Chapter 1043 Jiang Wei’s Return
Of course Feng didn’t know what General Guan was thinking. He just said happily:
“Where is Bethjoh now? Call him over quickly.”
Hearing this, General Guan couldn't help but take a deep look at Feng Junhou, and then turned around and went out.
After a while, the tired Jiang Wei strode into the house, clasped his fists and saluted:
“See the king!”
"Boyo, sit down, sit down quickly!"
Feng Junhou warmly greeted Jiang Wei to sit down and said, "Farewell at Qiaoshan, we haven't seen each other for almost half a year, right?"
While he asked Jiang Wei to sit down, he prepared to pour tea for Jiang Wei himself.
"When we divided our troops at Qiaoshan, I thought we could lead the army to meet under the city of Chang'an. Unexpectedly, I just arrived in Chang'an and you were sent by the prime minister to suppress the bandits again."
"The two of us are only a few days apart, so we just passed each other."
Feng Junhou looked extremely happy and kept talking:
"In the past two months, the ground has been covered with winter snow, making it difficult for messengers to travel. I only know that you went to intercept the thieves this time, and the results were good. What is the specific situation? Can you tell me?"
“Returning to the king, I will be lucky enough to win this battle, annihilating thousands of thieves and capturing nearly 10,000 enemies, including the deputy general of the army.”
At this point, Jiang Wei let out a "tsk" with some regret, "The only thing I regret is that I didn't capture the handsome thief with my own hands."
“Who is this commander-in-chief who managed to escape from your hands?”
“I heard it was a man named Deng Ai, but he didn’t…”
Feng Junhou, who was pouring tea from the teapot, was startled when he heard the name, and his hand movements stopped.
He didn’t wait for Jiang Wei to finish speaking, and asked in silence:
“Deng Ai? Deng Shizai?”
It’s no wonder that he didn’t know the name of the commander of the Wei army under Xiaoguan City.
Because Hedong and Xiaoguan are separated by a whole Guanzhong.
When he came to Chang'an, Guanzhong was just being settled, and he had to deal with all kinds of things personally.
In addition, this time without Secretary Zhang Da, Feng Junhou was not only very busy, but at least he was very busy and often worked overtime.
Special military affairs are basically left to General Guan.
Also, as he said himself, it is inconvenient for messengers to travel between Chang'an and Anding in winter.
There are various reasons, so he didn't know that the commander of the Wei army's partial division that was in death was actually Deng Ai.
Jiang Wei couldn't help being a little surprised when he saw Feng Junhou's appearance:
“Have you heard of Deng Ai’s name?”
"Oh, I heard that when we were in Anding, someone once compared him with Shi Bao."
Feng Junhou wiped away the tea spilled on the table as if nothing had happened, then turned around and handed the tea to Jiang Wei:
“What? Judging from Boyo’s tone, that Deng Ai actually escaped?”
Jiang Wei took the tea, thanked him, and then explained:
"That's not true. Before the bandits were defeated, he had already died in the rebel army. The general was unable to capture him personally, so I feel a bit regretful."
“Died in the rebellion?”
Hearing the news, Feng Junhou was stunned again, "Deng Ai died in the rebellion?"
Just a moment after Jiang Wei came in, he saw the prince losing his composure one after another. No matter how slow he was, he noticed that something was not right.
It is just that Junhou just said that he had only heard of this person and did not seem to know him.
For a while, he couldn't ask more questions.
“Tell me carefully, why did Deng Ai die in the rebellion?”
Feng Junhou was in a daze for a while, and then he spoke.
“No.” Jiang Wei responded, organized his words, and then started talking about the past:
“Although Deng Ai is the commander-in-chief of that band of thieves, he was promoted by Sima Yi in an exceptional manner, and his deputy commander-in-chief is the veteran general Wang Shuang.”
"When I first led the troops to Xiaoguan, they had the effect of a surprise attack and were able to subdue the masses. Unexpectedly, after the prime minister wiped out 50,000 elite troops of thieves, the retreat of the troops led by Deng Ai was cut off."
"At that time, Sima Yi asked him to retreat along the Jing River to Chang'an. When Deng Ai retreated, he expected that Chang'an was not safe, so he wanted to attack Anding County and Linjing, and went to the hometown of Beidi County."
"Wang Shuang was not convinced by Deng Ai, so he had a disagreement with him. It was at that time that the last general led his troops to Xinping County to intercept them."
After Jiang Wei said so much, his mouth felt dry, so he picked up the tea cup and took a sip.
Feng Yong stood up silently, walked to the opposite wall, pulled off the big cloth hanging on it, and a huge map appeared in front of the two of them.
He stared at the map for a while and then said:
“If An Ding had not been guarded by Liu Yin and Deng Ai had planned it, it is hard to say what the final outcome would have been.”
The old home of Beidi County is where the Han army is empty.
And to the north of Beidi County’s hometown is Jiuyuan’s hometown.
There were only thousands of rebel troops led by Liu Liang and Xu Xun, not to mention the Xianbei people who had just slaughtered tens of thousands of them.
If the more than 10,000 elite soldiers led by Deng Ai had gone there, there would have been another river of blood.
Even if it can be settled in the end, it will still be a piece of cake.
Jiang Wei followed and said with some fear:
“Who says it’s not the case? Fortunately, their generals are at odds with each other, but it is the general who takes advantage.”
"At that time, I was blocking the river valley in front of the thieves, and General Liu was behind them to threaten the retreat. They still formed a formation to resist for more than ten days. Finally, the army ran out of food, and then they broke up."
“The general noticed through the telescope that there was a sign of chaos in the enemy formation, and immediately ordered the attack on the camp. Unexpectedly, it was too late. Deng Ai refused to surrender and had a dispute with Wang Shuang. In the end, Wang Shuang led his own soldiers and killed him.”
“How did you learn about these things?”
“Some of them were reported by Wang Shuang, and some were obtained from defeated soldiers.”
After Feng Yong listened, he didn't speak for a long time. He just looked at the map steadily, and finally sighed in a low voice: "Dead? Just like this?"
Moreover, he died in the chaos.
In the original history, Deng Ai, who personally destroyed the Shu Han Dynasty, was quite astonishing when he led the army for the first time. Unexpectedly, he died in the chaos in the end.
Turning around and looking at the heroic and high-spirited Jiang Wei, Feng Junhou suddenly smiled strangely:
“It would be better to die.”
It seems that Jiang Wei also died in the rebellion in the original history.
Now these two people are actually the other way around.
Thinking of this, Feng Junhou asked one more question:
“Have you seen Deng Ai’s body with your own eyes?”
Jiang Wei nodded: "The last general has brought his head back."
That means, completely dead?
fine!
“Where is Wang Shuang?”
“The general has also brought him back.”
“Good! Beth Jo has accomplished a great feat this time.”
They lured the enemy at Qiaoshan and wiped out thousands of thieves. The first troops came to Chang'an City and moved to Jingshui to kill nearly 20,000 thieves.
Must have a record of success and have meaningful political significance.
If General Guan hadn't been so good at fighting and Feng Junhou's performance was so dazzling, the battle in Guanzhong would have been the most eye-catching emerging general in the Han army.
Hearing what Feng Junhou said, Jiang Wei felt a little embarrassed:
“The final general relied on the cultivation of the prime minister and the princes, and he had a lot of luck.”
Apart from anything else, over the years, due to the material support from Liangzhou, the weapons of the Tiger Infantry on hand are somewhat sharper than others, and the armor is much higher than that of other armies.
What is this if not cultivation?
What is this if not luck?
Do others have such luck?
(End of this chapter)