Less than two days after the Niu Pi War, Taishi Ci received accurate information. He expressed deep self-blame for Fa Zheng's breakthrough and Wang Lujun's heavy losses, and blamed the main reasons for the failure of the war on his mistakes in command and dispatch.

Although the expected victory was not achieved, the army of the Yinan Army still exceeded the task. After all, the combat mission assigned by the Wohu Commander to Taishi Ci was to advance into the Chengdu Plain rather than intercept the Yizhou East Army led by Zhang Ren. Now that Zhang Ren has been captured, the 120,000 Eastern Army troops have only fled back to Chengdu about 30,000. Even if they entered the Chengdu city, it was no longer helpful and it was difficult to reverse the fate of the Sima family's destruction.

Taishici sent a messenger to go down the river and cross the Yufucheng, which was stationed by 20,000 Yizhou troops, and directly contacted Zhao Gang and Huang Zhong in the direction of Jingzhou. He hoped that Tianyi Army and Huang Zhong's army would advance west in time, and attack Yufucheng with a force sent by Taishici, and take the opportunity to open up the passage between Yizhou and Jingzhou, and prepare for the attacking army to support the Central Plains after pacifying Yizhou.

After all, Taishi Ci has always had such a strong sense of the overall situation. Even though he knew that Fa was leading 30,000 elite Yizhou soldiers back to Chengdu, he still calmly dispatched troops according to his own deployment, without disturbing his sight due to the enemy's actions.

In Taishici's view, the top priority now is not to lead the army to attack Chengdu, but to prevent the Tianyi Army and Huang Zhong's troops from entering Yufucheng to replace the attacking Yinan Route Army to block the exit of Sima's family's escape eastward. As for the attacking Yinan Route Army, they immediately rushed to the south to guard Wuyang City, so as to prevent the Sima family from escaping Yinan Route Army from escaping eastward when the main force of the attacking Yinan Route Army was transferred to the east of Chengdu.

Although there are 30,000 troops stationed in southern Yizhou, the Sima family has now obtained the 30,000 elite troops of Fazheng, and the soldiers available in their hands will be abundant. If they really want to rush westward into the Shan Gang (Myanmar), then the hard work of the Yinan Route Army over the past year will be in vain.

Taishici did it when he thought of it. He first sent Gan Ning to lead 20,000 Yizhou soldiers in Qi County to clear out the remaining troops of less than 10,000 Yongkai's troops who failed to attack Qi County. Once Yongkai was captured, Gan Ning would go backward along the road where Zhang Ren's army retreated westward and head straight to Yufucheng, striving to reach the west of Yufucheng before Tianyi Army and Huang Zhong's troops arrived at Yufu, and at the same time, forming a favorable situation for Yufucheng to attack east and west.

Let Gan Ning take Yizhou soldiers to Yufu to shake the morale and heart of the Yizhou army defending Yufu City, and also allow these Yizhou soldiers to leave Shu to support the war in the direction of Jingzhou as soon as possible. These 20,000 people have been in the northern part of Yizhou before and have not participated in the battle to attack Yiling. Whether it is Jingzhou soldiers or the people of Jingzhou, they are more psychologically acceptable.

When Gan Ning left, he also brought Wu Yi, who had been captured. Let Wu Yi lead the way in front. Not only will the army move faster, but as long as Wu Yi stops next to Yufu City and shouts a few words to the Yizhou defenders at the top of the city, the effect will be absolutely extraordinary.

When the Gan Ning Army and Tian Yi Army and Huang Zhong's troops met successfully in Yufucheng, the Tian Yi Army would continue to advance westward and head straight to Chengdu. At that time, the army of the attacking Yibei should also break through Mianzhu Pass and appear in the north of Chengdu.

The reason why Taishici was so confident that the attacking Yibei Route Army could break through Mianzhu Pass was because Zhang Song, who had just been subdued, would secretly lead Zhang Hejun and Xu Rongjun to smoothly cross Mianzhu Pass from another road.

Zhang Song appeared as a treacherous villain in historical materials and legends. The most famous thing he did was to secretly collude with Liu Bei, present the "topographic map of Western Shu", and betray his master Liu Zhang. In this time and space, Zhang Song was still as vulgar as he was. Not only did he help the Jin troops persuade the soldiers of Yizhou in front of the battlefield, but he also identified Wu Yi who was mixed among the soldiers.

After meeting Taishi Ci, Zhang Song claimed to Taishi Ci and Li Ru that he was familiar with the thousands of roads in Shu and knew that he could reach the Chengdu Plain without passing through Mianzhu Pass. Although Taishi Ci was very shameful to Zhang Song's corrupt face, as long as he could help the Northern Army quickly get rid of the problems of Mianzhu Pass, he might as well use Zhang Song.

After seeing off the Gan Ning army, Taishici took 10,000 elite soldiers from the land brigade and escorted the total 40,000 prisoners arrested by Gan Ning and Guan Ping, and headed towards Wuyang. Before that, Guan Ping had already taken 20,000 Qinghuai Army soldiers two days in advance to guard the heavy losses of Wang Lu's remnants to Wuyang City.

As it turns out, Taishici's deployment is not redundant at all.

On the third day when Guan Ping urgently led his army to occupy Wuyang City again, that is, the day when Taishi Ci set out from Zhu County, Sima Yi actually sent an army of about 30,000 people from Chengdu to attack Wuyang. Of course, these 30,000 people were illegally brought back by the 30,000 exhausted and scarred Yizhou East Route Army, but the former Zhang Ren direct troops retreated from the north of Yizhou to Chengdu.

If there was no 30,000 elite troops brought back by Fa Zheng, where would Sima Yi have the confidence to send troops from Chengdu City at this time to move south? Sima Yi's idea did change a little. The purpose of his dispatch of this army was to try to recapture Wuyang City and block the Yidong Army led by Taishi Ci in the Heniu Pi area of ​​Qi County, and open up the most valuable channel for the Sima family's future escape.

Although the southern part of Yizhou has now suffered from the chaos of Taishici's army, Sima Yi was confident and confident to take the initiative and control the situation in southern part of Yizhou. After all, the Sima family has been operating in Yizhou for ten years and has left behind forces loyal to it in all counties in Yizhou. Once the Sima family arrives in southern part of Yizhou and calls, they will definitely receive help and follow from local forces.

In Sima Yi's opinion, Xiangbei had already cut off the road of life, and Xiangdong is now hopeless. Looking west to hide in the snowy plateau area controlled by the Tang Dynasty and Qiang people was a life-and-death choice. Only escaping south was the best choice. When Sima Yi heard that the southern part of Yizhou was actually the regular troops of Jin led by Taishi Ci, he felt cold and became at a loss.

Unfortunately, when Wang Ping led 30,000 elite troops to Wuyang urgently, he bumped into Guan Ping's 20,000 Qinghuai Army, who was waiting for work. Guan Ping, who was still unconscious and anxious, saw that the Sima family really dared to act against the will of heaven, so he brought a big knife to chop Wang Ping, almost dazed Wang Ping.

Wang Ping accepted the order to take advantage of the situation to seize Wuyang City, not to attack Wuyang City. Now seeing the strong fighting spirit of the defenders at the city, the "Little Guan Ye" who suddenly rushed out of the city was brave and good at fighting, so he hurriedly led the army to retreat, which made Guan Ping, who was about to fight hard.

Guan Ping fought against Wang Ping, which is quite interesting. Since Wang Ping led his army to withdraw back to Chengdu, then Guan Ping still has a chance to deal with Wang Ping when he besieged Chengdu in the future.

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