Pei Gai discussed with Tao Kan, Guo Mo, Yang Qing and others in Guanzhong, and summoned Zhen to come.

Recently, Zhen Sui has been keeping a straight face all day long, and it is not pleasing to anyone, so he doesn't dare to be too presumptuous in front of Pei Cai. However, when he met him, he looked left and right at Pei Cai, and he was also quite puzzled - where did Pei Xiong, who usually has to leave, go? I still want to find a chance to fight with him and be angry......

Why are you so unlucky lately, not to mention Pei Xiong, even Chen An is not in Guanzhong, and he can only practice those parts under me all day long, but no one can carry three rounds, which is really boring.

Pei Gai naturally understood why Zhen Sui was unhappy, so he comforted: "I also have a daughter, and I love it deeply - what's wrong with my daughter?" Sons have always been rebellious, but daughters are the only ones who go on blind dates with their fathers. ”

That's right, Zhen was in a bad mood because the concubine Lu was pregnant for ten months and failed to give birth to a son, but only a daughter...... At that time, Zhen Sui was so anxious that he was grinding in the courtyard, accompanied by Mrs. Liang, as soon as he heard this letter, Liang immediately turned his worries into joy, but Zhen Sui's face was directly pulled down. Then he didn't go to see the concubine, nor did he go to hug his daughter, and he grabbed the Liang family and returned to the dormitory - this failed, and he had to make a son quickly!

To tell the truth, Pei should be very unaccustomed to this kind of patriarchal bad habit, but after all, the overall social environment and atmosphere are there, freezing three feet is not a day's cold, and if you want to reverse it in a short period of time, the possibility is infinitely close to zero - even after the establishment of New China in later generations, the slogan of "women can hold up half the sky" has been shouted for so many years, and it is still full of old brains, and even among the new generation of young people, there are many bad habits that are difficult to change.

Pei Gai wanted to improve the status of women – at least to liberate the productive forces – but in the end, he was too bad to go against the tide. He himself doesn't plan to take concubines, but he can't prohibit his subordinates from taking concubines...... Even the new law of Guanzhong could not give his daughter the same inheritance rights as his son, he could only stipulate that if she had no children and no heirs, her daughter could inherit the entire inheritance - the nephew had no share. That's it, and it's already under a lot of pressure.

Therefore, in the face of Zhen Sui's ugly face, which was even more ugly because of depression, Pei Gai could only follow the inducements, and it was impossible to reprimand him directly. Zhen Sui naturally didn't listen, and said with a flat mouth: "The governor of the capital already has a son, so naturally the full man doesn't know that the hungry man is hungry!" ”

Pei Gai asked rhetorically: "If everyone is like you, they all hope to have children, but not women, and even the people still have the drowning of female infants, which is difficult to prohibit, then in the future, there will be more men and fewer women, how can we agree on marriage?" ”

Zhen Sui rolled his eyes: "How can I control others?" Whoever wants to have a daughter will give birth to herself, I don't want it - I just want a son, and I can inherit my family's incense! ”

Pei Caixin said forget it, these truths don't make sense to learned people, let alone you are a barbarian, but you arched your own heart in vain. So his face was solemn, he changed the topic, and said to Zhen Sui: "Since Qing is not in a happy mood, he can go down to rest and rest, and it seems that the matter of leading troops is useless......"

When Zhen Sui heard this, he quickly lifted his spirits, and arched his hand upwards and said: "As long as the last general leads the troops to fight, this mood will naturally be good-the metropolitan governor has orders, although he has made it clear, do not transfer to others!" ”

Zhen is unparalleled in martial arts, crowns the three armies, and the generals in Guanzhong, and few people dare to oppose him - Tao Kan and Guo Mo are slightly more famous, which is supported by seniority; Chen An is vertical and horizontal, and he can't win the competition with Zhen Sui, and the only one who can win against Zhen Sui is estimated to be Pei Xiong...... However, Pei Xiong is just a warrior after all, not a commander who can generalize. In addition, this General Zhen is addicted to war, and every time he jumps out, he takes the initiative to ask for help, and even threatens him that he will not be able to compete with himself...... As a result, he had the most opportunities to be sent out of the horse, and he also made the greatest contributions.

Therefore, even Pei Gai wanted to suppress Zhen Sui, because of his defeat in Qinshui, he played the imperial court and stripped him of the title of opening the palace and the three divisions, otherwise I am afraid that the dissatisfaction of the generals will accumulate more and more, which will not only affect state affairs, but also not be very good for Zhen Sui himself. This time, if Zhen Sui is sent to the task alone, it is estimated that no one will be convinced.

But this task has to be followed...... Fortunately, it is not a horse to fight.

After the cardinal plan was discussed, 10,000 soldiers and horses would be dispatched from Chang'an to Feng Yi in the north, and stationed near Xiayang, ready to cross the Yellow River at any time to reinforce the battle of Pingyang and resist the southern invasion of Shihu. But this army is not just placed there, according to Yang Qing's suggestion, it should also use the plateau and mountains near Xiayang to train the skills of mountain marching and combat. When it comes to mountain warfare, although there are many generals under Pei Gai, no one can compare with Zhen Sui.

So Pei Gai ordered Zhen to be a general, assisted by Wang Ze and Mo Huaizhong, and led the army north to conduct training. Zhen Sui was puzzled and asked: "If you want to practice the ability of mountain warfare, from Chang'an to the north, there is a plateau eighty miles away, or to the south, a hundred miles away is Nanshan, why bother to travel thousands of miles to Xiayang?" ”

Pei Gai casually explained: "For Shihu to break Xianbei, quite a lot of cattle, horses, and materials, I am afraid that it will invade Pingyang in the south, so it is the first garrison in Xiayang, and you can wade into the east at any time." ”

Zhen Sui nodded, and immediately arched his hand: "Since the Metropolitan Governor has an order, the last general is willing to accept the order!" "He said in his heart that I am not very happy to train soldiers and be an instructor, but since I have the opportunity to go to Pingyang to fight Shihu, I must run this trip - maybe Chang'an will have to believe it late, I will have to believe it early, and if I don't wait for the governor to react, I will lead the soldiers and horses to cross eastward first, and you will not be able to change generals in battle.

Zhen went with him, and Pei Gai summoned dozens of small officials from various ministries who were good at planning and calculating, and gathered at the pivotal headquarters to assist Yang Qing and dispatch supplies from Guanzhong and Hedong and Pingyang counties, ready to resist Shihu's southward movement at any time. Naturally, the relevant instructions were also sent to Pingyang, and Liu Yang, Chen An, Yao Yizhong and others left Pingyang City to the north to explore the terrain in order to set up a defensive line to block the division.

Previously, the Qian army in Bingzhou was weak, and Tuoba Xianbei was contained, so the Pingyang Jin army basically took the offensive, except for setting up a few fortresses on the border line for early warning, and did not build any defensive facilities. Now that the strength and weakness are changing, it is likely that the offense and defense will also change the situation, so relying on a few counties to resist the enemy is too big. Besides, if Shihu dares to invade the south, it will definitely ravage the land of Jin and affect the agricultural harvest.

The boundary line between Pingyang and Xihe counties is north of Yong'an, which later became Huozhou City, that is, the junction of the Linfen Basin and the Taiyuan Basin. These two basins can also be regarded as the Fenshui River Valley, with Luliang Mountain in the west and Huoda Mountain (i.e., Taiyue Mountain in the later generations) in the east. The river valley is in the section from Jiexiu to Yong'an South 30 miles, suddenly narrowed, and there are only two roads that can be passed - one is along Fenshui, there are zigzag paths, and the other is twenty or thirty miles east of Fenshui, there is a big road connecting the two counties.

It is said that it is a big road, about the middle of the two counties, nearly forty miles from north to south, it is necessary to climb the mountains, and wade through two Qinshui tributaries, and the army is still difficult to walk.

Therefore, there are three options for the location of the Jin army to set up the defensive line: first, in the northern section of this mountain road, facing an open area; the second is the highest and most dangerous place in the mountain beam; The third is the southern section of the mountain road, which is backed by the narrow flat land near Yong'an.

Chen An suggested setting up a fortress in the northern section of the mountain road, and planned: "You can set up an ambush on the nearby mountain, and wait for the thief to get close to the base, and then go out to cut off his retreat......"

Liu Yang shook his head and said, "No." Then he smiled at Chen An: "What General Chen said is a good plan, but it is said that Shi Hu used this plan to break Xianbei according to the mountain before, so how can he be worthy of me?" ”

As for the specific course of the Battle of Jiuyuan, Liu Yang and others knew very much at that time. On the one hand, the information came from the communication of Chang'an, and on the other hand, it was leaked by Taiyuan on its own initiative - Taiyuan Guo's family, secretly sent slaves to the south of the mountain, and reported the details of Shi Hu's victory to the Jin side.

Yangqu Guo was once prominent in the Wei and Jin dynasties. Cao Wei general Guo Huai, four brothers, his Zhong Guo with two daughters, one married Pei Xiu as the main room, one married Jia Chong as the step-family - Jia Nanfeng, the empress of Emperor Hui of Jin, was born to Guo - so Guo Huai's nephew Guo Yi, grandson Guo Zhang, etc., all served as Shangshu. But with the fall of the Jia family, and then Pei Yi was killed, the Guo family gradually declined, and the current patriarch Guo Yin was forced to accept the joint clan of Guo Ao and others......

It's just that the three caves of the cunning rabbit in the big family are common, and Guo has a branch in Taiyuan, and when he lived in Pingyang, he also joined the sect with Guo Mo, which is considered a two-headed bet. Now that the momentum of Jin, especially the trend of Chang'an's Xingtai, is gradually gaining momentum, Guo Yin pondered that his family could not be without credit to Jin, so he secretly sent his servants south to secretly communicate with Liu Yang and others.

He is also a ghost, there is not a word on the person he sent, and the news exchanged is all oral transmission, so even if he is arrested by Zhao Jun, he can't find any evidence, and he can directly accuse the messenger of being a "fugitive slave", which has nothing to do with me. Although with Shi Hu's temper, he can kill whoever he wants, and there is no empirical evidence at all, after all, Guo Ao is Guo Ao's family, and Guo Ao is Shi Hu's main Guo family, everyone is a relative, so it is not too ruthless.

Therefore, now Liu Yang politely rejected Chen An's suggestion - "The north is wide and the south is narrow, if you only set up a fortress to resist, the thieves can surge to the front of the base, I'm afraid it will be unfavorable to me." Yao Yi Zhongnai suggested finding a suitable place to build a fortress on the south side of the mountain road, where the terrain was just the opposite, narrow in the north and wide in the south, which was convenient for the transportation of Jin materials, and the Zhao army came over the mountain, its strength would be tired, and it was relatively easy to resist.

As for the middle of the mountain road, the most dangerous and narrow place, in fact, the role of defending against the enemy is the best, but at the same time it is extremely inconvenient to build a fortress, we are not a long-term project, the shortest half a month, maybe one day Shi Hu will move troops, I am afraid that it will not be urgent.

So after surveying a suitable location, Liu Yang left Yao Yizhong to coordinate the construction of the base, and he and Chen An returned to Pingyang.

.。 Mobile version reading URL: m.