Chapter 987: Fraudulent Yanmen
From the perspective of the Wei State, from the beginning of the Battle of Guanzhong, the most cunning thief Feng's whereabouts were elusive.
So the monarchs and ministers of the Wei State naturally had to do their best to strengthen the defenses in Guanzhong and prevent Feng, the best at attacking, from taking advantage of the loopholes.
To the south of Bingzhou is Hedong County, across the river from Guanzhong, which is very convenient for support.
So while Cao Rui asked Qin Lang to lead Wanluo's 50,000 Chinese troops to Guanzhong, he also issued an edict to ask Bi Gui, the governor of Bingzhou, to immediately support Guanzhong.
In the past few years, Bi Gui persecuted the Hu people in Bingzhou too much, which led to Bu Dugen's rebellion, and later he lost his troops and generals outside the fortress.
If it weren't for the fact that his son married a princess, he would be considered a clan relative.
Moreover, Cao Rui just needs relatives and relatives to balance the family. I am afraid that Bi Gui has long been dismissed as the governor of Bingzhou.
Bi Gui also knew that Cao Rui was dissatisfied with him.
So when Qin Lang led the army to Bingzhou, he kept his posture very low.
He even wanted to give up his car and take Qin Lang into the Governor's Mansion in Bingzhou.
Fortunately, Li Xigu, who was serving as the governor of Bingzhou at that time, gave advice and avoided the flattery that made the world laugh at him.
It can be seen that in order to regain Cao Rui's trust, Bi Gui tried his best.
At this time, he finally expected His Majesty’s edict. How could he dare to be a little negligent?
Bingzhou Frontier Fortress has been peaceful and uneventful over the past few years.
Moreover, Bi Gui has been the governor of Bingzhou for many years, so he knows that when Yanmen Fortress was first built, there were no troops to guard it.
So in order to gather enough troops, he even removed two thousand of the three thousand Wei troops in Yanmensai, leaving only one thousand as a pretense. The leader was just an ordinary school captain.
This Wei military captain learned from the mouths of the Hu people who fled back one after another that there was an enemy attack in Pingcheng.
However, Pingcheng was suddenly attacked by an army led by General Guan. If Xie Guini himself had not been captured, he himself would not have known where this group of enemies came from.
Not to mention the escaped barbarians, they don’t even know how many enemies they have.
Some say twenty or thirty thousand, some say fifty or sixty thousand, and some even say hundreds of thousands.
For a time, people inside Yanmen Fortress were panicked.
The leading captain of Yanmensai could not piece together the specific circumstances of the sneak attack on the enemy in Pingcheng from the mouths of the barbarians.
The only unified caliber is that the enemy is at least in units of tens of thousands.
He was so frightened that he hurriedly sent people to Jinyang to report the news, hoping that the governor would send people to reinforce him as soon as possible.
At the same time, he hoped that the enemies in the north were just barbarian tribes competing with Xieguini, and had no intention of going south.
Amid this uneasiness, as soon as the sun passed the zenith of the sky the next day, a cavalry force of thousands of people appeared under the fortress.
This cavalry was in a very embarrassed state, shouting loudly under the pass in a mess:
“Open the city gate, open the city gate quickly!”
“Which tribe are you from?”
The Wei Jun who was guarding the pass stuck out his head, looked at the barbarians below, and shouted.
"it's me!"
Xie Guini stood up with a look of misfortune on his face, lifted his felt hat, and raised his head so that the person behind the door could see clearly.
“Oh, it’s the leader of Xieguini, wait a minute.”
The Wei Military Academy on Guancheng looked at the chaos led by the leaked mud, but he was defeated.
Looking at the rear again, after confirming that there were no pursuers, he immediately sent people to open the city gate.
Xie Guini's status is rather special. After all, he is also the King of Guiyi, which is nominally much higher than his status as a captain.
Moreover, it is also the court's established policy to let the Xianbei Hu people guard Yanmen.
It doesn't matter whether Xie Gui Ni dies or not, but if Yanmen County loses its barrier as a result, he cannot bear the crime.
What's more, the Wei military commander at this time urgently needed to know the specific situation of the enemy in the north so that he could report clearly to Jinyang in Taiyuan County.
But there are only so many people on hand, and there is no way to send more people out to investigate the situation.
Now that Xie Guini has escaped back to the fortress, it just solves the immediate urgency of the Wei military commander.
Compared to those nonsense talkers, Xie Guini must know more about the real situation of the enemy.
As soon as the city gate opened, the barbarians rushed into the narrow passage.
In this chaos, an old soldier guarding behind the closed door seemed to have discovered something. He made a sound in his mouth and moved forward.
A young man who was following Xie Guini glanced at him and subconsciously tightened the knife at his waist.
As soon as the old soldier got close, the sword flashed, and half of the unsuspecting old soldier's head was chopped off.
The gray brains suddenly spilled all over the floor.
Poor him, he saw that these horse riders not only had stirrups on their bellies, but were also made of iron, so he wanted to step forward and take a closer look.
Huo Yan, who had never been able to be caught, was a knife.
The changes in the elbows and armpits caught the Wei army off guard.
"kill!"
After Huo Yi drew his sword, he no longer held back his hand. He directly raised the sword forward and gave orders loudly.
"kill!"
After receiving the order, the Hu Qi who were pouring into the pass suddenly drew their swords and rushed forward impatiently.
In a hurry from the head of the city, I was anxious to ask Wei Jun's school captain to the mud, but I didn't expect that I was going to face this situation.
“Enemy attack!”
The captain screamed sternly, without thinking much at the moment, he subconsciously turned around and ran towards the Guansai ramp.
It's just that he didn't shout this, but when he shouted, his identity was revealed.
“Shoot him!”
Huo Yi shouted sharply.
Several guardsmen who were sent to Huo Yi's side quickly got off their horses, lifted up the oilcloth used to cover their decorations, and unhooked the heavy crossbows on their horses.
Step on the crossbow ring with your feet, use both hands together, and use your waist strength to string the crossbow, release the arrow, and aim!
“Buzz!”
Several long arrows rushed towards the back of the captain who ran dozens of steps like lightning.
One shot hit the center of the back. The captain swayed, and the armor he wore seemed to have blocked the arrow.
Just another one followed closely and shot directly through the calf.
The calves, which are just wrapped in leather armor, can't stop this kind of demonic weapon.
The powerful momentum of the crossbow arrow carried him upwards for a few more steps, then he fell over and rolled down the ramp.
Yanmen Pass does not only have one pass. In fact, it has a total of two main passes, plus some large and small mountain passes and valleys, stretching for more than ten miles.
The Wei army only had about a thousand men, and each main pass was guarded by 500 men. As for the mountain passes and valleys, there was no one to guard them at all.
According to Feng Jishi's calculations, it is definitely impossible for three thousand people to defend these more than ten miles.
So as long as you move quickly enough and find an undefended valley, in the worst case, Yanmen Stop can only block your mother-in-law for four days at most.
It took one day to pass through the mountain pass, and three days to seize the Yanmen Fortress in a flanking attack. This was even when the defenders resisted desperately and the Han army could not attack the pass.
Guangwu County, behind Yanmen Fortress, is the most important support point for the pass.
If Guangwu County is not heavily guarded, then General Guan can easily attack Yanmen Fortress from the front and back and cut off the water source of the defenders on the mountain.
Most people become dehydrated after three days without drinking water.
Obviously, in this sneak attack on Yanmen Fortress, the worst case scenario did not happen.
Even close to the best-case scenario.
The people who were originally left to guard Yanmen Fortress were basically old and weak, and the best soldiers were sent to Guanzhong by Bi Gui.
Before the captain could stand up after rolling down the ramp, he was stabbed several times.
Guangwu County, which had only a few hundred local county soldiers behind Yanmen Fortress, learned that the Han army had passed Gouzhu Mountain and surrendered after hearing the news, without even using the internal troops that had been prepared long ago.
One day later, General Guan led his army into Guangwu County (which was later known as Dai County, which is not the same place as Dai County in Youzhou).
"I need someone to help me guard Guangwu County to prevent the Wei thieves from Youzhou from coming from the east and cutting off the retreat of the army."
General Guan occupied the official office of Guangwu County and took the lead. He swept his cold eyes at everyone and said:
"After all, the risk of going south this time is not small. Guangwu is the key retreat for the army. As long as Guangwu County is in hand, even if it is unfavorable to go south, we can return in time."
After scanning everyone, her eyes finally fell on Huo Yi.
Huo Yi understood that it was time for him to become a tool man again.
Hand take the initiative to come forward and ask for help:
“The general is willing to defend this place!”
General Guan nodded with satisfaction. A tool man must have the consciousness of a tool man. Isn't it just for now that he brought Huo Yi out this time?
After all, Huo Jun blocked the attack of tens of thousands of people with hundreds of people at Jiameng Pass, and made great contributions to the late emperor's capture of Shu.
After Huo Jun's death, the late emperor led all his ministers to mourn him and even stayed in front of his tomb. He was extremely proud for a while.
Huo Yi's performance over the years has proven that he is indeed worthy of General Huo.
General Guan is relieved that Guangwu County is left to him.
As for Huo Yi, he also knew that his move south was sudden.
General Guan must rely entirely on the speed of the cavalry. He is not a cavalry commander, so if he follows, he may not be able to exert much effort.
It is better to imitate your own master and guard the rear of the army, which will be a great achievement.
Anyway, he is in Liangzhou and has the support of Mrs. Zhang...
“How many people does General Huo plan to use to guard this place?”
Huo Yi pondered, he didn’t dare to ask this question:
"Three thousand people are enough. If less than 10,000 people come from Youzhou, the general will have the confidence not to let the Wei thieves go further west. If there are more than 10,000 people, the general must send people back within fifteen days to help."
Guan Ji glanced at Han Long and said with great confidence:
“General Huo can rest assured that even if Youzhou dares to send reinforcements, there will most likely not be more than 10,000 troops.”
Han Long was from Youzhou and had some friendship with Wang Xiong, the governor of Youzhou.
According to the information he provided, even when Tian Yu, who advocated the conquest of the Hu people, was still in Youzhou, the Wei army that went out of the fortress would basically not exceed 10,000 people.
Of course, Han Long’s intelligence is only one aspect.
Most importantly, General Guan also has a human body, so she has information that others don't know.
The main military forces of Wei State are basically concentrated in four places:
The first one is the Wanluo area, which is the elite central army under the personal control of the puppet emperor of Wei State.
The second one is the direction where the Wei State focuses its defense, Guanzhong.
The remaining two places, Yangzhou and Jingzhou, both faced the Wu Kingdom in the south.
In addition to these four places, the troops deployed by Jizhou, Youzhou and Bingzhou in Hebei are basically limited to self-protection.
Over the years, his family, Alang, tried every means, even if it was a squeeze, he still had to squeeze out supplies, just to attract Ke Bi to settle down in the Gaoque area of Yinshan Mountain.
Everyone thought this was to support Kebineng in order to put pressure on Guanzhong.
Even Sima Yi was confused by Alang's actions and sent troops to clear out the barbarians in the old area of Beidi County, just in case.
But General Guan, as the person beside Feng Jishi, knew that his Alang's ultimate goal was not at all.
He wanted to prevent Kebi Neng from getting angry after being defeated by Qin Lang and intensifying his efforts to harass the border fortresses of Youbin and Erzhou.
So he tried to move Kebineng away from the Youbin border. In fact, he was deliberately relieving the pressure on Wei's northern border.
The Han Dynasty has exerted great pressure on Guanzhong in recent years, and the Wei State has been thinking of ways to strengthen Guanzhong's defense.
Xian Yufu, who was originally stationed in Youzhou, has stayed in Guanzhong these years and never returned. This is the best example.
So when there is nothing going on at the border and there is police in Guanzhong, there is no reason for Wei to deploy too many troops in Hebei.
If the prime minister of the Han Dynasty leads a large army out of Hanzhong and acts like he is vowing to seize Guanzhong, Cao Rui will only intensify his efforts to recruit troops from Hebei.
Coincidentally, Bi Gui, the governor of Bingzhou, did not understand military strategy.
Wang Xiong, the governor of Youzhou, strongly advocated appeasing the Hu people in order to save money and food to support the court, so he did not hesitate to squeeze Tian Yu away.
This further aggravates the emptiness of the two states.
Use the general trend to induce the enemy to unknowingly make strategic maneuvers according to your own ideas, and the enemy will fall into the scheme without knowing it.
Such a temple calculation can only be accomplished by a true commander who uses the world as his chessboard.
This national strategy was mainly formulated by the Prime Minister of the Han Dynasty and the Marquis of Jiequanting.
The secondary participants are General Guan and Zhang Xiaosi.
One is Feng’s provider of specific tactics, and the other is Feng’s political intelligence supplement…
Under this level of strategic operation, no matter how powerful the generals are, the two armies will still be inferior.
The commander-in-chief has made strategic preparations. What General Guan has to do now is to break through Bingzhou, which is empty of troops, as quickly as possible in terms of tactics.
This tactic seems very risky, but in fact it is very promising:
Bingzhou governor Bi Gui does not understand military strategy and is not an enemy of the Liangzhou army;
There are not many troops in Youzhou. Even if Wang Xiong wanted to support him, the reinforcements would have to travel a long way across the Taihang Mountains. At that time, his own Alang had almost arrived.
So as long as you guard the retreat in Guangwu County and be careful, you can safely exit Bingzhou in the worst case.
As the saying goes, if you want to take something, you must give it first.
The Han Dynasty has indirectly helped Wei maintain stability on the northern border over the years, and now it's finally time to collect dividends from the Wei thieves!
How can the benefits of Feng Guiwang come in vain?
Huo Yi naturally did not have such overall information as General Guan. After hearing what General Guan said, he quickly assured:
"If it is true as the general said, then Yi can guarantee that Guangwu will not be lost!"
"Okay!" General Guan nodded, "I will hand over half the battalion of unmanned troops to you. On the other side of Pingcheng, there are more than a thousand soldiers resting in the city due to overwork."
"They will come over in a few days, and the soldiers who are lagging behind will catch up slowly. Then you just have to gather them."
Huo Yi was overjoyed:
“That way, everything will be worry-free!”
After the arrangements were completed, General Guan fed the entire army and collected as many war horses as possible from the Xiegui Ni tribe to replenish their horse power.
On the second day, he couldn't wait to lead the only 12,000 people who came, and rolled southward without stopping.
After passing Yanmen Fortress, you will enter Xinxing County.
Xinxing County was established by Cao Cao in the 20th year of Jian'an (215 years).
The reason is that Cao Cao abandoned the four counties of Yunzhong, Dingxiang, Wuyuan, and Shuofang outside the Great Wall that were occupied by the Hu people, reduced them into counties, and placed them in the northern part of Taiyuan County.
At the same time, the northern part of Taiyuan County was divided and a separate Xinxing County was established.
The names of counties such as Dingxiang and Jiuyuan in the county come from this.
Cao Cao established Xinxing County, originally to resettle the people of Yunzhong, Dingxiang, Wuyuan, and Shuofang counties outside the Great Wall.
But in fact, most of these so-called common people are Huns who are attached to them.
The northern Xiongnu among the five Xiongnu tribes was placed by Cao Cao in the Jiuyuan County area of Xinxing County, guarding the northern throat of Taiyuan County.
If General Guan wanted to lead his army south to Jinyang, he would have to pass through Jiuyuan County (later Xinzhou City) where the northern Xiongnu was located.
When General Guan led his army across the Hutuo River (later Hutuo River), the frontline of the army was directed towards Jiuyuan County.
At this time, Bi Gui, the governor of Bingzhou in Jinyang City, learned that the Han army was less than 300 miles north.
ˆPS:
The picture of Guan Ji marching into the army, please click to comment, the first floor has not been simple since ancient times.
(End of this chapter)