Fei Yao failed to stop Wei Yan's army, and he became the third, no, the fourth Wei general to be tricked by Wei Yan.
But even though he failed to complete the task assigned to him by Cao Zhen, he did find out an extremely important thing - that is Wei Yan's true whereabouts.
But after understanding that Wei Yan was going to Yangping Pass, Fei Yao's head seemed confused.
After Wei Yan led his army to get rid of the Wei army outside Chenggu City, no one in the Wei army did not speculate on Wei Yan's true whereabouts.
Among the guessers were Liu Ye, who had unparalleled insight into the current situation, and Cao Zhen, who defeated the foreign tribes in Guanxi. In addition to these two people, there were at least hundreds of Wei generals who had experienced hundreds of battles.
There were so many outstanding military commanders, but no one had guessed Wei Yan's true movements before.
The confused Fei Yao subconsciously reported the truth he found out to Cao Zhen outside Xingshi City on horseback.
Within three days, the messenger quickly arrived at the Wei army camp outside Xingshi City and personally handed Fei Yao's military report to Cao Zhen.
When Cao Zhen heard that Fei Yao had sent a military report, he quickly opened the military report in his hand and read it.
Before opening it, Cao Zhen felt a little complicated.
He not only wanted to hear that what Fei Yao sent was a good news, but even if it was not a good news, he also wanted to hear that he had successfully intercepted Wei Yan's army.
While looking forward to it in his heart, Cao Zhen was still a little worried.
After all, the movements of Wei Yan's army had filled his mind like a heavy fog before.
With complicated emotions, Cao Zhen read the contents of the military report at an extremely fast speed.
After reading the contents of the military report, and when his worries came true, Cao Zhen's entire face turned red with anger.
He held the military report sent by Fei Yao tightly in his hand. In the end, Cao Zhen, who couldn't calm down his emotions, was so angry that he threw Fei Yao's military report to the ground!
Yangping Pass?
How could it be Yangpingguan!
What on earth is Mi Yang going to do!
Cao Zhen knew that Wei Yan, as Mi Yang's general, must have been instructed by Mi Yang to suddenly march in such a hurry.
Cao Zhen never looked down upon Mi Yang.
But now it's not that Cao Zhen despises Mi Yang, it's Mi Yang's arrangement that gives Cao Zhen a headache.
Liu Ye once gave an inference on Wei Yan's true direction of advance. Wei Yan led his army from Xicheng, and there were only three possible directions. One was Nanzheng, which was the most likely, and the other two were Luo Valley or Jiange.
Leading troops in these three directions can be said to have a certain improvement effect on the dangerous battle situation facing the Han army.
Only the direction of Yangpingguan was something that even Liu Ye had not expected before.
Maybe Liu Ye had thought about this possibility, but he quickly dismissed it.
Why?
The reason is very simple, Yangping Pass has never been the core of the Wei army's offensive.
It's not that Cao Zhen didn't know the importance of Yangping Pass to Hanzhong, but he also knew how easy it was to defend and difficult to attack.
Not to mention the losses Cao Cao suffered at Yangping Pass when he conquered Hanzhong.
Even in the Battle of Hanzhong that eclipsed the Wei army, Yangping Pass was never captured by the Han army due to Zhang He's persistence.
Therefore, in his pre-war planning, Cao Zhen only wanted to blockade Yangping Pass. Unless it was a last resort, Cao Zhen did not want to bite this hard nut.
This can be easily judged from the direction of his advance.
Mi Yang definitely couldn't hide this.
It was precisely this point that made everyone in the Wei army fall in love with Wei Yan, or in other words, everyone in the Wei army was deceived by Mi Yang's reputation, which led them to unanimously make wrong judgments.
Five thousand mobile field elites are crucial to the current Han army.
Mi Yang clearly knew that Yangping Pass was not the direction of the Wei army's attack. With his strategy, how could he suddenly dispatch Wei Yan to march to Yangping Pass?
Picture what?
Just to have fun with tens of thousands of Wei troops?
Everyone in the Wei army did not believe that Mi Yang would make such a low-level mistake, but this firm disbelief turned into an extremely turbulent wave at this moment, constantly impacting Cao Zhen's heart.
Cao Zhen couldn't help but cover his head.
He had a headache.
How could Mi Yang make such a stupid mistake?
He must be planning something big.
But now that all the counties in Hanzhong are in ruins, what major event is more important than this?
Doubts and certainties kept stirring in Cao Zhen's mind. After such turbulent thoughts, Cao Zhen, a veteran of many battles, felt that the situation was changing strangely.
Just when Cao Zhen had a headache, Liu Ye heard about Fei Yao's military report and came to Cao Zhen's tent.
After Liu Ye arrived at Cao Zhen's military tent, he saw Cao Zhen holding his head and feeling uncomfortable, which shocked Liu Ye.
He hurriedly came to Cao Zhen and helped him up, and then asked caringly: "How is your health, General?"
Cao Zhen was the commander-in-chief of Cao Wei's southern expedition. If something happened to his body, it would be a disaster for the current Wei army.
Fortunately, what Liu Ye was worried about did not happen.
With Liu Ye's support, Cao Zhen raised his head and looked at Liu Ye with bloodshot eyes. He first comforted Liu Ye:
"It's okay to be alone."
Then Cao Zhen's tone suddenly turned dull, and he said to Liu Ye: "Wei Yan escaped again."
"According to Fei Yao's report, the real direction he is going is actually Yangping Pass!"
After hearing the news, even Liu Ye, who was usually full of wits and scheming, couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.
The emotions that surged in Cao Zhen's heart just now are now rolling rapidly in Liu Ye's heart.
In battle, it is not scary if the enemy is strong.
The most terrifying thing is that when you always treat your enemy as a divine opponent, he does something incomprehensible like a "pig".
Because this means that the foundation for defeating the enemy - knowing yourself and the enemy, is being loosened.
However, Liu Ye had followed Cao Cao for many years, and he had also seen big storms. He quickly adjusted his emotions and quickly analyzed the purpose of Mi Yang's move.
After a long period of analysis, the light in Liu Ye's eyes became increasingly dim.
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Is it possible that Mi Yang still wants to use thousands of troops to attack the tens of thousands of elites of the Hussars General?
This is completely a fantasy.
There was no other way, Liu Ye could only suggest to Cao Zhen in the end:
"No matter what purpose Mi Yang has, our army should still stop quietly and increase the offensive to quickly capture the Han and Le cities."
"Once these two cities are captured by our army and the situation increases, Nanzheng will be completely surrounded by our army.
No matter what evil deeds Mi Yang wants to use these five thousand elites to do, our army will eventually be in an invincible position!"
After listening to Liu Ye's advice, Cao Zhen calmed down and nodded heavily.
Liu Ye's method is the best for the current Wei army.
What Cao Zhen and Liu Ye didn't know was that just a few days later, a piece of news would answer all the questions in their minds.
It depends on whether they can bear it.
After going through many hardships and turning in several directions, Wei Yan finally led 5,000 Liangzhou troops to the outside of Yangping Pass.
The person who greeted Wei Yan was none other than Yangping Pass guard Wu Yi.
The moment he saw Wu Yi, Wei Yan was a little surprised.
He originally thought that Mi Yang would come out to greet him personally.
Wu Yi's next whisper cleared up Wei Yan's doubts - Zhou Mu didn't want too many people to know that he was currently at Yangping Pass.
After hearing this secret, Wei Yan became even more excited.
Wei Yan grew up in a poor family and did not read much. However, as his status gradually improved, he loved the art of war and fell in love with reading history.
There are various deeds of famous generals in the history books, which Wei Yan greatly yearned for.
Wei Yan, who had seen the deeds of countless famous generals, certainly knew that during the Battle of Changping, King Qin Zhaoxiang made an arrangement to ensure the victory of the war.
Now that Mi Yang has adopted a similar arrangement, doesn’t it mean that Mi Yang is also planning a big move?
When he thought of this, Wei Yan was filled with excitement.
He worked so hard to get here, isn't it just for the sake of making achievements?
With the excitement in his heart, Wei Yan followed Wu Yi to his main tent and saw Mi Yang, whom he had not seen for nearly half a year.
The moment he saw Mi Yang, Wei Yan immediately bowed to Mi Yang and addressed him as Uncle Mu.
No matter how reluctant Wei Yan was when he first joined Mi Yang, after several years of getting along with him, Wei Yan gradually became convinced of Mi Yang unknowingly.
Now in Wei Yan's heart, there are only two people in the world who are worthy of commanding him, one is Han Emperor Liu Bei, and the other is Mi Yang who is sitting in front of him.
After seeing Wei Yan, the smile on Mi Yang's face was not concealed at all.
Before Wei Yan arrived, he had written all his actions during this period in advance and reported them to Mi Yang in a military report.
Unlike Cao Zhen who read military reports and became increasingly angry as he read them, Mi Yang couldn't help but sigh in her heart after reading Wei Yan's military reports - this is the Wei Yan who proposed the Ziwu Valley conspiracy in history.
Bold and good at flexible combat.
Mi Yang knew that Wei Yan was aloof and arrogant, and with his personality, he would disdain to commit fraud in military reports.
So the things he said were definitely not adulterated at all.
Mi Yang has always been generous in praising outstanding subordinates.
Mi Yang looked at Wei Yan and said, "When I left Chengdu, His Majesty once told me that Yan Wenchang is someone who can work with me to plan great things."
"Your Majesty's words are revealed today."
Mi Yang's compliment made Wei Yan laugh.
Wei Yan disdained to accept compliments from ordinary people.
But Mi Yang praised him, which was absolutely qualified, and Mi Yang also mentioned his benefactor Liu Bei in his words, which made Wei Yan even more happy.
Your Majesty has never forgotten him.
Under Mi Yang's praise, not only Wei Yan had a smile on his face, but Wu Yi, Fa Miao, and Lu Yi who were in the tent at the moment also cast admiring glances at Wei Yan.
After being surrounded by tens of thousands of Wei troops for thousands of miles, he was able to lead the army to Yangping Pass unscathed. This behavior was enough to earn Wei Yan the reputation of a famous general.
But as happy as he was happy, Mi Yang did not forget the serious matter of calling Wei Yan here.
Under the signal from Mi Yang's eyes, Fa Miao told Wei Yan exactly what they were planning recently.
This made Wei Yan understand why Mi Yang summoned him here urgently.
Cao Hong, the commander-in-chief of Cao Wei's Middle Route Army, was deceived by Wu Yi's false surrender and was willing to lead troops to "take over" Yangping Pass.
What a good opportunity is this to defeat Cao Hong's army?
Perhaps due to the numerical disadvantage of our own army, we cannot completely wipe out Cao Hong's army, but as long as we can win a big victory, this big victory will definitely boost our military morale.
In the battle to defend the city, isn't it about the people's hearts?
Wei Yan immediately realized the great merit this incident would bring to him and the profound impact it would have on the current war situation between Han and Wei.
Wei Yan solemnly clasped his fists at Mi Yang and said, "As soon as Uncle Mu's military order comes out, Yan will go through fire and water, and I won't say no now!"
Seeing Wei Yan's attitude, Mi Yang laughed happily.
Now everything is ready, all we need is the east wind.
And I can't wait for the east wind to come.
Finally, Mi Yang looked at Wu Yi and nodded to him.
After seeing Mi Yang's move, Wu Yi responded with a knowing fist, then he put on a happy smile, turned around and walked out of the tent.
Wu Yi went to see his recent close friend Ren Xiang.
In September of the third year of Emperor Zhangwu of the Han Dynasty, Cao Hong was waiting in the camp outside Wu Street, looking forward to the autumn water.
It has been half a month since Ren Xiang went to Yangping Pass again.
Ren Xiang has not come back for such a long time. If Ren Xiang hadn't sent back personal letters all the time, Cao Hong would have suspected that Wu Yi had evil intentions.
To his great joy, one day in early September, Cao Hong finally waited for Ren Xiang, who had returned from Yangping Pass.
Ren Xiang, who had been traveling all the way, seemed a little depressed.
But his eyes were shining.
When he came back this time, he brought good news to Cao Hong.
"General Hussar, Wu Yi has finally made up his mind and is willing to act according to your plan."
After receiving this confirmation, Cao Hong couldn't help but fisted his fist in excitement.
After nearly a month of painstaking planning, his efforts finally paid off.
Cao Hong was not without doubts about Wu Yi's surrender, otherwise he would not have proposed such a plan.
But Cao Hong's suspicion gradually dissipated in his heart when Wu Yi agreed to his plan.
To be honest, his plan has ensured the safety of his own army to the greatest extent. If he still hesitates under such circumstances, I am afraid that Emperor Wu will resurrect and blame him for delaying the war.
After receiving Wu Yi's approval, Cao Hong immediately had people beat the drum to convene the meeting.
When the sound of powerful drums sounded in the Wei army camp, many Wei generals came to Cao Hong's main tent soon, including Yang Fu.
After seeing the generals gathered, Cao Hong immediately revealed the news to the generals that Wu Yi was willing to surrender.
Except for Yang Fu, this was the first time for all the generals to hear the news.
So after hearing the news, they all had a look of surprise on their faces.
That's Yangpingguan, how can we not be surprised?
Moreover, given Cao Hong's status, since he was able to reveal the news in front of the generals, he must have been absolutely certain about the matter.
However, it is not that there are no generals who have doubts and concerns. For example, one general said to Cao Hongjin:
"The thieves are always good at using tricks. I hope the general will be careful with them."
When the general mentioned Mi Yang, Cao Hong's face turned cold, and the originally joyful atmosphere in the tent gradually disappeared.
Cao Hong snorted coldly at the general and said:
"It's true that the thieves are good at using tricks, but if they are hesitant because of this, why are our troops marching south? Why don't we just sit quietly in Luoyang and tie our hands to be captured?"
After saying this, Cao Hong then said disdainfully:
"Besides, the Mi thieves are currently in an upsurge and are surrounded by Zidan's soldiers and cannot protect themselves. What does our army have to be afraid of?"
If Mi Yang were at Yangping Pass, Cao Hong would definitely not believe Wu Yi.
But now he is beyond his reach. If he doesn't take advantage of this moment to capture Yangping Pass, how long will he wait?
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