Shu Chen

Chapter 521
All ministries of Wei, Yong and Liang are well aware of Chencang's daily battle situation.

This is because Wei Yan's tribe, who had crossed the Sishuiluo camp, did not snipe and kill the scout rangers who came to Chen Cangcheng to investigate the situation of the battle.

It seems that he let it go on purpose.

Every time the scouts of Wei State met the cavalry of the Han army who were guarding outside, they would have such thoughts.

Gein and the others found that as long as they did not exceed the size of the three cavalry, the cavalry of the Han army not only did not ride their horses to entangle or drive them away, but deliberately moved out of the way.

"By Nishu Wei Wenchang made this move, not because of negligence of duty, but because he wanted to use the battle situation to make our army impatient and anxious, and went out to fight fiercely!"

Sima Yi, the governor of Wei Yongliang, was so lenient about the puzzlement of the scout ranger.

He also indicated that the generals of all ministries should not think about it, and just perform their duties.

However, everyone didn't know that he, who An Zhiruo had always forgiven others, was the most anxious person in his heart.

It is not limited to the duty of being a supervisor.

It was even more because he did not expect that the Han army would be so decisive this time.

Bashu, which is limited by its small size and few people, has always followed the route of "soldiers are expensive, not expensive".Therefore, since the troops of Bashu came out of Longyou, they have been stingy about the casualties of their soldiers every time they went to battle, and did not make violent attacks with heavy casualties.

Unexpectedly, the siege of Chencang City now took only five days and nights, and there were about ten thousand casualties!

And I have no intention of giving up!

Could it be that Zhuge Kongming, Prime Minister of Shu, did not hesitate to lose [-] soldiers in order to capture Chencang?
Sima Yi, who reported from his scouts every day, roughly estimated the casualties of the Han army's attack, and he had a faint realization in his heart.

Also some joy, some worry.

He was delighted, naturally, his tactics of shrinking back and defending had worked.

Zhuge Liang, Prime Minister of Shu, who couldn't find a chance to fight in the field, had no choice but to storm the city and suffered countless casualties, constantly depleting Bashu's war heritage.

The worry is that Guo Huai won't be able to hold on for too long.

The scouts who came back to report, when they told about the siege they witnessed, there was a ray of fear and panic on their faces and eyes.

Those who watched the battle from a distance were all frightened by the sudden death of the Han army.

Not to mention the Guo Huai tribe who are fighting head-on.

In other words, it has only been stormed for five days, so there should be no need to worry about the towering and strong Chencang City being captured for the time being.

But Sima Yi was not sure.

What if there is an emergency?
Once Chen Cangcheng falls, there will be no more dangerous positions to defend in Guanzhong. Even if the strength of the Han army is far less than that of the Wei army, it will still be able to form a sweeping momentum with the sharpness of victory.
Don't think that Chang'an can be kept.

Although the city wall of Chang'an is higher and thicker than that of Chen Cang, and the garrison force and supplies are more sufficient, the Han army can reserve a part of soldiers and horses to guard outside the city, and the rest will sweep through the counties and take Wuguan, Tongguan and Dahe Pubanjin Attack down first, so that Guanzhong, which is also closed, will become Bashu's pocket.

In this way, Chang'an City, the old capital of the former Han Dynasty, will be destroyed without attacking.

Without him, the hearts of the 400 years of the Han Dynasty are in the hearts of the people!
The sky is endless, the saying of the fate of Yan Han!
Therefore, what Sima Yi is thinking about now is whether to send troops to rescue in advance.

In order not to miss the rescue time, Chen Cang fell.

And he has an absolute superiority in strength.

The Wei army in the west garrison has about eight cavalry, and there are still [-] in Chang'an. He can use [-] cavalry and attack the Wei Yan tribe with a force of more than [-]. It may not be invincible!

Even if the morale of Yongliang's various ministries is low, he can be the vanguard of Luoyang Zhongjun!

As long as the soldiers in the front are not afraid of death, they can inspire the soldiers in the rear to fight against the enemy, inspire each other to move forward bravely, and unite as one to fight fiercely.

Furthermore, even if it cannot be won, it will be a benefit for the Wei army if the battle is evenly matched and evenly matched.

Because once Wei Yanbu was unable to contain Wei's reinforcements from Linshui River Valley, no matter whether it was Prime Minister Ni Shu or Wu Banbu, they would no longer attack the fortifications recklessly when they had worries about their future.

In this way, the defenders of Chencang City can take a breather to regroup, repair the damaged city walls and re-deploy fortifications, and they can hold on for a longer time.

And it just so happened that Ni Shu, who was the attacking side, was most afraid of protracted wars.

If Chen Cangcheng cannot be captured within three months, they will naturally withdraw from Guanzhong because of loss of vigor and exhaustion of soldiers.

If not, wait another five days before marching?

Sima Yi put his hands on his gray beard, looking at the two military reports on the case table, hesitating.

One is that after the Wei Yan tribe crossed the Sishui River Valley and fell into camp, he sent two schools of soldiers and horses into the Baoxie Valley to see how many soldiers and horses the Han army had left behind to guard the valley road, so as to deduce whether they could go up with the garrison troops. Yong's Hu Zhibu did not try to disturb the possibility of Hanzhong County.

Obviously, the Han army had already expected this.

At the crossing of the plank road in Baogu, the Han army reserved hundreds of soldiers to guard against the danger, but they were three or five times the enemy.

That is to say, he can only dispel this idea——

If there are fewer soldiers and horses sent in, it will be difficult to break through the barriers; if there are too many troops sent in, the Han army will directly burn down the plank road, which also makes him useless.

Another military situation came from Longdong.

After he agreed to Qianhong's request, Qi County's garrison went with Qianhong's [-] Wuhuan Tuqi and Zhou Dang's [-] infantry, and marched westward along the Jingshui River Valley to harass Anding County.

Both of them are cautious.

It is almost advancing step by step, and there is no long-term drive to fight against Nishu.

But what I didn't expect was that the Han army was more cautious than them!
The three thousand Xiliang iron cavalry and the one thousand Longyou Han cavalry also did not rush forward to fight, or detoured to attack and cut off the food road of the Wei army, but cooperated with Wang Ping, who was in charge of the four thousand Wudang army (named Feijun), to slowly attack. Take it easy!

To be precise, it is fighting and retreating.

They have always sent hundreds of steps ahead to resist the tentative attack of the Wei army.

If the Han army won a small victory, they would stop and continue to ride with hundreds of steps; but if the Han army was defeated for a while or the casualties were evenly matched, they would pull out of the camp and retreat slowly.

Just like the reverse step by step.

At first, both Qianhong and Zhou Dang thought that this was a trick of the Han army playing arrogant soldiers to lure the enemy deep.

But after more than ten days in a row, the two of them didn't think so.

The Han army has been defeated for seven or eight battles, and they are about to retreat to the border of Linjing County!

It also caused them to fall into a dilemma of whether to continue advancing or to strike back.

Continuing to advance along the Jingshui River Valley, they will face the pincer attack of Wang Ping's department in front and Zhangyi's department of Linjing City on the side, and the danger of being cut off by Xiliang's iron cavalry detour; What's the point of coming out?
It would not work to disperse Wuhuan Tuqi, loot villages and destroy fields.

The Han army has a lot of cavalry, enough to guard the surrounding area well.

Therefore, after Qian Hong and Zhou Dang went to the camp to confront the Han army, they wrote a book again and came back to ask Sima Yi: Can they be allowed to fight?

(End of this chapter)