"Ziyuan? Ziyuan! Cao Cao, who was worshiped by the court as a councilor, hurriedly came to Wu Yi's mansion to call the door as soon as he got out of the early court. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Wu Yi opened the door of the mansion in a strong suit: "I said Brother Meng De, today is also my day off, and I came early in the morning to disturb people's leisure, but it is not authentic." ”

Cao Cao walked into the mansion wearing a court robe and grabbed Wu Yi's arm: "When is this happening, Ziyuan is still hiding here?" ”

Wu Yi welcomed Cao Cao into the mansion and sat down: "Isn't there any news from Guanzhong?" ”

Cao Cao sighed: "Everything is as Ziyuan expected, General Huangfu Song has been unfavorable in successive battles, and now he has been retracted by the Holy Lord as the general of the left chariot and cut the feudal household by 6,000. ”

"So fast? It seems that someone in the court is secretly slandering. Wu Yimo rubbed the immature beard that had just emerged under his chin and muttered in an affirmative tone.

"No matter who is slandering, General Huangfu Song's unfavorable battle really made the saint unhappy, so now it is difficult for anyone to help General Huangfu Song intercede." Cao Cao can actually roughly guess that it was Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong who were slandering behind their backs, but now that the matter has happened, it is useless to pursue anything. Moreover, Zhang Rang, Zhao Zhong and other eunuchs have been in trouble for a long time, and it is almost difficult to get rid of these eunuchs before losing the favor of Emperor Liu Hong.

"Since the imperial court has summoned General Huangfu Song back to Luoyang to punish him, who has been appointed to take over the battle in Guanzhong?"

"Your Majesty worships Zhang Wen as the general of the chariot and cavalry in the palace, and Yuan Peng is the deputy general. Because General Huangfu Song mentioned that Beigong Boyu, the chief of the Qiang Hu thief, was good at using cavalry, His Majesty also named Dong Zhuo, a fierce general of Xiliang, as the general of the Broken Prisoners, and served under Zhang Wen together with Zhou Shen, the general of Dangkou. ”

The position of the general of the chariot cavalry who commanded the three armies against the Qianghu rebels made Cao Cao, who was known as the ambition of Wei Huo, covet it for a long time. But although Cao Cao also established some merits in the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Cao Cao, who was bent on rectifying corrupt officials and corrupt officials, unknowingly offended many villains, and Cao Cao was nominally the grandson of the eunuch Cao Teng, which made many scholars who hated eunuchs disgusted with his instincts. With so many unfavorable factors and Cao Cao's own shallow qualifications, in the end, the position of general of the chariot cavalry fell to Zhang Wen, who had been promoted by Cao Teng back then.

"Zhang Boshen is both wise and brave, and more importantly, he is a general elected by the eunuch party, as long as he does not join the team of Shilin Confucian in the open, at least in secret, no one will slander His Majesty and drag Zhang Boshen's hind legs. In addition, this time, His Majesty specially dispatched Dong Zhuo's Xiliang cavalry and Zhou Shen's Hedong Army to serve under his command, and this time against the Xiliang rebels of Shangbei Gong Boyu, there should be a good chance of victory. "In fact, even if there is no change of generals, as long as the imperial court can give Huangfu Song another period of time, and use the strong cities and sufficient military rations in the land of Sanfu to rely on, just if it drags on for another year and a half, the rebels will collapse without a fight. After all, it is hundreds of thousands of military horses who eat and chew horses, and the grain and grass they need every day can be piled up into a small mountain. The territory occupied by the rebels is the Liangzhou counties, and it is okay to raise horses in those places, but it is absolutely impossible to say that it is impossible to provide food and clothing for hundreds of thousands of soldiers for a long time.

After thinking about it for a while, Cao Cao asked tentatively: "Ziyuan, you said that if we propose to Your Majesty to go with the army now, will Your Majesty agree to our request?" ”

Wu Yi looked at Cao Cao with some surprise: "Brother Meng De, you are now a speaker in the court, where is the reason for Lang to go out with the army?" ”

"Don't mention that what kind of discussion is there, where is there a political matter in the court that I can discuss? It's just that I was afraid that I would make trouble for those guys so he recalled me back to Luoyang, otherwise I would be a hundred times better than this councilor in Jinan. "Cao Cao stayed in Luoyang City, although he carried the name of a speaker, but he couldn't express his political opinions at all. This sense of powerlessness made Cao Cao uncomfortable, and made him miss his military career in the Yellow Turban Thieves Army last year.

"In any case, not only will Your Majesty not agree to your request, but even the military will not be willing to add a councillor to the expedition. Therefore, Brother Meng De should stay in Luoyang safely. "Wu Yi didn't expect Cao Cao to be so disgusted with Luoyang officialdom, and in order to leave here, he actually wanted to take Zhang Wen's 'chariot' to Xiliang as a lang.

Cao Cao sighed, if it weren't for his father Cao Song's intention to let him join politics, in fact, his original intention was to join the army for development: "Brother may not be able to leave, but why don't Brother Ziyuan give it a try?" Ziyuan's virtuous brother is both civil and military, and it is too condescending to be the captain of a city guard in Luoyang here. ”

Wu Yi shook his head slightly, others may not know the truth in Zhang Wenjun, but Wu Yi knows the current situation of Zhang Wenjun well. Although the hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the army are well fed and the various branches of the army cooperate with each other, the most troublesome part lies in the factional struggle within the army.

Wu Yi never doubted whether Zhang Wen would be able to achieve the final victory. After all, behind Zhang Wen stood a huge empire of tens of millions of Han people, and behind Beigong Boyu's group of rebels was just the power of Liangzhou. The huge disparity in overall strength cannot be easily changed by relying on resourcefulness and superiority in arms.

But even if Zhang Wen can win, he will definitely not win easily. First of all, Zhang Wen was promoted by the eunuch Cao Teng, and the reason why Zhang Wen was selected by Liu Hong as the general of the chariot and cavalry this time was that Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong also contributed a lot behind their backs. Strictly speaking, whether Zhang Wencheng admits it or not, he has already been labeled as a eunuch.

If the commander Zhang Wen is a member of the eunuch party, then Yuan Peng, who is the deputy general, is the person of Emperor Liu Hong. Although Emperor Liu Hong was a little mediocre and greedy for money on weekdays, he always did not like to interfere in the military. This time, Liu Hong unprecedentedly sent Yuan Peng to the army as a deputy general, firstly, the previous Huangfu Song disappointed Liu Hong, and secondly, Zhang Wen was the person selected by Zhang for them, Liu Hong could tolerate Zhang letting them behave in the Luoyang Palace, but he could not let Zhang let them easily develop their power into the army. If Zhang Wen just used the money to leave Zhang Rang's door, it would be repaid, and if he found out that Zhang Wen was the person sent by Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong to take charge of the army, then Yuan Peng, who was in charge of Jinwu, was Liu Hongbu's follower.

Not only did there be problems between the main general Zhang Wen and the deputy general Yuan Peng, but there were also old grievances between the general Dong Zhuo and the general Zhou Shen, and the four main generals in an army hindered each other for various reasons, and the opponent army was not all mediocre. From Wu Yi's point of view, this counterinsurgency army will inevitably suffer a lot because of this, and the contradictions between the four generals will also break out during this period. Therefore, no matter what Cao Cao did, Wu Yi himself didn't want to wade into this troubled water anyway.