"Kill!"
As the war drums thundered, the armored soldiers charged toward the distant city.
The armored soldiers met with barely any resistance worth mentioning. In mere moments, the city before them had changed hands.
Troops streamed toward the city without end. Inside, remnants of the Wei army were still fighting the Shu Kingdom Army, and cries of battle rang out everywhere.
The officers all looked pleased. At that moment, they were following behind Jiang Wei, General of the Guards.
"General, they really didn't expect our main force to appear here. We've taken Old Pass."
The veteran general Jiang Wei frowned as he watched the armored soldiers pour into the city, but his expression did not relax.
This time, Jiang Wei had brought a great army to campaign against Wei.
On the surface, they were attacking Wei along three routes. Jiang Wei, Zhang Yi, and Xiahou Ba each commanded an army, advancing against Wei from Mount Qi, Shiying, and Jincheng respectively.
In reality, however, Jiang Wei's strategic plan was to send his main force directly against Didao. After swiftly taking Didao, he would split off troops to seize the grain depot at Liyang to the east, then persuade the local Wei soldiers to surrender and recruit Qiang and Hu troops before advancing separately into Guanzhong, Longyou, Longxi, the southern bank, Tianshui, Guangwei, and other areas. In this way, Wei's entire northwestern defensive line would collapse outright.
The Shu Kingdom would then gain a foothold in the northwest, and in the campaigns that followed, Cao Wei's Chang'an and Luoyang would face direct attacks from Jiang Wei.
Jiang Wei had always believed that his earlier campaigns had gone poorly entirely because he had lacked sufficient troops.
Fei Yi had constantly held him back, refusing to let him lead too many troops on the