Three Kingdoms: Prosper Han from the beginning of brushing favorability

Chapter 222 Depressed Li Yan

Ever since Zhuge Liang's Bo Dao soldiers entered Yueyu County, Li Yan has almost become a problem baby.

The main reason is that the operation is a bit unclear...

As for Li Yan, he is really not a rookie. Everyone in the Dongzhou faction is below the law, and Wu Yi, who has a detached status and a foreign relative status, is not mentioned for the time being. The others belong to Li Yan with outstanding ability.

Even Gao Ding, the rebellious King of Yueyi, was once defeated by Li Yan.

In the 23rd year of Jian'an (AD 218), that is, the year before the Battle of Jingzhou, among those who made great contributions to suppressing bandits this year, in addition to Liu Chan, there was also Li Yan, who was then the prefect.

And the movement is bigger than Liu Chan.

At that time, a group of bandits set up troops in Qi County, recruited tens of thousands of refugees and bandits, and arrived in Zizhong County.

Liu Beishang led an army to fight in Hanzhong, and Li Yan personally led 5000 soldiers from his county to crusade, smashed the bandit army, and killed the bandit leader.The rest fled for their lives in all directions and returned to their hometowns to serve the people.

Not long after, Gao Ding, the king of Yueyi, thought he had an opportunity, took advantage of the fire to loot, and led his army to besiege Xindao County. Li Yan went to rescue the siege, but Gao Ding was defeated and fled.

When Lao Liu learned about it, he appointed Li Yan as the general of the auxiliary Han Dynasty, and still led Qian as the prefect.

Of course, the last time Gao Ding was just planning to take advantage of the chaos to loot, he did not expect to meet Li Yan, who was as tough as Li Yan, and it was not as powerful as the Nanzhong rebellion at that time.

Even so, Li Yan, who had defeated an enemy many times his own and repelled King Yue Yi, was by no means an idiot.

This time he dispatched troops to Yueluo County, facing his old opponent, Li Yan was determined to win.

In his mind, this time Chen Bing was in the south ahead of time, as long as he launched an attack quickly, he would be able to catch Gao Ding by surprise.

If you want to quickly settle Yueyu County, you should attack quickly, go straight to Qiongdu, the county government, and take it down with one blow while the enemy is unprepared!
As long as Gao Ding dies, the barbarians here will be deterred, even if there is still a small group of rebels from the Yueyi tribe who are stubbornly resisting, they will not be able to succeed.

This is undoubtedly the most food-saving and the fastest way to quell chaos.

However, when he shared this idea with Zhuge Liang, the Zhuge military adviser just put on a calm smile that seemed very friendly to everyone, and praised: "General Li's method should be able to win quickly, which is indeed rare, ha ha."

Li Yan was very happy at first, but after Zhuge Liang led his troops into Yueyu, his marching speed slowed down immediately.

Sitting in a carriage every day, as if traveling in mountains and rivers, he dragged Li Yan to talk about the local customs, Han and Yi customs, products and so on...

"I don't want Nanzhong to be mountainous and wild, but there is also land suitable for farming." Zhuge Liang pointed his feather fan away, chatting and laughing freely, "Let's see, General Li, this land is flat. If it is cultivated, how many people can it support?"

"That's right...hehe..." Li Yan, who was riding slowly beside him, said with a half-smile.

Are you here to inspect Nongsang? !
Aren't we going to Pingnan Middle School?

Zhuge Junshi has been working on the development of agriculture and mulberry in Bashu, and he has become accustomed to it...

"Uh...Mr. Zhuge, my army is moving so slowly. First, it consumes too much food and grass. Second, if Gao Ding finds out, I'm afraid I'll lose the opportunity." Li Yan stretched for a long time, and finally couldn't hold back.

Zhuge Liang did not change his relaxed attitude, and persuaded with a smile: "General Li, don't worry, this speed is not slow anymore. Huh? The climate here is also suitable for planting mulberry. If it is not suitable for reclaiming the land, you can also encourage the people to plant mulberry and raise silkworms." , what does General Li think?"

Li Yan: "..."

This speed is not slow?
Ma Maipi marches ten miles a day, this is for an outing!Not slow?
The vulgar words burst out in Li Yan's heart, and at the same time, he couldn't help but wonder in his heart, is it because he advocated a quick march and quickly settled Yuelu County, Zhuge's army division deliberately didn't use it, or even turned against him?
After all, he is a scholar from Dongzhou, and Army Master Zhuge is a scholar from Jingzhou.

Although I heard that he and Fa Shangshu have a good personal relationship, but this kind of thing has always been done for others to see, and he does not believe that the leaders of the two factions will really have any deep friendship.

The year before last, he had made a big splash. This time Fa Shangshu recommended him to come to Pingnan High School, obviously he had high hopes.

Zhuge Liang, as the representative of the Jingzhou faction, took advantage of this opportunity to suppress himself, a young man, and deliberately delayed so that Ma Di, the Jingzhou faction on the east road, could show his strength.

Afterwards, something even more extreme happened. Instead of bypassing those small counties and going straight to Qiongdu, Zhuge Liang drove towards the first small mountain county, Anshang, with great fanfare.

Li Yan said worriedly: "Military commander, Anshang is not a strategic point. This small and barren county does not have much food or military equipment. It is useless to take it. Now our army is leaving with great fanfare. If the county magistrate escapes, Gao Ding will be killed within a few days." Will find out, isn't that...?"

Zhuge Liang still looked calm: "It's okay, it's okay, the soldiers marched for many days, and it's a good thing to take this small county as a resting place."

Li Yan was angry and impatient, and felt extremely aggrieved by the delay of the war opportunity. He was already thinking about what words he should use to make a small report to Fa Shangshu afterwards, and this time he decided to speak to the king.

On such a major event as the pacification of Nanzhong, you Zhuge Liang dared to abolish the government and deliberately delay the military plane for private reasons, so you can't blame me.

The county magistrate of Anshang County fled with a small number of county soldiers, not daring to guard this small county at all.

The army took down Anshang without firing an arrow, but Li Yan couldn't be happy.

According to the prince's information, the main force of Gaoding is scattered in Yanniu, Dingruo, and Qiongdu, and has not yet been concentrated.

Now that they have obtained the exact news of their own army, they must make preparations early and join forces.

The opportunity is lost...

However, Li Yan also admired Zhuge Liang.

The marching of the army is slow, but not walking slowly, but after marching ten miles a day, a simple camp will be set up, and Zhuge Liang will personally practice the army formation and train the soldiers.

From Qianwei's departure to today, in a short period of time, the soldiers of the army have changed a lot, not to mention reborn.Zhuge Liang can always use the simplest method to teach these ordinary soldiers very complicated formations.

It can be called turning decay into magic.

In addition, Zhuge Liang's camp had to be lighted up until night every night. Once he took an excuse to visit and found that the other party was further studying and perfecting the methods of military formation exercises, changes, and joint attacks.

Sometimes, based on what we saw along the way, we plan whether each piece of land can be developed in the future and what it will be developed for.It seems that the pacification of Nanzhong is an established fact...

Li Yan admitted that Zhuge Liang was very diligent, but in his opinion, none of this could conceal his selfish intention of deliberately delaying the military plane.

What happened next made Li Yan completely explode.

After resting in Anshang, the army began to slowly advance to Beishui County in the southwest.

Going through Beishui County and going southwest is the hinterland of Yuexi County, which is the capital of Qiongdu.

If you start marching quickly at this time, you may be able to meet the enemy before Gao Ding is fully ready.

However, Zhuge Liang stopped... He actually stopped? !

While Li Yan was stunned, Zhuge Liang began to attack Beishui.

Beishui, with only eight or nine hundred defenders in the city, surrendered quickly under the bombardment of Lei Gong artillery and the siege of the city.

However, Zhuge Liang, who had obtained Beishui, stayed here for five days, and continued to train soldiers every day, perfect the battle formation, understand and survey the people's conditions, and had no intention of continuing to advance.

Beishui County Government.

"Military teacher!" Li Yan walked into Zhuge Liang's room again, and bowed to the ground, "Yan Jiu heard that the military teacher is unparalleled in wisdom and has a good strategy in his belly. How can he do such an unwise move because of private interests?"

At this time Zhuge Liang was drawing the formation at his desk, and he did not raise his head while concentrating on it. After finishing the painting, he lifted the cloth and blew on the ink.

"When this picture is handed over to the prince, he will be very happy."

Zhuge Liang seemed to see Liu Chan's elated look, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise slightly.

"Military division!" Li Yan lowered his waist again.

Zhuge Liang turned his head and saw that Li Yan almost bowed in half: "Huh? General Li please hurry up, why is this so?"

After finishing speaking, he carefully put away the battle map, and hurriedly went to help Li Yan.

Li Yan refused to get up: "I also ask the military division to send troops quickly!"

"Oh, the general got up first, Rong Liang talked to the general in detail."

Although Zhuge Liang said it as if he was very surprised, in fact, he had been waiting for Li Yan to clarify his words for a long time.

He marched slowly for his own considerations, so naturally he didn't deliberately delay the fighter plane. As for the reason, he could have made it clear to Li Yan from the beginning, but he deliberately didn't say it, because he really meant to beat Li Yan.

But it was not the factional struggle that Li Yan thought.

He had paid attention to Li Yan before. He is a very capable person, and he is definitely not a talent in a county.

It's just that there is a defect in character. This person is very easy to swell after making meritorious deeds. Before that, he made great contributions to build a gorgeous house for himself, which was a waste of time and money.

Moreover, he is quite defiant, proud of his talents, and has clashed with his generals many times.

Zhuge Liang thought that this expedition was a good opportunity to hone Li Yan. If he could restrain his temper, his future achievements would be limitless.

Just as he was about to speak, a soldier came to report.

"Report! Military division, Gao Ding has mobilized the North, West, and South armies to Beishui! Apart from Yue Yiyi, there seems to be Qingqiang cavalry from the south of the county!"

Li Yan's face darkened when he heard this, it's over, the opportunity has been lost.

Unexpectedly, Zhuge Kongming laughed: "Hehehe, good, it's just in time."

Li Yan raised his head and looked at Zhuge Liang who was still chuckling in astonishment, but he didn't know where he came from.

(End of this chapter)