Wei Yan loudly encouraged the soldiers, wanting to have a fierce battle with the armies of Xiahou Nan and Xiahou Xuan in the Meridian Valley.

Under the encouragement of Wei Yan, the morale of the Shu army was greatly boosted, the war drums rumbled in the valley, and the Shu army began to march noisily and launched an attack on the Wei army.

The terrain of the long and narrow Meridian Valley is special, and when the Shu army attacks the Wei army violently, the attack area is actually very limited, so although Wei Yan has 10,000 troops under his command, the number of troops that can be put into the battlefield at the same time is very limited, but more than 100 people.

This also includes the front row of sword and shield men, pikemen, and the back row of crossbowmen.

After the Shu army launched a charge, it quickly engaged the Wei army, and the limitations of the terrain led to the limited number of troops that both sides could invest, although Wei Yan was superior in force and led the team to rush to the forefront, almost every time he swung a long knife, he could kill a Wei army.

He has a long knife and a tiger, and the ordinary Wei army can't get close to him at all, and his combat effectiveness is extremely terrifying, forcing the Wei army to retreat, but behind the Wei army is the Wei army, and because the team is very long, it is simply endless, so that the Wei army has no way to retreat, and can only fight with the Shu army continuously.

Wei Yan killed very happily, killing in front of the battle for an hour in one go, killing hundreds of Wei soldiers, so that all Wei troops had a deep understanding of Wei Yan's terrifying combat effectiveness after the five tiger generals of Shu State.

But the Shu army fought for an hour, but only killed more than 200 Wei troops, half of which were captured by Wei Yan alone, and the Shu army itself suffered more than a dozen casualties. After attacking for so long, Wei Yan was a little weak, and the battle line only advanced less than three hundred meters.

If it were placed on the plains, perhaps seeing Wei Yan's terrifying combat effectiveness, the Wei army would have already withdrawn its troops and retreated.

However, in this Meridian Valley, I don't know whether the Wei army dared to fight the Shu army constantly because of its courage and strength, or because there was no way to retreat, and after being forced into a corner, it broke out with strong combat effectiveness. In short, the Wei army appeared to be very tenacious, and although the Shu army was stronger in combat, it was unable to defeat this one in the Meridian Valley at all.

Wei Yan had to replace the troops on the front line, put the fresh army in the rear to continue the attack, and then after he retreated, the progress of the attack was even slower, and the two sides came and went, although the Shu army had a slight advantage, but the battle situation could not be opened, and the battle situation was very anxious.

The battle in the entire Meridian Valley has become a kind of refueling tactic, and both sides can only invest limited forces to fight, and any habitual methods of outflanking are almost impossible to use, because the Qinling Mountains are too steep, and it is difficult to climb the mountains and cross the territory to achieve outflanking operations after entering the Meridian Valley.

The two armies fought for a day and a night, and in the end, the Shu army had a slight advantage and advanced the battle line by about 500 meters, which was the result of Wei Yan's second personal battle.

After this day's battle, Wei Yan began to fall into deep thought.

When he followed Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition, he received news that there were only 5,000 defenders in Chang'an, so he proposed the famous "Meridian Valley Conspiracy!" "I want to imitate Han Xin's "Ming Xiu Plank Road, Dark Chen Cang".

Wei Yan's plan was to personally lead 10,000 elite soldiers from the Meridian Valley to Chang'an and take Chang'an and Tongguan in one fell swoop, while Zhuge Liang's army marched out of the Xiegu Valley to Chang'an and Tongguan, and the two armies met in Tongguan. Zhuge Liang has always been cautious in his use of troops, believing that this plan is too dangerous and difficult to succeed, so he abandoned it.

At that time, Wei Yan didn't understand why Zhuge Liang was unwilling to adopt his own strategy, in Wei Yan's opinion, although this strategy was risky, once it was successfully implemented, it could easily capture the entire Yongzhou, so this risk was worth taking.

But now, when he really led the army to prepare for a surprise attack on Chang'an from Meridian Valley, he realized that he was wrong. Not only is it wrong, it's ridiculously wrong.

Once the Wei army perceives its plan, even if it leads 10,000 elite soldiers from the Meridian Valley to the north, the Wei army does not have to send 10,000 elite soldiers to block it, even if it only sends 2,000 elite soldiers, it is enough to destroy its surprise attack plan.

After all, if the attack surface can't be opened, the tactics of adding fuel are really abrasive, and his 10,000 soldiers only brought 15 days of military rations, and the original plan was to pass through the Meridian Valley on the 10th, so the military rations are more than enough, but according to the current situation, let alone the 15th, I am afraid that the situation will not be able to be opened for two or three months.

By that time, he would have had to withdraw his troops with hatred because of lack of food.

Therefore, when Wei Yan realized very painfully why Zhuge Liang never considered the real reason for the Meridian Valley when he went out of Qishan Mountain, he felt very powerless against the Wei army in front of him.

Continue to attack, I am afraid that until I run out of food, I will not be able to break through the defense line of the Wei army; Withdraw to Hanzhong, and feel that I can't afford to lose this person.

Now in an embarrassing dilemma, knowing this, it is better to take the Chencang Road out of Hanzhong, even if it is more detoured, it is better than being stuck in this meridian valley.

However, it is not only Wei Yan who is caught in this predicament, Xiahou Nan and Xiahou Xuan are even more painful, and now they are blocked by Wei Yan in the Meridian Valley, and their situation is even more passive.

Originally, they wanted to attack Hanzhong through the Meridian Valley, but for this reason, they even gave up their baggage and only brought the military rations into Qinling for the fifteenth, but who expected to face such a situation.

Not only is the terrain completely unfavorable to him, but the other party is still Wei Yan, who is second only to Jiang Wei in the Shu Kingdom, and the one-day battle has allowed Xiahou Xuan to fully see the terrifying combat effectiveness of the Wei army.

If you fight on the plains, I am afraid that the 30,000 horses under your command may not be able to defeat the Shu army.

Xiahou Xuan found Xiahou Nan and discussed what to do?

Xiahou Nan smiled bitterly: "What else can I do?" Wei Yan has Hanzhong as the rear, and the military rations can be continuously supplied, and they can afford to consume them, but we lost Chang'an, so we cut off the supply, and we can't continue to consume it with Wei Yan all the time. ”

Xiahou Xuan sighed helplessly: "Brother Mo Feizi Lin, are you planning to retreat to Tongguan?" If we return to Tongguan like this, I'm afraid it's not as simple as a dismissal investigation, but the two of us have committed the great crime of disobeying the holy decree! ”

Xiahou Nan is also very jealous of this, although the relationship between Xiahou Nan and Cao Pi is very good, but Cao Pi is Cao Pi, Cao Ei is Cao E, Cao Pi can indulge himself, it does not mean that Cao Ei will.

It can be seen from the fact that he was dismissed, this has to be replaced by Cao Pi, how can he not be dismissed, at most he will be scolded and fined for a year.

Now that the two of them have chosen to resist the decree and are determined to die to attack Hanzhong, they have basically cut off their own way of retreat.

So Xiahou Nan also sighed: "For today's plan, we still have to try to repel Wei Yan, through the Meridian Valley, as long as we get out of the Meridian Valley, whether it is to attack Hanzhong or retreat to Shangyong, we all have a way to live, with the battle of repelling Wei Yan, presumably Your Majesty will not blame you and me." ”

Xiahou Xuan had no choice but to nod helplessly, so the two armies of Wei and Shu in the Meridian Valley fell into an embarrassing dilemma, and could only continue to confront and fight in the narrow Meridian Valley.