Yes, Meng Da raised troops privately.

One thing to say, even if it is a troubled time now, but Meng Da's approach, no matter which force it is, is a matter of losing his head. Raising troops without permission is basically equivalent to rebellion.

But in the current situation, Meng Da wants to make a difference, and he really can't continue to wait like this.

Although it is taboo to raise troops privately, if he can help Liu Bei completely open up the situation and become a great hero of the success of the Northern Expedition, then this kind of thing of raising troops privately is a dispensable thing, and it depends on what Liu Bei thinks about whether he is pursued or not.

Besides, Meng Da is not brain-dead, how to end this matter, Meng Da also left a way back for himself.

Before he started his army, he wrote a letter to Kou Feng, explaining his plan in detail, ostensibly seeking Kou Feng's consent to allow him to lead his troops north.

Although Kou Feng is also under the command of Guan Yu on the southern front, Kou Feng himself has the responsibilities of the governor of the three eastern counties, so that Kou Feng also has a certain degree of autonomy, and it is reasonable to dispatch Meng Da of Yidu County to assist in the defense of the three eastern counties when necessary.

It's just that Meng Da wrote a letter to Kou Feng, but he didn't wait for Kou Feng's response before sending troops, he sent troops directly after writing the letter, and when Kou Feng saw Meng Da's letter, Meng Da had already led the troops to the vicinity of Shangyong.

This is actually a kind of behavior of cutting first and then playing, it is Meng Da who sees Kou Feng's current difficult situation, since he has reached the top, then Kou Feng will definitely not pursue his behavior of cutting first and then playing when he needs to break the situation by himself.

After that, as long as Meng Da can help Kou Feng make meritorious service again, then after the war, Kou Feng, a straight boy, will definitely help him cover up this unauthorized sending of troops.

After all, compared to Guan Yu, the stupid Kou Feng is obviously much easier to fool.

Again, Kou Feng's status within Liu Bei's group is not too low, he is a person from the governor's Dongsan County, plus he also has a brother, his status within Liu Bei's group is probably only under Guan Zhang, and even Zhuge Liang and others are just equals.

If you really want to implicate Meng Da in sending troops without authorization, then Meng Da will have a way to drag Kou Feng into the water, and once Kou Feng is also suspected, can that Zhang Xi watch his brother suffer and ignore it? !

This is the way Meng Da has found a good way for himself.

But now, the first half of Mengda's plan can be said to be very smooth.

Because of Meng Da's sudden appearance, Wang Jing was unprepared, and he was defeated four times in a row, and he was about to retreat to the hinterland of Youfufeng.

Now Meng Da and Kou Feng are in one place, and they are marching towards Chang'an, and Cao Pi in Chang'an City, except for more than 100 honor guards, can't get together half of the soldiers.

Because the war in Wancheng was tight, Cao Pi had already sent all the last 10,000 elites of the Chinese army to Zhang Liao, and now Cao Pi is just a bare-bones commander.

Although Xu Huang and Cao Zhen were ordered to lead the troops back to help, this kind of thing is not to say that you can return to help by turning around and turning around.

Xu Huang has already handed over to Wang Ji, and now the two sides are at the stage of confrontation, Xu Huang wants to retreat, and he must arrange the broken army and retreat slowly and orderly, so as to ensure the combat effectiveness of the army.

Otherwise, if the troops are suddenly announced to retreat, the soldiers are not prepared, and Wang Ji will lead the troops to chase and kill again, and the retreat will become a defeat and retreat, completely burying the possibility of retreating to rescue Chang'an.

And Cao Zhen is actually facing a similar situation. The stall that Cao Ren handed over to Cao Zhen was just Zhao Yun and Chen Zhi, who were more than 10,000 former Chang'an defenders, holding on to various dangerous passes and blocking the advance of the Bao Slope.

Cao Zhen was already fighting hard, and there were many places to be guarded, if he hastily withdrew his troops without making any arrangements, and Zhao Yun and Chen Zhi came out of the Bao Slope Road again, then the matter would be really big.

Therefore, it will take time for Xu Huang and Cao Zhen to come back to help, but the combined forces of Kou Feng and Meng Da have approached Chang'an for less than two hundred miles.

In other words, if the Shu army ran faster, it would be able to reach the city in four or five days, but now, the entire Chang'an was empty and unprepared, and no more than 200 guards were counted in the government service to maintain law and order.

Cao Pi is not in a hurry.

However, in a hurry, Cao Pi did not panic.

There is one thing to say, Cao Pi is a person who is a big step behind Cao Cao in terms of political achievements, and in terms of military command, he is not in the stream at all, and his academic performance cannot be compared with his younger brother Cao Zhi, but Cao Pi is really not a coward.

If you don't compare it with the first generation of heroes, Cao Pi is actually very good.

Therefore, despite the danger of Chang'an, Cao Pi did not make the decision to leave Chang'an. Once Cao Pi is forced to leave Chang'an, whether it is the Western Front battlefield or the Southern Front battlefield, the morale of Cao's soldiers will be greatly frustrated, which will then trigger a chain reaction and be defeated.

Cao Pi knew that he couldn't retreat, and now he had to find a way to get together an army to defend Chang'an.

And Chang'an, in fact, has an army.

Chang'an is the old capital of the Han Dynasty, although it has experienced wars over the years, but its own heritage is still there, whether it is Zuo Fengyi or Right Fufeng, or Jingzhao area, or even a little farther away from Hedong, there are a large number of old families.

And in the hands of these families, there must be some hidden Dingkou, and even in order to deal with this troubled world, these families may also directly hide private soldiers in their hands.

What Cao Pi has to do now is to talk to these families, and strive to organize the private soldiers in their hands to fight the defense of Chang'an together.

In fact, Cao Pi has an advantage in this regard.

Liu Bei appointed Zhuge Liang to govern the local government, and Zhuge Liang adopted the idea of legalism, thinking that the troubled times should use heavy codes, so the laws formulated were quite strict, and the families in Shu were quite dissatisfied with this, and from time to time there were rumors circulating in Sanfu and Guanzhong, causing discussions among the families in Guanzhong.

On the contrary, Cao Pi's side is much better.

Although the families did not have a good time during Cao Cao's reign, Cao Pi in order to obtain the support of the family, usurped the Han Dynasty and became the emperor, and made considerable concessions during the period after the succession to the throne.

If Liu Bei's group occupies the Sanfu area of Guanzhong and uses Zhuge Liang's set to govern the place, then the families in Guanzhong would rather choose Cao Pi.

After all, Cao Pi may not lose, what Cao Pi lacks now is only time, as long as he survives the most critical three or five days, and when Cao Jun comes back, Cao Wei will still have the upper hand in terms of power in the Guanzhong region.

Therefore, Cao Pi took advantage of the five days before the arrival of Kou Feng's army, sent people around to lobby Sanfu and the families in Hedong, and cobbled together more than 10,000 soldiers with armor to guard Chang'an.

This amount, Cao Pi was shocked. You have to know that you are in Chang'an.

Cao Pi doesn't believe that these so-called "village braves" are all the heritage of those families.

I am in Chang'an, under my nose, these families can make up more than 10,000 soldiers, or the kind with complete armor If I am not in Chang'an one day, the three assistants will rebel, and I can't make up 50,000 people? !

At this time, Cao Pi regretted a little, regretting whether he was too indulgent to these families, sure enough, his father's approach may be right, for the families, both cooperate and suppress, and definitely can't give them the greatest opportunity.

But now Cao Pi thinks that it is useless, he not only has to rely on the families to tide over the current crisis, and then usurp the Han and become independent, but also cannot do without the support of these families, only after everything is stable, and then find a way to weaken the influence of these families.

Therefore, Cao Pi could only ignore it for the time being, and handed over the recruited "Xiangyong" to his most trusted Xiahou Shang to command, and let him become a Chang'an defender and fight the battle to defend Chang'an.

Xiahou Shang took over this burden without giving up, and then began to seriously arm.

With only more than 10,000 troops, Xiahou Shang would choose to fight a field battle with Kou Feng Mengda's more than 20,000 troops unless his brain was pumped. Now his purpose is to guard Chang'an and wait for his soldiers to come back.

Then the choice is very clear - relying on the tall city defense of Chang'an City, it is enough to purely fight a defensive battle.

The number of enemy troops is not large, and it is impossible to completely cut off the various passages leading to Chang'an, and although there are not many troops in Chang'an City, there is no shortage of food, grass and ordnance, and it is not a problem to hold on to Chang'an for a year, where is it so easy to fight.

For guarding Chang'an, Xiahou Shang is very confident.

And for the conquest of Chang'an. Meng Da said that he really did not have this confidence.

Again, Meng Da's character is indeed bad, capricious, and forgetful of profit, but his military level and governance level are not low.

Meng Da and Kou Feng marched into Chang'an, in fact, they were also gambling, betting that the newly appointed Wei King Cao Pi was a coward, and he would choose to abandon the city and leave in this critical situation.

As long as they stick to Chang'an for a period of time, then Zhao Yun of Baochuan Road and Guan Yu of Nanyang can quickly march and join Meng Da in Chang'an, so that the entire Guanzhong and Sanfu areas will be taken, and the Cao Ren army on the western front will be trapped and killed in Longshan Road, without food and grass supply, it will be completely dispersed in less than a month.

But now, Cao Pi proved that he was not a weak lord, not only did he not abandon Chang'an and escape, but organized "Xiangyong" on the spot to fight the battle to defend Chang'an, and it was Meng Da's turn to have a headache.

Unless Meng Da can break through Chang'an City within three or five days without his own big losses, he will fall into the middle of Xu Huang and Cao Zhen.

Obviously, Meng Da does not have this ability, and all the famous generals in the world do not have this ability.

Xu Huang has more than 10,000 soldiers in his hands, and even if Cao Zhen has to guard against the Bao Chuan Road, the soldiers he brought back can only kill a few thousand. But once these two forces are encircled, the strength is no less than their own.

In addition, the defenders in Chang'an City, if they cooperate tacitly and attack themselves on both sides, then they don't even have a place to retreat.

This Chang'an City really can't be beaten.

(End of chapter)