Shu Chen

Chapter 208 Defection

The field battle in Wuzhi County ended with an even match.

Relying on the chariot formation, the Han army suffered more than [-] casualties, and the Wei army rushed into the formation even more, with nearly [-] casualties.

Such a result of the battle made Prime Minister Zhuge Liang give up the idea of ​​continuing to entangle with Wei Jun.

During the years of the Northern Expedition, although the Han army regained several counties, the price they paid was also very high.

Not to mention that the accumulated supplies, food and fodder were exhausted, and there were more than [-] soldiers who died in battle and died of injuries and diseases after the battle.

The land of Bashu was small and the people were few, and the Li Shu who had just recaptured the counties and counties were dominated by the Qiang and Hu tribes who were pursuing profit, which made the follow-up troops faintly a hindrance for the Han Dynasty to continue the Northern Expedition.Today, it is still possible to mobilize [-] troops in front of the battle, thanks to the result of using various methods to migrate the Qianghu barbarians to register households.

Under such circumstances, we tried our best to avoid unnecessary consumption of soldiers.

Therefore, after cleaning the battlefield, the prime minister ordered all the soldiers and horses to gather in the camp with high forts and deep ditches for the purpose of containing the main force against Wei, and not to fight against the Wei army.

As for Wei Da Sima Cao Zhen, he naturally wanted to continue fighting.

Believing that the battle in Liaodong was bound to be won, he continued to make preparations for the army at the end of the year to go to Longyou, using his national strength to consume the background of the Bashu war.

After seeing the Han army guarding the camp with high fortifications and deep ditches, he took advantage of the opportunity to approach the camp and fell. He frequently sent small troops to show off his might and sent cavalry to detour to Xiaoguan in order to cut off the Han army's food road and force the Han army to fight.

But the prime minister ignored it.

Moreover, the food and fodder delivered earlier was quite sufficient, and there is no worry about running out of food for the time being.

Such a response made Cao Zhen helpless.

In the fierce battle between the two armies in the field, Wei Guo would lose more of his side, so he would not attack the camp.

After brainstorming with Zhao Yan, the military commander of Da Sima, he took a compromise.

Move the camp to the north of the Han army, and fall in parallel.

And every day, the cavalry were asked to closely monitor Xiao Guan, so that Xiao Guan was not allowed to have the opportunity to transport grain and fodder to the Han army camp in Wushi County.

The intention is obvious: wait for the Han army to run out of food and fodder and have to leave camp, and then lead the army to pursue and fight, so that the Han army cannot escape.

It is an upright conspiracy.

It's just a pity that things didn't go as planned.

He had only moved the camp for more than ten days, and then he led the army back slowly with melancholy.

The reason is that both the Xianbei bald head and the Qifu tribe defected.

Unexpected, but within reason.

The Qifu tribe did not submit to the state of Wei in the first place. When they first went south to the Wushui River Valley and annexed the Jielu tribe, they fought against the state of Wei for a long time.

Later, it was not profitable to attack each other, so Wei Guo offered the benefits to make them willing to join the conquest.

But for the first time, he encountered the Xiaoguan Great Plague.

The leader died of the plague, and the tribe also died of countless plagues.

Not only did the Jielu tribe, which had been annexed for a long time, take the opportunity to rebel, but the tribe also fell apart due to the competition for the leadership position, and their strength was greatly weakened. They had to become a vassal of the Wei State due to the situation.

With the grievances between the two parties, it is not surprising that they defected.

The Xianbei baldness department is similar.

When the bald tribe was first decided by Wei State to introduce Guanzhong to fight against Bashu, there were more than [-] young and strong people in the tribe, and their strength was considered quite strong outside the Great Wall.

But only a few years have passed, and there are only more than four thousand string controllers left in the bald hair department.

All were lost in battle for Wei's conquest!
What makes the tribal leader Shoutian even more chilling is that Wei's previous promise has shrunk.

At the earliest Wei State handed over the entire Youfufeng to the Bald Department, but with the migration of a large number of Li Shu from Jizhou to enrich Guanzhong, the Bald Department was also squeezed out of living space: the officials in Youfufeng used the fertile land in the Weishui River Basin, too much grazing On the grounds of excessive waste, the bald head department was relocated to the middle area between Qianshui and Jingshui.

Even the luxuriant meadow, the meeting of Siwei, was once again turned into a horse grazing land by Wei State on the grounds that the supply of war horses in Liangzhou was insufficient.

It is equivalent to the death of five or six thousand young men in the bald department, and then greeted the white fangs of Wei Guo.

Bald Shoutian could not accept such a result.

In particular, during the field battle in Yangcheng in the past, Fei Yao, the empress general of Wei State, made a hasty statement and slipped his mouth.

It was uneasy and kind of Wei Guo to lead them into Youfufeng.

They were originally treated as consumables, making their tribe weak and poor, and then took the opportunity to force them to register as households, scattered and migrated to the hinterland of the Central Plains.From generation to generation, they have been reduced to military households or lowly animal husbandry servants in the Wei State.

Therefore, the bald-haired Shoutian, who was restless, began to plan secretly after the battle in Yangcheng.

First, when the tribesmen were nomadic, they slowly migrated north; then they frequently sent people to connect with the Qifu tribe, intending to form an alliance and support each other to migrate outside the Great Wall.

The land outside the Great Wall is rich in water and grass, with cows and horses biting their tails, and flocks of sheep blocking the way.

Although these years have been severe winters and frequent white disasters, it is still their ideal home.

Moreover, their two Xianbei habitats were originally outside the Great Wall. Instead of being reduced to consumables in the war between the Han and Wei in the Great Wall, it is better to go back to reoccupy the territory and recuperate.

Anyway, even if they defected, Wei Guo is now restrained by a big man, and he has no strength to pursue and kill them.

It just so happened that Ma Dai, General of the Northern Expedition of the Han Dynasty, and Zhao Guang, the cavalry governor, led the cavalry into the Wushui River Valley, giving them a good chance to escape.

After the bald Shoutian volunteered to come to Wushui River Valley, he secretly let the women and children of the tribe slowly migrate northward while grazing, and finally migrated northward to Dingxicheng (now Wuzhong City, Ningxia), which was abandoned by the Wei State.

Naturally, there must be help for women and children to drive cattle and sheep, and to be able to migrate safely from the Qianshui River to the Dahe River Basin.

It was Hu Bo, the master of the Xiongnu in Wei Baosai, who was in charge.

He also advanced and retreated with the two Xianbei.

In other words, he, who also suffered heavy casualties from the Xiaoguan epidemic, also lost confidence in attaching himself to Wei.

He planned to move to Lingzhou (now Yongning County, Ningxia), to marry and help each other with the two Xianbei, and to defend the pastures and territories with each other's offensive and defensive alliances.

This is why Cao Zhen withdrew his troops and returned to the city to stand firm.

Whether the Xiongnu and the two Xianbei defected or not had little effect on the strength of Wei.

But the timing was so ingenious that the people in Anding County were panicked, and the north was also in turmoil.

Needless to say, the Qianghu tribe in the neighboring Beidi County will inevitably have looters after hearing the news—taking advantage of the turmoil in the current situation, let the tribe pretend to be horse thieves and plunder the Anding County village.

Moreover, Wei State had no cavalry in the Wushui River Basin, so it could not restrain Ma Dai and Zhao Guang's cavalry.

Although the danger of Gaoping City and the general strategy of General Hu Zun, it is impossible for the Han army to occupy the Wushui River Basin.But if he didn't send the [-] cavalry under his command to the Wushui Basin, the Han cavalry would inevitably come from the north to disturb the hinterland of Anding County.

Just imagine, he was confronting Han Prime Minister Zhuge Liang with a large army, but the counties behind him were attacked by two Han cavalry. How frustrated the Lishu and soldiers in the county would be!

Maybe, some people thought that the Wei army was defeated, and gathered a crowd to rebel and fight to be the internal support of the Han army!
For example, the previous Haoyou Yangtiao.

After the cavalry was sent to the Wushui River Valley, the Wei army would not have the suppression of arms and the superiority in strength, and it was the best policy to retreat and return to protect the city.

Cao Zhenxin felt a little lonely.

During the Han and Wei wars in these years, it seems that God has never favored him.

Unexpected situations, unexpected rebellions, and months of torrential rain, etc., are not on his side.

Alas, the dead are like husbands, never giving up day and night.

Day after day, year after year, I don't know if I still have a chance to win Longyou?

He sighed with difficulty.

There is not much blaming, but there is a lot of sadness in my heart.

There is also a faint worry about "destiny".

Today, the heirs of Emperor Cao Rui are all dead, and there are no empresses, concubines and others who are pregnant.
Ugh!
He sighed again.

After returning to the city of Chaona County, he sat alone in the dead of night, tried his best to clear up his mood, and concentrated on writing to Luoyang Temple.

Baosai Xiongnu master Hu Boju's position and the two Xianbei's defection must have informed Luo Yang.

For example, let the emperor Cao Rui and the princes discuss how to deal with the old leader of the bald department, the bald orphan and his family members who were kept in Luoyang.

For example, show the heads of all the owls to the public to deter other young people.

He sent the head to his younger brother Tuoba Liwei, a northern Xianbei tribe who now lives in Qiantao of the Hetao Plain in Bingzhou and has always maintained a non-aggressive trade with the State of Wei.

Well, the two brothers have enmity, and they attacked each other a lot before.

It would be good to continue to win over Tuoba Liwei by utilizing the bald-haired orphan waste.

Or, after obtaining the head of the bald man, the Tuoba tribe who implemented the "young son guarding the stove", maybe Tuoba Liwei would send one of his sons west to annex the bald-haired Shoutian.

Cut the weeds and eradicate the roots to avoid future troubles.

It's good to try.

On the other hand, Cao Zhen didn't need to send people to inquire, and he also knew that the destruction of Zuli County was inevitable.

Cao Zhen, who has guarded Yongliang for many years, knows Yin Feng's personality well.

He will definitely not surrender and beg for work, and will definitely become a loyal minister of Wei State.

Therefore, he wants to ask for a commendation.

Whether it's to make up for the guilt in my heart, or to motivate Wei Guo with death festivals.

In fact, his guess was not wrong.

Zuli County only defended for more than ten days before being breached by Guan Xing's army.

The morale in Zuli City collapsed under the influence of those Haoyou trilogy from the four counties in Hexi, who came out of Mitsukoshi city one after another to surrender.

Even Li Shuqingzhuang, who admired Yin Feng as a man in the past, dared not fight for Wei.

The destruction of the city is inevitable, they don't want to die needlessly.

In this regard, Yin Feng was powerless.

Under the generosity and solemnity of his heart and belly, he fought with his own sword, and finally died in the chaos of the soldiers.

Guan Xing left [-] soldiers and horses under Yan Yu's command to guard the prisoners and repair the fortifications. After only letting the soldiers celebrate for a day, they rushed to join Zheng Pu.

The combined force of the two men was about seven thousand, and the cavalry consisted of only two hundred armored cavalry and more than a hundred light cavalry.

Facing Wei Ping's [-] troops strangling the narrow east of Hanpingchuan, it was another headache.

The Wei Ping tribe in the high base and deep ditch has been standing still, leaving Zheng Pu and others helpless.

They even pretended to go around Wei Ping's camp and go to attack Shuyinsai, Wei Ping still took his time and calmed down.

The intent is obvious.

Wei Ping had enough confidence that it was impossible for the Han army to attack the Shuyin Fortress defended by Xu Zhi with [-] soldiers and horses.

If the Han army wants to attack, then go.

He continued to guard, preventing the Han army from advancing or retreating.

After all, it is impossible for the Han army to shake Shuyinsai with a mere [-] soldiers and horses.

There are only two ways left for them, either to strike back automatically, or to send more troops from Longyou to attack.

The former result means that he has fulfilled his duty of defending Hexi; the latter result means that the pressure on the Guanzhong battlefield is relieved.

However, what he didn't expect was that Zheng Pu rejected the letter from Prime Minister Zhuge Liang who wanted to send troops to help.

Of course, the prime minister wanted to send troops to help.

When the report of the battle between Ma Dai and Guan Xing came to Wushi County, the Prime Minister asked Wei Yan to lead the headquarters to Xiaoguan and return to Longyou, and then marched to Zuli County.

There is no more fighting in Anding County, and Wei Yan, who has been appointed as the governor of Liangzhou, will naturally come to change his title into a real job.

But Zheng Pu felt that Wei Yan should not come to Hexi too early.

He was afraid that the arrival of more than [-] soldiers from his headquarters would arouse Wei Ping's vigilance.

If Wei Ping felt that the disparity in military strength was too great to contend with, and he led troops into Shuyinsai (city) to garrison, then it would be difficult for Jiang Wei's troops to attack by surprise.

He needs Wei Ping outside.

Previously, he repeatedly tried to attack Shuyinsai, but it was just to convince Wei Ping that Shuyinsai was still indestructible!
Just taking advantage of the test to get familiar with the road, when Jiang Weibu arrived, he met him smoothly.

How can we let Wei Yanbu come over now and add uncertain factors?
Therefore, when he wrote back to the prime minister, he vowed that as long as Jiang Wei's troops could arrive smoothly, he would be able to take Shuyin, without the need for additional troops.

The prime minister looked at it and laughed it off.

He was also very careful, and asked Wei Yanbu to escort a large amount of grain and fodder to be stationed in Zuli County, and took advantage of the opportunity to heighten and strengthen the construction of Zuli City.

"At that time, whether Chief Wen can attack the four counties in Hexi without worrying about the future depends on whether Zuli County can resist the counterattack against the Wei Dynasty, we should be cautious!"

On the grounds that Ni Wei would send troops to seize Zuli County and cut off the Han army's grain road if he knew that the fortress of Quyin was lost, Wei Yan had no reason to rush to fortress Quyin eagerly.And very carefully built fortifications, as well as the surrounding siege.

Time passes without knowing it.

It is already summer and June.

The world situation has changed again.

Soochow first.

Although the army Sun Quan sent to Liaodong was annexed by Gongsun Yuan, some people escaped the execution.

Because before Gongsun Yuan's plan, he found an excuse to disperse the soldiers and horses of Soochow.For example, the envoys Qin Dan, Zhang Qun, Du De, Huang Qiang, etc. and the officials were placed in Xuantu County (now east of Shenyang, Liaoning) by Gongsun Yuan.

After the incident, Qin Dan and others tried to send troops to seize the county but failed, so they fled across the city to Goguryeo.

Pretending that they were envoys sent by Sun Quan to Goguryeo, claiming that Emperor Wu had granted Goguryeo, but was taken away by Gongsun Yuan.

Goguryeo and the Gongsun family had enmity.

Since Gongsundu separatized Liaodong, he frequently sent troops to attack Goguryeo.

Therefore, the Goguryeo Throne Palace (also known as Youweiju, nicknamed Jiaozhu) was overjoyed when he heard about it.

Thinking that with the help of Jiangdong, they could fight against Gongsunyuan together, so they sent envoys to send Qin Dan and others back to Soochow, and proclaimed them ministers, offering a thousand mink skins and ten chicken skins as tribute.

When Qin Dan and others returned, Sun Quan worshiped the school lieutenant to appease him, and sent envoys again to reward the Goguryeo Throne Palace.

Also angry at Gongsun Yuan's unbelief and betrayal of the alliance, he summoned hundreds of officials to discuss, and wanted to send a large army to crusade against Liaodong.

Of course, he didn't get his wish.

Before sending more than [-] soldiers to Liaodong, they were strongly rebuked by the officials, and now they are even more angry and are arguing not to send troops again.

Jiangdong, where there are many aristocratic families and will lead counties and counties to raise soldiers, not many people are willing to float to death.

Furthermore, even if revenge is successful, Soochow, the land of Liaodong, will not be able to occupy it.

Why bother to mobilize people?
The well-reasoned and convincing remonstrance gave Sun Quan no reason to go his own way.In any case, he has already made two decision-making mistakes in Fuhai Yizhou and Liaodong.

Therefore, he finally turned his attention back to Wei Guo.

He had known the news that the Han soldiers had left Anding County for a long time, and he also wanted to take advantage of the fire to rob Wei Guo.

By the way, fulfill the covenant between Han and Wu to jointly attack Wei.

However, what makes people feel ironic is that when he was preparing troops to attack Wei, Wei's general Sima Yi indirectly helped him avenge Liaodong.

　Thanks to the leader "Brother Yun's Fans", I will add more thanks in a few days, I have been too busy recently~~~
　　
　
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