Wei Yan is a person, I don't know if he is lucky, or unlucky.

In the early days, Wei Yan was just Liu Bei's subordinate, a big-headed soldier, and in this era of valuing his background and family background, it was actually difficult for Wei Yan to get ahead.

But the lord he met was Liu Bei, Liu Bei, who was a talented man and a very accurate looker.

Liu Bei took a fancy to Wei Yan's potential to become a general at a glance, promoted him from an ordinary soldier to a general, and once handed over his own personal soldier Bai Yu to Wei Yan's command.

This is Wei Yan's luck, after all, the monarch who is willing to promote generals from the big soldiers, in the era of the late Han Dynasty, there are probably only two people, Liu Bei and Sun Quan.

Wei Yanzhi is to Liu Bei, which is probably equivalent to Lu Mengzhi to Sun Quan.

It's just that Liu Bei himself sent people under the fence in the early days, and Xinye County was lent to Liu Bei by Liu Biao in order to fight Cao Cao, so Wei Yan has always stayed by Liu Bei's side as Liu Bei's personal soldier, and there are not many opportunities to exercise.

Later, Zhang Xi went to Jiangxia to serve, Liu Bei stuffed Wei Yan into the escort team, and Zhang Xi also realized Liu Bei's intentions, and after the defense of Exian County, in the name of Wei Yan's meritorious service, he gave Wei Yan the rank of captain in Jiangxia.

From here on, even if Wei Yan has a formal military attache establishment, he is no longer a big soldier, but a formal low-level military general.

After that, Liu Bei entered Sichuan, and Wei Yan began to be unlucky.

Originally, following Zhang Xi as the general of the vanguard army to capture Yizhou, Wei Yan thought it was a good opportunity to make a contribution. As a result, he met all the people who surrendered along the way, and he fought a battle outside the city, and the credit was taken by Huang Zhong, the old man.

There is no way, in the first battle of Luocheng, the person who first ascended to the north gate was Huang Zhong, and the person who captured Liu Xun was also a soldier under Huang Zhong, Wei Yan failed to rob this old man.

In the end, in terms of meritorious deeds, Wei Yan only got the official title of General Yamen, and Zhao Yun stayed after he was promoted to General Yijun.

The official position of General Yamen is not high, but it is also a miscellaneous general, and it is not low to say that it is low.

After all, Liu Bei is playing the banner of Kuangfu Han Dynasty, and his official position must follow the Han system and report to the imperial court. Liu Bei can create an official position, but he cannot modify the official system.

For example, Liu Bei can create official positions such as Yamen General, Yijun General, and Military Division General, but these official positions are still miscellaneous generals and temporary official positions, and these official positions cannot be fixed like the Sifang Generals, which is against the Han system.

Of course, Cao Cao and Sun Quan did not have so many concerns, Cao Cao took the Sizheng General as a fixed official position, and the position was still above the Sifang General, and Sun Quan directly fixed the temporary position of the governor.

Well, the matter of official positions and official systems, I can't finish talking about it for a while, so let's save it for later. Or go back to Wei Yan.

Wei Yan is actually not dissatisfied with the official position of General Yamen, what he is dissatisfied with is that this official position was left by Zhao Yun after he was promoted, which caused everyone to subconsciously feel that Wei Yan was not as good as Zhao Yun as soon as they heard about Wei Yan's official position.

Wei Yan was not convinced.

On martial arts, the two have sparred, it is difficult to distinguish the winner in a short period of time, on command, Wei Yan is good at commanding foot soldiers, Zhao Yun is good at commanding cavalry, it is not easy to compare, on qualifications. This Wei Yan did join Liu Bei a few years later than Zhao Yun, but the time gap between before and after was not large.

Wei Yan suffered a loss, he did not have the experience of leading troops alone, and when Zhao Yun entered Sichuan, he led an army alone, Lianke Jiangyang, and Qianwei two counties, and made great contributions.

Therefore, this time Liu Bei planned to stop the matter of the Ming Pavilion Road, and there were many famous generals in front of the account, and Wei Yan had nothing to do with the official position and qualifications, but Wei Yan was eager to make a meritorious contribution and took the initiative to ask Liu Bei for his life and asked to go to the Ming Pavilion Road.

Of course, there may not be any intention for Wei Yan to emulate his idol Guan Yu.

At the beginning, Guan Yu was in the north and helped Zhou Yu capture the southern county and made great achievements.

Now if Wei Yan can also decide Ma Mingge Dao, he can also make great achievements for Liu Bei to capture Yangping Pass, so that when everyone talks about him Wei Yan, they will be compared with Guan Junhou, instead of treating him as Zhao Yun's spare tire.

Liu Bei didn't have any opinions.

The situation that Liu Bei is facing now is different from the situation that Zhou Yu faced in Nanjun, there are many people on Liu Bei's side.

He sent people to cut off Ma Mingge's Dao, on the one hand, to eliminate the threat brought by Zhang He's previous trip to Guangshi, and on the other hand, he also wanted to urge Xiahou Yuan to rescue Zhang He, divide the guards of Yangping Pass, and achieve the purpose of "doubling is dividing" in the Art of War.

So Liu Bei's original idea was to let the new generation of generals lead the troops to exercise, if they could eliminate Zhang He of Guangshi, of course it would be better, if not, harass Zhang He from time to time, so that he didn't dare to leave Guangshi.

Therefore, since Wei Yan asked for battle, Liu Bei simply agreed, appointed Wei Yan as the main general, Chen Shi as the deputy general, led 10,000 troops, and went to Ma Mingge Road.

And after Xiahou Yuan noticed that Liu Bei had sent people to attack Zhang He in Guangshi, he also reacted quickly and sent Xu Huang to lead 5,000 elite soldiers to protect Ma Mingge Dao and aid Zhang He.

Wei Yan, Chen Shi, officially against Zhang He, Xu Huang.

From the perspective of later generations, the combination of Wei Yan and Chen Shi is a little weaker, but Wei Yan is also a famous general after all, maybe he can fight against it, but the reality is very skinny, Wei Yan and Chen Shi were repelled by Zhang He and Xu Huang, and had to pack up the remnants of the army and garrison it in the mountains.

This really can't be blamed on Wei Yan and Chen Shi, the main thing is that Ma Mingge Dao and Guan Yu's Jubei Dao are different.

Guan Yu's Absolute North Road is a concept, it just requires that the supply from the north be cut off as much as possible, and the north of Nanjun is a large area, and Guan Yu can fight guerrillas.

But Ma Mingge Road, it is really a mountain road, there are high mountains on both sides, and there is no possibility of guerrilla attacks at all.

To cut off Ma Mingge's Dao, Wei Yan and Chen Shi must choose to defeat Xu Huang and Zhang He head-on, and Zhang He and Xu Huang, the two of them have the advantage of attacking back and forth.

Chen Shi was still more cautious, and suggested that Wei Yan adopt the method of encircling and sending reinforcements, first besieging Zhang He of Guangshi, besieging the city, and then Chen Shi himself led his troops to ambush the grain transport teams sent to Guangshi, and after a long time, the grain and grass of Zhang He's army in Guangshi City ran out, so Guangshi would be self-defeating.

Wei Yan did take this suggestion, besieged the city himself, and asked Chen Shi to ambush the grain convoy, and then Chen Shi crashed into the arms of Xu Huang's army who came to the rescue.

Chen's on-the-spot adaptability and command ability were completely suppressed by Xu Huang, and he was easily defeated by Xu Huang, and finally retreated outside Guangshi City with the remnants of the army to repay Wei Yan.

As soon as Wei Yan heard that Xu Huang had brought troops to the rescue, he quickly calculated the pros and cons, and felt that it was impossible to take the risk of besieging Guangshi City, so he simply took Chen Shi to retreat one after another, retreated into the mountain road outside Guangshi City, and camped on the spot.

After repelling Wei Yan and Chen Shi, Zhang He and Xu Huang converged, and they were also a little embarrassed in the face of Wei Yan's strategy of retreating but not retreating.

Guangshi City is too small, Zhang He led 3,000 troops to garrison here, if you add Xu Huang's 5,000 people, the city can't be stationed, and you have to go to camp outside the city.

Moreover, grain and grass are also a big problem.

If Xu Huang stays in Guangshi City, then the grain road of Ma Mingge Road is still unguarded, and now Wei Yan refuses to retreat, once Xu Huang stays in Guangshi City, Wei Yan will definitely continue to attack the grain transportation team of Ma Mingge Road, which will increase the burden of Hanzhong's grain and grass support for Guangshi.

As for the option of completely repelling Wei Yan, Xu Huang also tried, he once led the five thousand people he brought out of the city to attack Wei Yan's camp.

But Wei Yan set up the camp at the mountain pass, and the mountain pass was narrow, if Xu Huang attacked head-on, the troops would not be able to spread out, and he could only attack along the path at the mountain pass, and there was really no way to take Wei Yan for a while.

And Wei Yan is also a famous general in the end, after he finished camping, the first thing he did was to cut down all the trees on the mountain near the camp, not giving Xu Huang a chance to attack with fire, if he wanted to break through this camp, he had to use human lives to pile up.

Although Chen Shi was defeated by Xu Huang for a while, Wei Yan still has a little more troops in his hands than Xu Huang, and Wei Yan is not afraid of fighting for his life.

After Xu Huang attacked several times and found that he could not shake Wei Yan's camp, he did not continue to attack, but collected his troops and returned to the city to discuss the strategy of defending the city with Zhang He.

Xu Huang and Zhang He discussed it, and felt that they couldn't continue to spend time with Wei Yan here, after all, Xiahou Yuan had few soldiers, there were more than 30,000 people in total, and 8,000 people were pinned down here, which was definitely not good.

Anyway, Guangshi City is small, and at most 3,000 people can be stationed, so it is better for Zhang He to stick to it, Xu Huang retreats to Hanzhong for supplies, and by the way, he looks at Ma Mingge Road, so as not to let Liu Beijun die.

The two decided that the next day, Xu Huang would lead the reinforcements he brought back to the army and return to Hanzhong along Ma Mingge Road.

And Wei Yan quickly sensed Zhang He and Xu Huang's plan to divide his troops, and he also divided his troops, sending Chen Shi to pursue Xu Huang again, while he tried to continue to attack Guangshi.

On the one hand, Wei Yan wanted to hold Zhang He and not give Zhang He the opportunity to attack Liu Bei's army in the east, on the other hand, Wei Yan still hoped that he could drag Xu Huang's return to the army and relieve the pressure on Yangping Pass.

Zhang He hated Wei Yan very much.

When he and Xu Huang were there, this Wei Yan just couldn't shrink out and strictly guarded it.

Now that Xu Huang is gone, this Wei Yan actually dares to divide his troops?!

This is clearly looking down on him Zhang He.

But Zhang He is a little different from other generals with the surname Cao Wei. Zhang He would never die for Cao Wei.

Last time, he was sent by Xiahou Yuan to go deep into Ba County to rob the people Dingkou, and was beaten by Zhang Fei at Wakou Pass, which has made Zhang He almost unable to come back, and now he only has 3,000 people in his hands, once the field battle is lost, this Guangshi City will really not be able to hold it.

As long as there is a valid reason, Zhang He doesn't mind opening up, after all, Zhang He sees it very clearly, in Cao Wei, that is, the generals surnamed Cao or Xiahou are more promising, and other generals with foreign surnames are basically the orders of the generals surnamed Cao or Xiahou as deputy generals, that is, Zhang Liao is more bullish, relying on the merits of the Battle of White Wolf Mountain and the threat of Jiangdong Sun 100,000, he became a governor in Hefei.

Zhang He lost Guangshi City, and when he went back, he would inevitably be reprimanded by Xiahou Yuan, and maybe he would be demoted, but as long as Zhang He could hold Guangshi City, then Zhang He would be a great achievement.

Therefore, Zhang He didn't care about Wei Yan's siege at all, anyway, Wei Yan didn't have many troops, and if he wanted to rely on thousands of people to attack the city, Zhang He was not afraid of him.

As for Xu Huang, Zhang He is even less worried.

That nameless general named Chen Shi, can he still threaten Xu Gongming.

(End of chapter)