Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 445 Disagreements between generals and military strategists
Chapter 449

Ran Ming's eldest son, Ran Yun, was made the King of Guanggu by Ran Min, and the second son, Ran Bin, was the son of King Jiaodong.Even in the feudal era, it was extremely rare to be crowned king right after birth.

Arriving in the cabin, the eldest son Ran Yun's chubby little face showed a sleepy expression, which looked very cute. The second son Ran Yun beside him was crying for some reason.

Ran Bin's maid, who was in charge of taking care of her, was so anxious that she was at a loss.

Ran Ming said: "My dear son, come and let Daddy hug you!"

However, Ran Ting didn't give Ran Ming any face, and cried out loudly, but his voice became more and more high-pitched.

When Ran Min came to the boathouse, Liu Mo, Xie Daoyun, and stripes hurriedly saluted Ran Min.Ran Min waved his hands lightly and said, "My dear grandson, come and give me a hug from my father-in-law!"

It was miserable to say that Ran Tin, who Liu Pei couldn't coax well, stopped crying as soon as he got into Ran Min's arms. He stared at Ran Min, and laughed unexpectedly.

Ran Ming said: "What's the situation, just don't give face to your own father, but it's such a slap in the face."

Ran Min looked at his two chubby grandsons, and the unhappiness in his heart was swept away.For Ran, fate has always been rough.Ran Min's father, Ran Zhan, lost his father at the age of 12, and Ran Min also lost his father at the age of 12. In fact, if Ran Ming hadn't appeared, Ran Ming would also have lost his father at the age of 14.

Looking at his three generations of descendants now, Ran Min feels that no matter how difficult it is, it is nothing.

After coaxing Ran Tan to sleep, Ran Min left the cabin. He felt that the cabin was too stuffy, so he wanted to blow some air on the deck.

Through Tianyan and "deaf and dumb" intelligence, Ran Min already knew that the situation in Wei State was very bad.

As far as Guanzhong is concerned, he is not worried.Although Fu Jian entered Guanzhong under the banner of reviving the Qin State, Ran Min believed that Guanzhong was not something that Fu Jian could reoccupy.

At the beginning of the founding of Di Qin, the country was always in war like Ran Wei. Of course, Fu Jian did not have the ability of Ran Min. Di Qin's laws were not perfect, and it also adopted a half-slavery and half-feudal political system.As we all know, since Qin Shihuang established the Qin State, China has entered the feudal era.Compared with slavery, the feudal system has very obvious scientific and advantages.From slavery to feudalism is an inevitable trend of scientific development.

In contrast, the political system of Wei State has the seeds of capitalism.Purely in terms of political system, Wei State has the most advanced political model of this era.However, Di Qin acted against the sky. They actually adopted a half-slave and half-feudal political system. The backward political system made Guanzhong's economic development fall into a quagmire.

Di Qin occupied Guanzhong, relying on the powerful armed forces of 20 Di people.But now that the powerful armed forces of the Di people are gone, the Han people in Guanzhong have realized the benefits of Ran Min's rule, so naturally they will not think about finding a "master" for themselves.Moreover, Fu Jian did not have Wang Meng's support, and he had already lost the opportunity to improve ethnic relations.

If you want to occupy a place, you need a strong army. If you want to occupy a place forever, you need to have a foundation of popular support. Of course Ran Min knows this.When Ran Min occupied Guanzhong, in order to stabilize people's hearts and balance the relationship between all parties, Ran Min even sacrificed the interests of Wei State.Ran Min took advantage of the convenient location where the Silk Road in the Western Regions must start from Guanzhong, and reopened the Western Regions Commercial Road. The Western Regions Commercial Road is simply a golden rooster that can lay eggs. This golden rooster is jointly owned by Wei Guo and Guanzhong Haoqiang.The Wei State transported a large amount of goods from Qingzhou, and after entering Guanzhong, they transferred them to the major powers in Guanzhong.In this way, the powerful Guanzhong who can control the situation in Guanzhong formed an alliance of interests with Ran Min.

Even if Guanzhong Haoqiang has the heart to dominate the commercial routes in the Western Regions, he has no source of goods in his hands. In this interest alliance, the Wei State government not only has the veto power, but also has the leading power.

Because of this alliance of interests, Fu Jian has no chance to buy off the major powers in Guanzhong, because he can't offer a more lucrative price than Ran Min anyway, and without enough temptation of interests, those Guanzhong powers will not stand in Fu Jian's favor. that side.What's more, with Dong Run and Zhang Wen around, they are both skilled in the art of war, there is no reason why they cannot defeat Fu Jian.

What happened in Guanzhong would not worry Ran Min, but the situation in Youzhou gave Ran Min a headache.Wei's Pingbei army is not weak, as long as it is commanded properly, it should not be difficult to win the Yan army.Although there is no guarantee that the Yan army can be completely wiped out, at least the Yan army can be expelled from Wei.Peiping general Linghu Lei was just a fifth-rank guard from the East Palace.

In terms of military achievements, he belongs to the Taiping generals, and he has never led troops to fight. The most remarkable thing is that he assassinated Ran Ming.In terms of background, both Su Jue, who is the general of Ran Min's family, and Ran Feng, Ran Min's adopted son, are older than Linghu Lei.

Beiping general Linghu Lei didn't know what was wrong, he didn't think about how to defeat Murong Ke, he just thought about how to deal with Su Jue and establish his own prestige.

Linghu Lei used Su Jue and his troops as the vanguard. The vanguard general sounds very cool, but it is the profession with the highest risk factor.Linghu Lei's bastard is not only that, he also deliberately delays the supplies of Su Jue's department, not not giving them, but delaying the distribution of supplies until the dangerous time of almost running out of food, and only giving three days of food and grass at a time.

Murong Ke got this important situation through reconnaissance. If Murong Ke didn't take advantage of the conflict between the generals of the Pingbei Army, he would not be Murong Ke.

Fanyang County, in the seventh year of Cao Wei Huangchu in the Three Kingdoms, was changed to Zhuo County and ruled Zhuo County (now Zhuozhou City, Hebei Province).In the Western Jin Dynasty, it was changed to Fanyang State, and after the fall of the Western Jin Dynasty, Shilefu was changed to Fanyang County.

Linghu Lei received the news from the scouts and learned that the Yan army was besieging Beiping.

Linghu Lei ordered Su Jue's troops to rush to Zhuo County. The distance between Zhuo County and Beiping was only a hundred miles. In order to find the traces of the Yan army, they sent cavalry reconnaissance to reconnaissance Beiping, and found that the Yan army who had been besieging Beiping two days ago had disappeared.

Su Jue reported this strange phenomenon to Linghu Lei, but Linghu Lei didn't pay attention to this matter, Yan Jun disappeared, he thought Yan Jun was afraid of his arrival, and retreated to avoid the battle.

Linghu Lei ordered Su Jue's troops to establish a bridgehead position in Zhuo County, stick to Zhuo County, and wait for the main force to arrive.

At this time, Su Jue's troops were carrying too little rations, and the disadvantages were revealed. Even if they saved food and reduced expenses, they only persisted for four days. For the back cub army of more than [-] people, it doesn't even count as a drop in the bucket.

Su Jue sent four waves of communication soldiers to recover the rations, but not only did they not receive a reply, but even the communication soldiers disappeared.

Su Jue finally sent a large number of cavalry to reconnaissance, and finally found traces of the grain cart being destroyed on the bank of the Juma River in Fanyang County.

No need to think about it, Su Jue also knew that he was being watched by Murong Ke.

Su Jue guessed that the news that Linghu Lei and him were at odds must have been learned by Murong Ke, and he must have wanted to use Linghu Lei not to see him.Su Jue was very angry. Now that his troops had run out of food, breaking through would definitely fall into the trap, and the troops lacking food and grass would not be able to exert their combat effectiveness even at least [-]% of the time. Su Jue ordered people to send a message to Linghu Lei for rescue. Lack of food, demoralized, and soldiers fleeing.

Murong Ke smiled happily when he got this situation: "Ran Min's son has always been nepotism. Su Jue is just a mere house slave of Ran Min, but he has become a general of the army. Now that the army is short of food, he can wait for an opportunity to break out, join the main force, or kill him." The horses feed their hunger and wait for reinforcements. But this Su Jue is actually sticking to the order and not retreating? If he is undefeated like this, it will be unreasonable!"

Suni, the forward general of the Yan State, said carelessly: "His Royal Highness, why bother me so much? Give me [-] troops, and within a day, I will bring Su Jue's head to see you!"

Murong Ke said: "Although Su Jue is nothing to worry about, his subordinates are the trilogy formed by Wang Ranming of Jiaodong. They performed very well in the Battle of Liantai, the Battle of Bo County, and the Battle of Youzhou. It is a sharp warrior who is one against ten, and Ke is unwilling to defeat him with strength unless he has to!"

Suni said: "I'm a rough person, I don't understand these twists and turns, please tell me, Your Highness, how to fight?"

Murong Ke said: "Tomorrow we will find out!"

It has to be said that Murong Ke is a famous general of Yan State, and his title of famous general is by no means in vain.In fact, he did not divide his troops to occupy the city of Wei State after he broke into Lulongbian Town of Wei State.Instead, look for opportunities, wait for the opportunity to annihilate the main force of the Wei army, and then win without a fight.

The siege battle is the battle with the heaviest losses, and the Yan army is not good at siege.If you were good at attacking the city, you would not have attacked Yecheng for more than 100 days, which was defended by less than [-] people, had no reinforcements outside, and no food and grass inside.The city was only occupied with the help of traitors from Wei State.Murong Ke knows that Yan Guo has little capital and cannot stand the toss. Now he only fights the battle with the least loss and the biggest profit.

Murong Ke surrounded Zhuo County with [-] Yan Army cavalry, and successfully intercepted Su Jue's messenger for help.He asked a dead soldier of the Yan Army to pretend to be Su Jue's messenger to rescue Linghu Lei, and deliberately let Linghu Lei see the flaw.

So, Linghu Lei fell for it.

He thought that Su Juezhong had nothing to do with Fu Zi, and continued to slowly move towards Peiping as planned.

Murong Ke's strategy of suspicious soldiers succeeded, and he successfully won precious time for himself.As a result, [-] Yan troops appeared outside the city defended by Su Jue, and [-] cavalrymen continued for more than ten miles, almost one tent next to another.

Early the next morning, Su Jue woke up from a dream.Seeing that the Yan army has been arranged in a neat phalanx, now the Yan army has abandoned horses for steps, carrying simple ladders, and is preparing to attack the city.

(End of this chapter)