"After this battle, I deeply felt that the soldiers were actually a clever way. Victory can be known but not spoken, and those who speak do not know. Someone uses food and grass as a plan, and Cao's army uses food and grass as bait to lead someone to the bait..."

"So, be careful when fighting."

Sima Yi finished writing the last few words, stared at "Shen" for a long time, finally sighed, put the battle report into a bamboo tube, and after adding fire paint, he sent it to the rear to save the archive.

Victory means victory, defeat means defeat.

Sima Yi won and had to admit his failure.

With such relatively objective summary and reflection, Sima Yi cheered up again.

His total casualties this time caught up with the previous sum.

The damage is not bad.

War is like gambling. No matter how much you win before, you may be able to output it in the last hand.

Just like Yuan Shao won most of the time in Jizhou before, and he had so many bargaining chips, he lost all his money in the fight with Cao Cao.

Therefore, Sima Yi deeply realized the cleverness of Fei Qian, the general of the Cavalry. Fei Qian cherished his military strength like a stingy person, and never took action without absolute certainty. Although it may waste some opportunities, it also avoided unnecessary damage. Whether it was attacking Guanzhong or entering Sichuan and Sichuan, it was not a strait war, but a selective battle, and no blind expansion of the army...

There is still a gap!

When Sima Yi was just sighing, he received a detection from a scout, saying that Cao's army made a big move and headed straight to Puban County!

Sima Yi frowned slightly.

This is a bit troublesome.

Not only is there a problem of the large number of wounded people and the shortage of soldiers, but there is also a big problem...

The fortifications in Puban County are not good.

The fortifications in Puban County have always been bad, so Sima Yi was unwilling to defend Puban County before, and would rather put the battle on the outside. Now that the troops are under loss, if they continue to defend Puban County, it will not only be a problem of passive defense, but may also be blocked in Puban County and unable to move.

"Send more teams immediately to contact Hao Duwei, and order to return to the army immediately and look for fighter jets behind Cao's army! Go quickly!"

Sima Yi immediately issued the first order.

In order to create an opportunity for Sima Yi, Hao Zhao went to the near Zhongtiao Mountain Camp to go around in circles to make a feint attack. Now that Sima Yi has been ambushed, it means that Hao Zhao's feint attack has been seen through.

But even if you send more teams, you may not be able to contact Hao Zhao immediately.

Sima Yi still needs to find a way to solve the problem in front of him.

To defeat the invading Cao's army, the losses must be minimized.

Otherwise, let alone whether he can survive or not. If all the troops are lost, he can announce that he will withdraw from the battle sequence before replenishing...

Huo Nu, who had an arm hanging, came.

Huo Nu was originally seriously injured, and Sima Yi wanted to go to the rear to recuperate, but Huo Nu was unwilling to do so.

"The Cao army is coming, and Puban is hard to protect you. You should go to the rear to recover from your injuries!" Sima Yi said with a frown.

Huo Nu waved his intact arm, "I can still hold a knife and fight!"

『…』 Sima Yi was silent for a moment, 『Then let someone transfer the wounded soldiers to Emei Ridge. Cao's army came, but we didn't care about them!"

Huo Nu had high requirements for himself, but he did not demand other wounded soldiers and nodded in agreement.

Transferring the wounded soldiers first did reduce some of the burden, but how to fight Cao's army next is still a problem...

『Fight to death!』 Although Huo Nu was injured, he was still very fierce.『Cao army dared to attack the city, so I would like to pull a few cushions!』

Sima Yi frowned and didn't say anything. He was recalling the summary of the battle report he had just handed in.

"What?" Seeing Sima Yi like this, Huo Nu asked, "Are you defeated once or you are scared?"

Sima Yi was not annoyed, but said, "I remembered some of the words my lord said..."

"What do you mean?" Huo Nu asked.

Sima Yi nodded and said, "The lord once said, "If you have people and lose your land, people can still gain it; if you have people and lose your land, it will also be difficult to defend it." This is the truth. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, countries had disputes, some had places the most important places, and some had people as the basis. If you have people and abandoned your land, even if you have lost a thousand miles of land, people's hearts and morale are excited, and you can restore it and build a country without losing the best strategy."

"On the contrary, if you lose people by keeping the land, even if you have a territory that has no one to protect it, it is like a void. The land is empty and desolate, without people to farm, and without soldiers to defend it. Even if there is a vast land, it will eventually be given to others... The lord used the four peoples to value people in Pingyang, which is exactly the same as this."

Huo Nu thought for a moment, "What I heard mean is... Are you going to abandon the county town?"

Sima Yi smiled, "Not only that, I am also ready to give up even Pubanjin..."

『Hmm?!』 Huo Nu was stunned, 『What do you mean? Tell me in detail!』

"What Puban wants is to enter Emei Ridge in the north and cross the river in the west. Now the river is melting and the ferry cannot be carried. This side is like a dead end..." Sima Yi stretched out his hand and waved in the air. "And we gathered soldiers and lived on Emei Ridge, and laid many flags. If we pretended to be suspicious soldiers, we could control Cao's army to go north... Therefore, if Cao's army got Jinjin in Puban County and saw that there were many flags on Emei Ridge, they would not dare to advance, and divided the troops and settled the city and wait for support."

『But if Cao's army really went north to the mountain," Huo Nu said, 『So what?

Sima Yi said in a deep voice: "Cao's army is mainly infantry and moves slowly. If it really goes north, it's better to cross the road and greet it! Now that Cao's army is here with heavy troops, it will inevitably be empty afterwards! Cao's army thought we were newly defeated, lost our courage and lost our ambition, so we could only stick to the county and Tianjin... but we didn't know that there was a big flaw!"
Chapter completed!