Chapter 4 Wancheng Storm

"There is no trivial matter in the frontline, if there is a slight mistake, it will become a big disaster, don't think that if Master Li Yan Li is not in Chang'an City, there will be no one to treat you, if something goes wrong, I will still pick your black yarn and take your braincase." Using Li Sheng's token, I walked into Shangshu Mansion in civilian clothes. When I entered the door, I heard Liu Ba shouting loudly. At present, in Chang'an City, several major people are not there, and he is in charge. Of course, the battle of Luoyang is the most important at the moment, and he is in charge of logistics, which must be very hard. I understand this very well, fighting a war is a comprehensive, all-round struggle, the front line fights for wisdom, fights for strength, and the rear fights for production capacity, organizational ability, and transportation strength. Liu Ba is a genius in internal affairs, and his role is no less than that of Xiao He of Gaozu, although his personality is stronger, he likes to be more serious, and he is not liked, but I still rely on him very much and respect him.

"Lord Fei Yifei, your subordinates reported yesterday that the trebuchets transported to the front line were seriously consumed, but it was useless to say this to me, I know that you are busy during this time, but no matter how busy you are, you must also ensure siege materials, no matter what method you use, I only look at your effect. You blame He Jiuqu for being accidentally ambushed during transportation, his account, I will naturally write it down, but why didn't your ordnance workshop move forward for a while, I know the importance of the ordnance workshop and those technicians, but they are soldiers, not girls! Our army has already controlled Hongnong City, you look for Lord Zhao, you help them attack the city, I don't believe they can't guarantee the safety of your people, even if they advance a hundred miles, the consumption during this period is much worse. And Lord Cheng Jicheng, what's going on with the transportation of grain and grass, I know that you care about the front line, but the logistics soldiers are also people, and they will also be tired, because they are tired when they pass through the Chinese vagina overnight. There are 20 grain and grass trucks rolling down the cliff at the bend with people and carts, who can explain this? Grain and grass do not fall from the sky, and the lives of soldiers are not blown by the wind, but if you plan carefully, how can such a thing happen? ”

Fei Yan and Cheng Ji are also first-class ministers of Ji Han, and they couldn't hold their heads up by Liu Badun at this time, but they just admitted their mistakes. Actually, this kind of thing is not too difficult to accept. The attrition in wartime must be staggering, this kind of attrition is on the front line and in the rear, and no one can avoid it, it can only be reduced and reduced. However, I didn't want to disturb them, so I went to the small flower hall next door. Let someone pour a cup of tea and sit down to rest. I left the camp and quickly returned to Beijing in civilian clothes, but I was still worried about the situation at the front and that something would go wrong. I didn't even go back to the palace. I came directly to see Liu Ba. However, when I saw Liu Ba, I was relieved and felt that my worries were unnecessary, and his ability was obvious. This one sits down. I felt that my legs were sore and swollen, and the inside of my legs was about to be worn out by the horse's back.

After a while, Liu Ba walked over, and heard his voice through the door: "I don't know which adult is coming, is Your Majesty on the way?" ”

I was in a good mood at this time, and I didn't get up when I sat on the chair, pushed the teacup, and joked: "The lower officials see the adults." His Majesty entrusts the Lord to wish him good health and peace of mind. ”

Liu Ba was startled, only then did he recognize that it was me, and hurriedly saluted: "See Your Majesty, Your Majesty, why did you come back suddenly, I read the biography, saying that Your Majesty had just crossed the West River." ”

I smiled and said, "I heard that the chrysanthemums in Lord Liu's house are blooming, so I'm in a hurry to see them." And the horse galloped back. The affairs of the DPRK and China. Is it still going well? ”

Liu Ba said: "At the moment, it is still easy, and the prime minister is on the front line." On the offensive. However, the guest army fought and consumed too much, and in order to win the hearts and minds of the people, they did not take the strategy of eating the enemy, so the rear should be more nervous. However, the four generals recently captured the Cao Wei granary in the Lu family, which can relieve a large part of the pressure. ”

"Oh, has the fourth uncle captured the Lu clan, so Hongnong County is already in my hands."

"Not bad."

"Who should be in charge of Hongnong County? Can Lord Liu be successful? ”

Liu Ba said: "Wang Fu, the secretary of the ministry, has discussed this matter with his ministers, but this matter is still under the personal control of His Majesty and the Prime Minister, but he has put forward several candidates, among them, Ji County is the most law-abiding. ”

"Well, after Fa Xiaozhi is straight, use him."

What worries me the most is Jingzhou and Nanyang. The battle of Wancheng was still ongoing, Zhuge Qiao's troops were insufficient, although he recruited some new soldiers, but only played a leading role, and behind him was the battlefield of Eastern Wu and Cao Wei. Although it is said that the two generals of Eastern Wu, one is his biological father (Zhuge Jin) and the other is his future father-in-law (Lu Xun), there is nothing to say in terms of personal relationship, but after all, they belong to two countries, each is its master, if they really turn against each other, they will wave their troops against each other without scruples. The battle in the north made me understand a truth, that is, the most unreliable person in the world is an ally, because you have a relationship of interest with him. Once this balance of interests is upset, allies can become enemies at any time.

At the moment, Cao Wei is obviously teasing our feud with Eastern Wu, and from the information I have, Eastern Wu is not bad, there is no sign of betraying the alliance, but their offensive has eased, and I want to save our strength in order to reap the benefits.

Although I am not afraid of a small loss, but the entire Jingzhou is given to Dongwu, I still don't have the courage, my goal is to at least catch Nanyang County. I have sent Deng Zhi to negotiate, if Cao Weiken really gives in and concedes Jingzhou, they must continue to follow up the attack, and they cannot let them slow down to attack Zhuge Qiao in the north, and when the time comes, Xiangyang and Fancheng and other places, Ji Han will not touch his hands.

I asked Liu Ba to report the news about Jingzhou to me, and analyzed it for a while, and then I put my mind at ease and returned to the palace.

As soon as I entered the harem courtyard, I saw Xingcai standing in front of the palace gate.

"Your Majesty." There were tears in her eyes. I haven't seen Xingcai for half a year, although I am not a newlywed, but I miss it tightly. I have a deep love for her and respect each other, and her place in my heart is irreplaceable by other women in the palace.

I laughed, ran forward, hugged up, like running in the palace, but ran a few steps, or put down, she practiced martial arts all year round, strong and well-proportioned, although my body has grown a little in the past two years, but holding her, it is still laborious.

Xingcai was made red by my hug, and looked at the palace people on the left and right. I knew that she had always been steady in front of people, so I smiled at the moment: "Okay, good, give you face." I haven't been back for half a year. I got carried away for a while. And he said, "Go down, all of you." Xingcai, greet the two queen mothers with me, and then tell me what you have been doing these days, do you want to think about me? ”

asked Hou Wu and Sun at the moment, and took his son in his arms and kissed him again and again. It's a pity that my son didn't recognize me, and he actually cried, which made me so embarrassed.

In the harem. There are stars here, naturally everything is safe, it turned out that I was worried that the Wu clan would not take advantage of me not to use some means to support his own son, but it did not happen. Wu family, how to say it, has some selfishness, but ability. But it's far from it. And without wings, even her brother won't help her, what else can she do?

Back in Chang'an, everything went smoothly. It's just a front-line thing, and it's always worrying. Actually, in the rear. Sometimes I am more tired than in front, and I often feel like I can't use my strength to fight cattle across the mountains. However, the gentleman is on the front line. I was in the rear, I was on the front, and my husband was in the rear, and this was a habit that had been formed over the years.

I came back from Northern Xinjiang and brought back some ministers to help Liu Ba relieve himself a little, but he was still in charge of the details. I'm just looking at the big picture, not the rest. At the same time, I stepped up the persuasion of Cao Wei's prisoners of war to surrender, and after such a long time, Tian Yu and others have agreed to surrender, and Deng Ai is also tempted. Xiahou Ba refused to surrender, after all, his father died in the hands of Huang Zhong, although Huang Zhong died. The feud is not yet resolved. At the moment, it is not that Cao Wei is embarrassed in history. When Sima seized power, he had nowhere to go. Naturally, he didn't know that in another time and space, he was named the general of Ji Han's chariot cavalry.

However, to my surprise, Sima Zhao agreed to surrender. That's a good thing, but I don't believe him. However, it would be a pity not to use him, so--

"Mr. Sima," said Huang Hao's sincere and attentive voice, "Your Majesty said that Sir is a great talent, but he has doubts about Sir sincerity. At present, there is a small matter for Mr. to do, and I hope that Mr. can do it to reassure His Majesty. ”

"This little father-in-law, Sima Zhao's heart is to Ji Han, he is sincere, every day can be expressed, His Majesty rules the world with benevolence, even Ji Han's mortal enemies such as Yu Ban can be spared, let alone such a small scholar. Your Majesty has an order, and Sima Zhao has nothing to do. ”

"Well, here's a map of northern Xinjiang and the current population. Shang Ying once said that those who use troops to fight wars do not pay attention to the estimation of troops, and those who govern the country do not pay attention to measuring land. Some countries have narrow land and large populations, and the population is better than the land per capita; Landed countries, on the other hand, have vast land and sparse populations, and their per capita land is more than their population. If the population is greater than the per capita land occupation, the economic income of the country will not be much, because the population is too large to cause a shortage of food, but the army is insufficient, and it should be committed to expanding the territory; The per capita land area is greater than the population, and even if it has vast land resources, it cannot be used well, and the national strength is also very weak, so efforts should be made to seize the population. Therefore, land, population, and food, these three must be commensurate with each other in order to exert the maximum strength, sir, how many troops do you think will be needed for the development of northern Xinjiang at present, if it is to maintain stability? How much do I need to invest to immigrate? If you want to develop, farm and breed, what is the income of each? ”

Sima Zhao's eyes straightened, this matter is difficult to say, it is not too difficult, with his family's statecraft, it is not sure that it will not work, it is easy to say, but it is difficult to be caught off guard. The statistical books that were given to him alone filled half the room, and it would be a big project to calculate. In the following month, Sima Zhao went through the materials sent by various parties in his study alone, and finally put a report on my desk with a blue face and blood-red eyes. I smiled and asked Huang Hao, "What, did he say he was embarrassed?" Huang Hao replied: "No, although he worked hard, he gritted his teeth and persevered." An amazing character indeed. "Very good, in the current map, there are still vacancies in the number of people and money and grain development places in Yangzhou, go, let him calculate the approximate number of soldiers, horses, grain and grass in Yangzhou Sun Quan, if Sun Quan can hold out for a year, then how much fertile land there is in Dongwu, how much is produced, and how many farmers are there." Huang Hao blinked a pair of shrewd eyes: "Yes, Your Majesty, the minister will go, if you don't believe that you are tired, you won't kill him." "No, what is he doing when he is exhausted? All the things I asked him to count are useful, take your time, the good things are still to come. ”

A year later, Sima Zhao, whose eyes were blood-red, had filled the entire courtyard with his calculations. Suddenly, a gust of wind blew, the calculations rolled, and everything was nullified, Sima Zhao looked up to the sky and shouted: "God, do you want to exhaust me to death?!" ”

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In mid-September, the Wancheng front.

Zhuge Qiao has been attacking Wancheng for more than a month. Nanyang, since it is the richest county in Jingzhou, the high mountains and mountains of Funiu Mountain in the north resist the raging cold wind for Nanyang, making it fertile and rich in products, and it has always been the granary of the capital Luoyang; Nanyang County was once the iron smelting center of the Han Dynasty, and the smelting of refined iron accounted for more than one-third of the total amount of the Han Dynasty, known as the "Southern Capital of the Imperial Township", with 500,000 households in its heyday, and it was extremely rich. Zhuge Qiao took Zhuge Liang to attack Luoyang, Zhuge Jin and Lu Xun attacked Jingzhou, Wancheng was empty, and suddenly sent troops, caught Cao Wei off guard, and almost took Wancheng in one fell swoop. But after all, Wancheng has been operated by Cao Wei for many years, the city is high and deep, not generally comparable, Xiahou Wei will be the tiger of the gate, the champion of the three armies, and it is also a rare general. Zhuge Qiao saw that the strong attack could not be attacked, immediately changed the measures, he boldly pretended to be a suspicious soldier to besiege Wancheng, but personally led the army to attack everywhere, seize grain and grass, recruit soldiers, in two months, his men and horses have risen from more than 10,000 to 50,000, although these 40,000 recruits are far from being soldiers, but the ants bite the elephant to death, his strength has been greatly enhanced.

At this time, Zhuge Qiao was ordering: "Ehuan, Fan Jiang, you two lead 20,000 horses and horses to the south to capture the four counties of Jianyang, Yuyang, Xinye, and Chaoyang, there must be no mistake!" ”

E Huan was originally a subordinate general of Gao Ding. Nine feet long, hideous face, make a square heaven halberd, brave and unstoppable. He had a lot of merit in pacifying Nanzhong, and was transferred by me to Shangyong to help Zhuge Qiao.

And Fan Jiang turned out to be the third uncle's general, in history, because he was whipped by the third uncle and threatened to behead the prime minister, he fought back, and took the third uncle's head and went to Soochow. To be honest, because I knew about the things of another time and space, I hated these two names to the core, and I wanted their fortunes several times, and even put them on the front line as cannon fodder. But this Fan Jiang is worthy of being a general under the third uncle, and he has made several military exploits, when Cao Wei attacked the battle of Shangyong, Zhang Da died in battle, this Fan Jiang lone army compared with Xu Huang for seven or eight days, and he retreated in a daze, which is also his ability. Because of this, I let him go, I think, even Huang Hao can change, let alone such an ordinary general, if I am obsessed with those things that do not exist in this time and space, how can I be a good king, so I laughed and put it away.

E Lang nodded, but Fan Jiang asked: "My lord, I, Ji Han, have a good relationship with Eastern Wu, and Your Majesty said to avoid disputes with Eastern Wu, will it cause misunderstanding if we suddenly send troops south?" ”

Zhuge Qiao sneered: "My 'father', I still don't know. He is very loyal to Sun Quan, if I don't start early, I'm afraid that he will reach out to Nanyang first, and then we won't get anything. ”