The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 967 Meridian Valley

It is worth mentioning that the road from Xicheng north to Chang'an is a rough and difficult road.

The more famous one is that this is Ziwu Valley.

Ziwu Valley is about 330 kilometers long from north to south, starting from the Qinling Mountains in the southwest of Chang'an in the north, and reaching Shiquan in the south; the north exit is called "Zikou", and the south exit is called "Wukou".

Ziwu Valley has cliffs and countless plank roads, and the reason for its danger lies in the Qinling Mountains.Qinling Mountains, also known as Zhongnan Mountains, is high in the west and low in the east, and is the watershed between the Yangtze River and the Yellow River.Surrounded by Ziwu Valley, one can imagine how steep the mountains are and how bad the roads are.

In Zhuge Liang’s first Northern Expedition in history, General Wei Yan imitated Han Xin’s plan of “building plank roads openly and keeping Chencang secretly” and proposed a surprise attack in Ziwu Valley. He led [-] elite soldiers from Ziwu Valley to the city of Chang’an quickly, and took Chang’an in one fell swoop. Zhuge Liang led the army to drive from Xiegu. To Chang'an for support.

Xia Houmao, the prefect of Chang'an, is not a general, Wei Yan can kill him by surprise, and the west of Xianyang is within easy reach.The sword of the Shu Han can point directly at Luoyang, and in the future unify the Central Plains and even pacify the world.

Zhuge Liang thought this plan was too dangerous and difficult to succeed, so he abandoned it.From now on, Wei Yan thinks Zhuge Liang is too cautious.Later generations also used this as one of the reasons for Wei Yan's subsequent rebellion.

Of course, the current Ziwu Valley is not the Ziwu Valley in history.

In order to transport grain and grass, Liu Bei's army began to send people to open up the Meridian Valley as early as a year ago. During this time, he has been repairing the road from Chenggu County to Chang'an.

Although the route of Meridian Valley is still rough and difficult, it is not as unbearable as in history.

After all, if you really want to go to Xiegu, the transportation of grain and grass is very inconvenient, not to mention the distance, and there will be a long detour, so Guan Yu and the others will take the risk of transporting grain and grass from Meridian Valley.

Liu Zheng's spies stared at the route of Meridian Valley for half a month.

Finally figured out the route for Guan Yu's army to transport grain and grass.

In fact, it is hidden. After all, the Ziwu Valley Mountain Road is difficult to travel. There is only one route. This route was dug out by Guan Yu and the others. Ordinary people don’t know it at all. Under such circumstances, it is not possible to walk through the Meridian Valley.

Therefore, it is even more difficult for other outsiders to know, and this route has become hidden.

No one knows that Guan Yu's army's grain and grass are transported from the Ziwu Valley route, but what Liu Zheng knows is that Guan Yu's grain and grass must be transported from here, as long as he leads someone to intercept a random intersection near Xicheng and seal the intersection .

It is enough to prevent Chang'an's transport team from transporting food.

For the past half month, it has indeed been as Guo Jia expected.

The battle between Liu Zhang's army and Guan Yu's army in Nanzheng City did not continue.

One reason is that Liu Zhang fought with Guan Yu before, suffered a disastrous defeat, and lost a lot of troops. Now he can only retreat in Nanzheng City to prevent Guan Yu from continuing to attack.

Secondly, it was also because of Gan Ning who led an army of 30 to camp near Nanzheng City [-] miles away.

This distance is too close to Nanzheng City, so Guan Yu, who was besieging the city, was very vigilant and did not dare to act rashly, because he was worried that a little trouble would arouse Gan Ning's covetousness. .

The soldiers and horses of the three sides surrounded Nanzheng City in peace and harmony, and the stalemate came to an end.

Liu Zhang and Zhang Lu's men stared at Guan Yu's men, while Guan Yu's spies stared at Gan Ning.

And Gan Ning's purpose was to stare at Guan Yu and attract Guan Yu's attention.

And he did.

In half a month, Guan Yu had to surround Nanzheng City, and at the same time dispatched some soldiers and horses to build a defensive position in the direction of Gan Ning.

If there are not enough troops, they can only be transferred from other places.

Everyone is safe and sound.

However, Liu Zheng, at this time, has gradually dispatched troops to find out all around Ziwu Valley.

Camp in Xicheng County.

This is where Huang Zhong's main force is stationed.

At the same time, it is also the Ziwu Valley line, the only way to Chang'an.

Of course, the location of Xicheng County is not in Ziwu Valley, but the road of Ziwu Valley belongs to the boundary of Xicheng County, and Liu Zheng's army is at least dozens of miles away from Ziwu Valley.

And Liu Zheng's idea is actually very simple, that is, to take advantage of this time to send troops to cut off the line of the Xicheng border, and then send troops to garrison. In this way, Guan Yu's transportation of luggage can be cut off For food and grass, Guan Yu must have panicked.

"Han Sheng, how is the news going? When will the next batch of grain and grass from Guan Yu's side be delivered?"

Liu Zheng and the others already understood the transportation route of Guan Yu's grain and grass. Although they didn't fully understand it, it was enough to grasp the general location.

What is waiting now is an opportunity.

When Guan Yu's next batch of grain and grass was transported, Liu Zheng asked Huang Zhong's men to cut off the grain road and snatch the grain and grass.

Let Guan Yu not only lack food and grass in a short period of time, but also have less time to reflect this matter.

"Your Majesty, our spies have found out recently that these Guan Yu's transport teams deliver food and grass every ten days. Although they don't transport much at one time, if this cycle goes on and on, they can barely maintain Guan Yu's tens of thousands of troops. supply and demand."

In fact, this kind of journey is not Guan Yu, and he doesn't want to transport more food and grass at one time.

It is this road that restricts Guan Yu, who cannot transport a large amount of grain and grass at one time. After all, the road is not wide enough, so the team can only move forward slowly.

If there are too many people, they will naturally use horse-drawn carriages. War-horse carriages are not easy, so the progress of transportation is very slow.

But it was precisely because of this that Liu Zheng was given a chance.

When transporting a small amount of grain and grass at a time, the escorts of these trains will also be very few.

In this way, Liu Zheng and the others didn't need to mobilize too many soldiers and horses to destroy these trains transporting grain and grass.

"Next time, when will Guan Yu's supply team arrive?"

"It should be soon. In the past two days, I have sent a few spies to watch at the various mountain passes in the west city. Once there is news, it will be passed on to us. At that time, I will personally lead two thousand shooters." The elite of the battalion went out and directly used rockets to burn their food and grass, and then dug down the road to block the passage of Guan Yu's army!"

After Huang Zhong answered Liu Zheng, he immediately told Liu Zheng the information he had now.

Chapter 968 Grain Transportation Officer Fu Shiren

After knowing that Guan Yu's supply team will start transporting from Ziwu Valley to the south in these two days, Liu Zheng immediately ordered Huang Zhong to start preparing.

Said to be ready, in fact, they have already been prepared.

Huang Zhong has many elite soldiers and strong generals, and Huang Zhong is also Liu Zheng's most trusted general. Under his command are Li Dian and Le Jin, two generals who originally belonged to Cao Jun.

Now these two are the right and left arms of Huang Zhong's subordinates.

In the shooter battalion trained by Huang Zhong, these two are also good at shooting. For Huang Zhong, they are good lieutenants.

This time, Liu Zheng planned to let Huang Zhong personally lead the troops to the important task of raiding Guan Yu's army's supplies.

Only Liu Zheng was left to lead a part of the troops to garrison the old camp here.

For this, Huang Zhong naturally has no intention of refusing, after all, this matter is of great importance, and it is the key for Liu Zheng and the others to conquer Hanzhong, as long as this matter is successful.

For Liu Zheng, the Battle of Hanzhong was much easier.

After receiving Liu Zheng's order, Huang Zhong led Li Dianle and the two generals to the grain road in Ziwu Valley the next day.

Although they didn't know the specific road to transport the food, some spies had arranged it ahead of time, and they would be informed as soon as there was any news.

If the distance is very close, it will be able to react quickly.

Two days later.

In a deep mountain valley dozens of miles outside Xicheng County.

A food transportation team appeared here.

The first person is a young general.

Wearing a suit of armor, his status is not low at first glance.

There are some baggage carts one after another behind them, and there are two teams of soldiers beside the baggage carts.

The number of people is not particularly large, but at first glance, there are at least 2000 people.

These people are the soldiers and horses dispatched by Guan Yu to supervise the transportation of grain and grass.

The leader is Fu Shiren.

He is a general under Guan Yu's account.

As Liu Bei's most trusted general, Guan Yu will naturally have many elite soldiers, including Zhang Xiu who later joined Liu Bei, Yan Xing and others, as well as Fu Shiren, Liao Hua and others who followed Liu Bei the first time.

And this Fu Shiren is an old man who followed Liu Bei very early. Fu Shiren is from Youzhou. When Liu Bei, Guan Yu and others raised their troops, they were also in Youzhou.

Fu Shiren followed Liu Bei at that time. He had seniority and followed him for a long time, so he was highly regarded by Liu Bei, Guan Yu and others.

Fu Shiren's personal martial arts is not high, and he has no special talents, so it is not his turn to go to battle to kill the enemy, but he can make the best use of his talents and things. Guan Yu knew that Fu Shiren did not have the ability to fight in battle, so he was assigned to supervise Transporting grain and grass is also a good arrangement.

However, it is worth mentioning that in history, the reason why Guan Yu died and was crossed by Lu Meng in white clothes had a lot to do with this Fu Shiren.

219 A.D. was the most glorious year in Guan Yu's life, because in this year, his elder brother Liu Bei established himself as the king of Hanzhong, not only worshiped him as a former general, but also gave him the power of fake festival axe, making him the king of Hanzhong. He became the highest-ranking general under Liu Bei's command.

In the same year, he sent troops to Xiangfan. Not only did he besiege Cao Ren, the famous general of Cao Wei, but also flooded the Seventh Army. Avoid the bad luck of being sacked.

So Guan Yu was so powerful that even Cao Cao was so frightened that he almost moved the capital.

But the good times didn't last long. Soon after, Guan Yu was attacked by Jiangdong in the rear, and the front line was also defeated by the famous general Xu Huang. Ma Zhong sacked and killed, hastily drawing an imperfect end to his own life.

Speaking of Guan Yu's death, some people think that it was because Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang refused to save him; It is believed that Guan Yu fell into such a desperate situation mainly because of the betrayal of Mi Fang and Fu Shiren.

Then why did Mi Fang and Fu Shiren betray?

Historically, no correct conclusion has been drawn. However, according to some more realistic inferences, the betrayal of Mi Fang and Fu Shiren was most likely due to corruption.

This point has great credibility.

Let's take a look at the identities of Mi Fang and Fu Shiren.

Mi Fang, needless to say, Mrs. Mi's elder brother, Liu Bei's wife-in-law, the Mi family supported Liu Bei with all their strength in the early years, and later Liu Bei reciprocated, and gave the Mi family a heavy reward.

With such an identity, the members of the Mi family were tied to Liu Bei's boat, and Fu Shiren followed Liu Bei from Youzhou for more than ten or twenty years.

There is no credit, but there is also hard work. No matter how you look at it, they are old friends. From the perspective of relationship, neither of them has any reason to surrender.

The records of the Three Kingdoms: "When Yu went out to the army, Fang and Ren provided military resources, but they didn't know how to save each other. Yu said that they should be treated. Fang and Ren were afraid of uneasiness. So Quan Yin lured Fang and Ren, and Fang and Ren made people welcome Quan. "

However, from some details, we can see that Guan Yu is strict in governing the army and hates corrupt officials. , There is no way to satisfy Guan Yu.

Guan Yu then sent a letter saying that they will be punished when they return.

Because they were afraid of Guan Yu's pursuit, the two people who were already worried, happened to catch up with Lu Meng who came to attack them and were besieged in Jiangling. They could only choose to surrender.

Otherwise, when Guan Yu investigates after the incident, the two of them will definitely die.

If both left and right are dead, surrender will become the only way to survive.

It can be seen that both Mi Fang and Fu Shiren are villains who only think about themselves.

Compared to the descendants of the Liu family who would rather die in battle than lose their country, they are indeed too spineless.

Of course, history belongs to history. At this time, Fu Shiren was still a general who was highly regarded by Guan Yu.

He is responsible for supervising the transportation of grain and grass in this Ziwu Valley. He has already run back and forth several times on the route from Chang'an City to Chenggu.

These days, he already has a good understanding of the environment here.

After walking a lot, Fu Shiren's vigilance became less cautious.

Passing by the mouth of a valley, Fu Shiren's deputy general gradually came up from the rear of the team.

He quickly came to Fu Shiren's side.

"General, the frontier is the boundary of the West City. This is already Liu Zheng's territory. We must be careful here. If we are exposed and discovered by Liu Zheng's soldiers, then we will be in trouble."

The deputy general felt it necessary to remind Fu Shiren.

Chapter 969 Enemy Attack

The vigilance of the lieutenant general was not approved by Fu Shiren.

On the contrary, Fu Shiren was still a little impatient with his lieutenant's reminder.

"Hey, Lao Li, are you looking down on me, Fu Shiren? I've traveled back and forth seven or eight times on this grain transportation road. Don't I know where the danger is?"

Fu Shiren immediately responded to the lieutenant general's reminder.

After seeing Fu Shiren's impatient look, the deputy general wanted to continue to remind him.

But after seeing Fu Shiren's appearance like this, he didn't dare to say more.

"If you want me to tell you, General Guan doesn't have to confront Zhang Lu here. He directly leads people around Hanzhong and goes directly to Xichuan. When Xichuan is attacked, the people in Hanzhong will naturally be anxious, and they will come out to fight us at that time. of."

At this time, Fu Shiren heard his lieutenant general chatting with him, but he became a little bit more temperamental, and began to talk about Guan Yu's expedition to Hanzhong this time.

As a lieutenant general, Fu Shiren has never had any chance to join the battle, so he can only talk about the Battle of Hanzhong.

After all, he doesn't have the ability to go to the battlefield in person, so he can only talk about it in the rear.