Chapter 658: Hold the Military Order

Full Pet is very depressed now, very depressed.

As Wang Chang retreated to Chang'an in defeat, bringing the news of the loss of Changling and Weicheng, Manzhong almost collapsed to the ground.

To tell the truth, Man Chong still had the heart to punish Wang Chang for the first time, but when he heard Wang Chang say that it was because of Hu Zun's surrender to the enemy, which led to Weicheng and Changling, after the front line of Changling was completely lost, Man Chong did not have this mind.

Hu Zun was recommended by Zhang Ji, but he was sent by him to assist Wang Chang and guard Weicheng.

Now that Zhang has passed away, no matter how big the responsibility, you can't hold a deceased person accountable. Therefore, the biggest person responsible for the loss of Zuo Fengyi's defense line is his full favor.

At least one sin of not knowing people can be escaped.

And what really made Man Chong feel powerless was that after the Changling-Weicheng area was lost, the Shu thieves had a direct passage to cross Weishui and come to Chang'an, and at this time in Chang'an City, the relocation of people was only halfway through.

If a large army comes to the city, it is almost impossible for Manzhong to complete the work of relocating the people.

It's not that Chang'an City is no longer garrisoned, there are still about 5,000 soldiers under Manzhong's hands, according to Wang Chang's report, there are only more than 10,000 Shu thieves who attacked Zuo Fengyi, and this number of people still can't pose a substantial threat to Chang'an.

But the key question is not whether Chang'an can hold it, but what to do with the nearly 200,000 people gathered here in Chang'an City, Dingkou, as well as other areas of Zuo Fengyi, who have not yet had time to move into the Guannei.

The task of full favor is to move the people into the customs, and he committed public anger, and with such infamy, he just moved all the nearly one million Sanfu Dingkou into the customs.

But now, the task of relocating the people, Manzhong has not even completed half of it, and the Shu thieves have already broken through Zuo Fengyi's direction and threatened Chang'an.

You can't fight outside the city, and the people are still moving out of the city, the enemy army is not stupid, can you take the people away so smoothly?!

Moreover, the most important thing is that whether it is to relocate the people or the army to retreat, Tongguan in the southeast behind Chang'an is the most critical checkpoint.

Once the Shu thieves seize Tongguan, then the entire passage to retreat into the pass will be blocked, and it will be a big problem to let these people and soldiers crowd together in the Wuguan Road and withdraw into the pass.

Tongguan is relatively easy to walk, but the road to Wuguan is far from it, and it is surrounded by mountains, which is not suitable for large-scale retreat and migration at all.

Therefore, full of favors, he sent Wang Chang out again, and asked him to hurry up and rush to Tongguan, and he must guard this lifeline of relocation and withdrawal.

On the other hand, Man Chong also hurriedly sent an envoy in the army, and quickly went to Huaili to inform Cao Zhen and Guo Huai, who were guarding Fufeng, that these two people could come by themselves, and they must go to Lishan to set up defenses before the Shu thieves, and they could not let the Shu thieves directly cut off the retreat route from Chang'an to Tongguan.

In fact, Man Chong actually knew that once the Shu thief entered Zuo Fengyi, he would inevitably choose to march in the direction of Tongguan, and in terms of distance, the Shu thief was closer to Lishan than Cao Zhen, who needed to cross a Chang'an region.

However, there is really no way to do it, he can't ignore the relocation of the people, lead the troops out of the city by himself, and go to Lishan to set up defenses, right? !

In this case, do you want this Chang'an?!

Now Manzhong can only hope that the Shu thief is the master general, but he is just a brainless and reckless man, has no strategic vision, and cannot see the importance of Tongguan, so it is best to go straight to Chang'an.

Coming to Chang'an, with Chang'an's city defense, Manpet can still stalemate for a while, waiting for Cao Zhen Guo Huai's reinforcements, but if it is a Shu thief who goes straight to Tongguan, then Manpet really has no way at all.

And Cao Zhen and Guo Huai, who received an urgent report from Man Pet, directly reprimanded Man Pet's idea of being whimsical.

Don't you look at who is the person who led the army to break into Zuo Fengyi, that is, when we meet that person, we have to be cautious You can see the strategic problem that a civilian official sitting in Chang'an can see, and Zhang Yuanchang, who is known for his strategy, can't see it?!

Now that the Changling-Weicheng line has been lost, Zuo Fengyi's door is wide open, and Hu Zun has surrendered to the enemy, the Shu thief must already know the reality of the entire Zuo Fengyi, in this case, Zhang Xi's little fox, can he still fight with you under Chang'an City? !

This cargo is guaranteed to be on the way to Tongguan.

Again, we are stationed in Huaili, facing the nearly 60,000 troops of Liu Bei's main force, and we only have 20,000 in our hands, that damn Liu Daer is still blocking water and building a dam by Weishui, and then divides his troops to bypass most of Chang'an to garrison Lishan?!

I'm afraid that people haven't arrived at Lishan yet, and even the right Fufeng has been lost.

In today's situation, it is too late to tear down the east wall and make up the west wall, so it is better to redo strategic planning!!

At this time, it was too late to report to Luoyang and wait for Cao Pi's edict, and Cao Zhen at this time finally showed his responsibility as the governor of Yongliang.

He seriously discussed the consequences with Guo Huai, and made a military order.

Cao Zhen had the right to hold the festival, and when Cao Pi appointed him as the governor of Yongliang, he gave him the right to fake the festival.

The right of the fake festival is generally used to give the commander of one side the opportunity to arbitrary, in order to avoid the soldiers in front of the soldier to ask for everything, so although there is a saying that "the general will be outside, the king's order is not affected" before the delay of the fighter, but this statement somewhat hurts the emperor's face and damages the imperial power, so this practice of the fake festival was later produced.

At the beginning, the purpose of this practice was very pure, that is, to give the front commander the right to arbitrarily, but later, it slowly became an honorary thing.

You have this right, you can give orders on behalf of the emperor, and control the life and death power of some officials and generals, but if you really want to use it, it depends on what your relationship with the emperor is.

If you are favored, or have a good relationship with the emperor, the emperor may be able to smile and pass. If the relationship is not good or the emperor wants to rectify you, whoever uses this right will be unlucky.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, because of the war, the right of fake festivals was used again, but with the determination of the situation in the world, this right began to become a symbol of honor.

But today, Cao Zhen used it.

Because Cao Zhen wanted to make a decision that was based on the emperor's order, but it was not completely in line with the emperor's order, he had to use the means of fake festivals to make everyone obey the order.

Cao Zhen's decision was to order Manchu to abandon Chang'an immediately and lead 200,000 people in Chang'an to withdraw from Wuguan Road into the Central Plains.

In other words, Cao Zhen wanted to interrupt the policy of moving the people into the customs of Sanfu, immediately abandon Sanfu, retreat to the Central Plains, and retreat to the Central Plains.

It's really not that Cao Zhen is stupid, but the situation doesn't allow him to hesitate at all.

But if Zuo Feng Yi hadn't lost so quickly, he Cao Zhen would not have to give such an order.

Once Zuo Fengyi is lost, Zhang Xi will inevitably lead the army to raid Tongguan, and at this time, although there are already people stationed in Tongguan, but after all, there are not many troops, if Wang Chang can't reach Tongguan before Zhang Xi, then he can only give up Tongguan and retreat to Hangu Pass.

And once Tongguan is lost, the matter of moving people into the customs will be completely reduced to nothing. The back roads are all broken, and how to move people into the customs.

Obviously, when Cao Zhen was calculating the overall situation, it was impossible to pin his hopes on Wang Chang being able to arrive at Tongguan in time and hold the Tongguan fortress. Cao Zhen must consider what to do with Chang'an and Youfufeng once Tongguan is lost.

After back-and-forth discussions with Guo Huai, Cao Zhen made the decision to abandon the defense.

That means that you can take as many people as you can move now, and this is the last batch, immediately enter Wuguan from Wuguan Road and retreat into the pass.

Before that, Cao Zhen and Guo Huai will continue to hold on to Huaili and buy time for you to retreat, but after this point in time, Cao Zhen and Guo Huai will not care.

After all, each of these two also has their own military orders, one to guard Wuguan, and the other to support Wancheng.

One more. The embankment of the Shu thieves on the opposite side of the Weishui is about to be built, if you hesitate again, wait until the spring thaws and the spring flood comes, then you really can't go if you want to.

It's better to stop the loss in time at this time, and withdraw as much as you can.

Anyway, the edict of the Son of Heaven also asked us to give up the three auxiliaries and retreat ourselves, as for the people, the Son of Heaven did not clearly say how much they wanted to move back, and how much they could move back.

From Cao Zhen's point of view, such an order is obviously more in consideration of the overall situation.

But if you go back like this from the perspective of full favor, then you will bear your infamy, but you haven't made much achievements.

Man Pet has estimated that the people who have withdrawn into the customs are less than 200,000 at most, and even if Man Pet can safely withdraw all the 200,000 people who are still in Chang'an into the customs, it will only be 400,000 dingkou.

The entire Sanfu, and about 500,000 Dingkou are still in place, if these Dingkou are taken by Liu Bei, it will be another scourge.

Full of favors is not reconciled, but. What else can I do with a full pet?!

You can't betray Da Wei, right?!

As for the things he did to the Han royal family in the early years, even if he raised Chang'an City and surrendered, Liu Bei couldn't spare him!

And after this relocation, the reputation of the full favor should be similar to Jia Xu, but he does not have the talent of Jia Xu, he can determine the country with one word, and once the country is disrupted, once the country betrays the Cao Wei royal family, the world is so big, there is really no place for the full favor.

So. Even if he is unwilling, he can only take orders.

However, even if he was ordered to go, Man Zhong still replied to Cao Zhen with an urgent letter, with only one content - asking Cao Zhen for time.

Twenty days, give him at least twenty days.

As long as he gains twenty days, then he will be sure that he will withdraw all the 200,000 Dingkou assembled in Chang'an City from Wuguan Road to Guannei.

Full Favor hopes that Cao Zhen will stay in Huaili for at least twenty days.

(End of chapter)