All the ministries of Yongliang and Wei State knew the daily battle situation in Chencang in detail.
This is because the Wei Yan tribe who crossed the Lianshui River and settled in camp did not kill the scouts who came to Chencang City to analyze the battle situation.
It seems that he let it go on purpose.
Wei's scouts and cavalry would have this thought every time they met the Han army's cavalry on guard outside.
Gein and the others discovered that as long as they did not exceed the size of three cavalry, the Han cavalry not only did not mount their horses to entangle or drive them away, but instead deliberately moved out of the way.
"The Wei Wenchang who rebelled against Shu made such a move, not because he was derelict in his duties, but because he wanted to use the battle situation to make our army impatient and anxious, so he went out to defend and fight fiercely!"
Sima Yi, the governor of Wei Yongliang, was so tolerant of the scouts' confusion.
He also signaled to all the generals not to think too much about this and just perform their respective duties.
However, no one knows that he, who is calm and understanding towards others, is actually the one who is most anxious in his heart.
It’s not just due to my responsibilities as a supervisor.
What's more, he didn't expect that the Han army would be so decisive this time.
Restricted by the small land and few people, Bashu has always followed the line of "valuing elite soldiers rather than large numbers". Every soldier has to go through rigorous martial arts training for two or three years before he can fight in battle. Therefore, Bashu soldiers came out of Longyou.
Since then, every time when going into battle, we have been stingy with the casualties of our soldiers, and have not carried out heavy casualties in violent attacks.
Unexpectedly, the current siege of Chencang City, which lasted only five days day and night, resulted in nearly 10,000 casualties!
And have no intention of giving up!
Could it be that Zhuge Kongming, the Prime Minister of Shu, sacrificed all 30,000 soldiers in order to capture Chencang?
Sima Yi, who returned from daily scouting and reported, roughly estimated the casualties of the Han army's attack, and had a vague understanding in his heart.
There is also some joy and some worry.
To his delight, his strategy of staying back and defending was of course effective.
Zhuge Liang, the Prime Minister of Shu, who could not find any chance to fight in the field, had no choice but to attack the city and suffered numerous casualties, which continued to damage Bashu's war heritage.
Worrying, I feel that Guo Huai will not be able to stay for long.
The scouts who came back to report had a hint of fear and panic on their faces and in their eyes when they recounted the siege they had witnessed.
Those who watched the battle from a distance were frightened by the Han army's stubbornness.
Not to mention the Guo Huai tribe who faced the enemy head-on.
In other words, it has only been attacked for five days, so there is no need to worry about the mighty Chencang City being captured for the time being.
But Sima Yi didn't dare to be sure.
What if something happens?
Once Chencang City falls, there will no longer be a dangerous position in Guanzhong to defend. Even if the Han army is far less powerful than the Wei army, it can still use the force of a great victory to form a sweeping trend...
Don't think that Chang'an can be defended.
Although the city wall of Chang'an is taller and thicker than that of Chencang, and the garrison strength and supplies are more sufficient, the Han army can completely reserve a number of troops and horses to guard outside the city, and the rest will sweep through the counties, including Wuguan, Tongguan and Dahe Pubanjin.
Attack it first and make Guanzhong, which is also blocked, become the prey of Bashu.
In this way, Chang'an City, the old capital of the former Han Dynasty, would be defeated without attacking.
Without him, the people of the Han Dynasty for four hundred years would be like this!
Heaven will never stop Yan Han’s destiny!
Therefore, what Sima Yi is thinking about now is whether to send troops to rescue in advance.
In order to avoid missing the rescue time and causing Chencang to fall.
And he has an absolute military advantage.
The Wei army in the western garrison has about eight infantry and cavalry, and there are still 50,000 troops stationed in Chang'an. He can use 100,000 infantry and cavalry to attack the Yan tribe of Wei Shu, which has more than 50,000 troops, and may not be unable to defeat it!
Even if the morale of Yongliang's ministries is low, he can serve as the vanguard for Luoyang's army!
As long as the soldiers in the front are brave and not afraid of death, they can inspire the soldiers in the rear to share the same hatred of the enemy and encourage each other to move forward bravely and fight vigorously as one united force.
Furthermore, even if they cannot win, if the battle is evenly matched and they are evenly matched, the Wei army will gain.
Because once the Wei Yan tribe was unable to contain Wei's reinforcements in Linqishui River Valley, neither Prime Minister Ni Shu nor Wu Ban tribe would no longer attack the fortress unscrupulously because they had worries about their future.
In this way, the defenders of Chencang City could have some breathing time to regroup, repair the damaged city walls and redeploy fortifications, so that they could hold on longer.
And it just so happened that Ni Shu, as the attacker, was most afraid of a protracted war.
If they could not capture Chencang City within three months, they would naturally stop and withdraw from Guanzhong because they had lost their energy and their soldiers were exhausted.
If not, wait five more days before marching?
Sima Yi put his hand on his gray beard and looked at the two military reports on the table with undecided thoughts.
First, after Wei Yan's tribe crossed the Qishui Valley and settled in camp, he sent two schools of soldiers and horses into the Baoxie Valley to see how many soldiers and horses the Han army had left to guard the valley road, so as to deduce whether they could go up with the garrison troops.
It is possible that Yong's Hu Zhibu will join forces to harass Hanzhong County.
Obviously, the Han army had already expected this.
At the entrance of the plank road in Bao Valley, the Han army reserved hundreds of soldiers to defend against the danger, but they were three to five times more powerful than the enemy.
In other words, he had no choice but to give up this idea——
If he sent fewer troops and horses, it would be difficult to break through the obstruction; if he sent more troops, the Han army would burn the plank road, which also made his efforts in vain.
Another piece of military news came from Longdong.
After he agreed to Qianhong's request, the Qixian garrison sent Qianhong's 5,000 Wuhuan cavalry together with 6,000 infantry from Zhou Dang's tribe, and moved westward along the Jingshui River Valley to harass Anding County.
The two of them are very cautious.
They advanced almost step by step, and did not march straight into the wild to fight Ni Shu.
But what I didn't expect was that the Han army was more cautious than them!
The three thousand Xiliang cavalry and the one thousand Longyou Han cavalry also did not rush forward to fight, or took a detour to cut off the Wei army's food route. Instead, they cooperated with Wang Ping, who was in charge of the four thousand Wudang Army (named Feijun), and slowly
Retreat slowly!
To be precise, it is fighting and retreating at the same time.
They always sent hundreds of cavalry ahead to resist the Wei army's tentative attacks.
If the Han army had a small victory, they would stop advancing and continue to advance with hundreds of cavalry; but if the Han army suffered a small defeat or suffered even casualties, they would break camp and retreat slowly.
It's like going in reverse step by step.
At first, both Qian Hong and Zhou Dang thought that this was a tactic played by the Han army to lure the enemy deeper.
But after more than ten consecutive days, the two of them no longer thought so.
The Han army has been defeated by seven or eight formations, and is about to retreat to the boundaries of Linjing County!
This also put them into a dilemma of whether to continue to advance or to stop and return.
Continuing to advance along the Jingshui River Valley, they will face a pincer attack from Wang Ping's tribe in front and Zhang Yi's tribe from Linjing City to the side. There is also the danger of being cut off by the Xiliang cavalry's detour; but if they stop and return, they will
What's the point of coming out?
The method of scattering the Wuhuan cavalry, plundering villages, and destroying acres of land was not feasible.
The Han army has a lot of cavalry, which is enough to guard the surrounding areas.
Therefore, after Qian Hong and Zhou Dang settled in camp to confront the Han army, they wrote a letter again and came back to ask Sima Yi: Can they be allowed to fight?
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