The revival of Shu Han

Chapter 101 Deng Ai's determination ([-])

When the Shuhan court made various adjustments for the next strategy.In the Cao Wei camp, there was also a fierce dispute over the next strategy.

In early September, Deng Ai and Zhuge Xu fought first.

Deng Ai: Boss!Zhuge Xu is an idiot, a very selfish idiot, a very selfish and cowardly idiot.Jiang Wei's clumsy tricks.Even a pig can tell.Zhuge Xu couldn't see it?How could he fail to see that he was deliberately fooled in order to avoid the responsibility of the defeat!

Zhuge Xu: Boss!This time Jiang Wei was able to successfully escape into Zitong.The main problem is that Deng Ai did not follow closely.If his troops were always no more than a day away from Jiang Wei, how could Jiang Wei move north and then south.The problem is not with me at all, but Deng Ai raised the enemy's self-respect and deliberately let Jiang Wei go-why did Zhao Guang stick to Taniguchi for five or six days?Who is Zhao Guang?A guy with no reputation at all!Who would believe that Deng Ai was blocked for so long with less than one-tenth of Deng Ai's strength?
Deng Ai: Boss, listen to me, Zhao Guang is Zhao Yun's son, that's quite fierce...

Zhuge Xu: Boss...

Sima Zhao: Shut up for me!Now take the troops to join Zhonghui.Work harder in the future, if a similar situation happens again, I want you to look good!
Then Deng Ai and Zhuge Xu came to Jiange in disgrace to find Zhong Hui to report.

Before arriving at Jiange, Deng Ai kept an eye out.He did not take the troops to Jiange according to Sima Zhao's order, but stationed the main force in the distant Yinping County.He, Shi Xun, Tian Xu and others brought fifty cavalry to Jiange to meet Zhong Hui.

Before seeing Zhong Hui, he went to see Zhuge Xu first.

Deng Ai: Zisi, let’s not talk about the past.My brother did something wrong, so I apologize first.

Zhuge Xu: Forget it, forget it, these things are unavoidable in the officialdom.I didn't take it to heart either.By the way, you rushed to meet me before I arrived at Jiange this time, do you have something to say?

Deng Ai: Well, it’s nothing, just a suggestion.I hope Zisi will stay with my army for the time being and not take him to the Jiange.

Zhuge Xu: Why?Didn't the general clearly ask us to take the troops to Jiange?

Deng Ai: The place of Jiange is a natural danger. 10 people or 16 people actually have the same meaning.Our troops can't play any role when they go.If you want to achieve any more decent results in this campaign against Shu, you must find another way.Expand the front to the northwest of Jiange.That being the case, why do we have to toss the troops back and forth?

Zhuge Xu: What you said is indeed reasonable.But I only know how to faithfully carry out the orders of the general.So forget about your suggestion.

Deng Ai: You have to be careful, Zhong Hui is a ruthless fellow.If you bring the army there, maybe he will swallow it up.In order to annex your army, maybe he will put you on an inexplicable crime.

Zhuge Xu: That's strange, the [-] Yongzhou Army belongs to the state, not mine.What can you swallow?Moreover, Zhong Shiji is a child of the Yingchuan family, and he is the most elegant person, how could he do such a shameless thing?
Deng Ai: .... (What you say, a child of the Langya family, makes sense, leaving me, a commoner child in Jingzhou, speechless...)
It can be said that Deng Ai was the most depressing from the beginning to the present of this war against Shu.

Originally, according to Deng Ai's plan, he put Jiang Wei in Hanzhong, so that Zhong Hui would be deflated in front of Jiang Wei-in Deng Ai's view, Jiang Wei was the most outstanding field commander of this era. What he is good at is intrigue, political struggle, war?Not worthy of mentioning Jiang Wei's shoes!At that time, after Zhong Hui was slapped into a pig's head by Jiang Wei in the Hanzhong Basin, wouldn't he rely on Deng Ai to reorganize the main force of the Shu attack?
But no one thought that Zhong Hui's luck would be so against the sky: he took down Yang'an Pass!This is a great achievement that Cao Zhen, Sima Yi, and Cao Shuang have never achieved before as the commanders-in-chief of the west front of Cao Wei!Now Jiang Wei said that Zhonghui would not be able to advance an inch by guarding the Jiange.But it can also be said that Zhonghui's more than [-] troops blocked Jiang Wei in Jiange, preventing him from getting a chance to fight in the field.

If this war ends here, there is no doubt that Zhong Hui will be the one who will contribute the most.And Deng Ai, hehehe~~~
Therefore, it is necessary to find another way to break through the sword pavilion and gain greater military exploits.Only in this way can we get the most benefit for ourselves in this war—I, Deng Ai, is 66 years old this year, and I don’t know how long I can live.If the Kingdom of Shu perishes this time, perhaps this will be my last battle.This battle not only determines the fate of the Shu Kingdom, but also the key to whether my Deng family will be a first-rate or second-rate family in the Sima family's world in the future.It is enough for me to be discriminated against and insulted by the big family in my life, and the descendants of my Deng family don't want to suffer like this again.

As expected, Deng Ai, who had made up his mind, finally set his sights on the north-south Qionglai Mountains.

It is necessary to cross hundreds of miles of no-man's land and assault the hinterland of Shu Han.The 3 people under Deng Ai's command are still slightly less.So the purpose of Deng Ai's coming to Zhugexu was actually to let Zhugexu's 3 people go south with him.In this way, if the [-] elite Longxi field soldiers bypassed the Jiange and successfully broke into the hinterland of the Shu Han, but the most elite mobile corps of the Shu Han was dragged by Zhong Hui in the Jiange—the picture would be so beautiful.

It's a pity that Zhuge Xu didn't cooperate - on the one hand, he was a child of the Zhuge family in Langya, so he couldn't understand the desire of ordinary children like Deng Ai to do everything in order to get ahead.On the other hand, he is a pure bureaucrat—a bureaucracy whose main characteristics are obedience to leadership and avoidance of responsibility.Zhuge Xu perfectly embodies these two points.

However, in such a bureaucratic system, sometimes it is not enough to serve the top leader comfortably.

"Bang!" Twenty miles to the north of Jiange, in the tent of Cao Wei's army, Zhong Hui, who was sitting high in the chief seat, slapped the table hard!
"Zhuge Xu! Do you know your crime?!"

"General Zhenxi? What's your crime?"

"Hmph! You occupied the bridge half a month before Jiang Wei returned to the teacher. At that time, the key points such as Baishuiguan and Jiange were completely unguarded! Why didn't you immediately send your troops south to seize these checkpoints?"

It can be said that among the generals of Cao Wei, Zhong Hui is the most proud, but it is also Zhong Hui who is under the greatest pressure.

I have been sitting under the Jiange for a month, and there is no hope of breaking the Jiange.Jiang Wei and others kept this place airtight, and the combat effectiveness of the Shu Han army, especially its mobile corps, was indeed breathtaking.After a month, Cao Wei's army made seven or eight small-scale attacks, and there were two strong attacks with a scale of more than 5 people, but each time there was no hope except for the loss of soldiers and generals.Nearly [-] troops are sitting here, consuming an astronomical amount of food and grass every day.Du Yu, who is based in Chang'an, has sent letters warning many times: If there is no breakthrough in the war situation within two months, he must consider withdrawing troops.

It's not that Zhong Hui didn't think of expanding the front to the east and west.Tian Zhang under his command led a detachment of 1 people, walked seventy or eighty miles northwest, and even defeated ten school captains of the Shu Han.But the farther west you go, the more steep the terrain becomes, and the more difficult it is to transport food.In the end, Tian Zhang expressed helplessly: Unless our detachment brings tens of thousands of civilians at one time and removes 20 stones of grain and grass at one time, it will not be able to continue to fight.

Hearing such a report, how could Zhong Hui feel annoyed: "If you hadn't been able to seize the Jiange in time, I would have been lying in the CD now! After many years of planning, it was destroyed once, and you still ask where your crime is? It is clearly a crime worthy of death!"

When Zhuge Xu heard what Zhong Hui said, he immediately became angry: "Zhong Shiji, don't spit out blood! I received the order from the general to take down the bridgehead and block it..."

"Heh heh heh, tell me, why don't you say it? If you don't say it, I will say it for you. It is to intercept Jiang Weidong's return! But where is Jiang Wei now? It is right in front, right in Jiange. The only one who blocked my army going south. aisle!"

Looking at Zhuge Xu who bowed his head and said nothing, Zhong Hui sneered: "You are an important minister of the court. Although I have false integrity, I can't directly punish you. Come, take off your official clothes and put him in a prison car. Escort Luoyang!"

"Hey, I regret not listening to Deng Shizai's words! Zhong Shiji, if you frame Zhongliang like this, you will die a terrible death!"

"Huh! I will do things with a clear conscience. By the way, your [-] Yongzhou army... Well, Tian Zhang, Pang Hui, Xia Houxian, you and the other three go and lead them well."

"Thank you General Zhenxi. We will live up to the general's trust."

Having successfully annexed Zhuge Xu's troops, Zhong Hui welcomed Deng Ai's visit with satisfaction.

(End of this chapter)