Shu Chen

Chapter 133
Guanzhong, Jingzhao, ten miles outside the east gate of Chang'an City.

Cao Zhen, the great general of Wei, who was well-equipped with a guard of honor, got out of the car in person and said goodbye with one hand.

The man's hair was covered with animal clothes, greasy dirt was faintly visible on his face and body, and he could faintly smell an inexplicable smell without getting close.

But Cao Zhen didn't realize it.

Holding his hand and laughing at Yan Yan, he walked for dozens of steps, "I know what Shoutian said. There is no need to worry, and go back first, and there will be good news within five days."

Well, he is the heir of the bald department, bald Shoutian.

In May of this year, Yang Fu, the prefect of Fufeng ordered by Emperor Wei, moved them into Guanzhong.

The migration agreement was reached because Wei Guo built houses for them, gave them pastures rich in water and grass, and let the old farmers teach farming.The Xianbei of the bald-haired tribe mainly served Cao Wei, and paid a fixed amount of cattle, sheep and horses every year, and in every war, they spontaneously recruited people from the tribe to fight with Cao Wei's army.

Everyone gets what they need.

The leader of the tribe was bald and lonely, and was awarded the "King of Fengyi" by Wei Guo, and he brought his wife and concubines to live in Luoyang.

His son, bald Shoutian, was left to lead the tribe in Guanzhong, and was awarded the official position of Fufeng Duwei by the State of Wei.

He came to Chang'an this time to find Cao Zhenqiu's supplies for the winter.

Yang Fu, who restrained him, flatly rejected his request.

After all, the people of other tribes were nomadic in the west of the Hetao Plain all the year round, so how could they lack winter clothes and large tents for the winter?
It's nothing more than insatiable greed!
Yang Fu, who had an upright temperament and disapproved of moving Xianbei into the pass, would not agree to such an unreasonable request.

But Cao Zhen agreed.

He also treated him very courteously, and personally sent him ten miles away from Chang'an to say goodbye.

Therefore, when the bald-haired Shoutian turned around and left, Cao Zhen saw a knife-wielding man beside him, his face and voice were full of anger.

He whispered, "The Xianbei Hulu people are vulgar, ignorant, rude, and cunning, and they act only for profit. The general has indulged too much today. I am afraid that in other days he will be proud of his favor and do more lawless things."

I saw that he was nearly eight feet long and nearly forty years old.

Broad forehead, square chin, heavy nose, thick eyebrows, straight beard, burning tiger eyes, extremely majestic, with a voice like a bell.

He is Xiahouba, the second son of Xiahouyuan, the former general of the Wei Dynasty.

Because Xia Houyuan died in the Battle of Hanzhong, he often gritted his teeth against Shu, aspiring to avenge his late father.

However, his official career was not smooth.

Not long after Xia Houyuan's death, Wei Wu Cao Cao also collapsed.

After he finished his mourning, Emperor Wen Cao Pi was already in power, and his elder brother Xia Houheng succeeded him, so he only became a partial general.

Gai Yin said that when "Wei seized the throne" in the past, only Xiahoushang, Xiahoucheng, Xiahourong and Xiahouweier were good friends of Xiahouyuan and Cao Pi.

Among them, Xia Houcheng and Xia Hourong both died early, and Xia Houwei was not very old.

After Cao Pi ascended the throne, he only promoted Xia Houshang as an important minister.

Later, Xiahou Shang also died, and the mother of his son Xiahouxuan was Cao Zhen's sister, so Cao Pi treated him kindly.

Now that Cao Rui is on the throne, in order to win over Cao Zhen, he has repeatedly promoted Xiahou Xuande to the throne, and has become the most important official in Xiahouyuan's line.

Even Xia Houshang's younger brother, Xia Houru, is incomparably respected.

The turning point for Xiahouba was that Wei State lost the land of Longyou this year.

After Cao Zhen took command of Chang'an in Guanzhong, he promoted Xia Houba to be a miscellaneous general based on Xia Houyuan's achievements in the past and his prestige in the army.And intending to experience it for a while, he will be dispatched to Jincheng or Xiping County to suppress those Qianghu tribes who are about to move.

However, after hearing Xia Houba's words, Cao Zhen gave up this idea.

Ugh.
Although Zhong Quan has a paternal style, he lacks in the way of power and strategy!
Sighing quietly, Cao Zhenxin was a little disappointed.

Indeed, as Xia Houba said, the Xianbei Hulu people are cunning and should not be treated favorably, so as to avoid disasters in the future.

But with such a reason, how can he not know the reason?
Not to mention, he was also one of those who disapproved of moving Xianbei into Guanzhong.

It's just that the emperor's edict has been issued, and there is no room for change, so we can only guide the situation according to the situation.

For example, treat these Xianbei Hulu as consumables for war.

Xianbei, which chases water and grass and is nomadic, mostly uses soldiers in autumn and winter when the horses are strong.

That is to say, to satisfy their unreasonable demands now is to "give what you want first."

Cao Zhen planned to send them to recruit people to enter Wuwei County via Anding in winter, and then go south to harass and plunder the Longyou land occupied by Nishu.

There is no need to join forces, just divide the three or five thousand cavalry into multiple teams, and harass the people in Longyou.

And, don't worry about them refusing.

It is their nature to invade and plunder.

The Wei army provided them with supplies, weapons, guides to guide them, and promised to give them all the plunder, which would arouse the greed of these barbarians.

Furthermore, moving them to settle in Guanzhong required fighting for the Great Wei.

It is inevitable that the two armies will fight to the death in a fierce battle, but if they send rangers to plunder, how dare the bald-haired Shoutian refuse?

That being the case, why not condescend to show her kindness and treat her with favor now!
When these Xianbei barbarians plundered the land of Longyou to make people panic, and holes appeared in the anti-Shu defense line, it was time for Wei Guo to find a fighting opportunity!But the army came out and took Longyou back in one fell swoop!
There is no need to worry, as generous donations of these Hulu materials will cause their power to soar and they will not be able to lose their tails.

Whether it was the Xiongnu in the past or the Xianbei today, the tactics they relied on were all based on the vast grasslands as the depth, avoiding wars took time, dragged down the supplies of the Central Plains dynasty army, and then took the opportunity to break it.

In terms of head-on confrontation, in front of the well-armored Wei army with strong crossbows and sharp arrows, they are cattle and sheep slaughtered wantonly.

Now that they have settled in Youfufeng, Guanzhong, and lost the vastness of the grassland, and after successive consumption of strength with Nishu, wouldn't they be at the mercy of the Great Wei?

In Cao Zhenxin's heart, he had already made a decision.

After Nishu was expelled from Longyou, he went to Luoyang to coerce these Xianbei Hulu to make up households by force.With thousands of households as the unit, they were dispersed and moved to various states and counties to settle down, so as to avoid raising tigers.

Anyone who dares to disobey orders will be slaughtered!

Anyway, there were no Xianbei tribes lingering in the territory of the Great Wei, and it would not be a pity to kill them.

But Xiahouba's inability to see this is enough to prove that the strategy in his chest is not enough to guard one side.

I don't know, there is something to gain.

Furthermore, this moment is not that moment.

Tianyu, the captain of Huwuhuan, went out of the fortress and was defeated by Ke Bineng in Mayi City, which made the five tribes of the Xiongnu who were attached to Bingzhou give birth to a heart of domination.

The soldiers in Hedong and Jizhou must stay behind to deter Bingzhou from turmoil, and they cannot be dispatched to fight in Guanzhong.

At this time, if these Hulu are not treated favorably and let them serve the Great Wei, where will they dispatch troops to harass Longyou?

Sending troops from Guanzhong to attack Longyou was originally limited to the terrain and geography, and the result was twice the result with half the effort.If the delay is too long, let Nishu's foundation in Longyou be solidified, and then attack it with all its strength, there is still a chance of winning!
And in the past few months, when the Liangzhou military newspapers arrived as scheduled, they all recorded a sentence at the end: Zhuge Liang, the Prime Minister of Nishu, used Shu brocade tea and other things to lure the Qianghu tribe in the Huangshui River Basin, which made the people of Liangzhou turbulent!
For a long time, it was feared that the Qiang and Hu tribes and Haoyou in Liangzhou would all renounce the Great Wei. With the [-] to [-] troops stationed in Liangzhou, can they still defend the land?
As the saying goes, the two powers harm each other whichever is less.

This is the time to wait for me!
What are you reluctant to do with mere supplies!

Ugh.
Zhong Quan can be a sudden general, but not a supervising general.

As for Liangzhou and Longyou, only Guo Boji can supervise the battle in our Great Wei Dynasty.
I sighed again in my heart.

Cao Zhen looked sideways at Xia Houba, and said with a smile, "Zhong Quan is right. But don't worry too much, I have a plan in mind."

After saying that, he boarded the car and drove back to Chang'an City.

As the wheels rolled forward, he closed his eyes and thought about how to transfer Guo Huai to Liangzhou.

Well, after the Longyou War ended, Guo Huai, the governor of Yongzhou, even if there was a rebellion to seek peace and settle Yang Tiao, he was still responsible for losing his land.But he gave up his job as governor and became a general with a miscellaneous number and stayed under Cao Zhen's command.

Although Cao Rui and Gong Gun of Luoyang knew that Guo Huai was not responsible for the loss of land, they still had to declare to the court.

Otherwise, there will be a precedent, and it will be difficult for anyone to fear the strictness of the law in the future.

Longxi County, Lintao County, Wangqu Valley.

A camp of the Han family fell along the ruins of the Great Wall of King Qin Zhaoxiang.

The two banners flying in the wind are embroidered with the words "Xuanwu" and "Hubu" respectively.

Prime Minister Zhuge Liang sent Zheng Pu's headquarters and the two thousand tiger infantry led by Jiang Wei to station here for nearly two months.

During the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period, in order to resist the invasion of the Qiang Rong tribe in the northwest, King Zhaoxiang of Qin took Wangqu Valley as the starting point, roughly along the Taoshui River to Lintao, Angu to Didao, and then turned back to Shouyang County in the east, winding to the end point. Above Pingxiang County.

It presents the shape of "几".

Today, this dilapidated site that has been blown away by the wind and rain has also become the dividing line between the Han Dynasty and the leader of the Heshou Qiang people Tang Fan and Ni Wei.

After relocating the nobles from Longyou, the prime minister asked soldiers to build Xiaoguan Road, Longguan Road and Weishui River Valley and other passes, and also dispatched troops from various ministries to disperse and guard the line of defense.

Zheng Pu sent here because he looked at Qugu, which is also the boundary between Longxi and Wudu County.

Going west of Wangqu Valley is the habitat of the Qianghu tribe, which is dominated by the Shenlang Qiang, outside the territory of the Han Dynasty.

Since all the Di tribes in Wudu County were incorporated into the household registration by the Han Dynasty, and a large number of people from Bashu moved to settle down, there must be an army to guard them.In case those Qiang Hu who refused to accept Wang Hua took advantage of the situation to plunder.

Furthermore, Yang Ji has already gone to Yinping County, and with the full support of the prefect Liao Hua, he started to turn the Baima Qiang in the west of Yinping into a big man.

Zheng Pu is stationed here, and he can enter the Bailong River along the Qiang River at any time to support Yang Ji in case something goes wrong.

And Jiang Wei also came with his army because he was familiar with Qiang affairs.

The prime minister wanted him to try, whether it was possible to recruit those Qiang Hus to be used by the big man.

It's not the kind registered in household registration, but they are hired to fight.

Similar to Cao Zhen's idea.

The prime minister also wanted to pay some supplies and let third-party troops harass Wei Jun's Wuwei and Jincheng County.

Its original intention was also to prepare for the war with peace of mind for the big man, so he deliberately planned to drag the Wei army into the quagmire of war and delay the time for the Wei army to attack Longyou.

It can be regarded as seeing the same thing.

Both sides know that time is the key to determine the outcome.

As far as the big Han is concerned, if the Wei army can be prevented from sending troops out of Longyou within two years, then there will be no opportunity to rebel against Wei.

It's just that the idea is not very practical.

With the national power of Reversing Wei, nearly one hundred thousand troops can be mobilized in at most one year to fight for the ownership of Longyou.

After all, the anti-Wei system of garrisoning land and military affairs is that the father dies and the son succeeds, and the brother dies and the brother dies.

As long as the military households remain, there will be no shortage of soldiers.

One year is enough for them to train for the army.

And when Ni Wei came out again, he would inevitably follow the path of falsehood and reality, attacking Hanzhong County, Wudu County, and Longyou respectively.Using the tactics of the sea of ​​​​people, we can test out the weak points of the defense of the big Han troops, and then seal the victory in one fell swoop.

This is a gap in national strength, even if the big man has a geographical advantage, it will be difficult to offset it.

In particular, in order to build Hanzhong County into a land of grain and fodder, and turn Longyou into an outpost for marching, the Dahan consumed all the inventory in the land of Bashu in less than a year.

Once the war lasts for more than three or four months, the food and fodder in the land of Bashu may fall into the worry of running out of money.

Therefore, the prime minister, who has always been cautious, did not pin his hope of defending Longyou on the mistake of rebelling against Wei.

The lure of the Bashu nobles to separate their households into real borders, and the use of Shu brocade tea to form a bond with the Qianghu tribe is to increase Longyou's defensive capabilities, not to benefit the competition for time.

Whether or not he can win over Shenlang Qiang to join the war is the prime minister's last hope in gaining time.

It is also the only hope.

Originally, it was the best choice for Tang Fan, the leader of the Qiang people in the land of the head of the river, to harass Xiping County of Ni Wei from Jishi Gorge in Heguan County.

Because the Qiang and Hu tribes in the Huangshui River Basin are in trouble, they have never been subject to Wei Wei.

But Tang Fan rejected the prime minister's solicitation.

He imitated Song Jian, who used to be known as "Heshou Ping Han King" in the past, and became a new force in the separatist regime of Huahan.

Neither should offend against the Wei Dynasty, nor be vassalized by the big Han, and want to be sold with the attitude of being both right and left. Before the Han and Wei sides have decided the outcome, they will not make a choice.

Even so, it is a manifestation of short-sightedness.

But it is helpless.

After all, the Han and Wei dynasties will not send troops to attack him now, so as not to be taken advantage of by the other side.

Under such circumstances, Jiang Wei shouldered a heavy responsibility.

After he surrendered to the big man, the prime minister treated him as a kind and reinvented man, and he also had the heart to spare his life to help the big man.

It's just that sometimes determination isn't the deciding factor in success.

The leader of the army has been here for nearly two months, and he frequently entered Wangqu Valley to consult with the chiefs of the Shenlangqiang tribes, but he made no progress.

Those great chiefs are only interested in the Shu brocade and tea of ​​the great Han.

The soldiers went out of Longyou to harass the Wei army, they didn't want to damage the tribesmen for no reason.

The reason is simple: in the past more than 100 years, the first zero Qiang species that frequently rebelled, and the most powerful Qiang species in Liangzhou, either was migrated to change the species number, or was killed and massacred, or was killed by other species. The annexation of Qiang is now in vain.

Participate in wolf breeding Qiang, do not want to repeat the same mistakes.

In particular, in the north of them, there are still Shaodang Qiang who have spread to the West Sea (Qinghai Lake).

There is also no lack of disputes between the two sides over pastures.If they are greedy for the materials, money and food of the big man, countless people will be ruined, and they may be burned as a kind of Qiang and swallowed up!

(End of this chapter)