The prefect of Cao Wei was Yan Rou.
Speaking of this person, he is actually a very legendary figure.
When this man was young, he must have been captured by Wuhuan and Xianbei. According to the usual style of the grassland aliens, the Han people captured by them were usually used as slaves.
In other words, Yan Rou could be said to be born as a slave. This background could not be lower.
However, Yan Rou was able to gain the trust and support of the Xianbei people in such a bad situation. She also took advantage of the chaos in Youzhou at that time to gain support from Liu Yu's old subordinate Xian Yufu and others, and was recommended by Xian Yufu and others. He was Sima Wuhuan and led troops to defeat Gongsun Zan's general Zou Dan, killing more than 4,000 people.
Although Yan Rou has become famous at this point, he is actually recommended by others for his official position. His reputation is unjust and unjust. If you really think about it, he is a volunteer and brave villager at best, and at worst, he is a volunteer. They are just thieves.
But it happened that at this time, Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan won the battle and pacified Hebei. At this time, Yuan Shao discovered the talent of Yan Rou, and out of the need to stabilize the foreign tribes in the Northern Expedition, Yuan Shao recruited Yan Rou and made Yan Rou officially a member of the imperial court. officials.
You know, Yan Rou was not even thirty years old when she made this counterattack and turned from a slave into a well-established court official.
Later, after the Battle of Guandu, Yan Rou led the three Xianbei tribes to submit to Cao Cao who was pacifying Hebei. At the same time, she followed Cao Cao in the northern expedition to Wuhuan. During the battle of Bailang Mountain, Yan Rou was under the command of Zhang Liao. During the pacification of Wuhuan, she had Huge credit.
By the way, both Ke Bineng and Bu Dugen actually got connected with Cao Wei through Yan Rou's relationship and obtained the attached qualifications.
Yan Rou is truly a legend.
Not only his life experience is legendary, but his lifespan is also legendary. He can actually survive from the war-torn era of the late Han Dynasty to the present.
Not to mention, Yan Rou's prestige among the surrounding foreign races is really not that high. To a certain extent, the current Youzhou governor Tian Yu is not as good as Yan Rou.
In fact, when Cao Shuang ordered Tian Yu to dispatch troops from Daijunjunjun to go south to support Yecheng, Tian Yu obeyed the order. Yan Rou was keenly aware of the instability of the surrounding foreign tribes, so she rejected Tian Yu's transfer order and wrote a letter. He persuaded Tian Yu to send another Fanyang County soldier to the south.
Originally, with such a figure guarding Daijun, it would not be too difficult for Deng Ai to capture Daijun.
After all, with Yan Rou's prestige, it might not be possible to stop Deng Ai, but it can still be done by convincing Bu Dugen, Liu Bao and others to be passive and sabotage.
Although Deng Ai is said to lead an army of more than 70,000, most of Hu's soldiers are cavalry. The only ones who really threaten the city and can be used to attack the city are the temporarily transferred soldiers from Bingzhou County and the 15,000 troops led by Deng Ai. Thousands of troops and horses.
If Yan Rou wanted to defend to the death, she could completely abandon the counties bordering the western part of Dai County and Yanmen County, concentrate her forces, and defend the main road of Dai County. Blocking Deng Ai would not be a problem.
However, in the end, God favored the man even more. At this critical moment, Yan Rou, the governor of Daijun, was bedridden and unable to take charge.
Yan Rou is really old now, in her seventies, and her health is getting worse day by day.
People of this age are expected to live a long life in this era, and Yan Rou has lived in the North for a long time. When he was young, it was fine, his physical condition was good, and he could bear it, but when he got older, the cold climate in the North was very harmful to the elderly. People are really not very friendly.
Therefore, it was very unfortunate that at this critical moment, Yan Rou fell ill, causing panic in the entire Dai County.
At this time, the person acting on behalf of the prefect was Yan Rou's younger brother Yan Zhi.
Speaking of Yan Zhi, he is actually not an incompetent person.
In the early years, Ke Bineng had some conflicts with Tian Yu, the governor of Youzhou. At the same time, it may be that Ke Bineng wanted to test Cao Wei's bottom line, so Ke Bineng once took advantage of Tian Yu's trip to lead his troops to surround Tian Yu. Yu.
At that time, Yan Rou organized soldiers and horses in Dai County as a backing, and asked Yan Zhi to negotiate with Ke Bineng on his behalf. Yan Zhi successfully persuaded Ke Bineng and solved the siege of Tian Yu.
Therefore, this person's ability is actually not too bad, at least he has certain abilities in talking skills.
But the problem is that even Yan Zhi himself knows that his ability is not even close to that of his brother.
Deng Ai led a "hundred-thousand-thousand-strong army" to attack Daijun, but the entire Daijun only had a total of 30,000 soldiers.
What's even more terrible is that in order to prevent Ke Bineng and Bu Dugen's rebellion from spreading to Youzhou, and also to prepare for the counter-rebellion in advance, Yan Rou assigned Daijun soldiers to the border counties in advance. Time cannot be called back at all.
Once the border defense line is broken by the Shu thieves, the Shu thieves may be able to break through and drive straight in.
Under this situation, Yan Zhi really had no choice but to stop talking nonsense and persuade Bu Dugen and Liu Bao to retreat, right? !
Yan Zhi actually knew very well that the last time he was able to persuade Kebi Neng to withdraw his troops was entirely due to the current situation and a combination of various factors.
First of all, Ke Bineng did not really want to rebel. He just had conflicts with Tian Yu and wanted to use this to teach Tian Yu a lesson and force Tian Yu to make concessions in foreign policy.
Secondly, at that time, Kebi was able to use 30,000 cavalry to besiege Tian Yu's traveling escort force of less than 3,000 people. They attacked for seven days but still could not capture it. In addition, Yan Rou had already organized Daijun soldiers and could go north to rescue at any time. Tian Yu and Ke Bineng had no chance of winning, so they took advantage of the situation and retreated from the siege.
Third, the Wei Dynasty at that time was during the period when Cao Rui was in power. Although its territory shrank a lot, its strength was still there. There was still Cao Zhen in the court, and Cao Xiu and others were in charge. They may not be able to defeat the Shu thieves, but the Battle of Liaodong proved that , it is still very easy to deal with the surrounding alien races like Ke Bi Neng.
The combination of these three conditions led to Yan Zhi's success in persuading Ke Bi to withdraw from the siege.
But now, the situation is completely different.
The Wei Dynasty is now defeated on three fronts in Hanoi, Jizhou, and Bingzhou, and the Shu thieves are about to reach Yecheng in their Northern Expedition. Under such circumstances, you asked Yan Zhi to persuade Bu Dugen, Liu Bao, and others to retreat. How could they retreat easily? !
His brother may have this prestige, but Yan Zhi knows very well that he can only take advantage of the situation and cannot be compared with his brother.
What's even more terrible is that even if Yan Zhi has followed the strategy left by his elder brother and ordered all counties to defend to the death, the opponent is Deng Ai.
Deng Ai may not be as good as Yan Zhi in terms of prestige and methods against surrounding foreign races, but when it comes to military strategy, Yan Rou is no match for Deng Ai when she goes into battle in person.
Maybe even Wang Jun can't compare.
In the battle to attack Daijun, Deng Ai's troops were divided into four groups. Bu Dugen and Liu Bao attacked Shenhe and Gaoliu counties respectively, while Deng Ai led troops to attack Pingyi and Wang Ji attacked Banshi County.
Normally, judging from the geographical location map, most people would think that the focus of Deng Ai's army's attack this time must be Pingyi.
After all, Pingyi is a place with Taihang Mountain to the south and Yanmen Mountain to the west. Pingyi itself is at the node of the official road from Yanmen County to Dai County. It is the gateway to Dai County, and it is also a position that is easy to defend but difficult to attack.
Moreover, the Shu thieves who attacked Pingyi were personally led by the commander Deng Ai. No matter how they looked at it, they were going to enter Dai County by storming Pingyi.
Yan Zhi also thought so, so he hoarded a full 10,000 county soldiers in Pingyi and placed one-third of Daijun's main force here.
As for the other three counties, Shenhe and Gaoliu counties are on the east side of Yanmen Mountain and protected by the Great Wall to the north. Most of Bu Dugen and Liu Bao's troops are cavalry. If they want to break through the Great Wall protection and invade these two counties, they will The few troops they have are far from enough.
Banshi County is on the south side, backed by the Taihang Mountains and surrounded by mountains. It is also a place that is easy to defend but difficult to attack. Yan Zhi did not take it lightly. He arranged five thousand people to guard here. It is more than enough to defend this small county.
With such a defensive deployment, at least in Yan Zhi's opinion, the problem should not be big. But even Yan Zhi did not expect that the first place to fall was Banshi County.
Deng Ai personally led the troops to attack Pingyi, but he never put the breakthrough point in Pingyi.
Although Deng Ai arrived at Pingyi City with 20,000 troops, he only led 5,000 cavalry from the Tuoba clan and 15,000 temporarily transferred soldiers from Bingzhou and counties.
In order to confuse the defenders of Pingyi, Deng Ai specifically asked Tuoba's cavalry to dismount and pretend to be infantry.
As for the real breakthrough, Deng Ai chose Banshi County.
The 15,000 soldiers led by Wang Jun were the 15,000 soldiers from Deng Ai's headquarters. These 15,000 soldiers were the Yongzhou soldiers who had followed Deng Ai all the way into Bingzhou. Five thousand of them were still useless as flying troops. Led by Wang Ping's son Wang Xun.
And it was these five thousand useless flying troops, led by Wang Xunde, who rushed along the foothills of the Taihang Mountains, over the mountains and ridges, and suddenly appeared at the foot of Banshi County when the defenders were completely unprepared.
The guard general of Banshi County was also weird. He actually thought that this army that could cross mountains and ridges to appear under Banshi County had reached the end of its power. He even took the initiative to go out of the city to attack.
The combat effectiveness of the Wudang Fei Army, even if it does not fight in the mountains, is second only to the Northern Army of the Han Dynasty. Even the Southern Army may not be comparable.
In this way, Wang Xun easily defeated the Banshi County defenders who were fighting out of the city, and took advantage of the situation to capture Banshi County in one fell swoop.
After waiting for a few days, Wang Jun led his troops to join Wang Xun. Wang Jun led more than 10,000 people. Instead of going north to cooperate with Deng Ai to attack Pingyi, he went directly eastward to Dai City.
At this time, in Dai City, Yan Zhi only had 5,000 people guarding Dai County in critical condition.
(End of chapter)
