The swan song of the five sons on the first night

The rain continued to wash over the roof of the military tent, and the dreamer was awakened by the sound of the rain beating like a drum.

Last night, with the unfinished war in the northern plains of Storm County and the persuasion work that was carried out halfway, the dreamer temporarily bid farewell to the dream of power, and unknowingly entered the ninth week of Huang Zhi in this world.

At this time, even without Sima Fuqiang's analysis, just based on the experience summed up in these days, Huang Zhi also knew that at this time they were going to face Zhuge Liang's Fourth Northern Expedition during the Three Kingdoms period in 231. If the judgment is correct, then this will be the swan song of the five sons of the Cao Wei camp, and the only remaining body of the five sons - Zhang He is about to bid farewell to his forty-eight years of military career and fall in Mumen Road.

This is also the end of an era, after the death of the great Sima Cao Zhen at the beginning of the year, Zhang He was actually the last veteran of the group of people who accompanied Cao Cao to fight. Next, Cao Wei's camp will really enter the era of Sima Yi, although this is the ancestor of Sima Fuqiang, but it can't make people happy.

According to the analysis of the captain of the East China Sea before entering the dream of war, the veteran Zhang He was actually forced to death by Sima Yi, which is a well-documented and reliable opinion. It is recorded in "Wei Luo": "The Liang army retreated, and King Sima Xuan made He, and He said: 'Military law, the siege of the city will open the way out, and the army will not chase after it.'" King Xuan did not listen. As a last resort, he entered. The Shu army rode high and ambushed, the bow and crossbow were chaotic, and the arrow was in the middle of the arrow. ”

"Military law, the siege of the city will open a way out, and the army will not chase after it." This is the point of view put forward by Cao Cao, in fact, it is the meaning of "Wai Sanque Yi" and "Poor Kou Mo Chasing". It is impossible for Sima Yi not to know this, but he has to do the opposite when Zhang He makes the right suggestion. The reason is very simple, he does not want this veteran who has the name of the general of the Western Cavalry, whose status in the army is second only to himself, but who is actually more famous than himself, will continue to exist.

Zhang He may have realized this, although he knew the hardships of the wooden doorway, although he knew that Zhuge Liang would definitely set up an ambush to intercept the pursuers, but the veteran did not want his glorious life to leave the stain of disobedience and disrespect at the last moment, so he chose to die generously.

In his forty-eight years of military career, he witnessed the Yellow Turban Uprising, Dong Zhuo's entry into the customs, the rebellion of the princes of the Eighteenth Road, the battle of Cao Cao's Guandu, and the division of Wei Shu and Wu into three worlds, all of which may be enough for him.

Among the five good generals, Zhang He is considered to be a late bloomer, when Zhang Liao has paid official worship to the general of Zhengdong, the left general surrendered to Guan Yu in the forbidden evening festival, and the right general Le Jin has returned to the west, when he was in Dingjun Mountain in 219, he was still just a miscellaneous general of Dangkou, and only Xu Huang was of the same status as him among the five good generals, and this year, he was already over half a hundred years old.

Before the battle of Dingjun Mountain, he has been as a deputy has never independently commanded the battle, to the fall of the general Xiahou Yuan in the west, he was finally able to take charge of himself, had the opportunity to show his military talent, and since then soared into the sky, has presided over the battle of Jiangling Zhongzhou, the battle of Jieting, the battle of Chencang, and finally the official worship of the general of the expedition to the west, which has no predecessors and no one after him, above the other four of the five sons.

However, Zhang He didn't feel particularly happy, his old boss Xiahou Yuan died on the battlefield, Le Jin died early, and he was not guaranteed in the late festival, Zhang Liao and Xu Huang died of illness one after another, no one shared these glory with him, and no old partner drank with him.

Forty-eight years have passed, and it's time to accompany the old bosses and old comrades-in-arms under Jiuquan.

"The general died in a hundred battles", or this is a better fate than dying of old age or illness on the couch, Zhang He silently accepted Sima Yi's fateful arrangement.

Of course, these are what Huang Zhi thinks for Zhang He, although they may not be completely correct, but they are not much different. Although he is not essentially a person of this era, in this dream realm of the past eight weeks, he has also experienced dozens of battles, and he is fully qualified to call himself a veteran or a veteran, so he can naturally understand what this old fellow thinks.

He sighed, got up and opened the curtain of the tent, and looked at the endless mist between heaven and earth, and the overwhelming rain like weeping. The majestic Qinling Mountains, which stretch for thousands of miles from east to west and hundreds of miles deep from north to south, are like the blood of veterans flowing at this moment, and every mountain beam is like shedding the tears of relatives, pouring into the Yellow River and the Yangtze River to the north and south.

Huang Zhi didn't know why he had such emotions, but since he learned the truth behind the possible existence of Zhang He's death in the wooden doorway, he really felt very depressed from the bottom of his heart.

As a fan of the Three Kingdoms, although he has also extensively dabbled in a series of historical records of this period, such as "Pei Note Three Kingdoms", "Spring and Autumn Period of the Han and Jin Dynasties", "Huayang National Chronicles", "Book of Jin", etc., and is also intoxicated by this great era of talents and heroes, but after all, he only looks at the battles from the surface, and is far less professional than Sima Fuqiang.

Compared with Zhuge Liang, who was over-mythologized in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Huang Zhi admired the stoic Sima Yi more.

Whether it is "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" or "Pei Note on the Romance of the Three Kingdoms", it is said that the death of Zhuge scared away the living Zhongda, but in essence, it was Sima Yi's victory, and it was expressed in a way that belittled Sima Yi, but it was only because of the author's own position.

Needless to say, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is just a myth of Zhuge Liang, which has almost no significance in researching history. And Luo Guanzhong is authentic to Shu Han, deliberately belittling the Cao Wei camp, so naturally he will not have any fair evaluation of Sima Yi.

The author Chen Shou himself was an official of the Jin Dynasty, so he did not dare to make any evaluation of the first emperor, so there was no chapter about Sima Yi in the "Three Kingdoms", and it was not until the "Book of Jin" compiled by the Tang Dynasty that the "Emperor Xuan" officially appeared. At the same time, in order to advocate Emperor Xuan's great achievements, he could only blindly praise his old enemy Zhuge Liang in order to demonstrate Sima Yi's military talent.

Because of this, after the fall of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Emperor Wen of the Southern Song Dynasty ordered Pei Songzhi to supplement Chen Shou's overly concise "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms". Pei Songzhi naturally couldn't praise the emperor of the previous dynasty, so he took advantage of the lack of "Emperor Xuan" in the "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms" to further pursue Zhuge Liang and belittle Sima Yi.

From the perspective of official history, no matter how much Zhuge Liang made Sima Yi jealous of his command ability in local operations, the fact is that Sima Yi continuously commanded Cao Wei's army on the Western Front to repel his fourth and fifth Northern Expeditions. In other words, Sima Yi won at the strategic level.

The failure of Zhuge Liang's last two Northern Expeditions, although it seemed that there were no ugly defeats, consumed the national strength accumulated by Shu Han for many years, and it was not until nearly ten years after his death that it gradually recovered.

It can be seen from this that Sima Yi's "stability" is not because he is afraid of Zhuge Liang, but because he sees that the Shu Han front is dragging on too long, as long as he uses stalemate tactics, he can drag the opponent down alive, so why let Cao Wei's soldiers fight bloodily in vain.

Therefore, the Fourth Northern Expedition in 231, that is, the battle where the dream of the East China Sea team is now located, Zhuge Liang, who was not fully prepared before the war, was facing the problem of food shortage. It was June, and it was raining heavily throughout the Qinling Mountains and south of it, and the mountain roads were mostly flooded, and Li Yan in the rear of the Shu Han Dynasty was unable to transport grain and grass to the Qishan front.

Forced by the crisis of food shortage, Zhuge Liang had to temporarily slow down the siege of Qishan, and personally led an army to the Wei army's grain production field in Tianshui County, Longxi, to snatch the unharvested wheat. The Shangqi guards Guo Huai and Fei Yao took the initiative to attack, but they were defeated by him, but they bought time for Sima Yi's army that came later, and finally forced Zhuge Liang's grain army back.

Although Zhuge Liang grabbed part of the raw wheat, it was not enough after all, and the only way to retreat was next, which was the background of the Fourth Northern Expedition.

Just as Huang Zhi was leaning at the door of the military tent, a herald in a coat ran over and conveyed to him the summoning order of the general Sima Yi.

After a short inquiry with the herald, Sima Fuqiang learned that the time point when the East China Sea team entered the Fourth Northern Expedition was after the end of the Battle of Shangqi, and then the next battle would be the Battle of Mumendao where Zhang He fell.

Huang Zhiyan's face was even more ugly when he heard this, and now it seems that the person in the dream is in a hurry to send off his old comrades-in-arms, which really can't make people happy.

Under the persuasion of the captain, Huang Zhicai, who was depressed, put on his coat and followed the herald to the Chinese army camp of the Western Army. Because he used the "Three Kingdoms Dream Card" to go to Yecheng in 217 years ago to meet his ancestors, Sima Fuqiang was also among Sima Yi's summons.

By the time the two arrived at the big tent, there were already a number of generals of the Wei army gathered inside, in addition to Sima Yi and Zhang He were old acquaintances, there were also two or three fresh faces, which should be the Shangqi guard general, the then Jianwei general Guo Huai and others.

Zhang He saw Huang Zhi and Sima Fuqiang and greeted them warmly.

Seeing this veteran who was over the age of sixteen again, Huang Zhi's nose couldn't help but sour. Counting the fate of the Battle of Weinan in 211, twenty years have passed since the main line of the Three Kingdoms, and this is the fifth cooperation between the three of them, and it is also the last time they will see each other. When I first saw Junyi, he was still a man in the prime of life, but now he has gray temples.

Zhang He didn't know what he was thinking, but thought that the sadness on Huang Zhi's face was self-pity. Speaking of the first time we met in the Battle of Weinan that year, Huang Zhi, who was favored by the first emperor Cao Cao, was already a doctor, and he himself was just a partial general. Twenty years have passed, Zhang He is already the general of the Western Cavalry, and Huang Zhi is still the counselor, even if it is "Li Guang is difficult to seal", it is nothing more than this.

Thinking of this, Zhang He turned to face Sima Yi, "Mr. Shixin has been fighting in Guanlong all the year round, and he has been born and died, but he has rarely received the reward he deserves, and I hope that the general will say a fair word for him in front of Emperor Ming." ”

Huang Zhi almost shed tears when he heard this, Zhang He was already a dying person, and he was still thinking about others. Although Zhang He may not know his fate yet, Huang Zhi still can't help but feel a little gloomy.

After listening to Zhang He's words, Sima Yi waved his hand and motioned for him to sit down beside him, and then turned his head to look at Huang Zhi's side, "I have already thought of what Jun Yi said, and it was convenient for the court to be a doctor in the middle of the court, and Emperor Ming had already agreed. This time I want to inform Shixin of this news. ”

When Sima Fuqiang heard this, he was secretly happy about the prospects of Huang Zhi and the Donghai team. The words of the ancestor of the Sima family undoubtedly showed an attitude, that is, he had regarded Huang Zhi and the other dream people as his own faction, and the East China Sea team had successfully connected with the Sima family. And this title of "Dazhong Doctor" was not so much conferred by Emperor Cao Rui of Wei Ming, but rather because Sima Yi used his position and authority to seek for Huang Zhi, just like Cao Cao played various positions for his subordinates back then.

Huang Zhi was not very happy, his original admiration for Sima Yi had already declined a lot after listening to the captain's analysis, and there was only endless entanglement at this time. Despite this, he still did not forget the identity of the person in his dreams, and forced a smile to bow to Sima Yi to express his gratitude.

Zhang He did not feel angry because of Sima Yi's obviously dissenting action, but happily sat down under him.

At this time, there were more than ten civil and military generals in the big tent, including Huang Zhi and Sima Fuqiang, but Zhang He and Sima Yi, who was the commander of the Western Road Army, had seats, which showed the high status of Cao Wei, the general of his expedition to the west. If it weren't for the humility and forbearance of Jun Yi, with his status and status, he could completely restrain Sima Yi.

But Sima Yi was still jealous of this veteran who had extremely high prestige and speech power in the Cao army, and at this moment he began the topic of this military discussion - chasing Zhuge Liang. "The Shu army ran out of food and retreated, and the morale was low, which was the best time for our army to pursue. I command you to lead a detachment of elite horsemen from pursuit. ”

Zhang He frowned when he heard this, got up and said to Sima Yi, "The ancestor is always in the clouds: military law, the siege of the city will open a way out, and the army should not chase after it." In the past, Zhang Xiu was the first to conquer, and it was precisely because Zhang Xiu and Liu Biao chased and fought fiercely that our army was able to put it to death and survive, and turned defeat into victory. Think twice about the general"

Sima Yi waved his hand, "This time, that time." The first master is eloquent, Zhang Xiu and Liu Biao are just mediocre people. Do you think you are not like this? ”

Although Zhang He has a good temper, it does not mean that he is willing to belittle himself. Although he was a late bloomer, his military talent was not comparable to Zhang Xiu's generation, so he had to sit down silently.

Although he had tried to make history irreversible, Huang Zhi was unwilling to watch Zhang He go to his death at the thought of watching him die, and immediately walked out of the queue and admonished Sima Yi, "Zhuge Kongming's use of troops is strange, and there are many high mountains and dangerous passes in the Guanlong area, which is convenient for ambushes. ”

Sima Yi glanced at Huang Zhi before he said lightly, "Since Jun Yi sat in Guanlong, he has successively defeated Kong Ming's two northern expeditions in Jieting and Chencang, and his name as the general of the Western Che Cavalry has already shocked the Shu army. This time, with him personally chasing after him, he will definitely be able to defeat the Shu army again. ”

Huang Zhi saw that Sima Yi was talking crookedly, but he couldn't find any way to deal with it, so he looked around in a hurry, but saw a few members of the guards to accompany An An to the last seat, and then admonished again with the mentality of a blind cat touching a dead mouse, "If you have to pursue, why don't you let Guo Huai and other young people go, why bother the old generals to suffer from this." ”

Sima Yi obviously didn't expect Huang Zhi to be so persistent and uninteresting, so he had to argue again, "The Shu army is only afraid of being alone, and if it sends others to pursue, it will have no deterrent effect." I have made up my mind, and I will wait for Hugh to obey the order again, pursue Kong Ming as much as possible, and Hugh will tell him to return to Hanzhong without any damage."

Seeing that the old ancestor had a tendency to turn his face, Sima Fuqiang hurriedly pulled Huang Zhi's sleeve secretly, signaling him to stop being so stubborn.

And Zhang He himself had already stood up at this time, glanced at Huang Zhi with a slightly sad smile, signaled him to step back, and took over this fateful messenger without any prevarication.

By now, it has become clear that Zhang He was indeed forced to death by Sima Yi, an old fox, with ulterior motives. Zhang He's departure is the swan song of Cao Cao's five good generals, and the post-Cao Cao era of the Three Kingdoms period was finally ended by Sima Yi, who had the notoriety of "wolf Gu". At this time, above Cao Wei's court, in addition to the generals of the Cao clan who did nothing, the military generals with foreign surnames were the stage of the Sima clan.

An era ends for it, and an era begins for it.

Huang Zhi quietly retreated into the sequence of advisers, looked down at the ground without saying a word, and no longer dared to look in Sima Yi's direction, for fear that his eyes would reveal the anger in his heart. If it weren't for the interests of the team, he really wanted to hang up his crown in a chic way, and no longer see this chilling scene.

A few days later, news came back from the front that Zhang He, who was over the age of six, pursued the Shu army to Mumendao, was hit in the right knee by the loss, and died of his injuries.

Emperor Cao Rui of Wei Ming lamented in the court, "Shu is not peaceful and dies, what will it be" to call him a strong marquis.

Sima Yi then led the army to pursue, taking advantage of the slackness of the Shu army after sniping Zhang He to catch the army behind the opponent's palace by surprise, capturing nearly 10,000 people.

The time soon came to July, and the dream man of the East China Sea team was influenced by Huang Zhi, and followed the mess listlessly, and finally survived until the end of Zhuge Liang's Fourth Northern Expedition.