Wei Yan brought 10,000 new soldiers to practice the skills of fighting in the deep mountains of Hanzhong County. **《》》* In the Shuzhong Basin, which is separated from Hanzhong County by mountains, there are now undercurrents and the situation is unpredictable.

In the middle of the year, under tremendous pressure, the court announced to the world that the Sima family had committed three major crimes of murdering the late emperor, holding the prince hostage, and engaging in military rebellion. Then, it claimed to deprive all titles and power of the Sima family and demanded that the Sima family withdraw from Yizhou and come to Luoyang to receive the crime. But these were just to deal with the Jin State. In secret, Liu Bei and the Sima family still maintained an excellent relationship and did not do more things in the court that were unfavorable to the Sima family.

After the Jin State released Huangfu Song, Zhang Fei, Jin Xuan and all the captured, imprisoned and surrounded court troops as agreed, the court immediately stopped criticizing the Sima family in Yizhou, and even voices of grievances and grievances appeared in the court.

Liu Bei saw it very clearly that the most threat to the Han royal family was Zhao Xing, not the Sima family. If Yizhou was lost, even if he and Cao Cao realized a political alliance, it would not be able to stop the various armies affiliated with Zhao Xing from going down the Yangtze River and taking Jingzhou directly. Once Jingzhou fell, Sun Jian from Jiangdong would immediately surrender to Zhao Xing, and in this way, only a small piece of land in the heart of the Central Plains can be left for Liu Bei and Cao Cao to move. Even if the gods descended to earth, they would not be able to save the fate of the Han royal family being occupied by Zhao Xing.

The Sima family also knew in their hearts that the court was shouting loudly this time, but it was helpless. If their family really gave up Yizhou, they would be afraid that the court would not agree. Although this kind of criticism would be deceiving some people, as long as they firmly grasp the military power of Yizhou and block Zhao Xing's troops from Jiameng Pass and Baishui Pass, Yizhou is still the territory of the Sima family, and no one would snatch it away for a while.

Sima Yi, who suffered a defeat in Liang Kingdom, learned from his mistakes after returning to Chengdu and suggested that his father and elder brother give him military power. They made every effort to build internal affairs. The father and son worked together to deal with the huge threat from Liang Kingdom to ensure that the Sima family was not uprooted.

Although Sima Yi returned this time, Sima Fang and Sima Lang both saw Sima Yi's outstanding military strategy. After some discussion, the Sima family actually agreed to hand over the military power to Sima Yi and appointed Sima Yi as the commander-in-chief of the four major armies in Yizhou. In the future, they were fully responsible for the recruitment and training of soldiers, the appointment and removal of troops and the adjustment of the generals, and the stationing and deployment locations of various armies. They can be said to have full support and cooperation.

After Sima Yi was appointed as the Chief Governor of the Army, he first reorganized and adapted the existing troops in Yizhou and adjusted the positions of important generals.

Zhang Ren was appointed as the governor of the North Sichuan Road, and his command gathered 80,000 soldiers to station on the front line of the Yinping Road, the country under Guanghan County. The military advisor was Sima Fang's third son Sima Fu, and the deputy generals included Wang Ping, Chen Shi, Meng Da, Yang Ren and others.

Yan Yan was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Sichuan Road, and 60,000 soldiers were gathered under his command to station in the north of Hanchang, and pressing against Hanzhong County. The military advisors were Fa Zheng, and the deputy generals were Zhang Wei, Gao Pei, Liu Xun and Yang Ang.

Wu Yi was appointed as the governor of the Southern Sichuan Road, and his command gathered 60,000 southern barbarians to station in Kunze area of ​​Yizhou County (now near Kunming). The military advisor was Sima Kui, the fourth son of Sima Fang, and the deputy generals were Zhang Yi, Meng Huo, Wutugu, Dong Tuna and others.

Jia Long was appointed as the governor of the western Sichuan route, and his commander gathered 60,000 Qiang army to station in the area of ​​the migrant county of Shu County. The military advisor was Zhang Song, and the deputy generals were Zhang Yi, Wu Lan, Lu Kai, Yong Kai and others.

Sima Yi's major adjustment and reorganization of the Yizhou troops completely exposed the Sima family's strength in Yizhou for so many years. Even Zhao Xing could not help but take a few breaths of cold air after obtaining this information.

In order to defend against the troops from Liangzhou alone, Sima Yi used 140,000 troops and sent powerful characters such as Zhang Ren, Yan Yan, Fa Zheng, and Wang Ping. What Zhao Xing did not expect was that the Sima family obviously had superb methods in dealing with foreign races, and could tame the Southern Barbarians and take over the various Qiang tribes in western Yizhou for their own use.

If Zhao Xing sends troops to attack Yizhou in the future, I am afraid that Sima Yi will really mobilize a Southern Barbarian army and a Qiang army to go north to support Jiameng Pass and Baishui Pass, which will cost a huge price to protect the **.

What made Zhao Xing even more troubled was that intelligence personnel reported that Yizhou officers and soldiers had discovered a large-scale construction of defense facilities south of Baishui Pass and Jiameng Pass. According to the description of the Shadow Team members, Zhao Xing felt that the fortifications built by the Yizhou army this time were spared no expense and could do everything possible.

Perhaps inspired by Zhao Yun's construction of a double-layer city wall to prevent attacks when the Wohu Army defended Huguan, the fortifications built by the Yizhou Army this time were all serial mother-child fortresses. In other words, once Zhao Xing mobilized a large army to attack Yizhou, the troops would find that there was an equally strong fortress half a mile or one mile away blocking the way. What's more, there would be three or four such fortresses blocking the way to protect the ***.

Sima Yi ordered the fortresses built by the army to uniformly adopt a solid stone wall that did not leave a door hole. He wanted to completely block the road from Yizhou to Liangzhou and Hanzhong. Sima Yi knew that the gunpowder in Jin State was powerful, and he himself commanded his troops to blow up the city wall of Wudu Dao himself, so he gave this resolute order and simply did not even leave a city gate facing north! Without the door hole, it would be very difficult for Jin State to blow up the wall of the fortress to collapse.

This is just the situation seen by the Shadow Team. What Zhao Xing didn't know was that when Sima Yi ordered people to build these defensive passes, he would seal the black gunpowder produced in Yizhou in a pottery jar and bury it under the wall. Once it was discovered that the pass was about to fall, the fuse was lit and the Zhao Xing's troops attacking the wall and the pass were shattered together!

For example, in the Baishui Pass area where Zhang Ren was stationed, Sima Yi asked a hundred thousand troops to build a fortress every mile away, and five were built. Standing on the first pass closest to the original Baishui Pass, the Yizhou Army could clearly see the Liang** team stationed at the old Baishui Pass. Similarly, Cao Xing, Wang Shuang and others could also see the Yizhou Army more clearly through the clairvoyance.

The Sima family would rather block all the northbound roads from Yizhou to Liang and Chang'an. They would not have any trade with Liang and Jin in the future, and would also block Zhao Xing's army in the northern part of Yizhou. This determination to refuse to surrender is certainly touching, but this is just the beginning. Sima Yi still has many insidious and cunning methods that are being brewed secretly. Once it is used, I don't know how much trouble it will cause to Zhao Xing.


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