Chapter 243: A Nose Gray

The sub-line of the mountain wolf, the ambition is rampant. ----------Clear. Cao Xueqin "Dream of Red Mansions"

It is said that Yuan Shu is the emperor, the world is shaken, and the careerist seems to have found an excuse and target for the crusade overnight, and Yuan Shu's territory has become the most coveted cake. The royalists who tried to set things right were naturally eager to try, and Situ Wang Yun was the most anxious person.

The small court of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty was just a snort of the people, and the use and military expenses were all provided by the major families of the royalist faction. Except for a little bit of the symbolic money of the warlords, the imperial court did not have a penny of taxes at all, and it could not even afford the rations of the palace maids, let alone fine clothes and food. The offerings of the major royalist families are simply not enough to maintain the military expenses of tens of thousands of people, let alone start a war.

In the early spring of the third year of Jian'an, Wang Yun finally stepped on the threshold of Chen Long's mansion. The sun is not very warm, shining on Wang Yun's white hair, which is extremely dazzling, as if it is showing Wang Yun's dedication to the Han family. It's a pity that no matter how long the foolish loyalty to the dim royal family is, it will always stand on the opposite side of the people.

Wang Yun stepped on the threshold of Chen Long's mansion, thinking that he would be greeted from afar. I was indignant in my heart, I was a big Han Situ, and I was the old man of this Chen Long, but I didn't expect that one day I would personally come forward to ask this third-rate warlord.

Unexpectedly, after the doorman reported in, Long Chen's door was closed, and there was no movement for a long time. Wang Yun is getting older, he can't stand for a long time, he doesn't even have a seat at the door, he rubs his waist for a while, stomps his legs for a while, if he doesn't have something to ask for, he really wants to leave.

The spring cold is steep, the cold wind goes straight into the robe, and the guards outside the door ask Wang Yun to get into the carriage to temporarily avoid the spring cold, Wang Yun thought about it and refused. If I didn't even have this sincerity, wouldn't the freezing just now be in vain.

The guard at the door looked at Wang Yun apologetically, and called out to Master Situ, do you want to sit on that stool? The subordinates went in for a long time, took out a small bamboo bench, and the guard wiped it with his sleeve and said, "Our lord is strict and economical, and Lord Situ will be settled." Wang Yun saw it in his eyes, was angry in his heart, and didn't speak, he proudly fought to the side of the steps with his back hand, and the old waist immediately became faintly sore.

After waiting for two hours, Lu Chang hurriedly came and said, "Don't dare to hide it from Lord Situ, after the last assassination of my father-in-law, he often fainted and fell into a coma. The lord knows that Lord Situ is outside, so please come in. ”

Wang Yun endured his anger and stepped inside, Lu Chang introduced the back hall bedroom, only to see a person lying on the bed, it was Chen Long with a gray face, and the room was full of medicinal fragrance. When Chen Long saw Wang Yun, he hurriedly "struggled" to get up from the sickbed, and accidentally fell on the bed again, saying: "Lord Situ forgive your sins!" Since the last assassination, my body and bones have often been unhappy, and I have relied on Huashen doctors to treat them! ”

Wang Yun hurriedly said that it didn't matter, Chen Long asked people to watch the tea. Wang Yun had just sat down, and Chen Long, who was sitting at the head of the bed, gritted his teeth and said: "I don't know who is so lacking in virtue, if I catch the mastermind behind the scenes, I will use his long sword to stab me and castrate him with my own hands." When Wang Yun heard this, he felt that the little brother in the lower half of his body was tense for a while, and he didn't say anything for a long time.

Seeing that Wang Yun was so frightened that Wang Yun was stunned, he thought that it was almost over, and asked, "Lord Situ, I have been stabbed for a long time, why did you come to see me today?"

Wang Yun was stunned, feeling that the style of his words was a little wrong, and hurriedly said: "This....... I didn't know that my son-in-law was injured in Luoyang, and it was so heavy, and then after I came to Chang'an, the emperor is now employing people, and I am busy combing the government around the emperor all day long, and I just heard that my son-in-law is not in good health these days. I didn't expect my son-in-law to leave such a heavy sequelae. ”

Chen Long sneered slightly: "Beloved son-in-law? Do you remember your righteous daughter Diao Chan? Do you know whether she is fat or thin, beautiful or ugly, whether she has children or not?"

Wang Yun was stunned and said embarrassedly: "Wenlong, how is my daughter Diao Chan?"

Chen Long was furious from his heart, his thick eyebrows furrowed and shouted: "Wang Situ! Do you still know that Diao Chan is your daughter? In order to carry out a series of schemes, you used cicadas to seduce Dong Zhuo, Lu Bu and her son, and put her between the tiger and the jackal, completely ignoring her life and death! If it weren't for God's eyes, the cicadas would have been buried in the tiger's den and wolf's den! A pair of handsome eyes stared at the old Wang Yun fiercely.

Wang Yun was taken by Chen Long's momentum, felt cold sweat on his forehead, and was very embarrassed, and hurriedly explained: "My son-in-law Hugh is going to listen to other people's rumors.......

"Who is your beloved son-in-law!" Long Chen shouted violently: "Old horseman! Old poison! You have such a vicious heart, and you don't pee and take pictures, and you are worthy of being the father of the cicada? And Wen Ji's father's account hasn't been settled with you yet! I have a few swords in my body inexplicably, but it is also thanks to you! Let me find out, and I will have a blood feud! If you don't look at the emperor's face, I will accept your garbage for God today! ”

Wang Yun has always been high, how could he have been scolded so badly, he almost fainted out of breath, he opened his mouth and couldn't speak, and the halberds in his hands pointed and poked, but he couldn't speak, and he recited it in one breath, and fell backwards when he landed. Chen Long ordered someone to carry him out by the arm and throw him on the carriage, Wang Yun didn't know why, and thought that the old man was sick, so he hurriedly took the carriage and rushed to Hua Tuo's hospital.

Chen Long finally let out a bad breath for Diao Chan, and his heart was extremely happy, Wang Yun wanted to take Luoyang, and he didn't want to get a soldier here. He didn't control the government like Cao Cao, and he was already tolerant enough of these royalists, how could he allow them to on his neck.

Wang Yun has been a little sluggish since he touched Chen Long's place, and he seems to be much more low-key. In 193 A.D., when the spring flowers were blooming, Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty suddenly issued several edicts a day, counting the eight major crimes of the rebel Yuan Shu, and ordered all the generals to jointly crusade against the rebel Yuan Shu, and set up an alliance to fight against Yuan, with Situ Wang Yun as the leader of the alliance, and the general Wang Yue as the marshal, and the capital supervised the world's soldiers and horses to meet Luoyang.

As soon as this edict came out, Chen Long was in the arms, Huang Gai and Guo Jia led 20,000 troops to hold Chang'an, and the 50,000 mixed troops of Zhang He's army and 25,000 Xiliang iron cavalry of Ma Teng's army immediately opened in the name of rebellion and disappeared into the wilderness in the western suburbs of Chang'an. It is called rebellion, but in fact, the troops passed through Chen Cang and went to Tianshui.

Between Hanzhong and Chang'an, Qinling Mountains go straight into the sky like a barrier, if the straight road passes through the Qinling Mountains, the road is rugged, difficult and difficult to walk, although there are only more than 200 kilometers, but after martial arts, to Yixian, into Taibai, to cross Foping, only to get to Hanzhong, plank road is often cut off. Therefore, when the army marches, it will generally take the old road, that is, through Chencang to Tianshui, along the Jialing River south to Luoyang, and then along the Fushui through Hanfu County, Yangping Pass, and Chuyang to Hanzhong. And, of course, the famous Meridian Valley Passage.

During the period of the Three Kingdoms, there were six main roads from Chang'an to the southwest and surrounding areas through the Qinling Mountains, from west to east: Chencang Road, Baochuan Road, Fu Luo Road, Meridian Road, Kugu Road, Wuguan Road. The Qinling Mountains are high and the valleys are deep, although these six avenues are all dangerous, but in the wars of the past and present, they are still many times or broken, or smuggled, among them, the Meridian Road in the Meridian Valley is the only one of these six ancient roads, the only one that has been smuggled many times, but has never succeeded. Therefore, some historians have issued an exclamation that "the six roads of the Qinling Mountains, the meridian is the king".

The geographical route of the Meridian Valley is probably from Duling in the southeast of Chang'an, crossing the Qinling Mountains to Hanzhong. It was opened in the Qin Dynasty, after a hundred years of obscurity, the first time on the stage of war was at the end of the Qin Dynasty, when it was the period of "Liu Xiang Fight", Liu Bang was forced to go to Hanzhong to take up the Han Dynasty, it was through the Meridian Valley, the difficulty of the road inspired the determination of the Han soldiers to fight against Xiang Yu, and finally, they killed back to Guanzhong and seized the world.

According to the "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms", the general Wei Yan once proposed the plan of the Meridian Valley, "inviting 10,000 soldiers to meet with Liang Yidao in Tongguan, such as the story of Han Xin". But Zhuge Liang thought this plan was too risky and refused. The reason why Zhuge Liang did not adopt this plan is that the very important reasons include the changeable and unpredictable weather in the Meridian Valley area, as well as the difficult and dangerous geography. However, Wei Yan's so-called "straight from the praise, follow the Qinling Mountains to the east, and go north when the meridian" is also very likely not to refer to the troops sent from the Meridian Valley, but by Fu Luodao. When Cao Zhen, the general of Cao Wei, attacked Shu, he clearly stated that he would take the Meridian Valley, the Slope Valley and other roads to march, but in the event of continuous rain, the plank road was cut off, and Cao Zhen took a month to walk half the distance and was forced to retreat. Wei Yan's strategy was also tried later, but they all failed, such as the Eastern Jin Dynasty Huanwen Northern Expedition to Qin, that is, like Wei Yan, he smuggled across the Meridian Valley, but was ambushed by the Qin army before he left the valley.

Combining the above factors, Chen Long still chose the relatively easy old path, that is, the reverse of Zhuge Liang's exit from Qishan in the official history. At the same time, Wei Yan joined forces with Gan Ning and Shamoke, with Lu Su, Pan Jun, and Ding Yi as military divisions, with about 40,000 people mixed by land and water, and hundreds of large and small warships, and slaughtered out of the Danjiang Estuary and Shangyong County in Hanzhong County along the Han River.

Single-table Chen Long went all the way to the soldiers, the soldiers were prosperous, and they came to Chen Cang. Chen Cangshou is the deputy general of Tianshui County Shouliang Xing, and when he heard that Chen Long and Ma Teng came together, he was so frightened that he fled. Chen Long and Ma Teng divided their troops in Chencang, Ma Teng went south to Qishan along the road, and went straight to Nanzheng and Yangping Pass through Wudu, Chen Long led his troops to the boundary of Tianshui County, intending to take Tianshui and establish a strong logistics base for the army to attack Hanzhong.

The march along the road was arduous, and Chen Long realized the good intentions of Prime Minister Zhuge in the official history. A corner of partial peace is also destroyed, and the Northern Expedition that exhausted a lifetime was exchanged for decades of partial peace in Shu.

Liang Xing, the general of Tianshui, is one of the eight strong generals under Han Sui, and his martial arts are acceptable, but his strategy is insufficient. For Chen Long's army that suddenly appeared, Liang Xing hung up the battle exemption card, intending to defend and counterattack. Xun Yu offered a plan, Chen Long reorganized the army under the city every day, showing off his might, covering the sun with swords and guns, drumming and music, and waving flags, which frightened Liang Xing, who was short of troops, in fear. After three days in a row, Chen Long ordered people to start attacking the city, bluffing, and besieging three missing one. The siege horn continued day and night, and the Liang Xingbing soldiers could not rest, and fought fatigue until they were on the verge of psychological collapse, so they opened the city gate at night and fled. Chen Longbing was bloodless, captured the big city of Tianshui in Xiliang, and recorded Xun You's first contribution.

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