Chapter 1034: Muddy the Waters
Jiang Wei's move is a scheming, to put it bluntly, it is to provoke the relationship between Cao Wei and Dongwu.
And this trick, the more Wu Yi thought about it, the more he felt that it was indeed subtle and almost incomprehensible.
As far as the virtue of Eastern Wu since Sun Quan and his penchant for taking advantage of it, it is impossible for them to let go of the empty city, and there is no mutual trust between Cao Wei and Eastern Wu at all. If you really want to do this according to Jiang Wei's idea, at least the border between Yanzhou and Huainan will be a mess.
And what will the Cao Wei court react to after knowing about this?!
Will you think that Dongwu is an old mistake again, and is ready to take advantage of the fire to rob and attack Cao Wei with the alliance? !
But if you just ignore it, then under the encroachment of Eastern Wu step by step, how many counties and counties in Yanzhou will be controlled by Great Wei in the end?!
In this case, can the Cao Wei court really endure it, not transfer troops from Heluo, and return to Yanzhou? !
You must know that Yanzhou is the last base of Cao Wei's court in the Central Plains, if you can't even hold Yanzhou, it will be equivalent to Cao Wei's group completely withdrawing from the Central Plains and trapping Hebei.
This is not the pattern of a regime that aspires to dominate the world.
Anyway, Wu Yi thinks that this thing is really, as if, indeed, there is something wrong.
Of course, the most important thing is that whether it is Runan, Chen Guo, or the farthest county, the distance from Yingchuan is not too far, and the farthest county is only more than 20 days.
In this case, with the physical fitness of the soldiers of Nan County, if they carry military rations once, and pass through some military rations in the treasury of Cao Wei County on the way, it should not be a big problem to support these ten or twenty days.
There is no need to worry about the supply of military rations.
And the 10,000 Southern Army, which is now relatively empty in the defense of Runan, Chenguo, and Qiaojun, is also a large combat force.
Don't worry about the Southern Army being surrounded by people and suffering heavy losses, and it will be difficult to explain to the Son of Heaven after that.
Go for it!!
In this way, Wu Yi once again adopted Jiang Wei's suggestion and allowed Jiang Wei and Wen Qinbing to divide into two routes and march into Runan.
This time, Jiang Wei learned the lessons of the last battle. I didn't block Chen Tai last time, on the one hand, Chen Tai ran really fast, and on the other hand, Jiang Wei was a little too supportive, and there was a mistake in prediction.
Jiang Wei thought that Chen Tai would not be aware of his movements until he went north from Yun County, but in fact, before Jiang Wei arrived in Yun County, his whereabouts were learned by the local family in Yingchuan, and Jiang Wei underestimated the bonus of local operations to intelligence.
Therefore, this time Jiang Wei learned this lesson, although he divided his troops with Wen Qin, Jiang Wei did not go too far from Wen Qin, for fear that if something happened, one side would be surrounded and the other party could not be rescued in time.
Moreover, this time, out of prudence, Jiang Wei did not choose to attack Shangcai, an important town in Runan, but chose the remaining two counties of the three counties in Runan controlled by Guo Huai, Ruyang and Zhaoling.
These two places are not far from each other, but there is still a distance from Shangcai, so as to avoid Shangcai Wei's army coming too quickly, and the two sides have to fight head-on.
After all, after the two of them divided their troops, they only had 5,000 soldiers of the Southern Army in their hands, and it was okay to use them for sneak attacks, and they were somewhat under-armed in frontal field battles.
But. In fact, there is one point, Jiang Wei guessed wrong again this time.
When Guo Huai was ordered to lead his troops north to support Xuchang, in addition to leaving 3,000 people in Shangcai and 2,000 people in Ruyang to defend the Waizhao Mausoleum, there were only 500 people to guard it.
There is no way, in the three counties of Runan, Shangcai and Ruyang have to face the threat of the Eastern Wu Army.
Even if there is an alliance now, but with the virtue of Eastern Wu, Guo Huai does not dare to leave no one to guard.
The Zhaoling Tomb is located in the interior, and its north side is Yingchuan County and Chen Guo of Yanzhou, all of which are their own people.
Now that Wei and Wu have formed an alliance, both sides are drawing troops to attack Shu Han, and it is enough for Ruyang and Shangcai to leave so many people to defend.
And if the Eastern Wu betrays the alliance and sneaks attack, even Ruyang and Shangcai can't hold it, no matter how many troops are left in Zhaoling, they can't actually hold it either.
Therefore, when Jiang Wei led the troops to Zhaoling City, Zhaoling County ordered to take a look at the army outside the city, and then look at the shrimp soldiers and crabs in his hand, and then decisively open the city and surrender.
Jiang Weibing went down the city without blood.
After entering the city and settling the people, Jiang Wei still appointed the original Zhaoling County Order of the Great Wei Dynasty as the Zhaoling County Order of the Great Han Dynasty, confiscated the Wei State seal of the Zhaoling County Order, and ordered the craftsmen in the city to temporarily carve a Han official seal to the Zhaoling County Order.
After doing these things, Jiang Wei looted all the money and grain in the city treasury, and then immediately led his troops out of the city non-stop and went to Ruyang to assist Wen Qin in capturing Ruyang.
From the mouth of the Zhaoling County Order, Jiang Wei learned that Ruyang is now guarded by 2,000 Wei troops, and with Wenqin's 5,000 soldiers and horses, he may not be able to conquer Ruyang immediately, so Jiang Wei will immediately lead the troops over to help in the battle. But when Jiang Weibing came to Ruyang, he found that Wen Qin had captured Ruyang.
When I asked, I learned that Ruyang County, like Zhaoling County, directly surrendered Kaicheng.
On the one hand, it was the Ruyang County Commander who was too timid to resist, and on the other hand, it was Wen Qin who lied that the Han army had conquered Yingchuan County, and now it had entered Runan in a big way.
Otherwise, there is no way to explain how Wen Qin appeared under Ruyang City.
In this way, Ruyang County Ling was confused and chose to open the city and surrender. Later, even if you want to regret it, it's too late.
After Wen Qin entered the city, he had the same operation as Jiang Wei, and after announcing the return of the Han Dynasty, he directly confiscated the seal ribbon of the Ruyang County Order, replaced it with a temporary Han seal ribbon, and then looted the treasury of Yitong. At this time, Jiang Wei arrived, and as soon as the two of them discussed, they went east along Ruyang County and led the troops to attack Qian County together.
Well, by the way, the original 2,000 Wei troops in Ruyang County were also taken away.
And as soon as these two people left, Ruyang County's mind came alive.
What does the Zhaoling County Commander think, the Ruyang County Commander doesn't know, but the Ruyang County Commander has 2,000 soldiers, but he didn't even have a battle, and directly opened the city and surrendered. According to Wei Law, the Ruyang County Order will definitely be questioned.
But now, the Shu thieves are gone, and Ruyang County is still under their own control, in order to reduce their own responsibility, the Ruyang County Order immediately wrote a letter asking for help to Zhang Te, a partial general who Guo Huai stayed in Shangcai, saying that the Shu thieves attacked Ruyang, and their troops were insufficient, so Zhang Teh was asked to send troops to help immediately.
And when Zhang Te sent reinforcements, he said that the Shu thieves had been repelled by himself, so didn't he just fool him around.
The Ruyang County Commander made up his mind and immediately wrote a letter to Zhang Special, but when the letter was finished and the seal was about to be used, the Ruyang County Commander found that his seal was gone.
It's not that there is no seal, but his current seal, which is the official seal of the Han Dynasty, not the official seal of the Great Wei.
Well, if you use the official seal of the Han Dynasty to ask Dawei for reinforcements, you don't think you will die fast enough, right?!
But if this matter can't be solved as soon as possible, and General Zhang Te's truth is discovered, then his fate doesn't seem to be much better. Ruyang County Ling gritted his teeth, did not need to print, only left a note, and then sent his own personal guard envoy to Zhang Te, the left-behind general of Shangcai, to send a letter to explain in person.
It is conceivable what kind of attitude Zhang Te had when he received this letter.
Although the personal guards of the Ruyang County Commander repeatedly explained to Zhang Te, saying that Ruyang was now very "critical", and Zhang Te was not moved at all when he urgently needed reinforcements.
Because of a letter that only had a payment and did not have any official endorsement, he Zhang Te's mind was not so stupid.
Moreover, Zhang Te has also thought about it, even if what your Ruyang County Order said is true, you are really besieged by 10,000 Shu thieves. I only have 3,000 people on hand, even if I go with all my strength to help you defend Ruyang, what will Shangcai do?!
How do you know that the Shu thief won't turn around and attack Shang Cai!?
If you lose Ruyang, that's your responsibility, and if you lose Shangcai, I'm the one who will be questioned.
So. Refusal to send troops.
Ruyang County's order is like this, wait, wait, I didn't wait for reinforcements, but waited for the army of Soochow.
This group of Wu dogs, who is called a shameless one, actually said something "I heard that your country was attacked by Shu thieves, and I will wait for the rescue to assist in the defense", and then honestly and unceremoniously entered the city to take over the city defense.
At this time, is it useful for the Ruyang County Order to say anything?!
In this way, in less than ten days, the head of Ruyang County changed its flag again. This time it became the banner of Soochow.
And the Ruyang County Commander, within ten days, served as the Ruyang County Commander of the Wei, Shu and Wu Kingdoms in a row.
I have to say, this is also a very strange thing.
And the same thing, in the next month, kept playing out in Chen Guo and Qian County.
Jiang Wei and Wen Qin, the two soldiers, divided into two routes, echoed each other, and attacked the two county towns of Chen Guo and Qian County all the way.
If you can fight, you will fight, and if you can't beat it, you will bypass it, and you will not stop after you fight, but you will just collect the official seal of the local county order, and then loot the money, grain, and property of the government treasury, and then directly lead the army to leave, and there is a high probability that in five or six days, the Eastern Wu army will come and take over the city.
These two people went around, and directly made Gao Tanglong, who was in charge of left-behind affairs in Chenliu County, anxious.
There is really no way, Yanzhou is short of troops, the county soldiers all follow Sima Yi or Jia Kui to go on the expedition, and the 5,000 soldiers in Gao Tanglong's hands are still used to guard Chen Liujun, and he can't take care of Chen Guo and Qian County's affairs at all.
There was no way, Gao Tanglong could only go to the court on the one hand, hoping that the court would come forward to negotiate with Dongwu and ask for the return of the occupied county seat, and on the other hand, he hurriedly wrote a letter to Jia Kui, asking Jia Kui to negotiate with Sima Yi and lead the Yanzhou county soldiers back to defense.
If you don't come back, the two counties in the south of Yanzhou should be completely occupied by Soochow!!
(End of chapter)