Speaking of food, Zhong Huijun's grain was only in 15 days. So how many troops are there, Guan Yi and Huo Yi? (Jiang Wei's army in Jiange has a continuous supply of food in Brazil, so there is no need to think about it)

No one believed it. Before taking Yang'an Pass, Guan Yi's entire army had only four days of food left. After taking Yang'an Pass, Guan Yi's army was holding 200,000 stones of food in his hand.

Who asked Zhong Huijun to come from Chang'an and all the way to Jiange that Zhong Huijun actually took down such a solid stronghold as Yang'an Pass? Where can he stock up here without stocking up grain?

Yang'an Pass is not only a grain transit station, but also a grain storage base. Once there is a problem with the grain supply in Guanzhong, the grain storage here must be enough for Zhong Hui's army to support for a month. Therefore, the grain stored in Yang'an Pass has never been less than 150,000 stones.

Guan Yi's army now has only 11,000 people. Even if there are more than 1,000 prisoners, the food stored here is enough for him to last for nearly two years!

Relatively speaking, the situation of food storage on Huo Yi's side is not very good. Because the food in Baishui Pass was transported from the Jiange camp. Generally, the amount of food storage is not more than ten days - this is the ten-day food ration for the two thousand garrisons. This time Huo Yi brought 13,000 people.

At this time, Ma Jie's role was revealed. Anyone who is familiar with Sichuan geography knows that when Baishui Pass goes northwest, he will enter the Qiang people's settlement area. Now, the descendants of General Shenwei Tian, ​​who has been regarded as a legend among the Qiang people, have returned. Isn't it natural to ask everyone for some food?

The Qiang people are a nation that respects strength. The most important thing about Ma Chao having such great prestige in the Qiang tribe back then was that he was invincible in single-handed fights and unparalleled cavalry. In addition, Wudu County was originally the place where Ma Chao was stationed in the past, and the Qiang people here were very familiar with the Ma family. Now, Ma Jie, who perfectly inherited Ma Chao's bravery, visited the nearby Qiang tribe under the leadership of thousands of Qiang surrendered soldiers. Ma Jie fought one-handedly and received a warm response from the Qiang people. Many older Qiang people even held Ma Jie's hand and burst into tears, saying that they saw General Shenweitian again, and even if they died immediately, they would be free of complaints.

Moreover, this time Ma Jie did not rely entirely on his grandfather's reputation to get it for nothing. Fruit wine accounts for too much weight, so I didn't bring it in this marching. But soap, candles, and bone porcelain have brought a lot. These novel things have been widely sought after by various Qiang tribes. When Ma Jie asked everyone to borrow food, everyone expressed very happily: What to borrow? The descendants of General Tian still need to borrow it? Give it! General, we will give it as long as you stay in Baishui Pass!

Therefore, when the three fulcrums of Shu Han had no food problems, the only thing that should be fought to the death was Zhong Hui.

Of course, the first one to launch the attack was definitely not Zhong Hui's troops, but Xun Kai's troops.

On December 14, Zhang Zun's team stationed at the northern gate of Yang'an Pass welcomed the three thousand Xun Kaijun who arrived in a hurry.

Under Xun Kai's strict order, the three thousand Wei troops launched an ant attack on Yang'an Pass. This low-tech attack was of course easily repelled by Zhang Zun.

But Xun Kai was not frustrated in the face of failure. As a child of a bureaucratic family, he knew very clearly. In this system, it doesn’t matter how you do it. What matters is your attitude: I rushed over and grabbed the pass immediately after receiving the news. Who knew that the enemy’s strength was strong. So it’s not my business that I couldn’t take it down.

After successfully throwing the blame out, Xun Kai began to write letters to Du Yu who was far away in Chang'an and Li Fu and Liu Qin who were not far away to inform them of the situation here.

On the afternoon of the 15th, Li Fu and Liu Qin hurriedly led a unit to Xun Kai's Seoul camp. After discussing for a while, the three men drew some troops from each of the three troops. They pieced together a unit of 10,000 people and launched an attack on Yang'an Pass again.

This time the attack looked a little bit like that. He temporarily built a siege car, a siege tower, and even two siege cars were killed. However, facing Yang'an Pass, which the Shu Han government has been strengthening for decades, this attack power is far from enough.

The three generals drove the soldiers of this side to fight three times. After three failures without any suspense and heavy losses, the soldiers and low-level officers began to strongly resist Shangguan's various orders. Seeing this situation, the three generals did not dare to use their strength anymore, so they had to withdraw their troops for the time being.

"Oh, it's not easy to capture a strong city like Yang'an Pass, and our troops are still too few."

"Yes, the three families together had only 25,000 people, and most of them had to be divided into the three places to take care of. It would be a huge risk to draw out 10,000 people to attack. If there were too many losses, I'm afraid that the Shu army in Seoul and Lecheng would rush out."

"Oh, now we can only wait for reinforcements from Chang'an."

"Well, I hope that Baishui Pass is still in your hands with General Zhenxi, otherwise..."

On December 18, Du Yu, who was in Chang'an, received a report from Xun Kai.

Du Yu, the Marquis of Fengleting of Cao Wei, was 41 years old this year (actually). His current position is the chief of the General's Mansion in Zhenxi. When Zhong Hui went on the expedition, he stayed in Chang'an to preside over the logistics support work of the entire army of attacking Shu.

Although compared with Xun Kai's dazzling family background, Du Yu's family background was slightly weaker, but it was only a little weaker.

His grandfather was Du Ji, a famous minister of Cao Wei. His father was Du Shu, who was famous for his integrity and integrity. He married Sima Zhao's sister himself, and he was one of the core figures of the Sima Group.

As a top family in Yongzhou, the Du family has a family background. In addition, he is extremely talented and hardworking. Therefore, even in the Sima Zhao family, which is full of talents, he is outstanding.

He was a famous writer, scientist, economist, and military strategist in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. In the basic plane of history, after Yang Hu's death, he became the commander of the Jingzhou Front Army of the Western Jin Dynasty and was one of the three commanders of the front enemies in the later battle of Jin to destroy Wu.

Of course, these things have not happened yet. Du Yu’s current military talent has not been shown, and as a deep patient with hyperthyroidism (Du Yu has hyperthyroidism, a huge neck, and is clearly recorded in history books), Mr. Du Yu is thin and cannot ride a horse or draw a bow. So at this time, he was just a logistics support officer.

Despite this, when Du Yu received Xun Kai's report, he immediately discovered the dangers.

"Oh no! Now Zhong Shiji's 100,000 troops are trapped in a cage!" Du Yu was not an idiot, he would not have hoped that Baishui Pass was still in his own hands. In his opinion, since the enemy had such great determination to go deep into Yang'an Pass alone, why would he not know how to take Baishui Pass at the same time?

The reaction is fast and the judgment is correct. But what can I do?

The answer is: No! Because Du Yu is basically in his hands now! To be precise, he has no decent combat soldiers except for five thousand baggage soldiers responsible for escorting food and grass.

The Yongliang Corps of Cao Wei had a total of 70,000 people, and this time the attack on Shu was 60,000. The remaining 10,000 people were stationed far away in Longxi to guard against the Qiang people there. Therefore, one is that they cannot be transferred, and the other is that even if they are transferred, they will not be able to play a role in the short term.

Cao Wei's central army had a total of 200,000. This time, 100,000 were issued. If the remaining 100,000 were drawn from Luoyang, the central government's deterrence against the local government would be greatly reduced. In the remaining areas, the Jingzhou Corps had only 50,000, and Liu Qin brought 10,000 into Western Shu. I heard that the Eastern Wu in the south had already rectified the troops in Jingzhou, so the remaining army in Jingzhou could not move at all.

The soldiers in Jingzhou cannot move, and of course the soldiers in Yangzhou cannot move either: one is that they are too far away and there is nothing left when they are mobilized. The other is that the Eastern Wu has already started an attack in the direction of Yangzhou - so, no matter how useless the ally of the Eastern Wu is, it is still meaningful to Shu Han.

Then we can only draw the Bingzhou troops. Although the 20,000 Bingzhou troops here need to be guarded against the Xihe Xiongnu rebellion, the Huns have become very weak in recent years. Therefore, it is okay to draw the soldiers here for the time being.

Thinking of this, Du Yu immediately started writing letters.

The first letter was written to Xun Kai and others. The general meaning is that it would be fine if Yang'an Pass cannot be defeated. It doesn't matter whether the three places of Seoul, Lecheng and Golden City are surrounded. The current task of your troops is: to retreat slightly north to the southern end of the entrance of the Xigu, Ziwugu and other valleys, and defend it on the spot. In short, we must ensure that the reinforcements enter Hanzhong in the future - if there are reinforcements. Of course, if there are no reinforcements, your more than 20,000 people can at least be saved and will not be trapped in it.

The second letter was written to Prime Minister Sima Zhao: Boss! That's the situation now. I think the nearest Bingzhou troops should be urgently drawn into Hanzhong for rescue. In addition, the Luoyang central army should also send a small number of them. At the same time, the military farm troops from Qingzhou and Xuzhou in Qingzhou were drawn into Luoyang to supplement the combat effectiveness of the Luoyang central army.

The third letter was written to the governor of Bingzhou of Cao Wei. The general idea was to ask the other party to start mobilizing troops early. When the order from Luoyang arrived, you could set off immediately.
Chapter completed!