Mi Han

Chapter 539: Master 3 arrives and it’s hard to tell the truth from the lie

After the Battle of Xiangfan that year, all the counties in the south of Nanyang County asked Liu Bei to surrender.

Under such circumstances, Liu Bei newly established Yiyang County according to the needs of the current situation, and made all the counties in the south of Nanyang County recovered that year as subordinate counties of Yiyang County.

Liu Bei's move has two purposes.

The first purpose is to make Yiyang County a buffer zone between Jingzhou and the Central Plains, and expand the strategic depth of the Jihan regime in the Jingbei area.

With the existence of Yiyang County, even if Sima Yi, who is stationed in Wancheng, launches a surprise attack in the future, Zhang Fei, who is in charge of Xiangyang, will have enough reaction time to dispatch troops.

Liu Bei's first purpose is to defend, and his second purpose is to attack.

Yiyang County can be seen not only as a buffer zone, but also as a war base for the Han army in the Jingbei area.

If Jingzhou is going to make a northern expedition in the future, then the Jingzhou defender can first transport the soldiers, food and military supplies to Xinye City.

In this way, in the future, when Jingzhou defends the Northern Expedition, it will greatly reduce the time and be able to create combat opportunities as soon as possible.

That's exactly what Zhang Fei is doing now.

As early as the news of Mi Yang's victory in Liangzhou reached Xiangyang, Zhang Fei, who knew Liu Bei very well, knew that Liu Bei would definitely take advantage of this opportunity to launch the first Northern Expedition.

According to Longzhong's plan back then, once Yizhou sent troops to the Northern Expedition, Jingzhou would also respond from the flanks, thus putting Cao Wei in a situation of pincer attack from east to west.

Zhang Fei only looks careless on the surface, but his grasp of the current situation is no worse than any famous general in the world.

Precisely because he deduced this point in advance, as early as two months ago, Zhang Fei continued to transport troops and food to Xinye.

Up to now, the number of Han troops inside and outside Xinye City is [-], and the grain and grass are more than [-] shi.

And this is only the strategic reserve that Zhang Fei can mobilize in the early stage.

Zhang Fei has been unknown in the war for the past three years, because he has been buried in the fields for the past three years.

Thanks to Jingzhou's geographical advantages, under Mr. Zhang's diligent cultivation in the past three years, Jingzhou is now able to mobilize [-] troops and hundreds of thousands of shi of grain and grass.

Such a strategic reserve is enough for Mr. Zhang to fight a hearty battle.

Of course, due to his distrust of Sun Quan, Zhang Fei still left [-] Han troops around the public security guard, watching Jiangdong's every move.

Even if he got the news before, Jiangdong had sent an army to Huainan.

But when Jiangdong attacked Jingzhou that year, Guan Yu got the news that Sun Quan led the troops to attack Hefei.

With the lessons learned from the past and the fact that he is a neighbor with jackals, Zhang Fei will not relax his vigilance against Jiangdong.

But even if [-] troops were allocated to guard Jingnan, Zhang Fei still had [-] troops to use in this Northern Expedition.

That is, the remaining [-] Han troops are still on their way to Xinye.

However, although the [-] Han troops had not yet arrived, the impatient Zhang Fei quickly held a military meeting after arriving in Xinye City.

Those who participated in this military meeting were all the senior generals and schools in Jingzhou.

Zhang Fei first looked at Li Yan who was sitting under him, and he asked eagerly:

"Our army, can we fight now?"

Before Liu Bei left Jingzhou, he left Zhang Fei with two great talents, one literary and one military.

The text is Deng Zhi, and the Wu is naturally Li Yan.

When the soldiers and horses were transferred to Xinye before, Zhang Fei did not handle the matter himself, but entrusted the matter to Li Yan.

Now Zhang Fei is asking how the [-] Han troops sent earlier are doing.

After hearing Zhang Fei's question, Li Yan didn't dare to neglect.

Although he was proud of himself, he couldn't be proud in front of Zhang Fei.

Let alone him, even if Mi Yang came to Zhang Fei, he still had to respectfully call him uncle.

Even his boss is like this, let alone Li Yan.

Li Yan replied: "The [-] sergeants transferred by Deng Shangshu before, Yan has already divided into battalions.

The cavalry general only needs to send someone to take charge. "

"In addition, strict arrangements have been made for the polishing of ordnance used by the [-] sergeants and the transportation of food and grass.

As long as General Cheqi gives an order, [-] soldiers inside and outside Xinye City can follow General Cheqi in the Northern Expedition at any time. "

Zhang Fei was overjoyed by Li Yan's answer.

Although Li Yan has some personality flaws, his ability to do things is really impressive.

Yiyang County was placed in Li Yan's hands, and there has been no major turmoil.

After being overjoyed, Zhang Fei immediately said to Li Yan:

"Tomorrow I will lead the army to march north, and the safety of Yiyang County will be left to Zhengfang."

After hearing that Zhang Fei was eager to lead his army to the Northern Expedition, Li Yan couldn't help persuading him:

"General Cheqi, why are you in such a hurry?

At present, there are still [-] troops in our army that have not assembled. It would not be too late to go to the Northern Expedition after the [-] sergeants are assembled.

What's more, the movement of the bandit army in Wancheng is unknown, so it's better for the chariot general to find out the situation first. "

The reason why Li Yan persuaded Zhang Fei was that on the one hand, as he said, he hoped that Zhang Fei would wait until the army was assembled before going out.

This will undoubtedly have a greater chance of winning.

On the other hand, the reason why he didn't explain is that he thinks Sima Yi, Cao Wei's Annan general, is not a good character to get along with.

In the past three years, Li Yan fought Sima Yi many times, both openly and secretly, because his base was close to Wancheng.

For example, at the beginning, Li Yan originally wanted to take advantage of Wancheng's unstable morale and lead his army to surprise Jiyang.

But that attack was repelled by Sima Yi's army as expected.

And not just this time, Li Yan had fought Sima Yi at other times, but generally speaking, Li Yan suffered more.

Although Li Yan was proud, he was not blindly arrogant. From those fights, it was not difficult to see that Sima Yi was quite strategic.

In this case, Li Yan really didn't want Zhang Fei to advance rashly.

But after listening to Li Yan's words, Zhang Fei smiled and said:

"The affirmative only knows one, but not the other.

The Prime Minister's "Longzhong Dui" was well-known in the world, and now His Majesty has sent troops from Yizhou, and it won't be long before the rebellion against Wei will strengthen Nanyang's defenses.

As the saying goes, the speed of soldiers is precious, because they can be taken by surprise.

Before I left Xiangyang, I specifically released the news that I would lead [-] troops in the Northern Expedition.

This is not a lie, but a manifestation of our real military strength in Jingzhou.

Presumably this news had already reached the ears of that thief Sima.

And my previous move to mobilize troops to Xinye was definitely not concealed from the spies of that little thief Sima.

Therefore, the little thief Sima naturally knows that I still have tens of thousands of troops that have not yet been assembled.

There are fakes in the true, and it has been difficult to distinguish since ancient times.

Knowing that Jingzhou can raise [-] troops, and knowing that the [-] army has not yet been assembled, the thief Sima may think like Zhengfang that I will wait until the army is assembled before going out.

After all, the Northern Expedition is a major event, and we should be cautious.

Little Thief Sima would hardly have expected that I would lead the army ahead of time before the army had assembled.

In this way, our army can catch the enemy by surprise, and perhaps receive miraculous effects. "

After listening to Zhang Fei's explanation, Li Yan suddenly realized.

It turned out that Zhang Fei only seemed anxious on the surface, but in fact he wanted to lead the army ahead of schedule because of special considerations.

But in terms of the art of war alone, Zhang Fei's surprise move may indeed be successful.

I have heard for a long time that the chariot general and the old general have very different styles of using troops, so the general always seeks stability in using troops, while the chariot general is good at using strange tricks.

Of course, since it is called a miracle, unless the character of each opponent can be accurately predicted, there is no guarantee of success every time.

But it is undeniable that once a strange plan succeeds, the results that can be obtained are often great.

For example, in the great victory in Brazil that year, didn't Zhang He be beaten and fled up the mountain?

Since Zhang Fei has his own considerations, Li Yan doesn't intend to continue to dissuade him.

After Li Yan left to prepare for tomorrow's expedition, Zhang Fei looked at the other generals in the hall.

Guan Ping, Liao Hua, Zhang Bao, Guan Xing, Zhao Lei, Mi An, etc.

Compared with the complex composition of Liangzhou general rate, the composition of Jingzhou general rate is relatively pure.

It is mainly divided into two parts. One part is the old troops left by Guan Yu, and the other part is the descendants of Yuan Cong who have gradually joined the army in recent years.

Just by reciting the names of these generals, among those present, only Guan Ping could barely be called well-known.

But the lack of fame does not mean that the quality of these people is not high.

Perhaps this battle will be their battle to become famous.

Thinking of Zhang Fei's fixed eyes, he looked at Zhang Bao.

"Tomorrow, you will lead [-] elites to be the vanguard of our army and rush to Jiyang."

Although Zhang Bao is Zhang Fei's son, Zhang Fei, like Guan Yu, likes to train his son.

Being a pioneer is important, but also dangerous.

After hearing Zhang Fei's order, Zhang Bao walked out of the queue without thinking, and bowed to Zhang Fei:

"The last general takes orders!"

Seeing Zhang Bao's appearance that a newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, Zhang Fei felt relieved, but it didn't show on his face.

After arranging the post of vanguard, Zhang Fei asked most of the generals to retire, except Guan Ping.

After the other generals left the hall, Zhang Fei gave Guan Ping a secret mission.

"Tomorrow, you will take my soldier talisman and lead five thousand soldiers as the rear army for me, and march towards Thorny Sun."

After hearing about this secret mission, Guan Ping couldn't help but be stunned.

From Zhang Fei's arrangement just now, ordinary people would think that Zhang Fei will focus on Jiyang in the future.

But if this is the case, why didn't Zhang Fei lead the rest of the army to march towards Jiyang?

Seeing Guan Ping's puzzled expression, Zhang Fei said to Guan Ping:

"Unexpectedly, even if our army can't capture Jiyang, it can still surround Jiyang.

Jiyang is the main route for our army to march north. Once the thief Sima learns that our army is approaching the city of Jiyang, he will definitely lead his army to come to support.

At that time, Wancheng's troops will be empty.

What you have to do is very simple, that is, hold my military talisman and use my flag to disguise five thousand soldiers as an army of more than ten thousand. This will definitely confuse the enemy and make them think that I am outside Jiyang City. "

"Brother and Zicheng have both praised you for your calm personality, so I entrust this important task to you, I hope you won't let me down!"

Zhang Fei didn't say clearly what he was going to do, but from Zhang Fei's cautious expression, it could be seen that his task must be very important.

Knowing this, Guan Ping immediately bowed to Zhang Fei:

"Ping, I swear that I will not disgrace my life!"

Seeing Guan Ping taking the order, Zhang Fei smiled.

Shouldn't it be difficult to tell the truth from the false when fighting a war?

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