I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

With such a consensus, even generals like Guan Yu who supported Liu Bei felt that it was too risky to take the initiative to attack, and defending and counterattacking to cut off the enemy's food supply was the best strategy for them.

Because this plan has the highest fault tolerance rate, to a certain extent, it can even make them invincible. They can retreat all the way from the Dawan area to the southern part of Tianzhu. Such a long distance, it is almost difficult for an army to break through .

Just give one example and everyone can understand how long this is. The later Xuanzang traveled 10 miles to the west and walked this road for 8000 years.Of course, the reality may not be so long, but there are still 13 to [-] miles. This strategy ensures that it is difficult to eliminate them in one battle.

Then Liu Bei went to the stage to worship the general, and first appointed his own prince Liu Feng as the commander in chief of the southern battlefield (Liu Bei in this world is luckier, he has not survived several times, his family members did not die in battle, so his prince is not a Dou .), appoint Wei Yan, Gan Ning and other generals to assist him, and they will lead an army of 30 to garrison the entire south of Tianzhu to resist the attack from the sea!

The northern battlefield is the main battlefield of this war. 20% of Liu Bei's generals and the most elite [-] troops are concentrated on this battlefield.

The northern army was commanded by Liu Bei himself. At the same time, he appointed Zhang Fei as the vanguard of the army, leading an army of 3 to attack Dawan, Wusun and other countries under the rule of Daqian, destroying Dagan's frontline garrison.At the same time, expand Zhu Han's front line defense.

And he himself led an army of 16 as the central army to support Zhang Fei, and the North Army fought to capture Dajia, Wusun and other places before Lei Gong entered the Western Regions.

Although they formulated a defensive strategy, it was not a deadly defense, because Daqian used Duan Peng, Duan Yun, Liu Hu and other veterans to establish more than a dozen small countries in the Western Regions. There are huge supply points and strongholds for the army in the Western Regions, which is an extremely unfavorable factor for Liu Bei and the others.

Therefore, before the main force of the campaign comes to the Western Regions, they should clean up the countries in the western regions of the Western Regions first, so as to lay a good foundation for the next battle!

And Zhao Yun, as the cavalry commander, led [-] cavalry and sneaked into the Western Regions in multiple ways. The main task of this cavalry was not to fight, but when Liu Bei and the others were fighting with Lei Gong, Zhao Yun's cavalry broke up and cut off Lei Gong's food. supplies to support the frontal presence.

In the middle of March in the 19th year of Daqian (AD 220),
Zhang Fei led an army of [-] to march towards Wancheng.

After a month of marching, Zhang Fei led an army of 3 to the border of Dawan Kingdom!
Zhang Fei did not immediately attack the city, but ordered his chief Shi Huangfuli to lead 500 soldiers to recruit the Guishuang tribes around Dawan City!

In the war to destroy the Guishuang Empire, Liu Bei occupied most of the territory and people because of his large number of people and his strength.

But Duan Peng and the others are not without gains. Land is not a scarce resource in the Western Regions, so after Duan Peng and the others knew that they could not compete with Liu Bei, they did not have many disputes with Liu Bei on the land.

Their idea is to collect more people in Guishuang to supplement their own country, so Duan Peng and his military operations mainly focus on obtaining population. During the war of more than three years, they probably brought more than 200 million Guishuang people back. Western Regions to enrich their own country.

Although the more than 200 million people were distributed to more than a dozen countries, and the Dawan Kingdom distributed tens of thousands of people, but because the agricultural base in the Western Regions was too poor, local food alone was not enough to feed them.

The vast Western Regions are originally half-cultivated and half-grazing areas. In the short term, grazing is even more profitable than farming.

So Duan Peng and the others thought of letting these people graze to support themselves. Relying on their previous relationship in the desert, they went to the tribes in the desert to buy a large amount of cattle and sheep, and let these newcomers to Guishuang live by grazing.

After the cattle and sheep are fattened, they can enter the interior of Dagan from the Western Regions through nomadic means. Using this method, Duan Peng and the others discovered that they can earn several times more money than farming!
So at this time, there are many pastures in the Western Regions, but such an economic foundation gave Zhang Fei an opportunity. Grazing requires a huge territory and scattered tribes. In this state, it is difficult for Duan Peng and the others to control the entire Guishuang people at the bottom. .

So Huangfu Li led some Guishuang people to find these tribes in Dawan, and Huangfu Li successfully instigated seven or eight Guishuang tribes, and gave Zhang Fei thousands of reinforcements and tens of thousands of civilian husbands. And plenty of livestock!

But Zhang Fei's actions were quickly noticed by Duan Peng. On the one hand, he quickly gathered his people in Dawan City to concentrate his troops to defend against Zhang Fei's attack. On the other hand, he ordered his people to gather in the rear to form cavalry.At the same time, he also asked Zhang Xiu of the Protectorate of the Western Regions for help.

Zhang Xiu was overjoyed after learning about the Dawan War. He already knew the news that the imperial court was going to deal with Liu Bei, and he even knew that the ruling general would lead the army to the Western Regions.

This news made him overjoyed. Although the Western Region is promoted quickly, it is easy to be forgotten by others.

Just like Zhang He, the first governor of the Protectorate of the Western Regions in Dagan, he was originally a surrendered general, so logically speaking, he should have no future in Dagan.

But he found another way, stationed in the Western Regions with his subordinates, and then he was promoted every year. In just a dozen years, his promotion speed was not much worse than that of his confidantes in power!

But such a speed of promotion was not envied by many people, because Zhang Xi had stayed in the Western Regions for 20 years, but in the end he was old and frail. After he retired, the court allowed him to return home and return to Jidu.

And now it has been five years since he took over from Zhang He as the governor of the Western Capital Protectorate. Although these five years have allowed him to rise to three levels in a row, he already feels that he has been a little forgotten, and Zhang He's fate is coming to him. wave.

But he didn't expect that his fortune would turn around. In such a remote place as the Western Regions, there would be a great war. This was great news for him.As long as he makes contributions in this war, he can be transferred back to the Central Plains, and maybe he can be promoted a few ranks.

In Dagan generals, the fastest promotion is military merit.Now that Liu Bei's army is attacking Dawan City, as long as he repels Liu Bei, he will be the first to win the battle.

So after he received the information asking for help, he immediately assembled an army of 1, and at the same time ordered other countries to form an army to join him. He wanted to take this opportunity to destroy Zhang Fei's vanguard.

At this time, Zhang Fei, who was attacking Dawan, encountered the first difficulty in the battle.

He thought that Dawan would be easily captured by him, but the reality taught him a lesson. Duan Peng kept the defense of Dawan city stable, and his 3 army could not break through Dawan city at all.