Chapter 416 The situation in Guanzhong is excellent

Chapter 416 The situation in Guanzhong is excellent

Chen Tai obviously underestimated Ma Di's level of risk-taking. He never expected that in order to ambush him, Ma Di would travel hundreds of miles to ambush him so far away.

Moreover, he was quite sure that Chen Tai would take a small road to escape, specifically ambush at the exit of the mountain road in Beigu Valley.

As a result, 20,000 Wei troops entered the Han army's ambush circle unprepared, and were subsequently shot by the Han army's crossbows and arrows. Under the attack of arrows and rolling stones, the Wei army was in chaos on the narrow mountain road, trampling on each other and causing many deaths.

In fact, Ma Su only brought 800 infantry and hundreds of crossbows, and he was not able to cause a huge blow. However, due to the dense mountains and forests near Beigu Valley, the Wei army was blocked on the mountain road and could not advance or retreat. The crowding and stampeding caused a large number of soldiers to die under their own feet.

In the end, Chen Tai was hit by an arrow in the knee and escaped from Beigu Valley under the desperate cover of his own soldiers. Most of the rest of the Wei army was lost, the organization quickly collapsed, and most of the army was killed and wounded in chaos.

When counting after the war, the Han army had hundreds of armored heads, thousands of black armored heads, and thousands of other heads. A rough estimate shows that at least 7,000 of the 20,000 Wei troops led by Chen Tai were buried in the Stele Valley.

The only thing that made Ma Su regretful was that he had already run away before he could catch up with Chen Tai. Looking at the speed of running away, it doesn't look like he was hit by an arrow in the knee, running away as fast as flying.

Chen Tai's 20,000 main force was basically defeated, but the generals he sent to Gaolu to die returned safely. When three thousand soldiers and horses arrived at the gate of Gaolu City, Ma Di's remaining troops quickly withdrew. This troops retreated eastward along the road in fear, but on the contrary, some Wei soldiers were saved.

I don’t know if Chen Tai would be mad to death after seeing his subordinates who were supposed to die bringing back his troops intact after more than half of his troops were killed or wounded in Linjin.

The 20,000 Wei troops stationed in Weibei suffered heavy losses in the battle of Beigu after Ma Su detoured.

At the same time, the main force of the Han army west of the Xinghe River finally saw through the Wei army's bluff. Except for Liu Yin who led his troops to stay in Weinan, preparing to defend the beachhead established by Ma Di desperately, the other generals led their troops to launch a full-scale attack on the northern counties of Guanzhong.

The old, weak, sick and disabled people left behind by Chen Tai were obviously unable to resist, and the Xinghe defense line was quickly breached.

After 30,000 Han troops broke through the Xinghe River, the counties in Beidi County quickly surrendered.

This group of Guanzhong nobles had long been at odds with Cao Wei and had been eyeing Shu Han for a long time. Now that the Han army had finally arrived, the wealthy people in Guanzhong all opened their doors to welcome the king.

There is no way, Cao Wei established the nine-level Zhongzheng system in order to consolidate the power of the world. This is very friendly to the Guandong family, but where do you put our Guanzhong family?

Since Cao Wei did not give room for progress, the Guanzhong clan was naturally unwilling to support it.

In just half a month, all the counties and counties in Weibei opened their city gates to the Han army without saying a word. Except for Xiaoguan, which is connected to the county in the north and is still holding on, the lands in Weibei have basically been pacified.

The rapid progress of the Han army in Weibei once again dealt a heavy blow to Sima Yi in Chang'an. After receiving this battle report, Sima Yi fell silent.

It’s really too fast! After all, it’s an army of 20,000. Even if you fight and retreat, you won’t lose so miserably, right?

Beidi County was lost, and all the roads from the east of Lishan Mountain to Tongguan were exposed to the Han army. Sima Yi also divided his troops to guard the road to prevent his retreat from being cut off by Ma Di.

Chen Tai is such a waste!

At this moment, Sima Yi selectively forgot that he had also been beaten by Ma Su and his entire army was basically wiped out.

But at this moment, Sima Yi had no time to complain about Chen Tai's waste, because this was not the only bad news.

From Wancheng, the Han general Wu Ban led 20,000 troops from Shangluo and arrived at Wuguan City. Fei Yao didn't have many troops at hand, so he urgently asked Chang'an for help in the face of the Han army's offensive.

Once Wuguan is lost, the entire rear of Chang'an will no longer be safe. Sima Yi had to divide his troops to support Wuguan, and now he had fewer troops at his disposal.

Looking at the stretched troops at hand, Sima Yi fell into endless melancholy. The Han army had only been out of Sichuan for the Northern Expedition for a few months, and its troops were already being depleted at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Huxian, Wuguan, Yinban, Lantian... troops are needed to guard and guard everywhere. In the end, evenly divided, there were only 60,000 troops left to guard Chang'an, which was almost less than Zhuge Liang's men opposite.

In this case, how long can you hold on?

"What on earth are Soochow doing? It's been months since the war began, and there's still no movement! Do they still imagine that that piece of covenant will make Shu Han forget their past hatred of Guan Yu and divide the world with him?"

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It has been two months since the Han army's Northern Expedition to Guanzhong began. 120,000 Han troops were fiercely attacking the Guanzhong defense line. Under this circumstance, the Shu Han's eastern defense line inevitably began to be short of troops.

But so far, there has been no movement at all from Soochow. Not to mention preparing for a backstab, even the main force of the Wu army is still stationed in Chaisang, with no intention of advancing eastward.

This is not because Sun Quan's conscience discovered it. After all, given the current domestic situation in Soochow, he has no ability to cause trouble.

He is relatively busy and has been busy rectifying the internal chaos in Yangzhou.

Because the Shu Han captured 50,000 people in one fell swoop last year, in order to redeem Buqu, Sun Quan also paid a million stones of grain to the west, but in the end he only redeemed 30,000 people.

The defeat in battle and the loss of troops and generals were a situation that even the unified dynasty could not bear, let alone the grass-roots regime of Soochow. The delicate balance within Soochow that Sun Quan worked hard to maintain was quickly broken, and a large number of families dissatisfied with Sun Quan began to cause trouble.

Not only was Sun Quan unable to send troops to attack the Shu Han, but he needed to station his army in Yangzhou to frighten the families. And he himself had to desperately think of ways to check and balance and clear out the dissatisfied big families, and he was so busy that he suddenly became very busy.

If the Shu Han had delayed the Northern Expedition for a year, Sun Quan would probably have finished handling these internal affairs. However, the Shuhan side had an almost seamless connection and quickly launched the second Northern Expedition in half a year.

There was no way, Sun Quan could only watch helplessly as the Shu Han made rapid progress on the front line of Guanzhong, but he had no strength at all.

This feeling of powerlessness made Sun Quan very unhappy. He did not want the Shu Han Northern Expedition to succeed and then settle the score with him.

So, after Sun Quan finally suppressed a wave of riots among the big clans, he sent someone to ask Lu Xun for suggestions, hoping to ask if there was any way to cause some trouble to the Shu Han.

Lu Xun did not dare to neglect Sun Quan's call, and quickly returned to Jianye from the Chaisang Navy Camp, where he quickly met Sun Quan.

"See you, Supreme!" After seeing Sun Quan, Lu Xun found that Wu Hou looked very tired, obviously tortured by the internal turmoil in Soochow.

"Bo Yan! You should know what I mean when I call you here this time." Sun Quan looked at Lu Xun with bright eyes and said calmly,

"The army of Xishu in the west has already reached Guanzhong and is fighting the Wei army on the Weishui River. But now the troops cannot be transferred to the west. I would like to ask if there is a way to cause some trouble to Xishu?"