contend

Chapter 494
"Shu's vitality is exhausted. In this battle, attacking the city is the bottom line, and attacking the heart is the top priority." Du Yu was dressed in a military uniform, and his thin body seemed unable to support the bright armor on his body.

"Jiang Wei's calculations are accurate in the art of war, but they are not accurate in the calculation of people's hearts." Yang Zheng sighed.

There is nothing wrong with gathering troops and gathering valleys, and there is nothing wrong with using Hanzhong as a bait to lure the enemy to go deep.

The fault is that the Shu Kingdom is no longer the Shu Kingdom of the past, and the body is suffering from a serious illness, and the deficiency cannot be replenished. Jiang Wei's strong medicine directly killed the Shu Kingdom.

"If Chengdu doesn't surrender, won't Yuan Kai go deep alone?" Yang Zheng worried.

Du Yu and Lu Zhi contributed the most to making it to this day.

"Of course Chengdu will not surrender easily, so the key to this battle lies with the prince?"

"Oh?" Yang Zheng was puzzled.

"Zhonghui's army of more than [-] troops entered Hanzhong and occupied Yang'an Pass. The power of the Shu Kingdom is gone. Sima Zhao will surely march into Guanzhong with all his troops. After Zhonghui, the first battle in Guanzhong is inevitable. If the king can fight against Sima Zhao , then the subordinates will have enough confidence in Chengdu, if the prince cannot reject Sima Zhao, then Chengdu will definitely stick to it!" Du Yu analyzed.

The reason is very simple, strength determines everything.

There are many choices for the Kingdom of Shu. You can surrender to Liangzhou, the Sima Clan, or Soochow.

Why surrender yourself?
Of course it depends on whose sword is fast and whose sword is cruel!
This is an era when the power of war determines everything, and politics is the continuation of war.

If you win, you have everything, if you don't win, you have nothing.

So Yang Zheng has great opportunities, but also great challenges.

In the past, jumping sideways and left and right, stepping on the right timing, can be mixed with wind and water, but now it is impossible.

There are only so few in the world.

The three generations of Sima's relay have stabilized the Central Plains.

This battle is inevitable, and Yang Zheng cannot retreat.

"So this is the battle of seizing qi?" Yang Zheng looked serious.

Take the luck of the world!
Du Yu nodded, "The road is blue and the thread is used to open up the mountains and forests. If the princes want to fight for the world, they must snatch the luck from the hands of Sima!"

At this point, even if I don't want to fight, the people around me will push forward to fight.

What's more, Yang Zheng's ambitions have been growing over the years.

There are more than [-] men with armor and horses under his command. The soldiers are powerful in the world, occupying such a vast land, if he has no ambition to annex the world, Yang Zheng would be a saint.

The Sima family is nothing more than that.

"The general trend of the world, this action, the king has his own destiny!" Du Yu clasped his hands.

"Yuan Kai is wrong! If there is destiny, I will fight for it, and if there is no destiny, I will fight for it! The general trend of the world is all man-made, how can we rely on the illusory destiny?" Yang Zheng laughed, as long as you enter the level of playing with knives, everyone It's all one grade.

Don't say that the Central Plains is strong, if you can't beat me, no matter how strong you are, it's useless.

This has happened countless times in history.

The Great Qin was originally a small country in the west, but it was able to conquer the eight wastelands and unify the world.

Wei Wu started in the place where the Central Plains fought four battles, but it was only a county, but he was able to defeat powerful enemies repeatedly.

Destiny is in people, not in heaven.

Du Yu's eyes lit up, and he said with a smile: "Your Majesty is indeed a very human being, and you are in a rut!"

"All the affairs of the Kingdom of Shu are in your hands, but anyone who refuses to obey orders can be killed first and then acted upon." Yang Zheng thought for a while, then called Lin Sen again, and picked out a hundred warriors from the personal guards, "Let's go In the middle of Shu, Chengdu may not be taken, and the Kingdom of Shu may not be taken, but Du Yuankai must not make the slightest mistake, even if he sacrifices his life, you must protect him well!"

Lin Sen and all the guards pointed to the alliance and swore, "The subordinates will be smashed to pieces, and they will definitely live up to the trust of the king."

Du Yu looked moved, "Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Twenty thousand pro-army infantry have been waiting for a long time.

Du Yu got on his horse and cupped his hands at Yang Zheng, "Your Majesty, take care."

"Yuan Kai also has to take care." Looking at the thin figure on the horse, Yang Zheng felt a little bit reluctant.

But in Liangzhou, he is the only one who is most competent.

Twenty thousand soldiers rode war horses and led pack horses to the southeast.

In less than two days, it began to snow again in Liangzhou.

Sure enough, as Du Yu said, news came from the secret work that Sima Zhao in Luoyang had moved. Sima Zhao hijacked Wei Emperor Cao Mao to march in person, gathered 13 Chinese troops, and rushed to Guanzhong in mighty fashion.

The bloody smell from Shu's wounds attracted fierce tigers from east and west.

Yang Zheng also rode Xiaoxue on a [-]-step horse and marched eastward.

Soldiers and horses raised their heads in the snowstorm.

Even infantry were assigned two pack horses.

The elite cavalry has three horses per person, the Hehuang horse is responsible for the charge, the Mobei horse is responsible for the long-distance attack, and the pack horse is responsible for the heavy load. When the army rations are exhausted, they will be slaughtered.

It takes a thousand days to raise troops, and Yang Zheng has been preparing for this battle since June, and even dispatched soldiers from Zhangye, Jiuquan, Hequ, Xihai and other counties.

Meng Yu, Liu Heng, Meng Guan, Jiang Faye, Peng Hu, Wen Yang, Pang Hui and other generals and more than 30 people.

In terms of military strength, the 13 army seems to be lower than Sima Zhao's [-] army, but this army has gathered all the essence of Liangzhou.

The [-] troops were drawn from warriors of all races.

The weapons and armors are carefully crafted, and each soldier can get at least one piece of leather armor.

The food was carried with the army, and the slaughtered mutton was hung on the horse, so it was not afraid of spoilage in winter.

Sima Zhao's 13 army plus Zhong Hui's 12 army looks bluffing.

But there is an Achilles' heel - food.

Moreover, the armored rate and the number of cavalry of the Chinese army must not be comparable to that of the Liangzhou army.

The armor rate of the Han army is only four to five out of ten, and most soldiers have no armor.

Yang Zheng also served in the Chinese army before.

Not to mention iron armor, if you can wear double crotch armor, you are an elite, and if you wear leather armor, you are a strong army...

Sima Zhao has expanded his army aggressively in the past two years, the Chinese army has been continuously flooded, the level of equipment has continued to decline, and the armored rate is less than two-tenths.

In the past few years, Yang Zheng has been adhering to the principle that soldiers are more valuable than many, and have vigorously improved the level of equipment and training intensity. Iron armor is popularized two to three out of ten, but leather armor is only available for everyone.

Liangzhou has mostly horses and livestock, so there is no shortage of cavalry and leather armor.

The population of the Central Plains is large, so the army is strong.

After entering Xiaoguan, Zhang Te had already evacuated all the people from seven counties including Linjing, Pengyang, Jingyang, Jingyin, Yinmi, Wuzhi, and Chaona to behind Xiaoguan.

Yang Zheng suddenly remembered that the Xiaoguan line of defense he built was Guyuan Town, one of the important towns on the nine borders of the Ming Dynasty in history.

Relying on the Great Wall and Liupan Mountain, guarding the throat of the Jing River going south to Guanzhong, looking down from the heights, overlooking the enemy troops coming from the south.

"Even if Sima Zhao had an army of one million, he would never want to break through Xiaoguan!" Zhang Te was ambitious.

"If you have a child here, you don't have to worry about it."

"The general wants to go south to Guanzhong to fight?"

"Of course, if you defend for a long time, you will lose. Our army's cavalry is the leader, so why attack and defend under the city?" Yang Zheng and Du Yu had already finished discussing what should be planned.

Hiding behind Xiaoguan is to let Sima Zhao eat Hanzhong.

Zhang Te frowned, "Forgive me for speaking bluntly, Zhonghui built high forts in deep ditches on both sides of the Weishui River. There is a beacon tower in ten miles, a camp in twenty miles, and a fort in fifty miles. In Hanzhong, Yang Hu stayed in the post, and this person is not an ordinary person. His subordinates tried many times, but they were all blocked by him, and they suffered a few small losses. From now on, this person will be our army's great enemy."

"The birth of the child is poor. There is a saying in the art of war. Those who are good at fighting will attack people but not others. Those who can make the enemy attack themselves will benefit them; those who can prevent the enemy from attacking will also harm them. I am good at cavalry. Fight, wherever you fight, it should be me! Why do you want to attack Chang'an?"

"Where does the prince want to take?"

"Lin Jin!"

(End of this chapter)