"What's the matter? Who is making a noise outside?" Cao Rui couldn't help being a little angry after being disturbed. He shouted angrily, scaring the eunuch on duty outside the palace and ran into the palace, knelt down and kowtowed.
"Your Majesty, Sir Cao Zhao, the regular servant of Sanqi and the Marquis of Changping, said that he had an urgent military situation that he wanted to report to Your Majesty. However, the servant fell asleep just after seeing His Majesty and could not bear to be disturbed, so he blocked the Marquis of Changping outside the palace and disturbed him. I have violated your majesty's sweet dream, and I deserve death. I hope your majesty will forgive me."
"Quickly announce Changsi, come in." Cao Rui heard that it was Cao Zhao, and his mind became much clearer. He rubbed his dry eyes and said, "Please remember, if Marquis Changping needs to see me for something important in the future, , no further obstruction is allowed."
"Wei." The eunuch stood up and responded, then hurried out of the palace to summon him.
After a while, Cao Zhao, who looked worried and had tears on his face, strode into the hall. He knelt at the foot of the steps and said loudly:
"Your Majesty, an urgent military report came from Yangzhou, saying that Sun Quan led his army to Chaohu to spy on our new city of Hefei. He also sent generals Lu Yi and Sun Shao to invade the territory with more than 10,000 troops each. At this time, the Wu army may have entered the Huai River of our great Wei Dynasty. , within the territory of Mianshui!"
"Is this happening!?"
When Cao Rui heard this, he couldn't help being shocked. He never expected that the march to Soochow would be so secretive. It seemed that something had happened to the school where he had asked Cao Zuan to be stationed in Wuyue, so that he could not even report such important military information in time!
Cao Rui hurriedly ordered the evil-warming attendant:
"Quickly tell Liu Fang, Sun Zi, Gao Tanglong, Bian Lan, Cao Shuang, He Zeng, and Du Shu to come to the palace to discuss matters!"
"only!"
The waiter did not dare to delay after hearing the order, and hurriedly left the palace to make arrangements.
"Changsi, sit down quickly and tell me the details of the military situation in the south."
Cao Rui helped Cao Zhao up and noticed the tears on Cao Zhao's face and red eyes again. He was confused and couldn't help asking:
"Changsi, what happened?"
When Cao Zhao heard this, he was filled with grief. He knelt down on the ground again and sobbed:
"Your Majesty, there is news from Jiangdong. My brother...Cao Zuan was captured by the Wu army in order to find out military secrets a few days ago. I miss him...he was captured by the Wu thief at the east gate of Jinling!"
When Cao Rui heard this, his heart was shocked, and then he felt dizzy. Cao Zuan and Cao Desi were his brothers in the clan. He was not only highly skilled in martial arts and had natural powers, but also had a careful mind. He was his best general, but now But he suffered a misfortune, how could he not be sad?
The emperor and his ministers were weeping at each other at this moment, venting the sadness in their hearts.
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Yongzhou, Weinan battlefield.
After the last war, Zhuge Liang, the Prime Minister of the Shu Han Dynasty and the Marquis of Wuxiang, finally led an army of 100,000 people out of Xiegukou from the north after three years of preparations to persuade farmers and teach martial arts. Not only that, Zhuge Liang, who was determined to win, secretly sent envoys to Soochow and made an agreement with Sun Quan to attack Wei at the same time.
In early summer and April, the Shu Han army arrived in Yi County and set up camp under Wuzhangyuan on the south bank of the Wei River.
This was the first time that the Han army felt that they were so close to the Chang'an in their dreams. The soldiers of the three armies firmly believed that under the leadership of the prime minister, they would successfully enter the pass and conquer the Central Plains!
Wei General Sima Yi led the Wei army to build a camp against the water. As expected, Sima Yi still wanted to hold on and fight Zhuge Liang. Once the Han army's food is exhausted, Zhuge Liang will retreat on his own.
After Sima Yi discussed with the generals, Guo Huai believed that the Shu army would march eastward to compete for Beiyuan. Sima Yi agreed with Guo Huai's opinion, so he sent Guo Huai to lead several troops to defend Beiyuan.
This time Sima Yi did not make a mistake. As expected, the Han army sent troops to seize Beiyuan. Guo Huai, who was prepared for it, successfully repelled the Han army.
What Sima Yi and Guo Huai did not expect was that Zhuge Liang had already understood that Beiyuan was difficult to leave, so attacking Beiyuan was just to attract the Wei army's attention.
Zhuge Liang's real intention was to let Meng Yan, the tiger-footed supervisor, seize the opportunity to attack martial arts [Note 1]. In this way, most of the Han army led by Zhuge Liang himself and tiger-footed supervisor Meng Yan's troops could echo each other and form a rivalry.
[Note 1: Tiger Infantry Supervisor: The Tiger Infantry Army is a regular combat force of the Shu Han Dynasty. "Three Kingdoms. Biography of Jiang Wei": "Jiang Boyue is loyal and diligent, and thinks carefully about current affairs... He must first teach five or six thousand people in the Central Tiger Infantry." The Tiger Infantry is divided into left, middle and right, and Jiang Wei alone has five Central Tiger Infantry. There are as many as 6,000 people, which shows that the overall Tiger Infantry Army is between 20,000 people. This army should be composed of Nanman and Han troops. The first Shu general who served as the Hubujian was Meng Yan, the general of Nanzhong. After Zhuge Liang pacified the south, he recruited the southern barbarians as officials. In addition to Meng Huo, there were also Meng Yan, Cuan Xi, Ding Xian and others. Meng Yan was a native of Zhuti County. He later served as the Hubu Supervisor of the Shu Han Dynasty and the general of the Assistant Han Dynasty. He accompanied Zhuge Liang on many expeditions to participate in the war against Wei. According to the "Zhuge Liang Table" cited in "Shui Jing Wei Shui Zhu": During the fifth attack on the Wei Dynasty in the Battle of the Wei River, Zhuge Liang made a military report: "The minister left a tiger step to supervise Meng Jue's martial arts in Shuidong. Sima Yi due to the rise of the Wei River. With two On the tenth day, ten thousand people were sent out to attack the camp. The ministers built a bamboo bridge and shot across the water. When the thieves saw that the bridge was ready, they led their troops to retreat."]
Meng Yan lived up to Zhuge Liang's expectations. He successfully defeated Wu Gong and allowed the two Han armies to coordinate with each other. As long as Zhuge Liang sticks to Wuzhangyuan and Meng Yan sticks to Wugong Shuibei, and the two armies are in a strong position to defend each other, they can advance to attack Chang'an and retreat to defend Longyou. Seeing that Zhuge Liang's plan was completed, Sima Yi couldn't help but feel extremely anxious. It seems that Zhuge Liang is indeed an extraordinary genius.
Just when Sima Yi and Guo Huai were extremely anxious and unable to do anything, they heard a piece of great news:
The Wei River and its many tributaries rose, flooding the passage between Wugong and Wuzhangyuan. In this way, the connection between the armies of Zhuge Liang and Meng Yan was severed!
"God is really helping me!"
Sima Yi was extremely excited after hearing the news, his eyes were shining, and he was staring at the march map. He decided to temporarily give up his previous strategy of staying in retreat and take the initiative to attack Meng Yan, the tiger-step prisoner of the Shu Han Dynasty who was trapped in Wugong Shuibei.
The Wei army did not give up this rare opportunity, and under the dispatch of General Sima Yi, took the initiative to send troops to attack Meng Yan!
What Sima Yi didn't expect again was that Zhuge Liang had long thought that the Wei army would take the opportunity to attack Meng Yan's troops, so on the one hand he sent Shu Han engineers to build bridges and build roads in an attempt to restore mutual coordination with Meng Yan's troops, and on the other hand He sent additional Yuanrong crossbowmen who could "fire ten arrows with one crossbow" to launch a strong attack on the main force of the Wei army under Sima Yi, in order to delay the march of the Wei army and buy time for Meng Yan and his engineers to build a bridge.
Three days later, when the Wei army, which had finally bypassed the range of the Shu Han Yuan Rong crossbowmen, was about to arrive at Meng Yan's barracks, they saw that the Shu Han army's pontoon bridge was almost erected. Sima Yi understood that the opportunity had passed at this time. If he forced the camp to attack, he would probably be attacked from two sides by Zhuge Liang and Meng Yan's army. After thinking about it again and again, although Sima Yi felt extremely regretful, he still chose to withdraw his troops.
Zhuge Liang also considered that the previous Northern Expeditions had failed due to failure to transport grain, so he suddenly had a whim and tried to divide the armies to work with the people in the counties along the Wei River to farm and grow grain. What is surprising is that the Han army and the people of Wei got along well with each other.
Since the Han army successfully started to farm in Wei territory, it did not hastily withdraw due to lack of food like the previous Northern Expeditions.
Like two tigers spying on each other, the Wei and Han armies continued to confront each other on the shores of the Wei River.
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In the blink of an eye, the season of midsummer and June has arrived.
After Emperor Cao Rui entrusted the northwest military power to General Sima Yi, he actually began to personally plan and deploy the war in Soochow in the south of the Yangtze River.
After all, the country had just reached a truce with Mobei Xianbei, and the two countries Wu and Shu colluded with each other and brazenly invaded the borders of the Wei Dynasty. For the Wei Dynasty, this was a crisis that could not be seen in a century. If it could not properly defeat the enemy, Wu and Shu would If the two captives break through the border, not only will the south fall into chaos, but also Kebineng, the Xianbei rebel king in the north, who is still eyeing Bingzhou; and Gongsun Yuan, Duke of Lelang, who has been entrenched in Liaodong and is still surrendered to the Wei Dynasty for the time being; in the northwest The Xiqiang, who have never been very honest at the border, are afraid that they will swarm in and eat up their big Wei whales!
Not long ago, in order to completely deal with the greedy wolf of Monan Xianbei, Cao Rui decided to adopt the suggestion of Wang Xiong, the governor of Youzhou, and select assassins to assassinate Ke Bineng. In order to ensure that nothing went wrong, Cao Rui also dispatched Xia Houxuan and Cao Xi. Together with his cousins, who were brave, resourceful and skilled in martial arts, they went to Youzhou to help Wang Xiong.
Thinking of this, Cao Rui didn't dare to relax for a moment no matter how tired he was.
Just a few months ago, Cao Rui thought that Soochow's invasion was just a small fight, so he missed his late mother, Queen Wen Zhaozhen, and appointed his uncle Zhen Xiang, who had always wanted to make achievements on the battlefield, as General Fubo to keep him honest. Supervise the generals and lead the army to march eastward.
But not long after, military reports came from the front line, saying that Sun Quan sent generals Lu Yi, Zhuge Jin and others to lead troops to garrison in Jiangxia and Miangkou; he also sent generals Sun Shao, Zhang Cheng and others to lead troops to Guangling and Huaiyin. Sun Quan, the leader of Wu, himself He even personally led an army said to number 100,000 to besiege Hefei New City.
Such momentum is almost comparable to that in the early Huang Dynasty, when Emperor Wen sent the former general Changlinghou Xiahou Shang, the former general Chenhou Cao Ren, and the former general Changpinghou Cao Xiu to attack Wu in a three-pronged attack on Wu!
Cao Rui realized the danger of the invasion of Dongwu from the north. He immediately summoned his uncle Zhen Xiang not to advance rashly, and at the same time ordered him to be cautious. He had defeated Sun Quan's invasion of the north several times by famous officials and generals such as General Zhengdong and Changyi. Hou Man favored Man Boning and presided over the military affairs of the south.
Just two days ago, Man Chong and Tian Yu, the governor of Runan, the general who killed the barbarians, each sent a memorial from Yangzhou and Runan.
In the east hall of Tai Chi Hall, Cao Rui was discussing the contents of this memorial with Liu Fang, Sun Zi, Gao Tanglong, He Zeng and other casual knights.
"This is the memorial sent by Man Boning and Tian Guorang from Kuai Ma Station in the south. Take a look at it. What do you think?"
Tian Yu became famous in the northern Xinjiang. He was at war with the Xianbei clan all the year round and was a famous border guard general in the Wei Dynasty. Not long ago, Tian Yu had a conflict with Wang Xiong, the current governor of Youzhou, in northern Xinjiang. Wang Xiong was also good at managing the frontier and able to conquer battles. More importantly, Wang Xiong was more diplomatic than Tian Yu and was more diplomatic than Tian Yu. Tian Yu was more outstanding, so after weighing the pros and cons, Emperor Cao Rui finally decided to let Wang Xiong guard northern Xinjiang, while Tian Yu was appointed as the prefect of Runan, and was promoted to General Extinguishing Yi, and was transferred to Yangzhou to serve.
Because of this, Tian Yu was able to confront Sun Quan, the Lord of Wu.
Liu Fang, Sun Zi, Gao Tanglong, Guanglu doctor Wei Zhen, newly promoted to Sanqi Changshi, Liu Shao, Liu Kongcai who participated in the compilation of Emperor Wen's "Huang Lan", as well as Cao Zhao, the military generals Cao Shuang, Du Shu, Bian After listening to the emperor's words, Lan and He Zeng took the memorial table from the waiter and read it carefully one by one.
After everyone took a look, they realized that it turned out that the two famous generals Man Chong and Tian Yu had differences in the handling of the frontline war.
