Shu Chen

Chapter 329 Su Yu
Midsummer in June, Tianshui Ji County.

In the afterglow of the setting sun, Zheng Pu, who was a military adviser, a general in charge of the town army, and a middle-ranking official, finally stepped into the Yishan courtyard of the Luo family.

Yes, after he was dismissed from the Central Guard Army, the imperial court gave him the post of General of the Town Army.

Just like Shi Jiangwan, the head of the Liufu government, also added the post of general of the Fujun army.

After all, there is an essential difference between Prime Minister Zhuge's opening of the mansion and the governance of Cao Cao's mansion in the past.

Shen You didn't go with her, but went to Jiaozhou.

One is that his family has not yet entered Shu, so it is not good to join the army at this time.

On the other hand, after Zheng Pu heard that he had become a reckless and brave man and supported his retinues generously over the years, he already had more than two hundred people who were willing to die and die together, so he went to the palace to meet the emperor Liu Chan to seek an official position for him.

According to the practice of the prime minister governing the army, even if Shen You, who has just arrived, is awarded a military post for his contribution to map maps, he will inevitably be stationed in a stable county for a year or two. He followed Longyou.

There is no way, the few big men adopt the strategy of elite soldiers, and will not entrust the lives of soldiers to the hands of those who don't know the details.

Therefore, Zheng Pu thought about asking the emperor to give him an official position, so that when Shen You went back to attract more than two hundred followers to Bashu, he sneaked into Jiaozhou to recruit soldiers!

Due to the relationship between terrain and landscape, Sun Wu's control over Jiaozhou was not stable.

The powers of prefects or county magistrates in many counties can only affect twenty or thirty miles around the city.

For example, the Lishu or barbarian tribes living in some remote mountains or precipitous places all obey the orders of the clan chiefs or tribal elders, and the style and appearance of Nanzhong are roughly similar.

Moreover, there are many of these people who are aggressive by nature and are willing to leave their hometowns.

For example, in the 25th year of Jian'an (AD 220), Sun Quan, who had just lost the alliance and seized the land of Jingnan, was worried that the late emperor Liu Bei would raise his troops to the east, so he ordered Buzhi, the governor of Jiaozhou at that time, to station in Changsha County for defense.

After Bu Zhi got the order, tens of thousands of righteous men from Jiaozhou were recruited to accompany him.

Not long after, the late emperor Liu Bei drove his troops to fight, and the barbarians who had always admired the kindness of the late emperor were ready to move, so they moved their troops to guard Yiyang.Although the later emperor Liu Bei defeated Yiling, there were still many counties and counties in southern Jing who raised troops to respond and did not submit to Sun Quan.

It can be seen that the combat power of Jiaozhou righteous men is not weak.

Zheng Pu didn't force Shen You to win so many righteous men from Jiaozhou into the Han Dynasty, but gave him a period of one year, and regarded this matter as an experience for him.

Since he is absorbed in military affairs, he needs to prove his ability to lead.

If he can win over 500 people, he can become a school with his former followers and form a camp alone, which is enough to prove that he can be loved by the soldiers, and he can be worthy of the training of a big man, with a view to being able to supervise an army in the future.

If you can only recruit more than a hundred people, then send them to other generals to serve as deputy positions for qualification and training!

After all, the emperor conferred the authority, and Ma Zhong, the subdued governor of Nanzhong, took over. If he still performed unsatisfactorily, then his own talents and learning were limited. No wonder others did not entrust him with important tasks.

Furthermore, at this time, the Han Dynasty was about to return to Liangzhou, and Wei Guo's counterattack was imminent, so Zheng Pu didn't have that much thought on Shen You.

In fact, Wei Guo's counterattack has already begun.

When Zheng Pu entered Ji County, he went to the Prime Minister's Befu alone.

Although he didn't meet the prime minister Zhuge Liang as he wished, the prime minister who roughly estimated the time of his return, when he left Ji County, asked the small official on duty to forward all the recent military newspapers to Zheng Pu for review.

In the late spring and March, Sima Yi, governor of Yongliang in Wei State, stationed his troops in Chencang and Mei County, watching Sanguan in Wudu County and Baoxie Valley Road in Hanzhong.

Don't send Guo Huai as the main general to oversee Xiahouba, Niu Jin, and Zhang Xiong's three tribes. A total of [-] cavalry marched out of Gaoping City. They stationed at the mountain col where the prime minister fought Cao Zhen in the past, and frequently sent small-scale troops to harass Longyou. And Zuli County.They don't want to kill or fight, but they don't dare to go too far to graze or can't concentrate on farming.

In this regard, the prime minister ordered the right general Wu Ban, who was in charge, to order all the ministries to guard the dangerous points and siege of the counties, to give up the surrounding pastures, and to protect the Li Shu, and not to give up the favorable location to go out and fight against the war.

Because of Guo Huai's harassment this time, the strategic purpose is nothing more than support!

The real battlefield is the Hexi Corridor that has just changed flags!

Sima Yi also sent Fei Yao as the other governor to protect Hu Zun, Xu Gai and Deng Ai, about ten thousand people, and entered the south of Helan Mountain along the Wushui (Qingshui River) valley.

This is a unique battlefield - Yiqi first came out and disturbed the Hexi Corridor.

Among them, Hu Zun and Deng Ai have a total of more than [-] people. Their duties are to farm on the spot, ease the difficulty of food transportation for future military struggles, and guard the rear town of the newly established battlefield.

The nearly [-] cavalry under the supervision of Fei Yao and Xu Gai drove from Mingsha Mountain to Wuwei County to test and harass, or frequently went south from the abandoned Naowei County to inspect the defense of the fortress of Shuyin across the river.

Perhaps, only a few thousand riders came from Wei State to harass them, so there seems to be no need to worry about the Hexi Corridor where Ma Dai and Jiang Wei are.

But the prime minister knew that the nearly five thousand Wei cavalry were only the front.

After the autumn is clear, the Hexi Corridor will usher in [-] to [-] horsemen from the State of Wei to drive in. I am afraid that even Dunhuang County, which is far to the west, will inevitably have a war!

The news that Cao Rui of the State of Wei was changed to the Yuan Dynasty and transferred to the garrison of various states and counties has already been carefully reported back to Longyou.

For example, Liu Gaoshengyuan, the son of Qubei, the right virtuous king of the southern Huns, was promoted to be the king of Xiutu, Liu Bao, the governor of Shuofang, who protected the left virtuous king, was made the king of Hunxie, and Tuoba Liwei was granted the title of Master Baosai of Wei Xianbei.

In the early Han Dynasty, the residences of the Xiongnu Kings Xiutu and Hunxie Kings are now the Hexi Corridor.

Cao Rui's move is equivalent to intending to restore the Huns to their former glory.

Liu Gaoshengyuan and Liu Bao could not refuse this temptation.

In other words, even if they knew that Wei Guo regarded them as the pioneers of the Han-Wei struggle, they could not refuse their "good intentions".

Tian Yu, who was transferred to be the governor of Bingzhou and the general of the Xiongnu Zhonglang, was a good general, and he always insisted on the concept of "fighting to death" against Xianbei and the Xiongnu, not Huairou.

If Liu Gaoshengyuan, who lived in the tribe in Bingzhou, did not move to Hexi, Tian Yu would definitely lead the army to punish him for the crimes of ignoring the state's grace and disrespecting the transfer order.

The same is true of Liu Bao.

Together with Qin Lang, he supervised the army and killed Xia Houru, who killed Kebineng in the northern Xianbei, and has already transferred to General Zhengbei and stationed in Jiuyuan County.

If Liu Bao refused to follow his orders, Xia Houru could conscript the various Xianbei and Zahu tribes who came to attach him, and eat up the power Liu Bao had accumulated with great difficulty.

There is no need to question whether Tian Yu and Xia Houru have such strength.

With the prestige of the two of them in northern Xinjiang and the mercenary style of the tribes in northern Xinjiang, it is not difficult to set off a feast for the two Huns in the division.

Not to mention Tuoba Liwei.

The tribal forces were already sandwiched between the Han and Wei dynasties.

Now that Hu Zun and Deng Ai are leading the army to the north, and he and Liu Bao have repeatedly attacked each other, if he dares to disobey, it is only a matter of time before he is flanked and killed.

These three tribes all have more than ten thousand people.

According to their customs of young and old soldiers, it is foreseeable that [-] to [-] light riders will enter Hexi.

Moreover, their people migrated for water and grass all year round, and they were used to trekking long distances, enduring the bitter cold and wind and sand. From Mingsha Mountain to the desert in the west of Hexi, it was impossible to isolate their horseshoes.Regardless of the Xiongnu in the pre-Han period or the prosperous Xianbei in the later period, there are many examples of driving hundreds of miles across the desert to plunder the border counties of the Han Dynasty.

And the timing of the large-scale crimes is also easy to infer.

Calculating the time when Liu Gaosheng’s tribe migrated from Bingzhou to the south of Yinshan Mountain, and taking into account the nomadic habit of mobilizing troops in autumn when horses are tall and fat, one can roughly infer that the Hexi Corridor in autumn and winter must be full of wars.

This is one of the reasons why the prime minister is not in Ji County.

Sima Yi stationed a large army in Guanzhong Youfufeng, threatening Hanzhong County, which has now become the main source of food and fodder for the Northern Expedition, and also prevented the Chinese army gathered by the prime minister in Longyou from acting rashly.

The way of the military strategist is false and true.

Don't think that Sima Yi has no intention of attacking Hanzhong or Longyou now, but if the Prime Minister divides his troops to garrison in Hexi, which shows that his troops are weak, he may not attack.

In this way, it is a mistake to lead the snake out of the hole.

And even if they went to the other troops in Hexi to return to the reinforcements in time, it would still make the soldiers exhausted.

Having established a strategy of recuperating, farming and accumulating grain to restore national strength, the prime minister will never mobilize the army when it can prevent the army from wasting food, fodder and manpower.

Therefore, accompanied by Wei Yan, the prime minister rushed to Jincheng County in light clothes.

Now that the Wei State has sent troops, whether it is the Silk Road trade or the future aid to Hexi, Jincheng County is a pivotal point that cannot be missed for the big Han.

And now there are a lot of troops in Jincheng County.

Not only the prefect Zhang Yi and Zhenwei General Zhoutai, but also the Wei army prisoners who were forced to land in the Battle of Lingju and the Battle of Jincheng.

Given that the Longyou and Hanzhong armies were in short supply and could not move, if he wanted to increase troops to Hexi to defend the coming war, the prime minister had no choice but to recruit troops from here.

Fortunately, the main forces that invaded Hexi were the Southern Huns and Xianbei, so many prisoners of the Wei army were available—captives from the Hexi Corridor would inevitably change course once they learned that the Wei State they had loyally sent for the invasion. Standing under the banner of the Han Dynasty, he fought bloody battles.

Without him, we share the same hatred!
Fighting for the big man is also to protect the peace of the hometown and prevent the father, wife and children from being imprisoned by the owl!
However, when these captives were collected after the war, they had already been promised that they would be granted farmland, disarmed and returned home to reunite with their families after only three years of farming for the Han Dynasty.

Now it takes a lot of effort to recruit soldiers again.

At least they should not be allowed to give birth to the idea of ​​a big man going back on his word, so as not to damage the prestige of the big man and make it difficult for them to attach themselves in the future.

The prime minister, who has always been cautious in temperament, came here to recruit soldiers in person based on this worry.

As for why Wei Yan was also brought along?
The war in Hexi was dominated by cavalry, and now Ma Dai and Jiang Wei, who are in charge of military affairs in Hexi, would inevitably have to supervise cavalry to go out to intercept or rush to help, so the prime minister wanted him to go to Hexi to supervise the overall situation.

Anyway, at that time, the Prime Minister will personally sit in Jixian County, with Wu Yi and Wu Ban guarding both sides, so there is no need to worry about the Longyou-Wudu-Hanzhong front.

For this, Wei Yan went happily.

Not only he is also the governor of Liangzhou.

It is also because of this kind of heroism of "accepting orders in the face of danger and giving up to me" that fills his chest and abdomen, which makes him high-spirited.

In Zhiyang County, Jincheng County in June, even if you pass through Youwuting against the water (Zhuanglang River) on the bank of the big river, it is difficult to get rid of the scorching heat, and even the trees on the riverside droop their leaves listlessly.

Wei Yan, who rode out slowly from the prisoner's camp, stretched out his hand to wipe away the sweat that poured into the corners of his eyes from time to time, and couldn't help turning his head frequently, and his eyes fell on the prime minister who was sitting in a plain car (small car), his face was full of desire. Stop talking.

Yes, the current prime minister has already started to travel in Suyu.

Gein is a person who has been tired of writing for a long time, and it is inevitable that his legs and feet will not be smooth.

The prime minister, who used to do everything by himself, and often sighed at night, now has a slight inconvenience in his legs and feet (old cold legs).Although it is not inconvenient to walk, it is difficult to ride a horse or go hiking for a long time!

oh~~~
It seems to be aware of it.

The prime minister led by E Guanbo looked sideways suddenly, and said softly with a smile, "Does Wen Chang have something to say about me?"

"Go back to the prime minister, yes."

Hearing this, Wei Yan was no longer silent, put down the reins of the horse and bowed his hands, and said with some difficulty, "I secretly thought that the prime minister treated these captives too generously!"

After the words fell, without waiting for the prime minister to reply, he continued, "It is my benevolence and righteousness for those who were defeated and captured to be slaves without punishment or punishment. Today, the prime minister came to recruit them as soldiers to give them a chance. Redeem their merits! It is also to let them go back to protect their small clans from being trampled by the horseshoes of the Hulu. It is not an exaggeration to praise them for their kindness! The prime minister is merciful and fair in enforcing the law. Allowing them to apply for military service can be treated the same as our soldiers That's all, why should someone give you a thousand dollars? I really can't understand it! Besides."

At this point, he hesitated for a moment, then lowered his voice and muttered, "Furthermore, my soldiers in the Northern Expedition of the Great Han Dynasty had a lot of hardships, and the prime minister saved the money rewarded to those captives, and went to find the Qianghu tribe in exchange for some. Wouldn't it be better for a meat-eating army?"

"Hehe~~~"

After hearing Wei Yan's complaint, the prime minister couldn't help but shook his head and smiled.

This kind of incomprehension can only be found in Wei Yan, who is good at military struggle but short at governing herdsmen.

If Fei Yi, Zheng Pu, Jiang Wei or Guan Xing were here, they would understand the meaning behind rewarding the captives who applied for the war.

For the Northern Expedition of the Great Han Ding to establish Guanzhong and return to the old capital, the strategic significance of the Hexi Corridor is to raise war horses, unblock the Silk Road to collect military funds, and make the Yizhou nobles and the imperial court work together!
The root of this strategic significance is that the counties and counties in Hexi must have peace of mind and have the kindness of the Mu Han family.

Treat these captives of Hexi native place favorably, organize them into the various departments of the Han army to resist the invaders of the Huns and Xianbei, and protect their hometown, father, old wives and children. The vigilance of changing the banner to another ownership is willing to call itself a big man.

After all, during the Battle of Lingju, the generals of the Wei State, such as Jia Xu and Huang Hua, were all led by a tyrannical government that sought wealth to prepare for the war.

People show violence, I show grace, so why worry about people not being attached?

Furthermore, although the Great Han Committee lacked financial and material resources, the number of soldiers recruited this time was only more than [-]. According to the assets captured by Jincheng County in the past, it is not unbearable to reward a thousand dollars.

why not?

However, the prime minister did not intend to explain to Wei Yan in detail.

People have their own strengths and make the best use of their talents.Since Director Wei Yan is in a military struggle, there is no need to disturb his mood with such trivial matters.

(End of this chapter)