A small part of the military food in the northwest is self-sufficiency in Guanzhong, but the grain output in Guanzhong has been declining year after year, and the land has been seriously annexed, so it has long been unable to supply the military, so most of the military food is provided by Shuzhong, and now Hanzhong is occupied, and the grain road in Shuzhong is cut off, and Li Wen will starve to death sooner or later if he does not come to attack.

The best way for Li Wen to march into the army is two, one is to take the Lianyun plank road, from Baoji to the south to attack Hanzhong, this road is Hongwu 25 years to rebuild and overhaul, the northern section connects the Chencang ancient road, the renovation is relatively good, and it is relatively conducive to the march of large troops, so this road is certain.

Another road should be Qishan Road, from Guyuan to Tianshui is very close, when Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition into Tianshui Road, there are waterways, conducive to transporting grain, conducive to transporting troops, is also a road to choose.

The Shu Road is difficult to travel, it is difficult for the 100,000 army to take the same road at the same time, and it is very likely that the troops will be divided into two or three roads, and Li Wen may also be worried that Liu Wei and Ma Wei will retake Zhuge Liang's strategy of going out of Qishan, take the initiative to attack, take Tianshui as a breakthrough point, cross the Qinling Mountains and take Weishui East into the Guanzhong Plain, and realize the onslaught on Baoji.

Therefore, Li Wen will definitely send his soldiers and horses to Baoji and Tianshui respectively, and connect the soldiers and horses of Xi'an, Baoji and Tianshui through the Weishui River to form a solid defense line, so as to first achieve a stable and undefeated situation, and then prepare to attack.

Judging from the current situation in Hanzhong, as long as Li Wen does this, it will be right.

As long as the three aspects of Xi'an, Tianshui and Baoji are suppressed by the Li Wen garrison, then under the threat of superior forces, Liu Wei and Ma Wei's approach will actually be blocked, and if they attack head-on, no matter how they go, they will not have an advantage.

On the contrary, if Li Wen marched into the army, he would take the initiative and attack Hanzhong in two ways.

The difficulty of Shu Road has not improved until now, and the road in front of Liu Wei and Ma Wei is no different from the situation that Zhuge Liang faced at the beginning.

The only difference is the situation, the general trend of the world is Xiao Ruxun, and the grain road in Shuzhong is also Xiao Ruxun, Li Wen is now much more eager than Liu Wei and Ma Wei, because he has not much food to squander, while Liu Wei and Ma Wei have a lot of food.

Li Wen must attack, otherwise there will be no way to live, and he has no reinforcements, which is the most beneficial to Liu Wei and Ma Wei, Liu Wei and Ma Wei do not need to take the initiative to attack to achieve their goals.

After thinking about it, the two gradually changed their views.

"Otherwise, let's just wait for work! Don't take the initiative to attack first, anyway, Li Wen will definitely fight for food, he has superior forces in his hands, there is no need to be afraid of us, he will definitely fight, we are just staying in Hanzhong, waiting for work, and eating him in Hanzhong! ”

Liu Wei touched his head and put forward such an opinion.

Ma Wei looked at Liu Wei.

"This is also a good idea, it is too difficult for us to take the initiative to attack, in the Qinling Mountains, it is always easier to defend than to attack!"

"That's right!"

Liu Wei nodded: "The grain road has been cut off by us, the imperial court can't transport grain, and the Grand Canal has also been cut off by us. ”

Ma Wei looked at the map and said: "In this way, we have to defend Hanzhong, so as not to be snatched away by Li Wenzhen, then it is not good, the combat effectiveness of the border army of the four towns is not the same as that of the garrison in Sichuan, we can't despise them." ”

Liu Wei also nodded.

"But a little."

Ma Wei smiled: "The border army of the four towns is used to deal with the northern captives, and they are good at grassland combat cavalry operations, but in the face of such a difficult mountain road in Qinling, Sichuan and Shu, they are not so good at it, and for here, the Zhennan Army under my command, and the Sichuan soldiers under your command are very good at it, which is our advantage." ”

Liu Wei was right when he thought about it, so he laughed.

"Hahaha, it's the same when you say that, let's just wait for work, but ......"

Liu Wei stretched out his hand and pointed to the other two roads on the map: "Will they take Luogu Road or Meridian Road to attack us?" ”

Ma Wei looked at Liu Wei and asked, "Do you know the fate of going to Meridian Valley or Luo Valley?" ”

Liu Wei shook his head.

"I haven't heard of it."

"In the fourth year of Wei Taihe, Cao Zhen was in charge of the army and decided to march into the Han from the Meridian Valley to crusade against Zhuge Liang, but it was raining heavily, Wei Yan said that it was a journey to be completed in ten days, and he only walked half of it in a month, running out of grain, the morale of the army was low, and he suffered serious losses before the battle, and finally had to retreat.

In February of the tenth year of Jin Yonghe, Huan Wen went on a northern expedition and ordered Sima Xun to send troops from the Meridian Road to attack Qin together, but as a result, Qin Prime Minister Fu Xiong led 7,000 cavalry to defeat Sima Xun at the Meridian Road and forced him to retreat. ”

Ma Wei told Liu Wei these two battle examples completely: "Who doesn't know Meridian Valley? The road is difficult, the volume is difficult, and it is especially difficult for the brigade to go south, if you want to open up the situation on the meridian road, you have to be lightly armed and have a small force, but what threat does this have to us?

As for Luo Gu, don't even think about it, Li Bai's Shu Road is difficult to write is Luo Gu, it is difficult to go to the blue sky, Li Bai said that it is not yet possible to fly the yellow crane, the ape wants to spend the sorrow and climb, the large army does not want to pass at all, Cao Zhen's son Cao Shuang is planted in Luo Gu Road.

The only big threat to us is probably the Bao Slope Road, the exit of the Bao Slope Road is the closest to Hanzhong, and it is also a large merchant post in Shu, which has been renovated many times since the Tang Dynasty, but as long as we firmly hold the city, this is not a problem. ”

"You know so much? Have you read a book? ”

Liu Wei didn't know a lot of big characters, and he was curious that Ma Wei actually knew this.

"This is the requirement of the marshal, the 30,000 old men of the Zhennan Army can all read and write, and at least they can read and write more than 500 words, and our senior generals have all been taught by Mr. Yuan Huang to read history books, especially some classic war examples, we must memorize them, this is the foundation!"

Ma Wei suddenly felt the suppression of Liu Wei in terms of knowledge, and immediately understood what kind of psychology the literati had in the face of martial arts generals who could not read a basket of big characters.

Refreshing!

Liu Wei touched his head a little embarrassed, out of awe of knowledge, he asked Ma Wei a little hesitantly: "Then, brother, you say, how should we keep it?" Can you keep Hanzhong, and eat them all in Hanzhong? ”

Ma Wei stared at the map for a long time.

"Back then, Shu Han defended Hanzhong, and there were two sets of tactics, one was the tactics of Wei Yan and Zhuge Liang, and the other was Jiang Wei's tactics."

Liu Wei hurriedly said: "Then use the tactics of Zhuge Liang and Wei Yan, I still know this, Jiang Wei finally lost Hanzhong, and Shu Han was destroyed, so let's use Zhuge Liang and Wei Yan's tactics!" How to fight? ”

"It depends! At the beginning, Wang Ping divided his troops to defend Yangping Pass and Xingshi Mountain, as well as the two cities of Han and Le, and blocked the attacking enemy from the entire territory of Hanzhong, so that they could not enter Hanzhong, and offset their numerical advantage with the mountain warfare we were good at, and when the veterans of their division were tired and short of food and grass, they would be finished. ”

A confident emotion appeared on Ma Wei's face.

"We can't learn from Jiang Wei, we really have to put them in, the surrounding area of Hanzhong is a flat river, and we have a small number of people in the decisive battle on the flat ground, and I don't know if we eat them or they are dumplings by us, and they must be short of food and grass after a long journey."

As long as we hold out for a month, they will run out of food, and at that time, we will have the final say, and I am not going to put them back! Okay, brother, let's start repairing those deserted military strongholds back then! ”

Ma Wei made up his mind to fight Li Wen to the death in Hanzhong.