When Li Wen learned the news of the fall of Sichuan from Xi'an, he was extremely shocked.

As an important source of food for Guanzhong and the four towns in the northwest, the importance of Sichuan is self-evident, and now he is suddenly told that Sichuan is finished and has been completely occupied by Xiao Ruxun's rebels, how can he be embarrassed?

When he knew, he learned that the Grand Canal had been occupied and blocked by Xiao Ruxun, and the court needed him to send a team of men to the capital to Qinwang, so he sent the Dayun Department in Gansu.

In fact, Li Wen himself thought it was very ridiculous, how could Xiao Ruxun, who had just won a battle, rebel?

Just in the north of the bloody massacre of 300,000 northern captives, so that the north has obtained unprecedented peace, Li Wen just breathed a sigh of relief and planned to issue a decree to recuperate and resume production, suddenly learned that Xiao Ruxun had rebelled, and the imperial court was going to recruit soldiers and horses from the northwest to quell the rebellion.

This is simply ridiculous!

But since it was an order from the imperial court, he would not resist, and honestly sent an elite army, and was ready to mobilize more troops in case of emergency, and notified Sichuan to transport grain for backup.

As a result, the food did not come, and Tan Xisi, the governor of Sichuan, fled with the family of the King of Shu, saying that Sichuan had been occupied by Xiao Ruxun's rebels and lost control, and then the news came that Hanzhong was also occupied, which made Li Wen shocked.

Is this the rebel army planning to invade Xi'an to occupy Guanzhong and reproduce the situation of Han Xin at the beginning?

Tan Xisi said with trepidation that the rebels are known as 100,000 troops, but in Li Wen's opinion, there are only 50,000 at most, and the number of soldiers may not be this number, mainly because of the number of people, there is nothing to be afraid of, but Tan Xisi is incompetent and actually lost Sichuan.

What's even more hateful is that the attack on Sichuan actually has Sichuan General Liu Wei, he actually led the whole army to defect, and persuaded many generals along the way to let them join Xiao Ruxun, all the way to attack smoothly, and took Sichuan without receiving any obstacles, and now he has further seized Hanzhong, looking at the northwest of Guanzhong, and the situation is critical.

If you want to fight, you must fight, and if you don't fight, you will have no food to eat, and you will starve to death.

Not only that, the army will not starve to death honestly, if the entire army of the four towns is hungry, they will all rebel.

Li Wen immediately made up his mind to mobilize his army to attack Hanzhong, and he never wavered.

Since he decided to fight, Li Wen immediately thought that the amount of grain in his hand needed to be verified, so he hurriedly sent someone to verify the grain warehouse, and learned that the grain in his hand was about two months' worth of the border army, and now that there is no war, if he saves some food, he may be able to last for another half a month.

This is obviously not enough, if the battle to recapture Sichuan is started, even if it is relaxed to three months, it will be just enough, the time is too tight, and he may not even be able to fight until he reaches Hanzhong to seize the grain and grass, and the grain will be cut off, and then the army will complain about whether to fight or not?

So while Li Wen mobilized the army, he also sent people to the surrounding state capitals to collect grain and grass, and collected as much as he could, anyway, he had to ensure at least another month of grain and grass, otherwise, he was really not sure that he could successfully support the recapture of Sichuan and grab the grain and grass.

Now that the autumn harvest has just passed, although because of the severe cold and the impact of the previous battle of Datong in Shanxi, there is still a little food......

Probably.

Li Wen was not sure, but he also had to fight.

When Du Tong, the commander of Guyuan, began to organize the army, he convened his staff from the trilateral governor's palace to hold a strategic meeting to discuss the strategy and tactics of conquering Hanzhong, how to recapture Sichuan, and so on.

There is no shortage of soldiers and horses, there is a shortage of food and grass, and the battle must be resolved as soon as possible, as soon as possible.

The staff first unified their views.

Lianyun plank road is an inevitable road, this road is in the best condition, can carry the most soldiers, horses, grain and grass, directly to the north of Hanzhong, threaten Hanzhong, and start the Hanzhong strategy war.

Luogu Road is the least recommended to go, the road condition is too poor, it is not smooth, Cao Shuang is from here, 180,000 troops lost, so that the battle of Wei to destroy Shu was delayed for 20 years, which can be described as miserable.

After the Meridian Road was renovated by Tang Xuanzong, the road condition improved, and it was possible to try to march, but it was still not as good as the Bao Slope Road, so if the Yulin Army from Xi'an arrived, it could directly threaten Hanzhong from the Bao Slope Road.

Naturally, this is based on the fact that the rebels did not go crazy and burned down the plank road.

Then the staff proposed a new combat route, from Guyuan to send a group of men and horses to Tianshui, from Tianshui to take the Qishan Ancient Road, here is the route of Zhuge Liang's two northern expeditions, the road conditions are also relatively good, you can attack Yangping Pass to respond to the army of Lianyun Plank Road, but also bypass Yangping Pass to threaten the rebels to retreat.

As for Deng Ai's route......

Then forget it, it is a human life, not to mention whether it can be done, and for now, it is of little significance, and the other party may not be unprepared, and there is no need to lose a team of people in vain.

Therefore, the advice given to Li Wen by the staff was to lead the main forces of Guyuan Town and Ningxia Town to take the Qishan Ancient Road and Lianyun Plank Road, and the troops attacked Hanzhong in two ways.

In this way, a three-way attack on Hanzhong was formed.

They believed that Li Wen's superior forces could completely expand the battle situation, suppress Hanzhong, and create a huge sense of oppression in Hanzhong, thus causing panic among Xiao Ruxun's rebels in Hanzhong, and then realizing their strategic goal of occupying Hanzhong and recapturing Sichuan.

Referring to Cao Zhen's defeat and Zhong Hui's success, the senior staff members chose the tactics that seemed most suitable, preparing to recapture Hanzhong in one fell swoop.

Li Wen also felt that there was probably no problem, if he fought like this, he would have the advantage of troops, Cao Zhen and Cao Shuang's failures were all defeated in logistics and weather, Cao Zhen was the most stupid, he encountered heavy rain, and he was forced to toss in the Meridian Valley, and after tossing the food and morale, it was over.

Cao Shuang was also stupid, so he directly chose Luogu Road, which was feared by Li Bai, and was difficult to go to the sky, and in the end, he was frustrated in front and poor in the rear, and he was almost dumpled by Fei Yi.

And they don't want to, they want to take the Qishan and Lianyun plank roads, and they also have a praise slope.

Avoid Luogu Road, try not to take Meridian Valley, and defend these two routes without attacking.

In this way, we can avoid repeating the mistakes of Cao Zhen and Cao Shuang, the stupid father and son, to the greatest extent.

The senior staff were triumphant.

Li Wen thought about it again and again, and felt that there was no problem, so he began to send people south to the Qishan Ancient Road and Lianyun Plank Road to explore the road, collect intelligence, and ordered Du Tong to send the vanguard army south to Baoji and Tianshui to occupy favorable terrain, and at the same time began to arrange auxiliary soldiers and civilians to transport grain and grass to prepare for the army to go south.

At the same time, Li Wen ordered Xi'an to arrange for Liu Guangguo to arrange for the army to hold the mouth of the Meridian Valley, so as not to attack Xi'an from the Meridian Valley in case of a rebel army, and at the same time, it was also necessary to take into account Zhouzhi County to prevent the rebels from marching from Luogu Road first.

In this way, if nothing goes wrong, Li Wen feels that he can calmly deploy troops.