The revival of Shu Han

Chapter 15 The Third Rebellion of Shouchun

AD 257 is the 20th year of Yanxi in Shu Han, the second year of Ganlu in Cao Wei, and the second year of Taiping in Dongwu.In May of this year, Cao Wei's commander-in-chief Zhuge Dan raised the flag in Shouchun.Announced to send troops to crusade against the Sima family who wanted to usurp the throne.

This is the third time that Shouchun raised the banner to attack the Sima clan after Wang Ling and Guan Qiujian.It is also the last resistance of the local generals who are loyal to the Cao Wei regime (this may not be the end of Cao Wei, but more about himself).

This year, it has been 18 years since Sima Yi launched the Gaopingling coup.It has been two years since Sima Zhao, who succeeded Sima Yi and Sima Shi, took over the power of the Sima family.The forces loyal to Cao Wei are very small. It can be said that the rebellion launched by Zhuge Dan was doomed to fail from the very beginning.

However, Guan Yi, as a time traveler, knows what the ending will be like.People in this era don't know it at all.Zhuge Dan's rebellion, for the increasingly weakened Han and Wu countries, is tantamount to a shot of enough chicken blood!

Soochow, which is the closest to Cao Wei's Yangzhou (Cao Wei's Yangzhou is only a small part of the northern part of Yangzhou in the Eastern Han Dynasty), responded very quickly. General Sun Chen quickly dispatched the original Cao Wei generals Wenqin, Wenyang, and Soochow generals Quan Duo and Quanduan. He led tens of thousands of troops to enter Shouchun to assist in the defense before Cao Wei's Luoyang court crusade army was in place.At the same time, Soochow continued to recruit troops, and prepared to join Zhuge Dan's rebels to meet the upcoming conquest army of Cao Wei.

On the Shu Han side, General Jiang Wei, after learning of Zhuge Dan's rebellion, once again strongly demanded that the imperial court distribute food, grass, and battle armor. He wanted to take this opportunity to make another Northern Expedition.

Facing the opportunity of a large-scale rebellion within Cao Wei, Zhuge Zhan, who had firmly opposed Jiang Wei's Northern Expedition, could no longer calm down.He no longer insisted on his own opinion, but kicked the ball to Emperor Liu Chan.

"Well, does the attendant mean to let me make the decision? Can't you give me an opinion?"

"Your Majesty, forgive me. It is indeed a rare opportunity for the puppet Wei to rebel again. However, it is an indisputable fact that the country has repeatedly conquered, the treasury is empty, and the people are suffering. So, so, the ministers really don't know what to do."

"...Hey... Zhongchang servant, Fengzong still can't take things seriously?"

"Back to Your Majesty, this servant went to Shang Shuling's home in person yesterday, but Shang Shuling still couldn't get up, so..."

"…….Hey"

Liu Chan is very smart and has high political wisdom.He is very clear: this time the Shouchun rebellion may not be able to get a good result.At this time, the Shu Han may not be able to win by sending troops.But for the Shu Han who claimed to be orthodox in the Han Dynasty, the crusade against Cao Wei itself was the only proof of the rationality of its regime.Now that there is such a big rebellion in the family, if you don't send troops to conquer it, then what do you call the Han Dynasty orthodox?
So at this time, Liu Chan misses Chen Yu very much.If it was Chen Yu, then he would definitely strongly suggest another Northern Expedition.Even if the Northern Expedition fails, Chen Yu will not hesitate to take the blame for the failure, and it will not have any bad influence on Liu Chan.But Zhuge Zhan went too far, he just kicked the ball to himself—how could this be the attitude of a courtier?A courtier can't not blame the emperor for the sake of caring for his own feathers!

"Well, what do you guys mean?" The acting secretary-general is incompetent, right?Then I will ask the secretaries directly.

But it's a pity that all of them are fucking silent.

What kind of people are these!You actually joined forces to roast me on the fire!
"Call, General Jiang Wei led the troops to attack the puppet Wei in the north. We must use our troops carefully and repeatedly look for good opportunities to defeat the enemy."

.......
Wudu County, next debate.Jiang Wei, the general of the Shu Han Dynasty, was stationed at the festival.

"General, the court's decree has come down. We are allowed to send troops!"

"Good, let me take a look... hey..."

"Why did the general sigh?"

"Xiu Ran (Liu Yin), please take a look at His Majesty's will. The use of troops is allowed, how much? Later, there will be a sentence of using troops cautiously and repeatedly looking for opportunities to defeat the enemy... Your Majesty is asking us to focus on stability. Ah. That is to say, soldiers must be dispatched, but it doesn’t matter if you can’t get decent results, but you must not suffer big losses.”

"How can Your Majesty do this? How can there be a perfect strategy in this battle formation?"

"Chen Fengzong fell ill, His Majesty is in court..."

"General, after Shang Shuling fell ill, our army's supplies..."

"I know, I know." Jiang Wei paced back and forth irritably for a long time: "The gap between the national strengths of the Han and Wei dynasties is getting bigger and bigger, and our military talents are gradually withering... If you don't look for vitality in the battle, let alone revive the Han Dynasty. The old capital is gone, whether I, a big man, can survive is a matter of...hey, Wei Ye can only try his best to deal with it. It's just that I will go there to meet the prime minister in the future, and I..."

"General, even so, we still have to do it, don't we?"

"Yeah, even if there is no hope at all, we must fight to the end!"

It can be said that Jiang Wei's situation is much more difficult than that of Zhuge Liang's era.

After Liu Bei's death, Zhuge Liang was an out-and-out minister of power in the Shu Han: leave the emperor to my side!The other Gu Ming ministers and so on also leave me alone.Military affairs, civil affairs, and diplomacy are all in my hands.For the Northern Expedition, all the manpower and material resources of the whole country must be transferred to me.

But Jiang Wei is completely different, he is not a minister of power.He can't get involved in civil affairs, and diplomacy basically has nothing to do with him-anyway, the diplomacy to Cao Wei is just one word: fight!As for the military, speaking of it, he is the highest military officer of the Shu Han, a general.But what he can mobilize is only the mobile corps directly under him, with no more than 5 people in the sky.This was after Fei Yi, a pacifist, died. He had never had more than [-] troops in his hands before!
So in the era of Zhuge Liang, the Shu Han made a northern expedition.Cao Wei had the power of the whole country to defend.As for Jiang Wei's Northern Expedition, basically a commander of the Yongliang Military Region can handle it.

The decline of Shu Han was caused by many factors.The most fundamental reason is that it took a long time for the Shu Han to establish the country, and new aristocratic families began to form, and began to embezzle the country's resources, resulting in the country getting less and less from the farmers, and had to further exploit the self-cultivated farmers that could be controlled, and then caused the remaining The life of the homesteaders deteriorated, widespread bankruptcies—the whole vicious circle.Jiang Wei's Northern Expedition did consume a certain amount of national power, but this consumption is not of the same order of magnitude as that of Zhuge Liang's era.Jiang Wei is more of a sad backer.

"No matter what, this is a rare opportunity. No matter how small the hope is, we still have to work hard to seize it. Huo Ran, pass down the order to sort out the first battle and count the food and grass. Prepare to send troops."

"promise!"

"By the way, let's send people to Bo Gong and Yuan Jian, and ask them to lead their troops to meet up within ten days."

"Uh...no!"

Where there are people, there are fights.Shuhan's mobile corps is generally a place where a group of idealists get together-knowing that they can't do it.But even in this idealistic team, there are voices of dissatisfaction.

Zhang Yi, courtesy name Bogong, was a general born in Yizhou.He is the representative of the Yizhou faction in the military.This man, like Qiao Zhou, was a staunch anti-war figure.He was extremely conflicted and dissatisfied with Jiang Wei's long-term Northern Expedition.But who made the generals that the Shu Han can fight less and less and get older?Relatively speaking, Zhang Yi, who is only in his 50s, is a rare general who is young and capable of leading troops.Moreover, due to political considerations, how could there be no representatives of Yizhou people in the Northern Expedition of the Han Dynasty?Therefore, every time Jiang Wei sent troops, he had to bring Zhang Yi as much as possible.Although Zhang Yi was full of reluctance, he had to follow the Northern Expedition.

As for Liao Hua, the old gentleman did not oppose the Northern Expedition.But the old man was very dissatisfied with Jiang Wei's ability: Fei Yi restrained you before, so it's fine if you have few soldiers and can't get any results.Now you are a general, and the most elite troops in the country are entrusted to you, but you still cannot achieve decisive results.It fully shows that you are not a good person-it is better to replace me.

Even so, the commanders of the Shu Han were really lacking, so Jiang Wei had to endure Liao Hua's eyes and sarcasm every time, and bring this Renrui with him.In any case, this old man is a veteran of the Jingzhou faction. On the one hand, Jiang Wei needs Liao Hua's military talent, and on the other hand, he needs to rely on him to suppress the young people of the Jingzhou faction.

Because the second generations of the Jingzhou faction, such as Zhuge Zhan, Zhang Shao, and others, as well as Fan Jian, Dong Jue, etc., who were still juniors in the Jingzhou faction when the Shu Han was founded and have grown into big brothers, have already begun their political views. Gradually merged with the Yizhou faction, and did not want to go to the Northern Expedition.

As a native of Liangzhou, Jiang Wei, who was surrendered by Cao Wei, is actually the loneliest defender of the ideals of the Shu Han in this era.

(End of this chapter)