Shu Chen

Chapter 551

"Let Xiuming return to Nanzhong, one is that Ma Dexin led the army out, and no one has the prestige to guard the rear; the other is that the imperial court has recruited troops from Nanzhong for the Northern Expedition in recent years. The current Jiaozhou war Again, I am afraid that the sergeants in the south will mistakenly think that the imperial court does not care about the power of the people, and that the military is endlessly confiscated. The one who can make the soldiers feel at ease must be Xiuming. After Xiuming takes office, he must put the first priority of appeasing Li and the common people, so that the court will not have turmoil in Nanzhong worries."

This is what the prime minister told Meng Yan when he returned to Nanzhong.

It is also the biggest reason why he intends to work with Li Yi to fight for the interests of the eight surnames of the southerners.

To appease the common people, isn't that what one wishes?
Based on his duty, he transferred the advantages and disadvantages sought by the southerners to Ma Zhong. As for the result, it was a matter of the collective efforts of the crowd rather than his personal control.

Yes, the Prime Minister has divided the responsibilities of Nanzhong.

For example, Ma Zhong, Huo Yi, Shen You, and Shi Bao were sent to oversee the conquest; while Meng Yan and Li Yi stayed in the rear of the town to provide logistics for the army. Meng Yan.

Well, now Ma Zhong has been granted the arbitrary power of fake Huang Yue, and he has full authority to oversee the war as the general of Zhennan.

Huo Yi also resigned as the prefect of Yongchang, and took General Annan as Ma Zhong's deputy, and was the governor of the two expeditions to Jiaozhou.

This change of position also prompted Huo Yi's desire to fight.

Isn't the so-called Annan the Anjiao Prefecture?

And as the emperor Liu Chan's childhood companion, he also received an encouraging letter from the emperor when he received the edict of position change, claiming that he wanted to watch him guard the door for the country like his father's generation.

The meaning of this remark is almost to claim that if the big man returns to Jiaozhou in the future, he will be used as the guard general.

This also made Huo Yi understand the emperor's hidden thoughts.

Different from the prime minister's strategy of letting the generals in the South and Central China harass Jiaozhou according to their abilities, the emperor Liu Chan was looking forward to taking Jiaozhou back, but he was worried that he would miss the plan of the Northern Expedition, so he didn't say it clearly.

And Huo Yi felt that the troops of Nanzhong's various ministries had the strength to be able to achieve the best of both worlds.

Furthermore, won some counties and counties in Jiaozhou, wouldn't it be better to contain Jiangdong and let Wu send more soldiers and horses to Jiaozhou?
Isn't it the completion of the prime minister's deployment?
With this in mind, he was the first to claim that Jiangdong had reneged on the alliance twice before and after the military meeting, and that the Great Han Northern Expedition fell short, which is unforgivable!It's not just to harass the empress to relieve the hatred in my heart!It is reasonable to seize its counties and counties, severely injure its soldiers and horses, so that it will no longer have the strength to hinder the imperial court's northern expedition, so that the strategic goal of sending troops this time has been achieved.

As soon as his words fell, Meng Yan and Li Yi immediately agreed.

And also offer the sincerity of the southerners to fight.

The intention of such a war is to seize Jiaozhou, counties and counties, then the eight surnames of the southerners will join forces to gather [-] private soldiers to accompany the conscripts, and they will prepare their own armor and weapons, and raise their own food and fodder for a month!
Even the supervisors of these private armies have been announced publicly.

It was Shaoyi Xiaowei, Cuangu, who was stationed in Xinggu County.

Cuan Xi, the late leader of the clan, was the youngest member of the southern eight surnames with the best military ability.

The Cuan family in Jianning is the most powerful family among the eight surnames of the southerners. Even the Li family who took over the post of prefect can’t match it. In this way, the eight families joined forces, and the private soldiers belonging to the Cuan family alone are close to 3000 people. .

But if the purpose of this battle is to intrude~~
They sent at most one thousand troops, and the imperial court had to follow the system of conscripting vassals for conquest.

Such as giving them rewards for their willingness to fight for the country, and providing private soldiers with all supplies such as arms and food.

As for Shen You and Shi Bao, one of them hopes to attack Jiangdong for revenge, and the other is eager to display their talents and knowledge to make contributions, and they also claim to follow the trend.

If it is just an intrusion, those Jiaozhou Haoyou and barbarian tribes who came spontaneously to seek attachment may be looked down upon.

It will be questioned that the big man has no strength to be an enemy of Jiangdong.

You will feel that a big man is not worth attaching to.

Naturally, it will also lead to that when the big Han wants to occupy Jiaozhou in the future, they will no longer have the heart of attachment, and they will not dare to throw their entire family's wealth and life on the Han army.

The most important thing is that the South Central Division does not need to worry about the supply of food and fodder.

This is also the biggest difference between the partial eclipse in the South and the Northern Expedition, as well as the fact that Zheng Pu and Guan Xing sent troops from Yong'an and needed to farm for self-sufficiency.

First, the rice field in Nanzhong can produce three crops in one year, which is enough to provide food and fodder for more than ten thousand soldiers.

Another is that during the years of the Northern Expedition, no matter how scarce food and fodder was, the imperial court never collected food and fodder from the South.

Gein transported grain and fodder from Nanzhong to Bashu, half of which was lost along the way, and then transported to Longyou or Guanzhong, the soldiers and civilians who transported the grain could eat up all the grain transported!
The difficulty of walking the five-foot road in the south is no less than that of the Jinniu road in the north of Shu.

Therefore, during the years of the Northern Expedition of the Great Han Dynasty, they only recruited troops to move to Nanzhong and requisitioned materials such as cattle, Yunnan horses, gold, silver, dan, and lacquer.

Everyone is looking forward to a battle, which can be said to be hard to disobey.

But the real reason why Ma Zhong made the decision was the result of talking with Meng Yan in private after the military discussion was over.

He asked the prime minister about his deployment in Guanzhong.

After learning that the various ministries of the Northern Expedition still had [-] troops hiding in Guanzhong, he also faintly figured out the prime minister's potential intention of using troops against Jiangdong this time-in order to lure Wei Yongliang's main force to come to a decisive battle spontaneously.

In other words, no matter how the Nanzhong Division fought, it would not affect the plan of the Northern Expedition.

It even helps!

Jiang Dong has already joined forces with Ni Wei~
As long as Jiangdong is overwhelmed and he frequently urges against Wei to send troops to relieve the pressure, wouldn't it be beneficial to the Northern Expedition?

Furthermore, since Nanzhong Pianshi has the strength and ability to share the country's worries, why should all hopes be pinned on Zheng Pu, Guan Xing and others?
"Although Huang Quan died, Hu Du was regained. This means that there is no shortage of virtuous people in the world!"

In the past, Huang Quan's talent was the crown of scholars in Bashu. The first emperor praised him and Huang Quan side by side, which also encouraged and expected him to become a pillar of the great man.

The words of the first emperor are still in my ears!
Today there is a letter from the emperor's fake yellow axe!

How could Ma Zhong be willing to be mediocre and wait for the news of success from Zheng Pu and others who are a generation younger?
Therefore, he has made up his mind to allow everyone's love.

In terms of tactical scheduling, he also listened to Shi Bao's advice.

With the advantage of more than [-] troops from the southerners, take the false and true way of the art of war.

It was he who led [-] soldiers from the Jinxi (Panlong River) and Xisuishui (Red River) valleys to Jiaozhi County to the south to contain Lu Dai's tribe; don't let Huo Yi lead more than [-] soldiers from the Zangjiang River Valley to Yulin County.

With the strength of the Huoyi tribe, supplemented by the Shenyou tribe who had infiltrated Jiaozhou early on, and some Haoyou who secretly attached themselves, Liu Zuan, who was guarding Yulin County, could not resist at all.

This is to take him as the false and Huo Yi's department as the truth.

If Lu Dai went to rescue Yulin County without dividing his troops, then Huo Yi's tribe would continue to march to Nanhai County, and cooperate with Wu Dang, the survivor of the Han Dynasty in the county, to cut off the back of Lu Dai's tribe and turn Jiaozhi County into an enclave!
And if Lu Dai divides his forces~
Then, his path will turn from fiction to reality, and he will drive straight into the weak defense of Jiaozhi County Chief.

(End of this chapter)