After Wang Ping rested for a day in Wuzhangyuan, he gathered his army and went straight to Chang'an.

In order to deal with the situation that Jiang Wei was very likely to use to attack Tianshui from Nan'an in the north and Longxi in the west, Guo Huai urgently transferred garrisons stationed in various places, concentrated all forces and used them, and strengthened Tianshui's defense on the greatest scale.

This led to the garrisons originally stationed in the fortresses between Tianshui and Chang'an being transferred to Tianshui with half of the elite.

In Guo Huai's view, Tianshui is already the last fortress of the Great Wei in Yongzhou, which must not be lost, once lost, the Yongzhou of the Great Wei will be completely finished, so Guo Huai believes that the superior forces should be concentrated, stick to Tianshui and other important towns, only by holding Tianshui, can we hold Chang'an.

Guo Huai's arrangement gave Wang Ping a lot of help to a certain extent.

Wang Ping's 60,000 troops suddenly appeared in the Guanzhong Plain, all the way to the east, less than two days to capture the two cities of Fufeng and Xianyang on the periphery of Chang'an, and stationed in Xianyang, sent troops to the periphery of Chang'an to camp, and made a posture to attack Chang'an.

Shu Han's army suddenly appeared outside Chang'an City, which shocked Chang'an's guard Xiahou Nan, who urgently sent a letter to Luoyang for help on the one hand, and sent a letter to Guo Huai of Yongzhou on the other hand, reprimanding Guo Huai for removing part of the garrison on the periphery of Chang'an City, resulting in the emptiness of the defense outside Chang'an City, which was to trap Chang'an.

The letter was easily intercepted by Wang Ping's scouts, who felt angry and funny after reading it.

Guo Huai, as the assassin of Yongzhou, naturally has his considerations, this Xiahou Nan has sat back and watched Guo Huai's fiasco several times and did not rescue, and now he threatens Chang'an a little, this Xiahou Nan is so angry that he jumps to his feet, and blames Guo Huai for not rescuing himself, isn't this a proper pig teammate?

However, Xiahou Nan's operation made Wang Ping feel extra relieved, and he believed that even if he did not attack Chang'an, basically the task of the sheep attack could be successfully completed.

So he ordered the soldiers to release the letter, and he had the intention to let Guo Huai see Xiahou Nan's divine operation, even if it was just disgusting Guo Huai, Wang Ping felt quite happy in his heart.

After the soldiers went out, Zhang Yi came to Wang Ping and asked: "General, now that our army has arrived at the periphery of Chang'an, the last general sees that the gate of Chang'an City is closed, obviously afraid of our army, do we want to attack the city?" ”

Wang Ping smiled and said: "Attack, of course we have to attack, otherwise why are we moving the people here to do it?" However, the main task of our army is to attack the sheep attack, and you should remember the key to our army's battle: the posture is sufficient, and the point is stopped! ”

"The posture is sufficient, and the point is stopped?" Zhang Yi was a little puzzled at first after hearing this, and then his brows gradually relaxed, as if he understood Wang Ping's intentions.

So in the next time, the Shu army had to stage a large-scale siege every day, the catapult desperately smashed the towering city walls and city gates of Chang'an City, the war drums were deafening, and the Shu army outside the city shook the sky, as if it was going to attack the city in an all-round way.

But once hit by the rain of arrows on the city, it will quickly retreat out of range, and then shout loudly, scolding the defenders in Chang'an City for being turtles and grandsons, and not daring to go out of the city to fight.

When the soldiers under the command of Xiahou Nan heard this, they were all furious and wanted to go out of the city to fight the Shu army. But Xiahou Nan thought that these were all tricks of the Shu army, and resolutely ordered that he was not allowed to go out of the city to fight, and he must hold on to Chang'an and wait for the army to rescue.

As a result, on the battlefield of Chang'an, the two armies fell into a stalemate of confrontation.

In mid-March, Jiang Wei received a letter from Wang Ping, who had already led his army to attack Chang'an, but the Chang'an defender Xiahou Nan could not hold out, and the two armies fell into a standoff.

At this time, Zhuge Zhan persuaded Jiang Wei to quickly send troops to attack Tianshui, but Jiang Wei wanted to wait and see if Guo Huai would divide his troops to rescue Chang'an, after all, Wang Ping was sandwiched between Tianshui and Chang'an at this time.

Jiang Wei originally thought that Guo Huai, as the assassin of Yongzhou, would not be able to sit idly by and ignore Chang'an no matter what, and it was best to be able to go out of the nest to rescue Chang'an, then Tianshui would be at his fingertips.

At the worst, we should send an army of 10,000 or 20,000 to the rescue.

But after waiting for several days, Tianshui City did not send a single reinforcement.

Jiang Wei is actually not afraid of Guo Huai attacking Wang Ping, because Wang Ping now has the two cities of Fufeng and Xianyang, and has 60,000 troops, and the troops are strong, and Wang Ping is not a small force at all, even if he is besieged by a large army, he can hold on for a long time.

And he will lead the army to attack Tianshui quickly, and when Tianshui is captured, the overall situation of the entire Yongzhou battle will be decided.

So this risk Jiang Wei thinks it's worth taking, and presumably Wang Ping will have the same idea.

But obviously, Tianshui does not plan to divide troops to rescue Chang'an, with Jiang Wei's understanding of Guo Huai, this approach is obviously not in line with Guo Huai's style of acting, in Jiang Wei's opinion, Guo Huai is a kind person, even if Xiahou Nan sees death several times and does not save him, but Guo Huai will definitely not do this.

Therefore, Jiang Wei suspected that this idea should have been made by Cao Aya, the princess of Dongxiang of the Great Wei in Tianshui City.

"There are masters in Tianshui City!" Jiang Wei sighed in his heart. He couldn't wait any longer, at this moment, the army of Longxi City should have almost arrived at the periphery of Tianshui, and he needed to lead the army of Longxi to attack Tianshui City as soon as possible.

Longxi this way of soldiers and horses, this expedition, Jiang Wei asked Wu Yi to send 30,000 troops, because the last time he Yaoge did not listen to the military order, caused a large number of casualties in the Shu army, Jiang Wei decided to follow the military law, to the Russian He Yaoge beat fifty military sticks, and fined half a year.

Fifty military sticks said not much, said a lot less, almost beat Oh He Yaoge half to death, Oh He Yaoge did not complain about Jiang Wei's punishment at all, gritted his teeth and took fifty military sticks.

Later, he was bedridden for three days before he could walk on the ground, and after five days of recuperation, he could not get on the horse and ride. At this time, Wu Yi's army was about to be pulled, before leaving, Wu Yi wanted to let Oh He Yao Ge stay in Longxi City to recuperate, and Oh He Yao Ge did not agree to kill him, and insisted on going out with the army to make up for his mistakes, Wu Yi had no choice but to order someone to use a carriage to carry Oh He Yao Ge to the expedition.

Zhang Xue and Pan Ping, after being in a coma for a day and a night, both woke up one after another, under the treatment of the army in Langzhong, the body was fine, but suffered internal injuries and needed to recuperate, so this expedition to Tianshui, Wu Yi did not take two people, but left two people in Longxi to recuperate, and by the way completed the rest and replenishment of the two troops.

Therefore, the army that went out to Longxi included 20,000 elite Qiang cavalry, 10,000 Qiang cavalry reserves, and 1,600 Baier troops, totaling more than 30,000, and the main force was all cavalry.

Jiang Wei's side, as the absolute main force of this spring offensive, poured out of the nest, and Jiang Wei transferred Yang Yi to Nan'an to take charge of Nan'an affairs.

He immediately led 20,000 Liangzhou iron cavalry under Ma Dai, 10,000 Xiongnu archers under Liu Bao's department, 3,000 royal forest troops under Zhuge Zhan's department, 3,000 southern barbarian soldiers and 2,000 Nan'an recruits newly included in his command, a total of 8,000 people. plus Liang Xu's two thousand unicorn troops.

A total of 40,000 troops, rolling southward.

Three days later, the army arrived at the periphery of Tianshui, and it happened that Wu Yi also calculated the date and arrived on the west side of Tianshui on time.

The two armies met in Tianshui, and the 70,000-strong army soon surrounded Tianshui.