When it comes to food, Zhong Huijun's grain is only available for fifteen days. So how many armies are there in Guan Yi and Huo Yi? (Jiang Wei's army in the Sword Pavilion has a steady stream of food from Brazil County, so don't think about it)

No one believed it, before taking Yang'an Pass, Guan Yi's entire army only had four days' rations left. After taking Yang'an Pass, Guan Yi's army was holding 200,000 stone of grain in their hands.

Who let Zhong Huijun come from Chang'an and go all the way to the Sword Pavilion, and actually took such a strong stronghold as Yang'an Pass? If you don't hoard food here, where can you store it?

Yang'an Guan is not only a grain transit station, but also a grain storage base - once the food supply in Guanzhong fails. The food stock here should be enough to support Zhonghui's army for a month. Therefore, the grain stored in Yang'an Pass has never been less than 150,000 stones.

Now Guan Yi's army is only 11,000 people, even if more than 1,000 prisoners are added, the food stored here is enough for him to hold out for nearly two years!

Relatively speaking, on the contrary, Huo Yi's food storage situation is not very good. Because the grain in Baishui Pass was transported from the Sword Pavilion camp. The general amount of grain stored did not exceed ten days—and this was the ten-day ration of two thousand garrisons. And this time, Huo Yi brought 13,000 people.

At this time, the role of Ma Jie is revealed. Those who are familiar with the geography of Sichuan know that if you go northwest in the place of Baishuiguan, you will enter the Qiang settlement. Now, the descendants of General Shenweitian, who has been praised as a legend among the Qiang people, have returned, and asked everyone for food, isn't it just right?

The Qiang people are a nation that respects strength. Ma Chao could have so much prestige in the Qiang tribe back then, and the most important thing was that he was invincible and unparalleled in riding and shooting. In addition, Wudu County was originally Ma Chao's station, and the Qiang people here are very familiar with the Ma family. Now, Ma Jie, who has perfectly inherited Ma Chao's martial arts, has visited the nearby Qiang tribe under the leadership of thousands of Qiang soldiers. Ma Jie went all the way to the past and received a warm response from the Qiang people. Many older Qiang people still held Ma Jie's hand and burst into tears, saying that they would see General Shenweitian again, and they would die immediately without complaint.

And this time, Ma Jie didn't rely entirely on his grandfather's reputation for nothing. The fruit wine was too much to take with it, and it was not brought with it on this rapid march. But soap, candles, bone china, and so on bring a lot. These novelties have been widely sought after in various Qiang tribes, and even when Ma Jie asked everyone to borrow grain. Everyone said very happily: what to borrow? Can the descendants of General Tian still need to borrow it? Give! General, we will send you as long as you are stationed at Baishui Pass!

Therefore, when there is no food problem in the three fulcrums of Shu Han, the only one who should work hard can only be Zhonghui.

Of course, it was definitely not Zhonghui's troops who attacked first. It's Xun Kai's troops.

On December 14, Zhang Zun's team, which was stationed at the north gate of Yang'an Pass, ushered in 3,000 Xun Kai's troops who arrived in a hurry.

Under Xun Kai's strict orders, 3,000 Wei troops launched an ant-attached siege to Yang'an Pass. This low-tech attack was of course easily repelled by Zhang Zun.

But Xun Kai was not depressed in the face of failure, as a child of a bureaucratic family, he knew it very clearly. In this system, many times it doesn't matter how well you do, what matters is your attitude: I rushed over to rush over as soon as I received the news, who knew that the enemy army was strong. So it's none of my business if I can't take it down.

After successfully throwing off the responsibility, Xun Kai began to write letters to Du Wei who was far away in Chang'an and Li Fu and Liu Qin who were not far away. Inform them about the situation here.

On the afternoon of the 15th, Li Fu and Liu Qin each hurriedly led a troop to Xun Kai's Seoul camp. After some deliberation, the three of them removed some men from each of the three troops. Cobbled together a force of 10,000 men, and once again launched an attack on Yang'an Pass.

This time the attack was a bit of a look, and the siege vehicles and siege towers were temporarily built, and even two catapults were fired. However, in the face of Yang'an Pass, a Xiongguan that the Shu Han government has been continuously reinforcing for decades, this attack force is far from enough.

The three generals forcibly drove their soldiers to fight three times. After three uneventful defeats and heavy losses, both the soldiers and the junior officers began to strongly resist the various orders of the superiors. Seeing this situation, the three generals did not dare to use too much force, so they had to withdraw their troops for the time being.

"Alas, a fortified city like Yang'an Pass is not so easy to fight, and our troops are still too small."

"Yes, there were only 25,000 people in our three families together, and we had to take care of most of those three places. Drawing 10,000 men to attack is already a great risk. If there are too many losses, I am afraid that the Shu army in Hancheng and Lecheng will rush out. ”

"Alas, now we can only wait for reinforcements from Chang'an."

"Well, I hope that General Zhenxi's side, Baishui Pass is still in his hands, otherwise ......"

On December 18, Du Pre, who was sitting in Chang'an, received Xun Kai's report.

Cao Wei's Fengle Pavilion Hou Du Du Yuan Kai, this year is forty-one years old (real age). His current position is the governor of the Zhenxi General's Mansion - when Zhong Hui went on the expedition, he stayed in Chang'an to preside over the logistics support of the entire Shu army.

Although compared with Xun Kai's dazzling family background, Du Yu's family background is slightly weaker. But it's only a little weaker.

His grandfather was Du Qi, a famous minister of Cao Wei. His father was Du Shu, who was known for his incorruptibility. He himself married Sima Zhao's sister and belonged to one of the core figures of the Sima Group.

As a top family in Yongzhou, the Du family has a family history. In addition, I am extremely talented and hardworking. So even in the talented Sima Zhaoxiang Mansion, he is also outstanding.

He was a famous writer, scientist, economist, and military strategist in the Wei and Jin dynasties. On the basis of history, after the death of Yanghu. He became the commander of the Jingzhou Front Army of the Western Jin Dynasty and was one of the three former enemy commanders in the later Jin Dynasty to destroy Wu.

Of course, none of these things have happened yet. The current Du Pre has not shown his military talent, and as a deep patient with hyperthyroidism (Du Pre has hyperthyroidism, a huge neck, and it is clearly recorded in the history books), Mr. Du Pre is thin and weak, unable to ride a horse or pull a bow. So at this time, he was just a logistics officer.

Despite this, when Du Pre received Xun Kai's report, he immediately keenly discovered the danger.

"Oops! Now Zhong Shiji's 100,000 army is in a cage! "Du Yu is not an idiot, he will not hope that Baishui Guan is still in his hands at all. In his opinion, since the enemy has such a great determination to go deep into Yang'an Pass alone, how can it not be clear that he wants to take Baishui Pass at the same time?

The reaction was very fast and the judgment was correct. But what's the solution?

The answer is: no! Because now in Du Yu's hands, there are basically no soldiers! To be exact, he did not have a single decent soldier except for the five thousand baggage soldiers who were responsible for escorting grain and grass.

Cao Wei's Yongliang Corps was full of 70,000 people, and this time 60,000 were sent out of Shu. The remaining 10,000 people were stationed in Longxi to guard against the Qiang people there. Therefore, one is that it cannot be withdrawn, and the other is that even if it is withdrawn, it will not be able to play a role in the short term.

Cao Wei's Chinese army was full of 200,000. This time out of 100,000. If the remaining 100,000 are transferred from Luoyang, I am afraid that the central government's deterrent effect on the local government will be greatly reduced. In the rest of the place, the Jingzhou Corps had a total of 50,000, and Liu Qin brought 10,000 into Xishu. I heard that the Eastern Wu in the south had already reorganized its troops and horses in Jingzhou, so the remaining army in Jingzhou was completely unable to move.

The soldiers in Jingzhou can't move, and the soldiers in Yangzhou can't move either: first, it's too far, and there's nothing to do when they are mobilized. The second is that Dongwu has already begun to launch an offensive in the direction of Yangzhou - therefore, no matter how scrapped the ally of Dongwu, it still makes sense for Shu Han.

Then there is only one way to do this. Although the 20,000 soldiers here need to guard against the Xiongnu rebellion in Xihe, the Xiongnu have been very weak in recent years. So it's okay to draw out the pawns here for the time being.

Thinking of this, Du Pre immediately began to write.

The first letter was addressed to Xun Kai and others. Roughly speaking, if Yang'an Pass can't be defeated, forget it. It doesn't matter if the three places of Seoul, Lecheng, and Golden City are encircled or not. The task of your troops now is to withdraw slightly north to the southern end of the valley mouth such as the Slope Valley and the Meridian Valley, and hold on to the spot. In short, to ensure the passage of future reinforcements into Hanzhong - if there are reinforcements. Of course, if there are no reinforcements, your more than 20,000 people can at least be kept and will not fall into it.

The second letter was addressed to Xiangguo Sima Zhao: Boss! That's the way it is now. In my opinion, the nearest troops from the state should be urgently dispatched to Hanzhong for rescue. In addition, the Chinese army in Luoyang also had to send a small amount. At the same time, the Tuntian soldiers from Qingzhou and Xuzhou were transferred to Luoyang to supplement the combat strength of the Luoyang Chinese Army.

The third letter was addressed to Cao Wei's history of the state assassination. The gist is to ask the other side to start mobilizing troops early. As soon as Luoyang's order arrived, he could set off immediately.

After doing these things, Du Yu sighed: "If Zhong Shiji's 100,000 army is wiped out, Yongliang will probably no longer be owned by the imperial court!" Zhong Shiji, you have to work hard! ”