Three Kingdoms: Ancestors of the Han Dynasty

Chapter 129 East Out of West City
In December, the whole world was in turmoil. When Cao Xiu marched to Lujiang County, he found that he had been deceived, but in order to save face, he relied on his large number of troops and confronted Lu Xun in the Shiting area.

Meng Da miscalculated. After Sima Yi wrote the letter to him, he disregarded the objections of his subordinates. After simply handling the military affairs, he immediately recruited soldiers and went upstream along the Han River from Xiangyang. It took nine days to reach Shangyong.

Sima Yi's troops divided into eight groups to besiege Shangyong day and night, and sent Wei Jun to block Han and Wu's rescue troops respectively.

At this time, Meng Da also reacted, asked Zhuge Liang and Zhuge Jin for help, and sighed in the letter: "It's only been nine days since I raised the army, and Sima Yi came to the city. How could he be so fast!"

At this time, Zhuge Liang had been in Xingcheng, the base camp of the Northern Expedition army, handling military affairs of various armies, and had no time to take care of this matter.

Handing over the matter to Liu Chan, who received the letter, Liu Chan urged Wang Ping to capture Xicheng as soon as possible and save Meng Da as soon as possible.

Wang Ping led an army of 5000 people to the vicinity of Anqiao, and confronted Shen Yi's army of [-] people.

At this time, Wang Ping, who received the letter, was calm as usual, but he was a little impatient in his heart.

Wang Ping kept pacing back and forth in the camp, and he led his army to confront Shen Yi, but Shen Yi kept guarding Anqiao.

Ju Fu, whom he has placed high hopes on, has not been in contact with Li Qian since he led more than a thousand Baijiawei from De Seoul and entered the Renhe Valley Road.

Moreover, when he arrived, he found that although the Renhe River could reach the Hanshui River, he could also bypass it, but he needed to cross the river from the south of the Yangtze River to the north bank. Therefore, Wang Ping hoped to contact him to see if he could sneak across from the lower reaches and cut off his way back.

Just when Wang Ping was in a hurry, he suddenly had to report that more than a thousand people had crossed the road to Shen Yi's camp, and had just attacked the grain and grass camp of Shen Yi's army, cutting off their way back.

Wang Ping was overjoyed and ordered Jufu to approach Anqiao and surround Shenyi's camp.

The next day, Gou Fu led more than a thousand people to Anqiao and stationed at a place not more than ten miles away from Shenyi. According to Wang Ping's order, he sent the prisoners back to the camp to disturb the morale of the army.

Anqiao, Shenyi camp at noon.

Although it was severe winter and the cold wind was howling outside the tent, Shen Yi was sweating profusely, stood up tremblingly and continued to ask, "Say it again later."

Unaware of the situation, the defeated soldiers thought that Shen Yi hadn't heard clearly, and lowered their heads in fear and continued: "The Han army descended like gods the night before, taking advantage of our unpreparedness, they attacked the camp at night, and the food and supplies were either seized or burned."

Shen Yi's face was sluggish, but she was not angry, she asked herself: "Where did the enemy army come from? The army has been confronting our army in Anqiao since four days ago, and there is no change. Could it be that they are really heavenly soldiers!"

The servants came out and said: "My lord, the Han army may pass through the Renhe Valley Road and penetrate to the back of our army."

The State of Wei has always implemented the policy of confinement in the three eastern counties, and Shen Yi is like an emperor in Xincheng County, so most of the generals and literati under him are followers.

Shen Yi sat back in her seat blankly, waved her hand to signal her to back down, and just now the defeated soldiers crawled out of the tent like fleeing a catastrophe.

Shen Yi regained her senses, restrained her expression, and said dejectedly: "Our army is in the north of the Han River, and it is also in the south of the Han River to reach the Ren River. I am very prepared. The boats on both sides of the river have been gathered by us. How can they cross the river?" They crossed the river and came to our army's grain village, and our army has not found it yet."

Everyone in the tent was silent, because when they chose the camp, they had already considered Renhe Valley Road, so they chose the corner of the Han River to set up camp near Anqiao.

In fact, when Jufu was traveling in the Renhe Valley, he and Li Qian continued to make good friends with the Zong people in the mountains, and hired local Zong people as guides.

Jufu Yili lured the Zhu people in the mountains to come out of the mountain to assist him in the battle, and with the help of the local people, Jufu took advantage of the night in the narrow lower reaches of Anqiao, relying on the only leftovers collected by the local Zhu people from other villagers. Two small boats crossed the Han River, plunged directly behind Shen Yi, and attacked the grain village.

Everyone in the camp had different thoughts on this, and the voices in the tent were chaotic, but Shen Yi didn't bother with this question, and asked slowly: "I don't know what you can teach me about the current situation."

As soon as this remark came out, the originally noisy crowd fell silent for an instant. People who had other thoughts in their hearts did not dare to put forward their own ideas like this.

Shen Yi and everyone looked at each other, and finally a senior official who had served Shen Yi's father and brother stood up with high prestige, cupped his hands and said, "Master, we are trapped and we have run out of food and grass, so we need to make plans early."

After Shen Yi heard about it, she looked at the people under her command and asked tentatively, "I want to wait for General Hussars (Sima Yi) to come to help me. What do you think?"

The Chinese man in the account frowned, cupped his hands and said, "Sima Yi is far away from Shangyong to attack Mengda. If I wait for him to arrive, I'm afraid we will die in battle, or starve to death, or die."

Feeling helpless, Shen Yi asked the literati, "I don't know what you can teach me, sir?"

The literati replied casually: "I think I can surrender..." The literati thought about something, and suddenly stopped, no longer speaking.

Regarding this, Shen Yi sighed and said, "Sir, don't be afraid, although I am a minister of Wei, I am also the head of each family."

The literati said cautiously: "My lord, I think we can descend to the Han."

Shen Yi waved her hand to signal him to continue, and the literati cupped their hands and continued: "Now we are trapped, with enemies in front and behind, and food and grass are short of food, if we don't surrender, there is only one way out, my lord can lead the army to break out. "

Shen Yi lowered her head and murmured, breaking through is not impossible, but the 5000 people in the village are all of Shen's net worth, and the hard work of herself and her brother Shen Dan for many years may be damaged by this.

And if it’s just that, since Dongsan County was brought under the jurisdiction of Jingzhou, Dongsan County has been in prison all the time. It’s not that Wei Guo doesn’t want to do it, but Dongsan County’s complex terrain, inconvenient transportation, and strategic location. It is not prominent, but because it is on the border of Han and Wu, the three counties are not insignificant.

When Xia Houshang, the former governor of Jingzhou, was in office, he repaired the roads in the three counties, recruited thousands of mountain people and barbarians to the three counties, and deeply developed the three east counties.

If after this defeat, all the soldiers I relied on disappeared, I would be sent to live in Nanyang just like my elder brother Shen Dan because he had a big man in his heart, how could I bear it.

Just as Shen Yi was thinking, the guards outside the tent suddenly reported: "My lord, General Wang Ping of the Han Dynasty hosted a banquet outside the stronghold to entertain the general, and he is the only one."

Upon hearing this, Shen Yi raised her head and looked at the crowd, waiting for their suggestions.

The literati immediately cupped their hands and said: "My lord, according to my opinion, the general of the Han Dynasty must try to persuade the lord, and the lord can go out to the banquet for the time being to find out the details."

The literati wanted Shen Yi to find out the conditions for the return of the Han army, so Shen Yi had no choice but to agree, and went out to meet Wang Ping.

(End of this chapter)