Shi Xun knew that in the original history, decades later, Sima Zhao, the general of Cao Wei, would send Zhong Hui, Deng Ai, Zhuge Xu and other generals to lead a large army to conquer Shu Han, with a total strength of nearly 200,000 people. Among them, after Zhong Shiji quickly captured Hanzhong, he immediately went south along the Shu Road, went farther than himself, and fought until he reached the Sword Pavilion, but then he was blocked by the gathering of people from all walks of life in Shu and Han, and it was difficult to advance an inch. In the end, it was Deng Shizai's plan to smuggle Yinping into Yinping......

So where is the Yin Ping Path? According to the simple description in the history books, it should be near the county seat of Yinping as its entrance, and then cross the Motianling in the south, "more than 700 miles of no man's land", pass through the old Deyang Pavilion, and finally arrive at Jiangyou, which is roughly located between Jiange and Fuxian. Now that Zhang Ji and Su are going to take Yinping County, judging from the current strength comparison, the Shu people will inevitably abandon it, and it will not be difficult to take it. So, do you really want to send an army to smuggle through Yinping?

It was Xun Shizhong who tapped the table with two fingers rhythmically, staring at the map for a long time, but finally let out a long sigh - useless.

First of all, this plan is too dangerous, Deng Ai can be regarded as having bumped into great luck, so he can barely get by, and he will definitely not dare to go. So what if the faction will go? Shi Xun roughly remembered that Deng Ai made 10,000 troops open the way in front, and 20,000 troops followed with food, with a total of 30,000 foot soldiers. Now in addition to the soldiers and horses who stayed in Hanzhong and went to take Yinping, he only has more than 40,000 people under his command, although he can take 30,000 people, but it is equivalent to throwing more than half of the troops. Not to mention that as soon as the 30,000 troops left, Liu Feng was likely to attack immediately and drive himself back to Hanzhong in one go, and if these 30,000 troops could really cross the Yin Ping, it would be fine, if there was a setback. I'm afraid I won't even be able to defend Hanzhong in the future!

And the original history of Deng Ai's will. It is interspersed through this path to the Sword Pavilion. Attack Fuxian, so that "the defense of the Sword Pavilion will also go to Fu, then (Zhong) will advance on the track; If the army of the Sword Pavilion is not returned, the soldiers of Ying Fu will be outnumbered." But judging from the current situation, not to mention whether Liu Feng will use the whole division to aid Fu County - Aiding Fu is to protect Chengdu, but now Chengdu and Jia Meng are not the same force on the garrison - and if Liu Feng does not move at all and the sneak attack army successfully arrives under the city of Chengdu, can Liu Chan really surrender as in the original history?

You must know that it is not the cowardly child who is in charge of Chengdu now. It's Wu Yi and Li Yan, it shouldn't be so useless......

Alas, what can you do knowing that there is such a path? The times are different, and if you want to copy the old wisdom of future generations, you can't copy it at all......

After thinking about it, Shi Xun finally had to sigh: "For today's plan, I ask Your Majesty to increase the army." ”

Originally, when the main force of the Zhonghui arrived at the Sword Pavilion in history, there were about 150,000 people (including the 30,000 people who annexed Zhuge Xu), nearly four times as many as themselves, even if Jia Meng was not as precipitous as the Sword Pavilion, you would at least give me 100,000 people. Let's talk about offense. Now 40,000 against 30,000, and there is no room for manoeuvre. Each side is at risk of geography, so they can only dare to confront each other from afar.

It's just that Liu Feng can continue to stay with Jia Meng until the earth is desolate, and he has no city guard in Guangyuan, so it is impossible to stay for too long - just from Hanzhong to transport grain and grass through the narrow plank road, Yishi Gu will be eaten six buckets on the way, and it is really difficult to supply it for a long time.

I don't know how many more people Cao Cao can allocate to himself - Shi Jun has not yet returned from escorting the prisoners and delivering good news, and at present, there are still small groups of troops from Yong and Liang Prefectures to the south to reinforce, and the number has reached an astonishing three hundred per day! At this rate, it is estimated that there will be no 10,000 people, and I will have to go home......

There was really nothing to do, so I had to ask Fu Zhu and Lu Meng: "Zifu, Ziming, why teach me?" ”

Lu Meng said that the future will not matter for the time being, since we have already hit here, we must not give up lightly - "Once the food is exhausted and retreats, although Ma Ming and Baishui are dangerous, there is no way to garrison the army, and the Shu people will definitely recapture." However, he raised his whip and pointed around: "From Baishui to Jiameng, hundreds of miles of plank road, only here can accumulate grain and grain, and the city should be built for transshipment." ”

Regardless of whether we can retreat for a while or continue to advance forward, I think Guangyuan is a very suitable forward base - but this is suitable to mean the location, and the place is open, which is convenient for stockpiling supplies, but it is not conducive to defense. Therefore, Lü Meng suggested that a city should be built here.

Shi Xun nodded, he knew that in the original history, Liu Bei had set up a new Hanshou County here - that was the previous life when he tried to verify the Hanshou of Guan Yu's "Hanshou Pavilion Marquis", and only then did he notice the relevant historical materials - after Zhuge Liang made several northern expeditions, to transport grain from Shu to invest in Hanzhong, Hanshou is also an important material hoarding place and secondary school station.

He also knew that Hanshou was later renamed Lizhou for a time, and Meng Chang, the lord of Shu, was the imperial Song army, and had fortified in Jiange and Lizhou, but because Lizhou was not in danger to defend, the plank road in the north was lost, and the guard Wang Zhaoyuan directly abandoned the defense and ran to the Sword Pavilion, and gave the 800,000 Hu military grain in the city to the Song general Wang Quanbin in vain - this also shows that Guangyuan was an important grain base in the north of Shu.

It's just that although Lu Meng's words are good, he currently lacks enough materials and manpower to build a county seat here in a short period of time. In the end, he had to order Lu Meng to be responsible, at the exit of the plank road in the north of Guangyuan, when the road leaned against the mountain, first built three small bunkers with civil structures. It's just that because the ages are far apart (referring to the time after he crossed over too long), Xun couldn't remember the name of "Guangyuan" for a while, well, didn't Liu Bei call it "Hanshou" in history? Then I will name it "Wei Chang" and call it "Wei Chang".

After Lu Meng made the suggestion, it was Frustrated's turn to speak, and Frustrated Zifu comforted Shixun: "Don't worry, Tai Lieutenant, because the plank road is difficult to travel, and all kinds of dangers are listed, I have almost no one to rely on......" Even if you want to mobilize a large army to attack, there are no less than tens of thousands of soldiers and horses stationed on the plank road, and you are forced to leave the main force far away in Hanzhong-" Now with Wei Chang as the basis, you can confront Jia Meng for a long time. "Yes Xun said that but our grain and grass transportation is a problem, if we can't enter Jiameng Pass, how long can we stay in Weichang?

Frustration said: "Shu Road is difficult, the enemy is prepared, and it will be difficult to enter Chengdu directly...... but you don't have to worry too much, because we have another way of people, and there is no news yet-" And when the Jingzhou army enters Ba, it can be directly taken after Jia Meng, Liu Feng must go. ”

It's Xunxin who said yes, how did I forget this ballast-I'm the governor of the president's Yong, Liang, and Jing prefectures, and I can't limit my eyes to the northern front. Compared with the original history of Zhong Hui's attack on Shu, although I have insufficient troops on the northern front, I also have a major advantage that Zhong Shiji can hardly reach, that is, Jingzhou is in our hands, and it is not Dongwu, which belongs to the allies of Western Shu.

Therefore, Zhong Hui lacked the strategy of the East, and as a result, under the Sword Pavilion, Deng Ai was forced to smuggle through Yinping, and I was not as embarrassed as them.

Think about the original history of Liu Beizhi's entry into Shu, also came from Jingzhou, and then first captured Baishui, and then went all the way south to break Jiameng, Zitong, Fuxian, and besieged Yucheng for nearly a year, all relying on Zhuge Liang to lead Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun and others to trace the river from Jingzhou, in order to attack Chengdu with him.

So for now, if the northern line can hit here and barely stand on its feet, it can be regarded as a success. If you want to break the situation again, you have to rely on the reinforcements of Jingzhou's soldiers and horses - the problem is that the east and west are thousands of miles apart, and there are three bars in the middle, and the news transmission is very lagging behind, so I don't know if Sima Yi has sent troops, whether he can successfully defeat Gan Ning, and how long will it take to enter after Jia Meng?

Shi Xun left Luoyang in July of this year, and less than ten days later, Cao Zhen, Zhang He and others started the early battle of the Han Dynasty. The battle of Hanzhong lasted for nearly a month, and in August it was Xun who began to advance to Shuzhong, and by this time, it was already autumn and September, and the north wind was getting colder, and the new valley in Hanzhong had been cut off...... In more than two months, Sima Zhongda climbed to Jiangling, and Lu Zijing's boat master traced the river, which should also be close to Yufu......

In fact, in order to cooperate with Shi Xun's northern front operations, Sima Yi, Lu Su and others marched very fast, and they had already begun to launch an all-round attack on Yufu a few days ago.

Yufu is the eastern gateway of Bashu, and its danger is not under the white water - of course, the geographical situation is very different. The old name of Yufu is "Huguan", or "Jiangguan", located on the Chijia Mountain on the north bank of the Yangtze River, which was built by the Ba people when Ba and Chu fought each other in the past, and the control is dangerous. The Han Dynasty expanded the Guancheng and placed Yufu County, and at the same time built a new pass on the opposite bank (the south bank of the Yangtze River), and set up the Jiangguan Duwei to guard it.

Yufu County and Jiangguan face each other across the river, and under the city and pass is the turbulent Yangtze River. From Zigui to the west to the east of Yufu, nearly 200 miles of river water is turbulent, and because of the underwater reef and the formation of countless large and small whirlpools, it is actually a dangerous place for boating - it is the "Qutang Gorge" of later generations. Even if you go downstream, if you are not careful, you will often be shipwrecked, let alone going upstream-this is the first risk.

In addition, there is a double risk, which is on land. The cliff on both sides of Qutang stands on the cliff wall, hundreds of zhang high, like the portal, so the name is "Kuimen", there is no road to pass, and I don't know when it starts, the villagers dig out a road on the cliff in Jiangbei - it is the ancient plank road of Qutang. It is called plank road, in fact, it should be called trough road more accurately, and it is different from Shudi plank road, it is not made of volleys, and it is still a dirt road under your feet. This channel was not used for the passage of merchants, but was used by slender men to tow boats to the gorge.

Therefore, there are three dangers near Yufu: one is that the county seat and Jiangguan stand on the road, which makes it difficult for the attacking troops to deploy and it is not easy to capture; The double danger is that the river is rushing and it is difficult for ships to travel; The triple danger is that you can only rely on pulling fiber up the river, but the slender man walks on the channel, as long as a small team of soldiers can put them all down, and then the ship is defiberd, and it is still good to retreat downstream, and it is likely to fall into the whirlpool directly and sink into the heart of the river......

How can these three risks be overcome? How long will it take to capture Yufu and attack Bazhong? Shi Xun is completely helpless, and can only hope that Lu Zijing and Sima Zhongda will be able to use their troops...... (To be continued.) )