I seek economic hegemony in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 342 Sima Yi finally couldn’t sit still

On the ninth day of June, before dawn, an urgent report was placed in front of Sima Yi's desk.

Sima Yi's face looked like he had been soaked in bitter water for three days and three nights.

He carefully captured some key information, although the report was incomplete and even looked very confusing from the place names such as Chenliu, Baimajin, Dangyin and Puyang.

But he felt the strangeness of the Central Plains battlefield.

In other words, Li Heng's march was strange.

As for how weird it was, he couldn't tell.

Sima Yi was good at using surprise troops, and he was known to move like wind on the battlefield and invade like fire.

But he still felt that this time, he couldn't understand.

Although he couldn't understand it, he knew that Li Heng had not been defeated yet.

Sima Yi took a deep breath. Overnight, he seemed to have aged twenty years.

After Sima Yi killed Cao Shuang, everything in the Wei Kingdom seemed calm, but in fact the political environment had taken a turn for the worse.

And judging from the latest report, not only was Li Heng not defeated, he once again went to the north of the Yellow River and defeated the Wei army north of the Yellow River.

"Send orders to Guo Huai to immediately mobilize the main troops in Guanzhong to Jizhou."

"Master, now..." Gao Rou asked.

"Isn't this..." Gao Rou was shocked.

If we continue to wait and see the problems in the Central Plains, the consequences will be disastrous.

"Order Hu Zun to go to Tongguan to set up defenses."

Gao Rou suddenly trembled and hurried away with the military order from Taifu.

"So hurry up. When Guo Huai's troops come back and stabilize the situation in the Central Plains, I will find a way to explain to them."

"If Guo Huai comes back, then Guanzhong..."

"But this matter will definitely arouse opposition from many people."

"That's all we can do for now!"

Seeing Gao Rou's hesitation, Sima Yi immediately said: "If the situation in the Central Plains changes, you and I will be in disaster!"

At this time, anyone who was not a pig would know that Li Heng wanted to attack Yecheng.

He knew that his son Sima Zhao was no longer Li Heng's opponent.

Sima Yi is going to defend Guanzhong!

Sima Division was constrained by the main force of the Han army in Nanyang.

Bringing Guo Huai back is a secret.

The wrinkles on his face became deeper, and his calm eyes became a little tired.

Guo Huai is Sima Yi's man, he will definitely withdraw, there is no need to question this.

Before the local military chief was replaced by Sima Yi, Li Heng raised his troops and headed north.

As a result, the battle ended like this.

If Sima Yi did not bring back his direct troops, he might die miserably.

Giving up Guanzhong is just giving up Guanzhong.

Sima Yi will not feel bad when necessary.

Besides, the Guanzhong of this era is not the Guanzhong of the Western Han Dynasty.

The population of this era was concentrated in the Western Henan Corridor, located in Henan, Hebei and the Qingxu area.

For Cao Wei, Guanzhong was just a frontier.

Abandoning Guanzhong would not cause much loss to Cao Wei's population.

On the contrary, the people's livelihood there has been destroyed by the impact of Han money. The astronomical military expenditures required to maintain it over the years have become a burden.

Shrinking back is not necessarily a bad thing.

Guo Huai's troops took the waterway from the Weishui River to the Yellow River, followed the Yellow River to Baimajin, and then directly entered the battlefield.

It is nothing more than recruiting all merchant ships and water transport ships from Luoyang to Chang'an.

If you act fast, you can arrive in half a month.

Sima Yi closed his eyes and rested his mind. He already had a plan in his mind as to how the overall situation would turn out.

A confidential military order was sent to Luoyang before dawn.

At noon on the ninth day of June, Li Heng arrived at Dangyin. He ordered people to publicize the news of Wang Shijun's land in the countryside around Dangyin, and informed everyone that Wang Shi would take over Wei County next.

The news reached Anyang County in the afternoon.

In the evening, the news reached Yecheng again, causing great shock.

People were shocked not because of the big moves of the Han army in Dang Yin, but because the Han army was back again!

At night, rumors began to spread everywhere in Yecheng that the Wei army had been defeated on the banks of the Yellow River.

For a time, countless people took their families with them and began to flee Yecheng overnight.

On the morning of the 10th day of June, people who were still in Anyang saw a large number of Han cavalry quickly crossing the plains and heading north.

In the morning, Yecheng received the news and immediately began to seal the city gates.

Those who had not yet had time to escape were crying and shouting at the city gate.

At this time, many people in the fields outside the city saw the Han cavalry rolling over like a torrent.

The clouds of war enveloped Yecheng.

At noon, Sima Zhao's troops arrived at Dangyin and began to rest in Dangyin.

During this period, Sima Zhao continued to receive intelligence from Yecheng. He was worried, but there was nothing he could do.

His troops and horses had been marching for many days and were very tired.

Sima Zhao believed that the Han army also marched for a long time, and it was impossible to capture Yecheng in a short time.

Therefore, he chose to rest in Dangyin for a day.

But he didn't know that as early as last night, Li Heng's main force had already moved south overnight.

All his scouts' attention was drawn to Yecheng.

On the afternoon of the tenth day of the sixth lunar month, Pang Hui arrived at Dangyin with about 800 defeated cavalry and met Sima Zhao.

"General! The last general is here to take the blame!"

The more than 800 cavalrymen were all separated when Pang Hui regrouped later. At that time, only a dozen of his cavalrymen escaped.

"Get up, now is the time to employ people." Sima Zhao rarely pursued him.

On June 11, Sima Zhao's confidence returned after a day's rest.

Sima Zhao still has 17,000 soldiers and horses, and they are all from Cao Wei's army. They are real elites.

Before setting off, he said to the generals: "The Shu army was compressed into Wei County by our army. Now we only need to defeat the Shu army head-on. The war will be over. It's time for you to make contributions."

Everyone's morale suddenly rose.

That morning, after breakfast, the soldiers of the Wei army began to set off.

It was a mighty journey, and the morale was like a rainbow all the way.

When Anyang County learned that Wei reinforcements had arrived, they were immediately overjoyed.

Sima Zhao ordered his scouts to quickly spread the news that the royal master was coming.

For a moment, the original atmosphere of depression and panic changed.

At the same time, Sima Zhao also sent a force of more than 3,000 men to act alone in order to lure the Han army over.

Before long, Guan Tong, who was still doing supplies near Yecheng, got the news.

"Junhou, the main force of the Wei thieves has left Dangyin, and is probably approaching Anyang now."

"In addition, we found that the Wei army had thousands of soldiers and horses, and they were rapidly advancing towards Yecheng."

“How many people are thousands?”

"About two to three thousand."

Guan Tong frowned.

Is this also what the general said?
"Junhou, do we want to kill this Wei army immediately?" asked a general named Liu Yuan.

"do not go."

"Why, this Wei army only has two or three thousand men. Our army of three thousand cavalry can move south quickly and catch them by surprise."

Guan said flatly: "The general once said something that I will never forget."

Liu Yuan asked in confusion: "What are you talking about?"

"High-end hunters all appear as prey."

(End of this chapter)