Chapter 13: The Flying Army
Everyone said some polite words, and Guan Yi said goodbye to Zhuge Zhan and a group of civil and military officials, and ordered the three armies to set off and go to the Sword Pavilion. Guan Yi originally wanted to subdue Zhuge Shang, so as long as he followed his side for the time being, he would be resettled as appropriate in the future.
The army went out of the city all the way, only to see the people in the city helping the old and the young to stand on both sides of the road to say goodbye, and when they saw Guan Yi slowly coming under the support of Chen Lie and Ehu and others, they all praised each other, and the voices rose and fell, all wishing Guan Yi to lead the army to recover the lost territory as soon as possible and return triumphantly.
Guan Yi turned his head and sighed to Chen Lie beside him: "Although there are repeated wars and the people are working hard, but after all, the hearts of the people are returning to the Han and the emotions are surging, I expect that this expedition will be successful!" ”
Chen Lie nodded and said with a smile: "Previously, Sima Zhao raised troops to invade my territory in three ways, and the time and place were favorable, and the Wei army accounted for the second. However, since the battle of Jiangyoushu, the situation has changed dramatically, our army occupies the right time and place, Zhong will go deep into the hinterland of Shuzhong, if you do not retreat, you will be surrounded and annihilated by our army. ”
The two said, the army has been out of Chengdu, all the way around, only to the ten-mile long pavilion, but see a group of people and horses stopped on the road, for the first one of the generals, the tiger back bear waist, the majesty is extraordinary, the horizontal knife is immediately in front of the battle, but it is Guan Yi has not seen the third uncle Guan Suo for many days. There are several Han generals behind him, both men and women, and they are also full of armor, naturally Guan Yinping and his wife, Bao Sanniang, Hua Fu and others.
Suddenly seeing Guan Suo and Guan Yinping and others, Guan Yi was secretly happy in his heart, he was in a hurry before leaving, and he didn't say goodbye to Guan Suo and others in person, so he always had some minds, but now that he met here, he just got this wish.
I didn't know that Guan Yi had just hit his horse to meet him, but he saw Guan Suo and others jumping off their horses one after another, walked to Guan Yi's horse and bowed, and said in unison: "General Qiqi, the last general and others have been waiting here for a long time to accompany the army!" ”
"This ......" Guan Yi thought that his ears had heard it wrong, so he hurriedly jumped off the horse, held Guan Suo's arm and said, "Third uncle, why is this, don't you torture your nephew?" ”
"This is a national event, and the ceremony cannot be abolished! Although you are a junior, now you are the commander of the march, and you deserve to be treated by us! Guan Suo bowed respectfully, and stopped insisting, lest Guan Yi suddenly couldn't adapt to it and his face was not good-looking.
The reason why Guan Suo is like this is of course because at this time he is in the army, and everything is important to national affairs, but also because Chen Lie, Zhuge Shang and others know that Guan Suo and Guan Yinping and others are Guan Yi's elders, plus he and Li Yi's titles are above Guan Yi, if Guan Suo and others rely on this relationship and do not act according to the law, they are afraid that they will be criticized in the future and affect Guan Yi's prestige.
It turned out that after Guan Suo learned that Guan Yi sent troops to Hanzhong today, he entered the palace to meet the heir Liu Chan on the same day, and asked to go on the expedition with Guan Yi. Because of the urgency of time, after discussing with Li Yi and Guan Yinping, Guan Suo simply mobilized the soldiers and horses of the headquarters to greet him at the ten-mile long pavilion at the north gate, which could be regarded as a small surprise for Guan Yi.
How could Guan Yi not know Guan Suo's good intentions, and after reluctantly accepting a salute from a few people, he forcibly helped a few people up, Guan Suo guessed correctly, it has always been Guan Yi who saluted Guan Suo and others, but now it was suddenly replaced by Guan Suo and others to salute Guan Yi, this kind of role change really made Guan Yi unable to adapt to it all of a sudden.
After Guan Yi helped Guan Suo up, he looked at the three thousand soldiers behind him, and sure enough, everyone was brave and healthy, all of them were heroes, and he was secretly surprised in his heart. He knows very well that Nanzhong is a place where ethnic minorities live, the people are fierce, and they are extremely advocating warriors, Guan Suo and Guan Yinping's brothers and sisters have been in Nanzhong for a long time, and they have trained three thousand strong soldiers with their strong men, Guan Yi just raised his eyes and glanced at it and felt that the combat effectiveness of this army must be extremely strong, even if it is tough, the 10,000 well-equipped Yulinwei elites in his hands are estimated to be not necessarily their opponents.
This is not a lie. In the land of Nanzhong, since the sixth year of the Yuan Ding of the Western Han Dynasty, Qianqian was divided into counties and placed in Ke County, and in the same year, the capital of Qiong was successively opened and the country was placed in Yuewang County; In the second year of Yuanfeng, Dianchi Lake was taken as Yizhou County, and a part of Qike County was incorporated into the jurisdiction of Yizhou County, and Zhuti County was set up at the same time; In the twelfth year of Yongping, Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty placed Yongchang County; After the rebellion of Zhuge Wuhou Ping Nanzhong in the third year of Jianxing, Yizhou County was changed to Jianning County, and part of Jianning and Yuewang counties was set up in Yunnan County, and part of Jianning and Qike County was set up in Xinggu County. So far, the southwest region has finally formed seven counties: Qike, Yuewang, Zhuti, Jianning, Yongchang, Yunnan, and Xinggu Nanzhong.
Throughout history, the farming peoples generally lacked the spirit of perseverance, while the nomadic and fishing and hunting peoples who lived in the southern and central lands for generations were often brave and ruthless, and their customs were fierce. After the end of Zhuge Wuhou's southern expedition, peace was restored in various parts of the south and central China, and the minority soldiers who had fought for the lives of the Han army were also facing unemployment.
To this end, Zhuge Wuhou implemented a two-win-kill initiative - to recruit ethnic minority soldiers to join the Han army, and the problem of funding was solved by the local heroes. In this way, the Han court not only established a local army with the nature of razing and razing, but also enabled the local heroes to gain social status, submit to the rule of the Han Dynasty, and send troops to benefit the ethnic minorities and alleviate the ethnic contradictions.
In addition, the most important point of this initiative is that these local ethnic minority soldiers have thus become the regular army of the Han Dynasty, and have become the core part of the centripetal force among the ethnic minorities, and the army formed by them is familiar with the local folk customs, so there is almost no situation that provokes ethnic contradictions and problems.
Of course, there is another crucial factor in this. Nanzhong's elite soldiers are brave and good at fighting, and have always been famous. Historical data: The southern soldiers are all wearing leather armor and can climb mountains and mountains. Good at using bows and crossbows and poisonous arrows, good at field warfare, especially good at defensive operations. Liangping Nanzhong, moving to the south of the Qingqiang more than 10,000 families in Shu, for the five, should be the front, called the flying army.
Subsequently, in a series of military operations of the Han Dynasty, especially in the battle against Cao Wei, the Wudangfei Army made great contributions and made countless great achievements.
As soon as they came out of Qishan, the Wudang Fei Army and its main general Wang Ping were assigned to Ma Jian to defend the key points of the Street Pavilion, and under the unfavorable situation of Ma Tan's command error and the complete retreat of the Han army, the Wudang Fei Army under the leadership of Wang Ping with 3,000 men and horses blocked the attack of the Wei army ten times its size, and successfully covered the evacuation of other horses.
In the ninth year of Jianxing (231 AD), Zhuge Wuhou made the fourth northern expedition, so that Wang Ping led the Wudang Fei army as a partial division to garrison in the southern siege, and Zhuge Wuhou designed to besiege Sima Yi in Qishan. Sima Yi sent the fierce general Zhang Jaw to lead the main army to attack Wang Ping's lone army in the southern siege under the unfavorable situation of the battle, in an attempt to force Zhuge Wuhou to withdraw his troops and return to the aid of the Wudang Fei army.
At that time, Wang Ping's Wudang Fei army was only 3,000 people, less than one-twentieth of the Wei army, but it was these 3,000 Wudang Fei troops who resisted the Wei army's onslaught with their strong fortifications and the iron-blooded spirit of treating death as home, and won precious time for Zhuge Wuhou's main army to break through Sima Yi's camp. In this battle, the Wudang Flying Army fought to the death against Zhang He and the elite of Yongliang led by him, beheaded more than 1,000 enemies, captured a large number of weapons and armor, and his own casualties were only more than 100 people, which can be described as a complete victory.
In August of the twelfth year of Jianxing (234 AD), Zhuge Wuhou died of illness in Wuzhangyuan, when the former military division, the general of Zhengxi, and Wei Yan, the Marquis of Southern Zheng, burned the plank road on the way to retreat because of disobedience to the dispatch of Yang Yi, and raised troops to attack Yang Yi. Wang Ping led the Wudang Fei Army to participate in the quelling of the rebellion, and encountered Wei Yan's troops at Nangukou, in the unfavorable terrain situation, first disturbed the heart of Wei Yan's troops with a plan to attack the heart, and then the Wudang Fei Army gave full play to the advantages of mountain warfare, with one enemy and ten, invincible, it only took half a day to defeat Wei Yan's front, which won valuable time for the main Han force led by Yang Yi and Jiang Wei to quell the Wei Yan Rebellion, and ensured that the Han army could be successfully withdrawn back to Hanzhong.
In the third year of Yanxi (240 AD), the minority rebellion in Hanjia County broke out, and quickly spread to the surrounding counties, the Han court took Xiang Pet as the main general, and led the well-equipped Chengdu Yulinwei elite to conquer, but the famous general of the sex Shujun died in the hands of the rebels, Yulinwei was defeated again and again, and finally transferred back from Hanzhong to Wang Ping's Wudang Fei Army to control the situation.
For the Han court, the Wudang Fei Army was one of the four elite troops of the Han Dynasty along with Ma Chao's Xiliang heavy cavalry, Chen Zhi's Baiwei soldiers and Zhuge Wuhou's Hubu Army, and it was a strong guarantee for the stability of its regime. There is no doubt that the outstanding military exploits of the Wudang Flying Army are enough to shine in the annals of history and occupy a place in history.
However, no matter how brilliant the record is, it can't stop the wheel of history rolling forward. In June of the seventeenth year of Yanxi of the Han Dynasty (254 AD), the general Jiang Wei led his troops out of Longxi Didao for the seventh northern expedition, and was besieged by the Wei army.
Subsequently, Jiang Wei played the imperial court in the first year of Jingyao (258 AD), and ordered Guan Suo to recruit Qing and Qiang warriors in various counties in Nanzhong, and reorganized the Wudang Fei Army. However, due to various reasons, the newly formed flying army never had a chance to reproduce the glory of the year, and in the winter of the first year of Yanxing of the Han Dynasty (263 AD), after the destruction of the Han Dynasty, the Wudang Flying Army also disappeared and was gradually submerged in the long river of history.