Chapter 59: The Battle of the White Emperor

Since ancient times, there has been no family affection, but Xiao Liu Xuan's innocent words touched my liver and intestines. In an instant, the figures of my father, Sun Shangxiang, Wu Shi, Liu Ming, Kou Feng, Liu Yong, and Liu Li kept turning in front of my eyes. For the sake of power, husband and wife do not become husband and wife, father and son are not like father and son, and brothers are difficult to be brothers, is there less such things? Why is the sentence "born from the same root, why is it too anxious to fry each other" of a generation of talents? It's not because Cao Pi killed his brother and killed his brother, which is unreasonable.

However, as a father, how heartache will he feel when he sees this situation? At this time, I couldn't help but feel guilty about Liu Ming in my heart. Speaking of which, I hurt him, if it weren't for Zhuge Qiao's plan, I'm afraid that this throne would be his.

But can I make it?

I couldn't say a word, I just hugged Liu Xuan tightly. I hope that he will always be as innocent and pure as he is now, and that he will not be lost because of power.

In October, Huang Quan was ordered to return to Chang'an and take up the post of Shangshuling. And Fei Yi was transferred to Liangzhou Assassin Shi and was in charge of Liangzhou's military administration.

Huang Quan is a talented person who is both civil and military, and more importantly, he has a very big sense of the overall situation. My father took Yizhou, and the most gratifying thing was that he got three people, Fa Zheng, Liu Ba and Huang Quan. He can be regarded as the general that his father relied on the most after Guan Zhang, and he is more favored than Ma Chao. Before I went to Hanzhong, my father didn't pay much attention to Hanzhong, and he was more attentive to winning the hearts of the people. At that time, Huang Quan keenly discovered the importance of Hanzhong, and thought that getting Hanzhong would be of great benefit to the realization of his father's great cause, so he prepared in advance. This is also one of the reasons why after Zhang Lu got me, my father was able to quickly send the fourth uncle to Hanzhong to help Zhang Lu resist Cao Cao's land. And I have always believed that complete peace will be obtained in Hanzhong, especially by the hundreds of thousands of people in Hanzhong. Rather than losing land and people as in history, it played a very important role in Ji Han's strength.

And Huang Quan also did an excellent job in pacifying and governing Liangzhou, even better than Ma Liang, who has always had the name of a sage. The Xiliang ethnic group is complex, with the Xiqiang State in the south, the Western Regions in the west, and the Xianbei Hu in the north, and they have always been poor. It has always been a place of war and chaos, but Huang Quan ruled Liangzhou for nine years, and Liangzhou did not ask the Central Plains for a penny, but handed over a large number of horses every year. The local heroes and powers in Liangzhou have been hit, the lives of the poor people have been improved, the relations between various ethnic groups have been alleviated, and the spirit of the Jincheng Alliance, which I personally presided over back then, has been intact and has not been bothered by me.

It makes sense for Liu Ba to elect Huang Quan as Shang Shuling before his death. I have always thought that it is normal for Huang Quan's talents to enter the center, but Liangzhou has always been inseparable from him. However, I always have a suspicion in private, is it because Liu Ba pushed Huang Quan up because Huang Quan's personality is exactly the same as his? Huang Quan is usually so serious, and his face is as stiff as water all day long. There was never an expression.

The father is a person who is not happy and angry, and Huang Quan is simply not happy, angry, or sad. He was in Liangzhou, and he didn't get along very well with the unruly You Chu, and these two people admired each other's skills. But they are not used to the other party's way of doing things. You Chu likes to cry when he should cry, laugh when he should laugh, and if he agrees with him, he can get drunk with the person who asks for food on the street, and if he doesn't agree with him, even if Shangguan is in front of him, he will leave as soon as he flicks his sleeves. For Huang Quan, who has no joy or anger, he always wants to see what he looks like after his gaffe. Once. You Chu sent someone to secretly pull out the pins on the wheels of Huang Quandi, and secretly hid them on the road to watch the fun. Sure enough, Huang Quan's car suddenly dispersed with a bang halfway through, and Huang Quan fell off the car and fell off the big horse. But Huang Quan still didn't have any expression at all, stood up and dusted off, and left as if nothing happened. You Chu couldn't help but admire.

When Huang Quan arrived in Chang'an, his first sentence was to persuade me to send yesterday's cadres to the Qingni Pass to resist the enemy's Sima Yi or Lu Xun's men and horses who might advance north from Wuguan.

I shook my head and said: "If they really come to Guanzhong, wouldn't it be looking for death, my Chang'an City is strong, the white-eared elite soldiers are brave and good at fighting, and I am not Cao Rui's incompetent lord who immediately escapes when he sees danger, and when the army is combined, even if they have 100,000 elite soldiers, I am afraid that they will be completely wiped out here." ”

Huang Quan said: "Guanzhong is the place where my Han Longxing is prosperous, at present, whether it is agriculture or business, it is all based on Guanzhong, even if the enemy cannot enter, if the enemy destroys, it will make our army very troubled." If Your Majesty can be trusted, he is willing to personally lead the army to stop the enemy. ”

I shook my head and refused to send him, but I was also moved by him, strengthened the guard force of Qingni obstruction, and led the northern army with Wang Ping and Liao Li.

The Yangtze River is rolling, and the Three Gorges section is the most precipitous. Swimming upstream from the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, even for the Jiangnan people who get boats all day long, it is also difficult. Because Ji Han moved all the local boatmen in advance, Zhuge Jin tried his best to find a guide to lead the way. Zhuge Jin originally wanted to use this method to delay time, after all, for Zhuge Jin, attacking the kingdom of his younger brother and son was not what he hoped for. But Zhuge Ke is different, his idea is to make meritorious contributions, not to stick to the rules of the formation, for this attack on Sichuan, Zhuge Ke is determined. He personally went out to explore the road in the Three Gorges, and finally crossed the dangerous pass and approached the Han army at the mouth of the river.

In this battle, the Han army won because of the geographical advantage, while the Wu army won because of the large number of people. Some loyal Chen Zhi did not give the enemy a lethal attack when the enemy was exploring the way, and he felt that the alliance between the two countries had not been torn apart before the enemy attacked his own fortress, and he had to stand on reason. This idea itself was not wrong, but it made the Han army passively attacked by Eastern Wu.

Baidi Mountain, where the White Emperor City is located, is a huge lock on the passage connecting the Jianghan Plain and the Sichuan Basin, and it is also the first open land at the mouth of the dangerous Qutang Gorge, which is the real division between Ji Han and Eastern Wu, the place where I signed an alliance with Sun Deng, and is also an important military fortress. In order to ensure the strength of the city, the core of the city wall is made of black earth and stones, and there is a thick layer of loess on the outside, and finally, the builders put huge stones on the outside and smeared white lime, in order to strengthen the defense of the corners of the wall, the workers built it into a huge arc, this arc-shaped wall is called a horse face, it can also provide more shooting points for the soldiers to defend.

Seeing the huge warship of Eastern Wu coming through the fog, Chen Zhi was neatly clothed, led the army to stand under the head of the city, and shouted: "Listen to the Wu army in front, Ji Han and Eastern Wu, originally an ally, what do you want to break the alliance today?" ”

Zhuge Jin came back from the alliance, he was a little ashamed, but naturally he would not answer at this time, and with a wave of his hand, the giant ship of Eastern Wu attacked the White Emperor City. For a time, the two sides exchanged arrows and thunder. The White Emperor City was very strong, but the Wu army did not storm it, they used dozens of huge ships to protect the channel and compete with the Han army, and the rest went west, straight to Kuimen. Kuimen is the gateway to Yizhou, its importance is still above the White Emperor City, Chen to divide the troops to defend, how to know that at this time Zhuge Ke led 10,000 mountain Yue elite soldiers from the heavy mountains between the obstacles, actually found a small road, from the back road rushed to the White Emperor City, a big battle, with more strikes and less, the White Emperor City changed hands after three days of hard work. The Han army lost the first battle, and the whole army retreated to Kuimen.

After the Wu army replenished in the White Emperor City, it continued to go up the river. This time, Chen Zhi added twelve points of caution to Wu Jun, and also knew that the opponent was not Zhuge Jin, who was as loyal as himself, but Zhuge Ke, who had the cunning of a fox, the perseverance of a wolf, and the strong desire to fight like a tiger.

The two sides fought again, Chen Zhi did not retreat, and Zhuge Ke even used clever tricks, but Chen Zhi saw through them and never succeeded. Zhuge Ke was anxious, although the Wu army's navy was larger than Ji Hanke's as a whole, some of the exquisite offensive and defensive equipment on Ji Han's warships were not available to the Wu army. Although the Wu army was strong and fought in every battle, the Han army, under the command of Captain Zhang Nan, swept through the water like a dexterous swallow, and always found an opportunity to escape from the battlefield and reduce casualties. In this way, Zhuge Ke quickly defeated Ji Han, and the strategic goal of attacking Yizhou was difficult to achieve. Such a result is unacceptable to Zhuge Ke no matter what.

He thought about it for a long time and decided to use the trick of deception.

At present, the Han army has been defeated in a row, and everyone in the army is looking forward to a victory, so they are lying in front of them, just waiting for their food to run out and retreat. Then, as long as he pretends to run out of food and retreats, the Han army will definitely not be able to hold back the psychology of revenge, and will pursue from behind, inflicting the greatest damage on himself. And at that time, he could easily make a sleeve and put the Han army into it. Only after eliminating the main force of the Han army, it was effortless to capture Liangchuan.

In the Three Kingdoms era, almost no one in the Zhuge family was not a master, and Zhuge Ke, an outstanding talent who once served as a general of Eastern Wu and was in charge of the government, had a reputation as a prodigy since he was young. And Chen Zhi and Zhang Nan seem to be even farther apart.

Ji Han's defeat is inevitable.