Chapter 232: Jiang Wei's Decision
"What?" Liao Hua and Zhang Yiju were so shocked that for a moment, they even suspected that their ears had heard it wrong. Of course, it's no wonder that they are, it's really Jiang Wei's brain hole that is too big.
The importance of the Sword Pavilion to Shu Han is self-evident, it can be said that losing that pass is not as great as losing the Sword Pavilion has a huge impact on Shuzhong, if you give up the Sword Pavilion now, it will mean that their persistence in half a year has become meaningless.
"Boyo, how can this work, the Sword Pavilion is the gateway to the north of Sichuan, once you give up, the Wei soldiers will drive straight in, and Ji Han is afraid that he will lose the country!" Zhang Yi's face turned pale and said in a trembling voice.
The cold glow in Jiang Wei's eyes also dimmed, and his expression looked lonely and lonely, at this moment he no longer looked like a commanding general, but like an old man in his last years.
"Not to mention that the Sword Pavilion is deeply attacked by the belly and back now, in terms of food and grass alone, it can barely support ten days, so what should we do after ten days?"
Liao Hua and Zhang Yiju were shocked, the most difficult thing for the Sword Pavilion Shu army now was not how strong the enemy was, but that the grain and grass were about to run out. The Sword Pavilion is located in the deep mountain cliff, uninhabited, and all the grain and grass are dependent on the supply of Chengdu, and the possibility of raising grain and grass locally is almost zero. And once the grain road is interrupted, the 50,000 Shu army of the Sword Pavilion will fall into a desperate situation, people want to eat grain, horses and grass, there is no food in the army, and the army's spirit is scattered.
Of course, Jiang Wei knows the importance of the Sword Pavilion, but compared with the Sword Pavilion, he cares more about the 50,000 soldiers under his command, they are almost the last elite force of Shu Han, and if the pass is lost, it can be recaptured, but if the 50,000 troops are lost. Shu Han's last glimmer of hope was extinguished.
The most intuitive consequence of the loss of Fucheng is that the grain road is cut off, if Jiang Wei still has one or two months of grain and grass support in his hands at this moment. He definitely wants to give Wu Wei a go, but now in his hands, there are only ten days of grain and grass left, what can he do in ten days, it will be a moment, if he really gets to the point of exhausting the food, he will want to get out of the Sword Pavilion again. I'm afraid it's not that easy.
Now there is not much time left for Jiang Wei to choose, Jiang Wei must make a decision immediately, and he must leave or stay. At this moment, we must make up our minds, and every moment of delay will be more dangerous.
It was undoubtedly a painful decision to give up the Sword Pavilion. It's like luring a wolf into the house. Jiang Wei knew very well that without the support of the Sword Pavilion, the land of Shuzhong might no longer be able to resist the iron cavalry of the Wei people.
However, it's okay in this way, after the Wei people break through the Sword Pavilion Heavenly Danger, their next target will definitely be Chengdu, the capital of Shu, and the one who is on their way is the Wu soldiers who are guarding Fucheng. The two tigers compete for food, and there must be a tragic fight. The cranes and mussels competed, but it was the fisherman who won in the end.
Jiang Wei didn't want to be a fish belly that was sandwiched by others, but wanted to be a yellow finch in the back, so he had to give up the Sword Pavilion. This is similar to the plan he has always insisted on gathering troops and gathering valleys, all of which lure wolves into the house and lure them into the house, luring them and destroying them, the difference is that gathering troops and gathering valleys to rely on anchors is that the enemy's grain route is blocked and it is difficult to supply, while the strategy of the two tigers is to let Wei and Wu fight for a bloody outlet, and both sides will lose.
"Order all the troops, at the third watch tonight, all withdraw from the Sword Pavilion!"
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As soon as the sky was cloudy, the Wei army threw in a new round of attacks.
Even Zhong Hui couldn't remember how many times this was the first time he had launched an attack on Jiange Pass, the entire narrow and steep mountain road was covered with the corpses and bones of the Wei army, the corpses that had not yet decomposed had just fallen in recent days, but those Bai Sensen's human bones could be traced back to last winter, and those bodies were all within the range of the Shu army's bows and crossbows, and no one dared to come to collect the corpses, so it could only be a violent corpse wilderness, so that there were more and more bones, and they were about to fill this mountain road.
Zhong Hui's plan was to retreat to Hanzhong, and at the same time lure Jiang Wei to come and pursue, and set up an ambush to kill him halfway. However, Zhong Hui's plan did not get Sima Zhao's approval, Sima Zhao sent Jia Chong with 50,000 troops to Hanzhong to help, and on the other hand, he increased the intensity of grain transportation, no matter how difficult and dangerous Shu Dao was, the grain and straw of Zhong Hui's army were sent to the Sword Pavilion without any difference.
This also reflects the military differences between Wei and Shu from one side, in the past few years, in order to prepare for the destruction of Shu, Wei has gathered a large number of logistics support materials in Guanzhong, and now, what can really be transported to the front line is just a drop in the bucket, which shows how terrible the background of Great Wei is.
With Sima Zhao's orders, Zhong Hui naturally did not dare to disobey the order, and with sufficient logistics support, Zhong Hui was able to devote himself to the attack with all his might.
However, the Sword Pavilion Pass, which is not open by ten thousand people, is by no means a pass that can be easily taken, Jiang Wei is like a god with soldiers, the tiger is above the Sword Pavilion, and the Wei army has gathered hundreds of thousands of people and horses, and it is impossible to enter within half a year.
The head of the Zhenxi General's Mansion, Shi Du, took the initiative to invite Ying to attack the Sword Pavilion today. Chang Shi was a civilian official, and he was originally regarded as Zhong Hui's staff, but after several months of fighting, Hu Liepang Hui and other generals who had been in charge of the attack of the front army were tired and exhausted.
Du pre-literary and military all-rounder, writing beautiful articles, from this point of view, it is somewhat similar to Zhong Hui, so he is deeply appreciated by Zhong Hui and serves as the most important position in long history.
When the attack was launched, the sky was faintly bright, and the weeds on the edge of the cliff were still covered with dew. Du Pre led 5,000 men and horses to wind their way through the narrow valley road.
However, soon Du Yu found that today's valley was unusually quiet, quiet, completely different from the previous fighting, if in normal times, this position has entered the effective range of the Shu army's bow and crossbow, from the white bones on the side of the road can be seen incomparably.
Du was vigilant and secretly said in his heart; Isn't this Jiang Wei setting up an ambush?
However, Du Yu did not retreat, but sent a scout team to climb up the steep mountain road to find out the news, while the 5,000 men and horses did not move at the bottom of the valley, cautious and cautious, beware of a possible ambush of the Shu army.
The scouts climbed the rock and entered the camp of the Shu army, and the scene in front of them surprised them, the entire camp of the Shu army was actually empty, except for the half-burning stove fire to prove that the Shu army had left not long ago, and there was no one to find at all.
"Qi Du Changshi, there is no one in the Shu army camp!"
Du Pre was stunned, what kind of situation is this, he immediately led the army forward and entered the camp of the Shu army, sure enough, there was no one in the camp, Du Pre sent people to search around, and finally determined that the Shu army was not ambushed, and it was really retreated.
"Hurry up and go to the Ming Zhong Dudu, the Sword Pavilion has been taken!" (To be continued......)