Zhuge Qian was a little disciplined in the end, but in the end he held back and didn't write a reply to Zhuge Liang.

Zhuge Liang wrote a letter to himself to describe the feelings of the same clan, which is understandable, after all, this era is originally family-oriented, and the surname Zhuge is the only one, there is no semicolon, and the matter of a letter is not out of line.

But after all, the two are in the enemy country, and this matter can only be stopped here.

If you have the opportunity to meet in the future, you can bring up this matter to reminisce, and if you don't have a chance to meet, this matter will be over.

But once Zhuge Qian took the initiative to write a reply letter to Zhuge Liang, this nature was different, and he Zhuge Qian was somewhat suspected of being in contact with foreign countries.

Out of the requirements for his own discipline, Zhuge Qian finally dispelled this year. But the letter, Zhuge Qian still solemnly preserved.

In case there really comes a day in the future, we can't beat people, and then take out this letter and don't say that we will be treated preferentially, at least there is no problem in saving your life.

Zhuge Qian is not brainless, and he has to think about a way out of retreat for such a boss who doesn't know what to call it.

As for the defense of Chencang Dao, Zhuge Qian is not derelict in his duties, he is still doing his best, at least he will still send scouts to patrol every day to inspect the enemy troops in the direction of Chencang Dao.

One thing to say, Zhuge Qian is already very conscientious, but who made Xiahou Nan the main general of Chen Cangdao!!

No matter how responsible Zhuge Qian is, he is only a deputy general, and there is no problem in arranging daily defense inspections, but whether the soldiers under his command will do it, and to what extent they can implement it, this is not something that Zhuge Qian can decide.

Some low-level scouts Zhuge Qian still have the right to reward and punish, but for some middle-level generals, Zhuge Qian does not have this right, and needs to report to the main general Xiahou Nan.

And Xiahou Nan didn't believe that the Shu army would take the Chencang Road at all.

In Xiahou Nan's view, it has been almost a month since the Shu army sent troops to the Northern Expedition, and it has taken the slope of praise, and now it has gone out of Wuzhangyuan to confront Guo Huai.

Wuzhangyuan was so lively there, Xiahou Nan naturally learned some information through the military newspaper, such as Liu Bei's personal expedition, such as Zhang Fei and other famous generals and ministers are all in Wuzhangyuan. How can the Shu army still have the energy to send troops to attack Chen Cangdao?!

Therefore, Xiahou Nan felt that as long as the scattered customs behind him were not lost, Chen Cangdao would be safe.

And if the pass is lost, then it is meaningless to continue to stick to Chencang Road, it is better to withdraw the troops and retreat directly into the pass.

Therefore, Xiahou Nan did not have the idea of sticking to Chen Cang at all.

And the main generals are all lazy, thinking that if they really can't do it, they will retreat to Guanzhong, can you expect the soldiers below to lift their spirits and seriously carry out the daily patrol requirements?!

In addition, for nearly a year, Liu Ba has been consciously wooing the defenders of Chen Cangdao.

Although Liu Ba's original intention was to facilitate official smuggling, he did not expect that it would now become a favorable condition for attacking Chencang Road.

Although Zhuge Qian sent scouts to reconnoiter Chen Cangdao on a daily basis, under the cross-influence of various circumstances, Chen Cangdao's scouts were only as far as twenty miles outside of Chen Cang City, and the nearest one was just a little wandering around five miles away, and then they found a place to hide and play money.

As a result, Wei Yanming's army had already arrived thirty miles outside Chencang City, but he still did not find any trace of the Wei army's sentinels.

This made Wei Yan feel very unreasonable.

Now the Han and Wei families are in a position to start a war, in these places of Qishan Road, one is counted as one, they are all war zones, why is this Chencang City so loosely guarded, and there are no Wei scouts thirty miles away from the city? !

Wei Yan really didn't understand, but Wei Yan had Wei Yan's own combat rhythm and would not be easily disturbed by external factors.

Wei Yan is not Zhang Xi, when he encounters this abnormal situation, he will stop and think, and he Wei Yan thinks about what he is doing, with me as the main thing, just go over recklessly.

Of course, Wei Yan did this, which did not mean that Wei Yan was just a simple reckless man.

In fact, before sending troops to Chencang Dao this time, Wei Yan had already done a lot of thinking and preparations, and Wei Yan had his own ideas about how to attack Chen Cangdao.

This time, Wei Yan's combat mission was to quickly capture Chencang Dao and then attack Meixian. Then, the speed of the march is a very important thing.

And Chencang Road itself is a mountain road in the endless Qi Mountains, which is very rugged and difficult to walk.

If an army of 20,000 wants to pass through such a mountain road, it is bound to take a long snake formation, so it is bound to drag the march very long.

This kind of march can't hide the eyes of Cao Wei's scouts at all, for Wei Yan, it is the same whether there are Wei army scouts to inspect or not, he will not stop and be on guard because there are scouts to inspect, and he will not be suspicious because there are no scouts to inspect.

Regardless of whether there were scouts or not, Wei Yan would not disrupt his marching rhythm, his purpose was to march quickly and rush to Chencang City as soon as possible, without giving Chen Cangcheng's guard Xiahou Nan too much time to prepare.

It was even said that Wei Yan wished that there would be Wei army scouts who would find out his whereabouts.

In order to march quickly, and in order to attract the Wei army to take the initiative, Wei Yan divided the 20,000-strong army into two sections during this raid on Chencang.

The front troops were 7,000 foot soldiers led by Wei Yan himself, and the follow-up troops were more than 13,000 people led by Wu Ban.

Wei Yan's purpose, on the one hand, was to seize the time to march into Chencang City and create pressure on Xiahou Nan, the defender of Chencang City, and on the other hand, he also deliberately made the Wei army aware of it and lured the Wei army out of the city to set up an ambush.

According to intelligence, the Wei army in Chencang City has about 5,000 people, and it is not that it is unable to leave 2,000 people to defend the city in the field, and 3,000 people go out to set up an ambush, and it is not impossible to ambush the front troops led by Wei Yan.

And once the Wei army goes out of the city to set up an ambush, the 7,000-person vanguard led by Wei Yan is certainly at risk of falling into the encirclement, but these forces are enough for Wei Yan to support for a period of time, as long as it is supported until Wu Ban leads the rear army to arrive, then Wei Yan can cooperate with Wu Ban, flank the front and back, and eat the Wei army that went out of the city to set up an ambush, which will reduce the difficulty of the next siege.

This is Wei Yan's little tactic.

But the problem is that Wei Lao Pifu did not find any trace of the Wei army scouts at all when he marched all the way, and even when he was less than twenty miles away from Chen Cangcheng, the Wei army did not seem to notice anything.

Now Wei Yan can't march anymore.

Twenty miles is only half a day's march, that is to say, have a good rest tonight, and if you set off early the next morning, you can reach the city of Chencang in the afternoon.

Now Wei Yan has to think about not how to march and deal with the enemy's scouts, but how to attack the city.

Wei Yan stopped the army to recuperate, let the soldiers regain their strength, and at the same time sent his own scouts to investigate the situation of Chencang City, collect specific information, and prepare to attack the city.

The main point of this march into Chencang Dao, Fa Zheng repeatedly told Wei Yan, that is, to be fast, for Chencang Dao, if you can go down in one go, it is the best, and you must not stagnate under Chencang City for too long. It is best not to exceed fifteen days.

This is Fa Zheng's estimation, from Chen Cangdao to Chang'an, Cao Zhen got the news and made adjustments to react in the longest time.

Although Wei Yan also knew that Xiahou Nan, the general of Chen Cangdao, was a guy who relied on nepotism, Wei Yan at this time was not as arrogant as he was later, except for Zhuge Liang, no one paid attention to him.

Although Wei Yan still felt that Xiahou Nan should not have any ability, there was still some pressure to capture a key city that was easy to defend and difficult to attack in fifteen days.

Although Chencang is a small city, the city wall is not high, only an ordinary city wall five zhang high, but it is said that Cao Zhen once spent a lot of effort to strengthen and build these city walls, so it is very strong.

This is just a point, the most important point is that Chencang City is located on Chencang Road, there is no large open land in front of the city that can be used for the assembly of large troops, and only 3,000 to 5,000 troops can be invested in an attack, and more troops cannot be lined up at all.

This is also the reason why Cao Zhen dared to arrange only 5,000 defenders in Chen Cang Dao - the numerical advantage in front of Chen Cangcheng did not mean anything.

And Fa Zheng asked Wei Yan to win quickly, so Wei Yan didn't have so much time to cut down wood and make large siege equipment step by step, so he could only rely on simple and easy-to-make hooks and ladders to attack the city.

In the face of such a sturdy small city and so many unfavorable factors for attacking, if you want to capture this city in fifteen days and open up the passage from Chencang Road to Guanzhong, Wei Yan feels that there really is no better way than to use human lives.

It's not that Wei Yan is ruthless, but this world is like this, the truth that mercy is not in charge of the army, Wei Yan, a civilian general who has come up step by step from the bottom, actually understands it better than anyone else.

If there is a choice, Wei Yan still uses human life, it is Wei Yan who is cruel and unkind, but now he has no choice.

Such a narrow terrain, such an unfavorable offensive situation, such a tight attack time requirement. That Fa Zheng, what do you actually say, "Wait for the enemy to change, wait for the opportunity to move"?!

Even if Xiahou Nan is really a fool, in the face of such a favorable situation, how can he not keep it, there will be "changes"?!

This is why Wei Yan didn't wait to see Fazheng. These counselors are always talking in a godly way, and what they say is not clear at all, not at all true.

In this regard, although Wei Yan is also very unhappy with Zhang Xi's gutsless rat, there is one thing to say, the main reason why Wei Yan doesn't look down on Zhang Xi is that in Wei Yan's opinion, Zhang Xi is too timid and cautious, and lacks the style of a general, but at least when Wei Yan partners with Zhang Xi, Zhang Xi will clearly tell Wei Yan, why don't I do this, or you can't do anything.

On the contrary, both Fa Zheng and Zhuge Liang are very fond of speaking only half of what they say, and it seems that only in this way can they show their ingenuity. Wei Yan is not the kind of unscrupulous person who only knows how to carry out military orders, so Wei Yan hates this way of speaking very much.

Take Wei Yan himself, Wei Yan has his own judgment of the enemy's situation, and when he is on the front line, he will adjust his attack according to his own ideas, but if there is always a sleeve on his head, and this sleeve is still the kind of sleeve that is artificially unclear and confusing, Wei Yan will feel constrained and unable to fully exert his abilities when he does things.

Just like now, Wei Yan tried hard to think about how to attack the city, what preparations to make in order to attack the city, and how to attack Chen Cang City surprisingly hard and catch the enemy by surprise. But Fa Zheng asked Wei Yan to lead the troops to Chencang City and wait first, but he didn't tell Wei Yan the specific reason, only saying that "there was a change".

"There is a change" You big-headed ghost, with this strong city in hand, and so many favorable factors, is it possible that Xiahou Nan can still escape without a fight? !

(End of chapter)