Chapter 268 The army marches eastward and Liu Bei’s whereabouts
In November of the first year of Zhangwu of the Han Dynasty, Mi Yang, who led tens of thousands of troops to the outside of Shunyang County, received a letter from Guan Yu.
After Mi Yang received Ma Liang's letter, he was worried about Guan Yu's safety, so he changed his tactics and announced the slogan of attacking Champion County, and led his troops to leave Wudang and go north.
Because the territory under the jurisdiction of Nanyang County is too large, Mi Yang has two best routes to advance from Wudang to the championship.
One line swims directly down the Han River, reaches outside Yin County, and then goes north by land.
The other method is to first swim southward from Wudang County, and then go westward from Junshui, a tributary of the Han River, to Shunyang, and then take the opportunity to attack Champion County after capturing Shunyang.
Mi Yang's current marching strategy is the second one.
This march route was suggested by Wei Yan to Mi Yang.
Wei Yan, like Fu Xu, was originally from Nanyang County, so Wei Yan was very familiar with the terrain of Nanyang County.
The reason why Wei Yan suggested Mi Yang to choose this route was because there were rivers along most of the route.
And this kind of terrain will undoubtedly allow the Mi army with warships in their hands to be in a state of advancing, attacking, retreating and defending.
Currently, only Wudang in Nanyang County is in the hands of Mi Yang, and Champion County is in the heart of Nanyang County.
Therefore, if Mi Yang chooses the first route, it will cause tens of thousands of Mi troops to go deep alone, which is a taboo for military strategists.
Shortly after Mi Yang led his army outside Shunyang County, the county magistrate of Shunyang County was frightened when he saw that Mi Yang was personally leading the army, and immediately sent an envoy to ask for help from Cao Pi.
However, Mi Yang did not attack Shunyang County immediately.
Because no matter from the actual situation or from the real purpose of sending troops, he did not really send troops to attack Champion County.
According to his plan with Guan Yu, he should have led the army in Wudang County and waited for Guan Yu's call.
However, after receiving Ma Liang's letter, Mi Yang, who did not know how far Guan Yu's condition was, took the initiative to lead the expedition just to share part of Guan Yu's pressure.
As the governor of Yibei, Mi Yang naturally had certain powers to make corresponding adjustments to his marching strategy.
Originally, Mi Yang thought that if Guan Yu was really seriously ill, then his actions could cover the retreat of Guan Yu and his army to a certain extent.
If Guan Yu only had a slight illness, his actions could also take away some of the pressure from the enemy forces that Guan Yu faced, allowing him to recover as quickly as possible.
Anyway, there are many warships here, and his army can advance and retreat freely as long as they don't rush ashore, and it will not have any big impact on the current overall situation of Nanyang.
But what Mi Yang didn't expect was that not long after he led his army to arrive outside Shunyang City, he received news that Guan Yu had achieved a great victory by setting up the Moon Formation.
Mi Yang was the one who knew in advance that Guan Yu would set up the moon-quenching formation, so he was mentally prepared for Guan Yu's victory and was not too surprised.
What really surprised Mi Yang was the news behind this great victory.
Judging from this incident, Guan Yu's body is still in a strong state, otherwise Guan Yu would not proceed step by step according to the original plan.
After learning the news, Mi Yang soon received news from Guan Yu asking him to quickly lead his army south.
This made Mi Yang even more optimistic about Guan Yu's condition.
Because everything currently is proceeding according to the original plan.
But Mi Yang would not make the final judgment because of this. After all, Guan Yu's status was extraordinary and his physical condition was even more serious.
Anyway, now that Guan Yu has issued an order for him to lead the army eastward, Mi Yang can go to the Han army camp in Fancheng to actually observe Guan Yu's health.
In order not to delay Guan Yu's military strategy, but also to find out Guan Yu's true physical condition as soon as possible.
After receiving Guan Yu's order, Mi Yang immediately led the army to retreat from outside Shunyang City, and then swam down toward Fan City.
During the Battle of Xicheng, Mi Yang had a maximum of 40,000 troops.
Later, Mi Yang took advantage of the great victory in Xicheng to go on a military expedition. Because the Wei army captured too many prisoners, he left 10,000 troops behind to garrison Hanxing County led by Meng Da and others.
Later, because news came from Guanzhong that Cao Zhen was deploying troops on a large scale, and in order not to delay farm work, Mi Yang transferred 10,000 troops from his hands and returned to Hanzhong County.
After two consecutive divisions of troops, there are currently only about 20,000 Han troops inside and outside Wudang City.
Although Guan Yu asked Mi Yang to mobilize his army to go south, the safety of Wudang City was also very important.
Therefore, the Han army that Mi Yang was able to lead to the outside of Fan City was the tens of thousands of Han troops he brought out from Wudang this time.
It's just that maybe the army Mi Yang brought was not very large, but the quality of the generals he brought with him to fight was not low.
The bravery of Wei Yan alone is comparable to that of several ordinary generals.
Because they were going down the river, Mi Yang's army moved very fast. Within a few days, Mi Yang personally led the army to the outside of Fancheng.
When Mi Yang led the army to the outside of Fancheng, he looked at the scene in front of him and felt that he had seen it all before.
Many Han army battle flags were flapping in the wind, and Fancheng, an important town in Jingzhou, was surrounded by Guan Yu's army with various fortifications.
When he arrived outside Fancheng from Jiangling at starry night, he saw the same scene.
At that time, when he came outside Fancheng, his status was just that of a filial piety officer, and he was only followed by hundreds of personal guards.
He came to Fancheng at that time to save Guan Yu's life and the fate of the Han Dynasty.
Now when he came outside Fancheng, he had become the general of the left of the Han Dynasty, leading tens of thousands of elite soldiers with high morale.
But this time he came outside Fancheng to seize the national destiny against Wei.
It had only been more than a year, but things had changed and people had changed. Thinking about it now really made him feel a lot of emotion.
However, Mi Yang had not been lamenting outside the camp for long. After he led his troops to disembark from the warship one after another, he had already been informed of the arrival of his troops in advance, and Ma Liang, who had been guarding outside the camp for a long time, came to greet him.
Ma Liang was followed by many subordinate officials.
When Ma Liang came to Mi Yang's side, he took the lead in bowing to Mi Yang.
Although Ma Liang has higher qualifications and age than Mi Yang, Mi Yang is now the governor of the Han Dynasty and has a high position of authority.
So in terms of position alone, Ma Liang is inferior to Mi Yang.
After all, according to the old rules of the Han Dynasty, although the position of governor had great powers and responsibilities, his rank was not high.
After Ma Liang saluted Mi Yang, Mi Yang also saluted Ma Liang in return.
After greeting each other, Ma Liang directed the subordinates behind him to lead the army brought by Mi Yang into the newly built military camps according to the units of the battalion.
Ma Liang's style of doing things is very similar to that of his idol Zhuge Liang, that is, he must do everything with his own hands.
After Liu Bei captured Yizhou, Ma Liang wrote a letter to his idol Zhuge Liang to praise him. However, in that letter, Ma Liang also reminded Zhuge Liang that he should simplify talents and let them occupy their respective positions.
This shows that Ma Liang was not like this at the beginning.
As a result, not long after Zhuge Liang received this letter, Liu Bei recruited Ma Liang into his Zuo General Shogunate and became Zhuge Liang's subordinate.
After following Zhuge Liang for several years, Ma Liang was sent out again but completely changed his style of doing things.
And his change was entirely due to Zhuge Liang's influence.
Even Liu Ba, the minister of the Han Dynasty, knew that the person Liu Ba really wanted to serve was Cao Cao.
However, under Zhuge Liang's influence, even Liu Ba, who had no intention of being a monarch or a minister towards Liu Bei, had to exert all his efforts to sort out the national economy for Liu Bei.
Such a political atmosphere was simply unimaginable in Cao Wei.
If Cao Wei had such a political ethos, he would have unified China long ago.
This is the guiding role of a great prime minister.
Some people in later generations often criticize Zhuge Liang for not knowing how to employ people and that he exhausted himself to death, but those who say this completely ignore the dangerous environment Ji Han faced in history.
If Zhuge Liang had not been involved in everything he did, and if Zhuge Liang had not set an example, how could Ji Han use the national power to launch the Northern Expedition? Could it be based on his ideals?
Historically and even today, Ji Han's national power was far inferior to that of Cao Wei.
In order to prevent Ji Han from being thrown too far away, Ji Han's rulers can only do so with all their strength.
This is the tragedy of a small country.
This is one of the reasons why Cao Wei and Sun Wu all had long-lived people in history, but Ji Han had very few.
Just like in Jingzhou this year, if Ma Liang hadn't been involved in everything and personally supervised the harvesting and transportation of grain in Jingzhou, Guan Yu would definitely not have been able to launch the Northern Expedition again so quickly.
Mi Yang looked at Ma Liang in front of her and saw that he was not very old, but there were already traces of gray in his hair.
But when I met him the year before, his demeanor was not like this.
This shows how hard Ma Liang has worked for state affairs in the past year.
Ji Han's idealist is really burning his life without any regrets, just to achieve his seemingly impossible ambition.
Mi Yang's heart is full of respect for such people.
Ma Liang didn't know how much respect Mi Yang had for him. He saw that the army behind Mi Yang and most of his subordinates had entered the camp.
There was a hint of worry in his eyes, and then he stretched out his hand to lead Mi Yang aside alone and said to him:
"General Zuo, Liang has smelled the smell of medicine on the general's body recently."
Hearing what Ma Liang said, Mi Yang's eyes couldn't help but condense.
Mi Yang knew very well what Ma Liang's words meant.
He immediately looked at Guan Yu's main tent with worried eyes.
Hanzhong County, Nanzheng City.
Today's Nanzheng City looks a little unusual.
In the endless plain outside Nanzheng City, many Han soldiers began to build camps.
And looking at the military uniforms of those people, they are slightly different from the Han troops in Hanzhong County.
On the pockets of the Han soldiers, there was a white feather fluttering in the wind.
"The wings of the country are as prosperous as the forest." This costume is exclusive to the Yulin Army of the Emperor of Han Dynasty!
The Yulin Army, as the personal army of the Emperor of Han Dynasty, started from the era of Emperor Xiaowu.
Although during the Eastern Han Dynasty, due to the differences in political systems, the establishment of the Yulin Army gradually faded out of the sight of the Han subjects.
But for Emperor Zhang Wu, who wanted to rebuild the Han Dynasty through force, the Yulin Army was an organization he had always wanted to restore.
Because the martial power of the Han Dynasty was more prosperous than in the era of Emperor Xiaowu.
Therefore, from the day Liu Bei ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, he put the matter of rebuilding the Yulin Army on the agenda.
The predecessor of Ji Hanyu Lin's army was Liu Bei's former elite soldiers.
After the expansion, the current Yulin Army has reached 10,000 people.
Although the number of soldiers has nearly doubled, the combat effectiveness of the Baijie soldiers has declined. Even because of the current national strength of the Han Dynasty, the 10,000 Yulin army cannot keep everyone wearing heavy armor.
But overall, the Yulin Army, which was rebuilt by Liu Bei himself, is still the best in the world in terms of combat effectiveness.
As Emperor Zhang Wu's personal army, the Yulin Army's appearance outside Nanzheng City undoubtedly means one thing, that is, Liu Bei is now in Nanzheng City.
Sure enough, in the palace of General Zuo in Nanzheng City, Liu Bei, who had just ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, was sitting on the throne in the lobby listening to the reports of the Hanzhong ministers.
After Liu Bei appointed Mi Yang as the governor of Yibei, in order to better coordinate the military of the entire Yibei governorate, Xicheng was no longer suitable as Mi Yang's administrative seat.
Nanzheng, the heart of Yibei Governor's District, is where Mi Yang, the Governor of Yibei, should stay on weekdays.
Therefore, the original Zhenyuan General's Mansion in Nanzheng City naturally became General Zuo's Mansion.
It can be said that Liu Bei's sudden arrival was a bit unexpected, but it was very consistent with Liu Bei's character.
According to common sense, Liu Bei had just ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, so he should be based in Chengdu to handle government affairs.
But Liu Bei was no ordinary monarch.
As the founder of the country with decades of military service, Liu Bei really couldn't do it if he wanted to stay quietly in Chengdu and listen to those boring government affairs.
So after learning about Mi Yang and Guan Yu's plan, Liu Bei couldn't bear his loneliness and led tens of thousands of Yulin troops north to Hanzhong.
Since Cao Pi, the Emperor of Wei Dynasty, could personally conquer the country, then of course the Emperor of Yanhan could do the same.
But after all, Ji Han's national power was weak, so Liu Bei chose to take only 10,000 Lin troops northward in order to allow Yizhou to continue to recuperate.
"Only encouraging agriculture will not rob the people of their time; only thinning the tax and restricting it will endanger the people's wealth."
This is the national policy program formulated for Liu Bei after Zhuge Liang took power.
Relying on this sixteen-character national policy program, we had the great victory in the Battle of Hanzhong and the national strength that supported Zhuge Liang's several Northern Expeditions in history.
And since it was designated as the basic national policy of the founding of the Han Dynasty, it was natural that it would not be changed easily unless necessary.
Just like the later generations that focused on economic construction, it is not difficult to set a program. What is difficult is to always adhere to this program.
If national policies are changed day by day, the red country in later generations will not develop so fast.
But despite this, once Liu Bei arrives at Hanzhong County, as the emperor of the Han Dynasty, he can actually command an army including Mi Yang and Guan Yu, totaling nearly 70,000 troops.
This is already the largest mobile force that the Han Dynasty can afford at present, and can be dispatched without affecting the rest and recuperation.
Regarding his personal expedition, Liu Bei only informed Mi Yang, the governor of Yibei, through a secret letter, so most of the officials in Hanzhong did not know about Liu Bei's arrival.
A group of ministers who are currently in Hanzhong are watching Liu Bei flip through the important military and political affairs of Hanzhong one by one in the lobby.
Although Liu Bei has always been tolerant to his ministers, Liu Bei's power after becoming the emperor is undoubtedly stronger, so all the Hanzhong ministers are a little uneasy.
There will be another chapter later.
Eat some food first.
(End of chapter)
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