Chapter 36: Infinite Infighting
Yan Yu, the new governor of Yong'an, stood on the city wall, looking at the Wei army in the distance who were building siege equipment, and did not say a word.
Several generals around him were very frightened at the moment.
Unlike Hanzhong, Shu's army on the Yong'an side has not fought for a long time.
Whether in terms of troops or the elite of the soldiers, they seem to be much worse.
These Wei troops basically didn't treat them as human beings, and began to cut down trees and build siege equipment in front of them, and they didn't seem to have any idea of defense.
"General!! Cao thief deceives people too much! ”
"Allow me to lead the cavalry into their camp!"
A general spoke.
Yan Yu didn't even look at him.
I'm crazy to take the initiative.
The defenders here in Yong'an are only about 20,000 people, and the Wang Ji army originally had nearly 50,000 people, and a large number of Wu troops were surrendered, plus the reinforcements from Wenqin's side, the strength of the army reached almost 60,000 or 70,000.
Moreover, the morale and combat effectiveness of both sides are not at the same level at all.
Yong'an's location is very dangerous.
If this place is broken through, then the entire Badong will fall, after Yong'an, Shu State does not even have any decent checkpoints to stop the enemy, the enemy can even kill all the way to Chengdu, directly destroy the country.
Originally, the strength was weak, where did Yan Yu dare to take the initiative to send troops to fight the enemy?
With the current situation, it is already very difficult to hold Yong'an, block the enemy here, and strive to let the reinforcements come earlier.
Seeing that Yan Yu didn't answer, the general was also a little embarrassed.
Yan Yu said slowly: "Don't go to war, continue to strengthen the city, Yong'an Jiancheng, there is enough food in the city, Chengdu will not sit idly by, what else is there to worry about?" ”
"The Art of War: Ten rules are surrounded, and if the Cao thief does not send 200,000 troops to come, there is no need to worry."
He waved his hand, and as if nothing had happened, he turned and walked down the wall.
Seeing Yan Yu's confident appearance, those generals immediately calmed down.
When he returned to the mansion and walked into the study, Yan Yu's face was not as calm as it had just been.
Can't we, my general, recuperate for a while?
Yan Yu's face was full of sorrow.
Qiang is chaotic and wants to become bigger, there are two prerequisites, the first is to have a famous person take the lead, and the second is to form a Hu-Han coalition army.
Generally speaking, there is a disaster, and then everyone rebels together, and then find a famous person as a leader, and unite in the name of the people of Liangzhou, so that they can deal with the temple.
The people of Liangzhou are very xenophobic, even if they are rebels, as long as they are locals, they are willing to stand on their side, which makes it extremely difficult for the temple to suppress the rebellion.
But now it's different, Yongliang hasn't had any disasters in the past two years, and there is no possibility of a local rebellion at all, it's just that the Qianghu tribe raised troops to avenge the leader.
And these tribes, don't look at nearly 100,000 people, but as mentioned earlier, according to the different areas where they live, the way of life of these tribes has changed dramatically, they have long since left the pure nomadic life, many tribes are semi-nomadic and semi-farming, and the proportion of farming is even rising.
It's unlikely that you'll let these men leave their fields behind, throw away their hoes, and climb their horses to fight for their leaders.
And Cao Wei is not a Later Han.
These three kingdoms were all killed from the difficulty of hell at the end of the Han Dynasty, not to mention anything else, anyway, there is nothing to say about combat effectiveness.
These three kingdoms have basically never lost in the face of foreign enemies, even the weak Shu and Wu kingdoms, not to mention Cao Wei.
Yan Yu was sure that these Qianghu would soon bow their heads and surrender.
And our general will have to face the Deng Ai army alone.
If he is dragged in Yongliang, then the Wangji Legion will increase its efforts, and there may even be the Wenqin Legion and the Biqiujian Legion to come to help.
The situation in Yongan completely depends on Jiang Wei's performance.
It has nothing to do with me.
If Jiang Wei is involved, or even defeated, then Wang Ji's feint attack on this side is afraid that it will become a real attack.
Wang Ji didn't care about Wu Guo at all, after all, there were two major legions behind him, eyeing him.
Wen Qin and Biqiu Jian's Yuyang Legion, and Hu Zun's Qingxu Legion.
Thinking of this, Yan Yu had an even more headache.
I hope the general can be a little more restrained, don't be in a hurry.
And at this moment, Wang Ji also came to Xiling in person.
Wang Ji summoned many generals here and talked to them about specific strategies.
Wang Ji didn't want to attack Yong'an at the moment, but he couldn't help but put pressure on Shu.
What he has to do now is to force Shu to send troops to rescue, involve the other party's army, and also put pressure on Jiang Wei, so that he does not dare to go deeper.
And what will happen in the future, it depends on the performance of the Yongliang Army
Lexiang.
General Shi Ji looked at the information in his hand, his brows contorted, which made him look even more sad.
Wang Ji had already begun to act, transferring troops to Xiling, preparing to attack Shu.
However, Shi Ji could not do it.
He was severely under-armed and unable to storm the enemy's cities.
But these are not the most fatal problems, the most fatal problem is that the temple of Wu is not very happy to send troops at this moment.
He had given the temple three times in a row, but so far he had not received any reply.
Shi Ji sighed, and then instructed his lieutenant: "Continue to send people to keep an eye on it, so that the whole army can prepare." ”
Even if you can't capture the city of Cao thieves, you can't not send troops at this moment, even if it's just a part of it, it's better than doing nothing.
If the Cao thief takes the Shu Kingdom, how long can he hold on?
Shi Ji's eyes were full of exhaustion.
But he didn't know that his performance at the moment had caused great controversy in the construction industry.
Sun Xiu sat on the top seat and specially convened a court meeting to decide this matter.
The ministers of Wu were now fiercely discussing whether or not to send troops.
"Don't send troops!"
Zhang Bu and Pu Yangxing didn't even speak, and the officials they supported had already begun to write against them.
Zhang Bu and Pu Yangxing glanced at each other, their eyes full of pride.
After Sun Xiu ascended the throne, Wu Guo should have broken away from the mode of power ministers, but in the end, there were still two power ministers in Wu State.
Zhang Bu was in charge of the palace office, and Pu Yangxing was in charge of military affairs, and the two were mutually explanatory.
Sun Xiu completely delegated power to them and let them deal with the major affairs of the temple, and the ministers were extremely dissatisfied with this, but they were helpless.
As for Sun Xiu himself, he was completely immersed in the joy of reading.
He concentrates on classical books, is determined to read all the works, all his thoughts are on the classics, every day to cure the scriptures, and he also likes to shoot pheasants, when he is not reading, he always goes out to hunt early in the morning and does not come back until late.
His days were spent hunting and healing.
It can be said that if he were the emperor of Wei, the ministers of Wei would definitely be crazy.
He didn't interfere much in the affairs of the temple, and the only thing he did these days was to demand the rebuilding of the school, to educate and rejuvenate the country, to attach importance to the classics, and to set up a doctor of the Five Classics
At this moment, Sun Xiu sat on the top seat, quietly listening to the disputes of the ministers, and did not speak.
Shi Ji and Ding Feng and others went to the temple, hoping to send troops as soon as possible, so that Cao Thief could not deal with Shu with peace of mind.
But this aroused the vigilance of Zhang Bu and Pu Yangxing.
These two people were embarrassed, monopolized the government, arranged their own cronies, and suppressed the alliance of the great clans in the court, which made the courtiers of Wu State particularly dissatisfied, and they proposed to the emperor many times, asking Ding Feng to stay in Jingzhou and let the general Shi Ji come back to deal with the affairs of the world.
This is obviously a preparation to use the general to suppress these two powerful ministers.
Although Shi Ji and Ding Feng were all thinking about how to defeat the Cao thief, the two of them were thinking about how they were plotting to take away their power.
There always seems to be a discrepancy between the ideas of military strategists and politicians.
In the eyes of Zhang Bupu and Yangxing, Shi Ji is playing a big game of chess.
What kind of troops to harass Cao Thief is just an excuse, Yong'an is so strong, why do we need to send someone to help?
If Cao Thief failed to take Yong'an, then this matter would have become the credit of Shi Shi, and then he would use this credit to write again and say that he would ally with Shu or something, and when the time comes, Ding Feng will have to return to Jianye, and his military power will be unstable
Thinking of these conspiracies, Pu Yangxing couldn't help but shudder, this old guy is really cunning!
I almost fell for his plan!
"With Wang Ji's troops, he can't break through Yong'an at all, and he sent troops this time, maybe to seduce us to send troops, and then come and attack our army."
"If Shu is attacked, we will send troops to help, but if they attack our reinforcements, will Shu send troops?! They'll just wait and see! ”
"Even if we defeat the Cao thief in the end, what good will it do us? What compensation will the Shu Kingdom give us? ”
"Wasting troops, wasting grain and grass, but in the end I didn't get anything, just lost both, but Shu didn't have any losses!"
"I heard that the general was close to Shu, but I didn't expect that he would be close to this extent!"
The ministers said loudly, and the ugly face looked very hideous in Sun Xiu's eyes.
The strength of the native clans of the Wu Kingdom is extremely strong.
Sun Xiu's legitimacy is not so strong, he doesn't dare to use those old ministers of the big clan, he can only use the two ministers closest to him to confront them.
And the consequence of this is that there is a miasma of smoke in the temple.
And the most frustrating thing is that Sun Xiu obviously knows everything, but there are very few things he can do.
After he ascended to the throne, although Zhang Bu and Pu Yangxing monopolized the government, the domestic agricultural economy and education were stabilized and began to recover slowly.
Sun Xiu's idea was to focus on agriculture as much as possible.
Wu Guo's family background was originally quite thick, but he was plagued by the dog thief, and even began to have food problems.
After Puyang Xing and others discussed, they thought that Danyang Lake Field could be built and Puli Tang could be built, so that Wu Guo could have more 10,000 hectares of fertile land and increase agricultural income.
Sun Xiu hadn't thought about it yet, but Cao Thief was preparing to attack Shu again
Alas, what can I do about it.