Deng Ai smuggled himself into the Yinping Trail and seized the first place to defeat the Shu Han regime, which was something that made Liu Chan, Jiang Wei, and Zhong Hui on both sides of the enemy and us very depressed.
Liu Chan became the king of the subjugated country, and the Foundation of Shu Han, which Liu Bei worked hard and Zhuge Liang diligently maintained, was lost in Liu Chan's hands in the blink of an eye, and from then on he was inevitably labeled "Liu Adou who could not be supported";
Jiang Wei guarded the Sword Pavilion Guan Tianjian of Guan Wanfu, blocking the main force of the Wei army in Hanzhong, and before he could find an opportunity to launch a counterattack, the news of Liu Chan's surrender came from behind. Angry that Jiang Wei's Shu army pulled out his sabre and slashed the stones next to him, they could splash sparks;
There is also a nest fire is the bell meeting. Since the start of the army, it was he Zhong Hui who led the main force to carry Jiang Wei the battlefield, and the strength spent the most, but deng Ai took the first merit and showed his face in front of Sima Zhao.
Judging from the attitudes and reactions of Liu Chan, Jiang Wei, and Zhong Hui, Deng Ai's beheading operation that sneaked into Chengdu from the Yinping Trail was indeed unexpected by most people in the enemy and our camp.
However, the gap in the number of troops between Zhuge Zhan and Deng Ai was not as great as Zhuge Zhan's 70,000 male soldiers, and Deng Ai only had a huge disparity of 2,000 tired divisions.
Sima Zhao deployed Wei to destroy Shu, using a total of 180,000 soldiers and horses. Its basic strategy was to cross the Qinling Mountains, which separated the two major basins of Hanzhong and Guanzhong, from three directions, and then converge on the main force of the Shu army in the hands of Jiang Wei, who was completely annihilated in Hanzhong, to clear the obstacles for the annihilation of Shu.
Among them, the western route led 30,000 troops from Deng Ai out of Di Dao, and from the front to contain the main force of Jiang Wei, who was accumulating grain for the Tutian of the Wei state; Zhuge Xu's men and horses in the middle road were also 30,000, entering Hanzhong from Longxi via Qishan Road, and cooperating with Deng Ai's frontal battlefield to sneak attack Jiang Wei from the flank; the largest number of Zhong Hui's 120,000 main troops entered Hanzhong from the meridian road, Luogu Road, and Xiegu Road in the east, respectively.
According to Sima Zhao's established strategy, as long as Deng Ai and Zhuge Xu bit Jiang Wei's men and horses and delayed a little until Zhong Hui's main force arrived at the battlefield of Puzhong, then there was basically no suspense in using the superior strength of the Wei army of 180,000 to swallow Jiang Wei's troops.
However, Jiang Wei was not a vegetarian, and when he saw the momentum of the Wei army's three-way soldiers and horses Taishan, he immediately and decisively chose to preserve his strength and abandon Hanzhong and retreat to the Heavenly Danger Sword Pavilion Pass, so that the Wei army's plan to gather and annihilate the main force of the Shu army was ruined before it began.
Jiang Wei's plan was to stick to the Sword Pavilion and overlook the entire Hanzhong Basin from above. When 180,000 Wei troops came to Hanzhong, the logistics supply all relied on the transfer of the five small roads of Qinling "Meridian, Luogu, Xiegu, Chencang, and Qishan", which was very inconvenient, and the military's heart would inevitably become chaotic after a long time. At that time, it was the best time for the Shu army to counterattack.
As a result, the Hanzhong battlefield between the Shu and Wei sides fell into a stalemate of confrontation.
At this time, how many soldiers and horses did Jiang Wei have on hand? What was the situation with regard to the deployment of troops throughout the Shu Han Dynasty?
From the hukou handed over after Liu Chan surrendered, it can be seen that the Shu Han generally had an army of 110,000. The 110,000 centaurs are mainly distributed in four directions:
Eastern Wu and Shu Han were allies, and it was enough to put 10,000 people in this direction; Meng Yu in the south had stabilized by force and appeasement during Zhuge Liang's time, and 10,000 troops were almost arranged; Chengdu was the center of political power, and no matter how few people should be put in place to deal with emergencies.
110,000 minus 40,000, there are 70,000 left. Jiang Wei's hands confronted 180,000 Wei troops on the front line of Jiange Pass, and it was estimated that these 70,000 horses were killed.
However, this unit has gone through Zhuge Liang's Six Qi Mountains and Jiang Wei's Nine Expeditions to the Central Plains, and is definitely the elite of the Shu army! Therefore, although the Wei army had obvious superiority in strength, it could not break through the defensive line held by the Shu army with danger, and Zhong Hui could only look at the gateway of the Chengdu Plain with his eyes and face off day by day.
In order to break the deadlock, at this time, Deng Ai decided to smuggle the yinping path lightly and enter Yizhou unconsciously.
As long as the smuggling was successful, Deng Ai would be able to gain great freedom of action, and he could attack and quickly attack Chengdu to destroy Shu Han, retreat to Jiang Wei's back, and together with Zhong Hui, he would pinch the main force of the Shu army at Sword Pavilion Pass, and then gather 180,000 Wei troops to take the Chengdu Plain.
But there is also a question in the middle, how many people and horses can follow Deng Ai into Yizhou?
Sima Zhao's soldiers and horses to Deng Ai were originally 30,000, and the logistical supply along the Yinping Trail should leave half of the people, and counting the non-combat attrition of the long journey, it is estimated that the last people who can reach Yizhou are 10,000 people.
Moreover, Yinping is all rugged and difficult to walk on small roads, and some sections of the road are all dependent on the Wei army to open roads in the mountains and build bridges in the water, so it is basically impossible to carry any siege equipment. It can be determined that these 10,000 people have no equipment other than the ring-headed knife and spear in their hands.
But their sudden appearance brought great panic to the Shu Han monarchs in Chengdu!
Jiang Wei's men and horses were tied down in the Sword Pavilion by Zhong Hui, and whether they could draw out men and horses to rush to Chengdu and extinguish Deng Ai's army was still two questions, so for a period of time, only the Shu army in the direction of Chengdu could resist Deng Ai's Wei army alone.
Liu Chan placed his last hope on Zhuge Liang's son Zhuge Zhan.
As mentioned above, the number of Chengdu people and horses brought out by Zhuge Zhan was at most 20,000, and it was only the "internal guard unit" of the Shu Han Dynasty, which lacked experience in actual combat training and had doubtful combat effectiveness.
Against Zhuge Zhan, Deng Ai, who had fought with Jiang Weidu for several rounds, was a famous general in the first echelon of the State of Wei. Moreover, the 10,000 Wei army traveled a long way into the territory of the Shu State, and there was almost no way back, so the battle could only be won and could not be lost, and it was very imposing.
At this time, Zhuge Zhan hesitated on the issue of attack and defense, and as a result, the delayed effort was attacked by Deng Ai to break through the Jiangyou Pass and enter the open area of the Chengdu Plain.
Zhuge Zhan retreated all the way, looking for dangerous terrain to block, and finally retreated to Mianzhu, the northern gateway of Chengdu, and could no longer retreat, so he could only carry out a decisive battle with Deng Ai. After the first battle, the Shu army was completely destroyed, and even Zhuge Zhan himself rushed into the enemy line to fight and die.