At the same time that Li Wen was fully advancing, his route was also discovered by the spies sent by Ma Wei and Liu Wei.

Sure enough, as they expected at the beginning, Li Wen personally led his troops to take the Chencang Ancient Road and Lianyun Plank Road, and took Hanzhong directly, Li Ruzhang led the men and horses from Meixian County into the Baoxie Valley Road, while Du Tong led the soldiers and horses to take the Qishan Ancient Road, attacking Hanzhong from the flank, trying to threaten the retreat of the Hanzhong garrison.

In the face of such an attack, Ma Wei, Liu Wei and Deng Zilong did not have any worries, which was very small from what they expected.

"Sure enough, Li Wen's march route is similar to what we expected, Lianyun Plank Road and Baoxie Valley Road, as well as Qishan Ancient Road, three ways to march, trying to besiege Hanzhong, in this way, our army's defensive posture is more obvious, from Liuba to Hutou Pass and then to Jitou Pass is our three lines of defense, the last line of defense is Baocheng, in addition to Baocheng can not be lost, the other three lines of defense can be used to lure the enemy deep."

Ma Wei, as the main general, expressed his opinion.

Deng Zilong and Liu Wei have no opinion on this.

However, Deng Zilong said that he was willing to take charge of the defense of Liuba, lead the army to face Li Wen's main force, and handed over the task of guarding Luoyang, Yangping Pass and Chu County to Liu Wei, and Ma Wei himself led his troops to garrison Nanzheng and responded in the center.

In this regard, Liu Wei expressed dissatisfaction.

"Old Dengtou, you're too greedy, aren't you? Liuba can face the two teams of Li Wen and Li Ruzhang, such a good terrain, it's just a matter of being a husband and a wife, you don't want to eat alone, right? I'm going to deal with Du Tong, and Du Tong is also a partial division, at most 30,000 people! ”

Deng Zilong said: "I don't like you to say this, old man, you divided your troops to the north to attack Sichuan and Hanzhong, and I, just in Yunnan, fought for a month, idle for half a month, just a little credit, I haven't told you this yet!" ”

Liu Wei shook his head again and again.

"This is the task arranged by Xiao Dashuai, if you are not satisfied, you go to Xiao Dashuai and say, don't trouble me, I don't care about this matter, I have already discussed it with Brother Ma at the beginning, I am in charge of the north, he is in charge of Yangping Pass, now that you are here, you are in charge of Yangping Pass, Brother Ma volunteered to stay in Nanzheng, what else do you have to say?"

Deng Zilong was suddenly dissatisfied.

"Why don't you know to respect the elderly? How old am I? How long will I live? Can't you just let me make a name for myself once? The veteran is just such an opportunity, you are still young, your road is still long, why fight with me, an old man? ”

Liu Ling's eyes widened.

"It's just that you didn't fight with you when you were old back then, so Tengchong Camp suffered! The result? You're still talking about this? ”

Deng Zilong exploded as soon as he heard this.

"It was all my fault back then? You're not wrong at all, kid? Don't you know how to let the old man go? ”

"Hey you ......"

Liu Wei and Deng Zilong were unhappy in the early years because of the affairs of Yao Anying and Tengchong Ying, but Liu Wei was dismissed, and later Yao An rebelled, and Deng Zilong was also dismissed, and the black history of the two can no longer be erased.

Now there is a quarrel.

As soon as Ma Wei saw the two arguing, he immediately got up to stop it.

"That's it! Don't make any noise! More than ten years ago, both of them are generals in the army, why are they arguing like this? Interesting? ”

Ma Wei was the chief general appointed by Xiao Ruxun, and Deng Zilong and Liu Wei had to shut their mouths indignantly with each other.

This doesn't work, the two still have to quarrel, and they have to be convinced.

So Ma Wei thought of a good way for Xiao Ruxun to settle the dispute in the past.

He turned around and wrote "Liuba" and "Liuyang" on two pieces of paper, then formed a ball, held them in his left hand and right hand respectively, and then turned to face the two of them and stretched out his two hands.

"I hold a paper ball in my left hand and in the palm of my right hand, and the paper ball is written in Liuba and Luoyang respectively, you choose for yourself, whoever chooses the water of Liuba will go to guard Liuba, and whoever chooses Luoyang will go to guard Luoyang, listen to God's orders, no one should complain about anyone."

Deng Zilong and Liu Wei looked at each other and snorted heavily.

"I want my left hand!"

Liu Wei decided.

"The old man wants his right hand!"

Deng Zilong also decided.

So the two of them got a paper ball respectively, and when they opened it, Deng Zilong's face was overjoyed, and Liu Wei covered his eyes, his face full of chagrin.

Deng Zilong chose Liuba, and Liu Wei chose Luoyang.

"This is God's choice, don't blame me."

Deng Zilong laughed triumphantly, and Liu Wei turned his head unhappily.

As soon as Ma Wei saw that the dispute was resolved, he smiled and said: "In this way, there will be no problem, the dam will be handed over to General Deng Lao to guard, and Luoyang will ask General Liu." ”

Subsequently, Ma Wei decided to give Deng Zilong 30,000 soldiers and horses to defend along the way, while Liu Wei took 20,000 soldiers to defend the first line of Luoyangyang, Pingguan and Xianxian.

The same terrain is dangerous, the terrain is also narrow, and it is difficult for a large army to deploy, so even if the total strength of Li Wen's department reaches 100,000, it is really right, and it cannot give full play to the advantage of 100,000 troops, but it must be limited by the narrowness of the road and the harsh environment.

Therefore, compared with the Northwest Army of Li Wensuo's subordinate from afar, although the Hanzhong garrison army was only 60,000 troops, it had a greater advantage.

As long as the 100,000 Northwest Army under Li Wensuo was intercepted in the mountains and rivers of the Qinling Mountains, they would be even more unable to give full play to their advantages, and could only continue to fight fiercely with the Hanzhong garrison, which occupied the dominant terrain and situation.

Food is their lifeline, their logistics are extremely fragile, and the supply line is very long, extremely vulnerable, and Ma Wei also aimed at their food routes, so he wrote to Ma Qiancheng and Qin Liangyu, trying to recruit their white pole soldiers to join the battle.

The troops, who were extremely adept at mountain warfare and climbing mountains and rivers, could fully implement Mawei's tactics and attack their grain routes like divine soldiers descending from heaven, destroying their extremely fragile lifeline.

This is the case, if the logistics are not strong enough or the reserves are not sufficient, if there is no progress for more than a month, they will face the embarrassing situation of having no food available, just like Cao Zhen and Cao Shuang back then, and even Zhong Hui.

The difficult Shu Road is the great enemy of transporting grain, so it is quite difficult for both Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition and Cao Wei's counterattack, and the difficult and dangerous place of the Qinling Shu Road is a common problem for both sides.

But at the moment, there is no doubt that Li Wen is facing more pressure, and Ma Wei is less pressure, and Ma Wei and the others, who are more convenient for both supply and support, have the advantage, and can guard with peace of mind and wait for Li Wen to attack.

Set up layers of defense lines, give up appropriately, give him hope for victory, give him false confidence, so that Li Wen is more and more unable to withdraw in time, more and more like a gambler, soon, the gambler's psychology will control Li Wen, step by step to lure Li Wen to death, until he can never go back.

Ma Wei didn't plan to let the people around Xiao Ruxun, such as Chen Luan, Li Wenyuan, Zhao Hu and Luo Rong, dominate the military merits.

In any case, you must win a hearty victory here to prove your ability, and when you are rewarded for your merits and deeds in the future, you will be able to get more things and hold more power!