I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 398, Xiliang problem

Jia Xu is an out-and-out Xiliang native, and he knows the situation in Xiliang like the back of his hand.

From the moment Ma Teng and the others attacked Guanzhong, he knew that Xiliang had run out of food.

In the past, when there was a food shortage crisis in Xiliang, the commander of Xiliang would go to Guanzhong with tens of thousands of people to rob. If they won, they would get the food, and if they lost, they would die in battle. Therefore, no matter whether they win or lose, the food crisis is resolved.

Back then, Beigong Boyu and the Kingdom used this method to solve the Xiliang crisis!
But Ma Teng and the others didn't know how to adapt. Guanzhong was the center of the drought, and there was another locust plague. How could they go to Guanzhong to grab food.

It was because he understood the current situation in Xiliang that he decisively betrayed Ma Teng and wanted Xu Wei to lead the army to capture Xiliang!Because he knows that the only thing that can save Xiliang now is Dagan.

In the past, Xiliang could barely survive by robbing big men.But now Dahan has suffered from disasters for two years.

But because of the relationship between Dagan, all the princes of Dahan are desperately preparing for war and expanding their army. Only Dahan in the land of ten states now has nearly a million troops.

This has led to the fact that the current big Han is extremely short of food. In the past, when the big Han lacked food, it was only ordinary people who lacked food. Food is not an exaggeration, grabbing a powerful family can feed the population of a county in Xiliang.

But now the big man with millions of soldiers, even the elite clans have no food. If Yuan Shao and the others annexed Xuzhou's elites in this drought, Jia Xu has no doubt that Yuan Shao's power may collapse.

Ma Teng and Han Sui still looked at the big man with old eyes. Xiliang ran to Guanzhong to grab food without food. They thought that the big man was the same as before. Get enough food for them to return to Xiliang safely.

But the reality is that Ma Teng and the others didn't grab anything this time, and there is no food from top to bottom in Guanzhong for them to grab.

So Jia Xu knew that if Ma Teng and the others continued to occupy Xiliang, hundreds of thousands of people would starve to death in Xiliang this year, and only Dagan could provide food to save Xiliang!
Only Xu Wei hesitated and said: "Although Ma Teng and Han Sui are inferior in strength, Xiliang's territory is too wide. It may be more difficult to attack Xiliang than to attack the Central Plains. The battle line of thousands of miles is too long. Even if we dispatch Tens of thousands of troops, I am afraid that the logistics consumption will not be much less than that of the Central Plains!"

But Jia Xu immediately said: "Xiliang is different from the Central Plains. Yuan Shao and the others will fight to the death when they attack the Central Plains. But the rebels in Xiliang don't have a real leader. Their strength is scattered. One person occupies a county. It can be said that they are a group of people. mob."

"If the ruling party wants to attack Xiliang, the size of the army is the second priority. The main thing is to have food. As long as the ruling party has enough food, I believe that the people of Xiliang will definitely abandon Ma Teng and join the ruling party."

"This drought is an excellent opportunity for the ruling party, allowing Dagan to obtain Xiliang without any effort!"

Jia Xu continued: "The most important thing is that the population of Xiliang is small. The last time the big man counted, the population of Xiliang was only over 60. Xiliang has experienced wars for decades. I wonder if this population can retain half of it? Therefore, it is not very difficult to provide relief to Xiliang. There are millions of people in any state in the Central Plains, while Xiliang only has a population of several hundred thousand. The difficulty of relief is 10 times smaller than that in the Central Plains! And the strategic location of Xiliang is also extremely important!"

After Jia Xu said this, everyone found that it really wasn't that difficult to fight Xiliang.

But the old man Wang still said: "I'm afraid it's not good to send troops at this time. Could it be that we can't guard our own territory? After all, if there is a war, our food consumption will increase exponentially!"

But Jia Xu pointed to the map of Dagan and said: "Our Dagan has basically taken over the territory in the north of Dahan. The border in the north of Dagan is tens of thousands of miles long. Why there is no change in my grassland defense line thousands of miles away is because the ruling party has a long-term vision. Before attacking the big Han, the grassland has been conquered first. The barbarians on the grassland have become the people of our Dagan. Drought, but the tens of thousands of miles of defense is still peaceful.

But our border with Xiliang has a defense line of several thousand miles. Ma Teng and the others are equivalent to the barbarians in the past. Xiliang can't support them, so they have to find a way to find a way. At first, the person they chose to rob was Yuan Shao. , because Yuan Shao is weaker than us, but because of the drought in Guanzhong, they didn't grab anything in Guanzhong, so they changed their direction and started robbing us, so if we don't get rid of Ma Teng's rebels, they will keep harassing us until they rob us. He will not stop until there is enough food to feed the army. Now it is not a question of whether we want to fight, one is that Ma Teng must fight us!This battle is impossible to avoid. "

"If you want to defend, relying on Shangjun alone, the 10 troops in Shuofang County can't hold the line of defense for thousands of miles. You have to recruit [-] troops, and you have to gather the people in Wubao so that you can defend nearby. The price is too high!"

"Rather than passively defending, we should take the initiative to attack. In this way, we can get the whole of Xiliang and make strategic preparations for attacking the Central Plains in the future. At the same time, we can save more people!"

Then Jia Xu sighed and said, "Now there are more Hu people in Xiliang than Han people. If hundreds of thousands more starve to death, I'm afraid Xiliang will be occupied by Hu people. If Xiliang is transformed into a Hu, we will occupy Xiliang in the future." , the price paid will be ten times or even a hundred times higher than now!"

Wang Ge also said: "If we attack Xiliang, it will be easier for us to mobilize the cavalry. We can mobilize the cavalry directly from the desert, and we can also attack Xiliang from the desert. The cavalry consumption can be reduced by more than 10 times. After all, on the grassland Marching war horses don’t need much food to feed the war horses!”

The mobilization of cavalry from the grassland and the mobilization of cavalry from the Central Plains are two completely different concepts. Cavalry operations on the grassland require only a small amount of food and grass.

The cavalry in the desert never needed food to feed them. After all, there was not enough food on the grasslands to feed the horses, and they didn't have so much food.

But when it came to the Central Plains, it was very different. There was no grassland at all in the Central Plains, and the cavalry had to use precious grain to raise war horses, and war horses ate more grain than 10 soldiers.

When Xu Wei attacked Jizhou the year before last, he recruited 10 cavalry from the grassland. These cavalry ate more food and grass than Xu Wei's 40 troops, but they achieved very little results. Gancheng completed the division and outflank of the Jizhou Army.

In the last war, Xu Wei recruited a bit of excess cavalry, and 5 cavalry were enough to complete these tasks.

(End of this chapter)