Wanli 1592

Chapter 858

When Li Wen learned of the fall of Sichuan from Xi'an, he was extremely shocked.

As an important source of food in Guanzhong and the four towns in the northwest, the importance of Sichuan is self-evident. Now he is suddenly told that Sichuan is over and has been completely occupied by Xiao Ruxun's rebels. How embarrassing is this for him?

It wasn't long before he knew about Xiao Ruxun's rebellion. The news from the capital was a bit slow. When he found out, he learned that the Grand Canal had been blocked by Xiao Ruxun. He sent the Dayun Division in Gansu.

In fact, Li Wen himself thought it was ridiculous. How could Xiao Ruxun, who had just won a battle, rebel?

Just slaughtered 30 captives in the north, bringing unprecedented peace to the north. Just when Li Wen breathed a sigh of relief and planned to issue a decree to recuperate and resume production, he suddenly learned that Xiao Ruxun had rebelled, and the court wanted to recruit soldiers from the Northwest to go there. counterinsurgency.

This is simply absurd!
But since it was an order from the imperial court, he would not resist. He honestly sent an elite army, and prepared to mobilize more troops in case of emergency, and notified Sichuan to deliver food for backup.

As a result, the food did not come, and Sichuan governor Tan Xisi came here with the family of the king of Shu to escape, saying that Sichuan had been occupied by Xiao Ruxun's rebels and out of control, and then came the news that Hanzhong was also occupied, which made Li Wen turned pale with shock.

Are the rebels planning to conquer Xi'an in the north and occupy Guanzhong to reproduce the situation of Han Xin?

Tan Xisi fearfully said that the rebels claimed to have an army of 5, but in Li Wen's view, there were only [-] soldiers at most, and the number of soldiers might not be as high as that. Tan Xisi was so incompetent that he lost Sichuan.

What's even more hateful is that Liu Ting, the general of Sichuan, led the entire army to attack Sichuan, and persuaded many generals to let them join Xiao Ruxun. The attack went smoothly, and Sichuan was taken down without any obstacles. Now, we have gone one step further and captured Hanzhong, and Hushi Guanzhong and Northwest, the situation is critical.

If you want to fight, you must fight. If you don't fight, you will have no food to eat, and you will starve to death.

Not only that, the army will not starve to death honestly, if the entire army of the four towns is going to starve, they will all rebel.

Li Wen immediately made up his mind to mobilize the army to attack Hanzhong, and he never wavered.

Now that he decided to fight, Li Wen immediately thought that the amount of grain in his hand needed to be verified, so he quickly sent someone to verify the grain warehouse, and learned that the grain in his hand was about two months' worth of the frontier army. War, if you save some food, maybe you can last another half a month.

This is obviously not enough. If the battle to retake Sichuan starts, even if it is relaxed to three months, it will be just enough. The time is too tight, and it may not even last until he reaches Hanzhong to seize food and grass. Do you want to go to war?
So while mobilizing the army, Li Wen also sent people to the surrounding state capitals to collect food and grass, as much as he could collect, anyway, at least one more month of food and grass should be guaranteed, otherwise, he was really not sure that he could support it smoothly. Take back Sichuan to grab food and grass.

Now that the autumn harvest has just passed, although due to the severe cold and the impact of the previous battle of Datong in Shanxi, there is still a little food...

perhaps.

Li Wen was not sure, but he had to fight.

When Du Tong, the commander-in-chief of Guyuan, began to organize the army, he called his staff from the three sides of the Governor's Mansion to hold a strategic meeting to discuss the strategy and tactics of conquering Hanzhong and how to retake Sichuan and so on.

There is no shortage of soldiers and horses, and there is a shortage of food and grass. The battle must be resolved as soon as possible, the sooner the better.

The staff first unified their views.

The Lianyun plank road is a road that must be taken. This road has the best road conditions and can carry the most soldiers, horses, food and grass. It can directly reach the north of Hanzhong, threaten Hanzhong, and start the Hanzhong offensive.

Luogu Road is the least recommended to go. The road conditions are too bad and it is not smooth. Cao Shuang walked from here, and the 18 army was completely lost, which delayed the battle between Wei and Shu for 20 years, which can be described as miserable.

After the renovation of Ziwu Road by Tang Xuanzong, the road conditions have improved, and you can try to march, but it is still not easy to walk on the Baoxie Road. Therefore, if the Yulin Army from Xi'an arrives, they can march from Baoxie Road to directly threaten Hanzhong.

Naturally, this must be based on the fact that the rebels did not burn down the plank road insanely.

Then the aides proposed a new battle route. They could send a team from Guyuan to Tianshui, and then take the Qishan Ancient Road from Tianshui. This is the route Zhuge Liang took for two northern expeditions. The army can also bypass Yangping Pass to threaten the retreat of the rebels.

As for Deng Ai's route...

Forget it, it will kill people, not to mention whether it can be done, and right now, it doesn't make much sense, and the other party may not be unprepared, there is no need to lose a team in vain.

Therefore, the advice given to Li Wen by the staff is to lead the main forces of Guyuan Town and Ningxia Town to take the Qishan Ancient Road and Lianyun Plank Road, and divide the troops into two groups to attack Hanzhong. Going south, it can be regarded as supporting the main attack.

In this way, a three-way attack on Hanzhong was formed.

They believed that Li Wen's superior force could expand the battle situation and press Hanzhong to fight, creating a huge sense of oppression in Hanzhong, which caused the panic of Xiao Ruxun's rebels in Hanzhong, and then realized their strategic goal of occupying Hanzhong and retaking Sichuan.

Referring to the failure of Cao Zhen and Cao Shuang and the success of Zhong Hui, the high-ranking officers chose the most suitable tactics and prepared to recapture Hanzhong in one fell swoop.

Li Wen also thinks that there is probably no problem. If he fights like this, he has the advantage in military strength. Cao Zhen and Cao Shuang's failures are all due to logistics and weather. Cao Zhen is the most stupid. After all the food and morale have been tossed, it's over.

Cao Shuang was also stupid. Instead of exploring the road, he directly chose Luogu Road, which was awe-inspiring and difficult to reach the blue sky. In the end, he was frustrated in the front and the rear was not good enough, and Fei Yi almost made dumplings.

But they don't want to, they want to take the Qishan and Lianyun plank roads, and also take the praise ramp.

Avoid Luogu Road, try not to take Ziwu Valley, and defend these two routes without attacking.

In this way, it is possible to avoid repeating the mistakes of Cao Zhen and Cao Shuang, the idiot father and son.

The senior ginseng were triumphant.

Li Wen thought about it again and again, and felt that there was no problem, so he began to send people south to Qishan Ancient Road and Lianyun Plank Road to explore the road, collect information, and ordered Du Tong to send vanguard troops south to Baoji and Tianshui to occupy favorable terrain, and at the same time began to arrange Auxiliary soldiers and civilian husbands transported food, grass and supplies to prepare for the army to go south.

At the same time, Li Wen ordered to Xi'an to ask Liu Guangguo to arrange troops to guard the entrance of Ziwu Valley, so as to prevent rebels from attacking Xi'an from Ziwu Valley frenziedly. At the same time, Zhouzhi County should also be taken into account to prevent the rebels from marching through Luogu Road first.

In this way, everything is safe, and Li Wen feels that he can calmly dispatch troops.

(End of this chapter)