Longyou refers to Hanyang and Longxi counties in Liangzhou during the reign of Emperor Ling.
However, after Cao Pi replaced the Han Dynasty, he merged the three counties of Guanzhong and Hanyang, Longxi and Anding to establish Yongzhou.
Among them, Hanyang County was divided into Tianshui, Guangwei and Nan'an counties.
However, due to geography and population distribution, the strategic center of Longyou is still in Tianshui County, Hebei County and Shanggui County, which are run through by the Weishui River.
Shanggui County is the junction point of Qishan Road and Longguan Road, and is also the residence of Guo Huai.
This is also the reason why Ma Zun fled to Shanggui.
Shanggui, with a garrison of nearly 5,000 troops, is more reassuring than Jixian, with a garrison of about 2,000 troops.
It's just that as the governor of Tianshui, he has the responsibility to defend the territory. When Bashu attacks, he should go back and set up defenses.
At least, Jiang Wei, the lieutenant who also accompanied him on the tour, as well as Liang Xu, the Tianshui Gong Cao, Yin Shang, the chief secretary, and Liang Qian, the chief secretary, all thought so.
When Jiang Wei saw Ma Zun fleeing to Shanggui, he led Yin Shang and others and hurriedly chased him to ask him to return and take charge of the overall situation.
However, Ma Zun was actually on top of the city, claiming that Jiang Wei and others had different intentions. He came to invite him back this time because he wanted to take him to welcome Bashu for promotion.
Jiang Wei had no choice but to think that all his family members were in Ji County, so he went back on his own.
Unexpectedly, even Ji County closed the city gates tightly and refused to let them in.
At this time, Prime Minister Zhuge Liang arrived with a large army. Forced by the situation, Jiang Wei and others had no choice but to surrender.
After the prime minister learned that Ma Zun was not in Ji County, he began to dispatch troops and horses.
He ordered Chen Shi to attack Ji County with 5,000 soldiers and horses; Wu Yi led more than 10,000 men to Shanggui to besiege Guo Huai. He led the army across the Wei River and went north along the Changli River (Hulu River) until he was massacred by Xia Houyuan.
The ruins of Xingguo City, then turned east towards Jieting.
When they passed Lueyang, they sent 10,000 soldiers to garrison Liliucheng (Long County) with Gao Xiang as the governor.
Because the Guanlong Road is on the right side of Longyou, it is Fanxukou-Jieting-Lueyang-Lieliucheng-Linwei-Shanggui.
Among them, Linwei County is the county seat of Guangwei County and is the mouth of the valley where the Wei River enters Guanzhong.
Like Hebei County, there are about 2,000 troops stationed all year round.
The Prime Minister sent Gao Xiang away, not only because the troops stationed in Wei County did not dare to act rashly, but also because they were well prepared.
After all, although the Weishui River Valley is difficult to pass, if Cao Wei was unable to pass through the street pavilion, he might not choose this way.
Moreover, we still have to worry about whether Guo Huai will sink his boat.
For example, when Cao Wei's reinforcements were attacking Jieting, the strong man Guo Huai gave up Shanggui with his arms broken, led his soldiers to break out, joined forces with the garrison in Linwei County, and attacked Jieting from behind.
At that time, if there is a flanking attack from both front and back, the street pavilion will surely fall!
However, Cao Wei's reinforcements were able to pour into Longyou in great force, so the prime minister had no choice but to retreat.
The Han's war potential is too weak and too thin.
In particular, even if both sides were defeated, Cao Wei could still send another 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers and horses, while the Han would have difficulty recruiting another 20,000 soldiers.
Make bricks without straw.
Be cautious and meticulous like a prime minister, and will never risk the fate of the country.
Of course!
Prime Minister Zhuge Liang personally led 20,000 troops to garrison the street pavilion!
Thanks to Zheng Pu's words in the past, "He who has lost more than half of his army and prevented the army from being defeated can be regarded as a worthy one." The Prime Minister thought carefully about it to all the senior generals in the Han army, and then he felt that it would be most appropriate to come by himself.
Wei Yan was particularly good at attacking and was known for his fierceness in his military use. The prime minister was worried that because of his brave temperament, he would be lured out of a decisive battle by Cao's army.
Chen Shi and Gao Xiang were both good at attacking and defending, but they failed to do so by chance.
As for Wu Yi, his subordinates were all the second generation Dongchuan soldiers from the Liu Yan era. They had been stationed in Chengdu all year round and had not experienced war for a long time. The prime minister was afraid that if Cao Wei attacked by force, the soldiers would be killed and wounded, and their morale would collapse.
Since the prime minister himself takes charge of the street pavilion, he will not have any problems.
Moreover, when he arrived at the street pavilion, he ordered the soldiers to camp on the road and repair the fortifications. He took advantage of the situation and placed the Chinese army's tent a hundred steps behind the front line, gathered the soldiers and took an oath.
say:
"To conquer the Central Plains, fight here! If you come against the Wei Dynasty to attack, it will be fierce. When the enemy reaches a hundred steps, I will support the big watch; when the enemy reaches eighty steps, I will hold the drum for you. When the enemy reaches fifty steps, I will put on my armor and fight.
Let’s all fight together!”
The leader of a country actually vowed to live and die with his soldiers!
Such generosity and high-spiritedness moved the soldiers so much that they continued to fight to the death.
When other governors were performing their duties, such as Wu Yi, Chen Shi and others, they had already burst into bravery.
Because when the prime minister assigned troops to fight with them, he also told them, "I will block Wei's reinforcements at my pavilion on the street. Even if we fight to the death of one of our soldiers, we will not retreat even half a step. I hope you will get the news of the successful capture of the city as soon as possible!"
How could any of these veteran generals who were the mainstay of the Han Dynasty not be moved by Ming Wu Nei and swear to the death to fight evil?
The same is true for Zheng Pu.
After all, it was his advice that prompted the Prime Minister to go to the street pavilion in person.
Well, he is currently leading his army in Nan'an County.
When the Prime Minister's army arrived at Qishan to establish its power, the Prime Minister asked him, Ma Su and others to join forces with the Wei Yan tribe and turn northwest.
Instead, they entered the Yanzi River (Shiying) and crossed the watershed, entered the Shandan River Valley (Dongting), a tributary of the Wei River, and attacked Nan'an County Zhisuodao County (today's Wenfeng Town, Longxi County), thereby cutting off the connection between Longxi and Tianshui County.
The effect is remarkable.
As soon as the army arrived, Nan'an County opened its city gates and surrendered.
However, this is not surprising.
The soldiers and horses sent here by the Prime Minister totaled more than 20,000 soldiers.
Among them, Wei Yan led more than 10,000 troops, Ma Su and Wu Ban had 4,000 each, and Zheng Pu had 3,000.
Because the attack on Nan'an County was just a casual attack along the road.
For example, the Yan tribe of Wei took this road and went north to Pingxiang County to resist the reinforcements from Wei Liangzhou.
Ma Su and Zheng Pu's troops were sent to assist in the capture of Nan'an County, and then turned east to block the Xiaoguan Road to prevent Cao Wei from passing through Anding County to aid.
Only Wu Ban tribe went west to attack Longxi County.
The governor of Longxi is You Chu.
His courtesy name was Zhongyun, and he was a native of Guzang, Wuwei County. His father traveled to Yin Dynasty and had served Feng Yi as a meritorious official, so he had a good relationship with Zhang Ji, a famous official in Cao Wei.
When he was framed by Qiu Yu and died, he entrusted his son to Zhang Ji.
After becoming the chief, Zhang Ji recommended him to Wei Wu and Cao Cao, so he was reused.
Although You Chu was short in appearance, he was talented in both civil and military affairs, generous and charitable, and could make people die for him. Since he became the governor of Longxi, he has been loved by all the officials and people.
Seeing that Wu Ban led the army and there were few soldiers in the city, he summoned the officials and people, claiming that the Bashu army was too powerful to resist, and asked them to surrender with their own heads and get rewards from Bashu.
Such behavior made the officials and the people feel grateful and shed tears.
Everyone calls out to the mountains and wishes to live and die together.
Therefore, You Chunai led the soldiers and the young men in the city to go out, lined up near the city, and submitted a letter to Wu Ban.
He persuaded: Longxi is a border county. If Bashu can resist the Wei army coming to rescue from Guanzhong, the officials and people in Longxi will naturally surrender. Why lead an army to attack by force, wasting troops in vain?
Wu Ban heard this and thought it made sense.
He sent people to report to the prime minister urgently, and after obtaining permission, he withdrew his troops to the east and joined Chen Shi in attacking Ji County.
It seems that You Chu persuaded the Han army to retreat after a few words.
In fact, it is not the case.
First, Cao Wei did not have many troops stationed in Longxi and could not affect the overall situation.
Secondly, at the head of the river in Longxi (the two counties of Wuhan and Heguan), there was Tang Fan, the leader of the Qiang people. Seeing that Bashu led the army to attack Longyou, he took the opportunity to contact various ministries and raised troops to attack the counties.
The land at the head of the river was occupied by Song Jian and ruled as king for more than thirty years. Xia Houyuan sought peace when he marched to the right of Longyou.
However, due to massacres all over the city, the local Qiang and Hu tribes were unwilling to surrender. When Ma Dai was stationed at Yangping Pass, many tribal chiefs ignored Cao Wei's ban on selling horses to Bashu and sent people to trade.
War horse.
It's just that they don't have much respect for the big man.
The reason for raising troops and rebelling was to seize the opportunity to separatize the head of the river again.
This is also one of the reasons why Wu Ban did not continue to attack Longxi County after the Prime Minister agreed.
Sit back and watch the two tigers fight, and when they have exhausted each other too much, they will not dare not to surrender to the big man.
Thirdly, Nailongxi County is located in the west and is separated from Nan'an County by Wushan and other mountains. Whether it is captured or not is irrelevant to this battle. When Liangzhou is attacked in the future, it will not be too late to capture it.
After leaving Longxi County for the time being, we also received an unexpected surprise.
Originally, the garrison of Ji County was no more than 2,000 people. Seeing that Chen Shi's troops were trapped in the city with 5,000 soldiers, they still thought of mobilizing young men to resist until the reinforcements from Guanzhong arrived.
When they saw Wu Ban coming with another five thousand soldiers and horses, the whole city was in panic.
In particular, the prefect Ma Zundu abandoned the city and left, leaving no one to take charge of the overall situation. After discussion between the wealthy families in the county and the remaining officials, they also opened the city gate and surrendered.
In other words, it had only been half a month since the Prime Minister's troops arrived at Longyou. In the land of three counties, Cao Wei only had two cities left, Shanggui and Linwei!
And Linwei is about to be captured.
After Chen Shi joined forces with Wu Ban, he left his generals to guard Ji County, and the army turned to join Wu Yi in besieging Shanggui.
However, Guo Huai has been guarding Longyou all year round and has great prestige. The young men in the city are also willing to serve. In addition, about five thousand soldiers and horses are all direct descendants. For a while, the attack and defense were extremely fierce, but there was no hope of breaking the city.
Wu Yi, who had held military power for a long time, turned his attack into a trap.
Let Wu Ban and Chen Shi move to Linwei to help Gao Xiang's troops capture Linwei first, turning Shanggui into an isolated city.
Then they took advantage of the situation and completely blocked the Weishui River Valley, cutting off the possibility of Cao Wei coming to aid through this route.
Or it could be said that Wu Yi saw that Shanggui was difficult to attack, so he wanted to free up Gao Xiang's troops and turn them into mobile troops that could support the rest of the army at any time.
To ensure that the war is flawless.
In particular, we must take good care of the prime minister guarding the street pavilion.
After all, Wu Yi, the younger sister of Wu Ban, is the empress dowager of today's Han Dynasty.
Regardless of the perspective of sharing weal and woe with the Han Dynasty, or the thought of making achievements on my own, I hope the war will go smoothly.
However, Ma Su and Zheng Pu led the army to Jingshui (now Jingyuan County), which runs through Liupan Mountain, and began to block roads and build fortifications.
The four thousand men led by Ma Su were Zhang Xiu, Li Sheng and Huang Xi, as well as Wang Ping's troops temporarily assigned by the prime minister.
Zheng Pu was led by Huo Yi and Zhang Yi from his own tribe, as well as the Jufu tribe who had returned temporarily.
Well, Guan Xing's dispatching in the battle of Dongsanjun vaguely proved that he was like his father. The prime minister was overjoyed, so he transferred him to his side, took him with him and officially trained him as a commander-in-chief.
At this point, the Han army had already taken some time to prepare, and was waiting for Cao Wei's army to come to Longyou's aid.
And Cao Zhen, who is in Fufengxian County, Guanzhong, has just finished dispatching.
After he received the urgent report from Guo Huai, he immediately sent his general to the front and led 3,000 cavalry to Panxukou to stabilize the morale of the pass soldiers. The 25,000 infantry were commanded by Zhang He.
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As the first batch of reinforcements to march into Longyou.
Immediately, with the authority of the governor of Yongliang Prefecture, he sent people to Anding County and asked the general Wei Ping, who was stationed in Anding, to send troops to Xiaoguan Road to respond to Zhang He.
Finally, they sent people to Wuwei County to find Xu Miao, the governor of Liangzhou, who had just arrived, and Xia Houru, the protector of the Shu expedition, and asked them to mobilize troops to Longyou to support them as appropriate.
He himself continued to stay in Baoxie Valley and fought fiercely with Zhao Yun's tribe.
After all, on the battlefield, there is nothing but reality.
Although Zhao Yun is pretending to attack the key point, if Cao Wei cannot resist, he will turn into a surprise attack!
After entering Yi County, drive directly to Fanxukou.
Cao Wei's reinforcements entering Longyou were all blocked in the Liupanshan-Longshan Mountains.
Even if Zhao Yun's troops only have more than 10,000 men and cannot capture Fanxukou, they can still attack the counties in Youfufeng and cut off the Wei army's food routes.
However, Cao Zhen's arrangement ushered in the "time is against me".
First of all, there was a rebellion in Anding County.
The earliest Anding County was the separatist territory of Yang Qiu who joined forces with Han Sui and Ma Chao to fight against Wei Wu and Cao Cao.
After the defeat in the Battle of Tongguan, Han Sui and Ma Chao returned to Liangzhou, while Yang Qiu was trapped in Anding County and had no choice but to surrender.
Cao Cao of the Wei Dynasty granted Yang Qiu a title because the border area was stable and it was difficult for foreign generals to guard it, so he allowed him to stay in the local area to guard against Xianbei in Hetao and to guard Xiaoguandao.
In fact, Yang Qiu is very conscientious.
Not only did the Anding County, which has a strong folk custom, have no rebellion, but he also led his army with Cao Zhen to quell the rebellion of the bandit Zheng Gan and Lu Shuihu.
However, he has now passed away.
The general who succeeded him at the garrison, Wei Ping, was from Jingzhou.
Although he has been conquering the northwest for a long time, the officials and people of Anding County and the Qiang and Hu did not surrender to him.
Now that the news that the prime minister led his army to attack Longyou reached Anding County, Yang Tiao, a wealthy family, wanted to take this opportunity to separate himself from Anding County.
Instead, they coerced the officials and people and invited the Qiang and Hu tribes to rebel, echoing the Han army.
Now General Wei Ping is leading troops to fight against him.
When Cao Zhen sent an order to Anding County, he happened to want to send someone to report the news.
The situation in Liangzhou is not optimistic either.
Regarding the most turbulent area in the northwest of Cao Wei, it was Liangzhou.
Almost every five or six years, there must be a rebellion.
The one with the most military power among the four counties in Hexi was Xia Houru, a disciple of Xia Houchang, who was the protector of the Shu expedition.
Unlike Xia Houshang, who led the military affairs of the two states, he was Cao Zhang's Sima in the early days. Because when Cao Cao collapsed in the Wei Dynasty, Cao Zhang had some offensive and taboo words, which made Cao Pi afraid.
To the detriment of Chi Yu, Xia Houru was idle for a time.
It was not until Cao Zhang died suddenly that he was able to take charge of the army again.
However, having had such an experience, he often felt uneasy in his heart and had lost the vigor he had after Qiao Pei Yuanxun.
When he received Cao Zhen's transfer order, he claimed to Xu Miao that his troops needed to guard the four counties in Hexi. Once they were transferred, it would trigger the rise of the Qiang and Hu tribes.
He only promised that when Xu Miao led his troops to Longyou, he would guard Liangzhou and prevent unrest.
In this regard, Xu Miao, who was envoy Chijie and also led the Qiang school captain, was extremely helpless.
But I can't comment.
After all, what Xia Houru said was true. Even Cao Zhen, who was very familiar with the west, ordered the two of them to send troops as appropriate.
Therefore, he had no choice but to dispatch county soldiers, together with the soldiers of generals Hao Zhao, Jia Xu and Lu Pan, and went south via Jincheng, but was blocked by Wei Yan's troops in Pingxiang City.
The military strength of both sides is almost the same, but Wei Yan's soldiers are more elite.
After several probing attacks, Xu Miao sent people to report the truth to Cao Zhen, making it difficult for Liangzhou to come to his aid.
In this regard, Cao Zhen was extremely helpless.
He hurried to Guanzhong and only supervised 40,000 soldiers, which was very stretched.
He had no choice but to go to Luoyang and ask Cao Rui to increase his troops again. Cao Rui, who was in Luoyang, heard that the situation was so corrupt, so he set out to personally control Chang'an in Guanzhong, and plundered 40,000 troops for Cao Zhen to dispatch.
