Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 507
When it was getting brighter and the more than 1 Han soldiers who were still resting got up from their beds, they found that the war had ended.

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 is not right. They are considered as reserve.

These people were told at the beginning that Wei Jun was doing harassment to exhaust the enemy, so no matter how lively it was outside, they all relaxed and slept like dead pigs without worrying at all.

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

A large number of Han troops escorted countless prisoners into the city and imprisoned them. The reserve soldiers who did not fight were cleaning the battlefield and cleaning up the corpses.The officers in charge of recording took paper and pens in their hands, recorded the names of the comrades who died in battle, and carried away the corpses of the enemies.

It wasn't until this time that those Han troops who had fought all day yesterday knew that the Wei army was finished while they were sleeping last night.

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

When they managed to get to the bottom of the city, they realized that the city had been occupied by the enemy at some point.

There is no way to go to heaven, and no way to go to earth.Countless Wei Jun threw down their weapons in the midst of the "surrender to avoid death" that roared and tsunami, and chose to kneel on the ground and shout to surrender.

After a morning's counting, there were more than 2000 Han soldiers killed in battle, and as many as five or six thousand wounded, the number of casualties was still not small.

And what about Wei Jun?

An army of [-] was wiped out!
The chief general Guan Qiujian was killed, several generals died in the rebellion, Liang Xi, Wang Xiu and others surrendered, and Shangdang County changed hands instantly.

The fall of Shangdang County also caused the fall of the entire Bingzhou.

Because Cao Wei has no troops in Bingzhou, Taiyuan County, Yanmen County, Leping County, Xinxing County and other places in the north can almost be decided without any hindrance.

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, and Shuofang County to the west, are now occupied by Xianbei and Qianghu. Alien partition.

These places are the large areas of Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Inner Mongolia from the north of Yan'an to Yulin, Ordos, and Hohhot in later generations. Now it is the territory of Budugen, the leader of Xianbei.In the north of Youzhou, the Inner Mongolia area north of Zhangjiakou in later generations was in charge of Kebi Neng.

Today's Cao Wei is too weak and has no ability to regain these lost lands.But for the Han army, this is not a big problem.After all, in history, Budugen and Kirby could do just that, and they couldn't beat Cao Wei at all.

It’s just that Cao Wei’s main energy at that time was on Ji Han and Soochow. The Inner Mongolia area that Budugen and Kirby could control was not the traditional farming area of ​​the Han people. It was of little significance to Cao Wei, which made them miss it.

Now when the Han army wiped out Cao Wei and ruled the world, including the north of Bingzhou, Youzhou Liaodong, Liangzhou grasslands and even the Western Regions, they will recover and re-establish a new Han order.

of course.

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

If Budugen and Kebineng in the north are sensible, they will follow the example of the Southern Huns and obediently ask the big man to surrender.

When the dust of the war settled, Shen Chen led the Han army to enter Gaodu County, and at the same time ordered Zhao Yun to lead 2 people to go straight to Tianjing Pass.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, that is, around six o'clock in the evening, a large number of Wei troops slowly entered Tianjing Pass. Their former army had already passed through Tianjing Pass, stationed around the mountains on both sides of the pass, and held the pass.

Shen Chen arrived in Gaodu County after crossing Tianjing Pass on July [-]nd, and Sima Yi had just withdrawn his troops from Yingchuan at that time.

The two sides went to Bingzhou one after the other, and there was already a long distance between them.What's more, Sima Yi's army is bloated, with more than [-] horses, it is impossible to march as fast as Shen Chen. The daily march is only [-] to [-] miles, and the forward speed is relatively slow.

Since Gaodu County was surrounded by the Han army regiments, it was already difficult for Guan Qiujian to send people to contact Sima Yi. The scouts and spies who came and went between the two sides were cut off by the Han army. Now Sima Yi has no news about Gaodu County at all.

Because it was getting late, although Tianjingguan was less than [-] miles away from Gaodu County, there was still a day's journey away, so Sima Yi did not hurry, but stayed where he was.

Right now he has an army of 12, of which 7 are deployed along the Yellow River along the Hanoi line to prevent Zhuge Liang from crossing the Yellow River.I personally led 5 people from Taihang Xing into Bingzhou. After the number of people was small and there was no drag on the luggage, the marching speed was much faster.

In front is the mountain depression of Taihang Xingtianjing Pass. After passing here, the terrain will be slightly open. Sima Yi stands on the pass and looks to the north.There is a flat area outside the pass in the distance, and there are mountains on the left and right sides. The location is in the later generation of Tianjingguan Village in Shanxi, which is at the bottom of the valley.

It seems that it is easier to fight Tianjingguan from north to south, but in fact, Tianjingguan is a gourd-shaped pass with a very narrow pass. As long as you occupy the pass, it doesn’t matter whether you fight from the south of the pass to the north of the pass or from the north of the pass to the south of the pass. It will be very easy to fight.

Therefore, it can be said that this is a land where one man is in charge of the other.

In the evening, when the sun was setting, the mountains and forests in the distance drifted gently with the evening wind of early autumn, the leaves rattled, and the gorgeous fire clouds burned the entire sky, and some crows circled and slowly returned to the forest.

Sima Yi frowned with his hands behind his back. Now the situation of Cao Wei 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 Rui had sent an edict two days ago, and he did not blame him. I only hope that he can help Guanqiu Jian to defend Bingzhou as soon as possible, and then drive Zhuge Liang and Shen Chen back. See if he can take back Hedong first, and then recover Henan lost ground.

Although this strategy is more difficult, if you can defeat Shen Chen in Gaodu and gather troops 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 it would be no problem for them to regain Hedong.

So now Sima Yi only hopes that Guanqiu Jian will persevere.

"Great governor, there has been no news from General Wuqiu for two days, and I don't know what's going on. Should I send someone to investigate first?"

Jia Kui, who was accompanying him, asked.

Sima Yi had just arrived at Tianjing Pass, and before sending out scouts, he nodded and said, "Well, you can make arrangements later."

"only."

Jia Kui responded, and then said: "I heard that His Majesty was injured."

Sima Yi raised his head and looked at the bright red sky in the distance, and said in a deep voice, "What I am most afraid of now is that something will happen to Your Majesty. The country cannot be without a backbone. Once Your Majesty is ill, Great Wei will face collapse."

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

Jia Kui thought for a while, and then continued: "That Shen Chen has already gone north, if he hears of our arrival, he will probably choose to withdraw his troops."

"maybe."

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

Jia Kui said: "I am afraid of Zhuge Liang and Guan Yu. Although the great river is a natural moat, the width of the river is very narrow and easy to cross. The two rivers have as many crossings as a cow's hair. It is easy to cross the river. At this time, only Guo Huai and General Hussars Will those tens of thousands of people be unstoppable?"

As Sima Yi divided his troops to the north to help Bingzhou, only Guo Huai with 7 people remained along the Yellow River in Hebei, and Xia Houyuan had about 6 people, with a total of 13 Wei troops.

There are still 18 aristocratic soldiers and horses who are being trained in Yecheng, but even if they are added, it is only [-].

Now the entire hinterland of Cao Wei, the local troops are almost empty, and there are countless uprisings in the Qingzhou area of ​​Shandong.

The total number of Han troops on the southern and eastern fronts was 30 million. Before that, Zhuge Liang had 15 and Guan Yu 5. Later, Liu Chan sent Wu Yi to bring [-] people.

28 million people.

This does not count the auxiliary soldiers and servants in the rear. If all of them are counted, there are still 50 people.

The Southern Great Han obviously intends to overwhelm the whole army and flatten Cao Wei. One can imagine how much pressure Sima Yi felt.

His only thought now is to rescue Guanqiu Jian first, so that if Shen Chen's West Route Army can be wiped out and the Han army suffers heavy losses, then the vacillating Huns can only join the Wei camp.

In this way, Cao Wei barely added up to more than [-] people, who could fight and entangle with Zhuge Liang and Guan Yu's troops.

The prerequisite for all this is that Bu Dugen, Ke Bineng, and Gongsun Yuan in the rear will not send troops.

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

Liu Chan sent someone over.

It's just that Cao Rui also sent envoys to tell them the truth.

Once Cao Wei is eliminated, these people must be the next big man to deal with. The Xianbei tribes such as Budugen Kebi can be noncommittal.

After all, if they can't beat them, at worst, they can flee to the north, and escape to the Inner Mongolia area, or even the Outer Mongolia area in later generations, without too much risk.

And if they join forces with the Han Dynasty to destroy Wei, and when the Han Dynasty unifies the world in the future, they may be canonized by the Han Dynasty, and doing business with the Han people, reciprocity, trading, and buying and selling are all things that the peoples outside the Great Wall need. Still quite excited with Kirby.

Only Gongsun Yuan has to judge the situation.

Because Gongsun Yuan is not a nationality outside the Great Wall, he is a local separatist force that Cao Wei has never freed up to eliminate. Liaodong has been the territory of the Han Dynasty since ancient times, and even Pyongyang in the later North Korea was the Lelang County of the Han Dynasty at that time.

If the Han Dynasty regains its unification of the world, Gongsun Yuan must also be eliminated.

Therefore, he is the one who understands the truth of the death of lips and teeth. After the Han Dynasty envoys and Cao Wei envoys arrived one after another, and stated his interests, he was considering not forming an alliance with the Han Dynasty, but forming an alliance with Cao Wei.

But generally speaking, the Xianbei people and Gongsun Yuan are still just waiting and watching the situation. The main reason is that the Han army is on the offensive. From February to July, it has only been less than half a year. A large number of land population.

It is thousands of miles away from the Central Plains to Liaodong and Beyond the Great Wall, and the news did not pass so quickly. The forces like Xianbei and Gongsun Yuan don't know the current situation of Cao Wei, otherwise they probably wouldn't narrow the road.

For Sima Yi at this moment, the only good news is that Xianbei and Gongsun Yuan in the north have not yet fallen into trouble, so he just needs to be quick and keep Bingzhou and Wuqiujian, then Cao Wei will still rely on the Yellow River to fight against the southern big man possibility.

"The country's affairs are corrupt, and the road is difficult."

Sima Yi raised his head and looked at the darkening sky, feeling a deep sense of powerlessness.

The strength of the enemy made him feel that the situation was over.

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

"what happened?"

Jia Kui and Sima Yi hurried to the top of the city wall of Tianjing Pass to overlook the outside of the pass.

Tianjingguan is condescending, between the two mountains, the terrain is very high, and you can see the flat land below the mountain in the distance at a glance.

I saw countless Han troops slowly walking out of the mountains in the north of Tianjingguan Village in later generations.

The Han troops held the flags, as if they had sensed that Tianjing Pass had been occupied by the Wei army, so they stopped in the plain area below, and then stationed in place and built camps.

Since the terrain below is relatively open, and they are not afraid of being ambushed, the Han army only sent a few schools of troops to guard the surrounding areas, and the rest began to cut down trees to build camps.

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

"Are the Han troops here to stop us? Are they bluffing?"

Jia Kui stared intently into the distance, and the Han army was at least five or six miles away from their position. Although they could see clearly because of the higher terrain, they were too far away, and could only see densely packed human heads. people.

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

"Captain?"

Jia Kui couldn't get any feedback, so he turned his head to look at Sima Yi in puzzlement and asked, "What are they doing?"

Sima Yi looked at it for a long time, then suddenly heaved a long sigh, shook his head and said, "If I'm not wrong, Gaodu County has been destroyed, and Guanqiu Jian is probably gone."

"what?"

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

"Because of the help of the Huns, it is impossible for Shen Chen to send so many people here!"

Sima Yi pointed to the outside of the pass and said, "Think about it, if Gaodu County hadn't been destroyed, and Guanqiu Jian had the help of the Huns, Shen Chen would not have been able to take it down so quickly. He has few troops, and after I came to help him, why would he dare to fight?" Divide up troops to stop us? The best terrain of Tianjing Pass is at the pass, where you can see everything in the pass, and there is no danger to defend, why would they dare to form a camp outside the pass?"

"This"

Jia Kui thought the same thing, if the opponent was sent by Shen Chen to station at Tianjing Pass to defend them, then seeing that Tianjing Pass had already been occupied by the Wei army first, why would the opponent dare to continue to form a camp.

Did the enemy defender think he could defend against the attack of tens of thousands of elite Wei troops without a strategic location?
"There is only one possibility!"

Sima Yi sighed and said sadly: "Gaodu County has been destroyed. The Han army at the foot of the mountain is not here to stop us, but to attack us! If I continue to stay here, I will face Shen Chen and Zhuge Liang. The pincers are under attack, retreat!"

"The Grand Governor"

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

"It's a trick, but if it's a trick, Gaodu County won't be breached, and the Huns are still outside the city. If Guanqiu Jian is stupid again, he should send someone to contact me."

Sima Yi shook his head: "The general situation is over, retreat back to Hanoi, and set up camp outside Ye City earlier, maybe we can still hold a stalemate with the Han army."

(End of this chapter)