The so-called aristocratic family is not only the official background and the large number of acres and disciples, but also the prestige that makes the common people in counties and counties willing to follow.
This is how the Hu family is stabilized.
As long as Hu Zun raises his arms and shouts, all the Qiang and Hu tribesmen in Anding County can fight!
Therefore, after receiving Sima Yi's instructions, he thought about how to support Helan Mountain: he asked Qudu, the personal guard, to rush to Pengyang County and invite the Qianghu tribe in Linjing and Pengyang County to go north to the south bank of the river to graze. If Deng
When Ai is in danger by the Shu army, he can rush into the battlefield as soon as possible!
But now he doesn't want to do that.
Although it is the season when pastures are luxuriant in summer, it is not difficult to persuade the Qiang and Hu tribes to go north to graze, and the Wei State will definitely reward them with money afterwards. However, doing so is using the influence of the Hu family. In the future, those Qiang and Hu tribes will find trouble.
When he comes to Hu's house, he will definitely reciprocate the favor.
He would not be unwilling to do this for Wei Guo or Sima Yi.
But if it was for Deng Ai, he felt it was not worth it.
And Deng Ai doesn’t need his help~
In other words, because of Deng Ai's lack of understanding of human nature, he allowed the Xiliang cavalry to attack Fuping County in a circle, and Ding Xicheng's plan became very smooth. Calculating the time, if Hu Zun sent the Qiang and Hu tribes to graze north, he would definitely make the circle
The Xiliang cavalry behind them could not hide their traces.
Midsummer, early May.
Deng Ai, who didn't know what he had missed, finally knew the reason why Zheng Pu sent his soldiers to build a camp in Yuwei County.
At first, he thought that Zheng Pu was imitating Lian Po's "transporting sand" method in the past.
Before the Battle of Changping, Lian Po was a general and built a fortress to defend the area. In order to strengthen the soldiers' determination to defend and to confuse the Qin army, he ordered the soldiers to build many "granaries" in the mountains using cowhide and reed mats, and secretly placed them there.
At night, they hauled yellow sand and loaded it into the warehouse. The Qin soldiers saw that the Zhao army had a mountain of food, so they did not dare to invade easily. It was not until Zhao Kuo replaced General Lianpo and was defeated in Changping that the Qin army came to raid the warehouse.
All it contained was yellow sand.
Deng Ai saw that the Han army's grain transport team had been facing each other since spring plowing, and the small camp built was full of granaries. He thought that Zheng Pu was playing a trick and deliberately wanted the Wei army to signal the attacking Han troops.
There is plenty of military rations!
But as time passed, he realized that Zheng Pu was humiliating him.
That’s right!
It's humiliating.
Because at this time, the general banners of Zheng Pu and Jiang Wei had already appeared in Yuwei County.
And the two of them often drove to the front of Mingsha Mountain under the protection of more than a thousand Xiliang cavalry to observe the Wei army's fortifications as if there was no one else.
This is not a provocation.
Based on the distance between the Xiliang Iron Cavalry and the Wei army's fortifications, he could not catch up even if he sent the Guanzhong Jingqi and the Southern Xiongnu Rangers to pursue them.
But after Zheng Pu and Jiang Wei saw it, they planted the big banner in the small camp in Yuwei County and went back to the city of Anyin to fortify it.
Yes, there are countless small camps with undulating granaries, but Zheng Pu only guards them with 500 infantry!
And Da Huan was left silently mocking him!
They laughed at him for not daring to come out to burn food, and humiliated him for not even having the courage to come out to capture the flag!
At first, he thought this was Zheng Pu's plan to lure enemies.
For example, the Xiliang cavalry lurks in a mountain col and intercepts and kills him when he leads the army out to burn food.
But the scouts who were on guard day and night all claimed with one voice that there was no trace of the Han army within a hundred miles of Yuwei County; they had even explored the desert to the north, but there was no trace either!
In other words, if the Wei army, with its elite cavalry from Guanzhong and the Southern Xiongnu cavalry, took advantage of the cover of night to quietly come to seize the flag and burn food, even if the Han army set up a secret sentry to convey the news, it would be too late to come out from the Fortress of Manyin to rescue them.
In fact, many generals have already given Deng Ai advice or asked for orders to go there in person.
Among them, the Qianqi of the Xiongnu in the south made the most noise.
Because they are guest troops and fear death.
In the previous battle at Helan Mountain, the Wei army who set up an ambush had all the advantages, but the Southern Huns cavalry still killed more than a thousand cavalry in the battle. Now the only thing the Wei army can rely on is its geographical advantage. How can they not be pessimistic about their chances of winning?
But if they sneak to Yuwei County and burn the Shu army's food and fodder, the Shu army will naturally not invade again without food and fodder, and then they can safely spend the "one-year appointment" of fighting for Wei!
Thinking like this, they can't be too eager.
But Deng Ai refused.
He also taught them the allusion of "Lian Po transported sand in the ancient battle of Changping" and claimed that the granary of the Shu army was full of yellow sand in order to lure them out to fight in the field.
The southern Huns, who were not familiar with Han family allusions, sneered at this.
They have been acting as scouts these days. How can they not know whether the Shu army has set up an ambush~~
If you don't dare to fight, you don't dare to fight. Why use ancient metaphors to shirk it!
Coincidentally, the Cavalry Governor of Guanzhong Jingqi also held the same idea.
If the cavalry goes out to burn grain, do we still need to worry about the Shu army setting up an ambush?
At that time, before firing rockets into the Shu army's camp to burn the grain and fodder, advance scouts should be sent to guard within a radius of twenty miles. Even if the Shu army really set up an ambush, they could still rely on the strong mobility of the cavalry to return.
What's wrong!
He was obviously afraid of Scar Pu's reputation and only dared to hide in the camp, so he found such an excuse!
Such doubts quickly spread among the soldiers.
It also made Deng Ai deeply understand the helplessness of Sima Yi in the past when he was criticized for "fearing Shu as much as a tiger".
There was no other way. He had just taken over the authority of a single unit. His prestige was not yet established and he was too few in number. It was inevitable that he would be scorned by his subordinates.
In fact, he himself also had the idea of sending troops.
Because he knew that Zheng Pu was very cunning, especially fond of taking risks, and could often take things by surprise.
For example, Wei Ping, who was previously guarding Jincheng County, was deceived by Wei Yan with the empty camp strategy; for example, Guo Huai was restrained by Scar Pu with two thousand troops and horses in Yuwei, and Xia Houru was defeated and killed by Wei Yan.
But there was a trace of reason in his heart that reminded him: Scar Pu would never expose the grain to his eyes!
I would like to ask, how could Ni Shu, who had always been trapped in food and crops, act like this?
He must have something to rely on!
Deng Ai kept telling himself this in his mind, trying hard to suppress his desire to burn grain and seize the Han army's banner.
But he couldn't guess what Zheng Pu relied on.
Soon, he won't have to worry anymore.
Summer, late May.
Liu Bao, the Southern Huns, sent an envoy to report that there were thousands of Qiang and Hu tribes lingering at the western foot of Yinshan Mountain, which made Deng Aimo neglect the defense of the gap between Mingsha Mountain and Helan Mountain.
Summer, early June.
The field commanders in Fuping County and Dingxicheng sent people to report that about a thousand Xiliang cavalry from Nishu came to kill from the Kushui River Valley.
Along the way, they burned cottages and mansions, slaughtered cattle, sheep and horses wantonly, and trampled the wheat fields with their horses.
Because there were too few garrison soldiers in the two places, the Wei army was unable to resist at all, so it suffered heavy losses. Sixty-seven out of ten of the farms were destroyed, nearly half of the livestock were killed, and many were lost in the chaos.
In other words, Helan Mountain cannot even raise enough food for this winter.
