Shu Han Confucian General of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 258
"Why do you do this, general? How can you lead an army to fight as a Confucian scholar!" Zhuge Liang said anxiously, never expecting Zhao Fengfeng to make such a suggestion.

"It doesn't matter, you and I have known each other for many years, Kong Ming, I am aware of your talents and learning. Do you think that with your talents and learning, you can only be a state official?" Zhao Feng said leisurely to Zhuge Liang while holding a teacup.The latter hesitated slightly when he heard the words, but then he sighed: "So, wouldn't it be difficult for the general?"

"It's okay, I'm used to taking it easy!" Zhao Feng laughed.Zhuge Liang shook his head and remained silent when he heard the words, and suddenly smiled and said: "General, maybe you and I are both busy. The next Northern Expedition, I'm afraid we will all be on the sidelines!"

"Kong Ming, what do you mean?" Zhao Feng seemed to understand a little bit, but he still asked.

"Look, general!" Zhuge Liang pointed to the map and said, "If you go north from Wancheng, you will be Luoyang. Although there are Hulao Pass and Luoshui in the middle, it is lonely in Henan. If the Lord attacks with large soldiers, he will be able to go down sooner or later. Compared with the natural danger in Guanzhong , Luoyang is almost at your fingertips, and there are many talented people around the lord, how can you avoid the trivial and focus on the important? Liang boldly speculates that the next northern expedition, the lord, will definitely send troops to Luoyang as the main attack, and I waited for the remote place in Xichuan, just a feigned attack. !"

"It makes sense!" Zhao Feng agreed with Zhuge Liang's point of view.Just as the so-called authorities are obsessed, he himself didn't know what to do for a while.Now it seems that sometimes in order to avoid suspicion, I am a little bit like an enemy.It's just that neither he nor Zhuge Liang expected that the final situation in Guanzhong would be like this.At this moment, the guard came to report that Mi Wei, the captain of the cavalry, had something to see.

"General, I should have [-] cavalry under the cavalry captain according to the organizational system. But I have practiced for several months, and the [-] soldiers under my command still have less than [-] horses. What should I do here!" Mi Wei finished his visit After that, he also complained to Zhao Feng.It turns out that this kid came today to give advice.

"Jianwu don't blame me, I have only less than [-] war horses in Xichuan here, and I can give you less than [-] horses, which is already very good!" Zhao Feng laughed.It is not that there are no war horses in Yizhou, but they are basically in Zhao Yun's place in Hanzhong.Of the [-] Hanzhong army under Zhao Yun's command, cavalry accounted for nearly [-].Although Zhao Feng is known as Yizhou Shepherd, he is not too sympathetic to this Hanzhong prefect.He also understood that Liu Bei wanted to check and balance him, so he came up with so many tricks.In this way, if he wanted to fight a slightly larger battle, he had to bring Zhao Yun along.

"Ah, so many horses?" Mi Wei was stunned when he heard that, Zhuge Liang suddenly raised his head and said, "General, Lu Gongshan sits in Nanzhong, and he sent someone to report that he got some war horses from Nanzhong. Let the general send someone to accept it."

"Is there such a thing?" Zhao Feng was really surprised this time. Thinking about it carefully, the so-called Nanzhong is the area of ​​Yunnan and Guizhou. It is estimated that Lu Dai just bought some Yunnan horses and Guizhou horses.This kind of mountain horse is probably inferior in performance compared to the Xiliang horse, even the Central Plains war horse that I have always despised.

"It doesn't matter, general, Sichuan people are short, and riding this kind of pony is enough!" It seemed that Zhao Feng was not very interested in this, Zhuge Liang continued to explain. "Forget it, Jianwu, you go to Nanzhong tomorrow to receive war horses. The tall ones will be included in the army, and the short ones will be used to pull carts!" Zhao Feng cheered up.Mi Wei didn't know there were so many twists and turns in his stomach, seeing that there was a war horse, he repeatedly agreed to run away without mentioning it.

"General, the pavilions in the three counties of Yuejia, Xinggu and Zhudi have been completed. There are many Han and Nan people living together. We are counting the people now. According to Li Taishou's estimation, next year's household registration will be counted again, which will be enough for Chuanzhong again. Add 20 people. If this goes on like this, within 20 years, there will be no distinction between barbarians in Nanzhong!" Zhuge Liang summarized and looked forward, and handed Zhao Feng a copy of the latest official document sent by Li Hui, the prefect of Zhu Di. .The latter took it and opened it, and nodded again and again.

Historically, the Shu Han was harassed by various tribes in Nanzhong. Although Zhuge Liang crossed Lu in May, and later Zhang Yi and others guarded Nanzhong, they never completely made Nanzhong worship.The reason is that the Shu Han is relatively weak after all. If the conquest of Nanzhong is delayed for a long time, it will inevitably be taken advantage of by Cao Wei and Dongwu, so Huairou has always been more than conquest.But people's hearts are unpredictable, and if you are so soft, they will inevitably not take you seriously.Just like Meng Huo, since he won't die if he is defeated, what is he afraid of?

And now Zhao Feng doesn't have as many scruples as Zhuge Liang in history.Meng Huo was slaughtered in the previous battle in Jingnan, which frightened them first, and then took advantage of the chaos to win over Yang Feng and Gao Ding. The two have moved to Jingnan and Jiaozhou for several years, and they have been living and working in peace these years.The strength of the remaining Menghuo tribe has been greatly reduced after the death of the patriarch, and the new patriarch Meng Jie is not a competitive person, so it is still stable now.Of course, Zhao Feng also knew that the process of assimilation would still take ten or twenty years, or even longer, and it should not be rushed.To use an analogy, consider that from the end of the Qing Dynasty to the period of the Republic of China, people from Shandong and other places crossed the Guandong several times, and tens of millions of Han people migrated over the past few decades, which completely Sinicized the three eastern provinces.

Zhao Feng, who has understood the history, will naturally not take so many detours.First, the Construction Corps pioneered, and then in the past two years, people began to settle down and open up wasteland. Later, even landlords who gave up their lives and money, dragged their families to the local area to make a living.At present, it seems that the three counties of Zhudi, which were originally sparsely populated, have settled down.As for the rest of Yongchang, Yunnan and other places, it still needs to be done.Zhao Feng himself didn't know if he could see this scene before he left Xichuan.In fact, he is still looking forward to it.After all, I came to this world not just to kill people.

The next day, Mi Wei led his people to Nanzhong to pick up the horses.A few days later, Mi Wei came back with more than 2000 horses.As Zhao Feng expected, this kind of horse is the Guizhou horse of later generations.Although the size is not too big, it is still taller than those Yunnan horses that Sun Quan had built back then.Zhao Feng and Mi Wei picked and picked, and took [-] of the horses that were too laughable to be used as draft animals, and the rest were incorporated into the army.Although both of them are not very satisfied with this, they can only make do with it.

"According to the Tanmalai report the day before yesterday, Xia Houyuan built a pass city at the end of the Xiegu, named Xiegu Pass. He also opened a large farm in Wuzhangyuan, Weinan. In this way, it will be even more difficult to continue sending troops out of Xiegu in the future! "Zhuge Liang mentioned military affairs again.Zhao Feng knew about this, the road in Xiegu was already rugged, so it was even more difficult for soldiers to get out of Xiegu.Fortunately, the last time I marched, I had already wiped out the three counties of Longxi. Later, Lu Xun took advantage of the situation and took down the whole territory of Anding, and the most important thing was to take down the important land of Chencang.In this way, I don't have to walk those few valley roads.You can go out of Chencang Road if you are near, and you can bypass Longxi Avenue if you are far away.

At this time, it was the 14th year of Jian'an, the autumn of 209 AD.It has been nearly two years since the complete truce between Cao Cao and Liu Bei.During this period, although there were heavy troops stationed on the borders of Hanzhong, Qingzhou, Yanzhou, and Wancheng, Prime Minister Cao seemed to be more moral this time, so he didn't cause any friction.Zhao Feng and Zhuge Liang discussed it several times, and both felt that this matter was a bit unbelievable.

"Report, General, General Hanzhong Zilong urgent report!" On this day, a small school hurriedly came to Chengdu to report.Zhao Feng unfolded the military newspaper he brought and looked at it, and couldn't help but let out a little surprise.

"General, what's the matter?" Seeing Zhao Feng's face change slightly, Zhuge Liang asked quickly.

"Nearly [-] troops from the Xianbei tribes went to the Western Qiang tribes to plunder cattle and sheep. General Ma Mengqi fought with them several times. Several tribes in the army have been defeated, and it is very difficult for General Ma to fight alone now, so he asked Xichuan for help. Zilong wanted to lead his army to help Xiliang, so he asked me for orders." Zhao Feng frowned and replied, and then told Zhao Yun's This urgent letter was handed over to Zhuge Liang.

"More than [-] Xianbei coalition troops came to attack?" Zhuge Liang's face changed slightly after seeing it.Since the Great War between Mobei and Xianbei five years ago, all the tribes of Xianbei have been seriously injured, and the chief leader Ke Bineng was even beheaded by the Hun King Liu Bao who made trouble.Now that allied forces suddenly invaded Xiliang, this matter is a bit strange.While Zhao Feng was thinking, he called everyone to discuss the matter.

"The ministries of Xianbei, when food and clothing are not enough in autumn and winter, they go south to rob everywhere. Cao Cao defeated Xianbei before, so they didn't dare to harass You and Yongsi, so they had to come to Xiliang!" Most familiar with Guan Longzhi After hearing the news, Fazheng, the prefect of Shu County, thought about it and put forward his own opinion.

"Hey, being Ma Mengqi is easy to bully!" Ma Di curled his lips, his tone full of disdain.This time, no one refuted him. Is that fierce god of Xiliang easy to bully? Although his brain is not very good, but relying on his [-] Xiliang iron cavalry, stomping his feet in the northwest will shake three times.

"According to Xiaozhi's opinion, the Xianbei army invaded Xiliang this time only because of lack of food and clothing?" Zhao Feng asked with a frown after hearing this.

"I can't see anything more than that. Could it be that the general thinks there is fraud in it?" Fazheng wondered.Zhao Feng lowered his head and pursed his lips in silence, looked up at Zhuge Liang, but saw that he was also frowning slightly.But it didn't take long before it stretched out.

"Even if Xianbei invaded Liangzhou because of lack of food and clothing, I believe that if Prime Minister Cao and Xia Houyuan knew about this, they would not sit idly by!" Zhuge Liang said calmly.

"But now we are waiting for a truce with Cao Cao, and General Zhang Wenyuan and the others are waiting at the border, what will happen to Cao Cao?" Wang Lei was a little surprised when he heard the words.Zhao Feng shook his head when he heard the words, Lao Cao always did things unexpectedly, and he used unscrupulous means.It would be a miracle if he didn't run out to do something at this time.

"Now that General Ma Mengqi is fighting Xianbei in Xiliang, if I were Cao Cao, I would have three choices!" Zhuge Liang pointed to the map and said, "First of all, if General Zilong rushes to Xiliang, Hanzhong's defenses will be empty, and Cao Cao can order Xiahouyuan took advantage of the situation to attack Hanzhong in order to break through the gates of Xichuan; the two were to order Xiahouyuan's troops to go out of Xiaoguan and join forces with the Xianbei army to attack General Ma Mengqi and General Zilong. Although the two generals were brave, but the two joint forces were almost Nearly 20, once the battle is fought, there will be more defeats than victories; the third is to take advantage of the time when we are fighting Xianbei, send troops to the three counties of Longxi, and completely separate us from Xiliang, so that we can wait for the first and last If we can't take care of each other, the power of war will be greatly reduced in the future."

"It's even possible that Xianbei's invasion of Xiliang this time is itself a conspiracy by Cao Mengde, in order to lure us to rescue Xiliang, so that he can take the opportunity to profit from it!" Ma Liang, who had been silent before, added at this time .Zhao Feng and the others had already experienced how this Prime Minister Cao played cards out of common sense, so it is not surprising to hear what he said now.

"Since that's the case, what should we do now?" Wang Lei didn't know Cao Cao's character, so he had to think about the more immediate matter first.Zhao Feng and Zhuge Liang lowered their heads and pondered for a while, and finally Zhao Feng suggested: "If there is a loss in Xiliang, the lord will lose a lot of help, so we have to save it this time. In my opinion, let Zilong lead [-] troops to aid Xiliang. The defense of Hanzhong is temporarily entrusted to Zijun. In order to prevent Cao Cao from invading Xichuan or leaving Xiaoguan, I led a group of troops out of Chencang Road to deter Xiahouyuan in Guanzhong! At the same time, I sent someone to inform Lord Xuchang that he was aware of it, and then make a decision. "This is also a more mature and prudent method. After everyone thought about it, they felt that there was nothing wrong with it, so they all agreed.

The next day, Zhao Feng personally led the [-] Sichuan Army, together with Yan Yan, Lei Tong, and Fa Zheng, left Chengdu and entered Hanzhong from Jiameng Pass.After they arrived, Zhao Yun led [-] Hanzhong troops and entered Xiliang through the Longxi Mountain Road to assist Ma Chao in resisting the invasion of Xianbei.As soon as the news came out, Xia Houyuan in Guanzhong was surprised.

"Zhao Yun led the army into Xiliang to attack Xianbei?" Xia Houyuan said in amazement. Beside him, Zhenwei General Cheng Yu, Jingzhao Yin Zhongyou, two important figures in Guanzhong, and his nephew Xia Houshang were also there.What they held in their hands was a military report that had just been delivered by Tanma, saying that Hanzhong prefect Zhao Yun led an army of tens of thousands to leave Hanzhong and enter Xiliang via Longxi Avenue.

"The Sichuan army is only [-] to [-], and now Zhao Yun has taken away [-], and there are nearly [-] defenders in the three counties of Longxi. Zhao Botao may only have tens of thousands left. Why don't you take this opportunity to march into Xichuan, and the general surnamed Zhao Break it down in one fell swoop?" Xia Houshang said suddenly after hearing the words, and Xia Houyuan's heart skipped a beat as soon as he said those words.However, he still maintained a trace of sobriety. The last time he made an aggressive move, he ended up taking the lives of Yan Liangwen and Chou.Although he had an extraordinary friendship with Cao Cao, he didn't punish him at that time.Regarding whether to march this time, no matter how impatient Xia Houyuan was, he did not dare to be too impulsive.

"General Xiahou, King Wei's decree!" Just as Xiahouyuan was about to report the military situation to Cao Cao, someone suddenly came to report.Xia Houyuan hurriedly received the order, and was surprised when he unfolded it.

"Mr. Zhongde, what do you think of this?" Xia Houyuan handed Cao Cao's letter to Cheng Yu to read. The latter was quite surprised when he read it, but after thinking about it for a while, he sneered again and again.

"General Miaocai, as I expected, everything must be ready for the prime minister's side. From my point of view, Liu Bei's death is approaching now!" Cheng Yu said proudly.As the maker of the plan, Cheng Yu also has a sense of accomplishment now!

At present, Xia Houyuan and Cheng Yu acted according to their own plans, and after a few days, several groups of people left Guanzhong, either going east or west.At the same time, Cao Cao himself mobilized troops from various places in Hebei, but the specific motive is unclear for the time being.

(End of this chapter)