When Da Sima thought of this rumor, veins popped out on his forehead:

There are nearly 30,000 people in Guohuai and more than 20,000 in Pubanjin. The total number is at least 50,000.

Now is the perfect time to defeat these 50,000 people. Isn't this a big enough achievement?

Coupled with the extraordinary skill of crossing the river, is it still inferior to the fishing pole in your hand?

Send three to five thousand people over?

Who does your mother look down upon?

When Feng Thief will cross the river has almost become Sima Yi's obsession.

It's not his fault.

After all, he had laid such a big bait and set up such a big scheme. He had calculated everything, but he had not expected that Thief Feng would actually stay by the river!

Tens of thousands of people ran from Liangzhou to Jiuyuan, then from Jiuyuan to Bingzhou, and finally from Bingzhou to Hedong, wasn't it just to cross the river?

Seeing that he was just shy of the last step, he actually refused to leave!

"Could this bandit army be just the former army of the Shu captives?"

If Thief Feng does not plan to cross the river from Pubanjin, but instead builds a plank road openly and crosses Chencang secretly as he did last time.

First, they set up a suspicious formation at Pubanjin, then quietly led the army northward and crossed the river from Longmen.

So the bandit army behind Guo Huai is probably the front army of the Shu captives.

With Thief Feng's cunning, this is not impossible.

Thinking of this, Sima Yi's eyes lit up, but hesitation quickly appeared on his face.

Counting the days, time is already very tight.

It is possible that Zhuge Liang will finish the control west of Chang'an at any time and turn east.

On my side, there is only one chance.

"Someone's coming!"

"exist."

"Let General Niu come and see me!"

After a while, Niu Jin opened the tent and came in:

"Da Sima, do you call the last general?"

"General Niu, General Guo led the army down from Qiaoshan. There are thieves in hot pursuit. I ordered you to lead five thousand fine cavalry to meet them. Is there any problem?"

Niu Jin immediately cupped his fists and said:

"The general will obey the command of the Grand Sima and will definitely bring General Guo back safely!"

Sima Yi nodded:

"Without further delay, prepare yourself and set off immediately."

"promise."

To arrange this matter, Sima Yi called his confidants and asked him to send his secret message to Luoyang.

He must prepare for the worst outcome.

After the Luoshui River flows into Guanzhong, the terrain becomes flatter as you go south.

Niu Jin led five thousand fine cavalry and galloped north along the Luoshui River to reinforce Guo Huai, and soon met up with Guo Huai.

After Guo Huai got this cavalry, he almost burst into tears.

"Da Sima asked me to tell the general that when the general is here, if the Shu captives continue to pursue him, he can turn around and engage the Shu captives."

Niu Jin said to Guo Huai, "As long as the Shu captives dare to fight, Da Sima will be able to gather them and annihilate them."

In the past few days, Guo Huai has been hating the Sichuan cavalry behind him.

It's just that I couldn't do anything to the other party, so I wanted to reach the edge of the Wei River as early as possible along the way.

When he heard Niu Jin's words, he sighed and said:

"I have long planned to ambush this bandit army, but they are quite vigilant. If we just turn around and form a battle formation, I am afraid the bandits will not be easily fooled."

"It doesn't matter, General Guo just obeys what Grand Sima said."

After hearing this, Guo Huai reacted immediately.

Logically speaking, if you really plan to eat the Shu barbarian cavalry behind you, it is best not to expose the newly arrived five thousand elite cavalry first.

Instead, he hurried on as before, and then inadvertently exposed his flaws, luring the Shu captives to rush up again, and finally annihilated them in one fell swoop.

It's just that Da Sima wants to form a formation to counterattack immediately. Could it be that he has other plans?

So Guo Huai discussed it with Niu Jin, and the two decided to test it out.

If the Shu captives dare to come over, they must teach them a lesson.

If you don't dare to come, then it can be regarded as completing Da Sima's instructions, and then continue to the south.

Sure enough, after the Wei army stopped forming formation, the Han army's cavalry began to send out scouts to investigate the situation ahead.

Just when the two sides were at a stalemate, a messenger suddenly reported urgently:

"General, General Niu led his men to rush out!"

Guo Huai was shocked: "What!"

"Why would he rush out at this time?"

"He said he was going to find the Shu captives for a decisive battle."

Guo Huai suddenly felt like he had caught someone's mother and penetrated her ten thousand times!

Then you still want me to form a formation?

Why don't you just cut it off and let me go first?

After Guo Huai learned that Niu Jin had attacked without authorization, he realized belatedly that the so-called reinforcements did not seem to be specially coming to save him.

Guo Huai didn't expect Niu Jin's sudden attack, let alone Yang Wanwan who was behind him.

At this time, it reflects the importance of General Guan's selection of leading generals and judgment before departure.

It is hard to say whether the three thousand Han cavalry would have the upper hand against the five thousand Wei cavalry, but at least they would not be at a disadvantage.

In addition, there is an armored battalion not far behind. If it were Zhao Guang, he would like to have a fight with the opponent first.

However, Yang Wanwan kept in mind General Guan's previous instructions. If the situation went wrong, he would immediately gather his soldiers and retreat to the rear.

After exiting a few miles, a scout came to report:

"General, we found another bandit army in the east!"

"Sure enough, the thieves have other plans and want to surround us!"

Yang Wanwan immediately issued an order, "Send an order to the entire army to continue retreating and go to join General Zhao."

"Also, send someone to General Zhao and ask him to be prepared. Don't be careless."

"promise!"

It was only a short journey of about ten miles. Although there was no large-scale contact between the Han and Wei sides, in fact, the generals and commanders of both sides had already fought twice.

After Yang Wanwan and Zhao Fang reunited, Wei State also revealed its true intentions.

Guo Huai was the bait, Niu Jin's five thousand fine cavalry were to confuse the ears and eyes, and Sima Yi's real killing move was the tens of thousands of cavalry that were circling from the east.

However, these tens of thousands of cavalry immediately stopped when they discovered that behind Yang Wanwan was the armored cavalry led by the powerful Zhao Sanqian in Guanzhong.

Neither Han nor Wei seemed to have any intention of fighting. After a short confrontation, the two sides began to slowly disengage in a tacit understanding.

General Guan couldn't help but sigh after learning all this:

"Sima Yi is worthy of being the Great Sima of Wei State. Yang Wanwan and Zhao Yiwen were exposed by his temptation."

At the same time, the Great Sima of Wei State also sighed:

"Thief Feng is indeed a famous Shu general. My arrangement may have been anticipated by him, so he deliberately stayed in the east of the river to fish."

"What he fished was not a fish, but my big fish."

Although Feng Thief and Ge Thief didn't know each other's information, they didn't expect their cooperation to be so tacit.

Not only did he want to eat the bait he released, he even wanted to eat his own big fish.

"Come here, immediately send an order to the entire army to prepare to break camp!"
Chapter completed!