Wanli 1592

Chapter 861 The Controversy Between Liu and Deng
While Li Wen was marching in an all-round way, his marching route was also found out by the spies sent by Ma Wei and Liu Ting.

If not, as they expected at the beginning, Li Wen personally led his troops to take the Chencang Ancient Road and Lianyun Plank Road, and went straight to Hanzhong. Attack Hanzhong, trying to threaten the retreat of the Hanzhong garrison.

Faced with such an attack, Ma Wei, Liu Ting, and Deng Zilong did not have any worries, which was very different from what they had expected.

"Sure enough, Li Wen's marching route is similar to what we expected. Lianyun Plank Road, Baoxie Valley Road, and Qishan Ancient Road, marching in three ways, trying to besiege Hanzhong. In this way, our army's defensive posture will become more obvious. From Liuba to Hutou Pass and then to Jitou Pass are our three lines of defense, the last line of defense is Baocheng, except for Baocheng which cannot be lost, the other three lines of defense can be used to lure the enemy in.

Mawei, as the main player, expressed his views.

Deng Zilong and Liu Ting had no objection to this.

However, Deng Zilong said that he was willing to be responsible for the defense of the remaining dam, leading the army to face Li Wen's main force, and entrusted Liu Ting with the task of guarding Lueyang, Yangpingguan and Mian County, and Ma Wei himself led troops to garrison Nanzheng, and took the center to support them.

Liu Ting expressed dissatisfaction with this.

"Old Dengtou, are you too greedy? Liuba can face the two teams of Li Wen and Li Ruzhang directly. The terrain is so good that one man is in charge of the other. You don't want to eat alone, do you? I'm going to deal with Du Tong, and Du Tong is only a partisan, with a maximum of 3 people!"

Deng Zilong said sternly: "I don't like it when you say that, old man. You have done so much to divide your troops to attack Sichuan and Hanzhong, but I am in Yunnan. I have been fighting for a month, and I have been idle for half a month. Just like that A little credit, I haven't told you this yet!"

Liu Ting shook his head again and again.

"This is a task arranged by Dashuai Xiao. If you are not satisfied, you can talk to Dashuai Xiao. Don't trouble me. I don't care about this matter. I have already discussed it with Brother Ma at the beginning. I am in charge of the north. He In charge of Yangping Pass, now that you are here, you are in charge of Yangping Pass, Brother Ma volunteers to stay in Nanzheng, what else do you have to say?"

Deng Zilong was immediately dissatisfied.

"Why don't you know how to respect and respect the elderly? How old am I? How long can I live? Can't you just let me become famous once? It's just one chance for a veteran to go to war. You are still young and you have a long way to go. Come on, why bother arguing with me, an old man?"

Liu Ting rolled his eyes.

"It was because you were old that you didn't fight with you, that's why Tengchong camp suffered! What happened? Are you still talking about this now?"

Deng Zilong exploded when he heard this.

"It was all my fault when I co-authored it? You kid is not at fault at all? Don't you know how to let the old man?"

"Hey you..."

Liu Ting and Deng Zilong had a bad relationship in the early years because of Yao Anying and Tengchongying. As a result, Liu Ting was dismissed. Later, Yao An rebelled and Deng Zilong was also dismissed. The black history of the two can never be erased. Over the years I don't see each other very often, and gradually I don't care so much about the past, but I still have a grudge in my heart.

Now it's noisy.

Seeing the quarrel between the two, Ma Wei immediately stood up to stop it.

"Okay! Don't quarrel! What happened more than ten years ago, both of them are generals in command, why are you arguing like this? Is it interesting?"

Ma Wei was the chief general appointed by Xiao Ruxun, so Deng Zilong and Liu Ting had no choice but to shut their mouths indignantly at each other.

This doesn't work, the two still have to quarrel, and they have to be convinced.

So Ma Wei thought of a good way Xiao Ruxun used to settle the dispute.

He turned around and wrote "Liuba" and "Lueyang" on two pieces of paper respectively, and then formed a ball, holding them in his left hand and right hand respectively, then turned around to face the two, stretched out his two hands.

"I hold a piece of paper ball in my left hand and right hand respectively. The paper balls say Liuba and Lueyang respectively. You choose for yourself. Whoever chooses Liuba water will go to Shouliuba, and whoever chooses Lueyang Just go to guard Lueyang, obey God's orders, and don't blame anyone."

Deng Zilong and Liu Ting looked at each other and snorted heavily.

"I want my left hand!"

Liu Ting has decided.

"The old man wants the right hand!"

Deng Zilong also decided.

So the two got a paper dumpling respectively, and when they opened it, Deng Zilong looked overjoyed, while Liu Ting covered his eyes with annoyance.

Deng Zilong chose Liuba, and Liu Ting chose Lueyang.

"This is God's choice, don't blame me."

Deng Zilong laughed triumphantly, Liu Ting turned his head away full of displeasure.

When Ma Wei saw the dispute was settled, he smiled and said, "In this way, there will be no problem. Leave the dam to old General Deng, and leave Lueyang to General Liu."

Later, Ma Wei decided to deploy Deng Zilong's [-] soldiers along the way, while Liu Ting led [-] soldiers to defend the line between Pingguan and Mian County in Lueyangyang.

The terrain is also dangerous, and the terrain is also narrow, so it is difficult for large troops to deploy. Therefore, even if the total strength of Li Wen's troops reaches [-], if they really match up, they cannot give full play to the advantage of [-] troops. Limited by the narrowness of the road and the harsh environment.

Therefore, compared with the Northwest Army under Li Wen who came from afar, although the Hanzhong garrison has a strength of only [-], it has a greater advantage.

As long as Li Wen's [-] Northwest Army is intercepted in the mountains and rivers of the Qinling Mountains, they will be even more unable to give full play to their advantages, and can only continue to fight fiercely with the Hanzhong garrison who occupies the superior terrain and situation.

Food is their lifeline, their logistics is extremely fragile, and the supply line is very long, so they are extremely vulnerable, and Ma Wei also took aim at their food road, so he wrote to Ma Qiancheng and Qin Liangyu, trying to recruit them The white pole soldiers joined the battle.

That army, which is extremely good at fighting in mountains and climbing mountains and rivers, can completely realize Mawei's tactics, attacking their food roads like magic soldiers from heaven, destroying their extremely fragile lifelines.

This is the situation. If the logistics is not strong enough or the reserves are not sufficient, if there is no progress for more than a month, they will face the embarrassment of having no food available, just like Cao Zhen, Cao Shuang, and even Zhong Hui back then.

The difficult Shu Road is the enemy of food transportation, so whether it is Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition or Cao Wei's counterattack, it is quite difficult. The Qinling Shu Road, which is difficult to cross, is a common problem for both sides.

But at the moment, there is no doubt that Li Wen is under greater pressure, while Ma Wei is under less pressure. Ma Wei and others, who are more convenient for supplies and support, have the advantage, and they can rest assured and wait for Li Wen incoming.

Set up layers of defenses, give up appropriately, give him hope of victory, give him false confidence, make Li Wen more and more unable to retreat in time, and become more and more like a gambler. Soon, the gambler's psychology will control Li Wen Wen, step by step, lured Li Wen to death until he could never go back.

Ma Wei doesn't intend to let the people around Xiao Ruxun, such as Chen Lin, Li Wenyuan, Zhao Hu and Luo Rong, monopolize their military achievements.

In any case, I have to win a hearty victory here to prove my ability, and when the merits are rewarded in the future, I can get more things and grasp more power!
(End of this chapter)