It was not a smooth road from Changning County to Wuwei City. Ma Su led four thousand cavalry through the Silk Road at the foothills of the southern end of Liangshan Mountain, and then along the Shiyang River. When they reached the intersection of the two rivers, they turned south. After running all the way, they finally arrived at
We arrived in Wuwei five days later.
Wuwei, also known as Guzang, is located in the east of Liangzhou, in the middle of the Hexi Corridor. It borders the Mongolian grassland to the north, the Qinghai Plateau to the south, the countries in the Western Regions to the west, the counties of Longyou to the south, and its circumference of Pingchuan for two thousand miles.
This place is not only the gateway to Hexi, but also the military center of the northwest region of Cao Wei. In ancient times, it has been known as an important place that "connects the vast desert and controls the throat of the five counties."
Dai Ling explained these strategic elements to Ma Su along the way, and also gave him a detailed introduction to the history of Wuwei City.
Wuwei has a long history. As early as two or three thousand years ago, northern ethnic groups such as the Rong, Cui, Yuezhi, and Wusun lived together. Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Hussar General Huo Qubing to an expedition to Hexi and defeated the Xiongnu, in order to highlight the power of the Han Empire, Wuwei has a long history.
"Martial power and military power", this place is specially named Wuwei.
Ma Su listened with a straight face, secretly wanting to laugh, but did not interrupt Dai Ling's enthusiasm.
"If the general can win Wuwei, he can cut off the connection between Wei and Liangzhou, and the land west of Hexi will soon be under his control." Dai Ling sighed with emotion, and added: "You can still be condescending and look at Longyou!"
"This is the place where Han Sui and Ma Teng started their careers."
Dai Ling was showing off his knowledge, but Zhang Xiu couldn't help it. He showed a dissatisfied look on his horse and asked: "Since General Dai knows Wuwei City thoroughly, then we will only be the general for the position of vanguard of the siege."
It’s time to wait and see.”
Dai Ling was startled and immediately realized that he had said too much and aroused the dissatisfaction of others.
Basic common sense like this is probably familiar to all generals and commanders who have read poetry and books, and how could Ma Su, who was born as a Confucian general, not know it?
Then, Dai Ling fell silent.
As soon as he spoke, Wuwei City was already in sight.
Ma Su noticed that the defenders on the city tower were in formation, waiting to patrol around. Their standard armor was quite eye-catching in the sun. From a distance, it glowed silvery white.
In Ma Di's impression, only the elite soldiers of Wei could equip such sophisticated armor, and even the equipment of Zhang He's cavalry was not that good.
A fortified city, an elite force, a solid defense. Could it be that Xu Miao, an old man, had already expected that I would come to attack Liangzhou, so he planned to defend this city?
Ma Su, with doubts in his heart, drove the crowd closer.
The soldiers of the Wei army on the city had already discovered the group of uninvited guests outside the city. A burst of "enemy attack" sounded everywhere, and there was a noise at the top of the city.
But he wasn't panicked.
Ma Su winked at Zhao Yun, waited for Zhao Yun to disappear into the crowd, took out the flower-dialed bow, and then said to Zhang Xiu: "Go and call the city."
Zhang Xiu understood this, rode his horse to the city, and shouted: "I am the governor of Yongzhou in the Han Dynasty, under the command of Ma Di, the general who conquered the west. My general wants to talk to the governor Xu Miao!"
The defenders on the city laughed loudly when they heard these two titles. They were Wei soldiers, and these two Shu official positions were worthless in their eyes, and they could not scare them at all.
One of the soldiers laughed and said: "My governor told me that he is missing!"
"If you don't see it, our army will attack the city! By then the city will be destroyed, and no chickens or dogs will be left behind!" Zhang Xiu raised his head and narrowed his eyes in threat.
"Please help yourself!" The soldier was even tougher than Zhang Xiu.
Zhang Xiu had no choice but to reply: "General, that Xu Miao refuses to meet."
Ma Su waved his hand behind him and looked at the tower in silence.
Zhao Yun silently put away his bow and arrows and rode his horse to the front row.
The four thousand troops slowly moved around the city, trying to find a loophole.
There were three thousand soldiers in Wuwei City, and Ma Di had only four thousand men and horses. It was impossible to attack the city.
It can only be outsmarted.
After walking around, I found that the surrounding residential buildings and nearby trees had been demolished and cut down. I think this was done to prevent the Shu army from using the wood to build ladders and attack the city.
Looking around, there is nothing along the way, with ruins and ruins everywhere. It is deserted and extremely quiet.
Ma Su knew that during the previous Wuwei Rebellion, some of the people outside the city had defected to the Shu Han, and the other part should have been forced into the city.
Just when the army returned to the north gate and prepared to set up camp, Dai Ling suddenly said to Ma Di: "General, I have a plan to lure Xu Miao out of the city."
"Oh?" Ma Su was a little surprised.
"What a clever plan, please tell me quickly."
"I wonder if the general has ever heard of the method of reducing cooking stoves?" Dai Ling said calmly.
Zhang Xiu didn't understand why Dai Ling suddenly said such a meaningless statement, and also used such a mysterious tone, so he immediately glared at Dai Ling with dissatisfaction: "General Ma, who has great literary and military skills, how can he not know such trivial skills?
!Don’t try to lie about it, just tell me quickly!”
"..." Ma Su glanced at Dai Ling and praised: "What a plan!"
To put it bluntly, what Dai Ling presented was the "arrogant enemy tactic" used by Sun Bin.
To put it more specifically, it is to deliberately cause some commotion under the city, or preferably to cause some internal strife. The general will deliberately force the partial generals to lead the troops to attack the city. Since the strength of the two sides is very different, so attacking the city forcefully is asking for death.
The partial general was definitely not willing to go. Because he did not want to die, he disobeyed the order, and was then severely beaten by the general (Ma Di) in front of the Wei soldiers on the city. The soldiers did not want to attack the city in vain and die, so they fled one after another.
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The situation that this plan presented to the Wei soldiers was as follows: the number of soldiers under Ma Di decreased day by day, and soon reduced to more than a thousand (other soldiers escaped openly, but secretly hid under the command of a general, preparing for an ambush)
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When the general guards see this situation, most of them will lead their troops out of the city to beat up the drowned dogs...
This strategy was used by Zhang Fei when he entered Sichuan and captured Yan Yan, the governor of Bajun alive.
But it is far from enough to deceive an old fox like Xu Miao.
So Ma Su shook his head: "The plan is a good one, but Xu Miao is rich in knowledge and has read many poems and books. This plan may be able to hide it from others, but it will certainly not be able to hide it from him."
Xu Miao suffered a heavy loss in the battle of Xiabian. Now it is not that easy to trick him into leaving the city.
Dai Ling thought for a moment and then suddenly realized.
When he was an enemy of Ma Su before, he had suffered many losses from Ma Su, so he knew what Ma Su was capable of.
If Ma Su says no, then it must be no.
The whole process, Zhang Xiu seemed to be listening to heavenly scriptures, and it was over before he could understand.
So he scratched his head and looked at Zhao Yun, hoping that the respected old general Zhao could clear up his doubts.
Zhao Yun pretended not to see him, stroking his beard and looking at the sky at an angle of 45 degrees.
Soon, the soldiers set up camp twenty miles north of the city.
Ma Di and his party rode their horses around to check the terrain. When they reached a huge depression at the intersection of two rivers, he suddenly reined in his horse, pointed far ahead, and asked, "General Dai Ling, where is that?"
Everyone followed his fingers and saw that the two rivers in the shape of a "7" intersected to form an inner circle. The terrain was first high, then suddenly concave, extending to all directions into a large depression. It was several feet deep and one foot wide.
It's about 1,000 miles, at least four or five miles in length.
"General, this place is called Tulechuan." Dai Ling replied: "Because the two rivers are often flooded, the local people dug earth to build embankments, and the place was deeply sunken."
"Tulechuan..." Ma Di murmured, and led everyone to enter from the entrance of the south depression, and after half an hour, they came out from the north embankment.
"Let's go up and have a look."
So a few people slowly went up along the gentle part of the embankment, climbed up and looked at the river.
The embankment is not very high. After climbing about a hundred steps, we reached the top of the embankment. As soon as we climbed up, everyone, including Ma Su, was shocked.
It turns out that the top of the embankment is about three feet wide. The entire embankment is narrow at the top and wide at the bottom. It is a half-stone and half-earth structure with extremely poor solidity. The top of the embankment is only about two feet above the water. The raging river is like a river that can erupt at any time.
The giant beast rushed towards us with majestic momentum.
Ma Su pondered and walked around the embankment with his hands behind his back. He leaned over and poked the hardness of the soil with his sword. He picked up a few stones and threw them into the river to observe. He stared into the distance again and fell into
meditation.
The three generals Zhao Yun, Zhang Xiu and Dai Ling did not disturb him and waited quietly aside. At this time, the red sun was setting in the west, the north wind was blowing up, and the flaming clouds made the sky a gorgeous one; Long Mountain in the distance was hidden in the sky.
Amid the high mountains, a biting coldness hit our faces, making people suddenly feel as desolate as "the sun is setting and the road is exhausted".
Ma Su looked around from the embankment and had a panoramic view of the river and the mountains.
When he saw his own shadow stretching out a long way, thrown into the river and moving with the waves, he burst out boldly:
"Xu Miaopifu, you are dead!"
He raised his head and looked at Wuwei City, which was out of sight in the distance, and raised the corners of his mouth slightly.
"Then I'll use the simplest strategy to get acquainted with you!"
"I don't believe it. A disabled Teemo dances and sings in front of you, and you can resist stabbing him with a big sword!"
"Ha ha ha ha……"
When Ma Su was drawing up his plans against Xu Miao, in Wuwei City, Xu Miao was also thinking deeply as he looked at the earth that was about to sink into darkness.
