Chapter 44: First Strikes
The terrain of Shu is easy to defend and difficult to attack.
The Xiongguan here, from the north, is steep, and in some places it is even a broken wall.
This creates great difficulties for the attacking side.
From Yangping Pass to the Sword Pavilion, this is the case, and the terrain of the Sword Pavilion is one of the best.
It's a really good place to defend.
But today's Wei State is pushing Shu with an absolute advantage, and it is the main force in three directions, and Shu State cannot stop it with its weak troops, even if it has a strong checkpoint.
This strength is not only in the number of troops, but also in the ability of the generals.
The commanders of Cao Chao's various departments are not Chinese, and the commander's command is full of talents, such as Wen Yang and Ma Long are just ordinary generals, and they are not even at the level of commanders and commanders.
Wei attacked from three directions, pulling the battle line extremely fast, Shu collapsed for thousands of miles, and the generals were killed one after another, or captured, or surrendered.
Jiang Wei went around fighting fires, but it didn't work.
Zhuge Day's camp is outside Yang'an Pass at the moment.
This commander, although he has the problem of being a master and a low master, but after all, he has also fought many actual battles, and his strategy can be implemented excellently.
Next to Zhuge Dan, there are Zhong Hui and Chen Qian.
These two people are responsible for giving advice and formulating strategies for Zhuge Dan, and they are both staff officers of the headquarters.
Today's Wei army has high morale, and the generals are even more excited.
What a work to destroy the country!
How many generals have pursued this life?
The same is true for all three.
The main offensive line and the transfer of generals are all in charge of Zhong Hui, Zhuge Dan still attaches more importance to Zhong Hui, after all, Zhong Hui is a servant, he came here instead of the emperor, Zhuge Dan can not respect anyone's opinion, but he can't ignore his ideas.
At this moment, Zhong Hui began his own analysis.
"Taiwei, Hu Ji is holding on to death in Yang'anguan, Zhuge Xu has bypassed him and is about to reach the bridge."
Zhong Hui pointed to the map in front of him and said seriously: "Jiang Wei has already retreated to the Sword Pavilion, and after the bridgehead is lost, Bai Shui will definitely not be able to hold on." ”
"Deng Ai's department is in Yinping, and Zhuge Xu's department occupies the bridgehead and Baishui, so Hu Ji has become a lone army, losing contact with Jiang Wei, and his defeat is only in the moment."
"The steepness of the Sword Pavilion, although I have never seen it, I have heard a lot about the Shu people, now that Jiang Wei has withdrawn the troops from all over the country and defended the Sword Pavilion, it will not be able to break through in the short term, but we don't have to worry."
Zhong Hui said confidently: "This year's bumper harvest, we don't have a problem with food at all, we can continue to consume with them, we can station the army in front of the Sword Pavilion, rectify and recuperate here, and pacify the Wudu Hanzhong County." ”
Zhuge Dan looked at Zhonghui's strategic diagram, pondered for a moment, and then said, "What you said makes sense. ”
Zhuge Festival and Zhong Hui, in a sense, the two are the same type, and they are both particularly well-named.
Zhuge Dan is not in a hurry anyway, he is the supreme and second commander of the Shu extermination army, and this credit is all certain, and no one can change his status.
With this merit of destroying the country, everyone who dies in the future will deserve to enjoy the Taimiao.
Previously, Zhuge Dan was a little dissatisfied with Cao Chao, mainly because Cao Chao took power away from the three dukes, formed his own team, and hollowed out these old ministers.
This left Zhuge Dan without a chance.
At that time, Wang Su had persuaded him that in the future crusade against Shu, he would definitely let the general be the commander.
Although Zhuge Dan had some expectations, he didn't approve of it in his heart, and he didn't know if he could live until that day.
But now, Zhuge has finally waited for this day.
The devil knows how happy he was when Cao Chao said that he was the commander.
He will not miss this good opportunity, out of gratitude to the emperor, he can also tolerate this Zhong Hui who always likes to point fingers, not to mention, Zhong Hui's attitude towards him is still good.
After all, Zhuge Dan is a celebrity and looks good.
As for Chen Qian, Zhuge is more indifferent.
After all, this military secretary is the main culprit who caused him to lose his power!
Chen Qian didn't participate much in the planning of the war, in terms of strategy, Zhong Hui did well enough, and Chen Qian didn't think about forcibly coming out, anyway, as the first person to break through Hanzhong, he already got the credit.
In any case, he is the actual commander of the Chinese army, and he has his share of the merit of destroying the country.
At this moment, Zhuge Dan redeployed according to Zhonghui's strategy, and ordered Zhuge Xu to lead his troops to seize Qiaotou and other areas, and pocket everything outside the Sword Pavilion.
At the same time, he escorted the battle report here and the captured generals to Chang'an
Changan.
Cao Chao's days have been very busy in the near future.
The letters and information on the front line are one after another, Cao Chao came to Chang'an for the first time, but he has no leisure time to go out to see the capital of the former Han Dynasty.
Cao Chao has always felt that at least at the end of the fourth year of Zhengyuan, or the fifth year of Zhengyuan, can he start the plan to destroy Shu.
But things always come very suddenly, and many things are not the same as planned.
Jiang Wei took the initiative to attack Liangzhou, and his back was empty, so he could only attack.
This time the war is a bit pushed by Deng Ai, if they don't attack, Jiang Wei will be able to get a large number of Hu tribes in Liangzhou, whether it is to continue to make trouble in Liangzhou, or to bring them back, it seems that it is not in the interests of the Wei State.
In order to ensure the maximization of benefits, it can only be made up from other aspects, and the best direction is to take Hanzhong.
In fact, Wei has been reorganizing its army for a long time, originally to intimidate and deter, but unexpectedly, in the end, it really started.
Zhang Hua stood beside Cao Chao, helping him sort many recitals at the moment.
Of course, the recital about the war should be put at the forefront, and the recital sent from Luoyang, as long as it is not a military event, can be a little later.
In order to dispose of these recitals, Cao Chao brought many of his ministers to Chang'an.
These people are responsible for helping Cao Chao to review these things.
"Your Majesty, this is the captain's prelude."
Zhang Hua deliberately picked out a few important ones and put them in front of Cao Chao.
Cao Chao lowered his head and looked at it, Zhuge Dan's attitude in the performance table was extremely respectful, and it could be seen that he was still very excited about his appointment.
The content of the recital is to describe the strategy of Zhonghui, and said that he has agreed.
Cao Chao smiled and said to Zhang Hua: "It's right to let the Taiwei be responsible." ”
Cao Chao has no shortage of generals, nor is there a shortage of commanders, let alone others, even Chen Tai and Du Yu can serve as commanders, and they are currently pacifying the recovered areas.
But Cao Chao finally let Zhuge Dan serve as the commander, not only because of his official position, but most importantly, the benefits that everyone can get from destroying Shu are too great.
Zhong Hui, Deng Ai These people are too anxious to do things, they are extreme, Zhuge Festival is considered decent, and Zhuge Festival is quite upright, anyway, he can't do it if he connives, such behavior as conniving at the soldiers to snatch credit and kill good people and risk merit.
If Deng Ai wanted to cast Jingguan with his own head again, Zhuge Dan could directly imprison him.
Under absolute superiority, the commander can not be so strong, as long as he is stable.
"This is Wang Zhennan's recital"
Zhang Hua took out another one.
Cao Chao glanced at it, then was dumbfounded, and handed the watch to Zhang Hua with a wry smile.
"Look at this."
Zhang Hua lowered his head and quickly finished reading, and then he was also a little surprised.
Wang Ji's recital was very simple, he first informed the current situation, Yong'an is too difficult to gnaw, and it is still under siege, and the soldiers in the city have begun to waver.
Then, he said his next idea, he wanted to attack Jingmen directly from Xiling, and then take the Yi Road, and kill Lexiang from the land.
Well, Jingmen is currently under the rule of the state of Wu.
Across the river from Xiling.
Cao Chao rubbed his forehead.
"Why are the generals under my command more anxious than me?"
"Is this preparing to destroy even the Wu Kingdom?!"
Zhang Hua said seriously: "General Wang is worried that when he storms Yong'an, he will be attacked by the Wu people, so he wants to send troops to Jingmen to repel Shi Ji and others, so that they cannot interfere in the affairs of Shu. ”
This logic made Cao Chao a little stunned.
In order to prevent you from hitting me, I will beat you up first??
But if you think about it carefully, it seems that the army stationed in Jiangbei today is enough to beat the army of Shi Ji.
There are the elites of the two major corps gathered there, and the combat effectiveness is more than enough compared to Shi Shi.
Cao Chao hesitated for a moment, but decided to believe Wang Ji's judgment.
"Let him see it himself, he is in Jiangbei, and he must see it more clearly than us."
"Yui!"
Cao Chao's laissez-faire attitude is also a great encouragement to the generals, just take these generals who are now crusading against Shu.
Zhong Hui didn't have to worry too much about destroying Shu with too much force, after all, the emperor was younger than him, so what if he took the merit of destroying the country?
There are so many generals who share with him, and the emperor has a very good personal relationship with him, and he is not the kind of person who will be afraid of too many merits of his subordinates, Zhong Hui is not worried at all.
The rest of the generals did the same, doing their best.
Moreover, this time to destroy Shu is the consensus of everyone, the time in history, purely Sima Zhao in order to cover up the evil deeds of killing the king, regardless of the dissuasion of the ministers, rushed to send troops, although the destruction of Shu, but that battle lost a lot of things.
directly lost an important talent at the third public level, and also lost a general who was enough to defend one side.
As for the generals and ministers who were killed because of them, there are countless of them.
The ministers who surrendered at that time of Shu were killed a lot because of Zhong Hui, and they lost a lot of talents.
And this time, whether it is Deng Ai or Zhong Hui.
Cao Chao was confident that he could suppress them so that they could no longer cause trouble.
The last important recital sheet that Zhang Hua took out was from Deng Ai.