Chapter 407: Guerrilla Captain
Behind Wuzhang Plain, it is one of the ancient roads of the Qinling Mountains of the Slope Valley, Zhuge Liang's Sixth Northern Expedition, it is the soldiers out of the Slope Valley, in the Wuzhang Plain and Sima Yi confrontation, that is to say, Wuzhang Plain through the Slope Valley, you can go straight to Hanzhong.
And this ruined division is from Hanzhong, although there is no military flag, but judging from the crimson military uniforms on their bodies, it is undoubtedly the army of Shu Han.
The general of the leader is about thirty years old, with a black and purple face, a wide mouth, and heavy eyebrows twisted into a ball at the moment, and the chasing soldiers behind him are chasing after him, but as soon as he came out of the Xieyu Pass, he encountered a heavy blockade, and a desperate mood rose in his heart, not only him, but hundreds of Shu troops felt the despair, and rushed out of the Xiegu Valley to make them feel a trace of luck, but the scene in front of them undoubtedly wiped out the last glimmer of hope.
"Captain Lu, we ...... What are we going to do? An officer behind him said in a slightly hoarse voice.
After the fall of Hanzhong two years ago, Lu Xun and three other guerrilla captains entered behind enemy lines to carry out guerrilla operations. Zhonghui's army had little stop in Hanzhong, and after conquering Yang'an Pass, he pointed directly at the Sword Pavilion, entered Shuzhong, and handed over the affairs of Hanzhong to Li Fu and Xun Kai, the deputy general who were newly appointed as the Taishou of Hanzhong, and left 20,000 troops for Li Fu and Xun Kai, so that he was responsible for clearing the remnants of the Shu army in Hanzhong.
Although most of the area of Hanzhong has been fallen, but its Seoul, Lecheng, and Golden Sanwei have not been lost, and they are guarded by Wang Han, Jiang Bin, and Liu Yin, respectively.
Although the Wei army had an advantage in the strength of the Hanzhong region. However, the two cities of Han and Le have always been the core of Jiang Wei's plan to gather troops in the valley, and the city defense is quite strong, Li Fu and Xun Kai have also tried to attack Han and Le, but they soon found that it is almost an impossible task to take the two cities of Han and Le through a strong attack. Therefore, the Wei army only adopted the strategy of encircling but not fighting the two cities of Han and Le, trying to force the Shu army to succumb after running out of food through a long-term siege.
The two cities of Han and Le were each guarded by 5,000 soldiers, and the Golden City was even more pitiful, with only more than 1,000 people, but these key passes, deep trenches, thick walls, and sufficient grain and grass were originally part of Jiang Wei's plan to clear the wilderness with strong walls prepared for the Wei people. At this moment, the three cities are besieged, Wang Han, Jiang Bin, and Liu Yin dare not easily abandon the city and break through, so they can only hold on and wait for help, but this is a year and a half.
The two armies of Wei and Shu faced each other in Hanzhong for a year and a half, and except for a few offensive and defensive battles, most of the time the two sides held their positions and did not invade each other.
Ostensibly calm Hanzhong. The undercurrent was surging, and Luson and several other guerrilla armies. The performance is extremely active.
In Jiang Wei's plan, the role of the guerrilla army was to harass the enemy and cut off and disrupt the enemy's logistical supply lines. Although the final situation in Hanzhong had long been out of Jiang Wei's plan, Lu Xun and the other four guerrilla captains still carried out Jiang Wei's original orders to the letter.
Compared with Wang Han and Jiang Bin who were trapped in the city, Lu Xun's situation was even more dangerous, except for the three cities of Hancheng, Lecheng and Jinjin. The rest of the territory fell into the hands of the Wei army, and there was still food and grass in Hanle City that could last for a long time, while Lu Xun and these guerrilla captains were struggling to survive in the enemy-occupied area, with no logistical supplies and no soldiers to replenish. Even the connection between them was severed by the Wei army.
The four guerrilla captains were active in different areas, the eastern part of Hanzhong was active in the east of Jinjin, the western part of Hanzhong was active in the area between Hancheng and Yang'anguan, and the remaining two were both active in the north of Hanzhong, one in the vicinity of Xingshi, and the other in the direction of Keigu. The men and horses commanded by Lu Xun were the one that was active near the Kei Valley.
Hanzhong is surrounded by high mountains, these mountains undoubtedly provide the best place for the guerrilla troops, Lu Xun and other four guerrilla captains relied on the mountains to attack the Wei army besieging Han, Lehe and Jinjin and the long supply lines of the Wei army, and the frequent attacks caused great trouble to the Wei army.
At first, the Wei army didn't care about these guerrilla forces at all, they were small in number, and they couldn't form a decent scale of battle at all, and they could only fight a small fight, but it was these inconspicuous small units that frequently attacked the logistics and supply channels of the Wei army, and even Zhonghui had a headache for them.
After Zhonghui entered Shuzhong, all the grain and grass baggage had to rely on the supply of Guanzhong, whether it was to take the Bao Slope Road, or Chencang Road, Meridian Road, it must pass through Hanzhong, and then from Hanzhong to the Sword Pavilion into Shuzhong, such a long supply line undoubtedly provided Lu Xun with the best opportunity for them to sneak attack. The small guerrilla forces of the Shu army are elusive, which is unguardable, and several times the grain and grass have been robbed, which will bring great trouble to the bell in Shu.
For this reason, Zhong Hui specially ordered Li Fu and Xun Kai to completely wipe out the Shu guerrilla forces in the Hanzhong area to ensure that the logistics and supply channels of the Wei army were unimpeded.
After receiving the order, Li Fu and Xun Kai immediately deployed a plan to eliminate the guerrilla forces of the Shu army, and mobilized nearly 10,000 troops to encircle and suppress the guerrilla forces on all sides of Hanzhong without affecting the siege of Han and Le.
Xun Kai personally served as the commander of the encirclement and suppression, and in the first battle, he broke the first guerrilla army of the Shu army that was active in the area of Dingjun Mountain, and in the next few months, Xun Kai successively exterminated the guerrilla forces of the Shu army in Handong and Xingshi.
For Lu Xun, the situation has become extremely serious, and the guerrilla forces in Hanzhong have gone from four divisions to fighting alone. Due to the long-term transfer to the mountains, the supply of grain and grass materials for the army was extremely scarce, and the Wei army obviously strengthened the protection of the transport team that transported the grain and grass, so that Lu Xun's plan to attack the Wei army's supply team to grab grain and grass repeatedly failed, and this winter became extremely difficult for Lu Xun.
After the heavy snow closed the mountain, the Wei army blocked almost all the roads leading to the outside of the mountain, there was no grain and grass, no winter clothing, and even wild beasts and wild vegetables were difficult to find, in this extremely cold winter, Lu Xun's troops were almost struggling with the line of life and death, hunger and severe cold, so that the troops were reduced by nearly half, and many people did not know how to survive this spring. (To be continued.) )