"Ask Mr. for advice, what should our brother do next?"

After Zhang Wang and the others returned to the camp in embarrassment, they immediately went to ask the old man what to do next. This old man did have something extraordinary, although the rebel army was defeated in the battle of Jianmen Pass, but it was not the mud flow tactics provided by the old man that were useless, but the unexpected arrival of official reinforcements that caused the rebel army to be defeated.

Therefore, Zhang Wang and the others still have a lot of trust in this old man, after all, because of his methods, the rebel army once had the possibility of capturing Jianmen Pass.

"Two, please, what's the matter? That method that is not old and decaying has failed, causing the two of them to fail to take the Sword Gate? ”

"Mr. Hui, it is true that we did not take the Sword Gate, but it was not because Mr.'s method did not work, but because the official army suddenly appeared with reinforcements, so the two of us failed to take the Sword Gate Pass, Mr.'s strategy was actually quite effective, and we were once very close to taking the Sword Gate Pass."

"Oh, if that's the case, what are the two generals going to do next? Is there anything else that the decay can help? ”

"We are ready to regroup our troops to continue to attack Jianmen Pass, I wonder what good plan Mr. has?"

After hearing Zhang Yu's question, the old man pondered for a long time, and then asked his question: "I wonder how many troops the two generals still have to use?" ”

"Well, there are about 8,000 people we brought back from Jianmen Pass, plus some of them who are still left behind, and those who are still stationed in Langzhong, there are still about 20,000 people in the full battle."

When he heard that Wang Cormorant reported the number of remaining troops, the old man couldn't help but sigh.

"Sir, why is that? Could it be that the number of our army is small? ”

"It's not less, it's very little. You can think about how many people you brought to attack the Sword Gate Pass in the first place. ”

"About 30,000 people."

"How much is left after three rounds of attack?"

"Eight thousand."

"Doesn't that tell the story?"

"What's the problem?" The two really couldn't figure out what the old man was referring to, so they could only look at each other.

"Stupid, you two. The old man was sure that the defenders of Jianmen Pass were less than 5,000 at the beginning. You were unable to take the Sword Gate Pass at the beginning with six times as many people, and this time you only had 20,000 soldiers left, and the defenders of the Sword Gate received a large number of reinforcements. Now where did you get the capital to attack the Sword Gate Pass again. ”

"But ......"

"It's nothing, the old man dares to assert that the reinforcements of the official army that appeared when you attacked the Jianmen Pass for the third time are just the vanguard of the large army of the official army. When you have gathered your troops again to attack the fortified positions for the fourth time, it is estimated that the large number of officers and troops has also arrived, but when the time comes, will you still be able to retreat like this time? ”

The old man's words, like an initiation, made Zhang Wang and the two completely wake up, as the old man said, how can today's military strength capture the Jianmen Pass again, if you go again, it will undoubtedly be self-defeating.

But they withdrew to Chengdu like this, and the two of them couldn't do it, not to mention that they didn't care about their faces, even Li Shun was not easy to explain. The army lost more than 20,000 people and failed to take Jianmen Pass, and such a heavy loss was something that the nascent Dashu regime could not afford.

……

As Zhang Wang and the others thought, Li Shun, who was in Chengdu at this time, was already thunderous.

"The shaft is incompetent, the shaft is incompetent." At this moment, Li Shun, who was holding the battle report of the Sword Gate, was trembling with anger.

Indeed, it is no wonder that Li Shun's hands are trembling with anger, the Dashu regime has only 100,000 soldiers so far, and almost one-sixth of this Sword Gate battle has been removed.

The most important thing is that Ren Ran has not opened up the road to the outside world in Shudi, and such a shrinkage is a torment for straightening out every day.

"Come on, go and send an order to Zhang Yu and Wang Cormorant, call them back to Chengdu to be punished, go quickly."

The messenger of the herald was just about to go, but was stopped by a person, after this person stopped the messenger, he immediately admonished Li Shunjin: "Ask the king to calm his anger, at this time can not blame the two generals, Jianmen Pass is known as the first Xiongguan in Shu, easy to defend and difficult to attack, the two generals did not have much experience in siege, and a temporary failure is inevitable." ”

"According to what you say, the widow still has to give them a chance, and then send reinforcements to let them continue to attack the Sword Gate Pass?" At this time, Li Shun was still angry, and the words he said were full of gunpowder.

"Back to the king, the minister didn't mean that, the minister meant, it was better to give up the attack on the sword gate and let the two generals retreat to Langzhong. Let's concentrate all our forces on the construction of warships, and then use the power of the navy to go out of Shu from Wuxia and attack Jingzhou. ”

This idea is more to Li Shun's appetite, at this time Li Shun no longer has any thoughts about capturing Jianmen, it is better to focus all his energy on shipbuilding, as long as the north can drag the official army, wait until the navy is completed, down the river to seize Jingzhou, then there is no way out.

So Li Shun readily agreed to this opinion, and asked the messenger to go to the camp of Zhang Wang and the others, and ordered them to retreat to Langzhong to guard against the possible arrival of the official army.

……

"What are we going to do next, sir?"

Since a counteroffensive is impossible, what to do next is important.

"The old man thinks that the king of Shu will soon come to order you to retreat to Langzhong, but if you really want to do this, you will lose the opportunity for revenge forever, so what to do next is not to ask the old man, but to ask yourself, if you want to take revenge."

Do you want revenge? This is actually not a problem at all, of course Zhang and Wang want revenge. But the problem is that the order of Li Shun, the king of Shu, is not easy to disobey. Now the two are in a dilemma.

In the end, the two of them weighed again and again that the heart of revenge prevailed, and the sentence that the general was not allowed to be outside the king's life was a foundation for himself, and the two finally chose revenge.

"Sir, we still want revenge, so many robes have been killed at the hands of the officers and soldiers, and my two brothers can't swallow this breath. Mr. Qiu gave me guidance and taught me how to take revenge. ”

"Since you choose to take revenge, you will have to obey me for the rest of your actions, are you willing?"

"Yes, as long as you can take revenge, everything is at the disposal of Mr."

"That's fine, you wait for the arrival of the envoy of the King of Shu now, and after that, we will start to act."

……

Because the rebels gave up the continued attack on Jianmen, the defenders of Jianmen waited for the arrival of the army led by Zhao Weiji in this way.

After Zhao Weiji arrived, he was relieved to see that the Sword Gate was basically safe and sound.

When inquiring about the battle, he was surprised to learn about the tactics of the rebels during the third siege of the city.

"I'll go, this rebel general has a capable man, isn't this the stunt of the famous Mongolian general Mu Huali later, using sandbags to pile up a slope so that the Mongolian iron cavalry can easily attack the city. It seems that this group of rebels should not be underestimated, and it is necessary to be careful. Although he was very surprised, Zhao Weiji was still relatively calm, after all, the gap between the combat effectiveness of the two sides was still not small, and the crushing of absolute strength could still win with righteousness.

It's just that at this moment, Zhao Weiji was still very interested in someone who could come up with this tactic, so he found a rebel prisoner to come over and ask who was so capable.

"Do you know who came up with the tactics for your third attack on the Sword Gate? Is it your General Zhang or General Wang? ”

"It doesn't seem to be." At this time, they have been captured anyway, and these rebel soldiers have nothing to hide, after all, not everyone has such a thing as integrity. "It seems that it was because of the arrival of an old man that the two generals came up with this method."

"Old man?" In Zhao Weiji's impression, there don't seem to be any folk masters in this era, especially this peasant uprising, although Zhao Weiji knows very little about the details, but if there is a kind of master who can come up with a dump of dirt and appear in this peasant war, he should not be unknown in the history books.

But no matter what, this old man is probably the master behind these two people, this kind of person who can think of a dirt flow is estimated to be good in other aspects, so it's better to be careful.

At this time, Jianmen also received news that Li Shun ordered Zhang Wang and the others to be transferred back to Langzhong, so that the official army should be able to successfully clear the customs and enter Shu.

So Zhao Weiji quickly gathered all the generals to discuss the matter of entering Shu to quell the rebellion.

"Everyone should know the news that those two people were transferred back to Langzhong, and then we are going to discuss the matter of entering Shu, I don't know what you think?"

Because Wu Wen has been stationed in Jianmen for a long time, he has a better understanding of the interior of Shudi, and he took the lead in expressing his opinion: "I think we should go to Mianzhou, and then seize Qingcheng first, Qingcheng is the hometown of the rebels, and capturing Qingcheng should be a big blow to the rebels." ”

However, some people disagree with Wu Wen's opinion: "I think we should kill directly to Langzhong first, take advantage of the new defeat of Zhang Wang's troops to directly eliminate them, and then occupy the important position of Langzhong, so that the army has a basic foothold in Shu." ”

In fact, starting from the question of the foothold, the importance of Langzhong and Mianzhou is about the same, but it is indeed much easier to attack the newly defeated Zhang Wang's troops than to attack the heavily defended Qingcheng of Mianzhou.

In the end, Zhao Weiji still adopted the advice of this general named Sima Rang, who came with them from Hanzhong, and reorganized the army and marched towards Langzhong.

But because he learned that Zhang Wang and the others had a master behind them, Zhao Weiji still kept an eye on it, and he arranged Li Jiguang after the military was broken to prevent things from changing.

And just like that, the army set off in a mighty way.

And the other half, the troops of Zhang and Wang, who learned that the official army had begun to march towards Langzhong, also began to move.