Mi Han

Chapter 420 Situation Changes Guo Huai Arrives
In December of the second year of Zhangwu in the Han Dynasty, Zhuge Liang, who had just led the Han army to a great victory, left some soldiers and horses to guard Bodao, and then led most of the other Han troops to pursue the victory and go all the way south, and came to the city of Yueyi County. outside the county.

When Zhuge Liang's army arrived in Chan County, Zhuge Liang's prestige in Nanzhong rose greatly due to the complete victory in the Battle of Bodao.

Therefore, the county magistrate of Chan County, who was originally attached to Gaoding, immediately opened the city gate to welcome Zhuge Liang's army into the city on the day Zhuge Liang's army arrived.

The two heads of the county magistrate of Chan County naturally couldn't hide it from Zhuge Liang, but Zhuge Liang had no intention of punishing the magistrate of Chan County.

Chan County is only a small county, and it is difficult to recruit hundreds of county soldiers in the county. Facing the powerful rebel army, the county magistrate of Chan County had no choice but to join the rebellion.

If he is not rebellious, Gao Ding is the leader of the Yi nationality, and he is very likely to do such a thing as massacre the city.

Moreover, the choice of the county magistrate of Chan County is the same as that of most county magistrates in Nanzhong.

Most of the county governments in Nanzhong are not all interested in the rebels. The reason why they choose to be rebellious is that when the rebellion first broke out, they were alone and alone. In this case, being rebellious is the best choice for self-protection.

Of course, if Zhuge Liang was defeated in the battle of Bo Dao, then the county magistrate of Chan County would definitely become more loyal to Gao Ding.

One positive and one negative, both change with the times.

Not only did Zhuge Liang not punish the magistrate of Chan County, but he also comforted the magistrate of Chan County with words.

Zhuge Liang's attitude made the county magistrate of Chan County very grateful.

Seeing that the magistrate of Chan County had already been appeased, Zhuge Liang commanded more than ten thousand Han troops to settle in Chan County and repair the city defenses, thinking of using Chan County as a temporary base for him to pacify Yuexi County.

This is also one of the reasons why Zhuge Liang appeased the county magistrate of Chan County. Since Chan County will be his temporary garrison base in the future, the stability of Chan County is of course very important.

The stability of Chan County is inseparable from the strong support of the county magistrate, a local snake.

In addition, his attitude towards the county magistrate of Chan county today will be publicized through the mouth of the county magistrate of Chan county sooner or later.

After this incident spread throughout Nanzhong, the other county magistrates who heard about it would not be too resistant to the arrival of Zhuge Liang's Han army.

With such a mentality, as long as the current situation continues to develop in favor of the Han army, then there will be more people like the county magistrate in Nanzhong in the future.

This is Zhuge Liang's politically aggressive strategy for the Nanzhong Rebellion-only punish the leader and the evil, and don't ask the followers.

After arranging for the army to settle in Chan County, Zhuge Liang sent a large number of scouts to investigate the movements of Gao Ding and Meng Huo.

The battle outside Bodao County last month dealt a powerful blow to the rebels of Gao Ding and Meng Huo, but it was not enough to break up their tribes.

According to the information collected after cleaning the battlefield, in the First Battle of Bodao, more than [-] Yi soldiers died, more than [-] were captured, and the remaining nearly [-] people scattered and escaped.

After having a clear understanding of the enemy's losses, Rao even Zhuge Liang secretly sighed: The Yi people are really good at running.

It was only after sighing that Zhuge Liang realized that there were still a few vicious battles to be fought in Nanzhong's anti-insurgency war.

If it was a battle with Cao Wei or Jiangdong, even if most of their troops fled after being defeated, Zhuge Liang would not have such worries, but the Yi army in Nanzhong was different.

The Yi army is an army based on tribes. Such an army has the weaknesses of not strict military discipline and insufficient training, but it also has very significant advantages.

This advantage is that they have a strong sense of belonging to their leader, after all, their leader is actually their patriarch.

With this advantage, if a large number of Wei Jun or Wu Jun fled, many of them might not return to the army. Even if they returned, it would take a long time, but the Yi Army would not have such worries.

According to Zhuge Liang's calculations, Gao Ding and Meng Huo would gather most of the fleeing clansmen back together in a short time.

And just a few days after Zhuge Liang led the army to station in Chan County, the scouts he sent before came back and reported the latest information they had found to him.

"The two thieves, Gao Ding and Meng Huo, were defeated and fled to Qiongdu, where they collected the defeated troops and regained their strength."

This latest information represents that all Zhuge Liang's previous inferences have become facts.

Since he had expected it in his heart, Zhuge Liang was not too surprised after getting this military information.

He gave the scout a new task.

After Zhuge Liang sent the good news to Chengdu, Chengdu naturally fell into jubilation.

After receiving the good news, the prince Liu Chan who was "in power" was even more overjoyed and unable to restrain himself.

Excited, Prince Liu Chan specially sent an envoy Da Si Nong Meng Guang south to Zhuge Liang's army to reward the army.

This happened not too long ago.

But now Zhuge Liang is going to make a fuss about this matter.

He asked scouts to go outside Qiongdu city to spread the false news that Chengdu was constantly sending reinforcements southward.

After the scout got this task, he immediately set off for the outside of Qiongdu City to act as planned.

When Zhuge Liang was assigning tasks to the scouts, Li Hui, the governor of the surrender, was in Zhuge Liang's tent, reporting some military affairs to him.

After the scouts left, Li Hui was a little puzzled why Zhuge Liang asked the scouts to do this.

"The defeat of the enemy army is when the morale of the army is depressed. Now that our army is superior to the enemy army, why doesn't the prime minister take down Qiongdu in one go?

Now the prime minister ordered the scouts to spread the news about the continuous flow of reinforcements from our army. The two thieves, Gao Ding and Meng Huo, were already panicked.

At that time, if both Zhu Bao and Yong Kai lead the army to defend Qiongdu, it will not be so easy to seize Qiongdu. "

Hearing Li Hui's worry, Zhuge Liang smiled and said to Li Hui: "It is Zhu Bao and Yong Kai who I want to come."

Zhuge Liang's words made Li Hui even more puzzled.

Seeing Li Hui's puzzled expression, Zhuge Liang patiently explained to Li Hui:

"The Battle of Bodao is enough to prove that the Yi people are easy to defeat but not easy to wipe out, and if most of them are not wiped out, the chaos in Nanzhong will never be peaceful.

Moreover, the rebels in Nanzhong do not belong to each other, and each has its own borders. If our army wants to pacify Nanzhong, it will not be possible if the rebels are not destroyed.

However, if one by one leads the army to Pingding, the terrain in Nanzhong is dangerous and miasma is rampant, which is quite dangerous and time-consuming.

Ni Wei is ready to move, and time is not waiting.

Since this is the case, I might as well use tactics to lure all the rebels together, gather and wipe them out, and complete their merits in one battle. "

Seeing Zhuge Liang's plan, Li Hui couldn't help but admire Zhuge Liang.

Seeing that Li Hui understood his intention, Zhuge Liang nodded slightly.

Li Hui is the governor of the imperial concubine. After he pacifies Nanzhong in the future, Li Hui will act as the agent for the important military and political affairs of Nanzhong.

For the purpose of long-term stability in Nanzhong, Zhuge Liang had to let Li Hui understand the secret of governing Nanzhong.

Soon after, Li Hui, who had reported all the military affairs, withdrew from Zhuge Liang's tent.

After Li Hui withdrew from the big tent, Yang Yi asked to see him outside the tent again.

Hearing that it was Yang Yi asking to see him, Zhuge Liang hurriedly let him in.

Yang Yi walked out of the tent with a happy expression on his face. Before he reached Zhuge Liang, he said to Zhuge Liang with joy:
"Prime Minister, Deng Ai led the army to put down the Huang Yuan Rebellion not long ago.

The Huang Yuan thief was beheaded by our army on the spot, and his head has been sent to Chengdu. "

After hearing the good news, Zhuge Liang also showed joy on his face - he really saw the right person.

Yang Yi walked quickly to Zhuge Liang, and handed an unopened battle report to Zhuge Liang.

Although Yang Yi has not read the contents of the battle report, but he has just learned everything from the messenger sent by Deng Ai.

Zhuge Liang quickly took the battle report in Yang Yi's hand and unfolded it.

But when Zhuge Liang unfolded the battle report in his hand, he found that there were two documents in his battle report.

This abnormal scene instantly alerted Zhuge Liang.

Zhuge Liang first calmly asked Yang Yi to retreat, and then he sat on the chief seat and read the two documents sent by Deng Ai.

One of the documents was Deng Ai's battle report to pacify the Huang Yuan Rebellion, and Zhuge Liang read it in just a while.

But when Zhuge Liang picked up another document, he discovered that it was actually a letter.

Zhuge Liang then unfolded the letter and read it.

After reading the contents of the letter, Zhuge Liang couldn't help but let out a sigh.

This letter is exactly what Shi Bao found from Huang Yuan, the letter stating that Sun Quan will fund the Nanzhong rebellion.

As early as when he went south, Zhuge Liang vaguely guessed that the chaos in Nanzhong had the shadow of Cao Wei behind it.

But what he didn't expect was that Sun Quan was also one of the reliance behind the rebels in Nanzhong.

This Sun Quan is really ambitious!

But compared to Sun Quan's wolf ambition, Zhuge Liang is more worried about the deep connection behind this incident.

This letter only mentions that Sun Quan will help the Nanzhong rebels. On the surface, this seems to be a matter between Sun Quan and the Nanzhong rebels.

But Zhuge Liang noticed that Sun Quan's move was likely to be inspired by Cao Wei.

Otherwise, Sun Quan is a wolf with good ambitions, but he is also good at dormant.

If there is no connection from Cao Wei's side, if it is only on his own side, with Sun Quan's character, he would not rashly intervene in Nanzhong.

What's more, at the same time that Cao Wei and Nanzhong communicated secretly, Sun Quan also intervened. Zhuge Liang didn't believe that there would be such a coincidence in the world.

Due to the different strategic vision, Zhuge Liang got more hidden information from this letter.

But after getting the hidden information, Zhuge Liang frowned deeply.

His expression rarely appeared on his face, even when he learned that Cao Wei had signs of aggressively attacking Hanzhong.

The reason why Zhuge Liang behaved like this was not because he was worried that Sun Quan was giving too much help to Nanzhong, nor was he not confident in facing the increasingly difficult situation in Nanzhong.

What he is worried about is that the situation in the world seems to be changing in the direction he least wants to see.

That situation is—the world is an enemy.

This is what makes Zhuge Liang, Wolong, feel very worried.

The world may think that the current situation of the big man has reached the height he envisioned in "Longzhong Dui", but Zhuge Liang knows that the current big man is similar in appearance but not in spirit.

From the perspective of territory, the current big man is good at crossing borders.

But the reason why Zhuge Liang proposed this strategic concept at the beginning was the time period when he proposed "Longzhong Dui", when Jingzhou and Yizhou were both powerful states in the world.

Especially in Jingzhou at that time - with [-] armored soldiers and ten years of food, what a majestic national power.

When the mighty national power is matched with a strategic position extending in all directions, and a handsome talent is added, then the war potential brought out by Jingzhou will make everyone fear it.

Only with such an arrogant national power can he not only have the confidence to "Yixiang Wanluo", but also deter the Jiangdong Sun family in the lower reaches, so that his "Longzhong Dui" strategy can be completely successful.

But now Jingzhou's national strength is dilapidated, which is not the same.

Even Jingzhou has now become the biggest weakness of the big man.

Under such circumstances, the current big man just seems to be quite powerful. If he falls into a situation where the whole world is enemies, then
Thinking of this, Zhuge Liang couldn't sit still any longer. The information he got so far was limited, and he didn't know how far the connection between Cao Wei and Sun Quan had reached, but many things had to be guarded in advance.

Zhuge Liang immediately leaned over and wrote a memorial, which he presented to Liu Bei.

Even though he knew that Liu Bei was still recuperating, he discovered something that was critical to the life and death of the big man, which made him have to report these things to Liu Bei in time.

Zhuge Liang quickly finished writing the memorial in his hand, and then he ordered someone to call Yang Yi.

Yang Yi didn't know why Zhuge Liang asked him to retreat just now, and why he rushed to call him in again, but before and after he came back to Zhuge Liang, he found that Zhuge Liang's face had a dignified look that he had never seen before.

Before Yang Yi asked about Zhuge Liang, Zhuge Liang handed over the memorial to Yang Yi, and then he said to Yang Yi: "Baili sent it to Chengdu urgently, and must deliver it to His Majesty by hand."

It was this sentence that made Yang Yi realize the seriousness of the matter.

He hurriedly took the memorial from Zhuge Liang, and then he heard Zhuge Liang order again: "In my name, prepare a warrant and send it to Hanjia, so that Deng Ai will lead the army south as soon as possible after receiving the warrant."

Yang Yi heard the urgency in Zhuge Liang's words, and he didn't dare to hesitate and immediately bowed to accept the order.

After ordering these two things, Zhuge Liang gave Yang Yi the last order:
"Order the whole army, and the whole army will march toward Chaoqiongdu early tomorrow morning."

After Zhuge Liang finished speaking the last password, Yang Yi hurriedly left Zhuge Liang's big tent to deliver the orders one by one.

After Yang Yi left, Zhuge Liang seemed a little tired, he kneaded his brows with his fingers.

Zhuge Liang knew why Sun Quan would gradually fall to Cao Wei, even though his eldest son Sun Deng was still in Jingzhou.

Sun Quan, or many people in the world, they are all afraid of the return of the big man who ruled the world back then.

Once that day comes and the clan is gone, will they still care about a son?

Difficulties in the world are all caused by human desires.

In December of the second year of Zhangwu in the Han Dynasty, in Chencang City in Liangzhou, Cao Zhen looked at the roster of the army in his hand with a happy face.

It has to be said that Xia Houmao is indeed quite talented in internal affairs.

In just three months, Xia Houmao had assembled nearly [-] troops for Cao Zhen, as well as countless food, grass and military equipment.

It doesn't take long to think that the [-] troops will be assembled. How can this not make Cao Zhen feel happy?

Just when Cao Zhen was happy, a sergeant came to report that Guo Huai had arrived.

Hearing Guo Huai's arrival, Cao Zhen got up from his seat, and he hurriedly asked Guo Huai to be called in.

　It's too late today, so let's start with a chapter.

　　
　
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