Shu Chen

Chapter 141

After sorting out the problem of food and fodder transshipment, it is time to think about whether to send troops.

Cao Zhen got up with the case, turned around and found a large pile of cloth from the utensils, spread them on the table one by one, frowned and groaned softly.

Each piece of cloth is quite large.

Some of the frontispieces are named after regions, such as "Tianshui", "Hanzhong", "Longxi" and "Wudu".

The detailed text is densely recorded, these are the facts of the counties and counties occupied by the Han army.

For example, the general number of troops stationed, the number of pass garrisons, the production of grain and fodder and the resettlement of Li Shu, etc., and even the amount of grain, fodder and supplies transported by each county every month are recorded on the side.

Some cloths are prefaced with the name of the person.

Such as "Shu Zhuge Liang", "Shu Zhao Yun", "Shu Wei Yan", "Shu Wu Yi", "Shu Ma Dai" and so on.

If Zheng Pu was lucky enough to witness this case, he would be astonished.

He has only been an official for a few years and is young, but he is also on the list!

And the notes are quite detailed.

"The general of Shu begging for captives, the leader of the prime minister's mansion to join the army, Pu, also a native of Shifang, Guanghan."

"His late father, Zheng Du, and Liu Zhang were also painters, and Pu had its own style. The Prime Minister of Shu got him, and he became a bureaucrat. Zhang Fei's second daughter gave her to marry him, and she is a brother-in-law. It is rumored that in the land of Bashu, the scholars privately said that Pu is similar to the old Shu law and justice, and that there are strange tricks and plans, and they will be rewarded."

"It is rumored that Pu had the merit of planning against Shu to suppress the rebellion in the southern and central counties; the prime minister of Shu used his words to recruit the soldiers of the southern barbarians and destroy the foundation of the wealthy families in the southern and middle regions."

"Later, he led the Xuanwu Governor, fought against Yinping Jinggu Road, and defeated Di Wang Fuzhang with an ambush. Later, Fuzhang's family was attached to Shu. This is Pu's contribution in this battle."

"In the battle of Weixing County, Pu also followed suit. Shenyi surrendered, all the Li and Shu in the west city were relocated, and Jingzhou was engaged in the annihilation of the Taitai army. The reasons have not been ascertained, and it is impossible to say whether it was a conspiracy or not."

"In the Battle of Longyou, Pu and Ma Di guarded the Xiaoguan Road. Di rushed forward and returned in a big defeat. Pu defended with four thousand soldiers and horses, resisting the army of the left general He, General Ping and Ling three times. Pu soldiers died ten times. Seven or eight, but the army did not collapse, and finally got the help of Shu general Chen Shi and Wei Yan's cavalry governor Zhao Guang, and returned alive. His loyalty is not afraid of death, and his righteousness keeps the soldiers from dying. I am also troubled by the Great Wei."

"At the end of October in winter, the Prime Minister of Shu sent Pu Du to lead his headquarters to Didao in Longxi. Pu divided his troops and generals to patrol the defense, and brought his entourage and disciples to talk with You Chu about the elegance of silk and bamboo. also."

And Cao Zhen's gaze now is on the cloth that records Zheng Pu's story.

I don't think that the current Zheng Pu is the biggest threat to Wei.

It's that people such as Prime Minister Zhuge Liang, Generals Zhao Yun, Wei Yan, and Wu Yi have been famous for too long, and the world has heard about their personalities, strategies for using troops, and their strengths.

Cao Zhen, who has been in charge of military affairs in Yongliang, has long been aware of the fact that the defense zone connects Bashu.

Therefore, when Zheng Pu was stationed in Didao, Longxi County, he wanted to find out Zheng Pu's behavior style and the grass snake gray line of his military plan from Zheng Pu's past affairs.

Due to the recent dispatch of various counties against Shu, it is quite strange.

At the beginning of winter and early November, Xianbei's bald tribe used rangers to plunder the north of the Weishui River in Longyou, and the Prime Minister of Shu sent Wu Banbu to help Wei Yan guard it.

However, Zhao Yun of Shu in Hanzhong County burned all the plank roads of Baoxie Valley and Tangluo Road, and sent heavy troops to guard the Golden Canyon.Unexpectedly, for some reason, when there was no land from Bashu to send troops to help, the garrison troops in Hanzhong County suddenly increased a lot.

The same is true for Ma Dai, who leads Shu Wudu County.

While guarding the Dasan Pass, he also frequently sent the scout You Fufeng to visit, and many small-scale conflicts broke out with the Xianbei Bald Hair Division.

The Wu Yi Division and Meng Yan Division of the Tiger Infantry Army, which were originally stationed in Tianshui County, sent additional troops to the Weishui River Valley and Longguan Road respectively to prevent the Wei Army from attacking Longyou again.

The soldiers guarding the center of power in Longyou today are "Jiaosou" temporarily led by Guan Xing.

If it is said that these dispatches of the Shu army are unusual.

However, there is still a soldier in Nishu, whose movements and whereabouts are unknown.

It is the veteran general of the army, Gao Xiang, who leads more than [-] troops and is highly regarded by the prime minister against Shu!
Because of the detailed work of the dispatcher Longyou, the news of his return conveyed conflicts with the news communicated by Xu Miao, the governor of Liangzhou.

At the earliest, Gao Xiang led the garrison after Ni Shu made an emergency landing in Longxi, the prefect of You Chu.

However, after Zheng Pu led his troops into Didao, Gao Xiang's troops moved to the east bank of Taoshui and set up camp on the mountain.

This is where the weirdness lies!

More than ten thousand troops went out of the city and camped in the severe winter. Why did this happen?
In the news that came back from the detailed report, it was claimed that there were soldiers patrolling the Gaoxiang tribal camp within a radius of ten li, and the security was strict. Anyone who trespassed would be bound and sent to Tianshui County.Moreover, these patrolling generals and soldiers are in the same team every day, and there is no rotation!

The most unbelievable thing is that in the barracks of Gao Xiang's army, the amount of cooking smoke that rises every day, there are vaguely more than ten thousand soldiers' meals.

however!
Longxi Gongcao Jiangliu took advantage of his position to learn and pass on the news of his return. It was the grain that Didao transported to the Gaoxiang army camp every ten days, which was only enough to feed more than a thousand people!
This has been the case for several months.

This is to follow the example of Yu Xu, the prefect of Wudu of the Han Dynasty in the past when he crusaded against the Qiang and Hu rebellions. He did the opposite of Sun Bin's "increasing troops and reducing stoves", increasing stoves every day, pretending to be strong?

Cao Zhen drooped his brows and closed his eyes, pinching Hu and thinking to himself.

He who has led the army countless times, naturally knows the significance of food and fodder to soldiers.

Without food, the army will collapse!

Even Sun Wu, Wu Qi and others cannot command soldiers without food.

And Gao Xiang, who can't be called a famous general, actually made the soldiers hungry for two consecutive months, and still kept the army from collapsing?

There must be fraud in it!

However, if Gao Xiang's troops only left more than a thousand people to garrison the barracks, where would the remaining nearly ten thousand soldiers be?
Could it be that he has been secretly stationed in Hanzhong County?
Cao Zhen opened his eyes suddenly, and picked up information about the two counties of Hanzhong and Wudu from the case table.

"In mid-October, Zhao Yun burned the Qinling plank road against Shu."

"At the beginning of November, Hanzhong Xijinjin was encircled, and three thousand troops were added."

"At the end of November, about [-] soldiers and horses entered the city in Mianyang County; in Baozhong County, a garrison was built along the Baoshuikou, and the garrison was about [-] troops."

"At the beginning of December, the number of soldiers guarding Nanzheng County increased by about two thousand."

"At the beginning of October in winter, Chen Shibu, who was guarding Wudu County, claimed to transport grain and supplies to Longyou, and sent troops to guard along the Qishan Road to prevent the soldiers and common people in the county from setting foot within one mile. The period lasted for nearly ten days."

"Whoo~~~"

Looking carefully at Cao Zhen who had finished reading again, he let out a long sigh of relief.

If you compare the sudden increase in troops in Hanzhong County with the Gaoxiang Department that has been dormant for several months, you can find that they are exactly the same.

However, soldiers should be cautious.

He didn't make an assertion right away, but once again set his sights on the news that Xu Miao transferred, Longxi Gongcao Jiangliu.

Zheng Pu's troops stationed in Didao, Longxi, had only three thousand cavalry when they came.

Among them, Hu Zhong, the general, has been sent to garrison at Shangxiamen Pass; while Yang Ji, the cavalry general, is camped in the north of the city, and the whole army goes out every day to inspect the northern section of the Taoshui River Valley; only the general Zhang Yi is stationed at In the city, the camp is located in the west of the city.

However, there is also a move that makes people can't help but think about it.

When Zheng Pu led his army into Didao City, he claimed that the Prime Minister of Shu would send troops to Longxi to garrison one after another, so that the soldiers in the county would not have to worry about the Wei army's attack and their defenses would be empty.And just as Zheng Pu said, every ten days, more than a thousand soldiers and horses entered through the gate of Didaonan City, and transferred to the military camp in the west of the city.

In the barracks in the north of the city, the number of stoves was also increased sequentially to increase the amount of cooking smoke.

It's just the news that Jiang spread, claiming that the food and fodder allocated to the military camp in the north of the city every ten days has never increased!
It is still only food for [-] soldiers!
Increase troops and stoves, but not increase food?

Xu Miao and Guo Huai both commented on such a strange place: "Pu, the rebellious thief, followed the example of Dong Zhuo in the past when he entered Luo, using a cunning strategy to gain strength with few soldiers!"

Well, at first when the Ling Emperor died and Luoyang was in turmoil, Dong Zhuo rushed into Luo after hearing about it. At that time, he led only [-] riders.

Suspecting that there are few soldiers, fearing that they will not be convinced by the distance, they led the army to sneak out of the camp near the camp for four or five days and nights, and returned at the Ming Dynasty, thinking that the troops under his command would come back one after another, and no one in Luoyang knew. All of them were afraid of Dong Zhuo's strength and did not dare to make him an enemy.Let the old general He Jin and his younger brother He Miao's trilogy, all fear Dong Zhuo's power, and all invest in him.

Now that Zheng Pu arrived at Di Dao, because he led few troops, he followed Dong Zhuo's example and ordered Zhang Yi to garrison troops in the west of the city every day.

Another idea is also to increase the momentum, tricking the Wei army into sending false news back to Jincheng, so that the Wei army will think that the defenders of Di Dao are prosperous, and they can't send troops to ask for it!
Cao Zhen finished reading the book submitted by Jiang Liu, and his eyebrows drooped again in thought.

There is also emotion in my heart, he is against Shu and Zheng Pu, his ability to plan is not inferior to the analogy!
He is only in his twenties, yet he is able to calculate people's strategies so deeply, how many people can compare with the rising stars of the Wei Kingdom?The world has been in turmoil for decades, how many people are the same!

But Guo Fengxiao, Xi Zhicai and Zhou Gongjin are just a few people!
For example, Xun Gongda, Jia Wenhe, Fa Xiaozhi and others were already past thirty or even forty years old when they accompanied the army to conquer and make suggestions.

If this son of the Zheng family is not eliminated, it will be a great disaster for our country Wei in the future!
Cao Zhen secretly made an assertion to Zheng Pu.

Yiran no longer hesitated, opened his eyes and took a pen to write a letter to Luoyang Cao Rui to ask for a challenge.

The reason was neither to capture Didao, and strangle Zheng Pu, who has a heart and strategy, before invading Wei; Longyou's rear was unstable and lost ground.

It is the news from the secret work of Longxi County: the ancient county of Xi'an in Longxi - the ruins of Suoxi City - Lintao County, etc., have now been surrendered by Zhuge Liang, the prime minister against Shu, to lead Jiang Weibie to protect the Qiang school captain and recruit the Qiang and Hu tribes for righteousness From here, let's set up a horse farm to train cavalry soldiers!

Never sit back and watch, Nishu has trained a large number of cavalry pawns!

This is why Cao Zhen can't tolerate it.

Because Nishu has already occupied Longyou and has a favorable location, once it has a large number of cavalry pawns, it is time for troops to leave Liangzhou!

However, due to the restricted terrain, it is difficult for Wei State to rush to rescue Liangzhou, fearing that Liangzhou will not be able to defend!
(End of this chapter)