After carefully examining the marching map, Wu Yi found that Jiang Wei's proposal actually had a certain degree of feasibility.

At present, the distribution of the military strength of the Han and Wei armies in Yingchuan County is as follows: Chen Tai and Guo Huai led the troops to the east of Rushui and west of Yingshui, which is about 30 miles away from Xiangcheng.

At this distance, if you want to attack Xiangcheng, it will only take about half a day to reach the bottom of Xiangcheng, but at this time, Chen Tai suspended the march.

The reason why Chen Tai did this, Wu Yi actually didn't know, but in Wu Yi's opinion, it might have something to do with Wang Ping's Wudang Flying Army, who went south from Jiaxian.

After all, Yingshui is not far behind Chen Tai, if the safety of the back road cannot be guaranteed, let Wang Ping lead the troops to intercept along the Yingshui coast, then the 20,000 people in Chen Tai's hands will also fall into danger.

Chen Tai is cautious, in fact, it is reasonable.

On the Han side, Zhang Wei led his troops to garrison Xiangcheng to prevent the Wei army from attacking directly, while Wang Ping was cruising about eighty miles north of Xiangcheng and did not immediately choose to support Xiangcheng immediately, obviously with the intention of containing and seeking opportunities to insert into the rear of the Wei army.

And the 30,000 Han army led by Wu Yi himself has just arrived in Kunyang, and there are still nearly 100 miles away from Xiangcheng, if you want to divide your troops, now is indeed the best time, and you don't have to worry about being detected by the Wei army's meticulous work or reconnaissance cavalry.

And Wuyang, which Jiang Wei proposed to pass through by the detour, is at the southernmost point of Yingchuan County, only eighty miles away from Kunyang.

Because the Han Dynasty occupied Kunyang, Luyang, and Xiangcheng, it was equivalent to cutting off a piece of the southwest corner of Runan County.

As a result, although Wuyang County, the southernmost county of Yingchuan County, was still under Cao Wei's control, its symbolic significance was greater than its practical significance. The connection between Wuyang County and Xuchang is already very fragile.

At the beginning, the Han army did not take advantage of the situation to occupy Wuyang, because Wuyang was close to Runan County, once Wuyang was occupied, the defending side would face the threat of Guo Huai of Runan County, and at the same time, objectively, it reduced the pressure on the Eastern Wu Zhu Territory in the south of Runan County.

Anyway, the geographical location of Wuyang is not important, if it does not occupy here, the Wei army will not have the spare strength to launch a counterattack from here to attack Kunyang. And occupying Wuyang, on the contrary, is a troublesome and thankless thing that needs to be divided and garrisoned, so simply don't do it.

But now, Guo Huai's Runan County soldiers have been transferred to Chen Tai's command, and the defense of Runan is empty, Jiang Wei proposed to occupy Wuyang County first, and then enter Zhaoling County in the north of Runan County through Wuyang County, and then make a detour north to take Xuchang.

One thing to say, this is indeed a very strategic idea.

Along the way, not only was the Wei army's defense empty, but it was also able to directly avoid the attention of Chen Tai and other Wei troops and go straight to the base camp of Yingchuan County. Once successful, Chen Tai's 20,000 Wei troops will be completely dumpled.

Stratagem is a good stratagem, but it's not without its drawbacks.

"The march route is too long, and all the borders you pass through are garrisoned by the Wei army. If there is disharmony, Chen Tai and others will hear the news and retreat to Xuchang, so that Xuchang may be difficult to do. Wu Yi said after thinking carefully for a while.

The biggest drawback of Jiang Wei's strategy is here.

This road detoured, passing through Wuyang, Yunxian, Zhaoling, Linying, Xuchang five counties, all of which were controlled by Cao Wei, not to mention, but also crossed two counties.

If there is some accident in the middle, such as the march is not smooth or the news is leaked, with Cao Wei's intelligence network, Chen Tai and Guo Huai, who are on the front line, will soon get the news.

After all, they are fighting at home, and Chen Tai and his family are the head snakes of Yingchuan, so they must be more supported by local families and people than you Jiang Wei.

Moreover, if Cao Wei chooses to return to the army, the route is also very short to cross Yingshui, through Yingyin, which is about two hundred miles, and four or five days is enough to return to Xuchang.

This is not in line with the strategic purpose of Wu Yi leading the troops to go out this time.

If Wu Yi's strategic purpose is to simply relieve the siege of Xiangcheng and then go north to support Luoyang, then Jiang Wei's strategy is actually a very good strategy.

After attracting Chen Tai to shrink back to defend Xuchang through a partial division and removing the threat of Yingchuan County, then Wu Yi can confidently and boldly lead the remaining 20,000 soldiers to support Luoyang, and even directly launch an attack on the Wei army at the south gate of Luoyang from the rear, which is not impossible.

But unfortunately, the military order that Wu Yi received from Zhuge Liang was to let him lead his troops to attack Yingchuan County, and then through Yingchuan County, he directly sent troops into Chenliu County in Yanzhou to threaten Sima Yi's rear base camp.

In other words, in this Luoyang defense battle, Zhuge Liang didn't want to simply fight a defensive battle, and defending Luoyang would be considered a victory. Zhuge Liang also wanted to fight a wave of defensive counterattacks to see if he could take advantage of the situation and push back and stretch his tentacles into Yanzhou.

The strategic goal is like this, which means that Wu Yi must find a way to deal with Chen Tai's department stationed in Yingchuan. Now that Chen Tai has come out of Xuchang City, he can't let him retract anymore.

If you can solve the problem through field warfare, try not to fight siege warfare.

Out of this consideration, Wu Yi felt that although Jiang Wei's strategy was very good, the risk was also not small. Even if Chen Tai's ability is not as famous as his reputation, isn't there still a Guo Huai?

Wu Yi still knows the ability of the veteran star Guo Huai very well.

In the several major battles between the Han and Wei dynasties for Guanzhong, the most difficult people in the Wei army were not Cao Ren, Zhang He, or Cao Zhen. This is Guo Huai.

Wu Yi is not saying that he must not take this risk. However, can you modify it to make this strategy a little less risky and more feasible?!

Hearing Wu Yi's statement, Jiang Wei was not surprised. The advantages and disadvantages of his own strategy are indeed quite obvious, and General Wu does not dare to take risks, which is actually understandable.

But modify the words. Well, Jiang Wei was thinking about countermeasures.

And at this time, Wen Qin began to speak.

"You can send an order to General Wang Ping and order him to lead his troops directly into Xiangcheng to eliminate the threat of the Wei army's flank. In this way, Chen Tai will have no worries and attack Xiangcheng with all his might. ”

Wen Qin's meaning was to change Wang Ping's flank containment to stick to Xiangcheng, so that after Chen Tai had no flank threat, he could attack boldly and without worrying about being outflanked.

At the same time, it was also the use of Wang Ping's troop changes and the pride of the enemy that Chen Tai mistakenly believed that the strategic purpose of the Han army was to hold Xiangcheng, so as not to consider the changes in military strength in other directions and create conditions for Jiang Wei's sneak attack.

Just by doing this, you may be able to hide it from Chen Tai, but if you want to hide it from Guo Huai, I'm afraid it's impossible.

This alone was not enough to convince Wu Yi to agree to Jiang Wei's division of troops.

And at this time, Jiang Wei thought of a more compromise solution.

"You can occupy Wuyang first, then occupy Yunxian County, and then go north directly, sneak attack Yingyin, and cut off the enemy's rear road!" Jiang Wei said.

This revised strategy directly changed its tactical purpose.

The original tactic, Jiang Wei wanted to finish the battle and directly lead the troops to attack Xuchang, Xuchang, even if the entire Yingchuan County was completely taken, and at the same time opened the passage to Yanzhou Chenliu County.

However, the disadvantage of this tactic is that the sneak attack is too long, and it is too easy for the enemy to find out if you have to borrow Runan County from Yingchuan County in the middle and then return to Yingchuan County.

Now Jiang Wei's revised tactics have set the target of the sneak attack on Yingyang, which is not far northwest of Xuchang.

Yingyin, as soon as you hear the name of this place, you will know that it is in the south of Yingshui, that is, occupying this place is equivalent to blocking Chen Taijun's retreat.

This is to give up the sneak attack on Xuchang, and plan to make a detour to encircle Chen Tai's army, and eliminate the living force of the Wei army through field battles.

And the most important thing is that this modified sneak attack road not only shortened the distance by half, but also spent most of the entire march route in the south of Yingchuan County.

The risk of being perceived by Chen Tai was much less all of a sudden.

It's just that in this way, it is impossible to occupy Xuchang directly in one step, but if you can block Chen Tai's army, cooperate with Zhang Wei, Wang Ping, and even Wu Yi's army on the front to encircle and suppress Chen Tai, and kill and injure Wei soldiers, in fact, the result is not too much.

Even if Guo Huai and Chen Tai had great ability, they would not be able to hold Xuchang without sufficient troops.

At least Wu Yi felt that this plan was more secure than Jiang Wei's plan before.

The rest is to discuss and adjust some details, which does not require Jiang Wei to come up with ideas, Wu Yi and Chen Shi are both veterans who have led the army for many years, and this ability is still there.

In this way, after consulting with each other for a while, Wu Yi sent people across Lushui to contact Wang Ping, asking him to lead the Wudang Fei army to abandon the threat on the flank and reinforce Xiangcheng as soon as possible.

And Wu Yi himself, with 20,000 Hanzhong soldiers, was temporarily stationed in Kunyang, and did not continue to march, so as not to transfer troops too frequently, and be carefully detected by the Wei army, so that the grass was startled.

On the second day of Wu Yi's stoppage, Jiang Wei and Wen Qin set out from Kunyang and led 10,000 southern troops to Wuyang County in the south of Kunyang to implement this strategy of sneak attack by detour.

(End of chapter)