"Two." Li Yan looked at Wei Yan and Deng Ai in front of him, with a indifferent expression and no intention of being close or trying to win over. He knew very well that he could not pull him. Wei Yan was a talent recommended by Liu Yi, and he had been taken care of by Liu Yi over the years. Liu Yi has not been in the court for many years. Whenever there was something happening to Liu Yi, Wei Yan was definitely one of the people he paid the most attention, let alone Deng Ai. Liu Yi grew up and was half of Liu Yi's disciple and son. Moreover, with the current official positions of the two, it was difficult for him to give anything, so he adopted a public attitude.

"I may have some misunderstandings with Sikong, but as Sikong said, this time, we are going to attack Wei and fight to restore our Han Dynasty, rather than personal grudges. I hope the two generals can let go of their prejudices against Li and fight for our Han Dynasty."

Wei Yan said lightly: "General, don't worry, the governor has already given instructions before leaving, let me and I help you with all our strength."

Of course, it is a time when it is not done. Saving your life is preferred. Li Yan can ignore his life and death. This is the second half of the sentence Liu Yi gave them. Wei Yan and Deng Ai naturally would not say it.

"It's so good." Seeing Deng Ai nodding, Li Yan didn't understand what Liu Yi meant? It seemed that he was not.

Since I couldn't figure it out, I didn't want to. Li Yan looked at the two and said, "I need the detailed process of Sikong's battle with the Wei army, as well as the soldiers, food, equipment, and the information of the Wei army in our army, the detailed information of Sima Yi and the generals around him, and the approximate forces of the Wei army. Sikong should have made a sand table in this area, right? I want to see."

Knowing yourself and your enemy, you will win every battle. Although Li Yan has confidence in himself, he also believes that there are not many opponents who can make Liu Yi so cautious. Lu Meng, the Jiangdong Grand Commander, was captured alive by Liu Yi.

Although he looked down on Liu Yi's method of using troops, Li Yan still chose to learn more about the details, compare himself with Sima Yi, look at the advantages and disadvantages of both sides and then make plans for the next step.

"Here!" Wei Yan and Jiang Wei agreed, held their fists and bowed to Li Yan, and bowed.

In the next few days, Li Yan was very active, inspecting the military camp every day, counting supplies, understanding the surrounding landforms, exploring the enemy situation, and arranging scouts. In terms of ability, Li Yan was absolutely not bad, and everything he arranged was organized.

"Sima Yi's army is about 200,000, and is stationed in Yanjin, Yan County, and Chaoge, but why should he be strong and clear the country in these days?" Li Yan was a little confused about Sima Yi's move. At least Li Yan's eyes, the coordination of these three counties is strategically important. Sima Yi's direct airing of the rear is absolutely no benefit for his food route.

"This..." Wei Yan shook his head. Liu Yi had been speculating about what Sima Yi's move meant?

"I heard that Wen Master is good at surprise attacks. Can you lead a team of men to attack the enemy's rear and harass the food route?" Li Yan asked.

"The governor also tried it before, and Sima Yi looked at the rear very tightly." Wei Yan shook his head, thinking that Li Yan was doing useless work. He really thought that Liu Yi was just simply hiding? If he had the chance, Liu Yi would still find the enemy's weakness, but Sima Yi was also good at guarding, especially in the food industry. Sima Yi was very cautious, false, and sometimes the disaster came, but it was fake, and there were ambushes. If Wei Yan had not seen the situation was not good, he would have retreated immediately, and he would have been surrounded by Sima Yi.

"If this is the case, then tomorrow I will lead the main force to attack Yanjin. You two will lead 5,000 troops to ambush the reinforcements from Chaoge and Yan County respectively. If you can trick the reinforcements from the two places, you will destroy the two battalions. If the second battalion does not send troops, you will lead the army to work with me to see if you can break through Yanjin." Li Yan thought for a while and looked at the two and said, "What do you think of?"

The two have great prestige and outstanding abilities in the army, so Li Yan must worry about their views.

"Maybe you can try it." Wei Yan thought for a while and was a little moved.

Liu Yi does not advocate attack, but Wei Yan's character does advocate attack, and respecting Liu Yi is one thing, but Liu Yi's approach is somewhat inconsistent with Wei Yan. Besides, Liu Yi also said that he fully supports Li Yan.

As Sima Yi's main protection target, Yanjin has 100,000 defenders. According to military tactics, not to mention that Li Yan's troops are not as many as the opponent, even if there are 100,000 troops, rashly siege the city is definitely a bad strategy.

However, today's weapons of the Han Dynasty have gradually distanced themselves from Cao Wei. The range of bows and arrows is extremely long and can be suppressed by distance. It can be imitated by the pre-Qin arrow formation and force the Wei army to go out of the city to fight. In terms of close combat, it can be done with the strong armor of the Han soldiers with one against two.

Of course, if Sima Yi did not respond, he would keep throwing arrows into the city. The Han army not only had a long range of bows and arrows, but also had a longer range of stone throwers. This kind of suppression can be done step by step, and the Yanjin wall collapsed step by step. Li Yannao didn't understand why Liu Yi had such ability, so why did he spend all the time with Sima Yi here?

The plan was decided. The next morning, Wei Yan and Deng Ai each led a group of troops to set up an ambush, while Li Yan led a 50,000 main army outside Yanjin City and began to suppress the opponent with arrow formations. At the same time, the stone-cattering machine also began to drop stone bombs at the Wei army.

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"Siege the city?" Sima Yi smiled a little on his face when he heard the news and said to Sima Shi and Guo Huai: "Let's go and watch the city!"

"Here!" Sima Shi and Guo Huai agreed and accompanied Sima Yi to the city wall. At this moment, the Han army's arrow clusters fell in the direction of the city wall as if they were not allowed. A large number of Wei soldiers hid behind the female wall, suppressed so much that they dared not appear.

"Taiwei, the last general is willing to lead his troops to fight!" Guo Huai looked at Sima Yi anxiously and said, "The opponent's bow and arrow range is long, and his own bow and arrow cannot reach it, so he can only lead his army out of the city to fight the enemy hard.

"Okay, Bo Ji must be careful. If you can't do anything, withdraw your troops immediately!" Sima Yi held a shield and poked out a little bit of a head from behind the female wall, observing the Han army formation, nodding to Guo Huai.

Guo Huai agreed and immediately went down the city, ordered 20,000 elite troops out of the south gate, bypassed the city, and led his army to attack the Han army formation.

On the other side, Li Yan was obviously prepared. Seeing the enemy cavalry rushed up, he immediately ordered the spearmen who had already prepared to come out and protect them in front of the archers.

Guo Huai commanded the army to hit the enemy at any cost and quickly broke a gap. However, the archers had already turned around and shot at the Wei army. At the same time, a soldier holding a large shield stepped forward and quickly formed a shield formation to block the Wei army's attack.

Guo Huai fought for a while, but failed to break the formation. Instead, he lost many troops and horses. He could only withdraw his troops and return to the city in anger. Li Yan took the opportunity to follow and grab the city gate, but was repelled by the Wei army at the top of the city with arrow formation. He could only continue to use arrow formation to fight back and suppress the Wei army without a cold.

"Taiwei, the last general is incompetent!" Guo Huai returned to the city and replied bitterly.

The Han army was too strong, and its formation and morale were not weak. When occupying the defensive situation, the Wei army could not attack at all.

"No, it's done well!" Sima Yi got off the city wall and his face turned a little pale. After all, the city wall was too dangerous. If you accidentally get a chance, the chances of hitting the trap are extremely high.

"Ah?" Guo Huai looked at Sima Yi in a daze.

"The commander of the Han army has been replaced." Sima Yi breathed a sigh of relief and smiled: "From the posture, he wanted to forcibly attack the city. With Liu Yi's personality, he would choose a more conservative style of playing, such as building a few arrow towers here. He had tried it before and was driven away by us, but the Han army in front of him was quite enterprising. This is not Liu Yi's style. The people who went to Chang'an have not yet come back?"

Although it is basically confirmed that the opponent's coach has been replaced, Sima Yi is cautious by nature and still wants to wait for the news from Chang'an to be safer.

"If there is really news, it will be only a few days after sending the letter." Sima Shi on the side thought for a while.

"Then wait a few more days!" Sima Yi smiled.

"Father, it's not easy to defend these days!" Sima Shi said with a wry smile. Sima Yi asked Ma Jun to remove many of Yanjin's things. It was all based on those old things. How could he fight against the Han army equipped with powerful weapons?

"This will make it look more real!" Sima Yi shook his head and smiled, "If this plan can be accomplished, the day when the Han army is defeated will not be far away!"

When Sima Shi heard this, he could only smile bitterly.

Li Yan naturally would not really attack the city, at least not at the moment. After Wei Yan and Deng Ai returned to tentatively attack, they cried out to withdraw their troops.

"General, I don't know when I can attack the city?" Wei Yan looked at Li Yan and asked.

"Wait a few more days." Li Yan smiled and said, "Now the Wei army in Yanjin still has fighting spirit. After all, our army has few soldiers. If we forcefully attack the city, we may not be able to capture it at this moment."

Wei Yan nodded. Although Li Yan was a little annoying, he was a man of war and was quite well-organized in wars.

In the next few days, Li Yan waved his army to throw arrow clusters into the city with clusters of arrows. At first, it was still far away, but as the Wei army in the city was frustrated several times to raid, Li Yan's courage became increasingly strong and continued to move the front line forward. The walls of Yanjin had become riddled with holes under the continuous bombardment of the catapults, and even a large number of cracks appeared, as if they were about to collapse.

In Yanjin City, Sima Shi quickly came to Sima Yi and bowed to Sima Yi and said, "Father, the news from Chang'an has been sent back. Li Yan has replaced Liu Yi a few days ago and presided over the battle situation here. Now in the Han camp opposite, he should be the commander of Li Yan."

"Okay!" Sima Yi smiled and said, "I inform the Yan County garrison to retreat according to the route set before, but it is too urgent to retreat."

"Taiwei, do you really want to hand over this city?" Guo Huai felt a little uncomfortable.

"So what if you give it to him? What I want is the life of the pseudo-Han army of 100,000!" Sima Yi stood up and patted Guo Huai on the shoulder and said, "If the Han army is destroyed, all these cities can be taken back. Bo Ji should look at the overall situation!"
Chapter completed!