Jiang Wei stood on the ruins of Qishan Fort, overlooking the land of Longxi, and leaving the ancient Qishan Road, there was a flat river in front of him. It was the time of high and cool autumn. Looking into the distance, you can see the vast earth.

Jiang Wei is no less familiar with this land than anyone else. He was born in Ji County, Tianshui County, Longxi. He can reach Ji County seventy or eighty miles north of Qishan Fort. It is the county seat of Tianshui County and is also the first target that Jiang Wei must seize this expedition.

According to information, Guo Huai is in charge of Ji County at this moment. Capturing the thief first takes the king. As long as you capture Ji County and take Guo Huai, the entire Longxi army will be without a leader, and the Longyou counties will be at your fingertips.

Jiang Wei ordered all the troops to follow the plan and first captured Xixian.

Xixian is only more than ten miles away from Qishan Fort, and the Shu army arrived in a moment. Moreover, like Qishan Fort, Xixian is also an almost unprepared city. The Shu army took Xixian without any effort.

When Zhuge Liang first made an expedition in the north, although he had to vomit out the three counties of Longxi that he swallowed into his mouth due to the loss of Jieting, when he retreated, Zhuge Liang forced to move more than a thousand households in Xi County to Hanzhong, which directly led to Xi County becoming a deserted city.

Although some people from other places later moved to Xixian, because it was at the junction of Wei and Shu, and there was constant wars, the population of Xixian was still difficult to recover. Jiang Wei attacked Xixian this time, and there were only more than a hundred families in the city, and there were no troops stationed in the defense. He caught a county magistrate with broken clothes and bare butts. It can be seen that Xixian was so dilapidated.

Jiang Wei's situation is not within Jiang Wei's consideration. Moreover, Jiang Wei's plan to go to the expedition this time was very big. Naturally, a small Xi County would not be taken into consideration in his eyes. Taking Xi County was just Jiang Wei used it as a basis for an offensive.

After arriving in Xi County, Jiang Wei ordered his troops to divide into three groups. Liao Hua led 5,000 troops to attack Nan'an, Zhang Yi led 5,000 troops to attack Shangji, and he personally led the main force to take Xiahou Ba as the vanguard and attack Ji County.

Of course, Liao Hua and Zhang Yi each led 5,000 people to attack Nan'an and Shangji. Unless the Jin army defending the city voluntarily surrendered, even if there were not many defenders in the two cities, the Shu army's attacking force was relatively small, and there was almost no chance of winning the two cities.

Jiang Wei made such arrangements not to ask them to seize the city, but to restrain the Jin army from the east and west sides to prevent the Jin army from providing reinforcements to Ji County. Another intention was to prevent Guo Huai from fleeing east or west, and to annihilate him to Ji County as much as possible.

The vanguard, Xiahou Ba, was more active. When Xiahou Ba was the guardian of the Shu army, he served under Guo Huai. The relationship between the two was not harmonious. Guo Huai deliberately used the Shu army's hands to get rid of Xiahou Ba. The two became enemies and hatred like a sea.

Later, after Xiahou Xuan served as the governor of Yongliang, the general of the Western Expedition, Xiahou Ba's life was better. Unfortunately, the scene was not long. Sima Yi created the Gaopingling Incident in Luoyang, killed Cao Shuang, usurped the government power, and summoned Xiahou Xuan and Xiahou Ba to the capital.

Xiahou Xuan returned without fear, but Xiahou Ba did not have the calmness of his nephew Xiahou Xuan. He was afraid that he would be persecuted by Sima Yi after returning to the capital, so he simply fled overnight and defected to Shu Kingdom.

But as a loyal hawk in the Sima family, Guo Huai received news and was reluctant to leave Xiahou Ba. Xiahou Ba not only lost all his confidants, but also lost his way after escaping into Yinping and almost starved to death in the wilderness. Fortunately, Liu Chan received the news and sent someone to pick him up, which saved Xiahou Ba's life.

After entering Shu, Xiahou Ba secretly vowed that one day, he would kill Guo Huai himself and make a revenge.

This time, the Northern Expedition was the best opportunity. Xiahou Ba insisted on going to fight despite his age, just for the moment of revenge. He and Guo Huai were going to die.

The Shu army was very quick. After capturing Xixian, they immediately divided into three groups and rushed towards Jixian, Shangji and Nan'an. The situation in Longxi changed drastically.

When the news reached Ji County, Guo Huai's face changed drastically. He thought that Jiang Wei was coming at the right time. He had just received the news of the fall of Chang'an, and Jiang Wei had already arrived in Qishan. Everyone called Jiang Wei a wise plan and good at calculating. Guo Huai did not expect that Jiang Wei's calculations were so accurate, and it really lived up to his reputation.

But in fact, this is just a coincidence. It has been nearly two months since Jiang Wei planned to send troops. It will take at least half a month to march from Dazhong to Qishan Fort. Even if Jiang Wei is good at calculating, he will never be able to calculate that Chang'an City will be lost at this time, so this is just a accident by Jiang Wei.

The opportunity for Jiang Wei to send troops was to notice that the Wei and Jin armies fought on the eastern front of Guanzhong. The war over there was something to do with the survival of Guanzhong. The Jin army must have no time to look west. Longxi was empty, which was a great opportunity for the Shu army. As for the fall of Chang'an and the demise of Jin, it was not within Jiang Wei's consideration. Perhaps even Jiang Wei did not think that Sima Zhao's army would be so vulnerable. The Guanzhong defense line would have to be held for a year or two. Such a fragile defeat was really unexpected to everyone.

For Guo Huai, it was a disastrous news that made him even worse. Cao Liang's army alone made him unparalleled. Now, with Jiang Wei being disrupted, the situation in Longyou is really not optimistic.

When he was fighting with the Shu army in the past, although Guo Huai was on a defensive position, he did not come to defend passively, but took the initiative to approach the Shu army, set up passes in dangerous places, delayed the attack of the Shu army, suppressed the Shu army as much as possible at the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains, and at the same time cleared the fields in the Longxi area, and did not give the Shu army too much room for movement. As long as the Shu army was forced to the point where the food was exhausted, it would be difficult for them to retreat.

But this time, Guo Huai did not dare to leave Ji County easily. Not only was the limited military strength of Tianshui County at this moment, Guo Huai also had to consider the issue of the Wei army's attack later.

After the Wei army captured Chang'an, they would definitely not enter Kuma and release Nanshan, but would reorganize the offensive in a very short time and launch an attack on the Longyou area. There was intercepting in front and pursuing soldiers behind them, and Guo Huai felt the pressure deeply.

If you want to defend to Longxi and complete Sima Zhao's plan to entrust your orphan, Guo Huai must not have any thought of underestimating the enemy. He must do his best. Moreover, at the critical moment, he has to leave a way out for himself. If Guo Huai fights one against two, even if the gods come, there is no way to win!
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