In November of the first year of Han Zhangwu, Mi Yang, who led tens of thousands of troops to Shunyang County, received a letter from Guan Yu.

At the beginning, after Mi Yang received Ma Liang's letter, he was worried about Guan Yu's safety, so he changed his tactics and played the slogan of attacking Champion County, and led the army to leave Wudang and go north.

Because the county under the jurisdiction of Nanyang County is too large, Mi Yang has two best routes to march from Wudang to the championship.

One swims directly down from the Han River, reaches the outside of Yin County, and then goes north by land.

The other is to travel south from Wudang County, and then go west from Junshui, a tributary of the Han River, to Shunyang, and then choose the opportunity to attack Champion County after taking Shunyang.

Mi Yang's current strategy for entering the army is the second one.

And this route of march was suggested by Wei Yan to Mi Yang.

Wei Yan, like Fu Wei, was originally from Nanyang County, so Wei Yan was very familiar with the terrain of Nanyang County.

The reason why Wei Yan suggested that Mi Yang choose this route was because most of the route had rivers along the route.

And this kind of terrain can undoubtedly make the Mi army, which has warships in its hands, in a state of attack, retreat and defense.

At present, only Wudang in Nanyang County is in the hands of Mi Yang, and Champion County is in the heart of Nanyang County.

Therefore, if Mi Yang chooses the first route, it will cause tens of thousands of Mi troops to go deep alone, which is a taboo for soldiers.

Soon after Mi Yang's army arrived outside Shunyang County, the county magistrate of Shunyang County saw that Mi Yang personally led the army to arrive, and he was immediately frightened and immediately sent a messenger to Cao Pi for help.

It's just that Mi Yang didn't attack Shunyang County for the first time.

Because whether it is from the actual situation or from the real purpose of his troops, he did not really send troops to attack the champion county.

According to his plan with Guan Yu, he should have led the army in Wudang County to wait for Guan Yu's summons.

But after receiving Ma Liang's letter, Mi Yang, who didn't know how far Guan Yu's illness had reached, took the initiative to lead the army to the expedition, in order to share some of Guan Yu's pressure.

As the governor of Yibei, Mi Yang naturally had a certain amount of power to make corresponding adjustments to his marching strategy.

Originally, Mi Yang thought that if Guan Yu was really seriously ill, then his actions could cover the retreat of Guan Yu and the army to a certain extent.

If Guan Yu was only a little sick, then his actions could also share some of the enemy pressure Guan Yu was facing, allowing him to recover as soon as possible.

Anyway, there are many warships here, and as long as his army does not rush ashore, it will advance and retreat freely, and it will not have any big impact on the current overall situation of Nanyang.

But what Mi Yang didn't expect was that not long after he arrived outside Shunyang City, he received the news that Guan Yu had made a great victory in the Moon Formation.

Mi Yang was the one who knew in advance that Guan Yu would put on a moon formation, so he was mentally prepared for Guan Yu's victory, and he was not too surprised.

What really surprised Mi Yang was the news behind this great victory.

Judging from this incident, Guan Yu's body is still in a tough state, otherwise Guan Yu would not have gone step by step according to the original plan.

And after learning the news, Mi Yang soon received the news that Guan Yu asked him to quickly lead the army south.

This made Mi Yang have an optimistic judgment about Guan Yu's illness in his heart.

Because everything is going on according to the original plan.

But Mi Yang will not make a final judgment because of this, after all, Guan Yu's identity is extraordinary, and his physical condition is even more important.

Anyway, now that Guan Yu has issued an order for him to lead the army eastward, then Mi Yang can just go to the Han army camp in Fancheng to actually observe Guan Yu's health.

In order not to delay Guan Yu's strategy of employing troops, but also to find out what Guan Yu's real physical condition is as soon as possible.

After receiving Guan Yu's order, Mi Yang immediately led the army to retreat from outside Shunyang City, and then swam down towards Fancheng.

At the time of the Battle of Xicheng, Mi Yang's troops had a maximum of 40,000 troops.

Later, Mi Yang took advantage of the great victory in Xicheng to go out to fight Wu, because the Wei army had too many prisoners, so he left 10,000 troops led by Meng Da and others to garrison Hanxing County.

Later, because of the news of Cao Zhen's large-scale transfer of troops from Guanzhong, and in order not to delay the farm work, Mi Yang transferred 10,000 troops from his hands to return to Hanzhong County.

Under the two consecutive division of troops, there are only about 20,000 Han troops inside and outside Wudang City at present.

Although Guan Yu asked Mi Yang to mobilize a large army to the south, the safety of Wudang City was also very important.

Therefore, Mi Yangneng led the Han army that arrived outside Fancheng, and it was the tens of thousands of Han troops he brought out from Wudang this time.

It's just that maybe Mi Yang didn't bring a lot of troops, but the quality of the generals he brought with him to the army was not low.

Wei Yan's bravery alone can be worth several ordinary generals.

Because it was going downstream, the speed of Miyang's army was very fast, but in a few days, Miyang personally led the army to Fancheng outside.

When Mi Yang led the army outside Fancheng, he looked at the scene in front of him and felt a sense of déjà vu.

Many Han army battle flags were hunting in the wind, and Fancheng, an important town in Jingzhou, was surrounded by various fortifications by Guan Yu's army.

When he came from Jiangling to Fancheng outside Fancheng on a starry night, what he saw was also such a scene.

At that time, when he came to Fancheng, his identity was just a filial piety, and there were only hundreds of guards with him.

He came to Fancheng at that time to save Guan Yu's life and the national fortune of the Han Dynasty.

Now when he came to Fancheng, he had already become the left general of the Han Dynasty, and he led tens of thousands of elite soldiers with high morale.

And this time he came to Fancheng in order to hook up the national fortune of the anti-Wei Dynasty.

It's only been a little more than a year, but things are not people, and thinking about it now really makes him feel a lot of emotion in his heart.

It's just that Mi Yang hasn't sighed outside the camp for long, just after he led the army to get off the warship one after another, he had already learned in advance that his army was coming, and Ma Liang, who had been guarding outside the camp for a long time, greeted him.

Ma Liang was followed by many subordinates.

Before and after Ma Liang came to Mi Yang, he took the lead in bowing to Mi Yang.

Although Ma Liang's qualifications and age are higher than Mi Yang, the current Mi Yang is already the governor of the Han Dynasty, and he is in a high position.

Therefore, in terms of position alone, Ma Liang has to be under Mi Yang.

After all, according to the old practice of the Han Dynasty, although the power and responsibility of the assassin are heavy, the rank is not high.

After Ma Liang saluted Mi Yang, Mi Yang also returned a salute to Ma Liang.

After greeting each other, Ma Liang commanded the subordinates behind him to bring the army brought by Mi Yang into the newly built military camp according to the units of the battalion.

Ma Liang's style of doing things is very similar to his idol Zhuge Liang, that is, no matter how big or small, everything must be done personally.

After Liu Bei took Yizhou, Ma Liang wrote a letter to his idol Zhuge Liang praising him, but in that letter, Ma Liang also reminded Zhuge Liang that he should simply promote talents and let talents live in their own positions.

This shows that Ma Liang was not like this at the beginning.

As a result, not long after Zhuge Liang received this letter, Liu Bei recruited Ma Liang into his left shogunate and became Zhuge Liang's subordinate.

After following Zhuge Liang for a few years, Ma Liang, who was exiled again, completely changed his style of doing things.

And he has this change, completely because of Zhuge Liang's infection.

Even Liu Ba, the Shangshu of the Han Dynasty, anyone knows that the person Liu Ba really wants to work for is Cao Cao.

But under the infection of Zhuge Liang, even Liu Ba, who had no heart for Liu Bei, had to exert twelve points of strength to sort out the national economy for Liu Bei.

Such a political atmosphere is simply unimaginable in Cao Wei.

If Cao Wei had such a political atmosphere, he would have unified China long ago.

This is the guiding role of a great prime minister.

In later generations, some people often criticized Zhuge Liang for not being able to use people, and he exhausted himself to death, but those who said such things completely ignored the sinister environment faced by Ji Han in history.

If there is no Zhuge Liang's affairs, if there is no Zhuge Liang's exemplary role, what national strength did Ji Han in history use to carry out a large-scale Northern Expedition, did he rely on the word ideal?

In history and even in the present world, Ji Han's national strength is far inferior to Cao Wei.

If you want Ji Han not to be thrown too far, Ji Han's rulers can only use twelve points of strength.

This is the sorrow of small countries.

This is also one of the reasons why Cao Wei and Sun Wu had longevity in history, but Ji Han had very few.

Just like Jingzhou this year, if it weren't for Ma Liang's personal supervision of the harvesting and escort of Jingzhou's grain, Guan Yu would definitely not have been able to launch the Northern Expedition again so quickly.

Mi Yang looked at Ma Liang in front of him and saw that he was not very old, but there were already traces of gray in his hair.

And when I met him the year before, his demeanor was not like this.

This shows how much Ma Liang has worked hard for state affairs in the past year.

Ji Han's ideal is really burning his life without regrets, just to accomplish that seemingly impossible ambition.

For such a person, Mi Yang's heart is full of respect.

Ma Liang didn't know the respect for him in Mi Yang's heart, and he saw that the army behind Mi Yang, following most of his subordinates, had already entered the camp.

A trace of worry appeared in his eyes, and then he stretched out his hand and led Mi Yang aside alone and said to him:

"General Zuo, Liang has smelled medicine on the general's body recently."

Hearing Ma Liang say this, Mi Yang's eyes couldn't help but froze.

What Ma Liang's words represent, Mi Yang is very clear.

He immediately looked at Guan Yu's main tent with a worried gaze.

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Hanzhong County, South Zhengcheng.

Today's Nanzheng City is a little unusual.

In the endless plains outside the city of Nanzheng, there were many Han soldiers who began to build camp tents.

Looking at the military uniforms of those people, they are slightly different from the Han army in Hanzhong County.

On the pockets of those Han soldiers, there was a white feather fluttering in the wind.

"For the country's wings, such as the prosperity of the forest", this dress is exclusive to the Han Emperor's army!

As the pro-army of the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, the Yulin Army began from the time of Emperor Xiaowu.

Although in the Eastern Han Dynasty, because of the difference in political systems, the establishment of the Yulin Army gradually came out of the sight of the subjects of the Han Dynasty.

But for Emperor Zhangwu, who wanted to rebuild the Han Dynasty by force, the Yulin Army was an organization he had always wanted to restore.

Because the prosperity of the Han Dynasty is nothing more than the era of Emperor Xiaowu.

Therefore, since the day Liu Bei ascended the throne and became emperor, he put the rebuilding of the Yulin Army on the agenda.

And the predecessor of Ji Hanyu's Lin Army was the elite soldiers of Bai Yu before Liu Bei.

Under the expansion, the current Yulin Army has reached 10,000 people.

Although the number of soldiers has nearly doubled, the combat effectiveness of the Bai Yu soldiers has declined, and even because of the current national strength of the Han Dynasty, the 10,000 Yulin army cannot maintain the equipment of heavy armor.

But on the whole, the Yulin Army, which was rebuilt by Liu Bei himself, is still the best in the world in terms of combat effectiveness.

As Emperor Zhangwu's pro-army, the appearance of the Yulin Army outside Nanzheng City undoubtedly means one thing, that is, Liu Bei is now in Nanzheng City.

Sure enough, in the palace of General Zuo in Nanzheng City, Liu Bei, who had just ascended the throne and became emperor, was sitting on the throne in the lobby listening to the reports of the ministers of Hanzhong.

After Liu Bei appointed Mi Yang as the governor of Yibei, in order to better coordinate the military of the entire Yibei Metropolitan Governor's District, Xicheng was no longer suitable as Mi Yang's place of governance.

Nanzheng, the heart of the Yibei Metropolitan Governor's District, is the place where Miyang, the Yibei Metropolitan Governor, should stay on weekdays.

Therefore, the Zhenyuan General's Mansion in Nanzheng City naturally became the Zuo General's Mansion.

It can be said that Liu Bei's sudden arrival was somewhat unexpected by everyone, but it was very in line with Liu Bei's character.

According to common sense, Liu Bei has just ascended the throne and became emperor, so he should sit in Chengdu to handle government affairs.

But Liu Bei is not an ordinary monarch.

As the founder of Rongma for decades, he really couldn't do it if he wanted Liu Bei'an to stay quietly in Chengdu and listen to those boring government affairs.

Therefore, after learning about Mi Yang and Guan Yu's plan, Liu Bei couldn't bear the loneliness and led tens of thousands of Yu Lin troops north to Hanzhong.

Since Cao Pi, the son of heaven against Wei, will personally conquer, then of course he can also be the son of Yanhan.

It's just that after all, Ji Han's national strength is weak, and in order to let Yizhou continue to recuperate, Liu Bei chose to take only 10,000 Yulin troops to the north.

"Only agriculture is advised, and there is no time; Only thin endowment, endless people's wealth. ”

This is the national policy program formulated for Liu Bei after Zhuge Liang took power.

Relying on this sixteen-character national policy program, there was a great victory in the Battle of Hanzhong that year, and only then did it have the national strength to support Zhuge Liang's several Northern Expeditions in history.

And since it was set as the basic national policy of the founding of the Han Dynasty, it was naturally not easily changed unless it was necessary.

Just like the economic construction of later generations, it is not difficult to set a program, but it is rare to always adhere to this program.

If the national policy is changed overnight, then the red country in later generations will not develop so fast.

But despite this, once Liu Bei arrived in Hanzhong County, then as the son of heaven of the Han Dynasty, the army he could actually command included Mi Yang and Guan Yu, with a total of nearly 70,000 people.

This is already the largest mobile force that the Han can afford at present, without affecting his recuperation and recuperation.

Regarding his personal conquest, Liu Bei only informed Mi Yang, the governor of Yibei, through a secret letter, so most of the courtiers in Hanzhong did not know about Liu Bei's arrival.

Now the ministers in Hanzhong are watching Liu Bei in the lobby flipping through the important military and political affairs of Hanzhong one by one.

Although Liu Bei has always been tolerant of his subordinates, Liu Bei's authority after becoming the Son of Heaven is undoubtedly stronger, so all the ministers of Hanzhong have a little apprehension in their hearts.