The Guan family father and son.

From the 16th year of Jian'an to the 20th year of Jian'an, the strength of the Guan family and his son is basically increasing day by day. Whether it is Zhuge Liang, Ma Liang, Jiang Wan, Huang Quan, or Li Hui, they are all masters of farming.

Restore production, restore order, and strictly enforce the law, so that the granary is abundant. Weapons, iron armor, leather armor, all kinds of military baggage are piled up.

The generals are also very capable, and they train their soldiers non-stop.

Zhao Yun's cavalry in Hanzhong has increased to more than 5,000 people.

Guan Yu's father is a person who can't live in Annai. has repeatedly been ready to beat people, but he has learned to be obedient, and everything needs to be discussed with his son.

So Guan Ping wrote to his father, asking you to live and work in peace.

Therefore, the Guan family has been recuperating in the past few years. Sun Quan is also recuperating, guarding the Yangtze River outside, and Pingshan Yue inside, making a shrunken turtle, very well-behaved.

It is also to concentrate on farming.

Cao Cao was anxious, and his crusade against Sun Quan was unsuccessful, so he went back to the north to recuperate. I hope to find a breakthrough, fight with the Guan family and Sun Quan, and unify the world.

Cao Cao sensed urgency, because Cao Cao was already old. And Guan Ping and Sun Quan are both very young.

If you don't take advantage of the Cao family's strength to destroy the Guan family at this moment, Sun Quan is afraid that it will be difficult to do it later.

But the Guan family and Sun Quan are difficult to fight. Sun Quan garrisoned the Yangtze River and could not take it. Guan Yu garrisoned Xiangfan, Xinye, sufficient materials, and Han water as a barrier.

Guan Ping garrisoned Qinchuan, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Cao Cao repeatedly sent troops to tempt, but they all returned in vain. Finally in the twenty-second year of Jian'an, Cao Cao did not hold back, gathered the Central Plains, Liangzhou soldiers and horses 300,000 went south to Qinchuan, all the way to Cao Zhen as a general, from the Bao Slope Road to enter the army, all the way to Zhang He as a general from Chencang Road.

He led 150,000 foot cavalry to attack Wudu, Yin Ping. At this time, Xu Shu had 60,000 men and horses, and he ordered his soldiers to guard the danger and refuse to fight.

Guan Ping heard the news in Bashu and ordered Zhang Fei to lead his troops north to support Hanzhong. He ordered Wu Yi, Wu Ban, Zhang Bao, Mi Wei and other generals to lead 30,000 or 40,000 people to rescue Xu Shu.

A stalemate, the war began in April of the 20th year of Jian'an and lasted until the 21st year of Jian'an. Cao Cao's logistics couldn't keep up, so he withdrew his troops and left.

There's also an interesting thing going on. The war was stalemate, and Cao Cao wrote a letter to Guan Ping in order to provoke Guan Ping to fight a decisive battle.

The rhetoric is more intense. Guan Ping replied with a letter, only one sentence. "If Gong Cao doesn't die, I won't come out of Qinchuan."

It's literal, Cao Cao doesn't die, I've always been a turtle with a shrunken head.

After Cao Cao got Guan Ping's reply, he had no choice but to lead his troops back. Then Cao Zhen was the governor of Guanzhong, commanding the three assistants, leaving 200,000 soldiers and horses in Tuntian, and garrisoning Guanping.

He also ordered Yongzhou to assassinate Guo Huai, gather 100,000 soldiers and horses of Han people and Qianghu, and guard Liangzhou.

It's really guarding against Guan Ping, like guarding against thieves. This thief is really a big trouble for my Cao family.

Guan Ping didn't pay attention to it, but just let people continue to fight in Jingzhou and Yizhou. However, the soldiers and horses who were violently obtained continued to go to Hanzhong and Yizhou.

Xu Shu, Ma Jian and other generals, the strength has been increasing. However, the Guan family's leading generals, the upper limit of the army's strength is 20 troops, more than 20,000 people.

That is, the soldiers and horses under Zhang Fei's department are already the limit, and the rest are piling up people and horses.

Among them, Guan Ping also did one thing, that is, out of Pang Tong as the history of Jingzhou. In this way, Guan Yu is no longer the pastor of Jingzhou.

And Zhuge Liang was transferred to the shogunate and became the hussar general Changshi, commanding the political affairs of Liangzhou (Wudu), Yizhou, and Nanzhou.

Immediately internal affairs + hundred.

The power of the entire Guan clan is developing rapidly.

The time is 25 years of Jian'an.

This year, Cao Cao, a peerless hero, finally died.

Yecheng.

At this moment, Cao Cao has been named the king of Wei, and Jizhou is the state of Wei. Yecheng was actually the capital of Wei, and Cao Cao, the king of Wei, spent the last few years of his life in Yecheng.

In the palace of King Wei, on the sickbed. Cao Cao was already terminally ill, so he couldn't help but summon his subordinate Wenwu and the crown prince Cao Pi to explain the future.

After some explanations, Cao Cao left Cao Pi behind. He looked at his own son, and saw that the eldest son looked sad.

Cao Cao sighed, his own son is indeed outstanding, but compared to Guan Ping in the south, he is much worse.

And Guan Ping is much younger than Cao Pi.

"The land in Jiangdong is barren, and there are mountains that are more and more chaotic. Sun Quan is not worried. Only peace is the trouble of the heart. After the death of King Lone, the prince was cautious. Cao Cao said to Cao Pi.

"Father." Cao Pi knelt in front of the bed, holding Cao Cao's hand and crying bitterly. Soon after, Cao Cao died. But Cao Pi showed joy and forced himself to calm down.

Then he walked out of the dormitory and announced the news to the ministers.

Soon after, Cao Pi ascended the throne as the king of Wei, and the Han dynasty was rebuilt in the 25th year of An'an as the first year of Yankang. However, Cao Pi, the king of Wei, relied on the nine-rank Zhongzheng system and quickly gained the support of the nobility.

The core of the nine-product Zhongzheng system is that the aristocracy can be an official for generations, and the official position is monopolized.

With the support of the aristocracy, Cao Pi forced the emperor to abdicate and proclaimed himself emperor, with the country name of Great Wei and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty. This twenty-five years of Jian'an is also the first year of the early Huang Dynasty.

Cao Pizun his mother as the queen mother, named his brother as the prince, and granted amnesty to the world.

When the news reached Chengdu, it was already the cold winter of the first year of the Yellow Dynasty.

Of course, Guan Ping will not admit any bullshit in the first year of Huang Chu, and still regards this year as the twenty-fifth year of Jian'an.

Heavy snow fell in the middle of winter, and thousands of miles were white. Even though Chengdu is becoming more and more prosperous under the development of Guanping, there are few pedestrians in the city, because they are all sheltering from the wind and snow at home.

At this moment, more than ten fast horses from the north came in the snow. A knight carries a bamboo tube on his back. After the knight entered the city, he went directly to the governor's mansion.

This bamboo tube was first handed over to the Yizhou master book, and then fell into the hands of Yizhou Beijia Huang Quan. Then he changed his hand again and fell into the hands of the hussar general Changshi Xu Jing, and finally fell into the hands of Guan Ping.

It's a program, no way. Because the news came from Hanzhong, it was the news that Yan Pu received. Counties, states, and then hussar shogunates.

It's a program.

After Guan Ping got the news, he held a meeting of the ministers in the city. The generals were no longer on the list, because the snow was falling, and most of the generals' barracks were outside the city.

On the other hand, now that Guan Ping has a lot of think tanks in the army, he doesn't need the generals to give advice.

The ministers attending the meeting will not mention anything else, and the elite ones are Zhuge Liang, Huang Quan, and Fa Zheng.

"Cao Pi usurped the Han Dynasty and became self-reliant, my father and son are both Han Chen, and we must not give up. How to send troops, please tell me. "Guan Ping sits on the throne in the north, and he is really righteous and awe-inspiring.

So the eight immortals crossed the sea, each showing their magical powers.

But in the end, it was Guan Ping's decision. Guan Ping first wrote a letter to ask his father Guan Yu to go out of Xinye, and ordered Chen Zhi to lead his troops to monitor Xiahoudun outside Wancheng City, and asked Guan Yu to personally send 20,000 troops to attack Chang'an from Wuguan Road.

This is actually a bluff, and it is also a formal march.

If Cao Wei sent troops to defend, it would be a bluff. After all, although Wuguan Road is very large and easy to march, if it is strangled, it is still difficult to enter Guanzhong from now on.

If Cao Wei doesn't send troops to defend, then Guan Yu will kill it, and once he enters Guanzhong, it will be easy to see.

Guan Ping immediately appointed Huang Quan as the assassin of Yizhou, and since he led all the soldiers and horses to Hanzhong, the grain transported from Bashu was endless and piled up.

And Zhang Fei, Wu Yi, Wu Ban, Li Fei, Zhou Xiong, Zhang Bao, Mi Wei, Zhao Tong, Xiang Chong, Ma Jian and other Bashu elite soldiers also arrived in Hanzhong.

plus Gan Ning, Wei Yan, Zhao Yun in Hanzhong, and Xu Shu, Wang Ping, Ding Feng, Ma Dai, and Pang De in Wudu and Yinping two counties.

In the sixteenth year of Jian'an, Guan Ping entered Chengdu. It is now the end of the 25th year of Jian'an, and under the development of Guanping, there are more than 200,000 people in Guangyizhou.

It's an extreme thug.

Guan Ping's strength is several times stronger than that of Shu Han in history.

Guanping Jian'an set out at the end of the twenty-fifth year, and the army, grain and grass were assembled, but it was already the summer of the twenty-sixth year of Jian'an.

The strategy of dispatching troops in this battle, the strategists have their own opinions, and even the generals have their own books. And in the end, it was decided by Guan Ping.

Guan Ping is taking the Zhuge Liang route.

This is also Guan Ping's justification for Zhuge Liang.

Although Guan Ping is a fan of Shu Han and sympathizes with Wei Yan, he is opposed to the Meridian Valley conspiracy.

The so-called dispatch of troops has a great deal to do with one's national strength.

After repeated defeats, Prime Minister Zhuge received a mess. Although the Northern Expedition was repeated and the army was mobilized, in fact, there were at most 40,000 or 50,000 people.

If you lose, you lose the whole game. And Wei Yan invited 10,000 troops, including 5,000 soldiers and 5,000 auxiliary soldiers, to attack Chang'an from the Meridian Valley.

How is Meridian Valley so hard to walk?

Cao Zhen crusaded against Shu Han, and took the Meridian Valley Road, coupled with heavy rain, he only walked half of the way in a month, and finally had to send troops.

Even if Wei Yan arrived in Chang'an, Xiahou Nan had to flee. If you don't escape, you can't capture Chang'an.

Even if Wei Yan enters Chang'an, he needs to hold on until Zhuge Liang arrives.

There are many difficulties and dangers, and I am afraid that the success rate is less than 10%.

Although Wei Yan was also very good, Guan Ping felt that this strategy was too risky.

So in this matter on the Northern Expedition, Guan Ping is a fan of Zhuge Liang.

And now Cao Wei is in Liangzhou, and there are 300,000 soldiers stationed in the Sanfu area.

If you want to attack it, it is even more difficult to climb to the sky. So Guan Ping also took the Zhuge Liang route.

On the one hand, Guan Ping asked Guan Yu to attack Wuguandao and contain part of Cao Wei's troops. On the other hand, Guan Ping asked Wei Yan to send troops to Meridian Valley and bluff.

Gan Ning sent troops to praise the slope, and Zhang Fei went out of Chencang Road.

These four roads are both suspicious and formal attacks. There are more than 20,000 troops, which is a powerful military force. Cao Zhen, who was in charge of Sanfu, was in a hurry for a while and didn't dare to move.

In the end, Guan Ping led Xu Shu and other generals to send 150,000 troops out of Qishan Road and attack Longyou. The counties of Longyou all rebelled, and Guo Huai, the assassin of Yongzhou, retreated to Sanfu.

And there are two roads from Sanfu to Longyou quickly, one is Chencang Weishui Road, which is a small road. One is Longshan Road, which is the main road.

The street pavilion is located on Longshan Road.

Guan Ping ordered Ma Tan to lead his troops to guard the street pavilion, ordered Zhang Bao, Mi Wei and others to lead troops to garrison Liucheng, and ordered Xu Shu to guard the Chencang Wei Waterway. Then he led a large army to conquer Longyou's disobedience, and sent Zhao Yun and others to attack the rest of the place.

Everything went well.

Longyou was captured, and the road was occupied. Liangzhou is an enclave, Guan Ping led the army, and after a little time, he occupied Liangzhou.

Of course, Cao Wei did not give up Liangzhou so easily, and after Guan Ping succeeded, Cao Zhen immediately mobilized troops to rescue. But Ma Tan has been trained and guarded the street pavilion.

Xu Shu defended the city on the Chencang Wei Waterway again. Even Xiao Guan was occupied by Guan Ping.

And the elite of the Guan army can't hold out. For a while, although Cao Zhen attacked fiercely, he only suffered heavy casualties. Cao Zhen had no choice but to retreat to Sanfu to guard it. In this way, the situation became more and more unfavorable for Cao Wei.

Because one trades off the other.

Guan Ping occupied Liangzhou and had horses. In the Longyou area, wheat can also be produced. Locally produced food could be supplied to the army.

All the grain does not have to be transferred from Bashu.

This is also Guan Ping's justification for Zhuge Liang. Even if Zhuge Liang misused Ma Tan, Zhuge Liang's general strategy was not wrong.

There is a risk out of the Meridian Valley, and out of the Qishan Road, you can occupy Liangzhou.

It's not that Zhuge Liang's ability is not good, Zhuge Liang's military ability is also very strong. He just had few troops, and the first Northern Expedition in history made Zhao Yun bluff and led the main force to attack Liangzhou.

And Guan Ping used Zhuge Liang's old method to ask Guan Yu to attack Wuguan Dao, and let Gan Ning, Wei Yan, and Zhang Fei each lead 20,000 elite soldiers to attack Sanfu from three directions. He led the main force to attack Liangzhou.

This is not Guan Parallel, but Guan Ping's generals have many elite soldiers.

If Zhuge Liang had been given the same number of troops in history, Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition would have been successful.

With a large army in hand, there is no need to be afraid.

This battle was fought from the 26th year of Jian'an to the beginning of the 28th year of Jian'an. Guan Ping blocked Cao Zhen's forces and probably pacified Liangzhou.

After this, Guan Ping also developed a strategy for Liangzhou. Mainly Han people, Han people were mobilized from Bashu to enrich the Han population in Longyou and Wuwei areas.

There is no way, there are one million Qianghu in Liangzhou, and the Han population is only two or three hundred thousand. If it is not dominated by Han people, sooner or later there will be chaos.

After that, Guan divided Liangzhou into Liangzhou and Lanzhou.

The Longyou area is Liangzhou, and the Wuwei area is Lanzhou. Then Zhuge Liang was the history of Lanzhou Thorn, still the long history of the hussar general, the outer ruler of Gyeonggi, and the inner mastermind.

With Ma Tan as the history of Lanzhou and Zhao Yun as the protector of the Western Regions, the history of the assassins governed their respective states and counties, and pacified the rebellious Qianghu, pacified the Qianghu, and carried out sinicization.

Zhao Yun specialized in crusading against Qianghu, and contacted the Western Regions to reopen the Silk Road. Under such circumstances, the porcelain and silk produced by Guan Ping's family in Jingzhou and Yizhou reached the Western Regions and even Europe through the Silk Road.

In exchange for a large number of gold gems. In addition, Liangzhou produced horses, and the number of cavalry of the Guan family increased significantly.

Occupying Liangzhou is not only money, but also grain, and horses for the Guan family. If Zhuge Liang's first Northern Expedition in history is successful, can Shu Han'an be in a safe corner?

With Zhuge Liang's talent, it is not difficult to fight steadily and steadily, and it is not difficult to plot three auxiliaries. As long as Sanfu is attacked, this has become the situation of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States in Daqin, and Shu Han may really have the possibility of winning the world.

Of course, this is just Guan Ping's speculation on history. And Guan Ping really has the ability to win the world at present. Liangzhou, Yizhou, Nanzhou, Huzhou, Jingzhou, and Jiaozhou are in hand, with hundreds of thousands of armor, and the elite soldiers are like clouds.

Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong, Fa Zheng, and Xu Shu are either generals or giving advice, and the momentum is already flourishing.