"Is that servant girl's words credible?" Sima Yi leaned on the brocade pier, playing with a jade ruyi in his hand, squinting slightly. His face was ruddy, his expression was relaxed, and he didn't show the slightest nervousness.

"Do not disbelieve, nor believe completely." Sima Shi answered, and sent the military report he had just gotten in his hand. "This is the news I just got, the Hanzhong families are mobilizing, through the Meridian Valley, a steady stream of gathering towards Guanzhong. This is very consistent with what she said. ”

The corners of Sima Yi's mouth twitched, as if he was a little disdainful and a little bitter. "How many people are there?"

"Judging from the intelligence department that we have obtained so far, there are about more than 2,000 people."

"In this way, those people in Hanzhong are also tempting, they don't have a lot of confidence in Wei Ba, otherwise with their strength, it shouldn't be a problem to get together five thousand people."

"What my father said is very true." Sima Shi paused, and then reminded: "Father, Wei Ba's shaft is real and elusive, will he ......?"

Sima Yi's eyebrows trembled slightly, his eyes became sharp, and he pondered for a long time before he said slowly: "You mean, he may have left a considerable part behind, ready to ambush us?" ”

Sima Shi nodded.

After Zhuge Liang left Hanzhong, Hanzhong was presided over by Wu Yi. Wu Yi is very cautious, but he is obviously much worse than Zhuge Liang. Sima Shi was able to send a fine work to Hanzhong again, and although the scale was not the same as before, it was not difficult to understand the movements of the Hanzhong clan. Because he was deceived by Wei Ba once in the matter of Meridian Valley, he paid special attention to Meridian Valley this time, so the affairs of the troops gathered by the Hanzhong clan to march towards Guanzhong through Meridian Valley all fell in the eyes of Xi Zuo and were sent to him as quickly as possible.

There are now only more than 20,000 households and 80,000 or 90,000 people left in Hanzhong, and in fact, there are not many ordinary people in the hands of the government. Because of taxation and security, most people will choose to attach to the clan. There are several big clans in Hanzhong, with more than 1,000 households in their hands and nearly 3,000 or 4,000 households, and their strength is so strong that Wei Yan does not dare to give them important tasks. But he can't act rashly, even if Zhuge Liang comes to Hanzhong in person, he can only deal with it coldly. If they give it their all. It is entirely possible to organize a division of 5,000 people, and if they go all out, they can even organize 10,000 to 20,000 people.

Therefore, when Sima Shi heard that there were only 2,000 people rushing to Guanzhong, he couldn't help but be a little suspicious. He felt that there were two possibilities, one was that the Hanzhong clan was still testing Wei Ba and refused to take out all their strength, and the other was that they took out far more strength than that, but they did not send all of them to Guanzhong.

Where can that go? The biggest possibility is Fang Ling. Wei Ba's brother Wei Feng is in Fangling. Meng Da is in Fangling, and the Prime Minister's Mansion is in Fangling, and they now have more than 10,000 people on hand, and if you add the troops funded by the Hanzhong clan, they have nearly 20,000 people. It is entirely possible to set out from Fangling, or to attack Xiangyang from the east, or to the north, and appear near Wuguan.

If there was a head-on battle, of course he didn't take these people seriously, but considering the advantages of these people in mountain warfare, he had to be careful.

Sima Yi rubbed the jade Ruyi, gently tapped the table with the Ruyi head carved into the shape of Ganoderma lucidum, pondered for a long time, and sighed: "No matter how difficult it is, Guanzhong cannot fall into the hands of Shu Han." Wuguan, I must do my best to attack. Even if I can't attack Guanzhong, I have to share a little pressure for the general, otherwise, I will lose my trust in Bixia. ”

Sima Shi understood, nodded, and said no more.

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"See? Your brother and my years of hard work have been in vain. Peng Heng grimaced, and said to Peng Xiaoyu angrily: "Crazy girl, you just wait for us to be killed." ”

Peng Xiaoyu's slender eyes turned into a crescent moon: "How come, this is the news that they deliberately asked you to pass on, how can they blame you?" ”

"Crazy girl, what do you know?" Peng Heng was a little anxious, although he sat on the ground and didn't move, his eyes looked flustered. "Since the young master has given me this task, it means that he is suspicious of us and no longer trusts us as much as he used to. Do you think your brother is indispensable? There are more people who can replace me. ”

"I don't think so, with the current situation of his father and son, I'm afraid that if he knows it's fake, he will not be able to ask for it, and he will plan it. What's more, my news is also true, and I didn't lie to him, everyone just takes what they need. Peng Xiaoyu turned the wheelchair, leaned to Peng Heng's side, hugged his arm, leaned on his shoulder, and muttered: "Besides, my brother is the smartest, and no one can replace him." If he doesn't trust you, it only means that he doesn't have enough weapons. If that's the case, then no matter how hard you try, it's just a knife in his hand. ”

"And!" Peng Heng snorted with his nose, but he still raised his hand and gently stroked Peng Xiaoyu's hair, his eyes flickered, he didn't know what he was thinking, but compared to usual, there was obviously a little more warmth in his eyes.

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In Weishui, large ships loaded with stone and wood are ready to go. Regardless of whether Wei Ba felt guilty or not, the southeast corner of Jianzhang Palace had been beaten into ruins, and those woods and stones were of little use except for getting in the way. Wei Ba ordered all these materials to be loaded onto ships and transported to Lantian Pass. Along with these materials were fifty thunderbolts and nearly a hundred crossbow cars, as well as a large number of stone projectiles and arrows.

Two days ago, Wei Ba received a message from Peng Xiaoyu that he smelled something from Sima Yi's decision. Obviously, Sima Yi will not sit still, no matter what his thoughts are, he will inevitably attack Wuguan. Wuguan is too far away from Chang'an, more than 490 li, and it is no problem as a forward position, but in the case of Guanzhong being attacked on three sides, he does not have so many manpower to support Wuguan, so he can only strengthen the deployment of Lantian and Shangluo, and strengthen the strategic depth to ensure that Sima Yi cannot enter Guanzhong from Wuguan Road.

Shangluo is east of Tsukasa Mountain, eighty miles away from Wuguan, Lantian is west of Tsukaling Mountain, the two passes are one hundred and fifty miles apart, and they are far apart, but compared to Wuguan, which is nearly five hundred miles, this is much closer. From the point of view of the strategic thinking that is beneficial to us and not to the enemy, it is also more convenient to defend Shangluo and Lantian Pass than to defend Wuguan. Even if Sima Yi didn't disclose this information through Peng Xiaoyu, Wei Ba would have already planned to do so.

Xiahou Mao surrendered, Chang'an had been successful, and the relevant preparations had been completed, Wei Ba decided to rush to Shangluo to meet Deng Zhi in person. If he wants to make a difference, he can't always hide behind, he must go to the front line as soon as possible.

Zhao Su sent Wei Ba to Jinkou. The separation is imminent, and he still can't get rid of the bad problem of rapping: "Join the army, after you leave." Chang'an is up to me, the Jingzhao Taishou. ”

"Of course." Wei Ba was used to his broken mouth, and he didn't bother to bother with him.

"When will the workshop on the Weishui side be handed over to me?"

"When the time comes."

Zhao Su asked with a smile again: "Joining the army, the two thousand people supported by all the ethnic groups in my Hanzhong have already arrived." The follow-up people are still on the way, do you think the time is not yet ripe? You're just going to let me see it, to be honest. I'm like a rat scratching at me right now, and I'm so curious. ”

"Curiosity kills cats." Wei Ba glanced at him and smiled slightly: "When I'm not in Chang'an, you can sneak in and take a look." ”

"That's it." Zhao Su shrugged, "I'd better be honest and be haode Jingzhao Taishou." ”

"That's right." Wei Ba glanced at Zhao Su with a smile. He knew that Zhao Su just couldn't keep his mouth shut and couldn't be serious, but in fact, he was quite responsible. Otherwise, he couldn't hand over Chang'an to Zhao Su to be in charge. It was Zhang Wen, he was not very relieved, so he took Zhang Wen with him, so as not to use his identity as a descendant of the Heavenly Master in Chang'an to make trouble.

Sima Ma Cao of the personal guard battalion walked over and bowed down: "Join the army." It's ready to get on board. ”

"Got it, Yunlong, you go and check again, if there is anything missing, especially the war horse, there can't be any negligence."

"Whoa." The horse answered, turned around and let the big ship loaded with the war horse go. Ma Caozi Yunlong is a military marquis of the two hundred parts sent by the Ma family, and the son of Ma An, the steward of the Ma family, and is a branch of the Fufeng Ma family. is not very old, but his martial arts are good, and his weapon is also strange, it is a three-pointed two-edged knife. When Wei Ba saw him for the first time, he thought that he had crossed into the god list and saw Erlang God.

The Fufeng Ma family, the Geng family, and the Jingzhao Jin family are the Guanzhong wealthy families who support Wei Ba the most, and these three families provide a total of nearly 800 parts, although they are not all elites, but they can also be watched. In order to show mutual trust, Wei Ba asked Ma Cao to be their personal guard Sima, leading two hundred Ma family troops as part of his personal guard battalion, and the people of the Geng family and the Jin family also arranged corresponding positions.

"That's right, Gongpu." Wei Ba had just stepped on the boat, and remembered something, turned his head and shouted to Zhao Su: "General Zhendong urgently needs war horses, you care about those injured horses, once the injuries are healed, all of them will be sent to General Zhendong, even if it is a pack of food, it is haode, no matter how bad it is, you can still eat horse meat, but it can't be wasted." ”

"Got it, got it." Zhao Su responded while slandering. Wei Ba is sometimes very generous, and sometimes he is so cold that he refuses to let go of an injured horse. "Don't worry, I not only sent him the haode horse, but also killed all of them, and sent the meat to you, leaving only a little bone to gnaw."

"I won't gnaw on the bones, but make soup for the craftsmen in the workshop."

"Not really, right?" Zhao Su exclaimed exaggeratedly.

"Violators, behead!" Wei Bahu grimaced, roared, and turned into the cabin. For a moment, he couldn't help but laugh. Zhang Wen shook his head: "Great sacrifice wine, you must not do this in front of the believers, otherwise they will despise you." ”

"You're the one who despises me, don't you?" Wei Ba laughed evilly.

"How dare I." Zhang Wen wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

Wei Ba daxiao, the two of them sat down separately, and their own guards served tea. Wei Ba laughed for a while, put away his smile, and said: "Meng Yu, most of the believers in Guanzhong have already arrived near Chang'an, so many people, eating is a big problem, I want to arrange people to Tuntian as soon as spring begins next year to solve the food problem." I want to leave this matter to you. ”

Zhang Wen nodded in agreement, glanced at Wei Ba, and remained silent.

"Now that the New Year is four or five months away, do you want to follow me to Lantian to fight, or do you want to do something yourself?"

The corners of Zhang Wen's mouth grinned: "If you have anything to say about the big sacrificial wine, just say it, why bother beating around the bush." ”

Wei Ba hehehe: "I'm not discussing with you, how can I beat around the bush." He paused, "Can you go to Luoyang and help me contact Huang Quan to see if he has any intention of coming back?" ”

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Yesterday you were very high, Lao Zhuang was also very high, will you continue to be hi today? Tang Sanzang was temporarily weak, but the bully snake was right in front of him, Lao Zhuang sent him 8 votes, let's rush over?

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Fight the sword in the rivers and lakes, cut off a strand of love, live for hatred, and fight day and day.

ISBN: 2649234 (To be continued.) )