Indeed, Zheng Pu, who was assassinated, was not seriously injured.
Having been in the army for a long time and facing several battles with his own sword, he already had an instinctive reaction to the approaching danger.
Li Jian, who was also responsible for the assassination, was just a poor man with a broken body and a white house. He was weak and had no training as a dead soldier. He only carried out the assassination with the bloody courage of repaying kindness. An Neng killed him with one blow. ?
The blood that was seen that day was when Zheng Pu was retracting his abdomen. The sharp dagger made a cut along the trajectory. It did not penetrate at all, nor did it damage the liver or heart.
Afterwards, I found some wound medicine to wrap it up, and the scabs formed in a few days.
The reason why Zhang Bao went to war was because he felt that an assassin was lurking among the envoys he had chosen and had injured Zheng Pu. He felt guilty and became angry.
As for why Zheng Pu didn't show up in front of everyone after being assassinated.
It was because during the few days he was recovering from his injuries, he received two more envoys.
One of them is a member of the Xu family in Zhangye.
In the past, when Jiang Wei circled back and attacked the fortress of Manyin, after the captured Xu Zhi returned and surrendered, Zheng Pu also asked him to send several of his confidants back to his hometown to inform his family that he had abandoned Wei and returned to the Han Dynasty.
Wei Guojun is known for its strict military discipline.
Xu Zhi's behavior will inevitably involve his family and clan according to military regulations.
The Xu family of Zhangye knew that once the matter was exposed, the family would be destroyed, so they stopped thinking about both sides and waited to see the success or failure of the Han and Wei battles before making plans, and instead tried their best to help the Han army take over. Hexi Corridor.
This time, a member of the family was asked to pretend to be a down-and-out scholar and bring a message to the fortress of Guanyin.
The message is quite long.
First, he made a general accusation. Zhangye Governor Cang Cili, who claimed to be loyal to the Wei State, ordered the big families in the county to jointly resist the Han army. The Xu family had no choice but to contribute some money and food. This was what the Wei State thought Xu Zhi and the Xu family had more than 200 people. Everyone was about to die in battle, and the Xu family had contributed to the country, so there was no forced result.
Afterwards, the three counties of Wuwei, Zhangye and Jiuquan all wanted to fight to the death and formed a coalition of about 30,000 people to disrupt the Han army's attack on the grain roads of Jincheng County, and even engage in a flanking attack with Wei Ping.
After learning about this military situation, Zheng Pu, Zhuge Qiao, Zhang Bao and others were all stunned for a moment.
After all, the influx of envoys in the past few days made them all feel that the hearts of the people in the Hexi Corridor were unstable, and many powerful people would not fight to the death for Wei.
No matter how bad things are, those right-wingers should be able to have both sides.
Who would have expected that Jia Xu, Cang Ci, Huang Hua and others directly promised to "paint the land to support scholars", on the condition that they would never collect taxes and share weal and woe, so that those powerful people and the Qianghu tribe would decide to work hard for the future. Fight once?
This also disrupted the Han army's previous deployment.
Originally, the rebels of the Wei Dynasty huddled in Jincheng County and abandoned the Hexi Corridor. Therefore, the army of the Han Dynasty's expedition to Liangzhou was based on Wei Yan's 30,000 elite troops as the attack force, and Zheng Pu and Zhang Bao's 8,000 troops. The soldiers guarded the Fortress of Manyin and the food protection road.
But now the three counties in Hexi have assembled an army of 30,000, leaving Zheng Pu, who was guarding the grain road, in a dilemma.
The grain road from Jianyin City to Jincheng County is too long!
With his military strength, there is no way he can protect everyone.
Although, the large army assembled in Hexi must have the disadvantage that the military appearance is not in order and the general orders are difficult to carry out.
If fighting head-on, Zheng Pu is confident that he can defeat three times the enemy, and he can still be undefeated against five times the enemy.
However, the Hexi Corridor, where both Hu and Han people coexisted farming and animal husbandry, has always been a place where six kinds of livestock roamed. Both the Han and Li Shu tribes and the Qiang and Hu tribes all had the skill of "riding sheep and shooting rats and rabbits when they were children, and riding horses and shooting eagles and wolves when they were older". Shooting Kung Fu, the army assembled will inevitably be dominated by cavalry.
At that time, Jia Xu, the governor of the Western Wei Dynasty who has spent his life as a soldier, only needs to disperse the cavalry into several groups, use the maneuverability of Rufeng to avoid fighting, and harass them day and night, so that the Han army protecting the grain will be deeply disturbed and exhausted.
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At this time, Zhuge Qiao's suggestion was to send letters to Longyou.
Please ask the prime minister who is in charge of Ji County to transfer the cavalry general Zhao Guangbu who is on guard in the Wushui River Valley (Qingshui River) to ride against the Ma Dai tribe who has just been transferred to the west general.
But Zheng Pu politely refused.
Zhao Guangbu, as the main force monitoring the rebellion against the Wei Dynasty in Guanzhong, was the eyes and ears of Longyou's defense and could never be mobilized.
Otherwise, Wei Wei will find an opportunity to send several troops out of the blue to disrupt people's livelihood and damage the foundation of the Han conquest.
Zheng Pu wanted to wait for the return of Jiang Wei, who went to Wuting Nishui River Valley (Zhuanglang River) to inquire about information, before making any plans.
Because a few days ago, Jiang Wei asked the soldiers who escorted the remains back for burial to bring back a piece of news: Zhiwudai and Bai Huwen, the two leaders of the Xiutu branch of the Xiongnu who had made a surprise attack on Manyin City with him, were willing to fight with the Han army again.
Fight alongside.
The purpose does not stem from hatred towards Ni Wei, but from interests.
After the Kewu tribe entrenched in Lingjusai-Yunjie County migrated away, the section of the Wuting Nishui River Valley that spans the two counties became a no-owner's land.
Zhiwudai and Baihuwen longed for the fertile acres and pastures with lush water and grass.
Naturally, they also knew that without the big man's approval and support, they would not be able to get involved with their own strength.
It goes without saying that they rebelled against the Wei Dynasty. If the Han army had not been on the side, they would have sent troops to punish the loss of the Guanyin fortress.
Looking at the Han Dynasty's four hundred years of practice, there is a saying that no ground should be given away.
Therefore, through their contribution to the war, they would later accept the canonization of the Han and bear the obligations of paying tribute every year, sending troops to accompany the conscripts when necessary, and migrating into the territory of the Han in the form of internal attachments.
Zheng Pu's plan was to ask Jiang Wei if he could use his Qiang-protecting camp and Ma Dai's Xiliang cavalry to help rule the tribesmen of Wudai and Baihuwen, if they could defeat the cavalry of Hexi?
However, what he didn't expect was that before Jiang Wei returned, an envoy from the Xianbei Tuoba tribe had arrived!
Yes, the other envoy was sent by Daihu Alangni, the Xianbei commander who was lingering in Yuwei County.
To be precise, he was sent by Tuoba Liwei.
It seems that they came here to find allies with the Han army.
The envoy was Tuoba Liwei's sister-in-law. As soon as he arrived, he bluntly stated the incompatibility between the Tuoba tribe and the Wei State - the Wei State supported the Zuoxian King Liu Bao and blocked the Tuoba tribe from entering the Hetao Plain.
Later, he also claimed that the Xianbei Tuoba tribe had never robbed Han people, whether they were in Dingxiang County in Bingzhou or now in the Helan Mountains.
Finally, he asked the Han army to open a military market.
The reason is quite touching.
Because Liu Bao had previously helped the Wei State attack the Han Dynasty, and was now being supported, he had become a die-hard loyalist to the Wei State, and he had also become an enemy of the Han Dynasty.
The Tuoba tribe and the left tribe of the Southern Xiongnu are Qiu Yu.
If the Han Dynasty opened a military market to allow the Tuoba tribe to obtain sophisticated weapons and equipment to defeat the left tribe of the Southern Huns, it would be a "killing with a borrowed knife" strategy.
At the worst, Tuoba's weak strength can make Liu Bao feel that the war is tense and force him to recall Hu Bo Juzi's staff who have entered Xiutuze to reduce the resistance of the Han army to regain the Hexi Corridor.
