I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 400, Wuwei County with bones exposed in the wild
Although Jia Xu's plan is good, but to complete such a large encirclement, the required troops will definitely not be too small!

So Xu Wei asked Li Rudao: "How many soldiers and horses are there in Xiliang, and how much troops will we spend to complete this encirclement?"

Li Ru thought for a while and said: "Now every county in Xiliang has a group of princes. Among them, the big ones like Ma Teng and Han Sui have more than [-] or even [-] horses, and the few like Niu Fu have [-] or even a few thousand. people!"

Xu Wei couldn't believe it: "Xiliang's population is less than one million, but there are hundreds of thousands of troops?"

Li Ru smiled wryly and said: "Xiliang has experienced a hundred years of war, it can be said that all the people are soldiers, as long as they are adults, they can kill people with knives, and if Qiang people are often added, Xiliang has at least two to three million people. Half of Ma Teng and Han Sui's subordinates are Qiang people. If they really recruited Qiang people, they could really have an army of 10! Now the Han people and Qiang people in Xiliang are already you. , let’s hold together and grab other places to survive!”

But Jia Xu said with a smile: "If Ma Teng and the others really get an army of hundreds of thousands to fight us, it will be great news for us. They don't have enough food and grass to maintain such a huge army. In less than a month, the Xiliang coalition forces will collapse!
Although we are divided into three groups, we don't need too many troops in each group. We can definitely recruit in Xiliang. As long as we have food, we are not afraid that we will not be able to recruit soldiers. The subordinates believe that the people who want to fight for the ruling in Xiliang are definitely better than horses. Teng they want more! "

Wang Lei thought for a while and said: "Since we can recruit soldiers locally in Xiliang, we must find a way to occupy a favorable strategic location as much as possible. Wudu County is located between Longxi and Bashu. The geographical location is extremely important. The south can attack Shu Zhongdong can attack Guanzhong, occupying Wudu County will be very beneficial to our next battle, and we can look down on Shuzhong and Guanzhong!"

After Wang Lei wanted to come to them to capture Xiliang, they would definitely help the victims of the disaster in Xiliang. In this way, it is also a kind of relief to incorporate them into the army or among the peasants, and their army will not be short of troops to surround Ma Teng, Han Sui and Xiliang. Rebellious!
Wang Lei looked at the map and continued: "Especially now Guanzhong is extremely fragile. Even Ma Teng and Han Sui can enter Guanzhong, which is even more difficult for us. We can tentatively attack Guanzhong. Zhang Lu in Hanzhong can also attack tentatively, if we can conquer Guanzhong, Hanzhong, and then attack Liu Bei in Shuzhong and Yuan Shao in Central Plains, we will take the initiative!"

But Xu Wei immediately stopped him and said: "Yuan Shao knows the importance of Guanzhong. If we fight Guanzhong, Yuan Shao will definitely increase his troops from Luoyang. Although we can defeat Yuan Shao, the current situation is not suitable for expanding the war!"

"As for whether to fight Hanzhong or not, it depends on the situation. If the situation permits, we will take the opportunity to occupy Hanzhong!" Compared with the powerful Yuan Shao, Zhang Lu only has Hanzhong, and capturing Hanzhong is equivalent to destroying Zhang Lu's power. It will increase the scale of the war.

Of course, even the weakest Zhang Lu is very difficult to fight!The main reason is that the terrain in Hanzhong is too dangerous. In history, Cao Cao personally led an army of [-] to conquer Hanzhong and arrived at Yangping Pass. Zhang Lu wanted to surrender to Cao Cao.But Zhang Lu's younger brother, Zhang Wei, refused to listen, and led tens of thousands of horses to defend Yangping Pass. After fighting for more than a year, they did not break through Yangping Pass. Later, they invaded Hanzhong because of Cao Cao.The reason why Xu Wei included Hanzhong in the scope of the attack was to see if Zhang Lu would surrender without a fight as in history. After all, Zhang Lu's Five Dou Rice Sect and Taiping Sect still have a close relationship.

After explaining the attack strategy, Xu Wei said: "Wang Lei, lead 4 cavalry to control Wuwei County! After controlling Wuwei County, recruit soldiers on the spot, and then attack Ma Teng and Han Sui in two ways. We must not let them escape!"

Wang Lei said: "No!"

Then he said to Li Ru: "Take Niu Fu to help Wang Lei! And find a way to contact Dong Zhuo's old troops to see what conditions they are willing to surrender and watch them defend the border for the big man for more than ten years. The conditions are not too much, I can agree!

Li Ru happily said: "The subordinates will definitely not let the ruling party down! Now Li Jue and the others can't even eat enough to eat, there is no other way out except to seek refuge in the ruling class!"

This is the best plan for Li Ru, he can also save Li Jue and others, he already knew that entering Xiliang would be his own death!
Now is a time of great struggle, if you have the ability to fight for hegemony, if you don't have the ability to find a good leader to take refuge in, hiding in a cold place like Xiliang is impossible to find a way out.

Xu Wei looked at them and said, "Let's try to calm down half of Xiliang before it snows!"

Xu Wei in Dunhuang, Jiuquan and other places can only give up first, otherwise the army will have more than 3000 miles of food roads. With the current strength, it is difficult to maintain an army of tens of thousands of people on an expedition of thousands of miles!

Everyone shouted: "No!"

After the meeting, Wang Lei led an army of 4 to Wuwei County!
Marching on the 6th, the army arrived at Wuwei County. At this time, Wuwei County was completely messed up.

Although Niu Fu's subordinates drove Niu Fu away, killed all of Niu Fu's family, and seized Niu Fu's money!
But after they reveled for a while, they found that driving away Niu Fu would not solve their problem. Wuwei County had no food at all, and they couldn't buy any food even if they had money in their hands.

They should be hungry or hungry, and even because of the carnival these days, they wasted the few grains in Wuwei County.

After losing Niu Fu's suppression, these people were divided into several groups and fought each other for food and money. In less than a month, only Niu Fu's more than 5000 soldiers were killed in Wuwei County, which had tens of thousands of people.

The rest were either killed or fled Wuwei County.

When Wang Lei came over, the entire Wuwei County had become a purgatory on earth, and those who stayed here could only survive by killing each other.There are white bones exposed in the wild everywhere, and there are thousands of miles of uninhabited scenes

Seeing this scene of human tragedy, Wang Lei said angrily: "Kill all the leaders here, make their heads into a capital to deter rebellion, let them know what they can and cannot do, and the rest of the soldiers will all be punished with hard labor." , serve for 10 years before releasing them!"

Then he found Niu Fu and said, "You are the local snake here, find a way to find out the remaining people in Wuwei County!"

Wuwei County is almost becoming a piece of white land, so it is naturally difficult to recruit civilian husbands here!According to their original plan, they also planned to recruit some militiamen to fight in Xiliang.

Niu Fu smiled and said, "Governor Wang, give me 100 shi of grain, and within five days I will definitely recruit 5 for you! If you give me a few hundred more cattle and sheep, I can get you a few more for the Qiang people." Come out!"

(End of this chapter)