Regarding this opinion put forward by Desert Khan, Wen Yang couldn't reply: The authority is not enough.

But Wenyang has nothing to worry about, just report it. These things are left to Da Sima for a headache.

At this time, Guan Yi is still trapped in Jiexiu County.

Due to Du Yu's timely advance, he seized the key position. In the case that his own forces were not completely superior, Guan Yi did not want to finish his work in one battle, and started a decisive battle with Du Pre in advance. Besides, even if he wanted to fight, Du Wuku would not give up his location to fight him around Jiexiu County.

In recent months, the state front has undergone relatively big changes.

Now at the junction of Taiyuan County and Shangdang County, Guan Yi led an army of 70,000 to sit in Jiexiu. Du Yu also led 70,000 horses to guard Sheep's Head Mountain. In addition, under the premise that Sima Yan was unwilling to transfer large-scale support from the Luoyang Chinese army, Sima Gui, the king of Taiyuan, and Wang Jun, the assassin of Bingzhou, had joined forces to settle in Mianshangju. When the two joined forces, their strength had reached 65,000. and Du Pre's main force into a horn trend. It effectively curbed the momentum of Guan Yi continuing to move south.

After Wang Jun withdrew from Pubanjin, Zhang Yi had no intention of crossing the Yellow River: Guan Da Sima had already drained all the subsequent 70,000 people who originally belonged to his team. Even if the cavalry general, who had only more than 20,000 soldiers, crossed the Yellow River at this time, he could easily be besieged by the enemy's heavy army group before the friendly forces on the northern front broke through the pass and moved south. Therefore, Zhang Yi just continued to strengthen the defense near Puban and crossed the river? This can be there, but at least it was after Guan Yi broke through the defense line of Sheepshead Mountain.

For Guan Yi, the biggest problem now is the food problem. A Taiyuan county taishou sold for a million stones, which is not a good price. But the good thing is that this is to take grain on the spot in Taiyuan, and the loss of handling is very small. But for a large army of 150,000, this amount of food is still not enough. Therefore, it is still something that has to be done to cross Luliang Mountain and continue to carry grain.

In the past month or two, Guan Yi has led 70,000 people to take a leave of absence. Of the remaining 80,000 people, 50,000 were stationed in Jinyang and sent troops to stretch north—the same idea as Jiang Wei's insistence on going south, all of which were to open up the grain route on the Wuyuan County side. The other 30,000 people, together with 50,000 or 60,000 people, traveled between the Yellow River and the Luliang Mountains, desperately carrying grain.

"Qiqi Da Sima, as of today, our army's grain stock in Jiexiu has reached 1.5 million stones. There are 600,000 stones of grain in Jinyang City. ”

"Oh? How did it grow so fast? This official remembers that the grain stored in Jiexiu was less than 1 million ten years ago, right? ”

"Mainly due to the great general's major achievements on the northern front, the defense line of Takayanagi Castle and the Great Wall is no longer caused by our army's transportation line. Therefore, the grain that our army had previously stored in Wuyuan County could go south smoothly. ”

"Good. This officer has always felt that if our army is short of food, we should not rush to swallow Shangdang County, so that the burden on our army will be smaller. Now that the grain road is open, let's start to take down the party. ”

"So what does Da Sima mean?"

"Well, order the rear of our army in Taiyuan County to move south and move closer to me. The 30,000 people who maintained the grain transportation were temporarily maintained. Speaking of which, Uncle Fang, in the last two months, how much has our army lost on Luliang Mountain? And how many have been captured? ”

It can be said that from the moment Guan Yi turned over Luliang Mountain, Jia Chong Jia, who was in charge of Jin Cao, was really crazy: if the Jin State died, all other ministers could surrender, but he couldn't! As a monarch killer, the Jia family is truly completely tied to the Jin Kingdom. Is there anything more effective for any new conqueror to quickly win hearts and minds than the heads of Tajachong and his three tribes?

Therefore, some time ago, Jia Cheqi went crazy and sent a large number of Jincao personnel to Luliang Mountain. There is only one purpose: you agents can't go into battle to kill, but aren't assassinations and infiltrators your specialty? It's okay to give me a sneak attack on the grain route of the Shu thieves in the mountains, right?

He sent agents, and Lu Ya refused to show weakness. Therefore, in the past two months, on Luliang Mountain, the two major spy agencies of Jin Cao and Si Wencao, have launched countless small-scale battles on sabotage and anti-sabotage.

"Qiqi Da Sima, as of yesterday, our side has lost 365 envoys, 130 soldiers, 720 grain carriers, and more than 370,000 stone of grain. A total of 1,245 Jin Jincao personnel were killed and 350 were captured. ”

"In this way, the grain road over there in Luliang Mountain is basically stable?"

"It's stable, but it's not a little bit of wear and tear along the way. At least thirty stones of grain were spent on the road. ”

"Hehehe, you guys, it's really a little better, and you forget the hard days before. In the past, the prime minister and the general went on a northern expedition, and the loss of grain along the way was more than seventy percent. So, I think this loss is acceptable. ”

"Well, Chang'an has sufficient grain reserves, and Wushuang and Gaizhi wrote a letter that this year's autumn harvest was also successful. Let us not have to worry about food. ”

"That's the end of it. Give the order, let the follow-up troops of Jinyang City go south. ”

"No!"

Here, Huo Zai was just about to receive the order to leave, and there were heralds outside the big tent: "Qi Qi Da Sima, Huo Changshi." General Wen of the Northern Front has an urgent report! ”

"Huh? Well...... Uncle Fang, what do you think? ”

"Huh? Da Sima, this is a good opportunity! ”

"Hahaha~~ Fang Boye, who knows me, is here, the pen and ink are waiting, and the official will reply to Ciqian."

"No!"

After Guan Da Sima gritted his teeth and wrote a reply, another herald hurriedly ran in: "Da Sima, Huo Changshi, urgent report!" The Huns have raised their troops! ”

Speaking of which, the location of the Xiongnu is closer to Luoyang than Tuoba Xianbei, so Liu Yuan returned to his tribe earlier than Desert Khan.

Unlike Desert Khan's father, Tuobaliwei, who had many sons, Desert Khan had to act in a high-profile manner after returning to the tribe in order to quickly recruit some forces within the tribe. Liu Bao's Xiongnu left and the central part of his effective control had long since identified Liu Yuan as their future leader, so after returning to the tribe. The treatment Liu Yuan received was not much better than that of Desert Khan.

At this time, the problems faced by the left and central parts of the Xiongnu were very troublesome.

Originally, according to Cao Cao's arrangement of dividing Huchuquan's troops into five, the left part was in the west and the right part was in the east. As a result, because the right part was a Tiefu mongrel, the other four departments united to crowd out the right part, resulting in the right part having to move west to the barren Luliang Mountain. Then let the right part make friends with the great Sima of the Han State in advance.

Now, Liu Meng, the leader of the right department, has made a great contribution to Guan Yi's strategy of marching into the state, and Guan Yi has made it clear that the Han Dynasty supports Liu Meng, the king of the right sage, to become the new Xiongnu Shan Yu, and requires the remaining four to obey. Such a request made the Xiongnu nobles in the left and middle, who claimed to be Luan Ti's pure blood, feel that it was really difficult to accept.

The area where the Xiongnu operate in the north (front) has long been occupied by the Xianbei people, while the Xiongnu in the south (rear) have been almost completely sinicized due to their too close proximity to the Han people. The strength of these two departments has been minimal, so now the situation within the Xiongnu is very simple: the right part says that our Xiongnu Shan Yu was canonized by the emperor of the Han Dynasty from the day he moved south. Now that the Great Han has returned, and the Great Sima has promised, then, those of you who claim to respect the tradition the most, the people from the left and the middle, don't hurry up to worship Xindanyu.

Of course, Liu Meng is the authentic descendant of Luan Ti, but the right part he is now in charge of is an iron man! After such a person ascends to power, for the sake of the stability of the position, he will definitely vigorously promote the right person to power, so won't those Tiefu mongrels run to us? This is simply intolerable!

For the leaders of the grassland peoples, loyalty, filial piety, and righteousness are nonsense. Obeying the strong and ensuring the survival of your own tribe is the most important thing. The current situation is that everyone can see the strength of the Han and the passivity of the Jin State. Therefore, according to the original intention, the left and central parts of the Xiongnu are also very willing to move closer to the Han Dynasty. But my great Sima, if you do this, you are forcing us in the direction of the Jin Kingdom.

Of course, this is deliberately done by the upper echelons of Ji Han: otherwise, how can you Huns fight a civil war? Otherwise, how can we have enough names to weaken you? You must know that the left, middle and right parts of the Xiongnu, after many years of recuperation in Bingzhou, roughly calculated that the population is close to 500,000! It has more population than Jihan's Liangzhou. If you don't weaken it hard, how can you sleep?

Therefore, after the Ji Han army crossed the Yellow River and moved south to Jiexiu, Guan Yi sent a considerable part of his troops to support Liu Meng to put pressure on the left and central areas led by Liu Bao. As for Liu Bao's side, the old man is old, except for swallowing his anger and giving up some pastures that used to belong to the right, he just sent a messenger to Jiexiu to cry and complain to Guan Yi.

Guan Yi ignored these requests, and instead urged Liu Meng to step up. If it weren't for Liu Meng's own little Jiujiu in his heart, he didn't want to urge too much to the left and the central part to arouse too much disgust and inconvenient future rule, I can't say it, before Liu Yuan came back, the left and central Xiongnu would have been forced to rebel.