Zhong Hui kept silently watching Sima Shi issue orders without saying a word until Sima Shi issued the last military order, which was the military order sent to Chen Tai on the front line of Jingxing Pass. Zhong Hui then said: "General, this place is still a hundred miles away from Jingxing Pass. General Chen's troops are all infantrymen. Even if they withdraw their troops immediately after receiving the order, it will take at least two days to arrive here. If these two days are delayed, there may be future troubles."

Now the Sima Army is stationed at the location, east of Zhending, at least a hundred miles away from Jingxing Pass. The main reason why Sima Army chose to camp here is to fight the ambush of the Bingzhou Army. This is one of the channels to Jingxing Pass. If the Bingzhou Army rescues Jingxing Pass from the east, it will inevitably go to the Zhending area, and the Sima Army can also take the opportunity to encircle and suppress it.

But the Bingzhou Army never took the bait, so the arrangement of Sima Shi was useless. Now when retreating, we are still facing the problem of disconnection between front and back. If Sima Shi wants to meet Chen Tai, it will have to wait at least two days.

Two days are not short or long, but for this battlefield that may change rapidly, no one can predict what consequences will be.

However, for Sima Shi, waiting for the past two days is absolutely necessary, because Chen Tai's 50,000 troops are still waiting for him to come to pick him up. If Sima Shi takes the lead in evacuating, what will he deal with when Chen Tai arrives at the real time?

Although Chen Tai's 50,000 infantrymen were aggressive when they attacked the city, once they did not have the support of the main army, they would soon fall into the siege of the Bingzhou Army, and the good or bad luck would be difficult to predict.

Moreover, Sima Shi did not want to give up these 50,000 people. These troops, but he worked hard to build, were all his own direct troops, and Sima Shi could not easily abandon them.

Another more important point is that Sima Shi and Chen Tai have a very short relationship. Chen Tai is a rare tiger general. Now Sima Jun general Liao Luo is short of talents. Sima Shi does not want to lose such an important general in his hands, especially his confidant general.

Chen Tai alone is worth two days of waiting for Sima Shi.

Sima Shi said in a deep voice: "It's okay to wait for two more days, and nothing will happen, not to mention that Chen Xuanbo is the right-hand man of General, so he cannot be missed. I think it's necessary to wait for him for two more days."

After hearing this, Zhong Hui stopped talking. Although he was worried about Sima Shi's stay for two days, Zhong Hui did not dare to assert that what had happened, thinking that the Bingzhou Army would definitely launch an attack at this moment. What he did was only rough speculation, not accurate results.

If we give up a general who Sima Shi relied heavily on and an army of 50,000, just because of an inaccurate inference, it would be really difficult for Sima Shi to do it.

So on this point, Sima Shi was also extremely determined. Even if Cao Liang dared to attack them at this time, Sima Shi was not afraid of it. Since this battle was inevitable, it would be better to fight earlier than to fight that night, and it would be easier to fight one battle.

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The battle at Jingxing Pass has lasted for more than half a month. Although Chen Tai tried his best, it was still a little bit short of breaking through the city wall, which made Chen Tai very depressed.

This battle is a key battle, which is related to the outcome of the entire Battle of Jizhou. If the Sima army can take Jingxing Pass, they will take the initiative in the Battle of Jizhou, and will fall into a passive position and be controlled by others.

Sima Shi has been paying close attention to the Battle of Jingxing. Seeing that Chen Tai was unable to open the situation for a long time, Sima Shi was also very anxious. For this reason, he personally arranged to transport a batch of siege equipment from Luoyang to help Chen Tai solve the problem of weak attack.

This batch of siege equipment includes extremely powerful three-bow crossbows, special siege vehicles, as well as a large number of bows and arrows. If this batch of materials arrives, the strength of the siege troops will be greatly improved, which makes Chen Tai look forward to it very much.

But just as Chen Tai was waiting for a moment, he suddenly received a quick report from a quick horse, asking him to evacuate Jingxing Pass quickly and rush to Zhending to meet with the main force.

Chen Tai was stunned on the spot. The siege equipment that had been agreed to be gone, but it was gone. Instead, he gave him an inexplicable retreat order. He worked hard for more than half a month, and suffered countless casualties. Did he give up like this?

Chen Tai hurriedly asked about the reason, and then he learned that Yecheng had been lost and the supplies transported were burned by the Bingzhou army halfway. The situation in Jizhou is now extremely difficult, so Sima Shi issued an order to retreat.

Yecheng was lost? Chen Tai couldn't help but be surprised. Yecheng was still hundreds of miles away from the front line of Jizhou. The city was strong and the heavy defense was heavy. How could it be lost like this? Chen Tai wanted to break his head, but he couldn't think of how Yecheng had lost for no reason.

However, the loss of Yecheng was indeed a heavy blow to the overall strategy of the Sima army. The entire retreat was cut off by the Bingzhou army, and only withdrawal was their way out.

When he received the order to retreat, Chen Tai was still commanding the siege. Although the siege was poor, the Sima army's offensive had not stopped and he still launched a shift to attack Jingxing Pass. Chen Tai hoped that in the continuous attacks, he could find the negligence and mistakes of the Bingzhou Army and take the opportunity to take down Jingxing Pass in one fell swoop.

However, the Bingzhou Army was extremely tenacious. Even if Chen Tai used such a high-intensity attack, the Bingzhou Army's defense was always clear, leaving Sima Army unable to find any flaws.

Sima's soldiers were numerous and they fought in turn, so that the soldiers could be fully physically and energetic to the greatest extent. However, the number of soldiers in Bingzhou was not large, but they still fought for more than ten days without showing any sign of fatigue, which made Chen Tai suspect that these Bingzhou soldiers would never be tired at all. Could it be that they were really made of iron and copper?

After receiving the order, Chen Tai did not dare to hesitate. After all, this was Sima Shi's urgent order, and if it was delayed, it would be subject to military law.

He ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops and let all the troops in the attack retreat.

When the gong sounded, many Sima soldiers were full of doubts and couldn't help but look up at the sun. It was just after noon, and the sun was just westward, and it was still very early to the sunset. At this time, the gold was suddenly roaring to withdraw the troops. Did someone beat the gong wrongly?
Chapter completed!