Shu Chen

Chapter 113 Personal expedition
Longyou refers to the two counties of Hanyang and Longxi in Liangzhou during the reign of Emperor Ling.

However, after Cao Pi replaced the Han Dynasty, he merged the Sanfu of Guanzhong and the three prefectures of Hanyang, Longxi and Anding to establish Yongzhou.

Among them, Hanyang County was divided into Tianshui, Guangwei and Nan'an County.

However, due to geographical location and population distribution, the strategic center of Longyou is still in Tianshui County, Ji County and Shangyu County, which are run through by the Wei River.

And Shangyu County is the intersection point of Qishan Road and Longguan Road, and it is also the residence of Guo Huai.

This is also the reason why Ma Zun fled to Shangbei.

Shangbi, which has a garrison of nearly [-] troops, is more reassuring than Ji County, which has a garrison of about [-] troops.

It's just that, as the prefect of Tianshui, he has the responsibility of guarding the land. When Bashu is attacking, he should go back to defend.

At least, Zhonglang Jiang Wei, who also accompanied him on tour, as well as Tianshui Gong Cao Liangxu, chief secretary Yin Shang and chief secretary Liang Qian, all thought so.

Seeing that Ma Zun fled to Shanggu, Jiang Wei led Yin Shang and others, and hurriedly chased him to ask him to go back and take charge of the overall situation.

However, Ma Zun was actually on top of the city, claiming that Jiang Wei and others had different intentions.This time he came to invite him back, but he was going to take him to meet Bashu as a promotion.

Jiang Wei had no choice but to go back on his own because all his family members were in Ji County.

But I didn't want to, even Ji County closed the gates tightly to prevent them from entering.

Just at this time, the prime minister Zhuge Liang led the army to arrive, and Jiang Wei and others were forced by the situation, so they had to bow their heads and surrender.

After the prime minister learned that Ma Zun was not in Ji County, he began to dispatch troops.

Nai ordered Chen Shidu to attack Ji County with five thousand soldiers; Wu Yi led more than ten thousand people to Shanggu to besiege Guohuai, and led the army across the Wei River and went north along the Changli River (Hulu River), until he was slaughtered by Xia Houyuan The ruins of Xingguo City, and then turned east to Jieting.

When passing Lueyang, they sent [-] soldiers to Lieliu City (Long County) with Gao Xiang as the governor.

Because the route of Guanlong Road in Longyou is Fanxukou-Jieting-Lueyang-Lieliucheng-Linwei-Shangyu.

Among them, Linwei County is the county seat of Guangwei County, and it is the mouth of the valley where the Wei River enters the pass.

Like Ji County, there are about [-] troops stationed all year round.

The prime minister don't send Gao Xiang there, not only to prevent the garrison in Linwei County from moving rashly, but also to be prepared.

After all, although the Weishui River Valley is difficult to pass through, if Cao Wei cannot pass through Jieting, he may not choose this way.

Moreover, there are also worries about whether Guo Huai will die.

For example, when Cao Wei's reinforcements were attacking Jieting, Guo Huai's strong man broke his wrists and gave up Shanggu, led his soldiers to break out, joined forces with the garrison of Linwei County, and attacked Jieting from behind.

At that time, the front and back attack, the street pavilion will surely fall!

And Cao Wei's reinforcements were able to pour into Longyou in mighty force, and the prime minister had no choice but to retreat.

The war potential of the big man is too weak and too thin.

In particular, even if both sides suffer, Cao Wei can still send another [-] to [-] soldiers, and the big man will struggle to recruit another [-] soldiers.

Make bricks without straw.

As cautious and subtle as a prime minister, he will never put the fate of the country at his fingertips.

Of course!

Prime Minister Zhuge Liang personally led [-] troops to garrison Jieting!

Thanks to Zheng Pu's saying in the past, "If more than half of the army is lost, but the army is not defeated, it can be taken for granted", the prime minister mused over all the senior generals in the Han army, and felt that it was the most appropriate to come by himself.

Wei Yan was good at attacking, and was famous for his fierceness in using troops. The prime minister worried that he would be lured out of the decisive battle by Cao Jun because of his brave temperament.

Chen Shi and Gao Xiang have both offensive and defensive skills, but they lack skillful changes.

As for Wu Yi, his subordinates are all the second generation of Dongchuan soldiers in Liu Yan's era. They have been stationed in Chengdu all the year round.

Since the prime minister is in charge of the street pavilion, there will be no such problems.

Moreover, after he arrived at Jieting, he ordered the soldiers to camp on the road. When repairing the fortifications, he took advantage of the opportunity to place the Chinese army's tent a hundred steps behind the front line, and gathered the soldiers to make an oath.

Said:
"Conquer the Central Plains, let's fight here! Attacking against Wei, it will be fierce. When the enemy reaches a hundred steps, I will hold the big banner to watch; when the enemy reaches eighty steps, I will hold the drum for the kings; Let the kings fight together!"

The ruler of a country swears to live and die with the soldiers!

Such generosity moved all the soldiers, and Yi Shan called for endless battles to the death.

The other governors who performed their duties, such as Wu Yi and Chen Shi, had already burst out with bravery in their chests.

Because when the prime minister gave them troops, he also told them, "I will face the street pavilion and resist Wei's reinforcements. Even if I fight to the death of one soldier, I will not retreat half a step. I hope that you will report the victory of the city as soon as possible!"

These veteran generals who are the mainstay of the big man, can An Neng feel that he is inscribed in the five inner circles, and vows to fight the evil to the death?
The same is true of Zheng Pu.

After all, it was his remonstrance that prompted the prime minister to go to Jieting in person.

Well, he is currently leading an army in Nan'an County.

Following the prime minister's army, when they reached Qishan Jianwei, the prime minister asked him, Ma Di and others to join forces with Wei Yan's troops and turn northwest.

It is to enter the Yanzi River (Shiying) and cross the watershed, enter the Shandan River Valley (Dongting), a tributary of the Weishui River, and attack Nan'an County Zhisuodao County (now Wenfeng Town, Longxi County), thus cutting off the connection between Longxi and Tianshui County.

Great results.

As soon as the army arrived, the gates of Nan'an County opened wide and surrendered directly.

However, this is not surprising.

There are more than [-] soldiers and horses sent by the prime minister here.

Among them, Wei Yan led more than ten thousand troops, Ma Su and Wu Ban each had four thousand, and Zheng Pu three thousand.

Because the attack on Nan'an County was just a random move along the road.

For example, the Yan tribe of Wei took this road and went north to Pingxiang County to resist the reinforcements that attacked Liangzhou of Wei State.

Ma Di and Zheng Pu's troops were sent to assist in the capture of Nan'an County, and then turned east to block Xiaoguan Road, in case Cao Wei came to aid from Anding County.

Only Wu Banbu went west to attack Longxi County.

The prefect of Longxi is You Chu.

Zi Zhongyun, a native of Guzang, Wuwei County.His father, You Yin, once left Feng Yi to make contributions to Cao, so he was friendly with Zhang Ji, a famous official of Cao Wei.

When he was framed by Qiu Yu and died, he entrusted his son to Zhang Ji.

After he was established, he was recommended by Zhang Ji to Wei Wu Cao Cao, so he was reused.

Although You Chu is short in appearance, he is both civil and military, generous and generous, and can make people die for him.Since he served as the prefect of Longxi, all the officials and people love him.

Seeing that Wu Ban was leading the army, because there were few soldiers in the city, he recruited officials and people, claiming that the Bashu army was too strong to resist, and asked them to surrender with their heads to get the reward from Bashu.

Such an attitude made the officials and the people feel grateful and tearful.

Everyone is shouting, wishing to live and die together.

Therefore, You Chunai led the soldiers and young men from the city out, lined up near the city, and wrote a letter to Wu Ban.

He persuaded: "Longxi is a border county. If Bashu can resist the Wei army coming to help from Guanzhong, the officials and people in Longxi will naturally surrender. Why should they lead the army to attack and waste their strength in vain?"
Wu Bande heard it and thought it made sense.

Nai sent someone to report to the prime minister urgently, and after obtaining permission, he withdrew his troops and went east to attack Ji County together with Chen Shi.

It seems that You Chu told the Han army to retreat after a few words.

In fact, it is not.

One is that Cao Wei did not have many troops stationed in Longxi Army, which could not affect the overall situation.

Secondly, at the head of the Longxi River (the two counties of Fanghan and Heguan), Tang Fan, the leader of the Qiang people, saw that Bashu led the army to attack Longyou, so he took the opportunity to contact various ministries and raised troops to attack the counties.

The land at the head of the river was occupied by Song Jian and became king for more than [-] years.

However, because of the slaughter all over the city, the local Qianghu tribe refused to surrender.When Ma Dai was stationed at Yangping Pass, many tribal chiefs ignored Cao Wei's ban on selling horses to Bashu and sent people to trade horses.

It's just that they don't have much respect for the big man.

The purpose of raising troops and rebelling was to take the opportunity to separate the river head again.

This is also one of the reasons why Wu Ban did not continue to attack Longxi County after the prime minister agreed.

Sit back and watch the two tigers fight, and when they have exhausted each other, they dare not surrender to the big man.

Thirdly, Nailongxi County is located in the west, and it is separated from Nan'an County by Wushan and other mountains. Whether it is captured or not is irrelevant to this battle.When Liangzhou is attacked in the future, it will not be too late to win it.

Temporarily abandoning Longxi County also ushered in an unexpected joy.

Originally, the defenders in Ji County were only more than [-]. Seeing that there were [-] Chen-style soldiers in the besieged city, they still held the idea of ​​mobilizing young and strong troops to resist and consume the reinforcements from Guanzhong.

When they saw Wu Ban lead another five thousand soldiers, the whole city panicked.

Especially the prefect Ma Zundu abandoned the city and left. No one was in charge of the overall situation. After discussing with the big clans in the county and the left-behind officials, they also opened the city gate and surrendered.

That is to say, the Prime Minister's troops came to Longyou in less than half a month, and in the land of the three counties, there were only two cities left in Cao Wei, Shanggu and Linwei!

And Linwei is about to be captured.

After Chen Shi joined forces with Wu Ban, he left his generals to guard Ji County, and the army turned to besiege Shanggui with Wu Yi.

But Guo Huai, who has guarded Longyou all year round, has great prestige, and the young and strong in the city are willing to serve him. In addition, there are about [-] soldiers and horses who are all direct descendants. For a while, the attack and defense are extremely tragic, but there is no hope of breaking the city.

Wu Yi, who had been in power for a long time, turned to attack.

Let Wu Ban and Chen Shi transfer to Linwei, and help Gao Xiang's troops capture Linwei first, making Shangbi an isolated city.

Then take advantage of the situation to completely block the Weishui River Valley, cutting off the possibility of Cao Wei coming to help in this way.

Or to put it another way, it was Wu Yi who saw that Shanggui was difficult to attack, so he wanted to free up Gao Xiang's troops to become a mobile force that could support the rest at any time.

In order to ensure that the war is foolproof.

In particular, we must take good care of the prime minister who guards the street pavilion.

After all, Wu Yi and Wu Ban's younger sisters are the queen mothers of today's great man.

Regardless of the perspective of sharing weal and woe with the great man, or the idea of ​​making contributions by oneself, I hope that the war will go smoothly.

But it is said that Ma Di and Zheng Pu led the army to the Jingshui (now Jingyuan County) that runs through Liupan Mountain, and began to build fortifications.

The 4000 people led by Ma Di were Zhang Xiu, Li Sheng, Huang Xi, and Wang Ping's department temporarily assigned by the prime minister.

And Zheng Pu's leaders are Huo Yi and Zhang Yi from the headquarters, as well as the Jufu department who returned temporarily.

Well, Guan Xing's dispatch in the Battle of the Three Eastern Counties faintly confirmed that he has the style of his father. The prime minister was overjoyed, so he was transferred to his left and right sides, and he was formally trained as a commander with him.

So far, the Han army has had enough time to organize, prepare for the superiority and inferiority, and wait quietly for Cao Wei's army to come to rescue Longyou.

And Cao Zhen, who is in Youfufengmei County in Guanzhong, has just finished dispatching.

After he received Guo Huai's urgent report, he sent his general to the front immediately and led [-] cavalry to Fanxukou to stabilize the morale of the soldiers at the pass.The [-] infantry were led by Zhang He, followed closely behind.

As the first reinforcements to march into Longyou.

Immediately, with the authority of the governor of Yongzhou and Liangzhou, he sent people to Anding County, and asked General Wei Ping, who was stationed in Anding, to send troops along Xiaoguan Road to support Zhang Yun.

In the end, they sent people to Wuwei County to find Xu Miao, the governor of Liangzhou who had just arrived, and Xia Houru, the guard of Shu Shu, and asked them to send troops to Longyou for support as appropriate.

He himself continued to stay in Baoxie Valley, fighting fiercely with Zhao Yun's tribe.

After all, on the battlefield, there is nothing but reality.

Although Zhao Yun is pretending to be attacking the key, if Cao Wei can't resist, he will turn into a surprise soldier!

After entering Mei County, drive directly to Fanxukou.

All the reinforcements that sent Cao Wei into Longyou were blocked in the Liupanshan-Longshan Mountains.

Even if Zhao Yun's troops only had more than [-] men and were unable to capture Fanxukou, they could still attack the counties in Youfufeng and cut off the Wei army's food supply.

However, Cao Zhen's dispatch this time ushered in "time is not with me".

First of all, it was the rebellion in Anding County.

Anding County was the earliest, and it was the separatist territory of Yang Qiu who followed Han Sui and Ma Chao to fight against Wei Wu Cao Cao.

After the defeat in the Battle of Tongguan, Han Sui and Ma Chao returned to Liangzhou, and Yang Qiu was trapped in Anding County and had no choice but to surrender.

Wei Wu Cao Cao thought that An Ding was a border area, and it was difficult for foreign generals to guard it, so he ennobled Yang Qiu and asked him to stay in the area to guard against Xianbei in Hetao and guard Xiaoguan Road.

In fact, Yang Qiu is very responsible.

Not only did the Anding County, which has a strong folk customs, have no rebellion, but also led the army to follow Cao Zhen to quell the rebellion of the bandits Zheng Gan and Lu Shuihu.

However, now he has passed away.

The succeeding general Wei Ping was a native of Jingzhou.

Although he has been fighting in the northwest for a long time, the officials and people in Anding County and the Qiang Hu did not submit to him.

Now that the news that the Prime Minister led the army to attack Longyou reached Anding County, Yang Tiao, a rich family, wanted to take this opportunity to separatize Anding County.

He coerced the officials and the people and invited the Qiang and Hu tribes to rebel, echoing the Han army.

General Wei Ping is now leading the army to fight against him.

When Cao Zhen transferred his order to Anding County, he happened to also want to send someone to report the letter.

The situation in Liangzhou is not optimistic.

On the most turbulent area in the northwest of Cao Wei, Liangzhou is none other than Liangzhou.

Almost five or six years later, there must be a rebellion.

The one with the most military power in the four counties in Hexi is Xiahou Ru, Xiahoushang's younger brother, who conquered Shu and guarded the army.

Unlike Xia Houshang, who was in charge of the military affairs of the two states, he was Cao Zhang's Sima in the early days.When Wei Wu Cao Cao collapsed, Cao Zhang had transgressive and taboo words, which made Cao Pi jealous.

It also affected Chiyu, and Xia Houru was left idle for a while.

It was not until Cao Zhang died suddenly that he was able to take charge of the army again.

However, after such an experience, he always felt uneasy in his heart, and he had already lost the vigor after Qiao Pei Yuanxun.

When he received Cao Zhen's transfer order, he claimed to Xu Miao that his troops needed to guard the four counties in Hexi, and that if he dispatched them away, the Qianghu tribe would revolt.

The only promise is that when Xu Miao leads troops to Longyou, he will guard Liangzhou and prevent riots.

In this regard, Xu Miao, the envoy Chijie and the leader of the Qiang school lieutenant, was also extremely helpless.

But also unable to beak.

After all, what Xia Houru said was true, and even Cao Zhen, who was very familiar with the west, ordered the two of them to send troops at their discretion.

For this reason, he had to dispatch the county soldiers, together with generals Hao Zhao, Jia Xu and Lu Pan's soldiers, to go south by way of Jincheng, and was blocked by Wei Yanbu in Pingxiang City.

There is almost no difference in the strength of the two sides, but Wei Yan's soldiers are more elite.

After several tentative attacks, Xu Miao sent someone to report the truth to Cao Zhen, Liangzhou was unable to help.

In this regard, Cao Zhen was extremely helpless.

He rushed to Guanzhong in a hurry, and only supervised [-] soldiers, which can be said to be stretched.

He had to go to Luoyang to ask Cao Rui to increase his troops again.Cao Rui in Luoyang, after hearing that the situation was so rotten, set off to personally guard Chang'an in Guanzhong, and collected another [-] troops for Cao Zhen to dispatch.

(End of this chapter)