The beginning of the Three Kingdoms Cheng Yuanzhi

Chapter 52 Wuhuan's Revenge
When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Cheng Yuanzhi soon realized the meaning of this sentence.

After a tedious process of identifying relatives, he successfully became Yuan Kai's adopted son.

Regardless of whether the adopted son is related by blood or not, if he has recognized his relatives and performed the rituals, he will be subject to moral and ethical constraints, and he is no different from his own son.

Cheng Yuanzhi thought to himself, in this relationship, it's not about who takes advantage of the other, both parties take what they need.

He needs an identity on the stage to attract talents from all over the world, and it just so happens that Yuan Kai needs a son in name to continue the clan.

After getting married, Cheng Yuanzhi's life was not fundamentally different from before. If there was, it would be that there were suddenly more people visiting the Dongcheng mansion.

Among these people, there is actually uncle and nephew Xun Yu.

But Cheng Yuanzhi has already returned to Shangdang County in a hurry, and has no chance to meet them.

For this reason, he even rejected Liu Hong's appointment to call him to Nanyang to fight the rebellion.

In the spring and April, Zhao Ci, a member of Jiangxia's army, rebelled, killed Qin Jie, the prefect of Nanyang, and captured six counties.

The imperial court worshiped Yangxu as the prefect of Nanyang, took over Nanyang affairs, and led his troops to suppress the rebellion.

Originally, Cheng Yuanzhi was also appointed as the deputy to jointly suppress the rebellion. Yuan Shu and others also strongly agreed, but Cheng Yuanzhi refused.

Because the situation in Shangdang is not good at this time, and the Wuhuan Department of Bingzhou learned that he was released from prison, and the five thousand prisoners have not been released yet, so they have made frequent actions in recent days.

Gathering the tribe, Chen Bingyun, all signs indicated that they were planning a big move.

Cheng Yuanzhi knew very well that in the code of conduct of Wuhuan and all the Hu people in the north, there is no such thing as suffering from being dumb.

In their world view, they only fear the strong. If the great powers of the Celestial Empire defeat them in an open and aboveboard manner, they can ask for whatever they want, even if they slaughter them, they will be convinced.

But if it's an insidious scheme... that's a death sentence!

Especially when your strength is not as good as his, then you will be even more dissatisfied.

If you don't accept it, you will fight again.

Therefore, the Wuhuan Tribe, which still has nearly [-] young and strong knights, will definitely come to take revenge.

This is also the reason why Cheng Yuanzhi insisted on letting Nan Lou go in the previous episode.

If Nanlou dies, the hundreds of Wuhuan tribes scattered in the northern part of Bingzhou will inevitably become a piece of scattered sand, either fleeing to the north or being annexed by other Hu tribes. However, this is not the result Cheng Yuanzhi wants to see. .

He wanted to solve the Wuhuan people once and for all, so he had to let Nanlou go.

Nanlou was indeed dissatisfied, very dissatisfied.

As a qualified leader who has experienced many battles, Nanlou has already seen that the dying Han Empire is dying.

When the Wuhuan army passed through Taiyuan last time, the governor Zhang Yi didn't even dare to fart, so he obediently gave way, which also made him realize that the officials of the Han Dynasty are cowardly and easy to bully.

However, the entire army was wiped out by the Shangdang prefect twice in a row, which still aroused his vigilance enough.

This time he first sent envoys, brought rich gifts, and asked for five thousand young men who had been captured.

Shangdang Taishoufu.

The envoy of Wuhuan stood with his hands folded.Be sincere.

Yang threw back the brocade silk in his hand to him, sneered and said:
"You only want to exchange [-] horses for [-] young horses? Leader Nanlou has a good plan..."

Last time, [-] Wuhuan tribesmen and their mounts were washed away by a handful of water. Except for the surrendered horses of the [-] Wuhuan tribesmen, nothing was gained. This incident often made Zhang Yang sigh with regret.

Today, the letter from Nanlou brought by the Wuhuan envoy said: The [-] captured horses will be given to Shangdang County as an apology.

Isn’t this a white wolf with empty gloves...

Zhang Yang laughed angrily, paced left and right panting, his eyes scanned the Wuhuan envoy up and down, as if he could eat people.

Cheng Yuanzhi sat on the side, drinking tea by himself, as if this matter had nothing to do with him.

The Wuhuan envoy held his head high, as if he was not afraid that Zhang Yang would kill him.

He does have the capital not to be afraid.

Before coming, Master Nanlou had clearly told him that there were only 3 troops in Shangdang County, and they were all new soldiers and infantry.Even the population of the entire Shangdang County is only 10,000+ people, less than half of the Wuhuan people.

How dare Shangdang County like this detain their five thousand Wuhuan warriors?

That's right, Wuhuan was defeated last time, and the whole army was wiped out, but so what?The strength of the Wuhuan people in Bingzhou is still an existence that Shangdang County needs to look up to.

Even the Han Empire, the only thing they worry about, can't spare a hand to help at this moment, so what else do they have to worry about?
From their point of view, just speaking harshly and speaking in a high-pitched voice is already giving publicity a lot of face.If it weren't for the worry that the five thousand Wuhuan warriors who were captured would be forced to death when they approached the city, they would have already been overwhelmed by soldiers!

After walking around for a few times, Zhang Yang's anger gradually calmed down, and he said that he had to think twice and sent the messenger to wait outside.

After the envoy exited the hall, Zhang Yang walked quickly to Cheng Yuanzhi, widened his eyes and said:
"Marshal, this Wuhuan man is too rampant, I can't stand it!"

"Then fight." Cheng Yuanzhi looked up at him, and asked calmly, "How about the food I asked you to prepare before I left?"

"There is enough food for three months."

"What about the supplies?"

"There are bows, but there are not many arrows, only more than 1. Right now, craftsmen are being ordered to make them with all their strength."

Cheng Yuanzhi nodded: "Well, immediately tell the people of the whole county to retreat into the three cities of Shangdang, Gaodu, and Huguan, and prepare to face the enemy."

"Marshal, what about the Wuhuan envoy?"

"Let it go, let him go back and report."

Zhang Yangxi rushed out to lead the order, and soon the messenger's shrill scream came from the corridor.

The commander said let him go, which means he doesn’t need to be beaten to death...

When the two countries are at war, if you don't kill the envoy, a beating is not too much!
In front of the gate of the prefect's mansion, there was a sea of ​​people.

Zhang Yang held up the water-soaked riding crop, hit him left and right, and beat the Wuhuan envoy hard in public, while muttering something in his mouth.

……

An hour later.

Cheng Yuanzhi leaned his back on the tower, watching with indifferent eyes the dying Wuhuan emissary who got on his horse, left the eldest son city, and headed northwest.

Blood dripped from the torn clothes on his back, splashing all over the place.

No matter how powerful the previous schemes were, they were just strange tricks. The two forces will eventually come to the front and have a showdown.

The other party will not give him another chance to use tricks.

But in a head-to-head confrontation... Shangdang has almost no chance of winning.

The Wuhuan people still have at least 20 cavalry. This means that after Wuhuan lost twice in a row, the young and strong suffered heavy losses. If they were young and strong enough, they could even pull up [-] cavalry in an instant.

Although they have moved inland for a long time, they still retain the habit of growing up on horseback. They can ride and shoot when mounted, and farm when dismounted. They are all extremely brave.

As for the five thousand mounted infantry from Shangdang County, they might not even have the ability to fight back in front of the Wuhuan cavalry.

The only support can only be the city, relying on the city to defend, resist the offensive of the Wuhuan people, and stand in a stalemate, waiting for time to change.

At this time, it is the time to test one's own hard power, and the strategy has not played much role.

In the military field, any two sides confront the enemy, as long as one side insists on using troops in the right way and fights steadily without taking risks, there is absolutely no chance for the other side to use surprises.

Just like the scene where Sima Yi defended Zhuge Liang's name in the previous life, let you do all kinds of tricks, I will only defend the enemy in the right way.

Small losses can be suffered, but big losses are impossible. Relying on Wei's strong national strength to consume Shu, they won without a fight.

The Wuhuan people will definitely take this method to take revenge now.

This battle is inevitable!
Cheng Yuanzhi frowned deeply.

Sure enough, on the tenth day after the Wuhuan envoy left, the [-] Wuhuan cavalry were divided into two teams, the front and the rear, and entered the hinterland of Shangdang County.

But they found nothing,
Under the entire Shangdang County, there is no one in all the villages and towns, except for the young crops in the field, there is nothing else.

One hundred thousand cavalry immediately went straight to the destination, and soon surrounded the three cities of Changzi, Gaodu, and Huguan.

War is imminent...

(End of this chapter)