Wei Yan finally chose Jiang Wei's withdrawal route, which Jiang Wei did not expect.
According to Jiang Wei's original intention, he was to give Wei Yan a withdrawal route with the highest risk, so that Wei Yan could choose between the two relatively lower-risk withdrawal routes. Who knew that Wei Yan actually didn't follow the routine and chose the riskier route? The highest route.
You know, the biggest drawback of this withdrawal route is that it is impossible to contact Zhuge Liang in front of Hulao Pass, and we can only rely on Zhuge Liang's own judgment to cooperate in the battle.
As for Wang Ling, his ability is not low. Although it is difficult for five thousand people to defend a Hulao Pass, it does not mean that he cannot defend it. If Wei Yan and Zhuge Liang cannot form a combined offensive force, the Hulao Pass will not be so easy to break. .
As long as Wang Ling can hold on for ten days at Hulao Pass, what awaits Wei Yan is not only the dilemma of insufficient food and grass, but also the main force of the Wei army coming from the direction of Suanzao and Fengqiu. There is no place to escape.
Once there is no support from Wei Yan and the main force of the Wei army arrives at Hulao Pass, Prime Minister Zhuge may have no choice but to give up attacking Hulao Pass and continue to retreat to Gong County.
In this way, the main force of the 30,000-strong Han Forbidden Army might really be wiped out.
Therefore, Jiang Wei still has to give some advice. Although the idea came from me, the risk of this idea is too high. Why don't General Wei think about it again? !
But Wei Yan insisted on choosing this plan, and Wei Yan's confidence lay in his belief in Zhuge Liang's military acumen and ability to adapt to battle situations.
Wei Yan believed that as long as he launched an attack from behind Hulao Pass, Zhuge Liang in front would definitely understand what was going on and would attack Hulao Pass with all his strength.
Well, this is Wei Yan's trust in Zhuge Liang.
But this trust was so unreasonable that even Jiang Wei, a disciple of Zhuge Liang, felt that Wei Yan's trust was a bit too blind. It's not that Wei Zhengxi and his teacher often had arguments and frictions, and they didn't like each other. Too compatible? !
Well, Jiang Wei just doesn’t understand this.
The friendship between Wei Yan and Zhuge Liang, Zhang Xi and others is difficult to describe in simple words.
It is true that Wei Yan and Zhang Xi do not get along, but this does not prevent Wei Yan from trusting Zhang Xi's ability. The relationship between Wei Yan and Zhuge Liang is not particularly close, but Wei Yan believes that once he needs to trust Zhuge Liang, Zhuge Liang will never let him down.
This is a feeling accumulated over more than twenty years, especially as the number of brothers and comrades who fought together in the early years has become fewer and fewer, the mutual trust among the remaining people has become even more profound.
No matter how bad the relationship between them is, at a critical moment, Wei Yan will still subconsciously choose to believe Zhuge Liang.
Of course, it would be the same if it were Zhang Xi.
This was the reason why Wei Yan chose Jiang Wei's strategy. He really believed that Zhuge Liang could cooperate with him to attack Hulao Pass without any intelligence support.
But to be honest, if Zhuge Liang had been at the scene and knew what Wei Yan was thinking, he would really have said - Wei Yan, old man, is so arrogant.
Zhuge Liang is a mature military strategist and is famous for being cautious in using troops. Many of his strategies are based on sufficient intelligence support. Only in rare cases will he choose to take a risk.
This rare situation is usually when Zhang Xi insists that a certain strategy is feasible.
This is almost the only exception in Zhuge Liang's military career. Zhuge Liang doesn't know why. Anyway, as long as Zhang Xi insists on implementing the strategy, the success rate is often ridiculously high. Even without any intelligence support, he can still get things done.
This is the person Zhuge Liang is willing to choose to trust and give in. Wei Yan is really not the one.
Moreover, at this time, Zhuge Liang really didn't pay much attention to the direction of Hulao Pass. He himself was not even in Gong County.
Wang Ling only has 5,000 men garrisoned at Hulao Pass. He is unable to send any more troops to pose any threat to Luoyang. Zhuge Liang only has 10,000 men in Gongxian and only 3,000 men in Luoyang. The troops are also quite tight. By the way, here I will say In a word, that damn Zhang Yuanchang actually justifiably held the 20,000 soldiers in Wang Wenshu's hands and refused to release them.
Otherwise, Zhuge Liang would not have no troops available in Luoyang.
In other words, Xu Shu's trip to Chen Liu's side went smoothly, and there was no need for Zhuge Liang to send out mobile response forces. Otherwise, with only so many soldiers guarding the Luoyang area, it would not be very safe.
But even so, Zhuge Liang really couldn't afford to march eastward with only 10,000 people, what a fucking Hulao Pass.
So, during this period, Zhuge Liang actually stayed in Luoyang to handle government affairs, organize frontline intelligence, do logistics and intelligence transmission, and prepare for post-war comfort work in advance.
He was not even in Gong County. Even if something happened in Hulao Pass, Zhuge Liang would not be able to know immediately.
The person in charge of military affairs in Gong County, who defended and restrained Wang Ling at Hulao Pass when he had nothing to do, was Hu Fen.
Hu Fen's father, Hu Zun, followed Xu Shu on the expedition, and now he was also the leader of the army. As Hu Fen's son, Zhuge Liang naturally wanted to keep him in Luoyang.
On the one hand, Luoyang also needs someone to guard it, and Zhuge Liang cannot be completely left as a mere commander.
On the other hand, not everyone is like Guan Junhou. He likes to fight with the whole family in war. It is easy for someone with a household registration to die.
Hu Fen stayed in Luoyang because Zhuge Liang valued and protected Hu.
However, Hu Fen was not very happy.
There is a saying that Hu Fen's official career was actually much smoother than that of his father.
Although, in terms of official position, Hu Zun is definitely higher than Hu Fen. As early as ten years ago, Hu Zun was the prefect of Zuo Fengyi, but some things really cannot be compared so simply.
After the Northern Expedition, Hu Zun's official position will not be greatly improved. After all, there is no position in the top. At most, his military position will be improved.
Well, based on his merits and political balance, Hu Zun can probably reach the position of general of the Quartet.
But the problem is that these days, whether it is Han, Wei, or Wu, temporary official positions such as the Four Expeditions and the Four Towns are becoming more and more permanent, resulting in the status of the generals of the Four Expeditions and Four Towns getting higher and higher, and the status of the generals of the Four Expeditions and Four Towns is getting higher and higher. It already has the meaning of surpassing the generals of the four directions and second only to the four generals.
In short, General Quartet is worthless now.
Hu Fen's situation is different from that of Hu Zun. Hu Zun only surrendered to Zhang Xi and never fought under Zhang Xi, but Hu Fen was trained and promoted by Zhang Xi in a serious way. people.
Nowadays, the Han people all have a consensus, that is, the people who come out of Zhang Xi can basically take on big responsibilities. They start out as at least the governor of a county. The most powerful ones are Deng Ai, Jiang Wan, Fei Yi, Wang Ji, Shi Bao and others, and even They all have the talents of the Prime Minister or the Four Great Generals.
Hu Fen has also received a lot of attention because of this. Even Zhuge Liang is paying attention. His invisible political assets are much stronger than his father's, and his future prospects will be much greater.
In short, Hu Fen, who had such good conditions and felt that his abilities were not bad, was very dissatisfied with the life of being stationed in Gong County and occasionally going outside Hulao Pass to routinely wave flags and show off his power.
Hu Fen also wanted to make meritorious deeds.
But the problem is that there are really no soldiers on hand.
Hu Fen is not the kind of stupid young man who gets crazy just to make achievements. He still has brains and knows that with the few troops he has, it is impossible to pose a substantial threat to Hulao Pass.
However, Hu Fen has been actively making preparations. During the time he was stationed in Gong County, he built some siege equipment such as ladders, hook ladders, and rams.
The purpose was actually quite simple. Hu Fen just felt that if reinforcements arrived in Luoyang one day and Zhuge Liang wanted to send troops to attack Hulao Pass, it would be a credit to himself to bring out these siege equipment.
Anyway, I have nothing to do now.
Really, from the time Sima Yi withdrew from Gong County and the Battle of Yanzhou began, Hu Fen spent about five months in Gong County building siege equipment. Let’s put it this way, except for the counterweight catapult Hu Fen didn't know how to build it, but Hu Fen had already built almost all the other siege equipment that needed to be built.
It was also Hu Fen's daily routine to go for a walk outside Hulao Pass every now and then.
Then, one day, Hu Fen discovered that something seemed wrong.
Wang Ling, who was behind bars in Hulao, actually showed up on his own initiative.
Isn't this wrong? !
Hu Fen vaguely remembered that, except for the time when Sima Yi had just withdrawn his troops, when Hu Fen led his troops to show off his power outside Hulao Pass, Wang Ling would come out to take a look. In the following months, Wang Ling knew that Hu Fen was also doing routine things and would not even notice. It’s time to see.
Why did this guy actually go to the gate in person today? !
Listening carefully, why does it seem like there are faint shouts of killing coming from behind Hulao Pass? !
Is there someone working behind the scenes? !
Hmm. It seems that I can make some meritorious deeds if I have a chance.
As soon as Hu Fen thought of this, he excitedly ordered his people to go back to Gong County to get siege equipment, and the whole army set up camp and prepared to attack the city.
By the way, Hu Fen did not forget to order people to rush back to Luoyang and inform Prime Minister Zhuge.
(End of chapter)
