The vast expanse of golden wheat waves spread out on the north bank of the Wei River where the Wei army was stationed, blooming people's smiles.
The bobbin truck, which was imitated from Bashu and put into large-scale use after testing, has a long arm and is driven by water power to continuously pump water from the river into the farm ditches. It is foreseen that it will save time and effort for irrigation in the coming year.
This made Sima Yi, who was riding his horse slowly to patrol the farmland, no longer maintain an expression of indifference to honor and disgrace.
While listening to Ma Jun and Deng Ai, who were accompanying him, they spoke intermittently due to stuttering, stroking their beards, nodding and laughing.
Not only is his own proposition of "the soldiers self-sufficient and the country replenished" has achieved initial results; but also because if the main force in Guanzhong has sufficient food and fodder, the wealthy families of Guandong will no longer hold paradoxes about the Yongliang War.
As a member of a wealthy family in Guandong, he is well aware of the root cause of the "abandon Liangzhou" remarks.
Nothing more than dissatisfaction with the imperial court's frequent increase in taxes in Guandong in order to support the Yongliang war, which harmed the interests of those wealthy families.
If Yongliang could be self-sufficient, those people's views on war would slowly transition from "it wastes people and money and is of no benefit to the country" to "this is the time for our generation to make contributions."
Most of the time, what people want is driven by interests.
This has been the case since time immemorial.
However, if the troops of Yongliang were to be basically self-sufficient in food and fodder, they would need at least three to five years to recuperate.
The emperor Cao Rui in Luoyang, even though he knew that retaking Longyou would be as difficult as climbing to heaven, he would never tolerate the fact that he, who was supervising the battle against Yongliang, could not stand still for three to five years.
Because Zhuge Liang, the prime minister who rebelled against Shu, sent troops out of Longyou or marched into Liangzhou, they were all preparations for entering Guanzhong.
After all, if all the senior ministers Liu Bei gathered from all over the country died, there would be fewer people like Ni Shu who devoted all their efforts to conquest. Just like Cao Wei who passed down to the third generation, many generals and queens no longer have
He remembered the hardships of his fathers who fought hard on the battlefield to find a title, and fought for their lives.
As time passes and circumstances change, so do people.
Smiling like a warm spring breeze, Sima Yi frequently nodded in affirmation as Ma Jun and Deng Ai narrated, but his thoughts were no longer about farming and mulberry trees.
At this moment, the sound of rapid horse hooves could be heard faintly, interrupting his thoughts.
Following the sound, he turned his eyes and saw a messenger not far away with a command flag on his back, galloping towards him.
"Report to the Governor!"
"General Gaoping Chengguo has arrived with military information!"
The messenger, who was stopped by the guards when he was thirty steps away, suddenly pulled up the reins of his horse, causing the horse to stand up while neighing, shouting loudly.
Why is it so urgent?
Could it be that the war in Hexi has changed?
Hearing this, Sima Yi suppressed his smile and waved his hand to his retinue to fetch the general's love letter.
Even Deng Ai and Ma Jun, who were accompanying them, wisely drove their horses farther away to avoid violating the taboo of spying on military aircraft.
However, their efforts seemed to be in vain.
When Sima Yi unfolded the cloth and read it, he frowned and thought for a moment, then someone else fetched pen and ink, wrote a few lines of words and then sent the messenger back.
And he continued to patrol the mulberry fields.
From his unchanged smile, we can infer that the military situation may not be urgent.
This made Deng Ai, who had been aiming for military glory since childhood and had the opportunity to join the army only after he was in his thirties, a little disappointed.
Just now, he was still thinking that if the current situation changed and Guanzhong had to send troops, he would take advantage of the situation and ask for orders to go to the area of Gaoping City to farm, so that he could have the opportunity to witness the battle in person and express his ambition.
Unexpectedly, it was just a normal military information transmission.
In fact, what Deng Ai didn't know was that Sima Yi, who returned at dusk, sat alone with a lamp and thought for a long time.
Guo Huai sent a messenger this time to ask for troops to be sent out in advance to support Hexi.
But Sima Yi refused.
It’s not that he thought Guo Huai’s generals were insufficient, or that his actions in sending troops were inappropriate.
On the contrary, he secretly sighed, "This is a good general", and finally understood why the late Cao Zhen had so much regard for Guo Huai and favored him so much.
In Guo Huai's letter, he first clearly stated the reasons why he judged that Liangzhou might not be defended.
For example, the two dangerous passes of Xiaoguan and Manyin City were lost in an incredible way. It is claimed that Shu Shu often makes unexpected moves, and it is difficult to match the generals of Wei Ping and Jia Xu alone.
The current situation in Liangzhou was also analyzed.
People seeking personal gain abound in Hexi, no need to say more.
The 30,000 allied troops gathered by Jia Xu were nothing more than a rabble.
If the war goes well, then, stimulated by the spoils of war and the court's awards, they will fight to the death; but if there is a slight setback in the war, they will blame each other, hesitate to move forward, and then break up on bad terms.
For example, during the reign of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, Han Sui and Ma Teng supported the kingdom as the leader and led tens of thousands of soldiers and horses into the Guanzhong Sanfu. After being defeated by Huangfu Song and Dong Zhuo, the various tribes returned to rob the famous scholar Yan Zhong, who was disadvantaged by the leader, and began to fight for power.
, and even killed each other.
How can a group of people with different agendas resist the might of the Han army?
Wei Ping, who had 20,000 troops huddled in Jincheng County, also had great internal dangers.
The soldiers recruited in Jincheng County will not be able to withstand the surrender of the Han army because of their concern for their families; the non-local soldiers will feel that Wei has treated them as abandoned sons, and they will feel resentful and lose the ability to live and die with the city.
Decisive.
Subsequently, Guo Huai also proposed two plans to deal with the war in Liangzhou.
First, he planned to lead more than 10,000 people in his headquarters north along the Wushui River Valley, then turn west to station at Shuiquanshahe, where the Quwu Mountains break, threatening the rear of the Fortress of Manyin, forcing Wei Yan to divide his troops and return to take care of it.
In the rear, reduce the pressure on the Liangzhou defenders.
The other was to ask Sima Yi to allocate three thousand fine cavalry from Guanzhong to accompany him, with one person and two horses, to go north through the Wushui River Valley, bypass the Quwu Mountains from Mingsha Mountain, and enter Yuwei County.
If this move comes true, whether he joins forces with Daihu Alangni, the young commander of the Xianbei Tuoba tribe, to kill the rebel general Jiang Wei and then attack Wei Yan's grain roads; or whether he rushes to Wuwei County to join forces with Jia Xu, it will inspire everyone.
The morale of the Hexi Allied Forces and Jincheng soldiers.
Because as long as he leads the army, it will be Wei's statement towards the people of Liangzhou.
It is enough to prove that Wei State has not given up on them.
Let everyone believe that the Wei army will come to Liangzhou to rescue them in the near future. They only need to hold on for a few months to win and be rewarded with generous military exploits.
As for the most difficult issue in sending troops, the supply of food and fodder, Guo Huai also gave feasible suggestions.
In order to increase the trade share of the military city of Gaoping City, in exchange for supplies from the Southern Xiongnu Zuoxian King Liu Bao and Xianbei Tuoba Liwei.
There is no need to worry that they are unwilling to bear it.
In the current situation where the two heroes in Hetao are fighting each other, the supplies provided by the Wei State's military market are the external force to determine the winner. Both of them will worry that if they are unwilling to replace the supplies and the other party does, their tribe will usher in the end.
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This also means that Guo Huai has thought through all the plans for sending troops.
It's just to send Sima Yi's approval.
However, Sima Yi still rejected the proposal to send troops.
Because he felt that Guo Huai had been away from Luoyang Temple for too long.
