Chapter 1300

What Zhong Hui is good at is not force, but the art of war.

Zhong Hui's commanding ability is quite strong.

Otherwise, he would not be as famous as Deng Ai.

It's a pity that he was too ambitious and wanted to rebel, but the result was not a happy ending.

There is no doubt about Zhong Hui's ability.

This can be seen from his destruction of Shu.

During the Jingyuan period, Sima Zhao used the Shu Han general Jiang Wei to repeatedly harass the border areas. He expected that their territory was small, the people were tired, and their financial resources were running out, so he wanted to send a large army to attack Shu.

All the ministers thought it was impossible, but Zhong Hui said that Shu Han could capture it.

Therefore, he and Sima Zhao jointly planned strategies, surveyed the terrain, and discussed the situation in advance.

In the third year of Jingyuan, Zhong Hui was awarded the title of General Zhenxi, Jiajie, and Military Commander of Guanzhong.

In the autumn of the fourth year of Jingyuan Dynasty, Wei State raised troops to attack the Shu Han Dynasty and ordered Deng Ai to lead more than 30,000 people to Gansong and Dazhong areas to contain Jiang Wei. Zhuge Xu led more than 30,000 people to Wujie, Qiaotou and other places to cut off Jiang Wei's retreat.

General Zhong Hui commanded more than 100,000 troops and marched from Xiegu and Luogu respectively.

Zhong Hui ordered Xu Yi, the Yamen general, to build the road in front, and he led the army to follow. When crossing the bridge, the hoofs of the war horses fell into a pit. Zhong Hui beheaded Xu Yi regardless of the great contribution made by Xu Yi's late father Xu Chu.

When all the armies heard this, they were all frightened and frightened.

At that time, the Shu Han ordered all defensive strongholds not to engage in fighting and to retreat to Han and Le cities to defend them.

Zhong will let the guard Xun Kai and the former general Li Fu command ten thousand people each to surround Hancheng and Lecheng respectively. Zhong Hui left Yang'ankou in the west, sent people to pay homage to Zhuge Liang's tomb, and ordered the sergeants not to herd horses and chop firewood near his tomb.

Zhong Hui sent the guard Hu Lie and others ahead to break through Guancheng and obtain the grain stored there.

Jiang Wei withdrew from Tazhong and marched to Yinping, where he wanted to cut off the retreat of the Shu army. Zhuge Xu gathered his troops and wanted to fight back to Guancheng. Before he arrived, he heard that Guancheng had fallen, so he retreated to Baishui, together with Zhang Yi and others. Liao Hua defended Jiange together against Zhong Hui.

Zhong Hui issued an"Appeal to the Generals, Officials, Soldiers and People of Moving to Shu" to urge the army and people of Shu to surrender.

Deng Ai pursued Jiang Wei as far as Yinping, hoping to bypass Jiange, enter Jiangyou and Zuodan Road from Han Deyang, arrive at Mianzhu, and approach Chengdu. Then he invited Zhuge Xu to walk along the Yinping Road. Zhuge Xu rejected Deng Ai on the grounds that he had not received the order to march west, marched to Baishui, and joined forces with Zhong Hui.

Zhong Hui sent Tian Zhang and others directly out of Jiangyou from the southwest of Jiange. After marching less than a hundred miles, Tian Zhang first broke through the three camps of the Shu Han ambush troops. Deng Ai asked Tian Zhang to be the vanguard and drove straight in.

Zhong Hui and Zhuge Xu's troops went straight to Jiange. However, Zhong Hui wanted to monopolize the military power and secretly reported that Zhuge Xu was cowering, so he was put into a prison car and transported back to the capital. In this way, the army was all led by Zhong Hui.

The Shu Han army occupied the dangerous terrain and defended the sword pavilion. Zhong Hui's army attacked Jiange but failed to capture it.

In the tenth month of winter, Sima Zhao had already received the title of Duke of Jin and the title of Jiuxi due to frequent victories on various fronts.

The Wei army was unable to attack the key points and had a long way to transport grain, so Zhong Hui began to discuss the withdrawal of troops.

At this time, Deng Ai succeeded in a surprise attack, led his army to attack Mianzhu, and killed Zhuge Zhan and his son. Jiang Wei and others heard that Zhuge Zhan had been defeated and led his troops east toward Bajun.

Zhong Hui immediately led his army to Fu County and sent Hu Lie, Tian Xu, Pang Hui and others to pursue Jiang Wei.

Deng Ai led his troops towards Chengdu, Liu Chan led his troops to surrender, and the Shu Han Dynasty was officially destroyed. Liu Chan sent someone to order Jiang Wei to surrender to Zhong Hui. Jiang Wei traveled to Guanghan County, gave his talisman to Hu Lie, and then surrendered to Zhong Hui from the east road.

Zhong Hui issued an order prohibiting soldiers from looting and treating virtuous corporals to appease Shu officials. He also made friends with Jiang Bin and Jiang Xian, and became very close to Jiang Wei.

On December 24, the imperial court issued an edict to confer the title of Situ on Zhong Hui for his contribution to the conquest of Shu. He named his two sons Tinghou and granted him the title of Thousand Households in the City.

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What King Ji valued was not Zhong Hui's martial arts, but Zhong Hui's commanding ability.

Of course, King Ji also knew in his heart that Zhong Hui's commanding ability was not as good as Zhou Dewei's.

Compared with Bai Qi, Zhong Hui will be completely blown away. so······Letting Zhong Hui fight against Bai Qi would definitely not work.

However, Zhong Hui can be made deputy general.

Zhong Hui is much stronger than Bian Xi.

Bian Xidu can become the head coach of the first army, why can't Zhong Hui.

Moreover, Gongsun Shu also had some crises there.

King Ji now urgently hopes that Gongsun Shu can resist Yang Lin for a while longer.

Buy yourself more time.

Gongsun Shu is really not optimistic now.

It is undeniable that Gongsun Shu has real strength.