Although Mi Yang and Zhuge Liang are currently far apart, as their relationship changes, the exchanges between them have become more frequent than before.
Not long after Mi Yang sent the letter to Zhuge Liang, he also received a letter from Zhuge Liang.
Judging from the time, this letter will certainly not be Zhuge Liang's reply. This letter was written to Mi Yang when Zhuge Liang went south to Bodao. The content of the letter talks about Zhuge Liang's views on Deng Ai.
Since it was a letter from Zhuge Liang, as soon as Mi Yang received the letter, he opened it and read it.
Mi Yang originally thought that Zhuge Liang wrote this letter because he was worried about the situation in the north, but after reading the content of the letter, he discovered that Zhuge Liang was warning him to be careful about Deng Ai's character in this letter.
Zhuge Liang's warning immediately cheered up Mi Yang. In later generations, people often think that Zhuge Liang lacks the ability to recognize people because of Ma Su's stain. In fact, this is wrong.
No matter how wise a person is, he will make mistakes sometimes, even Liu Bei. Huang Yuan, who is currently causing trouble near Chengdu, was promoted step by step because of Liu Bei's appreciation. When he first appointed Huang Yuan, Zhuge Liang had advised Liu Bei that Huang Yuan could not be trusted.
But Liu Bei did not listen to Zhuge Liang's dissuasion. It is true that Zhuge Liang is not as good at recognizing people as Liu Bei, but this cannot mean that Zhuge Liang is ignorant of people. On the contrary, Zhuge Liang has a good eye for recognizing people.
Historically, all the ministers in the middle and early stages of Liu Chan's reign were personally promoted by Zhuge Liang and placed in key positions one by one.
Without the assistance of those ministers after Zhuge Liang's death, Ji Han would have perished earlier with Liu Chan's wisdom.
Mi Yang knew this, so when Zhuge Liang mentioned the shortcomings of Deng Ai's character to him, he immediately paid attention to it.
The character shortcomings of Deng Ai mentioned by Zhuge Liang in his letter are very similar to what he showed in history.
In history, it was precisely this kind of character shortcomings that finally put Deng Ai into a situation of no return. In history, Shibao's background was similar to that of Deng Ai, but in the end he became the founding prince of the Western Jin Dynasty. It was not that his merits were higher than that of Deng Ai, but that he was a better person than Deng Ai.
Mi Yang, who was originally a time traveler, should understand Deng Ai's character better than Zhuge Liang. But Deng Ai acted respectfully in front of Mi Yang, so Mi Yang actually didn't realize that Deng Ai was showing off his talent in front of outsiders.
Now that we know this, Mi Yang will certainly not sit idly by and ignore it. Taking preventive measures before they happen has always been Mi Yang's creed.
After thinking about it, Mi Yang stood up and walked towards his inner tent. As Mi Yang's daily resting place, the inner tent does not occupy a large space, but within this small space, there are layers of bookshelves.
On those bookshelves, there are various collections of books collected by Mi Yang, which are treasures in this world.
Mi Yang gradually walked to a bookshelf, and then relied on the memory in his mind to pull out a volume from a pile of bamboo slips.
This bookshelf is Mi Yang's special place to place historical books, and the bamboo slips he specially pulled out are a biography in the historian's masterpiece "Historical Records" - "The Family of Jianghou Zhoubo".
After taking out the bamboo slip, Mi Yang shouted for Ding Feng to come inside. After Ding Feng entered, Mi Yang handed the bamboo slip in his hand and told him: "Order people to hurry up and send this to Shi Zai." In your hand." After hearing this, Ding Feng did not doubt that he was there.
As Deng Ai was an insider in Liangzhou, it was normal for Mi Yang to occasionally contact Deng Ai in private. But before leaving, Ding Feng still asked Mi Yang out of habit: "Do you have anything you want to convey to Master Deng?" Facing Ding Feng's inquiry, Mi Yang was silent for a while and said: " Just send this bamboo slip to Shi Zai." Seeing Mi Yang's attitude, Ding Feng no longer hesitated, holding the bamboo slip in both hands and walked towards the outside of the tent.
Looking at Ding Feng's leaving figure, Mi Yang couldn't help but sigh in her heart. Zhuge Liang hoped that Mi Yang could help Deng Ai cultivate his mind and character, but Mi Yang was not completely sure about this matter.
The country is easy to change, but the nature is hard to change. I just hope that after Deng Ai understands his painstaking efforts, he can tighten his character in front of others in the future.
...Shu County, Jiangyuan County. The three thousand troops led by Deng Ai are now stationed here. Just after Huang Yuan rebelled against Hanjia County last month, he led five thousand soldiers from the county to Chengdu.
Due to the lack of troops in Shu County, Huang Yun encountered no obstacles along the way and successfully captured Linqiong County soon after.
Linqiong County is the west gate of Shu County. Linqiong fell into Huang Yuan's hands, which means that Huang Yuan's rebels are not far from Chengdu.
But just when Huang Yuan wanted to take advantage of the victory and advance to capture Jiangyuan County in one go, Deng Ai, who quickly returned from Nan'an to the north, led his army into Jiangyuan County.
Deng Ai's timely return to defense successfully curbed Huang Yuan's momentum of continuing to attack Chengdu. However, after leading the army into Jiangyuan County, Deng Ai did not rush to lead the army to attack Huang Yuan's troops. He just ordered the entire army to stick to Jiangyuan.
As time went by, Deng Ai led his army to stay in Jiangyuan County for quite some time. During this period, Huang Yuan also sent spies to further inquire about the situation in Jiangyuan County, and even sent envoys to declare a challenge to Deng Ai.
According to Huang Yuan's estimation, Deng Ai was young and energetic, and he would definitely plan to go out of the city to fight with him under his irritation.
But what Huang Yuan never expected was that he successfully angered Deng Ai - his envoy's head was chopped off by Deng Ai and hung under the Jiangyuan city wall.
But after Deng Ai killed Huang Yuan's envoy, he still had the intention of standing still. Deng Ai's standing still made Huang Yuan jump anxiously, but it also indirectly triggered a small earthquake in his army.
The cause of this small earthquake lies in Ma Su. During this period, Ma Di had repeatedly advised Deng Ai that Huang Yuan's rebels should be cleared as soon as possible.
The reason why Ma Su suggested that Deng Ai send troops was that, on the one hand, he felt that although Huang Yuan's rebels were large in number, most of them were a mob and did not have strong combat effectiveness.
On the other hand, behind Jiangyuan County is Chengdu. The news that they led the army to Jiangyuan County has already reached Chengdu. It seems that all the ministers in Chengdu are now focusing on them.
Including Liu Bei. In just a few days, those ministers might still understand that Deng Ai wanted to recharge his batteries. But a month has almost passed, and Deng Ai has still not taken action in the face of the arrogant rebels, so it will definitely arouse all kinds of criticism.
Ma Di wanted to go north this time to make meritorious deeds, not to suffer unwarranted criticism and tarnish his reputation. But in the face of Ma Su's suggestions, Deng Ai always had the same attitude - indifferent.
Seeing that Ma Su could not persuade Deng Ai, and that Wang Ping, Deng Ai's deputy general, was unwilling to join him in admonishing him, Ma Di was inevitably a little angry.
Ma Su has always been famous for his wisdom and strategies in Yizhou. In the past, even Zhuge Liang would often adopt his strategies, which made Ma Su always think highly of himself.
But what Ma Su didn't expect was that the prime minister would turn a deaf ear to his advice, and Deng Ai, a villain with a despicable background, would dare to do this.
Of course, no matter how angry he was, Ma Su could not get control of the army as a guard, so he could only sulk secretly and meet some friends in the army to drink and reminisce.
When reminiscing with close friends, Ma Su will inevitably confide his inner troubles to his friends.
If you talk too much, it will naturally turn into complaints. Due to Ma Su's special status, his complaints quickly spread throughout the army, affecting military morale to a certain extent.
When Deng Ai heard about this and asked someone to verify it, he immediately became furious. The reason why he stood still was to drain the enemy's energy. When Ma Di gave him advice, he also told him his plan in detail.
But he didn't expect that under such circumstances, Ma Su would dare to express objections and disturb the morale of the army. This means that Deng Ai doesn't understand Ma Su.
Ma Su was a typical representative of a self-willed person during the Three Kingdoms period. Historically, Zhuge Liang drew the formation diagram for Ma Su and asked him to follow it to arrange his troops. He could do things like going up a mountain to commit suicide that made Zhuge Liang cry without tears. There was nothing else he couldn't do.
In order to stabilize the morale of the army, Deng Ai directly ordered Ma Su to be punished in public for thirty years for disturbing the morale of the army.
When Deng Ai's order spread throughout the army, Ma Di was surprised and angry. Even Wang Ping, Shi Bao and other generals were also surprised, and they all interceded for Ma Di.
Wang Ping, who had a calm personality, advised Deng Ai: "Ma Hujun is a close confidant of the Prime Minister. I hope the captain will be cautious." Wang Ping did not tell Deng Ai that Ma Su's crime was not serious, because from the perspective of military law, Deng Ai's There is nothing wrong with the handling.
But the problem lies in Ma Su's identity. The fact that Wang Ping can give such advice to Deng Ai is enough to show that he sincerely cares for Deng Ai.
It's a pity that Ma Su has the problem of being stubborn, but Deng Ai has the problem of negative emotional intelligence. This is even more obvious when he is on his own.
The reason why Deng Ai punished Ma Su was because he kept his troops stationary in order to drain the enemy's energy. When the enemy was in chaos, he would then take the initiative to lead the attack, and he would surely win in one battle.
He has been in a stalemate with the enemy for nearly a month now. According to his estimation, the Huang Yuan rebels may be in chaos within these few days.
At this time, there is a hidden danger that our military morale is wavering. Isn't that delaying national affairs? This was intolerable to Deng Ai, and punishing Ma Su directly was the fastest way to stabilize the morale of the army.
In response to Wang Ping's well-intentioned advice, Deng Ai finally said: "It is only expedient to be ordered to quell the rebellion, to follow the instructions and strategies, and to exercise the power of rewards and punishments. In the Spring and Autumn Period, when officials go out to the frontier, they can stabilize the country and benefit the country. , Speed is enough, how can we hesitate because of favors? In the art of war, advance without seeking fame, and retreat without avoiding sin. Although Ai is not as disciplined as the ancients, he will not think that he is harming the country." After finishing this explanation. , Deng Ai ignored the dissuasion of the generals and insisted on executing Ma Di in public in order to stabilize the morale of the army.
As Ma Su was publicly reprimanded for thirty years, seeing that Deng Ai really dared to attack Ma Su, the three thousand Yizhou troops were instantly in awe of Deng Ai, and the military morale of the three thousand Yizhou troops also quickly stabilized.
But correspondingly, there was a complete hatred between Ma Su and Deng Ai. Later, even what Deng Ai said to Wang Ping gradually became known to many people.
However, since Deng Ai had just established his authority among the army, these things were temporarily suppressed.
While Deng Ai was relieving internal troubles in Jiangyuan County, the Huang Yuan rebels not far from Jiangyuan County also began to chaos as Deng Ai imagined.
Although Deng Ai has insisted on not fighting in the past time, according to common sense, Huang Yuan may be able to find another way.
But the key is that Deng Ai leads the army to garrison Jiangyuan City. Jiangyuan City is not only the last barrier to the southwest of Chengdu, it is also a hub of the Yangtze River in Yizhou.
Deng Ai led the army to garrison Jiangyuan City, which not only directly frustrated Huang Yuan's idea of leading the army to attack Chengdu, but also completely failed Huang Yuan's intention of leading the army to disrupt the Han army's waterway for transporting grain.
In this way, Huang Yuan's five thousand rebels were like headless flies, and they could only wander around in circles near Linqiong.
Most of Huang Yuan's five thousand rebels are a mob. For the mob, there is no problem in leading them to rebel, but our side must always maintain the momentum of the offensive and continue to win.
Once these two points cannot be guaranteed, the military morale of the mob will easily be affected. After nearly a month of no progress, Huang Yuan finally couldn't hold on any longer and issued an order to retreat.
Even if he knows that he can't retreat now, if he doesn't retreat, the situation will be out of his control.
Deng Ai had already arranged many scouts outside Linqiong County. When Huang Yuangang showed signs of retreating, the scouts immediately passed the news back to Deng Ai.
After Deng Ai heard the news, he knew that the time had come. He immediately led the 3,000 Han troops who had been recuperating for a long time to attack from Jiangyuan County to pursue Huang Yuan's 5,000 rebels.
Linqiong is not far from Jiangyuan County, and Huang Yuan's five thousand rebels also destroyed Linqiong City when they retreated from Linqiong.
Carrying a large amount of baggage, Huang Yuan's five thousand rebels could not move fast at all. Soon Huang Yuan's five thousand rebels were pursued by Deng Ai's army outside Linqiong County.
After seeing Huang Yuan's five thousand rebels, Deng Ai immediately commanded the Han army to launch an attack. Huang Yuan's five thousand rebels retreated because they lost their fighting spirit. In addition, they had just finished conquering Linqiong County, and many of the soldiers were carrying a lot of heavy objects. How could they fight against the enemy under such circumstances.
So when the three thousand Han troops came to attack, Huang Yuan's five thousand rebels had not formed any decent formation, and they were immediately routed by the three thousand Han troops.
In the chaos of the army, Huang Yuan was beheaded by Shi Bao, a brave artist, because he could not escape.
After Huang Yuanshen died, the remaining rebels immediately knelt down and surrendered. Not long after the two armies fought, Deng Ai successfully put down the Huang Yuan Rebellion, which had shocked Shu County the month before.
When Shi Bao came to Deng Ai excitedly carrying Huang Yuan's head, he also handed a letter in his hand to Deng Ai.
This letter was found from Huang Yuan. Deng Ai took the letter in Shibao's hand and read it. After reading it, the joy on Deng Ai's face did not last long before a look of solemnity appeared again.
This letter records one thing - Sun Quan, the Taiwei of the Han Dynasty, used soldiers, money, and food to help Nanzhong achieve success.
