Follow General Cao to mix the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 851 Fighting with the old thief Sima
The war that many people dream of is that thousands of troops are lined up in a neat battle formation, and then they advance like a wall. Killing, weaving a magnificent epic with blood.

But in fact, Alexander the Great, the famous conqueror in history, spent ten years in the Eastern Expedition. The real blood-thirsty battle took less than a month, and most of the rest of the time was a long and painful march. On the way to the Indian campaign, the Macedonian infantry who regarded Alexander as a god all launched a mutiny, and after being forced to return to Babylon, the subordinates who were unwilling to embark on the journey again probably poisoned this generation of sergeant geniuses, allowing ancient Greece and The possibility of Qin's confrontation was nipped in the bud.

Now Wang Hou is also marching in suffering.

Sitting on a superior force, Sima Yi's battle strategy was extremely strange. With an army of 40, he did not choose to assemble a large army in Tongguan to compete with Wang Hou for the throat of Guanzhong, or to face Wang Hou's secondary army in Banpu, or even He even went all the way to shrink.

Wang Hou marched along the Yellow River. The most fertile banks of the Yellow River, Sili, really implemented the scorched earth policy thoroughly. The people were all relocated, the grain was transported away, and those who could not be taken away were burned on the spot. The unharvested wheat fields were burned black. , the villages and towns are all emitting black smoke, and the places they pass along the way are like hell.

This scene made the Western Wei army, who had sworn to go out to fight for the world with enthusiasm, feel tired and lazy, and made Wang Hou, who originally planned to replenish and collect food on the spot, lose his plan.

Not only the countryside, Hu County, Hongnong, Dayang, Xin'an, and even Yuncheng, an important town encountered by the North Route Army, and Anyi, the old capital of the Warring States Period, were all abandoned. The young and strong men were moved away, leaving only Tens of thousands of old, weak, sick and disabled are in the city.

But I have to admit that this move is really disgusting to Wang Hou. The old, weak, sick and disabled are useless in war, but can you really watch tens of thousands of people starve to death?Wang Hou is not a complex of angels and demons like Zhang Xun. In order to be loyal to the Tang Dynasty, he even allowed his subordinates to eat people. He defended the city for more than a year and ate up 25 people in the city. He supplied [-] unprecedentedly spectacular troops. In the supply line that was already extremely tense, he took another batch of food and placed it in Hongnong, which was occupied along the way, in the county town of Hedong to support the local people.

"Daxingtai, we will arrive at Gu County, but Gu County has no defenders, and only a group of old and weak people are left. They have opened the city gates and surrendered to our army!"

It was another scorched village, and the young lieutenant officer Zhuge Xin knelt down on one knee with fists folded as anxiously as burnt wood, reporting loudly.

Gu County is not ordinary, here in the Warring States period, there is this famous name, Hangu Pass!This is not only the starting point for the Qin people to conquer the six kingdoms of the Kanto, but also the last barrier of the Eastern Han Dynasty capital Luoyang to the Kanxi.

This can be regarded as a great favor to Wang Hou when Cao Pi was in power, and it was also an internal struggle among the Kanto gentry, which originated from the bad water envoyed by Wang Hou.

In order to consume the strength of Kansai, when Wang Hou built Chang'an City, Cao Cao ordered him to restore Luoyang together. Wang Hou refused to suffer from being dumb, so he drove up the price of real estate. The Kanto gentry with a few cement houses spent a lot of money to buy land, and then sold them building materials at high prices to build Chinese-style gardens.

Most of Sima Yi and other aristocratic families in the Central Plains came from aristocratic families. After the old Han gentry in Yiluo Valley were reused, they naturally did not want to spend a lot of money to buy and build empty fields and houses. The Fangshi clan carried out a series of internal games, and under political pressure, they also wanted to strengthen and stabilize the cement city wall of Luoyang to pass Yecheng, establish Luoyang as their capital, and better demonstrate the legitimacy of Cao Wei. Cao Pi gave up Yecheng and the strategic distance. In Hebei, which is farther away, 15 households were relocated, and the capital was moved to Luoyang, which is closer to Wang Hou.

You, Sima Yi, should not throw away the capital city!Okay, didn't you lose ground all the way to stretch Lao Tzu's supply line?I will follow you recklessly to the east, and stab your hometown Luoyang!

The polished black cowhide boots made by the grassland stepped on the edge of the well. Looking at the cruelly floating corpses in the well that polluted the water source, Wang Hou couldn't help showing a particularly ferocious smile. He waved his hand.

"Send the forest team to pass through Hangu Pass first to confirm that there is no ambush from the eastern bandits, and then the former army general Zhao Yun will lead [-] cavalry to outflank Luoyang for me first!"

"The last general takes orders!"

With a promise, Zhuge Xin stood up immediately as if he had been charged, and hurriedly ran out of the village. He took a last look at the well where the corpses were floating, and then Wang Hou himself got on his horse and joined the vast team. In the middle, closely behind him, more than a dozen soldiers hurriedly got soil and filled it into the well with a splash, completely burying the well.

Luoyang Sima Yi is not lost, but he still has Cao Rui, the newly succeeded Wei Ming Emperor, and even civil and military officials, honorable ministers, and tiger and leopard cavalry. The more than [-] overlords guarding Luoyang are all gone!In the name of offering sacrifices to the ancestral tomb, he returned north to Yecheng as early as fourteen days ago, leaving only Shang Shu's left servant, Chen Tai, with [-] governors, to stay in Luoyang.

This news was actually obtained from the mouth of the old clan Cao Hong. In the old days, Cao Hong had secretly supported Cao Zhi, and when Wang Hou entered Yecheng, he behaved at both ends, so after Cao Pi ascended the throne, he immediately fell down. It's bad luck, the defendant accused the doorman of killing people, implicated him, the master, and lost all his official positions and sent him to prison. If it wasn't for the rescue of clan generals such as Cao Chun and Xia Houba, his body might be cold by now.

Cao Hong, who has no right to be dismissed at home, naturally did not think of him when Sima Yi ran away, but after all, he is an old general, and there are still some sources of news. Under Luoyang City, by the Yishui River, he personally brought the news to Wang Hou's central army middle.

"What is Sima Yi going to do? Life is over? Luoyang is gone?"

Seeing the huge cowhide map, and Cao Hong's obviously aged, no longer majestic, wrinkled face like an old orange peel, even Wang Hou couldn't help feeling anxious.

But listening to the information he brought, he pinched his chin and pondered for a moment, then Taiwei Jia Xu, who was marching with the army, suddenly pinched his treacherous mustache on his chin and nodded emphatically.

"What a Sima Yi, you played a big game of chess in the world!"

"Daxingtai, as soon as Sima Zhongda took office as Da Sima and was in charge of the advancement of all officials, he immediately transferred Xia Houba, the captain of Jiuyuan Hunnu, back to Luoyang, promoted him to the rank of general, and succeeded him as Sima Ni!"

"Now it seems that Sima Zhongda is going to lose the east corner, harvest the mulberry elm, and plan to return to the city!"

As soon as these words came out, Wang Hou's eyes immediately froze!
(End of this chapter)