Three Kingdoms: I help Liu Bei grow thousands of miles

Chapter 936

Looking at Chen Qun's leaving back, Sima Zhao's eyes flickered with gloom.

Sima Zhao wasn't afraid of Chen Qun's threats at all. Now that his entire family was dead and his body was mutilated, the only thing that kept him alive was hatred, so he wasn't afraid of anything.

The reason why he still listened to Chen Qun's words was that what Sima Zhao valued was the power in the other party's hands. Only when the power was firmly held like Zhao Gao, could he do whatever he wanted.

There are constant border troubles in the state of Wei, and frequent riots among the people in the country. Sima Zhao showed his signs early last year, and interested people secretly came to him.

Eunuchs had no heirs, so they were able to intervene in politics and power, all relying on the emperor's tacit support. The emperor liked to cultivate eunuchs, either to fight against the civil official group, or to check and balance foreign relatives.

Because eunuchs have no roots, they can easily become political victims. Sima Zhao was educated by Sima Yi when he was young, and he knew that officials should not only rely on the emperor, but also win over civil servants or generals, so that they can do what Zhao Gao did.

Sima Zhao liquidated the small gentry in Luoyang and the minions of the big families in Henan, and was appreciated by the gentry in Hebei. They secretly contacted this young man and they encouraged Cao Pi to move the capital back to Yecheng. If you can't, you can still rely on the Yellow River to block the Han army.

Yecheng is one of the places where the Sima family exterminated the family. The proposal of the scholars in Hebei coincided with Sima Zhao. On the surface, he promised Chen Qun to actively manage the government, but privately informed the scholars in Hebei. Seeing the emperor for a long time, the news of moving the capital was slowly talked about by Cao Pi.

Han Zhangwu three years, Wei Huangchu six years.

At the end of February, the Central Plains was still freezing, but Cao Xiu of Wancheng couldn't sit still. He mobilized troops and horses to cross the river from the south of Wancheng, and detoured along the direction of the river to find Guan Yu for a decisive battle.

Jingzhou soldiers and horses have been stationed in Bowang for two months, and they don't appear to be starving, freezing or collapsing at all, while Wancheng's military and food reserves continue to decrease. What's more dangerous is that they are cut off from the Central Plains, and there is no reply from the direction of Runan.

Cao Xiu first admitted his weakness in the war of attrition, and the Wei army built a pontoon bridge to cross the river along the position where Zhang He cut off the flow. Cao Xiu thought that even if he could not capture Bowang City, he could send a partial army to bypass the city during the war and go to the Central Plains to report Nanyang. battle situation.

Cao Xiu also planned to take time out of the garrisons in Yingchuan, Chenliu, Hanoi, Shanyang and other counties, and choose a general to integrate the county soldiers and Nanyang Wei soldiers to attack Guan Yu back and forth.

The small-scale mobilization and reconnaissance of the Wei army can be handled by Guan Ping himself, but this time the Wei soldiers in Wancheng came out in full force, so he could only shrink the scope of activities and report back to Bowang to Guan Yu for handling.

Cao Xiu took Rencheng King Cao Zhang as the vanguard in the front, and left general Zhang Yun cut off the rear to protect the food. Cao Xiu commanded a total of [-] soldiers and horses in the Chinese army, and marched towards Bowang City after crossing the river.

The battle in the Central Plains and the hedging of the army formations have no bunkers or concealed objects to cover them.

According to Guan Yu's style of avoiding the main force and attacking the weak points last year, Cao Xiu was sure that Guan Yu's soldiers would stick to Bowang, and the Wei army could simply attack the city for a few days to put pressure.

It doesn't matter whether Bowang can be captured or not, just take the opportunity to send the information back to the Central Plains, and recruit Nanyang's military rations from the counties.

Bowang was dry, cold and windy in winter, but the defenders inside and outside the city lived comfortably, because Guan Yu made the whole army eat three meals a day, which was better than the treatment they received during wartime.

According to the supply of Cao Xiu's [-] soldiers from all over the Central Plains, the food sent in these two months is too much, and the official warehouses of Bowang and Duyang can't hold it at all, and it is easy to be damp and deteriorate when stored in the wild.

In addition to increasing the daily food supply, Guan Yu also distributed it to the poor people. His prestige in the Central Plains was already high, and with the kindness of donating food, Li Shu was determined to become a Han family.

From the troubled times at the end of the Han Dynasty, Nanyang County was successively ruled by Yuan Shu, Liu Biao, Zhang Xiu, and Cao Cao. The warlords continued to exploit the people, and even slaughtered the city from time to time. 54 households, 243 million people), became Shura’s purgatory, starving and dying everywhere, and no rooster crowed for thousands of miles.

During the Central Plains War, the people of Nanyang fled for their lives, mainly to Nanjun, Hanzhong, Runan and other places. It almost became a scene of ten houses and nine empty houses. Now most of the people in Nanyang are refugees from Hebei and Sanfu.

The former regards the people as nothing, while the latter distributes rice and millet to the people.

Which one is better and which is inferior shall be judged.

Cao Zhang led a vanguard of [-] people and arrived [-] miles south of Bowang. He found that Guan Yu did not refuse to defend the city as Cao Xiu had speculated, but took the initiative to form a formation here. Not less than our own.

"Great Sima made another miscalculation. Guan Yu is probably old, and his actions have repeatedly violated the art of war. How dare you fight us head-on with few people? Today, this king just became famous." Cao Zhang looked at the general beside him and stroked his beard and laughed. .

"King Rencheng, the general sees that Jingzhou's soldiers and horses are well-prepared and their strength is still higher than ours. Why don't we wait for the main force of Da Sima to arrive before we attack?" The general saw that Guan Yu was frightened, and gently reminded Cao Zhang not to underestimate the enemy. .

"How pedantic are you? When the first emperor was alive in the past, this king often defeated the army independently. How is Wen Lie (Cao Xiu) better than me? Guan Yu is arrogant and arrogant. When the king fights in front of the battle, he will definitely be inspired to fight. , even if you can’t kill him on the spot, you have to exhaust his vitality like Zhang Yun did when he fought against Yan Yan.” Cao Zhang snorted coldly.

During Cao Cao's lifetime, Cao Zhang often led troops to fight alone. Whether it was conquering Wuhuan or suppressing rebellion in various places, he almost never experienced defeat. However, due to his embarrassing status, Cao Pi was removed from the military power after he succeeded. , Drinking in the fief all day, depressed.

What is even more ironic is that Xia Houshang, Cao Zhang's former general, is now the general of Zhengdong and the governor of Xu Yang, and has become an important military minister guarding one side, but he actually wants to be inferior to Cao Xiu. Few people can understand Qu.

When the state of Wei was in danger, Cao Zhang put aside his suspicions and was ordered to come to Nanyang. He planned to have a good fight, but Guan Yu's tactics surprised him. He will not let go of this opportunity, he will use actual actions to prove that he is better than Cao Xiu.

General Pi was so refuted by Cao Zhang that he didn't dare to answer back, so he could only follow the opponent and greet him slowly.

When he was about to approach, Cao Zhang called several generals to his side and told them to perform their duties for a while. After fighting or beheading the generals in front of the battle, he would use the weapons in his hands to issue orders to let the generals press down on the enemy when they were defeated.

Wearing exquisite fish-scale armor, Cao Zhang rode a Dawan horse, which was a tribute from the Western Regions, and slowly walked to the front of the two armies with a halberd in his hand. Provocative action.

"The traitor Guan Yu, see this king so far, why don't you get off your horse and be bound?" Cao Zhang mocked loudly.

Unexpectedly, Guan Yu did not get angry, but uttered two words with doubts on his face: "This halberd."

(End of this chapter)