Why isn't Zhuge Liang in the camp?
It turned out to be because Zhuge Liang finally decided to attack Hao Zhao not long ago.
In order to lure Hao Zhao out of Chencang City, Zhuge Liang deliberately asked Yang Yi to spread the news that Cao Zhen was besieged in Wuzhangyuan by Mi Yang's army.
In order to successfully lure Hao Zhao out, Zhuge Liang also asked Yang Yi to order people to write multiple copies of the false news and tie them to arrowheads, and then ordered the strongmen in the army to shoot them into Chencang City.
Under Zhuge Liang's actions, it didn't take long for almost all the Wei generals in Chencang City to know that Cao Zhen was "in a deadlock".
When the news spread in Chencang City, it immediately dealt a severe blow to Chencang City's military morale.
Although since the defeat of Liangzhou, Cao Zhen's prestige in Guanzhong has not been as strong as before.
But Cao Zhen is still the governor of Cao Wei in Guanzhong after all, and no Wei general can just sit idly by and ignore his safety.
Once something happens to him, it basically means that the various Wei armies in Guanzhong will fall into a leaderless situation.
This situation is something that no Wei general would like to see.
The same is naturally true for Hao Zhao.
In particular, Cao Zhen was kind to Hao Zhao. From a personal relationship perspective, it was even more impossible for Hao Zhao to sit back and watch Cao Zhen fall into danger.
But Hao Zhao still had doubts about whether to send troops.
After all, Hao Zhao was a general who knew his troops well. With his strategy, he would certainly doubt whether this was Zhuge Liang's plan to lure the enemy.
After all, because several previous breakouts failed, Hao Zhao's contact with the outside world was basically cut off.
In other words, Cao Zhen was besieged by the Han army in Wuzhangyuan, and the news was only unilaterally spread by the Han army.
We have not received any substantive intelligence to support this.
In this case, it is normal for Hao Zhao to be suspicious.
But just when Hao Zhao was hesitant, the words of Jia Si, the deputy general, made Hao Zhao give up his last worries.
"Given the current situation, it doesn't matter whether the news is true or not. What matters is whether our military will take action because of the news.
General, don't forget that the enemy only has a few thousand troops! "
Although Jia Si's words sounded a bit convoluted, Hao Zhao understood the deep meaning of his words.
Cao Zhen was the governor-general of Guanzhong who was personally appointed by Cao Pi to conquer on his behalf. In terms of status, Cao Zhen could be regarded as Cao Pi in Guanzhong.
In other words, the action of rescuing Cao Zhen can essentially be regarded as the action of "King Qin".
And once the rescue operation reaches this level, can Hao Zhao not save him?
Even if this news is false, Hao Zhao was lured out of Chencang City by the Han army because of this, and no one will say that Hao Zhao did something wrong afterwards.
But if this news is true, and Hao Zhao still stands still and watches Cao Zhen being killed by the Han army, then even if Hao Zhao finally defends Chencang City, he will be punished with death.
There was another very important reason why Hao Zhao had to save him, and that was that Jia Si said that the Han army outside Chencang City only had a few thousand troops, but Hao Zhao had tens of thousands of elite troops in his hands.
If the main force of the Han army was besieging Chencang City, Hao Zhao would be able to find an excuse afterwards, saying that the Han army was too powerful and he could not break out.
But based on the actual comparison of forces inside and outside Chencang City, the Wei army is clearly the dominant side.
So if Hao Zhao still fails to take a breakout action, he will definitely be suspected later.
Of course, after Hao Zhao learned that the main force of the Han army had left, he did take the action of leading his army to attack the rear of the main force of the Han army.
But there is no doubt that every time he was beaten back to the city by Zhuge Liang, and many soldiers and horses were lost as a result.
This is something that all the Wei generals in Chencang know, but will anyone believe it if they tell it like this?
Breaking through with more than twice the number of troops, you can still be beaten and shrink back into the city.
If Mi Yang was commanding the army, it would be possible to understand, but now the one commanding the army is Zhuge Liang, who is "good at internal affairs"!
Although Zhuge Liang had previously achieved a great victory in suppressing the rebellion in Nanzhong, due to the distance problem, many people in the world did not know the inside story of that great victory.
Therefore, most people in the world still have the impression of Zhuge Liang: "particularly good at domestic affairs, slightly good at quelling chaos."
Under this impression, who would believe the fact that the Wei army in Chencang has been ravaged by Zhuge Liang for a period of time?
Compared with this "unrealistic" possibility, I am afraid that the world believes that Hao Zhao is relying on his own troops and waiting to see success or failure.
This is exactly what Jia Si wants to remind Hao Zhao.
Under Jia Si's reminder, Hao Zhao finally had no choice but to ignore his doubts and decided to lead his army out of the city to Wuzhangyuan to rescue Cao Zhen.
And since the final plan was to rescue Cao Zhen, Hao Zhao's marching speed would naturally not be delayed.
But this just fell into Zhuge Liang's ambush plan.
In a valley between Chencang City and Wuzhangyuan, tens of thousands of Wei troops were ambushed by thousands of Han troops after entering it.
Thousands of Han troops, waiting for work, first pushed down boulders from the mountains on both sides to block the entrance and exit of the valley, and successfully blocked tens of thousands of Wei troops in the valley.
Then the condescending Han army began to fire arrows again, causing a lot of damage to the Wei army who was caught off guard and in a scattered formation.
After completing these two steps, Zhuge Liang felt that the time was ripe and sent envoys down to the valley in an attempt to persuade Hao Zhao to surrender.
Nearly 10,000 Wei troops were trapped in the narrow valley, essentially a turtle in a urn.
It would be quite easy for Zhuge Liang to annihilate them all here - just release the fire arrows.
But Zhuge Liang felt that the situation had developed to this point and there was no need to kill nearly 10,000 Wei troops.
It would be best to persuade him to surrender.
Moreover, if Hao Zhao can be persuaded to surrender, it will also help the Han army to capture Chencang in the future - Hao Zhao still left some Wei troops to defend the city.
In order to successfully persuade him to surrender at once, Zhuge Liang specially sent Jin Xiang, a fellow countryman of Hao Zhao.
But before Jin Xiang could say anything to persuade him to surrender after seeing Hao Zhao, Hao Zhao, who knew Jin Xiang's intention, said to Jin in a stiff tone:
"The science of the Wei family is practiced by you; I am known by you as a person. I have received many favors from the country and have a strong family. I have nothing to say to you, but I will definitely die."
If you thank Zhuge, you can kill him. "
When Jin Xiang returned to the mountain and told Hao Zhao truthfully, Zhuge Liang couldn't help but look at Hao Zhaogao.
Even the Han general next to Zhuge Liang couldn't help but sneer after hearing Hao Zhao's words.
Death is imminent, so why are you so stubborn?
Seeing that persuading him to surrender was ineffective, all the Han generals urged Zhuge Liang to launch another attack, fulfilling Hao Zhao's wish.
However, Zhuge Liang did not agree to the request of a group of Han generals to fight.
Zhuge Liang has seen many tough-talking people in his life, but Zhuge Liang knew that the Wei army was currently trapped in the valley with no food and grass.
Without food supplies, even if Hao Zhao didn't change his mind within three days, his subordinates might be tempted to tie him up and ask for surrender.
Zhuge Liang is currently in good health and has no shortage of patience to wait for a few days.
The reason why the messenger did not see Zhuge Liang when he came to the Han army camp was because Zhuge Liang was cautious by nature.
Even though it was difficult for the nearly 10,000 Wei troops to cause any trouble at the moment, Zhuge Liang still chose to wait for the situation to change in person in the valley.
And Yang Yi was the one left by Zhuge Liang to guard the camp for the Han army.
Yang Yi naturally knew where Zhuge Liang was.
After calling two horses in a hurry, Yang Yi took the messenger and rode the horses quickly towards the valley.
The entire valley has long been surrounded by Han troops. Of course, with Yang Yi's identity, he will not be blocked.
After leading the messenger through several guard posts, Yang Yi and the messenger quickly arrived at the foot of the mountain.
Looking at the narrow mountain road in front of him, Yang Yi eagerly pulled the messenger off his horse, and then ran towards the mountain.
And Zhuge Liang, who had been on the mountain for the past few days, also learned about Yang Yi's arrival from the sentry post in advance.
Zhuge Liang couldn't help but frown when he heard that Yang Yi left the camp without permission.
Could it be that something big happened?
Zhuge Liang, confused in his heart, hurriedly got up from his seat and walked towards the mountain road.
One way, one way down, and the speed of both parties was not slow, so Zhuge Liang and Yang Yi soon met halfway up the mountain.
After the meeting with Zhuge Liang, Yang Yi, who was tired and out of breath, directly pulled the messenger behind him in front of him, then pointed at the messenger and said to Zhuge Liang:
“Prime Minister, Prime Minister.
Great victory in Chang'an! "
After hearing Yang Yi's words, the doubt in Zhuge Liang's eyes was instantly covered up by the look of shock.
How could Zhuge Liang not know what the words "Chang'an Victory" mean?
Just when Zhuge Liang was shocked, the messenger saw that Zhuge Liang was in front of him. He finally consciously took out the battle report from the envelope on his waist and handed it to Zhuge Liang.
Yang Yi looked at the messenger's initiative, blowing his beard and staring.
But after blowing and glaring, Yang Yi couldn't help but move closer to Zhuge Liang.
Now that he is old, why did he work so hard just now?
Don't you just want to see the contents of the battle report as soon as possible?
Looking at the battle report in front of him, Zhuge Liang was shocked, but his movements were not slow at all.
He quickly took the battle report from the messenger's hand, then unfolded it and read it.
As soon as he saw the contents of the battle report, Zhuge Liang recognized that the handwriting on the battle report belonged to Mi Yang.
Dozens of mounted messengers set out from Chang'an, but the battle report carried by the mounted messenger heading to Chencang was written by Mi Yang himself.
The content of the battle report is not long, and there is no need to use too gorgeous words between master and disciple.
Mi Yang tried his best to use a brief and calm tone to summarize the entire process of his recovery of Chang'an.
First, they followed the plan and let nature take its course, triggering civil strife between Cao Zhang and Zhang He, and then took advantage of the situation to fight for the moat of Chang'an City.
After crossing the moat, Cao Zhang lowered his guard in the city by digging a tunnel with great fanfare, so that he only thought about defending the city and protecting himself, creating a good external environment for the Han army to dig a tunnel.
While the tunnel was being excavated, other methods were also adopted to continuously reduce the strength of the already weak west wall of Chang'an.
After the above preparations are completed, it is time for the most critical but also natural step - Liu Bei personally burns the pillars and captures the city.
Every step is interconnected.
Perhaps because Zhuge Liang and Yang Yi were not at the scene, they could not witness the spectacular collapse of the Chang'an city wall that day.
Perhaps because Mi Yang did not use gorgeous words, the content of the entire battle report seemed a bit ordinary at first glance.
But as soon as he saw the words "Burn the pillars and capture the city", Yang Yi's breathing inevitably became rapid.
Yang Yi asked himself that he had heard of many excellent examples of conquering the city, but he had never heard of Mi Yang's method of conquering the city.
Moreover, you must know that Mi Yang Fenzhu captured the city of Chang'an!
As one of the most majestic cities in the world, Chang'an City used to sit quietly on the banks of the Weishui River like an inviolable giant.
His majesty, weight, tallness and solidity have been deeply ingrained in the hearts of every Han Chinese for hundreds of years.
But even such a giant who was intimidating was easily conquered by Mi Yang's plain words.
This strong sense of contrast gave Yang Yi an unprecedented sense of shock.
What does it mean to see thunder in ordinary places?
This is!
Yang Yi, who was in shock, couldn't hold back his excitement. He grabbed the messenger's hand again and asked:
"Tell me, what was the specific scene like that day?
What are the expressions of the generals and ministers? "
At this moment, Yang Yi couldn't care about anything else. He only had a strong sense of curiosity in his heart that was about to overflow.
The reason why Yang Yi chose to ask the messenger was because he knew that the messenger was likely to have witnessed the scene that day.
It's just that although the messenger was a witness to the scene that day, he didn't have any ink in his stomach. How could he describe the scene that day in words?
Even now, he is still confused.
But seeing Yang Yi's "aggressive" attitude, the messenger was afraid of offending Yang Yi, so he could only rack his brains to think of something to say.
After thinking about it, the messenger suddenly remembered two poems written by a certain great sage that gradually spread in Chang'an city when he left Chang'an.
"Fire engulfed the sky and the earth, and all the creatures in the city looked up in shock."
"The seven-foot green front strikes the red armor, and a ray of bright light is yet to come!"
The messenger slowly read out these two lines of poetry.
After hearing these two poems, Yang Yi's face showed an expression of satisfaction.
Satisfied, he kept murmuring these two lines of poetry in his mouth, wondering if he could add some more elegance to these two lines of poetry.
Zhuge Liang looked at Yang Yi's intoxicated state, and then read the last few words of the battle report in his hand:
"Teacher, I was lucky enough to win in the end!"
It is not difficult to see from this sentence that Mi Yang was happy and proud when he wrote this sentence.
But now Zhuge Liang not only did not feel sorry for losing the bet, but he could no longer control his emotions and couldn't help but look up to the sky and laugh.
Well done! It’s okay for me to lose!
Zhuge Liang laughed, turned around and walked towards the mountain.
While Zhuge Liang's laughter continued, the battle report in his hand was like a proud military flag, shining brightly in the sunshine.
Can't Yang Yi add a touch of brilliance to those two lines of poetry?
Then let him come!
When Zhuge Liang reached the top of the mountain again, he opened his hands and declared loudly to the nearly 10,000 Wei troops below who were like frightened birds:
"Mountains and rivers are about to be connected to the Wei Dynasty, and the sun and the moon are about to open up again in the Han Dynasty."
"The sun and moon reopen the Great Han Heaven!"
I was discharged from hospital today, just one chapter.
2 big chapters will continue tomorrow.
Excluding dressing changes and discharge from hospital, I have been in chapter 2 recently. Please give me more monthly passes, please~
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