Sima Yi, the new commander-in-chief of Yongliang in Wei State, has been in office for more than two months.
After spending more than a month inspecting various troops, he stayed in Chencang, Fufeng County.
He personally supervised the digging of the Chengguo Canal from Yi County to Chencang, and opened up acres of land for military garrisoning to provide food for the garrison in Guanzhong.
"The soldiers are self-sufficient and the country is replenished", this is Sima Yi's policy that he has always implemented.
As early as when he served as Prime Minister Cao Cao's Army Sima, he once advised: "In the past, Jizi Chen Mou, the leader was food. Today, the number of people who do not cultivate the land is more than 200,000, and it is not possible to manage the country far away. Even if the military armor is not rolled up, "Plow and defend at your own convenience"; when he took office as the governor of Jingyu and Yuzhou, he also ordered all counties and counties to mobilize large-scale military garrison.
Now, coming to Guanzhong is no exception.
In particular, the main reason that prompted Cao Zhen to retreat at the beginning of the year and die in anger was that the army's subsequent food supplies were destroyed by the rebels.
"If there is enough food, the army's morale will be at peace; if the army is safe, then Guanzhong will be at peace."
When he went to Luoyang, he stated this, so that Cao Rui and Gonggun were praised as good.
He also allowed him to independently establish the assistants and assistants needed for the military garrison, as well as the military market to purchase cattle from the Xianbei and Xiongnu tribes in the north during the marching garrison strategy.
Among them, there are two assistants and assistants who made the decision, which are quite eye-catching.
One is a man from Fufeng, a close minister of the emperor, and Ma Jun is involved in the matter.
He was born into a poor family, had a stutter and was not good at speaking, but he was good at thinking.
Sima Yi appointed him as his assistant because he planned to let him imitate the Han Dynasty's barrel carts and use them for irrigation in military camps.
In recent years, Prime Minister Zhuge Liang, forced by the lack of manpower in the Han Dynasty, began to implement large-scale irrigation of fields in Hanzhong County, Longyou and other places using barrel trucks that did not require human operation.
It was inevitable that Wei Guo Xizuo discovered the wonderful use of the barrel cart.
The other is Deng Ai, a native of Yiyang in Jingzhou and a distinguished dianongcao.
He also came from a poor background, had a stutter, and was rarely alone. After Cao Cao of the Wei Dynasty captured Jingzhou, he forcibly moved to Runan. Although he has few ambitions and has a strategy, he is limited by his family background and is not confused in his recent years. There is still no way to advance to the next level.
When Sima Yi was in charge of Wancheng, he occasionally talked with him when he was inspecting the fields. He appreciated his talents and learning, considered him an official, and promoted him among the others.
Now he has been taken as a confidant and asked to transfer to the military to be responsible for farming and acting as a samurai soldier in preparation for future expeditions with the army.
But setting up a military market is different.
Purchasing cattle and horses from nomadic tribes for farming, or using leather horns to make armor and crossbows are just superficial reasons.
In fact, he wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of trading with the Xianbei Tuoba Tribe and the Xiongnu Zuoxian King Liu Bao to spread Wei's influence to the major tribes in the north, hoping that one day they could be lured with benefits to help Wei attack the Han.
No matter what happens, we must prevent them from falling to the Han in the future war between Han and Wei.
Unexpectedly, less than a month after the opening of the military market, Wei received help that hindered the Han army from regaining Liangzhou.
The reason is not surprising. It was suggested by Jiang Ji, an important minister of the Wei State, and others, that Liu Bao be appointed as the Protector of Shuofang, creating a conflict between Xianbei and the Xiongnu.
However, it is said that after the Xianbei Tuoba tribe moved to the north of Anding County, with the military support of the Wei State, they quickly surrendered the Xianbei Qifu tribe, the Lujie tribe, and the defected Wei Xiongnu Baosai leader Hu Bojuzhi, and used the marriage to marry the Xianbei Tuoba tribe. Through mutual alliances and other means, the small Qiang and Hu tribes in the Kushui River basin became attached, and the tribal power ushered in a rapid expansion.
For example, his tribe's sphere of influence has expanded northward along the river to the Hetao Plain, occupying Tushenze in Shuofang County and Jilusai in the west of the Yinshan Mountains (Langshan Mountain).
This was something Liu Bao couldn't bear.
Tushenze area has the most fertile pastures and acres in Shuofang County, and its output accounts for almost half of the county's total.
Since he was appointed as the Protector of Shuofang by Wei State, it was justifiable to bring Tu Shenze back.
Naturally, the grasslands only believe in the law of the jungle.
How could Tuoba Liwei, who had the ambition to dominate the Hetao Plain, give up the pasture he occupied?
Not only did he sneer at Liu Bao's envoy's claim to be "justified," he also claimed that Liu Bao would come to see him in accordance with the rules of the grassland and become a vassal of the Tuoba tribe.
Inevitably, the war between the two sides came as scheduled.
Liu Bao's tribal power was already weaker than that of the Xianbei Tuoba tribe, and he had just arrived and had not yet won the love of the tribes in Shuofang County, so he was forced to retreat from the beginning of the war.
However, he soon came to a turning point.
Hu Bo, the traitorous leader of the Xiongnu security guard in Wei who had defected from Wei, was in his post. He was deeply resentful that his tribe was annexed by the Tuoba tribe of Xianbei. He was also worried that one day Tuoba Liwei would send him to Luoyang as a "gift" to be punished in order to please the Wei state.
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Therefore, he privately sent people to look for Liu Bao, using the same clan as the link, and put forward the conditions for cooperation: Hu Bo would serve Liu Bao as the main official, and Liu Bao would also make a blood alliance with him, and the two tribes would marry and live together for generations.
Wealth.
Liu Bao was overjoyed.
All the old kings and dignitaries of the tribe were summoned, and according to the requirements of Hu Boju's position, they made an oath by pointing to the sun and the moon in accordance with tradition.
Then came the great victory.
In the battle between the two sides three days later, Hu Bo Juzhi, who was in charge of the rear army, directly defected on the battlefield and cut through the middle of Tuoba's weak army.
In that battle, the Xianbei Tuoba tribe lost Tu Shenze, and their sphere of influence shrank back to the Helan Mountains.
This also established Liu Bao's status in Shuofang County, and tribes large and small attached themselves to him "knowingly".
Tuoba Liwei was not willing to fail.
But based on his intelligence, he also guessed that Liu Bao was deliberately sent by the Luoyang court to suppress the growth of his tribe.
Therefore, while resting the tribe, he also took advantage of the opening of the military market in Wei to secretly instruct the vassal Qiang and Hu tribes to plunder Liu Bao's trading supplies along the way, thus cutting off Liu Bao's opportunity to obtain Wei's ordnance.
Anyway, the Wei State was also unwilling to see Liu Bao's tribe continue to grow.
Even if Liu Bao was plundered, Wei would not support Liu Bao.
They may even enjoy hearing about it and hope that the conflict between their two tribes will become more intense.
Things turned out as he expected. When Liu Bao sent an envoy to complain, Guo Huai of Wei State, who was in charge of the military market in Anding County, not only said that the current war between Han and Wei was tense and he had no time to do it; he also accused Liu Bao of being the protector of Shuofang for not even doing so.
Even the horse thieves cannot be defeated, which really damages the prestige of the Wei state.
But what Tuoba Liwei didn't expect was that Liu Bao had moved into the Han Dynasty for a long time, and he knew the trade-offs between Han temples and temples.
Therefore, Liu Bao spontaneously requested orders from the Wei State, claiming that he was willing to send 3,000 tribesmen to Xiutuze in Wuwei County to monitor Lu Shuihu for the Wei State, who had never submitted to the Wei State.
When the Han army attacks Jincheng County, it can also harass the Han army's food routes for Wei.
Sima Yi heard this and agreed without thinking.
When they went to the Luoyang Temple, Cao Rui and Gong Gong directly issued an edict to commend Liu Bao for his loyalty.
They all knew that the 20,000 soldiers of Wei Ping's tribe in Jincheng County alone could not resist the Han army's attack on Liangzhou.
The Hexi Corridor is actually abandoned land.
Now Liu Bao is willing to ask for orders to delay the Han army's seizure of land and buy time for Wei to cultivate and recuperate. This is an unexpected surprise!
What's not allowed?
Furthermore, according to Cao Zhen’s final plan, the key point that determines the outcome of the next great battle between Han and Wei is not the gains and losses of the counties in Liangzhou, but the time for Wei to rest!
As soon as Luoyang's edict reached the northwest, Tuoba Liwei responded quickly.
It is also claimed that three thousand people from the west of Mingsha Mountain (today's Zhongwei City) bypassed the Quwu Mountains and entered Yuwei County, which had been abandoned by the Wei State. They took the opportunity to harass the Han army's Yinsai and prevent the Han army from focusing on anything.
Enter Jincheng County or Hexi Corridor.
The reason why he sent troops was not because he wanted to compete with Liu Bao for Wei's favor.
But he knew that once Liu Bao's tribe entered Xiutuze, the hometown of the Xiongnu, they would never withdraw again. [Note 1]
It will also create a situation where the Tuoba tribe will be attacked from two fronts, Langshan and Xiutuze.
For the safety of his own tribe, he needed to take precautions and occupy Yuwei County first!——
[Note 1: Xiutuze was named Zunyeze in the pre-Qin Dynasty. In the early Han Dynasty, it was the pastureland of King Xiutu of the Xiongnu, so it was renamed; it was named Baitingze in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and it was named Qingtu Lake in the Republic of China. It originated from the agricultural development in the upper reaches, and the water area
It has been shrinking, and it dried up for a time in 1959. Now, under ecological protection, the lake has reappeared.]
