In late October of the first year of Jianxing, in early winter, the fierce north wind howled, and the temperature dropped to single digits during the day, and even below zero at night.

However, it has not yet snowed in the Hanoi area, except for the occasional snow-capped mountains in the depths of the Taihang Mountains in the distance and the cold air surrounded by clouds and mist.

In Dangyin County, Hanoi County, the main force of the Han army arrived at Chaoge in early October, and in order to prevent Chaoge's Wei army from being surrounded, Sima Yi ordered Wang Ling to retreat back and retreat to Dangyin.

To the west of Dangyin is the mountain range of the remaining veins of Taihang Mountain, and the east and south are the Yellow River, and only the southwest has a road to come, so the main force of the Wei army is in the southwest of Dangyin.

The camp of more than 100,000 troops was more than ten miles long, from the northwest to the southeast, across the mountains and rivers, cutting off the way for the Han army to advance.

After Shen Chen and Zhuge Liang joined forces, there were more than 200,000 people, and it was not easy to use so many men and horses, so Zhuge Liang and Shen Chen camped separately and stationed in the southwest and southeast of Dangyin, stationed in Montenegro and the Yellow River.

The purpose of this was naturally to facilitate the attack on the weak points of the Wei army, and Sima Yi's Wei army camp stretched for more than ten miles, and if either side was attacked at either end, it would be very difficult to support quickly.

Therefore, it can be said that this kind of offensive method is still very suitable for the kind of battle in which the army is extremely lengthy and the situation is extremely complicated. Even Zhuge Liang and Shen Chen each brought only 70,000 or 80,000 people, and Wu Yi also took 50,000 people from his headquarters to bypass Dangyin, return to Henan from the Yellow River, and then attack Liyang.

Now it is a battle of wealth, and in terms of the main force, the Han army has more than 100,000 more than the Wei army, and it is necessary to attack in such a roundabout way, which will cause a huge sense of oppression to the Wei army on the front line.

In the mansion of Dangyin City County, Sima Yi sat on the seat with a sad face, just sent an official document from the rear, and now the whole of Hebei has been chaotic, uprisings are constantly occurring in various places, and many of them have decided to vote and joined it.

Many families are almost unable to hold on, they fully support Cao Wei to keep their population and land, but now that Cao Wei is losing and retreating, their population and land are constantly being consumed, so what is the point of them continuing to support Cao Wei? It's better to dedicate it to the big man, at least to change the official position.

So with the Han army's full-scale invasion of Hebei, the whole Hebei is now a mess of porridge, I heard that there are even defenders in Yecheng who have rebelled, if it weren't for the quick reaction of Chen Qun Xinbi and others who stayed behind, and immediately suppressed it, I am afraid that Emperor Cao Wei has been captured by the chaotic army itself.

"Governor, how good is this?"

In the hall of the government office, Guo Huai, Jia Kui, Wang Ling and others sat in columns, and everyone had a sad expression on their faces.

Now the situation can be said to have reached a desperate situation, and the turnaround may be almost none.

Sima Yi threw down the official document in his hand, then propped his elbows on the table, rubbed his temples with both hands constantly, and obviously felt a headache with his eyes closed.

"Or, surrender to the Han army, right?"

Someone said cautiously.

If someone dared to say such a thing before, they probably wouldn't have escaped the fate of being pushed out and beheaded.

But now, when the man said this, everyone in the hall looked at each other, and no one in the dozen or so people said anything, and the hall was unusually quiet.

Even Sima Yi just rubbed his temples and kept his mouth shut.

If he wants to resist to the end, establish his prestige, and take advantage of the situation to push that person out and cut him down, he will definitely be able to deter everyone.

But he didn't.

Because Sima Yi knew that if he did this, it would be basically no different from cutting himself off.

In the future, once the battle is lost, when you want to surrender again, someone will tell the Han army that Sima Yi's subordinates wanted to surrender, but Sima Yi killed that person and resisted the Han army to the end.

When the Han army learned of this, they would inevitably not accept his surrender.

After all, it could have been solved smoothly without fighting, but Sima Yi resisted stubbornly, causing the Han army to increase so many sacrifices, and it was no wonder that Zhuge Liang and Shen Chen could spare him.

Therefore, with Sima Yi's old scheming, he must leave a way out for himself, and it is impossible to do such a self-digging thing.

It was much quieter, and the atmosphere became very bad.

After a long while, Sima Yi said lightly: "Is it too early to talk about surrender now?" ”

After saying this, the originally frozen atmosphere of the audience can be regarded as thawing.

The wise man had already heard the meaning of his words - the Metropolitan Governor was not against surrender, but it was a little early to talk about surrender.

Jia Kui hurriedly asked, "Could it be that the Metropolitan Governor is also interested?" ”

Sima Yi shook his head and said, "If it reaches the point where it is completely irreversible, it will naturally be reduced to the best policy." If we can surrender with more than 100,000 soldiers, Zhuge Liang and Shen Chen will not be embarrassed by us, but it is also contemptible to surrender without a fight, not to mention that if we surrender now, it will indeed be early. ”

"Then, according to the meaning of the Grand Duke, when is it more appropriate to surrender?"

Guo Huai asked.

Sima Yi looked around at everyone and said, "Come to think of it, are you willing to surrender until you have to?" The family's land, population, and the power they now have, are all in vain. ”

"Naturally, I don't want to."

"Yes, if it is not a last resort, who is willing to hand over the land of the family population?"

"Now we are generals and marquis in Great Wei, and we have gone to the Southern Han, who knows how they arranged for our group of generals? If you don't say it well, you have to be cut to the people. ”

"It's all good to cut down the people, you know that Shen Chen has a grudge against Taizu, what if he gets angry and wants to kill us all?"

"Alas"

Everyone below was talking, and they all sighed.

In the territory of Cao Wei in the north, they have population and land, clans and power, and they surrendered to the Han Dynasty, the population and land are definitely gone, and the power is basically gone, who wants to be like that?

So everyone doesn't want to surrender very much, it's just that the current situation is stronger than people, if you don't surrender, the future will be even more miserable, and you can't even save your life.

Sima Yi saw that his words aroused his emotions, so he continued: "So if you can stick to it, it's better to stick to it as much as possible." ”

But what's the point of continuing to hold on? It is said that the Han army has almost reached Yecheng."

Someone asked, puzzled.

Sima Yi said: "Now the general is still in the east, and His Majesty is in the north, if either the general or His Majesty is eliminated, Yecheng will not be able to hold it, and it is reasonable for us to surrender at that time." If only they held on, they repelled the enemy."

As soon as these words came out, everyone looked at each other and understood what Sima Yi meant.

Now the Han army is attacking Wei County on three sides, the main force of the Han army and the main force of the Wei army are now facing off in Hanoi County, while Xiahou Yuan and Guan Yu are fighting on the eastern front, and Cao Zhi is leading a part of the Wei army to block the Han army coming out of the Taihang Mountains in the north.

The situation of the three roads must be slightly better on the Hanoi side, after all, the army led by Sima Yi is firstly elite, second, the supplies are quite abundant, and third, it is encamped in advance, and it is not easy to break through the camp after the camp is built.

So their side can wait and see the situation first.

Once the Han army broke through the eastern or northern front, it meant that Yecheng could not be defended and Cao Wei was destroyed, so naturally there was no need for them to fight anymore and surrender.

But if the eastern and northern fronts were held and the Han army was repulsed, then they would be able to continue to be Cao Wei's generals and liehous, and naturally they would no longer need to hand over land and population, and they would not lose their current power.

Even if that hope is slim and almost unlikely.

But Xiang Yu has 30,000 people to defeat the 200,000 Qin army, what if a miracle happens?

Therefore, as Sima Yi said, it is best to wait and see what happens.

"What the Metropolitan Governor said does make sense."

"Fortunately, I can follow the Grand Governor, otherwise I might really make a mistake."

"It's still the Governor of the Metropolis."

When everyone heard this, they thought it was too right, they now had a lot of troops in their hands, and they could completely wait for the price to sell, so why make a decision too early?

Sima Yi said: "Then do it first, if the Han army comes to attack, repel them." ”

After saying that, he broke up the military discussion and went back to the backyard by himself.

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On October 29, at three o'clock in the morning, the Han army once again withdrew from outside the Cao camp on the bank of the Qingshui River in Qiuqiu.

Guan Ping's side was able to successfully complete the task, which was due to the help of internal response.

But this time it was not so simple, due to the particularity of the terrain and the extremely reasonable layout of Cao's military camp, Liao Hua has not found any good opportunities to succeed.

Jiang Ji also seemed to have expected that the Han army would use the strategy of attacking the heart, although it was forced to kill outside the Wei army camp and shoot arrows inside, but the Wei army would withdraw to the middle camp as soon as possible, and wait for the Han army to enter the camp and then use bows and crossbows and other equipment to defend.

Due to the narrow gate of the camp, the Han army could not enter the camp in large numbers at one time, resulting in the crossbowmen being suppressed by the opponent's crossbowmen, and it was difficult to surrender the letters needed to the enemy.

As soon as the Han army withdrew, Jiang Ji and Hu Zhen did not allow ordinary soldiers to clean up the battlefield, but ordered their trusted guards to go and collect all the letters.

Therefore, for several days, Liao Hua was not able to successfully break the military spirit of the Wei army.

On this day, after Liao Hua was defeated again, he returned to the camp, but found that the inland Xun of the camp was already sitting there, he was overjoyed and said: "Join the army, you are finally here!" ”

Lu Xun was reading a book, and when he saw Liao Hua coming back, he said with a smile: "The prince received your official document, so he sent me over to take a look, how is the situation?" ”

Liao Hua sighed, came over and sat next to Lu Xun, and told him about the situation.

At the end, he said: "Then Jiang Ji and Hu Zhen do have some means, I shoot arrows at them in the camp outside, and they retreat to the middle camp, and send people to collect all the arrows, and they don't show them to the Wei soldiers at all." If they continued to storm the camp, they returned fire with bows and crossbows, and although I sent all sword and shield men and crossbowmen for protection and messengers, there were many casualties. ”

Hearing Liao Hua's words, Lu Xun thought for a while, and said with a smile: "This matter is also simple, the problem is that every time the general goes out to the army, he concentrates his forces too much. In this way, the Wei army can also concentrate its forces to deal with it, and if it is simplified and the forces are dispersed, it will be difficult for them to deal with. ”

"Oh?"

Liao Hua hurriedly asked: "I don't know what the trick is to join the army?" ”

Lu Xun told him the method.

Liao Hua was overjoyed when he heard this.

Soon after noon, in the afternoon, the Han army set out again.

This time, the number of Han troops was obviously much smaller than before, but for the Wei army, it was still a strong opponent.

After all, the Wei army only has more than 10,000 people, while the Han army has 20,000, even if half of the men and horses attack, and the remaining half stay in the camp, their number can be comparable to the Wei army.

When the Wei army saw the Han army attacking again in the distance, they did not dare to slack off, and continued to withdraw from the front camp to the middle camp, using the complex and staggered camps for defense.

When the Han army arrived at the camp, they did not rush to attack the gate of the village, but lined up outside the wall, as if something was brewing.

After about half an hour, there was no movement outside, and the troops inside were concentrated to resist, but they found that the other party had not attacked for a long time, and they became upset for a while.

Hu Zhen and Jiang Ji watched from the high oars of the middle camp, and they could see the Han troops outside the camp from a distance, but they didn't know what they were doing.

At this time, a large number of small Han troops approached from the east and west sides of the Wei army camp, and began to continuously release arrows at the camps on both sides, and at least tens of thousands of arrows were shot into it.

Wei camp is divided into zigzag arrangement, the outside is a large camp, the inside is divided into three small camps, each small camp has the difference between the front, middle and back three camps.

In order to resist the Han army, Hu Zhen and Jiang Ji concentrated their forces in the camp in front, and the place where they were stationed was in the middle camp of the front camp, and there were two camps on their left and right, but they were attacked by the Han army.

After a few rounds of arrow rain, the Han army withdrew, Hu Zhen and Jiang Ji were in front, naturally there was no way to restrain the two or three thousand soldiers in the left and right camps, and soon they came out curiously to pick up the letters.

A few days ago, they also saw the letter on the arrow shot by the Han army, but because they were controlled by Hu Zhen and Jiang Ji and did not allow them to pick it up, they never knew the content of the letter.

Now they'd love to check it out.

"It's."

"It's a letter from home, it's Aze's letter, Aze, your parents have sent a letter."

"My letter, my letter?"

"Everyone's help to find out, I want to know how my parents and family are doing."

"I found the letter my family gave me."

The camps on the left and right sides of the Wei army suddenly became a pot of porridge, and a large number of soldiers had no intention of fighting and went to pick up letters.

Moreover, after reading the letter, many people discussed it with the people of their own team, and many people gathered together and rushed out from the direction of the camp gates of the two camps.

For a time, the entire Wei camp was in chaos.

In the camp in front of the middle, Hu Zhen and Jiang Ji quickly discovered that something was wrong with the situation in the camp on both wings, and hurriedly sent someone to check the reason.

After waiting for a while, the former guards hurriedly ran back with sweaty heads and said to them: "The letters that the Han army shot into the camp have been picked up by the soldiers, and many of them are going to rush out of the camp and do not want to fight. ”

"It's over, it's over."

Hearing the news, Hu Zhen and Jiang Ji were already stunned.

They know it's completely over.