Mi Han

Chapter 268
In November of the first year of Zhangwu in the Han Dynasty, Mi Yang, who led an army of tens of thousands to Shunyang County, received a letter from Guan Yu.

After Mi Yang received Ma Liang's letter, he was worried about Guan Yu's safety, so he changed his tactics and made a slogan of attacking Champion County, and led the army to leave Wudang and go north.

Because the county under the jurisdiction of Nanyang County is too large, there are two best routes for Mi Yang to enter the championship from Wudang.

One is directly downstream from the Han River, and after arriving outside Yinxian County, it goes northward by land.

The other is to travel southward from Wudang County first, and then travel upstream from the tributary of the Han River, Junshui, to the west to Shunyang, and then take the opportunity to attack Champion County after taking Shunyang.

Mi Yang's current marching strategy is choosing the second one.

And this marching route was suggested by Wei Yan to Mi Yang.

Like Fu Xun, Wei Yan was originally from Nanyang County, so Wei Yan is very familiar with the terrain of Nanyang County.

The reason why Wei Yan suggested that Mi Yang choose this route is because most of the route has rivers.

And this kind of terrain can undoubtedly allow the Mi army with warships in their hands to be in a state of advancing, attacking, retreating, and defending.

At present, only Wudang in Nanyang County is in Mi Yang's hands, and Champion County is in the heart of Nanyang County.

Therefore, if Mi Yang chooses the first route, it will cause tens of thousands of Mi troops to go deep alone, which is a taboo for military strategists.

Not long after Mi Yang's army arrived outside Shunyang County, the magistrate of Shunyang County saw that it was Mi Yang who led the army. He was frightened out of his wits and immediately sent an envoy to ask Cao Pi for help.

It's just that Mi Yang didn't attack Shunyang County immediately.

Because no matter from the actual situation or from his real purpose of sending troops, he did not really send troops to attack Champion County.

According to his plan with Guan Yu, he should have led the army to wait for Guan Yu's call in Wudang County.

But after receiving Ma Liang's letter, Mi Yang, who didn't know how far Guan Yu's condition had reached, took the initiative to lead the army, because he was just to share part of the pressure on Guan Yu.

As the governor of Yibei, Mi Yang naturally has certain powers to make corresponding adjustments to his marching strategy.

Originally, what Mi Yang thought was that if Guan Yu was really seriously ill, then his actions could cover Guan Yu to lead the army to retreat to a certain extent.

If Guan Yu is just a little sick, then his actions can also share part of the enemy pressure Guan Yu faced, allowing him to recover as soon as possible.

Anyway, there are many warships around, as long as his army does not go ashore rashly, it will be able to advance and retreat freely, and it will not have any major impact on the current overall situation of Nanyang.

But what Mi Yang didn't expect was that not long after he led the army to the outside of Shunyang City, he received the news that Guan Yu had won a great victory by setting up the moon formation.

Mi Yang was the one who knew in advance that Guan Yu would form the Queyue Formation, so he was psychologically prepared for Guan Yu's victory, so he wasn't too surprised.

What really surprised Mi Yang was the news behind this great victory.

Judging from this incident, Guan Yu's body is still in a strong state, otherwise Guan Yu would not have followed the original plan step by step.

After learning the news, Mi Yang received the news that Guan Yu asked him to quickly lead the army south.

This made Mi Yang have an optimistic judgment about Guan Yu's condition.

Because everything is going on according to the original plan.

But Mi Yang will not make a final judgment because of this, after all, Guan Yu's status is extraordinary, and his physical condition is even more important.

Anyway, now that Guan Yu has issued an order for him to lead the army to the east, Mi Yang can just go to the Han army camp in Fancheng to actually observe Guan Yu's health.

In order not to delay Guan Yu's military strategy, but also to find out Guan Yu's real physical condition as soon as possible.

Immediately after receiving Guan Yu's order, Mi Yang led the army to retreat from outside Shunyang City, and then traveled downstream towards Fancheng.

During the Battle of Xicheng, Mi Yang had a maximum of [-] troops in his hands.

Later, when Mi Yang took advantage of the great victory in Xicheng to go to Wu, because the Wei army had too many prisoners, he left an army of [-], led by Meng Da and others, to garrison Hanxing County.

Later, because of the news of Cao Zhen's large-scale deployment of troops from Guanzhong, and in order not to delay the farm work, Mi Yang mobilized another [-] troops from his hands and returned to Hanzhong County.

Under the two consecutive divisions, there are currently only about [-] Han troops inside and outside Wudang City.

Although Guan Yu asked Mi Yang to mobilize an army to go south, the safety of Wudang City is also very important.

Therefore, the Han army that Mi Yang was able to lead to the outside of Fancheng was the tens of thousands of Han troops he brought out from Wudang this time.

It's just that the army Mi Yang brought may not be very large, but the quality of the generals he brought with him to fight is not low.

The bravery of Wei Yan alone can be equal to several ordinary generals.

Because it was going down the river, Mi Yang's army moved very fast, but within a few days, Mi Yang led the army to the outside of Fancheng.

When Mi Yang led the army outside Fancheng, he looked at the scene in front of him and felt a sense of deja vu.

Many battle flags of the Han army fluttered in the wind, and Fancheng, an important town in Jingzhou, was surrounded by Guan Yu's army with various fortifications.

When he came from Jiangling to outside Fancheng at a starry night, what he saw was the same scene.

When he came outside Fancheng at that time, his identity was just a Xiaolian, and there were only hundreds of guards with him.

What he came to Fancheng at that time was to save Guan Yu's life and the fate of the great man.

Now when he came outside Fancheng, he had already become the left general of the Han Dynasty, leading tens of thousands of elite soldiers with high morale.

But this time he came outside of Fancheng in order to win the national fortune against Wei.

It's only been more than a year, but things are different, thinking about it now really makes him feel a lot of emotion.

It's just that Mi Yang hadn't been feeling outside the camp for a long time. After he led the army to get off the warship one after another, he had already known the arrival of his army in advance, and Ma Liang, who had been guarding outside the camp for a long time, greeted him.

Ma Liang was followed by many subordinate officials.

Before and after Ma Liang came to Mi Yang's body, he took the lead in bowing to Mi Yang.

Although Ma Liang's qualifications and age are higher than Mi Yang's, but now Mi Yang is already the governor of the Han Dynasty, with a high position and weight.

Therefore, in terms of status alone, Ma Liang must be under the humiliation.

After all, according to the old rules of the great Han Dynasty, although the role of the governor has great powers and responsibilities, the rank is not high.

After Ma Liang saluted Mi Yang, Mi Yang also saluted Ma Liang back.

After meeting each other, Ma Liang commanded the subordinate officials behind him to bring the army brought by Mi Yang into the newly built military camps according to the battalion units.

Ma Liang's style of handling things is very similar to his idol Zhuge Liang, that is, he does everything by himself.

After Liu Bei took Yizhou, Ma Liang wrote a letter to his idol Zhuge Liang to praise him, but in that letter Ma Liang also reminded Zhuge Liang that he should short-list talents and let them take up their respective positions.

This shows that Ma Liang was not like this at the beginning.

As a result, not long after Zhuge Liang received this letter, Liu Bei recruited Ma Liang into his left general shogunate and became Zhuge Liang's subordinate.

After following Zhuge Liang for several years, Ma Liang, who was released again, completely changed his style of doing things.

And he had this change, which was entirely due to Zhuge Liang's infection.

Even Liu Ba, the Minister of the Han Dynasty, everyone knows that the person Liu Ba really wants to serve is Cao Cao.

But under the influence of Zhuge Liang, even Liu Ba, who had no heart for Liu Bei as a monarch and minister, had to use all his strength to sort out the national economy for Liu Bei.

Such a political atmosphere is simply unimaginable in Cao Wei.

If Cao Wei had such a political atmosphere, he would have unified China long ago.

This is the guiding role of a great prime minister.

Some people in later generations often criticize Zhuge Liang for not being able to employ people, because he exhausted himself to death, but those who say this completely ignore the dangerous environment that Ji Han faced in history.

If Zhuge Liang hadn't done everything himself, if there hadn't been Zhuge Liang's exemplary role, what kind of national strength did Ji Han in history use to launch a large-scale Northern Expedition, would it be based on the word "ideal"?
In history and even in the present, Ji Han's national power is far inferior to that of Cao Wei.

In order to prevent Ji Han from being thrown too far, Ji Han's rulers can only make it possible by exerting [-] points of strength.

This is the tragedy of a small country.

This is also one of the reasons why Cao Wei and Sun Wu have long-lived people in history, but Ji Han rarely has them.

Just like this year's Jingzhou, if Ma Liang hadn't personally supervised the harvesting and escorting of Jingzhou's grain, Guan Yu would definitely not have been able to launch the Northern Expedition so soon again.

Mi Yang looked at Ma Liang in front of him, and saw that he was not very old, but there were traces of gray in his hair.

And when I met him the year before, his demeanor was not like this.

This shows how much Ma Liang has worked hard for state affairs in the past year.

Ji Han's ideal person is really burning his life without complaint or regret, just to accomplish that seemingly impossible ambition.

For such a person, Mi Yang's heart is full of respect.

Ma Liang didn't know the respect Mi Yang had for him in his heart. He saw that most of the army behind Mi Yang had entered the camp following his own staff.

There was a hint of worry in his eyes, and then he stretched out his hand to lead Mi Yang aside alone and said to him:
"General Zuo, recently Liang has smelled the smell of medicine on the General's body."

Hearing what Ma Liang said, Mi Yang's eyes could not help but freeze.

Mi Yang was very clear about what Ma Liang's words meant.

He immediately looked at Guan Yu's main tent with worried eyes.

Hanzhong County, Nanzheng City.

Today's Nanzheng City looks a little unusual.

In the endless plains outside Nanzheng City, there are many Han soldiers who have begun to build camps.

Looking at the military uniforms of those people, they are slightly different from those of the Han army in Hanzhong County.

There is a white feather fluttering in the wind on the pockets of those Han soldiers.

"Wings for the country, like the prosperity of the forest", this outfit is exclusive to the Habayashi Army of the Han Emperor's pro-army!
The Habayashi Army, as the pro-army of the Emperor Han, began in the era of Emperor Xiaowu.

Although in the Eastern Han Dynasty, due to the different political systems, the establishment of the Habayashi Army gradually faded out of the sight of the Han subjects.

But for Emperor Zhang Wu, who wanted to rebuild the Han Dynasty by force, the Habayashi Army was an establishment he had always wanted to restore.

Because the power of the great Han Dynasty was greater than that of Emperor Xiaowu.

So from the day Liu Bei ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, he put the matter of rebuilding the Habayashi Army on the agenda.

And the predecessor of Ji Han's Yulin Army was Liu Bei's former Bai Mu elite soldiers.

With the expansion, the current Habayashi Army has reached 1 people.

Although the combat effectiveness of the white scorpion soldiers has declined after nearly doubling their number, even because of the current national strength of the big man, the [-] Yulin army cannot keep everyone wearing heavy armor.

But on the whole, the Habayashi Army rebuilt by Liu Bei himself is still the best in the world in terms of combat effectiveness.

As Emperor Zhang Wu's pro-army, the appearance of the Habayashi Army outside Nanzheng City undoubtedly meant one thing, that is, Liu Bei is now in Nanzheng City.

Sure enough, in the General Zuo's mansion in Nanzheng City, Liu Bei, who had just ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, was sitting on the throne in the lobby, listening to the reports of the ministers in Hanzhong.

After Liu Bei appointed Mi Yang as the governor of Yibei, in order to better coordinate the military of the entire governor of Yibei, Xicheng was no longer suitable as Mi Yang's governing place.

Nanzheng, the heart of the Yibei Governor's District, is the place where Mi Yang, the Yibei Governor, should stay in his daily life.

Therefore, the original Zhenyuan General's Mansion in Nanzheng City naturally became Zuo General's Mansion.

It can be said that Liu Bei's sudden arrival was a bit unexpected, but it was in line with Liu Bei's character.

According to common sense, Liu Bei has just ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, so he should be in Chengdu to handle government affairs.

But Liu Bei is no ordinary monarch.

As the founding king of the army and horses for decades, he really couldn't do it if Liu Bei stayed quietly in Chengdu and listened to those boring government affairs.

So after learning of Mi Yang and Guan Yu's plan, Liu Bei couldn't bear his loneliness and led tens of thousands of Yulin troops northward to Hanzhong.

Since Cao Pi, the emperor who rebelled against Wei, would personally conquer, then of course he, the emperor Yan Han, could also.

It's just that Ji Han's national strength is weak after all. In order to let Yizhou continue to recuperate, Liu Bei chose to take only [-] Yulin troops to the north.

"Only persuading agriculture does not take away the right time; only slack taxes collect endless people's wealth."

This is the national policy program formulated for Liu Bei after Zhuge Liang came to power.

Relying on this sixteen-character national policy program, there was a great victory in the Battle of Hanzhong that year, and also the national strength that supported Zhuge Liang's several Northern Expeditions in history.

And since it was determined as the basic national policy of the founding of the Han Dynasty, it is natural that it will not be changed easily unless it is necessary.

Just like the economic construction as the center of later generations, it is not difficult to set a program, but it is rare to always adhere to this program.

If the national policy is changed day and night, then the red country of later generations will not develop so fast.

But despite this, once Liu Bei arrives in Hanzhong County, as the emperor of Han, he can actually command the army including Mi Yang and Guan Yu, which together have a total of nearly [-] people.

This is already the largest mobile force that the big man can afford, without affecting his recuperation.

Regarding his personal conquest, Liu Bei only informed Yibei Governor Mi Yang through a secret letter, so most of the courtiers in Hanzhong did not know Liu Bei's arrival.

Now a group of ministers in Hanzhong are watching Liu Bei review the important military and political affairs of Hanzhong in the lobby.

Although Liu Bei has always been tolerant of his subjects, Liu Bei's power after becoming the emperor is undoubtedly stronger, so all the Hanzhong ministers felt a little uneasy.

　One more chapter later.

　　Have some food first.

　　
　
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