Chapter 39: Leading the Army

The fourth uncle is really a good person. He didn't have any dissatisfaction with my way of sweeping his face, but went to Fufeng in person, thanked Jiang Wan, and pleaded guilty to the family that was killed. In this way, the civilians of Guanzhong are all happy and convinced, and they are willing to take command.

They praised Jiang Wan for her strict law enforcement, praised Zhao Yun for her open-mindedness, and of course I was indispensable for all the praise. And the armies are even more frightened--General Huwei, who has twice saved the young master, has committed crimes, and what about others?

At this time, it was the middle of May, Wei Yan's troops were progressing smoothly, he led 6,000 troops, marched 3,000 miles in a month and a half, and even went down more than 20 cities. I asked Wei Yan to send three hundred refining treasure swords one after another as a reward.

However, in Qishan, the left general Ma Chao, who I had high hopes for, did not move much, this time, under my instruction, to win the hearts of the people, take Ji County lightly, and recover Tianshui County, but it was difficult to move under the Xiangwu City that he had stationed in the early years. But fortunately, his fame has not been eliminated in the same way, and the two counties of Nan'an and Guangwei have already raised troops to respond and obey the leadership of Ma Chao, but this is not the power of war.

At this point, most of Yongzhou has come into my hands.

Yongzhou includes nine counties, Jingzhao, Feng Yi, Fufeng (originally belonged to Sili Prefecture, which is often referred to as the Sanfu area), Xinping (Xingping was divided into Anding and Fufeng in December 194 for Xinping County), Guangwei, Anding, Tianshui, Nan'an, and Longxi. At present, only Anding and Longxi are left.

If you continue to fight, it is Liangzhou, which is close to Yongzhou, where there are seven counties, namely Jincheng, Wuwei, Zhangye, Jiuquan, Dunhuang, Xihai (Xihai County belongs to Zhangye, dedicated to Emperor Xingping in 195 years, Wuwei Taishou Zhang Ya please place), Xiping, the seat of governance is in Wuwei Guzang. At this time, Cao Pi saw that the affairs of Yongzhou were no longer possible, and wanted to consolidate Liangzhou, promote his cronies, and stabilize Zou Qi as the assassin of Liangzhou. After receiving this news, Xiping County Lu Yan first proposed that several counties rebel and resist Zou Qi: in Zhangye County, Zhang Jin arrested Taishou Du Tong; In Jiuquan County, Huang Hua refused to take office in the county because of Taishou Xinji, and they all claimed to be Taishou in response to the performance. In Wuwei County, although Yan Jun died, the Hu people of the three tribes also rebelled again.

This massive rebellion in history finally happened on time!

Originally, when I chose the Northern Expedition, I often considered that if this rebellion did not happen, I would be able to deal with it with the power of Yongliang and Liangzhou, and I could finally put my mind at ease at this time.

I said to Kong Ming, "Sir, I want to go to Liangzhou once. ”

Kong Ming said: "Liangzhou is changing, the situation is unclear, the young master has personally adventured, it seems inappropriate, the son of a daughter, can't sit down, let alone the young master's body of ten thousand gold?" ”

I said: "It is precisely because of the chaos in Liangzhou and the unclear situation that I have to go there in person, and the weight of others seems to be a little insufficient, and I dare not call the shots when I talk about the value with these rebellious heroes; And you, sir, are guarding Chang'an, practicing government affairs internally, and preparing for strong enemies externally, and the burden on your body is much heavier than that of Zen. ”

Kong Ming thought about it for a while, nodded and agreed, but asked me to bring Huang Zhong, Guan Ping, and Jiang Wei.

West out of Chang'an, through Xianyang, through Liquan, Qianxian, Yongshou, Bin County, into Xinping County, straight to the quail city. Passing all the way, I suddenly heard news from the front line, and Wei Yan, who had won all the way, was defeated.

I was taken aback, Wei Yan's attack was like a bamboo, which actually made me a little lax. What's more, with Wei Yanzhi's elite, even if he encounters Cao Wei's Chinese army, he also has the strength to fight, not to mention that this attack is only a foreign army without many famous generals, why is there such a defeat?

Hurriedly asked who the other party was and replied, "Jincheng is too guarded by Su Ze." ”

"What? How did Kaneshiro Taishou run to stability? "I'm surprised, Jincheng belongs to Liangzhou, and the Taishou who takes the people as the rule, why not only did he go out of the county, but also fought across the state?" How many casualties did our army have? Where is General Wei now? ”

"Our army attacked Anding, Anding was too guarded Cui Liang pretended to surrender, this way down a lot, General Wei didn't care, when he entered the city, he accidentally found that there was an ambush at the head of the city, and Cui Liang's eyes dodged, and his intentions were bad.

General Wei was alert, and unexpectedly cut off Cui Liang's head, and then when he urgently ordered the army to retreat, he was hit by two arrows in the chest, but fortunately the armor stopped him, and the injury was not deep. The enemy army is so big, our army does not dare to stay, so we have to retreat, now the Wei general is in Bingtun Jingchuan, has fallen into a heavy encirclement, less than 2,000 soldiers, many wounded, because they are all foot soldiers, do not dare to go out of the city, only wait for the young master to delay the army. ”

Unexpectedly, just one defeat, more than 2,000 people were lost, and this was all painstakingly trained by Mr. Although I read my grandson, there is a saying that "love is like a cunning child, respect is like a strict teacher, and use it like a mustard", but if I don't cherish these soldiers like a mustard, it is really not something I can do.

"Okay, you go down." After speaking, I called Huang Zhong and others to discuss the strategy of entering the army.

Huang Zhong was furious, and his snow-white beard was raised: "What is Su Ze, so arrogant, when the old man goes, he will behead him and hand it over to the young master." ”

For such an old general, who has enjoyed a reputation for decades, he has long been blind, and he is more inclined to swing a long knife to smash the obstacles in front of him than to use his brain. Perhaps this is the easiest and most trouble-free thing to do, but I don't want my generals to become butchers who only know how to kill people or wooden people who only listen to orders and can't think. Of course, the smartest person in our army is Kong Ming, who thinks the most thoughtfully, but if because of him, everyone will not think about things, then the result will be worse than without him. So I spoke: "The old general is very proud, but he killed a thousand enemies and lost eight hundred, and the enemy is cavalry, and our army is an infantry, and it is difficult to match the advance and retreat, and he is afraid that the direct attack will not achieve much effect." ”

Jiang Wei blinked and wanted to speak, but I motioned for him not to speak, and he closed his mouth.

After waiting for a while, Guan Ping said: "Since you don't attack quickly, then you can only use a strategy." Cao's army has more cavalry, moves quickly, and is familiar with the terrain, compared with our army, although the number is large, although the training is excellent, it is difficult to occupy an advantage on the battlefield, I think it is better to attack at night. ”

"Night raid? Big brother will be more detailed. "I looked at him with great interest as a sign of encouragement. Guan Pingjiu has been by the side of his second uncle Guan Yu for a long time, and his demeanor has a kind of atmosphere and calmness. He was entrusted by Guan Yu on his deathbed, and he was extremely loyal to me, no matter what I said, he would not hesitate to carry it out, which made me feel a little more gloomy in my feelings, Lu Meng was too powerful, I tried my best, but I couldn't save the second uncle's life.

"Once nightfall, it will be difficult for the enemy's cavalry advantage to be exerted, and our army can take advantage of bows and arrows to destroy the thieves in one fell swoop; In the dark night, the enemy is clear and I am dark, I don't know the details of our army, internal and external attacks, the enemy army will be chaotic, this is the second; It's a pity that in a hurry, it is not possible to dig a trench, and it is relatively easy to defeat the enemy army, but it is difficult to achieve greater results. ”

Jiang Wei sneered when he heard this: "It's difficult to say that the ditch is difficult, and it's not difficult to arrive, Sun Tzu said: Tribulus terrestris, so be a ditch." This time, I know that I want to come here, I have a lot of thistles, I will give them to you, and slowly stab the enemy's horse. ”

Tribulus terrestris is made by Mr. Kong Ming, also known as the stinging horse nail, thrown on the ground, there is always a tip upward, extremely sharp, secretly used, it is really terrible. Jiang Wei is a native of Liangzhou, and he knew that he was going to fight back to Liangzhou, so he naturally made preparations for a long time. But why does he have such a weird expression? I remember that Jiang Wei was not such a person. I ignored him for a moment, turned to Guan Ping and said, "However, we are foot soldiers, how can we easily appear on the enemy's side without being discovered by the enemy?" ”

"Young master, we can make it look like we dare not attack, and only travel fifty miles a day, and then set up camp, so that after a few days, the enemy will definitely miscalculate the time of our arrival, and we will march hastily overnight, break to the front of the formation, and launch an attack, and we will be victorious.

Listening to our analysis, the veteran Huang Zhong frowned: "No, no, how I listen to it, how wrong it is, I think it's better to fight directly!" ”

I smiled haughtily: "Old general, let's see how we win this account." ”

About Yongliang Erzhou: When the Zhou Dynasty became king, according to the ancient system of Dayu's water control, the world was divided into Kyushu, of which "Yongzhou is said to be in the west". When the Han Dynasty changed the Zhou Dynasty, Yongzhou became Liangzhou. During the Three Kingdoms, due to the continuous war in Liangzhou, the five counties of Hexi (referring to the five counties of Zhangye, Jiuquan, Dunhuang, Wuwei and Jincheng in the west of the Yellow River) were too far away, so they were separated from Liangzhou, and the remaining counties in Liangzhou were renamed Yongzhou, and later they were called Yongzhou together with the Guanyou region.

As early as the twenty-second year of Jian'an, Wuwei Yan Jun, Zhang Ye and Luan, Jiuquan Huanghua, and Xiping Luan rebelled, and they fought with each other, and even sent protons to Cao Cao to ask Cao Cao to help, making Cao Cao so angry that he couldn't cry or laugh, no matter how he said he was the prime minister of the country, how could he ask the prime minister to help if he wanted to rebel. But this time it was a big fuss, but unfortunately these people were all stupid people who didn't have a heart and loved to play with a strategy, so they easily let Su Ze settle it.