Although Li Yan was not convinced, he had to admit that Zhuge Liang's methods were clever, at least he couldn't find fault with him in the official face.

If you want to transfer Meng Da from Nanyang to Guanzhong, you should naturally discuss it with Wei Ba first, this reason makes sense, but the reality does not work. Wei Baren in the East China Sea, it is said that he is leading the sailors to sail, floating on the sea, how can he say that he can find it? Even if others are in Guangling, the exchange of official documents will not be able to be done in two months. If Zhuge Liang stirs it up again, he can't tell when he will be able to get things done.

And the requisition of war horses from Liangzhou and the formation of cavalry are also a matter of drinking to quench thirst. It's not that there are cavalry with war horses, most of the people who can be cavalry in Guanzhong were taken away by Wei Yan, and the remaining part was also handed over to Zhao Guang, Li Yan now has less than a thousand personal guard horses, this is still a gift left by Wei Ba for him, otherwise he would not even be worthy of the personal guard horses. Most of the people in Guanzhong are from Hanzhong, there is no problem with farming, and it is more than enough to be a foot soldier, but it is reluctant to be a cavalryman. If you want to quickly form a cavalry, you must recruit suitable cavalry and even cavalry generals from Longyou.

So, is the cavalry that was formed still his Li Yan's cavalry? He has no foundation in Longyou, on the contrary, Zhuge Liang's protégé Jiang Wei is from Tianshui.

Li Yan now completely understands Zhuge Liang's scheming, but he is helpless. He took the initiative to ask for Guanzhong, and Zhuge Liang did not force him to come. He didn't want Jiang Wei to be in Guanzhong, Zhuge Liang transferred Jiang Wei to Dunhuang, everything was as he wished, if he still complained to Zhuge Liang, it would be difficult to say.

Speaking of which, he is still inferior to others. in Chengdu. He can't fight Zhuge Liang; Leaving Chengdu, he still couldn't fight Zhuge Liang.

Chess is bad, don't do it.

Li Yan now misses the time when he was in Chengdu. At that time, if there was any problem, he could still consult with Ma Tan, and now Ma Tan is also in Chengdu, thousands of miles apart, even if he writes a letter, it will take more than half a month to come and go, and it is not as convenient as face-to-face consultation. Li Feng has an average mind and has no haode suggestions. Cheng An is old. is good at accounting and is a good helper, but at most it is equivalent to Yang Yi, and Zhao Su is a little resourceful. It's just too lazy. Not proactive enough. The most important thing is that they are all inextricably linked to Wei Ba. may not be willing to help him wholeheartedly with ideas.

Li Yan knew the reason for today's situation, but it was too late to regret it. Even Wei Ba, who was far away in the East China Sea, saw the danger, how could he not know the predicament he was about to face. If Cao Wei wants to capture Guanzhong. What did he deal with? Tongguan is guarded by Chen Xiang, the Wei family's subordinate, and it is not a big problem, but how does Pusaka guard it? That's right, he can go in person, there are enough foot soldiers, and there are enough armaments, and it is not a big problem to hold Kasaka, but what if the Wei army uses the speed of cavalry to enter the pass from other directions?

He neither had enough cavalry as a mobile liliang, nor enough foot soldiers to defend it to the death, and if he wanted to hold Guanzhong, he had more than enough strength to look at it.

The four stops in Guanzhong are indeed easy to defend and difficult to attack, but the problem is that there are not enough troops, and Guanzhong can't hold it.

Zhuge Liang left him a mess, and he snatched it like a baby. As soon as he thought of this, Li Yan couldn't wait to slap himself twice.

It's a pity that even if his face is swollen, he can't solve the problem in front of him. He originally wanted to transfer Meng Da to Guanzhong to help him, but now he was also vetoed by Zhuge Liang, so he could only think of another way.

Li Yan thought about Wei Ba's previous reminder again. More than a month ago, he received a letter from Wei Ba, who reminded him that Wei might retake Guanzhong, which was facing a major crisis. He also anticipated the disadvantage that Li Yan had no cavalry and had a solid foundation in Guanzhong - it was precisely because of his reminder that Li Yan wanted to transfer Meng Da into Guanzhong. In addition, Wei Ba also recommended a few people to Li Yan. In Li Yan's opinion, these people are not as caring as Meng Da, so Li Yan put them aside first and ignored them, and now that Meng Da can't come, he has to reconsider Wei Ba's suggestion.

Among the few people recommended by Wei Ba, there was Liao Hua.

Li Yan felt that Liao Hua was the most incredible, because Liao Hua and Wei Ba had almost no contact. If you have to say that it has a relationship, it is that Liao Hua once served as Guan Yu's main bookkeeper, nothing more, and Liao Hua later had no contact with the Guan family, on the contrary, he was very close to the Prime Minister's Mansion. Liao Hua is now Ren Fufeng Taishou, who was promoted by Zhuge Liang.

Wei Ba recommended Liao Hua, Li Yan thought about it, and felt that if it wasn't for them to have a secret that no one knew, it was Wei Ba who suggested that he poach from the people left by Zhuge Liang. Wei Ba himself did this, Ma Jian turned out to be a close confidant of the prime minister, and Deng Zhi turned out to be a supporter of the prime minister, but they were all successfully poached by Wei Ba. Wei Ba suggested that he do the same, but it was not impossible.

Li Yan would think so because in addition to Liao Hua, Wei Ba also recommended Huo Yi. If Liao Hua still has the possibility of secretly communicating with Wei Ba, then Huo Yi has nothing to do with Wei Ba, he is definitely a supporter of the prime minister.

After thinking about it again, Li Yan felt that he would personally rush to the west and have an interview with Liao Hua. In addition, he also had to exchange views with Zhao Guang, Zhang Ling, and Chen Shi, the guards of Longshan, and Xiao Guan, even if he couldn't get their help, he couldn't let them become flaws.

Before leaving, he found Fu He and entrusted him with the matter of Chang'an. Fu Tong followed him very early, and later followed Li Feng to guard Jiangling, Li Feng came to Guanzhong, and also brought Fu Tong over, which was regarded as his confidant. Li Yan wanted to go west, and Li Feng wanted to stay in Chang'an, but Li Yan knew what level Li Feng was and was not at ease, so he asked Fu Yan to be his assistant. Fu Tong is now a general in the east of the expedition, and he joined the army in the general's mansion.

After explaining the matter of Chang'an, Li Yan rushed to Fufeng with his personal guards.

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Wei Ba rode on the war horse given by Tian Fu, facing the rising autumn wind, and galloped towards the direction of White Wolf Mountain.

Fa Miao, dressed in soft leather armor, followed him closely. Dunwu led twenty soldiers and galloped in front and back. Wang Shuang rode a tall horse and led a hundred heavy armorers who were skilled in horsemanship, and kept on guard at a distance of fifty paces on each side of Wei Ba.

In addition to the mounts under their hips, all of them also carried a reserve horse. Carrying food, weapons, and armor on a reserve horse, the burden of a reserve horse is slightly lighter than that of a war horse, and it can maintain physical strength than haode.

Wei Ba came to the East China Sea, and most of his soldiers were original pirates and river thieves, except for some of the Wei family soldiers and Wu soldiers, who lived on the sea, of course, they relied on the sea to eat the sea, and their diet included a lot of seafood, especially all kinds of fish. The pirates were not wealthy, so the entrails of the fish had to be thrown away, which had a very good effect: the pirates had almost no night blindness.

The pirates didn't know why, but Wei Ba knew it was the effect of cod liver. It is very common for people in later generations to take cod liver oil for health care, which is rich in vitamin A and vitamin D, and has a good effect on the prevention and treatment of night blindness. After Wei Ba arrived at sea, he had a large source of raw materials, so he forced all the soldiers to eat cod liver oil together, and set an example by himself, as long as he caught fish, he basically did not move the stored grain he carried.

The result of this is that the soldiers' shili, especially their night vision, are good, and they have seafood to eat every day, which is a good thing that ordinary soldiers did not dare to imagine before, and it is also of great help to their physical enhancement. Not only people, but even the war horses were stained.

Limited to space problems, Wei Ba came out this time to bring a limited number of war horses, only more than 200 in total, which were for the Wei family soldiers who were personally guarded to ride. This is actually the guarantee to protect Wei Ba from the danger as quickly as possible in case of defeat, and of course they cannot be treated badly. In a way, these horses ate better than ordinary soldiers.

Although Wei Ba was not a major in animal husbandry in his previous life, he also knew that adding a certain amount of protein to animal feed was conducive to ensuring the nutrition of animals, compared to eating simple forage, the war horses fed with mixed feed were much stronger, not to mention that the acquisition of protein at sea was much easier than forage, and it was reasonable for these war horses to eat mixed with fishmeal and soybeans.

More than 200 fat and strong war horses were running on the endless grassland, and they were all inexplicably excited. Although when they are on the boat, they will be taken out and walked for an hour every day, but no matter how big the ship is, where can it compare with the grassland. Smelling the slightly cold autumn wind, these war horses suddenly woke up, and one by one they held their heads high and were full of energy. If it weren't for the cavalry on their backs deliberately controlling their speed, they might have been eager to go full throttle.

"The horsepower is good, even if we can't beat the enemy, we can escape." Wei Ba lightly pulled the reins of the horse and galloped side by side with Fa Miao. The scenery in front of him made him feel relaxed and comfortable.

"What the general said is very true." Fa Miao looked at the junction of heaven and earth in the distance, his eyes vigilant. It was he who strongly advocated Wei Baxing to hunt White Wolf Mountain, although after careful calculation, he believed that there would be no danger, but he still did not dare to relax. If Wei Ba has any mistakes, then his life will be over. "Although Wu Qiu Jian has retired for five days, he is all cavalry, coming and going like the wind, a hundred miles a day, if he disregards his life and wants to live and die with the general, he still can't be careless."

"Hehe, the sky is blue, the wilderness is vast, the wind blows the grass and the grass is low to see the cattle and sheep, we walked in a sea of grass, and deliberately detoured, unless it is unlucky to the extreme, or Wu Qiu is so lucky, otherwise even if he wants to ambush me, I am afraid it will be difficult to collide head-on."

"That being said, it's better to be careful." Fa Miao agreed with Wei Ba's opinion, but still insisted on his own ideas. "There are Wuhuan people near White Wolf Mountain, if someone happens to find our traces and notify Wuqiu Jian, it is still very dangerous."

Wei Bahadaxiao, he turned his head and looked at Fa Miao: "Boyuan, I actually still have some expectations, if you don't come, wouldn't it be exciting enough?" ”

Fa Miao couldn't cry or laugh. "General, I want to be safe more than exciting. We still went back quickly, hunted around White Wolf Mountain for half a day, and returned immediately to avoid accidents. ”

(To be continued......)