Li Wen was very distressed.

Every night when he rested, he felt very distressed when he looked at the rising number of non-combat casualties, the soldiers and cattle and horses who fell to their deaths, and the large carts and baggage that had been lost.

If this continues, when you reach Hanzhong, how many soldiers and horses will you have to use, how much food you can eat, and how much strength do you have for soldiers to fight?

I'm like this, what about the other two teams?

Li Ruzhang won't talk about it, whether it is in a hurry or a heart, this road is not easy to walk.

But don't really say, Du Tong's road is really better than his road, from Tianshui to the south, there are relatively flat river valleys along the way can be used, it is relatively easy to enter the army, and when encountering a place with abundant water, you can also arrange boats to transport grain and straw, saving manpower.

So although the road is a little farther, it is easy to walk and the loss is not great.

However, their march was still slow, and they did not travel much every day.

Looking at the food and water that are constantly being consumed, looking at the declining reserves, and calculating how long the food in his hands can last, Li Wen is really worried, but he also knows that he has to fight, otherwise he will sit and wait to die.

How could he be soft on these rebels?

Whether it is as an important minister of the court such as the governor of the three sides or as a scholar, although he also has many doubts about the abdication of the Wanli Emperor and the accession of the Taichang Emperor, but the matter has come to this point, and the edict is in hand, he has no time to ask more questions, he only knows to do his own thing.

The rebels rebelled and cut off the grain route, he would not sit idly by, whether it was for the court, for himself or for the official position, he did not hesitate.

Even if there is only one battle, this battle must be fought.

Compared with the slow progress of Li Wen's three-way army, the work of Ma Wei and the three of them is much easier.

Deng Zilong took 30,000 soldiers and horses to the north along the river valley to arrange the defense line, and Jitouguan sent people to repair, arrange artillery and ambush soldiers, and then arrange various tools to defend the city, set up various obstacles, and so on.

Hutou Pass is the same, all kinds of repairs and enhancements, and it is the same when it comes to Liuba, setting up 5,000 soldiers and horses to defend Liuba and deploy defense in Liuba.

There is a pass called Chaiguan in the west of Liuba, and the station of the Liuba Inspection Division is in Chaiguan, Deng Zilong sent troops to attack Chaiguan, and then found that Chaiguan has been empty, and there is no one left, but there are still some things available.

Deng Zilong thought about it for a while, sent people to take away all the things that could be used in Chai Pass, and arranged a lot of traps in Chai Pass, planning to pit Li Wen fiercely, let them taste the taste of being a frightened bird, and then delay the time.

Then Deng Zilong inspected the section of the road from Chaiguan to Liuba, and found the road conditions of those roads before, and realized how difficult it was to transport grain from Baoji to Liuba, and the fragility of the grain road can be imagined.

And in this case, if they continue to stretch the transportation and supply lines, it is really not more than a month, and their grain routes will collapse.

Can't stand a little blow.

Although he only has 40,000 troops in his hands, in this mountainous area, there are no conditions for 10,000 troops to arrange and charge as a whole, and 1,000 people against 1,000 people is about the same, otherwise they will not be able to spread at all, and they can only fight one team at a time, and there is no superiority in troops at all.

On the contrary, the advantage is still a little bigger.

I'm old, I don't know how long I can hold on, maybe this is my last battle, if I can't grasp the opportunity to push my position further, then my children's life will not be easy after my death.

This battle is not only for the great cause, not only for yourself, but also for future generations to have a good starting point.

So Deng Zilong was full of confidence and prepared for the upcoming war.

On the other hand, Liu Wei also did some defense in Luoyang, but Liu Wei obviously didn't plan to do too much in Luoyang, and set up the main defense in Yangping Pass.

Luoyang is just a weight to lure the enemy deeper, and Yangping Pass is the enemy's burial place, if Du Tong really meets him in battle, he promises to let Du Tong's subordinates corpses all over the field.

With such a long supply line and such a difficult road, Cao Wei could not support it for three months with half of the country's financial resources, and in exchange for Li Wen, who lacked food, it was enough for 100,000 troops to hold on for more than a month.

He is confident that he will win this battle, win important credits, and then sit on an equal footing with Xiao Ruxun's main generals!

Liu Wei knew that he was not necessarily the strongest in terms of ability, and he was not as good as those generals who had followed Xiao Ruxun for seven or eight years, so he had to speak with merit, use merit to speak and communicate with those cronies, stand with them, and jointly divide the power after the success of Fengtian's rebellion.

He knew very well that after the success of Xiao Ruxun's Northern Expedition, he would inevitably not continue the current system, and he would inevitably make a big change to take back the power and dignity of the warriors.

So how can this battle not be fought well?

It's the same for Mawei.

He is not Xiao Ruxun's Yuancong faction, he did not follow Xiao Ruxun to fight in Ningxia and North Korea, but only began to follow Xiao Ruxun from the Battle of Dongwu, and he also has status and military exploits in the past few years, but in terms of proximity, he is definitely not as good as the three major generals of the Yuancong faction and some lieutenant generals with slightly weaker military achievements.

The four major battalions of the infantry army and the two major battalions of the cavalry of the Zhennan Army are fierce generals, discussing military exploits, no one loses to anyone, and there are not many occasions to play in Burma, and now is the time to really divide a victory or defeat.

If you stop in Sichuan, it would be stupid, after entering Hanzhong, there will be more opportunities to fight, Ma Wei even wondered if Xiao Ruxun deliberately gave him the opportunity to make him, the leader of the Ma family, stand out, and be worthy of Ma Gui's entrustment.

After Xiao Ruxun's Northern Expedition was successful, the generals of the Vermilion Bird Battalion led by him would definitely have a piece of the pie, but whoever could get more of the generals of the four major infantry battalions and the two major cavalry battalions would be better rewarded if they could lead the generals in their battalions to get more combat exploits.

When the time comes, the military power will have a status, and it will be okay to seal their wives and sons, which is the biggest reason for them to fight to the death.

So, the battle to the death now is for the coveted reward in the future!

After seven days of stop-and-go, Li Wen finally arrived in Fengxian County with his main force to rest for a while, and in Fengxian County, Li Wen learned that the strategic place of Liuba had been occupied by the rebels, and Chaiguan, where the Liuba Inspection Division was located, had been lost, because he voluntarily gave up and escaped.

Subsequently, Li Wen found several key officials in Feng County who had abandoned Chaiguan and fled.

Without saying a word, he killed the sacrificial flag.

"No matter how many retreat without a fight, it will be the same!"

The army was stunned, sweeping away the negative effects of previous fatigue.

After issuing such a military order, on 8 November, after a day's rest, Li Wen led his army to set off again, with the goal of staying at the dam.