Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

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 went below zero at night.

However, there is no snow in the Hanoi area. Except for the occasional white-headed snow-capped mountains in the depths of the Taihang Mountains in the distance and the cold air surrounded by clouds and twilight, there is only the bleakness between heaven and earth.

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

To the west of Dangyin is the mountain range of the Taihang Mountains, to the east and south is the Yellow River, and only the southwest has roads, so the main force of the Wei army formed a fortress in the southwest of Dangyin.

The camp of more than [-] troops was more than ten miles long, from the northwest to the southeast, across the mountains and rivers, cutting off the advance of the Han army.

After Shen Chen and Zhuge Liang joined forces, there were more than 20 people, and it was not easy to use so many troops. Therefore, Zhuge Liang and Shen Chen camped separately, in the southwest and southeast of Dangyin, stationed at the Black Mountain and the Yellow River.

The purpose of doing this is naturally to facilitate the attack on the weak points of the Wei army. Sima Yi's Wei army camp stretches for more than ten miles. If either of the two ends is attacked, it will be very difficult to quickly support them.

Therefore, it can be said that such an offensive method is still very suitable for a battle with an extremely long army and an extremely complicated situation.Even Zhuge Liang and Shen Chen each only brought 8 to 5 people, and Wu Yi took [-] people from his headquarters to bypass Dangyin, return to Henan from the Yellow River, and then attack Liyang.

Now it is a war of wealth, and the main force of the Han army is more than [-] more than the Wei army. 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 Dangyincheng County Government House, Sima Yi was sitting on the table with a sad face. An official document was sent from the rear just now. Now the whole of Hebei is in chaos.

Many aristocratic families are almost unable to hold on. They fully support Cao Wei in order to keep their population and land, but now that Cao Wei is retreating steadily, and 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 you can change an official position.

So with the full-scale invasion of Hebei by the Han army, the whole of Hebei is now in chaos. I heard that even the defenders in Yecheng rebelled. If Chen Qun, Xinpi and others who stayed behind responded quickly and suppressed it immediately, I am afraid that Emperor Cao Wei would have been captured by the rebels themselves.

"Governor, how can this be done?"

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

The current situation can be said to have reached a desperate situation, and there may be almost no chance of a comeback.

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

"How about surrendering to the Han army?"

Someone said cautiously.

In the past, if someone dared to say such a thing, they would probably not be able to escape the fate of being pushed out and beheaded.

But now when that person said this, everyone in the venue looked at each other, none of the dozen or so people said anything, and the hall was unusually quiet.

Even Sima Yi just rubbed his temples and kept silent.

If he wants to resist to the end, build up his prestige, and take advantage of the situation to push that person out and kill him, he will definitely be able to shock everyone.

But he just didn't do that.

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

Once a battle is defeated in the future, when you want to surrender again, someone will tell the Han army that Sima Yi's general wanted to surrender, but Sima Yi beheaded that man and fought against the Han army to the end.

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

After all, it could have been resolved without a fight, but Sima Yi stubbornly resisted, which caused so many sacrifices for the Han army. It is no wonder that Zhuge Liang and Shen Chen spared him.

Therefore, with Sima Yi's scheming, he must leave a way out for himself, and it is absolutely impossible to do such a thing of digging his own grave.

The venue became much quieter, and the atmosphere became very bad.

After a while, Sima Yi said calmly, "Isn't it too early to talk about surrender?"

After saying this, the frozen atmosphere in the audience was finally thawed.

The wise man has already heard the meaning of his words - the governor is not opposed to surrender, but it is still too early to talk about surrender.

Jia Kui hurriedly asked, "Could the governor also have intentions?"

Sima Yi shook his head and said, "If it's completely irreversible, it's the best policy. If we can surrender with more than [-] soldiers, Zhuge Liang and Shen Chen won't embarrass us. Just surrendering without a fight is also despised. Besides, it's too early to surrender now."

"Then according to what the governor thinks, when is it more appropriate to surrender?"

Guo Huai asked.

Sima Yi looked around the crowd and said, "Think about it, are you willing to surrender unless you have to? The family's land, population, and power now have all been wiped out."

"Of course I don't want to."

"Yeah, if it's not a last resort, who is willing to hand over the family's population and land?"

"Now we are generals and lieutenants in the Great Wei Dynasty, and we have gone to the Great Han Dynasty in the South. Who knows how they arrange us as a group of surrendered generals? If not, we will be reduced to civilians."

"It's 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?"

"Ugh"

The people below were discussing a lot, and everyone sighed.

They were in the territory of Cao Wei in the north. They had population, land, clan and power. When they surrendered to the big Han, the population and land would definitely be gone.

So everyone didn't really want to surrender. It's just that the current situation is stronger than others. If they don't surrender, the future will be even worse, and they might not even be able to save their lives.

Sima Yi saw that he had aroused his emotions with a few words, 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 is almost reaching Yecheng."

Someone asked puzzledly.

Sima Yi said: "Now the general is still in the east, and your majesty is in the north. If either the general or your majesty is wiped out, Yecheng will not be able to hold it. It is reasonable for us to surrender at that time. If they all hold it, they will also repel 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 each other in Hanoi County, while Xiahouyuan is fighting Guan Yu on the east front, and Cao Zhi is leading part of the Wei army to stop the Han army coming out of Taihang Mountain in the north.

The situation in Sanlu must be slightly better in Hanoi. After all, the army led by Sima Yi is firstly elite;

So they can wait and see the situation first.

Once the Han army breaks through the eastern or northern fronts, it means that Yecheng cannot be defended and Cao Wei is destroyed. Then they naturally don't need to fight anymore, just surrender.

But if the eastern and northern fronts are defended and the Han army is repelled, then they can continue to be generals and princes of Cao Wei, and naturally they will not need to turn over their land and population, nor will they lose their current power.

Even if this hope is very slim, it is almost impossible to appear.

But Xiang Yu has 3 people desperate to defeat 20 Qin troops, what if a miracle happens?
Therefore, as Sima Yi said, the best way is to wait and see what happens.

"What the governor said is indeed reasonable."

"Fortunately, I was able to follow the governor, otherwise I might make mistakes."

"It's still the wise governor."

When everyone heard it, they thought it was too right. They now have a lot of troops, which can be bought for a price. Why make a decision too early?
Sima Yi said: "That's the first thing to do. If the Han army comes to attack, repel them."

With that said, the military discussion was dismissed, and he 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 retreated from outside Cao Ying by the Qingshui River in Qiqiu.

Guan Ping was able to successfully complete the task because of the help of his internal staff.

But this time it was not that simple. Due to the special terrain and the extremely reasonable layout of Cao Jun's camp, Liao Hua never 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 they forcibly killed the Wei army outside the camp and shot arrows inside, the Wei army would immediately retreat to the middle camp and wait for the Han army to enter the camp before using bows and other equipment to defend.

Due to the relatively narrow gates of the camp, the Han army could not enter the camp in large numbers at one time to line up. As a result, the crossbowmen were suppressed by the opponent's crossbowmen, and it was difficult to send the needed letters from home to the enemy.

When the Han army withdrew, Jiang Ji and Hu Zhi did not allow ordinary soldiers to clean up the battlefield, but ordered their trusted personal guards to go and confiscated all the letters.

Therefore, for several days in a row, Liao Hua failed to break down the morale of the Wei army.

After being defeated again that day, Liao Hua returned to the camp, only to find that Lu Xun was already sitting there in the camp. He was overjoyed and went up and cupped his hands and said, "Join the army, you are finally here!"

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

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

At the end he said: "Then Jiang Ji and Hu Zhi do have some tricks. When I shot arrows at their camp outside, they retreated to the middle camp and sent people to take away all the arrows. They didn't show it to the soldiers of the Wei army. If they continued to storm the camp, they would fight back with bows and crossbows. Although I sent all of them with swords, shields and crossbows for protection and delivery, many people were killed and injured."

Hearing Liao Hua's words, Lu Xun thought for a while, then smiled and said, "This matter is quite simple. The problem is that the general concentrates his forces too much every time he goes out. In this way, the Wei army can also concentrate their forces to deal with it. If they simplify it and spread out their forces, it will be difficult for them to deal with it."

"Oh?"

Liao Hua hurriedly asked: "I don't know what's the best way to join the army?"

Lu Xun told him the method.

Liao Hua was overjoyed after hearing this.

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

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

After all, the Wei army only has more than 1 people, while the Han army has [-]. Even if half of the troops attack and the remaining half stay in the camp, their number can be comparable to that of the Wei army.

Seeing the Han army attacking again in the distance, the Wei army did not dare to neglect, and continued to withdraw from the front camp and back to the middle camp, using complex and intertwined camps for defense.

The Han army rushed to the front of the camp, but did not rush to attack the gate of the village, but lined up outside the village, as if something was brewing.

About half an hour later, there was no movement outside, and the troops inside concentrated their forces to resist, but found that the opponent hadn't attacked for a long time, and became upset for a while.

Hu Zhi and Jiang Ji watched from the tall oars in the middle camp. They could see the Han troops outside the camp in formation from a distance, but they didn't know what they were doing.

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

The Wei camp is arranged in characters, with a large camp on the outside and three small camps inside, and each small camp has three camps: the front, the middle, and the back.

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

After a few rounds of arrow rain, the Han army withdrew, Hu Zhi and Jiang Ji were in front, so naturally they couldn't restrain the two or three thousand soldiers in the two camps on the left and right, and soon they came out curiously to pick up letters.

A few days ago, they also saw letters on the arrows shot by the Han army, but they were not allowed to pick them up because they were controlled by Hu Zhi and Jiang Ji, so they never knew the contents of the letters.

Now they are eager to see it.

"This is."

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

"My letter, do you have my letter?"

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

"I found letters from my family."

The camps on the left and right sides of the Wei Army suddenly became a mess. A large number of soldiers had no intention of fighting and went to pick up letters one after another.

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

For a while, the whole Wei camp was in chaos.

In the camp in front of the middle, Hu Zhi and Jiang Ji quickly discovered that something was wrong with the camp on the two wings, and quickly sent people to check the reason.

After waiting for a while, the former guards came back in a hurry, sweating profusely, and said to them: "The letters that the Han army shot into the camp have been picked up by the soldiers. Many of them will rush out of the camp and don't want to fight anymore."

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

Hearing this news, Hu Zhi and Jiang Ji were dumbfounded.

They knew it was over.