Mi Han

Chapter 207
On the third day after Mi Yang captured Xicheng, a fleet of about [-] soldiers appeared on the Han River outside Xicheng.

This scene was quickly discovered by Mi Jun's spies and reported to Mi Yang in the west city.

After Mi Yang heard the news, he led hundreds of relatives to the fleet by boat.

According to the spies' description, this fleet of more than [-] people should be led by Wei Yan, the prefect of Hanzhong himself.

Presumably, Wei Yan was worried about the safety of Hanxing County after receiving his news, so he specially led the army here, one to listen to the news, and the other to help him defeat the enemy.

Before, Shen Yi took advantage of the geographical advantage to issue documents to the surrounding counties and Chengdu to accuse her. Mi Yang had already learned about it from a Guanzhong scholar named Zhao Qin after he captured Xicheng.

It's just that compared to the worries of Lu Yi and others, Mi Yang was very indifferent when he heard the news.

Shen Yi, the villain, filed a complaint first, intending to disturb the audience. It looks good, but it is used in the wrong place.

Just talking about Mi Yang's own identity, Mi Zhu's nephew, Guan Yu's son-in-law, and Fa-rectification disciple. Any level of identity is Mi Yang's amulet.

In this case, what a fool it must be to believe that he has rebellious intentions.

Wei Yan's emotional intelligence is not high, not stupid.

When Mi Yang led hundreds of personal guards to not far from Wei Yan's fleet, he found Wei Yan who had arrived and sent his personal guards to lead Mi Yang to his building boat.

After Mi Yang boarded the building where Wei Yan was, he saw Wei Yan standing by the parapet on the building, looking at the hundreds of heads hanging high above the gate of the west city.

In Yuan Zhen's impression, he had met this famous general when he was young.

Seeing that Wei Yan seemed to be in deep thought, Mi Yang asked his personal guards to wait by, and he himself stepped forward to pay respects to Wei Yan, calling out "General Zhenyuan."

Under Mi Yang's call, Wei Yan recovered from his contemplation, and then he turned to look at Mi Yang.

Although Wei Yan didn't have much contact with Mi Yang in the past, he was originally a part of Liu Bei's trilogy, and he had seen Mi Yang when he was young.

It's just that as Mi Yang gets older, Wei Yan has never seen the adult Mi Yang.

Fortunately, Mi Yang's adult appearance still has the shadow of his youth, so when Wei Yan saw Mi Yang, he felt a little familiar.

Wei Yan looked at Mi Yang, returned a salute to him, and then responded, "Marquis of Guannei."

After Wei Yan responded to Mi Yang, he pointed directly at the hundreds of heads on the west city and asked, "How long did it take for the Marquis of Guannei to take down the west city?"

On the second day after Wei Yan sent troops from Nanzheng, he received Mi Yang's document.

After reading Mi Yang's documents, Wei Yan became more aware of the current situation in Hanxing County. At the same time, Wei Yan also completely defined Shen Yi as a traitor in his heart.

Under the influence of this kind of thinking, Wei Yan did not have the thought of returning to Nanzheng, but accelerated his marching speed.

The position of Xicheng is too important. If Shen Yi occupies the self-defense and then introduces the Wei army, then not only Hanxing County will be caught in the flames of war, but Hanzhong County will also be affected by the flames of war.

Thanks to his efforts, Hanzhong County is still in the process of recovering its vitality. At this time, it cannot withstand a major war.

Therefore, Wei Yan continued to lead the troops, thinking of assisting Mi Yang to quell the chaos in Xicheng as soon as possible.

What he didn't expect was that his marching speed was already considered very fast.

But when he arrived, the walls of the west city were already covered with the heads of Shen's party members, and even the flag on the west city was replaced with the word "Mi".

The speed at which Mi Yang broke through the city really exceeded Wei Yan's expectations.

Facing Wei Yan's question, Mi Yang replied: "Just one day."

Hearing that it only took one day for Mi Yang to break through the West City, Wei Yan's face flashed with surprise.

The city defense of the western city is not as strong as that of the current world, but it is very difficult to break the city in one day, according to common sense.

Seeing the astonishment on Wei Yan's face, Mi Yang recounted the process of how he broke the city a few days ago in front of Wei Yan.

After listening to Mi Yang's replay, some smiles appeared on Wei Yan's face.

It is indeed a good tactic to lure the enemy out of the city to fight in the field, defeat the enemy army in the field, and then follow the defeated army to take advantage of the chaos to break the city.

Seeing that this famous general with eyes above the top would still show a smile to himself, Mi Yang knew Wei Yan a lot more in his heart.

That's right, maybe Wei Yan's EQ is not high, but it doesn't mean that he has that kind of Long Aotian personality.

Compared with Wei Yan, the current self is not inferior to Wei Yan in other aspects except for the gap in military rank and seniority.

In terms of military exploits and prestige, it is even worse.

The most notable feature of Wei Yan's character is:

As long as you have the capital to look at me on an equal footing, then I will value you.

As long as you are stronger than me, then I will obey you.

For example, Wei Yan complained to Zhuge Liang in history, although Zhuge Liang often did not adopt his strategies, he complained.

But during the Northern Expedition, Wei Yan fought wherever he pointed.

Wei Yan looked at Mi Yang and continued: "In the past, Yan had heard of the name of the "Four Friends of the Prince" in Chengdu.

Before that, Yan thought it was just a so-called fraudulent means of raising a name, and it couldn't be true.

Now that Zicheng defeated the Wu army first, and then established Hanxing, it is enough to see that Zicheng's talent is not fake.

However, the other three friends are probably in vain. "

According to Wei Yan's character, it is not easy for him to praise others.

It's just that after hearing Wei Yan's praise, Mi Yang always felt that something was wrong.

Wei Yan's way of praising people is a bit strange.

But thinking about Wei Yan's personality, Mi Yang doesn't care about this anymore.

In history, after Zhuge Liang's death, Wei Yan and Yang Yi disputed again, accusing each other of treason. When the news came back to Chengdu, Liu Chan hesitated.

But compared to Liu Chan's hesitation, all the court officials at that time supported Yang Yi.

Jiang Wan and Dong Yun, the two important officials of the court, used their wealth and life to protect Yang Yi.

Jiang Wan and Dong Yun's personal morals are not bad, and Yang Yi is also very proud. Many people don't like his character.

But under such circumstances, Jiang Wan and Dong Yun would rather recommend Yang Yi and doubt Wei Yan, which shows how bad Wei Yan's impression is among his colleagues.

If it hadn't been for the support of most of the court's important officials, how could Yang Yi have dared to kill the powerful Wei Yan and wipe him out of the three clans without the emperor's order?

Regardless of whether Wei Yan really wanted to rebel in history, his character is indeed his biggest flaw.

Wei Yan is very talented, but his ability to become a famous general in the end is inseparable from Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang's maintenance of him.

After listening to Wei Yan's praise, Mi Yang smiled slightly at Wei Yan, and asked Wei Yan:

"After learning that Hanxing County is safe, General Zhenyuan continued to lead his troops beyond the west city. Presumably he came here to praise me."

When a large army travels, there must be scouts. The west city was taken three days ago, and Wei Yan will not be unaware of the news.

Wei Yan's character is flawed, but he will never be aimless.

Sure enough, after Mi Yang asked that sentence, Wei Yan asked Mi Yang: "Does the Marquis of Guannei know the four ways of the Northern Expedition?"

Seeing Wei Yan asking about his Northern Expedition, Mi Yang nodded.

The four routes of the Northern Expedition mentioned by Wei Yan are the four main routes from Hanzhong to Guanzhong that Liu Bei has been opening since he captured Hanzhong.

After Liu Bei became king, for the future Northern Expedition, he ordered Wei Yan to establish a military base for the Northern Expedition in the Hanzhong area.

In order to open up the main roads for military defeat, Liu Bei, with the support of Zhuge Liang, opened four main roads between Hanzhong and Guanzhong.

These four roads are mainly Ziwu Road, Tangluo Road, Baoxie Road and Jinniu Road, among which Baoxie Road is also known as Xiegu Road.

These four are the four mountain roads from Hanzhong to Guanzhong.

It is said to be opened, but in fact it is more of a repair.

Because these four mountain roads existed in the mountains connecting Hanzhong and Guanzhong many years ago.

Last year, when Liu Bei became queen, he did not continue the Northern Expedition in one go. On the one hand, it was because the national power of central Shu was severely depleted by the Battle of Hanzhong, and on the other hand, he had to repair these four main roads first.

From this point of view, in fact, Liu Bei has already set the main direction of the Northern Expedition in the future.

After seeing Mi Yang nodding, Wei Yan went on to say: "Among the four paths of the Northern Expedition, which path does the Marquis of Guannei think is the most suitable for the army to march?"

Facing Wei Yan's question, Mi Yang didn't answer right away.

Seeing that Mi Yang didn't answer his own question, Wei Yan didn't care, he said to himself:

"In the future, when the king's division will make a northern expedition, I would like to invite tens of thousands of soldiers to attack Guanzhong by surprise on the Meridian Road, and join forces with the king at Tongguan.

At that time, the king will definitely ask about the key points of Ziwu Road. Guan Neihou is the prefect of Hanxing County. I hope that Guanneihou can answer truthfully. "

After hearing what Wei Yan said, Mi Yang finally understood why Wei Yan came to see him specially.

It turned out that "Ziwu Valley Strange Conspiracy" had already been conceived in his mind.

As for why Wei Yan mentioned this matter to Mi Yang, it is because Ziwu Road is near Xicheng, which is Mi Yang's jurisdiction.

When Liu Bei chose the governor of Hanzhong last year, the reason why Liu Bei chose Wei Yan in the end was not based on his feelings.

As the saying goes, observe his words and deeds and observe the essence of people. After taking Hanzhong last year, Wei Yan once secretly spoke to Liu Bei about his strategy.

At that time, Wei Yan's strategy made Liu Bei's eyes shine. It was because of Wei Yan's strategy and Liu Bei's understanding of him in the past that Liu Bei finally made up his mind to vigorously promote Wei Yan as the governor of Hanzhong.

But at that time, Wei Yan's "Ziwu Valley Wonderful Strategy" was not adopted by Liu Bei.

Because although this strategy can catch people by surprise, it is too dangerous.

The danger of the "Wonderful Strategy of Ziwu Valley" does not lie in the dangerous and complicated terrain of Ziwu Valley.

Among the four routes of the Northern Expedition, the most dangerous is the Tangluo Road.

When the Ziwu Valley road was not repaired at the beginning, people in Guanzhong could flee to tens of thousands of families in Hanzhong through this road.

After extensive repairs, the road condition has improved a lot.

In history, Cao Zhen expressed that Cao Rui wanted to attack Shu on a large scale. Although Chen Qun rejected his plan to march from Xiegu Road at the beginning, he still led the army to march from Ziwu Road.

It was only in the rainy season during the march that the plank road in Ziwu Valley was washed and cut off by the rain, which made it difficult for Cao Zhen to march, and finally made him return halfway with hatred.

Cao Wei's family has a great career, and the main force led by Cao Zhen will not be less than [-].

Cao Zhen was a famous general for a while, he dared to lead tens of thousands of main forces to march from Ziwu Road towards Hanzhong, he must have gone through a detailed survey of the terrain.

After all, Cao really wanted to destroy the Han and make meritorious service, but he didn't want to come to die.

From these examples, we can see that although the Meridian Road is difficult to travel, it is not as people imagined, and it is troublesome for thousands of troops to travel.

What worries Liu Bei is that the Ziwu Valley is the main road from Hanzhong to Chang'an. As long as Wei Yan leads the army out of the Ziwu Road, they can directly reach the city of Chang'an.

Meridian Road is equivalent to Yangping Pass in Chang'an.

Besides, it is not secret that after he proclaimed himself king, he vigorously repaired the Meridian Road.

Under such circumstances, in the face of such an important way, Cao Cao has many talents, and he will not be unprepared.

Once the Northern Expedition comes to Japan, Cao Cao will send a general to guard the exit of Meridian Road, and that general will be able to guard the entrance of Tani with only a few thousand troops.

In that case, the army entering the Meridian Road would probably be in danger.

It is precisely because of this concern that although Liu Bei admired Wei Yan's "Ziwu Valley Strange Conspiracy", he had to put it on hold.

Wei Yan also knew Liu Bei's concerns, but in his mind, the "Ziwu Valley Mystery" was a certain possibility.

Of course, at the beginning, because the main general in Guanzhong was Cao Zhang, what Wei Yan thought of last year was only to lead a partial army and join Liu Bei's army in Tongguan.

But recently there was news that Cao Pi had appointed Xia Houmao to replace Cao Zhang in Chang'an. After hearing the news, Wei Yan became more concerned.

When his mind became bigger, Wei Yan thought that he must force Liu Bei to adopt his strategy.

Ever since, Mi Yang, who had just become the prefect of Hanxing, came into his sight.

In Wei Yan's impression, Mi Yang's style of using troops since becoming famous has been by surprise.

Moreover, Mi Yang's performance made Wei Yan feel that Mi Yang had a strategy, which made Wei Yan think that Mi Yang might agree with his strategy.

It's not someone Wei Yan values, so he won't "discuss" this strategy with that person.

Moreover, Ziwu Road is within Mi Yang's jurisdiction, and Mi Yang has won the trust of Liu Bei, so if his strategy can get Mi Yang's strong support, then the possibility of Liu Bei adopting this strategy will greatly increase .

This is the real reason why Wei Yan insisted on seeing Mi Yang.

It's just that Wei Yan's character can't say what to ask Mi Yang, so he only asked Mi Yang to "answer according to the facts."

Facing Wei Yan's request for him to answer truthfully, Mi Yang replied calmly: "How to march in the future, the king has his own calculations, and it's not for the ministers to discuss in private."

According to the current situation, Zhuge Liang is likely to stay in Chengdu during Liu Bei's Northern Expedition in the future.

Since Liu Bei was able to adopt Fazheng's surprise attack on Dingjun Mountain, it shows that Liu Bei is also an adventurous monarch.

The original strategy of Dingjunshan seems to be more risky than Wei Yan's "Ziwu Valley Strange Plan".

So if he strongly supports Wei Yan's strategy, then Liu Bei is indeed very likely to adopt Wei Yan's strategy.

But for any strategy to be successful, it must be tailored to the circumstances.

No one can predict the scene of the Northern Expedition in the future. Maybe Cao Pi will conquer it himself?
So when the situation was unknown, Mi Yang didn't want to promise Wei Yan anything rashly.

And Wei Yan also saw the meaning of evasion in Mi Yang's mouth, his brows frowned, but he didn't say anything in the end.

Seeing that this trip to the east did not achieve his other intentions, Wei Yan was a little displeased.

Displeased, he directly ordered the army to return.

Mi Yang was still on the boat, but Wei Yan directly ordered the army to turn around, which was obviously an order to chase away guests.

Under the eviction order, Mi Yang led hundreds of guards back to his ship.

After returning to his own boat, Ding Feng beside Mi Yang said with anger on his face: "In terms of military prestige, the general is far above him, and he is too rude."

Listening to Ding Feng's words, Mi Yang looked at the Wei Yan fleet that was gradually going away, but his face was very indifferent.

Isn't this Wei Yan?
Otherwise, how can all ministers be enemies.

Mi Yang ignored Ding Feng's complaints, and didn't care about Wei Yan's behavior. He let his fleet return to Xicheng.

The west city is full of waste, and there are still many things waiting for him to deal with.

The first meeting between Mi Yang and Wei Yan ended in an unhappy breakup.

(End of this chapter)