Because there was no obstruction from the Wei army, Mi Yang reached the foot of Nanzheng City within a few days.
The smooth journey made Fa Miao, Wei Yan and others heave a sigh of relief.
Originally, they all thought that Wei Jun would send people to intercept them after learning the news.
It turned out that their worries were in vain.
But compared to the joy of Fa Miao, Wei Yan and others, Mi Yang's mood was not relaxed at all.
In fact, if Mi Yang was given a choice, he would rather Wei Jun sent troops to stop him.
Because the Wei army is now dispersed among the counties in Hanzhong, even if Cao Zhen hates him, he will not be able to send out too many troops at once.
Moreover, Xingshi City was still firmly under the control of the Han army. Under such circumstances, it was even more impossible for Cao Zhen to send all the Wei troops in order to stop him.
Not far outside Xingshi City are Xiegu and Luogu, and these two places are the two most important grain and grass bases for the Wei army.
As long as the Wei army does not pursue and intercept him with overwhelming superiority, Mi Yang can rely on his familiarity with the terrain of Hanzhong to defeat every Wei army sent by Cao Zhen one by one.
This will not only further damage the morale of the Wei army, but also fundamentally weaken the strength of the Wei army.
But what Mi Yang didn't expect was that Cao Zhen didn't seem to know about him leading his army to Nanzheng.
From the intelligence returned by the scouts, it can be seen that the Wei army's actions in the past few days have not been abnormal - those who are attacking the city continue to attack the city, and those who are besieging the city continue to besiege the city.
Mi Yang didn't think that Cao Zhen didn't know that he led his army from Yangping Pass. Since Cao Zhen knew that he still adopted this strategy, it means that Cao Zhen saw through his intentions and adopted the method of holding back his troops.
This result is the most unacceptable to Mi Yang.
The war situation he is facing now is similar to what Zhuge Liang faced during his Northern Expedition in history.
Historically, during Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition, he actually won many battles against the Wei army, but why was it that the Han army was unable to capture Chang'an?
A very important reason is that the effective strength of the Wei army was not heavily killed by the Han army.
The death of tens of thousands of people in a battle was a traumatic event for Ji Han, but it was nothing to the Wei army.
In the Battle of Shiting in history, the Wei army suffered heavy casualties, but within a few years, the Wei army was like nothing, and was able to organize large-scale military activities. This was only the situation in Cao Wei's war zone.
For Cao Wei, as long as the two most important military forces, the Chinese army and the foreign army, did not suffer heavy losses, they could bear the more than 10,000 casualties of the Junzhou and Junzhou soldiers.
The reason why Zhuge Liang in history could not effectively kill Cao Wei's effective military power was not that Zhuge Liang's military ability was not good, but that the Wei army's strategy was too targeted.
Zhuge Liang is unparalleled in his wisdom and scheming, and the Han army is hard to beat, so I won't fight you.
There is no opponent in attack, but in terms of defense, it is definitely a very simple matter against Cao Wei who has strong national power to support him.
And with Cao Wei's strong national power, as long as he defended it for a period of time, even if Zhuge Liang's military ability was unparalleled, he would have no choice but to retreat in the end.
The gap in national power cannot be easily reversed by one person alone.
At present, the Wei army in Hanzhong is adopting a similar fighting method.
Cao Zhen knew that Mi Yang wanted to find opportunities to win the battle and then continuously weaken the Wei army, so he did not follow Mi Yang's ideas.
As long as he did not give Mi Yang a chance to defeat them one by one, Mi Yang would not be able to take the initiative to find most of the Wei army for a decisive battle with limited troops.
In the end, the Han army and the Wei army could only continue to form a tug-of-war situation.
In this process, the cities of Hanzhong will continue to fall, the morale of the Han army will continue to decrease, and the most terrifying thing is that the Han army's food and grass will be consumed in wasted time.
Once that day comes, the Han army will be completely defeated without even a fierce attack by the Wei army.
This is what Mi Yang is most worried about.
But even if Mi Yang saw Wei Jun's intention, the uncomfortable thing is that he, like Zhuge Liang in history, did not have an effective solution.
I have to say that Wei Jun's move was very clever.
Fa Miao saw Mi Yang's serious expression while he was relaxed. As a sunflower, he immediately asked Mi Yang:
"Why are you worried, General?"
Even though Mi Yang is only a general now, Mi Yang's confidants have begun to respect Mi Yang as a general.
Facing Fa Miao's inquiry, Mi Yang did not respond positively.
He just ordered: "Send the order and the whole army is not allowed to enter the city and camp outside the city."
Fa Miao was a little confused when he heard Mi Yang's order.
At present, the Wei army has not yet attacked Nanzheng, and the construction of the camp cannot be completed all at once. Why did Mi Yang prevent the army from entering the city and rush to camp outside the city?
Mi Yang saw Fa Miao's doubts. Not only Fa Miao, but also Wei Yan, Lu Yi and others were also puzzled.
Facing everyone's puzzled looks, Mi Yang said: "In less than half a month, Nanzheng will surely be surrounded by tens of thousands of bandits."
After saying this, Mi Yang should set an example first.
He did not go into the city to visit Guan Yan and Xiao Micheng, but directly started working in a temporary tent set up outside the city.
Seeing that Mi Yang had done this, Fa Miao and others still didn't understand why Mi Yang made that inference, but they still faithfully carried out Mi Yang's orders.
Fa Miao and others didn't know what Wei Jun would do next, but Mi Yang knew it very well.
The Wei army wanted to catch a deer in an urn.
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As Mi Yang led his army back to Nanzheng City, a team also came to the Jiange several hundred miles away from Nancheng.
The leader of this team was Liu Feng, who had just been released by Liu Bei.
Some time ago, Liu Bei released Liu Feng from confinement on the pretext of letting Liu Feng make atonement for his sins, and worshiped him as the general against the invaders.
Although Liu Bei's move to release Liu Feng aroused some criticism from both the government and the public, due to Liu Bei's prestige and the special relationship between him and Liu Feng, no minister dared to directly write a letter against the matter without opening his eyes.
Of course, Liu Bei also learned a lot and did not let Liu Feng serve as deputy general, which is an easily reminiscent military position.
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Liu Feng didn't mind that Liu Bei didn't give him a low military position. Liu Feng was satisfied to be able to come back to fight for Liu Bei.
So after packing his bags, Liu Feng headed towards Jiange with hundreds of poems and Liu Bei's edict.
In Liu Bei's arrangement, he arranged Liu Feng as the guard of Jiange.
Jiange guards the passage between Hanzhong and Yizhou. Especially in this critical period, Jiange can be said to be the life gate of Yizhou.
Due to the importance of the Jiange, the guard of the Jiange must be a brave and resourceful person, and must have unswerving loyalty to Liu Bei.
Looking at the current generals in Chengdu, Liu Feng is very suitable to serve as the guard of the sword pavilion in every aspect.
Of course Liu Feng also understood Liu Bei's painstaking efforts in arranging for him to be the guard of Jiange, so on the first day after arriving at Jiange, Liu Feng, after revealing his identity, began to inspect the city defense of Jiange.
Jiange has been the chokepoint of Yizhou for hundreds of years. The city defense has been quite perfect after renovations by Yizhou herdsmen of successive dynasties.
But simply having a dangerous city defense is not enough. To defend this dangerous pass, corresponding military strength is also essential.
After Liu Feng inspected the city defense of Jiange, he immediately asked the original guard generals in the pass to submit their military registers.
After reading the register of the Jiange sergeants, Liu Feng's face gradually became serious.
Currently, there are five thousand defenders in Jiange.
But the important thing is that some of these five thousand are old and weak people. Can old and weak people fight?
For the original Jiange guard, it was only for guarding the city anyway, so the old and the weak could certainly use it.
But for Liu Feng, who has a strong personality, the old and the weak are simply not worthy of accepting his command.
At this time Liu Feng thought of Mi Yang.
Liu Feng knew Mi Yang before. After all, Mi Yang often stayed with Liu Bei and listened to his teachings when he was young.
However, because the relationship between Liu Feng and Yuan Cong was very poor, and Mi Yang had always been friendly to Liu Chan, the relationship between Liu Feng and Mi Yang was not considered good.
Later, in the twenty-fifth year of Jian'an, Liu Feng was taken back to Chengdu and imprisoned by Liu Bei. That year happened to be the time when Mi Yang first became famous in the world.
Therefore, before Liu Feng was imprisoned, he had heard of Mi Yang's deeds and reputation.
After first hearing about Mi Yang's victory over the police, even if he had a bad relationship with Mi Yang, Liu Feng could not help but admire Mi Yang's dazzling performance in the battle against the police.
It was also that battle that refreshed Liu Feng's understanding of Mi Yang before he was imprisoned.
Some time ago, when Liu Feng knew that Mi Yang was appointed as a general by Liu Bei and would become his supreme commander, he also heard more about Mi Yang's deeds in the past few years.
It's okay if you don't listen, but the more Liu Feng listens, the more incredible it becomes.
But it is unbelievable, and Liu Feng, who has a strong personality, will not resist accepting Mi Yang's performance just because of a bad relationship.
Even though Liu Feng had objections to Guan Yu back then, he still admired his abilities.
When his own interests were not violated, Liu Feng had no reluctance in his heart towards Mi Yang, who had made great achievements in battle, becoming his commander.
The reason why Liu Feng thought of Mi Yang at this time was because he knew that if Jiange came under Mi Yang's jurisdiction, with his ability and style, he would never let Jiange become what it is now.
On the surface, the soldiers in Jiange just have the problem of being old and weak, but Liu Feng has been in the army for many years, and he can see from the books in his hand that there may be a serious situation of empty pay in Jiange.
This is a kind of intuition and experience developed over many years in the military.
But Liu Feng did not have a fit on the spot.
On the contrary, his face showed a normal look, and he agreed to the banquet tonight given by the former guard of Jiange.
When night fell, Liu Feng attended the banquet as promised.
Because Liu Feng's status was unusual, the former guard of Jiange held the banquet as vividly as possible - with fine wine, delicious food, singers and dancers.
After all, regardless of whether Liu Feng was defeated in the battle for the legitimate son, he was still Liu Bei's eldest son in name, and from Liu Bei's reuse of Liu Feng, it can be seen that Liu Bei had feelings for Liu Feng.
This is enough for an ordinary official to show courtesy to Liu Feng.
In addition, in order to flatter Liu Feng, the former guard of Jiange also prepared a lot of gold and silver to give to Liu Feng at the banquet.
Liu Feng's eyes became more and more cold towards the diligent behavior of the former guard of Jiange.
He knew that the original guard of Jiange did this because on the one hand he wanted to curry favor with his identity, and on the other hand he wanted to settle some troubles with gold and silver.
Perhaps this was what the former guard of Jiange did when the imperial envoys came to inspect.
But the original guard of Jiange did not know that Liu Feng had murderous intentions in his heart.
Finally, when the banquet was halfway through, Liu Feng discovered that one of his cronies had returned quietly. When the cronies told him about the situation he had investigated in his ear, Liu Feng could no longer suppress the anger in his heart.
Angry, he drew out the long sword from his waist and cut the gum in front of him in half with one strike. Following Liu Feng's move, the hundreds of people he brought with him immediately ran in from outside the hall and cut the hall into pieces.
The people inside were surrounded.
This sudden scene greatly exceeded the expectations of everyone present.
Since today was a banquet for Liu Feng, of course they would not be on guard against Liu Feng.
After seeing that his close subordinates had taken control of the whole place, Liu Feng immediately asked the close confidant to read out to the public the situation he had investigated, or the crime of the original guard of Jiange taking advantage of the situation.
The behavior of eating empty wages in the current world was very crude. Not to mention the current era, but in the Ming and Qing Dynasties a thousand years later, the behavior of eating empty wages was also quite straightforward.
The key to empty pay is not how clever the people who pay are, the key is just that the officials protect each other.
But if someone really wants to investigate, then the behavior of free money cannot be hidden at all.
Seeing his crime being read out in public, and seeing that the situation in the hall was under Liu Feng's control, the original guard of Jiange was so frightened that he knelt down and begged Liu Feng for mercy.
But Liu Feng didn't care about the former guard of Jiange crying bitterly.
He knew how bad the behavior of empty pay would be to the army, and he also knew what kind of risks Liu Bei in Chengdu would suffer once the interior of the Jiange was corrupted.
Is the former guard of Jiange just taking advantage of his salary?
He is harming his father!
Liu Feng, who had a cold expression on his face, did not hesitate for a moment. He first threw the gold and silver jewelry given to him by the original guard of Jiange on the ground in front of everyone:
"The country is about to perish, what use do I have for these!"
After saying this, Liu Feng directly killed the original guard of Jiange with one sword.
Later, Liu Feng, feeling still angry, ordered the body of the original guard of Jiange to be hung on the gate of Jiange as a warning.
After issuing this military order, Liu Feng looked at the other generals who had been frightened out of their minds by him, and said sternly:
"After today, if Xiaoxiao attempts to cause chaos to our army again, I will kill every one I see."
Liu Feng's words coupled with his stern expression immediately made other people in the hall rush to pay homage to him.
At this moment, everyone in the hall gradually recalled the evaluation of the deputy general in the Han army a few years ago:
"As strong as a tiger, it is difficult for ordinary people to control it!"
But no matter how violent Liu Feng's behavior was, his behavior did provide him with great convenience in sorting out the interior of Jiange.
While Liu Feng was combing through the interior of the Jiange, Wei Hussar General Cao Hong led tens of thousands of troops outside the Jiange.
Looking at the level in front of him, Cao Hong naturally had an idea:
Yangping Pass is difficult to get, so you can always give Jiange a try!
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