Chapter 223 West or East? Let’s ask Han Xin’s plan
The three generals originally wanted to say that it was because of "money" and "fame" that the soldiers rushed to become Ma Su's subordinates. But as soon as Yang Wanwan's reasons came out, they suddenly felt that they had no way to refute, and they all fell silent.
Yang Wanwan didn't have the consciousness of "topic terminator" at all. Seeing that everyone ignored him, he turned to ask: "General, where will our army attack next?"
"Wait!" Ma Su put up a pergola with his hands and looked in the direction of Xiaoguan, squeezing out one word through his teeth.
wait?
Who are you waiting for?
The three major generals looked at each other and shook their heads.
To this day, they can no longer see through Ma Su at all. Although they have never seen through him from beginning to end, at least they can still guess a little bit about what Ma Su was thinking in the street pavilion.
In their understanding, when he met at the street pavilion, Ma Di had no actual combat experience because he was in charge of an army for the first time. In addition, his personal prestige was not established, military orders were not smooth, the generals did not know the soldiers, and the soldiers did not know the generals, so they wanted to survive and tried their best.
Avoid any direct contact with the Wei cavalry.
In that case, as long as there was contact between Shu and Wei, the loser would definitely be Ma Su.
Therefore, even if there was an opportunity to beat up Wei Jun, Ma Su resisted.
But now, Ma Su has grown to another level, one that actively seeks to collide head-on with the Wei army.
In this state, it is really puzzling that Ma Su chose to wait.
Judging from the current situation alone, it is quite favorable for the Shu army. No matter the 80,000 Wei troops around Chang'an or the generals who command the army, none of them can defeat it.
The Shu army could first capture all areas of Guanzhong except Chang'an, and then seek a decisive battle with the main force of the Wei army.
The only thing that needed to worry was Sima Division's 10,000 cavalry, but in order to ensure that the hundreds of thousands of Wei troops in Longyou could return to Guanzhong safely, Sima Division did not dare to act rashly.
In other words, before Sima Yi's army came back, Sima Division's 10,000 cavalry could only watch helplessly as the Shu army wreaked havoc on the fertile land of Guanzhong, without any solution.
After following Ma Su for a long time, the three major generals have mastered these most basic military common sense without any teachers.
As for Yang Wanwan, he is still in a state of vague understanding.
In the blink of an eye, another five days passed.
Another Wei army, totaling about 10,000 people, quietly arrived at Xiaoguan in the evening of that day. Everything was as Ma Di had expected.
The Longyou area and the Guanzhong area are blocked by the Longshan Mountains running from north to south. There is only one smooth road in between, the Longshan Road (the Chencang Weishui Road is extremely rugged and narrow, making it impossible to transport baggage and not conducive to the march of large troops). Xiaoguan is located exactly on this road.
The east end exit of the channel.
As long as the Shu army can control Xiao Pass, it is equivalent to controlling the gate from Longyou to Guanzhong, which in turn is equivalent to controlling the gate from Guanzhong to Longyou, which can make the Wei army stranded in Longyou homeless.
The Shu army can then calmly attack the surrounding areas of Chang'an, and then wipe out the entire Guanzhong with a thunderous force.
But the consequence of this is that Sima Yi's army will not be able to come back.
Once Sima Yi's army fails to come back, he will inevitably have to fight Zhuge Liang at Longyou.
This is a situation that Ma Su doesn't want to see, and Zhuge Liang may not want to see it either.
Moreover, the most important point is that Ma Di was worried that Zhuge Liang could not defeat Sima Yi.
This is not alarmist.
In terms of military strength, the Shu and Wei armies currently have about the same strength in Longyou.
In terms of generals, Sima Yi and his son (if Ma Di takes Xiaoguan first, Sima Division will be blocked in Longyou) are all commander-in-chief talents. Although Sima Division and Sima Zhao are immature, they can each command troops, let alone
There are also backbone generals like You Chu and Xiahou Ba.
On the other hand, in the Shu Han Dynasty, Zhuge Liang was the commander-in-chief and Wei Yan was the main general. The other commander-in-chiefs were worrying.
At the high-end command level, the Shu army is at an absolute disadvantage.
Once Sima Yi learns that there is no hope of returning to Chang'an, he will inevitably go to war with Zhuge Liang. At that time, Sima Yi only needs to divide his troops into five groups, lead part of his main force to bite Zhuge Liang's main force, and let the other four groups of troops attack.
Advantage is victory.
With Sima Yi's military ability, he could definitely come up with this strategy.
Therefore, Ma Su delayed taking Xiao Pass because he was waiting for Sima Yi to mobilize Longyou troops to return to Guanzhong. The more Longyou troops are mobilized, the less pressure Zhuge Liang will face by then.
Usually, when a snake swallows an elephant, first the snake must be big enough, or the elephant must be small enough, otherwise it will seek death.
The more than 100,000 Shu Han troops in Longyou are like a giant python, and the more than 100,000 Wei troops in Longyou are the elephant. What Ma Su is doing now is to weaken the elephant so that the python can swallow the elephant in one bite.
, without having your belly burst or suffering from indigestion.
After five days of waiting, 50,000 Wei troops have gathered in Xiaoguan, and the number of Wei troops in the entire Guanzhong area has reached 130,000.
Since Ma Su did not make any further attacks, Sima Yi chose to wait and see what happened, still commanding 100,000 troops to guard Tianshui and stabilize the two counties.
And because of the shrinking of the defense line, Zhuge Liang had no way to defeat Sima Yi. Instead, because both sides had equal troops (110,000 vs. 100,000), Zhuge Liang controlled five times as much territory as Sima Yi (nine counties vs. two counties). The Shu army
It is difficult to take into account all aspects in the deployment of troops.
In short, it is not strong enough.
The situation in Longyou is still unclear.
At times like this, a game-breaker is needed.
The only one Zhuge Liang could place his hope on was Ma Di.
In Beiyuan City, Ma Di was walking around with his hands in his hands, so worried that his brain cells were broken in large pieces.
In the current situation, he can only rely on himself, and the simulator can no longer help.
There are cities all over the Guanzhong Plain. Every thirty or fifty miles you will see a city standing on an important road. This pattern makes many military strategies useless.
The only useful strategy is to attack one city at a time.
However, firstly, the weapons for siege were not brought with the army, and secondly, Ma Di has always adhered to the "non-siege doctrine", so there are not many methods that can be used at present.
Either go east and attack the cities, besiege them and bring reinforcements, and force the armies around Chang'an to come and sacrifice their lives;
Either go west, approach Xiaoguan, fight decisively with Sima Division, and wait for an opportunity to defeat or swallow up the 50,000 Wei troops, and then force Sima Yi to withdraw from Longyou.
What should be done?
Ma Su racked his brains to search for every war that had been fought in the Guanzhong area in the five thousand years of history, trying to find inspiration from them, and then come up with a clever plan.
Not to mention, he soon thought of a case.
There have been many wars that broke out in Guanzhong in history, but only Han Xin's actions after smuggling into Chencang are most similar to Ma Di's current situation and have the most reference.
In 207 BC, General Xiang Yu of the Chu Army defeated the Qin Army in Julu. The Qin State was completely annihilated under the siege of many rebel armies. The following year, Liu Bang's army marched into Xianyang, and the Qin Dynasty was destroyed. After Xiang Yu destroyed the Qin State,
, was elected as the Overlord of Western Chu by the generals, and Xiang Yu also divided the generals of the rebel army into various places and became kings.
Xiang Yu wanted to dominate the world, and his only strong enemy was Liu Bang. To this end, Xiang Yu adopted Fan Zeng's plan to grant Liu Bang the three remote counties in the west of Ba, Shu, and Hanzhong to weaken Liu Bang. At the same time, Xiang Yu also
The land in Guanzhong was divided into three parts and given to Qin's surrendered generals Zhang Han, Sima Xin and Dong Yi respectively. These three people guarded Guanzhong, which completely blocked Liu Bang's development path to the east.
After Liu Bang arrived in Nanzheng, he immediately began to actively recruit troops and horses, reserve grain and grass, and prepare for the Eastern Expedition. In the autumn of the next year, Liu Bang felt that the Han army had strong soldiers and horses, so at the suggestion of Prime Minister Xiao He, he worshiped Han Xin as a general and asked him to plan the Eastern Expedition.
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Han Xin told Liu Bang that if he wanted to compete with Xiang Yu for the world, he must first counterattack Guanzhong. Then he carefully analyzed the situation of the Chu and Han armies for Liu Bang, and suggested that he immediately implement preparations to defeat the Three Qin Dynasties. This is the famous "
The origin of "Hanzhong Dui". Liu Bang was very happy after hearing this, and immediately made preparations according to Han Xin's suggestions and launched the Northern Expedition and the Eastern Expedition.
In order to successfully capture the Sanqin in Guanzhong, Han Xin decided to use a trick to confuse the enemy. He ordered Fan Kuai, Zhou Bo and other Han generals to repair the previously burned plank road, while Han Xin himself led an army to sneak to Chencang and launched a surprise attack on the Qin soldiers in Guanzhong.
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After Fan Kuai and Zhou Bo received the order, they led a large group of people to repair the plank road. However, more than 300 miles of the plank road were burned, and the terrain was very dangerous, making repairs quite difficult. In the first few days, more than a dozen civilians were repairing it.
He fell to his death on the plank road.
The news that Liu Bang had mobilized troops to repair the plank road soon reached the ears of the princes in Hanzhong.
When King Yong Zhanghan heard that the Han army was preparing to repair the plank road for the Eastern Expedition, he didn't take it seriously at all, because repairing hundreds of miles of plank road would definitely consume a lot of manpower and financial resources. By then, the people of Hanzhong would be miserable, and the Han army would not attack.
Self-destruction. Even if the Han army was able to attack by then, the terrain in Guanzhong was difficult and easy to defend but difficult to attack. With their strong city, they could easily defeat the tired Han army. Therefore, Zhang Han still had fun every day and did not take any defensive preparations.
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Just when Zhang Han was kept in the dark by the Han army, Han Xin had already led the elite Han army to quietly pass through the old Chencang road and suddenly launched an attack on Chencang City. The Chencang defenders were caught off guard by Han Xin and hurriedly abandoned the city and fled.
Zhang Han was shocked when he received the battle report from Chen Cang. He thought the battle report was wrong and was about to send someone to investigate, but he didn't expect that Chen Cang's defeated troops had already escaped.
The other two princes, Sima Xin and Dong Yi, saw the approaching Han army and they did not dare to fight. They just held the city and held on, let alone rescue Zhang Han. Xiang Yu was fighting Tian Rong in Guandong and could not get away at all.
Zhang Han faced an isolated and helpless situation.
At this time, Han Xin led his troops to pursue Xiaqiu (Huaili County, Fufeng County). After setting up camp on a high ground, he ordered people to block a river near Xiaqiu. It was the autumn flood season, the river water rose, and Xiaqiu was low-lying.
Soon the city was flooded, and the city of Feiqiu was in chaos. Zhang Han knew that he could not resist the Han army's offensive, so he fled with his army in a hurry, and soon died in the chaos.
Then, Han Xin led the Han army to quickly wipe out the remaining enemy forces in Guanzhong, and the garrison generals in Guanzhong raised their flags one after another. In less than two months, Han Xin defeated the Three Qin Dynasties in one fell swoop.
Although Han Xin's process of pacifying the Three Qin Dynasties and seizing Guanzhong was too easy, it was enough to give Ma Su corresponding enlightenment.
That is to go east, destroy the city and seize the territory, and destroy the courage of the Wei people.
