Shu Chen

Chapter 266 Betrayal
The answer from the Xianbei Tuoba tribe was as Jia Xu expected.

Even though he promised to provide food and fodder, and the Tuoba tribe could give priority to picking the spoils after the war, the young commander Dai Hu'a Langni was still unwilling to fight side by side with the Wei army.

And the attitude remains the same.

Claiming that with thousands of people from his clan, he can plunder the Han army and return home, so why condescend to listen to Jia Xu's dispatch!

Jia Xu could vaguely guess Dai Hu'a Langni's sternness.

He was scared.

Let me ask, if he leads his tribe to come, if the Han army finds out where his troops are, how can they not take it as the first choice of attack?

In other words, he didn't want to become a consumable in the struggle between the Han and Wei dynasties again.

Jia Xu didn't say anything to persuade him, he just let him go.

For a dagger in the shadows is more worrying than a drawn sword.

As long as Dai Hu'a Langni remained in Hexi, the Han army would have to be on guard, and it would be a burden sharing for Wei.

In fact, on the way to find Yang Fu, Jia Xu couldn't help laughing at the latest news reported by the scouts.

Wei Yan, the general of the Han army, didn't know whether he thought it was too embarrassing to be looted by Xianbei, or to motivate the morale of his soldiers who were defeated for a while before the battle, so he divided up two thousand Qiang cavalry from the Qiang guard battalion, led by Jiang Wei himself. Leave the team and go to Naowei to look for Dai Hua Langni.

And there is a tendency not to kill him and swear not to return to his teacher.

Today, Wei Guo will not underestimate Jiang Wei as a mediocre and idle person.

With his previous record of chasing and killing Qiang Qiang for thousands of miles, and making a surprise attack on Fuyin City, no one would think that the Tuoba tribe of Xianbei could compete.

Even Jiang Wei has fewer cavalry pawns.

However, Jia Xu didn't care about Dai Hu'a Langni's life or death.

What he cared about was that the Han army, which didn't have many cavalry, even separated out the cavalry of the Qiang Guard Battalion.

You know, in the [-] Hexi coalition army under his supervision, there are nearly [-] cavalry pawns!

Only Ma Dai's Han army of [-] Xiliang iron cavalry is left. How can Wei Yan protect the food and roads?

Taking a step back, even if the Han army marched in a chariot formation, the Hexi cavalry could not attack, but after the main force of the Han army arrived at Jincheng County, the Hexi cavalry would be able to come and go freely, so how could they concentrate on attacking the city? What about plug?
This is why Jia Xu is in a good mood - before the war between the Han and Wei dynasties started, the Tuoba tribe of Xianbei took four or five thousand soldiers of the Han army away.

It is gratifying!
However, there are gains and losses.

It is not without things that Jia Xu regrets.

For example, after the Han army was attacked by the Xianbei Tuoba tribe, the time to come to Jincheng County will inevitably be delayed, and they will be cautious along the way, and the marching speed will be greatly reduced, which will give Wei Ping in Jincheng enough time to prepare for the battle.

In other words, it was a mistake for him to ask Pang Huidu to lead the cavalry to snatch the unripe wheat.

Calculating the time, the wheat can be harvested after it is ripe.However, because of the solid walls and clearing the fields that he and Wei Ping had set up, Jincheng County lost a season of grain.

There was also news from Cangci, the prefect of Zhangye, about Zhang Hua, the prefect of Xihai, sending troops into the country.

This made Jia Xu feel a little uneasy.

Ever since the Zhang family in Dunhuang refused to jointly defend against the Han army under various pretexts, he has been worried about changes in the two counties of Dunhuang and Xihai, which are located at the rear ends of the northwest and northwest of the Hexi Corridor.

He was afraid that the Zhang family would change their banner, or that they would reap the benefits of being a fisherman.

There are two reasons.

One is Huang Hua, the prefect of Jiuquan, who became enemies with the Zhang family during the great disturbance in Hexi.

Back then, if Zhang Gong hadn't sent troops to attack Huang Hua's rear on behalf of President Shi Shi, and welcomed Yin Feng, the prefect appointed by the imperial court, into the county, Huang Hua would not have been defeated so easily and had no choice but to surrender.

Now that Huang Hua has returned to Hexi, with his qualifications and contacts in Kanto for many years, he is targeting the Zhang family both openly and secretly.

For example, after Zhang Gong passed away, many horse bandits appeared on the border connecting Dunhuang and Jiuquan, and they often went deep into Dunhuang County to plunder.

For this reason, Zhang wanted to lead the army to suppress the bandits more than once, but was stopped by Huang Hua on the grounds that he could not cross the border.

Sometimes, he would not hesitate to tear up his face and personally lead troops to block them.

Anyone with a discerning eye knows that those horse bandits have something to do with Huang Hua.

It was even secretly instigated by Huang Hua!

There is also the position of governor of Hexi. The emperor of Luoyang Temple and the princes of Gungun originally intended to be Zhang and take the position, and Jia Xu was the deputy.

The reason is that the Zhang family in Dunhuang has great prestige in Xichuan, and there are two prefects in one family, which can make the scholars in the Hexi Corridor shadow.

But after Huang Hua knew about it, he made a list.

The table said:

"In the old days, Zhong Ni said, 'The only thing is the weapon and the name, you can't be a fake person, and the king is in charge. The name is the letter, and the letter is the weapon'. Today, the Zhang family in Dunhuang has no more grace. If you grant authority , fearing that the ministers and others will try their best to rebel against Shu and invade, and Xizhou does not belong to Wei!"

To put it bluntly, it is concluded that the Zhang family will definitely rebel after taking power.

Although, the biggest reason for Huang Hua's move was out of selfishness that worried that Zhang's family would be disadvantaged if he became powerful.

But no one can guarantee that the Zhang family will be loyal to Wei Guo!

After all, he is a Borderlander.
In the Luoyang temple, there are many Kanto families, and in order to avoid hidden dangers, they changed the candidate for the governor of Hexi.

As for Jia Xu is also from Hexi, there is no need to worry.

Jia Xu doesn't have the prestige of the Zhang family.

Even if he has objections, not many people are willing to sacrifice their lives.

Another reason is the old grievances accumulated from the interests of the Silk Road trade after the Wei State implemented the "ruling the border by people from the border".

The two counties controlled by the Zhang family belong to the end of the Hexi Corridor. The silk, tea and other materials transported from the Central Plains were already worth a hundred times when they were transferred to Dunhuang. , set the tariffs particularly high.

However, Zhang Gong had previously served as the captain of Wuji in the Western Regions. Zhang Jiu, who was bound by his father's trust, often received complaints and appeals from caravans from small countries in the Western Regions, which he could not tolerate.

But no matter how many times he wrote books indignantly, it did not change the desire of the counties and counties to collect money.

Yang Fu, who was the governor of Liangzhou, intervened, and the prefects all blamed the matter on the county bureaucrats. They wrote back and vowed in person that they would rectify it, but the situation subsided a few days later and everything went back to normal.

Back and forth evasion, and finally let it go.

In desperation, in order to appease the grievances of the caravans from the small countries in the Western Regions and maintain the faith of the Zhang family, the Zhang family had no choice but to send horses from Xihai County along the edge of the desert to the city of Yuyin to fetch supplies for the Silk Road.

The journey of thousands of miles and the loss of manpower and material resources in traveling back and forth made the Zhang family very angry.

Even though the Silk Road trade has been cut off due to the war, the Zhang family is still brooding.

Jia Xu felt that the reason why the Zhang family excused not to send troops now was because of all the previous grievances.

But what Cangci reported, the Zhang family did not hesitate to tear up their face, and wanted to send troops to take away the valley road connecting Zhangye and Huawai Qiang, which made him uneasy.

Those who linger in the Huawai Qiang land are near the Huluzhi Wudai and Baihuwen, and far away are the Shaodang Qiang tribe.

And all of them have followed the rebellious Shu into the country of Wei!
Could it be that the Zhang family has already voted for Shu?
(End of this chapter)