The controversy in later generations about Zhuge Liang's disagreement with Wei Yan's Meridian Valley conspiracy was success or failure, not whether the Meridian Road could be walked.

The meridian path works, but it comes with a very high risk.

The most basic thing to fight a war is the comparison of military strength, Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition, the military strength is weaker than Cao Wei, just like gambling, gamblers with thousands of family fortunes can lose a lot of money and not change their faces, but Zhuge Liang can't take risks, if he loses, I'm afraid he won't even have room to turn over, Zhuge Liang is an excellent military strategist and politician, his generals are slightly outstanding, because Shu [***] is weak, although his several Northern Expeditions have little success in the end, but in the confrontation with Cao Wei, he will not fall behind, There were even quite a few military and political victories.

Kong Ming is only cautious in his life, if he underestimates Zhuge Liang's general strategy because of this, it is a big mistake, Shu State to attack instead of defend, in fact, there is no way out, Cao Wei people are many and wide, if you only defend and do not attack, Shu Han is defeated sooner or later, so Zhuge Liang must go north, and whether he won three Cao Wei forces from Wudu Yinping to Longyou when he responded to Chengcheng, or confronted Sima Yi in Chencang to kill Cao Wei, for Zhuge Liang, it was a success in his military operations.

A Meridian Valley conspiracy, Zhuge Liang can't take risks, because the Cao Wei generals who guard Chang'an are indeed unknown, but they may not be left and right, and when the enemy situation is unknown, how can Zhuge Liang agree to Wei Yan taking the elite of Shu Han to take risks?

Zhuge Liang is against Cao Wei and the country, Guo Jia is now strong and strong, and what he has to face is nothing more than brave and unscrupulous figures like Li Dao and Guo Yan, he has no need to send people to take the Meridian Road to attack Chang'an, go out of the way to seize Chen Cang, step by step, and step on the pass is the chance to win.

When Guo Jia led the army to the north, the 3,000 defenders of Xiongguan Dasan Pass in the west of Guanzhong surrendered directly, and when they went north to return to Chencang, the head of Chencang City that got the news was full of banners.

The soldiers did not take two strategic places without blood, Guo Jia wanted to take Guanzhong, and Chen Cang was the key, because this was the transit place for Hanzhong to transport grain to Guanzhong.

Dasanguan is the Xiongguan in the west of Guanzhong, and it is particularly important to take this place and then subdue Fufeng County, so that Fufeng County can be used as an outpost to pay attention to the military movements of the Xiliang warlords.

After entering Chencang for a short rest, Guo Jia had to sort out military intelligence before making the next step.

The people in Chencang City are scarce, and Guanzhong has been ruled by Dong Zhuo and Li Dao Guo Yan successively, and now it is ten rooms and nine empty, the strong are scattered, the losers cannibalize, and there is no trace of people.

The soldiers on the streets of the city came and went in a hurry, or carrying weapons and armor, or pushing wooden carts escorting grain and grass, a busy scene.

Guo Jia, who stayed in the humble city and county government, took off his armor and invited people to discuss matters.

Zhang Liao, Gan Ning, Xu Chu, Dian Wei, Gao Shun, Yan Yan, Wu Yi, Wu Ban, and Meng Da gathered together, there were many generals, but there was only Fa Zheng alone.

"Li Dao Guo Yan went to Sizhou to pursue the Son of Heaven, how is the situation developing now?"

Guo Jia asked lightly.

Fa Zheng replied: "According to the report of Tan Malay, King Zuo Xian led his army and the white wave thieves to repel Li Dao Guo Yan, and now the two are on their way back to Chang'an. ”

Even today, there are still remnants of the Yellow Turban in various places, Bai Bo was once led by Zhang Baiqi, and after serving Guo Jia, the others who did not choose to follow Zhang Baiqi are still white wave thieves, but there is no doubt that their strength has been greatly reduced.

Guo Jia started with the remnants of the Yellow Turban, and he also helped many people in disguise, such as Yuan Shao in Hebei Province, who was less disturbed by the powerful Montenegrin army, and his rise was much smoother, and it was easier to defeat Gongsun Zhan.

Looking down at the map of Guanzhong spread on the table in front of him, Guo Jia calculated the distance.

In the past few years, Li Dao Guo Yan and Ma Teng Han Sui have been in constant confrontation with each other, and they have lost a lot of troops, but there are at least 50,000 horses, even if they go to humble and work together with the white wave thieves to defeat the two, a general like Li Dao Guo Bi will definitely slip away quickly when he sees the wind and rudder, bullying the soft and fearing the hard.

"Gan Ning, you led Yinling to ride around Chang'an, and killed him by surprise on the way back from Li Dao Guo Yan, and retreated with just one blow, and then retreated to Chang'an, Li Dao Guo Yan didn't know whether Chang'an had fallen, but they had to go back to Chang'an to find out the situation, and be cautious, the speed of the march would be slowed down on the way back."

The tall and majestic Gan Ning clenched his fists and led the order.

Guo Jia then looked at Yan Yan and said: "Yan Yan, I order you to lead 10,000 foot soldiers to take the dangerous Wuguan in the south of Guanzhong, after capturing Wuguan, whether it is Cao Ying or Liu Biao in the east, or Li Dao Guo Yan in the pass, if you dare to come to Wuguan, you must stick to it without fighting, and Wuguan must not be lost!" ”

Yan Yan was very surprised that Guo Jia would let him lead the troops alone, and he came out with excitement: "The last general obeys the order!" ”

"Xu Chu, Dian Wei, Gao Shun, the three of you lead your troops and horses to take Chang'an directly, and you must ensure that Chang'an is in hand when Gan Ning attacks Li Dao and Guo Yan withdraws, so that Gan Ning's cavalry can enter the city."

The three generals naturally received the order with a pale face.

Even if there are defenders in Chang'an, there will not be many, the three of them nearly 15,000 soldiers and horses are elite soldiers, and it is easy to take Chang'an, the focus of this battle is to be fast, to break through the city before Li Dao Guo Yan returns.

"Fazheng, you go to Chang'an with Xu Chu and them, after Chang'an City is broken, the grain and grass will be transported over one after another. Now Chang'an must be a miasma of smoke and mess, you have to wait for me to arrive in Chang'an, don't see a lifeless Chang'an! ”

Fa Zheng solemnly received the military order, his errand sounded easy, but in fact, how many people in Chang'an couldn't survive? After several years of warlords such as Li Dao and Guo Yan working independently, political affairs were deserted, and everything had to be re-planned, and ordinary people were afraid that they would not be able to start when they saw the chaotic situation in Chang'an.

After arranging everything, Guo Jia himself stayed in Chen Cang first, and he was waiting, waiting for Ma Teng and Han Sui's reaction.

If these two people want to take advantage of the fire to rob, the soldiers and horses left by Guo Jia will deal with them first.

Han Sui is a professional rebel, previously with the Qiang rebellion, Beigong Boyu, Li Wenhou, Bian Zhang, these people who rebelled with Han Sui were all killed by Han Sui successively, and Ma Teng was first an enemy, and then turned enemies into friends, after being recruited by Dong Zhuo, when the Kwantung Army attacked Dong, he rebelled against Dong Zhuo, and the relationship with Ma Teng was good and bad, all because of the trend of interests, Han Sui This kind of person, Guo Jia will always be on guard.

Even Ma Teng, who is said to be a descendant of General Fubo Ma Yuan, Guo Jia also has to guard against it, Ma Teng's rebellion and Guo Jia's rebellion are one reason, both are the oppression of those in power, and the people are not happy, so the reason why the Liangzhou rebels developed into warlords was also forced by the Han Dynasty, Ma Teng responded to the rebels and rose up, which is understandable, but that is for Ma Teng, in Guo Jia's position, Ma Teng, whether he is an enemy or a friend, I can't say.

Ma Teng and Han Sui attacked Guanzhong several times, nominally the ministers of the imperial court privately contacted them to rescue them, what did Ma Teng and Han Sui think in their hearts, Guo Jia was too lazy to guess, just guard.

The three-way army sent had already set out, and a day later, Guo Jia received the news that Ma Teng Han Sui had led the army to meet him in Chencang.

A total of 60,000 troops of the two were stationed outside Chencang, and Guo Jia ambushed countless crossbowmen at the head of the city, and then went out of the city to meet the two in person.

The main force of Ma Teng and Han Sui's army was the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, with nearly 30,000 of them.

The Xiliang Iron Cavalry is not an army name, and it has the same local soldier color as the Danyang soldiers.

Tao Qian recruited troops from Danyang to form an army into Xuzhou, and although Sun Ce crossed the Jiangdong expedition with Sun Jian's old department and the army he recruited locally, his elite soldiers and horses were still the Danyang soldiers recruited by his uncle Wu Jing for him.

Dong Zhuo's previous army was also the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, which was famous all over the world for two reasons, one was that the Xiliang horses were fierce, and the other was that the soldiers who drove the horses were mostly Qiang people, and they could exert a power that the Han people could not match on the horses.

After Dong Zhuo entered Luoyang, the rebel warlords in Liangzhou formed a new army, and there were also Xiliang Iron Cavalry, and the cavalry under Ma Teng's command was handed over to his son Ma Chao to command, Ma Chao ordered all the Xiliang Iron Cavalry under his command to be equipped with heavy armor, holding spears, galloping horses during battle, and throwing spears before approaching the enemy, and putting them in later generations, it was a javelin, but now, such a Xiliang Iron Cavalry is very powerful in the short and medium distance of the charge.

Outside Chencang City, Guo Jia rode out, accompanied only by Zhang Liao.

"This young state pastor is very bold."

The Xiliang Iron Cavalry was in the lead, and the other infantry troops were behind, and the two horsemen in front of the formation were Ma Teng and Han Sui.

The person who sighed was Ma Teng, who had a very ordinary figure, and was weaker than the burly and rugged Han Sui.

The appearance is not sloppy, but he also looks messy with hair and cheeks, Han Sui's first impression is that he is a barbarian, and the literati will shy away when they encounter this kind of person.

Guo Jiazema, who was calm and relaxed, came to the outside of the city and was 100 meters away from Han Sui Ma Teng on the opposite side, and asked loudly: "The two of you are from afar, but are you willing to go with you to save the Son of Heaven from fire and water?" ”

Talking in the wild, the voice echoed, Guo Jia was full of confidence, neither humble nor arrogant.

He is now the state pastor of the Han Dynasty, and it is the largest Yizhou, in terms of official position, he is not low, even if Ma Teng Han Sui comes to him, he has to salute respectfully, respect and humility in an orderly manner, and distinguish between the top and the bottom.

Han Sui, who was squinting, didn't say anything, thinking about how to answer.

Save the Son of Heaven? Is it just to save the Son of Heaven?

Ma Teng, who was beside him, replied in a loud voice with a little excitement.

"It is the blessing of the Han family to make the king worry about the Son of Heaven. Under the command of less than 30,000 soldiers and horses to support the envoy! ”

Ma Teng's opening, Han Sui also had no room for reversal, Guo Jia was the strong party and dominated the situation.

It is impossible for him to start a war with Guo Jia easily, and on the premise that there is no benefit.

"I am also willing to help you."

Han Sui took advantage of the situation and hugged his fists to Guo Jialang to express his intentions.

Dong Zhuo, Li Dao, Guo Yan and others do not think about the rule of the people, it does not mean that others do not understand, Guanzhong is fertile for thousands of miles, rivers are vertical and horizontal, the climate is mild, and there will be good returns if this land is well governed.

Ma Teng, Han Sui and Li Dao Guo Yan are old rivals, but they are all defeated.

This time, Han Sui planned to follow Guo Jiaxian to fight Li Dao Guo Yan together, Guanzhong belonged, and then talk about it.

(To be continued)