"General, there is no one in the city!" The next day at dawn, Li Yan rushed to attack again, but Yanjin City was taken down without any resistance. This surprised Li Yan a little. The entire Yanjin City actually walked clean overnight.

"Do you want to chase after me?" Wei Yan rode his horse to Li Yan and asked.

"No need." Li Yan looked at the empty city and shook his head and said, "I must have been prepared for this clean journey. If we pursue it, we may encounter a consort. We will send scouts to monitor the movements of the Wei army, and send people to Chaoge and Yan County to investigate. The main force retreated, but we don't know if this partial army is still there!"

Although he looked down on Liu Yi, Li Yan did not dare to be careless when he could make Liu Yi suffer some losses while being so cautious. He instinctively chose a steady and steady approach.

"Here!" Wei Yan nodded. His opinion was similar to that of Li Yan. In terms of concept, Wei Yan and Li Yan's military concepts were actually consistent.

In the afternoon, the horse probing team in front had already returned and reported to Li Yanhui: "General, the thieves in Yan County are empty, Chaoge is still standing firm. The Wei army retreated to Liyang and began to build a line of defense near Baimajin!"

"Baimajin?" Li Yan returned to the tent, looked at the model on the sand table, found Li Yang's direction, and frowned.

"This area of ​​waterways is crisscrossing. Although the terrain is flat, it is not easy to attack." Deng Ai frowned at the terrain.

"If you don't attack, you have to attack." Li Yan sneered. The general direction of this battle was to break through Yecheng, capture or avoid the Wei court alive to gain the general trend. This time he realized that the emperor was not as plain as he seemed on the surface. He had enough ambitions. For this ambition, he could stop all slander. Instead of making conspiracies in the court, it was better to go to the battlefield to prove that he was really stronger than Liu Yi. This is where he could really suppress Liu Yi.

Li Yan is very smart, so he understands very well what he needs most for an ambitious emperor. Why can Liu Yi gain the trust and reuse of the emperors of both dynasties even though he has a strong foundation?

He was able to expand territory, not be greedy for power, and always worked from the perspective of the royal family or the world. Li Yan felt that he could do it, even better than Liu Yi. It was ridiculous that Liu Yi gave him such a good opportunity!

The best opportunity to conquer the Wei Dynasty, and Li Yan also had his own plan. Although Pang Tong had similar personnel along the way, he was just a partial teacher. As long as he won here, the victory or defeat on the battlefield in the Central Plains would become insignificant. After all, the court was gone and he was still fartful.

The most important thing here is that Sima Yi's troops will be defeated by Sima Yi, and as long as he defeats Sima Yi, the entire Cao Wei court will have no barrier. At that time, not to mention that Cao Shuang will be restrained by Pang Tong, even without this concern, it will be difficult for Cao Shuang to return to support in a short time.

It seems not too difficult to defeat Sima Yi.

Although Li Yan was cautious, Sima Yi did not show any extraordinary strategy in the Battle of Yanjin, or in other words, the weapons and armor of the Han Dynasty were difficult to make up for with strategies.

Seeing that the weather was getting colder, Li Yan was sure that Sima Yi had not left any ambush, and then rushed to the north and pointed directly at Baimajin. Guan Yu killed Wen Chou on Baima. Now, Li Yan is going to defeat Sima Yi on Baima, which has become a story for the ages!

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"Taiwei!" Guo Huai came to Sima Yi and bowed and said, "Li Yan led his troops to advance again, will he ambush?"

"No need!" Sima Yi shook his head: "Just guarding for ten days, you can give up Baimajin, and defend Li Yang. In Li Yang, if you are restraining them for another three days, we will retreat to Neihuang!"

"Our army's number of troops is far superior to that of the enemy, why not set up an ambush?" Guo Huai said a little puzzled.

"If the hard battle is going to be a big loss, we will still have to rush to the Central Plains. If there are too many losses here, how can we still support the Central Plains?" Sima Yi asked back.

Sima Yi had a personal experience of the elite Han army.

"Here!" Guo Huai smiled bitterly when he heard this, hoping that he would not prepare the eight-year plan like last time, but was used by the other party and destroyed himself in one fell swoop.

"Don't worry, Li Yan is not Liu Yi. Ma Jun has observed secretly. In the world, only Liu Yi can do that in the world." Sima Yi seemed to see through Guo Huai's thoughts and explained with a smile.

Guo Huai nodded and was about to say goodbye and leave, but was stopped by Sima Yi.

"Wait, it's better to ambush it, so as not to make Li Yan suspicious." Sima Yi looked at Guo Huai and said, "I'll give you eight thousand people to ambush. As for how much it can be hit, it's up to you, but Bo Ji must escape unscathed."

"Here!" Guo Huai bowed and turned around and left.

The Great Wei Dynasty has not many generals now, so it cannot afford to lose.

Sima Yi sighed as he looked at Guo Huai's departure.

On the other hand, Guo Huai received an order and set up an ambush on the river bank. Seeing that the Han army crossed the river, he led his army out. The river channel of Baimajin was not as wide as the Yellow River, and the widest was only about ten feet wide. This sudden attack was indeed a big surprise for the Han army. However, Li Yan, who reacted, immediately ordered the archers to line up opposite the river bank and cover the soldiers in front of him with arrow formations to cross the river. At the same time, Wei Yan led his army to force the river crossing, and fought with Guo Huai on the bank. The eight thousand Wei troops were killed and defeated, so he could only escape back to Baima in a panic.

Li Yan took the opportunity to order people to build a floating bridge on the river. Deng Ai and Liu Yi also learned construction and had good achievements in wood construction. In one day, they commanded the army to build more than ten wooden bridges. After the Han army established a foothold on the river bank, they immediately spread arrows to cover the white horses.

After calculating the range of the opponent's arrow cluster, Li Yan directly drove the arrow formation to the city and shot arrows one hundred and twenty steps away. Half of the white horses were shrouded in the rain of arrows, killing the Wei army so hard that they dared not show up.

Guo Huai ordered people to set up a throwing cart and kept dropping stone bullets at the outside of the city, and then forced Li Yan back. Even so, the Wei army still damaged many people, and many of the shields were scrapped by the Han army's arrows.

On the first day, Guo Huai suddenly felt deeply worried about whether he could hold on to the tenth day. Before, Liu Yi led his troops, he didn't feel so terrifying, but after he replaced Li Yan, he truly understood that in recent years, the Han army's archery manufacturer had already abandoned the Great Wei from afar.

On the second day, the Han army's offensive became even more fierce and even began to attack the city wall. Even though Sima Yi ordered craftsmen to build 300 stone casting cars overnight, it was still difficult to suppress the Han army's arrow formation. As a last resort, Sima Yi ordered people to demolish the houses in the city and build a ceiling above the city wall to block the Han army's arrow rain. At the same time, the thunder chariot was open-air and kept dropping stone bombs at the Han army, so he barely defended it.

This was the last day of the eighth. The catapult carts behind the Han army were transported up and the offensive became even more fierce. The city walls kept shaking under the bombardment of the catapult carts. The outer earth walls had begun to peel off. The ceiling built by Sima Yi was also hit by the catapult carts of the other party.

After two more days of persistence, Sima Yi led his troops to retreat and retreated into Liyang.

I stayed for another three days before I left the city.

"Father, if we continue like this, even if we retreat into Yecheng, we may not be able to defend too much time!" Sima Shi looked at the crumbling city wall and looked at Sima Yi with a wry smile.

The Han army has not suffered much loss, but the Wei army retreated all the way. Although Sima Yi took the initiative to retreat, the intensity of the Han army's siege was heart-shaking. I am afraid that even the city defense of Yecheng would not last long under such an attack.

"Warers are important in war, but what's even more terrifying is habit!" Sima Yi looked at his son without any frustration and said, "Did Ziyuan discover that Li Yan had set up formations in Yanjin, Baima and Liyang one after another. There would be some changes at the beginning, but now it is basically fixed?"

"It's true!" Sima Shi recalled carefully. Now Li Yan's siege routine has become simple and arrogant. When he arrives at the city, calculates the distance, and then arranges an arrow formation to shoot arrows into the city.

"Habits are a very terrible thing." Sima Yi groped at his beard. Although he was a little embarrassed, the smile on his face was very pleasant: "The most terrifying thing is that you won't even notice it yourself."

"But even so, even if our army is ambushed, it will be difficult to win!" Sima Shi said with a wry smile.

Even the equipment of the Han army and the speed of reaction on the battlefield can be comparable to that of the Wei army when they encounter a slum.

"Liu Yi has no effective strategy, but it may not be impossible to change someone else!" Sima Yi smiled and said, "As for Neihuang, as long as he still set up such a formation, we will win this battle!"

"Father said, then Li Yan was belittling the enemy?" Sima Shi asked with a smile.

"That's true." Sima Yi nodded without comment. In fact, it's not so simple. Li Yan is not a mediocre person. Even if he underestimates the enemy, it's not easy for him to fall into a trap. He must cut his wounds.

From Yanjin to Baima, and from Baima to Liyang, this is the meat cut by Sima Yi. The entire Wei County was cleared by a strong wall. This will cause great damage to people's livelihood. However, to defeat the Han army, Sima Yi could think of the best way, and this method was not effective on Liu Yi.

Other generals rushed up when they saw the benefits, and Liu Yi's first reaction was to have a fraud. Sima Yi was really tired of such a person, so he did not dare to use this trick on Liu Yi. Instead, he used a trick outside the market to move Liu Yi away and change him to another person. Even if he could be better than Liu Yi, Sima Yi was not afraid.
Chapter completed!