Under Sima Yi's series of serial moves, ↓ Zhuge Liang also began to deal with it.

First of all, Wei Yan, the most capable veteran of Shu Han at this time, was arranged to the east to resist the attack of the Wei army in Guanzhong. At this time, only he was responsible for guarding the town, so that Zhuge Liang could rest assured of the safety of the side.

Wang Ping, who was good at defense, was assigned to the northeast front line to guard the Qianghu army.

After all, Liangzhou is not as high as Longyou, and it can effectively resist the invasion of Hu Qi. There is a plain here, and the huge number of Qianghu iron cavalry is still not a small threat to Shu Han.

So let Wang Ping, who has been in charge of Chen Cangfa all the year round, go to the guard, and Zhuge Liang can rest assured.

Finally, Ma Tan let this veteran of Longyou's governance of Qiang be responsible for dealing with the Qiang soldiers. Afterwards, Zhuge Liang was still not at ease, so he assigned Zhang Yi to Ma Jian and divided 5,000 foot soldiers to follow.

Ma Tan's team led 15,000 men to Xiping County to meet the Xiqiang coalition army. With Ma Yan's courage and Zhang Yi being responsible for pressing him down, there is no need to worry about this side.

In this way, Jincheng County was protected on three sides, and Jincheng County was not destroyed, so the Shu army's grain road was able to pass safely.

After arranging these, Zhuge Liang checked again, and after repeatedly confirming that there were no loopholes, he personally led 25,000 foot soldiers and 5,000 cavalry to Wuwei north.

This battle is a test of Zhuge Liang's practice of the art of war for many years, and it is also the most critical battle for whether Shu Han can return to the old capital.

Zhuge Liang personally led the army to the north to attack Wuwei, and the Shu troops of all departments also began to implement their military orders.

For example, Ma Jian led the troops to Xiping County with Zhang Yi.

However, Ma Jian was not very satisfied with his task. For no other reason, he really doesn't look down on these Qiang people.

Ma Tan is also a veteran of Qiang governance, and he already knows a lot about Xiqiang's combat power. They looked at a large number of people, more than 30,000 people, including nearly 10,000 cavalry, but in fact their combat effectiveness was very weak.

On the contrary, for Ma Yan, the combat effectiveness of the 5,000 Cao Wei regular army led by Fei Yao was even more threatening than the 30,000 Qiang.

Therefore, in Ma Yan's opinion, he only needs 3,000 cavalry to break this point head-on. The prime minister gave him 12,000 infantry, which seemed redundant.

With so many troops in the back, how can I still die?

Since becoming the crown prince and concubine, Ma Tan has been an existence that cannot be killed in the Shu Han court. Now the old horse can only have a chance to die, and he can only rush to the front line and kill quickly.

As a result, the prime minister also stuffed a Northern Expedition governor Zhang Yi to be responsible for pressing Ma Tan's formation, which made Ma Tan's great cause of death even worse.

However, Zhang Yi didn't understand what Ma Jian meant, but just smiled and saluted Ma Tan.

"Zhang Yi has seen the crown prince!"

Although Ma Jian is now in the same rank as Zhang Yi, he is a second-class permanent general. But Ma Jian is still the prince and the prince, and his official rank is no different from that of the generals of the four expeditions and four towns.

What's more, this is still the successor handpicked by the prime minister, and he still has to make a lot of friends.

Ma Tan also returned the salute, exchanged a few polite sentences with Zhang Yi, and then continued to think about the next death plan.

Now Ma Jian will not make the same risky move as before. Now Ma Jian has at most made a more radical choice and made the battle more difficult on his own.

For example, this time, Ma Tan's goal was expanded from defeating the enemy in Xiping as requested by the prime minister to completely annihilating the enemy in Xiping.

Ma Jian told Zhang Yi his strategic goal, and Zhang Yi was directly shocked.

"What? Prince, Taifu, you seem to be a little ......," Zhang Yi was a little incredulous.

"Adventure? General Zhang, you're still too conservative. Ma Jian waved his hand and said confidently.

"Don't look at the Qiang soldiers on the other side, there are 30,000, but the real combat effectiveness is not strong. Moreover, this group of Qiang soldiers usually scattered in the mountains and forests of various tribes of herdsmen, almost cooperate with each other, so there is no combat effectiveness. ”

"So it's theoretically feasible to wipe them out."

"But ......" Zhang Yi was still a little difficult to accept. After all, his military theory told him that if you double it, you will cut it down, and if you double it, you will surround it.

Xiang Ma Yan, who has less than half of the opponent's troops, even plots to annihilate the opponent is simply whimsical in Zhang Yi's opinion.

However, after thinking about Ma Yan's achievements in recent years, Zhang Yi felt that it was not so difficult to accept.

The auxiliary general seems to have always been so adventurous?

"So what are the plans of the crown prince and the prince?" Zhang Yi was silent for a long time, and finally asked cautiously.

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When Ma Tan led the army to Xiping County, Fei Yao also joined the Qiang soldiers.

Sima Yi supervised Liangzhou for more than three years, and all the forces around him that could be won over were all co-opted. And Xiqiang, who has sharp contradictions with Ma Tan, is naturally also a key target.

Although most of the Ma Tan tribes were Qiang people, and were revered as Shenwei generals. But in fact, the leaders of the Xiqiang tribe hated him to the core.

Because Ma Jian is different from Ma Chao, he is a Han general and not a local separatist force. He has always been fighting against Xiqiang and transfusing blood for the Han court.

Ma Chao can be supported by the Xiqiang tribe because following Ma Chao can give the tribe benefits. But Ma Jian can't do it, the condition for you to follow Ma Jian is to dissolve the tribe and no longer be a tribal chief.

In particular, the Qiang tribe was annihilated by more than ten tribes during Ma Tan's rampant Longyou. The rest of the people who were not annihilated all supported the old and the young, and fled all the way to Liangzhou.

This group of people was extremely hateful to Shu Han, so as soon as they heard that Wei Shu was going to war, Sima Yi all agreed to join the war as soon as they were wooed.

The Qiang people and Ma Tan were not so contradictory, and they didn't want to get involved in the civil war of the Han people. However, Sima Yi gave too much, and after some wooing, the Wolf Qiang tribe also got on the thief ship of Wei.

Of course, the price is that after defeating the Shu army, the Wei army will completely give up the entire Xiping County to Xiqiang......

Shu Han's analysis was correct, Sima Yi didn't want to stay in Liangzhou for a long time. At least in his opinion, the strategy of holding Liangzhou and trying to find a way to counterattack Longyou has long been inapplicable.

So he planned to hit Shu Han hard from the beginning, and then throw the devastation of Liangzhou to Shu Han.

This can not only preserve strength, but also make Shu Han unable to conquer Guanzhong in the east for a short time. By the time Shu Han came to his senses, with Cao Wei's national strength, he would have already made Guanzhong impregnable.

Whether it is Shu Han or Cao Wei, what is most lacking now is time.

Fei Yao couldn't say anything about Sima Yi's plan, all he could do was obey orders.

"General! The Shu army has divided its troops from Jincheng to the west, and under the leadership of the Shu general Ma Tan, more than 10,000 troops have come to Xiping! "After the scouts of the Wei army detected the intelligence of the Shu army, they reported it back to Fei Yao.

When he heard the name Ma Yan, Fei Yao could clearly see the fear of the Qiang leaders around him.

(End of chapter)