Farmers of Shu Han

Chapter 1201 The Wind
After conquering Gaoducheng, Wei Yan's tense mood finally relaxed:

"With Gaoducheng, the land of the party, it can be said that there is no worry!"

Standing on the highest point, looking to the south, he even smiled and said to the crowd behind him:

"The thief's reinforcements arrived at Tianjingguan, but they missed the opportunity at the last moment. I don't know how the thief will feel at this moment?"

Wang Han and the others all laughed dryly along with them.

The left hussar general finally told a joke, wouldn't it be too disrespectful not to laugh?

Although the joke is a little less funny.

After all, these days, in order to capture Gaodu City, the casualties of soldiers are a bit too high.

Everyone's mood is a little heavy.

Probably seeing the mentality of the generals, Wei Yan let go of his temper rarely, and explained a few more words:

"I didn't attack Gaodu City before, except that I wanted the engineering battalion to completely destroy the periphery of Gaodu City, so that it would be easier to attack the city later."

"Actually, it is also to attract the thieves from Tianjing Pass as much as possible to come to the rescue."

"What I want is to wait until the bandit army at Tianjingguan reaches the capital city, and then drive the army to break the city with one drum."

"At that time, there will be few guards at Tianjing Pass, and we will be able to break through the pass with the help of Yu Weiwei."

With that said, Wei stretched out his hand and squeezed the south side, as if he wanted to hold the Tianjingguan in his hands:
"At that time, the generals of the Han Dynasty will be able to advance and retreat freely in Taihangxing, but the bandits in Hanoi will not be able to rest for a day."

Obtaining Gaoducheng can only be regarded as closing the gap in the south of Shangdang County.

But if you want to enter Hanoi, you must master Tianjing Pass.

Because Tianjing Pass is the most important and most dangerous pass on the Taihang Mountains.

"such a pity……"

This is a pity, some sighs, and some resentment.

Although it's a pity, Wei Yan didn't say it clearly.

But the people present, when they heard this, basically understood in their hearts.

Wei Chang opened his mouth, wanting to comfort his lord, but he closed his mouth again when he thought of being kicked the day before yesterday and almost lost his breath.

Forget it, at this time, don't touch the bad luck of adults anymore.

If Wei Chang doesn't speak, others will not speak.

Anyway, Gaodu City has already fallen, even if General Zuo Hussar said some slightly exaggerated words, it would not hurt the seriousness.

After all, I heard that the General Zuo Hussar still talked about the Prime Minister behind his back.

And there is one thing to say, what General Zuo Hussar said just now is indeed a good strategy.

It would be understandable if General Zuo Hussar had really planned for so long, but at the last moment his troops had to be deployed, resulting in a shortfall in success and dissatisfaction.

Of course, the General Zuo Hussar was at odds with the Central Protector, and he did not communicate well with the Central Protector in advance. This mistake may have been God's will.

Wei Yan saw that everyone was silent, and no one refuted.

At the moment, he couldn't help but sneered to himself, and he was even more convinced that the reason why his plan was blocked was precisely because of the treacherous tricks of the gangster.

As for this plan, did he prepare it early in the morning, or did he come to it after listening to Guo Xun's persuasion? Does it matter?

Anyway, he only needs everyone present to know that the left hussar general could have won a bigger victory.

As he said when he patted his chest in front of the late emperor:

If Cao Cao comes from all over the world, please reject it for the king; if he brings a crowd of [-], please swallow it for the king.

Another example is to suggest in front of the prime minister:

Leading a partial division and attacking Chang'an will surely make the thieves abandon the city and flee, and then they can go directly to Tongguan and reject the enemy. At that time, the prime minister will bring the army over to take over Chang'an.

Now that I spray someone Feng, so that I can't take the opportunity to attack the patio pass, isn't that normal?

Anyway, let's talk about it first.

Of course, just because no one spoke, it doesn't mean that everyone agrees with Wei Yan's statement.

Wang Han, for example, wanted to defend Zhongduhu a few words.

After all, such things before the battle were not agreed in advance, how could the Central Guard guess what General Zuo Hussar was thinking?
It's just that General Zuo Hussar obviously wanted to take advantage of this incident to protect him from the Central Capital.

It's about the fighting skills of the two big men in the army, he said lightly, if he really dares to enter the arena rashly, he is afraid that he will die on the spot?
But after retreating, Wang Han still couldn't help saying to Wen Shi in private:
"As the saying goes: everything is foreshadowed, and if it is not foreshadowed, it will fail. Even if there is a foreshadowing, it will often fail."

"The former general of the left hussars did not preview the future with the Central Protector, but now he uses the latter to criticize the Central Protector. This is a bit too much."

Wen Shi is older and has more mature ideas, so he is more open to Wang Han:

"The Central Capital Protector cannot stand alone, and the Left Hussar General is approaching the age of hearing. If the imperial court does not rely on the Central Capital Protector in the future, should it rely on the Left Hussar General?"

"Thus, even if the Central Guard is to be blamed for this incident, it won't hurt the muscles and bones, so why should you care?"

"Instead of worrying about the left hussar general and the Central Protector, it's better to think about what to do after the engineering camp."

Wang Han thinks about it too.

"Previously, I thought that there were bandits' reinforcements at Tianjing Pass. If General Zuo Hussar couldn't take Gaodu City again, I'm afraid he would have to fight."

"At that time, the engineering camp may not be able to survive on its own. I didn't expect that at this time, it would seem that I was thinking too much."

Wang Han pondered for a while, "But now that the Gaodu City has been taken down, the engineering battalion can be considered to have completed the task, and the reinforcements have arrived, so I'm afraid we won't be able to use us on the mountain."

Defending a city is far easier than besieging it.

And the high capital city is built on the mountain.

The rocks and forests all over the mountains and plains are the most convenient tools for defending the city.

There is no need for technical arms like the engineering battalion to prepare the wood and rolling stones.

And now that the left hussar general has enough troops, if he really wants to do something good, he probably won't get the engineering battalion in his turn.

"It's better to take this opportunity and retreat to the rear, so as not to obstruct the eyes of the left hussar general."

Wen Shi nodded and said yes.

Knowing that the engineering battalion had voluntarily applied to retreat to the rear, Wei Yan thought that they were sensible, so he was not polite, and he waved his hand to confirm.

Next, he will also be on guard against the counterattack of the thieves reinforcements at Tianjing Pass.

At present, the walls of Gaodu City are broken, and what we can rely on now is to connect the hills around Gaodu City.

Naturally, Wei Yan would not forget about the fact that the engineering battalion at the front refused to go down the mountain to try to fire the stone cannon.

So now he simply doesn't let the engineering battalion get too close.

Just when Wei Yan arranged for manpower to build fortifications on various hills, in Taiyuan far to the north, the governor hurried into the governor's mansion without driving Li Xi.

Before he reached Deng Zhi's place, he could not stop shouting:
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!"

Upon hearing this, Deng Zhi came out of the room to greet her, and said with a smile:
"Why is Ji He so rude?"

Li Xun didn't answer Deng Zhi's words. Regardless of being rude, he directly grabbed Deng Zhi's arm and said in a panic:
"Your Majesty, great disaster, great disaster is coming!"

When Deng Zhi heard this, the smile on her face immediately disappeared:
"What calamity?"

Although Li Xun is a descendant, in the past few years, he has been a fair man and an upright official.

On the contrary, Deng Zhi, who is steadfast and simple, and who forgets his family when he is in office, gets along quite well.

At this time, when Deng Zhi heard Li Xi's words, he naturally did not dare to neglect.

"Go to the party..."

Li Xun just said two words, then looked around, then grabbed Deng Zhi's arm and led him inside:
"Speak in there."

When he got inside the room, before he could sit down, Li Xun couldn't wait to open his mouth and said:
"Your Majesty, in my clan, someone came to report that something big will happen to the Shangdang."

Li Xun was a member of the Shangdang Party, the son of Li Yu, the Great Honglu of the Later Han Dynasty. He was also famous in the village.

Now hearing him talk about Shangdang like this, Deng Zhi's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly asked:

"What's the big deal?"

"I heard from the people that in the past few days in Shangdang, some people are secretly contacting, wanting to raise the flag of rebellion, it is also a traitor to the thief."

Hearing this, Deng Zhi frowned:
"Oh? What happened? Who took the lead in rebelling, does Ji He know?"

Li Xun shook his head: "I don't know. I heard from the clansmen that there may have been the Haoyou family involved in Shangdang."

He looked at Deng Zhi with a serious tone:

"Your Majesty, in my opinion, since the thieves dared to contact each family so boldly, they must have been prepared, so I am afraid that the incident is right in front of me."

Deng Zhi nodded, then stroked his beard:

"What Ji He said is very true, but if I think about it, I don't need to worry too much."

"Although I sometimes don't like Wei Wenchang, I have to admit that he is also a person who knows soldiers..."

Before Deng Zhi finished speaking, Li Xi slapped his thigh:
"Hey! Your Majesty, the catastrophe I mentioned is precisely because of Wei Wenchang!"

Deng Zhi was surprised: "What happened to Wei Wenchang?"

Li Xi said in a hurried tone:
"Isn't Wei Wenchang leading the army to attack Gaodu City? I heard from the clan that because Gaodu could not be conquered for a long time, all the elite soldiers in Shangdang are now transferred to the south."

"The eldest son of Huguan and other places, only Guo Xun, who joined the army, led the army to guard it."

"What!" Deng Zhi's face changed greatly when she heard the words, and she blurted out, "Isn't this Guan..."

In the middle of speaking, he suddenly felt wrong, and quickly changed his words: "How could Wei Wenchang do such a foolish thing?"

Isn't what Wei Wenchang did at this time the story of Guan Yunchang's battle at Xiangfan?

This person is more temperamental than Guan Yunchang on weekdays, so why should he compare himself with Guan Yunchang even in such matters?
If Shangdang has only civil strife, or if there is no civil strife, only Wei thieves will attack.

Guo Xun led the county soldiers to guard Huguan, as long as they persisted for a while.

Wei Yan should either lead the army back, or send someone back to help, so don't worry too much.

I'm afraid, after the civil strife broke out in Shangdang, the Wei thieves attacked from Baixing again. Under internal and external difficulties, Guo Xun led the county soldiers, and I don't know if they can hold Huguan?

Thinking of this, Deng Zhi shook his head again and again: "It's too risky, it's too risky!"

Li Xing stomped his feet and said:
"My lord, now we are not discussing why Wei Wenchang did this, but we should notify Wei Wenchang as soon as possible!"

No wonder Li Xi was so anxious.

After all, his hometown is in Shangdang.

If something really happened to Shangdang, and it fell into the hands of the Wei thief, then the in-laws in Shangdang would definitely be implicated.

"Hey!" Deng Zhi also felt troublesome, "Although Shangdang belongs to Bingzhou, it is now under the jurisdiction of the Governor's Mansion in Hedong. It's not easy for me to intervene before the matter is clear."

There is no official document sent about the riots in the Shangdang, let alone the possibility of Wei thieves attacking from Baixing, it is just the worst possible outcome.

Nothing has happened yet, why do you have any reason to send troops into the Shangdang?
"It now seems that only according to Jihe's words, sent a fast horse to Gaodu to inform Wei Yan of this matter and let him be careful behind."

Without the slightest hesitation, Deng Zhi hurriedly edited a book, and then sent someone to send it out immediately.

After sending someone to deliver the letter, Deng Zhi was still in the mood to comfort Li Xi:

"Ji He doesn't need to be so anxious. Since we know that someone wants to cause trouble in Shangdang, Wei Wenchang should have his ears and eyes to inform him."

"Maybe, before our fast horses arrive, Wei Yan already knows about it."

Hearing this, Li Xi twitched the corners of his mouth.

It would be nice if it was true.

Just Shijun, don't you know that Wei Wenchang's temper?
Even I know about the fact that the whole court is against him.

Can you expect him to let go of his body and make good friends with the local tyrants of Shangdang?

dreaming too!
Without Fang Haoyou's help, how could Wei Wenchang get the news so quickly like himself?

It's just that until now, Li Xi also knows that it's no use rushing.

He sighed and comforted himself:

"I heard that Guo Xun, who joined the army, is quite talented and has made good friends with many aristocratic families. I only hope that he will be found out early and make preparations in time as the envoy said."

When Deng Zhi heard this, he immediately asked:
"Since the Jihe people can hear the wind so quickly, why don't they go and report directly to Guo Xun?"

Li Xun smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty, there is no evidence for this kind of thing, so how do you report it? Isn't that a false accusation?"

"Also, that is the Hedong Governor's Mansion..."

The governor of the Hedong Governor's Mansion was Wei Yan.

And after he was able to recover Bingzhou in Dahan, not only was he not charged, but he continued to serve as a Bingzhou driver, but because of Zhongduhu's recommendation.

Zhong Duhu and Wei Wen are in the same situation, if he really wants to let his clansmen do this, wouldn't he just hit the knife's edge?

He sighed:

"My lord is close to me, so even if you only listen to my family, you are willing to believe me. But on the Hedong Governor's Mansion, it may not be."

Deng Zhi heard some words and said apologetically:

"It's true that I didn't think about it carefully."

He thought for a moment, and then said:
"As Ji He said, if someone in the Shangdang messed up, we would rather believe it than not."

"As for the fact that the Shangdang rioters and Wei thieves are both inside and outside, even if it is our guess, we must prepare early."

However, there is Yanmen in the north of Taiyuan, and Hedong and Shangdang in the south, so there is no need to worry about the attack of thieves.

To the east is the Taihang Mountains, and on weekdays, there are some guards left at the pass.

In addition, in the past few years, most of the Huns and Hu people in the county have been moved to Yanmen to strengthen the frontier.

Therefore, most of the guards in Jinyang City are county soldiers, and their combat strength may be insufficient.

"Ji He, take a trip to Pingcheng for me, please protect the Xianbei Colonel General Wang to Jinyang..."

Before he could finish speaking, Deng Zhi shook his head and rejected:
"It's not too late, I'd better ask him to go to Yanmen Plug. I will also leave immediately and go to Yanmen Plug. In this way, I can save some time by talking less."

Li Xi quickly surrendered:

"Follow your envoy's order."

After finishing speaking, he didn't dare to neglect, and quickly turned around and left the Governor's Mansion.

However, before going to Pingcheng, he called the clansmen who came to report the news at the fastest speed, and ordered:

"You go back immediately and tell the clan that if there is anything wrong with Shangdang, your family will flee to Jinyang immediately."

After the clansmen responded, Li Xun got on his horse and headed north.

(End of this chapter)