Shu Chen

Chapter 452 Discord
In Sima Yi's second letter, he didn't ask Deng Ai anything extra.

Instead, I suddenly remembered that compared with the Hexi Han army, Deng Ai's cavalry was weak and too few.

Deserts and grasslands are places where cavalry dominates, and out of fear of Zheng Pu, he feels that Deng Ai is hard to match now, so he thought of a way to make up for this disadvantage as much as possible.

In exchange for armaments, Liu Bao, the southern Xiongnu, allocated a thousand cavalry to fight for Wei for a year.

There is no need to worry that Liu Bao will find an excuse to reject this proposal.

After Kebi Neng was killed, the strong from the northern Xianbei fled to Mobei, and the weak surrendered to Wei or attached themselves to other tribes. There was a power vacuum in the grassland from western Liaoning to Hetao.Even if Wei Guo regained the northern part of Yanmen County, restored Yunzhong and Wuyuan, and Shuofang County, it could not fill this gap.

Without him, Wei Guo did not massively station troops in these counties and counties and move people to guard the border, and the influence of the county government was very weak.

Therefore, any tribe with some strength or ambition is busy robbing the pasture, attacking the weak and ignorant,
The same is true of Liu Bao.

Or in other words, he previously spared the lives of all the people to help the Wei State in the conquest, in order to get Wei Guoneng to canonize him as the Great Chanyu-with nominal legitimacy, not only the annexed tribes will be more obedient, but even the tribes of the counties and counties will be more obedient. The government will favor him one or two.

Moreover, his tribe lives in Tushenze, Shuofang County, which has always been the coveted pasture of the Mobei nomadic tribe. For his own safety, he will also actively reorganize his armaments.

Furthermore, Sima Yi's approach will not bring Deng Ai a shortage of food and fodder.

Nomadic tribes fight by driving cattle and sheep behind, grazing and eating on the spot. Deng Ai only needs to paint the habitat pastures of the Zahu tribe that had been slaughtered earlier to the southern Xiongnu Rangers!

Anyway, Liu Bao lent Deng Ai the thousand rangers temporarily, and it was not because of this that he entered Wei's military status.

The big deal is to give some more ordnance.

In addition, Sima Yi wrote a few gossip at the end of the letter.

For example, Jiangdong will not invade Huainan again this year because of the rebellion in the three counties last year.

The Luoyang temple originated from the flood in the heart of the Central Plains last year, so the emperor Cao Rui would not have the intention of raising troops to take over the new city of Hefei, so Deng Ai did not need to worry about other things.

These few idle words seem to have nothing to do with the Helan Mountain war, but Deng Ai understood the meaning after reading it.

Because in Sima Yi's last letter, he asked him to send someone to Gaoping City to ask Hu Zun for support if the battle goes wrong.

According to common sense, after Deng Ai received the letter, he should go to the letter and Hu Zun first, and roughly inform him of his defensive deployment and troop deployment, so that Hu Zun can make the best decision in the first place in case something happens. Appropriate deployment of reinforcements.

Instead of hastily opening the map to discuss with his subordinates and formulate rescue arrangements after receiving a call for help.

But Deng Ai never wrote.

He felt that if he acted according to Sima Yi's words, he was afraid that Hu Zun would have different opinions on his arrangement.

Hu Zunnai came from a famous family, and he entered the official career very early. He had previously conquered the Gongsun family in Liaodong with the army, and he was promoted to General Pingxi after a lot of hard work, and he was also Sima Yi's confidant general.

If such a person makes a suggestion, Deng Ai will fall into the dilemma of listening or not.

If you don't listen and don't talk too much, you will give yourself a reputation of despising the superior and being arrogant.

but if listened to
Leaving aside whether Hu Zun's suggestion is appropriate or not, Deng Ai, who has been in charge of one of his troops for so long, cannot accept it simply because he cannot be self-disciplined in war.

Rather than being caught in a dilemma, it is better not to write letters from the beginning to avoid complications.

But now that Sima Yi mentioned it cryptically again, he couldn't continue to turn a blind eye.

Because in Sima Yi's gossip, he claimed that the Huainan and Jingxiang fronts in Wei State will be safe this year, and that the Yongliang ministries in Guanzhong have the strength to support Helan Mountain.

It can turn the battle in Hexi into a tug of war!

Yes, tug of war.

After the battle of Qu Wushan last year, Sima Yi called his assistants to discuss and made a decision at that time.

If Nishu came back to attack Helan Mountain, then Guanzhong would support as much as possible to make the war protracted, in order to continue to consume Nishu's war heritage.Carry out the previous Shu strategy that Cao Zhen and Sima Yi insisted on: fight for national strength, and wait until Shu is overwhelmed before regaining lost ground and attacking Bashu.

Deng Aishang was not qualified to participate in this kind of military decision-making, but he could vaguely guess Sima Yi's intentions.

But he felt that it was difficult for Hu Zun to support Helan Mountain.

Nishu Xiaoqi General Zhao Guang has [-] cavalry, and he has never slackened his vigilance against the Wushui River Valley. Even if he was really attacked by Bapu and was in danger, how could Hu Zun support him without the spying of Nishu Rangers?
Maybe, as soon as Hu Zun sent troops out of Gaoping City, they were known by Nishu Zhao Guang and all his cavalry intercepted or set up an ambush along the road, so that the reinforcements were defeated and returned before they saw the big river!

In the wild, infantry are no match for cavalry.

If it is said that Hu Zun came slowly in the formation of WISCO carts and luggage carts, the Nishu cavalry could not find a chance to break through, but marching like this, when will the reinforcements arrive on the battlefield?
Maybe, when the reinforcements arrived at the mouth of Wushui River, he would have already been defeated and returned to Dingxi City!
Since the fortress of Yuyin and Zuli County fell into the hands of Nishu, Guanzhong and Hexi had been cut off and fell into a predicament where it was difficult to cope with the battle.

Therefore, Deng Ai hesitated again and again, and finally just attached his defensive deployment at Mingsha Mountain and Quwu Mountain, and then listed the difficulties of Gaoping City supporting Helan Mountain, and finally reiterated that he does not need reinforcements, just ask Hu Follow a little tension so that Zhao Guangbu of Nishu dare not drive his troops northward to flank Zheng Pu to attack him.

It is conceivable that Hu Zun was furious when he got the book.

Who is he Hu Zun!
He has made countless achievements in the south and north, and even Xue Ti, a veteran of the three dynasties, would discuss with him politely when he was in Anding County!
And Deng Ai, who can't stand shoulder to shoulder with him in terms of resume, official position, military exploits, etc., a humble husband who came from a humble background and rarely went to battle, actually ordered him as if he was under his command, and made him act as if to contain Zhao Guangbu against Shu!
ordinary man!

Crazy!

After reading the letter, Hu Zun cursed angrily in his heart.

However, coming from a wealthy family, he has a good self-cultivation, and he didn't do anything like pull out the knife case with a red face.

Yes, he has a way to support Deng Ai.

Because he is originally from Linjing, and his family has been based in Anding County for many years, so he can be called the prefect of the county.

Sima Yi used him to guard Gaoping City and also command the military affairs of Anding County, not just out of general considerations.

It is because there are some things that Sima Yi can't do, but the prestige accumulated by the Hu family who has been rooted in Anding County for generations can be done without any effort!
(End of this chapter)