However, it is said that Huang Chong took 1,500 people, carried dry food, walked the mountain path, crossed the remaining veins of the Qinling Mountains, and finally reached Xunshui, and then went south along the Xunshui River Valley, and finally arrived at the intersection of Xunshui and Hanshui.

Xunkou was really as he thought, there was no fortification at all, only a hundred or so Wei soldiers were patrolling the estuary, and when they saw the Han army coming, they scattered without making a little resistance.

Huang Chong ordered the soldiers to rest and recuperate at Xunkou, and at the same time sent a sentry to Mulan Sai to investigate first, and when they inquired about the situation clearly, they would directly take the pass.

He held back a lot of energy on this trip, just to make a war achievement.

It seems that it is today.

The sentinel soon returned, and at the same time brought back the news that Huang Chong was shocked: Mulan Sene had a clear banner, and it seemed that there were many Wei soldiers guarding it.

"My trip is to quickly cross the mountain with dry food, how did the thief know that I want to seize this pass?" Huang Chong was poured cold water now, and he didn't want to believe it at all, "Could it be a bluff?" ”

He has worked hard to get here, how can he retreat easily, and immediately ordered the camp to be pulled, and led the army to Mulan Stop, and really saw that the plug was heavily guarded, and it was not the same as Xunkou.

At that moment, he had to sigh, "Cao Thief is really capable." ”

With his own troops, if he wants to capture such a pass, there is no other way than to take it by surprise, and now that he has a defense, it seems that this trip is doomed to be in vain.

Before retreating, he reluctantly sent someone to ask who was locked up.

"A certain is a subordinate of Sima Gong, the general of Wei Hussars, and Hu Zun is also."

General Wei replied loudly, "Gong Sima knew that this place was dangerous, so he sent someone over early. You and other thieves, can An escape Sima Gong's opinion? ”

Although he had been mentally prepared, Huang Chong was still shocked when he heard this, and secretly thought that this Sima Yi was really powerful, and he could guess that he would attack the pass early.

So he had to withdraw his troops so that he would not be encircled.

Li Yi on the other end was also unable to lay down Anqiao, and when he got the news of Huang Chong's return, he went to converge.

After listening to the situation of Huang Chong Mulan and his party, Li Yi pondered for a while, and said thoughtfully, "I'm afraid that I was deceived by that Hu Zun." ”

Huang Chong was stunned and asked, "What do you mean by this?" ”

"If I were Sima Yi, I could have expected that someone would attack the pass, and I would definitely set up an ambush, so how could you return safely?"

When Huang Chong heard this, he suddenly felt that it made sense, but he was still puzzled, "But how can you explain that Mulan is heavily guarded?" ”

"This is not for me to know, in my opinion, this should be Sima Yi just in case, not to anticipate that someone is coming. After all, from Weixing to Shangyong, that pass is the only way to go, and it is beneficial and harmless to make some preparations in advance. ”

When Li Yi said this, he sighed, "This Sima Yi is meticulous and is indeed a capable person. ”

Huang Chong nodded, at this time, he was not convinced, but he had to be convinced, so he put away his heart of underestimating the heroes of the world.

The news of the appearance of the Han soldiers in Mulan Sai soon spread to Sima Yi's army, and all the generals in the army admired the general for taking the lead in anticipating the enemy.

Sima Yi's face was indifferent, and Zhizhu was in his hand, "The thief's small skill, the elegance of An Nengden Hall?" Now Wu Kou is blocked in Fangling, Shu Yu is stopped in Anqiao, Mulan Sai, Shangyong Mengda, there is no reinforcement, this city will be broken, and the generals must step up the siege of the city, and must not slack off. ”

"No!"

After everyone left, Sima Shi asked curiously, "How can adults know that the Shu thieves will attack Mulan Sai?" ”

After everyone left, Sima Yi had a look of happiness on his face, "I sent troops to Mulan Sai, just in case, not only to prevent Shu thieves, but also to prevent Shenyi." ”

"Your Excellency is not at ease with Shen Yi?"

Sima Shi said with some surprise, remembering that the adults had scolded Shen Yi when he learned that Meng Da was anti, and immediately asked, "Could it be that Shen Yi also has antipathy?" ”

"The Shen family has been in the three counties of Shangyong for a long time, and they have been deeply rooted, and they have long regarded the three counties as their own territory." A sneer appeared on Sima Yi's face, "That Shen Yi, who carved seals without authorization and gave them to others privately to win the hearts of the locals, how could I trust such people?" ”

"What's more, I intend to take a local wealthy family like the Shen family to relieve Your Majesty's worries about me."

Speaking of this, Sima Yi smiled gloomily.

Sima Shi was confused when he heard this, "Isn't Your Majesty now very fond of your lords?" How can you say that you are worried? ”

"Our Majesty, we are not simple people. If it weren't for the establishment of the queen, I am afraid that I would not be able to see his intentions. ”

Sima Yi smiled, "The Hedong Yu clan is originally a wife and a wang family, Your Majesty does not stand up for it, but instead sets up the lowly Mao family, do you really think he just loves the concubine?" No, he's just learning from the wisdom of the first emperor. ”

Seeing that his son was still puzzled, Sima Yi didn't mean anything harsh on him.

At this time, Da Lang was just a weak crown, and the power game between the DPRK and China was not what he could see clearly at present, and he brought him to his side just to let him have a long experience.

So Sima Yi explained to Sima Shi in detail, "Back then, Empress Zhen was a Hebei wang clan, and the first emperor abolished her and replaced Empress Guo with the fear that the power of the Hebei family was too great. ”

"After all, Hebei was the old land of the Yuan family. Yecheng was originally the old capital of the Great Wei Dynasty, but before the first emperor died, he had inspected the Quartet, but he did not enter Yecheng, why did you say? It's just to suppress the prestige of the Hebei clan. ”

"Now two of the four auxiliary ministers in the DPRK are royal clansmen, and Chen Changwen and I represent the Hedong family and the Yingchuan family respectively, which is the balance set by the emperor for His Majesty today."

"If the Hedong Yu clan is established as the queen again, then the Hedong family will be too powerful, and His Majesty is not willing to see it, so he learned from the first emperor and established the Mao clan with no foundation as the queen."

Speaking of this, Sima Yi glanced at his son, and then pointed to himself, "The Sima family and the Yu family are both Hedong families, and they are in the same breath, and the Yu family has been abolished. ”

"Therefore, this time, I not only want to put down the rebellion as soon as possible, but also take the Shen family to let Your Majesty know that I am loyal. Not only will I not collude with the local tycoons, but if they make mistakes, I will still be unsympathetic, understand? ”

When Sima Shi heard this, he suddenly realized, he didn't expect that the competition for the queen's position, which was two thousand miles away, would affect this?

Seeing his own eldest man showing a thoughtful expression, Sima Yi nodded with satisfaction.

Above the court, you can't be careless, the more you are in a high position, the more you have power, the more you have to be careful.

Back then, Emperor Wu had ordered himself to move forward, and then suddenly made himself turn his head, saying that he was facing the front and not moving, which was a wolf looking at him, and he once warned the first emperor that he was not a human minister, and he would definitely predict the affairs of the Cao family.

Fortunately, he was good friends with the first emperor, and after hearing about this, he deliberately worked diligently as a servant, forgetting to sleep at night, even if it was a small matter such as cutting grass and grazing horses, he had to do it himself, which dispelled Emperor Wu's doubts.

Now that Your Majesty has a martial emperor, if you dare to deceive him when he is young and despise him, he will inevitably suffer.

"Well, you're still young, and this kind of thing is not something you can think of now. The top priority at the moment is how to break through the city as soon as possible. ”

Sima Yi interrupted Sima Shi's train of thought.

Sima Shi nodded, thought for a while, and suddenly smiled, "The child has a method that can disintegrate the hearts of the people in the city." ”

"Let's talk about it."

"That Meng Da dared to defend the city, but he relied on the danger of Shangyong City, and Wu Shu was the external response. Now that Wu Shu's reinforcements have been blocked, as long as this news is transmitted to the city, it will definitely be able to shake the hearts of the army. When the time comes, we will persuade us to surrender, and Meng Da is afraid that he will no longer have the heart to hold on. ”

Sima Yi listened and nodded with satisfaction, "Shangyong City is surrounded by water on three sides, if there is an outside response, it is naturally a dangerous place." Now that foreign aid has been cut off, it has become a dead place, and it is impossible to even rush out. I don't like repeated villains like Meng Da, and the matter of persuasion is not necessarily to persuade him. ”

"What do you mean by ......"

"Tell all the armies, find an opportunity, and pass the news to the other defenders in the city, if they are willing to help open the city gates, the crime of rebellion will not only be not prosecuted, but there will be a heavy reward!"

Sima Yi said coldly.

"The child understands!"

Shangyong City was originally unprepared because of Sima Yi's rapid arrival, but now there was news that Wu Shu could not respond, and the hearts of the people in the city suddenly fluctuated.

In January of the sixth year of Jianxing, sixteen days after Sima Yi attacked Shangyong City in eight ways, Meng Da's nephew Deng Xian and his cronies Li Fu finally had a psychological breakdown and secretly opened the city gate to surrender, and the Wei army took the opportunity to rush in.

Meng Da was caught off guard and had nowhere to escape, and after being captured, he was beheaded in public, and his head was passed on to Luoyang.

At the same time, Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, claimed that he was going to take Yicheng by walking through the sloping valley and preparing to take Yicheng, and at the same time sent Zhao Yun as the commander to lead the suspicious army to set off.

Then he used the artificial stone road repaired last year to order Wei Yan to lead the front army and quietly stationed in Fuxian County at night.

The Wei army sentinels, who were guarding the various roads in Hanzhong, immediately flew to Luoyang after learning about the road Zhao Yun had taken.

Since Liu Bei's death, Shu has been silent, Cao Rui heard that Zhuge Liang was in Hanzhong, but he just thought that he was patrolling the border, and he talked about martial arts training only to prevent himself from attacking Hanzhong, and even he wanted to send troops to attack.

So not only him, but also the government and the opposition despise Shu from top to bottom.

I never thought that Zhuge Villager would be so bold, secretly assembling a large army, and sending troops from Hanzhong to attack.

The news reached Luoyang, and for a while, the government and the opposition were shaken.

The general Cao Zhen rushed to Chang'an overnight to preside over the overall situation, quickly gathered troops in Guanzhong, and went to Yicheng.

Fortunately, Meng Da's head was transmitted to Jingshi at this time, and Cao Rui immediately spread the head to the streets of Luoyang, publicized it to reassure people's hearts, and then burned it in Luoyang's accessible places.

Now that the Mengda Rebellion had been put down, Cao Rui ordered Zhang He, who was stationed in Jingzhou, to rush back to Luoyang at night.

Because the hussar general Sima Yi wanted to appease the people in Xincheng, Cao Rui asked him to fully preside over Jingzhou's defense affairs.

Zhuge Liang in Hanzhong heard that Cao Zhen in Guanzhong had been fooled, and while notifying the former army Wei Yan to go to Long, he personally led the main force to follow closely behind, and hurried towards Qishan, the throat of Hanzhong to Longyou.

Wei Yan got the order, and as soon as he left Fu County, he assigned a group of men and horses to Liao Hua, let him enter Yinping, the capital of Wu, and sweep away the scattered Wei troops nearby to protect the grain road, and he led the army directly north.

After Zhuge Liang led the army to Fu County, he ordered Zhao Guang, the defender of Fu County, to return to Feng Yong's name, and at the same time used Fu County as a grain stronghold to attack Longyou.

When the banner of the Han Dynasty appeared under Qishan City, the Wei soldiers of Qishan City thought that they were dazzled, and they panicked all of a sudden.

In the early years, because of the Qianghu Rebellion, the Ma Chao Rebellion, and the impact of the Battle of Hanzhong, the Longyou counties were already greatly injured and the population was greatly reduced.

In the past two years, there have been more and more business trips between Longyou and Hanzhong, which has given them an illusion of peace, who knew that Ji Han would raise a large army to attack him?

"Enemy attack, enemy attack! Close the gates, close the gates! ”

The guards of the Qishan City Gate brandished their whips and whipped them on the soldiers, urging them to close the city gates.

Before Wei Yan rushed to the city, the city gate finally closed with a bang, and at the same time, the suspension bridge of the moat was also pulled up.

Looking at the heads of people on the city wall, Wei Yan laughed, reined in the place of arrows under the city, and shouted loudly, "Listen to the thief in the city, I am Wei Yan, the former general of the Northern Expedition of the Han Dynasty, I am also a familiar person, quickly open the city gate and surrender, if not, ......"

Before he could finish speaking, he heard a "boom", and an arrow shot down from the city, and finally fell softly a foot in front of him.

Although there was no shouting from the city, the arrow had already shown its attitude.

Wei Yan was furious.

It's just that now that he has just led the army, he has not made siege equipment for a while, and although this city is small, it is extremely dangerous, and it is the intersection of the north to Tianshui.

If the army wants to go to Tianshui through here, it must capture this city.

At the moment, he had to have the trees cut down in order to prepare for the siege before the arrival of the prime minister's army.

At this time, Longyou is the time to prepare for spring ploughing.

In the Luomen of Tianshui, a group of people came from the west along the Weishui.

The first person, who looked to be in his forties, was tall and elegant, and looked at the fields on both sides of the river while walking, which was Guo Huai, the assassin of Yongzhou.

I could only hear him speak, "I have heard that in the past two years, some people have deliberately abandoned their fields to raise sheep. ”

Tianshui County Taishou Ma Zun hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Back to the history of stabbing, there have indeed been people raising sheep in the past two years, but not the abandoned fields, but the Hu people are driven to enclose the land and use it to raise sheep. ”

"Drive people to enclose land?" Thorn Shi asked a little strangely, "The Hu people herd cattle and sheep, and the Han people plough the fields, this is the right reason, listen to your tone, could it be that there are big families in the water this day who also learn to herd cattle and sheep from the Hu people?" ”

"The history of backstabbing, indeed."

Guo Huai was originally from a family family, so he naturally knew that the big clan valued the fields, and if it was enclosed for farming, it would be normal.

Because in the past two years, a kind of plow has been spread out from Shu, called Quyuan plow, with only one person and one ox, which is not only extremely convenient, but also labor-saving, and I don't know how much better than the previous two oxen to lift the bar plow.

It's best to farm.

In the past, it was difficult to open up wasteland, but with this kind of plow, it is much easier.

I didn't expect this Longyou clan to act abnormally, the enclosure was not used for farming, but for cattle and sheep?

At the moment, Guo Huai was thoughtful, "In the past two years, Hu people have kept coming to me to tell me that the Han people in Longyou will not let them graze. I originally thought that in this pass and Longyou, the Hu people kept driving cattle and sheep over to graze, which was just right to appease them. ”

"I didn't expect such an incident. Do you know why they don't farm, but herd cattle and sheep? ”

When Ma Zun heard this, his face was full of embarrassment, he glanced at the few people who followed behind, and coughed, "Back to the history of the assassination, these things are all done by the local clans." How does the villain know? ”

For example, today, the magistrate must have a good relationship with the local family in order to be in power, Guo Huai didn't want to embarrass Ma Zun.

Moreover, it is almost an open secret that this Guanzhong and Longyou, and even the wealthy families of Liangzhou, have many connections with the south.

Even the first emperor once held a special court meeting because of too much inflow of Shu brocade, and wrote a "Book of Shu Brocade with the Ministers", wanting to exhort the rich and noble families not to be proud of Shu brocade anymore.

Where does Shu brocade come from? Aren't they all from Shudi?

From Wu to Shu Jin, the price is more than twice as expensive, so the big clan in Guanzhong Longyou will think of buying it directly from Shu and then changing hands to the Central Plains.

Although the imperial court hated the act of fornicating with Shu Kou, it had to hold its nose and accept it - because there was no way to stop it.