When the war in southern Tianzhu was in full swing, no, it should be the time when Li Gang and the others conquered it. On the battlefield in the Western Regions, Xu Weicai led an army of 50,000 cadres to Wuji City in the Western Regions to fight with Zhang Xiu and the others!
Zhang Xiu reported the situation on the battlefield to Xu Wei, especially when he said angrily: "Liu Bei is unworthy of being called a hero. He actually captured all the local people in the Western Regions in order to clear the country and resist the government. At least hundreds of thousands of people were killed." Liu Bei captured them, and hundreds of thousands of people fled to Wuji City. Now they can only wait for our help!"
No wonder Zhang Xiu was so angry. He was the number one official in the Western Regions, and he was responsible for everything that happened in the Western Regions. He finally spent several years taking advantage of the battle between Guishang and Liu Bei to seize the opportunity. With a population of one million, the population of the Western Region has exceeded 3 million, but before he can show his grand ambitions, less than half of the Western Region has been robbed by Liu Bei, and it will be difficult to recover in just a few decades! Because this time Liu Bei really cut the grass and roots!
Xu Wei was surprised when he heard the news. He wouldn't be surprised if Cao Cao did such a thing. This guy could massacre cities and rob people.
But Liu Bei has never behaved like this in history. He is considered one of the people with the best bottom line among the Han princes, but now he has actually begun to plunder places?
Zhang He, who was following Xu Wei, asked: "What is the situation on the battlefield now? Are Liu Bei's hundreds of thousands of troops still stranded in Dawan City?"
Zhang He had stayed in the Western Regions for 20 years and was familiar with every plant and tree in the Western Regions. Xu Wei once again asked Zhang He to come out and become his staff during this war.
And he understands the situation in the Western Regions and understands that it is impossible to maintain an army of hundreds of thousands in the Western Regions for a long time, because even for the most mobile nomads, so many soldiers have to eat up the grass in the land! If Liu Bei really had so many troops, he could only ravage like locusts in the Western Regions, instead of being as quiet as they are now!
Zhang Xiu said: "After Liu Bei captured Dawan City and Wusun Kingdom, he stopped attacking and began to build defense lines layer by layer. Now there are 30,000 troops stationed at Dawan City as a stronghold, and there are also 30,000 troops stationed in the direction of Wusun. , the remaining troops are all in the north of Kushan, and they are stationed in dangerous places on the mountain slopes!"
In fact, when Dagan's 50,000 reinforcements were about to arrive here, Liu Bei began to divide his troops and led his soldiers to station in dangerous places. He made it clear that he wanted to fight defensively and use the long-term logistics line in the Western Regions to kill Dagan's army.
And his idea is not wrong. The Jidu army in the northernmost part of the Daqian Army has marched more than 20,000 miles to this point (although half of it was on the railway). This is almost farther than a person can walk in a lifetime.
Even the troops near Chang'an and Xiliang have traveled tens of thousands of miles, and most of them are in extremely desolate places. Even if there are sufficient supplies, it will consume a lot of soldiers' morale and morale.
Even if Xu Wei wants to fight Liu Bei now, it is difficult for the soldiers in his hands to exert half of their combat effectiveness. It is inevitable to rest and restore their combat effectiveness!
However, the Western Region is more than ten thousand miles away from the core area of Daqian. Every extra day of the 100,000-strong army staying in the Western Region is a great test for Daqian's logistics.
Liu Bei now plans to compete with Da Gan on the logistics lines of both sides, and on endurance, just like he did in the battle of Hanzhong.
Liu Bei was the one who suffered the logistical losses in the Battle of Hanzhong. In the end, he was dragged down and the court went bankrupt, but he now doesn’t think Da Qian still has the ability to do so in the Western Regions!
Xu Wei became amused after understanding Liu Bei's strategy.
This cannot be said to be that Liu Bei was wrong, and the people who formulated this strategy were not wrong either, but Liu Bei and the others did not expect that the upgrading of weapons could change the situation on the battlefield. In the past, the impression was that formulating strategies could only be a matter of searching for a sword!
Xu Wei first let the army rest in the city for half a month.
Then the 100,000-strong army marched toward Dawan City in a mighty manner.
After setting up camp, Xu Wei did not immediately send troops to attack. Instead, he sent an envoy to Dawan City, saying that he wanted to catch up with Liu Bei in front of the battle line.
Just like Xu Wei trusts Liu Bei's bottom line, Liu Bei also trusts Xu Wei's bottom line. It can even be said that Liu Bei's trust in Xu Wei is higher than his own. In the late Han Dynasty, various princes broke the bottom line and harmed the people, but Liu Bei himself could only He may stick to the bottom line and not harm the people, but he has no ability to save the people.
But at the end of the Han Dynasty, Xu Wei did his best to save millions of refugees. These refugees later became the most powerful fighting force of the Daqian Army. They followed him in the south and north and conquered the entire Han Dynasty. From this aspect, Xu Wei Wei did nothing wrong.
The next day, east of Dawan City.
Xu Wei found someone to build a temporary wooden pavilion and set up a banquet.
Speaking of which, Liu Bei can be regarded as his idol. They have fought several times, but they never really sit down and chat. This may be the only time they meet in this life.
Soon, Liu Bei brought Zhang Fei and his personal guards to the pavilion, while Xu Wei also brought Zhang Xiu and other close followers.
When Xu Wei saw the old Liu Bei walking slowly towards him, he smiled and said, "Gong Xuande and I have been fighting for half our lives, and it seems like this is the first time we meet!"
Liu Bei laughed at himself: "We met decades ago. At that time, the three of us brothers had just settled down in the Yellow Turban Rebellion and made some small contributions. Then we followed Brother Bogui and led the cavalry to chase Lei Gong, but we were taught a lesson by you in the end. After a while, I’m afraid you won’t remember this!”
Xu Wei has really forgotten this. After all, this memory is too old. A person will remember things that he has suffered deeply, but he will soon forget things that he took advantage of. That time, Xu Wei defeated Liu Guan and Zhang San. Brother, although such a victory was glorious, he soon forgot it.
But for the three brothers Liu, Guan, and Zhang, this failure was unforgettable. It was because of their failure that they released the most powerful rebel in the entire Han Dynasty, and this rebel engulfed the entire Han Dynasty in more than ten years. , many times they would wonder, if they could have killed Thunder Lord back then, would the strong man have survived? In such a situation where he thought about it day and night, Liu Bei was naturally deeply impressed.
The two exchanged greetings for a while and then sat down.
Then Xu Weidao said: "Speaking of this battle, I don't want to fight. Emperor is just a name. There is no divinity at all. In my life, I want all the people in the world to be like dragons and everyone to be themselves.
The emperor, then the world will be stable."
Zhang Fei snorted coldly: "Since Lei Gong you don't care about my eldest brother proclaiming himself emperor, why did you raise an army to attack Tianzhu? You are considered a hero of the generation, but you actually deceived my eldest brother with such duplicity!"