Mi Han

Chapter 520

Chapter 520

When Mi Yang was expounding his point of view, under his signal, Fa Miao got up and led many civil servants to distribute the information that Mi Yang had inquired before to the ministers present.

Perhaps it was not easy to install Si Wencao's secret work in Guanzhong at the beginning, but intelligence work has always been difficult at the beginning.

When a group of elite agents headed by Hua'an took root in Chang'an and other cities in Guanzhong, more and more Siwen Cao agents began to go deep into Guanzhong to construct a complete intelligence network for Mi Yang.

Knowing yourself and the enemy is the only way to survive a hundred battles.

After defeating Cao Zhen, Mi Yang has been thinking about planning a perfect strategy for the Northern Expedition.

For this purpose, the secret agents of Siwen Cao in Guanzhong have sent back a lot of useful information recently.

At present, the information received by Liu Bei and the other Han officials is compiled by Fa Miao after summarizing the military information sent back from Guanzhong in the past few days.

After Liu Bei opened the information in his hand to watch, he was quickly attracted by the detailed content.

What surprised Liu Bei even more was that because the information sent back from Guanzhong was numerous and mixed, Fa Miao followed Mi Yang's instructions when sorting out the information, and put some comments behind each piece of information.

Those annotations are primarily arranged in descending order of importance and credibility.

In this way, anyone who gets this summarized information will have a clear feeling at a glance.

This feeling is something that Liu Bei and all Han officials have never felt before.

Scouts, or secret agents, appeared in the Chinese army as early as the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods.

However, the intelligence work in this world can only be said to exist, but it is very rough.

How rough is it?

For one thing, there may often be multiple spies reporting repeatedly, and even the content of each spies report is likely to be different.

This is often extremely misleading to the current generals.

Even because the current information is too cumbersome and distorted, many generals in the current world seldom have the habit of reading the information in person.

For example, Cao Cao's Guo Jia and Liu Bei's Pang Tong were the first to do the work of sorting out information for these two enlightened masters.

Sun Tzu's Art of War uses a special article to remind generals to pay attention to intelligence work, not to tell them to simply send spies, even a fool general knows this.

What Sun Tzu wants to remind the generals is actually to know how to improve the mechanism for obtaining information.

As for this point, Mi Yang, who came from later generations and was born in a merchant's family, can be said to have done better than most of the current generals.

Even though Liu Bei, as the emperor of a country, can mobilize far more resources than Mi Yang, the information he obtained may not be as accurate as Mi Yang.

For example, Liu Bei had previously sent people to investigate the experience of the current generals of Wei in Guanzhong, and there are currently two important officials of Cao Wei in Guanzhong who are the key investigation targets.

One was Wei Zhen who had just become the governor of Liangzhou, and the other was Xia Houmao, the governor of Yongzhou who had been in Chang'an for several years.

In Liu Bei's previous investigation, most of the spies said that although Xia Houmao was of noble birth, he had never had any experience in leading an army, so he was obviously not someone to be afraid of.

But in the information Mi Yang investigated, he had a more comprehensive evaluation of Xia Houmao.

Although Xia Houmao has never shown his ability in military strategy, he has extraordinary talents in managing life. Cao Zhen's conquest of Hexi and the battle of Liangzhou in the south were both Xiahoumao's military supplies for Cao Zhen in Chang'an.

Having extraordinary ability to govern life means that Xia Houmao has a high political prestige in Guanzhong, and a high political prestige will cause great trouble to the Han army's attack on Chang'an.

Because when the situation is critical, Xia Houmao can use his political reputation to mobilize the people of Chang'an to defend the city together.

This is the most feared thing for any siege party, especially Chang'an is still a super big city in the world.

Mi Yang's detailed intelligence content and appropriate evaluation gave Liu Bei and the Han officials a clearer understanding of the current enemy situation in Guanzhong.

And with the change of eyes, after Liu Bei and all the Han officials read all the content in the intelligence, they had a stronger sense of identification with Cai Miyang's point of view.

Fangcai Mi Yang believed that the Han army’s Northern Expedition would face the most difficult siege battle. Everyone in the room listened to this point, but many people still felt a little disapproving.

Including Liu Bei.

After all, the Wei army in Guanzhong is currently empty of troops, while the Han army has just experienced the Liangzhou War, with high morale and sufficient soldiers and food.

Many people felt that the next Northern Expedition would not come down in anticipation, but they should not encounter any major obstacles.

But the intelligence in their hands made them aware of the seriousness of the Northern Expedition on the other hand.

Not to mention other strong cities in Guanzhong, let's take Chencang City, which controls the main roads of the Wei River, as an example.

Chen Cang is located in the upper reaches of the Weishui River. If you swim down the Weishui River, you can reach the city of Chang'an in just a few days.

For such an important city defending Chang'an, as early as the Western Han Dynasty, the emperors of the Han Dynasty spent a lot of manpower and material resources on repairing its city defenses.

Even Cao Zhen specially strengthened Chencang's city defense before going south.

After many times of strengthening, Chencang City is now a strong city with two inner and outer walls. It is meaningless to just talk about the city defense data of Chencang City. Just use an analogy.

Chencang in Guanzhong is like Jiangling in Jingzhou.

All Hanchens and Liu Bei here have intuitive experience of how strong the defenses of these two fortified cities are.

Because of this experience, the faces of Liu Bei and the Han officials at this moment clearly showed disappointment.

And Mi Yang seemed to be afraid that the Han officials and Liu Bei would not be disappointed enough, so he made an astonishing inference directly:

"With the strong city of Chencang, it is absolutely difficult for our army to conquer it in a short time."

The difficulty of siege warfare is directly proportional to the thickness of the city.

Of course, no matter how well-defended the city is, there will be a day when it is captured, but it will undoubtedly take a long time for that day to come.

During this time, can the Han army afford to wait?

In other words, can the national power of a big man afford it?

When Mi Yang's sentence was deduced, there were bursts of restlessness in the originally silent lobby, and even Liu Bei's brows were deeply frowned.

Chencang controlled the main roads of the Weishui River, and the inability to take Chencang in a short period of time meant that the Han army could not approach the city of Chang'an in a short period of time.

As for leading the army to bypass Chencang?

The map of Guanzhong is hanging high there.

Chen Cang not only controlled the Wei River, but was also located at the exit of the four roads in Guanzhong, which meant that no matter which road the Han army sent troops from, the food road would be exposed to the attack range of Chen Cang's defenders.

Although the infantry of the Wei army in Guanzhong suffered heavy losses, the cavalry system was still perfect.

The consequences of rashly exposing the grain road to the cavalry in the plains are chilling to think about.

Of course, due to the joining of the Qiang Di Cavalry Army, the Han Army currently also has a decent cavalry force.

But let's not talk about how long it will take to integrate the Qiang and Di cavalry army with mixed formations, let's say that the Cao Wei cavalry army only needs to harass the grain road.

The grain road from Hanzhong to Chang'an is long, and it is impossible to send heavy troops to defend every place.

The reason why everyone seemed restless after hearing Mi Yang's deduction was because Mi Yang's deduction indirectly overturned Liu Bei's original strategy.

Long before Liu Bei came to Liangzhou, he personally said the slogan of "Northern Expedition to Guanzhong, Recover Chang'an".

From this slogan, it can be seen that Liu Bei wanted to regain Chang'an as quickly as possible after the Han army entered Guanzhong.

But judging from Mi Yang's inference, the strategy set by Liu Bei is impossible in the current situation.

Needless to say, Mi Yang's prestige in the army, his deduction is very convincing.

Not to mention that Mi Yang also put detailed information in the hands of everyone. Looking at the information, anyone with a discerning eye can see whether Mi Yang's deduction is reasonable.

But knowing that what Mi Yang said was right, everyone's reaction was so great.

Because this is far from what they expected at the beginning.

I originally thought that I would be able to regain Chang'an in the near future, but now...

Among the crowd, there is no doubt that Liu Bei has the biggest gap in his heart.

After Mi Yang finished his deduction, he also kept watching Liu Bei's face.

Mi Yang knew very well how much Liu Bei wanted to regain Chang'an as soon as possible, but for Liu Bei's sake and for the sake of the big man, he had to tactfully let Liu Bei dispel this idea first.

Not to mention that Liu Bei's goal is unrealistic in terms of the current situation, but the arrogant thinking that is spreading in the Han army must also be contained.

While Liangzhou's great victory greatly boosted the morale of the Han army, it also made the Han army gradually filled with arrogance.

This is inevitable.

This kind of arrogance has affected the judgment of many Hanchens to a large extent, and even Liu Bei has been affected by this.

Otherwise, where does the sense of gap in everyone's hearts come from?

The wind of arrogance is pervasive, and the desire to win is too eager. If the strategy and tactics set are unrealistic and have obvious mistakes, this will bring fatal hidden dangers to the Han army.

In the history of the original Three Kingdoms, there was a famous war, which was caused by this.

That battle was called the Battle of Yiling

It is impossible for Mi Yang to sit back and watch such a situation happen, not even for a little bit.

And Mi Yang kept watching Liu Bei's face, also checking whether Liu Bei understood his implicit advice.

Liu Bei's personal conquest of Guanzhong was able to stimulate the morale of the Han army to the maximum, but at the same time it also changed Mi Yang's identity.

During the Northern Expedition, he was no longer a decision maker, but a planner.

This means that even if he has the best strategy, it will be useless if Liu Bei disagrees.

And will Liu Bei heed his advice?

Mi Yang has no idea about this.

Liu Bei is a commander-in-chief with a very distinctive personality, and his most distinctive personality is that he is easy to get on top.

The Battle of Dingjun Mountain and the Battle of Yiling were all fought under the circumstances that he was above.

And once Liu Bei got up, even Zhuge Liang couldn't hold him back.

When Mi Yang observed Liu Bei's face, his eyes were also noticed by Liu Bei.

Then Liu Bei turned back directly with reproachful eyes.

Well, Mi Zisheng, your wings are stiff, right?

I just rewarded you that way just now, but you just gave yourself a "slap in the face" in front of everyone!

But blame belongs to blame, Liu Bei can understand Mi Yang's approach.

After all, Mi Yang adopted a tactful method of persuasion.

And under Mi Yang's reminder, Liu Bei also had some doubts about his previous thoughts.

After careful consideration, he also felt that he might be too impatient.

But Liu Bei is not someone who gives up so easily. After blaming Mi Yang several times with his eyes, he asked in a cold tone:

"If our army does not go straight to Chang'an, how should our army go to the north?"

After speaking, Liu Bei looked straight at Mi Yang.

If you only know how to veto, but don't have a corresponding excellent strategy, I will issue an edict to cut down your food in a while.

Just cut off dozens of your households as a punishment.

Well, Mi Yang currently has [-] households.

After Mi Yang heard Liu Bei's question, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

He is not afraid that Liu Bei will ask him about his strategy, but he is afraid that Liu Bei will keep going up and down, regardless of him.

And Liu Bei's question also made everyone in the hall focus on Mi Yang's face.

In the eyes of many people, it represents a strong thirst for knowledge—General, please teach me how to beat Weigou.

Even the historians present subconsciously took out their brushes, thinking of recording this historic moment.

Under the gathering of everyone's eyes, Mi Yang pointed to a place on the map of Guanzhong.

Under the illumination of the candlelight, the shadow of Mi Yang's fingers seemed to turn into a sharp sword, and inserted straight into the reward ramp on the map of Guanzhong:

"Since ancient times, there have been four important routes connecting Guanzhong to Hanzhong.

Yang thought that the praise ramp could be used. "

After Liu Bei took Hanzhong back then, he spent a lot of manpower and material resources to renovate the four main roads connecting Hanzhong to Guanzhong for the Northern Expedition in the future.

These four main roads are Ziwu Road, Tangluo Road, Baoxie Road and Jinniu Road.

If the Han army wants to enter Hanzhong, they can usually only choose one of these four main roads.

The reason why Mi Yang said that the Baoxie Road can be used is that the Baoxie Road is the smoothest road among the four main roads.

Baoxie Road is also known as Xiegu Road.

Whether it was Cao Cao's two southern expeditions to Hanzhong, or Cao Zhen's southern expedition this time, the main force of the Wei army entered Hanzhong through the Baoxie Road.

So many people in the Wei army were able to march so smoothly, so it was naturally possible for the Han army.

But after Mi Yang finished saying this, the eyes of everyone in the hall became puzzled again.

The Bao Xie Road is very good, but the exit of the Bao Xie Road in Guanzhong is very close to Chang'an.

Mi Yang's deduction just now clearly does not suggest that Chang'an should be captured first, so why would he suggest that the Han army march from Baoxie Road at the moment?

Facing everyone's suspicious eyes, Mi Yang showed a smile on the corner of his mouth:

"Just imagine, gentlemen, the exit of Baoxie Road is very close to Chang'an. If our army marches through this road, how will the bandit army react?"

How else would you react?

That must be to mobilize all the forces that can be mobilized to defend Chang'an.

Among the ministers, Meng Guang quickly expressed this judgment.

Meng Guang's judgment was recognized by all the officials in the hall.

But what Mi Yang said next surprised all the officials in the hall.

"If the bandit army transfers most of Guanzhong's forces to the vicinity of Chang'an, won't Liangzhou in Guanzhong become more empty?

If you don't take the emptiness, when will you wait? "

At this moment, Mi Yang expressed his true thoughts.

Take Chang'an openly and Liangzhou secretly!

After learning about Mi Yang's idea, Liu Bei chuckled.

This kid, there has never been a war that followed a routine!

　There is another chapter in the morning.

　　Oli, I want a monthly pass.

(End of this chapter)