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Chapter 52 The Court
Among the generals of Yongliang and Liang, Guo Huai is Sima Yi's old friend, but Deng Ai is Sima Yi's confidant.

Nan'an blocked the road leading to Shangbei, and [-] cavalry had to report when they passed through its jurisdiction.

Xiahou Ba was arrogant and arrogant, he would rather detour the mountain road to the north than take the traditional Longxi Road, that's why he detoured for more than a hundred miles.

There are still more than 40 miles away from Jieting.

Li Mi was just looking for something to say.

Seeing Xia Houba's attitude, he no longer has the interest to continue the awkward chat.

Yang Zheng led his forty soldiers to cut trees and set up camp.

In this era, the Longyou area was quite desolate, with barren mountains and wild ridges, and wild animals everywhere. The Han people and barbarians were fierce in temperament, serving the people during the day and bandits at night.

So basic precautions are necessary.

After setting up the camp, it will be dark.

The wind roared in the wilderness, and wolves howled one after another.

Yang Zheng always felt that something was going to happen, or expected something to happen, but nothing happened until dawn.

Li Mi is still alive and kicking, no sickness or disaster.

It may be that Xiahouba was preoccupied when he was approaching Shangbei.

Shangyu is the gateway to the two counties of Guangwei and Guangwei in Tianshui.

In the fifth year of Taihe, Zhuge Wuhou went out to Qishan to occupy Lucheng, and defeated Guo Huai at Shanggu with an inferior force. Sima Yi refused to fight and defended the wall.

At this time, Shangyu was also lively, there were camps everywhere outside the city, people shouted and neighed, and there were many Qiang cavalry among them.

Guo Huai had already ordered that all the soldiers of the generals and schools be stationed outside the city.

There was a lot of traffic in the city, and it seemed that all the respectable people from the Longyou counties had come.

The mansion is also full.

However, Xia Houba obviously couldn't be compared with general generals, and he was considered a respectable figure in Yongliang, so he was directly assigned to a courtyard.

There were quite a few people who came to visit, and some of them were quite related to Xiahou's family.

Xiahou Dun's heirs were not in good shape. During his son Xiahou's governorship in Chang'an, he bought many concubines, indulged in wine and sex, and later attacked each other with several brothers, which was disgusted by Emperor Ming.

But Xiahouyuan's sons were quite successful, Xiahouba aside, the third son Xiahou said that he shot and killed tigers at the age of 16, and he was a heavy weapon for Wei, but unfortunately he died young.

The fourth son Xia Houwei successively served as the governor of Jingyanzhou.

The fifth son, Xia Hourong, was able to write at the age of seven, and he had a photographic memory. When he was 13 years old, he was in Hanzhong with Xia Houyuan.

Xiahouhui and Xiahouhe were also talented for a while.

The Xiahou family is a top-notch family in Cao Wei itself, with deep roots and intertwined with many big families.

In the early years when Xia Houwei was the prefect of Mount Tai, he brought together the two clans of Xiahou and Yang to marry Yanghu with Xiahouba's daughter.

According to seniority, Zhang Fei, a famous Shu Han general, is also the son-in-law of the Xiahou family, and Zhang Fei's daughter married Liu Chan, the lord of Shu...

Yang Zheng felt a mess in his head.

In the past two days, I have met many people with Xia Houba, and I have a clearer understanding of the Cao Wei family.

Cao Shuang used him to guard Longxi, and it was a good move to divide Yongliang's military power. He cooperated with Xia Houxuan on one left and one right.

If there hadn't been a disastrous defeat in the Shu campaign, within a few years, Yongliang's heart would have returned to Xiahou.

On the third day, Guo Huai finally opened the meeting.

More than a hundred generals, school officials and officials gathered together.

Yang Zheng saw two acquaintances, Pang Hui and Hu Fen.

The two also saw him.

Pang Hui hid far away, for fear of getting involved with him.

Hu Fen, on the other hand, smiled and nodded.

Guo Huai was not only a fake pre-holiday general, but also the governor of Yongliang. He was caught by the military and government, and he was no different from the Jiedu envoy of the Tang Dynasty.

Speaking of it, Guo Huai was still Xiahouyuan's old army back then. He participated in the Battle of Hanzhong as the marching Sima. Xiahouyuan fell to Dingjun Mountain. It broke the heart of the Wei army.

"In the defeat of Shu, seven out of ten of Yongliang's elites, Guanzhong is empty, and careful investigation reports, Jiang Wei stationed troops in Hanzhong, must have the heart to invade me!" Guo Huai said in a deep voice in the hall.

When Yang Zheng heard that it was not a criticism meeting, half of the stone in his heart dropped.

Thinking about it, how could a big man like Guo Huai care about an ant like himself?
People may not remember themselves.

Besides, attacking the Qiang land was indeed the fastest time to quell the Qiang rebellion and stabilize the situation. In this way, I still have credit for it, not to mention rewards, but I won’t make fun of myself, right?
All the generals in the hall were talking about it.

It didn't surprise too many people that the Shu army didn't take advantage of the victory to attack key points and raise troops to attack Longyou.

On the contrary, it is strange that they did not act.

After Zhuge Wuhou passed away, Jiang Wei, the unicorn of Tianshui, took over the mantle and determined to revive the Han Dynasty in the Northern Expedition.

The current situation in Longyou is not optimistic. While Guanzhong is still recuperating, Chang'an cannot provide reinforcements, and the total number of soldiers and horses in Longyou counties is only about [-].

It is also necessary to suppress the Yi who are about to move.

During Jiang Wei's Northern Expedition, he either pointed his troops directly at Longxi, or went out of Qishan Fort to attack Gu, that's why Guo Huai appeared here.

Cao Wei controlled Wudu County in name, but Wudu was almost captured by the Shu people long ago, and Cao Wei only occupied some superficial land.

It is not difficult to predict that the Shu army will attack Longxi. Jiang Wei is familiar with the barbarian situation and has a certain reputation among the Qiang people.

Since the second year of Jingchu, Jiang Wei has repeatedly entered the Qiang to fight, linking up with the Qiang tribe,
In the first year of Zhengshi, Jiang Wei and the Qiang invaded Longxi and was repelled by Guo Huai.

Before the Qiang chaos, the Qiang people didn't look for Nan'an, didn't move Jincheng, didn't disturb Tianshui, but just stared at a county in Longxi, maybe it was a test.

Moreover, Jiang Wei was also the general of Zhenxi in the Kingdom of Shu, leading the governor of Liangzhou.

"General Xiahou, do you have a good strategy?" Guo Huai named Xiahouba.

Suddenly, the hall became strangely quiet.

Officials crushed people to death.

No matter how senior Xiahouba was in Cao Wei, he could not be higher than Guo Huai's fake festival.

What's more, Guo Huai is about ten years older than Xia Houba, and has been a soldier all his life, so his qualifications are much higher than him.

Xiahouba stood up and said, "Jiang Wei raised more than [-] troops before, and the harm was due to the Goulian Qiang people. It is difficult for Longxi County to defeat Jiang Wei, but it is more than enough to protect itself."

"Qiang people, Qiang people!" Guo Huai raised his head and chanted softly, suddenly he seemed to remember something, "Last time when the Qiang rebelled, I heard that there was a captain under your command, Yang Zheng, who helped you pacify Longxi Qiang, did you come with you today? ?”

Yang Zheng's heart skipped a beat, it's his turn to play so soon?
Xia Houba gave him a wink, and Yang Zheng hurried out of the line, knelt on the ground, cupped his fists and said, "Subordinate Yang Zheng, I pay my respects to General Guo."

Although he is guarding in Longxi, he is still a Chinese army in terms of establishment.

Therefore, he only dared to call himself a subordinate, and did not dare to declare his family name, lest he arouse the hostility of General Yongliang in the hall.

"But Yang Zheng, Captain of the Wuwei Battalion?" Guo Huai said calmly.

An understatement of a sentence, put yourself on the cusp of the storm.

I felt that the eyes looking at me suddenly became unkind.

"This subordinate is right." Yang Zheng couldn't pretend anymore.

"Come here, enjoy the wine!"

Yang Zheng was taken aback, and looked at Guo Huai in surprise.

Guo Huai's face was calm, his face in his fifties was as hard as a rock, and his eyes were so deep that it was hard to look directly at him.

After a while, a soldier brought a wine bottle and handed it to Yang Zheng.

Looking at the light yellow color of the wine, Yang Zheng had a thought in his mind, this wine is not poisonous, right?
But immediately felt ridiculous for his own thoughts, Guo Huai was not like this.

In fact, he picked up the wine bottle and drank it all in one gulp.

Northwest spirits are like fire in the throat.

Yang Zheng drank in a hurry, and couldn't help but blushed from the choking.

"How about this wine?" Guo Huai's face seemed to be expressionless forever, making it impossible to guess his thoughts.

This may also be the art of famous generals.

"The nature of this wine is like raging fire, and it's like drinking the wind from the northwest."

"well said!"

"Good boy!"

There was a burst of applause in the hall.

Yang Zheng thought to himself that his flattery was just right.

Although the Yongliang Army and the Chinese Army are two mountains, heroes will be recognized everywhere.

There is no shortage of brave generals like Hu Fen in the generals of Yongliang, and there is no shortage of narrow-minded people like Pang Hui in the Chinese army.

(End of this chapter)