Liu Zhang's military defense is mainly to guard the key road defense.

The Shu army carried out targeted defenses on the three roads of the Wei army entering Shu.

The Micang Road, Shiniu Road and the Waterway into Shu were constructed in a targeted defense line, trying to block the road to the Wei army into Shu, making it difficult for the Wei army to enter Shu, and when the military rations were exhausted, they would naturally retreat.

I have to say that this method is very clear at a glance, but often the more clear the method, the more useful it is.

Before the Wei army was ready for attack, the Shu army made defense preparations first, and the various armies were dispatched quickly, showing that Liu Zhang's control over Shu was far greater than Liu Cong's control over Jingzhou.

Regarding this, at the Imperial Military Conference held by Guo Peng, the staff officer Ling Xizhong made a specific speech.

"The Shu people sent troops to defend the Shiniu Road in Jiange, known as the throat of the Shiniu Road, and sent troops to guard the Shiniu Road in Hanchang, Brazil, block the Micang Road, and Yufu in Badong County, blocked the waterway into Shu with both water and land armies, forming a targeted defense for our army in all aspects."

Guo Jia, who rushed back from Jingzhou, also made a speech on this.

"The Shu people realized that this was the last battle, and it was not unexpected that they put all their strength into defense. For our army, this was something that we had already known. Now, what our army needs to do is to respond to these three defenses, try to break these three defenses, and march into Shu."

Guo Jia clearly believes that it is normal for Shu people to fight to the death to defend. It is basically impossible to expect Shu people to give up resistance like Jingzhou people who are strategically unstoppable.

There are so many dangerous passes that can be guarded in Yizhou.

So the targeted discussion began.

What is certain is that none of the three roads to enter Shu are easy to walk.

Whether it is Shiniu Road or Micang Road, you have to walk on difficult mountain roads. It is difficult to transfer food. It is also very difficult to deal with the Shu army's guarding at key and dangerous points.

The road to Shu in Jingzhou is not easy to walk. Qutang Pass and Baidi City, where the throat of the waterway into Shu, are located, are very dangerous. Qutang Pass can even be compared with Jiange.

However, compared with the Micang Road and the Taurus Road, at least there are abundant waterways to use. It is much more convenient to transport grain by water than to transport grain by land, so it can carry more troops into Shu.

Zhuge Liang took Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei to follow this route into Shu to meet Liu Bei.

The Shu army also attached great importance to this road. Shu general Yan Yan and Shu general Wu Ban led the army to garrison here, and the navy and land armies were stationed together. There were a large number of people and were very strict in defense. It would not be easy if the fight was fought.

The Wei army's inland river naval division was weak and did not have an advantage, but fortunately they obtained the complete Jingzhou naval division and Jingzhou naval division, which made up for the shortcomings of the naval division, which was enough to fight with the Shu army naval division in Badong County.

In the army, the Wei army naturally would not be worried that it could not defeat the Shu army. However, the Shu people rely on their dominant terrain and condescendingly, forming terrain suppression on the Wei army, which was quite unfavorable for the Wei army to attack from the rear.

Therefore, people familiar with the terrain need to lead them to reduce casualties and increase the use of stone-capping machines, which can annihilate the Shu defenders as quickly as possible, break through from Badong County, enter the Chengdu Plain, and attack Chengdu.

Regarding this route, Guo Jia recommended the surrendered general Gan Ning in Jingzhou. He believed that Gan Ning had taken this route to escape to Jingzhou. He was quite familiar with the terrain of this route and could be of great use.

Wen Pin, the surrendered generals in Jingzhou, Huang Zhong and others made contributions to the battle against bandits in the four counties in Jingnan, proving their abilities. Therefore, Guo Jia believed that they could also be used in the battle to enter Shu, allowing them to exert their abilities and increase their sense of identity with the Wei State.

Guo Peng affirmed Guo Jia's idea and expressed his appreciation for this matter. He decided to reuse the surrendered generals in Jingzhou in this battle, use them as vanguards, and make them make contributions to increase their recognition and sense of belonging to the Wei army.

In addition, Guo Peng further affirmed that the army under Le Jin was the main force entering Shu, the main factor in whether the Wei army could occupy Shu, and shoulder the most important offensive tasks. This is undoubtedly true.

It’s not that Guo Peng distrusts Guan Yu and the others’ abilities. Guan Yu and the others are also very excellent generals. However, compared with the waterway’s offensive route, the difficulty of breaking through Shiniu Road and Micang Road has increased significantly.

Especially Shiniu Road.

The Shiniu Road was the marching road built by the Qin army when it attacked the Ba Kingdom of Shu. It was relatively flat and easy to walk a little bit, and it is also the only marching road leading to Chengdu at present.

Without walking on the Shiniu Road, there is no other road for tens of thousands of troops to reach Chengdu directly. Those mountain roads cannot carry the passage of tens of thousands of troops and the transportation of food and grass.

The Yinping Path is too dangerous. It was Deng Ai's attack when Zhong Hui had no choice but to take a risk. The sword was a detour, which was a real helpless move.

Zhong Hui just wanted to gamble, and Deng Ai was also betting. They were all betting. They had to choose one of them, and the overall situation was in control. Guo, who only won but did not lose, would not choose that path at all.

Therefore, we must follow the stone bull path.

To walk on the Stone Niu Road, the natural danger that must be faced is Jiange.

The sword pavilion is magnificent and towering. One man is at the gate, and tens of thousands of men cannot open. Some of them are guarding each other and turn into wolves and jackals.

This is the danger of Jiange presented by Li Bai's personal experience and artistic rhetoric techniques.

In terms of artistic nature, from a historical and military perspective, Zhong Hui led more than 100,000 troops. After breaking through Yangping Pass, he did not break through Jiang Wei's perseverance after breaking through the people of Shu.

That was a hundred thousand troops, without water. Such a huge number had an absolute advantage in military strength. If a hundred thousand people attacked, they could not conquer them even if they attacked each other, Zhong Hui was almost in desperate situation, his army was shaken, and his food and supplies were insufficient.

At that time, there were three strongholds in Hanzhong. Zhong Hui rushed south without taking down those three strongholds, which made the Wei army's advance unstable, like a thorn on his back.

Zhong Hui wanted to fight quickly and quickly advance to Chengdu through the Shiniu Road, but Jiang Wei drifted away Deng Ai and Zhuge Xu with one move, and forcibly marched to Jiange to block Zhong Hui, leaving him unable to move forward.

In that case, once the troops are withdrawn, there are Jiang Wei, Zhang Yi, Liao Hua, and Liu Yin, Jiang Bin and Wang Han in Hanzhong. It can be imagined that his retreat route is not safe, and he may face a more miserable situation than Cao Shuang back then.

At that time, if Deng Aio had not been able to successfully smuggle Yinping with him, and Zhuge Zhan was not in line with his name and was really useless to give up the important town of Fucheng, then it would still be a question whether the battle to destroy Shu could continue. Shu Han might have been able to survive for a few years, or even longer.

This shows that the dangers of Jiange are beyond imagination.

It was not that Guo Peng could not afford 100,000 troops to attack Jiange, but he felt that this was of little significance. With the grasp of Jingzhou, the difficulty of entering Shu from Jingzhou was obviously lower than entering Shu from Hanzhong.

This is also the reason why he formed his strategic guiding ideology of attacking Jingzhou first and then taking Yizhou.

Therefore, he arranged 30,000 troops from Hanzhong and 50,000 main forces from Jingzhou to set up a suspicious formation in Hanzhong and disperse Liu Zhang's troops, so that they could not arrange more troops to guard against the main forces of the Wei army in Yufu.

Liu Zhang's army suffered serious losses. If he had not made progress in Hanzhong, he might have been able to come up with more troops.

However, after the Northern Expedition in Hanzhong, Liu Zhang lost 30,000 to 40,000 combat soldiers, and a few years of cultivation was not enough to restore his vitality.

Now it is already very difficult for Liu Zhang to take out the more than 60,000 troops. Although he is still continuing to expand his army, his efficiency is questionable. Whether the expanded army can take on major tasks is also questionable.

Overall, no one in Liu Zhang thought that the Wei army in Yufu direction was the most dangerous, so the Shu army in Yufu direction had the most, a total of 30,000.

But despite this, it is still a bit short of the 50,000 Wei troops. Once Yufu County is broken, the natural dangers of Jiange and Micang Road will also lose their greatest significance.

Relatively speaking, the Wei army in Hanzhong was only 30,000, but it was just in line with Wu Yi and Zhang Ren's troops.

The troops deployed by the Shu army in Yufu were obviously unable to compete with the Wei army, so Yufu's breakthrough has become the main breakthrough direction for the Wei army.

Guo Peng never expected the Hanzhong Front Army to break through the Micang Mountain and Jiange natural barriers.

As long as they can disperse Liu Zhang's troops.

Liu Zhang's resistance was also in line with Guo Peng's wishes. At least there was a reason to clean up the wealthy gentry in Shu, and then openly injected the genes of the Wei Empire into Shu.
Chapter completed!