Since Cao Xiu's defeat, Zhang Sheng was afraid of being blamed by others, saying that he did not go to reinforcements in time, and kept muttering that all walks of life should not have stayed at the exit to stay purely on the defensive, saying what to let the enemy come from afar, and then counterattack after they were tired, and they could wait for work, but the enemy advanced and retreated, unpredictable, but let the enemy tie his hands and feet. Vertex updates are the fastest

According to him, if he took the initiative to attack at the beginning, he could directly drive the enemy back on the Chencang Road and chase them to fight, even if he didn't hit Xia Zhi or Nanzheng, he could quickly withdraw his troops after defeating the enemy, so as to actively assist Cao Xiu, and he would not lose it, and Cao Xiu could avoid the chaos of the army's morale and return with a heavy defeat.

If someone says that it was because Cao Zhen went deep into the Baochuan Road that Wei Yan broke through the Meridian Valley Pass, and when Guanzhong was in chaos due to the emptiness of his troops, he would say that as long as the attack on both sides is successful, even if the enemy enters Longyou, he will become a lone army hanging in the enemy's territory, and the initiative will be in our hands.

It means that if he takes the initiative to attack, he will definitely be able to fight Xiazhi, and at that time he can force the Shu army to urgently retreat from Longyou, and the armies in Hanzhong will also urgently come to Xiazhi to reinforce them, and Longyou and Guanzhong will be safe and sound.

Regardless of whether he is right or not, anyway, there are many people in Cao Pi's court who also think so, the dignified Wei State, which has been fighting in the past few years, has been completely led by the nose by the enemy, and the enemy can fight if he wants to, and leave if he wants to, so how can it be done?

Zhang's complaints were satisfied, and Cao Pi asked him to lead an army of 10,000 to enter from Chencang Road, to attack Xiajiao, cut off the enemy's grain route, and counter the Shu army.

When he really received such a task, he was uneasy, you must know that on the way from Wudu to Hanzhong, he suffered all the hardships of the Shu army, especially that Wei Yan, who played him miserable.

And that Wei Yan, who is now the governor of Hanzhong of the Shu army, is still in Hanzhong.

If you really want to go to Wudu, I'm afraid that I won't be able to get anything good, and besides, I just gave me 10,000 horses, what can I do?

However, the words have already been released, and the emperor has also issued an order, if you don't go, you have to go!

Fortunately, Sima Yi thought that he had suffered a rash loss before, and persuaded Cao Pi to order Zhang to go all the way, just need to bluff and support Longyou, and try not to go deep alone.

That is to say, he only needs to be like the enemy army from Chencang Road before, and he can approach and discern it, and don't really go to war.

As for the other Fu Luo Dao and Meridian Dao, they only sent a few hundred to a thousand people, holding more fire, and when they learned that there was an enemy situation in front of them, they directly set fire to the plank road, breaking the enemy's idea of quickly entering the pass.

Zhang breathed a sigh of relief, but said that if he encountered the enemy, he would definitely seize the opportunity to inflict heavy losses on the enemy, burn their food, kill their soldiers, and take their city.

He sent the general Gao Qian as the vanguard, leading 2,000 men and horses to open the way.

The army marched all the way, all the way unimpeded, and Gao Qian traveled all the way to a fork in the road, without encountering a single enemy.

At the intersection ahead, not far to the right, you can reach Xiazhi, and to the left, travel hundreds of miles, you can reach Nanzheng.

If you can't go, which way to go? This matter needs to be decided.

Zhang has no idea, go to Hanzhong? No way. Go down? In case the enemy rushes here to block the intersection, and the enemy on the right side of Longyou is defeated and retreats, he will be surrounded by the enemy.

What made him even more undecidable was that he came all the way, and even when he arrived at this intersection, why was there no enemy to stop him?

You must know that if you intercept this, you have actually intercepted the road from Hanzhong to Wudu.

We've already released the news, and the enemy hasn't reacted at all.

At the beginning, the enemy said that he wanted to leave Chencang, but he led nearly 20,000 horses to wait there.

Could it be that the enemy is deaf and does not hear us?

"You, have you been too careful all the way, for fear that the enemy will find out?" He couldn't help but ask Gao Qian.

Gao Qian shouted aggrievedly: "General, I'm not afraid that the enemy will find out, but I'm afraid that the enemy won't know." Along the way, I swaggered over. We even stopped a few groups of people on the way, and I told them with my own ears that we were going to go down and then let them go. ”

Okay, okay, Zhang didn't ask anymore, anyway, he didn't plan to discern it, and ordered to camp in the dangdao.

As long as this road is blocked, I don't believe that the Shu army will not react.

However, after being stationed for three days, no Shu army came, and all the Wei troops were surprised and began to discuss.

Could it be that there is no enemy garrison at all?

All the enemies here have run to Longyou to support?

Gao Qian came to see Zhang: "General, do you want us to go down first and challenge the defenders?" ”

Zhang Meng shook his head: "Don't, don't we, haven't we already cut off their food channel?" It's enough to stay here. ”

Gao Qian said: "But, why didn't the enemy react at all?" Could it be that they have another food route and don't have to go here at all? ”

Zhang still shook his head: "Impossible, the terrain here is dangerous, so it's so easy to open a road." ”

"Who knows." Gao Qian suggested, "For so many days, not only can I not see the enemy, but even the people nearby, not a single person has passed by this side. ”

"The army is blocking the road, and of course the people have to take a detour." Zhang glared at Gao Qian contemptuously.

Gao Qian didn't care, he made sense to say this: "Today, our outgoing sentry caught a few people who were taking a detour on the mountain road in the distance, and they all came from the lower side. ”

"Oh?" Zhang's eyes lit up, and he immediately turned his mouth to praise, "You did a good job!" Bring them here. ”

Gao Qian replied very well: "General, I'm afraid that they are spies, so I only let them wait outside the gate of the camp." ”

This was said very politely, but Zhang also realized that it was his own mistake, and immediately left the military tent and walked to the gate of the barracks.

The two peasant women who were arrested were a little old, and they stood there in fright.

Zhang got angry when he saw it, such a person, you Gao Qian also arrested him.

Gao Qian didn't look at his face, and said to the two peasant women: "Our general asked you something, and 1510 answered honestly. ”

The two peasant women hurriedly bent down and saluted.

Zhang asked, "You guys, are you really from Xiafen City?" Where are you going? ”

The two of them replied: "My lord, we are not from the city of Xiaban, but we went to the city a few days ago to buy something, and it turned out that the people were gathering there. He said that he wanted to transport grain to Tianshui, and those who were willing to go could serve for a year, and there was still a lot of money to pay, so we hurried home and wanted the men in the family to apply. ”

"Huh?" Zhang stared at the boss, "From below, transport grain to Tianshui?" Is there so much grain for just one discernment? ”

The peasant woman was frightened: "My lord, what we said is true, there is a list there, saying that 5,000 people will be recruited, and I heard that there will be 2,000 grain trucks." ”

"Huh?" This is too surprising to Zhang, doesn't this mean that it is useless to stay at this intersection by yourself? No wonder after three days of guarding, they didn't even come to patrol, so they didn't care about it at all.

"It seems that the enemy has already transported all the grain to Xiajiao, and there is no need to transfer it from Hanzhong at all." Gao Qian seemed to understand something, "The last time the enemy sent troops in several ways was fake, only Longyou was true this way, of course, the grain must have been transported here a long time ago." (To be continued.) )