Three Kingdoms Simulator: This Ma Su is too stable

Chapter 180 Mutual Computation
It is not a smooth journey from Changning County to Wuwei City.Ma Su led [-] cavalry to take the Silk Road at the southern foot of Liangshan, then traveled downstream along the Shiyang River, and then turned southward at the confluence of the two rivers.After traveling all the way, I finally arrived in Wuwei five days later.

Wuwei, also known as Guzang, is located in the east of Liangzhou, in the middle of the Hexi Corridor.It is connected to the Mongolian grassland in the north, the Qinghai Plateau in the south, the countries of the Western Regions in the west, and the counties of Longyou in the south, and it is two thousand miles away from Pingchuan.

This place is not only the gateway to Hexi, but also the military center in the northwest region of Cao Wei. It has been known as an important place in ancient times that "connects the front line to the vastness and controls the throat of the five counties".
Along the way, Dai Ling told Ma Su about these strategic elements, and also popularized the history of Wuwei City to him.

Wuwei has a long history. As early as 3000 to [-] years ago, there were Rong, Cui, Yuezhi, Wusun and other northern nationalities living together.Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Hussar General Huo Qubing to expedition to Hexi and defeated the Xiongnu, in order to demonstrate the "martial arts military might" of the Han Empire, the place was named Wuwei.

Ma Di kept a straight face, let's just listen to it, and secretly wanted to laugh, but he didn't interrupt Dai Ling's enthusiasm.

"If the general can win Wuwei, the connection between Wei and Liangzhou can be cut off, and the land of Hexi will be under control soon." Dai Ling said with emotion, and added: "You can still be condescending, and the tiger will look at Longyou!"

"This is where Han Sui and Ma Teng started their families in the past."

Dai Ling was eloquently showing off his knowledge, but Zhang Xiu couldn't help it, and immediately showed dissatisfaction, and asked, "Since General Dai knows everything about Wuwei City, then the position of siege vanguard is the only general I'm waiting for." The head of the horse is looking forward."

Dai Ling was taken aback, and immediately realized that he had said too much, causing dissatisfaction from others.

It seems that such basic common sense is familiar to most generals and commanders who have read poetry and books, but how could Ma Su, who was born as a Confucian general, not know?
So Dai Ling fell silent.

With the effort of words, Wuwei City is already in sight.

Ma Di noticed that the defenders on the tower were waiting to patrol around. Their standard armor was quite eye-catching in the sun. Looking from a distance, it was silvery white.

In Ma Su's impression, such excellent armor was only equipped by the elite soldiers of Wei State, and even the cavalry under Zhang Xi's command was not so well equipped.

Fortified city, elite, and tenacious defense, old man Xu Miao has already expected that I will attack Liangzhou, so he intends to defend this city to the death?
With doubts in his heart, Ma Di drove the crowd forward.

The soldiers of the Wei army on the city had already discovered the group of uninvited guests outside the city, and a sound of "enemy attack" resounded all around, and there was a lot of noise at the top of the city.

But not flustered.

Ma Di winked at Zhao Yun, waited for Zhao Yun to hide in the crowd and took out the flower-carved bow, then pouted at Zhang Xiu: "Go call the city."

Zhang Xiu understood, galloped his horse to the foot of the city, and shouted: "I am under the command of Ma Di, Inspector of Yongzhou of the Great Han Dynasty and General Ma Di, General of the West Conquest. My general wants to talk to Inspector Xu Miao!"

The defenders on the city burst out laughing when they heard these two titles.They are Wei soldiers, and these two official positions in the Shu Kingdom are worthless in their eyes, so they can't frighten them at all.

One of the soldiers laughed: "My governor said, no see!"

"If we don't see him, our army will attack the city! When the city is destroyed, no chicken or dog will be left behind!" Zhang Xiu raised his head and squinted his eyes threateningly.

"Please do what you want!" The soldier was tougher than Zhang Xiu.

Zhang Xiu had no choice but to report back: "General, that man Xu Miao refuses to meet."

Ma Di waved his hands behind him, staring at the tower and muttering silently.

Zhao Yun silently collected his bow and arrow, and rode his horse to the front row.

The four thousand troops moved slowly around the city, trying to find a loophole.

There are 4000 soldiers in Wuwei City, and Ma Su has only [-] troops under his command. It is impossible to attack the city.

Only outsmart.

Turning around, I found that the surrounding houses and nearby trees had been demolished and felled. Presumably, this move should be to prevent these woods from being used by the Shu army to make ladders to attack the city.

Looking around, you can see that the road is bare, there are ruins everywhere, and the surrounding area is desolate and quiet.

Ma Di knew that during the previous Wuwei Rebellion, some of the people outside the city had already surrendered to the Shu Han, and the other part should have been forced into the city.

Just when the army returned to the north gate and was about to set up camp, Dai Ling suddenly said to Ma Di: "General, there is a plan at the end to lure Xu Miao out of the city."

"Oh?" Ma Di was a little surprised.

"What a clever plan, tell me quickly."

"I wonder if the general has ever heard of the method of reducing stove?" Dai Ling said calmly.

Zhang Xiu didn't understand why Dai Ling suddenly said such a nonsensical remark, and also used such a mysterious tone, and immediately gave Dai Ling a dissatisfied look: "General Ma's literary and military strategy, how could he not know such trivial skills? You don't want to be tricky, tell me quickly!"

"..." Ma Su glanced at Dai Ling, nodded and praised, "Good plan!"

To put it bluntly, what Dai Ling presented was the "trick of the arrogant enemy" that Sun Bin had used.

To be more specific, it is to intentionally make some noise under the city, it is best to cause some internal strife, the main general deliberately drives the general to lead the army to attack the city, because the strength of the two sides is almost the same, so attacking the city is to seek death.

The partial general was definitely unwilling to go, because he did not want to go to die and disobeyed his orders, and was beaten up by the chief general (Ma Di) in front of the Wei soldiers on the city.The soldiers didn't want to attack the city to die in vain, so they fled one after another.

The situation in Wei Bing's eyes is as follows: the number of soldiers under Ma Su's command decreased day by day, and soon fell to more than a thousand (other soldiers fled openly, but secretly hid under the command of a general, preparing to ambush ).

Seeing this situation, most of the guards will lead their troops out of the city to beat up the dogs in the water...

Zhang Fei used this strategy when he entered Sichuan, and captured Yan Yan, the prefect of Berkshire, alive.

But it is far from enough to deceive an old fox like Xu Miao.

So Ma Di shook his head: "It's a good plan, but Xu Miao is well-educated and well-versed in poetry and books. This plan may be able to deceive others, but it must not be able to deceive him."

Xu Miao had suffered a big loss in the battle of Xia Discrimination.It is not so easy to trick him out of the city now.

After Dai Ling thought for a while, he suddenly understood.

When he was an enemy of Ma Di before, he suffered a lot from Ma Di, so he knew Ma Di's ability.

If Ma Di said no, it must be impossible.

During the whole process, Zhang Xiu seemed to be listening to a scripture from heaven, and it was over before he understood it.

So he scratched his head and looked at Zhao Yun, hoping that the respected General Zhao could clear up his doubts.

Zhao Yun pretended not to see him, stroked his beard and looked at the sky at a 45-degree angle.

Soon, the soldiers set up a big camp twenty miles north of the city.

Ma Di and his party rode their horses around to check the terrain. When they came to a huge depression at the confluence of two rivers, he suddenly reined in his horse, stretched out his hand and pointed ahead, and asked, "General Dai Ling, where is that?"

Everyone followed his fingers and saw that the two rivers converging in the shape of a "7" came out of the inner circle. The terrain was high at first, and then suddenly concave, extending into a large depression in all directions.It is several feet deep, about one mile wide, and at least four or five miles long.

"General, this place is called Tulechuan." Dai Ling replied, "Because the two rivers are often flooded, the local people dug earth to build embankments, and this place has sunk deeply."

"Tulechuan..." Ma Di murmured, and led the crowd to enter through the entrance of the depression in the south, and after half an hour, they came out from the embankment in the north.

"Let's go up and see."

So several people slowly went up along the embankment, climbed up and looked at the river.

The embankment is not high, and after climbing more than a hundred steps, we reached the top of the embankment.As soon as they climbed up, everyone including Ma Su was shocked.

It turned out that the top of the embankment was about three feet wide, and the whole embankment was in the shape of a narrow upper and lower wide ladder. The majestic beast rushed towards us.

Ma Su pondered, turned around on the embankment with his hands behind his back, leaned over and poked the hardness of the ground soil with a sword, picked up a few stones and threw them into the river to observe, stared into the distance again, and fell into a meditation.

Generals Zhao Yun, Zhang Xiu, and Dai Ling did not disturb him, but quietly waited aside.At this time, the red sun was slanting to the west, the north wind suddenly picked up, and the sky was woven with fiery clouds; the Longshan Mountains in the distance in the sky were hidden among the high mountains, and the bitter cold hit the face, which made people suddenly feel like "the sun is setting and the journey is poor". Desolation.

Ma Di looked around from the embankment, and he had a panoramic view of the river and the mountains.

When he saw his own shadow pull out a long line, throwing himself into the river and moving with the waves, he spewed out boldly:

"Xu Miao, you are dead!"

He raised his head and looked at Wuwei City, which was out of sight in the distance, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

"Then use the simplest strategy and meet you for a while!"

"I don't believe that a bloody Teemo dances and sings in front of you, and you can resist stabbing him with a big sword!"

"Ha ha ha ha……"

When Ma Di drew up a plan to plot against Xu Miao.In Wuwei City, Xu Miao was also looking at the earth that was about to sink into darkness and meditated.

What kind of strategy will Ma Su use to deal with the old man?
(End of this chapter)