Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 1213 Empty talk is still useless

   Tianshui.

  Not far from Tianshui City, within the camp of the coalition forces of various tribes in Xiliang, in a large tent, several torches tied to the pillars illuminated the inside of the tent. In the middle of the big tent, all the generals of Xiliang were sitting together. In the middle was a crude map, and at the bottom was the scouts from Xiliang who had just rushed back.

   "The men and horses conquering the west are marching eastward..."

  The Xiliang scout who was sent to Shangbei, covered in dust, lowered his head to report.

  Hearing this news, some generals in Xiliang were puzzled, some secretly happy, some breathed a sigh of relief, and some frowned deeply, all in different ways.

   "What's the name of this expedition to the West?" Cheng Yin stroked his beard and moved his eyes from side to side, and said, "First send General Han's armor to demonstrate, and then lead the troops back east without fighting?"

"...According to the current situation, if Zhengxi moves westward, it will naturally take this place..." Ma Wan said, "Zhengxi has already reached Shangyu, and it is only two days away from here, but now there is no fight, no envoys, It's really weird to retreat eastward like this..."

   Li Kan said: "Could it be that the soldiers who conquered the west have run out of food and have to return?"

Ma Wan waved his hand and said, "Hey, how is it possible, the reinforcements from Hanzhong who marched to the west brought some reinforcements, if it was ten and a half months later, it would be possible, but now it's only been a few days, how could it be possible that the food is exhausted? "

  Cheng Yi said with a big haha: "Or Zhengxi is injured and wants to go back to Guanzhong to heal?"

   Duan Yan frowned and said: "As far as I know, Zhengxi is not a general in front of the battle. He is always in the middle army and has not been defeated at the moment. How can he be injured? In my opinion, it may be a trick to lure soldiers?"

Cheng Yin thought for a moment, nodded, and said, "General Duan is right, there is indeed a possibility. Shangyu Tianshui has a wide terrain, which is good for us to travel freely, but it is not good for the western infantry to fight in formation, so If we fight in the mountains and ravines to the east, we can give full play to our infantry advantages..."

Liang Xing followed the topic and said: "If you say this, it is indeed possible. To the east of Shangyu, there are Longshan Mountains, ravines, and woodlands. Let alone whether there is an ambush in Zhengxi, even if there is an ambush, our scouts will It may not be possible to detect all of them..."

Zhang Heng said: "If Zhengxi attacks Tianshui, he will be in the open and we will be in the dark. Naturally, we can attack and outflank Zhengxi, so that Zhengxi can't take care of both ends. But now that Zhengxi retreats, if we pursue it, it will become an enemy. We are in the light, tsk tsk..."

  Candidate said: "Conquering the West is good at fighting, this move must have a profound meaning, if you don't know what to do, it's better not to act rashly."

"That's right, if Zhengxi doesn't come, I can't wait. At worst, let's give up, and we won't have any losses..." Zhang Heng's original strength was not too much, and his relationship with Han Sui was average, so naturally there was no certainty. For the idea of ​​avenging Han Sui, it is best not to fight.

Cheng Gongying sat at the side, and saw that the people at the moment were only discussing verbally, and even the two-phase strike came out, so she couldn't help feeling a little anxious, stood up, with tears in her eyes, and said in a sad voice : "Everyone! Everyone! Today Zhengxi killed General Han. If we can't take revenge, how can we face the elders in our hometown? And how can we face the heroes of the world? If we can't work together, we can kill General Han today and kill him tomorrow." No other generals? At that time, there will be no one left in Xiliang!"

  Cheng Gongying's voice fell, and the big tent became a little dull.

Originally, all the tribes in Xiliang were summoned by Han Sui, and they wanted to go further and obtain greater benefits, but they did not expect that the previous convener Han Sui had already been defeated before the money and goods were obtained, and he could not see life or death. corpse, then the previous plan to obtain the wealth in Guanzhong will naturally disappear.

  Without the motivation of money, just relying on the word "revenge" to send troops to fight against Zhengxi?

  Although it is said that in the history of Xiliang, such things are not without exception. For example, during the period of Emperor Hanling, the Qiang people rebelled.

  But there are also some things that don't talk about revenge at all...

  For example, the death of Beigong Boyu and Bian Zhang.

  Do you really want to care about revenge?

  So, in fact, revenge is not revenge, it is just a cover, used when needed, and naturally thrown aside when not needed.

  The most important thing is that even Han Sui and Ma Chao couldn't defeat Fei Qian, the general who conquered the west. If people like himself rushed forward recklessly, would they be able to win?

Although the generals in Xiliang had their own ideas, they basically reached an agreement on this point. Seeing Cheng Gongying's sadness, Duan Yan coughed and said with emotion: "Of course General Han's revenge must be avenged! However, Zhengxi There are many tricks, and we have to guard against them. According to someone's intention, we should send some scouts to investigate carefully, so as to prevent me from being caught by Zhengxi's tricks."

Cheng Yin took a quick glance at Cheng Gongying, then stroked his beard and nodded and said, "General Duan is right. General Cheng should not be impatient. We will naturally assist General Cheng in the matter of revenge for General Han. But A large army is marching, dispatching from the center to the left and right, and a commander is still needed, otherwise the general order will not be followed, and the military order will not be implemented, will it not be a major event?"

  The candidate said: "Brother Cheng is justified. A certain person does not avoid relatives, so he chose Brother Cheng as the leader of Xiliang alliance!"

  Cheng Yin smiled before waving his hands. Yang Qiu on one side frowned and said, "General Han's life or death is unknown, and the enemy is on the sidelines again. He doesn't think about how to fight and defeat the enemy, but chooses to push the leader of Xiliang? It's kind of putting the cart before the horse."

   Cheng Yin's expression immediately turned pale.

Duan Yan glanced at Cheng Yin, and said slowly: "Brother Yang is right. If General Han is still alive, we would choose the leader of the alliance. It would be disrespectful. If General Han really broke his sword on the battlefield, his bones are not yet cold. To be so eager to covet the position of the leader of the alliance, isn't it a little too much?"

   Li Kanteng stood up abruptly, and said, "You don't care about appearances, General Duan, just speak up if you have something to say, don't beat around the bush!"

Duan Yan narrowed his eyes with a smile on his face, and said: "Why, General Li is so powerful, but he still has a prejudice against XX? When General Han was here before, XX had something to talk about. Now that General Han is gone, XX Can't even say a word?"

  Liang Xing sneered from the side, and said, "I haven't even become the leader of the alliance yet. She is so majestic that I can't say a word. If I really become the leader of the alliance, is there any way for me to survive?"

  Li Kan did not dare to attack the powerful Duan Wei, but he was not afraid of Liang Xing who was similar, and immediately pointed at Liang Xing angrily and shouted: "Have the guts to say it again?!"

   Liang Xing also stood up, glaring, holding the handle of the saber at his waist: "The generals didn't say anything when they sat down, why did you jump out and point fingers? If you want to find fault, grandpa will accompany you!"

   Seeing that the situation was not right, the people at the side quickly hugged Li Liang and separated them...

Cheng Gongying stood where he was, seeing that a good pre-war meeting had turned into a farce, he was furious, and he wanted to borrow the power of these Xiliang generals, so he couldn't scold or beat, he could only be He suffocated abruptly. Maybe it was because the torches were burning in the big tent, the oxygen was thin, or maybe the blood pressure was too high for a while and couldn't be controlled.

  ………………

   Street Pavilion.

  Although the matter is urgent, it cannot be messed up because of the urgency of the matter. Therefore, the army still marched at a normal speed, and did not march in a hurry.

  Jia Xu has already entered Fanxu Road with the vanguard, while Fei Qian is leading the cavalry in the middle, making some repairs at the west entrance of Fanxu Road, waiting for the feedback from the front.

   At the west entrance of Fanxu Road, there is a famous place, strictly speaking, it is not famous now, because the place that became famous because of the Northern Expedition of Brother Zhu, Jieting.

  Jieting Pavilion is located at the west entrance of Fanxu Road. There used to be an ancient city, but it has been abandoned for a long time, and the city wall is damaged and unusable.

Now that he was here, Fei Qian also went into this deserted ancient city and took a look around. He looked at the broken eaves and walls that remained in the small city, and found that this ancient city was not what he originally thought. Damaged, but should have cut off the water source and had to be voluntarily discarded.

Because the earthquake in the early Han Dynasty not only broke the Chencang Road, but also changed the flow of water in the Western Han Dynasty, and even changed some underground water veins. As a result, the Qingshui River, which was supposed to originate from the north of Jieting, moved to the south. The wells in the ancient city naturally dried up, and the water had to be taken from the Qingshui River more than ten miles away. For the people in the early Han Dynasty, this was undoubtedly a natural disaster, and they could only abandon the street pavilion. Here, find another place to make a living.

It is precisely because of this that the Fanxu Road Crossing is not a suitable place to set up a camp, and Li Ru's camp is not located at the street pavilion that lacks water, but at the source of the Qingshui River ten miles south of the ancient city of Jieting. , for the convenience of fetching water.

   But the problem is that Ma Di, who has never been to Jieting in his life, does not know that Jieting is short of water...

   It is even possible that even Brother Pig may not know it.

"Wenyou, if you command 20,000 infantry to meet the 50,000 cavalry in the pass here, how should you set up a stronghold?" Fei Qian stood in the south of the ruined Jieting ancient city, looking at the Fanxu crossing in the distance, After all, he still couldn't hold back, and asked Li Rudao for pointers.

   "Twenty thousand infantry? Fifty thousand enemy cavalry?" Li Ru glanced at Fei Qian.

  Fei Qian understood what Li Ru meant, so he added: "The 20,000 infantry don't seek complete victory, but only seek to stop the enemy. First come here in a day or two. 50,000 cavalry came from the Guanzhong for a long-distance attack, and all the men and horses were exhausted."

  Is there any comparison like this...

Under Fei Qian's supplementary explanation, Li Rufang nodded. Although he didn't fully understand why Fei Qian would suddenly ask such a strange question, and there were accurate **** comparisons and battlefield situation settings, he still thought about it and smiled hoarsely. Laughing, he said: "If a certain commanding infantry is purely to stop the enemy, it is convenient to enter Fanxu Dao and set up a camp. Firewood can be piled up in the camp to lure the enemy to break the camp. Let's burn a wave first!"

   Fei Qian was taken aback for a moment, then burst out laughing.

   Sure enough, different people have different ways of dealing with it. Li Ru's way of dealing with it can only be said to be very Li Ru. Although the west entrance of Fanxu Road is relatively large, there are 20,000 people, and it is one or two days early, so they can set up a decent camp in the middle of the road, but the opponents have to attack.

However, once he attacked, he fell into Li Ru's trap. Once the fire was set off, one would dampen the enemy's spirit, and the burning camp would naturally block the opponent's way to continue attacking. At least when the flames were extinguished, there would be more After two or three days, and then facing the next camp, the enemy must be timid, neither to attack nor not to attack...

  The only problem is the wood and the tools to build the village. Although it is a bit difficult, there is not a shortage of trees on Longshan Mountain. In addition, there are 20,000 people. If they are organized properly, it will not be a big problem to block them for ten and a half months.

  Of course, if God doesn’t have eyes and it’s raining, then there’s nothing to say.

Li Ru stroked his beard, looked at Fan Xudao thoughtfully and said, "The general's concerns are quite reasonable. If we leave the customs, the generals of Xiliang will set up a stronghold in Daozhong, which will be troublesome..." Although Hu Qi, a Qiang man, is not good at building strongholds, but there is still such a possibility.

Hearing this, Fei Qian's smile froze for a moment, then changed the subject, and said, "If that's the case, Wen You has a plan, so there's no need for me to reply... Well, I heard that Hanwen is very famous among the Qiang people. Gao, if you don’t know Wenyou, can you know why?”

Li Ru smiled hoarsely, and said: "Although the Qiang people don't understand the scriptures, they value friendship. Han Wenyue has a good cooking style. If there is a problem, he will give money to him. Qiang Hu feels his kindness, so he gets his name. However, fighting rice nourishes kindness, stone rice nourishes hatred, and using wealth and goods to seek kindness and hatred will eventually have its end."

   Fei Qian nodded.

  That’s true, that’s true of the Hu people, like Liu Yu, who was quite famous in Youzhou, and was killed by Gongsun Zan. The Wuhuan people in Youzhou also opposed Gongsun Zan and joined Yuan Shao’s banner.

  Of course, it may be the reason why Yuan Shao's flag looks much brighter than Gongsun Zan.

"...Beibei, Gongsun fears that time is running out..." Thinking of Liu Yu and Gongsun Zan, Fei Qian naturally thought of Yuan Shao in Jizhou, "At the end of this year, or early next year, Yuan Benchu ​​will be able to sit in Jiyou, Zuonawu Huan serves as a cavalry, and the soldiers of Qingyan and Qingyan are on the right, and they may go south or west... Therefore, Longxi is not suitable for sticking, and it should be cut off quickly."

  Li Ru heard the words, fell silent for a moment, bowed his hands to Fei Qian earnestly, and said: "The general is far-sighted, and Wen You knows it."

Now that the stall is a bit big, it is better to close it first and make sure it is stable, at least remove some of the hidden dangers inside, otherwise, if there is another person who is the second of the Zheng family or the second of Huchuquan, it will be It's hard to handle.

  Fanxu crossing ran out of the front soldiers, waving blue flags, indicating that everything is safe.

   Fei Qian nodded towards Li Ru, then waved his hand and ordered the rear cavalry to start entering Fanxu Road.

   "So, the matter of Longxi is entrusted to Wen You. So-and-so is leaving immediately, Wen You stays."

Anyway, a smart person like Li Ru doesn't need to explain or ask too much at all, so Fei Qian didn't continue to say anything more about Longyou's specific strategy, declined Li Ru and continued to send him off, and went straight to Hit the horse, take Huang Xu and other personal guards, go to Fanxudao, and follow the brigade to Guanzhong...

  (end of this chapter)