"General... these are the statistics of the number of soldiers who were arrested for fleeing because of cowardly war. The number of soldiers who were beheaded by the military law commander, as well as the relevant documents of the Dharma. Please... please check it out!"

Several days have passed since the first battle with Fazheng. As the end of September approaches, the siege troops coming to Chang'an are gradually exhausted and slackening.

Li Jue lay on the marching couch in the central army tent, waved his hand listlessly, signaling the trusted military officer who came to inform him to put the documents on the short table and then retreated.

After a while, Li Jue cheered up and read the document in front of him.

Another day of the attack was over. Although the casualties of soldiers and soldiers that day were less than a thousand, and although the generals of the Xiliang clan were not too concerned about the number of casualties, they had been three or four days. They were still very mentally polite when they did this every day.

Now, today, the current soldiers who fled due to cowardly fighting have exceeded one hundred. Three days ago, the number was only twenty, and yesterday was only sixty. This number is a barometer of military morale, so I have to be careful.

"I have only been fighting for a few days, and the losses have exceeded 5,000, and I haven't counted the escaped or the minor injuries. Unfortunately, this time, Guo Adu and Zhang Ji made contributions, but we didn't even kill Fa Zheng. I'm afraid that if I want to put Guo Adu in the position of the rear general, I can't hold back. When Wen He comes back, let's wait and see what's going on."

Since the first day of the attack on the camp, Li Jue sent a messenger to Zhang Xiu's place to recall Jia Xu. Calculate the days, four days of fast horses galloping, and even if Jia Xu had already arrived in Wuwei, the letter should be delivered.

But Li Jue also knew that Jia Xu was not allowed to accept the orders of the outside king. Jia Xu was completely unwilling to come back because of the urgent war with Ma Teng on the front line. At most, it was delayed for half a month.

It is unlikely to have more, because it is already the end of September, and in half a month it will be mid-October. The Xiliang area will be so cold that it is not suitable for military operations at all. At that time, Zhang Xiu can only count wherever he goes and will not make any more aggressive moves, so Jia Xu will have no excuse to stay lazy.

...

After that, the two armies fought in Wuzhangyuan for another six or seven days, until the sixth day of the October 10th, Li Jue received two important news.

"Report to General of the Carriage! The Right General defeated the main force of Han Sui's army in Linwei County." A scout braved the cold wind to report.

Li Jue was excited and felt complicated: "Oh? Report it in detail!"

The scout carefully described the battle report, and it was exactly the same as Jia Xu's design at the beginning: Zhang Ji stuck Han Sui on the front of Chen Cang, and Guo Si crossed Longshan from Jieting and blocked Han Sui in the Weishui Valley of Longshan.

Han Sui was quite alert. Before Guo Si arrived in position, he received an urgent report from the horse. The garrison of Lueyang County along the way in the rear of Guo Si was Han Sui's confidant. He resisted desperately and tried to delay Guo Si. The scout who reported to Han Sui was also sent from Lueyang County.

So when Han Sui received the warning, he immediately decided to retreat to Ji County, Tianshui. However, Zhang Ji in Chencang City was not easy to mess with. He knew in advance that Guo Si was going to circumvent the back, so when he saw Han Sui set off the camp, he knew that Guo Si was in place, so Zhang Ji also opened Chencang's west gate to send troops to chase him.

He killed two or three thousand Han Sui's army along the way, and more soldiers died of trampling on themselves or fled and were captured.

On the other side, Han Sui finally fled to Linwei County, but was already in a state of poverty. As a result, when Guo Si came from afar, he had to fight to the death to break through, but his vitality was severely damaged.

Fortunately, Han Sui's fate should not be lost. He was an old thief with ten years of experience in rebels. He was eventually led by him and his main force to kill him and fled back to Ji County. Most of his troops were dispersed and fled into the Longshan Mountains, either crossing mountains and returning to Tianshui, or being captured and captured.

After this battle, Guo Si successfully recovered a considerable part of Tianshui County. After Ji County was surrounded, Han Sui's small counties, which were short of soldiers and major generals, surrendered one after another.

Cheng Ji, Lueyang, Qingshui, Shangbi, and Linwei were all taken down by Guo Si one after another.

Finally, he crossed the source of the Wei River to the south, arrived at Qishan Mountain, and took the Xixian and Mumenkou at Qishankou. It was a trick of idleness, blocking the road for the Yizhou army to attack Tianshui County from Wudu County, and blocking one more loophole for the Chang'an court's future defense of the Northern Expedition.

Xi County is the Xi County where Zhuge Liang made an empty city plan later. The Mumendao was the place where Zhang He was shot and killed in history, at the source of the Yangshui Valley of Qishan. Both places were key locations from Wudu North to Qishan.

Han Sui lost all the territory east of Ji County throughout October. Guo Si later boasted about his military achievements and further developed arrogance. Sometimes when he drank a lot of wine, he began to say "In the battle to beat Mahan, Guo Aduo personally took the arrows and stones, defeated two thieves and seized two counties. Li Zhiran claimed to be a chariot, and even failed to defeat the remaining troops of Wuzhang Ma Chao."

Fortunately, people around him advised him to restrain himself, but he didn't say anything when he was awake, but he felt that he should have a higher ambition, but he had planted it. With Guo Si's fierceness and straightforwardness, it was difficult for Li Jue to not see it - this is not surprising, because in the original history, the contradiction between Li Guo and the two of them was uneven in their internal stolen goods and improper distribution of power broke out after the conquest of Mahan.

Before the conquest of Mahan, there were only the Sangong and Li Jue who opened the palace in Chang'an, and Guo Si was not qualified to open the palace, so he did not have a complete leadership team of his own. After the conquest of Mahan, he rewarded this great merit, and Emperor Xian of Han allowed the existence of the "six palaces" in Chang'an, with two more.

Since all the houses have been opened, even if Guo Si doesn't want to, the people under him will want more power.

Who doesn’t want the shogunate who works for themselves to have better benefits and more authority to manage corruption?

...

So, at this moment, Li Jue was in a very complicated mood when he heard about Guo Si's success. On the one hand, he knew that it was impossible to stop Guo Si from opening the house, and he could not suppress it at all if the reasons were insufficient. On the other hand, he was also expecting Guo Si to be less careful and be able to comfort him by giving money and other means of enjoyment.

After processing Guo Si's intelligence, the second important piece of information Li Jue received that day was Jia Xu's reply.

In the letter, Jia Xu reported that he and Zhang Xiu had recovered Zuli, Fengyin, and Yuzhong, Jincheng, Zhiyang, Lingju and defeated Qiang. Within October, he was expected to take Guzang, the capital of Wuwei County.

The main risk is not Ma Teng's resistance, but because the road is too dangerous and far. Although Guzang and Songyin County in Wuwei County are neighboring counties, the two places are more than 500 miles apart! And they are all marching on the Gobi Desert after crossing the Yellow River from Songyin (you can go to Baidu map by yourself, and how far is it to Wuwei after crossing the Yellow River from Lanzhou, it is almost 500 miles)

Therefore, Jia Xu estimated that after taking Guzang County at the end of October, Zhang Xiu would have to switch to on-site defense and digest the territory, and consider continuing to attack in the beginning of the next spring.

There is little hope for attacking and killing Ma Teng. Even if Ma Teng is short of troops, he can still escape to Zhangye in advance. There is only one road in the Hexi Corridor, and it is difficult to kill all of them.

In his reply, Jia Xu said that he would return to Chang'an in November to discuss national affairs with Li Jue, and evaluate the risks of being attacked by Liu Bei next year, and how to defend against it if there is a large-scale northern expedition and spend the winter.

If there is little risk of war after spring, Jia Xu will ask for the order to follow Zhang Xiu to pursue the enemy. Anyway, they are all from Xiliang, and when there are post stations along the way, they are used to riding horses and traveling thousands of miles.

Although Jia Xuren cannot come back for the time being, he answered very thoroughly about the war arrangements for Li Jie's request for advice.

Jia Xu said in his letter: "The Wuzhangyuan land is in vain and is in danger. However, if there is no Weinan, then Fazheng will be a thief who defends himself. Now the general has broken through his Weinan camp and drove the enemy into the mouth of Wugong Shuigu. The enemy can no longer take the grain and fodder of Ji County to replenish himself. If they have more stalemates, they will consume more food and food for the Dige Pavilion. The enemy will need a shorter day in the future.

Therefore, we should slow down and wait for the changes. When the Qinling Mountains are covered with heavy snow, the soldiers of Wuzhangyuan will not be able to retreat to Hanzhong. If the enemy is guarding against our army's pursuit and there are many troops left in Wuzhangyuan, our army will not need to attack for a winter. We will wait for seven or eight thousand people to eat 500 stones a day. If we stalemate in three months, the food will be consumed greatly.

If the enemy forces mistakenly think that our army will not attack in winter and transfer the main force back to Hanzhong, Wuzhangyuan will not be left with many people. After the mountain is closed, try to attack and swallow it when it is weak. They will burn all the Taibai Mountain Palace, or take the grain back to Mei County, and then garrison heavily in Mei County."

After reading Jia Xu's reply plan, Li Jue was almost surprised to slap his thigh.

"A clever plan, indeed, it is still necessary to rely on Wenhe to overcome Lu Su and Fa Zheng. Why didn't I expect that if I had to tentatively attack the camp, I shouldn't just waste my life at this time. I should wait until the Qinling Mountains are blocked by heavy snow!

At that time, before the mountain is closed, will Fazheng withdraw or not? Withdraw most of the people, I will kill all the rest! If I don’t withdraw, although the attack will be more difficult, we can stop attacking and let so many of their soldiers eat for a free winter!"

Li Jue immediately sent an order, and the troops immediately entered the stalemate and did not attack and provoke anymore. However, while the stalemate, they could not be idle. Based on Jia Xu's general description and the suggestions given by the topographic book given to him by Li Jue, he began to build some fortifications to block Fazheng on the spot.

These operations are somewhat similar to before the Battle of Yiling. After Liu Bei established the camp, Ma Liang drew the geography of the camp into a picture and sent it to Chengdu for Zhuge Liang to see. However, Li Jue was quite self-aware. He never told Jia Xu, "Is this general not aware of the army?" Ask if you can, ask, and it's good to remotely control it.

Li Jue asked someone to first carry soil and stones in the old camp on the south bank of the Wei River that Xu Huang gave up, to build a wall of earth and stone blocking the exit of Wugong Water Valley. Because the valley was not wide, the construction was quite fast. In this way, Xu Huang could never come out again. At least he could not send troops to attack the besieged Li Jue's army. The besieged troops that Li Jue needed to use this winter could also be greatly reduced.

In addition to repairing the walls and blocking the road, Jia Xu also asked him to learn from the lessons of Hu Feng's death in the previous battle report. He built a bridge in Beiyuan Town, opposite Wuzhangyuan. It is also a floating bridge or a simple arch bridge, which must span the Wei River. In winter, the water level is low, and the construction is convenient, so this matter can be handled quickly.

Once repaired, Li Jue's army can easily cross the Wei River, and help each other in Weinan, Weibei and even between the east and west sides of the Wugong River, and open up one of the three battlefields. Moreover, there must be elite troops from both ends of the bridge to build a stronghold, and a rammed earth-covered bricks can be built and closed. It is absolutely difficult to break through. If Xu Huang dares to use weak forces to turn defense into offense and take the initiative to seize the bridge and the base, it will be a suicide, and Li Jue cannot ask for it.

Not to mention, when he saw Li Jue building a bridge at this location, he thought that the siege was long and timed. Fa was looking at the height of Wuzhangyuan. He was also secretly frightened and thought that Li Jue must have asked someone for advice, maybe it was controlled by the old fox Jia Xu.

Because the Weibei battlefield in Weinan, which is siege from Beiyuan Town, is indeed a magical stroke, Fa Zheng also knows how to do it, and the heroes have similar views.

It’s just that Fa Zheng is not a time traveler, so he didn’t know that in the original history, thirty years later, Sima Yi chose to stalemate in this position because he could not quickly repel Zhuge Liang.

The title of the 102nd chapter of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is "Sima Yi occupied the Wei Bridge in the North Yuan, and Zhuge Liang built wooden ox and flowing horses".

"Li Jie has given advice from experts. It is obvious that he wants to wait for the snow to block the Qinling Mountains in winter, which will make us in a dilemma. Fortunately, our army will not really go to the northern expedition of Mei County next year, so it would be fine if we eat a little more food.

However, after the heavy snow covers the mountain, it is difficult to transport other supplies. If we really fight a harassment war, even if our army repels the enemy, we will not be able to clean the battlefield suddenly. I am afraid that the supplies will be cut off soon. By then, Zhuge Crossbow will be all decorations. What should we do?

I could only take advantage of the closure of the mountain and ask Brother Jing for advice to see if I could use a wheelbarrow to replenish a batch of supplies, so that I could survive the whole winter. Otherwise, I might have to give up Wuzhangyuan and retreat to Taibai Mountain. The plank road on the entrance would have to burn a few miles away.

But that would not deceive Li Jue’s main attack direction... As long as the plank road is slightly burned, Li Jue can immediately transfer all the troops in Mei County, and there is no need to defend here for at least half a year. What should I do..."

Fa Zheng was too young after all, only twenty years old, and finally fell into deep self-doubt due to lack of intelligence.

The moment he saw the "Beiyuan Wei Bridge", Fa Zheng knew the little things and thought of relying on a wheelbarrow (wooden ox and flowing horse) to supplement a batch of winter ammunition, which was also a fixed-style counter-attack. Who told the other time and space Sima Yi and Zhuge Liang to deal with the same trick?

...

Fa Zheng's letter of help was quickly sent to Lusu, with hundreds of empty trolleys pushed by hundreds of soldiers, and one or two thousand surrendered soldiers in Meixian County.

Fortunately, Lu Su, who was in charge of Nanzheng, was not an idle meal. After learning about Fazheng's situation, he also realized that the other party was going to be blocked for the whole winter. No matter how much ammunition was delivered, it would definitely exceed the capacity of the plank road.

Fortunately, with the spread of the technology of farming in Shu, Lu Su also had some new things that his brother-in-law Zhuge Liang had before, and Lu Su himself had just obtained them.

Based on the guiding ideology of "It is better to teach people how to fish than to teach people how to fish", Lu Su packaged a batch of new machines, disassembled them into parts and packaged them with a wheelbarrow, and sent them to Fa Zhengyun to Taibai Mountain for advance base. At the same time, Lu Su also collected all the information on the northern line into a book and sent it to Chengdu to report to Liu Bei and Li Su.

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Four thousand words, there is a third update in the afternoon. Multi-line operation is too difficult to write... I am also trying it. If the plot was not good a while ago, everyone should give it a lot of money. Today, the timeline finally ended and I can return to the protagonist's perspective in the afternoon (Li Su's perspective, the timeline has just been successful in the tax system reform for less than a month).
Chapter completed!