei is too weak to have the ability to recover these lost territories. However, for the Han army, this is not a big problem. After all, in history, Budugen and Kirby can only be like that, and they can't beat Cao Wei at all.

It's just that Cao Wei's main focus at that time was on Ji Han and Eastern Wu, and the Inner Mongolia area controlled by Budugen and Kirby was not the traditional cultivation area of the Han people, which was of little significance to Cao Wei, so they picked up the leaks.

Now, after the Han army has eliminated Cao Wei and unified the world, including the north of Bingzhou, Liaodong in Youzhou, Liangzhou grassland, and even the Western Regions, it will be recovered and a new Han order will be re-established.

Of course.

At least for now, the main target of the Han army is Cao Wei.

If Budugen and Kirby in the north can know each other, learn from the Southern Huns and obediently ask the Han to surrender, there will be a place in the future, if they don't know each other, wait for Cao Wei to be destroyed, and the next one will probably be them.

When the dust of the war settled, Shen Chen led the Han army into the county seat of Gaodu County, and at the same time ordered Zhao Yun to lead 20,000 people and immediately go straight to Tianjing Pass.

At this moment, at three o'clock in the afternoon, that is, at about six o'clock in the evening, a large number of Wei troops slowly entered Tianjingguan, and their former troops had already passed through Tianjingguan, stationed on both sides of the pass, and held the pass.

Shen Chen arrived in Gaodu County on 2 July via Tianjing Pass, when Sima Yi had just withdrawn his troops from Yingchuan.

The two sides went to the state one after the other, and they were already far away. What's more, Sima Yi's army was bloated, and more than 100,000 horses couldn't march as fast as Shen Chen, and the daily march was only twenty or thirty miles, and the speed of advance was relatively slow.

Because Gaodu County was surrounded by the Han army, it was difficult for Biqiu Jian to send people to contact Sima Yi, and the scouts who came and went between the two sides were isolated by the Han army, and now Sima Yi did not know the news of Gaodu County at all.

Because it was getting late, although Tianjing Pass was less than seventy miles away from Gaodu County, there was still a day to go after all, so Sima Yi was not in a hurry, but stationed in place.

At present, his army of 120,000, of which 70,000 is being deployed along the Yellow River along the Hanoi Line, to prevent Zhuge Liang from crossing the Yellow River. He personally led 50,000 people from Taihang to Merge State, and after the number was small and there was no burden to drag down, the marching speed was much faster.

In front of it is the mountain col of the Tianjing Pass of Taihang Mountain, after which the terrain will be slightly more open, and Sima Yi stands on the pass and looks out to the north. In the distance, there is a flat area, and on the left and right sides are mountains, and the location is in the later Tianjing Guan Village, Shanxi, which is at the bottom of the valley.

It seems that it is easier to fight Tianjing Pass from north to south, but in fact, Tianjing Pass is a gourd type, and the pass is extremely narrow, as long as the pass is occupied, whether it is from the south of the Guan, or from the north to the south, it will not be particularly easy to fight.

Therefore, it can be said that this is a land where no one can open one.

In the evening, the sun was setting, and the distant mountains and forests were gently fluttering with the early autumn evening breeze, the leaves were rattling, and the brilliant fire clouds were burning the whole sky, and there were twilight crows circling and slowly returning to the forest.

Sima Yi frowned on his back, and now Cao Wei's situation is not optimistic, after Henan gave up, he lost a large number of people and land, which further weakened Cao Wei's strength.

Fortunately, Cao Rong had already sent an edict two days ago, and he didn't blame him, I just hoped that he could help Biqiu Jian to hold the state as soon as possible, and then repel Zhuge Liang and Shen Chen to see if he could first take back Hedong and then recover the lost territory in Henan.

Although this strategy is more difficult, if you can defeat Shen Chen in Gaodu and gather troops and horses to fight Zhuge Liang and Guan Yu to the death, there is still a certain chance.

After defeating Shen Chen, the Han army on the Western Front was defeated or wiped out, and they still had no problem recovering Hedong.

So now Sima Yi only hopes that Biqiu Jian will hold on.

"Governor Dadu, there has been no news from General Biqiu's side for two days, and I don't know what the situation is, do you want to send someone to investigate first?"

Jia Kui, who was accompanying him next to him, asked.

Sima Yi had just arrived at Tianjing Pass, and before he could send out scouts, he nodded and said, "Well, you will arrange it later." ”

"Yui."

Jia Kui responded, and then said, "I heard that Your Majesty was injured. ”

Sima Yi raised his head and looked at the red canopy in the distance, and said in a deep voice: "What I am most afraid of now is that Your Majesty will have an accident, the country cannot be without a backbone, once Your Majesty is sick, Great Wei will face collapse." ”

"It's just a minor injury, it should be fine."

Jia Kui thought for a moment, and then continued: "That Shen Chen has already gone north, if he heard that we were coming, he would probably choose to withdraw his troops." ”

"Not necessarily."

Sima Yi shook his head and said, "Didn't he "tandem" the Huns? Shen Chen's guy has always been arrogant, even if he has fewer troops than us, he may not retreat. ”

Jia Kui said: "I'm afraid of Zhuge Liang and Guan Yu, although the big river is a moat, but the river is extremely wide and narrow, and it is easy to cross." There are so many big river crossings between the two that it is easy to cross the river, and at this time, there are only tens of thousands of people such as Guo Huai and the hussar generals, will they not be able to prevent it. ”

As Sima Yi divided his troops to the north to aid and annex the state, only Guo Huai with 70,000 people was left along the Yellow River in Hebei, and Xiahou Yuan had about 60,000 people, a total of 130,000 Wei troops.

There are still 50,000 soldiers and horses of the family who are being trained in Yecheng, but even if they are added, it is only 180,000.

Now in the entire hinterland of Cao Wei, the local troops are almost empty, and there are countless rebels in the Qingzhou area of Shandong, and the Cao army can be said to be defeated and retreated, and it has reached an extremely dangerous point.

The Han army on the southern and eastern fronts combined had two or three hundred thousand people, before Zhuge Liang 150,000, Guan Yu 80,000, and then Liu Chan sent Wu Yi to bring 50,000 people.

280,000 people.

This is not counting the auxiliaries and servants in the rear, if you count them all, there are still 500,000 people.

The Southern Han obviously planned to overwhelm the whole army and bulldoze Cao Wei in one fell swoop, and the pressure felt by Sima Yi can be imagined.

His only thought now is to save Biqiu Jian first, so that if he can completely annihilate Shen Chen's Western Route Army and make the Han army suffer heavy losses, then the Huns, who were originally wavering, can only throw themselves into the Wei camp.

In this way, Cao Wei barely has more than 300,000 people, and he can fight and entangle with Zhuge Liang and Guan Yu's troops.

And the premise of all this is that Bu Dugen, Kirbineng, and Gongsun Yuan and others in the rear do not send troops.

In fact, Zhuge Liang had already asked the imperial court to send envoys to Xianbei, Wuhuan, Liaodong and other forces to make friends with them, hoping that they would give Cao Wei a hard blow in Cao Wei's rear and completely wipe out Cao Wei.

Liu Chan sent someone over.

It's just that Cao Rong also sent a messenger over, Chen talked about the benefits and harms, and told them the truth that the lips are dead and the teeth are cold.

Once Cao Wei is eliminated, then the next person the Han will have to deal with must be these people, Budugen Kebi and other Xianbei tribes are noncommittal, before the Wuhu Rebellion, the Saiwai people are not so ambitious to mix with the Central Plains forces to fight.

After all, if they can't defeat it, it's a big deal to flee north, and it is okay to flee to the Inner Mongolia region in the future, or even the Outer Mongolia region, and there will not be much risk.

And if they join forces with the Han Dynasty to destroy the Wei, and when the Han Dynasty dominates the world again in the future, then they may be canonized by the Han Dynasty, and trade, reciprocity, trade, and trade with the Han people are all things that are needed by the foreign peoples, so Bu Dugen and Kirby Neng are still quite excited.

Only Gongsun Yuan has to judge the situation.

Because Gongsun Yuan is not a foreign nation, he is a local separatist force that Cao Wei has not freed up his hands to eliminate, Liaodong has been the territory of the Han Dynasty since ancient times, and even Pyongyang in later Korea was the Lelang County of the Han Dynasty at that time.

If the Han Dynasty regained its domination of the world, Gongsun Yuan would definitely be the target of extermination.

Therefore, he is the one who understands the truth of the death of the cold lips and teeth, and after the Han Dynasty envoy and the Cao Wei envoy arrived before and after, and stated the benefits, he was considering the matter of not forming an alliance with the Han Dynasty, but with Cao Wei.

But generally speaking, the Xianbei people and Gongsun Yuan are still just waiting to see the situation, mainly because the Han army is on the offensive, from February to July, it has only been less than half a year, Cao Wei has been defeated, losing a large number of territory and population.

From the Central Plains to Liaodong and Saiwai, the news was not passed on so quickly, and the forces of Xianbei and Gongsun Yuan did not know the current situation of Cao Wei, otherwise they would probably not have narrowed the road.

At this moment, the only good news for Sima Yi is that Xianbei and Gongsun Yuan in the north have not fallen into the well for the time being, so as long as he is quick to keep Bingzhou and Biqiujian, then Cao Wei still has the possibility of relying on the Yellow River to fight with the southern Han.

"The state affairs are erosive, and the road is difficult."

Sima Yi raised his head and looked at the increasingly faint sky, and couldn't help but feel a deep sense of powerlessness.

The strength of the enemy made him feel like the tide was gone.

At this time, on the mountains on both sides in the distance, suddenly dense whistles and gongs and drums resounded in the sky, followed by the horns of "woo woo woo".

"What's going on?"

Jia Kui and Sima Yi hurriedly walked to the top of the Tianjing Pass and looked out at the pass.

The patio pass is condescending, between the two mountains, the terrain is very high, and you can see the flat land under the mountains in the distance at a glance.

I saw the location of Tianjingguan Village in the mountains further north in the later generations, and slowly walked out of countless Han troops.

The Han soldiers, waving their banners, seemed to sense that Tianjing Pass had been occupied by the Wei army, so they began to stop in the plain area below, and then set up camp in place.

Due to the relatively open terrain below and the fear of being ambushed, the Han army only sent a few schools of people to sanitate, and the rest began to cut down trees to build camps.

Such a swaggering way made the Wei army outside the Tianjing Pass very stunned, and did not dare to go down the mountain to attack, nor did they dare to retreat behind the pass.

"Is it the Han army that has come to stop us? Are they bluffing? ”

Jia Kui stared into the distance, the Han army was at least five or six miles away from their position, although they could see more clearly because of the higher terrain, but it was too far away, and they could only see dense human heads, and they really couldn't see how many people there were on the other side.

Sima Yi's face was very solemn, he quietly looked at the Han army outside the pass, neither ordered an attack nor made any deployment, but just watched the actions of the Han army.

"The Grand Duke?"

Jia Kui couldn't get any feedback, and turned his head to look at Sima Yi with some confusion and said, "What are they doing here?" ”

Sima Yi looked at it for a long time, suddenly sighed, shook his head and said: "If my expectations are not bad, Gaodu County has been broken, and Biqiu Jian is probably gone." ”

"What?"

Jia Kui was shocked and said, "How is this possible? Didn't he have the help of the Huns? ”

"It is precisely because of the help of the Huns that it is impossible for Shen Chen to send so many people!"

Sima Yi pointed to the outside of the pass and said: "Think about it, if Gaodu County was not broken, and Biqiu Jian had the help of the Huns, Shen Chen would definitely not be so quick to fight." He has few soldiers, after I come to help, why does he dare to divide his troops to stop us? The best terrain of Tianjing Pass is on the gate, and there is no danger to defend under the pass, why do they dare to set up a village outside the gate? ”

"This"

Jia Kui thought about it, if the other party was sent by Shen Chen to be stationed at Tianjing Pass to defend them, then seeing that Tianjing Pass had been occupied by the Wei army first, why did the other party dare to continue to form a village.

Could it be that the enemy defenders still think that they can defend against the attack of tens of thousands of elite Wei troops when there is no dangerous position?

"There's only one possibility!"

Sima Yi let out a long sigh and said sadly: "Gaodu County has been broken, and the Han army under the mountain is not here to stop us, but to attack us!" If I continue to stay here, I will face the attack of Shen Chen and Zhuge Liang, so retreat! ”

"The Metropolitan Governor"

Jia Kui hesitated: "Why don't you send someone to bypass the valley below and go to Gaodu County to investigate?" What if this is Shen Chen's plan? ”

"It's a plan and a dangerous plan, but if it's really a plan, Gaodu County has not been breached, the Huns are still outside the city, and Biqiu Jian is stupid again, and he should send someone to contact me."

Sima Yi shook his head: "The general trend is gone, retreat back to Hanoi, and set up a camp outside Yecheng earlier, maybe you can still hold on to the Han army." ”

(End of chapter)