Shu Chen

Chapter 253 External Force
Sima Yi, Wei Guo's new governor of Yongliang, has been in office for more than two months.

After spending more than a month inspecting the soldiers and horses of various ministries, he has been staying in Chen Cang in Fufeng County.

He personally supervised the drilling of the Chengguo Canal from Mei County to Chencang, and opened up fields for military settlements for the Guanzhong army to feed.

"Army and soldiers are self-sufficient, and the country is enriched" is Sima Yi's consistent proposition.

As early as when he served as Cao Cao's prime minister, Sima, he once suggested that "in the past, Chen Mou, the son of Ji, took food first. Today, there are more than [-] people who do not farm. It is not through the country. It is suitable to be plowed and guarded"; when he was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the two prefectures of Jing and Henan, he also ordered the counties and counties to make a large-scale military settlement.

Now, coming to Guanzhong is no exception.

In particular, the main reason for Cao Zhen's resignation at the beginning of the year and his death in anger was that the army's follow-up supplies were destroyed by the rioters.

"With enough food, the soldiers will be safe; if the army is safe, Guanzhong will be safe."

When he presented Luo Yang above, he stated so that Cao Rui and Gun Gun were called good.

He also allowed him to independently set up the necessary assistants for the army, as well as the military market established by purchasing cattle from the northern Xianbei and Xiongnu tribes during the marching strategy.

Among them, there are two Liao Zuo who have ordered the life, which is quite eye-catching.

One is the man of Fufeng, the emperor's close minister gave the matter to Ma Jun.

He was born in poverty, has a stutter and is not good at talking but is good at ingenuity.

Sima Yi appointed him as Liaozuo, intending to let him imitate the bobbin cart of the big man and use it for irrigation in the army.

In recent years, Prime Minister Zhuge Liang was forced by the shortage of manpower in the Han Dynasty, so he began to vigorously promote the use of bobbins that do not need manpower to irrigate fields in Hanzhong County, Longyou and other places.

It is also inevitable that Wei Guoxiozuo discovered the magical function of the drum car.

The other is from Yiyang, Jingzhou, Cao Dengai, a Diannonggong.

He also came from a poor background, had a stutter, and was less lonely. He was a farmer who forcibly migrated to Runan after Wei Wu Cao Cao won Jingzhou.Although he has few ambitions and a strategy in mind, he is limited by his family background, and he still has no promotion ranks in his early years.

When Sima Yi was in Wancheng, he occasionally talked with him when he was inspecting the farmland, and appreciated his talents and learning.

Now it is even more cited as a confidant, and he is asked to transfer to the military to be in charge of farming and acting as a soldier, so as to prepare for future conquests with the army.

It is different to set up a military city.

Buying cattle and horses from nomadic tribes to farm the fields, or making armored bows and crossbows with leather horn tendons are just obvious reasons.

In fact, he wanted to take the opportunity of trading with the Xianbei Tuoba tribe and the Xiongnu Zuoxian King Liu Bao to spread Wei's influence to the major tribes in the north, hoping that one day they could use benefits to lure them to help Wei attack Han.

No matter how bad it is, let them not fall to the big man in the future war between Han and Wei.

Unexpectedly, less than a month after the opening of the military city, Wei Guo ushered in the help that prevented the Han army from regaining Liangzhou.

The reason is not surprising. It was suggested by Jiang Ji, an important minister of the Wei State, that Liu Bao would be appointed as the guardian of Shuofang, creating a conflict between Xianbei and the Xiongnu.

However, since the Tuoba tribe of Xianbei moved to the north of Anding County, relying on the military support of the state of Wei, they quickly subdued the Qifu tribe, the Lujie tribe of Xianbei, and the defected Hu Boju tribe of the Wei Xiongnu Baosai. The small Qianghu tribe in the Kushui River Basin became attached by mutual alliance and other means, and the tribal power ushered in a rapid expansion.

For example, the sphere of influence of his tribe has expanded northward along the great river to the Hetao Plain, occupying Tushenze in Shuofang County and Jilusai in the west of the Yinshan Mountains (Langshan).

This is something Liu Bao can't bear.

The area around Tu Shenze has the most fertile pastures and fields in Shuofang County, and its production accounts for almost half of the county's output.

Since he was appointed by the Wei State as Shuofang's Protector, it was justifiable to ask Tu Shenze to come back.

Naturally, the grasslands only believe in the law of the jungle.

How can Tuoba Liwei, who has the ambition to rule the Hetao Plain, give up the pasture he occupies?

He not only scoffed at Liu Bao's emissary's claim of "righteousness and integrity", but also claimed that Liu Bao would come to visit him in accordance with the rules on the grassland and become a vassal of the Tuoba tribe.

Inevitably, the war between the two sides came as scheduled.

Liu Bao's tribe was already weaker than the Tuoba tribe of Xianbei, and they had just arrived, and had not yet won the hearts of the tribes in Shuofang County, so they were forced to retreat steadily from the beginning of the war.

However, soon, he ushered in a turning point.

Hu Bo, the defector of Wei Xiongnu's baosai master, was in charge of his position, and he was very worried about his tribe being annexed by Xianbei's Tuoba tribe, and worried that one day, Tuoba Liwei would send him as a "gift" to Luoyang for punishment in order to please Wei. .

Therefore, he sent people to look for Liu Bao in private, and with the same family as the bond, he put forward the conditions of cooperation: Hu Boju will serve Liu Bao as the main post, and Liu Bao will also be an alliance with him, and the two tribes will marry each other for generations. rich.

Liu Bao was overjoyed.

All the old kings and dignitaries of the tribe were called together, and according to the requirements of Hu Boju's position, according to the tradition, they respectively made oaths with reference to the sun and the moon.

Then came the great victory.

In the battle between the two sides three days later, Hu Boju, who was the rear army, directly defected and cut through Tuoba Liwei's army.

In that battle, the Xianbei Tuoba tribe lost Tu Shenze, and their sphere of influence shrank back to the Helan Mountains.

It also established Liu Bao's position in Shuofang County, and all tribes, large and small, attached to him "tactfully".

Tuoba Liwei was not willing to fail.

But with his mind, he also guessed that Liu Bao was deliberately sent by the Luoyang court to suppress the growth of his tribe.

Therefore, when resting and reorganizing the tribe, he also took advantage of the opportunity of Wei Guo's opening of the military market, and secretly ordered the vassal Qianghu small tribe to plunder Liu Bao's trade materials along the way, cutting off Liu Bao's opportunity to obtain Wei Guo's armaments.

Anyway, Wei Guo also didn't want to see Liu Bao's tribe continue to grow.

Even if they were looted, Wei Guo would not support Liu Bao.

They would even like to hear and see, hoping that the conflict between their two tribes would be more intense.

As he expected, when Liu Bao sent envoys to sue Guo Huai of the State of Wei, who was in charge of the military city in Anding County, he not only thought that the Han and Wei dynasties were tense and had no time to do so; Even horse thieves can't be defeated, which really damages Wei's national prestige.

But what Tuoba Liwei didn't expect was that after all, Liu Bao had moved into the Han Dynasty for a long time, and he knew quite well the balance of the Han family's temples.

Therefore, Liu Bao spontaneously asked the state of Wei for orders, claiming that he would not send [-] people from his tribe to Xiu Tuze in Wuwei County, and monitor Lu Shuihu for the state of Wei who had never been a subject of the state of Wei.

When the Han army attacked Jincheng County, it could also harass the Han army's food roads for the state of Wei.

When Sima Yi heard about it, he agreed without thinking.

When the Luoyang Temple was listed, Cao Rui and the princes directly issued an edict to reward Liu Bao's loyalty.

They all knew that the [-] soldiers of the Weiping Department of Jincheng County alone could not resist the Han army's attack on Liangzhou.

The Hexi Corridor is actually an abandoned land.

Now Liu Bao is willing to ask for orders to delay the time for the Han army to seize the land, and to buy time for Wei to cultivate his health, which is a surprise!

What is not allowed?

Furthermore, according to Cao Zhen's plan before his death, the key point that determines the outcome of the next big battle between Han and Wei is not the gains and losses of the counties in Liangzhou, but the time for Wei to rest!
As soon as Luoyang's edict was transmitted to the northwest, Tuoba Liwei responded quickly.

It is also claimed that [-] people from the Mingsha Mountain (today's Zhongwei City) bypassed the Quwu Mountains and entered Naowei County, which had been abandoned by the Wei State, and took the opportunity to harass the Han Army's Shuyin Fortress, so that the Han Army could not concentrate on it. Enter Jincheng County or Hexi Corridor.

The reason why he sent troops was not that he wanted to compete with Liu Bao for the favor of the State of Wei.

But he knew that once Liu Bao's tribe entered Xiu Tuze, the hometown of the Huns, they would never withdraw again. 【Note 1】

It will also form a situation where the Tuoba tribe will be attacked from the two fronts of Langshan and Xiu Tuze.

For the safety of his own tribe, he needs to take precautions and occupy Laowei County first! ——
[Note 1: Xiutu Ze was named Zhuye Ze in the pre-Qin period. In the early Han Dynasty, it was the grazing land of the Xiongnu King Xiutu, so it was renamed; it was named Baiting Ze in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and Qingtu Lake in the Republic of China.Due to the development of upstream agriculture, the water area has been shrinking. It was once dried up in 1959. Now the ecological protection has reappeared. 】

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