Jiang Wei got rid of Deng Ai and Zhuge Xu's pursuit and arrived at Baishui Pass, met Liao Hua and others who were going north to reinforce, and learned that Yang'an Pass and Guancheng were lost, and decided to take the initiative to give up Baishui Pass and Hanshou, and retreat to the Sword Pavilion to guard the last checkpoint into Shu.
Baishui Pass retracts all the routes into Shu and is the key fortress of Yizhou, Jiang Wei took the initiative to give up Baishui Pass and Hanshou (Jiameng Pass), which has always been criticized, but in a detailed analysis, this is not a big problem as a whole.
Because at this time the whole territory of Hanzhong has been lost, his biggest task now is to prevent the Wei army from entering Shu, normally speaking, although Baishui Pass is the only way for the army to enter Sichuan, but under abnormal circumstances, there is a small road from Guancheng to Hanshou: Jialing River.
The Jialing River is turbulent, and the mountains on both sides are steep, which is not suitable for the march of the army, but what if, Zhong Hui has already taken Guancheng at this time, and the army that can be mobilized under his hands reaches more than 100,000, if Zhong Hui divides his troops to attack Hanshou in the south, then Jiang Wei will fall into a dilemma of not being able to advance or retreat, if he divides his troops to rescue, then Baishui Pass will fall under the combined forces of Deng Ai and Zhong Hui, but if he continues to hold on to Baishui Pass, once Hanshou is taken, then he will really be wrapped in dumplings.
Therefore, on the whole, Jiang Wei's retreat to the Sword Pavilion can be said to be the safest strategy. But he never expected that his old opponent Deng Ai was an extremely crazy person like him!
Deng Ai, from a poor family, lost his father since he was a child and stuttered. When I was a child, I followed my mother and was moved to Runan to become a Tuntian by Boss Cao, a demolition professional household who went south to Jingzhou. Deng Ai's mother is a great mother, although little Deng Ai is not good at speaking, Deng Ai's mother still saves money and drinks to let little Deng Ai read.
When he was young, he was recommended to be a small official in Tuntian because of his talent and learning, and he was responsible for guarding the straw. But because of his poor background and stuttering, the leader feels that he is not suitable for an important position, after all, few leaders can have the patience to communicate with a stammer, and this stammer is still from a poor family, everyone is a person with status, and it is good to be able to take care of you. In this way, Deng Ai guarded the straw at the edge of the field for nearly 20 years.
Consciously talented but not appreciated for a long time due to objective conditions, this kind of life is actually very difficult, seeing the colleagues and descendants around him walk in front of him one by one, and even some people obviously have no ability, but because of a good background or can speak well or be handsome and other reasons that have nothing to do with work ability to walk in front of him, I believe that most people's mentality is collapsed:
Yes, academic qualifications are useless, but people can't have a good father;
Yes, the ability is a fart, but people can speak it;
yes, try to have a fart, but you can't be handsome.
Finally, in the midst of infinite repression and countless times of self-pity, a conclusion was drawn:
It's fate! It's better to lie down and die!
Deng Ai's background is very low, his own conditions are very poor, and it is already a gift from God to be able to mix in the preparation and eat public food among the people of Tuntian, and there is basically no chance to go further. But Deng Ai did not give up on himself with the crowd, in the ridicule of the people around him, Deng Ai silently learned the experience of the leader's Tuntian, and surveyed the terrain in the local area and pointed out the military camp premises everywhere he went.
In the end, he was finally "appreciated" by the leaders, became a pawn farmer, and participated in the management of Tuntian. However, it is more likely that the leader is about to go to Luoyang to report on the work of Tuntian, and the leader may not usually take care of things, for fear that he will lose his iron job if he reports badly, and the people around him are a bunch of bastards, so he had to bring this usually honest and capable stammerer after weighing the pros and cons.
From a small civil servant guarding a scarecrow to a small civil servant participating in Tuntian, Deng Ai has walked for 20 years in this small step.
In 239 AD, Deng Ai accompanied the leader to Luoyang to report to work and met his lifelong benefactor Sima Yi. In the stumbling and intermittent reports, Sima Yi keenly discovered his great talent, and recruited him as a subordinate of the Taiwei Mansion, and then promoted to Shang Shulang.
From a grassroots official to a staff member of the imperial court, Deng Ai only took a month.
This tells us two things:
First, no matter how poor you are, you can't be poor in children's education;
Second, there may be a lot of injustice in society, but that is not a reason for us to be depressed. Only by constantly polishing and expanding their core competencies can they catch the opportunity when it comes.
In 241, Deng Ai went south with Sima Yi to supervise the war in the southeast. Deng Ai went all the way to investigate, when he saw that a large area of good land in the Lianghuai area was barren because no one cultivated it, Deng Ai did "On the Ji River", suggesting that the river canal should be excavated, the water transportation should be dredged, and large-scale military cantonment should be carried out in Huaibei and Huainan.
From 241 onwards, under the impetus of Sima Yi and under the auspices of Deng Ai, the Wei State opened up rivers in Huainan and Huaibei and expanded the fields. More than 300 miles of canals have been dug in the Huaishui Basin to irrigate 20,000 hectares of farmland, thus connecting Huainan and Huaibei into one. A few years later, the entire southeast was connected, from Kyoto to Shouchun, showing a scene of prosperity and wealth, and countless people were indirectly living. After that, whenever there was a war in the southeast, the army went down by boat to the Jianghuai, and there was grain in the local area, and the battle began when it arrived at the ground, and the Lianghuai region showed a strong self-sufficiency ability.
Since the death of Cao Rong, the Wei State has been constantly fighting in the imperial court, and there have been repeated major wars on the border, and there are often hundreds of thousands of troops to conquer, but the population and economic growth of the Wei State still crush the two countries of Wu and Shu, and the military advantage is still greater and greater year by year, and Deng Ai has made great contributions.
In 243, Deng Ai participated in the Western Military Expedition and was transferred to Nan'an Taishou, and was arranged by the old leader Sima Yi to go to Guanzhong to experience military training. After the Gao Pingling Incident, Deng Ai was promoted by Sima and his son, and changed from a great talent in governing the county to a great talent in governing the army. Before Sima Zhao launched the battle to destroy Shu, Deng Ai had become the leader of the Northwest Military Region to resist Jiang Wei's Northern Expedition. and made Jiang Wei deflated many times.
Deng Aizhijun has won the essence of the old leader Sima Yi, and he also builds wherever he goes. When he served as the assassin of Yanzhou, he wrote to develop agriculture and encourage local production, and when he was the general of Zhengxi in Longxi, Deng Ai organized the military and civilians to open up the wilderness and engage in the large-scale development of the northwest. (Where Ai is, the wilderness is opened, and the military and civilians are abundant.) )
As an old opponent, I believe that Jiang Wei must have an in-depth analysis of Deng Ai's use of troops, combined with Deng Ai's previous records, Jiang Wei can easily draw conclusions:
This is an adversary who seeks stability in everything.
However, Jiang Wei should never have thought that his opponent also lost his father and lived with his mother at an early age, and his background was lower than him, his own conditions were worse than him, and his desire to make contributions was even greater than him!
People with a heavy heart of merit, without exception, are gamblers! It was, it is, and it must be in the future.
I believe that in the great northwest, Deng Ai has sent spies to investigate the mountains and rivers into Sichuan countless times, maybe there are some places that he may not personally investigate, but in his heart, he has long been familiar with the mountains and rivers in those places!
After learning that Jiang Wei had retreated to the Sword Pavilion, Deng Ai stared at the military map for a long time, and he knew that with the sturdiness of the Sword Pavilion and Jiang Wei's ability, it would not be a problem to block the Zhong Hui army, even if he and Zhong Hui's army finally broke through the Sword Pavilion, it would not be his turn to destroy Shu.
No, absolutely not! I am already in my sixties, and the Wei State is full of talents, and there has never been a shortage of brave and skilled young generals.
Deng Ai's gaze turned to the southwest, staring at the hundreds of miles of uninhabited area of the Sky Ridge, where there was still an intermittent oneTrailsYou can reach the Qingzhu River, although it is rugged and difficult to travel, but as long as you climb over this steep mountain, you can reach Deyang Pavilion along the Qingzhu River, and appear in the rear of the Sword Pavilion, at that time the army can force Jiang Wei to divide the troops back to defend Pei County, and then the Sword Pavilion will be broken, if Jiang Wei does not divide the troops, I can also drive straight down to capture Peicheng, no matter what the result, the head of the destruction of Shu must be my Deng Ai!
So Deng Ai found Zhuge Xu, told him his thoughts, and wanted to pull him into the gang. Zhuge Xu rejected him on the grounds that he had not received orders from the leadership. It's not that Zhuge Xu is short-sighted, but there is no need to play with him.
Although I was derelict in not blocking Jiang Wei, at least the sin was not to death, and I went over the mountains with you, who was sick, that was really life. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the demise of Shu Han is doomed, a few years earlier and a few years later, your old boy is sick and dreams of a thousand years by himself, Lao Tzu still wants to wave for a few more years.
So Zhuge Xu pulled an army of 30,000 to join Zhong Hui. It's just that he didn't expect that just after escaping a Shenjing disease and encountering a bigger Shenjing disease, Zhong Hui felt that he was not his own person, and what he wanted to do was too big. So Zhong Hui arrested Zhuge Xu on the grounds that he was afraid of the war, escorted him back to Luoyang, and then brought all Zhuge Xu's 30,000 horses under his command.
It's better to follow the god in front of you!
But seeing what happened later, he estimated that he would be extremely grateful to Zhonghui, but fortunately, you kid sent me back:Shu Han is deep, and the bigwigs (madmen) from all sides play chess, and it is easy to enter the field and difficult to get out.
It is worth mentioning that after Zhuge Xu was escorted back to Luoyang, he was not condemned by Sima Zhao, and after Sima Yan became the emperor, Zhuge Xu was reused, sealed as a marquis, and guarded the palace for the Sima family. His sons and grandsons are all in important positions, and his granddaughter is married to Sima Yan. Langya Zhuge clan, his vein branched out in the Western Jin Dynasty.
Deng Ai, who couldn't find a partner, decided to go it alone, so he wrote his plan to Sima Zhao, whether Sima Zhao agreed to Deng Ai's plan or not, there is a high probability that he would not agree, because at this time he still had more important things to do: Feng Gong.
Zhong Hui almost bloodlessly took the entire territory of Hanzhong, and this outstanding military exploit was enough to support him to take the most critical step. Shu Han is already in the bag, and there is no need to take any more risks. Your Deng Ai's plan is unexpected, and if it doesn't sound good, it will be a lonely army, what if all your 30,000 people are folded in it? What will I use to pry the house book then?
Deng Ai's sneak attack plan reported in October, Sima Zhao was also the Duke of Jin in October, and he didn't even bother to go through the statutory resignation process, which had to make people wonder if he was worried that Deng Ai's entire army would be wiped out and affect his process.
In October, Deng Ai began the most lonely march into Sichuan in the history of the Chinese government. The Motianling Mountain is high and the valley is deep, and it is extremely difficult. Deng Ai's army climbed the trail, dug mountains and opened roads, built bridges, and starved of food all the way, almost to the point that the whole army starved to death.(Ai Ziyinping Road traveled more than 700 miles in no man's land, digging mountain passages and building bridges.) The mountains are high and the valleys are deep, which is extremely difficult and dangerous, and the grain transportation will be scarce, and it is frequently in danger. )
When we reached the Mag Mountain, the road was completely cut off. Deng Ai took the lead and rolled down the hill wrapped in felt.
An old man in his sixties, in order to make meritorious contributions, he is really playing with his life!
When Zhong Hui first knew about Deng Ai's plan, he ignored him. When he learned that Deng Ai called Huazi's army to successfully enter Shu, he hurriedly sent his subordinate general Tian Zhang to lead the army from the southwest of Jiange to Jiangyou, and broke through the three camps of Shu Han ambush in the middle, and successfully joined Deng Ai. (Will send the general Tian Zhang and others from the west of the Sword Pavilion and go out of the river.) Before reaching a hundred miles, Zhang first broke the three schools of Shu ambush).
Want to keep it to yourself? No way!
Probably learned from Tian Zhang that Jiangyou was empty, Deng Ai changed the original plan to go down the Qingzhu River, capture Deyang Pavilion, and appear in the rear city of the Sword Pavilion, and instead went south to attack Jiangyou, and if he took it, he could go down the Fushui River to take Fucheng, copy Liu Bei's route to Shu, seize Mianzhu to the south, and then plot Chengdu! So Ling Tian Zhang was the first to ascend and drove forward. (Ai envoy Zhang ascended first.) Then he drove forward).
Want to share your meals? Send it to death!
In November, Deng Ai led more than 10,000 people to Jiangyou by surprise.
Deng Ai's army originally had 30,000 people, but only more than 10,000 people arrived in Jiangyou, where did the remaining 10,000 go? It is estimated that the wolves on Horse Pavilion Mountain will not have to worry about running out of food for several months!
It stands to reason that Deng Ai's more than 10,000 Huazi who survived by luck should have little combat effectiveness, although there are few defenders in Jiangyou at this time, but the reinforcements from Chengdu are already on the way to the rescue, and it is not difficult to delay these Huazi by relying on the pass.
However, after Jiang Shu of Yangpingguan rebelled against the enemy, Jiang Youwu's general Ma Miao surrendered without a fight.
It can only be said that the influence of "Hatred of the Country" is too deep, the soldiers and civilians of Shu Han have lost the confidence to resist, don't look at it as a team called Huazi, but he is like a divine soldier descending from the sky, who would have thought that hundreds of miles of steep mountains could be turned over? In the eyes of most ordinary soldiers and civilians, maybe the gang of Hanako in front of them is not an invading army at all, but more like the People's Liberation Army!
After taking Jiangyou, Deng Ai quickly recovered his combat strength and drove straight down to repel the Zhuge Zhan vanguard reinforcements who rushed to support in Peicheng. Zhuge Zhan retreated to Mianzhu.
At this time, Deng Ai was also weak-hearted, he was now a lone army, deep into the hinterland of Shu Han, there were blocking soldiers in front, and he had to guard against Jiang Wei at any time from sending a small force to stab him in the ass, and if he was not careful, the whole army might be wiped out, so he wrote a letter to persuade Zhuge Zhan to surrender, and promised to seal Zhuge Zhan as the king of Langya after the completion of the matter (a big taboo).
In fact, Zhuge Zhan also fell into a dilemma, if he stubbornly defended Mianzhu, he could certainly stop Deng Ai's army from continuing to move south to threaten Chengdu, but if Deng Ai turned around and attacked the rear of the Sword Pavilion, Jiang Wei's tens of thousands of troops would be in danger!
That's it! That's it! Jiang Boyo, although I am at odds with you, when the country is in danger, I will fight to the death to find a way out for you!
Zhuge Zhan angrily beheaded Deng Ai's persuasion envoy and took the initiative to send troops to meet the battle. Also accompanying Zhuge Zhan to the north were Shangshu Zhang Zun (grandson of Zhang Fei), Shangshulang Huang Chong (son of Huang Quan), and Li Qiu (nephew of Li Hui), the right governor of YulinHuang Chong was quite strategic, and repeatedly persuaded Zhuge Zhan to go to Jiangyou Pass to seize the dangerous terrain and not let Deng Ai enter the plain, and Zhuge Zhan, who led the troops for the first time, missed the opportunity because of hesitation.
Although there are differences, I believe that at this moment, the hearts of these second generations of Shu Han are highly consistent:
Kill and wound the Wei army as much as possible!
After Zhuge Zhan made up his mind to take the initiative to fight, Huang Chong did not propose any further amendments to this plan, but turned around to motivate his subordinates to fight bravely against the enemy.
Under the inspiration of this group of second generations, the Shu army broke out with long-lost combat effectiveness.
Deng Ai sent his son Deng Zhong and the supervisor Shi Su to meet the battle, but they were repelled by the red-eyed Han army. These battle-hardened Wei troops were actually killed out of cowardice, and said to Deng Ai:
"The thief is not attacked. ”
Deng Ai was furious and said:
"The difference between survival and death, in one fell swoop, why not? ”
After speaking, they were going to kill the generals and sacrifice the flag, and the two could only turn around and fight again, Deng Ai came to supervise the battle in person, and finally broke the Shu army.
Zhuge Zhan and these second generations all fought to the death. Compared with the previous generation, this batch of second generations is much inferior in terms of strategy and combat power, but they still do not fall into the prestige of their parents. Zhuge Zhan's eldest son, Zhuge Shang, was also in the army at this time, and after learning that his father was killed in battle, he rode a horse and rushed into the Wei army and died. He was only 19 years old.
The prime minister is full of loyalty!
"Cangtian intends to extinguish Liu, and the Han family has come to rest. The descendants of Zhuge all died, and Chengdu Qing was full of sorrow. —Luo Guanzhong
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