Mi Han

Chapter 483
The purpose of Mi Yang sending the letter to Jiang Wei is naturally not simple.

Besides, in order not to make Jiang Wei suspicious, his letterhead was not sent to Jiang Wei in a sneaky way.

Under such circumstances, it was not difficult for Guo Huai, as the chief general of the first army, to learn about this matter.

The commander of the enemy army suddenly wrote a letter to a young general in his own army. No matter how you look at it, this matter is strange.

But after Guo Huai learned about this, he didn't say anything.

Although Cao Wei and Ji Han are enemies at present, there are many letters between the courtiers of the two sides.

For example, Hua Xin, Wang Lang and others, important officials of Cao Wei today, often wrote letters to Zhuge Liang to express their admiration, and Zhuge Liang also wrote back to Hua Xin, Wang Lang and others one by one.

Not to mention among the courtiers, even Cao Pi, who has a literary and youthful disease, would write to Jiangdong from time to time, asking for calligraphy from Zhang Zhao, a famous scholar in Jiangdong.

Under such a social atmosphere, Guo Huai, who also came from an aristocratic family, certainly had no reason to convict Jiang Wei.

But Guo Huai still had doubts about Mi Yang's behavior in his heart.

It's not that he doesn't know the past between Liu Bei and Liu Feng. He has also heard of Ji Hanzhong's sometimes emotional behavior, but Guo Huai knows what happened to Jiang Wei before.

Jiang Wei was able to escape from Ma Chao's men before, entirely because of Ma Chao's mercy.

At that time, Guo Huai, who learned about this matter, didn't think much about it. He thought that Ma Chao might be eager for his talent, but it would be too arbitrary to suspect Jiang Wei's ulterior motives based on this matter alone.

But what about what he heard today?
Or what about Yang Fu's previous abnormal behavior?

Yang Fu has always been known for his daring to speak out, but with this personality, he did not dissuade Cao Hong from going to Yangping Pass.

Moreover, he happened to write a letter to inform Cao Zhen of this matter, so that Cao Zhen was counted by Mi Yang, and the Wei army suffered heavy losses.

Any one of these three things will not arouse Guo Huai's suspicion.

But when these three things happened one after another recently, a guess that he didn't want to believe, but came naturally, gradually surfaced in Guo Huai's mind.

Could there be such a coincidence in the world?

Wouldn't it be greater folly to believe in such coincidences?
Guo Huai's heart is full of twists and turns, but because he has no definite evidence in his hand, he is still in the stage of doubt.

Guo Huai has been in the army for many years, and his personality is quite straightforward. He didn't want to think hard in the big tent by himself. After thinking about it, Guo Huai came to Jiang Wei's big tent.

When Guo Huai arrived, Jiang Wei had just finished writing his reply to Mi Yang.

Seeing Guo Huai's sudden arrival, Jiang Wei, who has always been smart, seemed to have noticed something unusual, so he quickly got up and paid homage to Guo Huai.

After Guo Huai entered the tent, he kept focusing on the letter on Jiang Wei's desk.

After seeing Guo Huai's gaze, Jiang Wei immediately understood why Guo Huai came suddenly.

The magnanimous Jiang Wei is naturally not afraid to accept the scrutiny of Guo Huai's gaze.

Even to prove himself, Jiang Wei took the initiative to pick up the letters on the desk and handed them to Guo Huai for him to review.

Seeing that Jiang Wei was so sensible, Guo Huai nodded in satisfaction, and then he immediately opened the letter to read.

Jiang Wei handed Guo Huai two letters, one was a letter from Mi Yang, and the other was his reply to Mi Yang.

After Guo Huai carefully read the contents of the two letters, he found that there was nothing unusual about the contents.

Neither of the two letters mentioned the military at all, and it was a normal letter of greetings between celebrities.

This reduced Guo Huai's doubts a lot.

Guo Huai pretended to be nonchalant and handed the letter back to Jiang Wei. He didn't tell Jiang Wei not to reply to Mi Yang, he just mentioned something pointedly:
"Unexpectedly, Mi Yang knew that there is another young Lin in our army?"

Jiang Wei had a similar feeling in his heart just now.

But Jiang Wei's emotion was mostly a kind of surprise.

As for Guo Huai's emotion, then I'm not sure what it means.

After hearing Guo Huai's emotion, Jiang Wei couldn't help squinting his eyes. He wanted to explain something, but even with his intelligence, he didn't know how to explain it for a while.

Not to mention that Jiang Wei didn't know how to explain it, even if the most famous wise man in the world stood in front of Guo Huai, he might not be able to guess what Mi Yang's real purpose was.

Who would have thought that Mi Yang was a time traveler, who would have thought that in order to bring Jiang Wei under his command, Mi Yang would not hesitate to condescend and use his own fame to drive strife?

This is the truth, but no one in the world will believe it. The reason is very simple. In the eyes of the world, Jiang Wei does not have the qualifications.

And without knowing the truth, didn't Mi Yang make a corresponding and reasonable explanation very clear in the letter, so why does Jiang Wei need to repeat it.

It's just that Mi Yang's explanation Jiang Weixin, how much Guo Huai will believe, I don't know.

After saying that sentimental sentence, Guo Huai didn't ask Jiang Wei any more, he just mentioned a few things Jiang Wei was going to do next, and then turned and left the big tent.

Looking at Guo Huai's leaving figure, Jiang Wei had a vague feeling of uneasiness in his heart.

He seems to have noticed that Guo Huai's attitude towards him has slightly changed!
After Guo Huai walked out of Jiang Wei's big tent, his face suddenly turned cold.

Seeing this, Chang Diao next to him couldn't help asking: "General, what did you notice from the letter from the thief?"

Seeing that it was Chang Diao asking, Guo Huai nodded with a gloomy expression.

Although Chang Diao was once captured by the Han army, he was loyal and unyielding and never surrendered to the Han army during the period of being captured, which can be regarded as very loyal.

So after Chang Diao's return, Cao Pi not only didn't embarrass him, but also praised his loyalty in public, and made him Guo Huai's deputy.

The reason why Guo Huai was able to repel Ma Chao before was that Chang Diao made great contributions to it. After Chang Diao returned from completing his mission, Guo Huai also appreciated him more and more.

No one would dislike loyal and capable subordinates. In front of Chang Diao, Guo Huai did not hide his true thoughts.

Although Mi Yang's letter just now did not mention military affairs, Guo Huai still found some clues.

Mi Yang and Jiang Wei have never met each other, and the identity gap between them is so big, why is Mi Yang's tone in the letter so enthusiastic?

Isn't this the strangest place?
If Mi Yang hadn't asked Jiang Wei for something, why would he have lowered his status so much!

Thinking of this, the more Guo Huai thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong—Mi Yang had never done this to him before, did Jiang Weipei?

Seeing that Guo Huai's face was cloudy, Chang Diao suggested to Guo Huai: "If the general suspects Jiang Wei, it's better to send troops to take Jiang Wei down and punish him."

From Chang Diao's point of view, Guo Huai has nothing to worry about.

The chief general of an army can control the life and death of the entire army in wartime, not to mention whether Jiang Wei has any problems, even if he has no problems, it is a matter of Guo Huai wanting to kill him.

Chang Diao felt that his proposal was reasonable, but after listening to his proposal, Guo Huai shook his head cautiously after thinking about it.

He has a heart of love for Jiang Wei.

Besides, it was not difficult for him to kill Jiang Wei, but behind Jiang Wei stood Yang Fu, a feudal official of the same status as him.

If he hastily killed Jiang Wei without conclusive evidence, it would undoubtedly lead Yang Fu to his opposition.

For Guo Huai, this is not worthwhile.

In addition to the above two reasons, there is one more important reason.

Guo Huai vaguely felt that there was something suspicious about Yang Fu. If he killed Jiang Wei directly, he would undoubtedly scare the snake away.

There is no need to compare whether Jiang Wei's crimes were found out or Yang Fu's crimes were more credited.

Based on these three reasons, Guo Huai decided not to deal with Jiang Wei for the time being. Not only did he not deal with it, but he also wanted to let Jiang Wei take charge as much as possible within the scope of his control.

Whether it is loyalty or treachery, isn't it clear at a glance after doing something?
Guo Huai turned to Chang Diao and warned, "Don't tell anyone what happened today."

After hearing Guo Huai's warning, Chang Diao nodded solemnly.

After speaking, Guo Huai left Jiang Wei's tent.

What Guo Huai didn't know was that he and Jiang Wei had already fallen for Mi Yang's trick without knowing it.

Suspicion is a terrible thing.

When this kind of thing was produced in Cao Wei's treacherous political environment, the power that exploded after brewing was often even more unexpected.

But for the suspicion to change qualitatively, it will take time to continue watering.

In the first month of the fourth year of Zhangwu in the Han Dynasty, due to the cold weather recently, there was a heavy snowfall in Hanzhong that lasted for several days.

This heavy snow affected a wide area, not only Nanzheng was covered in white snow, but even the Jiange hundreds of miles away was also covered in heavy snow.

The time of day is hard to be influenced by manpower. When a heavy snow falls, even if Cao Hong scolds the heavy snow frequently, it can't change anything.

Why did Cao Hong rant about the heavy snowfall?
The reason is simple. The sudden heavy snowfall greatly slowed down the progress of Wei Jun's construction of the camp.

In today's world of low productivity, a heavy snowfall is not a beauty, but a disaster.

It was not easy for the thinly dressed Wei Jun to build camps in the cold winter. When the wind and snow covered the inside and outside of the Jiange Pavilion, the more piercing cold directly crushed the bodies of many Wei Jun.

Even without mentioning Wei Jun's physical fitness, the traffic conditions outside Jiange were greatly affected by the continuous heavy snowfall.

To build a strong fortress, giant logs are essential, and giant logs cannot be transported by manpower alone, and usually need to be pulled by vehicles.

The road is full of snow, how can ordinary vehicles pass?

Under the above unfavorable objective conditions, even though Cao Hong was eager to build the camp quickly, in the end he had no choice but to order to suspend the construction of the camp.

When Cao Hong's order spread throughout the three armies, unlike Cao Hong's anger, the soldiers of the Wei army were all very happy.

Asking them to perform high-intensity work in heavy snow is completely killing them.

However, as the construction of the camp stopped, Wei Jun also had to face a rather embarrassing situation.

Because he was afraid of the long and narrow mountain road outside Jiange, Cao Hongbao's plan at the beginning was to join forces.

Cao Hong's decision is not wrong, it can be regarded as a very appropriate behavior based on geographical advantages.

But since the joint camp, in order to ensure that there are no defensive loopholes in the military camps that stretch for several miles, the construction of many camps must have an overall plan.

This means that when one camp tent is not repaired, the other camp tents are also in a semi-finished state.

This is nothing in normal times, but at the moment when the heavy snow is flying, it has undoubtedly become a nightmare for many Wei Jun.

The weather is cold, but the shelter from the cold has not yet been built, what is this?

The complaints in Wei Junzhong quickly spread to Cao Hong's ears.

Cao Hong seemed quite worried about this matter.

In the future, he still needs these tens of thousands of troops to attack the city for him. What if they are frozen to death?
So under Yang Fu's suggestion, Cao Hong could only issue another military order.

He asked the soldiers of each battalion to gather as much as possible in the tents that had been built, and in order to protect the vast Wei army from the cold, Cao Hong also deliberately released the ban on alcohol in the army.

In order to prevent drinking accidents, there are usually military orders prohibiting alcohol in the current army.

This military order is usually not only valid for low-level soldiers.

Because he was usually suppressed too hard, when Cao Hong's order was promulgated, it immediately aroused cheers in the Wei army.

Even though many soldiers of the Wei army knew that there would not be too much wine in their hands, and even a lot of it would be mixed with water, but it would be great to be able to taste a little wine.

This can at least give you a little warmth on a cold night.

Because of this military order, Cao Hong also gained a lot of morale from the army.

It's just that some Wei generals also saw the disadvantages of Cao Hong's order.

For example, Sun Li said to Cao Hong: "Drinking is a mistake. It is the most reasonable thing in ancient and modern times. Today, the general orders the army to drink to keep out the cold. If the enemy suddenly attacks, how should our army deal with it?"

Sun Li's personality is upright and strict, and he is very displeased with the bad habit of drinking in the army.

Faced with Sun Li's kind reminder, Cao Hong didn't appreciate it.

"The sky is covered by wind and snow, and our army has enough food and supplies, but we can't resist the cold. How can we dare to use troops in snowy weather because the bandit army has no logistics?"

Cao Hong's first sentence refuted Sun Li's "unfounded worries".

Cao Hong's words are also reasonable. The cold weather caused by heavy snow attacks people indiscriminately. If the Wei army can't resist the cold, can the Han army just do it?

Besides, he had never heard of using soldiers in snowy weather.

"Besides, how can I prepare enough wine to make everyone drunk?

Furthermore, when Emperor Wu was alive, before every battle, he would slaughter pigs and sheep in the army, and prepare good wine for the army to enjoy. With this good trick, Emperor Wu was invincible.

Today I am alone imitating the story of Emperor Wu, so why not go wrong! "

What Cao Hong said was that Cao Cao did do it when he was alive, not only Cao Cao did it, but also many famous generals did similar things.

It's not likely that those famous generals were attacked by the enemy after doing this, and they were defeated.

How many people are there in the Han army?

Seeing Cao Hong moving out of Cao Cao, Sun Li could only keep his mouth shut in the end.

Just when Wei Jun was cheering for Cao Hong's order, Liu Feng, who was in the sword pavilion, looked up at the snowstorm and couldn't help laughing.

Since there is a snowy night, you should fight with a sword!
　Today's chapter.

　　
　
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