In 257 AD, it was the 20th year of Yanxi in Shu Han, the 2nd year of Ganlu in Cao Wei, and the 2nd year of Taiping in Eastern Wu. In May of that year, the governor of Cao Wei, Zhuge Dan, the general of the Eastern Expedition, raised the flag in Shouchun. He announced that he would send troops to fight against the Sima family who intended to usurp the throne.

This was the third time that Shouchun raised the banner of attacking the Sima family after Wang Ling and Wuqiu Jian. It was also the last resistance of the local power generals who were loyal to the Cao Wei regime (this may not be the end of Cao Wei, but more so himself).

In this year, it has been eighteen years since Sima Yi launched the Gaopingling Coup. Sima Zhao, after Sima Yi and Sima Shi, took over the Sima family's power for two years. The power of loyalty to Cao Wei has been very small. It can be said that the rebellion launched by Zhuge Dan was doomed to failure from the beginning.

However, Guan Yi, as a time traveler, knew what the ending was. People in this era did not know at all. Zhuge Dan's rebellion was tantamount to the increasingly weak Han and Wu countries, a sufficient amount of chicken blood!

The Eastern Wu reacted very quickly from Yangzhou in Cao Wei (Yangzhou in Cao Wei only had a small part of the northern part of Yangzhou in the Eastern Han Dynasty). General Sun Qi quickly sent former surrendered generals of Cao Wei, Wen Qin, Wen Yang and Quan Duan, Quan Duan and others to lead tens of thousands of troops to enter Shouchun to assist in the defense before the siege of Cao Wei's Luoyang court was in place. At the same time, the Eastern Wu continued to recruit troops, and prepared food and grass to face the upcoming Cao Wei confrontation army with Zhuge Dan's rebels.

In the Shu Han Dynasty, General Jiang Wei once again strongly demanded that the court distribute food and grass wares after learning that Zhuge Dan was rebelling, and he wanted to take this opportunity to fight the north again.

Faced with the opportunity of a large-scale rebellion within Cao Wei, Zhuge Zhan, who had originally firmly opposed Jiang Wei's Northern Expedition, could not calm down. He no longer insisted on his own opinion and kicked the ball to Emperor Liu Chan.

"Well, the minister's meaning is to let me make a decision? Can't you give me some advice?"

"Your Majesty forgives your crime. It is indeed rare to have a rebellion again in the pseudo-Wei Dynasty. However, the country has been conquering one after another, the treasury is empty, and the people are suffering. Therefore, I really don't know what to do."

"…………………………Zhongchangshi, can’t Fengzong take matters?”

"Go back to Your Majesty, I went to Shangshuling's house in person yesterday. Shangshuling still couldn't get up, so..."

"…….Why"

Liu Chan was very smart and had high political wisdom. He knew very well: this Shouchun rebellion may not necessarily lead to a good result. At this time, Shu Han might not be able to send troops well. But as Shu Han, who claimed to be the orthodox Han Dynasty, the attack on Cao Wei itself was the only proof of the rationality of its regime. Now that there is such a big rebellion happening within others, if you don’t send troops to conquer it, then what is your name as the orthodox Han Dynasty?

So at this time, Liu Chan missed Chen Qi very much. If it were Chen Qi, he would definitely strongly recommend another Northern Expedition. Even if the Northern Expedition failed, Chen Qi would take the blame for the failure without hesitation, which would not have any bad effects on Liu Chan. But Zhuge Zhan, the young master, was too much and kicked the ball directly to himself - this is not the attitude of being a subject? As a minister, you cannot take the blame for the emperor in order to cherish your feathers!

"Well, what do you mean by PU She?" The acting secretary general is incompetent, right? Then I will ask the secretary directly.

But unfortunately, all TMDs didn't speak out.

Who are these people? You actually put together to put me on the fire and roast me!

"Summon, General Jiang Wei led his troops to the north to attack the pseudo-Wei. We must use troops carefully and repeatedly look for opportunities to break the enemy."

....

Wudu County, Xiabian. Jiang Wei, the general of Shu Han, was stationed in the Jie.

"General, the imperial court's order has come down. Allow us to send troops!"

"Sheng, I'll take a look...ah..."

"Why did the general sigh?"

"Xioran (Liu Yin), come and see Your Majesty's decree. How many troops are allowed to be used? There is also the saying that we are cautious in using troops and repeatedly seeking opportunities to break the enemy... Your Majesty wants us to focus on stability. In other words, the soldiers are to be sent, but it doesn't matter if we cannot obtain decent results, but there must be no major losses."

"How can Your Majesty do this? How can you do this in this battle formation? "

"Chen Fengzong fell ill, Your Majesty is in the court..."

"After General, Shangshu Ling fell ill, the supplies of our army..."

"I know, I know." Jiang Wei paused back and forth for a long time in anger: "The gap between the national strengths of the Han and Wei countries is getting bigger and bigger, and our army is gradually withering... No matter how long it is to find vitality in the battle, let alone the restoration of the Han Dynasty and the old capital, whether my Han can survive... Alas, Via can only do his best to deal with it. But when he goes there in the future, he will meet the Prime Minister, I..."

"General, even so, we still have to do it, right?"

"Yes, even if there is no hope at all, we must fight to the end!"

It can be said that Jiang Wei's situation is much more difficult than that of Zhuge Liang's era.

After Liu Bei's death, Zhuge Liang was an unyielding powerful minister in Shu Han: I would like to go with the emperor! I would like to go with other ministers and other ministers. I had the final say in military, civil affairs, diplomacy, and all of them were decided by me. To fight the Northern Expedition, the manpower and material resources of the whole country must be transferred.

But Jiang Wei is completely different. He is not a powerful minister. He cannot participate in civil affairs, and diplomacy basically has nothing to do with him. Anyway, diplomacy against Cao Wei is just one word: fight! As for military affairs, he is the highest military commander and general of Shu Han. But the only one he can mobilize is the mobile army that belongs to him, with no more than 50,000 people at the top. This is what happened to Fei Yi, a pacifist, after he died. His army never exceeded 20,000 before!

Therefore, in the Zhuge Liang era, Shu Han was in the northern expedition. Cao Wei had to defend the whole country. As for Jiang Wei's northern expedition, basically a commander of the Yongliang Military Region could handle it.

The decline of Shu Han was caused by many factors. The most fundamental reason was that Shu Han had been established for a long time, and new aristocratic families began to form, and began to embezzle the country's resources, causing the country to get less and less from farmers, and had to further exploit the self-cultivated farmers who could control, which led to the deterioration of the life of the remaining self-cultivated farmers and large-scale bankruptcy - a vicious cycle. Jiang Wei's Northern Expedition did consume a certain amount of national strength, but this consumption was not the same order of magnitude as the consumption in the Zhuge Liang era. Jiang Wei was more of a pathetic robber.

"No matter what, this is a rare opportunity. No matter how small the hope is, we still have to try our best to seize it. Xiuran, pass on the orders, organize the armor, count the food and grass, and prepare to send troops."

"promise!"

"By the way, I'll send someone to Bogong and Yuan Jian and ask them to lead their troops to meet within ten days."

"Uh...No!"

There are struggles where there are people. The Shu Han mobile corps is generally a place where idealists gather together - they do it even though they know they cannot. But even this team full of idealism still has the sound of a river crab.

Zhang Yi, whose courtesy name is Bogong, is a general from Yizhou. He is a representative of the Yizhou faction in the military. Like Qiao Zhou, he is a staunch anti-war person. He is extremely resistant and dissatisfied with Jiang Wei's years of Northern Expedition. But who made the Shu Han attack fewer and older? Relatively speaking, Zhang Yi, who was only in his fifties, is a rare general with a low age and good ability to lead troops. Moreover, for political reasons, how could the Han Dynasty have no representatives of Yizhou people? Therefore, every time Jiang Wei sends troops, he has to bring Zhang Yi as much as possible. Although Zhang Yi looked reluctant, he had to follow the Northern Expedition.

As for Liao Hua, this old man was not opposed to the Northern Expedition. However, the old man was very dissatisfied with Jiang Wei's ability: in the past, Fei Yi restricted you, but it would be fine if your soldiers could not achieve any results. Now you are the general, and the most elite troops in the country are handed over to you, but you still cannot achieve decisive results. It fully shows that you are not good--it would be better off if I am the one who can do it.

Despite this, there was really a lack of commanders from Shu Han, so Jiang Wei had to endure Liao Hua's eyes and ridicule and bring this person with him. In any case, this old man is an old figure in the Jingzhou Sect. On the one hand, Jiang Wei needed Liao Hua's military talent, and on the other hand, he also needed to suppress the young people of the Jingzhou Sect.

Because the second generation of the Jingzhou faction, such as Zhuge Zhan, Zhang Shao and others, as well as Fan Jian, Dong Jue and others who were still a minor generation in the Jingzhou faction when the founding of the Shu Han Dynasty, and now they have grown into big shots, their political propositions have begun to gradually merge with the Yizhou faction and do not want to fight the Northern Expedition.
Chapter completed!