Of course, in the early stages, Cao Liang would not reveal his intention to march from Jiaozhou. The main attack directions were naturally the North Road and the Middle Road. Once the war began, these two roads could almost attract the vast majority of Shu troops. If the North Road and the Middle Road were progressing smoothly, Yang Hu from the South Road would probably remain silent and no longer participate in the attack on Shu.

But if the attacks on the North and Middle Roads are frustrated or the war is stalemate, Yang Hu's central army will be used as a surprise weapon and stabbed him hard in the back of Shu Kingdom.

Therefore, Yang Hu's men and horses were not moving at the moment. They even stayed in the Longbing area of ​​Jiaozhi County, and did not even have the posture of rushing to the southern and central borders.

This invisibly reduced the vigilance of the Shu army. After all, from Jiaozhi to Nanzhong, it was almost a primitive and barbaric land. The road was rugged and smoky and smoky. It was difficult to find people within a thousand miles. It was full of wolf, insect, tiger, leopard, venomous snake, and beasts. Almost no one dared to enter Yizhou from this road.

Cao Liang asked Yang Hu to set up a suspicious formation and put on a careless look in Jiaozhou to paralyze the Shu army to the greatest extent.

In secret, we secretly raise food and grass, survey roads, draw a detailed road map, and prepare to march from Jiaozhou to Nanzhong at any time.

Cao Liang also hoped that Yang Hu's troops would not be used in the future. After all, this was a thorny road. If the Wei army really wanted to attack Shu from this road, it would inevitably have to bear a huge price of casualties. The difficulty of its journey was no less than that of Jiange on the north road and Kuimen on the middle road. The Wei army would inevitably be surprised and attacked them unprepared, so that they could achieve the effect of a surprise attack.

Once the action plan is exposed and the Shu army guards the dangerous land in Nanzhong, the Wei army will inevitably fall into a dilemma of advancing and retreating.

Therefore, unlike the Wei army in the middle of the North Road, the Wei army prepared for war with great fanfare, Yang Hu was quite low-key in Jiaozhou. He stationed all the five battalions of the Central Army in different counties, and in the area near Nanzhong, he did not station any troops at all. No matter who was asked to see, he did not believe that the Wei army's so scattered troops were an offensive model.

In fact, Yang Hu's troops in each county were carefully arranged. The three infantry battalions were stationed in Jiaozhi and the nearby Yulin County and Hepu County respectively, while the cavalry were stationed in Jiuzhen County and Gaoliang County, which were relatively far away. If urgent gatherings were to be carried out, at least five days, or at most ten days, all the troops could be concentrated in Jiaozhi County.

No matter who sees this kind of force configuration, he does not believe that the Wei army will launch an attack from Jiaozhou to Shu Kingdom. After all, Yang Hu split the army too scattered and stationed in various counties in Jiaozhou. The two farthest battalions were more than a thousand miles apart. With such a long distance, how could the Wei army complete the assembly in time?

In fact, this was deliberately arranged by Yang Hu to give people the illusion that they were completely unable to attack Nanzhong. Once Yang Hu received the order to attack, he would immediately summon the troops of each battalion. It goes without saying that the infantry camps were stationed in Longbian. The Changshui Camp and Zhongjian Camp stationed in Yulin and Hepu will quickly gather in Jiaozhi. Yulin and Hepu are adjacent to Jiaozhi County. In addition, the Changshui Camp and Zhongjian Camp are also relatively close to Jiaozhi. With the marching speed of Wei's infantry, Jiaozhi will be able to reach Jiaozhi within five or six days.

Even if the Guoqi Camp and Xiaoqi Camp stationed in Jiuzhen County and Gaoliang County are slightly further away from Jiaozhi County, the cavalry's marching speed is far better than that of infantry. As long as the Guoqi Camp and Xiaoqi Camp receive the order and rush on their way, they can arrive at Longbian at the same time as the Zhongjian Camp of Changshui Camp.

Yang Hu estimated that the entire central army would not gather for more than five to seven days. Within ten days, he would be able to lead his army to the border between Jiaozhou and Yizhou, and launch an offensive against Xinggu County in Nanzhong.

The difficulty of launching an attack on Shu Kingdom was far better than his expedition to Jiaozhou. After all, when he was conquering Jiaozhou, Yang Hu used sea transportation to solve the problem of logistics grain and grass supply. Most counties in Jiaozhou were based on the sea, and only Cangwu and Yulin were based on the sea. In any place near the sea, they could use sea boats to transport grain and grass to the forefront, which invisibly solved a big trouble for Yang Hu.

If it was all relied on land for transportation of grain and grass supplies, it would be a difficult task for the Wei army. If it was as far as Rinan County, the supply line of the Wei army could be thousands of miles away. Just a task of escorting grain and transporting grass would be enough to crush Yang Hu.

This time, when Yang Hu conspired to attack Nanzhong of Shu, the first thing he needed to solve was the problem of food and grass supply. Nanzhong went deep into the hinterland of the mainland and was far away from the sea. The Wei army could no longer use sea transportation. The nearest shore point was Jiaozhi County.

Now Yang Hu can only transport all the grain and grass to Jiaozhi County, build a granary in Longbian, and build the largest transit station. All the grain and grass needed for this attack on Nanzhong will be transferred and transported by Jiaozhi. Although the Central Army may face the difficulties of replenishing grain and grass during the subsequent attack, as long as the granary in Jiaozhi is full, there will be no food out of the front line of Nanzhong.

So at this stage, Yang Hu could only build a large granary in Longbian to receive food and grass from the sea. After Cao Liang formulated the plan for the Central Army to participate in the anti-Shu operation, he fully implemented the matter of transporting food and grass to Jiaozhi. Now not only Yangzhou's grain and grass are transported to Jiaozhou in an all-round way, but also Xuzhou and Qingzhou and others are also continuously gathering in Jiaozhou through the shipping route.

In order to attack Shu, the entire Wei State began a large-scale transfer of grain from north to south and east to west, and devoted the whole country to prepare for the attack on Shu.

The saturated supply proposed by Deng Ai is not only suitable for the northern line, but also plays an important role in the southern line. Only when sufficient food and grass supply can reach several times redundancy can Yang Hu not worry about the consumption of food and grass supply in the middle, and always allow the frontline troops to have food, clothing, and weapons to use.

It may not be too difficult to fight from Jiaozhou to Nanzhong, but if the Central Army wants to cross the entire seven counties of Nanzhong and enter Pingyuan, it will also be a journey that requires more than 2,000 miles. If the Shu army uses a method of firm walls and clearing the fields along the way to block the Wei army's advance, the Central Army must achieve self-sufficiency in food and grass.

The more you move forward, the greater the difficulties will be. However, Yang Hu has made sufficient preparations. He has a deeper understanding of difficulties. The Central Army, which is good at fighting tough battles, will never let Cao Liang down.
Chapter completed!