Compared to the southern and central parts of Guanzhong, which traditionally have denser populations and cities, the cities in northern Guanzhong appear to be much sparser.
Suyi is not only the seat of a large county on the edge of the Luoshui River, but it is also located in the northern part of Guanzhong, which further highlights its importance.
As a rare county seat in northern Guanzhong, it is also a natural gathering point for large armies.
If Guan Ji really wants to lead her army from Xia Yang and advance westward, Suyi will be one of her destinations.
If she were to march south, she would also have to pay attention to whether the enemy would come from Suyi and threaten her flanks and rear.
Therefore, although Suyi is not close to Xia Yang, it is one of the locations that Guan Ji must focus on.
Guo Huai withdrew from Qiaoshan and only rested for one day in Suyi. One day later, Guan Ji already knew this important information.
Of course, Guo Huai is equivalent to passing under Guan Ji's nose, and there is another most important reason, and that is the secret chess.
Having continued to penetrate Guanzhong for more than ten years, it must be an exaggeration to say that Guanzhong is like a sieve to the big man.
After all, Sima Yi has been strengthening his control over Guanzhong over the years.
But before Sima Yi came, various transactions in Guanzhong were prosperous, and many chess pieces were buried at that time.
Except for a very small number of special personnel, they were sent directly by the Han Dynasty.
Some of the rest are rangers. After all, the name of the leader of the martial arts alliance cannot be sealed.
If you don't know Feng Langjun in your life, even if you call him a hero, it's in vain.
They have wide connections and extraordinary skills, and their identity is the best cover for gathering intelligence.
The other part of the hidden chess players are local aboriginals, ranging from powerful to powerful, as well as green-skinned players.
After all, the man was rich and easy to get money. He didn't need to do anything on weekdays. He just asked around when he had something to do and lived his life as usual.
Anyone with a little bit of courage would dare to take this money.
There are also people like Zhao Ma who had a deal with Governor Feng back then and handed over the remaining connections in Fufeng, the Ma family's ancestral home.
General Guan was able to discover Guo Huai in Suyi in time, and the secret chess arranged in Guanzhong played a vital role.
"It's just that the thief came down from Qiaoshan. How could he take this road?"
Guan Ji frowned slightly.
Zhao Guang said impatiently:
"Does this need to be said? Of course, we are afraid that we will cut off our escape route, so we are anxious to meet up with Pu Banjin's thieves. General, we can't let him escape!"
Guan Ji glanced at Zhao Guang, held a long whip in her hand, and drew a straight line in the void between Qiaoshan and Chang'an.
"So why didn't he take the Qinzhi Road? Isn't that more convenient and safer? Besides, if he withdraws, can Uncle Jiang go straight to Chang'an along the Qinzhi Road?"
Jiang Boyue has more than 10,000 people in his hands. We really want him to rush to Chang'an City...
Guan Ji narrowed her eyes.
Chang'an City was not only the core of Guanzhong, but also probably the rear area of the Wei thieves. It must have accumulated a large amount of grain, grass and baggage.
According to Alang's deduction in the staff department before the war, the most likely possibility for Sima Yi is to lead a large army to station in Yicheng to stop the prime minister.
Now Sima Yi takes the initiative to let go of Qiaoshan and lets Jiang Bowei go straight to the rear?
So the Great Sima of Wei State has been instigated by Alang to rebel?
"Maybe Sima Yi has sent people to guard Chang'an in advance, so he asked the thieves on Qiaoshan to support Xian Yufu."
Zhao Guang explained.
Guan Ji shook the whip vigorously, and blue veins sprouted slightly on the back of her hand. This guy wanted to fight and make meritorious deeds. He was crazy!
"Since Sima Yi has the ability to send troops to guard Chang'an, why not just send these troops to support Xian Yufu?"
"If we have to let the thieves on Qiaoshan go to support, doesn't that mean we give up Qiaoshan voluntarily? Is Sima Yi scared to death?"
"What if Sima Yi's army is in Chang'an?" Zhao Guang touched his head and continued to think.
Guan Ji finally couldn't hold back her anger, and whipped her head and face with the long whip!
"Sima Yi is in Chang'an, so why doesn't the traitor go directly to Chang'an? To support Pubanjin, it is better to defend Wuguan!"
Isn't Wuguan much closer to Chang'an than Tongguan?
With the ferry lost and the road to Tongguan no longer safe, Wuguan became extremely important and related to the life and death of the Wei army.
Zhao Guang was whipped so hard that he screamed and screamed, but he didn't dare to hide, so he could only hold his head and shout:
"General, I was wrong. General, I was wrong... General, please tell me..."
Guan Ji slapped him bitterly to relieve her suffocation, and then turned back to look at the sand table.
She just thought about it for a while, but she couldn't come up with any clues.
But General Guan suddenly ordered:
"Give me the staff's pre-war drills!"
Soon a staff officer delivered a small box.
General Guan used a special key to open the box, and what was placed inside was a stack of documents.
This stack of documents records the various possibilities deduced by the Liangzhou Army Staff Headquarters before the war, as well as possible ways to deal with it.
There are not only purely military considerations here, but also supplemented by political considerations by Zhang Xiaosi and others.
It can be said to be the crystallization of the wisdom of the elites of Liangzhou Governor's Office.
This box is mutually supervised and jointly kept by two or more confidential advisers.
It can only be opened if General Guan or someone above General Guan is present.
Skipping most of the documents, General Guan took out the last one and flipped through it casually, hoping to see if the staff's deductions after the extradition could be of some reference.
Zhao Guang hid in the corner and did not dare to say anything. The only sound left in the handsome tent was the sound of General Guan flipping through documents.
After a while, General Guan threw the documents back into the box, lowered his head and continued to look at the sand table, and suddenly asked:
"Tell me, what would Sima Yi do if he knew that Guanzhong would be lost?"
No one can answer.
Because this issue is related to the gains and losses of the three states, the survival of hundreds of thousands of troops, and even the balance of strategic forces between Han and Wei.
Not to mention the other people in the tent, even General Guan himself seemed to be somewhat powerless.
but……
At this time, General Guan was obviously not alone.
Behind her is the entire Liangzhou Governor's Mansion.
She seemed to have expected that no one could answer this question, so she continued on her own:
"The best strategy is to preserve strength first and plan later; the middle strategy is to stay in Guanzhong and rely on dangerous areas to wait for changes; the worst strategy is to fight the big Han to the death."
The current situation is already obvious.
Having lost the ferry to Hexi, Sima Yi was destined to be completely unable to protect Guanzhong.
But judging from the current situation, he still seems to have no sign of withdrawing from Guanzhong. Otherwise, the Wei thieves on Qiaoshan would not have appeared in Suyi, but would have retreated directly to Chang'an.
The 200,000-strong army will not go through Wuguan, which is not threatened, but through Tongguan, which is always under threat from opponents, unless Wei's Grand Sima is really incited to rebel by Alang.
As the saying goes, if you save land and lose people, you will lose both people and land.
The truth is very simple, but not everyone has the courage to make such a decision, not to mention that Cao Rui, who is behind Sima Yi, may not let him withdraw from Guanzhong in vain.
Therefore, based on this deduction, Sima Yi most likely adopted the middle strategy: find a dangerous place, wait for changes, and wait for an opportunity to reverse the situation of the battle.
Guan Ji's eyes fell on the sand table, and she waved:
"Erlang, come here."
When Zhao Guang heard this, he immediately trembled:
"General, I didn't say anything just now!"
These words immediately made General Guan tighten his whip again.
Seeing that his sister looked wrong, Zhao Erlang, who had been beaten severely since childhood, tightened his scalp and immediately shut up and stepped forward obediently.
Unexpectedly, General Guan did not hit him, but picked up the small blue flag next to the sand table and said: "Stand on the opposite side."
"Oh, it's a sand table deduction. This can be done and this can be done!"
If you can't win the battle, you can use the sand table to deduce it, which can be regarded as a relief.
Zhao Guang immediately sat down happily.
Seeing Guan Ji holding the blue flag representing the main force and planting it in Chang'an, Zhao Guang suddenly shouted:
"Ah... er, general, didn't you just say that Sima Yi wouldn't be in Chang'an?"
"you shut up!"
General Guan shouted.
Zhao Guang kept silent and subconsciously touched his body. Was the whip he received just now in vain?
…
"Sima Yi can't be in Chang'an!" Guan Ji pulled out the small blue flag and completely rejected this idea, "Come again!"
This time, she put the little blue flag in the most likely position, Yicheng.
After a moment, she frowned urgently, with a slightly surprised look on her face:
"How could it be? Is Sima Yi really not there?"
Guan Ji was a little hesitant about the result of this deduction.
After all, Feng has formed some kind of confidence in Guan Ji's heart for a long time.
Since he said that Sima Yi blocked the prime minister in Yicheng, it is basically the same.
"No, no! The thieves retreated from Qiaoshan, which means there has been a change in Guanzhong, so it's not that Sima Yi is not there, but he may have left there."
"Yes, this is the only explanation that can explain the changes in the Qiaoshan bandits!"
Guan Ji suddenly understood and raised the little blue flag again.
This time, she hesitated for a while before inserting herself in Qian County, and then immediately shook her head. If she wasn't in Chang'an, then she couldn't be in Qian County.
Because Chang'an is the most critical hub in Guanzhong.
Give Jiang Bowei a chance to rush all the way from Qiaoshan to the foot of Chang'an City along the Qinzhi Road...
In a daze, General Guan began to doubt for the third time. Could it be that the Great Sima of Wei State was really one of his own?
In other words, has Jiang Boyue defeated Qiaoshan?
Guan Ji's thoughts were racing, she calmed down her emotions, and inserted the little blue flag into the last place, and then her expression immediately changed.
Before Zhao Guang on the other side could make a move, she shouted:
"Come here, let the people from the Dark Night Camp come over to see me immediately!"
The guard outside the door responded and immediately ran away.
Guan Ji glanced at the tent with cold eyes:
"All of you, get back!"
When she was the only one left in the tent, General Guan sat down with a look of fear and joy on his face.
She really believes it now.
My own Alang, he may really be the ghost king.
There are ghosts and gods in the dark to protect you.
Although I don’t know how Sima Yi got rid of the prime minister, or it may be that the Wei thieves mobilized some troops from Wanluo and Jingzhou and entered Guanzhong from Wuguan.
This gave Sima Yi the opportunity to set up a trap in Hexi, and he waited for the Liangzhou army to fall into it.
Of course, it is also possible that Jiang Boyue was defeated, so the thieves on Qiaoshan had no worries.
General Guan believes in the former more than this.
Alang and Cheng Ting made a mistake at the same time. They led more than 10,000 rare elite soldiers to guard the dangerous place on Qiaoshan. At the same time, Li Qiu was also assisting them, but they were defeated by the thieves.
How incompetent is this?
General Guan made some malicious guesses about a certain love rival...
"General!"
The captain of the Dark Night Camp interrupted General Guan's thoughts that were flying freely.
General Guan quickly calmed down his expression and said solemnly:
"How is the contact with Anqi in Guanzhong going?"
The captain said with a troubled face:
"Back to General, the time we have to cross the river is too short. We have only started contacting each other not long ago. Most of the secret chess players may not have even received news of our crossing."
The reason why we were able to contact Suyi's dark chess in time was because the main force of the thieves was basically in the south of Guanzhong. At the same time, we have to say that we were somewhat lucky.
After all, there is a war in Guanzhong now. It is unknown how many of the secret chess buried in the early years can still be used and how many can be contacted at this time.
"Then find a way!" General Guan said sternly, "Don't mention any difficulties to me. I must know what the situation is south of Pubanjin now."
No matter how powerful the scouts are, they can't get past the thief's defense line and detect the situation behind the thief. At this time, they can only rely on ambush.
"Ah, general..."
"Don't worry, I will explain this matter to the Lord. You will prepare immediately after you go down. Once the Lord's order arrives, you will take action immediately."
Upon hearing this, the captain knew that the general had made up his mind, so he had no choice but to grit his teeth and agree:
"I will obey your orders!"
Although there is an extra process, General Guan's orders, how should I say them, are all understood, and there is basically no possibility of them getting stuck with the Lord...
General Guan acted vigorously and resolutely, and had already sent his ideas to Governor Feng that day.
At this time, Governor Feng was having dinner.
The best sauce is poured on the steamed fish, and a burst of white mist rises with a "squeak" sound, bringing with it the delicious aroma of food.
"Come on, come on, Mr. Han, please come in quickly. No need to be restrained. I will entertain you in private today."
Governor Feng warmly greeted the chief instructor of the Guards Battalion and the Dark Night Battalion, a master from Han University.
As we all know, Master Han is not only a master, but also a foodie.
Knowing that Governor Feng had caught a lot of river carp today, he had already stayed outside the tent under the pretext of being a guard.
At this time, when he heard the greeting from Governor Feng, he immediately came in with a smile on his face and said with false politeness:
"Your Majesty, you are so polite, I'm so sorry..."
He was polite, but he sat down unceremoniously.
Just as the two of them were feasting, General Guan's urgent report came.
Governor Feng held chopsticks in one hand and opened the emergency report with the other. After reading the contents above, he was stunned on the spot.
Han Long below lowered his head, only picking fish meat into his mouth, and seemed not to notice Feng Jishishi's expression.
Han Long is not on the official list of officials of the Governor's Office. He is more like a personal guest of the Feng family.
Because from the beginning, he was entrusted by the woman behind Governor Feng to protect Governor Feng's personal safety in private.
In addition to his relationship with Youzhou, in the past, in order to avoid suspicion, he never got involved in various matters in the military.
Therefore, he could accept Governor Feng's invitation to have dinner together, and he could also accept various commissions from the Feng Mansion on weekdays.
Now he helps train the Dark Night Battalion and the Guard Battalion only because he was entrusted by Governor Feng.
But in the military, he never accepted any formal official position.
Governor Feng thought for a moment and then looked at Han Long:
"Mr. Han, I'm afraid I still have to trouble you to make a trip about this matter."
Feng Jishi spoke, and Han Long raised his head and wiped his mouth:
"Your Majesty, please give me your orders. Why should you be polite?"
After this battle, all the knights from Yongliang to Hebei, and from Hebei to the Central Plains, who heard the name of Han Long, would give a thumbs up and praise him:
"A hero who serves the country and the people!"
From now on, the name of Han Daxia will be second only to Feng Langjun in the world.