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 wanted to hear that what Fei Yao sent was a good news, even if it was not a good news, he 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 the true direction of Wei Yan's 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, Yangpingguan 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 confused 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.

When 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!"

When he heard the news, even Liu Ye, who was usually full of cleverness 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 terrible 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.

Who knows what Mi Yang is going to do?

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 second city of Han and Le."

"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 invincible!"

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 five thousand 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.
To be continued...