Chapter 482 Learning from Mi Yang and excited Jiang Wei
Author: Soy Sauce Mixed History
Although Cao Hong did not capture Qishan in the east, the Han army stationed in Qishan suffered heavy losses due to his fierce offensive in the east.
There are not many troops in Shibao Legs. After being continuously depleted, it becomes even more difficult to lead the troops out of the military camp for field battles.
Is it because of this that Cao Hong led most of the Wei army to the outside of Jiange after leaving thousands of soldiers and horses in the east to cover the situation.
Cao Hong's self-confidence was not unfounded, but the Han army in Qishan was unable to get out of the barracks. In a sense, it was considered a victory.
Although Cao Hong could achieve this, he mostly relied on the superior strength of his legs and sharp siege weapons.
The reason why Cao Hong came up with the idea of suddenly taking the East Jiange was because he knew that there were not many defenders in the Jiange.
Naturally, Cao Hong knew how complete Jiange's city defense was.
But if Jiange's defenders didn't have many troops, then he might not be able to give it a try.
Is it because of the previous lesson at Yangpingguan that Cao Hong was a little more careful.
Cao Hong found Yang Fu and told him what he was thinking.
Since Yang Fu learned that Cao Zhen was injured, he has been worried because of his sensitive nature. So after hearing Cao Hong's idea, after thinking about it in various ways, he agreed with Cao Hong's idea.
Is it true that the garrison in Jiange is insufficient in strength? The garrison of Jiange is not a famous general in Ji Han's side. These two points are the basis for Yang Fu to agree with Cao Hong.
But the reason why Yang Fu agreed with Cao Hong was because of his self-doubt.
Even if Cao Zhen was angry with him because of the Yangping Pass incident, Yang Fu still didn't understand Cao Zhen very well. In some respects, Cao Zhen was a very generous person.
When Emperor Cao Pi was the crown prince, he had four friends, one of whom was named Wu Zhi.
Wu Zhi was aloof and arrogant. Because Cao Zhen was fat, Wu Zhi had humiliated Cao Zhen many times in the past.
Cao Zhen was so angry that he gritted his teeth every time.
But Cao Zhen didn't think Wu Zhi was wrong. It didn't mean that Cao Zhen didn't want to do it, nor did it mean that Cao Zhen couldn't do it.
The reason why Cao Zhen never wronged Wu Zhi was because Wu Zhi could help Cao Pi seize the rightful son. Cao Zhen had never been stingy with his warmth and tolerance for useful people.
And whether it is useful or not can be judged by meritorious service?
Just ask him to assist Cao Hong in taking the East Sword Pavilion. It would be a great achievement, and Cao Zhen would definitely forgive him.
And even if Cao Hong did not attack Dongjiange, with the strength of the Wei army, if he did not fall into the enemy's plot, there would be no big losses.
In this case, why not give it a try?
Although Cao Hong didn't know why Yang Fu turned around and supported him, he was very happy to receive Yang Fu's support.
Although Yang Fu was not happy about it, Yang Fu was considered a wise man. He agreed with his plan to attack the city, which meant that the plan to capture Jiange had merit.
Cao Hong is not a sloppy person, he just does what he says.
In the month after the leader of the army arrived outside Jiange, Cao Hong issued an order to speed up the construction and installation of corresponding siege equipment.
In order to make his army look more intimidating and completely block the Han army's channel from Jiange to support Hanzhong, Cao Hongdong ordered the entire army to camp along the mountain road for several miles.
When tens of thousands of Wei troops began to camp outside the Jiange Pavilion, their actions naturally could not be hidden from Liu Feng outside the Jiange Pavilion.
Liu Feng was never idle during those months.
After using his thunder legs to remove the original guard of the sword pavilion, Liu Feng completely took control of the entire sword pavilion.
Then Liu Fengma sent people to carefully examine how many soldiers there were outside the Jiange.
It's good not to scrutinize carefully. After scrutinizing carefully, Liu Feng was so angry that he really wanted to kill the original guard of Jiange again.
The register records that the number of Jiange defenders was five thousand, but the actual number initially reported by confidants, after excluding the old, weak and short-term quotas, was far less than four thousand!
Nearly one-fifth of the sergeants were falsely reported by the Jiange guard!
Then how could Liu Feng not be angry?
Whether he was angry or not, Liu Feng had no choice but to accept the fact.
There is indeed good news in Bu Nao.
Although the original guard of Jiange falsely reported the existence of many sergeants because of his own desires, those real sergeants were not the elite soldiers Liu Bei left in Jiange.
That's normal, there are corrupt officials in any dynasty.
But in the early days of a dynasty, it is impossible to say that corruption will lead to the loss of all the soldiers in a strategic territory.
That point brought some comfort to Liu Feng's heart.
But just when Liu Feng's mood had just improved, he received news that Cao Hong had arrived with his army.
After learning the news, Liu Feng quickly put down the new books he had just sorted out in his legs, and followed the deputy general to the top of the Jiange city to observe the movements of the Wei army.
After Liu Feng arrived at the city wall, the Wei army had already begun to build military camps along the mountain road under Cao Hong's order.
Nearly 100,000 people (plus auxiliary troops) cut down trees and built camps on the mountain road, causing a storm of dust all over the sky.
And the wind and dust in the sky stretched for miles at a glance, which reflected from the side how vast the Wei army's camp would be in the future.
After realizing this, not only the Han troops at the city wall, but also Liu Feng's face became very solemn.
He didn't expect Cao Hong to come so quickly.
Although Liu Feng knew from previous intelligence that there were at most 30,000 Wei troops in Cao Hong's leg, this did not count the number of regular troops.
Liu Feng had often fought against the Wei army since he came of age. Did he understand the Wei army's organization very well?
According to Cao Cao's plan during his lifetime, a main soldier of the Wei Army was usually paired with about three auxiliary soldiers. However, if the Wei Army's central army was not as elite, the corresponding number of auxiliary soldiers would reach five.
Therefore, the number of troops Cao Hong could use to attack the city in the next month was at least one hundred thousand.
Throughout history, the act of attacking a city could not be accomplished with auxiliary troops.
One hundred thousand is wrong, even though he has the strong city of Jiange as his support, and even though Liu Feng has fought many fierce battles, he can't help but murmur in his heart.
Thinking of this, Liu Feng walked towards the east city wall with a solemn expression.
He did not express what he had in mind, which would further shock people outside the country.
After Liu Feng returned to the Great Expansion Blade outside the pass, he began to think about the wrong strategy.
Although Liu Feng experienced many wars in the first half of his life, he did not become Liu Bei's stepson when Liu Bei was in Xinye.
He really led the army for the first time when Liu Bei occupied Jiangxia.
That year was the period of the Battle of Chibi. From then on, Liu Feng either followed Liu Bei or led troops alone, and he was always responsible for offensive combat tasks.
And to be honest, most of those combat missions were not too dangerous, and were more of a kind of experience for Liu Bei and Liu Feng.
As for the hard work of defending the city, which can lead to death if you are not careful, Liu Feng has never experienced it in the past.
Does he really have no experience in defending a city?
But when he thought that Liu Bei had wronged his instructions, Liu Feng never had any intention of backing down.
Liu Feng has been thinking about ways to defeat the enemy.
Although a large part of Liu Feng's military exploits in the first half of his life were due to Liu Bei's training, it has to be said that Liu Bei, who knows people well and is good at taking charge of people, spent great efforts to train Liu Feng, which shows that Liu Feng's talent for war is not the same.
not bad.
And Liu Feng was also a very good learner.
When Liu Feng was thinking about strategies to defeat the enemy, he couldn't help but think of the most famous city defense battle in Tiandong in recent years - the Battle of Public Security.
Not only in recent years, but also in Tiandong, where wars have been raging for decades, the battle of public security was an extremely successful and famous example of a city defense counterattack, and that battle had extremely important significance in the current situation.
Influence.
The battle with the police severely damaged Jiangdong's vitality, and he would not be able to recover for several years.
The greatest significance of that battle was that it allowed Sun Quan from the east of the Yangtze River to claim vassalage and pay tribute to the Han Dynasty, which completely established the three-point pattern of the east and west. It also allowed the Han Dynasty to concentrate all its energy to deal with the powerful enemy Cao Wei in the north.
It can be said that without that battle, the Han Dynasty would not have won the Battle of Xicheng and the Battle of Xiangfan from the east.
Since that battle, Tiandong generals could not help but think of that battle and what they could learn from it whenever they were not defending the city.
Liu Feng is naturally no exception.
As Liu Bei's son, he also knew the whole story of the police incident.
After recalling all the details of the Public Security War, Liu Feng quickly got inspiration from it.
How did Mi Yang fight against the police in the first place?
At that time, Lu Mi Chen was not willing to send Jiangdong general Sun Huan as a vanguard to the public security, but Mi Yang at that time decided to lead the army out of the city to attack Sun Huan's troops, against all opinions.
According to Guan Ping's later narration, it can be seen that Mi Yang's purpose at that time was to defend the city. If you defend it well, you will lose people's hearts.
What happened later completely proved Mi Yang's judgment.
After defeating Sun Huan's troops, the public security's military morale was greatly boosted and provided a solid foundation for resisting the Wu army for several consecutive months in the future.
Although the situation faced by Dongjiange was different from that faced by the police back then, there was one thing that was the same.
After Cao Hong arrived with tens of thousands of Wei troops, Jiange's military morale was obviously greatly shaken.
If there is no way to boost the morale of the troops outside Jiange as soon as possible, then Jiange will not be able to defend it for a long time.
As for Liu Feng, who was in the east, could he take the initiative to attack the Wei army and win?
Is there any cocoa?
Perhaps Cao Hong, a veteran general, would not make the fatal mistake of underestimating the enemy in the east like the young Sun Huan, but now Cao Hong's army is in the process of setting up camp.
Whether the Wei army was large in number, but the larger their number, it meant that it would take a lot of time for them to set up camp in the narrow mountain road.
During that period of time, most of the Wei army will be in a state of chaotic formation.
That would deny Liu Feng's chance.
Excellent generals will be good at learning excellent battle examples, but learning must not blindly imitate!
After thinking of that, Liu Feng's spirit began to cheer up.
He is not good at defense, but his army is unpredictable.
Liu Feng, who was in high spirits, summoned his trusted generals and began to discuss in detail the battle plan for the first step to the east.
Just when the battle situation in Hanzhong was showing that the Han and Wei armies were at odds with each other, Jiang Wei, who had just arrived outside Yinping County with the army, unexpectedly received two letters.
After many months of training, Jiang Wei's leg injury has healed, allowing him to join the army again and serve in battles.
But as soon as Jiang Wei arrived outside Yinping County, he received a letter from Yang Fu.
After setting off from Chencang, Yang Fu took the initiative to contact Jiang Wei for the first time.
Jiang Wei paid great attention to the letter from his benefactor.
When he opened Yang Fu's letter and read it, he found that there was nothing unusual in the letter. In the letter, Yang Fu asked him to follow Guo Huai well and build meritorious deeds in order to win Guo Huai's appreciation.
The reason why Yang Fu wrote that letter was not because of the self-doubt in his heart.
People who doubt themselves will inevitably want to find allies, and Guo Huai is the best ally in Yang Fu's heart.
Yang Fu asked Jiang Wei to strive for meritorious service, not only for the good of Jiang Wei, but also for Guo Huai to continue to appreciate Jiang Wei. It would be best to make Jiang Wei his confidant.
In this way, even if Cao Zhen wanted to punish him in the future, Guo Huai would be able to speak kindly for him in front of Cao Zhen by virtue of his close relationship with Jiang Wei.
Of course, Jiang Wei didn't know the reason why Yang Fu wrote that letter. He thought that Yang Fu simply told him to make more contributions to the Wei Dynasty, but Jiang Wei remembered Yang Fu's words deeply in his mind.
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If the letter from Yang Fu was unexpected and reasonable, the second letter Jiang Wei received surprised him.
Did that letter come from Yangpingguan, or was it written by Mi Yang personally to Jiang Wei?
Jiang Wei was completely confused when he learned that Mi Yang had sent him a letter.
Although the ambitious Jiang Wei secretly regards Mi Yang as his enemy, in public, Mi Yang and his status and reputation are as different as clouds and mud. Jiang Wei really can't imagine why Mi Yang suddenly wrote that letter.
give him.
The moment he received Mi Yang's letter, Jiang Wei couldn't help but have a thought in his mind:
"Does the Han red deer actually know that there are young lins in the east of the sky?"
Apart from doubts and surprises, Jiang Wei was also filled with joy and excitement.
Mi Yang's status is so great, but to get a personal letter from such a person, isn't it a great honor?
In the midst of complicated emotions, Jiang Wei opened Mi Yang's letter.
After reading the contents of the letter, Jiang Wei learned the reason why Mi Yang wrote the letter - it turned out that after the battle with Ma Chao, Ma Chao specifically informed Mi Yang of his existence because he appreciated him.
After Mi Yang learned that he could be appreciated by Ma Chao and that his father had died fighting to protect the Han Dynasty, he thought about writing a letter to communicate with him.
Although Mi Yang's reasons were not so tenable, Jiang Wei initially chose to believe them.
After all, the people in Ji Hanzhong are a group of people with ideals. It is normal for them to have a good impression of a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty.
Just like when Liu Bei chose Liu Feng as his stepson, a large part of the reason was whether Liu Feng was loyal or not.
Otherwise, if there were so many Han clan members in Tiandong, why would Liu Bei choose someone with a foreign surname as his stepson?
Liu Bei has such unexpected behavior. As his disciple Mi Yang has similar behavior, it is extremely abnormal.
Besides, if that was not the case, why would Mi Yang suddenly write to him?
Do you want to do everything possible to win him over?
That is undoubtedly a joke.
Although Jiang Wei is proud, he is not arrogant.
The identity gap between him and Mi Yang is too big, so the person Mi Yang wants to win over should at least be on Guo Huai's level.
For a talented person with a certain reputation like him, there are only eight hundred in Yizhou, so Mi Yang has no reason to value him so much.
After getting rid of the doubts in his heart, Jiang Wei began to write a reply to Mi Yang.
In a world where etiquette was extremely important, if a big shot like Mi Yang suddenly received a letter, Jiang Wei would be able to refute it, and the waiter Yun Jingxingxing would be in trouble.
Is observing etiquette the most basic conduct for a descendant of a noble family?
But what Jiang Wei didn't know was that even before his reply was sent, Mi Yang had already known about Mi Yang's letter to him.
Maybe God was favoring the Han Dynasty. When Mi Yang's letter arrived, Yang Fu's letter also arrived in those months.
Guo Huai narrowed his eyes after learning that Yang Fu and Mi Yang had both delivered letters to Jiang Wei unexpectedly.
He never believed in coincidences.
This chapter has been completed!