Zhuge Liang left 13,000 men for Xiang Lang, with a large amount of ordnance support. Guo Huai in the city was not dangerous to him, so Xiang Lang was not worried about Guo Huai, but the war at Mumen.
He thought for a long time and told Hu Ji that anyway, this batch of military rations had been robbed by Zhang He. Even if the Prime Minister defeated Zhang He, Zhang He probably would not leave the food to the Prime Minister. The lack of food is an undoubted result. We cannot
Wait, we should ask for help from Guanzhong and ask General Zhendong and General Zhenbei to send some more food for emergency relief.
Hu Ji had a clear idea in his mind. Xiang Lang said that he wanted to ask for food from Guanzhong, but actually he wanted to inform Wei Ba of the battle situation in Longyou and let him prepare for contingency. The food was just an excuse.
Considering the current predicament, Hu Ji agreed cooperatively. Xiang Lang immediately sent people to take a boat down the river, pass through Ji Valley, and enter Guanzhong. This is the fastest way from Shanggui to Guanzhong.
Xiang Lang's messenger had just passed through Jigu when he saw ships that were almost crowded throughout the Wei River. Every ship was filled with grain.
When the messenger inquired, he learned that this was food prepared by the Fufeng Prefect. It was all stored in Linwei County and ready to be transported to Longyou at any time. Wei Ba, who joined the army he was eager to see, was not in Chang'an either. He had already arrived at Longguan.
The messenger was overjoyed and immediately turned around and rushed to Longguan.
After reading Xiang Lang's letter "asking for food", Wei Ba felt like crying. Will Zhuge Liang, who is known for his caution, be robbed of food roads by Zhang He? Which soldier does not know the importance of food roads? Even I, a newbie on the battlefield, know how to rob the food road.
Food Road is a sure-kill skill. Prime Minister, why are you so careless?
It's just carelessness. Your attempt to block Zhang He at the wooden door is too self-righteous, right? Zhang He has food supplies and has regained his strength. Will he still listen to your mercy? With ten thousand fine cavalry, no matter if he faces Ma Su
20,000 people or your 20,000 people, Zhang He has a very high winning rate. If you join forces together and wait for work, you may still have a chance. Now split up, use infantry to chase the cavalry, run for three hundred miles, and seize Zhang He's
The chances are slim.
If you are captured without any help, is it still Zhang He? You have been fooled by Zhang He once. You are not aware of it, but you still want to catch the turtle in the urn. Isn't this a little too confident? Haven't you recognized what kind of opponent Zhang He is? Do you want to?
In terms of dexterity and adaptability, he is better than all of you put together.
Use your own shortcomings to attack the other's strong points. Prime Minister, if you really win this battle, it will be truly unbelievable.
"Zhongde, the prime minister is about to lose." Wei Ba threw Xiang Lang's letter to Zhao Guang and said with a wry smile: "He was actually robbed of the grain road by Zhang He."
Zhao Guang was confused. He just saw the change in the situation from Wei Ba's face, but didn't know the details. He was in a hurry. After hearing Wei Ba's words, he was first surprised and then stunned: "What kind of food road? Where did it come from?
The grain road?"
"Of course it was the grain shipped from Hanzhong, which was robbed by Zhang He." Wei Ba slapped his thigh, shaking the wound, and the pain made him take a few breaths.
Zhao Guang quickly read the letter, frowned, and sighed: "This is really God's will."
Wei Ba grinned and asked in surprise: "What do you mean?"
"I'm talking about Zhang He's robbery of grain." Zhao Guang shook the letter in his hand: "This is simply an incredible coincidence."
"Coincidence, what a coincidence, this is common sense among military strategists."
Zhao Guang smiled, very bitterly, and shook his head repeatedly: "Ziyu, you think too simply. How can the Prime Minister have any food channels? All the Prime Minister's food is in the camp in Shanggui. He has no food channels at all. This
The Tiaoliang Road is basically temporary, who would have thought that it would be hit by Zhang He?"
Wei Ba was confused.
Zhao Guang had no choice but to explain to him. Only then did Wei Ba realize that he had taken it for granted again.
It is true that before the troops and horses move, food and grass go first. But this also depends on different situations. When fighting on the mainland, because of the convenience of transportation, and considering that the most forward position may be lost by the enemy's surprise attack, there is no need to reserve food.
Too many. After the war begins, the rear will continue to transport food to the front. At this time, there will be relatively fixed food roads, which can easily become the target of enemy sneak attacks. Both the enemy and ourselves will regard this food road as a key point of contention.
But for an expedition like Zhuge Liang's, the situation is completely different. It is obvious that the troops will no longer serve and the food will not last for three years. Expeditions with large armies consume too much. Generally speaking, they will not prepare for long-term operations, and they will not be prepared for short-term operations.
Two or three months is only half a year. If you can succeed, continue fighting. If you can't, retreat first and come back next time.
Therefore, the expeditionary army will carry enough rations for three or four months. When the battle fails to achieve the expected goal, it will transport food a second time. The need for a second transport of food is already an unfavorable battle situation. Only when tangible benefits are seen,
Only when they can succeed as long as they persist, they will transport food for the second time. Otherwise, most people will take the initiative to retreat.
For the expeditionary army, his granary is by his side and protected nearby. There is no so-called grain road. If a second or even third time of transporting grain is needed, a grain road will appear. From Qishan to Shanggui, there are two
For more than a hundred miles, the time it takes for this grain road to appear is only four to five days, and no more than six or seven days at most.
Six or seven days and hundreds of miles apart, even if the enemy knew that such a food road might exist, it would be difficult to capture the fighter plane. Because it is too far away, send scouts deep behind the enemy lines to find out the news, and wait for you to send the news back, the army
If you come here again, the food may have been transferred and the food road has completed its mission. There is no chance for you to rob the food.
Fighters are hard to capture, and that's just one aspect. Everyone knows the importance of food. Who wouldn't send heavy troops to protect it? So easily let you rob it? With Zhuge Liang's caution, at least ten thousand people must be sent to protect it. Even if Zhang He found out the news
, it is also very difficult to rob the grain road.
It is by no means easy to rob the grain road. In the famous Battle of Guandu, why was Yuan Shao's rations robbed by Cao Cao? It was not because the rations were on the road, but because the rations were stored in Wuchao, forty miles away from Guandu. It was too
A little further, this is a flaw. What's more terrible is that Xu You, who was familiar with Yuan Shao's flaw, rebelled and revealed the news to Cao Cao. Cao Cao himself was about to run out of food, so he took a gamble and personally led the main force to raid Wuchao
, I want to fight Yuan Shao to the death, burn your food, and force you to retreat.
In other words, if Yuan Shao had not stationed his army rations in Wuchao so far away from the camp, and if Xu You had not rebelled, it would have been a fantasy for Cao Cao to rob Yuan Shao's army rations. These two conditions are indispensable.
Now, Zhuge Liang's grain is stationed in Shanggui, which is not that far away, and no one has rebelled and revealed the news to Zhang He that there will be a second batch of grain. However, Zhang He was able to seize this opportunity. It can only be said to be God's will.
For two hundred miles, the scouts had to hide their whereabouts. When they found a grain road, they reported it to Zhang He. It would be at least two days later. It would take at least two to three days for Zhang He to rush back. In other words, Zhang He didn't waste any time.
He only had two days at most. As long as there was a slight delay along the way, by the time he arrived, the food would have been safely transported to the camp in Shanggui. What more food could he rob?
Stealing food has always meant that the attacking party robs the defending party. Firstly, the probability of success is relatively greater, and secondly, it feeds the enemy, which can greatly reduce one's own transportation costs.
No matter from which point of view, it was an accident that Zhang He robbed Zhuge Liang's food supply.
"In my estimation, Zhang He may have had this idea from the beginning, but to actually turn the idea into reality, there are more opportunities." Zhao Guang sighed, admiring and regretting at the same time: "You can indulge yourself a little bit.
If you seize such a fleeting opportunity, you are worthy of being a good general. If it's not God's will, then what is it?"
Wei Ba pondered for a moment, twirled his fingers and said, "We have all overlooked a problem."
"What's the problem?"
"Zhang He has been fighting here for many years, and he is probably more familiar with the terrain here than any of us." Wei Ba pondered: "His understanding of the Prime Minister far exceeds the Prime Minister's understanding of him. The Prime Minister's deployments are all
In his plan, but his deployment, the prime minister knew very little. Coupled with the superiority of cavalry over infantry, it is expected that he played the prime minister in circles. "
Zhao Guang's eyes tightened and he nodded slightly. From the information vaguely revealed in Xiang Lang's letter, Zhuge Liang and Ma Di wanted to stop quietly and wait for Zhang He to run out of food. It should be said to be a safe strategy. If the opponent is not Zhang He, but a weaker one
A small general, facing Zhuge Liang, must be in a dilemma and have nothing to do.
Unfortunately, the opponent Zhuge Liang encountered was Zhang He, and Zhang He saw through Zhuge Liang's plan and used his plan to move back and forth between Luomen and Shanggui, and then grabbed the vital point and hit it with one blow. He used his speed advantage
, successfully achieved the reversal.
Zhuge Liang may soon understand Zhang He's intentions, but his army had no time to react. In the face of the fast-moving cavalry, the disadvantage of the infantry was irreparable. When Zhang He took advantage of the cavalry to the extreme, Zhuge Liang would no longer be able to react.
Even if you are smart, you can only follow behind and eat ashes.
If Zhuge Liang had not made a big mistake before, but Zhang He was too clever, then now, Zhuge Liang gave up the position advantage under Shanggui City, gave up his advantage in heavy ordnance, and instead tried to surround and annihilate Zhang He at the wooden gate. This is the real mistake.
wrong.
So Wei Ba said that the Prime Minister was about to lose. He wanted to fight in formation, but Zhang He was not fooled. Zhang He wanted to lure him to the wooden gate, but he rushed there day and night. The superiority of both sides was already clear, how could he not be defeated?
"It is inevitable that Longyou will be lost again." Wei Ba stood up with difficulty while holding on to the table: "We should now consider how to fight the battle after losing Longyou."
Zhao Guang nodded silently. He also knew that Zhuge Liang was mobilized by Zhang He and fell into a disadvantageous situation, and his failure was imminent. If nothing unexpected happened, Zhang He would soon regain Longyou, and the only victory left in this Northern Expedition would be Guanzhong.
"If you want to fight for Longyou again in the future, it's best to control Shanggui." Wei Ba slowly turned in circles and thought hard. Longyou is the place where horses are raised, and Cao Wei refuses to give up. If Shu Han wants to fight for hegemony,
It was also determined to win. After Longyou fell into the hands of Zhang He again, the position of Shanggui became very important. If the Shu Han occupied Shanggui, they would be able to control the upper reaches of the Wei River in the future, preventing Cao Wei from going down the river. Cao Wei controlled Shanggui and blocked the Shu Han.
On the way out of Jigu, you can launch an attack on Guanzhong at any time.
"Reply to Duke Xiang that the army supplies have arrived at Weiwei and are on standby at any time. If possible, lure Guo Huai out of the city and annihilate him in a field battle."
Wei Ba then said to Zhao Guang: "Zhongde, gather all the cavalry and prepare to cooperate with Xiang Gong to fight."
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