The last three kingdoms

Chapter 329 Longxi Emergency Report
On the third day of November in the winter of the first year of Xianxi, it was the winter solstice day, and there was a sudden heavy snowfall, and the sky was freezing.

There is a folk saying that when the winter solstice snows heavily, it means sitting in winter snow. After the winter solstice, the temperature drops. Winter snow".There are years of winter snow, the weather is extremely cold and unbearably cold, and ordinary people who have no clothes to keep out the cold often freeze to death on the road.

Of course, no matter how cold the weather is, the honorable King Sima Zhao of Jin will not be able to freeze. At this moment, he is in the warm pavilion of the Jin Palace, dressed in light fur and fine clothes, holding a book in his hand, and is watching intently. The room is warm. Rongrong, two attendants are cooking wine under the steps, the wine is fragrant.

"Report to the King of Jin, Jia Chong, the Central Guard, and Pei Xiu, a regular servant on scattered horses, are waiting outside the palace." An attendant came forward to report.

Jia Chong and Pei Xiu were summoned by Sima Zhao just now. It was freezing cold and it was the winter festival. All the officials were resting, but Sima Zhao did not rest. The battle between Jingyi and Yizhou was in full swing. There were as many reports as there were snowflakes, and Sima Zhao was reading these reports at this time. Some important matters had to be discussed with his confidants before they could be decided.

"Please!" Sima Zhao put down the file and ordered Chuan Jia Chong and Pei Xiu to come in.

Both Jia Chong and Pei Xiu wore thick fur cloaks, shook off the snowflakes on their bodies, rubbed their red hands with cold, and came in to pay homage to Sima Zhao together. "I pay my respects to His Royal Highness King Jin."

"Free from courtesy." Sima Zhao looked at Jia Chong Pei Xiu's bluish cheeks and red and purple nose, and couldn't help laughing secretly, and said with concern: "It's cold outside, Gong Lu, Ji Yan, over here The wine is just getting cooked, drink two cups to warm up your body first."

"Thank you, King Jin." Jia Chong and Pei Xiu were indeed too cold. Wearing a fur robe and riding in a warm car, it was because they stood outside Sima Zhao's palace for a while that they shivered from the cold, which shows the weather. No matter how cold it was, the two of them drank the hot wine handed over by the attendant, and they felt a little warm all over.

"The king of Jin called urgently, can something big happen?" Jia Chong said first.

Sima Zhao pointed to the documents on the case, and said: "It's not really important, but the battle between Jingyi and Yizhou is stalemate. Both Zhonghui and Yanghu are asking for reinforcements. I'm also worried about being alone. The army that can fight is gone. Transferred to the front line, even the garrison in the capital area is empty, and sending reinforcements will be stretched."

Now the weather in the north is freezing and it is not suitable to use troops, but the weather in the south is not so cold that it is impossible to fight, so the fighting between Yizhou and Jingzhou has never stopped. After many years of fighting with Wu, the army has consumed a lot of food and grass. The Wei state has a great cause, but it supports two fronts of long-distance combat at the same time, and the treasury consumption of the Wei state is astonishing. If the war continues for another year or a half, I am afraid that even the mighty Wei state will not be able to sustain it.

Even though Wei State claims to have 60 soldiers, 18 troops have already been invested in the war against Shu, another 25 troops have been invested in the conquest of Wu, and nearly 2% of the troops have been transferred to the front line. One is empty, let alone other states and counties. Wei State has ten states under its jurisdiction, and each state currently has only [-] or [-] troops. These troops are already the minimum guarantee. Sima Zhao really felt a headache.

Yang Hu and Du Yu's attack on Xiling did not go smoothly. Although 15 troops were invested, the Wu people were determined to defend Xiling. Wu Jun's logistics channel was cut off, which was an unbearable burden for Wu Guo.Therefore, the State of Wu sent Lu Kai, the general who went to the north to go to Xiling to command the battle, and gathered heavy troops to defend Xiling. The Wei army attacked for half a year, but failed to gain anything.

Of course, the Wei army was not completely without gains. Although Xiling had not been conquered, they took down Dangyang and Zhijiang east of Xiling, posing a threat to Jiangling, an important town in Jingzhou, which made Wu Lord Sun Hao feel pressure.

Compared with the simple and clear situation in Jingzhou, the situation in Yizhou can be described as criss-crossed. The three parties were involved in the melee. Some cities in Guanghan County, Dongguanghan County and Zitong County had changed hands several times. Lu Kang defended Fucheng and Luocheng. However, Zhong Hui succeeded in conquering Jinzhu and Wucheng, and divided the Fu, Luo and Wu armies into two sections, and the beginning and the end could not care about each other.However, on the southern front, the Wu army captured the city of Qi, directly threatening the ruins of Chengdu occupied by the Wei army.

The fierce battle between Wu and Wei in the middle of Shu, not only showed no signs of stopping, but intensified. It is no wonder that Zhong Hui repeatedly wrote to ask for reinforcements. The confrontation in Yizhou was at a critical moment, and both sides were bitten to death. As long as you relax, you will probably lose the opportunity to annex Yizhou.

As for Jiang Wei, he played the role of a spoiler from the beginning to the end, relying on the favorable terrain in the middle of Shu, and started a mobile war by stealth, whether it was Wei or Wu, he took a bite when he got the opportunity.Using Langzhong as his base, Jiang Wei attacked everywhere, attacked Zitong in the west, and harassed Jiangzhou in the south, making Zhong Hui and Lu Kang exhausted.

Although Sima Zhao is sitting in Luoyang, he has a clear understanding of the overall situation of the world. No matter in the direction of Yizhou and Jingzhou, the Wei army still has an advantage in terms of overall strength, and there is no need to increase troops at all.

Jia Chong said: "Zhonghui has 15 soldiers. They have fought many times for many years. Although there are many casualties, the Wu people also suffered a lot. Generally speaking, in Yizhou, our military strength still has the upper hand. Now we enter Shu For a large army, the number of troops is not a problem, but the supply of food and grass is the most difficult problem. The more people are sent, the more difficult it is to supply food and grass. Nearly [-]% of the food and grass are consumed in the middle of the transportation. The road is difficult, the road in Hanzhong is not smooth, and the lack of food and grass will definitely cause difficulties for the troops on the front line. I think that it is necessary to take down Hancheng, Lecheng, and Gold in Hanzhong as soon as possible, and open up the entire Hanzhong passage, so that grain can be transported from Guanzhong Only when you arrive in Yizhou can you travel unimpeded."

Sima Zhao nodded. At the beginning of the year, he had ordered Zhonghui to send people to take the second city of Hanyue separately. It was only because of the fierce fighting in central Sichuan that Zhonghui was unable to get through the main roads of Hanzhong. This must be said to be a failure. . The expenditure of the 15 army is by no means a small number, and the land of Shu is a scorched earth, thousands of miles away, and the Wei army has no way to feed the enemy. All the food and grass needed must be paid by Guanzhong. All the food and grass for the army must go through the long and difficult road to Shu, so this situation must be improved.

At this time, someone outside the hall reported: "Send to the King of Jin, there is an urgent book in Longxi."

(End of this chapter)