Zhao Hao never expected that Cao Pi would not even let him have a good New Year, and in this cold winter wax moon, he actually worked hard to go on an expedition from Luoyang to Guanzhong, a place of right and wrong.

The royal drive has a strong symbolic meaning no matter what era it is, he can already feel Cao Pi's anger, and it seems that his active performance in Guanzhong has made Cao Pi unable to sit idly by.

Today, the Yizhou people who support Tianshui have just arrived, and Zhao Hao wanted to set up a banquet to entertain these people and let them have a good understanding of the terroir of Tianshui, but he immediately received the news that the Wei army had captured Beiyuan and drove Yang Yi back to Wuzhangyuan.

He didn't want to continue chatting with these people, so he simply put down his wine glass and prepared to send them directly to various places to be used as cattle and horses.

"General Mardai." Zhao Hao said in a deep voice.

Ma Dai, who had been eating white rice in Zhao Hao's mansion for a long time, jumped up and said, "The end will be." ”

"We are about to fight Cao Pi, and this battle may decide the fate of our two countries, so I give you an important task-

I sent Deheng and Bodao to support Zhang Zuo before, so that Zhang must find a way to drag Cao Wei's Liangzhou soldiers.

You are a native of Liangzhou, and you must be more familiar with the terrain of Liangzhou, so I order you to go to Liangzhou as a hussar general, cooperate with them, and take down Cao Wei's Western Regions Governor's Mansion - and don't let the Western Regions Governor's Mansion fall into the hands of the Xiongnu. ”

With Zhang Jie, Ma Jun, and Hao Zhao, there must be no problem in holding Jincheng, but after a long time, it is difficult to guarantee that the surrounding Hu Lu will not have ideas about the big cake of the Western Regions Changshi Mansion, and Zhao Hao needs a general who can take charge of himself to send troops for him and capture the Western Regions before the Huns.

If the entire Western Regions fell into the hands of the Hu clan, Zhao Hao would be uneasy even if he defeated Cao Pi.

Ma Dai patted his chest vigorously, and said with passion: "Don't worry, my Ma Dai still has three points of thin noodles among the Qiang people, with me, I will definitely be able to set foot in the Western Regions, you just wait for my good news." ”

Ma Dai was a little dissatisfied with the young Zhao Hao's high position at first, but after staying in Tianshui for a while, he found that Zhao Hao had clear rewards and punishments, and he used soldiers strictly, so he also admired him very much.

And these days, Ma Dai, who is extremely bored, has cracked down on bandits with Chen You, and he really feels that Zhao Hao's employment is not suspicious.

He collected a large amount of information on the bandits, found the thieves' nests with both soft and hard methods, and killed hundreds of bandits disguised as civilians in just a few days, and there was no mistake, those bandits could not go out to buy grain and grass, and were forced to retreat to the mountains.

At this time, Chen Yi had already led the bandit suppression team to surround the mountain, preparing to pull out the bandits around Tianshui in one fell swoop.

Seeing Chen Yi's performance so well, Ma Dai's meritorious service can be imagined, not only Ma Dai, I heard that there was going to be a big battle, Zhang Nan, Feng Xi, Lu Yi, Xiang Lang, Deng Zhi, and Gao Xiang, who came to Tianshui with Ma Dai, were all gearing up, waiting for Zhao Hao's transfer arrangement.

Looking at the expectant eyes of the generals in the tent, Zhao Hao felt a little proud in his heart,

These people are the pillars of the Ji Han Dynasty in history, all of them are famous and in important positions, and they are an important supporting force for Ji Han to go down in history.

It's just that in history, because of bad luck, they did not realize their ambitions, and most of their names were not familiar to future generations in history, but now they have achieved great achievements that have not been achieved in the previous Northern Expeditions of Ji and Han.

Commanding these elite generals, he is sure to do better than in history.

"Since Cao Pi doesn't want me to have a good year, then I will be forced to play with him - Zhang Nan Feng Xi went to Linjing, beat Xinping County down for me, Deng Zhi and Gao Xiang went out of Chencang, so that Cao Zhen could not transfer troops at will in Yongxian County,

Xiang Lang and Lu Yi went to Wuzhangyuan with me, I want to see how capable Cao Pi is, and he dares to come back to grab the land I get. ”

These people are Zhuge Liang's hardcore, Ji Han's diehards, before he came, he promised Zhuge Liang that he must obey Zhao Hao's command and fight for the revival of the Han family, hearing Zhao Hao's arrangement, everyone immediately got up and said yes to Zhao Hao together, saying that they would fight to the end and never let Zhao Hao down.

The 10,000 horses they brought and Guo Huai's 20,000 troops were mixed, and then scattered and divided into two roads, Zhao Hao, who had been short of troops since the beginning of the army, finally became more arrogant, and he proudly chose to attack in three ways, if Zhang was added, it was equivalent to fighting on the fourth front at the same time,

Fortunately, Tianshui has a bumper harvest this year, although he does not pay grain, but Zhao Hao, who has paid the public grain before, will not return it, plus he has copied the money and grain of many large households, and now he has full confidence in multi-line flowering.

"All the generals are fierce generals who can fight well, and I don't need to say much about how to fight, but here, I still have to be verbose, and tell you about the specific strategic deployment and operational principles of our army, I hope you will listen carefully, which is very important for the rejuvenation of the Han Dynasty."

These generals are all well-behaved babies carefully selected by Zhuge Liang, without Wei Yan's kind of thorns, and there is no room for Zhao Hao's expected scene of pretending to be forced to slap his face, he cleared his throat and said carefully:

"First of all, the reason why our army is so powerful is that there are clear rewards and punishments, and secondly, it is to firmly mobilize the people and take their strength as the foundation, rather than blindly relying on those wealthy families.

No matter where you hit, you must resolutely and decisively implement the new policy, and I will make other arrangements for you in terms of talent in the new policy, in short, to occupy one place, you must mobilize the people over there to make them know that our Han army is here to rescue them from the upside down, rather than blindly fighting for hegemony in the world, and if we do this, we will be one step closer to victory. ”

Zhao Hao's Qianshou route began to be rapidly promoted to other counties after the great success of Tianshui, and in just two months, the people of Tianshui, Anding, Longxi, Guangwei, and Nan'an counties responded one after another, decisively joined the army and assisted Zhao Hao to defeat the original Hao clan and Cao Wei's remnants.

For a time, Tianshui's appearance was new, and the head of Qian, who had obtained land and real benefits, was determined to defend himself with his life and blood, and his desire for war was extremely high, if it were not for the fear of affecting spring ploughing, Zhao Hao could continue to organize a larger army.

Several generals also expressed their absolute agreement with this strategy, and nodded vigorously.

"The second point is not to underestimate the strength of the enemy, everyone must realize that Cao Wei's power is still extremely strong, and we still have to regard him as the strongest opponent to face in the revival of the Han Dynasty."

Zhang Nan and Feng Xi agreed very much with this, they followed Liu Bei and Cao Wei to fight for many years, and knew that Cao Wei's strategic strength was huge, even if he suffered heavy losses again and again, he still had the powerful Youzhou Iron Cavalry and the essence of the Central Plains as support.

They had been worried that Zhao Hao would be young and would be carried away by a series of big victories, but they didn't expect Zhao Hao to be so old and spicy, so they couldn't help but nod with satisfaction.

"Champion Hou rest assured, we have been fighting Cao thieves since Jingzhou, and we know that they are powerful, and we will definitely not take them lightly and give Cao thieves a chance to take advantage of."

"That's good." Zhao Hao nodded and said, "Youchang, you will tell you the rest of the things." ”

Ma Tan has returned to Ji County since the Battle of Jieting, and has been busy training grassroots officers, and he is now very suitable for the role of an instructor.

"Generals must remember that in the attack, we must first concentrate our forces and fight the isolated and scattered enemy, and then fight the enemy who is advancing in a prominent way.

Hit the enemy's weakly defended towns first, and then slowly besiege the enemy's heavily defended towns.

I know that you have always had the habit of besieging a city and missing one, but now our battle requires that we try to destroy the enemy as much as possible, and not let the living forces escape back to other places, so as to reduce the burden on friendly forces-

In order to achieve this strategic goal, we need to adopt the tactical principle of encirclement and reinforcement when attacking large cities, so as to destroy as much as possible the enemy's living forces and reduce the loss of our forces. ”

Most of Ma Yan's words were incomprehensible to these people, but they still understood the general idea, and several people nodded together, indicating that they must obey.

"In addition, please remember that our army is a division of benevolence and righteousness, and this time we are here to hang the people and fight crimes, so we must not plunder the people and kill the prisoners—

Cao Pi is in Chang'an, we need a large number of personnel and heavy supplies along the way, if we blindly plunder, it will lose the support of the people, and it will damage the dignity and interests of the Han Dynasty. ”

The biggest advantage of the Ji Han army is that they don't like to plunder, which is also an important reason why they have always been stronger than the Wei army, Ma Jian even estimated that as long as the main force of the Wei army can be defeated as soon as possible, the people's hearts will all fall to their side, and then Cao Wei's army will be defeated like a mountain, and the revival of the Han dynasty is just a matter of fingers.

Zhao Hao very much agreed with Ma Yan's idea, and used a very appropriate metaphor at that time.

"It's like cutting bamboo, it's a little difficult at first, but as soon as you cut it in, the back will be very smooth."

After listening to Ma Tan's arrangement, the generals said yes one after another.

They are already quite young, and they all hope to see the revival of the Han in their lifetime, and their wishes will be fulfilled.

Zhao Hao and Ma Tan's strategy can be said to be to the point, making these self-taught generals feel like they are all enlightened, and they all begin to imagine how they should arrange in the subsequent march.

Waiting for everyone to retire, Ma Jian said impatiently: "Champion Hou, you just said so many arrangements, why haven't you said how to arrange them?" ”

Zhao Hao glanced at him and said with a smile: "What's the matter, you Chang also wants to lead the troops to fight?" ”

Ma Tan has proven his command ability in the street pavilion, although he is not yet a famous general, but he is no longer the useless embroidered pillow in history, and can become a mainstay through gradual accumulation of experience like Yang Yi.

He nodded urgently and said, "This is the great battle for the revival of the Han family, and my Ma Jian naturally can't be left behind." ”

"Of course, there is an important task to be assigned to you - you and Wang Ping showed bravery in the last battle, this time, I am ready to let you be the vanguard of the flying army, it depends on whether you dare or not!"