Since Zhuge Liang entered Yueyun County with the Yan Dao soldiers, Li Yan has almost become a problem baby.

The main thing is that the operation is a bit incomprehensible......

If you want to talk about Li Yan, he is really not a rookie, Dongzhou sent everyone from the law down, Wu Yi, who has a transcendent status and a layer of foreign relative status, will not talk about it for the time being, and the others are Li Yan's outstanding ability.

Even Gao Ding, the king of Yueyunyi, who rebelled and rebelled, was once a defeated general under Li Yan.

In the twenty-third year of Jian'an (218 AD), that is, the year before the Battle of Jingzhou, among the people who had meritorious service in suppressing bandits in this year, in addition to Liu Chan, there was also Li Yan, who was the Taishou of Qian.

And the movement is greater than Liu Chan.

At that time, a group of bandits raised troops in Yunxian County, recruited tens of thousands of homeless bandits, and arrived in Zizhong County.

Liu Beishang led a large army to fight in Hanzhong, and Li Yanqin led 5,000 soldiers from his county to crusade, broke the thief army, and killed the thief leader. The rest of the people fled for their lives and returned to their hometowns for the people.

Soon after, Gao Ding, the king of Yue Yiyi, thought that there was an opportunity, took advantage of the fire to rob, and led the army to besiege Xindao County, Li Yan went to relieve the siege, and Gao Ding's troops were defeated and fled.

After Lao Liu learned about it, he crowned Li Yan as the general of the auxiliary Han Dynasty, and still led Qianqian as the Taishou.

Of course, last time, Gao Ding just planned to take advantage of the chaos to loot, but he didn't expect to encounter Li Yan's hard bone, and it was not as powerful as this Nanzhong rebellion at that time.

Even so, Li Yan, who had broken several times his own enemies and repelled the king of Yueyunyi, was by no means a straw bag.

This time he sent troops to Yueyun County, facing his old opponent, Li Yan can be said to be determined to win.

In his mind, this time Chen soldiers were in the south in advance, as long as he launched an attack quickly, he would definitely be able to catch Gao Ding off guard.

If you want to quickly determine Yueyun County, you should attack quickly, go straight to the county to govern Qiongdu, take advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness, and take it with one blow!

As long as Gao Ding dies, he will definitely be able to deter the barbarians here, even if there are still a small group of rebels of the Yue Yunyi tribe who are stubbornly resisting, they will not be able to become a climate.

This is undoubtedly the fastest way to save grain and grass and quell chaos.

However, as soon as he told Zhuge Liang about this idea, the Zhuge military advisor just wore a calm smile that seemed very kind to everyone, and praised: "General Li's method should be able to win quickly, it is indeed rare, hehe." ”

Li Yan was very happy at first, but after Zhuge Liang led his troops into Yueyun, the speed of the march immediately slowed down.

Every day, he sat in a carriage, as if he was traveling in the mountains and rivers, and pulled Li Yan to talk about the customs of this place, Hanyi customs, and product style......

"I don't want the mountains and wilderness in the south, but there is also this suitable place for farming." Zhuge Liang pointed at the feather fan, talking and laughing freely, "General Li, look, this piece of terrain is flat, if it has to be cultivated, how many people can it support?" ”

"yes...... Hehe......" Li Yanpi, who was riding his horse slowly, smiled without a smile.

Are you here to investigate Nongsang?!

Aren't we coming to Pingnan Middle School?

Shouldn't Zhuge Junshi have been committed to the development of agriculture and mulberry in Bashu, and it has become natural for him to get used to it......

"Uh...... Zhuge Junshi, my army is moving so slowly, firstly, it consumes more grain and grass, and secondly, if it is discovered by Gaoding, I am afraid that I will lose the opportunity. Li Yan stretched for a long time, and finally couldn't hold it anymore.

Zhuge Liang did not change his relaxed attitude, and persuaded with a smile: "General Li, don't worry, this speed is not slow." Hey? The climate here is also suitable for planting mulberry, if it is not suitable for cultivation, you can also encourage the people to plant mulberry and raise silkworms, what does General Li think? ”

Li Yan: "......"

Isn't that slow?

Ma sells a lot of troops to march ten miles a day, this is to go out! Not slow?

Li Yan had already burst out of vulgar words in his heart, and at the same time, he couldn't help but secretly wonder in his heart, was it because he advocated a rapid march and quickly crossed Yunjun, so Zhuge Junshi deliberately did not adopt it, or even went against himself?

After all, he is a Dongzhou scholar, and Zhuge Junshi is a Jingzhou scholar.

Although he heard that he had a good personal relationship with Fa Shangshu, this kind of thing had always been done for others to see, and he didn't believe that the leaders of the two factions would really have any deep friendship.

The year before last, he was in the limelight, and this time the law book recommended himself to come to Pingnanzhong, obviously with high hopes.

As the representative of the Jingzhou faction, Zhuge Liang took this opportunity to suppress himself, a rising bird, and deliberately delayed, so that Ma Jian of the Jingzhou faction on the east road could show his strength, which is human nature.

After that, something more excessive happened, Zhuge Liang not only said that he would bypass those small counties and go straight to Qiongdu, but instead drove towards the first small mountain county with great fanfare.

Li Yan said worriedly: "Military Division, Anshang is not a strategic point, and this barren small county does not have much food and ordnance, so it is useless to take it." Now that our army is leaving with great fanfare, if its county magistrate escapes, Gao Ding will definitely know within a few days, wouldn't that be ......? ”

Zhuge Liang still looked calm: "It's okay, it's okay, the soldiers have been marching for many days, and it is also a good thing to take this small county as a place to rest." ”

Li Yan was angry and anxious, he only felt extremely aggrieved that he had delayed the fighter, and he was already thinking about what wording to use to make a small report to the Fa Shangshu afterwards, and this time he was going to say it to the king.

In such a major event as pacifying Nanzhong, you Zhuge Liang dared to abolish the public and deliberately delay the military plane for personal reasons, so I can't blame me.

The county magistrate of Anshang County fled with a small number of county soldiers, and did not dare to defend this small county at all.

The army did not release an arrow to take Anshang, but Li Yan was not happy.

According to the information of the prince, the main forces of Gaoding are scattered on the front line of Yangniu, Dingxiao, and Qiongdu, and have not yet been concentrated.

Now that they have received the exact news of their own army, they must have prepared and joined forces in advance.

The opportunity has been lost......

However, Li Yan also admires Zhuge Liang.

The march of the army is slow, but it is not that it walks slowly, but after marching ten miles every day, a simple camp will be set up, and Zhuge Liang will personally drill the military formation and train the soldiers.

From Qianwei's departure to today, in a short period of time, the army soldiers have not been reborn, and the changes are also very obvious. Zhuge Liang can always use the simplest method to teach these soldiers with ordinary qualifications very complex formations.

It can be called turning decay into magic.

In addition, Zhuge Liang's camp tent had to be lit up until night every night, and once he took an excuse to look at it and found that the other party was further studying and perfecting the methods of military array drills, changes, and joint attacks.

Sometimes, according to what you see on the road, you will plan whether each area can be developed in the future and what you will do with it. It is as if the pacification of Nanzhong is an established fact......

Li Yan admitted that Zhuge Liang was very diligent, but in his opinion, all this could not hide his selfish intention of deliberately delaying the military plane.

And what happened next made Li Yan completely explode.

After resting at Anshang, the army began to slowly advance to Beishui County in the southwest.

Passing through Beishui County, and then going southwest is the hinterland of Yuewang County, which governs the capital of Qiong.

If you start a rapid march at this time, you may be able to meet the enemy before Gao Ding is fully ready.

However, Zhuge Liang stopped...... He actually stopped?!

In Li Yan's stunned, Zhuge Liang began to attack Beishui.

Beishui, who had only eight or nine hundred defenders in the city, quickly surrendered under the bombardment of Lei Gong's artillery and the siege of the large army.

However, Zhuge Liang, who had obtained Beishui, stopped here for five days, and continued to train his soldiers every day, improve the battle formation, and understand and survey the people's conditions, without the slightest intention of continuing to advance.

Beishui County Government.

"Strategist!" Li Yan walked into Zhuge Liang's room again and bowed to the ground, "Yan Jiu heard that the military advisor has unparalleled wisdom and good strategies, how can he do such an unwise act because of his personal abolition of the public now?" ”

Zhuge Liang was sitting on the desk at this time to draw the formation map, and did not raise his head under concentration, and after the painting was finished, he raised the cloth and blew the ink.

"When he gives it to the prince, he will be very pleased."

Zhuge Liang seemed to see Liu Chan's elated appearance, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise slightly.

"Strategist!" Li Yan's waist bent down a little more.

Zhuge Liang turned his head and looked, Li Yan was about to bow in half: "Huh? General Lee, please hurry up, why is this so? ”

After that, he carefully put away the formation diagram and hurriedly stepped forward to help Li Yan.

Li Yan refused to get up: "Please also ask the military division to send troops quickly!" ”

"Oh, the general will get up first, and Rong Liang will talk to the general carefully."

Although Zhuge Liang said that he was surprised, in fact, he had been waiting for Li Yan to make his words clear for a long time.

He marched slowly and had his own plans, naturally he didn't deliberately delay the fighter, as for the reason, he could have made it clear to Li Yan from the beginning, but he deliberately didn't say it, and he did mean to beat Li Yan.

But it was not a factional struggle as Li Yan thought.

Li Yan is a person who has paid attention to him before, and he is a very capable person, and he is by no means a talent from a county.

It's just that there is a flaw in his character, and this person is very easy to expand after making meritorious service, and before that, he built a gorgeous house for himself in Qianwei, working hard and losing money.

And he is quite arrogant and arrogant, and has clashed with his generals many times.

This expedition, Zhuge Liang believes that it is a good opportunity to polish Li Yan, if he can make him restrain his temperament, this person's achievements in the future will be limitless.

Just as he was about to speak, a soldier suddenly came to report.

"Report! Military division, Gao Ding has mobilized the northern, western, and southern armies to come in the direction of Beishui! Among them, in addition to Yue Wangyi, there seems to be a Qingqiang cavalry in the south of the county! ”

Li Yanyan's face darkened when he heard this, it was over, and the opportunity had been lost.

Unexpectedly, Zhuge Kongming laughed: "Hehehe, okay, it's just right." ”

Li Yan raised his head and looked at Zhuge Liang who was still smiling in amazement, but he didn't know where the good came from.

(End of chapter)