Shu Chen

The deployment of the Han forces in Guanzhong was based on Wei Yandu's [-] soldiers at Qishan, and Jiang Weidu's [-] soldiers and horses at Wuzhang Plain. They built defense lines in the narrowest places in the north and south of the Guanzhong Plain by watching each other.

For the rest, more than [-] people from Wang Ping's department were stationed in Qi County to curb the possibility of the Wei army's invasion of Longdong from the Jingshui River Valley; On the east bank of the Qianshui River Valley in Yongxian County, he was in charge of daily vigilance and rush to support the wars of various ministries.

As Wei Jun saw, the strength of the Han army was about [-], and they were scattered.

Once the Wei army has made the decision to break the boat, gather all the troops and drive to Chencang, it will definitely prevent the various departments of the Han army from regrouping and fall into fighting on their own, and then they will be defeated by the Wei army with their superior strength.

In fact, all the generals and generals of the Wei Army have long been aware of this obvious flaw.

There are also many generals who use this to advise the emperor Cao Rui and Sima Yi to seize the opportunity.

However, similar advice was previously rejected by Sima Yi on the grounds that he should not act rashly.

It's not that he fears war or has selfish motives.

On the contrary, at that time, even the emperor Cao Rui had the same opinion as him - looking at Nishu's plots and deployments for more than ten years, one would find that such obvious flaws often lurked murderous intentions!
Yes, they all felt that the flaw was deliberately exposed by Ni Shu, and the original intention was to lure the Wei army to initiate a decisive battle.

However, with the passage of time, the number of soldiers dispatched by Ni Shu to attack Wu and the demonstrated combat power, both Cao Rui and Sima Yi gradually overturned this view.

Perhaps Ni Shu was not intentional?
This kind of deployment of troops that seems to cover everything, but actually loses the mobility of mutual rescue, is it a last resort due to the shortage of troops?

With this kind of thinking in mind, Sima Yi, who mixed selfishness in his decision-making, quickly silenced all voices of doubt, and made the hundred thousand step riders drive to the Lishui River Valley with lightning speed.

At the beginning, the Han army was caught off guard.

After all, no one expected that Wei Jun, who had been retreating and defending passively, would be so decisive this time.

It also made Sima Yi's tactic of eating from the enemy successful.

Some of the farmlands of the Han army at Siweizhihui in Yongxian County fell into the hands of the Wei army because they did not have time to snatch them up and were reluctant to burn them.

This also greatly increased the morale of the various departments of the Wei army.

Just like a person in a deep quagmire who inadvertently grabs a vine and radiates infinite hope for survival, they, who have experienced too many failures, also see the dawn of victory in the success of their tactics.

And the progress of the battle situation has also begun to advance towards the pre-war expectations.

The mobile force of the Han army, Zhao Guangbu and the Xiliang iron cavalry could only cover the Tuntian Li Shu retreating to Yangcheng area in a hurry, and had no time to use the cavalry advantage to harass the Wei army's advance.

In Chencang City, Wu Banbu closed the city gates tightly and planned to defend to the death.

However, the Jiang Wei tribe in Wuzhangyuan went down to the plateau, but the number of soldiers who appeared on the south side of the Weishui River Valley was only about seven or eight thousand, not all of them.

If there is no accident, it should be that he has to keep some soldiers busy in the harvest in the field.

The only difference is Wei Yanbu in Qishan.

He only left more than a thousand soldiers guarding the camp, and the remaining [-] soldiers all came out and slowly came to the Lishui River Valley.

He actually planned to fight the triple enemy alone in the wild!
Yes, fighting alone.

Because after Sima Yi arrived in the Lishui River Valley, he did not immediately cross the river to besiege Chencang, but first separated the tiger and leopard cavalry to go north to Linyang City to prevent the possibility of the Han cavalry going south to support Wei Yan's tribe; how to isolate Jiang Wei's tribe from Wu Ban Sima Yi was also fully prepared for the Ministry's assistance.

He knew that Jiang Wei's troops on the south bank of the Wei River were too few, and the Wei army only needed to send hundreds of soldiers to stand guard along the river day and night, so that they would not dare to forcefully cross into Beiyuan and fall into a deep siege. Choose to join forces with Wu Banbu first, and then seek opportunities to come from the Lishui River Valley to support Wei Yanbu.

Such a march would take a lot of time.

And with the Wei army riding on the side with a hundred thousand steps, does Wu's squad dare to make Chencangcheng's defense weak and come out in full force?
Therefore, Sima Yi felt that Wu Ban and Jiang Wei's troops were not enough.

I have plenty of time and great confidence, and under their frequent intrusion, I defeated Wei Yan's tribe first!

Coincidentally, the generals of the Wei army are also full of confidence.

After Sima Yi's expected situation before sending troops and Wei Jun's tactics of attacking against Shu, they were all full of expectations and waited for the moment of shame.

As for the only variable, for example, whether Zhuge Liang and Zheng Pu, the prime ministers against Shu in the three eastern counties, can come to Guanzhong in time to rescue them.
They feel nothing to worry about.

General Wang Chang's troops in the Dushui River Valley in Xi County are attacking Nishu Zheng Pu's camp; Xiahouxian and Xiahouba are also holding Guan Xing's troops in Zhushui Valley.

Even if their strong men broke their wrists and gave up the three eastern counties, they still needed to get rid of the pursuit of Jingzhou soldiers and horses, walk through Baoxie Valley or take Chencang Road to enter Guanzhong.

Counting the time, by the time they entered Guanzhong, it would be too late to rescue Wei Yan's tribe.

In other words, all the generals of the Wei army felt that since the Wei Yan tribe dared to go out to fight alone, they would definitely pay the price for his arrogance!

Pay an unbearable price against Shu!
But what they didn't know was that Sima Yi was not that optimistic about the situation of the battle.

One, it was due to the prudence of the governor.

On the other hand, it was abnormal that Wei Yanbu came out so quickly to fight alone, which made him a little uneasy.

Obviously, Wei Yan's department can wait for more than ten days until Zhao Guangbu and Xiliang Iron Cavalry have settled the Lishu in the fields and can cope with the battle before coming out.

No matter how bad it is, you can wait for Wei Jun to besiege Chen Cangcheng before coming out to rescue!
Why is it so urgent?
Could it be that he was so arrogant that with only [-] soldiers, he could defeat the three times Wei army with Luoyang Zhongjun as the main force?
Sima Yifu can understand.

He also doesn't think Wei Yan is a reckless general who can only show off his bravery.

Among them, there must be something strange!

He has a clue in his heart.

However, after he carefully considered all his deployments, the distribution of troops against Shu and other situations between the enemy and the enemy, he was unable to find out the omissions.

Of course, no matter whether he found any omissions or not, he still planned to personally lead the troops to meet Wei Yan's troops.

There is no turning back when you open the bow.

They all came here with a desperate determination, how can there be any reason to avoid war!
And in Xicheng in the three eastern counties, when the prime minister heard that the Wei army in Guanzhong had finally dispatched troops for a decisive battle, he immediately clapped his hands and laughed, "It's all good!"

Immediately, he turned his head to the direction of Shu and murmured in a low voice.

"The sky is not against me, I will return to Shu in this life"