Since both Wuwei County and Jincheng County were under the control of the Shu army, Xiping County, located to the west of the two counties, was completely isolated and was in an isolated and helpless state.
Sima Yi's 80,000 troops couldn't get through, and Fei Yao's 3,000 troops couldn't escape either.
Strictly speaking, if Fei Yao was willing to abandon Xiping County, three thousand soldiers and horses could still escape.
However, we had to take great risks and pass through the Shu-controlled area of more than 200 miles before we could successfully return to the Longyou area.
Therefore, after Ma Di and Sima Yi reached a stalemate in Wuwei City, Fei Yao's situation suddenly became awkward.
There were only three choices before him.
Surrender to Shu Han, either abandon the city and return to Wei, or sit in Xiping County and wait to die.
You can save yourself by surrendering to Shu, but your family will most likely be executed by Cao Rui; you can save your family by returning to Wei, but you and your three thousand soldiers will most likely die.
Sitting in Xiping will lead to a dead end. No matter whether Ma Di or Sima Yi wins later, they will not underestimate him.
These three choices stumped Fei Yao, making him unwilling to eat and unable to sleep at night.
He is only in his early thirties this year, his parents have passed away long ago, and his family only has a wife, a concubine, and two daughters, but no sons.
This situation is considered extinct in this era, because women's status is underground, and daughters are not included in the category of heirs.
If we follow the standard of Liu Bei, Emperor Zhaolie of the Shu Han Dynasty, abandoning his wife and children when encountering difficulties, he would not even frown if he abandoned such a family.
Therefore, Fei Yao had almost no burden in his heart.
His lingering doubts were whether he could be reused and enjoy glory and wealth after returning to Shu; whether there would be someone to help him on his way back to Wei, and whether he could safely pass through Jincheng, Wuwei's territory.
In other words, it is whether Ma Su will raise troops to kill him.
Most likely it will.
Because he ignored Ma Su's ten-day period, and even now a hundred days have passed since the ten-day period.
Of course, Fei Yao could also choose to take a detour to the Gobi Desert and return to the Wei Kingdom via a thousand-mile detour from the north.
But if he really did this (detoured back to Wei), waiting for him after returning to Wei would definitely not be a compliment, but a cruel punishment.
No emperor would tolerate his frontier general escaping in such a humiliating way after losing his city and territory.
Therefore, even if he wanted to return to Wei, he could only go through Jincheng and Wuwei, so as to minimize the anger of Emperor Cao Rui.
After thinking for a long time, Fei Yao gritted his teeth and decided to take advantage of Jincheng and Wuwei to lead his troops back to Wei.
So he ordered the soldiers to take action, packed up their soft and valuable items, quietly left the city, and rode eastward.
Along the way, many scouts were sent to constantly inquire about Ma Su's movements.
Three days later.
Shiyang Henan, Zishan Xili.
"Report, three thousand Wei soldiers have been wiped out, Fei Yao has been tied up and thrown into the prison car."
Zhao Yun rode on the horse and waved. The coachman sitting in front of the prison cart waved his whip. The two horses stretched their necks and exerted force at the same time. The prison cart creaked and began to move slowly. The wooden wheels rolled on the gravel road. It makes a harsh friction sound.
Fei Yao was huddled in the small prison car, his body swaying as the car swayed.
He never expected that he would end up in such an embarrassing way.
As soon as Fei Yao led 3,000 Wei soldiers into Wuwei County, four groups of Shu army cavalry surrounded them from four directions. The whole process of being surrounded was extremely smooth and natural, as if the Shu army had been waiting here for a long time and calculated accurately. When will the Wei army arrive here?
This time can even be accurate to every breath.
This is simply the ceiling of military operations in history, but it is a pity that it was a military operation of the Shu Army.
Therefore, he was captured alive.
Fei Yao sent dozens of scouts to detect the movements of the Shu army along the way. Until he entered Wuwei, the Shu army did not do anything unusual. Fei Yao thought that the Shu army did not discover him. Since he had reached the boundary of Wuwei, he would continue
Sending out scouts would risk exposing his whereabouts, so he withdrew his scouts and planned to sneak away quietly.
——But unfortunately, as soon as he took back his scouts, the Shu army set off and accurately surrounded him.
This made Fei Yao feel very frustrated!
Very frustrating.
However, the consolation is that even if he surrendered to Shu, he surrendered because he was captured, rather than surrendering to Shu on his own initiative, so the family would not be criticized by the officials.
I don’t know if this is considered a blessing in misfortune?
The only thing Fei Yao can do now is to look at the white snow on the top of Zishan Mountain in the distance through the wooden railing of the prison car with despair. It is the unique three-season snow mountain scenery of Guzang Mountain (autumn, winter and spring).
As the prison car gradually approached Guzang Shanli and slowly headed towards Wuwei City, the beautiful snow-capped mountains scenery quickly disappeared.
Just like Fei Yao's mood at this moment, he was lost and depressed.
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After Fei Yao was captured, the three eastern counties of Liangzhou were completely controlled by Shu Han. To be precise, they were completely controlled by Ma Su.
The situation in the world suddenly became turbulent.
Everyone who holds military power has his or her own worries.
The power of the Shu Han Dynasty made Cao Rui, the leader of Wei, unable to do anything, and the state of Wu was panicked.
Wu's unpredictable attitude made Zhuge Liang worried.
The suspicion and strife from the Shu-Han court also made Ma Su fearful and cautious.
As he powerfully conquered the Qiang region and Liangzhou, he was in the limelight for a while, and it was inevitable that he would offend some jealous villains of his own side or the enemy.
Such a villain cannot directly hurt him, but as long as he casually spreads the message "Ma Di has an army of 100,000, intending to back up the Han and stand on his own feet", he can make him walk around in pain.
Sima Yi also had his own troubles. Although he was the general of the Wei State and nominally the supreme commander of the army, he actually only commanded one-sixth of the troops of the Wei State.
The remaining five-sixths of the troops and horses are still under the control of many generals named Cao and Xiahou.
Yes, Sima Yi is indeed highly respected, and the Sima family has a prosperous population, but no matter how prosperous it is, how can it compare to the Cao family, the most prominent family in Cao Wei?
Sima Yi only had eight brothers.
Cao Cao had twenty-six sons and more than a hundred grandsons. There were even more second- and third-generation descendants of the Xiahou family. Cao Zhen alone had six sons. The eldest son Cao Shuang was extremely mediocre. He suffered successive defeats but still controlled a large number of people.
The army. Not to mention that his official career is like that of Xiahou Dun. Although he was a general who was often defeated, his official position was constantly promoted.
But this was not what Sima Yi was most troubled about. What troubled him most was that Wei lost Liangzhou.
This not only means that Wei will lose a high-quality military source and horse-producing land in the future, but also means that Shu will have an additional horse-producing land and high-quality military source.
One thing is ebbing and the other is ebbing, and Wei's future prospects are not optimistic.
What's even more frightening is that after the Shu Kingdom occupied Liangzhou, it became connected with Kebineng in Monan. The Wei Kingdom was completely surrounded by the Eastern Wu, Western Shu, Zhong Xianbei and Liaodong Gongsun families.
Therefore, it is no longer realistic to recapture Liangzhou at this moment. It is urgent to establish a defensive posture against the two great powers of Shu and Wu as soon as possible, and to clear out the two hidden dangers of Liaodong Gongsun Yuan and Kebi Neng first.
Otherwise, once the war on the Western Front intensifies, Wei will be in danger.
Thinking of this, Sima Yi did not dare to neglect, and wrote to Cao Rui overnight, stating the pros and cons, and proposed that the Longyou area should be transferred to strategic defense, and he would take the time to destroy Gongsun Yuan and Kebi Neng first.
After Cao Rui convened a meeting of civil and military officials to discuss the matter, he approved the memorial.
In the spring and March of the fifth year of Taihe in the Wei Dynasty and the sixth year of Jianxing in the Shu-Han Dynasty, the Fifth Northern Expedition reached a truce after four months of stalemate.
When Zhuge Liang saw that Sima Yi had retreated to Longyou, he led a hundred thousand troops back to Xi County.
Ma Su also freed up his hands and sent officials to take over each of the three counties to sort out the relationship between the various forces.
He will not make any next move until he has deep control over the three counties of Liangdong.
Compared with the frustrated Wei army officers and soldiers, the Shu soldiers who withdrew from Xi County were beaming with joy. Along the way, they were in high spirits and walked with wind in their eyes.
Although they didn't win this time.
But this did not prevent them from singing and dancing.
Because Ma Su won.
Ma Su is one of his own.
Zhuge Liang was also very happy to have temporarily hidden all his worries.
Among the entire Shu army, only two people were unhappy.
One is Yang Yi, the chief secretary of the Prime Minister's Mansion, who joined the army, and the other is Wei Yan, the general.
At this time, everyone knew that Yang Yi had done something behind the scenes to frame Ma Su during the Battle of Jieting.
Although this matter was expressly forbidden by Zhuge Liang and could not be spoken out, all the soldiers still knew about it.
So along the way, Yang Yi not only had to endure the whispers of the soldiers, but also the contemptuous looks of his colleagues around him. However, his mentality is much better now. There is no longer the jealousy and anger when Ma Su first rose, replaced by despair and loss. .
A person will only be jealous of someone whose status and strength are similar to his own, and will never be jealous of someone whose status and strength are countless times higher than his own.
Rather than saying that Yang Yi accepted the cruel reality of being crushed by Ma Su, it is better to say that he no longer wanted to compare with Ma Su. The only belief that supports him now is to reach Xi County as soon as possible and then numb himself with wine. .
Don't bow your head, otherwise the crown of the king of involution will fall off.
The same goes for Wei Yan, another unhappy person.
He didn't have as many tricks as Yang Yi, he simply felt that the Prime Minister was too partial to Ma Su.
Not only was he given the power to command the military alone, he was also given the power to appoint and remove personnel, and he was also given many privileges that he did not have.
Thinking about Wei Yan, his military position was one level higher than Ma Su's (now he is at the same level), and his civil service was the same. Ma Su was the governor of Yongzhou, and he was the governor of Liangzhou. However, one of them could only be a puppet under the prime minister's account, and the other People can fly freely in the sky.
How unfair this is!
If nothing else, Wei Yan was the governor of Liangzhou in the Shu Han Dynasty.
So who is sitting in the Liangzhou Governor's Mansion now?
