Now Sima Shi urgently needs to fight a turnaround battle, one is to correct his name, and the other is to improve the morale of the army.

For a long time, Sima Shi has been living under the shadow of Sima Yi, Sima Yi's light is beyond his reach, the achievements that the Sima family has achieved now, none of them are inseparable from Sima Yi, although Sima Shi has been working hard, but it seems that the world does not recognize him.

In the eyes of the world, Sima Shi is also a typical second generation of officials, with his father's shadow, he can mix like a fish in water in the court of Luoyang, many people think that without Sima Yi, maybe he is really penniless.

This undoubtedly makes Sima Shi very aggrieved, in essence, he is not the kind of second generation of officials who only know how to enjoy, Sima Shi is ambitious and ambitious, and he is also talented, among the younger generation, Sima Shi can definitely be called a wrestler.

It's just that Cao Liang was born out of thin air and became the most dazzling one in Cao Wei's political arena, and Sima Shi, who was Cao Liang's most direct opponent, became Cao Liang's background board, was brutally suppressed, and became the most frustrated person.

Sima Shi wants to change his image and prove that he is not the second generation of officials who eat and wait for death, so he must use victory to change people's concepts, so that they can see that the Sima family is not only supported by Sima Yi, but those who are afraid that even if Sima Yi falls, the Sima family will not fall, they will also be Cao Wei's powerful ministers, and even have the ability to usurp the world.

Sima Yi's injury this time was an accident, but even if Sima Yi was not injured, with his advanced age of more than seventy, how many times would he be able to fight? The Sima family can't expect Sima Yi to dominate the world alone, right?

So after Sima Yi was injured, Sima Shi stood up with the responsibility of stepping up, at this time, Sima Jun must have a leader and must change this scattered situation.

Of course, it is not enough to just stand up, if Sima Shi wants to become the backbone of Sima Yi, he must have a good record, instead of relying on his father's shadow to force everyone, it is not a simple matter to serve the public, especially in this kind of army where the weak eat the strong.

However, the Sima army was newly defeated, and at this time, Sima Shi did not have the courage to wave his division to counterattack, but Sima Shi felt that this battle of Merging States was not over, and Cao Liang would definitely invade Hedong and lead the war there.

Therefore, this is the biggest reason why Sima Shi strongly advocated retreating, if he continued to stay in Jiexiu, Sima's army would not only make no progress, but also had almost no power to fight back after being attacked by the Bingzhou cavalry.

After all, Chen Qian and Hu Fen have been operating in these two counties for many years, have a good foundation, and the city defense is strong, so that Sima Jun can not be afraid of the attack of the Bingzhou cavalry, as long as they can hold Hedong County and Pingyang County, then the battle of Bingzhou can not be regarded as a complete failure, at most it is five or five open, which can be regarded as returning to the original situation.

Under the heavy blow this time, Sima Shi no longer had the luxury of hoping that there would be any more opportunities to counterattack in this battle, as long as he could hold the original border, it would already be a great success.

Although Sima Shi did not experience the battlefield, the biggest reason for the defeat of the Sima army this time has been found, that is, lost in the new style of horse harness, these Cao Liang's newly invented horse harnesses have an obvious effect on improving the combat effectiveness of the cavalry, Sima Yi only improved the number of cavalry, but Cao Liang improved the quality of the cavalry, and the duel between quantity and quality, obviously the quality prevailed, which ultimately led to the fiasco of the Sima army's cavalry.

But even if he lost, Sima Jun still had something to gain, that is, he captured these horse harnesses, and Sima Shi also saw these horse harnesses with his own eyes, very simple things, there is no difficulty in imitating them, with the financial and material resources of the Sima family now, it should be very easy to imitate tens of thousands of sets.

Sima Yi has sent the samples of these harnesses back to Luoyang, presumably the workshop in Luoyang has been working overtime to make these harnesses, maybe it won't be long before the cavalry of Sima Jun can also be equipped with these new harnesses, effectively improving the combat effectiveness of the cavalry, and narrowing the gap with the cavalry of the state.

Even if it can't be compared with the long-trained Bingzhou cavalry, at least it won't be as vulnerable as it is now.

As for the annihilation of the 70,000 cavalry, it does have a significant impact on the overall strength of the Sima family, but it is not fatal, after all, Cao Liang only owns one state, and in terms of economic strength, it is completely incomparable with the Sima family with seven or eight states, whether it is financial or manpower, the Sima family has enough strength to crush and merge the state, as long as it takes time, it will not be difficult to rebuild a cavalry.

Therefore, the top priority now is to try to prevent Cao Liang's expansion by victory, and it is necessary to secure Hedong County and Pingyang County, stabilize the current battle line between the two sides, and buy time for the reconstruction of Sima Cavalry.

Thankfully, Cao Liang had not yet launched an attack, which undoubtedly provided convenience for Sima Shi to rearrange the defensive line, after all, Pingyang was more than 300 miles away from Jiexiu, and it was even farther away from Anyi, and at the speed of Sima's infantry, it would have to march for at least several days to arrive.

It stands to reason that with an army of 100,000, there is no problem with the scale, but without the cavalry, Sima Shi is like having an arm cut off, and he always feels that he has nowhere to use his strength, and it is particularly awkward to command.

Indeed, the army itself is a combination of multiple arms, the infantry has the characteristics of infantry, the cavalry has the advantage of cavalry, only coordination and cooperation, in order to give full play to the best combat power of the army, now Sima Jun is like a lame giant, although the number is huge, but it has lost the advantage of speed, and the ability to maneuver is greatly reduced.

Therefore, after the withdrawal operation began, Sima Shi ordered the whole army to speed up the march, and asked the whole army to move south as soon as possible, and it was necessary to return to Pingyang before the pursuers of the Bingzhou army arrived.

Although the latest news shows that the Bingzhou army has not moved further so far, Sima Shi did not dare to be careless, after all, the cavalry's mobility ability is too terrifying, as long as the Sima army has not returned to Pingyang, there is a possibility that it will be caught up by the Bingzhou cavalry.

Under Sima Shi's strict orders, Sima Jun abandoned his cumbersome baggage, traveled lightly, and hurried towards Pingyang. ntent

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