"Why do you want to do this, general? Liang Yijie Confucian student, how can he lead the army to fight! Zhuge Liang didn't expect Zhao Fengfeng to make such a suggestion, and suddenly said in a hurry.

"It doesn't matter, you and I have known each other for many years, Kong Ming, I know how you can learn it. Do you think that with your own talent, you can only be a state and county civil servant? Zhao Feng held the teacup and said to Zhuge Liang leisurely. The latter froze slightly when he heard this, but then sighed: "Isn't it difficult to be a general?" ”

"It's okay, I'm used to it!" Zhao Feng said with a smile. Zhuge Liang shook his head when he heard this, and suddenly said with a smile: "General, maybe you and I are busy." The next Northern Expedition, I'm afraid that we will all be watching from the wall! ”

"Kong Ming, what do you mean by that?" Zhao Feng seemed to figure out a little, but still asked.

"Look, General!" Zhuge Liang pointed to the map and said: "Wancheng goes north, which is Luoyang." Although there are Tiger Prison Pass and Luoshui in the meantime, but it hangs in Henan, if the lord attacks with large soldiers, he can go down sooner or later. Compared with the natural danger in Guanzhong, Luoyang is almost at your fingertips, and there are many talented people beside the lord, how can he avoid the light? Liang boldly speculated, the lord's next Northern Expedition will inevitably be sent to Luoyang as the main attack, and we are waiting for the remote places of Xichuan to just feint and respond! ”

"Makes sense!" Zhao Feng also agrees with Zhuge Liang's opinion. As the so-called authorities are obsessed, he himself didn't think about what to do for a while. Now it seems that sometimes in order to avoid suspicion, I am inevitably a little soldier. It's just that neither he nor Zhuge Liang expected that the situation in Guanzhong would be like this in the end. At this moment, the doorman came to report that Mi Wei, the commander of the cavalry, had something to see.

"General, there should be 700 cavalry under my cavalry commander. But I've been practicing for months, and the 700 soldiers under my command are less than 400 horses. After Mi Wei finished the visit, he also said to Zhao Feng with some complaints. It turns out that this kid came today to give advice.

"Jianwu don't blame me, I have less than two thousand war horses in Xichuan here, and I can give you less than five hundred, which is already very good!" Zhao Feng said with a smile. To say that Yizhou is not without war horses, but basically they are all in Hanzhong Zhao Yun. Of the 40,000 Hanzhong troops under Zhao Yun, the cavalry accounted for nearly 30,000. Although Zhao Feng is known as Yizhou Mu, he is not too moved by this Hanzhong Taishou. He also understood that this was more or less Liu Bei's desire to balance him, so he came up with so many tricks. In this way, if you want to carry out a slightly larger battle, you must bring Zhao Yun together.

"Ah, that's the horse?" Mi Wei was stunned when he heard this, and then Zhuge Liang suddenly raised his head and said: "In front of the general, Lu Gongshan sat in Nanzhong, and he sent someone to report it, saying that he got some war horses from Nanzhong and asked the general to send someone to accept it." ”

"Is there such a thing?" Zhao Feng was really a little surprised this time, think about it carefully, the so-called Nanzhong is the area of Yunnan and Guizhou, it is estimated that Lu Dai also engaged in some Yunnan horses and Guizhou horses. Not to mention that this kind of mountain horse is compared with the Xiliang horse, even compared with the Central Plains war horse that he has always despised, the surname can be estimated to be worse.

"It's okay to be a general, the Sichuan people are short, and it's enough to ride this kind of pony!" It seemed that Zhao Feng was not very interested in this, and Zhuge Liang continued to explain. "Okay, Jianwu, you will go to Nanzhong tomorrow and accept the war horse. The tall ones were incorporated into the army, and the short ones were used to pull carts! Zhao Feng cheered up. Mi Wei didn't know that there were so many twists and turns in his stomach, and when he saw that there was a war horse, he promised to run around without mentioning it.

"General, at present, the pavilions in Yuejia, Xinggu and Zhudi counties have been properly built, and there are many Han and Nan people living together, and the people are being counted right now. According to Li Taishou's estimate, by next year, the household registration will be counted again, which will be enough to add another 200,000 people to Sichuan. If it goes on like this, in less than 20 years, Nanzhong will not distinguish between barbarians! While summarizing and looking forward, Zhuge Liang handed Zhao Feng the latest official document sent by Li Hui, the Taishou of Zhu Di. The latter took it and opened it, and nodded again and again.

Historically, Shu Han was harassed by various departments in Nanzhong, although Zhuge Liang crossed Lu in May, and later Zhang Wei and others guarded Nanzhong, but they have never completely subdued Nanzhong. The reason for this is that after all, Shu Han is relatively weak in national strength, and if the conquest of Nanzhong is delayed for a long time, then it will inevitably be taken advantage of by Cao Wei and Eastern Wu, so it has always been Huairou more than conquest. But people's hearts are unpredictable, and they are ruthless, and they will inevitably not take you seriously. It's like that Meng Huo, since he won't die if he is defeated, what is he afraid of?

And now Zhao Feng doesn't have as many scruples as Zhuge Liang in history. Jingnan slaughtered Meng Shu in the previous battle, first shocked them, and then took advantage of the war to win over Yang Feng and Gao Ding, who have moved to Jingnan and Jiaozhou for several years, and they have lived and worked in peace and contentment over the years. The remaining Meng Huo tribe has greatly reduced its strength after the death of the patriarch, and the new patriarch Meng Jie is not a competitive person, so it is still stable. Of course, Zhao Feng also knew that the process of assimilation would still last for more than ten or twenty years, or even longer, and it should not be rushed. For example, think about the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China period in history, the people of Shandong and other places broke into the eastern part of the country several times, and tens of millions of Han people migrated back and forth in a few decades, which completely sinicized the three eastern provinces.

Zhao Feng, who understands the history, naturally will not take so many detours. First, the construction corps pioneered, and then in the past two years, people began to settle in the past to open up wasteland, and later there were even landlords who sacrificed their lives and money, and they also dragged their families to the local area to beg for a living. At present, it seems that the three counties of Zhudi, which were originally vast and sparsely populated, have settled down. As for the remaining Yongchang, Yunnan and other places, they still need to be said. Zhao Feng himself didn't know if he could see this scene before he left Xichuan. In fact, he was looking forward to it. After all, I didn't come to this world just to kill people.

The next time, Mi Wei led people to Nanzhong to receive horses. After a few more days, Mi Wei returned with more than 2,000 horses. As Zhao Feng expected, this kind of horse is the Guizhou horse of later generations. Although the size is not too big, it is still taller than the Dian horses that Sun Quan did at the beginning. Zhao Feng and Mi Wei picked and picked, and took five hundred of them who were too smiling to be used as draft animals, and the rest were incorporated into the army. Although neither of them was satisfied with this, they could only make do with it.

"According to the Malay report, Xiahou Yuan built a gate at the end of the valley, called the valley pass. In Weinan Wuzhang Plain, the tuntian was opened, so that if you want to continue to fight out of the valley, it will be even more difficult! Zhuge Liang mentioned military affairs again. Zhao Feng knew about this, the road in the valley was already rugged, which invisibly increased the difficulty of the troops out of the valley. Fortunately, the last time he marched, he had swept away the three counties of Longxi, and later Lu Xun took advantage of the situation to take the whole territory of Anding, and the most important thing was to take the important land of Chencang. In this way, I don't have to take those valley roads. You can go out of Chencang Road near and detour Longxi Avenue far away.

At this time, it was the fourteenth year of Jian'an, in the autumn of 209 AD. It has also been nearly two years since the complete truce between Cao Ying and Liu Bei. During this period, although heavy troops were stationed on the borders of Hanzhong, Qingzhou, Yanzhou and Wancheng, Prime Minister Cao Cheng seemed to be more characterful this time, and he was stunned that there was no friction. Zhao Feng and Zhuge Liang discussed it several times, but they both felt that this matter was a bit unbelievable.

"Report, General, General Hanzhong Zilong urgently report!" On this day, a small school hurriedly came to Chengdu to report the news. Zhao Feng unfolded the military report he brought and looked at it, and couldn't help but sigh lightly.

"General, what's wrong?" Zhuge Liang saw Zhao Feng's face change slightly, and hurriedly asked.

"Nearly 100,000 troops from the Xianbei tribes went to the Xiqiang tribes to plunder cattle and sheep. General Ma Mengqi fought with them several times, although he won more, but the Xianbei people had a lot of coalition troops this time, and it was a sudden attack, several tribes in the Baqiang tribe had been defeated, and now General Ma was fighting alone and it was very difficult, so he asked Xichuan for help. Zilong wanted to lead the army to help Chi Xiliang, so he asked me for his life. Zhao Feng frowned and replied, and handed over Zhao Yun's urgent letter to Zhuge Liang after speaking.

"More than 100,000 Xianbei coalition soldiers are coming to attack?" Zhuge Liang's face also changed slightly after seeing it. Since the battle of Mobei Xianbei five years ago, the vitality of the Xianbei tribes has been greatly damaged, and the big leader Kebineng was even killed by Liu Bao, the king of the Huns. Now that the joint forces suddenly come to attack Xiliang, this matter is a bit strange. Zhao Feng thought about it while summoning everyone to come to the meeting.

"The Xianbei tribes, every autumn and winter when food and clothing are poor, they go south to rob everywhere. Cao Ying broke Xianbei before, and they naturally didn't dare to attack the land of Yongsi, so they could only come to Xiliang! After hearing the news, Shu County, who was most familiar with the affairs of Guanlong, thought about it and put forward his own opinion.

"Hey, it's easy to bully when Ma Mengqi!" Ma Yan pouted, his tone full of disdain. No one refuted him this time, is that Xiliang fierce god easy to bully, although his brain is not too good, but relying on the 50,000 Xiliang iron horses under his command, he will be shocked three times if he stomps his feet in the northwest.

"According to filial piety, this time the Xianbei army came to attack Xiliang, just because of lack of food and clothing?" After Zhao Feng heard this, he frowned and asked.

"I don't think that's the case, doesn't the general think there's fraud in this?" Fa Zhengqi said. Zhao Feng lowered his head and pursed his lips silently, and looked up at Zhuge Liang, but saw that he was also frowning slightly. But it didn't take long for it to unfold.

"Even if Xianbei invaded Liangzhou because of lack of food and clothing, I believe that if Prime Minister Cao Cheng and Xiahou Yuan knew about this, they would not sit idly by!" Zhuge Liang calmly said.

"But now that we are in a truce with Cao Ying, and there is General Zhang Wenyuan on the border, how will Cao Ying not succeed?" Wang Lei was slightly stunned when he heard this. Zhao Feng shook his head when he heard this, Lao Cao has always done things unexpectedly, and he is unscrupulous. At this time, if he didn't run out to do something, it would be a miracle.

"Now that General Ma Mengqi and Xianbei are fighting in Xiliang, if I am Cao Ying, I can have three choices!" Zhuge Liang pointed to the map and said: "First of all, if General Zilong comes to the aid of Xiliang, the garrison of Hanzhong will be empty, and Cao Ying can order Xiahou Yuan to take advantage of the situation to attack Hanzhong in order to break through the gateway of Xichuan; The two were to order Xiahou Yuan's troops to go out of Xiaoguan and join forces with the Xianbei army to attack General Ma Mengqi and General Zilong. Even though the two generals are brave, the two combined troops are nearly 200,000, and once they engage, they will lose more and win less; The three of them are to take advantage of the time when we are fighting with Xianbei, send troops to the three counties of Longxi, and completely separate us from Xiliang, so that we can not take care of each other, and the power of the war will inevitably be greatly reduced. ”

"It is even possible that Xianbei's march into Xiliang this time is a conspiracy of Cao Mengde, in order to lure us to rescue Xiliang, so that he can take the opportunity to profit from it!" Ma Liang, who had been silent before, added a sentence at this time. Zhao Feng and others have already learned how this Prime Minister Cao Cheng plays cards out of common sense, and it is not surprising to hear him now.

"In that case, what should we do now?" Wang Lei didn't know Cao Ying's character, so he had to think about more direct things in front of him first. Zhao Feng and Zhuge Liang lowered their heads and thought for a long time, and finally Zhao Feng proposed: "If Xiliang is lost, the lord will lose a lot of help, so he has to save it this time." I intend to let Zilong lead 40,000 troops and horses to aid Xiliang, and the defense of Hanzhong will be temporarily handed over to Zijun to be responsible. In order to prevent Cao Ying from attacking Xichuan or leaving Xiao Pass, I led all the way out of Chencang Road to deter Xiahou Yuan in the pass! At the same time, send someone to report that the lord of Xuchang knows, and then make a decision. This is also a more age-old method, and after everyone thought about it, they felt that there was nothing inconsiderate, so they all agreed.

The next time, Zhao Feng personally led the 50,000 Sichuan army, and Yan Yan, Lei Tong, and Fa Zheng and others, left Chengdu and entered Hanzhong from Jiameng. After they arrived, Zhao Yunzi led 40,000 Hanzhong troops into Xiliang through the Longxi Mountain Road to assist Ma Chao in resisting the invasion of Xianbei. As soon as the news came out, Xiahou Yuan in Guanzhong was suddenly surprised.

"Zhao Yun led the army into Xiliang to attack Xianbei?" Xiahou Yuan was stunned and said, beside him, Zhenwei General Cheng Yu, and Jingzhao Yin Zhongxuan, two important figures in Guanzhong, as well as his nephew Xiahou Shang were also there. What they were holding was a military report that had just been sent by Tanma, saying that Zhao Yun, the Taishou of Hanzhong, led tens of thousands of troops to leave Hanzhong and enter Xiliang via Longxi Avenue.

"The Sichuan army is only 1230,000, and now Zhao Yun has taken away 40,000, plus there are nearly 20,000 defenders in the three counties of Longxi. In Zhao Botao's hands, I am afraid that there are only tens of thousands of people left. Why not take the opportunity to march into Xichuan and defeat the surnamed Zhao in one fell swoop? After hearing this, Xiahou Shang suddenly said, as soon as these words came out, Xiahou Yuan was also excited. However, he still maintained a trace of sobriety, and the last time he ventured, he ended up with the two surnames of Yan Liangwen and Chou. Although his friendship with Cao Ying was extraordinary, he did not punish himself at that time. Regarding whether to enter the army this time, Xiahou Yuan didn't dare to be too impulsive, no matter how anxious he was.

"General Xiahou, the edict of the King of Wei!" Just when Xiahou Yuan was about to report the military situation to Cao Ying, someone suddenly came to report. Xiahou Yuan hurriedly received the order, and when he unfolded it, he was surprised.

"Mr. Zhongde, what do you think about this?" Xiahou Yuan handed Cao Ying's letter to Cheng Yu to read, and the latter was quite surprised when he opened it, but after thinking about it, he was already sneering.

"General Miaocai, as I expected, everything must be ready on the prime minister's side, in my opinion, this is Liu Bei's death is approaching!" Cheng Yu said proudly. As the maker of the plan, Cheng Yu is also very accomplished now!

At that moment, Xiahou Yuan and Cheng Yu each acted according to the plan, and after a few days, several groups of men and horses left Guanzhong, or went to the east or west. At the same time, Cao Ying himself mobilized troops from all over Hebei, and the specific motive is unclear for the time being.

(To be continued)