Three Kingdoms Simulator: This Ma Su is too stable

Chapter 170 After the Great Victory
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On the way to return the troops to Qiang, the scouts suddenly reported that half an hour ago, a group of more than a thousand Wei soldiers went straight to the Qiang land, the direction and motive were unknown.

Hearing this, Ma Di was a little anxious, stopped the army quickly, and simulated the battle situation for the next ten days, and found no attack on all the troops, so he breathed a sigh of relief and urged the army to chase due south.

Although he didn't simulate the movements of this Wei army, Ma Su knew that it was Dai Ling!

He must have led more than a thousand fine cavalry from the Wei army who had retreated from the battlefield, and charged directly at Shaodang Qiang.

Ma Di immediately dispersed the soldiers and horses into dozens of units, each with about 2000 people, spread them out horizontally in a carpet style, and searched for Dai Ling.

Not long after, Ah Da and Ah Er, who had separated their troops, ran back from behind a hill in front of them. When they saw Ma Di, they waved and shouted: "General, this way! Wei Jun is here!!"

"Lead the way ahead!" Ma Di said briefly, driving the army to pursue.

About an hour later, Ah Da crawled on the ground and listened, then poked his fingers into a lump of horse manure, felt the temperature, and suddenly shouted: "General, they are just ahead, they have just gone no more than a stick of incense. "

Ma Di followed his words and led the army in pursuit. Sure enough, it didn't take long before he saw a large group of Wei soldiers galloping aimlessly on the open plateau. There were more than 1000 of them, wearing tattered Wei army uniforms, and their expressions were sluggish. , with a dull expression, like a group of walking dead who only know how to run.

Most of them were hanged and injured.

Among more than a thousand people, a general with silver helmet and silver armor stood out impressively.

It was Dai Ling!

Zhang Xiu couldn't help but clasped his hands and said, "General, the last general requests to go to battle and capture this beast alive!"

Ma Di frowned slightly. In his eyes, this group of people had no vitality, their expressions were dull and lifeless.

Obviously, this group of people currently has no fighting power at all, and they don't need to fight at all.

What's happening here?
Could it be that he was stunned by the previous defeat?

At this time, the roar of the cavalry's iron hooves came from a distance, and the young general Zhao Yun brought reinforcements from the front.

Ma Di waved his hands and shouted: "First surround yourself, without my general order, don't kill innocent people indiscriminately!"

Zhang Xiu was stunned: "Why, General? Aren't they enemies?"

Ma Di turned his head and looked at him blankly. Zhang Xiu's heart shuddered, and he immediately clasped his fists: "This subordinate is wrong. I shouldn't have spoken nonsense and questioned the general."

Because he knew that Zhang Xiu was not very good at flattery, and always thought of what to say, Ma Su waved his hand:

"never mind."

"Remember, there are three vocations of a soldier, to obey military orders, to obey military orders unconditionally, or to obey military orders!"

"Yes." Zhang Xiu quickly answered, but he muttered in his heart, this General Ma is good at everything, but he is only allowed to disobey his orders, and his subordinates are not allowed to talk back.

Back then, during the battle of Jieting, he had ignored the prime minister's words...

It seems that we need to do more and talk less in the future. General Ma's record is getting better and better, his official authority is getting bigger and bigger, and I can no longer get along happily.

Just as he was thinking, seeing Ma Di glanced over again.

Zhang Xiu didn't dare to be negligent, and quickly led his troops forward to surround the Wei army.

This battle, which cannot be called a battle, was much simpler than expected. After the Wei army was surrounded, they all dropped their weapons and crouched on the ground with their heads in their arms.

Only Dai Ling stood alone, with a helpless expression on his face.

These more than a thousand people are his personal soldiers trained in the past two years. The first time they went to the battlefield, they were shocked by the bloody and tragic scene.

Considering that he had been defeated several times before, and this time even the lead general Zhang Xi was killed, Dai Ling felt that after returning, there was absolutely no way he could escape Wei Jun's method of sitting together and escape with his life, so he simply led more than a thousand people straight to Qiang land, planning to find a tribe to settle down.

If it doesn't work, just become a horse bandit.

But I didn't expect that the idea was so memorized, and Ma Su caught up so quickly.

Dai Ling knelt on the ground, cupped his hands and bowed his head: "General, Dai Ling is willing to surrender!"

Sitting on the horseback, Ma Su looked down at the past from a condescending height, and instantly remembered many intersections with Dai Ling.

Suddenly, a bold idea came up. Dai Ling's talent for forgetting is actually very effective in leading troops to hide. Just now, he simulated the battle situation and couldn't find Dai Ling.

If you order Dai Ling to lurk behind the enemy, build dozens of earthen cities on the 500-mile-long Longshan Avenue, and send troops to block the westward route of the Wei army in Guanzhong...

In this way, the thousands of Wei soldiers in the Longyou area will become turtles in the urn!
But as soon as this idea came up, Ma Su immediately shook his head and rejected it.

This is not the best time to occupy Longyou, Wei Jun still has enough strength to defend Longyou and Liangzhou.

Once you choose to have a showdown with Wei Guo at this moment and start a life-and-death contest, you will definitely face the dilemma of fighting one city after another.

Therefore, stability is the first priority, development is the first priority, and the first is to wait for the opportunity to recruit the defenders of each city.

Thinking of this, Ma Su glanced at the direction of Jincheng, waved his hands and said, "Retreat!"

"Yes!" The generals suddenly agreed.

All the captives of the Wei soldiers were disarmed, and they were sandwiched between the forward of the Shu army and the Chinese army, and they embarked on the return journey.

Ma Di wrote the final battle situation and the next plan in the battle report, and changed the wording again and again, but he was not very satisfied.

At the beginning, Ma Di wrote like this: "Our army won a great victory in Liangzhou, captured more than [-] Wei soldiers, and beheaded more than [-]. The sharpness of the soldiers has already destroyed the courage of the Wei people." '

Su thinks that our Han soldiers have enough food and grain today, and that the prime minister will continue to serve Wuzhangyuan in order to plan a protracted war...the whole paragraph is crossed out. '

Su thought that without the prime minister planning a strategy, our army would definitely not be able to win.Eight victories in this battle should be attributed to the prime minister, and one victory should be attributed to the bravery of the soldiers. Su can only get one victory. '

'...'

After writing it, Ma Su thought about it for a long time, and then he was satisfied with copying it again in Goupai characters, and sent someone to send it to Wuzhangyuan as soon as possible.

The news of Liangzhou's victory came one after another, and the morale of the Shu army stationed in Wuzhangyuan was greatly boosted.

Zhuge Liang was still pleased.

In his view, the world is like chess, and even one move and three calculations may not guarantee a sure victory.

But Ma Di was invincible when he didn't understand anything.

Usually, when a general achieves such a record, he will be complacent, arrogant, and domineering.

Maybe he will in turn teach him how to do things as the prime minister, and give instructions on his marching formation.

Just like Liu Yan's story before.

But Ma Di didn't!
In the letter, Ma Di was very humble and polite,
Not only did he state in detail the three major reasons for the great victory and retreat (the cavalry were not good at attacking the city, the prisoners of war needed to be resettled, and the tens of thousands of people who had defected to them needed to be resettled), but it also revealed between the lines that this great victory was achieved under the wise leadership of Prime Minister Zhuge Liang. Ma Di is just a tool man, an executor.Therefore, in this battle, Ma Su can only win a small merit, and the great merit depends entirely on the prime minister.

In this letter, Ma Di did everything from judging the situation on the battlefield to making a concluding speech after the war.

It can be summed up in one sentence: Without Zhuge Liang, Ji Han's sky would not be bright.

After reading the letter several times, Zhuge Liang was so emotional that he couldn't help shouting secretly:
((((((what))))))……

"Youchang understands me, woo woo woo..."

'This letter, although suspected of flattery, must be seen by His Majesty and all civil and military officials! '

After making up his mind, Zhuge Liang wrote a memorial, attached it with Ma Di's battle report, and sent someone to send it to Chengdu quickly.

When the good news was sent to Chengdu, it immediately caused an earthquake-like response.

Up to Liu Chan, down to civil and military officials, down to the people of Li, all climaxed.

Liu Chan happily waved his chubby hand, and generously promoted Zhuge Liang from Marquis of Wu Township to Marquis of Xi County, made Ma Su Marquis of Wu Township, general who conquered the West, gold and silver treasures of Shu brocade, and other great gifts.

After sending away the eunuch who came to give him the title, Ma Su suddenly understood many things.

It turns out that the officialdom is like this.

I realized it.

I didn't expect that I just paid a casual compliment, and actually directly licked a Marquis of Wuxiang, and even got a promotion in the military rank.

Not to mention all kinds of rewards, piled up like a mountain.

Although he is not short of Liu Chan's reward at all, no matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat.

Accepting the reward happily, Ma Su continued to work.

Now is not the time to be happy.

The most urgent task at hand is to change the ideological concepts of Dai Ling and more than 2 Wei soldiers, so that they will turn their hearts to the Shu Han and only to the Shu Han from now on, and no longer have any illusions about the Wei State.

Dropping troops and generals has always been a factor of instability.

Ma Su must eliminate all hidden dangers and make them invisible.

Because in the original time and space, the Shu Han suffered a great loss in this regard!
In the first month of spring in the 16th year of Yanxi (253), Fei Yi, a general of the Shu Han Dynasty who had just opened the mansion, was very drunk when he presided over the Lunar New Year (Spring Festival) meeting in Hanshou because of a happy event.During the banquet, Guo Xiu, a descendant of Wei, made a sudden attack and took advantage of the opportunity of toasting to assassinate Fei Yi.

Guo Xiu was originally from Xiping, Liangzhou, Wei, and he was an official to Zhonglang.In the 13th year of Yanxi (250), Jiang Wei sent troops to Longyou and joined forces with the Qiang people to attack Wei Xiping County. Although he failed to break through the city, he captured Guo Xiu and others.

Due to the lack of talents in the Shu Kingdom, in order to encourage more people from the Central Plains to vote for the Shu Han, the Shu Han has always used the surrendered generals, such as Jiang Wei, Wang Ping, Xia Houba and others, have been reused after they descended to Shu.

After Guo Xiu came to Shu, Liu Chan also did not treat him badly. In just three years, Guo Xiu became General Zuo and became one of the senior generals of Shu Han.

Since he was treated so favorably, why did Guo Xiu assassinate Fei Yi?Was he instigated by others, or did he act spontaneously? If instigated by others, who is the instigator behind the scenes?
Many people suspect that Jiang Wei is the mastermind behind the scenes.

First of all, Guo Xiu was brought back from Xiping by Jiang Wei, Jiang Wei is indeed suspected.

Secondly, Jiang Wei and Fei Yi had huge differences on the issue of the Northern Expedition.Relying on his talent as well as civil and military skills, and being familiar with the customs of Xiliang, Jiang Wei wanted to win over the Qiang and Di people as wings and launch the Northern Expedition to fulfill Zhuge Liang's last wish of the Northern Expedition.

However, Fei Yi believed that the matter of defeating Wei should be left to future generations. He said: "We are not as good as the prime minister. The prime minister still can't decide the Central Plains. What's more, I'm waiting! It's better to protect the country and rule the people, and guard the country as it is." Achievement, to those who can do it, do nothing to hope for luck, success or failure depends on one action, if it is not as good as it is, there will be no regrets.”

Although Jiang Wei and Fei Yi were both in the same register, Fei Yi's position was a general, a rank higher than Jiang Wei's, and the military power was in Fei Yi's hands.Therefore, whenever Jiang Wei wanted to send troops to the Northern Expedition, he was constrained by Fei Yi, so that the army led by Jiang Wei did not exceed more than [-] people. It was like a joke, which made Jiang Wei very annoyed.

Again, after Fei Yi was assassinated and killed, Jiang Wei was the biggest beneficiary.In the spring of the 19th year of Yanxi (256), Jiang Wei was promoted to general and became the leader of the Shu Han army. After that, Jiang Wei presided over the Northern Expedition freely.

However, Ma Su knew that Jiang Wei was not the mastermind behind the scenes.

First of all, Jiang Wei had no idea that Guo Xiu was the killer.

Secondly, the conflict between Jiang Wei and Fei Yi is just a matter of different political views, and does not involve a fundamental conflict of interest, so there is absolutely no need to put the other party to death.

Moreover, if Guo Xiu was Jiang Wei's killer, how could Jiang Wei bring the killer back to Shu himself?
Since Guo Xiu's assassination of Fei Yi was not ordered by Jiang Wei, was he an assassin sent by the State of Wei?
After Guo Xiu successfully assassinated Fei Yi, Cao Wei praised him greatly, comparing him with Nie Zheng and Fu Jiezi.Nie Zheng was a knight in the Warring States Period. In order to repay the kindness of the Han doctor Yan Zhongzi, he assassinated Han Xiang Xialei alone. In order to avoid hurting others, he peeled off his face, gouged out his eyes, and committed suicide.

Fu Jiezi was a minister of the Western Han Dynasty. He found that Loulan and Qiuci were capricious many times, so he volunteered to assassinate King Loulan and successfully brought the head of King Loulan back to the capital.

Cao Fang (Sima Shi) praised Guo Xiu with great fanfare, and the intention was obvious, that is, to tell the world that Guo Xiu was sent by him to assassinate Fei Yi.

But is this really the case?
Not!
Not to mention that Liu Chan is the "lord of mediocrity", and Fei Yi's talent is not particularly outstanding. The survival of these two people will not affect the "prosperity and mourning" of the Shu Kingdom. Therefore, there is no need for Cao Wei to send assassins to assassinate them .

To assassinate is also to assassinate Jiang Wei.

Furthermore, Guo Xiu was captured by Jiang Wei in the battle, so he entered Shu passively.If he was an assassin sent by the state of Wei, he should have entered Shu by feigning surrender or voluntarily defecting like Ma Mao or Xiahouba.

Therefore, Guo Xiu was not an assassin sent by Cao Wei.

Since Guo Xiu was not Cao Wei's assassin, why did he give up his high position and rich salary and take the initiative to ask for death?

Guo Xiu reached the pinnacle of his life in just three years after he arrived in Shu Kingdom.However, what is puzzling is that he destroyed everything himself and took his own life. Why did he do this?
Guo Xiu's motive for assassinating Fei Yi was simple.

During Zhuge Liang's second Northern Expedition, what Hao Zhao, the guard of Chencang, said can solve this question.

In the original time and space, in the winter of 228 AD, Zhuge Liang took advantage of Cao Xiu's disastrous defeat in Shiting and the emptiness of Guanzhong's troops, and sent troops to the Northern Expedition again to surround Chencang.At that time, there were only more than 1000 defenders in Chencang, so Zhuge Liang sent someone to persuade the defender Hao Zhao to surrender. Hao Zhao refused to surrender on the grounds that he must abide by the "Wei Family Law".

The proton system is one of the contents of the "Wei Family Law".At that time, Cao Cao learned the painful lesson of Zhang Xiu's surrender and rebellion, perfected the proton system, and stipulated that the family of the frontier generals must be moved to Yecheng, and placed under Cao Cao's nose for monitoring.

Guo Xiu was the general of Cao Wei's frontier defense. There is no doubt that his family was also in Ye City. If he really surrendered to Shu, his family would have no choice but to die.However, if you choose to assassinate Fei Yi, although you have to pay the price of your life, it can save your family in Yecheng, and it can also be used as a bargaining chip for your family to increase their ranks.

In order to prevent his family members in Yecheng from being harmed, and at the same time make their lives better as much as possible, Guo Xiu chose to kill Fei Yi.

This is motivation.

Due to the lack of talents, the Shu Han has never implemented the proton system for the Wei generals who came to surrender, which gave Guo Xiu an opportunity.This is also the decisive factor for Guo Xiu to successfully assassinate Fei Yi.

What Ma Di is doing now is to improve this system.

That is to rescue the family members who are about to surrender and take them to Shuhan.

This matter should be carried out quietly.

(End of this chapter)