Chapter 697 Secret War
Zhao Guang looked at Guan Ji's frosty face and knew that there was no way he could get a breakthrough from her, so he had no choice but to walk out the door dejectedly.
Yang Wanwan, who was waiting outside the door, looked at Zhao Guang's face. Although he was a little embarrassed, he still asked: "Erlang, how are you?"
Zhao Guang was dejected and did not answer.
At this time, I heard another voice inside: "Yang Weiran, please come in."
As soon as the two heard this, they looked at each other. Zhao Guang reacted very quickly, grabbed Yang Wanwan, opened his mouth, and wanted to say something.
In the end, he sighed sadly, but his words changed: "Wei Ran, my sister needs to recuperate. Remember to speak well and be careful when you go in."
Yang Wanwan nodded and patted the back of his hand: "I've written it down, Erlang, don't worry."
“I’ve met my sister-in-law.”
Yang Qianwan bowed his head and went in, bowing politely.
This time, Guan Ji changed her posture, sat upright, and looked at Yang Wanwan.
"This time, you have been implicated. In addition, Erlang likes to fool around, so you have been following him around these days, thank you for your hard work."
“What did my sister-in-law say?” Yang Wanwan said quickly, “Speaking of which, we were indeed negligent this time, and that’s how Cao thieves took advantage of us.”
Guan Ji praised: "If Erlang was as enlightened as you, I wouldn't have scolded him like that just now. I will definitely let Erlang return to Jincheng this time."
"Please work harder and accompany him back. This is also your brother's wish."
Yang Wanwan nodded in agreement: "Yes, I understand."
Feeling that the sitting position was squeezing her stomach, Guan Ji leaned back again and closed her eyes slightly: "When you go back and pass Hanzhong, let Li Wenxuan know so that everyone in Hanzhong can calm down."
“After returning to Jincheng, I must also tell Deng Weizhe and ask them to remind the brothers in the association.”
Zhao Guang's eldest son was Zhao Yun, the governor of Longyou, Li Yi's eldest son was Li Hui, the governor of Nanzhong's surrender, and Deng Liang's eldest son was Deng Zhi, the deputy of the governor of Longyou.
These few can be regarded as the most prominent and powerful children of the Han Dynasty.
At the same time, he was also the leader of the Xinghan Society.
Yang Wanwan was startled when he heard this. He raised his head and looked at Guan Ji, but Guan Ji seemed to be concentrating with her eyes closed and her expression was calm.
He suppressed some uneasiness in his heart and replied: "I understand."
Could it be that the reason behind Erlang's resignation was not that simple?
Seeing that Guan Ji had no intention of explaining, Yang Wanwan had to bow again and retreat.
After the two of them left, Guan Ji let out a long sigh, seeming to be sighing to herself or talking to Amei.
“I remember the last time Alang was imprisoned, the people in the house were panicked, and the people in the Xinghan meeting were also in disarray. I already thought it was troublesome enough that time, but I didn’t expect it was nothing compared to now.”
Amei lowered her head and said nothing, silently rubbing her legs.
Guan Ji didn't expect her to answer, so she just asked: "Is there any news from Siniang?"
“Back to Nujun, Madam Zhang has already passed through Jicheng. If you hurry, you can reach Pingxiang tomorrow. If you wait a little longer, you should arrive the day after tomorrow.”
Amei replied.
Guan Ji nodded: "I will always feel more relaxed if Si Niang can come here. When it comes to weighing all parties and planning everything, she is much better than me."
Speaking of this, Guan Ji showed a look that looked like a smile but not a smile, a look that seemed like annoyance but not annoyance.
“It’s just a pity...”
As for what she regretted, she didn't say anything.
Amei lowered her head and pretended not to hear anything.
Guan Ji turned to look at her and smiled: "Now it seems that you are the most relaxed."
Zhao Guang didn't get the results he wanted from Guan Ji, so he was still thinking about waiting for two days.
Unexpectedly, when he saw the figure appearing at the door of the yard the next day, his face suddenly changed, and he turned around and ran away.
The visitor shouted: "Zhao Erlang, how dare you not come over if you see me?"
Zhao Guang's body that had just turned around suddenly stopped, with a smile that was uglier than crying: "Sister, why are you here?"
Huang Wudie walked over and grabbed his ear: "You still know how to call me sister? Why did you come to Pingxiang if I didn't ask you to go back to Jincheng early?"
“Ouch! Sister, let go first, someone is here, oh, oh, it hurts, it hurts!”
Zhao Guang quickly called out.
As soon as Huang Wudie saw Zhao Guang, he was the only one in his eyes.
At this time, after being reminded by him, I was startled to realize that there was still someone in the distance, so I let go of my hand in a somewhat embarrassed manner.
Yang Wanwan was even more embarrassed than she was. He cupped his hands at the two of them with a look of understanding on his face, and ran away without saying a word.
Huang Wudie and Zhao Guang looked at each other with a bit of embarrassment on their faces.
With their eyes facing each other, Huang Wudie saw clearly the scars on Zhao Guang's face. He quickly took it over and looked at it carefully: "What's going on on your face? Could it be that the stone girl of the Guan family hit you again?"
Thinking of this, she suddenly became angry: "Wait until I go find her to settle the score!"
Zhao Guang quickly grabbed her and said, "Sister, no, it's not Sister Guan, it's your lord..."
When Huang Wudie heard that it was Old General Zhao who beat him, her face showed distress. She wanted to speak, but she didn't know how to say it. She could only comfort and complain: "You are always disobedient!"
Zhao Guang originally thought that he was too embarrassed to see Huang Wudie, but he didn't expect that the other party would suddenly appear in front of him.
As Yang Wanwan left, the embarrassment in the yard disappeared. Zhao Guang realized that he was at a loss at the moment, feeling happy and a little ashamed at the same time.
“Sister, you haven’t said anything yet, why are you here?”
"You have the nerve to ask!" Huang Wudie was a man's heart, but she was not as shy as Zhao Guang. "It's spring, why don't I go to Hanzhong to see my own fields?"
“Unexpectedly, I heard the news from Longyou while I was still on the road. I thought I would meet you when I arrived in Hanzhong, but I didn’t know until I arrived in Hanzhong that you had been staying in Longyou and never came back.”
Huang Wudie saw the shame on Zhao Guang's face and softened his tone: "I know your temper. You may seem heartless, but you are actually quite strong."
"It was easy to say before. After all, there is an elder brother above you. It's not your turn to do anything. You know your own family affairs and don't have any extravagant expectations. It saves trouble."
"Unexpectedly, in the past few years, you have suddenly turned over and reached a point that others may not be able to reach in their lifetime. I am happy for you, but also worried for you."
Zhao Guang was still ashamed, but Huang Wudie not only did not blame him for losing his position in the army, but actually comforted him, and he felt relieved.
Then he realized that Huang Wudie was holding his hand, and his heart suddenly started pounding.
He asked somewhat stutteringly: "What are you worried about?"
Huang Wudie was unaware of his abnormality. When she heard his question, she explained: "Because your mind is unstable, and you were praised too high all of a sudden, I'm afraid you won't be able to bear it."
Said, pointed at him again, "Just like it is now."
Only then did Zhao Guang realize it, and he felt both grateful and grateful, and even more ashamed.
But he was still a little unconvinced: "My brother's position is not much higher than mine? He is only one year older than me."
Huang Wudie was both angry and funny: "You are so strong, but you dare to compare yourself with your brother?"
“Brother, along the way, has there ever been a time when he didn’t make a deep decision before making a decision? Just look at my brother’s high position today, but have you ever thought about how many plans he has?”
“After this incident, if you can calm down and reflect carefully, it will definitely be of great benefit to you in the future. Why bother to stick to temporary gains and losses?”
"Just listen to my words: As long as my brother doesn't fall, you will get up again one day. You should listen to your brother carefully and go back to Jincheng first."
When he said "return to Jincheng", Huang Wudie's face turned slightly red.
She thought her hint was obvious enough, but Zhao Guang was a person who didn't understand the style.
He always felt that he could not bear it: "I don't want to go back to Jincheng..."
When Huang Wudie heard this, she was disappointed at first, and then she looked at his appearance and realized that he didn't react at all.
At the moment, he was both ashamed and angry. With a strong hand, he grabbed Zhao Guang directly: "Don't talk nonsense! Let me ask you, are you going to come back or not?"
He was rolled over and twisted by Huang Wudie, and he shouted in pain: "Sister, don't do this, it hurts!"
"Go back to me first, or come back with me?"
“Go back, go back, I’m going back with my sister!”
Zhao Guang, a hero, did not want to suffer the immediate loss and quickly begged for mercy.
Huang Wudie then smiled with satisfaction and let him go: "When we go back, we just go to see Uncle Wei."
Zhao Guangqi asked: "Why is this?"
The elder brother is not compatible with Wei Yan, so he naturally wants to follow his brother's footsteps.
“Don’t be nagging, just follow me!”
Huang Wudie shouted.
Zhao Guang said angrily: "Whatever my sister says, I will do whatever my little brother does."
Just when Huang Wudie and Zhao Guang met, Zhang Xingyi also walked into another courtyard.
She raised her eyes and saw Guan Ji lying on a rocking chair, basking in the sun in the yard. She quickly stepped forward and said, "I've seen my sister."
Seeing Zhang Xingyi walk in, Guan Ji quickly waved and said affectionately: "Sister, come here quickly. I have been waiting for you all day. I was still talking about why you haven't arrived yet."
Zhang Xingyi walked in small steps and walked to Guan Ji. His eyes fell on her slightly bulging belly. An inexplicable look flashed in his eyes, but a smile appeared on his face: "Sister, do you miss me?"
Guan Ji took her hand and asked her to sit next to her: "How could you not want to? You don't know. As soon as this Erlang incident came out, fortunately, you wrote a letter to remind me."
"This made Alang and I realize the seriousness of the matter. Otherwise, if we were too careless and were really taken advantage of by villains, it would be too late to regret it."
Zhang Xingyi saw that Guan Ji’s expression was sincere and did not seem to be fake, and her eyes turned into crescent moons: "My sister and I are as close as sisters. How can I stand by and watch this kind of thing?"
“Besides, my brother has a lot of connections now. Not to mention anything else, just because of his relationship with the royal family, I have to keep an eye on him.”
When Guan Ji heard this, her expression remained unchanged and she clapped her hand: "That's good. These days, you don't know how much I am thinking. No one is around to help, and I always feel that I have no bottom."
"Now that you are here, I can finally feel relieved." As she said this, she puffed out her belly. "It's always easy to get tired when you're pregnant."
Then she wanted to get up ouch.
Zhang Xingyi's face stiffened, and she quickly and carefully supported Guan Ji.
"It's easy to forget things when you're pregnant." Guan Ji took Zhang Xingyi's hand, and the two of them walked inside intimately, "In addition, seeing you, I was so happy that I forgot that you were traveling a long way. come over."
“You must be tired and hungry. It just so happens that I am pregnant and always want to eat something..."
Zhang Xingyi lowered his head and looked at Guan Ji's belly, which was not big at all. The corners of his mouth twitched, and the smile on his face was a little forced.
“It’s a bit forced indeed.”
Feng Yong looked at the map, opened his right hand into a palm, and struck it on the Tao River. "If the Qiang and Hu rebels want to escape, they can flee directly along the Tao River into Jincheng County, Liangzhou."
He gestured at the distance between Shouyang and Didao, and shook his head, "Under the current circumstances, it is too difficult for us to surround them all."
"They may not go to Liangzhou." Gongsun Zheng pointed to Daxia County to the west of Didao and said, "Daxia, Panghan, and Heguan are the places where Qiang and Hu gather."
“Now that Wuhan has been invaded by the Tufa tribe and Daxia County is threatened, some of them just want to go back and defend Daxia.”
“So the suggestion from the staff is to send a surprise force to bypass Didao and guard the old pass downstream.”
“In this way, not only can they prevent them from escaping towards Liangzhou, but they can also threaten Daxia County, killing two birds with one stone.”
After Feng Yong heard this, his eyes fell on the Gu Pass not far away from Didao's bet, and he muttered: "It is indeed a good method. But what is the situation there?"
"The situation is similar to that of Daxia County. There are also Qiang and Hu tribes living there, but because it is located on the main road from Didao to Liangzhou, it was not in the hands of the Qiang and Hu before."
"It was during the severe drought last year that the Qiang and Hu defeated Guguan. Therefore, the troops sent out not only had to find a way to cross the Tao River, but also defeated the Qiang and Hu who were guarding there."
Feng Yong's eyes fell on Liu Hun, "Polu, Pingxiang's cavalry army was organized by you yourself. This battle is the first battle after forming the army. Are you sure?"
When Liu Hun heard this, he immediately stood up, clasped his fists and shouted loudly: "The last general dares to issue a military order!"
If Feng Yong barely knew a little bit about the training of infantry, then he knew nothing about cavalry.
Even so, he also understood that although the cavalry of various ethnic groups drawn by Liu Hun omitted the practice of riding skills, what could be accomplished in one winter?
At most, they can barely understand simple military orders, and they are no longer a group of wandering soldiers like before.
But fortunately, his opponents are also a bunch of people who have been put together haphazardly, so Feng Yong is not worried about this.
"Your Majesty, what we have to worry about is what will happen to the Liangzhou Cao thieves in the west? If they know that we are heading west, I'm afraid they will take action."
Gongsun Zheng reminded.
"Don't worry." Feng Yong shook his head, "Before this, General Zhao has already led people to inspect Nan'an. The Cao thieves in Jincheng will definitely defend Nan'an with all their strength."
A few days ago, Feng Yong informed Zhao Yun of his actions. How could Zhao Yun not seize the opportunity?
"So they should be worried that we will enter Liangzhou. If they really dare to come, there will be ten thousand people at least. Then won't they hand over Yuzhong to General Zhao?"
Without Yuzhong, the bridgehead to guard against Nan'an became the bridgehead for the Han Dynasty to enter Liangzhou. This was much more serious than losing the entire Longxi.
Longxi was lost and retreated to Hexi, using the Yellow River as a natural barrier. It was not a big deal, not to mention that the west of Longxi was already an abandoned place.
But if Yuzhong is lost, one of the two most important strong support points on the east side of the Yellow River will be lost.
Without mutual coordination, it would only be a matter of time before the other fulcrum, Golden City, was destroyed.
Once these two places are lost, the Han can freely choose the place to cross the river and enter Hexi.
With the small number of troops in Liangzhou, there is no way to set up defenses everywhere. It will be a matter of time before the enemy falls.
"What we have to do now is to quickly capture Longxi before the Cao thieves on the Longshan side react."
Feng Yong said with finality.
To be honest, more than 100,000 Wei troops were stationed in Guanzhong, which put a lot of pressure on Longyou.
The loss of Yuezhi City is enough to show that they are not willing to sit back and watch Longyou fall into the hands of the Han.
“Go and call in all the leaders of the righteous army.”
Feng Yong groaned and said.
After a while, several Qiang and Hu Qushuai wearing robes entered the big tent and said to Feng Yong in unison: "I have met Feng Langjun."
Feng Yong nodded, "This time you can bring the warriors from the clan to help. I, Feng, am very grateful."
"Feng Langjun, what you said is out of context. As long as Feng Langjun calls, we can't wait to rush forward. We should be grateful to Feng Langjun for giving us such an opportunity to serve."
“That’s right, if Feng Langjun says a word, all the warriors in our clan will bravely come to listen to his orders!”
…
Feng Yong pressed his right hand to stop them from talking, "Since everyone has said so, I won't be pretentious."
"General Liu is about to lead his army to Gu Pass to fight against the rebels. I would like to ask for your help. As long as you can help General Liu capture Gu Pass, I will double the share of tea sold to you this year."
“And last winter, I had already brewed a lot of roasted knives in the south, and I will give them to you first when the time comes.”
"I will break all the cattle, sheep and horses captured in this battle into grain and exchange them for grain. At the same time, a strong prisoner of war can be exchanged for a piece of thick woolen cloth with me."
“Women and children are equal. Three men are exchanged for one horse. I will exchange you for whatever you harvest.”
As soon as these words came out, the eyes of several Qu Shuai were bright and they all swallowed their saliva.
Sure enough, following Feng Langjun on the expedition will bring great benefits!
Someone said: "Feng Langjun, can the prisoners of war be exchanged for tea leaves and burning knives?"
Feng Yong nodded and said with a smile: "Yes, as long as you have prisoners of war."
Everyone couldn't help but cheered and shouted: "Feng Langjun, when shall we set off?"
Feng Yong signaled to Liu Hun: "You only heard General Liu's orders. But I'm going to say something ugly up front. If in this battle, the military situation is unfavorable because you don't listen to General Liu's orders, don't blame me for being ungrateful." "
A few people responded noisily again.
(End of this chapter)