Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

However, the 300 Cao soldiers who were escorting the surrender letter were surrounded by the Han army before they left Yecheng for twenty miles.

Upon learning the news that the Xianbei were heading south, Guan Yu, Zhao Yun, Jia Xu and other civil and military officials almost unanimously decided to return immediately, even though they had not yet received Li Ji's order.

But Yecheng is right in front of us, and we also need to guard against the possibility of Cao Wei and the Hu people joining forces.

Therefore, Sima Yi became the main general who volunteered to stay, and he set up an ambush on the road south of Yecheng in advance. Naturally, the surrender letter was also delivered to Sima Yi.

"Down?"

Sima Yi was a little surprised, but after reading the surrender letter, he began to admire Cao Pi's courage.

Death is the hardest thing in this world.

Because of the public manifesto Liu Bei had issued, he would definitely not keep the Cao, Xiahou and Xun families.

Once this surrender was submitted, Cao Pi had already lost half his life.

However, Sima Yi believed that the surrender was genuine.

Therefore, after a little thought, Sima Yi asked Sima Lang, who was serving as the deputy general, to lead 10,000 troops to try to take over Yecheng and further confirm whether the surrender was true or false.

It was not until Sima Lang sent someone back to deliver the message that he had already taken over the defense of Yecheng and confirmed that there was no fraud in the city.

Sima Yi then led the remaining 20,000 soldiers and horses that were ambushed into Yecheng, and met Cao Pi, who was waiting for him with his hands tied and carrying the seal, money and grain books.

When ordering his men to take over the seal of King Wei and the money and grain books, even Sima Yi, who was usually a deep-minded man, couldn't help but reveal a hint of joy on his face.

From now on, history books will surely record a significant event: Sima destroyed Cao.

"The fruits of the 700,000-man army's northern expedition will be reaped by me, Sima Yi..."

Sima Yi stared at Cao Pi who was tied up in front of him, looked at Yecheng and the seal of King Wei in front of him, and ambition began to grow in his heart almost uncontrollably.

But at this moment, Sima Yi suddenly heard a sentence faintly echoing in his ears: The teacher will always pay attention to you, so don't slack off.

The next moment, Sima Yi's eyes regained clarity as he looked at the seal of King Wei.

Soon after, after Sima Yi accepted Cao Wei's surrender on behalf of the Han Dynasty, he conducted a simple review of Yecheng and compiled it into a book, and sent it to the south along with the surrender letter.

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Li Ji, who was trapped in Luoyang, naturally had no idea of ​​the movements of the parties outside Sili.

However, as the Hu people began to attack the city, this thousand-year-old capital was plunged into war.

But even though the Hu people had an absolute advantage in terms of military strength, with the various arrangements made in advance by Li Ji and the unity of the soldiers and civilians in the city, they were able to hold the city like a rock for a while.

The Hu people attacked fiercely for five consecutive days. In addition to leaving a large number of corpses under the city every day, they were able to actually attack the city wall only a few times, let alone successfully occupy a section of the wall for subsequent Hu people to climb the city.

What Li Ji found interesting was that the Hu people, who had suffered a temporary setback, or at the suggestion of Han Sui, imitated the Han military tactics and gave up the initial encirclement on all four sides, and instead surrounded three sides and left one side open, in an attempt to undermine the fighting spirit of the soldiers and civilians in Luoyang city.

It’s a pity that such a little trick could not affect the morale of the soldiers and civilians in Luoyang.

However, this gave Li Ji an opportunity to let the messenger break through.

If the Hu people continued to surround them on all sides, it would be unimaginably difficult to send a messenger to break out of the encirclement of an army of 400,000.

The three-sided siege left one gap, even if that flaw was deliberately exposed by the Hu people, there was still room for exploitation. After a little deduction, Li Ji came up with a clever plan to cover the messenger's escape.

However, how to make good use of this opportunity to break out and then get the cooperation of the Han army outside to defeat the Hu people is a difficult problem to solve at the moment.

Judging from the current situation, as long as Luoyang holds on for a period of time, reinforcements will arrive and the danger Luoyang is facing will be resolved.

But the problem is that if we want to defeat the Hu people, it is difficult because the Hu people's mobility is far superior to that of the Han army. Even if they see that things are impossible, they can evacuate in time.

No matter how hard the infantry chased, it was difficult to catch up with the Hu people.

Li Ji pondered over this problem for a long time, but still could not come up with a perfect solution.

Therefore, Li Ji simply invited Zhou Yu and Zhang Song, the two think tanks that were available at the time, to come over in an attempt to get some inspiration from them.

However, after learning of Li Ji's idea, Zhang Song could not help but be shocked by Li Ji's courage. He never expected that while he was still worrying about how to help the prime minister to find loopholes in defending the city, the prime minister was already thinking about how to completely annihilate the Hu people.

But after Zhang Song thought about Li Ji's request, he couldn't help but said "difficult, difficult, difficult" three times, and then said.

"Prime Minister, the Hu people are good at field battles with the help of their war horses, and they know the might of our Han army. Once the Hu people know that a large army is coming to help, they will definitely not fall into our trap."

"By then, whether the Hu people flee northwards through Mengjin and across the river, or retreat westwards through Liangzhou and return to the grasslands, it will be difficult to stop them."

Zhang Song undoubtedly pointed out the biggest difficulty at the moment, which is how to block the Hu people's retreat?
"But if we let the Hu people scatter and retreat back to the grassland, they will still be a major concern for our Han Dynasty next year..."

Li Ji frowned and said in a deep voice.

"Emperor Lingdi spent more than 36 billion yuan in military pay, but still failed to completely pacify the Qiang people. If these Hu people are really allowed to return to the grasslands, I don't know how much effort it will take to completely resolve the issue."

"But if we can wipe out all these barbarians in Sili, it will be a blessing for the Han Dynasty and all the people."

This statement made Zhou Yu and Zhang Song's hearts surge with emotion, and they couldn't agree more.

Li Ji paused for a moment, then pointed at the map in front of him and said.

"At this moment, if the Northern Expedition Army can enter from Hulao Pass to support Luoyang, the direction in which the Hu people will evacuate is nothing more than Mengjin, or return along Hangu Pass and Tongguan, and then go back to Liangzhou via Chang'an."

"Among them, I have already had some ideas on how to block Mengjin, but the difficulty lies in how to block Hangu Pass or Tong Pass and trap these 400,000 Hu people to death."

At present, the two strategic passes of Hangu Pass and Tong Pass have been controlled by the Hu people, and even Chang'an has fallen.

West of Luoyang, the Han Dynasty had no place to mobilize troops, let alone how to block the Hu people's retreat without anyone noticing.

After hearing this, Zhang Song suddenly thought of something and spoke excitedly.

"Prime Minister, we have soldiers, we have soldiers. Yizhou has soldiers available. Now that Hanzhong has surrendered to the Han Dynasty, the troops in Shuzhong can definitely go north from Hanzhong."

After hearing this, Li Ji secretly deduced it and said.

"Chang'an has fallen into the hands of the Hu people, and the Qiang people have invaded the Sanfu area many times. They are quite familiar with the terrain around Chang'an. I am afraid that the Qiang people will be prepared."

Zhang Song said with a hint of pride on his ugly face.

"Don't worry, Prime Minister. Song knows the terrain of Yizhou very well. He knows that there is a small road in Hanzhong called Ziwu Valley that leads directly to Chang'an..."

"When the time comes, we can use a surprise attack to recapture Chang'an, and then we can use this as a support to block the Hu people's retreat to the west." (End of this chapter)