Shu Chen

Chapter 473 What a pity
For Sima Yi's dispatch, Xue Ti has nothing to do.

As a veteran of the three dynasties of Wei State and selfless, he knows that state affairs are the most important thing.Not to mention that it was he who mentioned the need to respond to the Hu Zun Department of Anding County, and there is no reason for An to not go there.

But what he didn't know was that his proposal made Sima Yi reject Guo Huai's views.

Yes, Guo Huai who guards Chencang City and is most familiar with Yongliang military affairs.

However, Guo Huai saw that the Han army did not come out of Dasan Pass, and felt that it would be a waste for the tens of thousands of soldiers under his command to defend the city, so he wrote a letter to Sima Yi in Chang'an.

Ask for a fight.

To be precise, it was to force the Shu army out of Guanzhong.

The basis is still the lack of food and fodder in Nishu!

He felt that Nishu dared to use nearly [-] troops to enter Guanzhong this time. The reason for relying on it was not to seize Gaoping City to make the two sides change their offensive and defensive positions, but that they could support themselves in Guanzhong!

Yes, the frequent wars in the past few years have already caused Nishu, who has a small land and few people and has half the effort to transfer grain and fodder from Bashu, into the decline of people's livelihood and the country's poverty.The grain and fodder produced by the other army can at most last until this year's autumn harvest.

It can also be said that if it prevents them from farming in Guanzhong, then they can wait for their food to run out and take the initiative to retreat.

Therefore, based on this, he remonstrated in this way in the letter.

He can divide half of Chencangcheng's soldiers and horses to attack the west side of Wuzhangyuan and the west side of Baoxie Valley to exit Suiyang Valley; while Sima Yi can supervise the troops to threaten the entrance of Xiegu.

These two places are related to the road back to Hanzhong against Shu. Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of Shu, will increase his troops to resist whether he is willing or not.

In this way, the Han army, which entered Wuzhangyuan with only [-] soldiers, was naturally forced to disperse its forces!

The remaining troops can't properly defend the huge Wuzhang Plain in all directions!
Therefore, under the fact that there were too few troops, Zhuge Liang, the Prime Minister of Shu, had to build a siege relying on high ground to guard against the Wei army arranged in a linear manner in Beiyuan, and was unable to protect Li Shu's farmland with peace of mind—gardened in Yangfeng and Xixi in Beiyuan. Surround and wait for the Wei army, and the soldiers can be divided into more than ten groups to build a pontoon bridge to cross the Wei River and enter the Wuzhang Plain.

They don't need to attack Nishu's siege, they only need to destroy the farmland or rob and kill Li Shu, so as to ensure that Nishu will not be able to obtain food and fodder in Guanzhong this year!
As long as they can succeed, the Shu army in Wuzhangyuan can once again be caught in the difficult situation of food and fodder transfer.

You can also sit and wait for him to be overwhelmed and retreat!
And if you act like this, you don't need to worry about the support of Wei Yanbu who came out of Xiaoguan.

The distance from Yangcheng to Chencang is hundreds of miles (Han). If Wei Yan dared to lead the army to the south to break the siege of Wuzhangyuan, then his grain road would not be able to protect the safety.

There is no need for the soldiers and horses stationed in the three places of Yangcheng to cut off the grain road, as long as he turns all the Wei troops who invaded Wuzhangyuan into garrisons before he goes south to Chencangcheng, and then guards with the city or camp.

Because he led the army to the south, it also meant that his farm along the way was also delayed.

That is to say, no matter what the result is, for the Wei State, it will defeat the enemy and restore the morale of the Yongliang Ministries!
After Sima Yi got this letter, his heart was quite moved.

It's just a movement.

Gein dared not put it into practice.

There are two reasons.

For one thing, Guo Huai also counted the [-] tiger and leopard cavalry led by Zhao Yandu into Guanzhong and the more than [-] Luoyang Chinese Army in this plan.But what he didn't know was that these soldiers and horses were sent by the emperor Cao Wei to deliberately detour through Guanzhong and then quietly rushed to Yuzhou in order to confuse the thief Wu for the strategy of "resisting Shu and destroying Wu first".

Therefore, what he thought was Wei's superiority in military strength was actually just an illusion.

The other is that Sima Yi dare not take risks.

It's not that he is timid and afraid of Shu like a tiger, but that he really can't afford to lose.

Just as Guo Huai planned, doing so can force the Shu army in Wuzhangyuan to disperse their forces, but things are relative!
This move also dispersed the Wei army's strength!

What if Zhuge Liang, Prime Minister of Shu, put all his eggs in one basket, gave up guarding the two exits of Baoxie Valley, and concentrated his forces to cross the northern plains along the pontoon bridge built by the Wei army?

Yangsui and Xiwei, which have already dispersed their forces in Wei, can stop the Shu army from crossing the river!
And once Zhuge Liang, Prime Minister of Shu, led the army into Beiyuan, he could rush to Qishan to build a fortress to defend himself, and wait for the governor of Wei Yan in Yangcheng to go south to support him. In this way, half of Youfufeng was cut off from Guanzhong.
Don't forget, Qishan to Wuzhangyuan is the narrowest part of Guanzhong Sanfu~
Only about fifty (Chinese) miles!

How dare he act rashly, how dare he let Shu Prime Minister Zhuge Liang see the opportunity to enter Beiyuan!
Just at this time, Xue Ti mentioned that Anding County needs to prepare rescue troops, and Sima Yi felt that it was better not to follow Guo Huai's plan and take risks.

In particular, Zhao Yan, who entered Guanzhong from Luoyang, brought him the oral order of Emperor Cao Rui.

He told Wu Sunquan that Huainan was about to ambush the bandit this year, and that the Luoyang Central Army was unable to support Guanzhong, so he had to restrain the generals of Yongliang and Liang from acting rashly this year, and make plans after the Huainan front was over.

Of course!

Cao Rui ordered him to stick to it.

For this reason, he didn't want to cause extra problems, and he didn't want to trigger a big battle between the two sides before Luoyang Zhongjun could support Guanzhong.

Without him, he sees no chance of winning.

"Oh, Bi Niwei Sima Yi really didn't attack me~~"

In Wuzhangyuan, the prime minister stopped on a mound, looked at the Yangsui of Wei State on the other side of the Wei River, and sighed quietly in his heart.

Yes, the prime minister wants Sima Yi to attack Wuzhangyuan.

This is also the reason why he, as the backbone of the Northern Expedition, entered Guanzhong with only [-] troops under his command.

It is to lure the enemy to fight!
In order to contain the main force of Wei Guoyong and Liang Liang here, so that Wei Yan, who is in charge of the main force, can take advantage of the trend to go south.

As early as last year, the prime minister made a conclusion on the tactics of this army's entry into Guanzhong: nibble away at every step, first gain a foothold in Guanzhong.Just like in the past, before the Qin State entered Guanzhong, there was the Siwei meeting as a foothold.

It's just that the Prime Minister's expected foothold is not the Siwei meeting, but the restoration of all counties west of Qishan Mountain.

Only in this way can the big Han rely on the farmland to offset the difficulty of transshipment of grain and fodder: Transshipment of grain and fodder from Longyou and Hanzhong, coupled with the garrison in Weiweizhihui, Yongxian and other places, can be enough to support an army of [-]. .

However.
Bi Sima Yi dare not come to fight!

He has lost all his courage against Wei, Yongliang and other ministries!

Alas, what a pity.

Shaking his head, the Prime Minister leaned on his stick and walked down the mound slowly, looking at the Li Shu and the sergeant who were digging ditches and planting wheat seeds, he couldn't help smiling again.

If he dare not come to fight, then let it go.

Anyway, Sima Yi didn't dare to transfer the army west to Yangcheng, and just wait for Wen Chang and Zijin to use their troops.

Regarding Sima Yi not coming to attack Wuzhangyuan, the prime minister also had a plan.

It was to farm the fields and accumulate grain with peace of mind. When Sun Quan of Jiangdong marched into Huainan at the turn of summer and autumn, which had been agreed long ago, Wei Yanbu and Zheng Pu mobilized troops at the same time.

Let Wei Guo step into the two-front battle, and at the same time deal with the plight of the 200,000 army attacking.

Well, I hope Jiangdong can hold back the big man for a little longer this time.
(End of this chapter)