Shu Chen

Chapter 346
Will Nishu send troops to the three eastern counties?

No one in Wei State dared to assert.

As for whether to suspend the harassing Hexi and intend to Longyou? Sima Yi's answer is that the arrow is on the string and he has to go.

Indeed, today, he has to send.

Liu Bao from the left of the Southern Huns has already moved his family to Xiutuze, forming a two-pronged attack with Fei Yao's thousands of cavalry; Embarked on the journey to Juyanze; and the generals Hu Zun and Deng Ai have also opened up fields and divided pastures, set up camps for Xia Houru's army, and transported and hoarded a large amount of grain. luggage.

Even Guo Huai, who came out of Gaoping City to disturb Longyou, claimed that the soldiers were worthy of battle!
Yes, battleable.

After the various ministries in Longyou against Shu strengthened their walls and cleared the fields, and avoided fighting instead of fighting, Guo Huai turned the disturbance into soldiers who experienced experience and performed martial arts in disguise.Transfer some newly-built other ministries who are not ready for battle and are not skilled in military formation to work, so that they can become familiar with the style of interdependence and interdependence when dispatching troops back and forth.

The most important thing is the year-old Tuntian Dafeng in Guanzhong.

Guanzhong has always been known as the land of abundance. When Cao Zhen was guarding it, he divided many households from Jizhou to enrich it, making the originally barren fields full of men, women and children.And with the help of Sima Yi's extensive opening of canals, and the successful use of Ma Jun's imitation of the Nishu barrel cart for irrigation, the autumn harvest of the army and the people in the year-old army has yielded more than a thousand dendrobium.

Coupled with the cattle and sheep raised in various places in Weibei, it can be enough to feed an army of [-] for two years!

When the food plan was just put into the warehouse and presented on the table, even Sima Yi, who was not showing any emotion, couldn't help but smile and feel relieved.

Since he came to the military affairs of Yongliang as the governor, he has endured the slander of "the governor is afraid of war" by various generals, and insisted on his own strategy of "self-sufficiency of soldiers and self-sufficiency of the country", and finally ushered in rewards.

Finally, they can go to the Luoyang Temple, claiming that the Guanzhong army can support themselves, and there is no need to transfer food and fodder across the Central Plains.

It can also make those wealthy families in the Kanto no longer have reason to insist on "abandoning Liangzhou", but scramble to participate in the expulsion of the war against Shu-no matter whether they are dedicated to serving the country, seeking meritorious service, and winning the meeting Hexi Fusi Road interests or other intentions, as long as the ultimate goal is the same, it will be united.

Under such circumstances, after preparing for nearly a year and using countless manpower and material resources, when everything was ready, when he received a letter from Cao Rui asking if he could suspend the preparations in Hexi to wait for the thief Wu, Sima Yi naturally wanted to fight based on the facts .

How can we postpone it!
Not to mention, there is a consensus that the longer Nishu occupies Liangzhou, the more difficult it will be for Wei to attack.

Can the battle between the left and right tribes of the Southern Huns and the Tuoba tribe of Xianbei be slowed down?
Hulu people do not know etiquette.

Now let's not take advantage of the time when they have just received the favor of Wei Guo, and after they migrate to Hexi and gain a firm foothold in the new pasture, Wei Guo's fetters will only be the protons who stay in Luoyang.

There are many stories about chasing fathers and killing brothers, how can they still listen to Wei Guo's dispatch and fight?

And if there were no Xianbei and the Southern Huns to contain the forces against Shu, and the Guanzhong army went out against Longyou, the victorious place, what would be the difference between the outcome of the battle and the old Cao Zhen's troops?Not to mention, compared with Cao Zhen's various ministries when he was alive, the soldiers huddled in Guanzhong today are not the same in terms of morale or combat power.

Therefore, suspending the offensive is a waste of previous achievements!

But no matter how reluctant Sima Yi was in his heart, in order to avoid giving the excuse of "holding the soldiers to self-respect", he had to follow Cao Rui's order to order a general to lead [-] soldiers to garrison in Shangyong County.He also sent an order to Chang'an to guard Xiahouxuan, asking him to urge his officers and men to stand by and wait, and to rush to the three eastern counties for reinforcements as soon as they heard that Nishu had sent troops.

However, Sima Yi didn't have too many worries in his heart.

He felt that Sun Wu's attack should not last long, and would not delay the dispatch of all the troops in Guanzhong at the end of the year.

The thief of Wu forgets his life when he sees the benefit, and he cherishes his life when things happen. How dare he fight against evil for a long time!

According to previous battles, he would not retreat when Luoyang's reinforcements reached Jingxiang, and he would take care of himself after more than ten thousand soldiers died in the battle.It's just eight months now, and there are still four months before the end of the year. Is it enough for Sun Quan, the son of a thief, to stop fighting because it is difficult to make achievements in war?
With such thoughts in mind, after repairing his watch and replying to Cao Rui that the war must not be delayed, he ordered people to rush to Mingsha Mountain to deliver an order for General Fei Yao to formally march!

The Battle of Hexi has since kicked off.

But Sima Yi did not expect that Sun Wu had no intention of retreating this time.

Or to put it another way, everyone in the Wei Kingdom thought it was unimaginable: the thief Zhu Ran had plundered countless wealth from Li Shu, and Sun Wu's troops had already benefited from the army, so why did the reinforcements from Luoyang rush to Jiangxia? ?

Yes, it only takes more than ten days to rush forward, and both Qin Lang, who was in the lead, and Cao Rui, who was behind, have all arrived in Jiangxia.

Because they transferred from Yangzhou Shouchun to rescue Jiangxia County, there was no need to go through Nanyang Wancheng and then go down the river.

The Dabie Mountains and the Tongbai Mountains seem to be connected together, but there are still three official roads that can lead to the north and south (Yiyang Three Passes) where they approach each other (Yiyang County). The Luoyang reinforcements can pass through these three passes to reach Anlu County. up.

When Wei Jun arrived, the deployment of Sun Wu's ministries was slightly adjusted.

Zhu Ran's tribe, who originally camped in the Yicheng area, retreated to Lankou and gathered in the Han River (Mian River) to camp, and continued to undertake the duty of cutting off the Xiangyang garrison troops from flowing into Jiangxia.However, Lu Xun and Zhuge Jin transferred their troops to Jiangxia and Sun Quan to besiege Shiyang City together.

The [-] troops of Quan Cong's army that attacked Suchun County earlier did the same.

He gave up attacking Suchun County, and went straight to the Dajiang waterway to join forces with Sun Quan in Shiyang, Jiangxia.

That is to say, Sun Wu's army of nearly [-] people took the time to gather around and fight for reinforcements this time.

And it is intended to fight for a long time-Wei Shiyang city is adjacent to the big river, and Sun Wu used boats and boats to connect across the river as a camp, relying on water power to transfer food and fodder from Xiakou and Wuchang, and there is no logistical pressure.

But Wei Jun is different.

Jingbei, which has been dilapidated for a long time and has emigrated Li Shu, does not have much food and fodder, and more than [-] cavalry have to be transported from the counties of Yuzhou for supplies.

And the disadvantage of the Wei army is the exhaustion of running around half of the heart of the Central Plains.

This made Cao Rui know that Shi Yang had been trapped for nearly two months, and the morale and provisions of the army in the city were worrying, so he could only order the soldiers to leave the camp for a temporary rest.

As for the military strength being slightly inferior to Sun Wu, Cao Rui was not worried.

For one thing, in terms of soldiers fighting on land, the Luoyang Central Army of the State of Wei was more elite than Sun Wu.

The other is that after Hu Zhi, the governor of Jingzhou, led the army to confront Zhu Ran's troops, Wang Chang, who led more than [-] soldiers and horses from Bie Dao and came along the Wei River, also rushed to Anlu County to join the army.

But his arrival did not bring any good news to Cao Rui.

When Cao Rui asked him his opinion on how to break the war, his reply was: "The only strategy now is to fight! Even if the thief Wu Yiyi waits for work, our army has no advantage, but we should fight quickly!"

The reason was that he was worried that the war would be delayed for a long time, not only because Shiyang City was destroyed, but also that the barbarians living in the valleys of the counties south of Xiangyang might have accidents.

Since the tribe of Yi Wang Meifu was plundered, other barbarian tribes are now in danger.

If Sun Wu's invasion is not repulsed as soon as possible, these barbarian tribes who have always been at both ends of the rat may think that Wei State has lost to Sun Wu, and then rebel against Wei and join Wu, and work as a minion for the tiger.

Even if they attached themselves to Wu, they would not dare to gather people from Jiangxia to help Wu.

But what if the thief Wu gave him an official position and instigated him to take advantage of the fact that the army of Wei State was in Jiangxia, break up the clansmen and send them into various counties in Nanyang County to burn, kill, loot, and harass the Wei army's food road?

Bee gnats are poisonous, so it must be forewarned!

(End of this chapter)