After crossing the water and defeating the Jin army there, Ran Min did not order a pursuit, because at this time it was no longer possible to catch up with the main force of the Jin army.

Ran Min decided to take a break from the army in Shuishui.

But at this time, the news that Baling City had been captured, and Ran Min suddenly felt that the time for a decisive battle had come. At the same time, when the news of the Jin army's withdrawal to the front line of Yiting and Yidao came, the expression on Ran Min's face became very strange.

"Ha, hahahaha! Huan Wen is going to fight a battle of Yiling! It's a pity that he is not Lu Xun, and I am not Liu Da'er! ”

Qin Mu also said with a smile: "Huan Wen is a little whimsical. He wanted to burn down the company camp, but unfortunately our Wei army didn't have so many camps for him to burn! ”

All the generals bowed slightly. It is impossible for them, who are familiar with the art of war, not to know the battle of Yiling, and it is impossible not to know the allusion of "burning the company camp".

In that year, Liu Bei led a large army to attack Wu in order to avenge Wu's capture of Jingzhou and Guan Yu's killing. Wu General Lu Xun insisted on not fighting in order to avoid his front, and the two sides became confrontational.

The expedition of the Shu army, the supply is difficult, and it cannot be resolved quickly, and the weather is hot after the summer, so that the sharp spirit is gradually lost and the morale is low. In order to relieve the suffering of the soldiers, Liu Bei ordered the Shu army to camp in the mountains and forests to escape the heat.

Lu Xun saw the opportunity and ordered the soldiers to bring a handful of thatch each, and when they arrived at the Shu army camp, they set fire to it and attacked it. The wooden fence of the Shu military camp and the surrounding trees were flammable, and the fire quickly spread in the battalions. The Shu army was in chaos and was broken by more than 40 battalions by the Wu army.

The success of Lu Xun's burning of the company camp determined the outcome of Shu's defeat of Wu in the Battle of Yiling (Battle of Yaoting).

But can Ran Min be stupid enough to emulate Liu Bei's method of company camping?

"Your Majesty, I don't know how you are going to fight this battle?"

Ran Min said in a deep voice: "Now that Baling City has been captured, I want to order Wei Zheng to lead the army into Nanping County and attack Jiangling, and at the same time order Wang Ping to lead the water division into the Yangtze River and cooperate with the Jin army that is besieging and defending Yiling. Order, the whole army must set up 50 camps on the first line from Wuxia and Jianping to Yiling for hundreds of miles within 10 days! ”

There is nothing wrong with the first few military orders, but the military orders of the last company and battalion are incredible.

"No! Your Majesty, by no means! The generals came forward to admonish.

"Your Majesty, has you forgotten Liu Bei's experience? It was precisely because Liu Bei's Shu army gave up the boat and camped everywhere that Lu Xun burned the company camp! Your Majesty must not take it lightly and make such a low-level mistake again! ”

"Could it be that I don't know soldiers?"

Leaving such a sentence, Ran Min dismissed the generals and asked them to arrange their own subordinates.

Wei Liao and Ran Ke thought that Ran Min's practice of camping was very dangerous, and they couldn't dissuade them, so they found Qin Mu to discuss.

"Lord Qin, you have to persuade Your Majesty. Your Majesty's move is really ridiculous! At present, the weather is very hot, our army can not show its military strength between the mountains and mountains, and cannot build a large battalion, and now His Majesty has actually adopted the method of company camps, and has to build a full fifty camps, built in the deep mountains and old forests, this is not a fire of the Jin army? ”

Hearing this, there was a mysterious smile on the corner of Qin Mu's mouth, and he said, "Your Majesty naturally has his intentions in doing this. Now that the Jin army is shrinking in Yiling, we can't make progress, and even if we attack, we will suffer heavy losses. Instead of this, it is better to attract the Jin army to come out to fight. ”

Knowing the news that Baling City had fallen and that the Wei army had set up fifty camps on the first line from Wuxia and Jianping to Yiling for hundreds of miles, Huan Wen's expression was very solemn.

"Da Sima, what is the idea of this Ran Min? The company camp is hundreds of miles, and the troops are scattered, isn't he afraid that we will burn down their company camp? Zhou Fu said suspiciously.

"It's not that simple." Huan Wen waved his hand and said: "Ran Min is good at using the art of war, and he has not tasted defeat for more than ten years, I believe that he will not be stupid enough to wait for us to burn down their company camp." ”

"This ......"

At this time, Sima Wuji, who had just escaped from Baling City, said: "Great Sima, in my opinion, the Wei army has become an arrogant soldier. The company camp in the deep mountains and old forests is undoubtedly the way to die, our army might as well go to war and burn down the company camp of the Wei army! ”

"No!"

Huan Wen said in a deep voice: "The real is the virtual, the virtual is the real, the virtual is the real, the real is the real, the real is difficult to distinguish." Ran Min would not be stupid to such an extent, the reason why Liu Bei was defeated in Yiling back then was because the war was in a tug-of-war, logistics support could not keep up, and morale was sluggish. But now that the fighting between the two armies has been going on for less than a month, and the morale of the enemy is high, we must not take any risks! ”

When they heard this, all the generals did not care.

Only Huan Wen knew in his heart that Ran Min's tactics were actually intimidating the Jin army. Most of the fifty camps are empty shells, and it is very likely that the main force of the real Wei army will not be there, and once the Jin army goes to war, it is very likely that the whole army will be annihilated.

"How much grain and grass do our army have?"

"It can only last our army for three months."

Huan Wen gritted his teeth: "It's only been three months? No, with only this bit of grain and grass, we simply don't have the ability to fight a tug-of-war with the Wei army. The order is to go down, the whole army to collect grain from the people, and be sure to collect enough grain and grass for half a year! ”

"No!"

In the next few days, the Jin army held out, and the Wei army on the Yiling side never launched an attack, but only held several important city passes, firmly trapping the Jin army.

At the same time, the Wei army in the direction of Baling, with the cooperation of the naval division, conquered Jiangling, captured the southern county city, and completely trapped the Jin army to death. Huan Wen can be regarded as having a deep hatred for Sima Wuji in his heart. If it weren't for the loss of Baling City, the Jin army would not have fallen into such a passive situation.

The situation of the Jin army's grain collection was very bad, because the back road was cut off, most of the Jin soldiers were depressed, and deserters had begun to appear.

The Wei army only besieged the Jin army but did not attack, which made Huan Wen wonder in his heart, but then he came to his senses!

"Not good!"

"What's wrong, Da Sima?"

Huan Wen's eyes widened and said: "Ran Min's purpose is Chengdu, it is Bashu!" ”

"What?"

When the generals heard this, they were immediately frightened.

The imperial court has moved to Chengdu and entered Bashu, and now if Wei sends a surprise army to capture Sima Dan and the ministers of the Jin State, this battle will not be able to be fought.

"Da Sima, what should we do now?"

"Breakout! Be sure to break through! ”

Huan Wen was so angry that he vomited blood.

The current situation is not the Battle of Yiling, but it is equivalent to the time when Shu Han was destroyed, when the Shu general Jiang Wei guarded the Sword Pavilion and blocked the Zhonghui army, but Deng Ai attacked Chengdu from Yinping, and Liu Chan surrendered.

This is really embarrassing and helpless, there are still troops outside, there are still soldiers to fight, but the monarch has surrendered!

In order to avoid this kind of thing, Huan Wen decisively led the army to break through.

But how easy is it to rush out of the encirclement of more than 200,000 Wei troops?