Will Ni Shu send troops to the three eastern counties?
No one in Wei dared to say so.
As for whether to postpone the invasion of Hexi, Sima Yi's answer was that he had to attack Longyou.
Indeed, to this day, he has to do it.
Liu Bao from the left of the Southern Xiongnu had already moved his whole clan into Xiutuze, and formed a powerful two-way attack with Fei Yao's thousands of cavalry; Liu Gaosheng Yuan from the right of the Southern Xiongnu and Xianbei Tuoba were weak, and they were defeated half a month ago.
Embarked on the journey to Juyanze; the generals Hu Zun and Deng Ai have also opened up acres of land and divided pastures, set up camps for Xia Houru's army, and stored a large amount of grain for transportation.
Baggage.
Even Guo Huai, who led troops from Gaoping City to harass Longyou, claimed that his soldiers were worthy of fighting!
Yes, it can be fought.
In Longyou, all the Shu ministries fortified their defenses and cleared the country, avoiding the battle. Guo Huai turned the disturbance into a training for his soldiers, which was a disguised form of martial arts. He transferred some newly built ministries that were not ready for war and were unskilled in military formation coordination to serve.
Let them familiarize themselves with the military style of command, prohibition, and interdependence when sending troops back and forth.
The most important thing is the current year's Dafeng in Guanzhong.
Guanzhong has always been known as the land of abundance. When Cao Zhen was in charge, many households were divided from Jizhou to enrich the land, so that the previously barren acres were filled with men, women, and children. In addition, Sima Yiguang opened a canal, and Ma Jun successfully imitated the reverse Shu canal truck and put it into irrigation.
With the help, the army and civilians have harvested more than 10,000,000 dendrobium of grain in autumn this year.
Together with the cattle and sheep raised in various places in Weibei, it can feed an army of 100,000 for two years!
When the grain plan was first put into the warehouse and presented to the table, even Sima Yi, who could not express his emotions or anger, couldn't help but smile with joy and joy.
Since joining the Yongliang War as the Commander-in-Chief, he has endured the slander from his generals that "the Commander-in-Chief is afraid of war" and has persisted in his strategy of "self-sufficiency for the troops and enrichment of the country", which finally paid off.
Finally, we can go to the Luoyang Temple and claim that the Guanzhong army can be self-sufficient and there is no need to transfer grain from various places in the Central Plains.
It can also make those powerful families in Guandong no longer have any reason to insist on "abandoning Liangzhou", but instead compete to participate in the war to expel Nishu - no matter they are dedicated to serving the country, seeking merit to promote their family status, or seizing the society.
Hexi Silk Road's interests or other motives, as long as the ultimate goal is the same, then we are united.
Under such circumstances, after planning for nearly a year and using countless manpower and material resources, when everything was ready, he received a letter from Cao Rui asking if he could postpone preparations in Hexi to wait for the thief Wu. Sima Yi naturally wanted to fight based on the facts.
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How can we postpone it?
Not to mention, there is a consensus that the longer Shu occupies Liangzhou, the more difficult it will be for Wei to attack.
Can it be relieved by driving the left and right tribes of the southern Xiongnu and the Xianbei Tuoba tribe to fight?
Hulu people do not know etiquette.
If we don't take advantage of the fact that they have just received the favor of the Wei State, we will start a war. After they move to Hexi and establish a foothold in the new pasture land, the bondage of the Wei State will only be the hostages left in Luoyang.
How could they, who had many stories of chasing their fathers and killing their brothers, still listen to Wei's orders and fight?
And if Xianbei and the Southern Xiongnu had not restrained the forces against Shu, and the Guanzhong army had marched out of Longyou, a place where they had defeated Shu, how would the outcome of the war be any different from when Cao Zhen's troops were sent out in the past? Not to mention, comparing the various ministries during Cao Zhen's lifetime, today
The soldiers huddled in the pass were incomparable in terms of morale and combat effectiveness.
Therefore, to postpone the offensive is to undo all the previous efforts!
But no matter how reluctant Sima Yi was, in order to avoid the excuse of "taking advantage of his own troops", he had to follow Cao Rui's order and order a general to lead 3,000 soldiers to Shangyong County to garrison. He also sent an order to Chang'an, which is now Chang'an.
Guard Xiahou Xuan and ask him to urge his soldiers to stay on the alert. Once he hears that Ni Shu is sending troops to the three eastern counties, he will rush to reinforce him.
However, Sima Yi didn't have too many worries in his heart.
He felt that Sun Wu's invasion would not last long and would not delay the deployment of all the troops in Guanzhong at the end of the year.
Those thieves to Wu forget their fate when they see the benefits, and they cherish their own lives when the situation arises. How can they dare to fight evil for a long time!
It can be inferred from the past wars that he did not retreat when Luoyang's reinforcements reached Jingxiang, and he would have decided to leave after more than 10,000 soldiers were killed on both sides. It is now August, and there are still four months before the end of the year, which is enough. Did you order the thief Sun Quan to stop the army because it was difficult to achieve success in the war?
With such thoughts, after he revised his watch and replied to Cao Rui that the war could not be postponed, he sent people to Mingsha Mountain to convey the order for the later general Fei Yao to officially march!
The Battle of Hexi has since begun.
But Sima Yi did not expect that Sun Wu had no intention of retreating this time.
In other words, everyone in the Wei Kingdom found it incomprehensible: since the thief Zhu Ran had robbed countless Li people and property, and Sun Wu had already benefited from his troops, why did he not stop his troops and leave after the reinforcements from Luoyang rushed to Jiangxia? ?
Yes, after only ten days of urgent march, both Qin Lang and Cao Rui arrived in Jiangxia.
Because it was transferred from Yangzhou Shouchun to rescue Jiangxia County, there was no need to pass through Nanyang Wancheng and then go down the river.
The Dabie Mountains and the Tongbai Mountains seem to be connected together, but there are still three official roads leading from the north to the south in the area close to each other (Yiyang County) (Yiyang Sanguan). From then on, Luoyang's reinforcements can reach Anlu County directly through these three passes. Already.
When the Wei army arrived, the deployment of Sun Wu's various departments also slightly adjusted.
Zhu Ran's tribe, which originally set up camp in the Yicheng area, retreated to Lankou and settled on the Han River (Mian River), continuing to shoulder the responsibility of cutting off the flow of Xiangyang garrison troops into Jiangxia. However, Lu Xun and Zhuge Jin's tribe Then he transferred his troops to Jiangxia and joined forces with Sun Quan to besiege Shiyang City.
The same goes for the 40,000-strong army of the Quan Cong tribe that previously attacked Luchun County.
He gave up the attack on Luchun County and went straight to the river to join forces with Sun Quan at Shiyang, Jiangxia.
In other words, Sun Wu's army of nearly 80,000 soldiers had some time to gather around the enemy and fight for reinforcements.
Moreover, the intention was to fight for a long time - Wei Shiyang's city was close to the river, and Sun Wu used boats connected across the river as a camp, relying on water power to transport grain from Xiakou and Wuchang, and there was no logistical pressure.
But the Wei army was different.
Jingbei, which had long been ruined and the common people had migrated away, did not have much storage of grain and fodder. The supply of more than 40,000 cavalrymen who rushed to help could only be transferred from counties in Yuzhou.
Moreover, the disadvantage of the Wei army was the exhaustion of traveling half of the Central Plains.
This made Cao Rui know that Shi Yang had been trapped for nearly two months and that the morale and food supplies of the troops in the city were in serious trouble, so he could only order the soldiers to camp for a while to rest and recuperate.
As for the military strength being slightly inferior to that of Sun Wu, Cao Rui was not worried.
First, when it comes to soldiers fighting on land, Wei's Luoyang army is more elite than Sun Wu's.
Another story is that after Hu Zhi, the governor of Jingzhou, led an army to confront Zhu Ran's tribe, Wang Chang, who led more than 10,000 soldiers and horses from the other side and came down the Ji River, also rushed to Anlu County to join the army.
But his arrival did not bring any good news to Cao Rui.
When Cao Rui asked him about his opinion on how to break the war, his reply was: "The only plan now is to fight! Even if the thief Wu Yiyi is waiting for work, our army has no advantage, but we must fight and decide quickly!"
The reason was that he was worried that if the war dragged on for a long time, not only would Shiyang City be defeated, but something would happen to the barbarians living in the valleys of the counties south of Xiangyang.
Because the people of the Yi King Meifu were plundered, other barbarian tribes are now in danger.
If Sun Wu's invasion is not repulsed as soon as possible, these barbarian tribes, who have always been at odds with each other, may think that Wei is defeated by Sun Wu, and then rebel against Wei and join Wu, thus acting as an aide to the tiger.
Although they were said to be traitors to Wu, they would not dare to gather their clansmen to come to Jiangxia to help Wu.
But what if he was given an official position and instigated by the thief Wu, and when the Wei army was in Jiangxia, he divided his tribe into pieces and sent them to the counties of Nanyang County to burn, kill, loot and invade the Wei army's food routes?
