"Cao Ei, this incompetent person!"

Youzhou, the Taishou Mansion in Xiangping County, Liaodong, there was an angry roar in the hall.

With the sound of crackling and smashing things, the owner who announced the roar was full of unwillingness.

In November of the first year of Jianxing, the Han Dynasty eliminated the last bit of Cao Wei's resistance, and the main general Xiahou Yuan committed suicide, and the eastern front was defeated.

Sima Yi, the commander of the Cao army on the southern front, saw that the general situation had gone, and finally chose to surrender, since then Cao Wei no longer had troops, the Han army surrounded Yecheng, Cao Zhi committed suicide, and Cao Wei was eliminated.

Because Yecheng is very far away from Liaodong, more than 1,000 kilometers, coupled with the inconvenience of information circulation, the two sides basically rely on sending envoys to each other. Therefore, when Cao Wei was eliminated in November, Gongsun Yuan, who was far away in Liaodong, did not know the news at all.

He even thought that Cao Wei would be able to withstand the attack of the Han army.

It wasn't until December that Zhuge Liang sent Zhao Yun and Ma Chao north to Youzhou, and ordered the envoy to travel thousands of miles to Liaodong, giving Gongsun Yuan two choices - surrender, or die in battle, and Gongsun Yuan knew that the Wei State was gone.

Although he had long known that Wei was unfavorable in the war, he didn't expect Cao Wei to be defeated so quickly, so that Gongsun Yuan regretted it a little, he had known that this was the case, and he had agreed to Cao Rong's request to send troops to help.

In June and July, Cao Rong sent a messenger over, hoping that Gongsun Yuan would send troops to help him, and put forward the concept of cold lips and teeth, but Gongsun Yuan was quite hesitant at that time and did not respond.

Mainly for his own reasons.

Gongsun Yuan was not the lord of Liaodong from the beginning, he also passed the battle with his uncle Gongsun Gong at the beginning of last year, and finally put Gongsun Gong under house arrest, which became the king of Liaodong.

As a result, he had just become the king of Liaodong, and when the internal situation was not stable, Cao Wei asked him to send troops to help.

How can this send troops?

You must know that Gongsun Gong has been operating in Liaodong for more than ten years after all, with deep roots and high prestige. Although he was unable to have children because of illness, the foundation of the business for so many years is still there, and there are still many people loyal to him in Liaodong.

If he wants to help Cao Rong at that time, Gongsun Yuan's little family background will definitely ask him to personally bring someone over, and as soon as he leaves, if Gongsun Gong is in power, it is a question of whether he can come back in the future.

Yu Furo should be well aware of this.

At the beginning, the Han Dynasty recruited the Southern Xiongnu to fight, but after Yu Fuluo arrived in the state, the tribe had internal strife, and Yu Fuluo's father Qiang Qu Shan Yu was killed, and Yu Fu Luo could not go back since then.

So at that time, Gongsun Yuan finally did not agree to send troops to help, originally thinking that Cao Wei should be able to hold out for a while, and wait for himself to stabilize and see the situation.

As a result, I never expected Cao Wei to be eliminated directly.

Now Gongsun Yuan was dumbfounded.

Cao Wei is gone, the powerful Han is back, his Liaodong is one acre and three points of land, and the soldiers and horses are only tens of thousands of rabble, how can he fight with the big Han?

Therefore, now there is a moment of great rage, and things in the hall are smashed everywhere, making everyone tremble.

In the hall, many generals of Gongsun Yuan gathered, and the general Jia Fan said: "Duke Ming, now that Cao Wei has been eliminated, the general situation is difficult to change, and now the army and envoys of the imperial court are coming, why don't you surrender early!" ”

"Early drop?"

Gongsun Yuan looked at Jia Fan with a gloomy face.

Jia Fan explained: "Ming Duke, Liaodong is remote, and the weather is cold, and the imperial court does not want to send troops in a big way. If it is an early fall, there is also a position of marquis, wouldn't it be beautiful? ”

"Huh."

Gongsun Yuan smiled, got up from the seat, slowly walked to the bottom, and said as he walked: "The general's words are indeed reasonable. But thou knowest not."

Don't know what?

Jia Fan was slightly puzzled.

Gongsun Yuan walked to Jia Fan's side, pulled out his sword suddenly, stabbed Jia Fan in the chest with a sword, and said with a cruel smile: "You don't know, if I surrender, my family will go to Luoyang to let people eat mermaids!" ”

Poof!

Jia Fan's eyes widened in disbelief and spat out blood.

Outside the hall, many guards rushed in, looking at everyone one by one, and all the soldiers were worried for a while.

"Chop off his head and hang it at the west gate."

Gongsun Yuan pulled out his sword and sneered: "If the rest of the people have another admonition, they will be like Jia Fan!" ”

The guards came up and cut off Jia Fan's head and dragged the body away.

Gongsun Yuan looked at everyone coldly, and several generals who were watching by him suddenly shuddered.

Joke.

He only took Liaodong from Gongsun Gong last year, and the king of Liaodong's ass has not yet been hot, and he has not enjoyed the pleasure brought to him by power, and he is about to surrender in the blink of an eye?

You must know that the conditions given to him by the court of the Han Dynasty were to let him take the whole family to Luoyang, saying that he was going to enjoy happiness, but everyone knew that it was house arrest.

Compared with being a soil emperor in Liaodong, Gongsun Yuan didn't want his family to be sent to Luoyang to be fish and meat on someone's desk.

"Ming Gong."

Another general, Lun, saw Gongsun Yuan's appearance and knew that this guy was planning to resist stubbornly.

He didn't want to die with Gongsun Yuan, but now if he didn't stabilize the other party, he would die, so he hurriedly said: "Surrender naturally can't surrender, but how to treat the court still has to be considered in the long run." ”

"Oh?"

Gongsun Yuan asked, "What do you have in mind?" ”

Lunzhi said: "If you kill the other party's envoy, it will anger the imperial court, now Cao Wei has been eliminated, the Han Dynasty is in full swing, and the Hu people in the frontier have returned to obedience, and they dare not make a mistake. Therefore, they can only outwit and not be able to defeat the enemy. ”

"Well, how do you think you can outwit it?"

Gongsun Yuan nodded calmly this time, he just didn't want to surrender when he killed Jia Fan, but it didn't mean that he was stupid enough to really think that he could rely on this one-third of an acre of land in Liaodong to compete with the entire Han Dynasty.

So Lunzhi's words can still penetrate his ears.

Seeing that he agreed with his words, Lunzhi immediately perked up and said: "We should treat the envoy well, and for the matter of surrender, first be vague, pretend to agree, and delay it for three or five months, and wait for the envoy to wait impatiently and want to go back to restore his life, and then send him away." ”

"What if he departs and brings his troops?"

Gongsun Yuan asked.

Lun Zhi said: "One thing Jia Fan said is right, Liaodong is remote, and the imperial court may not want to make a big move. After all, when attacking Liaodong, the baggage supply was extremely long, and the army came to attack, and the gains outweighed the losses. Therefore, it is very likely that the imperial court is still mainly to appease Ming Gong, as long as Ming Gong is not sure that he wants to resist, probably the other party will still send someone to persuade him. At that time, Ming Gong only needed to show that he wanted to surrender, but because he was not satisfied with the reward of the imperial court, he hesitated for a while, talked with the envoy more, and delayed for another three or five months, and the envoy estimated that there was nothing he could do. ”

"Yes, Ming Gong."

Another general, Yang Zuo, also said: "If you delay like this, a few years will pass quickly, and even if you finally negotiate at that time, Ming Gong can find other reasons to continue to stay in Liaodong." For example, if you are sick and can't go back, you miss your homeland, etc., and ask the court to make Ming Gong the Taishou of Liaodong, can't you stay in Liaodong forever? ”

"Hmm"

Gongsun Yuan pondered for a moment, feeling that what the two said was very reasonable.

In history, he was very ambitious, not only to divide Liaodong, but also to call himself the king of Yan, wanting to dominate the northeast and establish another country outside the Three Kingdoms.

But in history, Cao Wei fought on two fronts, and had to fight with Eastern Wu and Shu Han, so he didn't take care of him until later, when Sima Yi freed his hand and ran thousands of miles to kill him in seconds.

And now the situation is stronger than people, the Han has unified the whole country, and you can deal with him by sending a Youzhou army at will, not to mention that the main force of the Han is extremely strong.

If he really has a hard time with the big man, I'm afraid it won't be long before his head has to move, so Lunzhi's trick is the only way to think of it.

"Well, my straightforward words are very much in line with my heart."

Gongsun Yuan nodded: "In this case, Lunzhi, you will be a lobbyist, go to the messenger, take the envoy to visit Liaodong every day, and delay his time to go back." ”

"Yui."

Lunzhi was overjoyed in his heart, and immediately obeyed the order to leave.

Gongsun Yuan had an idea, but he didn't care about it at the moment, but continued to claim the title of king and hegemon, and be his king of Liaodong.

In fact, he was not worried that the Han army would suddenly attack him.

Because Liaodong is too far away.

Now it is the end of winter and the beginning of spring, the northeast is extremely cold, and it is snowing in Liaodong, such weather, even if the Han Dynasty sends troops, it will take at least March and May to come.

At that time, Gongsun Yuan can deal with it calmly, whether it is the imperial court sending troops or the envoys negotiating back and forth, he will have enough time.

It's just that what Gongsun Yuan didn't know was that Lun Zhi and Jia Fan had a good relationship in history, and when Jia Fan persuaded Gongsun Yuan, Lun Zhi also helped, and the two were killed by Gongsun Yuan together.

This time, before Lun Zhi could speak, Gongsun Yuan killed Jia Fan first, which made Lun Zhi tremble and had other countermeasures.

After receiving the order of the envoy accompanying him, he quickly found the Han envoy sent by Zhuge Liang and told him that Gongsun Yuan refused to surrender and intended to continue to resist to the end in Liaodong.

After the envoy learned of this, he pretended to accompany Lunzhi to play a play for Gongsun Yuan, but in fact, he secretly sent someone back to Youzhou to report the matter to Ma Chao and Zhao Yunyu immediately.

Soon, at the end of December, before the New Year arrived, Ma Chao and Zhao Yun knew about it.

Linyu County, Liaoxi County, Youzhou, the place where Ma Chao and Zhao Yun are stationed is actually different, Ma Chao is in charge of Yuyang County and the north of Shanggu County, where there are many Hu people, and the suppression here is for the peace of the frontier.

And Zhao Yun was responsible for the area from Beiping to Liaoxi County, which was originally occupied by Wuhuan, and later Cao Cao attacked White Wolf Mountain, and after Zhang Liao beheaded it, it was collected by Cao Wei.

To the east of Liaoxi is the subject state of Liaodong, which was changed to Changli County in the first five years of Cao Wei's reign, and now belongs to the buffer zone between the Han Dynasty and Gongsun Yuan.

Zhao Yun was stationed in Liaoxi County, naturally to deal with Gongsun Yuan. did not continue to march into Liaodong, but to give Gongsun Yuan time.

If the coercion is too urgent, I am afraid that Gongsun Yuan will jump off the wall in a hurry, after all, as Jia Fan said, for Zhuge Liang, if it can be resolved peacefully, it will be resolved peacefully, and he really does not want to use a knife and a gun to go on an expedition to Liaodong.

It's just that I didn't expect this guy to still don't know the number of days.

Linyu County is the Shanhaiguan in the future, and Ma Chao just came to send grain and grass to Zhao Yun these days.

It stands to reason that he doesn't need to move on this matter, but he is quite bored in Yuyang, originally Youzhou Wuhuan Xianbei was beaten by Cao Cao to obey, and now he is even more ruthless, and the border Hu people are more honest than rabbits.

There is no war to fight, there is nothing to do every day, Ma Chao has always felt that Liaodong may fight, so he looked for an opportunity to jump this way, anyway, it is not far away, it is in the next county.

There happened to be a batch of grain and grass to be sent, and if you wanted to send it to Liaoxi, you had to pass through Yuyang, and Ma Chao followed.

In the county government mansion of Linyu County, Zhao Yun and Ma Chao sat opposite each other, and at the end of last year, Zhao Yun was promoted to the general of the town because of his military merits.

At present, the imperial court only retains the three most senior generals, the general of the hussars, and the general of the chariot cavalry, and cancels the military post of General Wei.

Ma Chao was changed to a mighty general, and the rest of Gan Ning, Pang De, Wei Yan and others were also promoted to generals.

Under the three generals in this way, it is the rank of general.

According to the restructuring proposed by Shen Chen, military ranks will be implemented in the future, except for the honorary title of generalissimo, which is the post of supreme marshal, the three major generals will be generals, and the front and rear will be generals.

Si'an, four towns, four expeditions, and four pings are lieutenant generals.

The miscellaneous general is a major general.

These things were not his first creation, they existed during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

The military generals are in this sequence, and the civil officials are divided into Shangqing, Zhongqing, and Shaoqing.

In the history of Shu Han, it was also divided into Shangqing, Shangqing, and Shangqing.

Therefore, at present, Zhao Yun and Ma Chao have equal military ranks, and Zhao Yun is slightly higher than Ma Chao in other grades, loose officials, honors, and knighthoods.

After all, his qualifications are deeper than Ma Chao, and his military exploits are also stronger than Ma Chao, Ma Chao can always be in a high position, or Liu Bei needs him to help seize Liangzhou in the early years, otherwise he will not have such a high political status.

At this moment, the two of them gathered, and the two soldiers below reported to them.

Of course, the envoy of the Han Dynasty did not go alone, but brought dozens of guards, and after Lunzhi informed the envoy of the situation, the envoy sent a few members of the guard to come back secretly.

Knowing that Gongsun Yuan was stubbornly resisting, Ma Chao suddenly said: "Zilong, let me come to this battle, I have been on the frontier for a long time, and I am familiar with the war." ”

Zhao Yun smiled, he was already in his sixties, and Ma Chao was ten years younger than him, so he didn't need to compete with young people, so he said, "Meng Qi can go if he wants." ”

Ma Chao said happily: "Okay, just now the newly allocated grain and grass has arrived, and the army will set off immediately." ”

"No hurry!"

Zhao Yun waved his hand and said: "Before the prime minister and the hussar general went back, they gave me two tips, and they all said that if Gongsun Yuan is opposed, then open it and take a look, now is the right time." ”

Saying that, he groped in his arms for a while, and took out two bags, Ma Chao was puzzled, so he came over and looked at it with Zhao Yun.

The first tip is Shen Chen's, the content on it is relatively simple, there is only one sentence: "If Gongsun Yuan is opposed, then ride 10,000 people, bring 20 days of dry food, gallop day and night, and go straight to Xiangping!" ”

"Hussar general, this is for us to raid Liaodong?"

Ma Chao scratched his head.

They don't know anything about the situation on the other side, is it really appropriate to be so reckless?

"Look at the Prime Minister's tips."

Zhao Yun took out the letter in the second bag.

I saw that the content of Zhuge Liang's letter was much richer, and there were more than 100 words in it.

"Gongsun Yuan just seized the throne of Liaodong from his uncle Gongsun Gong at the beginning of the year, and the foundation is not stable, and the people's hearts and the army's hearts are not attached."

"And they think that they are far away in Liaodong, the sky is high and the earth is far away, and it is not easy for our army to travel long distances to attack, so they must be lazy in their hearts and not very vigilant."

"If Gongsun Yuan wants to rebel, he can ride tens of thousands, just bring dry food and raid Liaodong, and wherever he passes, the enemy will look forward to the wind and surrender."

The content of this Zhuge Liang pointed out two points.

First, Gongsun Yuan only grabbed the position from Gongsun Gong at the beginning of this year, and his prestige, military morale, and popular support were too low, and the people and soldiers did not necessarily support him.

The second is that he feels that Gongsun Yuan thinks that he is far away from the emperor of Tiangao in Liaodong, and it is a cold winter and a moon, and the Han army will definitely not come, even if he wants to come and attack him, it will take a long time to prepare, enough for him to respond, so the surprise attack will definitely win.

"I see, the prime minister and the hussar general are really clever."

Ma Chao was overjoyed and said: "In this case, I will immediately order all the troops and horses, and the cavalry will raid Liaodong and kill under the city of Xiangping!" ”

"Well, then leave this matter to Meng Qi."

Zhao Yun said: "I will lead the army to the subject country of Liaodong and meet Meng Qi in the rear." ”

"Okay."

Ma Chao immediately got up and left.

Soon, a few days later, more than 10,000 Han cavalry took their weapons and equipment and headed for Liaodong in the face of the wind and snow.

A friend said that it was this kind of situation that ended immediately after unification.,I didn't do it in the last book.,Wrote a lot of things after reunification.,As a result, I was scolded for the number of words.。 In fact, it should almost end after reunification, and it is best to leave less infamy. As for the period after reunification, it is completely possible to arrange extras, explain things almost the same, and then write an epilogue, and write about the evaluation of the protagonist group by later generations and what happened in the subsequent dynasties, it is enough, there is no need to drag it on for so long, isn't it?