Zheng Pu's duty of welcoming the emperor to the north was over when he reached the boundary of Hanzhong County.
There were countless soldiers in the Northern Expedition, and many of them had meritorious service or hard work. Naturally, the honor of accompanying them could not be reserved to him alone. Moreover, the Han Dynasty's Northern Expedition defense line had been divided into three areas, each with its own commander.
For example, Hanzhong, Wudu and Yinping County were guarded by Wu Yi and Guan Xing; Longyou-Jincheng and Xiping County were guarded by Wei Yan and Wu Ban, and the Hexi Corridor was naturally guarded by Ma Dai and Jiang Wei.
As one of the few remaining assistants in the prime minister's office, Zheng Pu already had the central task of dispatching the troops and should no longer accompany him throughout the whole process, lest other soldiers feel that the emperor favored one over the other.
Furthermore, he is not idle.
The emperor of the Han Dynasty was patrolling the north, and if Wei Wei learned about it, he would definitely take action.
Although it was unlikely that Sima Yi would send troops to attack due to the war in Huainan, Zheng Pu needed to return to the Prime Minister's Office in Ji County to coordinate various areas to strengthen defense and other matters out of the desire to be prepared.
Another reason is that Liangzhou is a border area with many Qiang and Hu tribes that have little culture and etiquette. He needs to go back and supervise the county officials to appease the place and prevent the Qiang and Hu tribes from colliding with the emperor's guard of honor.
Yes, the route of Emperor Liu Chan's northern tour has been determined.
It is Hanzhong-Longyou Ji County and Ayang-Jincheng-Longxi, and finally returns to Chengdu.
The reason why we did not go to the Hexi Corridor was because it was too remote, and there were still some Haoyou or Qiang Hu tribes who were unwilling to lose their power and were secretly waiting for opportunities to cause trouble.
After all, the anti-Wei idea of "one side governing the other side" was too attractive to them.
Moreover, the world has never been short of desperadoes who cannot understand the situation clearly and have a weak heart.
The most important thing is that Jiang Wei, who is stationed in Wuwei County, has been instructed by the Prime Minister to prepare troops and will use troops against Mingsha Mountain in August during the autumn harvest.
Small scale, for the purpose of training the cavalry.
It was also at the invitation of Jiangdong to coordinate their intention to use troops against Shouchun at the turn of summer and autumn.
Although the Han Dynasty has already entered into the national policy of recuperation and recuperation, if the struggle between Jiangdong and Niwei can be made more protracted at a small price, why not do it?
cough!
It should be that the two countries formed an alliance to attack Wei, and Jiangdong asked for support. The Han Dynasty was naturally obligated!
However, what no one expected was that before Jiang Wei sent out troops to respond, news came from Jiangdong at the end of June in Xia that they could no longer attack this year.
But he said that in Jiangdong, which occupied the new city of Hefei, all the soldiers and horses were in high spirits.
In order to achieve his goal of conquering Huainan while his troops were available, Sun Quan sent his assistants to recruit more troops in various places after the spring plowing.
Among them, Poyang County, which has repeatedly rebelled, is also inevitable.
This aroused the dissatisfaction of the common people in the county. Some people, Wu Jun, could not bear the hardship of military service, so they gathered people to rebel, killed Zhou Zhi, the general of Zhonglang who had recruited soldiers, and took advantage of the situation to capture several counties.
It also triggered a response from many Shanyue tribes in the neighboring counties of Yuzhang and Luling.
What started as a rebellion of only ten thousand or so common people quickly expanded into tens of thousands of rebels, wreaking havoc on the counties.
In addition, some Shanyue chieftains also relied on their previous experience of rebellion to send their trusted tribesmen across the river to visit Wei, asking for official positions and troops to support them.
When there is internal chaos, it is an extravagant hope to use troops externally.
Unexpectedly, Sun Quan had no choice but to give up the idea of using troops and dispatched several troops from the north of the Yangtze River to quell the chaos.
Moreover, they were worried that the Wei State would take the opportunity to send troops to retake Hefei New City.
In fact, his consideration was correct.
After hearing the news, Man Chong felt that the time to recapture Hefei was not yet ripe, but he still reported the matter to the Luoyang Temple for Cao Rui and Gong Gun to make a decision.
Cao Rui was overjoyed when he heard the news.
Amid the echoes of all the princes in the court who agreed that the war was possible, he began to gather troops and horses, and ordered the counties and counties along the way to prepare a large army of food, fodder, etc., and soon he would personally conquer Huainan again.
After the news of the internal chaos in Jiangdong reached the Han Dynasty, Zheng Pu was immediately stunned.
And a strange thought quickly emerged in his mind: Could it be God's will that Sun Zhongmou from Jiangdong never got involved in Hefei!?
After the prime minister learned the news, he did not let Jiang Wei give up his plan to invade Mingsha Mountain in autumn.
On the contrary, Emperor Liu Chan, who had already patrolled the north to visit Ayang City, ordered Emperor Liu Chan to take advantage of the situation and enter Xiaoguan to rest for a few days so that the Wei troops guarding Anding County could see the emperor's guard of honor and the large banner.
Quan was supposed to be bluffing, so that the Wei State did not dare to send troops and horses from Guanzhong to attack the Wu State.
There is no way, if the Wei State recaptures Hefei New City, then, given the nature of Jiangdong's monarchs and ministers, they may have a peaceful mentality in the future and no longer attack Wei with determination, and they will be unable to contain Wei's troops for the Han Dynasty...
Sima Yi, who had been sitting in Chang'an, heard that the Emperor of Han Dynasty was patrolling the north and stationed in Xiaoguan, so he did not make any move to send more troops to garrison in Anding County.
Instead, he stayed calm and ordered all the ministries in Guanzhong to continue practicing martial arts and farming.
With his wisdom, he certainly knew that the Han Dynasty would not have the strength to launch a battle in Guanzhong within a few years, so there was no need to mobilize troops.
Moreover, in the hearts of him and the monarchs and ministers of the Wei state, it was the prime minister who was fearful, not Liu Chan, the emperor of the Han Dynasty.
However, not everyone has such a clear-eyed view of the overall situation.
After Emperor Liu Chan's garrison in Xiaoguan was known to the Wei State, Xu Zhi and Zhang Te, who each commanded a thousand Xiliang cavalry, were driving their troops to the west of Yuwei County when they received two letters of surrender.
They were all from the thousand miscellaneous Hu cavalry sent to Wei by Liu Bao from the left of the Southern Xiongnu.
One is called Zhushili and has more than 200 riders under his command; the other is called Jisai Duoman and has more than 300 riders under his command.
The contents of the letters of surrender are largely the same.
They all claimed that since they were deceived by Liu Bao into becoming Wei soldiers, they had received very bad treatment, and Sima Yi did not get all their family and wealth back, so none of his subordinates were willing to serve Wei. So he was willing to serve as an internal response, waiting for the Han Dynasty to send troops to fight on Mingsha Mountain, and when Helan Mountain changed his banner, he returned to the Han Dynasty.
The strange thing is that the two men did not seem to know that the other party also wanted to surrender, so they did not join forces. Instead, they each ordered people to shoot arrows and letters at the Han army scouts.
In a sense, this undoubtedly adds a lot of credibility.
However, the Han Dynasty had had the experience of Li Yan being faked into surrender before, so Jiang Wei was very cautious about this kind of thing.
After passing the news back to Ji County and Hanzhong, he also asked his scouts to leave letters to the leaders of the two Hu people, claiming that the Han Dynasty had no intention of sending troops to Mingsha Mountain, and asked them to be patient for the time being and save themselves first. In the future, when the Han Dynasty mobilizes troops, the two sides will discuss the matter of internal cooperation and external cooperation.
It's just a dragging technique.
This would not only allow them to be disappointed with the big man, but also allow time for Xiaozuo to find out the authenticity of their surrender intentions.
In the seventh month of autumn, Emperor Liu Chan patrolled north to Jincheng County.
Xihai Shaodang Qiang King Mangzhong, Huawai Baima breed Qiang tribe powerful chiefs came to see him, the emperor hosted a banquet for them, enjoyed themselves at the table, and gave many royal things to show the benevolence and justice of the court.
After that, the imperial driver set off back to Chengdu.
Jiang Wei, who had been working hard, finally waited for the time to send troops.
However, before the troops were sent out, the scouts came with news: Zhu Xili, who had previously submitted a letter of surrender, was exposed. More than 200 of his horsemen and his family were slaughtered by Wei general Deng Ai, and he built a palace in the capital!
