Chapter 449 Cao Shuang feels that he is good again

Chapter 449 Cao Shuang feels that he is good again

Ma Di and several of his guards rode on horseback for five days and five nights, and finally arrived at Linjin City on the sixth day.

Ma Di arrived at the Eastern Front battlefield like this, and successfully arrived at the front line before Sima Yi. When Ma Di arrived at the main camp of the Han army in Pubanjin, Sima Yi's soldiers and horses were still racing along the road in Weinan.

After returning to the front line, Zhang He and others quickly brought him good news.

Jiang Wei, who led his troops to the north to fight against Cao Wei's Bingzhou County, came back with good news.

With 5,000 elite soldiers and 10,000 levied soldiers, Jiang Wei successfully defeated Cao Wei's Bingzhou Army in Shuofang County. Not only that, after Wang Jing, the governor of Bingzhou, led his troops to retreat, Jiang Wei led his troops to pursue him north.

Finally, Jiang Wei caught up with Wang Jing in Xihe County, defeated him again, and drove back the people of the three counties.

After this battle, Cao Wei's offensive in the northern direction was completely defeated. Ji Han's control in the northern border has expanded to Shangjun, and the results are very gratifying.

Judging from this series of achievements, Ma Su also confirmed that Jiang Wei, like Liu Yin, has the ability to stand alone.

As for Shu Ji, Zhang Yi, Deng Fan and others, their abilities are also very good, and they should be able to stand alone in the near future.

"Bo Yue performed very well in the northern border this time. He repelled the enemies in the northern border so quickly..." After reading Jiang Wei's battle report, Ma Di shook his head gently and said,

"He just played too conservatively. If he tries harder, he might be able to break into Taiyuan directly."

"Cough cough cough... This is a bit too risky. I don't even dare to do it." Zhang He almost spit out after hearing these words and coughed twice.

"Where are the risks? Don't talk nonsense if you don't understand. We have been fighting like this for so many years. The Northern Expedition is very difficult." Ma Di waved his hand and almost choked Zhang He to death with his words. He was stunned for a long time before saying speechlessly,

"Okay, okay, you are the most powerful...but now, if you want to stop Sima Yi's Guanzhong Army, it may not be that easy."

"The reinforcements from Guandong have arrived again, and our troops are not strong enough. It is not easy to stop Sima Fu."

In the past few years, Ji Han's territory and military strength have expanded extremely rapidly. But even so, the wealth gap between Ji Han and Cao Wei is still very large.

So far, Ji Han's total population, including the Guanzhong he just occupied, is less than three million.

As for Cao Wei's population in Guandong, it was still only four million.

Therefore, even if the Han army won successive victories on the eastern battlefield, it almost defeated the 70,000 Wei army. But even so, Cao Wei still continued to mobilize troops from Guandong to rush for reinforcements.

So far, nearly 30,000 Wei troops from Guandong have entered Hongnong County to meet Sima Yi, and they have joined forces with Wang Jice of Tongguan to threaten Pubanjin.

However, Ma Su was completely indifferent to this. After briefly looking at the deployment of both Han and Wei, Ma Su quickly discovered the problem.

Because it is early spring, the Weishui River has not been unblocked, and the Yellow River between Pubanjin and Hongnong is also frozen. So nominally the two sides were facing each other across the river, but in fact it was not much different from the confrontation on the plains.

And the most important thing is that Ma Di himself has not been on the Eastern Front battlefield for three consecutive months. So the Wei army in Weinan launched several counterattacks against Pubanjin, trying to regain the lost ground while Ma Su was away.

So far, the Wei army has launched at least four counterattacks against Pubanjin. After Zhang Yi and Zhang He resisted many times, they successfully drove back the Wei army.

And Ma Su rode a horse and rode for five days and five nights to reach Pubanjin. In other words, the Wei army in Weinan now does not know that Ma Di has returned to Pubanjin...

"I have an adventurous idea..." Ma Su touched his beard, pondered for a while and suddenly laughed.

As soon as these words came out, all the generals in the Han camp took a breath of air.

It can make Ma Su think that it is a bit risky... How risky is it?

He wouldn't want to go directly to Luoyang, would he?

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A few days later, in the Wei army camp in Weinan, Huwei General Xu Yi and Cao Shuang, who had just been promoted to Hengye General, were deploying their troops.

Although Cao Shuang's previous battle in the Battle of Nanyang was a bit awkward, after all, their losses were the least, and they only lost seven or eight thousand people...

All in all, this time when rushing to reinforce Kansai, Cao Rui found that there were not many generals available at hand. When no one could be found in a short period of time, Xu Chu's son and Cao Shuang could only temporarily fill the role.

At this moment, they had just received news from Chang'an that Sima Yi failed to defend Chang'an, and basically the entire Guanzhong fell into the hands of the Han army. At this moment, Sima Yi was leading the remaining troops in Guanzhong to retreat eastward and needed their support.

This news was a huge blow to Cao Wei. This means that the entire northwest defense line that Cao Wei painstakingly established has basically fallen.

The regime that was despised as a small country in the southwest finally came to the opposite side of them and grew into a big country that could compete with Cao Wei.

"Sima Yi, this guy, boasted loudly, but in the end he still failed to defend Guanzhong." Cao Shuang cursed at this and expressed deep dissatisfaction with Sima Yi.

"General, General Cao, this matter can no longer be blamed on Taiwei Sima. The Shu army is too powerful, and it has Zhuge Liang and Ma Su as commanders. The Taiwei has already done a good job."

Xu Yi expressed her understanding of this, and even felt that Sima Yi was having a hard time. After all, with Zhuge Liang and Ma Di taking turns serving, it was not easy to defend Chang'an for so long and bring out so many troops.

This has already broken the highest record among all leaders of Cao Wei. If it were Wang Ling, he probably wouldn't be able to bring out even one of the 100,000 Guanzhong troops.

"I know it's not easy for him, but you don't know that this guy boasted so much before His Majesty..." Cao Shuang is still very prejudiced against Sima Yi. He was born in a clan and always looked down on those old leaders.

"Then...should we send troops to meet the captain? After all, I heard that the morale of his troops is extremely low. If the Shu army wants to ambush along the way, I'm afraid..."

"Ambush? Do you think the Shu army will send troops to ambush Sima Yi?" When Cao Shuang heard this, his first reaction was surprise.

It wasn't that he wanted to see Sima Yi fall, but that he suddenly discovered a fighter opportunity.

"Although there are 100,000 troops in Western Shu, most of them are on the Chang'an front line. On the Tongguan front line, only Pubanjin has 30,000 Shu troops from Linjin, and there are no other troops to be mobilized."

"At this point, the Shu army, without the leadership of Ma Su, was already trying its best to prevent our army's offensive. If they also deploy troops to ambush Sima Yi's troops under such circumstances, Pubanjin will inevitably be short of troops. Case……"

"It looks like we have some merits to gain!"