"Ahem... General Jiao's body... how is it today?"

"Reply to General Jiang's words, General Jiao woke up for a while this morning, but the high fever quickly broke out, so..."

"Hey, what are the King of Langya thinking? Do you have to let our 30,000 defenders in Hefei be wiped out before they can take action? How could they be so cruel?"

(Sima Yichang: Why do you still say I am cruel if I have been transferred back to the court?)

"General, if we say the last general, we might as well learn from Zhang Te."

The so-called learning from Zhang Te is the original intention of delaying the army. But the meaning here is not the delaying plan, but the real need to surrender.

Cao Wei's military law: If a city was besieged by the enemy for more than a hundred days and the reinforcements of the country still did not arrive, the defending general would not implicate his family even if he surrendered. Jin State inherited Cao Wei, and the same was true for defending the city.

In 253 AD, Zhuge Ke, the Prime Minister of Eastern Wu, led 200,000 Wu troops to the northern expedition. He fought under Hefei City for more than 90 days and could not capture it. However, the defenders in Hefei City were exhausted and the city walls were damaged in many places. At that time, Zhang Te, the guard of Hefei, used the military law of Cao Wei to slow down the army: Don't fight, don't fight, now it's more than 90 days, you can wait a few days. I will surrender after a hundred days.

Zhuge Ke was trapped and ordered to stop the attack. The Hefei defenders who were breathing were quick to repair the city wall. Then he said arrogantly: "Surrender? It's just a death fight!"

But in this current environment, the Hefei defenders really couldn't stand the desire to surrender. But they were afraid of implicating their family, so they wanted to negotiate with Wu Jun: Stop, we will really surrender when we are over a hundred days.

However, with Zhang Te's bad record in front, does Ding Fenghui believe it?

So when Jiang Ban heard this suggestion, he could only shake his head bitterly: "It's useless. Pass the message to the brothers and hold on for another five days. If reinforcements don't come yet, we can just open the city and surrender."

Although Jiang Ban knew in his heart that he would not die well after surrendering. But if reinforcements did not come yet, he would die now.

At this time, Jiang Ban and Jiao Yi, who were trapped in Hefei and had no news, did not know that their corps commander had already been replaced. What they didn't know was that the new commander Wei Guan and Boyu were actually aware of the tragic tragedy of Hefei.

Time goes back ten days ago, July 5th, Shouchun.

The general Wei Guan Gao of the East was in charge of the head, and the following were the governor of Yangzhou Zhou Jun, the governor of the army, the guardian Huan Hao, the miscellaneous general Xue Sheng, Chen Shen, Li Chun and others, as well as the general Meng Guan of the cavalry.

"General of the East Expedition, the lower officials have repeatedly confirmed with the Jinzhe Cao. At present, there are plagues in our city, and nearly half of the soldiers are sick. Therefore, although the city is sufficient for food and fodder, there are still countless equipment to defend the city. However, Hefei City is indeed unable to hold on for longer. As for Wu Gou, there are at least 20,000 soldiers killed, and the number of wounded soldiers is twice that of this number, and many of them are sick. More importantly, because Ding Chengyuan forcibly drove private soldiers from the Jiangdong family to repeatedly attack the city, the leaders sent by many families have complained. Even the soldiers of the Eastern Wu country have mostly had a low morale..."

"Shan! Thank you Zhongran for your hard work. If you can win the next battle, you will be the first contribution."

Zhongran is the face of the Yangzhou guardian Huan Hao. This man was born in the Long Kang Huan family. According to the historian Tian Yuqing, his grandfather should be Huan Fan, the think tank of Cao Shuang in the past. In the basic plane of history, Huan Hao's son Huan Yi was a famous minister of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, assisting Emperor Ming of Jin to quell the Wangdun Rebellion. His grandson was even more famous: a famous general of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, a powerful minister, and Emperor Xuanwu of the Great Chu (posthumous titled Huan Wen).

The moral integrity of the aristocratic family is never lower. For their own interests, there is nothing they dare not sell. So after our private soldiers suffered heavy losses, they quickly contacted the Jin State's referee Cao: Come and kill that smelly old man Ding Feng! We really can't stand him anymore!

"I dare not be praised by General Zhengdong. It is really because Ding Chengyuan's old man is too unpopular."

"Hahaha, yes. Generals, I think that Wu Gou is trapped in Hefei for nearly three months now, and the teacher and veterans are exhausted. The decisive battle we have been waiting for is almost this time."

"General, I'll accept it."

"Since that's the case, then we'll prepare to counterattack. This time, we must let Ding Chengyuan leave his life here!"

"As the general's order, the great Jin Dynasty will win!"

...

When Wei Guan was preparing to counterattack in Shouchun, Shu Han General Jiang Wei led nearly 70,000 main force of Shu Han to the Golden City on the west side of Hanzhong County.

During this Northern Expedition, Jiang Wei and Zhang Yi set out with an army of 80,000. After pacifying Longxi and Liangzhou, they released 10,000 in Jieting and Longxi respectively. In addition, a small amount of war damage was added. Jiang Wei had only more than 54,000 people when he headed south from Jieting.

When passing through the territory of Nan'an Qiang, Yao Kehui's posture was extremely straightforward. Without Jiang Wei's words, he directly presented five thousand Qiang soldiers and ten thousand war horses with regular appearances.

After returning to Wudu County, in the rear of Shu Han, Chengdu simply dispatched more than 4,000 county soldiers from all over the country to concentrate on Hanzhong. After Jiang Wei arrived in Hanzhong, he directly brought the 10,000 garrison troops originally prepared by Hanzhong, and let the newly transferred more than 4,000 county soldiers replace the original Hanzhong garrison. As a result, his troops were restored to nearly 70,000.

This is already the limit of all the troops that Jiang Wei can plunder. It is also the limit that Shu Han’s current national strength can withstand.

On July 15, Jiang Wei's Corps, which had completed the integration, came to Golden City.

Huangjin City is the east gate of Hanzhong County. From here to east, it is Weixing County. And from here to north? Ziwu Valley!

"Secretary Lu Ya, pay homage to the general. The general is tied with Longxi in two battles, and the martial arts world is celebrated. The emperor worships the emperor!"

"Haha, Zhongle, why did you start to learn to flatter us? If the Grand Sima had not attracted more than 100,000 troops for us in Guanzhong, how could we take Longxi so smoothly? Well, what's the situation in Guanzhong now?"

The Qinling Mountains are crossing north and south. Except for a few north-south canyons, it is a natural barrier that no army can cross in this era. However, it is for an army that requires a large amount of supplies to continuously supply. For individuals, as long as they have enough courage and good luck, they can still stop traveling between the mountains and canyons of the Qinling Mountains.

For more than half a year after the war began, the Si Wen Cao and the Shu Han Dynasty, with great courage and perseverance, have always maintained an information channel among the mountains of the Qinling Mountains. In order to maintain this channel, hundreds of Si Wen envoys either fell on cliffs or were buried at the mouth of a tiger. Even the highest commander of Si Wen Cao, Lu Ya, was also alive for a lifetime.

"Reporting to the General, the Grand Sima is still in the city of Mei County. After changing Shi Zhongrong as the general, the Jin army began to harass the two cities continuously, but did not launch a large-scale siege. However, after the Jin army has changed its arrangements, our contact with the city has been completely cut off. It is not clear how much food and fodder there are in the two cities, and whether there is an epidemic in the city will occur, so it is not clear to the officials."

"Well... what is the current deployment of the Jin army?"

"... Generally speaking, this is how the Jin army was arranged. In general, Shi Zhongrong arranged more than 145,000 people outside the two cities of Mei County. There were still 25,000 foreign troops engaged in auxiliary roles, but these foreigners had already contacted the Grand Sima and had made certain promises. As long as our army could remain strong in the subsequent wars, it would be impossible for them to turn against each other even if they turned against each other... There were still 15,000 people, Li Fu, Yuan Qing and Ju'an each led 5,000 people to guard the exits of Chencang Road, Baoxi Road, and Ziwu Valley."

"Hehe, who is the guardian of Ziwu Valley?"

"Suan and Meng Jing."

"Hahahaha~~ With Zhongle's ability, I guess he was contacting Meng Jing, right?"

"Hahaha, that's right. But Ju Mengjing said that his soldiers were all Luoyang Central Army, and lieutenants at all levels listened to him now, but he would never be able to surrender these officers and soldiers."

"It's okay, as long as he can temporarily hold the scouts who were inquiring about our army's movements in Ziwu Valley for a few days."

"This is also what Meng Jing promised to be the general."

"Hahahaha~~~Shan, by the way, Zhongle, Zhang Hu, and Zhang Xiong's contact?"

"Oh, this matter is just about to be explained in detail with the general. Since the Eastern Wu Lu Youjie sent troops, Chen Xiuyuan of Jin State urgently retreated from the three counties of Shangyong. Now the troops of Zhang Hu and others have recovered to more than 4,000 people... and Lu Youjie has taken Xiangyang. So they are preparing to take advantage of the opportunity that Chen Xiuyuan was involved in Xinye to go east to get Zhuyang."

"What? Lu Youjie is so powerful! This Wu Gou has also emerged with many talents!" After listening carefully to Lu Ya's story about Lu Kang's crossings to the Han River and taking Xiangyang strangely, even a general like Jiang Wei almost shocked his chin.

However, this kind of surprise and envy was only a moment: "Lu Youjie's military strategy is indeed not inferior to Lu Boyan. However, he is just a general. Compared with our great man Zifeng, it is far behind."

"Hehe, the general's words are deeply agreed with me."

"Well, everyone." After listening to Lu Ya's report, Jiang Wei stood up: "The situation of the battle is now extremely obvious. First of all, our allies, both Wu and Wei, have achieved great results. Their success at least ensures the complete safety of our eastern border, and at the same time makes Jin State temporarily unable to send more reinforcements to Guanzhong. Secondly, Guan Dasima is now in danger and attracts nearly 200,000 troops from Jin State to gather in the wilderness. Since the Prime Minister, our great Han Dynasty has been keen on a decisive opportunity to gamble on the destiny of both sides in the wilderness. At this time, it finally appeared! Everyone, do you have the confidence to use less than half of the opponent's troops to win the battle in the field?"

"Of course there is!"

"Hahaha, General, who have I ever been afraid of when my soldiers in the field?"

"Very good! I will have deep confidence in this! But before that, we have to do one more thing!"

"Please tell us the general."
Chapter completed!