Three Kingdoms: I Am Not an Ant Thief Chapter 624, Surprising
After hearing what Zhang Baiqi and the others said, Xu Wei looked at the sand table in the camp to see where he could break the current deadlock.
The sand table in the camp is relatively accurate in Hanzhong, but in the direction of Shuzhong we can only rely on the old map provided by the staff as a reference. It is generally OK, but many small places are not precise enough!
But this sand table is densely packed with all kinds of undulating mountains. It makes people’s scalp numb when they look at it. No wonder there is such a saying that the world has been settled and Shu has not been settled. Shuzhong has always been the most difficult place to calm down in troubled times. As long as the internal situation is not stable, If something goes wrong, even a million-strong army will have a hard time breaking in!
And now Liu Bei is the one who has the heart to resist the Daqian army. The few passable roads in Shuzhong and Hanzhong have now been built by Liu Bei with a large number of camps. Obviously Liu Bei wants to fight with Daqian in the mountains of Hanzhong. Fight to the end!
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Xu Wei thought deeply: "Where else can I hold Liu Bei's troops?"
Zhang Baiqi said: "Hanzhong is surrounded by mountains, so it is difficult to use the strength of our army's artillery and cavalry. However, there is no dangerous terrain in Jingzhou. It is completely possible for Yang Feng to send 100,000 troops to attack the Nanyang Army. In this case, Liu Bei must send Send troops to support Zhang Fei in Nanyang County!"
But Hu Zhen said: "Now Liu Bei is mobilizing troops from Yizhou and Hanzhong, and the main force of the Jingzhou army has not moved. Now that our army launches the battle of Jingzhou, Zhang Fei will fight to the death. It will be very difficult to conquer Nanyang County, and it will be even more difficult." Not to mention that there is Xiangyang City behind! The entire Yangtze River is the moat of Xiangyang City. Without the navy, it is impossible for us to go south to the south of the Yangtze River. We can only conquer one Nanyang County, which is of little significance to this war! And if we want to conquer Xiangyang The city can only wait for our navy to be built!"
Although Daqian has worked hard to build a navy this year, it is obviously not possible to build a navy that can defeat Yangzhou and Jingzhou. According to the current progress, Daqian's naval warships still need to be built. It takes more than a year to build, then install the artillery, adjust the equipment, and adjust the navy officers and soldiers. It will take more than 2 years if the navy really wants to fight. Obviously, this water cannot quench the thirst of the near!
Zhang Meng said: "Our army can send a large army from Wudu to attack Baishui Pass in Guanghan County along the Han River and the Jinniu Road. If we break through Baishui Pass, not only will the gates of Sichuan be wide open, we can also cut off Liu Bei. The lack of food roads turned Liu Bei's army of hundreds of thousands into a turtle in a urn!"
But Xu Wei pointed to a circle of camps on the Jinniu Road and said: "Liu Bei has already prepared. Yan Yan, the general of Shu, led an army of 30,000 people and stationed a large number of soldiers and horses along the dangerous places of the Jinniu Road. He wanted to break through hundreds of miles of The Jinniu Road is not much worse than the Han army that defeated us in front!"
Liu Bei naturally cannot relax at such a crucial point as Jinniu Road. The troop density here is even greater than that in Hanzhong. If Xu Xuwei focuses his attack here, it will even be a good thing for Liu Bei. In this way, It can save hundreds of miles of mountain roads to transport food, the number of civilians can even be reduced by 70%, and Shuzhong can be supported for a longer period of time, so Xu Wei is willing to lead the main force to fight Liu Bei in Hanzhong, which at least prolongs Liu Bei's life. Hundreds of miles of food roads made Liu Bei's army consume even more!
Looking at the map of Shuzhong, Xu Wei thought for a while and said: "I have an idea. If it succeeds, not only will Liu Bei be defeated, but even the entire Shuzhong can be captured by us!"
Zhang Baiqi and the others said in surprise: "What's the secret of governing?"
Xu Wei pointed to the land on the plateau and said: "We can invade Shu County from the ancestral land of the Western Qiang people and capture Chengdu. In this way, not only will Liu Bei's food route be cut off, but if we can capture the little emperor, the entire Han Dynasty will not be destroyed. , will also fall into chaos!”
Xu Wei didn't know much about Yizhou, and he remembered very few wars, but he knew that another army crossed the snowy mountains from here and went directly to the current Bingzhou.
But now Xu Wei's army is not pursued by enemies and is more prepared than this army. It may not be impossible to advance into Shu!
Zhang Baiqi and the others looked at this blank place and frowned and said: "In power, although no one has thought of this, there is no road here, how can we let the army pass, and how can we solve the problem of food and grass supplies due to the mountains and rivers along the way? ?
Although Daqian's power is more powerful than that of Dahan, even occupying the entire desert, the Qiang people's ancestral land, Xihuang, is not occupied. It is not that Daqian lacks strength, but that the current plateau is too desolate, especially It is now the Little Ice Age, and every year the White Disaster wipes out tribes on the plateau.
Under the threat of death, tribes on the plateau continued to move southward. This was the reason why the Eastern Han Dynasty government mobilized Xiliang for hundreds of years.
But now Daqian's method to solve this problem is very simple, which is to move all the tribes on the plateau to the hinterland of Xiliang and assimilate them into the people of the Han Dynasty. In this era, the tribes on the plateau are extremely primitive, and there are even only small tribes and no ethnic groups. Consciously, in the past, the big men were asking for trouble. In order to exploit these barbarians, the nobles forcibly identified these people as Qiang people, and then robbed them of their last sheepskin and captured them as slaves. They became rich and powerful, but the big men suffered! A few years later I will come to Xiliang to quell the war.
But now that Dagan has wiped out all the powerful nobles, and has also given a serious warning to the powerful people in Xiliang, these powerful people now don't even have their servants, and their power has been greatly reduced, although it is impossible for them to come out to cause trouble again.
From the beginning of the Kingdom's army, the primitive tribes who came down from Xiliang were arranged to become Daqian people. As for the Qiang people! Come on, these savages can't even understand the words. They have different pronunciation for ten miles. It's the first time even the Qiang people have heard of it. This is just the Han people forcibly identifying them as Qiang people.
Now that Da Gan is in power, it is naturally impossible to do such a thankless thing. Everyone is a Da Gan. Compared with the dirty Qiang people, the savages naturally hope to become Da Gan. After all, they have to hold on to their thighs. Want the biggest legs.
Under this ethnic policy, the population of Xiliang has skyrocketed. Now it has a population of nearly 3 million, and more than 2 million of them are Dagan people. At the beginning, Wang Guojun reported to Xu Wei that as long as this policy is adhered to, In less than 20 years, the entire Xiliang will become the paradise of the Han people.
But just because of such a policy, the population on the plateau is now smaller and more desolate, and walking an army in such a place is simply a joke with the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers! So they do not agree with Xu Wei's idea in their hearts. !
But Xu Wei said: "We now have time to send spies to explore the road into Shuzhong bit by bit. I believe that there must be a place that can be entered among the thousands of miles between Shuzhong and the plateau!"