"What's the matter? Who is making a noise outside?" Cao Rui couldn't help but feel a little angry after being disturbed. He shouted angrily, scaring the eunuch on duty outside the palace and ran into the palace, knelt down, and kept kowtowing.
"Your Majesty, I am reporting to your Majesty that Lord Cao Zhao, the Marquis of Changping, said that there was an urgent military situation that he wanted to report to Your Majesty. However, the servant fell asleep just after seeing His Majesty and could not bear to be disturbed, so he blocked the Marquis of Changping outside the palace, thus disturbing him. I have violated your majesty's sweet dream, and I deserve death. I hope your majesty will forgive me."
"Come in quickly, Xuan Changsi." Cao Rui heard that it was Cao Zhao, and his mind became much clearer. He rubbed his dry eyes and said, "Please remember, if Marquis Changping needs to see me for something important in the future, , no further obstruction is allowed.”
"Wei." The eunuch stood up and responded, then hurried out of the palace to summon him.
After a while, Cao Zhao, who looked worried and had tears on his face, strode into the hall, knelt at the foot of the steps and said loudly:
"Your Majesty, an urgent military report came from Yangzhou, saying that Sun Quan led his army to live in Chaohu and spy on our new city of Hefei. He also sent generals Lu to discuss. Sun Shao each sent more than 10,000 troops to invade the territory. At this time, the Wu army may have entered the Huai River of our great Wei Dynasty. , it’s within Mianshui territory!”
"Is this happening!?"
When Cao Rui heard this, he couldn't help being shocked. He never expected that the march to Soochow would be so secretive. It seemed that something had happened to the school where he had asked Cao Zuan to be stationed in Wuyue, so that he could not even report such important military information in time!
Cao Rui hurriedly ordered the evil-warming attendant:
"Quickly tell Liu Fang, Sun Zi, Gao Tanglong, Bian Lan, Cao Shuang, He Zeng, and Du Shu to come to the palace to discuss matters!"
"only!"
The waiter did not dare to delay after hearing the order, and hurriedly left the palace to make arrangements.
"Changsi, sit down quickly and tell me the details of the military situation in the south."
Cao Rui helped Cao Zhao up and noticed the tears on Cao Zhao's face and red eyes again. He was confused and couldn't help asking:
"Changsi, what happened?"
When Cao Zhao heard this, he was filled with grief. He knelt down on the ground again and sobbed:
"Your Majesty, there is news from Jiangdong. My brother...Cao Zuan was captured by the Wu army in order to find out military secrets a few days ago. I miss him...he was captured by the Wu thief and leader of the East Gate of Jinling!"
When Cao Rui heard this, his heart was shocked, and then he felt dizzy. Cao Zuan and Cao Desi were his brothers in the clan. He was not only highly skilled in martial arts, born with supernatural power, but also thoughtful and thoughtful. He was his most capable general, but now But he suffered a misfortune, how could he not be sad?
The emperor and his ministers were weeping at each other, venting the sadness in their hearts.
————
Yongzhou, Weinan battlefield.
After the last war, Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of the Shu Han Dynasty and the lord of Wuxiang, finally led an army of 100,000 people out of Xiegukou again after three years of preparations to persuade farmers and teach martial arts. Not only that, Zhuge Liang, who was determined to win, secretly sent envoys to Soochow. , made an agreement with Sun Quan to attack Wei at the same time.
In early summer and April, the Shu Han army arrived in Yi County and set up camp under Wuzhangyuan on the south bank of the Wei River.
This was the first time that the Han army felt that they were so close to the Chang'an in their dreams. The soldiers of the three armies firmly believed that under the leadership of the prime minister, they would successfully enter the pass and conquer the Central Plains!
Wei General Sima Yi led the Wei army to build a camp with their backs to the water. As expected, Sima Yi still wanted to hold on and fight Zhuge Liang. Once the Han army's food was exhausted, Zhuge Liang would retreat on his own.
After Sima Yi discussed with the generals, Guo Huai believed that the Shu army would march eastward to compete for Beiyuan. Sima Yi agreed with Guo Huai's opinion, so he sent Guo Huai to lead several troops to defend Beiyuan.
This time Sima Yi did not make a mistake. As expected, the Han army sent troops to seize Beiyuan. Guo Huai, who had been prepared for it, successfully repelled the Han army.
What Sima Yi and Guo Huai did not expect was that Zhuge Liang had already known that Beiyuan was difficult to attack, so attacking Beiyuan was just to attract the Wei army's attention.
Zhuge Liang's real intention was to let Meng Yan, the tiger-footed supervisor, seize the opportunity to attack martial arts [Note 1]. In this way, most of the Han army led by Zhuge Liang himself and tiger-footed supervisor Meng Yan's troops could echo each other and form a rivalry.
[Note 1: Tiger Infantry Supervisor: The Tiger Infantry Army is a regular combat force of the Shu Han Dynasty. "Three Kingdoms. Biography of Jiang Wei": "Jiang Boyue is loyal and diligent, and thinks carefully about current affairs... He must first teach five or six thousand people in the Tiger Infantry Army." Tiger Infantry Army
Divided into left, center and right, the number of Central Tiger Infantry allocated to Jiang Wei alone was five to six thousand, which shows that the total Tiger Infantry Army was between 20,000 people. This army should be composed of the Nanman and Han armies. The first Tiger Infantry
The Shu general who was in charge was Meng Yan, the general of the South. After Zhuge Liang pacified the south, he recruited the southern barbarians as officials. In addition to Meng Huo, there were also Meng Yan, Cuan Xi, Ding Xian and others. Meng Yan was from Zhuti County and later served as the Tiger Bu Supervisor of the Shu Han Dynasty.
, a general who assisted the Han Dynasty, and accompanied Zhuge Liang on many expeditions to participate in the war against Wei. According to the "Zhuge Liang Table" cited in "Shui Jing Wei Shui Zhu": During the fifth battle against Wei in the Battle of Weishui River, Zhuge Liang made a report of his military exploits: "I am the first to leave
Hubu supervised Meng Zhiwugong Shuidong. Because the Wei River was rising, Sima Yi sent out ten thousand people on the 20th to attack the camp. The minister built a bamboo bridge and crossed the water to shoot at it. When the thieves saw that the bridge was ready, they led their troops to retreat."
Meng Yan lived up to Zhuge Liang's expectations. He successfully defeated Wugong and allowed the two Han armies to coordinate with each other. As long as Zhuge Liang held on to Wuzhangyuan and Meng Yan held on to Wugong Shuibei, and the two armies were in a strong position to defend each other, they could advance and attack.
If you retreat to Chang'an, you can protect Longyou. Seeing that Zhuge Liang's plan was completed, Sima Yi couldn't help but feel extremely anxious. It seems that Zhuge Liang is indeed a unique genius.
Just when Sima Yi and Guo Huai were extremely anxious and unable to do anything, they heard a piece of great news:
The Wei River and its many tributaries rose and flooded the passage between Wugong and Wuzhangyuan. In this way, the connection between the armies of Zhuge Liang and Meng Yan was severed!
"God is really helping me!"
After hearing the news, Sima Yi was extremely excited, his eyes were shining, and he was staring at the march map. He decided to temporarily abandon his previous strategy of staying in retreat and take the initiative to attack Meng Yan, the tiger-stepping prisoner of the Shu Han Dynasty who was trapped in Wugong Shuibei.
The Wei army did not give up this rare opportunity and took the initiative to send troops to attack Meng Yan under the dispatch of General Sima Yi!
What Sima Yi didn't expect again was that Zhuge Liang had long thought that the Wei army would take the opportunity to attack Meng Yan's troops, so on the one hand he sent Shu Han engineers to build bridges and build roads in an attempt to restore mutual coordination with Meng Yan's troops, and on the other hand
He sent additional Yuanrong crossbowmen who could "fire ten arrows with one crossbow" to launch a strong attack on the main force of the Wei army under Sima Yi, in order to delay the march of the Wei army and buy time for Meng Yan and his engineers to build a bridge.
Three days later, when the Wei army, which had finally bypassed the range of the Shu Han Yuan Rong crossbowmen, was about to arrive at Meng Yan's barracks, they saw that the Shu Han army's pontoon bridge was almost set up. Sima Yi understood that the opportunity had passed at this time, and if he forced the camp to attack, he would only
He was afraid that he would be attacked from both sides by Zhuge Liang and Meng Yan's army. After thinking about it again and again, although Sima Yi felt extremely regretful, he still chose to withdraw his troops.
Zhuge Liang also considered that the previous Northern Expeditions had failed due to failure to transport grain, so he suddenly had a whim and tried to divide the armies and work with the people in the counties along the Wei River to farm and grow grain. What is surprising is that the Han army and the people of Wei got along well with each other.
Since the Han army successfully started to establish farming in Wei territory, they did not hastily withdraw due to lack of food like the previous Northern Expeditions.
The armies of Wei and Han continued to confront each other on the shores of the Wei River, just like two tigers spying on each other.
————
In the blink of an eye, the season of midsummer and June has arrived.
After Emperor Cao Rui entrusted the northwest military power to General Sima Yi, he actually began to personally plan and deploy the war in Soochow in the south of the Yangtze River.
After all, the country had just reached a truce with Xianbei in Mobei, and Wu and Shu colluded with each other and brazenly invaded the borders of the Wei Dynasty. For the Wei Dynasty, this was a crisis that could not be seen in a century. If it could not properly defeat the enemy, Wu and Shu would If the two captives break through the border, not only will the south fall into chaos, but the Xianbei king Kebineng in the north is still eyeing Bingzhou; and Gongsun Yuan, Duke of Lelang, who has been entrenched in Liaodong and is still surrendered to the Wei Dynasty; in the northwest The Xiqiang, who have never been very honest at the border, are afraid that they will swarm in and eat up their big Wei whale!
Not long ago, in order to completely deal with the greedy wolf of Monan Xianbei, Cao Rui decided to adopt the advice of Wang Xiong, the governor of Youzhou, and select assassins to assassinate Ke Bineng. In order to ensure that nothing went wrong, Cao Rui also sent Xia Houxuan and Cao Xi. Together with his cousins, who were brave, resourceful and skilled in martial arts, they went to Youzhou to help Wang Xiong.
Thinking of this, Cao Rui didn't dare to relax for a moment no matter how tired he was.
Just a few months ago, Cao Rui thought that the invasion of Soochow was just a small fight, so he missed his late mother, Queen Wen Zhaozhen, and appointed his uncle Zhen Xiang, who had always wanted to make achievements on the battlefield, as General Fubo to keep him honest. Supervise the generals and lead the army to march eastward.
But not long after, military reports came from the front line, saying that Sun Quan sent generals Lu Yi and Zhuge Jin to lead their troops to station in Miangkou, Jiangxia; he also sent generals Sun Shao, Zhang Cheng and others to lead their troops to Guangling and Huaiyin, and Sun Quan, the leader of Wu, himself He even personally led an army said to number 100,000 to besiege Hefei New City.
Such momentum is almost comparable to that in the early Huang Dynasty, when Emperor Wen sent the former general Changlinghou Xiahou Shang, the former general Chenhou Cao Ren, and the former general Changpinghou Cao Xiu to attack Wu in a three-pronged attack on Wu!
Cao Rui realized the danger of the invasion of Dongwu from the north. While he immediately summoned his uncle Zhen Xiang not to advance rashly, he also ordered Lao Cheng to be cautious. He had defeated Sun Quan's invasion of the north several times by famous ministers and generals such as General Zhengdong and Changyi. Hou Man favored Man Boning and presided over the military affairs of the south.
Just two days ago, Man Chong and Tian Yu, the governor of Runan, the general who killed the barbarians, each sent a memorial from Yangzhou and Runan.
In the east hall of Tai Chi Hall, Cao Rui was discussing the contents of this memorial with Liu Fang, Sun Zi, Gao Tanglong, He Zeng and other casual knights.
"This is the memorial sent by Man Boning and Tian Guorang from the Kuai Ma Station in the south. Take a look at it, what do you think?"
Tian Yu became famous in Northern Xinjiang. He fought with the Xianbei clan all the year round and was a famous border guard general in the Wei Dynasty. Not long ago, Tian Yu had a conflict in Northern Xinjiang with Wang Xiong, the current governor of Youzhou. Wang Xiong was also good at managing the border and could He was accustomed to fighting, and more importantly, Wang Xiong was more tactful and diplomatic than Tian Yu. Therefore, after weighing the pros and cons, Emperor Cao Rui finally decided to let Wang Xiong guard northern Xinjiang, and Tian Yu was appointed In order to serve as the governor of Runan, he was promoted to General Shiyi and transferred to Yangzhou to serve.
Because of this, Tian Yu was able to confront Sun Quan, the Lord of Wu.
Liu Fang, Sun Zi, Gao Tanglong, Guanglu doctor Wei Zhen, Liu Shao, Liu Kongcai, who was newly promoted to Sanqi Changshi, and participated in the compilation of Emperor Wen's "Huanglan", as well as Cao Zhao, the military generals Cao Shuang, Du Shu, and Bian
Lan, everyone listened to the emperor's words, took the memorial table handed over by the waiter, and read it carefully one by one.
After everyone took a look at it, they realized that it turned out that the two famous generals Man Chong and Tian Yu had differences in the handling of the frontline war.