The revival of Shu Han

Chapter 456 One retreat and one advance ([-])
"Tick-tock-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick..."

In March 273, when Sima Yan finally made up his mind to make adjustments.The Soochow army, which he had so much hoped for, was advancing with difficulty in the continuous rain in Jihan Cang County.

Ji Han's Zang Cang County is basically the same as the area of ​​Guizhou Province in later generations.This place is the concentration of karst terrain in China.Not to mention all kinds of undulating mountains, the stones that make up these mountains are mainly limestone-very easily eroded by rain.Therefore, this piece of land is known as "the land has no three feet flat".

Most of Guizhou Province is located on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, but it is also on the lower end of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau.The water vapor from the Pacific Ocean slowly climbs towards Yunnan along here.Not to mention the abundant rain brought here when passing by.If the water vapor power is insufficient, it will fall back after halfway up and cannot climb up, causing rain again.Therefore, in the news of later generations, we often see severe droughts in Yunnan, but we hardly hear reports of droughts in Guizhou-after all, this place is also known as "the sky is never sunny for three days".

Now, the 15 troops of Soochow are slowly moving forward inch by inch in this place.

For the main force of the country to go out on a large scale, then Soochow may take advantage of the possibility of a sneak attack.Ji Han is aspiring to be together.But when Soochow really sends troops, Huo Yi, Guan Suo, Wang Qi and others who are in charge of staying behind will be fine.Or Guan Yi, Jiang Wei and others who are fighting outside.They all just shook their heads in disdain.

Hey, this Soochow is really getting more and more unambitious.Actually came to Jihan's Cang County?Do you still have the courage and dignity to be one of the three major powers in the world?
That's right, we really don't have a heavy army group to defend in Cang County.We didn't build any forts like Yong'an and Pheasant Pass there.You have 15 people going, and we really have no power to stop it.However, that place may sound like a vast area, but in fact it only has four counties in total.Even after so many years of restoration by Guan Da Sima, the population on the government register is still less than [-].You said that even if you take down the entire Cang County, what's the use?
Well, that's right.After taking Cang County, go southwest and you will be Jianning County.This is the core of the seven counties of Nanzhong, and the governor's office of Nanzhong is in Jianning County.But, can you really get out of the vast mountains of Cang County and still ensure the smooth flow of grain roads?

"Keng! Keng Keng! Keng Keng Keng ~!" On a slightly flat open space, a military general in official robes, holding a flint, violently struck a pile of dry firewood.Flint sputtered a large number of sparks.But when these sparks fell on the seemingly dry firewood, they still couldn't ignite the so-called dry firewood.

"Hey~~~" The general sighed helplessly, and looked at the rare sun in the sky for half a month.He simply gave up hitting Flint, but took off his clothes in public, called a guard over, set up a pole, and hung the clothes to dry.

He took off his shoes and rubbed the seams between his toes that were so itchy just now, and quickly rubbed off a lot of dead skin that had been soaked white by the continuous water vapor.He moaned comfortably, but a trace of pain suddenly appeared on his face: the movements of his hands were a little too big, and the dead skin between his toes was completely broken.The flesh and blood between the toes were directly exposed.

But now it's more itchy.He frowned, still endured the intermittent pain, and continued to rub his toes vigorously.Only in this way can he temporarily bid farewell to the unbearable itching.

"Zhongsi, you're picking your toes again. I told you to bear with it. If you continue like this, you will break your toes sooner or later!"

"Hey, brother, don't you know that if you go on like this, you will eventually become disabled. But, it's really itchy."

The two people who were talking to each other were both the sons of Liu Ping, General Zuo of the Eastern Wu Dynasty.The one who picked his feet was the second son Liuliu Zhongsi, and the other was the eldest son Liuping Liubering.

On the historical plane, in 272 AD, due to dissatisfaction with Sun Hao's ruling, Liu Ping and Wan Yu joined forces to launch a coup to get rid of Sun Hao.After being found out by Sun Hao, he invited these two to dinner, and then poisoned the wine.After all, Wan Yu was the former minister of his hidden residence, and before the poisoned wine was served, Sun Hao asked someone to change Wan Yu's wine.But Liuping was not so lucky. After drinking the poisoned wine, he immediately developed various discomforts.Fortunately, he was rescued at that time.However, after this toss, he died quickly within a month after the incident.

History has changed a lot because of the time traveler.Because Zhong Hui came to Sun Hao's side, he added brake pads to the irritable emperor.At the same time, because Shu Han did not subjugate the country, Soochow swayed between Ji Han and Jin, enjoying various benefits.Therefore, Sun Hao did not govern radically as in the historical standard, which caused widespread dissatisfaction among his subordinates.

Note that it did not cause general dissatisfaction among subordinates.There are still dissatisfied people.For example, the Kuaiji family who marched this time.

This time Soochow sent 15 troops, of which 5 were organized by the family.Among the [-] people, the imperial court set a quota of [-] for the Kuaiji family.

Yuwei Kongxie, four surnames in Kuaiji.The eleven brothers of the Yu family were all exterminated and completely wiped out.The remaining three surnames, under Sun Hao's urging and pressure, had no choice but to gather [-] private soldiers to go on business.The rest came from other big families in Kuaiji: the Liu family, the He family, and the Zhongli family raised [-].

In January 273, all armies gathered in Jiangling, Jingzhou.Lu Kang directly appointed Liuping as the vanguard, and led 1 Kuaiji soldiers from Wuling County to Jihan's Zangcang County.

Naturally, such an arrangement was strongly opposed by the Liuping Kuaiji family.But all of you have come out of Kuaiji, what else do you want?

Although Lu Kang used power to overwhelm others, the Kuaiji soldiers had to be the vanguard.But this compulsive nature and the attitude of "I'm just messing with you".Naturally, the Kuaiji soldiers were full of negative attitudes.Then, two months later, the force was still dawdling in the eastern part of Cang County.

At the beginning, Lu Kang didn't care much about the slow progress of the Kuaiji soldiers: the rulers and ministers of Eastern Wu were not fools, and they all knew that Zangcang County was not a good place to march.The reason why he chose to march here is mainly for three purposes: first, to take down a few counties so that he can give an account to the state of Jin, and thus receive Shouchun City.Second, through the attack on the weakly defended Cang County, Ji Han's left-behind troops in various fortresses are mobilized-the Han army coming out of the fortress, er, is still a little confident in fighting more and less Soochow.Third, with the help of the Han army, cut off a group of Kuaiji people.

The idea is beautiful, but the reality is cruel.

In late January, Liu Ping led [-] Kuaiji soldiers along the Yuan River into Cang County smoothly.Qieran County, where the almost undefended Cang County is located, was quickly captured.But Ji Han's left-behind officials did not respond except to send a small amount of troops to help the people in the remaining three counties transfer.

In February, under Lu Kang's constant urging, Liuping and others left Qilan County and continued westward.On the one hand, the terrain here is really difficult to walk, on the other hand, the morale of the army is extremely low.Therefore, for a whole month, Liuping and the others were only a hundred miles away.Came to the area of ​​​​Guiyang City in later generations.

But Ji Han still didn't respond.The news from the Dian school in Soochow was very clear, no matter Ma Yi from Wei County, Sun Gang from Yong'an, Guan Suo from Fuling, Wang Qi from Pheasant Pass, or even Huo Yi from Chengdu, they didn't move a single step.

In March, the weather became warmer and the rain increased. The Kuaiji army fell into a bad situation where the food was moldy and the clothes could not be dried.So now, on March 27, the Kuaiji army still stayed in the camp they built more than a month ago, and did not take another step to the west.

However, with the change of the war situation in the north, there is no need for Jin to urge, and the monarchs and ministers of Soochow have already felt the pressure like a mountain.Therefore, this Kuaiji soldier will soon face tremendous pressure from Jianye and Lu Kang who is currently sitting in Wuyang County.

(End of this chapter)