Ma Zun continued: "Also, it is said that Prime Minister Zhuge recently used a young general, called Zhang Meng, very powerful, for the first time, he killed four brave generals of Xiliang one after another, and also captured the Wei army governor Xiahou Nan alive.

Zhang Meng, a young general, knew astronomy and geography, led his troops to fight, and made every calculation.

Well, I heard that this time Anding County and Nan'an County were recovered by Zhang Meng himself with his troops.

Zhang Meng led the troops to subdue the two counties, and now the army is in full swing, in this case, come and recover our Tianshui County, if we only rely on the military strength of a lonely city, to confront the Shu soldiers, it is really unlucky! ”

When Ma Zun said this, Jiang Wei had already heard Ma Zun's intention - he already had the intention of surrendering. However, when he heard Ma Zun's boasting to the young general Zhang Meng, he felt unconvinced.

He raised his head and said to Ma Zun: "Taishou, a lonely city can't withstand the attack of the Shu soldiers, but we can't just raise our hands and surrender, in this way, it is too much for Zhuge Liang Zhao Yun and Zhang Meng to laugh at them."

It's not just a joke, after we surrender automatically like this, we will never be reused, what's the point of being mixed up in the Shu camp like that? ”

Jiang Wei looked up at Ma Zun when he said this, only to see Ma Zun nodding while listening, Jiang Wei continued: "Let's just say that this Zhang Meng is a good general, and he can't be invincible in the world!" Right? Lu Bu was so powerful back then, wasn't he also captured alive by Cao Cao? ”

Jiang Wei looked at Ma Zun and was still listening carefully, and then analyzed: "We are sitting on the ground, the Lord; Although Zhang Meng has a lot of people, he came from afar as a guest.

As long as we are good at capturing fighters and taking advantage of our geographical advantages, the two armies will win the battle, and it is really not necessarily impossible to fight Zhang Meng! ”

When Ma Zun heard this, he knew Jiang Wei's intentions, so he asked in a low voice: "Boyo, what strategy did you use to defeat Zhang Meng, let me hear it, as long as it makes sense, I will resolutely support your military action." ”

Jiang Wei said, now Zhuge Liang sent Zhang Meng to recover our three counties, and the two counties of Anding Nan'an have been conquered by him, and the next step must be to come and attack us.

In general, Zhang Meng led his troops over, and he fought quickly, although he had many people, but the grain and grass were unsustainable, which was his Achilles' heel.

As long as our army closes the gates of the city and does not engage him, and manages to consume his food and grass, and after a long time, he runs out of food and grass, and he will inevitably retreat, after which we will be victorious in our subsequent pursuit. If this is the case, then the Shu soldiers will never dare to invade my Tianshui realm at will. Too shou you see how. ”

As soon as Ma Zun heard Jiang Wei's analysis, he immediately agreed.

So, Jiang Wei performed this battle of ambushing the Shu soldiers - first arranged ambushes on both sides of the canyon, preparing to ambush the vanguard of the Shu soldiers, and at the same time arranged dozens of Wei soldiers to lurk around the Shu soldiers' camp, taking advantage of the night to harass the Shu soldiers, so that they did not dare to come to the rescue of the ambushed Shu soldiers.

In this way, Zhang Meng came to recover Tianshui County, but before he saw the Tianshui City Wall, Jiang Wei won the battle with a small number of soldiers and horses.

Zhang Meng led the troops to wait at the mouth of this Niujiao Canyon for a day, and after breakfast the next day, he packed up his baggage, and the people immediately went on the road, crossed the canyon, and marched to Tianshui City.

For the sake of prudence, Zhang Meng arranged a deputy general in advance to lead more than a dozen soldiers to search and advance along the cliffs on both sides of the canyon to prevent the Wei soldiers from ambushing.

Fortunately, the whole army passed through the canyon, unimpeded, and did not encounter an ambush of Wei soldiers.

After dawn, scouts came from the direction of Tianshui to report to Zhang Meng, saying that General Zhang Bao had led his troops to a few miles outside Tianshui City and was camping there.

Zhang Meng listened to this, ordered the whole army to run and march, and arrived at Zhang Bao's garrison in the evening of the same day.

Besides, after Jiang Wei succeeded in attacking the Shu soldiers with ambush soldiers, he hurriedly led his troops back to the city, closed the city gate, and waited to observe the battlefield situation for another battle.

On this day, there is an open land outside the water city, and there are several mountains called Luogu Mountain in the south of the open ground, and Zhang Meng's men and horses are facing Tianshui City and camping on the back of Luogu Mountain.

On the southeast corner of Zhang Meng's military camp, it is a hill of Luogu Mountain, the hill is not high, the mountain is quite gentle, Zhang Meng chose this hill as the grain and grass hoarding base of the Shu soldiers, so after setting up camp, Zhang Meng commanded all the horses to rush the grain and grass to this mountain to hoard, and then, with great fanfare, the deputy general Zhang Bao led a large number of people and horses to guard the grain and grass here.

In this siege battle, Zhang Meng did not give Ma Zun a battle letter, but after breakfast, he commanded his men and horses to attack under Tianshui City.

On the first day of the attack, the soldiers were divided into three batches, the first batch was the crossbowmen, five hundred crossbowmen bent their bows and arrows, and marched side by side to the moat, aiming at the city wall through the moat, as long as the Wei soldiers on the city wall appeared, the arrow clusters immediately flew up to the city, shooting the outcropping Wei soldiers.

The second group was the Shelf Army, in which four soldiers carried a tall ladder and quickly crossed the moat under the cover of crossbowmen and set up the ladder on the wall.

The third group is the broadsword team, each with a short-handled machete, rushing to the root of the city wall, holding a knife in one hand, holding a ladder in the other, climbing the city wall quickly, reaching the top of the city wall, waving a knife and chopping, and the Wei soldiers in the city to fight.

On the top of the city wall, Jiang Wei commanded the soldiers to resist the attack of the Shu soldiers, while constantly observing the battle situation of the entire battlefield, looking for favorable fighters in order to completely defeat the Shu soldiers.

On the first day of the battle, the two sides fought fiercely, and they fought until the evening, and the Shu soldiers did not attack the city wall, and it was dark and the truce was suspended.

The next day, Zhang Meng took Ma San'er and a few deputy generals to command the Shu soldiers to attack, but at the end of the day, they still did not attack the city.

On the third day, there was a truce, and the Shu soldiers did not leave the camp, and they stayed in the camp without moving, and they don't know why.

On the fourth day, Jiang Wei observed in the city, and at the end of the day, he didn't see the Shu soldiers move, and he was very puzzled, but he estimated that the Shu soldiers would not retreat.

He said to Taishou Ma Zun and several lieutenant generals: "It seems that the Shu soldiers don't have much ability, and that's it. If this continues, within half a month, his grain and grass will be exhausted, and at that time, there will be no need to fight, they will automatically rout. ”

Ma Zun listened, and handed a sentence next to him: "Half a month, don't need half a month, ten days, we can't support it." It is better to try to defeat the Shu soldiers as soon as possible. ”

Jiang Wei listened, glanced at Ma Zun, and did not squeak.

Early in the morning of the fifth day, the Shu soldiers under the city came to attack again, the two sides fought until dark, and still did not distinguish the winner or loser, before the dark time, Zhang Meng ordered Mingjin to collect the troops, and thousands of Shu soldiers left the battlefield in disgrace.