Chapter 345: Withdrawal
Jiameng Pass is the only passage in and out of Shuzhong in Hanzhong.
Last year, after Hanzhong was completely under the control of Uncle Liu Huang, Jiameng Pass also became a Xiongguan under the rule of Uncle Liu. Originally, there were only 5,000 troops stationed at this pass, mainly to prevent Liu Jiyu's head from suddenly cramping in Shuzhong.
However, since the summer harvest of wheat, the troops in Shuzhong have been frequently transferred.
In two months, nearly 200,000 Shu troops have gathered at Jianmen Pass.
And Jianmen Pass is a hundred miles southwest of Jiameng Pass!
200,000 Shu troops gathered at Jianmen Pass, what their intentions are, can be imagined.
After receiving the news, Hanzhong City immediately increased its troops to Jiameng Pass, but the increase was not much, only 15,000 people, plus the soldiers who were originally stationed at Jiameng Pass, the defenders of Jiameng Pass at this time were only 20,000 people.
It seems that Hanzhong City doesn't seem to want to fight with the Shu army?
This made Wei Yan, the chief general stationed at Jiameng Pass, a little puzzled for a while.
According to Wei Yan's thoughts, at this time, Hanzhong City should also gather a large army at Jiameng Pass.
With 100,000 elite soldiers in Hanzhong, plus the strategic planning of the military division, and these fierce generals under the lord's seat, it should not be difficult to defeat the 200,000 Shu army on the opposite side in one fell swoop! As long as the 200,000 Shu army is defeated, the Hanzhong army will be able to drive straight in, enter Shu in one fell swoop, and seize Yizhou, the country of abundance, for the lord. With Yizhou as the foundation, the lord can't follow the old story of Guangwu if he hasn't tasted it!
It's a pity that although his Wei Yan's idea is good, it doesn't seem that the lord and the military advisor plan to do so!
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Jia Meng Pass, standing on the wall, Wei Yan looked at the direction of Jianmen Pass.
Even though they were nearly a hundred miles apart, Wei Yan could still feel the crowds surging at the Sword Gate Pass, waving their flags. There were also many rangers, crossing that valley and arriving near Jiameng Pass, which was a sentinel sent by the Shu army, and seemed to be reconnoitring the situation in Jiameng Pass.
As for the sentry cavalry of the Shu army, as long as they did not come within five miles of Jiameng Pass, Wei Yan would probably ignore it.
If it was in peacetime, Wei Yan naturally couldn't allow the sentinels of the Shu army to be presumptuous to this point, but now there are 200,000 Shu troops in Jianmen Pass, if these sentinels were led by the Shu army Wei Yan to take the bait, and he went out of the pass to clean up these sentinels, wouldn't he just fall into the plan of the Shu army?
It is true that he, Wei Yan, can charge back and forth from the middle of the army, so he does not worry about ambushing.
However, what if the Shu army is targeting the Jianmen Pass?
Wei Yan didn't want the Sword Gate to be closed in his hands and thrown away!
Near noon, the deputy general Liao Hua stepped onto the wall.
"General Wei, the lord has sent a military order!" In Liao Hua's tone, there was some loss.
As a lieutenant general, Liao Hua was qualified to see any military orders from Hanzhong City. Just now, a messenger came from Hanzhong City and brought a military order jointly signed by the lord and the military division, but the content of this military order puzzled Liao Hua and made him disappointed.
"Oh, what does the military order say, but the lord wants to increase troops to Jiamengguan?"
Wei Yan took the military order from Liao Hua's hand, and before he had time to look at it, he couldn't wait to ask Liao Hua.
"It's not about increasing troops, but about letting us withdraw our troops from Jiameng Pass!" Liao Hua smiled bitterly.
Now that Uncle Liu Huang is in a period of rising career, as long as he is a military general with a little ability, who doesn't want to expand the territory for the lord, so that the lord's territory is bigger and his power is stronger?
And right now, the decisive battle with the Shu army between Jiameng Pass and Jianmen Pass is an opportunity.
However, such a good opportunity, the lord and the military adviser actually turned a blind eye, and even let them withdraw their troops from Jiameng Pass.
This made Liao Hua very frustrated and incomprehensible.
When Liao Hua answered, Wei Yan had actually read the military order, and he didn't understand it at the first time.
Withdrawal?
Isn't Jiameng Pass defenseless?
In this way, wouldn't the Shu army drive straight into Hanzhong?
What is the difference between this and giving Hanzhong to Liu Zhang?!
Don't tell him Wei Yan, the lord and the military advisor are really like what the military order says, this is gathering all the troops and preparing to attack Cao Cao in the north!
Even if the lord and the military advisor decide to fight Cao Cao first now, shouldn't Jia Mengguan be more guarded against the Shu army here?
Wei Yan carefully checked the military order, and he was a little suspicious that this was a fake military order that the enemy had carefully manipulated. It's just that the handwritten signatures of the lord and the military advisor of the military order, as well as the seals, and the secret signatures unique to the military advisors, cannot be faked.
The general order was read over and over again, and Wei Yan finally found something abnormal in the military order.
This abnormality does not mean that this military order is fake, but the content of the military order makes Wei Yan feel that the lord and the military advisor asked him Wei Yan to withdraw his troops from Jiameng Pass, which is not the strategy of the military advisor!
The military order stipulates that from the day Jia Meng Pass received the military order, Liao Hua led 15,000 soldiers to retreat north and directly withdrew to Hanzhong, while he Wei Yan led 5,000 elite soldiers and must hold Jia Meng Pass until July 14, and then whether he really couldn't hold Jia Meng Pass or pretended to be defeated, he Wei Yan must withdraw from Jia Meng Pass with the remaining "remnants of the defeated generals" on July 14.
However, the military order made it very clear that at that time, he Wei Yan must lead the remnants to flee to Langzhong to rest!
This military order to withdraw the army seems to be nothing at first glance, but it just asked them to withdraw their troops from Jiameng Pass, and it was after he Wei Yan broke off. However, after Wei Yan looked at this military order a few times, he saw a little taste:
If the lord and the military advisor really asked Wei Yan to withdraw his troops from Jiameng Pass, why did they need to withdraw the troops in two parts?
Even if he needs to be delayed, the two batches of withdrawals shouldn't be seven or eight days apart, right?
Moreover, the military order asked Wei Yan to lead the "remnants" to Langzhong to rest, which is also a bit unreasonable. You must know that Langzhong is more than 200 miles southeast of Jiameng Pass, and it is almost far from the direction of Hanzhong City. If the lord really gathered forces to attack Cao Cao, and let Hanzhong go and let the Shu army drive straight in, wouldn't he Wei Yan have withdrawn the remnants to Hanzhong City?
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After thinking about it for a long time, Wei Yan still got nothing, but this did not prevent his mood from improving.
Now that the military advisor is still starting to strategize, he Wei Yan only needs to act according to the instructions, and in a few days, when he Wei Yan receives the next military order, he will probably be able to understand the intention of the military advisor's arrangement.
"General Liao, since the lord has given the order, let's act in accordance with the military order. The general will go down now and order the soldiers to pack some bags, and tomorrow morning the general will retreat north with 15,000 soldiers, leaving 5,000 elites behind! ”
Wei Yan put away the military order and instructed Liao Hua.
At the same time that Wei Yan received the military order to withdraw the army, all the garrisons under the jurisdiction of Hanzhong received military orders, either to withdraw the troops or to transfer troops, and even Huo Jun, who was stationed at Dingjun Mountain, was also within the requisition and transfer of the military order.
This time, Hanzhong's move to dispatch troops was so great that troops from all over the country were gathering in Hanzhong City.
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