Xiangyang originally had only 40,000 troops, 20,000 infantry soldiers and 20,000 naval troops.

Once all 20,000 infantry are dispatched to the north, Xiangyang will only be defended by the naval army, and if the Eastern Wu side lands on the north bank of the Han River, the Xiangfan defense line will be useless.

And this time, the reinforcements from the three eastern counties have also been removed, and I am afraid that there will be no reinforcements in Xiangyang.

There was no way, Zhang Xi could only tear down the east wall to make up the west wall, and transfer 10,000 people from Jiangling to the north.

If this is done, although it is said to weaken Jiangling's defense, at least there are troops to maintain the Xiangfan defense line, plus Wen Ping and Wang Ji are in charge, there should not be any big problems.

Well, as long as Soochow is no longer the same as last time, raising 200,000 troops to attack, the basic problem is not big.

Zhuge Liang actually knew Zhang Xi's concerns, but he couldn't help it, this time Cao Wei had too many troops concentrated, and if there was not enough force advantage, it would be really difficult to capture Heluo and Yanzhou.

That's all it has to do for now.

After getting Zhang Xi's assurance, Zhuge Liang silently calculated in his heart that he had 70,000 troops, Qinzhou and Jingzhou transferred 100,000 troops, Yongzhou's 50,000 county soldiers plus 20,000 southern troops, Liangzhou's 20,000 cavalry, 30,000 soldiers and horses in the three eastern counties, plus 10,000 Zhang Wei's troops stationed in Xiangcheng, a total of exactly 300,000.

With so many troops, it should be enough. However, for the sake of safety, Zhuge Liang still turned his head and asked Pang Tong, can the 30,000 soldiers and horses under the command of Wu Yi in Hanzhong be called? !

Pang Tong thought about this question for a while and said, "The soldiers of Hanzhong County are newly built and rashly go into battle, I am afraid that it is inappropriate, and I am afraid that the Yizhou family will be dissatisfied and transferred to protect Chang'an, which is appropriate." ”

There's no way, who let Zhuge Liang divide Yizhou, in order to compensate for the loss of the southern part of Yizhou, put Hanzhong County under the jurisdiction of Yizhou, and no longer have an independent status of the state and county.

A few days ago, I just promised people that the people of Yizhou would pay for the food, but they would not send troops, and now you suddenly transferred the soldiers of Hanzhong County to the Northern Expedition, and people will make some trouble.

Although it is said that Hanzhong is still under the control of Wu Yi, it is always within the jurisdiction of Yizhou County, and it is difficult to backtrack.

Moreover, in the last war, Wu Yilang's was too powerful, and he directly lost seventy percent of the main force of the Hanzhong county soldiers, and the current Hanzhong county soldiers are newly recruited, although the training time is not short, but compared with the elite county soldiers, they are indeed recruits who have not been on the battlefield.

It would be a fool's mind to expect them to be of great help.

It is better to transfer to Chang'an to fill the vacancy in the troops after the transfer of troops in Yongzhou, which is more practical.

As for doing so, the Yizhou family will not be dissatisfied. Just kidding, it's not for the Hanzhong soldiers to go to the Heluo front, as local county soldiers, to be transferred to defend the national capital, who dares to talk nonsense?!

Zhuge Liang thought about it, and it seemed that he could only do this. Of course, Zhuge Liang thought a little further than Pang Tong.

In case the battle ahead is really tight to a certain point, then these 30,000 Hanzhong soldiers are the general reserve force is really at a critical moment, and Zhuge Liang will not discuss the issue of promising or not committing with those Yizhou families.

Everything is about the state first.

After gathering enough troops, the next step is how to march and the strategic deployment of the enemy's army.

Since Zhuge Liang said that he would take advantage of the fact that the Wei army was divided from each other and communication was inconvenient to concentrate his forces and break it in one battle, then where to focus on attacking is a very critical issue.

This place is definitely impossible to use as the main direction of attack, this place is Xiongguan, strong and abnormal, even if there are 300,000 troops, it is impossible to easily attack and break through.

So well. Zhuge Liang put the place of the strong attack on Yingchuan.

"Yingchuan?!"

Zhang Xi heard Zhuge Liang's choice and thought about it.

The geographical location of Yingchuan is very important, and it is the main road connecting Huainan with the Central Plains and Jingzhou.

It is precisely because of the importance of Yingchuan that Cao Wei has never really given up on Yingchuan, even though this place is actually surrounded by enemies on three sides, and only one direction to the east is his own territory.

In several previous wars, the Han Dynasty had led troops to attack this place, but the Wei army in Yingchuan had always held on and had not been completely broken by the Han.

You can see the importance of this place.

However, the Han attack on Yingchuan actually has a lot of difficulties.

The first difficulty is that Yingchuan is backed by Chenliu County and Runan County, which now belong to the Wei and Wu families respectively, and both families have a large number of troops in this vicinity.

Cao Wei's Yanzhou soldiers basically hoarded heavy troops in Chenliu County, and once Yanzhou really encountered a threat, the Yanzhou soldiers of Chenliu County could go to support Yanzhou at any time.

The Eastern Wu side did not have many troops in Runan, but about 20,000 people, but in the vicinity of Shouchun, the Eastern Wu gathered about 70,000 or 80,000 soldiers and horses.

Attacking Yingchuan County could easily cause a backlash from the Soochow soldiers in Huainan and cause unnecessary misunderstandings.

The second difficulty is still the old problem - the attitude of the Yingchuan family.

The Yingchuan family, in the past hundred years, can be said to be famous all over the world, the prestige is extremely high, if you can't find a way to properly appease the Yingchuan family, even if the Han Dynasty uses the advantage of troops to capture Yingchuan, it is quite difficult to establish a stable rule in Yingchuan.

After all, in these years, the big families control public opinion and the prestige of the people, and the imperial court wants to govern the place, if these big families don't cooperate, I'm afraid that good things will spread to the bottom and become bad things.

The most terrible thing is that the people of this age are more willing to believe in the famous families in the vicinity than in the government.

Therefore, it is not that Dahan is not sure enough to capture Yingchuan, but he does not want to attack Yingchuan without complete preparations.

Available now. Could it be that Zhuge Liang has already negotiated with the families of Yingchuan?!

And although things are similar to what Zhang Xi thought, they are still somewhat different.

In the past five years, Zhang Xi was busy recovering and governing Jingnan, and Zhuge Liang was not idle, and he gained some contact with most of the families in the Heluo area and Yingchuan.

This is due to the failure of Cao Wei's counterattack on Luoyang last time, which led to a change in people's minds in the land of Heluo and Yingchuan.

Great Wei looks no longer as powerful as before, and Shu Han is no longer the remote regime of the past.

Luoyang is guarded, is it really "the sky is endless"? !

This kind of thinking, especially within the Yingchuan family, has a considerable market.

After all, the starting process of the Yingchuan family basically followed Liu Xiu, who started from Nanyang and then swept the world, and it was inseparable.

In the world of the Later Han Dynasty, a lot of credit is related to the ancestors of these Yingchuan families, so in their hearts, it is easier to leave a psychological hint of "the sky is endless".

Compared with the Heluo family, the communication between the Yingchuan family and Zhuge Liang can be said to be very smooth.

In the past five years, Zhuge Liang has even established a relationship with the Xun family and maintained a certain degree of correspondence.

But the problem is that none of the big families in these years is an old fox, especially after nearly fifty years of war, none of them will easily fall to either side before the situation is decided.

The lessons of the Battle of Guandu are vivid.

Yuan Shao's more than 200,000 soldiers and horses went south, and was defeated by Cao Cao with about 50,000 soldiers and horses in Guandu. Who would have thought of this?!

That is, Cao Cao is still a bit of a hero, and he didn't settle accounts after the autumn, otherwise how much the Yingchuan family could survive in the hands of this butcher is really hard to say.

is also because of this, most of the Yingchuan family chose to cooperate with Cao Cao later, because you don't know if this person has read the content before burning the letter, and whether he will settle accounts with you in the future.

Judging from Cao Cao's experience in raising troops in the first half of his life, this kind of thing, it's not that he can't make Yanzhou celebrities have such a big reputation, he said that he would kill without any hesitation.

Therefore, even if there is no shortage of saying within the Yingchuan family now, some family members do have certain correspondence with Zhuge Liang, but this time, they have all learned to be obedient, no matter how Zhuge Liang tempts, these people just don't let go.

It's okay to talk about the old days, but if you want me to turn against me, you don't have to talk about it.

However, Zhuge Liang is not without gains, after communicating with each other for such a long time, Zhuge Liang still found a lot of "friends" within the Yingchuan family, and Zhuge Liang tentatively invited them to come to Luoyang, most of these "friends" expressed their "yearning", but had to "refuse" because of "trivial matters at home".

Among these Zhuge Liang's "friends", there are Xun Zuo, Chen Zuo, Zhong Hui. Just rush to these three surnames, everyone who understands understands.

You can say that this is the regular operation of the Yingchuan family to make a family and bet on both sides, but in the same way, this can also reflect the Yingchuan family's current attitude towards the Han.

Therefore, Zhuge Liang believes that at this time, it is ripe to launch a strategy against Yingchuan.

Zhang Xi didn't have any doubts about Zhuge Liang's judgment, he just asked another aspect.

What about the Heluo family?!

If the Heluo family also has the same attitude, even if it is a little worse, they can attack Heluo and take the north bank of the Yellow River, isn't it greater than the strategic value that can be gained by attacking Yingchuan?!

Regarding this, Zhuge Liang just sighed slightly, and then took out a letter and motioned for everyone to open it and watch it.

Everyone who has read this letter is frowning and thoughtful.

This is a very important letter, but it is not very important to those present, it is a piece of information from the Northland, the highest level of secrecy.

It is naturally very important information to be able to use the highest level of secrecy, but each of the six people present has the right to access this information.

And this piece of information records in detail the distribution of some Wei troops' forces in the Heluo and Yanzhou areas, as well as the reinforcement and dispatch of the Wei army in the next period.

The time of payment was in February of the third year of Yanxi. That is, half a year ago.

What made Zhang Xi even more concerned was that the signing of this piece of information did not have a detailed number, but only one "Liu".

This. Looks like it's the second time I've seen it, right?!

(End of chapter)