Chapter 42: The Hanzhong Strategy (3)
The next morning, Meixian dispatched a team of about 300 people, surrounded by a carriage. The leader Hao Yaoqi was the one who took the carriage, and Gao Guiying was naturally sitting on the carriage. Yang Xiao's team also embarked on the journey at the same time.
The bandits broke through Meixian to Hanzhong, and the thieves destroyed the counties and burned the households. Except for Fengxiang, all counties were destroyed. The people had no clothes or food. Most of them were wrapped in the bandits and went westward. The few people were still breathing in the world, but they could not fill their stomachs and their clothes were not covered. They ran around and wailed with their children.
All the way he saw this, Hao Yaoqi followed Yang Xiao's instructions and gathered the hungry people. Before he arrived in Hanzhong, the number had reached 3,000. Yang Xiao and others also successfully intervened in the ranks of the bandits under Hao Yaoqi's arrangement, and were then inserted into the back team by Hao Yaoqi, so as not to destroy the major events in Hanzhong opposite Gao Guiying. As for military and horses and other combat preparations, they were handed over to Li Ying, and he led a team of people to escort them, and just hung Hao Yaoqi from a distance.
As expected, when Yang Xiao arrived in Hanzhong, Gao Yingxiang could not capture the city of Hanzhong for a long time, and the riots under his command were not allowed to eat. In desperation, he led a large army to leave Hanzhong and headed for Pingliang. Li Zicheng took the opportunity to persuade Gao Yingxiang and left more than 10,000 bandits to stay in the camp to block Li Bei's way. Although Li Zicheng did not become the guardian of the Yingpan, he left his adopted son Li Shuangxi and the Houying General Gao Jie, which added a lot of strength to the Hanzhong camp.
Li Shuangxi and Gao Jie defended the camp just to block the general Li Bei's way, so as not to attack the rebels at the rear. They also knew that he was strong and dared not siege, and just guarding was considered a great achievement.
Li Shuangxi and the other two dared not attack, but Li Bei was unable to attack. He was sent to Hanzhong by Chen Qiyu to defend the city. As long as Hanzhong is not broken, everything will go smoothly. If the bandits outside the city do not cause trouble for him, he will naturally be idle. After so many years of suppressing bandits, he has already figured out the rules of the bandits' actions. He firmly believed that siege was just a temporary strategy. When the bandits had no choice but to attack, he naturally fled and left Hanzhong obediently.
In this way, the officials and bandits had a very tacit understanding at the city of Hanzhong, and no one would break this balance.
On this day, Li Shuangxi and Gao Jie were drinking in the tent. Suddenly, he received a scout report, saying that the Mei County guard Hao Yaoqi brought three thousand men and his nephew Gao Guiying arrived.
When the two heard this, they couldn't help but feel excited. It doesn't matter whether Hao Yaoqi comes or not, but the key is that Gao Guiying also comes with her. Everyone knows that Gao Yingxiang has no children, only one niece and one nephew. Both of them are people who can speak in front of Gao Yingxiang. Now Gao Guiying has just been rescued and is still in shock. If she pleases her at this time, she will say a few good words in front of Gao Yingxiang, and she will not say that the strength of the two can be improved a little.
The two looked at each other and immediately made up their minds. They opened the middle door and set up a banquet to entertain Gao Guiying. During this period, they talked about the reason why Gao Guiying was rescued, and when they learned that Li Guo was captured, they could not help but scold Yang Xiaodog Official.
When he first met Hao Yaoqi, Li Shuangxi saw Hao Yaoqi's men. These three thousand people were in poverty and ended, with tattered clothes and pale faces and thin skin. Their miserable appearance was even better than that of beggars. Li Shuangxi and Gao Jie naturally did not take such people into their hearts. Anyway, there was still open space in the Hanzhong camp, so he placed these three thousand people in the camp. During the meal, Hao Yaoqi found that Gao Yingxiang's brigade had already left, and he couldn't help but feel excited and sighed that Yang Xiao was looking for the enemy's initiative.
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In Hanzhong City, the original government office had long been turned into a military conference hall, and orders were issued from here, constantly commanding the defenders of Hanzhong City and resisting the attack of the bandits.
Usually, it is extremely busy, but it is quiet at this time. Li Bei, the general who was transferred by Chen Qiyu to defend the city because the bandits attacked Hanzhong, sat upright on a big chair, and under the hall were the deputy generals and the backbone of the Qianzong guarding the city.
The person standing in the hall was Wang Zhengnan, who was sent by Yang Xiao. He entered Hanzhong City after receiving Yang Xiao's orders, and then found the government office and asked Li Bei.
Although the Zuo Liangchen possessed by Yang Xiao was unknown, Zuo Liangyu was still a little famous. Wang Zhengnan also learned to be traitor, so he simply reported Zuo Liangyu's reputation directly, saying that he had a good plan to defeat the enemy, so he had the opportunity to meet Li Bei. He immediately reported Yang Xiao's plan to cooperate inside and outside to defeat the bandits together to Li Bei, which led to the current scene.
"grown ups!"
After hearing the news brought by Wang Zhengnan, Wu Weifan, the first deputy general under Li Bei, stood up and bowed and said, "Although Zuo Liangchen is Zuo Liangyu's cousin, he is a scholar and has experienced few battles. Now, just because he has entered the camp, he wants to cooperate inside and outside and ask the army to attack. If there is any mistake, the consequences may be unimaginable!"
"That's right!" Another man stood up: "Since the suppression of the enemy, Zuo Liangyu has always been defeated and won many times. He has experienced many battle formations for a long time, let alone a scholar. According to Governor Chen's flying confiscation, our army's primary task is to protect Hanzhong. Hanzhong is not lost, and there is no great achievement. If Hanzhong loses, no matter how great the achievements are."
The Hanzhong incident really came to Li Bei's heart. The reason why he was transferred here was to protect Hanzhong. Both of them said that Lao Cheng was a polite strategy, and he had no need to take risks as he was. As long as he guarded Hanzhong, he would be a great achievement.
"Sir, you must not miss the opportunity! Our troops have already made complete preparations when they enter the thief camp. Just wait for the thief to be ordered, and they will immediately launch it. Eliminate the thief's heads and make the thief heads without a head. Then set fire to scramble the enemy's corners. The thief's heads have no military discipline to speak of, and it will inevitably be in chaos. As long as the army attacks, the siege of Hanzhong will be resolved." Wang Zhengnan saw that things were not good, so he hurriedly persuaded him.
"All preparations!" Wu Weifan snorted coldly: "The movement of the army is not a trivial matter. There are tens of thousands of bandits outside, and just one hundred of you are not enough to add to the thieves."
After hearing Wu Weifan's words, Li Bei pondered for a moment and said, "Returning to your lord, Hanzhong is of great importance. My troops and horses protect Hanzhong are also stretched and unable to attack."
"Sir, my elders dare not ask for troops to attack the enemy. I just want to ask the elders to launch troops to cover up the enemy when the bandit camp is in chaos." When Wang Zhengnan came to Hanzhong, he received Yang Xiao's order. Now Li Bei's reaction was exactly the same as Yang Xiao expected, and immediately made a statement according to what Yang Xiao said.
"The bandits are in chaos! Wu Weifan laughed and said, "If only a hundred soldiers want to break the bandits, your elders will not think that he is Gan Xingba alive!"
At that time, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms had already spread. The story was widely circulated during this period. What Wu Weifan said was the joke that Gan Ning had kicked Cao's camp without losing it. Wang Zhengnan naturally heard it. When Wu Weifan was unceremonious, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and wanted to refute it.
But when I think about this matter being of great importance, although Yang Xiao's strength has a clever plan, he cannot swallow the bandits. On the side of the official army, the strongest person is the General Li in front of him. In desperation, he can only suppress his anger: "The general is joking."
"A little soldier, how can you have the leisure to make such a joke with you. If it weren't for your elders being General Zuo's cousin, you wouldn't even have to enter Hanzhong City and would have been arrested as a spy." Wu Weifan continued with a stern face.
Wang Zhengnan smiled disapprovingly, not caring about Wu Weifan's sarcasm. When he received the order from Yang Xiao, he had already expected that there would be a blame, so he ignored it. He just clasped his fists and said, "The bandits were pacified and rebelled, Shaanxi was in chaos, and the government and the country was shocked. The country was in trouble, and it was time for the adults to help the poor and resolve the troubles of the court."
Chapter completed!