Chapter 1,136 Sima Yi’s back-up plan

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Wei Yan tried his best, but still failed to keep Guo Huai outside Suanzao City.

After all, Guo Huai is Guo Huai. Even if Cao Wei's veteran generals are placed among the famous generals in Cao Wei's early days, Guo Huai can still have his own place.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Jia Chong retreated and sold himself in front of Wei Yan. Guo Huai ordered his soldiers to retreat back to the edge of the battlefield in a roundabout way without any thought.

He must find a way to re-open the distance between him and Wei Yan's troops, so that Guo Huai has room to withdraw the jujubes.

As for Jia Chong, he doesn’t care whether you die or not! ! !

Now Guo Huai hates Jia Chong to death and no longer cherishes his talents.

If Jia Chong's ability and potential could still tempt Guo Huai before, what Jia Chong has done now has made Guo Huai despair.

If he sells his teammates so smoothly, how can you expect this guy to be able to take on big things when he grows up in the future? !

In other words, who would want to work with such a virtuous person? !

Therefore, Guo Huai retreated directly, and he didn't care whether Wei Yan went after Jia Chong or not.

Of course, Guo Huai did not expect that Wei Yan chose to chase him and escape all the way, ignoring the greater military exploits, and Guo Huai also paid a heavy price.

After all, Guo Huai chose to retreat to the edge of the battlefield in a roundabout way. Although he could widen the distance between him and Wei Yan, the distance he had to retreat to Jujube was also lengthened.

Along the way, although Guo Huai retreated as quickly as possible, Wei Yan was not slow in pursuing, always biting the rear wing of Guo Huai's troops, constantly pursuing and attacking, and constantly killing and injuring Guo Huai's troops.

However, Guo Huai did not dare to stop and reorganize his formation and arrange to break up the rear. He only had 5,000 men, and Wei Yan had nearly 10,000 men chasing him. If he stopped for a while, he would not be able to withdraw.

Therefore, Guo Huai could only retreat all the way and fled all the way back to Suanzao without daring to look back.

The cost was that Wei Yan followed and killed him all the way, causing more than 1,700 casualties.

The casualties of less than 2,000 people also caused Guo Huai's garrison in Suanzao to drop from 9,000 to just over 7,000.

As for the reinforcements under Jia Chong, Guo Huai no longer counted on them.

Let’s not talk about the courage of that boy Jia Chong. Will he organize a rout of the army again and come to Jujube for support? Even if he can come, with the morale and morale of the current army, letting them enter Jujube will only have advantages and no disadvantages.

Originally, the jujube defenders were all defeated troops who had withdrawn from Puyang City, and the morale of the entire army was not very high. If Jia Chong's soldiers who had just experienced a rout were allowed to join the jujube defenders, the morale of the entire army would be good. No more.

It is simply impossible for such an army to defend Jujube.

Therefore, Guo Huai did not expect Jia Chong to gather the defeated army again, but chose to write two letters to deal with the current situation.

One letter is for Jiang Ji at Yanjin Ferry.

Guo Huai asked Jiang Ji to at least find a way to bring him 10,000 reinforcements no matter what method he used.

Otherwise, if Zizao is lost, Yanjin may not be able to hold it.

The other letter is to Sima Yi in Yongqiu.

Guo Huai filed a complaint against Jia Chong on the spot, hoping that Sima Yi could deal with it directly after Jia Chong returned. By the way, he asked Sima Yi if it was still possible to send him some reinforcements.

The wild jujubes are really important. If they cannot guard the wild jujubes, the Shu thieves will go straight to the rear of the Wei army in Yanzhou.

At that time, whether the Shu thieves go north to besiege Yanjin and completely cut off everyone's retreat, or go south to help the battle and attack Fengqiu or even Jiyang, they will be a big threat.

Especially if the Shu thieves attack Jiyang, the grain farm of the Yanzhou Army, it will no longer matter whether Yanjin is in hand or not, the entire Yanzhou Army will fall apart on the spot.

After the two letters were sent, Guo Huai relaxed a little, and then the Shu thieves outside the city increased their troops.

The 10,000 troops sent by Jiang Wei to reinforce Wei Yan finally joined Wei Yan under the leadership of Yan Zhi.

Now outside Suanzao City, Wei Yan has a total of 21,000 troops.

Now, Guo Huai only has 7,000 people left.

With a military strength comparison of three to one, the Wei army had just experienced another defeat. Now the Shu thieves had the confidence to attack Jujube, and the prerequisites for encircling the point for reinforcements were once again met.

Guo Huai suddenly started to have a headache.

Guo Huai's side just had a headache, while Sima Yi's side was already worried.

In this war, why is there not a single military operation that can make me worry less? !

On Yongqiu's side, Cao Shuang, a second-rate fool, was like a fool. He was asked to serve as a support envoy. This guy just guarded the rear and did not send troops, and he had all the reasons.

It was such a commotion that Sima Yi finally had to let Cao Shuang lead his troops back to Yongqiu, so that Sima Yi could mobilize enough troops to support Chen Tai who was camping outside the city and help him stabilize his defense line.

But this way, the defensive depth in Sima Yi's defensive concept is completely gone. The next time Chen Tai encounters an unstable defensive line again, there will be no way out and he will have to defend outside the city.

But no matter what, this matter can be solved. But what is going on with Jia Chong? !

What on earth is Jia Liangdao doing? !

Even if there are no generals who are outstanding enough to lead troops to support Jujube, you can't let an eighteen-year-old boy go to the battlefield, right? !

Well, even if you have confidence in your son and feel that he is capable of completing this task, look at the fuss that is happening now.

He is good at making opinions and is timid in the face of the enemy. Not to mention that no reinforcements were sent to Guo Huai, and he almost killed Guo Huai outside the city of Jujube. Do you know how important the jujube is to the retreat of our army? !

It's no wonder that Guo Huai complained so much and wanted to sue and punish an eighteen-year-old boy. Judging from the situation described in the military newspaper, it's not that Guo Huai has no tolerance for juniors, it's purely this boy's fault. It's not a big deal.

But Sima Yi really couldn't convict Jia Chong.

What Jia Chong did was indeed unethical, but he had a good father.

Jia Kui is one of the best in the Wei Dynasty in terms of qualifications and ability, and Jia Kui's reputation has always been very good. Even Emperor Cao Rui praised Jia Kui several times as a model of public loyalty and loyalty to the country. He was praised by two generations of Cao Wei. The trust of the emperor is heavy.

No matter what he did, Sima Yi would always consider Jia Kui's thoughts.

Therefore, Sima Yi thought about this matter for a long time, and finally decided to temporarily withhold Guo Huai's military report, and wait until after the war to discuss the matter with Jia Kui privately.

It is impossible to punish the crime, but it is still necessary to let Jia Liangdao know what this junior has done. He needs to be disciplined more.

Now, let’s return to practical issues.

Guo Huai wanted reinforcements, but Sima Yi couldn't get them together no matter what.

Sima Yi has sent reinforcements to the Suanzao and Yanjin lines three times in a row, but each time it was a drop in the bucket. The Suizao and Yanjin front lines were always in a hurry, and there was no day when the front was truly stabilized.

Sometimes, Sima Yi didn't know what to think. Was it the Shu thieves who were too powerful, or his own family members who were too incompetent? !

It is true that Sima Yi has no more troops. Now that Sima Yi has enough troops to defend Yongqiu, he feels that it is not enough. How can he send another batch of reinforcements to Guo Huai? !

Therefore, Sima Yi could only reply to Guo Huai and ask him to hold on for a while.

However, Sima Yi also knew that no matter how persistent Guo Huai was, they might not be able to completely guarantee the safety of the jujube. In this case, Sima Yi had to start thinking about the real way out.

Is it necessary to continue to spend time with the Shu thieves in Yanzhou?

Sima Yi finally understood the current strategy of the Shu thieves, which was to use heavy troops to contain the main force of the Wei army in Yanzhou from the front, and then raid the east county of Yanzhou with a partial force in an attempt to cut off the retreat route of the Wei army in Yanzhou, thus achieving the goal of trapping the main force of the Wei army in Yanzhou.

The Chenliu County side is the main battlefield on the front line, and the Yanjin and Suanzao lines are the main battlefields on the rear route.

To break this situation, it is actually difficult to say but easy to say.

To put it simply, it is because the current situation in Yanzhou has deteriorated.

The four counties in the south of Yanzhou have been lost. The three counties of Chenliu, Jiyin and Shanyang in the central part are almost undefended. Jia Kui of Jiyin County is huddled in Dingtao to defend, while Chenliu County is defending by himself.

Half of Dongjun in the north fell into the hands of Shu thieves.

To put it bluntly, more than half of Yanzhou has been lost now, and it would not be a big deal if the remaining areas were lost.

And this was Sima Yi's last resort - abandoning the defense of Chenliu, leading his troops straight to the Suanzao and Yanjin lines, defeating Wei Yan's troops, regaining Puyang and Dong'a, opening up the Taishan County pass, and retreating to the south of the Yellow River.

Don't you Shu thieves want to cut off my retreat? It doesn't matter. I will lead the main force to retreat to the south bank of the Yellow River, shrink the defense line, and compress the so-called "retreat" so that the Shu thieves have no "retreat" to cut off.

No matter how powerful the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in Wei Yan's hands are, can they escape from the encirclement and suppression of my nearly 100,000 troops? !

In this way, there is no threat from the back, and Sima Yi only needs to deal with Xu Shu's troops in the front.

This is Sima Yi's last backup plan, and the biggest difficulty with this backup plan lies in the court.

The imperial court would definitely not want to see Yanzhou fall to only two counties. Not only would the emperor not be willing to see it, but the ministers would also not be happy to see it.

If Sima Yi adopted such a strategy without authorization, even if he defended the south bank of the Yellow River, he would inevitably bear the responsibility for the loss of Yanzhou after returning to the imperial court in the future.

And if Sima Yi reported to the court first, it would be up to the court to decide whether to adopt such a strategy. The time of going back and forth is too long. By the time the court makes a decision, even if Yanjin can hold on, Guo Huai of Jujuba may not be able to. Hold on.

If the jujube is lost, even if Sima Yi's strategy is approved by the court, there will be many variables in its implementation.

Therefore, Sima Yi must make a choice now.

Should he report it to the court and wait for the court's decree, or make his own decision.

(End of chapter)