Shu Chen

Chapter 262 Borrowing a Knife
Indeed, the assassinated Zheng Pu was fine.

He has been in the army for a long time, and has been faced with fighting with a blade in person several times. He already has an instinctive reaction to the danger.

In addition, Li Jian, who was assassinated, was just a poverty-stricken, bone-shattered man from the white house. He lacked strength and had never been trained as a dead warrior. ?

The blood that day was seen was when Zheng Pu retracted his abdomen, the sharp dagger made a sharp cut along the trajectory, it didn't penetrate at all, let alone hurt the liver and lungs.

Afterwards, I found some wound medicine and wrapped it up, and the scabs formed within a few days.

The reason why Zhang Bao went to war was because he felt that there was an assassin lurking in the emissary he had selected and hurt Zheng Pu, so he got angry because of guilt.

As for why Zheng Pu didn't show up in front of the crowd after being assassinated.
It was because he received two envoys during the few days of recuperation.

One of them is a member of the Xu family in Zhangye.

In the old days, when Jiang Wei went behind to attack the fortress of Yuyin, after the captured Xu Zhi surrendered, Zheng Pu asked him to send some of his confidants back to his hometown, and told his family that he had abandoned Wei and returned to Han.

Wei Guojun is known for his strict discipline.

Xu Zhi's actions like this, according to military law, will inevitably implicate his family and clan.

The Zhangye Xu family knew that once the incident was exposed, the family lintel would usher in a catastrophe, and they gave up thinking about the two sides of the mouse, sitting and watching the success or failure of the Han and Wei battles before making plans, and turned to help the Han army take over. Hexi Corridor.

This time, it is to let the family members pretend to be down-and-out scholars and come to the fortress of Yuyin with a message.

The message is quite long.

First, he made a general accusation, claiming that the Zhangye prefect Cangci, who was loyal to the Wei state, ordered the big families in the county to resist the Han army together, and the Xu family had to follow the crowd to fund some money and food.This is the result of Wei Guo thinking that Xu Zhi and Xu's more than 200 songs were all dying in battle, and the Xu family had contributed to the country, so they did not force the result.

Afterwards, the three counties of Wuwei, Zhangye, and Jiuquan all wanted to fight to the death, and formed a coalition of about [-] troops, intending to disturb the Han army's attack on Jincheng County's grain roads, and even the military situation with Wei Ping.

After learning about this military situation, Zheng Pu, Zhuge Qiao, Zhang Bao and others were momentarily stunned.

After all, the envoys who came here a few days ago made them feel that the hearts of the people in the Hexi Corridor were sloppy, and that many powerful people would not fight to the death for Wei Guo.

No matter how bad it is, those tyrants should have both ways.

Unexpectedly, Jia Xu, Cang Ci, Huang Hua and others directly promised "painting land supporters", with the condition of never collecting taxes and sharing weal and woe, so that those Haoyou and Qianghu tribes decided to fight for the future Fight once?
This also disrupted the previous deployment of the Han army.

Originally, against the Wei Dynasty, the soldiers and horses were huddled in Jincheng County, and they made an act of abandoning the Hexi Corridor. Therefore, the soldiers and horses of the Han Dynasty who conquered Liangzhou this time were based on Wei Yan's [-] elite troops, and Zheng Pu and Zhang Bao's [-] troops. Soldiers guard the fortress of Yuyin and the grain road.

But now the three counties in Hexi have put together an army of [-], which makes Zheng Pu, who is guarding the grain road, in a dilemma.

The grain road from Quyin City Fortress to Jincheng County is too long!

With his strength, there is no way to protect him completely.

Although, the army patched together in Hexi must have the disadvantages of disorganized military capacity and difficult orders.

If it is a frontal battle, Zheng Pu is confident that he can defeat three times the enemy, and he can be undefeated against five times the enemy.

However, the Hexi Corridor, where Hu and Han are mixed, farming and animal husbandry coexist, has always been a place where six animals live. Both the Han family, the Li Shu and the Qiang and Hu tribes all have the superb riding skills of "riding sheep and shooting pikas when they were young, and shooting eagles and wolves on horseback when they were old". Shooting kung fu, the assembled army must also be dominated by cavalry.

At that time, Jia Xu, the governor of Hexi against Wei who has been in the army for half his life, only needs to disperse the cavalry into several groups, use the wind-like maneuvering power to avoid fighting, and harass day and night, which will greatly disturb and exhaust the Han army guarding the grain. up.

At this time, Zhuge Qiao's proposal was to go to Longyou to write letters.

Please sit in the prime minister of Jixian County and transfer Zhao Guangbu, the Xiaoqi general who is on guard in the Wushui River Valley (Qingshui River), to ride against Ma Dai, the general who has just moved to the west of the town.

But Zheng Pu tactfully refused.

Zhao Guangbu, the main force monitoring Niwei Guanzhong, is the eyes and ears of Longyou's defense and must not be mobilized.

Otherwise, Niwei will find an opportunity to send several troops and horses to disrupt people's livelihood and hurt the foundation of the Han conquest.

Zheng Pu wanted to wait for Jiang Wei, who had gone to Wuting Nishui River Valley (Zhuanglang River) to inquire about news, to return before making any plans.

Because a few days ago, Jiang Wei asked those soldiers who escorted the remains back for burial to bring back a message: the two leaders of the Xiutu Branch of the Xiongnu who had joined him in the surprise attack on the city of Yinyin, Zhi Wudai and Bai Huwen, were willing to fight with the Han army again. Fight alongside.

The purpose is not derived from the hatred against Wei Wei, but from the interests.

After the Kewu tribe entrenched in Lingjusai-Yunjie County migrated away, the section of the Wuting Nishui River Valley that straddled the two counties became a land without owner.

Zhi Wudai and Bai Huwen longed for the fertile fields and lush pastures.

Naturally, they also knew that without the approval and support of the big man, they would not be able to get their hands on it by virtue of their own strength.

Needless to say against Wei Wei, if it weren't for the Han army, they would have sent troops to blame for the loss of the fortress of Yuyin.

And looking at the 400 years of Dahan's practice, there is a saying that every inch of land will not be given up.

Therefore, through this contribution to the war, they will accept the canonization of the Han Dynasty and undertake the obligations of paying tribute every year and sending troops when necessary, and migrate into the territory of the Han Dynasty in an attached manner.

Zheng Pu's plan was to ask Jiang Wei, with his Qiang Huying battalion and Ma Dai's Xiliang iron cavalry, Zuo Zhizhi Wudai and Bai Huwen's clansmen, can they defeat the Hexi cavalry?
However, what he didn't expect was that before Jiang Wei returned, the envoys from the Tuoba tribe of Xianbei had arrived!
Yes, the other messenger was sent by Dai Hu'a Langni, the Xianbei marshal who was lingering in Laowei County.

To be precise, it was sent by Tuoba Liwei.

It's still here to find the Han Army Alliance.

The emissary was Tuoba Liwei's aunt. As soon as he arrived, he bluntly stated the incompatibility between Tuoba tribe and Wei State today-Wei State supported Zuoxian King Liu Bao and prevented Tuoba tribe from entering the Hetao Plain.

Later, it was claimed that the Xianbei Tuoba tribe had never robbed the Han family and Li Shu, whether it was in Dingxiang County in Bingzhou before or now it has migrated to Helan Mountain.

In the end, it was to ask the Han army to open the military market.

The reason is quite touching.

On the grounds that Liu Bao had assisted the Wei State in attacking the Han before, and now that he has been supported, he has become a diehard loyalist to the Wei State, and he has also become the enemy of the Han.

The Tuoba tribe and the left tribe of the Southern Huns are Qiu Yu.

If the great Han opened a military market and allowed the Tuoba tribe to obtain excellent weapons and defeat the left of the Southern Huns, it would be a strategy of "borrowing swords to kill people".

Worst of all, Tuoba Liwei can also make Liu Bao feel that the war is tight, forcing him to recall Hu Bojuzi, who has already entered Xiu Tuze, to reduce the resistance of the Han army to recover the Hexi Corridor.

(End of this chapter)